Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 24, 1873, Page 5

- THE PULPIT. " An Anti-War Sermon by the Rev, W, H. Daniels, l"overty, Panics, and War, All Re- sult from the Samo Causcs The Rev. 8.‘W. Cogshall on Ear- 1y Methodism in Chicago. Interesting ‘Reminiscences of the . Revival of 1839. The Rev. Charles E, Cheney on “The Family of Christ.” Discourse on * Consecration,” by a Baptist Revivalist. The “ Philosophical Religious Exer- oises” at the Globe Theatre. An Bxtraordinary Discourse by Prof. Taylor. AN ANTI-WAR SERMON, Discourse Delivered Yesterday Morn- ing in the Pork Avenuo M. E, Church, by the Pastor, Rey. W. X, Danicls. Rov. W. H. Daniels, pastor af the Park Avénus M, E. Churel, proached an anti-war sormon to his congrogation yestordsy forencon, Taking for "his text Acts, xx., 85—*Remombor the words of the Lord Josus, how he said, ‘It is moro blessed to give than to rocoive’ "—ho said : In proaching an anti-warsormon ag announcod, 1 havochoson this most peaccablo of texts. Thoso words of tho Savior roveal ono of tho great accrots of Hoavon. It seoms aa if Ho wero giving bit of His porsonal experience, and ox- plaining how it was that Ho, who had been nsed to 8o much better things, conld enjoy himuolf so well among the sinners of this wicked world. For, though Ho was */ a man of sorrows, ond ac- quainted with griof,” thero was a groat blessed- ness in His heart, hecauso out of thoso sorrows waa to como the joy of the wholo earth, and, a8 I think of Him going about Judea and Galileo, seattering benedictions, and bearing tho world's burdens, it soems to mo ho must have beens groat deal happler than if He had staid upin Heaven, smong the angels, leaviog us poor wretohos to taka caro of ourselyes. Tho Seripture spoaks of *'tho blessed God, L e, tho hoppy God, and this toxt tolls tho secrot of his happiness, viz, : making good and usoful and bosutiful things, snd then giving thom away. The Son of God finda his plessure in being wounded for our transgrossions, and dying, *the just for tho unjust,” that ho might bring us to God ; and, no doubt, tho Holy Spirit finds his comfort in being * tho Comforter,” and 1sys up store of joy for himaelf by pouring him-~ self out upon mankind. ; The caso seems to bo the same with the angols. Thore i8 joy.among them over one sinner that reponteth, whereby 'wo concludo that they aro somewhat familiar with our dangerous conditlon, and are busily at work ministering to us, and trying to bring us to repontanco. Tho opposite notion, however, seams to prevail among mankind, To thoso who have not learnod this heavenly secret it appoars more blessed to receive, while to give varies, in tholr estimation, all tho way from an. snnoyance to a positive tortare, according as tho ungodly seltishnoss ia Ieas or more doveloped. 1In nature, giving and recoiving go togother by necessity. A spring is always pouring out the water that comos up iuto it, elss it would bo & staguant pool; the ground responds with blos- soms and fruits to tho:sunshine and rain; tho robins that stoal your cherrié pay you back in pongs ; and if thero is anywhero o plant or crea- sura that lives only to itselt it is suro to ho some vile and poisonous weed or some loathsome beaat or roptile, tho vory sight of which is re- pulaive, In tho animals, howover, tho giving is ll by instinct, like the watchful mervico of the ‘mastiff, or compulsory, like the labor of & horse; all their voluntary motions are. for themselves, Tt is fair then to conclude that whatover inhu- man nature is merely recoptiveis animal in its pature, as also that whatevor is benevolent is Aivine, K A baby is almost wholly raceptive, simply n bunch of wants, continually reaching out 1its banda and lifting up its volce in quest of some-, thing for itsclf. A bigboy, loft to run wild, pounds the little boy and steals his marblos just ;Io the big dog Ditos tho lttle ono and steals Lifs ne. An Emperor like the Omsars or the Bona-~ paxtes is simply o big dog biting the little ones, and stealing their bones, oxcept when he turns Lis toeth to biting God's cbildren and stealing thelr bread. It makes no differonce whathor the dog be a Bourbon bloodhourd or s Napoleonic our, or & mongrel of the Eris, or Northern Pacl- Ho, or Gold Board, breod, his nature and his havoe are very much the same, Take this astounding fact and sce if there be not yot great occasion for preaching from thiy _toxt, The foromost Christlan nation of the old world, whose wealth {8 so vast that many .of its citizons and nobility epend upon them- wolves and their familles incomes ranging troma hundrod thousandto a million of dollars & yoar—that nation contains o many paupors that one-half of its vast rovenues are consumed in glving them a miserable support. ButJebus look at home, Thero has xisen up among ua within the past twouty years a olass of noecrupulous mon who have systematically sought for power over mocloty by soraping to- gether for thomsolves the abundant wealth of this country, whioh, if allowed totake its natural .yoursa along the chanuels of trade and industry, would banish homelosanes, and hunger, from iile continont forover, And now the groody atrife of those men,—not honeat business entor- priso,—has given & paintul shock to the prosper- Ity of our people, and thouesnds of men nro mondéring how thoy are to find food and shelter lor their families during the, wintor which has thus_early come down upon us, If thoy only h“lih‘ smong thomselves we might lenve them 10 bite and devour one anothor, nor caro for the howls of thoso whose teoth were not 8o |lmri>. or whose {aws wors not so strong, but it is really 100 bad that tho ** children's broad " should bo ilken and glven to such dogs as thesol Now and then thero is & good princo or a pious milllonairo, but thoy bave catio to bo ashuined f thelr ordor and thair traditions ; for the doc- trino of “the divine right of Kings," which is imerely tho vight of the trongest, as woll as tho doctrino that *capital shonid govern labor,” which in morely the right of the richest, aro both gontrary to the doatrine of the text: thoy tell us it ia more blessed to be ministered to aod to re- soive; Ohrist tells u it s more bleased to minis- Jer and to give. . % It 18 not for want of sad examples of tho fatal Mfacta of rovorsing this precopt that the world rontinuos to do it. Cake this oue from a lato Bholcnxo rlmll);z‘ i i + One o membors of our lico- about = year ago is said to hnva m.al".’