Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1873, Page 5

. wounds ol THE CHURCHES. Dedication of the Mary Price Collier Memorial Chapel, Impressive Discourse of Rev. R. Laird Collier. Memorial - Address of D. L. Shorey, Esq. Prof, David Swing on * The Methods of Salvation.” Dedication of the First Metho- dist Episcopal Church, Appropriate - Sermon by Prof. Fowler, of Evanston. Organization of the Society of The Free Religionists, Prof. T, B. Taylor's Views of Ra~ tionalism and ‘Religion, Sermon by Bishop "I;"eck-;gThe Rev. Mr. Savage on Business, - OHURCH OF THE MESSIAH. Dedication of the Mary Price Memo= rinl ChapolwAddresscs by the IReve Lalrd Colljer nnd D. L. Shorey; Esg. The memorial chapol of tho new Church of the Moesgiah, which wae eracted in commemora~ tion of Mrs, Mary Prico Collior, the deceased wile of the pastor, the Rev, Laird Collicr, was dedicatod yostordsy forencon with sppropriate ceromonies. ‘The chapol was so thoroughly deseribed m the religious depsartment of Tne Buxpay TrIouxe that it is unnocessary to moko farther allusion to it beyond saying that it was bonutifully decorated with flowers and filled with poople, The pastor delivered the following briet and impresstvo address, toking hls toxt from Eco. vii: 17: ¢ Why shouldst thou dio be- fore thy time?'? MR, COLLIER'S ADDRESS, Mankind bas ‘slways been prompt to rocognize beauty und merit, and to fllustrato the recoguition in ‘bullding temples and monumenta to commomorate tho boautiful snd the valuable, whetover theso virtios Tisvo been incarnated In man or woman, - Bo for o8 wo know, o primitivo state of the raco waa &0 depraved aa either to admire or wish to perpetuste vice. + Whon- over virtuo Lus walked among men, men have fallon in love with virtuo, Tho best and nobleat man 8 both his weapon of sffection and shield of defenso, No monuments, no tomples, have ever been built to deformily or vice, but whonever apiritusl beauty and purity havo touched the earth in human farma, men'a heatta havo beon softenod, ilius minod, and uplifled, Thoy have been o bowitchiod ‘with grace and truth they bave bowed down and wor- shipped, We still fall i love with tho highest, We walk [nto the presencs of personal holincss with un- sandled foet, and when it iy taken from us we show our divine origin Ly making noblo sttompla to per- ‘Potuate its memory. ‘Among thu tbings for which we atriva most diligontly aro procious oncs which wo consecrate uppn this altar. Wo bring otir gold, frankincense, and myrrh to Llio fect of thut soul whoss brow has the encirclingglory. Wa dodicato our induntries to_por- ‘potuato tho imugo of tha glory when 1t has beon liftod away from our guze, . That man who docs not respond fo beanty, purity, and worth, {6 an fll-ropteacntation of his race ; ho fo monster, hot man, Ho is the miraclo of ex- ception, mot tho ' umformity of Man may be - depraved,—mankiud is divine, The toaples of aluwlo times wero built out of tho best in man to commemorato tho memory of tho beat in man, That the succession of all things ia deatb, {s one of thoso duevitablo illusions of ecnse. God permits nothe Lug that I8 oxeelleut to yerish, No foature of civiliza tion counted valuablo, at Ioast deomed csscntial, hug becn lost to tho sum of civilization, Tho rightéous- ness of Palestine, the art of Grecee, the politica of Rome, nnd the clifvalry of the Middle Ages, aro sll swoven into the texture of qur thought and life, The special forme hava faded, the casenco §s indeatractible, Tadood, tho progress of 'tao raco ‘has doponded upor tie porlshing of tuo forms as much a8 upon the perpo- tuity of tho cesence, Wo could not nse tho essonco if this was inseparablo from tho old forms. Each clvill- eatlon creatos its own methods, and it would be im- possible to use any others. B Mauiiud has lost nothiag becauso Daletino, Greecn Rome, and the middlo ages have passed away ; but i would hve been an frroparabls 10ss had rightbousncss and tho scienco of government and chivairy died out with the forme and methods with which st flrst thoy werg rolated, So tho harvests of life are evorlaating, The horvesters dio,—there 18 & nenso in which tho gleaners live on. And when wo remembor that personsl infiuence i perpetusl, tho humbleat duty bns » digalty, and tho alig! cat Wrong an enormity, Thls personal infiuence Perpaluto isg * emoriea “are pymbols, and .wo mesnt to llustrato and msko visiblo fo tho mind ~ this profound truth = tlat goodness fs imporishable; and when ' the pyramids shall have wasted' awsy, the influence of parsanal ¥irtuo will still bo making now conquests among man- Xdnd, Nothing dlos befors {ts timo, The form of lifa vea way for the onlargement of 1ifo itself, God oni: Y:-udr‘\u {ho oblocta of affection; Afaotion itself 11y gvesin rpotulty, "Thts chapel 1 pullt by our nndying affection, Iis objoct has been translated, and wo gather to-day to commomorato _our yeverence, as well aa the sweet and raro graces of our tramslated friend, “Tuat wo grlove for har doparturg and invoks Tier name 1s genuine proof that sbe is porforming the holy offico Olior more enlarged and exalted Uife; that her real Xipdle in our Klvlnucn 4a still living herpand now to carts the fires of 4 liolier love, And affection could liaye dovised no mors suitable monument than this chapel, which is intonded to bo the home und sanctusry of the’ social i bood culture of tuls parish, us (ho lights fn our own home ond sno- tuary of affection sre almost extinguiahed, and those that rewain nng{ cnable usto read the inscriptions on {he multitude of surrounding tombe, 1t is o tonder provideuce, mado palpable by the lova and aacrifice of mutual and dear triends, that hero is ;l;amur shring built where her presence will dwell and felt b{hu:u cnngruqmm of this Church fo long sa those walls of atouo sall enduro, and longor, oven 8 long as meckuees of apisit, integrity of charactor, and ‘unselfish helpfulness shall bo counfed virtuos in man or woman, Juat as the cesential quality of ber lifo 1s still witl s, she {8 stll with us. IHor goodness, desds, an example aro living on. “Her sudible volco wo shall not hear sguln on these shores of time, Lut hor voics, in- audible tq the onhvu ear, wa shall daily hoar, hor rompt and {nfallible judgment wo will daily appeal o, anl knowing thess sho will still docide tha wy of ur lives, Tho only shelter this world can ever af- ford some sou {s hior love, and in this wo will tarry here until our earthly solitude suggests it is time to g;{)l‘m, whon wo takeo up our abode with ler in MEMORIAL ADDRESSH, Tho following tonching memorisl address yas thon rond by Mr. D, L. Bloroy, aioading mem- bor of tho congregation : 3y 8 wisg aud unsélfish deyotion of means, by Ahap- yfiun«nn o1 purpose, under the impulso of u profound entimont, this muxdnfi 1s complote, ready for its ap~ {:‘fl?fll{a ke of worship, of instruction,“and of fel. wahip. Horo wil ba tuo roliglous home of tho peo- Dloof the Ohurcl of the Messlah_for a goncration yet unborn, From E.(Imdllfil to Bunday you will bring hitler your children, In the formativa periol olfmlr cuaractany in o faith that somo iroug inid Loty in- fiuence will ald you in givigy o Wise na loving di= Footion £0 their Hyem ol Wi como ither 4o reseive iystruction, not &4 o gift'to hoazd, but as n_blossing to beatow | aud you will come hither, as people havo den drawn togother in all ages, secking esch -othier's dompuuionsbip Ju thie worship of the Tnvisible, * And tho assuciations of this hour, reaching into the for futurs, Will gaibier vohune ang fiaeasth it séory incoming 'tide of lfe, burp of ourapirit aud satrie feo, 1 Alittio moga than & year ago, Just a tho it autumn Teaven were Buling, death savored our earthly rolations Wwith hier'whio for seven ?'cnn hud flled & pro-eminent lace fu 1o cateom of ofi tho mowmbera of (ki Socloty, tho13th of Septembor, 1872, —memorablo day to tlivse of this felowsbip,—Mary Price Colller dlod; Ag was most Attfug, suothor and'a desrer frland, whio onjoyod in the hfigheat degrse tho feliclly of het confldenco und love, hos wrilten 'tho story of her life, ‘Tho seasons have ouco run théfr courss aince we lafd e body In thograva st Daveapor,: And we o not re to-day to offor cousalations for the hoalibg of thy tho_lieart, To thom who i the order of nature should huve Pmr,»flaa thelr daughfer to the voi to them who silll noud 8 mather's Toving caro ; 'Bih who wi firsb i lier oifoctions,—your frieud [ snd mine,—to thesc, and toall bereavod hesrts, timo s given jia own matchloss soothing, Happily, tho timo hus como whon we may composo otirsolvea {o think of licr an o friend who hua pasnod the abort limila of & Winman lifo, and fnto that larger 1ifo which momory takoes up and’ prolongs througl the infinito future, . Tn ihe early part of the yoar 1606, with her hus- band’s