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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1880 SIXTEEN PAGES 9 Conditional RELIGIOUS. The Prevalent Cast-iron Theology Responsible for Infidelity. go Says an Eminent Rochester Divine, Who Abjures Calvinism. gland, and wrote a number of hymns, but the-one named attained the greatest popularity. The Rev.

J. T. Burhoe, pastor of the University Place Baptist Church, has sailed for Europe to spend his vacation. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell, of this city, has been appointed one of the delegates to the Pan-Presbyterian Council.

The Rev. George A. Pel 7, of Jamestown, N. Tn has been found guilty of immoral conduct. He has promised to leave the town and quit preaching.

The Rev. Dr. Adams, of New York, has been chosen to preach the opening sermon before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in Philadelphia in September. Dr. John Hall has no sympathy with the consciously funny preacher.

A clown In the pulpit has mistaken his field of usefulness. This is severe on Talmage. The Southern General Presbyterian Assembly has appointed the Rev. Allen Wright, a Choctaw Indian preacher, one of its delegates to the Philadelphia General Council. Dr.

Muhlenberg, the author of the hymn I Would Not Live Alway," left a hoarded heap of gold behind him I Two gold pieces. f40 in all. this was his savings to pay for his burial! All that he had, all that he received, all that he was, he gave to Christ and his friends while living, and died leaving not enough to pay the expenses of his funeral-Bishop Crowther, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, has received from the Royal Geographical Society of England a handsome and costly gold watch, in token of the valuable services he has rendered In the exploration of the Niger and other rivers of Africa. The Bishop is a learned man, and is as industrious and enterprising as he is eloquent. PIOUS TRIPLES.

his inspiring lead the voices blended as one, and produced a volume of inspiriting sound which perfectly drowned the voices of a couple of trumpets. An address was then made bv the Rev. Frederick A. Noble, D. pastor of the Union Park Congregational Church, who had for his subject "The Bible Semi-Millenary." The speaker, after an interesting dissertation upon the wonderful book and its wonderful history, gave the history of its translation into English 500 years ago, and also of the growth of the Bible societies, and the immensity of the work accomplished by them.

He showed how powerful an ally tne Sunday-school had proved in spreading the Gospel abroad, and, before closing, paid a tribute to the great value of the system of universal lessons, which, inaugurated fourteen years ago, had cow spread over the entire Sunday-school world. The hymn, "Jesus Loves Even Me," was then sung, after which Mr. B. F. Jacobs made an address on "The Work in Cook County," in which he showed that the latest Sunday-school statistics gave the number of persons engaged in Sundav-school work ail over the world at composed ot teachers and 12,40.316 scholars.

Of these the United States had 7,509,412, or teachers and scholars. Cook County's Suuday-school population was S3.445, or 7,025 teachers and 86,420 scholars. He also alluded to the Bible work, and pictured to the children how grand a monument the millions of Bibles which had been distributed during the last 500 years would make if piled one on another. His address was enlivened with several stories, reproduction of which, as told by Mr. Jacobs, is perfectly They delighted the children, and, as each one had its moral application, brought out briefly and in an interesting manner, the effect of the address was to impress the audience fully with the importance of the Sunday-school work.

The meeting was closed with singing of the hymn, To the work," followed by the doxology, after which the Rev.Dr. Clendenning pronounced the benediction. GENERAL NOTES. fflie Material Hell and Eternal Punishment a Dishonor on the Supreme Being. Palestine for the Jews The Holy Land to Be Made an Israel-itish Colony.

Centennial Celebration in Memory of Robert Raikes, the Founder of Sunday-Schools. Catholicism and Atheism the Two Op posing Forces Agitating the British Government. General Notes, Personals, Sunday Reveries, Services To-Day. OUR FATHER'S CARE. An aged colored man, hastening home fronv church, was asked why ho was in such a berry.

Oh, nothin pertiklar, boss," was his answer, only I jess heerd at Conf'rence dat Sam Johnson's fell fm grace, an I thought I'd get right home 's soon 's I could an' lock up my chickens. Dat's all." A London paper states that the follow lug curious directions are given to those who attend the Ritualistic Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Chiswick: During prayers all are requested to kneel. The kneelers should be hung on the hooks provided for the purpose by those who have used them." The simplicity and purity of a child's heart are often revealed in very uncouth ways. A little girl read a composition before her minister.

The subject was "A Cow," and after pointing out the many good and useful qualities ot the cow, she added, The cow is the most useful animal in the world except religion." Last Sunday one of our Sunday-school Superintendents on his way to church met a boy with a fishing-pole. Where are you going with that pole?" asked the Superintendent. He had not seen the boy since the last time he filled up at a Suuday-school picnic. Please sir, I've got a wicked father, who sends me out to fish every Sunday morning, but, as soon as I get out of sight of the house, I am going to play hookey and come to Sunday-schooL" The late Mortimer Collins, who was aitof a poet, describes the origin, as well as the religion, of some of those scientific gentlemen in the following lines: There was an ape in the days that were earlier. Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist.

Then he was a man, and a Positivist. If you ar pious (mild form of insanity). Bow down and worship the mass of humanity; Other religions are buried in mists, We're our own gods," say the Poeitivists. A clergyman in Pittsburg lately married a lady with whom he received the substantial dower of 10,000 and a fair prospect for more. Soon afterward, while occupying the pulpit, ha gave out a hymn, read the first four stanzas, and was reading the fifth.

Forever let my grateful heart His boundless grace adore when he hesitated, and exclaimed, "Ahem The choir will omit the fifth verse," and sat down. The congregation, attracted by his apparent confusion, read the remaining lines Which gives ten thousands blessings now. And bids me hope for more. f((ifma 1.1.. Luiy xnose whose pro- ninuDle tnem 10 acquire ample inf orma-lmous opinionin EuropTare unan-S the existence of a wide-Slounwmeilt0i very foundations of mSS ilip i And Canon Lidden, a man "Never, since the truth dni GospeU was fundamental bTh enled and denounced so largely and with the case at this Iti? the most civilized nations." nrL of thln mav be accounted for in two wrays: First, the world is always hos-HvtfVthVna8 deeP and unconquerable i' ndered by intern depravity of nature.

The human heart hates God and goodness, oves darkness and sin, and every evil way, and that is the Ll th? diflLouity- Or, second, the cause of to fouid in the Church. Stephen declared to Israel at the time of his martyrdom: lwaZs rVsist tae Holy Spirit so locating the trouble in the very bosom of Israel. Wh Kh7? the- "orthodox" Church of that perk od, and therelore skepticism is not confined to tt7-world' but hil8 Evaded the Church, and the Church is honeycombed bv It, and the Church is the cause of it outside its own limits. Now It is the way with many to flatter themselves that all is well and moving on toward the expected victory, and in to say so. They are say-eae? 8afety." when the almost unanimous intelligence of the thoughtful in the world is disturbed.