. fifixfflf-fi $bousand dollars in roal ostate, Lant weols, ho was found deud from tho offeota of faut llylug, Ho had avidontly tricd to recelva that fortune all l!ng'hlmnull’, and miserably porished iu fhe of- o A man whom I onos knew s a fip y) freo- Bumd member of the Methodlat Ohnmgl, lately ud & hfn bug of money, Ths otherday, I mot him in' this oity, and ho stopped me to toll mo his good fortuno, Of course I gave him_duo congratulntion, though Lio soomed a andly | difforont ma ; oud, mindful then of n certain tavorilo bonevolonce of his and mine, I anid, Now 18 just your time to mako n subserption to tho snpport of our old, worn-out qrunchnrn, and tho widows and orphinns of our dond minatars which .our Conferonco ins undor its care, Wit n scowl and a shrug ho ourtly an- sworod, 1 am not 6o fast for that sort of thing as I used tobo,” and hastonad to got nway, ns it the thought of giving burnod him. Poor rick man! May the good Lord snve him from that dangerous monoy bofora hio rulns himself with {t! “Ihomarksof diaipation aro on him alrerdy. Out of the neglect of thia graclons doctrine also como all the discords among uatlons. oar tho Apostlo James on this Jmlnl. Ho mays: #Trom whenco come wars and {fightings among you? Como thoy not honce, ovem of your fusts drhich war in your mombora# Yo kust and bavo not: yo kill'and dosive Lo Lave: yo fight and war, yoi yo havo not beosuso yo askinot : yo asl and’ Yeceivo not bocauso yo nsk amies that yo may consume it upon your lusts,” T'hero is no groater curso to s Gavornment than an_over-much desire *‘to haye," As for giving, it is only in recont timas and in tho most Christlan nationa that auch o thivg lias been thought of ; and even now It is gonerally o gift from ono strong, rich am\\‘nr to nuothor like it. A woale country, espeeinlly if it 15 nlso unculti- vated and out of tho great lines of diplomacy, has no chaneo of presonts, nay, it must struggle mightily for its life. lortain gnopln in the United Siates hnve long 1ooked with covetous oycs mpon tho besutifal island of Cuba. Of Inte the disordoers thoro havo offored raro atiractions to filibnatering patriots, Premontly, somo sclf-commirsiono *¢ Goneral" gathers about him a mob of **rndo follows of the baser sort,” buyaa steamehip and loads it with warliko stores, puts his unauthor- izod eoldiers on bonrd rogistored na passongors— the kind of * passengors” may be guossed from the guard pliced over them to shoot thoso who try to desert—and snils away with an American Consul's warrant in his pockot and the stara and stripes at his poak, to do a littls intorvantion on bis own hook mnd thereby mend his wasted Jortune. ‘War at its boat in organized murder, but this expedition wae a plan for murdor at random, for killing without causo, Now whatover be the tochnicalities in tho case, tho sailing of such & ship for such n purposo is o crimo whicn no rogister can justify and no flag rightfully pro- toct, Tho ocean might blueh to boar up such a craft, and onco aflont all shores should forever deny it & place to land, A8 ovonts tranapircd, some of theso Gonorals and snldiers insioad of shooting woro' shot: they took tho musket and thoy periehed by the musket, and that is not far from tho Scripturo which says, **All they that take tho sword shall porish with the sword.” Their oxlz:dhlun was of tho sort, and, no doubt, with full intent to in- volve this nation in war with a country whoso chiof ralers aro actunlly our warm admirors and faithful friends, Thoy have perishod—so perish all mon who seck to embroil this natlon in warl Ihavo boen amazed st tho courso of somo of our leading journals under the prossuro of this oxcitoment: “their columns bristle with staring hond lincs nnd belligerent adjectives, while along with loud curso ou the Spaniards for their inault to our tlag, thero aro typo-mnrks of lust for that bonutifal Quoon of tho Antilles, Othiors coolly toll us that s foreign war would raisoa conveonient dust in which cortain political ini- quitios might bo hidden, and still another raiscs his voice for bloody war becauso it would stimu- Into businoss and raise tho price of coru aud hogsl Boyond oll doubt, a great offenso has boen committed sgainet tho lawe of pations, and among tho wretched mon who wero &hot with such inhuman hasto thers may have beon somo iunocent ones ; but tho great and leading fact is that gomo scores of ndventurera who had prosti- tuted our fllg to thoir piratical schomes, have sposdily paid for their intended crimos with thoir lvos ; aud is that a good reason why war shoutd be doclarod and_somo thousands of do- cont mon should be shot onland and sea? Must such n sactifico bo made to suit the temper of Cuban sympathisors andn mass of ruffians not et shot or hanged, who swing their bats at pub- io mootings and cry for vongeance, witl an un- der thought of war's advontures, politieal capi- tal, or anuoxation of Spenish tortitory ? ut there are somo of our statesmon and ed- itors whoso brave and steady wordaIhail with joy 1 mon who point out the horrors and_crimen of war, aud who might toll us,—for thoy know it very well,—that over such a conflict aa'that into which our Government may drift, none will #o much rejoice a8 those who Were our latest one- mies_in_ battlo, unless it bo tho dovil and his nugels who atwaya dolight in strife and blood. It nv Tuml people feol such an‘interest in Cu- Lan Volunteers ou the one hand or Cuban Ro- ublicana on the other, lot thom set about raie- ing money, porhaps the hundredth part of tho cost of o oruise of an iron-clad, and with it or- ganize a Obristian Commission for one army and « Sanitary Commission for tho other, and leave to Chriatiau arbitration the settlemont of war- liko claims. Arbitration was good onough for us all a8 be- twoen two great powors which could not sford $0 go to war lost they should uttorly destroy oaoh dthor; how happons it that nothing but fightin will suit now that tho other power I8 weak & we could doubtless make our fighting exponses in Wost Indian resl ontato? What insane folly is this which prates of armios and navies, of u{)oilu sud conquests, because a ship whose smell was odions in all the winds of tho Atlantic Ocean hins beon irregulatly captured, and the men who wentout to murder in our nomo have beon executed in their own namea ? Doubtless it is technically s casus belli, but thero is ono causo for war there uro ten chances of speculation, nud if we fight at ull, it ought to bounder a lag of greon paper with eagle coins em- blazoued on it, rathor than under the stars aud stripes, with its momorios of Lonorable battle, au houost ship, with an honest cargo, sallod hf an honeat Oaptain and manned with o scoro of bravo and jolly tars, had been caplured in the highway of commeroo, then thore would be 0od_causo for our wrath, wo might hoist our unting aud bring out our bolligerent adjectives and our staring head-lines with soma show of manly patriotism, But no such thing haa beon done ; nor ever will bo, for whosver should at- tompt it would booutlawed by