fieat pustoral clhurga horo, Mra, Colllor bocame & membor of thla Hoclety, Who' daca not remember with delight her coming? Who will ovor forgot tho firat mintvelous Impreesion of thut Intenno lfo? Bho was 20 young that sho scomod yet to lingor in the dawn' of womauliood, Sho wis so lovely, with thut ruro Leauty of moul flashing through thio_bouutiful fontitrea {t flluminntad, that tho old patnters in hor preseuco would linve kifidled with naw enthuslaam for tholr divino nrt, And tho inoffablo grace of lier manner, united to & quick and teador wonebillty, mado at ‘onca and overywhoro fu lior pros- enco all hiarts rosponsivo to hor own, ‘Thers wan 1o social moeting tint wap ol vnoant wlon sho s ab- sont. 8ho Identified horsolf with tho Bunday-achool and tho youngest child thnt i tho infaut-class sang with "her ymns of pralse, swill keop in it heart hor image afresh through all' tho viclasitudes of lfo, B0 wiso was sho in her thought, so just in her purpose, Ao trite, abd piire, and conaclentiotn abo scomed, {hat T need inka 1o licenro permitted to ho languago of onlogy {n axylng that 1 all the timo of her lifo with us hor known wish would have boon tho 1nw of this soclety, Her infiucncs lias not censed, and will not conso, thougls death has withdrawn her from our proscuce, The memorful chapel, wherein ws are this morning for tho firat timo asaenuled, Loa arisen only 5s & tribute to hor memory, Tho other amiplo oflicos about {his et ediico sumofont for evry need, atiest that thia eautiful chapol was not bullt {0 bear on yonder arch tho empty powor of n name, Whatever elso it may stand for, and whatever wiss_nud fitling use it may sorve, in evory graceful line, and by the suggestive croations of thio higheat art, through ‘tho coniing time, it will ex~ {rruu tho love and vencration which Mre, Collier had hroughout (his Booloty na man nor woman ever had Lefors, If this giftod woman hnd glven the froe {s- sue of hor Iife only to tho claims and tics of kindrad blood, or_had sho lived within tho charmed clrclp of friondship, giving synipathy only to thowo who had liko proclots sympathy to roturn, or had sho Bouglit for tha yowarde - of mocinl ambition omly, then theso coremonics would mot ocour, this beautiful structure would not have arlson to perpetuata her momory In {his place forever. Wo mny not panso to considor all tho uses thut will continuo to givo expreasion to tho gratoful fecling hiols caused this mamorial chapel to bo. bullt, The ifo of Mra, Collier has left no transiont impresslon on tho minda of any who foin to-day in this tributo to hor memory, And this, In itsalf, s amplo guaranty that #0 long 8 this building sball'stand it will servo il its high uscs in barmony with tho spirit of tho words, * in ‘memor{am ? written on the arch bove s, Often in tho coming timo tlio frlonds of Mra, Colller, 2 niow, will oo on this floor, And, though shio who o tothis our boawtiul boud of tchowabip il Amcst ro hius boen ovored from us' by untimely death, yat we must tako from tho miomory of ler o how bond which nll the associations of this place may strengthon sa tho yoars go by. Onobof the conirolling motives whicl 1duce porsona to entor & socloty lfke this s found fn_that Ohriatiun fellowship, which in. ts spirit runs across all tho lines ‘made by thiemore complox and artificial diatinctious of soclsl ife that It may auswor to tho Inceessnt human deairs for capaideration, sympntliy, aud lovo. Tappy {a tho church that in its practice comes near- est fo tho 1desl of tho Moster, that iguores tha dis- tincons_of strongth or wenkmoes, muccens or fallurs, rlchos o poverty, that opens_ widest doors to all who deairo ita fotlawsliip, and oxcludes nothing hu- man from tho palo of its sympathies, Buch o follow- ship, 1 doubt not, was du \be firm purposo and tho bravo heart of tho woman whoso name in thia placa will never ceaso to bo on the lip of prolse, In n commorcial ern, in & commercial city, with ita commereinl standards, she encouraged no protensc, and toleratad no shams, Consclotis of tho firm toxe ture.and downright Intogrity of hier own purposo, she dlscovered liko integrity in othere, If thoss who meot from time to timo on this floor, diacarding all faotitious standards,shsll como together in a followship as just and gonorous ua that sl showed s by her oxainplo, the most feoling of all tributes will' havo Deon rondered o hor tnemory. Would that I could give adoquato expression to your gratoful emotions 88 you put into permanent form thieao symbola of your {ove, When your lipa aro sileut, ‘when you shall have yiclded: your ‘pinces here to the froaher Hfo that in tha order of naturo will Roon sup- plant you, these many symbola will continuo to ulter the volce of your sffection, You will douttless, an you have slready done, call to Jour aid the printer’s wnd sculptors art, Alrcady here hangs npon tho wall this benutiful portrait by ‘Phillips,—dauble tribute of art and of affection. Beautiful is the harmony and unity in human skill, 1t In due to thy art, O Daguerre, which borrows from acienco her rarcat Aocrots, which arrests and fixes tho Imngo of whatever tho sunlight falls upon, and fills all modern houscholds with plotured memorials of ita dead, that Ricbards, who bad nover looked upon Mra, Collier's Hving foce, working in ths oldest of arts, conld transfer its classio featurcs to this pure and enduring marblo from tho quarrios of Carrara, Athons s a city of ruins, DBut tho sculptured marblo that adorned tho Partbenon, transforrod to a land that was bar. barian when tho chisel dropped from the banda of Phidias, now fills with {ts fmmorial besuty -the ro- nowned muneum of tho world, Sowhen we shail havo passed from memory of man, when thesc groined arches shall Lava ccosed to ' Bupport the cefl ing above them, and I ‘whole edifice shall huve crumbled into dust, this mar- blo bust will rtetain its impresslon of tho beautiful llife wo now commemorate, It will be your happy privilege to make this upper chamber in the highest seuss & memorial room, .Hers, Ln.Fnuflflnu of tho bread and wine, you will renow the simploat and earliost memorial cusiom in Chiristian history—divest. ing it, T doubt not, of the muperstitions that, from time o timo, have robbed tho act of its syinbolio ‘meaning. Wherover on the faco of the carth there has beena lifoof preemincnt busuty, and holiness, and wacrifics Tet thore bo found hora omo token of it to be Mnked in it assoclution with: tho momorles of this place, Let tho rosources of art bo_cxhausted to mako tho chapel 8 beautiful as tho lifa it commemorates, . i ‘You whose privilege it wua to havo becn 80 long with Mrs, Collir in tho sumo fellowship, &nd to hove formed a part of the refined cirolo within which #ho dally moved, Luve an Jnoffaceable memorial of hor written on your hoarts, But tho beart domands ez~ proasion, ond yon must noeda give 1o others the im- pression’hor saiutly lifa has-mado upon your own, And w0 long aa thls pectect painting hangs on tho wall, and those marble lipa -scom hardly to mprison tho ' familiar vola that would speak to us, her good splrit wll bein this place, ta bollest influ- ence blending fx unison, here, ail condilions within the extromes of lfe, 08 I’ sco them Lefore me now, from youth, with s bright hopes, to whom, nothiug seoms impossible, to ags, withs its garnored fruitions, waiting for the final summons, PRESBYTERIAN. Scermon by Rev, David Swing at McVicker’s Theatre—fMethods of Snl- vation. The threatening woather yesterday soomed to bave no effoct upon the Inrgo attondance at MoVicker's Thoatra to hear Prof, 8wing. Thore ‘were 1o vacant seats on the first floor, and fow, ifany, in the gallery. Prof. Bwing bas an sudienco from all parts of tho city, many of whom have becomo such regular attondants that they will goriously foel the loss of Prof. Bwing's proaching when he returns to his own church edifics on the North Bide, Probably no rogular paster in tho oity has ever had such largo con- gregations, or attracted the same class of poople 80 stoadily every Bunday na Prof. Swing, aud it soems & pity that he should retire to so (compar- atively) inaccessible a place as North Dearborn . strost. Following is his yestorday’s sormon, the toxt being from Johu iv., 42: “This ia- indeod tho Christ, the Savior of the world," THE BERMON, In conneetion with this toxt, pormit me to read gomo of the Seripturcs that seth (o0 draw salvation from othor sources, * Bloasedk aro tho puro {n heart.) @ Dlessed are thoy that do His commandments,” # Ropent that your'sine may bo blotted out,” ¢ To him tiat overcomotly will T glvo to cat of tho' treo of o From theso and many similar toxts, saivation would seem to come to mankind by many mothiods, and not by lie aola deaths und petuulty sutlsrod by tho Great lotim of Calvary, and, on account