Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1872, Page 3

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1872 3 THE PULPIT. Toliday Sermens by Distin. guished Clergymen, quent Discowse by Rev, David Swing at McVicker's, The Past Year at Evanston Reviewed By Rev. George E. Koyes, LAST DAVS OF DECEMBER. Tho cong:egation of the Fowrth Presb; Caurch, and 2 B3semblH torian, e numler of otber persons, at MeVieker's Theatro yesterday fore- 100z to listen 1o & sermon in the spirit of the bolidsy season. After tuc usual preliminary <, the pastor of the Fourth I’ Tiev. David Swing, epoke as follows : THE SERMON. em Lath hie set a tabernacle for the sun.”— TLe 1208t encient Norikmen, ond the old clas- lancs, Lave p cd the lost days of Decem- at turning-rowat in the year, & st antima Leging to fade from ought, 10 muzke room for :Le now spring: Tho ¥ e grown rhoriest, tho uights longest, the sun hos sunk farthest away fiom the, grea temperate zones, the great zones of life, and thought. sod power. In the lest days of December the day begins to lenuthen, and the memory of the last year is thus cempelled to give place to the anticipation of & new circle. Tuo heart begins to look for- ward with new impulse. Historians point out turning-points in pelitics where despotism began to die and libertyto arise. Tueologiabs can tell us where the Popo beging £o waue and Protestentism to increaso, and there 2-¢ others to toll us_whiere art ceasod to be hea- then and became Ciristian, Nazure, also, has iis turnipg-points, where the autumu jeaf coases and the Lud bez:k, where the Lird begins, along thie Mexican Gul, to tiy Northward in short daily s 1ts way back to the Ohio or Lie Norchern & Inthis beautitul reversion of a star the hu- maa soul fakos part, and all the thoughts of the mind and feelings of the beerc find themselves saddevly turicd about sud suiling away from tlungs done, and making heedway toward new continents, The human’ vessel sails from the ghore of history to that of hope. Our morning papers will soon ccase to enuinerate the things that have been doue. With the epirit of prophie- cy they will exult in what is about to come to ass. If wonderful is the day that carries a nation across from kingeraft to liberty, or an art from o berbaric to o cwvilized ideal, beautiful, also, is the day that Lears us all tvom the contemplation of days gone and casisus into the very midst of new sunshine coming up from the Southern €hy. The savage mind first beholds the wonderful plienomena of nature. They elaborate no phil- ©osophy, no politics, no religion, but they behold the ocean, the mountains, the earthquake, tho storm, and the sun. They know that after a few months of ¢torm and &now, and ice, warm days will come. This_is one of the grent facts in their history, and hence the sun is their most immenre object. It is always enthroned as o ged. When the DPersinns saw a dark shadow creeping over the sun they shot thousands of arrows ot the black wonder, for fear it was de- stroying the deity €0 imporlant to their welfare and lifé. 7This gigantic orb_they worshiped In this universal admiration the Norso tribes were conspicuous, aud they celebrated with bright fires and with a burning, rolling wheel £0is December period when their loved sun end- 2a his departura and wheoled about for a return to their nelds and streams. This besutiful ro- pentance of the sun was a yulelide—a returning time. As thie return of light and heat was all joyful, the actions of men must be such. Heuco these days were celebrated with deeds kiuder than common, and happiness was the 1motto over the sacred week. The Romans and Greeks espoused the idea and ouly made upon the festivitics such changes &s were demanded in order to make room for {keir Jupiter, their Minerva, their Apollo. Then camethe Christians to prosorve all excopt the idolatry, and to cnable such changes as wero necessary W order to admit Bethlehem and the Buvior into the great joyful weok. 3 the great ustural ylienomens was srranged by the Greeks around Zeus—and by the Latins sround Jupiter—the Christians very maturally saared their overgreen treo, aud buil their yule- fire, sud entwined their wreaths around the Deme of Christ. In His namo they saw the aun coming back. Tho verdure of the coming Bpring, and the firo of harvest, and the cheerfulness and E:.ncmtims of life were all o come from this now ivinit Thus the dear old holy weok loved by the wwhole clussic world, began to male Christ a cen- 21 cause and motive, xud thus it comes to us & Cetival growing out of man snd nature, and Tuen adorned aud perfected by the deeper spir- ituality of the Christian religion. It is an old human tree, with the Christian graftlings grow- ing upon it in rick frait. . fi'he Christian world and tho heathen did not pert company at ouce, Indecd, they have not Fat become divorced from each other. In the Ziest conturies the effort among Christians was o abtain all they could of the old. Aside from :ffort, tl:c faind never escapes from the old The early Christiau fathers carried in their heads the Apostles and Plato, Moses and Orpheus, Mary of the New Tesiamcnt, and the Sitiyls of tiae heloved classics. Ono of the Cliris- tisn writers iitempted to show that Christ bad been foretold by tue Delphic oracle, and another attempts to provo that after Christ came, the Grcek uracles wero doprived of their prophetio Fower. In nuch books ns Dante, and in such art as that of Angelo and Rafiaclle, we find that tho Bible and the classics were equally dear, and that the etatue of Moses aud of Jupiter sccmed equa. v aduwirable and precious. ln Danto, all tlie Ciiistian and classie celebritics mingle in the inferno and in Paradise with only little dis- tinction of merit and demerit. Ina great fresco of that period, the procession which draws the chariot of Chriet is made up_ of all fho patriarchs and oposiles, aud with the Sibyls of