all nations, and oll tho navies of tho world would stand commit- ted to awoep that pirate from tho sen, T have no words with which to spoak the sonso of dsnger I foel lest this nation ahould be choat- ad by some trick, or driven by somo clamor, into & war whoso thin protense of defonding naval rights would not farnish rags enoogh tobida 1ts naked hoathenism, Must ws rush out by Lhou- eands to battlo overy time a roving frocbootor raises o slirmish ? NMuat wo backelido down all the toilsome hoight we havo been climbing and begln again to wottlo our quarrcls on an auimal basin? When an Editor, or o Congressman, or & Governor, or a Cabinet oflicer, or the Prosident himselt, i8 not upon by some' flory advocate of war, either to Lelp the canso of republicaniam, or to ravive spoculation, or even to *‘stimulnte busiuoss," lot him romomber tho words of this toxt, and thon lot him suawer, *'Is thy servant a og that ho should do this thlngls" ‘here is ono substantial good which may come out of this wretched busiuoss, and that, I pray, mny not bo long in coming, God oan make the . wrath of men to pralwe Him; why not thoir deuth ? Lot it now Lo asttled onco for all,—and let those hundred graves bo_mo many exclama- tion pointa to oall the world's attontion,—that ho who goos unsont to_battle In our name, goos &t his own charges; and if ho dies, his blood shsll bo upon his own hoad, Thus ouly can & stop bo put to thoss privato acts of war. In conolusion, Other nations have grown gront by conquest, and h{ uoml\\eul havo thoy porished. But our couutry is, thus far, & grand exception to all history, unless it bo in tho reo- ords of tho iuiquitios ‘of our Indian rings and that infamous little Aexican war; for both of which, good Lord forgive usl A realm moro vt than all the conquered provinges of Im- porial Romo bay beon added to us ot the cost of o few conts gur aere, or by peacofully going in to ponsess it, In this way our natioh may safely widen its boundarios; but for avary square foob of land added as spoil in war, God will add unto us tbe plagues which ara wntten In the Ohronlcles of Mankind, Jehovah 15 plndgad to 8o that no robber keops bis booty, and, be hio a man o a nation, sooner or later tho gains of his orime will be taken from bim with intorost. Dut what about thoso innocent victims who woro cheated or forced into the expodition? I roply, their blood is upou tho hoads of the load- ors who llod to them and tho land-sharke who oarried thom on board sftor mnking thom holp- less with liquor, As for tho fivat, thoy aro dead already ; but for the others, lot raquisition be ‘mado of thoao hsrpies of tho shore whoso trada 1t {u to pluok the gulle and potrols of tho sva. Wo necd not goud so far as to_Bpaln, or ovon to Cuba, to find handa with blood on thow ; and it this Govornment, Instead of putting manaoles on thoso hauds which wrought the violonoo and paid the monoy without whioh that wrotched voasel nover could have eailed, shall send out shipa of war on orrands of vongounce, or oven toliein walt watohing for a protaxt to strike and spoll, then upon the hands of the Prosident, tho Cisbiriet, and tho Congross of tho United Btatos somo of that blood, aud & groat doal of other, will be found, Seo to 1, my brothren, leat by mdnfi sides with war and conquost aome of it be found on you, Ob thin Loly dhy, and 8 this holy TH. CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU ‘slnoc, I call upon you, first ns oiie zonn of tho Kingdom of God, and socondly ns eltlzons of this good country, to oxhaust every possibility within your reach for rovonting tho nproad of this wicked war-fovor. n all placos of tradn or soclal converso wpenk againgt it, and in the Houno of God and in your own honaes pn{lngnhut it, for it contemplates an Imploty which, whilo the gront whito throno standy intho Hoavens, this nation cannot safoly commit, et OHICAGO IN 1839. The Rev. iclah W. Cogshail’s Early Reminiscences of Methodivm in Chi= cago—The Great Xovival in the Wine tor of 1830—Convorsion of Mr. Gore rett, Bies Tho Rev. Holah W. Cogshall, of the Now Bed- ford onforouce, preachod in the Clark streot Methodist Church to a small audionce yostorday morning. Tho paator of the Church, in intro- duelug him, remarked that ho was tho connect- ing Lok betweon tho old aud the now, and car- ried about him many recollections which hind nok yot been In print. Ho took nahistoxt: **Ac- cording to this time it shall bo said of Jacob and of Tsrnal, What bath God wrought ?"—Numbors xxlit : 20—and said ho hiad nothing tosny rospeat- ing tho toxt oxcopt that ho used it as & motto— as & starting point, according to modern usago. o ontered tho Now England Gonference un- der Bishop Roborts, whom ho distinotly romom- berad, in Juno, 1832, Tho anti-slavery contro- vorsy hiad commenced by tho publication of tho Liberator by Gnrrison thoe procoding yoor. In tho wintor of 1895 It roached tho Mothodists of Now fvgland, and at the following scssion of tho Conforonco, held in Lynn, it was found the Abolitionists had & majority, but the Church at that timo was bitterly pro-slavory, North as well ag Bouth, Immedintely there commonced a violont controversy, of which most of his hearors bad not tho loast idos,—n controvercy which finally culminated in tho late rebeilion. When the work was bogun, they gave themsolvos a hundrod yonrs of prayer, of preaching, and of uniting to abolish slavery. Thoy did it in rather loss timo by God's holp snd tho helpof tha Bouthern robels. Abont the time of tho Boston Conforonce of 1838, their Abolitioniemsubjected them to ccclo- slaatical, to political, and to commercial proscrip- tion, Abolitionism was o orime to bo punished by tho Judges, and he had beon arraigued at tho bar of an Annual Conferonce in the presonce of & Bishop, and heard him say, in reforenco to his crimos of that color, If you elect him I will not ordaln him.” And that was dono within ton milos of the * Hub.” At the Boston Conferonce of 1838, himself and gomo others wero arraigned for their Abolitionism by Blshop Hoading. Their trials dragged through ono, two, three woeks, into the hout of June. The conforenco lasted seventeen days, and they waro weary snd demoralized, for tho wholo body soomod tobe stricken with s singalar epirit which he had never seen boforo or sinco. Eight of thom were compelled to locato, and ho turned his faco westward, A groat many other persons woro turning this way at that timo, The panio of 1837 had commenced immediatoly aftor the insuguration of Bartin Van Buren, and it swopt over tho land liko » tornado. It was continuod into 1839, and '89 and '40 and 41 up to *42, a poriod of five years, and tho presont pavic was not to be compared with it, compara- tively spoaking. His objectivo point was