of tho ' coufusion and skepticism which arigo from theso various toxt dosire to maka tho' relation of Olrlst to tho soul a themo of ramark this morning, Thieroaro Chriatians and skoplics both who will, perhaps, dorive somo zittle peacs by o roview of 'this aubjoct, Thoy porhaps lesa tho mogt peacoful Obristian fives who uecept thie whola of Ohristiunity in_childbood, and who Lience grow up in such a lovo of 4t all that ng spicit of inquiry evor comes n such & shapa oa to bo a half doubt or & half roason, The humay family ought {0 como ta it Savlor as It comea to {ta mothor, not Jud Dy dobate, but by 6 childiiko and'pertect affoction, But since'not all have thus found religion, we, who com out of dus t{me and by tho path of toif and slow conviction, suffer ot ties {rom dark dsys, ko peoplo who emigrato to' now country, uncertainof cllmate, snd aojl, aud {rlends, and government, These clouds, Liowever, for tho moét part 800n pas way, and in tha now Land tho liomo bocomen o sweot homo under serenc skios, The gondus of Quriatinulty bolng ponco, all its oxorcises boltg & love and worship, and il ith doodu belng o carlty, tho tendency of euch woul” ot posseasca 1t s to settle down into 8 great rest fn God &nd in man, Tiofore this day of peaco comes_many are tho shpos ‘whic the hoart’ must wssnmo, or many uro the forins ssaumed by u}« upirits of thewir Inqiiry or Unbulief, ‘Lo gooloylealtheorio aro tho only suuinbllng blopkd in tho falth of momo; election {u tho clovet edsloton for others ; whila thero are ofhers who would foel hap- py onough could thoy cplermiue tho rolation of - the fadar ' fo human slavory, or the Beriptuysl “position of womun, Among the stumbling-Diocks in tho way of adult minds a the onn mentigned fu the outsst—that of & muulti- ilicity of Haviors, No soonor hos formnl thoology - in- Formoa s thut wh aro saved by Ohriat slona—tlat W &ro niothiug, and have nothing, and that thora 1 aba lutely no puwer to save excapt Olrist~—xg uooner ato, we taught that ' e Nothing in onr handa we bring ; Sliply 10 tho ersd wo ellugfy— 3 {han along comes somo oito_snd doclares tiat without Laptlary thoro ia no walvation, ~ Thus baptivm 14 suds uwin\nu:od with the oflice of o Bavior, luving Qi< usiod thiw now ko of g, aud uving lownd s, along comes the gtudont of spdcial forms,and wiilsjjers to uk uf & suving faith; anyd whilo wondoring hgw fo. hsrmonizo Obirist alouo with Ohrist sud huwun fuith, then comcs a third voice und whlspork sbout aaving obedlungo or good worky uud befura tho min i dis. , poscd of this now savior n s region whero® thero wuu " but ona in thio outeot, a fourth'voice Lus come and ro~ sujndod ua of u saviiig " ropontanico,” Thua suitiug forth with tho Ly T Nothing in 1y kauda I bring, o Sk s geoup of loasied pouylo teylug to Al ol Banta it noiotidng sheonitely indivpousable, - "THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 18%3. - *Nothing In our handa wo bring,” oxcopt a smndine and & saving faith, and a soving regeneration, and Buving repontance, and saving good works, 0w, under this spparont dincord there must bo s harmony, and the hymn & Nothing in my hands I bring * miis! Porcan somewhere a foliadation. ToF its molody. Idonot ssy ¢ muat! from tho standpoint of ona who wiahos tonave his thoology from ritin, but from tha standpolut of the religious luman nature, for ovidentl 1o roliglous heart can aing that hymn “ Rock of Agon,” withiout. Teoling ftn trutbfulnioas, Not auy voRanE croed bt tho publle Obriatian lieart fecld thut thia hiynin which a0 omties tho hitman hnnds of morib niust bo nll (rio, Tet us ook for this ol emeut of fruth, ‘Thin dincord botwroen anly ono Baviar,Olitfn, v nany Enving gracos, I only to bo harmonized by 'Mupposing Chirlet fobo tho gront monrco of theso virtues, Thix hought Jeads us at onco to think of Christ as n moral Havior—thint in, aan Bourco of thoso virtuos which At 4o aoul for 11£6 horo nnd horouflor. Thie canception of Ohriat 14 o legal Bavior Lins bren Xopt suificloutly bofore you, porhapa from your earlicst childiood, ‘Thnt Christ erased tho sind of all Chris {inna by His own sufforings, and thus paid tho dobt of righteousucsa owed to God by » chosen part of lie Diunau race, 18 on dea witn which you hinvo been kept familiar, Thero is such a thing s pondering upon 1bin iden too exclusivoly, thus making porsonal virtuo of no conrequonco, and making Heaven aitainablo by o commercial transaction in which man performs no gart, It was this narrow commorcial voln which mado lio great ftormors auy W tliat ot all 1o vice, ot 8 thousand murdors, will horm us, for tho bidod of Ohrlat will wash away tho stain,—an idoa a6 horrible a1 to makoit difioult to supposo (hat any foul evor it~ tered or cheribiod it, Dut such was at ono tinin a common concaption of Chriat's office, and myriada of profoesing Christians havo lived livoa of vico, bocanso Alioy posncsaod & divino Detng atoniug for their sin na fast ng thoy could heap up frosh and variod transgres- slonn, Tho better virtuo of moro recout tiuics his come from widening out the offic of Qhrist, and fuke ing Mim the sourco of human virtuo, aud not tho sizplo compensation tor ain. The old fatal motliod was only & mrovision for making sin & 8800 ino of conduct, 1t did ot reform" man; it only offored aconrity, Ono of tha Popes, Innocont VIIL,, lcensod bandits 10 pillsge, and #0ld afo passos to robbers when & port of th apbils wero brought to tho Popo, for the sin of robbing was casly atoned for, whorean tho golting of ‘monoy enongh bas always boon & dificult task, But a8 for privato virtuo, 1t was little dreamod of, bocauso littlo valuablo as any part of salvation., This {nsignificanco of good works ‘was not a pho- nomotion of Romaniem alono, but of much orthodox Bistory {n all dircetions, Th botter tono of modern timea comes from tho Dotter unfolding of Obrist as & moral Savior—s King 1ot of compensation only, but of & now lifo n tho saula of mon, - : Shintaolty {s ot scoomgling {hi reform by sdding anything to fho creod of tho Now Teatamont, but by going back o that crecd, 1t ia n reform o8 1o man, bt 05 to Christinnity only s roturn. Open the pages of Him who gavanamato Christianity snd who 38 the only basfs of that religion, and fead what sro his prorequisites of life, When Nicodemus saked Him what ho must do_to inherit etornal Life, tho roply waa ot any indulgonco like that of Papa Ino~ nocant VIIL, nor any resort fo an_outsido payment alone, but it s in tho worda that you muat ba barn sgain, And whon the young man asked tho same eation, Christ ropled, * Keep the commandmonia.” nd when the youth supposcd that Obrist meant tiie Qecaloguo, snd pald he had kept that rule, the'Toply gang fhat you noed such & porennial goodaces of beart that ila good deeds will flow beyond any ton requlations, aud wil And a thousand laws {0 keop snd o thoussud doolls to do which no boscs could weave into a statute law, - No one can road the words and lifa of Christ without porcelving that He is 8 moral Bavior, and i drawing men toward Heavon by drawiug thom toward & new Liourt ; and is a Bavlor by leadlug and carrying his fol- lowers which aro calied eaving {n our various confes- alons of faith, If, therofore, there were 8 hundsred saviug doctrinea in'our Biblo, Ohrist would still bo the Bavior of man by bolng tho fountaln of thoso doo- trines, not of tholr words but of thelr vitallty, Letit bo confesaed that tho doctrina of repentanc has alwayn oxlated ou the world, ot Qliriat 1a the moral Savior of any soul thnt comes' Into_profound repent- aneo on account of this Ohrist, led by hin persussions by his love, and by bis spirif, If of thesa forms o human virtue thero were a score, yet, by 88 much as Jeaun became a namo at which tlieao forma sprang Into aplritual being in man, by this much would bo ba the heart's trao savior, * Any Ohristian system would soom very falso to tho gospels which falls” to met forth Chrlst in hip grand, ovident oftico of moral mediator of tho human fomily,’ ¢ 1s in this concoption of Cbrist a8 & fountain of & now hoart in man all the -contradio- tlons meot and are harmonized, He ia Bavior bocouss tho faith which 1 80 effectiva comes through him and 18 deveolped by Lim ; Bavior Locauss {he ropentance for aln, the Alght fram vice, comea by tho samo mfu- enco of truth and persusaion and epirit; Savior be- causo tho good works of each Chriatisn fow from the study and love which the huran spirit givea this great exumple, And amid all those varlous doctrines thero is an< gibor_ barmony ~among thomselvee, Iiko colors that flow into cach olbier in tho cup of a flower or ashall of the aca, Faith is a religious intollect looking upon Christ with unbelléf all gone, and with the soul anchored there. Dut ho who thus Iooka and 1a thus attached to such & boing 88 tho ein- 