The most sagacious minds of all parties are united in the opinion that a revolution is impending which threatens the life of the Church, and it does not require extraordinary insight to discern that the cause is in the Church. Were the Church pure In doctrine, and pure also, even to a moderate degree, in practice, it would be unassailable. Christendom as a whole, in its statements of belief and in its concurrent testimony of life, has presented to the world a Deity whose reputed character is not, according to the common sense of humanity, good. He is neither just nor merciful, and that is, as we may learn, the real stumbling-block. And the Church has rigidlv excluded all Investigation of the inatur.

and all argument except upon one side, casting into the outer darkness of the unevangelicals all who dared to seek to retrieve the character of God from the deep disgrace heaped upon it by its assumed friends. Many preachers of the Gospel declare," savs a clergyman of the Churcn of England, "that God will keep multitudes of His own creatures alive to ail eternity for the sole purpose of torturing them, knowing perfectly well all the time that it can never do them one particle of good. Is the representation which this gives of the character of God to be accepted without discussion? Is it inore injurious for men to try and force themselves to love such a God, if they can, and, if they cannot, to be driven into infidelity, or for them to inquire whether there may not be some mistake in the common interpretation of the four or five passages that are thought to attribute such an intention to the Creator?" If we cannot even discuss this question except upon one side, how unhappy is our state I Now, if a aiau were to keep any creature alive for the sole purpose of torturing it, sav for a year, would not the whole civilized world with unanimous voice declare that man an unutterable monster? Would not mankind recoil from him as from a fiend? He might try to justify himself on the ground that the creature was very bad; but would that make a particle of difference? You could not sav a worse thing of a human being than to say that he would do such a thing as that. Society might forgive a man for being a liar, or a thief, or even a murderer, but it could only abhor one who should keep alive a creature a year for the sole purpose of torture, and that without the possibility or remotest expectation of doing any good. Yet we have been able to hear It said of God, repeatedly, that it is His intention to take the majority, the vast majority of the human race, and keep them alive forever and ever, for the sole purpose of torturing them, and that without any regard to their circumstances, and moreover thai He so decreed and devised ages ago, just because it pleased Him so to do.

There are a few passages which are interpreted in that way, and the whole character of God is made to bung upon that interpretation. And then we wonder that the Gospel does not make progress! Why, there can be no Gospel under the auspices of such a Being as that. If I say that God is good, and then add that He proposes to torture the vast majority of men end-lesly; that He foreordained the countless victims for such exhibition of His cruelty, then a man with any humanity in him will say, If that is goodness, 1 prefer badness!" That is according to the constitution of mind. And it is not dillicult to see that wherever there is preaching or teaching this doctrine of the historical Church (which, by the way, some of the greatest of the Church fathers Origen, for instance did not believe) stands directly in the way of genuine progress. A constitutional principle of the mind that is active, and in any extent free, stands against it.

Men may be moved by fear and by considerations of personal safety to seek to propitiate so dreadful a Being, but it is not possible they can love Him. Now, this is fundamental; and the opinion of Mr. John Stuart Mill is gaining ground everywhere that so monstrous a Being as he expresses it as the God of the old European theology is a chimera of disordered imaginations." Moreover, it is seen to be a repulsively arbitrary notion when we reflect that the great majority of people have never had any chance, and under this scheme never will have any chance. All this revolts the reason and conscience of mankind. It Is the representation of an Inflnit Enemy, and not of an lntinit Friend.

Of course, then, the attacks that are made on the Bible and on Christianity are full of force, even though they may be very crude and unlearned. They appeal to something in man to which he is forced to listen, and the result is that multitudes are pushed into a skepticism as contemptuous as it is bitter. There is not a Christian In the world, I suppose, who has any earnestness of character, who will admit for one moment that God is cruel or unjust. But it is possible that many a Christian will stoutly maintain that God will do things which, if they were attributed to any one whose character we did not know, ail men would unite in calling them fiendish. We often use words from force of habit, without thinking of the real meaning of them.

We certainly do so when we say in one breath that God is good and that He will do the most hateful things. It is entirely conceivable that God will punish, will deal in severity and wrath with men. will consume their pride and naughtiness of heart. It Is entirely certain that He will not always permit His government to be trampled upon. It is conceivable also that souls which are radically unfit for the kingdom of righteousness might be permitted to lapse out of existence, because the eternal life is the gift of God, and everlasting existence is not a necessary fact to a bad being, but that the Inflnit Being of Infinit Love can inflict torture for billions of centuries upon rational beings, is not conceivable, especially if no possible good can ever come to those beings in the remotest future.

It looKs very like an inflnit slander and misrepresentation of God, which the Church has been too busy to examine iuto, and it depends upon the arbitrary mistranslation of a few words in the New Testament and a flagrant misinterpretation of the whole spirit and tenor of it. liet us now glance at the notions which men prefer to this notion of the Romish Church, which has also been engrafted on Protestantism. You may put together all the current atheisms, pantheisms, and materialisms which centre in a sort of dark nucleus of nihilism, and they form the protest of thinking minds against the darker notion of an arbitrary and cruel God. These form tne reaction against toe perverse theisms" of the past. They take the Bible to be what it has been represented to be by its professed friends, the exponent of a cruel and arbitrary government, and they lay it aside, ignore it, as a mere specimen of mythology, and thus they lose it, and the priceless treasures of Divine wisdom are closed to them.

And who must bear a share, at least, of the reproach of it? As I believe, the Church, which has so distorted the character of God. And in the Church a reformation must begin, a radical reformation, as it seems, so deep and so thorough that no one will think of falsely accusing the goodness and severity of God, even by the implication involved in arbitrary inflictions. We might lop olT a few of the topmost branches by way of reform, but that would be of little worth so loner as the radical error remains, an error which dishonors God more than all the violence of His open and avowed enemies. The time has come for personal convictions in place of priestly teachings. It is enough to say that if the wail of unspeakable misery is to ascend unceasingly and forever from countless multitudes.

It seems impossible that any one who has learned to love his neighbor as himself can have any joy or any peace His heart must respond to that wail and echo it. His sympathies will go down into the woful depths, and he himself, in the exercise of a real suffering pity, will find no heaven, no rest, no home. If they are his enemies the same law which has compelled him to love them on earth will compel the continuance and enlargement of that love, and he will wail with those that wail bv the very compulsions of his reborn nature But where did he get that nature? W'ho planted the rreat love in him? It is God who has commanded, and where do we find the command abrogated? These are no fancied difficulties. They have suggested themselves over and over apinto those who p1e to obey that command of Jesus: "Call no ntaa on earth master tor teacherl for One is your teacher." It is true we have the concurrent testimony of all the Christian centuries to the doctrine that God is arbitrary and tortures everlastingly, nTt tor the good of the creature, but for the gratification of some feeling Himself. We have the agreement of the "evangelical standards "It is bard to break away from the these things.

But the incisive words of fesus regard those who dishonor God by their traditions are in point here. Clouds and darkness have come between the face oS the Father in Heaven, but they Ire coute "'false opinion and the darkness of art I'nforinn Thev have blotted out hope for tef Save Postered and contributed to on i the earth. Through them to many CITURCII SERVICES. episcopal. Cathedral Church SS.

Peter and Paul, corner of West Washington and Peoria streets, the Utile v. W. E. McLaren, Bishop; the Rev. J.

H. Knowles, Priest in charge. Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Choral Morning Prayer and celebration of the Holy Communion at 10:30 a. m.

Choral EveningPrayer at 7:30 p. m. The Rev. Frederick Courtney will officiate In St. James' Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets, at 10:45 a.

m. and 7.43 p. m. Communion at 8 a. m.

The Rev. R. A. Holland will officiate In Trinity Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street, at 10:45 a. m.

Communion at 8:30 a. m. Morning subject: The Summei of the SouL" The Rev. W. H.

Knowlton will officiate In St. Andrew's Church, corner of West Washington and Robey streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 4 p.m. The Rev.