Chueago. It took s night to go from New York to Albany on tho boat a8 now; from Albany to Utica ho trayelod 96 milos by rail; boyond tho Iattor point not an inch of rail extended. At Utica e took o canal-boat for Buffalo, and was six days on tho canal botwoen those two points, making three milos an. hour, and seventy-two miles & day, and tho passengors woro satisflod, thinking they wero doing an exceedingly big thing. At BuiTalo ho went on board the ** Now England " stenmor, commanded by Capt. Bur- dick, Including two days of a heavy galo of wind on Lake Erie, when they laidin Grand River, thoy were ten days on the way, making soventeen from Now York. He hopod to make quicker time when Lo went Esat to-day [Monday]. The boat anterod the Shicago River on o Saturday night, and tho noxt morning they found hor moored alongside of & dock on tho North 8ido, in tho vielnity of a large hotel called the Lako House—perbaps one of the largest in the Prairie State at that time. IIo went ashoro and ato & breakfast, some of tho matorint of which he distinctly romombered to- day. Homadohis way to tho house of the preachier, which was on the prairie at the foot of Clark streot. Thoy did tot have to go far in thoso days bofors reaching the open country. ‘I'his preachor had heard of him, which ho consid- eved fortunato, and invited him to go to churoh, Chieago at that time contained but a littlo more than 8,000 inhabitants. Thero was o respectablo hotel on tho North Sido,—tho Lako House,— and anothor littlo two-story hotel upon the west sido of Clark atroot, below the churoh, where ha went onco to moot & Mothodiat proachor on his wey to his appointment in Milwsukee. Thero wad & Cntholio church, ho thought, at tho east end of Lake stroot; tho lothodist church stood on the site of the prosent mognificont block, It ‘was o mero shanty ; if put up at auction it would not have brought §600. It had praviously bosu builc smong the bushes on the North bide, and tho congrogation, finding that tho South Bido was to be the city, cut it in two, placed it on ‘board a scow, & half &t a time, moved it ncross tho river, hauled it up to this spot, and put it to- gothor. It frouted on Clark streot, had ono aidle, long sents upon citiior side, and a thing at the further oud that was called n pulpft, with something in front which was dignifled with the name of naltar; on the lett a little ** orchestra," not exactly like the prosent one, and they had no organ, %nonkn was the Presbytoerian "Church, a_little Dbotter looking in appearauce, in which ‘the Rov, Mr, Blatchford, & gontloman of culture and an able prezcher, officiated. 1lle was the moat accomplishod proacher in North- orn Illinofs at the time. Boyoud, on what is now Fifth avenue, was s _littlo Baptist church, built of rough boards and batten, tho fuside of which did not look much bettor than the out- sido, Its pastor was the Rev. Mr. Hinton, su Englishman from London, the brother of a very distinguichod Baptist proachor, On tho othor side wus s little ISpiscopalian church, bullt by the Kinzies, Mrs, Kinzio wne the sovereiga of thnt family, and wont by the sobriquatof ¢ Bishop Kinzio." Tt wna builé according to her taste. The Roctor, a8 Le kopt himesolf cloar of the rost of the world, nover omme in contact with tho speaker, Buoch was the ecclesiastical condition of Chicago in 1838, The lfiinnlfl Qonfarence thon fincludod tho whole of the States of Illiuols and Wisconsin, It rosched from the wators of tho Ohio fo tho waters of Lako Buperior, saud from Loke Michi- gan to tho Mississippl, Tho Prosiding Elder of the Ohicago dlstrict was John ~ Clark, & Iayman, who hed _formerly boen s mis- slonary among the Indians, and subsoquontly wont to Toxas, and, in tho momorable yosr of 1844, was & dolegate to the Goneral Conforance hold in thoe city of Now York, when tho trial of Bishop Androw took place, and tho division of the Methodist Episoopal Ohuroh ocoursod, Ile lind sinco gono to his rest. The pustor of the Mothodlst Ohuroh was Poter R, Borin, & yom:F "Peunessoonn, who had_ not onjoyed tho ad- Fautages of a liberal education, bubt who wss plous, sincere, zealous, dovoted—s mun of work. Althongh durfng the past forty yoors, se con- ference oxumlner, a great many young men bad passed undor his hand, Lo never eaw a Mothodlst preacher twho possessod such an insatlablo thirst for knowledge as Borin, He loarned Hobreyw in eix weeks, roquiring no gs- sistanoe aftor that time in reading, Boon after the upoaker's arrlval in Chicago, Brothor Borin commenced n sorios of oxtra muuml%n, nud through November aud Decembor thoy dragged very heavily, Illa proyows, his poriovoranco, and big_leborlousncss wstonlshed Elm; ho was resplved upon viotory, At the watch moeting on New Years' Evo,” 1839, tho light hogan to shiuo ; oight or ten came to tho altur for prayord, Having & fair sturt, through January and Tebruary and March and April the workwent on. The wholo of tho littlo oity was shakon aa the iroos of tho wood are moved by the mighty wind, Thoro oxisted at the timo what wad called & Freo-and-Ensy Boclety, It was com- posod of young men who wore fond of n cigar, of liquor, aud of carde end billiards, and overy- thing connouted with those things., Thoy woro in tho habit of meoting in tho rulaons and bar- rooms nearly every evening to enjoy themaolven, ‘Phe rovival irut of all got inta thut socloty, Its Prosident was brought upon his knoes at tho wltar, ouo of tho alncorest ponitents he evor saw, and, in londing tho singing at tho dovotional meotingy, did good orvico, When this enmo about, o poople In tho clity bogan to luok, aud ouo attor nnotlior was couvortod to God. ' Tho speakor usually took the puipit on Hunday morn- ing, and did the best ho could. Bomotimes, ho romombered, ns tho atty was then in o mud hole, o went into tho pulpit with his boots over his panis; ond was as fashionablo ng anybody. }u tho evoning Brother Borin occupied tho pule pit, end _nddroesed tho thronging multitude, and ulways with offect, 'The aftor- noons woro dovoted to olnssos nnd prayer- moetings, and somotimes love-fomsts, Not n prenchor enmo into tho city to afford the lenat assintanco, oxcopt tho Prosiding Elder, who mado two oflcinl visitaas on adminiauralor of disolpline, At that time the Inke was closod, and tho atage would como lumbering into tho eity nboul 7 o'clock in tho ovoning, through the mud of the prairio, fourtcen days from New York, bringing 16 lottors ot n quurtor npieos, and wo' wora vory Fllu to get thom nt that, The work went on. horo was much loisuro that wintor, as buainogs was prostrated, and the peopla had and opportiuity to go to mooting, Amoug tho rosidonts was Augustus —Garrott, afterward Mayor, who cnma to this city worth 850,000 less thnn nothing—n