188 0no canmot bat wish to cacape his own slas, snd hienco the moment tho faithful ono looks into bis soul e becomes a ponitent, Ho has met with no new, sirange dogma, - He he aimply turned his gaze from the divinoto the poor human and feels the shadow of the conirast, Thus faith and repentance sro only dif- ferent moments of thie samo now mind—iust o4 in life our hoart flia from joy to aadneas in {ho Rame ‘moment of time, or as the moon at night passea from silver to dark cloud, or from cloud to light, But suppose this foul, which amoment ugo was rapt in its faith, and which {hen looked b itself and md- donly becatno & penitent, is bronght now faco to faco witli'a human bolng, a fellow-mortal, o brother, suf- fering from coniclotis sin, or sickness, or holploss nov- erty, Then the new heart, fresh from the school of Chrlst, irained 1n the presonde of that divine lovo and Denovolenco, thfa heart full of Gothsemsno's musfo and_aprinkfed with 164 tears, ia no longer a fuith, ora repentance, or a conversion, but & tender charity, “Thus the cardinal doctrings of Ohristisuity aro only tho different veatures worn by the samo heart, They aro the different_windows—eastward and weatwar i thward and southward—out of which theaue spiri a, Turough faith one sees thoopen hoavens abova ; ugh penitenco one sooa the fimngo of slf. puik an 10 comio; through charity the same hoart 100ka a and scos thio forrows of hia fellow-mon, and heams their ‘pleadiugs like the sigh of & might-wind—but all thoso plotures aro ono - human mind, rovealing, ko tho sunrise or unset, a manifold glory, Tho numbior of doctrinea i only the many-sidedncss of the soul. They sro all one fu_ thoir orlgin, A tho Rhino River drawn its resources from tho grest Alps, where tires hundrod glaclors disaolve cternaliy for ita_support, and thousands of vales givo to its current their sum- mer ahowera and winter anaws, divides s groat vol- umo at Iast info six streama which, by difereut routes, 2alake or woods or hills attract, como at last to the 4 shiore, or in tne socluded Zuyderzeo, Lut it i ol the whil tie Rhiac, driven by ono mpulrd 10 ono destiny, 8o the atream of Christlanity iu the spirit {6 all 006 valume with one im; braaking up into channels of doctrine according to tho coufigura~ tion of the land or timea throngh which the crystal river flaws, Thus following the many doctrines back to an ovie dent unity tist solitary origin {4 percaived to boa new childliko 1ife, of which faitl, shd chsrity, and hope, snd ropentanco sre varied phenomens, Into tals unity thoro are many doctrinos that cannot be declarvd to havo any essential part, They donot injure the Darmony, but they form not any essontial part, Tho forms of Church goverameut, (ho modos of bigUem, the dotsfla of bellof, the apoatollo auccession, mom- borship in the viaible church are elemonts which may bo dnaluded or omitted, the one grand thing being that the soul move forward in thoso gracos that abuo- Iutely boat it taward tho imago of Christ, Having now tho Identity of doctrine, all doctrines belog a modification of one spirit, it remaing to uny thst Qurist bocomes s morsl Savior by become ing the great origin of this roligious apirit that g0 die Vidoa tself nto Leantiful fragments, Tocornes its origtn firatby calling the world'a attontion o fis poverty ln ! particular, Many had come to mankind in the namo of art, of pootry, of richea, of ambition, of war, of Plosturo, Lt o such Lainga como. exeluslvoly to o domudn of religlon, Not only did Olirist como {o thia field in & most qx= trome sonse, ropudiating all honors and riches sud arts, and cmpire and common_plossurcs, but ke Drought tho wiseat reilgion tho world hud'yet sgon, Clirist wos notonly s powerful concontration upon = ainglo theme, but b was a concentration upon tho bast concelvablo form of that theme, o was s teviva) of tho old and_an advent of tho new, Aa Greoco turtied tho world toward art, Obriat awakoned & to religion, 3, Ohrist % moral savior by unfolding motivon of roliglon more truly, Heatonce enlargo the idoa of soul, Hoacparatod spirit from dust. Ile it wss who informod tha Tivh man bullding Yast storo- houscs, that & night was pear whon s ho would be required, Ho kudly ssked the world what i could give in ozchange for a soul, in all hia wozds, from bis fires Nlcescd {0 hin last,—1¢ in Ainfslied,"—tho human soul atood forth majestically, U‘ku “;lubhma ‘mountaiy, above earih'a humility and clouds, 8o oxtrems and powerful was this concontration that tho civilizod world, from the beat Olristan to the fovoreat skopiicy cauot spenkcof il woul willeut buving Lis mind Allod with {he momory of Josus Qurist, Of tuta soul, 60 dintaut trom dusk #0 diviag, Lo mado fimmortality tho srens, and, this 1ife & veati~ bule o tho iy, Clttern Nad. 0l as_ much, bk thoy resemblod Ohridt only aé the dow-drop sparkling in tho morning Tesqmbloa sho aun, _Qhrist Wos moro like {ho wun tadlf, pamsing beyond tho ministure iwage, und Alling a'whole warld, dew-drops, and sky, and oceans, all in 1{4 matohless 1(ght. i 3, Chrlut portrayed this fmmortality oo a_land, ‘whre the good wifl be madosupremaly happy, Itwag Tok tho Ghouk o Komas esven— aco 108 Boron aud for genfusi nor was b tho’ Hindoo Yeaven, & plac for canfo; but W wasa land for any gnoloving aud niihiful fo God. The poor were a4 woloomo ad tho Bulglly, tho ohild as groat us tho King, (Buffer Litlo children to caime unto me, and forbidither not, forof suich {n the Kingdom of Lieaven. Thus choored, Ui multitudo, who had thovghk themselvoa only !“-\Yr\?. and clinttels, began to. Tiso up to s consclotispuik of nobleness and g\caual life.” John and Jamiea lott holr nobs upon_tha alidrs, and Magdalen her bondngo, and Taul 3y pursccution, that thoy might pass iuto this biguer. form of, belng. In nsslyntos Hoaven 1Q the fgoolla Mo throw la grites opon tothio unlttude, for whil not all cai be rick, or bg &ings, 0z bo legraad, ax lgh-born, ul could becars faithiul to God, and (hua Hoaven's gatos for thg Arst time swung open witle, 4, Curisi iufjuguccd. maukind by offering mok only porfuct bappincssto the good, Lut by declan ing calumiby 6 bo. the deainy of tho wicked, The whiola casd was iimingd up i two. Jlrases: Coino, v Dlgstied, 4 D"mlhyq cureed.”. Tho puro in basrt waro.tho bleysed s, tha wicked in Lieart were tho curvod,, ‘Clio fwé distanced of oy or grief wove placad, bafpro iho buinun race with 1o eloment af donbt or mystery, ‘T, whilo tho Holds of love oud Ught allured tie spyltitudo, thers wus also s, dark cloud, upon the horl.. zou, which at cach sju graw broadar angd, darker, Jut ou, my_frionds, can for yourselvas. deicend inlp des d.80d how und wheyovor Qhrjut hocamo thus )& mioral Bavior'of man—a mediator botwoen tho lost soul and it God, I shell mention but one more source of ihls groay human trunsformation, and it 18 in: Teinn part o (ble more powertul religion that Olirit is held to bo dtvi‘:l&nlnfl Licnce ton teaching the mowt truthful aud awukening there 13 sddad the g anmr, but find it they must, ang perpotunl guardisnship of an sngel clothed with tho atiributen of God, Haviug won tho world's Iove by o 1ifo of denfal lived for it, liaving sevealed a devotion to manlind (bat was moastiroloss by any moaauremont which the moat skeptical can britig, and then having 10t truilis 53 piraas though Jehovah lind vritton thont, 1o went away from earth promising alwaya to ho with hin chifidron oven to the oud of tho world, In har. ‘mony, (Licreforo, with o 1ifo that scomed divine, and wilh' tlio fonrn’ shied on earth for man sni tho death dlnd for man, and I harmony with promiscs ever to bo nienr,, tho Christiat. world feeln thiat this outer oir, whove atoms sy cannot Aeo and whoso founds wo cane ot hear, and into which_our hoavy bodies cannot £on, on thin eflier which defies us by s toudornean and by our grossncss, hera fifes forever this sngel of tha covenant mear tho Ohtiatinn who liven or tho Cbriatian who dies—ucor whero o child prays or penitont looks to enrth or 8y, It1s this last claim, thnt o living God 1s following tho generations along thoir path thraugh all.countries and’ over all shores, now it {ha Notheriands, to-morrow on tiio_ plane or ‘matiniaing of Anterica,—that makea Gliriatinnity aifor . froni o philosopliy, niid DEcOmo 6 Now voleo evory day from tho eliy, a clioir of angela in the air of our cradle, nopntimo, sud grave, The mon that has tanghf philosopliy ure dend, Tho dust that recolven thielr bodica back recaives Also their eloquonce, The pureat reanon of vartls uttered soon dies away ko & rong mmg in tho night. Chrletianity doparfs from rationalisin, therofore, by its vislon of a heart that hins not died, of n hand that i outrorching still, of a volco thnt fa saging, * Como unto mo,” Just s cloquontly as it spoko thoso words in tho old