the clssic world. Under the iufuence of this epirit of amalzama- tion, it was natural and unavuidablo that the old ¥ule idea rhould be incorporated into the Chris- ian religion. The idea was t00 good, too pleas- Ing, 100 Bunian, to merit any distinction. Al it Jemanded was the decoraticn by somo spiritual philasophy. Provudelce has thus created a great civiliza- tica by leading mauy narrow, but clear and Ligaithy streams, dow to one common deop, liko uuto that which 1o Las gasthered the waters of the ocean. Looking upon the civilization to-day of Europe or America, you cannot point to any ouo astrict or uge that created it, or even laid the foundztions of its prescat gretness, No Tece, no_ern, no State cin Tise up and Eay we ma.e this wonderful thing. The Christian will ot daro claim civilization for I'alestine, nor the £cholur date it to Athens, nor the Freuchman to France. No voice, not even the Amazon, can fay the ocean is mine. Europe and America bave a myriad Eprings away in the mountaing of 2l humanity,—sprivgs that for thousands of Fears have been dripning into that spiritual and nentel food tiat now makes up thewr charactor and perpetuity. Tae Greek art, the Etruscan vase, the Roman Jaw, the classic languages, tho Corinibisu archi- tecture, the fictwork of Pompeii, tho morals of Flato, ‘Cato, and Sencca, all = combine with Christiauity, and, the graces, make up a ¥ joiuing many hands und fsces in one deuce. It is not eexential to the grestness of Christianity that it chould deny the existence of any other good. In order for its services as a eavior, to be of confessed valuo, one should cor:fess the greatness of man whom it came to szve. The more, therefore, man ghowed him- | gelf in antiquity to bo divine in his image, ' the more noble s that salizzion which comes from the sky to his soul. When I behold tho genius of Greek and Ro- man, the tendernces of the yule-tide, the purity of the morals of Cato and Aurelius, the religious irit of idolatry and the deep truths held by e majority of the human race, I feel that this tece was noble enough to call for the advent and help of Jesue. Christianity ought to assume bhio ececntial greatness of man, and thus present us with s forehead of man white enough and divine enough to cxplain tho wreath of immor- tality reachied forth™ by the lovng hand from Bethlehem. =3 Tt is not neceesary, therefore, for Christionity to claim all of this fesuive veek. Tho human reco discovered it and adorned it. Tiie old races tliat firss saw spnng como with her arms full of fiowers down from the dreary sceno of winter, that et saw theico relenton tho rivers aud seas and give back their weters to their boats and to their fishing spesr,—tho Greek and Ro- mans who treated ilieir slaves s frecmen in these hours, and whosuspended all business, aud geve thomsclvos up to their friends, their omas their children.—sll thase helved secure the green garlands that bedock our ehureh and helped build up tho friondshi el thg worlt's boart today, o Haby hristianity is not s destruction of good or old beauty, but & perfecting of e egun. It camo Kot to destroy butto fulll. 16 adds to thomorals of Seneea, to tho hymns of tho Hindoos, to the dream of jmmortal life held Dy all ages, and to the natural happiness of man. To happiness 18 & pursuit of old age and child- hood it ndJs the power of its indorsement and st Miso and mogt, tondor help. uch o great holiday as that called yule-tide it accepts and then improves with its ik purer, truth and deeper plilsuthropy. ’ Having thus “alluded to the origin of this ~December weck, wo may allude to the foer it has encountered, and then to the great friend it bias found in the nineleentl cen- rv. Happiness earlybecamo at disconnt in the Chris- tisn Church. Lor reasons known and unknown, Christianity early took the path of terrorism, The grest cnemics that arose agsinst it and made its adherents dio in flames or live in mor- tal dread, developed greatly the iden that God would be'a vengeance on the life to come. At least tho early fathers spent much of their time in picturing what a hell awnited all the enemies of their religion. They would exult mot so much in Heaven's joy 18 in seeing these ene- mizs straggle in quenchless flames. The doctrine thet man was _tho vilost of vile things, mado all kinds of misery here and here- after & proper daily portion for his depraved soul, aud made joy as digcordant for man as pearls aro for decoration of ewine. Tho more oy doctrine dogrades man the more does all kinds of dark thoughts become his daily occupa- tion, and the more does all shape of happinesss becomo a forbidden fruit. _Persccutions and tho romains of cld supersti- tions, and the direct actions of dogmas, and th:o upion of religion sud political despotism, all combine to chech tho natural flow of pleasuro, joy, and love. Tho air was not 80 much filled with that ever- present apirit, infinite in love and goodnoss— God—as 1t was flled with Satan, the chief of demoue, and his army of formentors. Luther saw Satan fer oftener than his spirit_beheld its God. His cell was contiqually invaded by this prince of darkness. Onco only did ho suffer an- noyance enough to result in tlie throwing of his inkitand, butatall hours Lo sulered rude at- tacks, Hearing o strango noiso ono night, ho 2r0s0 to oxpel a thief, but finding it only Satan himeelf, he went quietly to slecp again. _The long history of tho Catholic Church is the history of Satenic prosence—candles oven kept burning to keep him away, consecrated bells wore wrung to frighteu him, and yet in each derk corner of every houso thero was skulkin to evil one waiting to torment some unguarde: soul. \When Luther was supposed to have died, Hho Catholics droamed of bia body being car. ried to perdition by o score of devils in the form of ravens. When witches wera led out to execution, they wore o robe of black with pictures of devils all over it, snd the swearing of the streots was almost ‘all done in the name of o thousand desils. It is hardly too much to eay that the God of natare and of the human soul was almost eclipsed by tius dark and gloomy shadow of things iufernal. Along with this eclipso of o benevolent God, cam tho eclipee of human hap- piness of men, women, and children. To soek plensure was to trifle, if not to sin. Tho world was virtually in the hands of s Manichean philogophy, which in heathen times beld that the reunion was hanging in susponse between the power of o God and the powcr of o demon. Tho Listory of tho church from the tenth cen- tury to the eighteonth shows that jts relations to human enjoyment were of the most patiable character, an insult not only to tho New Testa- ment, but to man as & creature gifted with rea- son. 