Clinton Locke will offici ate In Grace Church, Wabash avenue, near Sixteenth street, at 11 a. m. and p. m. Communion at 8 a.

nx. The Rev. Arthur Ritchie will officiate In the rhnrnh 'of thfl AsrtMision. rnmpr nf North -u tine. A Venetian Jew has given 60,000 francs for the establishment Of an agricultural school In the Plain of Sharon, and Baron Albert de Kothschild has just guaranteed to the ex-Mayor of Jerusalem a large pecuniary contribution for the construction of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad.

The Smith German Wochehblatt- reminds Its readers that the great banking-house of the Rothschilds, at the time of the last loan of 20,000.000 francs to Turkey, accepted as security a mortgage on Palestine, and adds that "as it is impossible for a bankrupt State, like Turkey, to pay back the money, the Israelites may now count upon their return to the Land of Promise as a certainty." A proposition is now under discussion, since a concession has been made to the French for the Euphrates Valley Road, to make a junction between the latter from the old provinces of Assyria to Jerusalem the plan of Gen. Sir Frederick Goldsmid, a Jew whose muuncence to the Turkish Jews is so well known, and whose distinguished relative. Francis Goldsmid, a few years ago acted as reference in the question of the Persia and Afghanistan boundary. The interpreters of prophecy in reference to Israel's future have quoted Isaiah, chapter Si, as a prediction whose fulfillment this enterprise seems to favor in some way. The text is this: "In that day rhere shall be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into' Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians." It is thought to foreshadow a tripartite- alliance between Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, in the future of the Hebrew races, when converted.

Then the next verses are quoted: "In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord will bless, saying. Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance." It is agreed that no such alliance has ever yet taken place. The usual objection that Palestine is incapable of supporting a dense population is set aside by the testimony of the late United States Consul-General, who writes from Jaffa: "An abundant supply of water could be broua-ht to the city from the pools of Solomon, were it not that all efforts are thwarted by the Moslem rulers. The land of Palestine is extremely productive, and were colonies planted here, as they are in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, there Is no reason to doubt their success." Arnold, the celebrated historian, who traveled over it, says, The old abundance is still sleeping in the soil of Palestine, and it needs not any miracle, but industry, to bring back the wealth and beauty of the early ages of the Hebrew Monarchy." What adds interest to the Jewish question is the discoveries made by scholars of the where-aboutsof the lost Ten Tribes," or the tribes of the Northern Kingdom, carried awaybyShal-maneser, a century before the Babylonian exile of Judah, the Southern Kingdom. It seems to be established that the Jews in Afghanistan and in the Caucasus, and those iu China, with the 200,000 Falasbas in Abyssinia, are all descendants from the Ten Tribes.

The wonderful Increase, too, of Mohammedanism, outstripping Christianity the last, ten years as a proselyting religion, and the growing belief of orthodox Moslems that the decay of the Ottoman power is a sign of the end of the world and the judgment day, attract attention. The special interest Englishmen take in the whole question is very marked. Politically, what England wants is a strong power in Syria to protect the Alexandria Road and Suez Canal from Russian assault. Jewish nationality would solve that problem, provided England had the protectorate. This involves the dispossession of the Turks and overthrow of thoir Government, and a conflict of nations for the possession of Palestine and dominion of the East and the world.

That means a general Asiatic, European, and African struggle, with Jerusalem the objective. This, too, is interesting. With Egypt and Greece already existing, if di-plomacy erects Syria and Thrace into two separate kingdoms, then modern history reproduces the four Kingdoms into which Alexander's Empire was broken up, and points to Syria as the spot where the last enemy of the Jews will appear in the last struggle. Out of Syria Anti-ochus Epiphanes came, and it is thought that out of Syria, again, according to the prophecy of Daniel, in his eleventh chapter, the last Antichrist will arise. The discussions in the press and magazines are many and full of Interest.

One of England's Bishops has just said: "If ever the question is raised, and it may be raised very soon. Shall the Jews be inducted into their patrimonial land as tenants at will? no matter by whom the preposition is made, or for what purpose. even hostile to England, it will be England's duty not to oppose but to assist, or at least permit Israel to be restored, unconverted." This is the general tone of Christendom. The "Reformed Jews" i. the Rationalists are laughing, or mocking.

CATHOLICS AND INFIDELS. THE TWO OPPOSING FORCES AGITATING ENGLAND. Corrrrpondenc A'eio York Times. London, June 3. It Is a fact worth thinking about that Roman Catholicism on the one hand and infidelity on the other are the two chief theological and Intellectual forces of the day.

Romanism is a great and growing power in England. The infidelity that is begot ot scientific culture is extending In London with a rapidity that church-goers lave little knowledge of. Not the least remarkable feature of the times Is the singular way in waich the new Liberal Government holds out its-hands to CatholiciEm and infidelity, though Mr. Gladstone's majority Is acknowledged to be the result of the Nonconformist ticket. Now, the Dissenters are far more intolerant toward priests and unbelievers than the Established Church is; and it is quite certain to-day that if Mr.

Gladstone asked Mid-Lothian to indorse his policy of appointing a Roman Catholic to the Vice-Regal chair of India and bis toleration of Bradlaugh, the Scotch Presbyterians would vote against him to a man. Indeed, he has already received a numerously-signed protest against his action in this respect. In the past Mr. Gladstone has more than once had to defend himself from the charge of being a Jesuit in disguise. His latest answer was an attack on the Papacy which made Holy Church wince.

Nevertheless, it must be accounted a little strange that be has filled the chief position in her Majesty's household with a Roman Catholic, and elected one of tb same faith to represent the throne in India. As Col. Ingersoll so well says, the humble bee is most swollen when first hatched, so the convert to Rome is blown out with a sense of his new dignity and importance. Perverts are the recruiting sergeants of the Romish Church, and it is nonsense to say that Lord Ripon, Viceroy of India, will not try to advance the interest or his new Church in the East. To what extent he will damage the Protestantism of the Indian rule is another question.

Mr. Gladstone has already had to declare in Parliament that Lord Ripon is not a Jesuit. At the same time be has more or less felt it incuiisbent upon him to fling a protecting shield over the worse than infidel Bradlaugh. Broad, unbiased minds mav see in this an example of the Premier's generosity and liberal principle. The diplomat will only look at it as representing the difficulties which a Minister invokes when he merely "runs for office," and does not care a fig how and by what means he gets in, so that he does get in.

As for the question of the oath raised by Bradlaugh, the issue is handicapped with the man. If a person of credit, and thought, and education, of clean and blameless life, had challenged the oath, he would have tapped an unsuspected spring of sympathy; but Bradlaugh is a mouthing adventurer, the writer of an obscene and filthy book, a demagog of the worst type. The question before Parliament therefore, invested with a good deal of personal prejudice, though it is generally believed Bradlaugh will have fair play, and the forecast of the Committee's report is that they will find they have no right to refuse to permit a member to take the oath who is willing to do so. Bradlaugh, you see, has eaten the leek. He declares that he is willing to take the oath, and wishes to do so, and in his evidence yesterday he repudiates his own assertion that the oath will not be binding on his conscience.

He now says it will. He contends that the House has no right, according to law, to refuse to allow him to take the oath, being willing, as he says he is, to take it in full and without any reservation whatever. When it was first put to him, he declares, he did not refuse it, but only asked to be allowed to affirm." A Committee of the House reported that he had no just claim, as the Quakers have, to affirm." He thereupon presented himself to take the oath, and was opposed by the House, he having in another place declared that the oath would not be binding on his conscience, that he does not believe in God, and that the solemn formality had no more influence upon him than an empty sound. Bradlaugh is now fighting to be allowed to take the oath, and to-day be says it will be binding on his conscience. Was there ever a more miserable candidate for political and theological martyrdom? It was suggested in an American journal the other day that Bradlaugh is toe Ingersoll of England.