sccenia audiblo Ly mon. That which ia old and decayed Toul saya s ready to vanish away, Th thrill that paseed through all henrts' whon tha old orstora npoke haa vanished and eannot como back, becauno the soul that permeated th words lins doparied nover to'roturn, Dot Ohristianity cants Htaclf upon a deathloss Dolng and empowars tho shades of each ovening to bo thoso of the Olive-garden and any solitude to bo s placo whero tho beatitudes are Topeated {0 tho hoart, Ont of such a being, thoreforo, seen in theso fivo attitudes, flows that new human hoatt which exproasos dtsclf now in falth, now in poni- tonce, now i obedlencs, now it hope, now fn_charity, Thin how mind turning toward evidenco roveals ita bollf, turniug towards fta sinfulncss it roveals: ita ‘ponitence, turning towards Ohrist's law it s obedient, turning toward its fellow men it is charlty, turning toward ieavon it 1a Lopo--n wiilo lght diescleed. tnto the rainbow colars, As God himself shiowa 1fis mavy colorod glory moro in worlda and mounisins, oud sqain in fowera or porfuimos, 80 o Olrstian fa bo o8 1n the highor life increnscs the number and do- gou of his virtuss aud passes from his falth to chority, om meditation to tho help of mankind, When'a Ghrlatian doos nothing but mourn the past, be Lna norroved his sonl dovwn fo one_ attributc, and 1 08 though tho Creator had 1uade no matarial oxcopt rocks, and no sky aliove them but clouds, Thio many saving doctrines of Oliriatianity are only places whora tho noul spreads outiku thio Juno Nil, to less not a alngle narrow anik bt to oreato ond adorn a vast empire, Toward thia Nile of virtue which sproads out in such maguificence, Christ stands s intollectusl and emotions| And beuco the Chrintin, looking to Itim, feels that of tho of his own heart ‘mot any sprune up there of iiaelf, but camo flowMhg down 2rom Dethlohem and tho motntaln sido, and Oalvary, And in this rotrogpoct which kindlea depeudenco and fratiiude, tho Obiatan ings, i shvajis wil siog, tia mn “ Nothing tn ny Landa T bring Bimply 10 thy cros T cllng— Whilo I draw this flecting breath, When my eyolida closo in death, When I goar Lo worlds unknown, 8po Theo on Thy Judgmont throne, Rock of ages cloft for mo, Lot mo hido myself in thee.” It ratlonaliem oxnzot Justty tho peotry, ti Lkuman heart ean, The soul would not fly without any virtues, but teking with o group of virtuos, it would feol thab thoy also camo from ibls Ilock of Ages, Postry I o postoactoe ‘of acholuatlo thcology, but it s 8 bonuli~ ul oxponent of tho heart, You would nll better iy to tho roligions poetio thought, than to s abstract ex- preastons ; for_abetractions aroonly tho koloton of roligion, Her poetic thought is religlous soul, “Son of God, to Thoo we ory By hololy mysiery O (hy dwolling Liera on earth, By by pure and holy birth ; HHear, oh hear, my lonaly pléa, Manifoat thysolf tn me,” This 1s theology for usall, It harmonizes a score of dactrines snd minglea man’s purity and Obrint's help intoono great salvation, Rt AN METHODIST EPISCOPAL. Dodicntion of Room of Ohurch, Tho now audience-room of thw Firat Mothad~ ist Ohurch, at the corner of Washington and Clark stroots, was yosterday formaily dedicated, in accordance with all tho modorn roquiremonts. Thera wore services by ominent divines, fino singing, and large audiences, drawn partly by tho oontral position of the church, partly from & depiro to hear the proachers. Tha now room ia on attractive and commodious one, recalling ita predocessor only by cortain vaguoe rosem- blances in outline, It ia brightor, cleanor, bot- tor lighted, and much more conveniently nr- ranged, but, if possible, it ia worse ventilatod. THE SERMON. A} yearoerday morning sorvices, after the cus- tomary songs and pruyer, the Rov. Dr, Fowler proachad, his toxt being the last verse of the second epistlo of Poter. Ho expooted to direct their attontion to the flrst clause of the verse, Tho next was & little like & window in an old castle by the ees, Looked at it it wasa dingy oponing, but looked through, thero was a view of the sen. At firgh, tho text scomed a rebuke, & warning to leave thoir poor littlo ways mnd come into the likeness of Ohrist. But closor, esamined, it was found to be full of encomrage-! the New Andiences the First NMethodist ment snd power. No stane, no tres, no animal, | was thus bidden to grow. Den alono wore bld- den to do thet. Bo the form of addross sepn-' ratod mon from all other existences. The toxt' aldo told them how to grow—in grace and power bocomiug b one -with God; when thoy prayod for grawe, thay folt all + the upplisnces for fAie accomplishmont of " ro- sults would como with i, The favor in ‘which they waredto grow, moant all their hearts needod. It wanld bo well to look at the fack thal Olristian life wos & growth, and that to bo a Christian moant Lo be growing continually, It was o growth in tho pature of the caso, nota tree, nor », garment, wvothi which conld be removed,/but actual snd nbsolute, a life, If anything, it renched out to far-off rosults. It was in kooping with God's modo of action. They wanted to be bettor, in every way. It wna on(l{ their naturo, manifesting itsolf everywhere, and calling toward God, ofien crudely and blindly, but always based on the great Iaw, the growing of their hoarta and characters toward God. - Lifo was always mspoken of in the Biblo 88 connocted with this idea of growth, From babyhood they grew to youzh. and then to maturity, " Thoy were ~porplexad, puraued aod fought againgf, but thay cama out of it finally, strong from the conflict, sud firm in charsctor. This was truo of the mental and religious, 8a of the physical growth. Thoy struggled through erperiences of repentauco, hunting for God, untal somehow they found tho door, ood utumblodr’shmn h into Hlis presenco, and found o emilo on His face. They were ohilled aod caoled vrhan brought In contact with the world, Thoy qriticised thoir hoarts to see if thoy bad dono rwrong, They had no_other standard than thoir feelings.” They said tioy ‘would bo mora viggilant on the morrow, but the finolly loarned thiat they must rost upon oxpori- enco and a bacls of caloulation. Thoy wore then passing oul; of the candition of babyhood and spproa youth, To grow iu graco wag the ‘great olject they sought. It wns essior to do anything else than to give up, for a man's will waa tho essential corg of his charaoter. They often rocoguized their duty, but resiated the Lord through thoir stub- born will; until at last, by a dosperate effort, m’nfv surrendercd, Thon thoy wera to arido, to will for God, and to useall their facullies in Hia work and to employ their wills, Lolding them subjact, Lowever,” to the Divine will. They wanted Obriet, Mon rushed into business and soclety, since thoy were not at rest und must ocoupy their time, It was a transition poriod. 01d systoms wero broakirg up, aud hearts wore arying out for what thoy could not find in thom, 1t was o duty at this timo, when it was apparent ihat & now ora was imponding, to put on their strength, to go to the front and fight. At such a timo as this thoy must put on their spiritual gtrength and moot theso lpsues. ~ Thoy must tmn soclety and public_opinion: toward righteousness. As thoy worlked, thomillenuium advanced, Every hour of idlonoss roturded it. God worked mmut; enclos aud forcos for tho capture of th aud could not do it otherwise. God had slwaye loved tha world and all its iubiabitents, and did so int, whiatever thoy might be, If thoy wore nat otter, tho fault rested in human agenclos and instrumentalities, 1f God could have His way, overy sinuer would be converted at onco, Bil woan foncod up tho way by lnok of courage and nnrg:ne. It & smmuer had no knowlo go of Chrlst, the fault was not in Ileaven. 