bankrupt—to build up his broken fortunos, 1Io was of Methodint antace- donts, and bad hud o Mothodist_oducation, bub lind fallen into sin, and was a drinkor, & profano gwonror, nud o rouo ; possesalog, howavsr, mu- porior business abilitics and an_enorgy tiat is timo raroly oqueled. ilo had nu suction stors on Soutl Wator _streot, mear Clark, and did quito o fluurl«hlng businoss, ~ When the rovival brolko out it reached him in tho streot, and he loft off swoaring, Ho spokofresly of his foolings, but wau nfrafdto como to mootiug, Ona morniug while ofl'urluz for snlo o lot of hand- kerchiofs, hio said: * Goutlemen, whowill bid for theso? It Full will go up to tho Mothodistmeot- ing you will waut them, for they will mako you cry " liko lolll” On suother occasion a Hoosler came in. ‘Tho Hoosior of o goneration ago was o charactor; ho is an oxtinet spocics now,—a foasil, 'There was nothing of any importauce iu tho northorn part of Indinnn then, and tho Hooslora came 1o Chi- cago to tinusct their business. This oosier wen! into Gatrott's ono day, and wantod to pur- chaso somo furnituro, Lo saw somo that pleasod bhim, but, hnvlug somo doubts rospecting ite ac- tual'chatacter, Lo took out Lisknifo; saying, *In this all mahogony ?" and was about learning if it was, whou Garrett stopped him. *Put up your kuife," sald Gairett, “and mind your own businoss, I havo thought of joining the Ohurch and hoxngl; good and honest mou, but I will be d—d if Lcan do business with you oosiors and do that too." Prosoutly, howover, Ti0 couldn't stand it nny longor, and ono evening 1o camo mto tho church aud took a seat in abont the centro. Drothor Dorin know him, It was thon customary, aftor “‘amon " had boon uald, at 9 or 10 o'olock, for the poopls to romain an hour or two for conversation, prayor,and hymus. Brother Borin spoke to Alr. Qarrott. The noxt night ho came agaln, and arose ond spolo, Tho sponker had hoard many ologuont ministers picaeh, but o uavor sy congregation moved as thoy wors that night. 'They woro liko the oaks in ‘tho forcst, swayed back and forth by the wind, Thoy all kneyw tho man, and thought if he was under conviction, if he wantod religion, if he was goiug to_roform, it ras timo evorybody olso looked to thomselves. Bala o : My wife is with mo in this move- ment ; 8ho will bo horo to-morrow night.,” Sure enough she was thors, Mrs, Garrott was very ~ unlko him in hor moral charac- ter and lifs, Bho was & handsomo woman, Indy-like and graceful in hor movemeonts, anc divively tall. Ho had seen somo portraits of Lier, but to his mind thoy woro stmply caricaturos. Tho work took n frosh start, and about 100 woro rocolved,—a Inrge proportion, considoring tho population at tho time. Thio rovival wont into the Baptist and Presby- torian Churches aleo, and they woro greatly benofited by the work. If Mothodism wastaken out of tho other Ohurches, it would ruin them; for it was tho nursory out of which thoy obtained thoir young plants. Tho spesker had taught = tioloct school at the ond of Market street, on tho South Side. Passing along thoro the othor day, ho gnw the place bad boon swept by tho firo, and that tho lot was vacant, His boarding- placoe was on tho uito of the presont Garrott look, Raudolpl strect bridgo was then just lixo auy country bridge. On tho west sido of tho river was a little homlet with aone tavern. Ho wns over thero but onco during tho six months lio lived hero. In_tho spring he saw that his work was done, and turnod esstward. The firat bont of tho season was the Gen, Wayne. Herarrivalcroatodasonsationin thecity. Aftor she bad discharged hor cargo, sheran upinto tho baain whero the branches moet, wont about, and startod for tho lalke, Tho noxt boat that ar- rivodl was the Madison, Ho was roady to lonve, but hadn't the means. Tho school had hardly B;id oxpensos, Nobody had any monoy thon. Ohicago was importing hor flour from Obio,at 810 a barrel ; shio oxported nothing, bo- ing simply an _emigrant entrepot. He spoko to Mr, Garrett, told lum that e was going homo, ‘but was rather ** short,” Mr, Garrett introduced him to tho Cuptain of the Madison, wWho agrosd to take him to Buffalo at a reduced rato, and in due time Lie reached New York with & quarter in his pocket. Returning to the Naw Badford Conference, ho commonced worlt and had been in tho fleld ever sinco, Three yenrd ngo his hoalth brought him Wost again. Ifo avrivod in Chicago on » Friday alternoon, rather late, and wount to Ilandol[;ll\ streot bridge. He recognized nothing that he could swoar to, not oven tho river—it was so unlike what ko had scen thero before, He atood b tho bridgo betwoon 6 and 7 o'clock &s the peo- ple from ~the . South Bido went west, sur- risod and amazed. In Boston, New orl, Philadolphia, Baltfmoro, ' Oincin- nati, ho had secon mon going about thoir ‘busineta, but Lero it was & rush,—n phuse of lifo ho had never witnessed before. - Prosently the moon rose from Lake Michlxzmn. and ho thought e could swear without fear that it wao tho same old moon, Ho went back to the hotol oppressed, —it was as much as he could stand in one day, Ono year aftor thero was auother rush over that sama Randolph streat bridgoe! Qut of tho revival had sprung tho prosent status of tho Chicago Mothodists, and the status of Mothodism in the gront Northwest, with its 2,100 travaling preachors and 370,000 membors, snd its immenso wealth. , Out of that work had como Evanston, But fof Mr. sud Mra. Garrett that town would yrnbnbly not have baen in ox- istonco, Wo don't know what God might have done, but we kuow what He has done, Ar. Gar- rott dlod and loft hin groav_fortuno to Lis wife, Sho lookod around to see what she could do for tho glory of God, and put $300,000 in growln]i ronl estato for the ondowmont of s theologica achool. Out of this had come tho Garrett Bibli- cal Ingtituto, with its 800 students, and 81,500, 000 of ondowments, There were throo men in Chi- cago who were iu that rovival,—Grant Gaodrich, Goorge Wheolor, and Robiuson ‘ripp,—who lived noxt_door to tho churoh in o small, one- atory unpainted houso, ‘Thoy wero atrong, vig- orous, and faithful laborers in the great work. A ho thought ovoer theso things, the text onme to b, ** According to this time it shall bo sald of Jacob and of gurul, What hath God wrought ?" Brothor Dorin was o feoble man, and had & young wife, and that rovival flulshed {ortnutl overwhelmaed with the spirit of convie- dob, Iis Beoretary, one of worst and vileat croatures thist walked the abr wau sonverted, him, In the August following Lo went to his rost, All business places wora closed out of re- #pect for him whon bis faneral took pincs, The peaple loved sad appresiated bim, rlthough he ad boon nmong thom not » year, He was now, without doubt, Jooking down