There could not be a fiercer libel on Ingersoll. The one is a giant, the other a pygmy; the one is a Hercules, the other a Caliban. Ingersoll has wit and original thought. Bradlaugh has neither. Ingersoll thinks, Bradlaugh compiles.

Ingersoll is in earnest. Bradlaugh is a mere jobber." I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing to have the question of the oath raised by a person of Brad-laugh's character (or want of character), or whether it would have been better if thequeation had been bi ought Into the court of history and ubiic opinion by a truly noble and great man. will not have quite dispassionate treatment under present circumstances, and. if there ia any dignity or strength in Inttdelitv, Bradlaugh trails it in the gutter of his Fruits of Philosophy" reputation, and further weakens the position by withdrawing from the ground which he originally took up. A point is being made by the Opposition in regard to Brad-laugh's election which may be taken as a wayside illustration of the thorough office-seeking character of the general election.

Neither Mr. Gladstone nor any other chief of the Liberal party dreamed that they would do more than re-dace the Conservative majority by 20 or 30. Therefore, not a stone was left unturned, and every chance was regarded. Even Mr. Bradlaugh was counted into the chances, for every vote was a vote.

Therefore, Mr. Adam, the Liberal whip, arranged that a third Liberal candidate at Northampton should be withdrawn in favor of Bradlaugh; and Mr. Morley, the great Konconformjai member for Brutal, wrote a let ter approving of Bradlaugh's candidature. This Is looked upon as a Gladstonian alliance with Bradlaugh; and Mr. Chaplin, the j-oung and active Lincolnshire member, "chaffs" the Nonconformist voters at Bradford this week with these details, and says: "But for the interference of a private member your Gladstone Government would have allowed Bradlaugh to take the oath, thus turning into mockerv and ridicule one of the most solemn proceedings of Parliament." Thus the Conservative Opposition point on one side to the Liberal patronage of Papal power in official life, and on the other to tolerution, not to use a milder phrase of infidelity, the degradation of marriage, and all the other horrors represented by Charles Bradlaugh.

The Nonconformist, however, have one source of consolation, one concession from Parliament, the Government Burials bill, which is to give them parochial and religious rights in the Church of England burial-grounds. These privileges ought to have been theirs long ago. Even now the new act which the Government is pledged to pass is ndt a large-hearted or generous-minded one. It is hampered with manv provisions and limitations, but it is the thin edge of the wedge which the Nonconformists must eventually drive home. It only requires a few exhibitions of clerical bigotry to complete this reform, and every church hsis its narrow-minded priests.

While, however, the English Establishment and the Dissenters are fighting overthe very low wall that divides them theologically, the Papists are planting chapels and monasteries ail overthe land; are finding places for their emissaries in the very heart of our Government, and English Protestant parents are sending their children to be educated in Continental Romish schools, because the British boarding school for girls is, as a rule, a den of sexual intrigue and a licensed system of extortion and plunder. The Nonconformists in England will, no doubt, prove to be the bone and muscle and intellectual strength of the land when the next fight between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism comes about in England. Just as certain as the European war now being promoted is the conflict that one day must arise between those bitter old enemies. Protestantism aud Catholicism. Euglish Churchmen as a rule are more tolerant and allow a wider margin to those of a different faith than the Dissenters do.

A canon and a doctor of divinity in the Church were on the platform, a dav or two since, of the Sunday Society. Dean Stanlev and many other divines of the Church favor the objects of the Society, which desire the opening of museums, picture galleries, public gardens, and such like institutions on the Sabbath. The most strenuous opponents of the League are the Dissenters, who, had they power, would model the English Sunday on the lines of the Scotch Sabbath, "the purgatory," according to Ingersoll, of the Presbyterian Church. Lord Dunraven is the Chairman of the Sunday Society. In his address he Instanced many proofs of progress in modifying the severities of the' seventh day, including the Grosvenor Gallery Sunday exhibitions, and the opening of the Manchester Public Library.

Curiously enough, he did not refer to the silent, but tremendous, step onward made under the late Government in permitting the establishment of a coffee-tavern, chiefly for Sunday customers, in Regent's Park. Whether it is that, contemplating things at a standpoint of 3,000 miles away, your correspondent sees more of the game than those who watch London life from a mere London standpoint, 1 cannot say; but it does often fall to my lot to see and record events and movements, social, political, artistic, and religious, which utterly escape local observation and record. I was the first to draw, public attention to this undemonstrative reform of the coffee-tavern in Regent's Park, and you will remember that I presented it to your notice from the Sabbatarian point of view. There is no more remarkable instance of Sunday reform than the seventh-day scene in Regent's Park of hundreds of people sitting inside and outside of a coffee chalet taking harmless refreshments, and listening to the strains of a professional orchestra. This in a public park belonging to the Queen is a far bigger fact than the opening of the Grosvenor on a Sunday, or the concession made to public opinion at Manchester.

Yet the Sunday Society, with Lord Dunraven in the chair, overlooks it entirely. There is a good deal of the blind leading the blind business in English public life. I suppose his Lordship's Secretary, or the Secretary's wirepuller, did not properly prime him with facts and figures. I notice an important decision of the Supreme Court of Indiana in the Times, touching the selling of cigars at a hotel stand on Sunday, which is quite in opposition to the judgments of English courts. But one day, when the British Legislature gets sufficiently free from foreign questions and personal politics to attend a little to home affairs, the Sunday question will be honestly and tolerantly tackled.

The -sult which would do most for religion and moraii, and for social advancement, would be the closing of every bar-room and public house from Saturday night until Monday, and the opening during the same period of every coffee tavern, "eating-house," public museum, and educational institution in the three Kingdoms. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. The Cook County centennial anniversary, in commemoration of the starting, 100 years ago, by Robert Raikes, in his native town of Gloucester, England, of the first Sunday-school, was celebrated yesterday morning at Convention Hall, in the Exposition Building. The hour set for the opening of the exercises was 7:00 a but long before that time the Sunday-school children from all parts of the city began pouring into the vast building.

At 9:30 o'clock there were fully 5,000 adults and children in the hall, and, when the gathering was called to order by the Chairman, Mr. D. W. Potter, President of the Cook County Sabbath-School Association, there were present fully 8,000 men. women, and children.

The scene was a very pretty one, in one respect presenting quite a contrast to that which Convention Hall contained when the work of Presidential-naming was going on within its walls. The darkly-appareled audience which then occupied it presented an appearance quite sombre in comparison with the bright effect produced by the light-colored dresses worn by the large majority of the Sunday-school The hall was very prettily decorated, the "floral decoration8.being profuse and very picturesquely disposed, while the banners of a thousand Sunday-school classes, some of them lifted high in air from among the audience, others hung upon the inclosing walls, added to the brilliancy of the scene. The reporters stand, where a i'ew days ago 2M newspaper men plied their pencils busily, had been converted into a miniature conservatory, where a large variety of rare and beautiful flowers were tastefully arranged. A large-sized portrait of the venerable philanthropist, Robert Paikes, was suspended above the speakers' desk. Upon the speakers' stand, immediately behind it, vases and baskets of flowers had been placed with good effect, and in front of the distinguished guests' balcony was a tall archway of flowers.