'Lhero wos A DLlossiug and comfort in strengih ltwolf, snd#in “tho possesslion of power, best appreciated when strongth was gone, That was ospeolally true of spiritual strongth, which ‘was noeded to carry_aue upon a loug and woary o world, lnlfu Hia llkonoss and countod among the ohoer- ubs. Contrary to tho usual oustom a desporato ap- ponl for suboriptions and contributiona was nat nade, tho condition of tho charoh dobt was not desoanted upon, and_tho baskots werd pasaed around aa usual meroly to taiso monoy onough to Flrclmnn same much neaded hymn books, "Mio Trusateos, in accordanco with form, thon doliverad tho bullding to Dr. Fowlor to be dadi- ontorl, and ho did it, ronding tho form sot’ forth in the Discipline, Tha gorvicon wore than con- cludod by the singing tho Doxology. In {ie evoiug, tho Rev. Arthur Edwards preachod, ——— FREE RELIGION. Disconrso by Prol. T i1 Kaylor. Anow roliglous Boolety Las boen formod in this oity, callod the * Froo Religloniats," which is composed of Darwinism, Ronanism, and Bpirituallsm, Thelr first servicos wore held yes- torday aftornoon at tho Globo Thoatro, which waa completoly filled with ladies and gontlo- mon, most of whom came more out of cariosity than boeause thoy iudoraed the principles of the philosophera. Attor tho slnging of & hymn by n quartette, Prof. T, B. Taylor mounted tho improvised pul- pit on tho stago and delivered s sermon, or rathor a lecture, Tho speaker commenced by snylng thot no proceding pgo had equaled the prosont in ologo, critical, eclontifi, and phi- losophica! resenrcl. Evory dopartmont of loarn- ing, all history, sacred and profane, art, solonco, philosophy, poetry, and theology, scemed to bo doomed slike to pass into the crucible of closa snalytieal criticlem. Dr. Haven, tho worthy Prosidont of tho Philosophical Socioty in this city, stated in his Inaugural address *Cthat a roligious tonct that Wiad not ita fonnda~ tion in some - philosophy was mnot worlhy of ac- ceptance by intolligent mon and womon.” Bitch s statomont coming from & Doctor in Divinity, bad encouraged him to propare a lecture ou tho subject of © A Rational Religion the Domand of tho Ago." Tho mero statoment of this sub-~ jcct would presuppoao what a groat many poople 0ld was not true, viz, : tho cxistonco gonoral- 1y of an irrational religion. ‘What was Rationalismand what its teachinga ? What was the rationalo of dogmatic theology, and what its influence on socloty ? These were %‘unntiom that could be profitably considered. o Bible Ropository dofined Rationalism as fol- lowa: “ A systdm of opinious doduced from mn’uu'r:, ag distinet from inapiration, or opposed to it. Thia dofinition was, like s thousand othors to ‘bo found in Waebstar's Unabridged Dictionary, for ho quotod from the Bible Ropository, partly truo and partly false. A dictionary wrntton by somo one untrammeled by the chains of dog- matic thoology wns the demand of tho presont age. No Rationalist, or evon Liboral Christian, could fail to see, in thousands of instancos, Now England orthodoxy cropplug out in defini~ tions ofs theological terms, liko tho frownin, cliffs of the glacial period in geology. Rattonal- ism was a system of opinions deduced from roason, but not_nocessarily distinot from rovela- tion, or opposod to it, ns Webster said. Tine Rationaliem accopted of all facts rovealod in tho physical or intollectual world, apd deduced rea~ gonablo conclusions from thom. At Trenton Faolls, yesrs ago, ho had broken off from the rocky wall of the deop-cnt gorge some speci- mons o{ Dbivalye shells. Thoy were tho shells of salt-water inhabitants, but thoy were doop~ tiedded in the solid rock, 300 milos from tha sen, and o8 many foot abovo 1ta prosont lovol, What conclusions would rezson draw from this data ? To sny that theso shells in such a place wero o moro froak of nature, would be tho voice of ig- norance. To ssy that they had neon produced by the stars, would be superstition. To eay thoy wore the result of some mysterious ' prin- ciplo” in the oarth, which, by somo sort of for- mentation, had produced thoso ressmblances to living things, would bo irrational spoculation, or to ény theso rocks esxisted long prior to tho appearanco of animals on tho earth, and that tlio Qreator molded thess forms ns gopios fram which to mako living snimals, would bo ignor- ance based on the credal dogmas of theology. Tiationalism anawored clearly this : That as these shells were found 800 miics from tho scs, and 80.many miles above ita level, the timo onco was when tho murmuring ocean dashed its angry waves ngainst tho enstorn boundary of the Adirondacks. [Applause.] Justas the rolics of tho Roman dominion were found in England, Franco, aud Gormany, so the autiquitios of the old ocoan bhad béen exhumed from tho solid granito_up tho mountain heights of Naturo's pyramide, Bo reasoned Fracastoro,who, in 1617, exhumed a multitudo of potrifactions, and which had arousod tho spaculations of numerous writ- ers. Dut Fracastoro was atampted a heratic by that P:gml arthodoxy which porsccuted also tho starry Galiloo, . Afior tho crucifixion of Jesus, his dis- ciples were asscmbled in a | emall r room, with doors nnd windowas u | locked, bolted, and barred, for fear of the Jews. -They wero excoedingly despondont ovor tho denth of Jesus, becauso they had hopod that his waa he who should redeem Isracl. The an- . nouncoment that Josus was livo from tha doad, nd had appeared unto many, revived their pes, But one of their number, Thomeas by name, #aid ho would not boliovoe it antil ho had “oon s, Peter, James, snd John nccompnnied Jesus up to tho Motntain of Transfiguration, aud there ngpunud unto thom Moses and Elins. Mosos had boon among tho dead 1,600 yenrs, and Elias 900, Yet, in beautiful array, they ap- oared and tafked with thoir oldor brothor gusun about the aul!‘arinfis Lo was soon to under= §2 but strengthened him by the aesuranco “that glory should follow,” Supposin%naburt Collyor, W, R, Alger, David Bwing, Mr, Darwin, Mr, Huxloy and others, all wanted to teatify that on s cortaln occastan, whon assorbled in o yoom, discussing the groat problem of life, with doors and windows locked sud barred, in a manner to preclude the possibil- ity of a phiysical porsonality ontering the spar- ment, thore appoared in tholr midst a man in shining end boautiful rfim’nwnha. with tho visage of a sago, and tho radianco of a saint, bearing a striling rosomblanco to_tho authorlzed por- troits of Washington, tho Father of his country, [Grontay plauso] and in differont ways indicated o the witnosaes aforosaid, that it waas he, and that he was still living in o highor stato? What deduction would rationaliem present from the tho testimony of tho creditablo and compotont witnesses abovonamed? To say that it was an hpllucination of tho brain with which they wero all simultanously affected, would un- ronsonable essumption, or to sy that it was on image of tho great warrior and atateaman, projected from tho concentrated minds of the witnesses, and infused with & lifo and_intelligenco that cnrusruudud with his, whilo thelr thoughts wore pinioned to proto- lasm, would bo straining at o gnat and swallow- ng o camel, [Applanso.] Reason would say: Binco this fact is cortified to by eight erodicable witnesscs, and corroborated by mauy othera in the history of tho past, it has to bo accepted as ono of the afiirmative answors to the question proponnded 4,000 yoars ago, ‘If & mon dies, shall ho live again?" Reason™ does, therefore, not roject revelation, but turns the wholo ques- tion upon tho characters of tho witnessos tosti- fyiog to the revolation glven. From this it would bo seen that Wobster and tho Biblo Ro- pository were mistaken whon they affirmed that rationalism rojected and opposed revelation. Tationalists’ might be said to comprohena thoro who considered supernatural events re- corded in tho Bibla as happening iu the ordinary courso of naturo but described without_any roal ground, a8 supornatural, and who considored the morality of the Beriptures as subject to the tost of human reason, None but the blind, bigoted zealot who acceptod without roason, evory absurdity which Lo found onuuciated by {;loab or prelato of the Church, could object to is, [Applause.] Tho uémnkur than gave au outline of the origin of that echool of rationalistio divinity and philosophy, known as the Rationalism of Ger- many. Ho then coutinued by eaying that Ru- tionallem accopted nothing excopt upen oxamina ation, investigation, and tho closest scrutiny. Renson was the crownlug glory of man, tinguishing him from the brute creation. It ligion taught one to sit supinely down with folded arms, end allow another to do his thioldng, and yparticularly on mattera of goul intorest. But so it had beon and was now. Pooplo employed & mochanio to build thelr bonses, a drosemaker and millinor to look aftor the wardrabo, & lawyer to look aftor thofr bnalness, & doctor to look aftor the siok and & prioat to look after thoir souls, [Applnuu,i Tho pricst said thoy should not troublo them- solvos mbout their mouls; he would atiend to that, [Laughter,] IIo would do all the thinking for thom, and stand botwoen thom and danger ’j ( £ all that would ba nocossary for thom to do woul ba to beliove what he (the Erlust) told thom, an foot tho bill, [Groat Janghtor,) There wag much moro rationalism and ¢rue philosophy in tho old farmer who, whon vory sick, wau aaked by a foollsh neighbor : * Hhan't Jonrnoy, Thoy neoded strength so much that | I sond for tho proscher to pray foryou?" Pray thoy cauld not” afford to waste an atom of it. ‘Thoy and the Oburch needed it all, To grow in | original Grangor. I don'l | tho kuowledga of Cbrigt waa to bocome like Hin, and thoi gave the flual victory and waa their chlef work, ITnd they that kuowledgo to-day ? fhoy would not find’it in n ledgor, or the daily | and Prelate, stood to tho Church was that of. they colild get'| middlomen, instead of toachora and leoturors on’ t only by Inuklu&r at Cliriet, gozing at Him, Were thoy dowyg it 7 “ / 1 o thoy would be trausformed | laws of ile! v for me #" gasped tho dying mau, " No ! X'm an e b allow of ay mfi(m man between mo and_God Almightyl'™ [Great. applauso and laughter, - fi'lm relation {n which Pope and Bishop, Priest tho philosophy of life, showing tho peoplo the [L’;wu bnl’ng, aud tuaohh‘:’q tfism to talco dua notico thoroof, and govern thomeelyos acoordingly. Dogmatio thoology eafd: *Inslx days God oreatod tho heavens and oorth,” and that at no moro distant doto than 0,000 yoars ago. Ration allsm was Jooking at this Iittlo whirling orb of ours through tha sclence of unluF and boldly confronted Gonesla and snid: * .