'Tho whole epirit of thoso timen is acci- dentally summed up in the evidence of Macan- Iay, that bear-buiting was forbidden not becauso it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. This type of Christianity, full of terror, full of sorrow, full of self-roprosch, has been the foo With which tho joyfulness of 1ifo has had to combat. Clristmes’ lins suffered in this wide suffering of all man's best instincts. Now, the great friend of this sesson is that mental emancipation that has been coming for nearly two hundred years, but which has in this century mado most marked progress. The guilt and punishment of sin being still believed in and acceptod s fact by oll, thero is no doubs fhat God in His own pover, and bosuly, and Tove, fills the air o8 ITe has néver before done in the history of mankind, In o sky cleared of tho dark clouds that veiled it for thousands of years one may novw eco the radianco of Jesus Christ. Compared with the frightful yesterday, wo havo como upon_ a cloudloss morniug in June, when dov is sparkling like diamonds’ upon tho grass, and tho soft winds from the South are striking tho temples like a gale from Paradiso. Tho army of demons in tho sky has passed away bofore the uprising of Christ. Tho emane cipation of mind, bogun in the_sixtcenth con- tury, butmoro fully cetablished in the eight- eenith, has driven witcheraft aud domonism from public belicf, aud has surrounded tho children of God with tho blessed presence of their Heav- enly Father. Tho asceticiem of tho monk and of the Puriten has psssed away. Children aro not afraid of their parents, butare joyful in their presence. Parents are not 60 much domes- tic despots as domestic friends upon tho Sebbath dny. ‘he Sunday-schiool song has superseded crucl whippings, and home-imprisonment, and denthliko sileuce. Tho great changes that hase taken place in prblic philanthropy, secnnow in asylums, and hospitals, and homes for tho desti- tute, in'the endowment of colleges, in retreats for invalid ministers, - in retreaty for aged and indigent actors, seen in free public educa- tion, are scen, also, at tho firesido, in the 'yuletide that comes with such a joy to youth as was poseiblo in no former age. Tho universal presence of demons bas given place to tho universal pregence of Jesus Christ. Tho plilosopy thiat parmits man to bo as Lapoy ua ho can lawfully be, has overwhelmed the terror- ium of 1800 years. The foos of Christmas_that remain aro tho worship of gold {hat absorbs men's hearts, and dulls them, and cortain Tariy or groatneds of solf that'ia too proud to laugh, too sublimo to behold an object 80 trilling a5 & play-day and 2n overgreen troe. But the sdvancing sway of tender sentiment, tho dawning age of higher happinoes, of less debato and more love, will melt all thoso proud hearts, und will ronder tho sentiment of phil- anthropy more populsr than gold, and s child- like head mor charming than tho most exalted form of egotism. But theso doys are not o simple smilo or Lnppiness—thoy are great rest- ing places for the overworked mind and heart, oases in the desert whero tho caravan reposcs amid verdure, 2nd shade, and by crystal springs. Bonds of friendabip a0 strongthoned in then. Tne homos that celebrato thom, the country that producos. the culturothat enjoys them, tho Caristianity that penetrates them and gives thom soul aud import; aze ull advanced in public esti- mate. Commentaries are theso dsys upon_tho Ser- ‘mou on the Mount, axd upon the wholo life of Christ. Nations unbending from toil, nations confessing tho fact nnd_value of Joyfulness, nations taking up the children in their arms an blessing them, all civilized lands expressing now good-will to incn, and joining in tho oxchange of good wishes dnong their millions of citizens, surpass all looks and all formal epcech in un- folding the meaning and painting the true pic- ture of Jesus tho Savior. ANNIVERSARY SERMON AT EVANSTON. Evanston is 8o closely allied to Chicago as the homo of &0 many of our business men, that the Anniversary Sermon preached yestordsy morn- ing by Rov. Goorge . Noycs, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, will posscss a local inter- cst. The Lendsomo audience-room carrics its Christmas decorations, which reflect high credit on the tasto of the congregation, especislly upon Georgo E. Purington, Eeq. The audience, yee- terdsy, was large, and tho theme of tho dis- courso makes tho sermon happily illustrative of the past year at Evanston. THE SERMOY. « Days should rpeak, and multitude of years shoald teach wisdom.”