Upon the walls immediately inclosing the speakers' stand the Sunday-school class banners had been placed in the greatest prolusion, the bareness of the boards being greatly relieved by the brightness of their tints. The decoration of the hall, which was not the least important of the factors makuig up the marked success ot" the Anniversary, was done by the following ladies: Mrs. F. K. Tracy, Miss Mattie Van Osdel, Miss Lizzie Tustin, Miss Emma Tustin, Miss Jennie St'illce, Miss Marv Roney, of the Second Baptist Church; Miss Edith Caukin, of the Lake View Sunday-school; Miss Wishard, of the Sixth Presbyterian Church; Miss Olive Murphy, of Trinity Church; Miss L.

M. Collins, Langley Avenue Baptist Church; Miss Nellie Brooks, Miss Mamie Merrill, First Congregational Church; Miss Josie Scully, Mrs. Protis, Miss Wickoff, Baptist Tabernacle; Miss Mary Plumsted. Miss Julia Callaghan, Second Baptist Church; Miss Waterman, Lake View Sunday-school; Miss Jennie Pearce, Trinity Methodist Church; Miss Hunt, Sixth Presbyterian Church; Mrs, Smith, Quinn Chapel; Miss Nettie Bennett, Chicago Avenue Church, and others. In calling the gathering to order the Chairman explained briefly the occasion of the anniversary, describing the efforts of the founder of the Sunday-school, and concluding with the hope that the anniversary might result in a quickening of the interest already taken in the Sunday-ischool movement.

The vast assemblage then united in singing the hymn, We praise Thee. God, for the Son of Thv love." and My country, 'tis of thee." The Rev. W. C. Willing, D.

D-, then read two Scripture lessons, one from the Old the other from the New Testament, and made an eloqueut praver, in which he thanked God for the Sunday-school and invoked the Divine blessing upon the institution which 100 years ago He had founded on earth through the agency of Robert Raikes. The audience then sang the hymn, "Hallelujah, 'tis done," after which the Rev. R. A. Holland, D.

Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, addressed the meeting, having The Bible for bis subject. In opening he told the story of Robert Raikes' first Sunday-school. The Te Ileum of the Sunday-school was then heard for the first time. It had since grown to grand proportions. Not only the spiritual but also the temporal affairs of the place where the experiment was made were improved by the beneficent influences of the Sun-dav-school.

Devotion took the place of dissipation, and the homes which had before been the scenes of squalor and debauchery became redeemed and converted into comfortable and happy family circles. In six years the reformation begun at Gloucester spread all over the laud, and both the State Church and the Nonconformists saw in the Sunday-school the fittest of all instruments for Christianizing the people. Enlisting the sympathies of those who had hitherto been apathetic in the matter of religion, it raised the entire structure of society until to-dav the English were the most thoroughly Christian people in the world. The movement of Whitfield and Wesley had done a great deal to produce this result, but to the Sunday-school was due the greatest credit for it. The Sunday-school was the strongest of all missionary instruments.

Outon the frontier the first evidences of the taking root of religion was the Sunday-school, and it did not take long when one was planted for it Co grow into a congregation requiring the presence of a minister and of a place to worship in. As a vitalizer of the Church the Sunday-school was of great importance. It provided work for the Church members, who otherwise might grow apaxhetio the cause of religion. Hold the Fort" waa then sung by the audience, the combined vocal effort for every one of the thousands present seemed to take part in the popular hymn proving very grand. Mr.

Charles Lee was musical conductor, and under the fullest extent that it, with the Old Testament, is the Word of God; and, upon the painstaking examination of these passages, I believe Christendom has misrepresented the character God and "oiled the white purity of it, and that the Christian Church suffers in consequence, as Israel of old suffered, when Idolatrous, when it made its children to pass through the fire. In a thougbfuL, keen-eyed age its influence abates, and its energies paralyze; its members drift away from it into the prevailing forms of unbelief and atheism. If it proclaims the love of God, the proclamation is treated as an empty formula; if it speaks of salvation there is meagre response, and salvation is not understood to be a radical and permanent renovation of character, but a safeguard against the endless flames. And so it has come to be a present and momentous fact in the history of the Church, as Go 1 by an Apostle has said: "The letter and especially the mistranslated letter killeth." My friends, there are said to be snares of the Devil. Now a snare is made to look as much as possible like a harmless, or even a desirable object, and thus the unwary are entrapped.

But there is one thing which no Christian, or any person who desires to be right ought to do. He ought not by any persuasion, or bv anv pressure, to permit himself to dishonor God, by attributing to Him a character which is evil." and which conscience, if freely listened to. teaches is evil. It is a Satanic snare. He who is the slanderer of God, has somehow got into the minds of men to crook and twist their thoughts, and to make one of their cardinal doctrines virtually teach that God is cruel, vindictive, and that He will please Himself all eternity lontr with the groans of the suffering, who, for a brief moment hereon earth, many of them not knowing their right hands from their left.

have incurred His displeasure. It is the merciless dogma of men who believed in fire, and burned their enemies. It may, and I think eventuallv will, be seen to le a doctrine of devils. From it the Church will one day arise as from a horror of great darkness, and learn not to blaspheme! aud be prepared to bless mankind with a pure Gospel, whoso exponent it shall then become. But it is objected to these views that God is just, and has Divine justice to maintain in His universe; to maintain at whatever cost, and we are bidden not to forget that.

Well, that is the very thing I am endeavoring to bring to remembrance. Justice! what burdens of horrors that word has been forced to carry. Corrupt as we are here on earth, we do not think of maintaining justice by torture. And we execrate the memory of those who have become infamous by their employment of torture. We do not torture, because we know it is cruel to torture judicially.

And yet we dare to declare that God will never cease torturing in order that He may maintain justice! But what sort of justice is it? Where did we pick up the idea of it? Is it just to do an unjust thing? Is it just to torture people forever? Why, all the hosts of Heaven would be down on their knees supplicatiug God upon the throne with flowing tears and anguish to coase to be just, if that were justice. But it is not. To think that G-od could annihilate the suffering millions to say nothing of His power to rescue and heal them and would not, would spoil Heaven for any one but a savage. But by all these suppositions we assail the character of God. We do most deeply dishonor Him, we reduce His law to no effect, we make His Gospel a farce, and thoughtful men drift away into atheistic conjectures hoping for nothing beyond, but not tearing anything except the pains of death.

Leslie Stephens, an English writer, voices the current, opinion of the thinking minds of his country who are outside of the Church and out of sympathy with it: "If this be the logieal result of accepting theories, better believe in no God at all." Clearly, then, if the Church has disfigured the love and the justice of God, if it has enthroned in His place a Being who is capable of torturing forever the children of men, or a portion of them, that sufficiently explaius why God cannot come to His temple, which is the Church, because it is occupied by another Being. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" asks the Apostle Paul significantly; and it is a question we do well to ask also. Canon Farrar. a distinguished clergyman of the Church of England, uses somewhat strong language on this subject, with which I close: Here I declare, and call God to witness, that if the popular doctrine of Hell were true, I should be ready to resign all hope, not only of a shortened, but of any immortality, if thereby I could save not millions, but one single soul from what fear, and superstition, and Ignorance, and inveterate hate, and slavish letter worship have dreamed and taught of Hell. Unless my whole nature were utterly changed I can imagine no immortality which would not be abhorrent to me, if it were accompanied with the knowledge that millions, and millions, and millions of poor suffering wretches, some of whom on earth I had knowu and loyed, were writhing in an agony without end or hope." MODERN PALESTINE.

iSOlSI JCDEA TO BE CONVERTED INTO A JEWISH COLONY. The Cologne Gazette of a recent date says that among the Orthodox Israelites and Christians unfriendly to the Israelites this has always been a favorit cry: "Palestine for the Jews!" and has gained strength in proportion as the power of the present political ruler over the "beloved land wanes away. The English preacher, Nu gee. who has interested himself in this matter, expounded on the 14th of the month, in a public lecture, a plan which of late has assumed a practical shape. The Englishman, Oliphant, has laid the plan before the Sultan.