{imlonu and millions of years ago this oarth bogan to ho, aud lanow in_procesa of dovolopmont, becoming botter and botter adapted to n atill higher form of kontlont, intcllizont bolugs,” Agnin, dog- matio thoology was tenching that, 6,000 yenrs ngo, CGod created mon out of the "dust o% tho ground, a porfect boing, and broathed into his nostrils the broath of life, Helonco and ronson would say that man had inhobited this world at losat 40,000 yoars. and, instead of baing oroated & spocimon “of perpect manhood in s biysical, moral, and intelleclual point of view, Eo had aimply grown to hlshulfihtn and fair proportions by tho slow and gradual lawas of ovolution and dovelopment, just ns tho rosy- cheoked and plonsaut-flavored " posch had baon doveloped from the bitter almond, Dogmatio thoology furthor sald that God, who was all-wieo, ever gracions, and gasy the ond from tho bogin- ning, beeamo digsatisfiod with lus work, after Ifo 1nd pronounced it good, and very good at that, and changed His plaus, roused Himaolf liko a lion from His lair, shook His mano in tho wrath of Hiy mind, summonod tho olomanta of Nnturo to punish T robelllous childron, and, with s mi lglxl.y flood of wators, that covorod tha whole antth, all weradrowned. Onlyeight poraons (faint appisusc) with twos and sovous of all the bensts and bivds, creoping things and fiying fowla_woroe savad in a great ship ealled the Ark. The Ratlonalist with o book on geology in ono hand and a hook on navigation in the othor, would reply : * Thoro in not & singlo trace of tho Noachian deluge, as having occurred 5,000 yoara 8g0, to bo found on the face of the carth. Aund a4 to tho ark, it i8 simply an absurdity.” It was further waid by tho dogmatists of to- day and of the past, that God rained fire and brimstono on Sodom and Gomorrah, and con- sumed them, To whicl ronson n:ipllod that, if Sodom ond Gomorrah wore dostroyod, was the samo kind of fire, and in ne- cordanco with the samo luws, that swopt over Obicago and desolated Peshtigo, And tho burn- ing of Bodom and Gomorrali was not bocauso God waa angry with tho Sodomites any more than Ho was angry with tho Chicagoaus, aud hero o ‘burned up most of His owa dymporty and loft many dovila' dens untouched, [Immonse ap- plause,] He hoped the timo would come whon proachora and pooplo would coaso their folly in ascribivg those thm:fe to anangry God. Tho The dogmatio aud irrational religion was ns- sorting that Josus was conceived by the Holy Ghost, snd born of the Virgin Mary, while rattonallsm was teaching us that Ho was con- coived and bronght forth in accordance with the 1aws of natural genoration. Dogmatic thoology taught to pray to God for pardon through Jesus Christ, and they would bo saved, whilo rational- {em said ¢ * Lat your prayers bo deeds of love; undo what you have done amiss, for no man can egcapo tho consequonces of his own aotions.” Aftor giving » number of further roasons similar to the above to prove that rotionalism ‘was tho only true and safo religion, the spealter #sid he bad been s Methodist clorgyman for muany yoars, but had outgrawn the narrow limits of dogmatical thoology. That growth liad cost him much, snd the_account wes still running on, Ho was oxceedingly radical, yob ho was unito confident that tho mon and womon who ?nvorod him with an sudionce would be able to indoree his views, and oy to him: ‘‘Go on, brother, aud we_will help you to build upin Chicago a grand soclety of noblo workers and thinkers in_ the realms of truo philosophy.” Buch a rosulthvonld be the consummation of his higheat aspirations, and such consummation would bo roalized ~if they ~conld indorae what was called tho rationalism of Germany, nnd thon they could prove:*‘how ‘boautiful and how pleasant it is_for brethren to dwell fogothor in unity,” and they would soo rising up with -this_copgregation n_beautiful and maguificont tomplo of scionce and -philoso- hy, whora the great laws of their boing might En mors thoroughly studied and appliod,— whoro tho blind sliould be made to sce, tho donf $o hoar, the lama to walk, the sick to b healed, and tho poor to bava the'gospel of life, health, and happiness preached to thom. Dr. ' A, Bland statod that thia sociely had been formod since the dopnrture of Dr. Algor. This would be a people’s Church, broad enough for Christisng, Jews, Mahommedang, and Chi- neso to stand upon, and thiey would ‘be able to sustain it. _They only neoded about $50 or £60a ‘month, sud the frionda of the movement would cortainly be willing to pay this amount, a5y IN HIM WAS LIFE. Discourse by Bishop Peclke By consulting thut valvavle publicatlon, Imown and respected in 8t. Loais undor the titie of ‘ Edwards' Chicago City Directory,” it will be foupd that tho Wabash Avenuo Methodiat Church is situated upon tho corner of Wabssh avenus and Harrison stroet, whoro it has nob been for exactly two years. By judicions in- quiry ono may lesrn that tho Wabnsh Avonue Moethodiat Church is comfortably situated on the cornor of Ninoteenth streot, Thore, in deflance of the_population-manufacturing-directory-com- piler, Bishop Pack preached lnst ovening before & very largo and attontive coufirogauan-—thn: of the Wabash Avonuc Mothodist Church. The Bishop chose for bLis toxt, John i,, 8, * In Ii wag Lifo,” o said the import of the text was that, when evorything bogan, the Word was then oxistont, and, theroforo, never began. Tho words * ‘Tho Word was God” inforred that the Logos, or Word, wus when overything began, 80 plainly wag the dootrine afirmed, in that of the Trinity. In pursuauce of this truth, thoro was another fact. It waa that tho Iufinite life was an infinite Fower, and, thorefore, compotont to originate all other forms of life, ~ It wag, thero- foro, truo that the lonst particles and atoms of tho ‘microscopo were tho result of His creative powor. Their origin_was, thorefore, in the creative power of our Lord Jesus Christ, Hoit was who stretched out zn arm in the empty space, and lung the world wupon noth- ing. This revolation of creative power was one of God's answerd to man. Souls of men and spirits of other ordora were also tho crea- tion of that august Power, standingin Whose rosonce we etood awed at His mujesty, In %lm waa life, and the lifo wastho light of men. Tho illumining power of solar and stollar light came from Him, and but_for our Bavior, we should all be WHFDBG 1 litornl darkness, ‘But bosidos this, in anothior sonso, that lifo was the light of men's souls. All rovolations of truth, wore through Him who rovealed the Diety tous. Alllaw and order woro callod into lifo through Him. It waa His light which point- od out thedesperato wickedness of man’s naturo, whenco he camo, and the truth of otornity toward which ho was dnlfting, It Was worthy of _motico that thia light of rovelation was absoluto lifo. Stoadi- ly we might advance in consideration of the im- ‘port of thoso worda. ~The Bon of God taok our nature upon Him, and became in oll things like unto His brothren, Diseuse was a form of doath, but life coming into that dving Lody, conquered the death clements. The quuudnn ariging whether Christ belog the Prince of Lifo, coul not decres that man might live for ever, was o very just and propor one. If the life-power was strongor than the death-power, why should it not onter tho realms of death, and restoro thosa ‘who Liad paid the penalty of death ? The spenker alluded to tho miracles of Christ'a raising of tho dend, a8 ovidenco of Ohrist’s ower _over _death. b was a8 hough Christ had missed something during 1Ty life, and ouly found it in the gravo, It wus cap~ tivity Ho sought, and lod it captive from tho gravo. The spesker could almost fancy he heard the power of death soliloquizing upon the triumph _he would enjoy by leading Christ to doath. Tho power of Immortal Lifo was in the Word, a8 shown by Obrist's triumph aftor donth Trom physical desth the Bishop procooded to disouss the rolations of Chnst's life-power over the donth of tho soul. The alnigglu in the soul