—Jub T 1t is zn instructive fact that, of the various substancos and forces in Nature, cach is mado to _serve, not one purpose merely, but a variety of ‘purposes. Tho atmosphore, fof instance, yiclds food to sil forms of Tt is necessary to tho life of el ar gs. It is indispen= sable to the_trsnemission of light, of color, and of sound. It is & homo for the clouds, with their treasures of rain, and heil, and suow. It holds within itself tho forces of heot and elec- tricity; and it posscssos & power which, in its gontlor manifestations, would not bresK a leaf, But which, in its mightier exhibitioas, is ablo to lash tho ccesn into fury, and drivo tho largest s Lelplensly across ité troubled surface. Something sinuilar to this variety of purposes ministcred to oy each oneof Naturo's substauces and forces, may be discovered in the phenomena of tho moral world. e may often obserse Liow one and tho same event, if wo carofully consider its meaning, is mado to serve the most varied and sometunes apparently opposito purposcs. Of all tho cvents that mako up our separato his- tories, there is probably not one which is not adapted to answer, in the economy of God's dis- cipline, mora than one moral end. . It bocomes, thus. a mattor of great impor- tance to us all frequently to roview the past, that we may not miss any of the salutary lessons which its Temambered evonts may tesch us. “Devs should spezlk,” and to the counsels which they give wo should earnestly attend. It is & fact of great significance that God, in the moral and spiritual education of tho Isracl- ites, made constant use of their own history. The principal ovents of their captivity, rescue, sojourn in the wilderness, and entrance into tho Promised Land, they wore commanded to tell to their children, who, in turn, were to tell them. to their children, to thelatost gencration. From age to age they were to recount the wondrous works which God had wroaght in their behalf, “Yeo shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thina house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou licst down, and when thou, risest up; and thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates, that your daysmay be multi- plicd, and the duys of your children, in the land which tho Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon corih.” “Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led theo theso forty years in tho ilderness." ‘There is & pr-found reason for thus sending men back to the past of their lives, The fu- ture docs not 28 yot live to any of us; the past docs, and, except the single moment of time which wo call the present, it is oll that does live to us. We are what tho past has made us, and it isall we have, Biss, the wiso Greek, is represented as eaying that “ himself was tho treasure which a wholo lifo bad gatherod.” Wo may think that we have left forever events and experiences which are long einco past, but it is not go. They may not be present to our racol- lection, but they are still with ue, and of us. TFrom infancy to the prescnt hour, great changes have tken place in the circumstances, compan- ionships, and employments of our lives. But no change, however great, has been great onough to disconnect us from the pest. Our life is one. Our hustory is one unbroken whols, and so it will be to tho end. All objects with which we Dhave ever had to dohave made eome abiding impression upon us. Al tho_ thoughts that have ever engaged our minds have left somo permanent tracd upon them. All the actions which havo ever called into existence our powers bavo contributed some influence in maling us what wo are, Taus, by considerin; -what our history bas been—by recalling to min tho events that it comprises, we may do much in the way of learning what weare. Wemay alzo bo bettor warned of Zuturo perils and better furnished for faturo duties. 1t is by such reflections us theso that justify, if its nceds justifying, tho practice of making, at the closo of the year, an anuual review of our histors ns a_church. Nob tha that history usually contains anything of » remarkable chat- acter.” It is made np, forthe greater part, of such incidents, trials, and successes, as com- mouly mark thé lifo of churches. Somo part of what is best in that history, and probably, also, some part of what is worst, caunot be written or spoken. 'Tho best aspirations which_ any of us have cherished, our deepest longings after spiritual excollehce—theso oro tho best things in our history ; but theso have boen only very imperfectly wrought ous into visible results. And 80, too, our saddest Iapses, oux most serious shortcomings, have probably had only a partial outward expression. As wa mever knosw tho Dbest nor the worst in tho life of any individual man, £0 is it in respect of tho lifo of o church, Tho facts which make up the record of our church Life for the year now drawing to a close, may be grouped 80 a8 to scrve throa purposes, or feach three distinct and important leasons. Tho firat is o lesson of ponitential regret. However bright the past year has been with tho tokens of God’s favor, and howover .grost tho measura of prosperity we enjoy, yet o say that wo cau look beck upon tho past ‘without rogrot, is to uay, cither that wo aro “already porfect,” or that' we aro spiritually dond. Tho former cannot bo true; the latter, I trust, is not. We havo mot sll been alike faithful to our * high calling;” but there is 0 ono who can claim to have como short in nothing. To no one of us, then, should it bo pormitted to roview the past year without somo experienco of that “godly sorrow " for sin which will lead us to a true amendment of theso errors and ehorécomings by which our days have hitherto been marked. Another lesson taught by tho story of this vear's lifo is ono of gratitude and thaniksgiving. 1t has been o year of prosperity and growth far beyond that of mny preceding year in our Distory. Upon tho 27th of July, 1868, but little more than four years ago, thirty-sight persons united in the first organization of this church. Duriny that year, tho names of two others wero adde: o tho roll of mombership, making forty in all. In the year 1869, there wero twenty-three ad tions; in 1870, thirty-six ; in 1871, sixtocen ; and seventy-one during tho present yeor. Of thoso uniting with the church during the prosent rear, thirty-seven didso upon confession of their foith'in Christ. Since the first organization of the church thera have been 143 nccessions. 