The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-17
LOCAL MATTERS.
CHICAGO RELIEF MOVEMENTS.
OF THE CITIZENS
COMMITTEE OF COLLECTION.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIETIES
Collections i'm the Churches.
Remarks Of Rev. DR.. Read and Rev
J. A. Dearborn.

A meeting Of the committee appointed
hy the Chamber OF Commerce to take up
collections for the Chicago sufferers, to-
gethcr with the following gentlemen Jap
pointed by the Mayor. will bo held at the
rooms Of the Chamber of Commerce this
evening at p. NJ:
MarshaH.-M W. Hazlewooi, j. j. Eng
lish, James Hayes.
Je6erson.-J: B. Pace. SAMUEL Naccub.
bin. James Golden.
Aadison.-Max. r. Clarke. P. T. lioorc,
Nj. p. Handy.
Gdy.-Archer Ande. son. Edward Eukcr,
Albert Ordway.
Monroe-R.. E. English, r. F. Walker,
Henry Miller.
Juckson.-John c. Page, Jr., r. ". Man.
ley, Andrew Jinkins.
Collections were taken up in many of the
churches on last Sunday, and n considerable
| amount was realized fer Chicago.
Rimmon Lodge, I. O. r. e., with the libe.
atty characterizng this Order, makes an
appropriation Of 800, which will be dis
| tributed by the District Grand officers of IL
linois.
KNIGHTS OF fYTHIAs.
The Grand Chancellor of Virginia, X. P,
| has issued the following circular to officers
Of subordinate lodges, enclosing Herewith
II circular from the Supreme Chancellor:
Coffee OF THE GRAND LoDGE.l
KNIGHTS OF PyTHIAs OF VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND, October IA, 1S7f.)
To the Vt. C. ef- Lodge No. -, f. p:
Dear Sir and Drother,-I hove this day
received from the Supreme Chancellor of
| the World, under the seal Of the Supreme
Lodge, 81 communication announcing the
fact that many Of our brothers have become
utterly destitute by reason Of the awful
| calamity which has lately befallen
our sister city of Chicago; not only
are the individual members of our
Brotherhood, with their families, house
esq, and In many eases in want Of the
actual necessaries Of life, but many of their
llodge.rooms, with the entire furniture,
have been consumed ny the ruthless visi-
tor. In accordance therefore with his re.
commentator, and the dictates Of humani-
ty and that brotherly love which we have
sworn each to cherish and exhibit towards
the other, would earnestly call upon all
the subordinate lodges in this grand juris-
diction and to the individual members
thereof TO come nobly forward now to tes-
tify as to the truth of our calling rs 'True
| Knights
| oneh uaoci Any Aauo, WIN lue seai VI
| the Grand Lodge attached, this 14th day of
seventh. ". ii. WADE,
Grand Chancellor State of Virginia."
| knights of Pythias may enclose their
contributions to Grand Scribe Hartman, or
TO the editors Of the True Knight, box
PIP, Richmond, Va.
THE TRRDEGAR'S SUBSCRIPTION.
But the most generous contribution we
have to chronicle is that of the ,Eredegar
Company, through General Joseph K. An
derson, president. This company gives
$500, which will he duly forwarded by
May or Kelley without delay.
POLICE.
Major John Poe, Jr., Chief. has handed
| to Mayor Kelley the sum of 800 gener-
| ously contributed by the police force of
| Richmond.
GRAcE-sTREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
At the Gracc-Street Presbyterian church
the pastor, Rev. DR.. Read, (Who WAS one of
the committee to solicit contribution
from the City Councll,) delivered an un-
usually able discourse, In which he alluded
briefly but appropriately to the recent
calamity. After dwelling on the comfort
and peace derived by Christians from the
doctrine of special Providence and the
lessons 1t teaches-to live not for this life
alone, but for eternity-the Doctor touch
ingly referred to the great tire, and alluded
to, his personal interest In the doubtful fate Of
some who had proved themselves open.
hearted friends In his hour of need. After
the sermon q large amount was realized by
collection. We are requested to state that
members of the congregation who were
absent on this occasion may leave their
contributions with Peachy r. Grattan,
| ESQ.,, or Mr.. Charles Genuett,
DISCIPLES CHURCH.
In the Disciples church Elder John A.
Dearborn spoke of the calamity at length,
| md said that In speaking of the govern
mont OF God US exercised over men on
earth, that while there is u connection di-
rectly or remotely between all human suf-
fering and sin on the part OF man, some
violation Of some law, moral or physical,
| that God had ordained, yet he affirmed that
personal afflictioD, suffering, calamity, did
not always and necessarily imply personal
guilt on the part OF the sufferer. In proof,
he adduced the first and the second verses
of the 9th chapter Of John, where the
Saviour, having met man born bllno, ms
dIsciples asked, "Who did sin, this man or
his parents, that he was born blind? And
Jesus answered, Neither this man nor bis
parents"
He also took the position that while God,
in the inflietion OF punishments unon
wicked individuals and upon communities
becal1se of their wIckednesS, might gen.
eralIy graduate the measure of attliction by
the degree of guilt in the parties, yet the
magnitude and awfulness OF o calamity
which befals community IL no lnyarlable
index of the relative wickedness Of the at-
licted community as compared WIN osner
81 o,,Is I'M
cases found In the 18th chapter Of Luke.
where mention was:made to the saviour OF
the awful fate of "the Galileeans, whose
blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices"
and in answer to whom Jesus said sup
nose We that these Galtleeans were sinners
above all the Galileeans because they
suffered these thingsP tell you, NO"
Jesus then adduced another case--those
eighteen upon whom the tower OF Siiome
fell and kIlled-and asks: "Think ye that
they were sinners above (more guilty than(
oil men that dwelt in Jerusalemio And
he answers, 81 tell you, No" Chicago
vice but who shall say that because it has
been visited by heavier destruction than
has befallen any other city Of our country
that, according to a just Bible view, it Is
more guilty than any othef city in the
United States-thsn New 4ork-,han New
Orleans1
The speaker adduced the case Of Job to
show that 50 far from personal at1l!ctfon and
calamities of the direst kind, Implying per-
sonal guilt In the sight of God, here was
an innocent, upright man, so declsred by
God himself, made for grand moral pur-
pose to suffer as few IL any man had ever
| suffered. ~
He also expressed his adherence of that
system of theology that made God send
that half witted old Irish woman out to her