It is that the land of Gilead and Moab, embracing the whole territory of the Israelitish tribes of Gad, Reuben, and Mannasseh, shall be converted into a Jewish colony, the Sultan being paid In cash for the territory, a proposition which the ultan has already favorably entertained. Still more, Goschen, the recently-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary of England, at Constantinople, has expressed himself as well disposed toward the furtherance of the plan. The territory in question embraces about 1,500,000 English acres, and is at present inhabited only by nomadic tribes. The colony is to remain subject to the Turkish power, while yet its immediate Governor is to be an Israelite. In this manner Judaism is to regain a firmer foothold In its own land, and the colony itself ultimately become a rallying point for the scat-.

tered people of Israel, around which it is hoped an ever-broadening girdle of new settlements will form itself. The purchase money for the territory of the new colony is to be contributed by the freewill offerings of patriotic Israelitea. Two railroads or highways are to be built, the one ascending from Jaffa to Jerusalem, the other extending from Haifa to the further side of the Jordan. Sir Moses Monteflore has already interested himself in these significant enterprises, furnishing material aid for the same. For the construction of the road to Jaffa the Turkish Government has already made a concession, with the proviso that -vork shall bo commenced upon it by next January at the farthest.

Still further, the construction of a ship canal from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Akabe and the Red Sea is contemplated. Palestine is asrain to be reopened, under the influence of the ideas of the nineteenth century, if only the Jews themselves are ready with their contributions and their settlements for their own land." Another paper, also, the London Times, has the following: "A negotiation la said to be on foot between the members of the house of Rothschild and the venerable Sir Moses Monteflore on the one hand, ana the Ottoman Government on the other, for the cession, under certain conditions, of the Holy Land. The Ottoman Government is already at its last gasp, for want of residy money. The Jewish race wish a 4 haJxitat of their own. As the Greeks, though a scattered people, living for the most part in Turkey, have a Greek Kirwrdom, so the Jews wish to have a Hebrew Kingdom.

This, it will be remembered, is the leading idea of George Eliot's Daniel Few persons, and probably the gifted authoress herself not more than others, imasrined that the dream of the Mordecai of those pages was in the least degree likely so soon to be realized. Information as to the nature of the new Jewish State, whether it is to be theocratic or royal, is uncertain, but the arrangements in reference to it are in progress. Prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves, more especially when those who believe in them are possessed of the sinews of Government. The day when the Dispersed of Israel are to be gathered into one is confidently looked forward to. not only by Hebrews, but bv multitudes of Christians.

The autnor of -Alroy' would be gathered to his fathers in greater peace, were he permitted under bis Administration to see this day and be glad. Superstitious persons, who think that the end of the world is to be preceded by the restoration of the Jews to Palestine, will be inclined to lend serious belief to Mother Shipton's proph-ecv tnat this earth is to see its last days iu lasl." These extracts are significant, and specimens of long articles that have appeared of late in the European press, secular as well as religious. Whatever some people may think of prophecy, it is clear that a grand movement is on'foot for the regeneration of Palestine. The Holy Land looms up with every agitation of the Eastern question, and is, in fact, its central point. As to population.

Jerusalem has now aj.000 Jews, a larger number than the Turks and Christians combined, not to name the Russian colony outside. Forty vears ago, the population was only 3', and onlv within ten years was it allowed outside the Ghetto. The Jewish population of Palestine is greater to-day than ever since the Roman expulsion. Andree and Pescher's "Statistical Atlas puts the sum total of Jews in the world at the number in Solomon's time. In Europe the Latin group of Jews is the Teutonic the Slavonic.

in all 4.9T8.000. In Asia there are 800.000. In Africa, 600,000. The figures 150,000 for the United States arefartoo low. The interest in Palestine is shown by the International Exploration Society.

Its Great Map of Palestine," drawn on a scale of one inch to a mile, will surpass al others, and, under the direction of the British Ordnance Survey Department, will show "every detail of ruin and village, ancient and modern, aqueducts, plantations, roads, delis, synagogs. tombs, temples, castles, forts. Crusading and Saracenic, wadiea, fountains, seas, mountains, rivers, plains, springs, and wells." The preparation is extensive, and the progress has already begun. Jewish synagogs and hospitals are multiplied. The German Jews have already sixteen charity institutions and twenty-eight congregations.

The tide of immigration is setting in strongly, and the appointment ot Midhat Pasha as Syrian Governor givea promise of brighter days for Pales The Methodist Church owes $7,000,000 on Its real estate in this country. The Christian at Work pleads for floral decorations in the church. The Central Presbyterian asks. Why not candy? After a lapse of five years St. Clement's Episcopal Church of Philadelphia has been visited by Bishop Stevens.

St. Clement's Is ultra Ritualistic The Chicago Woman's Baptist Home Mission Union will hold its next regular meeting with the Western Avenue Baptist Church (corner of Western and Warren avenues), Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tea will be served as usual. Gentlemen are invited in the evening. There are thirty-three missionary societies at work in Africa, aud there are 75,000 converts belonging to Protestant churches, with an outside population of 250,000 under their influence.

In Central Africa there are already ten Christian organizations established with more or less encouraging prospects. A recent traveler in South Africa has placed in the hands of Dr. Cameron, M. a whip more formidable than the "cat of the British navy, with which he says that the missionaries near Lake Nyanza are In the habit of flogging refractory converts. The subject will probably be officially investigated.

Seven thousand dollars, which were bequeathed to the Roman Catholic Church some time ago by an Australian merchant, have not been paid by his executors. The money was left to the Church for deliverance of my his soul from purgatory." and the executors refuse to pay the money until proof is given that the testator's soul has been released. The agitation in the Church of England for a reform of the Book of Common Prayer still keeps To effect the reform the subject will have to be brought before Parliament. At this distance it seems odd that to a body composed of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and non-believers, should be intrusted the work of compiling a State prayer-book. Imagine the United States Congress engaged in such a job! More clergymen have sailed for Europe thus far this season than up to a corresponding time in any previous year.

It is now considered the respectable thing for every pastor of a self-supporting church to go to Europe in the summer. During next four weeks a great many more will go. A church which has not sent its pastor to Europe can hardly hold up its head with becoming dignity among neighboring churches which have sent theirs. New York Archdiocese leads all others fn the Union in Catholie population, aoo.OnO; Boston comes next, with Philadelphia is third, with New Orleans follows, then Chicago, SljO.OOO; Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn rank next, each with 200,000. In the number of priests New York also lends, with 3S3, and Baltimore stands second, with 261.

The Roman Catholic immigration here from 1820 to lb75 numbered 3,150.232, and the present Catholic population of the United States is 6,509,000. The Rev. Hugh Miller Rector of Christ Church (Protestant Episcopal) in New York, has recently been holding a controversy in a newspaper with the pastor of a Unitariau Church in Ne Orleans. In one of his letters he makes the assertion that one-hnlf of the congregation of the Rev. Phillips Brooks' church in Boston were formerly Unitarians.