1f wo_ had lost none by death _snd removal, our membership would now stand at 136; but deducting the losses we havo sustained frcm these causes, wo havo a preeent membership of 157. At tho be- ginning of tho year, we had upon our church Tegister tho names of 86 rosident membere. It will thus bo scen that during tho current year our memberehip has Dbeen nearly doubled. It is more than four-fold cater than it was at our first organization. his increase, a8 might bo supposed, Las been attended by a corresponding increase in tho sizo of our Sabbath congregations. With two or three exceptions—a number quite too emall to provide for transient church-goers—all the pews in this houso arorented. Manifestly it will be quite impossiblo to cstimate, with any degreo of accuracy, our increzso of stronglh fnancially. It has been considerable, notwithstanding the Teavy losses which wero inflicted upon many of our members by tho great fire. With a mem- berehip that has_beon quadrupled in four years, with o largely-incressed attendanco upon tho Sabbath-school and upon the regnlar Sabbath sorvices, we cortuinly are, in. every respect, bet- ter furnished for doing our own share of the Lord's work in tho community whero we aro placed. In respect of losses by death, we have been, this year, as in tho past, signaily favored. Only one of our number has been called from _ the militant to ~ the triumph- ant church. Georgo Heslor, born to en inhoritauco of sufferiug on earth has, we trust, entered upon tho beiter inheritance above. Only two of all our membership have been called away by death. In view of such a fzct as this, wo certainly aro warranted in saying that this town is not only bosutiful, but also healthful, for situntion, tho joy of all its inhabitants, and of many besides. Not ouly, howover, as a church, but also =s families, havo we been greatly blessed. Some of our houscholds Lave Bad cast ovor them tho dark and chill shadow of bereavement. Somo bave known and somo aro still oxperiencing tho gracious chastenings of sickness. We are nob altogothor without that “ chastoning” which is the §mnion of every one “shom the Lordloveth.” Wo aro sbarers, even a8 others, now in blessing, and now in suffering, which, in'the Divine purpose of discipline, are synonyms. Though we may count our joys as the buds of the roso and our trials asits thorns, wo ehould not forget that it is one and tho sama vital energy of lovo that brings out both npon the growtlof ourlife. Aswo think to-day of thoso who bave gono before, and give heed to “Their ellent, sof: address, Thelr posthmmous advice, and plous prayer,” let us, like Him of old, st engthen our hearts ‘with the resolve that we W 1go to thom since they cannot return to us. Any review of the year which should contain no_commendatory mention of the work of the “Womau's Misgionary Society,” organized in connection with the charch, would be_ seriously defective. This Society, 8t tho beginring of tho year, undertools to raiso four hundred dol- Lars, tho amount needed to eupport, npon_the foreign fields, & missionary of their sex. They made this resolve amid all the depression, un- certainly, and gloom consequent upon the great fire. Iam glad to ba able to eny that they have ‘more than fulfilled it, their Treasurer assunng me that their offerings amount to £430. Thoy Tave voted to apply this sum to aid in purchas- ing the Woodstock Home. The Sundsy School, also, hiave enlisted in the same praiseworthy en- enterprise, and at their Fair, recontly held, roal- ized the handsome sum of $120, The ladies of tho _ Missionary Society have wrought &0 faithfully that T can do less then exhort you all, in apostolic language, to ‘help thoso women who labored with me in tho Gospel.” The results of their efforts show cleasly tho great importanco of organization and system. In the benevolens work of the church proper, wo hayo dono less than we might, and less, probably, than wo should have done, if we ba WorLed wystematically, 28 we espect to do in the fature. For onr congregational neads wo have raised, during the vear, about §4,000; for the Deuevolent work of the church our contribu- tions, exclusive of theso already montioned, amouuts to about £150. : With plan of making weekly offering, now fairly insugursted, we look forward to the year upon swhich wo arg abont to enter with the con- fident hope of making its record a far brighter one than the record of the past year Las been. The speaker noxt spoke of tho social life of the church, and the prayer-meetings, concern- ing which somo_interesting statements were made. Taking the Listory of tho yesr as a whole, it furnished sbundant causo for thanks- sizing. Still there was room, and an urgent call for improvemont. This was the third lesson taught by tho past.” And with the statement and on- forcement of this lesson the discourse was closed. —_—— Longevity of Some Animals, Among other spoils which Alexander the Great took from Poiue, an Indisn King, was & monster elephant. Thoso nnimals wero then, 28 now, held in the highest esteem in that country. That particular clephant fought so bravely for ‘his mastor, that the edmiration of the conqueror was excited in his favor. Ho ordered him to be set freo, and allowed to Tange at pleasuro first naming him Ajax and placing a medal securoly to his neck bearing this inscription: ‘‘Alexan- der, son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the Sun.” Three hundred and fifty-four years after the oid tellow was rediscovered, and probably in good condition, a3 nothing was_recorded to the con- trary. Therofore, it is probable that elephants may live soveral canturies before the machinery of life gives out. Cuvier, the grest French naturalist, saw no reaton why whales should not resch s thon- sand years. An eagle died at Vionna that was known to bo 104 yoars old. Ravens have been active at 100 years. A