from his scat of glory sbave, and aceing the marvelous and won- dorful~the miraculous—oxpansion of the work which he commoncad. i THE FAMILY OF OHRIST, Sermon Doltversd Yesterdny Foree noon nt Ohrist Episcopn! Church, by the Itoctor, the Rov. Ohurles Edward Oneney, ‘I'ho Rov, Charlea Edward Cheney, of Olrist Ohuroh, preached tha following sermon yestor- day morning, Tho toxt was taken from Mat- thow, xii, 4060 : Whilo He yot talked with thoe yeoplo, bobold, His motlier uud iy brethren stood witkout, desiring to speak with Him, Theu one ssid to Him': Balold, Thy mothor and Ty brethren stand without, desiring to upeak vilth Theo, But He snswered and aafd unto Mim that told Mm ¢ “Who s y mother 7 And who ure my broturen ¥ atrotohed forth His hends toward Jils disclples, aud sold: * Dohold my mothor aud 1y brethren { For whosaover shall da the will of my Fulber which fu in Heaven, the samo {emy brother und sfuter aud motber,” How manifestly doos the Dible ropresont what {4 roally good horo as o shndow—n typs— & pioture of what s to bo hereatter, Like the tiny modols which sorve to make us undoratand tho grand concoptions of the invontive gonius— g0 our daily lite is full of events— tho world around us is full of ob- jeots whioh God intended to bo helpa fo our : MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1873 tho Christinn? Is {horono spiritual roality of which thisfs but tho omblom? Iarkl What words aro thoso that come down tho trnck of ngos from tho doys of tho oarly Ohureh,. and from tha glowlug pon of 8t John the Rove- lator: “And I anw tho holy city coming down from God out of Ieavon, proparcd e o bride adornad for hor husband. And the twolve gates thoreof woro twelva ponrls, and tho streots of tho city wore of puro gold, s it woro tranapar- ont glass, And I snw no templo thoroin, for (ho Lord God Almighty aud tho Lamb are tho tem- ploofit. And tho city hnd no need of tho sun, nolthor of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did Hlghten it, ond the Lamb is tho light thereof.” Yes, belovad, -thoso earthly cities,—theso vast hivos of hu- man industry,—stalned though they bo with sln, and marred with soltish orueity of man ngainst his follow, are yot tho shadowsof n roality boyond tho power of thought to concoivo, In thom as in & pleture wo may boliold ““a clty nevor built by handy, nor honary with the years of Time—a city whoso inhabitants no consus hos numbered—a city through whose stroots rush no tides of busiuess, nor nodding honrse creops slowly with its burdon to tho tomb—n city without griofs or graves—a city without sins or morrows—without birtha or burinls—without marriages or mournings—a city which glortos ln having Josus for its King, anguls for its gunrds, saints for it oltizone—whoso walls aro salvation, nnd whoso gates are praisn.” How marvelous is this body, which, like some eryatal vaso, onshrincs tho myatorions but im- mortal ossence wecall tho soul! For thousauds of yoars have physiologists been studying tho outward framo of man—discovering ab every now invostigation something yot more wonderful than thoy know bofore, Alexander wopt be- causo there wero no moro worlds for him to con- quor. But ho who sesrches out the siwple yot multiform machinory of lis own physical structuro, will have enough to 1111 with onrnest work tho full measure of his yoars. Attempt o comproliend the varied ma- chinory of this ingouious organism, and you aro compoliod to stand astonishod at tho countless oxhibitionn of Divine workmansbip which it dis- ploys. Liko the Pealmlat, you aro forcod to ac- Xknowlodge that you aro fourfully and wondor- fully made. Aud now, shall woconcluda that all this wisdom thua concentrated upon the produc- tion of suoh n tabornaclo for the undyiug svirit hins no work othor than to hold tho soul? In it by and by will moot ua whoro il things aball bo ravealod? Let St. Paul reply; * But some mon will sny, ‘How aro the doad raiged up, aud with what body do they como?’ Thou {fool, that whish thou sowos: is not quickened oxcept it die. And that which thousowest, thou nowont not that Dody that shall bo, but bare grain,—it may ehanco of whent or of somo other grain, There is a natuyal body, and thoroisa spiritual body. ‘Phere aro also celestial bodiow, and bodles torrestrial, In othor words, tha Apoatlo tulls us that this carthly and mortal body is but tho ropro- gontative of o spiritusl body; thet juss na the grain, which bonoath tho surface of the soil turus to decay, is yob a typo aud omblom of tho rich harvest that tho reapers ehall rejoico in, 8o this framo, that by and by shall bo Ioft to mouldor in the gravo, i tho typo and emblem of a body over which the angols shall bo glad at the resurrection of tho just. Our toxt is only ono instance out of many in which the word of God deciares that a likke rola- tion exiats botweon tho institution of the family on earth and & divine family in Heavon. Wore to attompt to describe the noarest appronch to u Paradise that this world can afford, it would not Do whore travelors tell us that Nature's beauties have never boen diuturbed by tho moretricious ornsmonts of art; whero, in tho far-off ocuau, wome island glows witl_radiont besuties, whers flowors spring up in spontancous bloom, and apicy porfumos float upon tho broozo, and the music of ten thousand birds gives voice to Na- ture's praiso. Nor would I bid you wandor whero imperial power hag sprond tile velvot lawus, and plunted the wondrous partorros, and reured tho fairy palacos, and bid the sparkling fountains gusit 1u tho royal gardens of Vorsailles, But I would lond you to somo humblo Lome, wiore honeit toll takos rofage from its cares, whoro love i broathied like a_atmosphore, aud Peaco dwolls an abiding guest ; aud, 1 the domestic purity, the houschold hsppiness of & Christian family, I would find_eomothing that, liko tho swaot smilo on the face of the departed, should tell'me how blessed must have boen tho Idon which our first paronts lost. And Jesus moots us there, He poluts to Nazareth,—to tho dwell- ing of the carpentor, in which He was subject to EE parents. Ho bids us look in upon what must have been & blessed homo, and then as- sures us that all this is but a shadow, o dim typo of tho spiritual family of His own rodeomed ohildren. Ho had an’ carthly mother, e lad Drethron according to tho flesh. But, pointing to His disciplos, He aaid, * Bouold By mothor and My brotbren.” And then, to make tho gront trutha of wider application,—that ot only tho chioson twelve, but His peoplo to tho end of time, might know how real is thelr rolationship to Him,—He nddod : * Ior whosoever shall do tho will of My Fatherwhich is in Hoavon, tho sumo is My Urothor and sistor and mother.” ‘Obsorve, then, asonoof tha londing thoughts