"I know," he said, "from the best evidence, that the cultured Unitarianism of New England is largely drifting into the Episcopal Church." The course of Sunday evening lectures by leading clergymen of the various denominations will be resumed in St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church, Sunday evening July 4. On that evening the Rev. Dr. Ninde, President of the Garrett Biblical Institute, will lecture on Methodism." The Itev.

Prof. A. P. Peabody, D. of Harvard University.

July 11. The Rev. Dr. Hubtis, of Cincinnati, on The Church of the Disciples" (Gen. Garfield's denomination), July 18.

All seats free. A guild of Ritualistic persons has existed for somo time in the City of Detroit for the purpose of maintaining the quasi Parish of Holy Trinity, which has never been recognized by the Bishop of the Diocese, either as a mission or a church. Bishop Harris was lately requested to visit the parish and perform some official acta there, but he insisted on the recognition of diocesan authority before he went. This was refused, and the Bishop did not stir. The guild is now in a pout.

Its dignity has been offended. It maintains lay services. The Lake Bluff camp-meeting will be held July 2S to Aug. ft. A general letter to the ministry and laity of the Methodist Church says: You will learn from the Lake Bluff Sunday-School Assembly program what provision is made for -your transportation to the grounds, and for your entertainment after you are there.

Besides the hotel and cottages already erected we have room for a thousand tents, where, upon the shore of our beautiful lake, you can encamp and spend a few days in recreation for the body and spiritual feasting for the souL" Mr. Beecher has a hobby for rugs. Rugs of every nationality, hue. and texture cover his rooms and halls, matching ill or well the other colors as it may happen. Hut few people suspect that he is authority on soaps, yet such is the case And the scent of the soap-boiler's kettle is as the odors of A raby to the great preacher.

Toilet articles, the mysteries of the perfumer's distillations, are to him an open book, and the literature of the toilet, ancient and modern, is as familiar to him as are the decisions of the Council of Trent or the somnolent platitudes of the gnostic heresies. The English branch of the Ritualist Society known as the "Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament" held its thirteenth anniversary meeting last week at Cannon Street Hotel, London, the large hall of which was crowded, while a side room was devoted to an exhibition of vestments, altar linen," and other objects of ecclesiastical art and interest. During the last year 69 priests and nearly 1,000 lay communicants have been added to the roll of members, which now consists of 900 clergymen and 12,000 biy persons. The Rev. Canon Carter, who is dubbed the "Superior General," said that there was strong evidence of a turn In the tide of popular feeling toward the Catholic section in the Church of England, and expressed his belief that they had seen the last of persecutions for an extreme ritual.

Last week a peculiar ceremony was performed in the Church of God in Philadelphia. It is styled the washing of the Saints' feet," which is thus described: Twelve or fifteen persons of both sexe rose and went forward, the women taking seats before tbe altar on one side while the men took seats on the other. Two or three women then, with basins in their bands, came forward, while a like number of men on the other side did the same thing, and, taking off the shoes of those before them, proceeded to gently wash their feet, women doing this service for the women and men for the men. The minister then related the authority from which this ceremony was derived, and exhorted the saints to strive to walk in the path of Him who set the example to them. As soon as the washing was completed the feet were dried with ordinary coarse towels, the stockings and shoes replaced, and, in the midst of another hymn, the saints took their seats.

Afterward tbe sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered." To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Chicago, June 25. The Woman's. Christian Association of Chicago, HL, would as, as a patriotic measure, all Christian women either associated or individually to remember conti dually in prayer our own country and all the nations of the earth, as all are under the U-nder love of Christ; petitioning, first, that they may have rulers such as described in 21; second, that the Spirit of Holiness may fill all lands; third, that national calamities may be averted (among those threatened la tbe army worm in Long Island, read Joeb; and also that each Christian woman do all in her power either directly or indirectly to bring every one to God, knowing that national blessings come in the path of faithful obedience to His commands. Mrs.

Joseph Haven, Chairman Committee on Religious Work Woman's Christian Association. PERSONALS. Yonr Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things." Jesus. The golden lights of the summer Lie on the laughing land The voice of son? -is borne along By the breezes on every hand. The flowers spread out their beauty Above the vivid green And the water's rush, and the forest's hush, Make tender the glowing scone.

But the cooling kiss of the summer air. And the joy and beauty everywhere Are proofs of Almighty, loving care. For our Heavenly Father knoweth We have need of all these things. There are sounds of a gathering tempest. And the clouds are black as night; O'er the earth is spread a shade of dread.

And all things sigh for light; The leaves of the green woods quiver. And a silence falls around. Till over the hills, with a haste that thrills, The thunder-peals resound. And angrily fails the pelting rain. And sullenly roars the mighty main.

And the heart grows sad with a fear of pain. But our Heavenly Father knoweth We have need of all these things. The daylight calls to labor. And the work we have to do Claim all our powers for the Hying hours, And we must, each task pursue. Although we are often weary, And the aching hands hang down.

There is much to be done ere the rest be won. And we wear the victor's crown. But the toil that comes to us day by day. And even the troubles that thronir our way, More proofs of the love of God display. For our Heavenly Father knoweth We have need of all these things.

Tes, need of the light and shadow. Need of the loss and gain. Need of the rest and labor. Need of the ease and pain; some irreat useful lesson Is taught by all that falls On our spirits here, till the rest be near. And tue voice of the angel calls.

i.TrofKe unto God I His love shall guide KTo the sheltered place by the Savior's side, And all la good, whate'er betide: For our Heavenly Father knoweth We have need of" all these things. CALVINISM REPUDIATED. A BTARTLJNG SERMON BY THIS REV. MYRON AUAMS, Olf ROCHESTKU, N. T.

A few weeks ago the Rev. Myron Adams, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Rochester, N. delivered a sermon which created no little stir in religious circles through-cut the State. The sentiments uttered were regarded as extremely radical coming from any quarter, but emanating from the pastor of one of the most prominent Congregational churches in the country, It was something like a bombshell in the camp of the Evangelical Christians. At the time of Its delivery a brief synopsis was telegraphed by the Associated Press.

The local press endeavored to procure the manuscript In oracr to give the full text, but the preacher was Unwilling at the time to have it published, as he deprecated the excitement and opposition It would be likely to stir up amonar the evangelical Clergy of Rochester and elsewhere. But notwithstanding his reticence In this respect the excitement has been very great and widespread. letters have poured in from ail sections of the country, the great majority of which contain assurances of profound sympathy with and thankfulness for such a vigorous and outspoken utterance. The Tribune's Kochester correspondent had oen only the brief synopsis of the sermon in the papers (not being present to hear it delivered) until a few days ago, when he was per-piitted to read the original manuscript, and he begs to say that it so far exceeds the very nieagre report, both in power and radicalism, that he nt on determined to secure the sermon If possible for publication. After some persuasion and argument Mr.

Adams consented. The sermon made an exceedingly profound ensjttion, and since its delivery bus formed the theme of numerous discourses by parties in Rochester and elsewhere. The Rev. Henry Austiee. D.

of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, of Kochester, and the Kev. Edward P. Adams, of the First Presbyterian Church, of Dunkirk, N. brother of the Itev.

Myron Adams, have also renounced the Calvlnistic belief in the doctrine Of hell and eternal punishment. Following is the sermon of the Kev. Myron Adams: 1et love he without dissimulation. Abhor that Which Is evil. llom, xiu, U.