skeleton of s swanis in possossion of an English gentleman that died when 200 years of age. Tortoises have becn repentedly found with dates cut into their shells by ancient hunters, showing they were over 100, aud yot wors cravling on vigorously with now morkings into a second centary. Scientists cannot fathom this law of vitality. There is a life period to most of the snimals very satisfactorily dotermined, but how long & man might live is still unknown. No death probably occurs in which the individual falls short of & hundred years that was not referablo to a violation of some law of natare. Hopeland was folly persuzded the life limitation of & man was not less than two bundred years. Propagation of Sound. A locust may be hoard one-sixteenth of amile; a.vren, weighing half an ounce—and & middling" sized man would bo 23 heavy 8 4,000 of them— could bo heard about 2 far.. But, if the voico of either boro . proportion to the mass of matter smployed tnits produstion, » man could be heard 1,000 miles, favored by » brisk wind. A vessel ot sen fow years since, whon 160 miles from land, heard distinctly the thrilling mausic of o band playing on_shore. There must have been o peculiar condition of tho atmos- phere at the"time, while the broed surface of the Bails-were equivalent to & great external ear to arrest and converge the aerial undulations. i i — Death of A Desperados New Yonx, Dec. 28.—A lctter from Wilniug- ton, N. C., Dec. 27, states that Androw Strong, one of the notorions outlaws of Scufistown, was shot dead by & young man named Vrilson, whom Strong had Wwarned to leavo tho place. His body was delivered by Wilson to the Sheriff, who im- mediately paid him $1,000 for it, which is the standing reward by the county for suy of tho Lowry gang, doad or alive. Wilson is also en- titled to £5,000 reward from tho Stats. Tho only villain ‘of the gang now alive is Stovs Lowry. Telographic Brovities. John A. Simms, about 14 years of age, em- ployod ses mule'drivor o the Kentucky' Coxl ine, in LaSalle, 1., got caught between ono of the mining cars and the wall of an_entry in the mino, yesterdsy afternoon, and had both bones of his right leg below tho kneo broken, Desides exporioncing & number of rather serious bruiscs. ‘An Indinnapolis_dospatch says that t storo of Tasac Davia & Co., dealors in hats and furs, was Tobbed on Friday night of about $4,000 in goods. Tho storo was entered through & back Windor, the shutters being opened with & jimmy. [ el Pork-Packing in Cincinnati. Crxcrsxar, Doc, 23.—The hogs slsughtorsd in Cincinnati for the week ending last evening, woro 42,000. Tho whole number from Nov. 1 to dato is 379,000, SPECIAL NOTICES. The Centasur Liniment—Has cured—doos curc, and will care more cases of rhoumatism—stifl jofats, swell- iogs and lameness upon manand beast in one day than all other articles have ina bundred sears. Onosays: “I havo not hield a pen in soven months—now I amallright.” Another that, **tho Ceataur Linfment cured & frightfal ‘burn without & scar;" another, **It o S KeNTATpTD Testored to uso a hopelessly lamo horse, worth 8400, ote.. Try it once. It is a wonderful thing. Ch;ldren Cry for Pitcher’s Cas- toria, Tt tes tho stomach, o ind e me e meap. " Ta & marivats Tor caotor o ” 224 A Valuable Medical Treatise. The odition for 18730f the sterlug medical annusl known as Hostelter's Almanao, is now roady, and may bo ob- tatnod, freo of cost, of druggists and gencral country doalors in all parts of tho United States and British America, and, fndeed, 1n overy civilized portion of tho Wostern Homisphero. This Almanac has been issued regularly at tho commencemont of ovory sear for about one-fifth of & century. It combines, with the soundest practical adrice for tho proscrvation and restoration of health, a large amount of interesting and amusing light reading, and tho calendar, astronomical calculations, ehronological itoms, &c., aro propared with groat caro, and will be fonnd entirely accurate. Tho issue of Hostet- ter's Almanso for 1873 will probably ba tho larsest edition of o medical work ever published In aoy country. Tho propriotors, Messrs. Hostetter & Smith, Pittsburgh, Pa., on roceipt of a two-cont stamp, will forward a copy by ‘mail to any porson who cannot procuro onein his ne igh- bornood. LEA & PERRINS' [}M.]TIUNI ‘WDRCESTERSHIRE SATCE, ‘Buyers aro cautioned to avoid tho namerous Counter- foita and Imitations offered for eale, > JOUN DUNCAN’S S, New York, tHe Urited Statds. ‘Agents tir TABLE SAUCE. FOR ?A}@Y USE The Halford LEICESTERSHIRE TABLE SAUCE THE BEST SAUOE AND RELISH Made in any Part of the World FOR FAMILY USE. PINTS - - - 5O CENTS. HALF-PINTS, 80 CENTS. 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FRERCH ABRAM &'COn 1 Wapsshar, o & © 5 Cuitezy, HENRY SEARS & CO., 51 and 53 South Canal-st. Denial Depot. 8. ELS. B ITE‘l 14 “‘}d\‘!llsx Ai\!L A‘{Adllanvlh AAY " s E. BURNHAM & S0, 157 204 10 Casl Fresco Painters und luss OTTO JEVNE & C0., 7 and 81 Doarbo: Gy Fiicures and Ficting. H. M. WILMARTH & BRO., 3% to 3% Wabash-av. J. W]SGRA‘?. J‘,}L " U‘(".‘{jfi l\\'lhilh;n‘h ardware aie. MILLER BROS: & KRED, 19 Lako oty fnges. {2 Trom, Stect, Nailn, dcc. 3L GREENEBAUM, 1t Wést Randolpp. Jewellers (W olesule nn ST &0 0 i Alton, 15 S 5 N o \ 107 State 5. B HAYO £COL, IR W, Conp. Pact O WAL 3. MAYO, W ther, T 0.0 WATHATGOREE Niliinery and WALSH 'TC] 2’ 01l nnd Toois. 