which this passage suggests, that the rolation- ship botween Christ and His fauly of true chil- dren of Qod, in & purcly spiritual relationship. Tho grass springs up bonoath the sunshine and tho showors,—tho rivers scel the sea,—tho atara follow theit customary orbits,—by laws no moro natural than that which louds men to valuo poor finlte undorstandings to comprohoud the eublimo things of His Ifeavenly Kingdom, Go out into your avoustomod haunts of busl- noss, Look whora, in loss than Lalfa contury, » mighty city Las sproug up, liko the vision of & dream, from tho solitary prairie. What meuns this aggregation of human lifo? Hag thiy ten- denoy of mankind to cluster in commerolnl con- tron, like beos around their hive, no lesson for the ties of kindred and consnnguinity. You ex- peot thatin this world public n{:luinn will al- ways be largoly influenced by the velation in which one man stauds to another. But little more than o year ago, & young man lay dviog in & foreign land, whero ho had sought rofuge from tho lnd?gnnm. eroditors who had driven him, like n hunted_fox, from covert to covort in his ovn native England, His lifo had boon the shamo aud disgrace of tho anciont namo he bore. Born to the inhoritance of princely honors and iucal- culablo wealth,—gifted with _unquestionablo talont, placed by tho hand of Providenco whoro ho might havo climbed to seats of usefulness, to thrones of pover, to hoights of dezzling glory,— ho yot, by hia own volantary choice, sought the depths of degradation,ond wallowod with Bwinish gloe in corruption’s foulost miro, Thoy tell us that Lis orgios of drunkonuoss and lust rivaled tho ~ ofd traditions of. Assyrian sooguality, and mado puro by com- parison tho loathsome resords of the Iutter Em- orors ¢f Romo, A gamblor and a glutton—a inr and a libortine—proud of sncostral glorios, and destituto of porsona! honor—boasting nb an- ciont lineago—und tarnishing his escatcheon with staiuk of deep disgrace, squandering his rlobes with luyish profusiou tipon vile mon and vilor women, but cheating humble tradesmen of thoir honost' duck—au fusidel in his theory, an Atbeiut in his practico—he lived & msdman and ke dled » fool, Was every door in England closod against im? Did honest men refuse to mmgle in the sooloty of & wratch 8o utterly abandoned? Did tho groat and noble sbun the presence of euch a loprous slave of vice? No! Bociety courted bis advances, Wealth und Runk smiled ou his fast and furious 1ace to yuin, Tao gay ssloona of titled power wolcomed his presence, LEven ho upon whose houd the orown of Britain by and by will rest ad« mitted the youthtul veprobate to his frlendship and intimato ssuociation, You can undorstand all that,. Much as the man bhimsolf might be loathed, dotested, despised, ho was tolorated be- onuse of his kindred, Hla relationship to others way the ground of lis aceoptanco by socioty, For human nature will ad- wort ~itself In just this way, As lon, a8 mon aro what they are—those bouds of bloos will swny a scoptro of overwhelming power, Now how naturul to supposo that even in the kingdom of the Messiali something like this Erhmlpls should provail, Not that vice could lind the Bavior's penctrating eyo—uot that wicitod mon gould decoivo the Lord'of all, But that ties of relutionship and kindred should havo & cortaiu and scknowledged infiuenco. Boizing on this recognized principle of human nature, the Romish Clinrch g oxalted the Vir- gin Mothor from whom Jeuus dorfved his human nature, to & stastling Loight of worship and doi- fication, Bo coustantly doos tho Rownsnist nd- droa his prayors to her—oo complotoly doos hor honoy ovorshadow the dignity of the Bavior, that it hua well beon sald that Popory may bo styled tha * Roligion of Mary.” “Tuko uQulib o boole common amoug tho dovoul Rtomon Catholics callod * tho Glorlos of Mary," nnd you tind this lauguage ueod : * Tu order’ to in- creaso our confidenca in Mary, 8t. Ansolm as- surad us that our prayera will bo niora spoedily lieard in fnvoking hor uamne than in calling ou that of Jesus, ote, And Iu clogo imitation of the Churoh to which thoy are utrl\'lm{ bard and, alas! hut too” sucosssfully to asshmilato our own, tho leading " minda - of . tho extromeo High Chureh element amongst us, aro rapidiy ddl}zlug towurd the samo adoration of the "Viv« filn. Ts this a charge whioh you hesitate to bo- ovo? I refor you to & little book, nof prepared by Bomish prlests, but by tbe Boator of Lrinity not thoe snadow of a reality moro glorious, which . Olrch, Now York, and tho lioud of tueing Col- Iogo, iy our nulghoring Wostorn Diocodo of Wisconsin. Acting togothor, these roprosonta- tive mon of tha st and West hiavo proparod a ontechism for confivmation, Amonyg othur quos- tlonw, it naknt “'What two titlos has the Church glvon Lo MNE 2" Aid tho answor rondd ; ' She 8 called tho Bringer-forth of God and the Ever- Virgin Mary," Think of that exprossion,—*'the Bringor-forth of God." Wl mny Trolegiant. parante Loware of exposing their children to the tonching which inoulenton such n blasphomous titla appliad to u moro woman., Dot look . how our Lord suts in twanin the gossamor-thrend upon which hanga this wholo fabyic of dolusion.” It was true lo had Jionored » daughtor of Evo by dorlving from hor ITis humanity, It was truo that flo hod onrthly rolations and brothren Lorno of tho usamo mothor. Did Ile, thurofore, aseign to thom {ho highost pinca in tho Churelt and Iingdom? Did o make thom to bo medintors botweon iy poodslo and Iimself ? Liston to this toxt: ** Ono said to Ilim, Behold Thy mothor and thy brothron stand without de- wiring to sponk with Thee. And Ho naid, *Who i My mother, and who aro My brothron? Tor whosoovor shinll do the will of My Father which 18 in Henvon, tho samo is my mother, and broth- er, and alstor,” How unmistakiably doow He show that His true family aro not His by naturo, but by grace. The tie that links Hin beloved to Mimeolf is one wholly heyond the rango of enrthly consangulnity, " Now, what I dosire you partionlarly to obsorve, is the fact that tho qround of this text—Ity underlying principto is Just horo—thint Uhrist's real family is'n n;lmlmul Tomily, Nono olso linvo a right to call thom- solves His. And, {f this be so, 1t fnvariably fol- Jowa thut no moro ** Church ™ rolation to Christ will moot tho requirements of the Savior, If Lo could turn fromn the mothor who Lora Ilim, and tho brothron who had shared the priviloges of Hin Galilean homo, and say substantislly, “lieao nre only shadows, The rubetance is that blosned family of all faithful peoplo,” thon surely Ho would oquaily fool that tho outward liousc- hold of & visible Church was but a type and uhndow of tho real und opiritunl housshold of those whose hoarts ITe could read, and