If a man should profess to have a character of love, and at the same time should practice manifest cruelties, we might well conclude that his love is simulated and unreal. His acts speak louder than his words; acts always do speali louder than words. Suppose we say of Ood that He is holy. Just, tod good; and then declare in unmistakable terms that it is in His heart to practice cruelties, cruelties that are even of inflnit extent and duration. Virtually, then we say of cruelties that they are holy, just, and good.

But la that way we deify something that is eviL Now we are authoritatively instructed by the Apostle not to deify evil, but to abhor it, and, no matter what place it may have In popular thought or religious literature, all the same are we to abhor it. A question now much discussed pro and con fa this: Is Christianity in a state of decadence? It is easy for the assailants of Christianity tosay Yes," and it is easy for the apologists of Christianity to say and it is considered not difficult to gather statistics in support of either answer. It can be most eloquently asserted that Christianity was never in so healthy and prosperous a condition as it is to-day. But the notion has taken some hold of many thoughtful People, in the Church and out of it, that such eloquence is a sort of whistling to keep up courage in the dark. Figures gathered from a partisan standpoint are very dubious means of enlightenment, and people suspect that there is lore rose-water than arithmetic or substantial fact in those statements, so commonly and even aarnestly made, that Christianity as now expounded is marching steadi'v and swiftly to the onquest of the world.

While, on the other hand, the assailants of Christianity are credited with an animosity toward it which strains their rmlculations out of anything like true proportions. Let us first premise that there Is nothing1 hocking (necessarily) or anti-Scriptural, or which need offend or stumblo any earnest Christian, in the idea of the decadence of Christianity, its doctrines are now popularly taught. In-feed, it is prophetically announced in the iew Testament that the day or the time of moral and intellectual light, or. In other words, the Kingdom of God shall not come except there oe an apostasy first, which falling away or apostasy seems to have occurred very early in Ihe Christian history. Moreover, let it once be settled in mind that enuine decadence can.

under the wise Divine rovernuient, only happen to that which is unbound and untrue, inherently, and all cause of ipprehension is removed. If any Church or ther institution is suffering by reason of apostasy from its original right principles, it decadence follows as a matter of the teaching of history, and as a matter of course, and its de-eadenoe is its relapse from an error, giving thus a very desirable opportunity for a reformation In Itself. Now, such a decadence, in the opinion many In the Church and out of it, is at present in progress. Says Edward White, whose book, "Life In rhrist," has made him celebrated in both hemispheres, and who has been mainly Instrumental formulating the newly named doctrine of Salle and Elm streets, at 11 a. m.

and 8 p.m. Communion at 8 a. m. The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester will officiate in St.

Paul's Church, Hyde Park avenue, between Fortyninth and Fiftieth streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev.

B. F. Fleetwood will officiate In St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, at a. m.

and 8 p.m. The Rev. J. D. Cowan will officiate in Stephen's Church, Johnson street, between Taylor and Twelftr streets, at 10:30 a.

m. and 7:30 p. m. Communion at morning service. Tbe Rev.

Luther Pardee will officiate In Calvary Church. Warren avenue, "between Oakley street and Western avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p.m. Communion at 7:45 a.

in. The Rev. T. N. Morrison, will officiate la the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, between Monroe and Adams streets, at 10:30 a.

m. and 7 :30 p. m. Communion at 8 a. m.

The Rev. W. J. Petrie will officiate in tbe Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues, at 11 a. m.

and 4 p. m. The Rev. James E. Thompson will officiate In St.

Thomas' Church, Indiana avenue, between Twenty-nintb and Thirtieth streets, at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. nx. The Rev.

Henry G. Perry will officiate ha St. Paul's Church, Riverside, in the morning. The Rev. John Hedman will officiate In Ft.

Ansgarius' Church, Sedgwick street, near Chicago avenue, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. BAPTIST.

The Rev. N. F. Ravtin preaches at No. 431 Ogden avenue morning and evening.

The Rev. G. B. Vosburg will preach imirning and evening In Second Church, corner Monroe and Morgan streets. The Rev.

Kerr B. Tupper will preach at 7:45 in. in the xwenty-nim btreet cnurcn, near worth avenue. The Rev. J.

D. Broadus, of Louisville, will preach in the First Church, corner of South I'ark avenue and Thirty-first street, at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p.m. The Itev.

E. B. Hulbert will preach fn the Fourth Church, corner of West Washington and Paulina ptreets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p.

m. The Rev. J. T. Burhoe will preach In the University Place Church, corner of Douglas place and Rhodes avenue, at 10:30 a.

in. and 7::) p. m. The Rev. J.

Rowley will preach in tbe North Star Church, corner of Division and Sedgwick streets, at 10:45 a. in. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev.

Perren will preach in the Western A venue Church, corner of Warren avenue, at 10 :30 a. in. and 7 :30 p. m. The Rev.

W. H. Parker will preach In tbe Coventry Street Church, corner of Bjoofntmr-dale road, at 10-0 a.m. and 7:30 p. in.

The Rev. R. De Baptiste will breach in Olivet Church, Fourth aven Lie, near Taylor street, a 11 a.m. and 7:45 p. tn- There will be services in the South Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, at lla.

m. The Rev. A. K. Parker will preach in tbe Centennial Church, corner of Lincoln and Wee Jackson streets, at 10:30 a.m.

and 7:30 p. nx. The Rev. E. O.

Taylor will preach in tbe Central Church, No. 2W0 Orchard street, near Sophia, at 10:45 a.m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev.

W. A. Broadhurst will preach in the Dearborn Street Church, corner of Thirty-sixth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7 p.

m. The Rev. J. Q. A.

Henry will preach In the Evangel Church, Dearborn street, near Forty-seventh, at 10:45 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. The Rev.

Mr. Meyer will preach In tbe First German Church, corner of Bickerdike and Huron streets, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.

The Rev. J. B. Smith will preach at 10 a. to.

and 7:: p. m. at the First Norwegian Church, corner of Nobie and West Ohio streets. The liev. John Ongman will preach at 10:30 a.

m. and 7:30 p. nx. at the First Swedish Church, Oak street, near Sedgwick. PIU1 TTKKJLAIf.

The Rev. J. H. Wralker will preach at the Campbell I'ark Church. Leavittetreet, near Harrison, morning and evening.

The Rev. W. Meloy preaches at tbe United Church this morning, ana the Rev. M. A.

Gault. of Blanchard, this evening. The Rev. Herrick Johnnon will preach morning and evening in tbe Fourth Church, corner of and Superior streets. The Rev.

Dr. Baldwin, of Medford, Mass-will preach this morning in the Second Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. No evening service. The Rev. Arthur Mitchell will preach In the First Church, corner of Indiana avenue and -Twenty-first street, at 10:30 a.

m. Evening service held at the Railroad Chapct, No. 715 State street, at 7 :45 p. in. The Rev.

A. E. Klttredge win preach la the Third Church, corner of Ashland and Ofrden av- enues, at 10: JO a. m. and 7:45 p.

m. Morning sun- ject: Home, and How to Make It Happy. Evening: "John Knox and His Work In Soot-land." The Bev. S. E.

Wiahard will preach In tfc ESreTe loVe7-ail love, through and ihroSgrkthing ptof theang- inal nwuve oi iov, ina all the Miss Sydney Paul GUI, author of the hymn I Want to Be an Angel, died last week at Newark, 21. J. She was a native of Birmingham. En- SgfesThiftovem -r it Cn the New Testament, believta.