was botween hope and despair. Love, faith, hope, and happincss dond, wons not tho soul doad? Wae thore s vitalizing spiritual power to rostoro the dend poul to life? If thore was, what wan that powor? Thero im vorao of the twolfth chapter of Romans—‘* Not slothtul in business, fervent in spirit, sorving tho Lord.” Thoe locturer said that in atarbing ont in life wo cannot bo too caroful of tho fact that thero Is but ono lifo, which, if spoilt, cane not bo tried over again, It will not pay to go hondlong, hit or miss, to hazard all on a reckless throw, What {8 sottlod on a8 a pormanent buai- nosa 8 not a thing of only small Importance; It 18 an ovent whoso issues will Lo far-renching and potont for good or for iil. It willlargely make tho chooser's succoss or failure for life. It will not do to wait too long and negleot sottling upon auy business, A young man musk 0 zoalously about somothing, nnd it doos not o to oxporiment too much,—to try somothing here, and, it it does not sult, turn to somethin ecles, Huoh pooplo are rarcly, if over, suited, and raroly do anything, Lifo is not long enm“lxh to allow of doing more than ono thing, and doing it well, “'horo is no ono worthy busi~ ness of ail that can bo choson but that has onough about it to engaga all ono’s enorglos and invontivo powors, and givo room, and scope for study and Yragmfls during all onc'a life. It in not well to bo too sspiring in choosing & enlling. Tho beptnner ahuug\ 86~ tle upon someothing ho can do, and do well. Bomo of the professions aro full of mon whoare unfit for them, and who, a8 a conspquonce, sra awoy down at tha hottom, poor, scedy, halt liy~ ing. At the topof a profession, however, thoro 8 no crowding, and in any business be who ean do first-class work will not long want for om- ployment, which any profession s too full for poor workers in it. The frjonds of Daniel Web- ater tried to dissuade him from becoming a lawyer because tho profession wns alrendy erowded, ‘'There's room enough at tho top,” was his anewer. It is bottor to bo n firat- clags wood-sawyer than a fifth-rate professional man, Itis not well for all young men to think, 88 tholr toachors used to tell thom, that thoy alf stood a chance of being President by and by. Most mon will have to bo contont with very ‘humble spheres, or ba confined to thom whather thoy aro contont or not, snd If they fill their small placo worthily, rovido for thejr families, do tho momently, llnfl{, ourly work of Ohristians in thoir community, thoy wili bo doing all tnat can bo_expectod of thom in this world, sud should not thunksuch & life lotw, menn, or ciroumacribed. It is wide enoughto tldfl_: in etornity, God, tha soul, all tho noblest faculties and exarcises of tholr being. It is notthe occasional spasmodic effort, though gigantio, thot makes perfect and front tbings, but tho ‘patient, persistont, morant )y momont, and ntn‘p by stop, thoroughnosa of labor, Tho ond of life, soul development, must bo ever romombored, a thing which: can bo reached in Lumblo. spheres, ot ‘ only 88 woll, but gunernh{ bottor, than in higher ones, The roverend lecturer urged tho ncces~ ity of tho choico of & business whoroin & young man has ‘no need to secrifico bis wolf-respect. Thoy bad botter starve their bodies for lack of omployment, than sell their souls for paltry dol- lars, An omployment in which s man can de- velopo himaelf “as well as his capitsl, must be looked for. Most mon think that if they cun gat o good porcentage on the money investod,—no mattor bow {nveated,—thoy are dolug finely, It tho “pilo™ only grows, no matter about the awnoer of the pile. i ]Ju;?nfua "l‘: Enko all tho timo wo can give to t. 8 & hungry monster, coustautly eryin, “ givo, o, und it is mover m&E Yield one may, it will ask for more, It Ia imposgible to satisfy its demand, so i1 in a8 well to etop yiolding to them at one time 08 at anothor, as far as au idea ot gotting overy- thing done ia concernod. The flrat things & busi- ness-man ought to make provision for sre the most important, giving his businegs the reat. Ono of the first lhin{[a 8 man should seo to, is the baving of n hoppy home. The lecturer showed the danger of thinking money the king of lifo, and how tlioro Is dangor of the maklng of business an ond, instead of a monns, The true business of life, whatevor bo one's employment, is thbe Lord's bueinoes. Jesus prayed for his disciples, not that they should be taken ount of the world, but kept from its evils, If one cannot serva God in the employraent one is onggfad in, that alone is cnough to condemn it, The leoturo, which was vory eolajuont throughout, was con- cluded in tho following words: * Alake your ‘business_respectable by respecting it, and ele- yuting Inbor rather than by boing ashamed of being & workingman. 2 The lecture of noxt Bumhx evening will be on tho subject of *“Bowing Wild Oats.” —_— THAT WATCH CONTEST. o the Bditor of The Chicago Tribune: ‘wag & powor in the Ioly Ono {o rostoro dend souls. Our dead hodles would surely rise, somo to evorlesting lifs and somo toovorlnating shame, * Hothat believoth that Jesus Ohvist {u tho Son of God shall have lifo, - but ho that boliovott not shall not soe life, but the wrath of God abidoth on him,” 'Lhus our faith gathered ower from tho dinousnion of the Tfow words ot ho toxt, 'Thoy who wore idontifled with tho vitalizing powor of Christ woro sue of n glorious 1ifq tq vomo ; sure of andless joy, in thy numn- Lior of thoso whose lifo was in Cliak with God, Would bhis hearers condenyg fheir sonls to aver- “tosting doath, or ratnor give tholr souls to Josus and live for ever 2. IR susINEss. | - o Locture by the (Rav., Mr. Savage, Tho Rov, Mr. Bavage, of tho 'Phird Unitarian Qhurch, on the eoriigr of Monroe and Tatlin stroety, i at preont delivering on Sunday evey- ingu a gorien of leotures to young men. Yostor-" day ovening the subjoot on which he loctured orag “Dusjooss," the toxt bolug tho olevonth Biz: In your issue of yestorday, in remarking of the result of tho election for the watch do- nnted by tho American Watch Company for the beneflt of the Momphis sufferers, you sa; The rosult was nossiisfactory tothe by-standers.” ‘The ovoly murmurs of disapprobation cama from Mr. Laflin and Mr, Howard, The gentlemen in question remarked that no candidates should hava been allowed outside the Executive Com- mitteo, ' Tho plan was forany one who chose to contest for the watch, Their own suggestion in reforence to the tap of tho bell, or 10 p. m., was adopted by Messrs, Halo & Eldridge, of the Amorican Watch Company. Trwenty votes were refused for me., I have twenty in my pocket now. A friend of mine showod Mr. Laflin a $60- bill, which- he wished to deposit as represent- ing 200 votes for me, and I know of twq others who were roady with $100 more, which would hava placod me at least 300 votes shead of all., Mr. Laflin said ¢ if the votes aro counted in tho Tronsurer's offica I will bo satisfled.” I took the ‘watch from my pocket, and returned it to Mr. Hall to deposit in_tho safo until the votes wera oounted—in Mr. Laflin’s pregence, Now, it a) Eom‘n thoy did not wish sny one ‘¢ outside " ave tho watch. Asforthe by-standers, those who wero not candidates snid that thoy never saw such a strugglo to cheat me out of my righta. Had Ilost the waich, I would not so far hava forgotten that I was a gontlemsan, as soms of those prosent did. Yours traly, J. M. Dannox. MoVioxeR's TaeATE, Nov, 3, 1673, _—e Flne Arts, 'The collection of ofl paintings now on exhibition at the storo of Geo, P, Gors & Co,, Nos, 68 and 70 Wabash, avonuo, {8 perbaps tho flnest und most valuablo that Das been offered in our city for some time, George F Bousell’s grest work, “ The Union Pacific,” is bers, and numerous olegant gems by Boudall, Straussmelre, Delacrols, Krisspendorir, &t, Jolm, Scarby, and others, Tho whold colloction will'be sold ot 10 o'clock Tuesday morning noxt. Important Change. Chleago & Evanaville Bhort-Lino—Passenger traing of Glileago, Danvillo & Vincennes Railroad will leave new dopot, corner of Clinton and Carroll atrosts, at 7:35 a, m, and 6:30 p, m, Elegant llL'uplmL-an on all night Hhatus, munnlg tmnngfiu Evanaville withont chango, S w—— Public Library of Kentucky, In Tz TripuNe of noxt Saturday will Le found a column advertisement giving all the pasticulars of the fourth gift concert of tho Publio Library of Kentucky, —_——— The Palmer House, Tlis hotel is now opon, The price for poard 16 $3 por day for tho month of Novembar, —As an instance of the increasing value of walnut lumbor, wo note that ths stauding wal~ nut trees on a half-section of land on Eel River, in Miami County, Iud,, was recontly sold to & lumber dealer for $17,000, ————eeeee e e SPECIAL NOTICES. The Confessions of an Invalid. 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