53 South Canal:st. ‘aw Goods (Wholeaale). Wabash-ar. Oils, Erc. EENLEY & JENKINS, 2i8 South Water-st. . W. BUTLER & 5005 N B igrisinet, and 155 Stat A : P22 N, Despiainet, a ato. BRADNER, SMITH & CD., 344 Wab: & 71 W. Wash, CLEVELAND PAPER CO., 73 West Washington-st. WU CLARKE, 57 Wost Washingtonst. BN KNICRERBOCRER, 8 and & West Randolph, BIcCANN, FITCH & CONVERSE, 12 and 14 LaSallo-st. NORTHWESE PAPEL CO., It and 155 Michisan-av. OGLESBY, BARNITZ & CO., 33 and 30 W, Washiaton. Pinnos and Dreans. W. W. KIMBALL, l:ahx'\\ ni';sh-t'. ond Thirtoenth-st. b3 A. B. MEEKER & 00, 57 Wabash-av. SNYDER & LRk oy Maranare, o GEORGE F. BRIGHAM & CO., i State-st, DIEBOLD & KINZLE, 3} Siate-st. HEBRING'S, 46 Stato, u:_l cor. l4th and Indiana-av. HASKIN, MARTIN Sew THE LIGHT-RUNNING D Branches, 153 Twenty-second . Ship Chandlers & FINNEY BROTHENS, 11 an GILBERT, HUBBARD & ooy PURRINGTON & SCRANTOR, 554 South Water-st. Stoves. AMERICAN BASE BURNEX, ‘{1 Fast Lako-at. Tags and Jowelicks’ Fizdings. DENNISON & CO., 31 South Canalist. Tranks,. CHAS. T. WILT, 144 Stato and 5% Wabash-av. Cndertnke; SHELDON & DAVIES, 1 West Madison G, H. JORDAN, 112 Clark, nont Gourt Houss. JALRS wmm‘i 13 N, Cli noar Randolph-st. qughit Iron Plpe. CRANE BROS. MF'G CO., 1v North Jefferson-st. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. RRRIVAL KND DEPARTURE OF TRARY. ‘Winter Arrangement. EXPLANATION OF REFERE: oepted. * Sunday excepted. T rive Sundey at8:0z. m. § Dail CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD. Chicago, Alton & S, Louis Through Lin, and Louiri (Wo.) new short route from Chicayoto Kansac City. Depot, Weat Side, ner Madison-at, bridge, £ ManEs.— + Saturday ex- onday excopted. § Ar- Teare._|_drriee 8t. Touis & Springlield Express e 2ot g $20p.m. Eansas Cit; Sackoneilio ana, M * 8:36 p. m. o Wengus, Licon, Washiugion £ ‘press (Westera Division. Jotint & Delght Accowo'datio Bt, Lonis & Shringtieid Lightning] Expross, via Matn Line, aad aisg| o daconillo Diviaion. .. i press, via J3Ck Soarile, 1. 4 Lontstats, So. | Jefforon Clty Expross. Peorls, Kookuk § Bari'a £ m :10 p. m. SDaily, via Matn Line, and daily excapt Saturdas, via Jacksonville Division. ¥ Daily, via Mfain Lino, end dally, ‘excopt Mondsy, via Jacksonsillo Divisune CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & GUINCY RAILROAD. Depote—Foot of. Lakest,, Indiana-ar., and Sicteenth-st., and Canal and Sizteentii-sta, Ticket ofice in Briggs Houre and at deyots. Mail and Expre: Dubuque and Si Pacific Fast Lino Rock Island Express, Galesburg Passanger; endota & Ottawa. P ‘Aurora Bsssengor. Aurora Passenge: Avurora Passenger (Sundsy’ Dabuqug & Sious City Exp. Pacifio Night Expross. ... Downer's (irova Accomin Downcr’s Grove Accommodation pazgay 3338888 e aom AMUSEMENTS, McVICKER'S THEATRE, Sacond week of tho greatest living Acts WSS CHARLOTTE CUSHHAR, Whowill sppesr on Monday, Toesdsy and Wednesday Tights as LADY MACBETH. MACBETH.. +++. MR, MILNES LEVICK. Wednesdey, New Year's Matinee, MISS CUSEMAN Will sppear Ln tho comie character of “*SUSAN SIMP- SONY in tho Comedy of Simpson o Co., ‘With Mr. McVi r, M. k, . Allen, Mrs. o DG e i Al Mo 3 ‘Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and SATURDAY MATINEE, Shakspeare's Historical play of Eing Eenyry WIIX. Catherlne, Queon of Enzland. .. Misz Charlotte Cashman Cardinal {Yolso >, “dir. Milnoy Levick ox/~Corriage L alley eastof the Thate. §27Secui your seats and come oxrly. NIXON'S. BMondes and Tacsday nights, Doc. 30and 31, THE FEMALE BRIGAWD! Or, A Life’s Revenge. Mile. ZOE in olght characters. Aleo her terrific sword t, in which sho staads unrivalled, and which has u received with raplurous spplauso atovery representas 's to sco UNCLE TOM'S e I 5 20F o HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. MONDAY and TURSDAY, Jan. 30 and 31, ninth aud tenth performances of THE LANCASHIRE LARS Which hes prosen sush an fmmenso bit, that tho manag ‘mént has beon nduccd to prodent it for TWO MORE NIGHTS! rand New Yoar Matin Elezant Comeds o An 133 great part. AIKEN'S THEATRE, Wabash-av. and Cougross: Every Eveaine, and Wednssday and Satarday Maiinsgs, Dion Boucicault's Great Drama, ‘THE LONG STRIKE With a FUE.::‘. ND POWFII‘}‘:U% CA\ST: Grand Matt- MYERY OPERA HOUSE. Monroe-st., between Dearborn and State-sta. Arlington, Cotton & Kemil's Miinstrels. A Happy Now Year to All. A Monstor BUl for the Hol {days, The greet Sonzand Dance Artists, Mackin and Wilkon. Chlcago In 18:5. Tho 3 wiclocls Traia. Tricks and Trials. An entire mge of programme. NOTICE—Our ragular Aatineo this week will bo given on Weduesday i 5 ‘Wednesday—GRAND N) AR'S DIATINEE. NINTH PRESBYTER'N CHURCH, Ellis-av., just south of Thirty-soventl-st. rareres MRS. SCOTT SIDDONS? Readings. Monday ovening, Dec. 0, 1873 Admission, 1. can bo resorved without extra chargo st Dow's_drug ttaro, Tisdo Pack: Donglas House muws room; Pebos store,_corner of Thirty-soventhi-at. and 'Cottage ‘SBibles's grocory stote, corner of Egan and Beats ACADEMY OF MUSIC. SIX RIGNTS, HEW YEAR'S AND SATURDAY HATINEES. ENGAGEMENT OF Robert McWade, Tho greatest natural actor in'his wonderful perzonation of RIP VAN WINKLE. NO ADVANCE IN PRICES. GLOBE TEEATRE. Monday Evonog, Dec. &, ecery nisht and Wodacsday ‘and Baturday Matincos, R.IVI. CARROILL:, And his boys. The General, Master i e aud Ltiile Dick. LLINOIS EENTRAL RAILROAD. Depot Foot of Lake-st. and.foot of Ticenty-second-st, affice, 75 Canal-st., corner of Madison. Ticks, Teave. | Arrive. LBON BROTHERSE, Bobbs Newcomb, Miss Dora Dywson, Miss Lucy Adams, Jokan F. Fisher, Guy Linton, Miss Salllo Swife,” and tl Comody Company, in a new and chofce bill, ¢ aind ng with tho new Comle Drama entitled HE IS BIGK TUR® PIN. Cairo Jxpros Springiield Exirios Springneld Expres Dubaquo & Sioux Dubuaue & Sioux City k. *Gilman Pasacngor. ‘Hyde Parkand Onk Wooils.. Hyde Park sud Oak Wood: Hydo Park and Oak Wood: Hydo Park and Oak Wood: Hydo Park and Onk Woods.. Hydo Park and Oak Wood: vdo Parkand Ok W Hydo Park and Oak Wood: Hyde Park and Oak Wood: E 'On Saturdeys this train will bo run to Champaigu. CHICAGO, [INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATI THROUGH LINE, VIA KANKAKEE ROUTE. Trains arrice and depart from the Great Central Railroad Deot, Foot af Lakewsi. For through tickels and leepings car beriha apply af Ticket agice, 15 Canalstu, corner Hady “on; 120 Washinglon-tt.; Tremont Houee, corner Congress PCTESEAUARTETRT B st. and Michigan'av.; aiso_ront of Ticenty-rocond-st, Loare Chica, 2 8:09 8. m.1§ 8:00 p. . Krmiveat. Indinpolis * 4 p, m. l SR ‘Arrivo at Ciuclinati | 9:0 . mui} 8:15 8, m; Trains arrivo at Chicago at 7:00 a. m. and 9:15 p. m. Qnly lino runt:ing Saturday night train to Clacinna; The eatire tratn runs toroagh to Cincinaati. aloepers on nigl: ‘rains. CHICAGO . HGRTHWESTERN RAILAOAD. P fice, i West Maddison-st. Pullman Pactfic Fast Line, Dubuqug Day kxy Pucific Night Ezpros Dubuque Night Expruss Erecport & Dubuque Expro Froeport & Dubuquo. Milwankes Mai o Pee EEEEEEEEEEE Bilwaukeo Passenger (daiy). Green Bay Express Greon Bay Express PETeeT v g8 CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. Depa, corner of Harrieon and Shermanwte. Tieket ofi il 53 est Stadison-st. i Learr, Arri Qmaha, Leavenw'th& Atchison E: Porn Accommodation, Night Express..... *10:00 3, m. [* 4:00p. m, 2 WA, m, 00 p. m. [+10:00 p. m:[2 7:00 2. m. LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD. Depot, comer Harrison and_ Shermanats, | Ticket ofice, P O ihutest corner adisam and Gunalate - 2" Mail, vis Air Lino and Main Lino Special New York Espross, vi “Air Lin o Atlantic Bxpross, via Al L Nicht Expross, via Main Lino... South Chicago Accommodation. ‘Elkbart Accommodation. CHICAGO, DANYILLE & VINCENNES RAILROAD. Pussenger Depat at P., C. & St. Louis Depot, corner of Ca- nat and K Out: ofice, corner af Ada and. Kinsicsts. " In.frelght o %, . & S, L. Depot, cor- ner Halsted and Carroli-sta, Freigh and Tickst ofice, 163 Washinglon-t. Taking effect Dec. 1, 1572, Zeave, 40 8. m, Wp. m. PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE & CHICAGO R Leare. BE351 =, WESTERN RAILROADS Teare. | Arrice, MICHIGAN CENTRAL & GREAT Depot, fook & EDUCATIONAL. EEMPER FLALL. A select school for girls and young Idfes, roopnns JAN. 15th. Tho elegant comfors, tho thoronghniss of train- ing, and diecipline as to manners and chacacter, and tho superlor mady and courso of fnstction havo attracted for its patcons many leading peopls of Chlcago and tho Northost, For particulars apply to GEO. 3L EVERHZ ™1, D.D., Rector, Konoshs, Wir. FEDICAL CARD COBURN MMedical Institute, No. 165 West Modison-st., corner of F: and conducted by DR. J. C. COBUR! ho treatmer.t of chronio and privato disc s In both sexes. DR. COBURN has thzeo diplomss from the best Col- eges in the world. DR. COBUPS has records to provo his extensivo hosp- tal practice, both private and public. DR. COBURN has bad moro cxperienco In tho treat. ‘ment of prisato diseascs than any pbysician ia Chicago. DR. COBURN cares the worst, form of tricture with- out pain or cutting, but with s now French Dilator, which nover fails. 4 The COBURN MEDICAL INSTITUTE is ccuceded all to boof first importance and a blessing to the af- icted, whoro all whoara in nced of medical troatment for any diseaso of a private nature can call, and receive the most scientitic and skilful treatment by a physician who is a regular graduate of medicine, both from Ameri- Gan as well 0s forcign Collogos, DE. COBURN'S rep tation is Union-wide, and his Medical Instituto is gflm‘nzcfl;fim pationts from all parts of tho country for atment, Separate parlors for ladics and gontlemsn, aod the finest in Chicago. No one is ever seen but tho Doctor, s Books on Maio and Fomalo Diacases are sont (reo for two stamps. In sealed enselopes. Offico hours, . m. to 8p. m.; Sunday, 3to 4p, m. DR.C. BIGELOW CONFIDENTIAL PHYSICIAN, 43t Stato-st., Chicago. Tt is well known by ail roadors f the papors, that Dr. 9; Bigelow is the oldeat extablishod phsician 1o Chicago who fias mado tho troatment of all chrokio and nervots diccason n specialty. Sciouos and oxperionce bave mat Dr, 1, the most rogownod SPEOIALIST of the age, oa- ored by tho Dress, ostesmed of tho highest medical at- ulnmenu‘l‘y il the ical Institutes of the day, having devoted TWENTY YEARS OF HIS LIFE in porfectin, remedies that will cure go!lu\'.ly all cases of CHRONI( AND SPECIAL DISEASES in both sox CONSULTATION TREK. Thefinestroomsin thocity, with SEPARATE PARLORS for Jadies and gentlomen. Call; you onfy soe tho doctor, - CORRESPONDENCE CONFIDEN1IAL. Address all letters, with stamps, to Dr. C. BIGELOW, No. 164 State-st. Dr. A. G. Olin, 183 So. Clark-st., Ohlcago, the most succeratul spocialist. of tho agv, wio has given 3 ifo-long epoinl attontion to the treatmentof all Chronic, Sexualand Nervous disosses, both sexcs, Read bis works and judge for yourself, sent, sealed for stamp, Confidentialconsultations, porsonally or by mail, freo and fnvited. Ladiss send for circular. Norpav:: Dr. Kean, 380 South Clark-st., Chicago, May be confidentially consulted, persomally or by mail, froe of charge, onall chronfc or hirvous diseascs. DI J N'is tho only plysician 1a tho city who war- Tanty curos or 20 paY. * On Marriage. HAPPY RELIEF FOR YOUNG MEN. Remarkable Reportssent froe. Address HOWARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia; 0d-st., founded Mall (vta main and air line). ‘Atlantic Express. Night Exprees..... INDIANAPOLIL VIX FERU NOAD. STE)CKHOLDERS’ MEETING. NOTLTICH. The snouzl meoting of the stockholdes f the Nationa] Bank of Oblcagor Tor (B0 logtton af ‘dire fta N for the ensuin Wil bo Beld 3t tho.of B 15 Chicagd, o Tuanday, Je. 1 167, between the Boursof 3 and o5 m. ISAAO G. LOMBARD Castier. Chicsgo, Deo. 10, 1572, ay FRACTIONAL CURRENCY. $5 Packsges oF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE. 1873. THE 1i873. OICARS TRIBUNE, PROSPECTUS, THET);\!LY. THE TRIBUNE enters upon tho coming yoar in tho ocoue pancy of its robuilt business promisos, the new Tribune Ballding, in the heart of tho restored busincss centrs of Chicago, and is prepared, toa degree Letter than over Uefore, tofill and carry to a still higher staadpotat THE PLACE IT HAS CREATED IN JOURNALISH, o its growth it has kept paco with tho dovelopmen of Chicago and the Northwest. 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