in whom 110 bohold tho living powor of Roligion. Lot mus glanoo for & moment ot tha thoeory which toaches that all religious au- thority in tranmnitted from geaoratiou to gene- ration through a lineal sucoonsion of Binhops, Priosts, aud Doacoos, from the twelve Aposties of our Lord, If that dootrine bo the teaching of Jesus—thon I am oue of the family of Christ —ono of tho brethren of the Bavior, by virtuo of u purely oxtornnl act—tho placiug ob iny hend of & Bishop's hands, $lowdyes this consit with the text? **Who aro my hrethien 2" gaks Josus. ** Whosoover will do thie will of my Sfathor whichis in ITenven,” is tho answor with which Ho roplics to His own interrogation, Agnin, wo are taught by high authority in our own Chuech that every baptized child is, by virtuo of Lhat baptism, rogenorated by tho Holy Spirit of God. It is taken from the world, 'n now nature §a impurted, aud it is brought'into tho family of Jesus. By what? By o puvely extornal act,—tho application of water in tho namo of the Privity. Ol boloved, when will men learn that the ro- ligion of Jeuus is u spiritunt thing? When will they loarn that they arn Iis brethven who are 1018 bolieving, loving, obodiont disciples? How cowplotaly doas te npitit of this pasango cut up, oot und brauch, the idea thatthe tio which links mo to tho Savior,—thet mukes mo ono of Iis Dbrothrau, and ninombor of His kousolold,—is tho sprinkling of a fow drops of water, or tho touch of u Bishop's Liand. ! brothron, lok us not mintalke what is out- ward and vigiblo for the upiritunl reality! Be- fore tho summor sun hay touchod with goldou yellow the wide-sprending field of grain, you sea ita vordure in tho distance and osy thatitis o flold of whoat. But, whon you eutor tho in- closure and soparato tho statks, you find that woeds form part of tho opproaching harvost. T'vo growths, radically differont, mako up the Hold.” Viuibly, it is all wheat. Really, It is only n portion whieh is fit for the grannry. I bolieve that our Mester has constantly warned us in His Word ayainst tho daugor of a_like orror in tho harvost-field of His outward Church, 'Tho viei- bl Kingdom is oue thing ; the family of Christ, the loved ones of Josus, the truo brothers of the Lord, aro His by spiritual kindred. Qo whore Baron Bunsen Jios dying, Fowmon bavoe done more for Christ’s causo thanhe. But, u8 in poaco with his Judgo and with his follows, bis sun of lifo was sotting, this was his last ut- terance: **I havo only Christ in God; bolong- ing to » church or sect is nothing." And now, as our concluding lesson from this toxt, lot s look at tho distinguishing trait of Christ's spiritual family, Side by side, in 2 book which I have at home, are two pictures, roprosenting tiwo hiatoric charactors widely “Y' arated by tracts of timo, and yet moro iidely different in the circumstances of tholr 8. Tho ono is Oharles Ldward Stuart, the Pre- tondar, the laat of his ill-atarred houso to assort by force of arma its titlo to Britein's throne. The other is tho prosent Queen of Lngland. Bolonging to difforant soxoes,—showing a marked disparity of yonrs, tho ono displaying the faco of a coares and sonsual man, the other that of & refined and cultivated woman, and, above all, Dboaring that differenco of oxpression naturally to bo expocted between the countonances of a muccossful and powerful rulor and that of a roured and diseppointed claimant of n throno,— thero is novertholeas ono trait common to both faces, It attracts your attontion in a moment. It mulkes thouo facos so cloarly aliko, that you fool ut onco that the blood of the Stuarts flows in tho voins of Victoris, So with almost all families. Bome one trait of countonance or charactor marks out its membors from tho rost of the world. It iu often porpotunted from gon- eration to genoration, Just as u botauist can moral bo__ distinguishod. plele up u fiower in tho remotest rogion of tho world, and, by some poouliar churactoristic, docide to what family of tho vogotable kingdom it bolongs, so you can often tell tho mombors of some housoliold by a single fontura, or oven s poculiurity of expression. Tho toxt tolls s what is the chnractoriatio trait of the family of Josus. It is = mattor of suprema importanco to know just what it is. That trait is not faith., Brave old Murtin Lu- thor would havo cast out tho Lpistls of B8t. Jamea from the canon of inspired books becauso ho fanciod that it doprocinted faith, Ho had fought so nobly the battlo of the Roformation, and wagod such hot fight around tha citadel of Clristianity, tho justification of the soul by faith in Jesus Christ, that ho could not compro- hond whet scomed fo him to toach that works were tho foundation of sulvation, Andso, wher I say that tho distinguishing trait of Clriet's family is not faith, but obedienco, I may startlo somo iimid Christian by the statoment. But, Dboloved, faith {s an inward principlo, You can no more see it then you can the magnetism which lives in the polished steel. It only bo- comasevisible 1n works,—just as tho magnetic powor Lecomes porcoptible in lifting up tho iron with which it comes in contact. "And hence, 1 ro{:mfl. it, that tho trait by which the mombor of Christ's epiritual fumily ia known to othors, is not faith, but obediouce, by which faith works, and proves itsliving power. A friend brmlfiht mo some seods of thoso mighty troes which form one of the many wondors of the Pacifio conat. In each one thioro is doubtloss & germ of lifo. The valuo of the sced deponda upon that living prinul{)lo within, But tho trait, or peculisrity, by whiol the relation of the seed to the California trous will be ostablisbed, must bo gigantio growth, That is tho only way in whioly it will show, So with Faith, "It is tho gorminal }nh\clpla of the Christian life, Itis the root of salvation ; but it ouly shows Iteelf to others by obedience to Jesus, Nor is'the Inmllzhtmn of thoso who belong to the housebold of tho Savior to bo found in re- lglons kuowledge, I have someswhoro read how ono by yoars of econumy and toil had accumnlat- od vast wonlth, asked to bo adoptod into tho lordly liuo of an anclont ducal louse. It wag true, he had no long ancestral record to display. His orlgin'was obsoure, His pareutago was ounly such os & peasaut could claim, But tho treasuros ho had hoorded wore worlby of tho pos- session of & DPrinco, But the anuwer wag roturned that riches did not form the charac- teristio tralt of the raco in which ko would Liave ‘merged his individuality, Aud, bro‘hron' [13 with the trenaurea of religious kuowledge, Ihoy do not_avml o8 proof that we belong to tho spiritual tnm(:lv of Jeaus. I may undorsand all mysterlos and ull knowledge, and yet luok tho trait whicl marks the family of tho Savior, I kunew, in othor years, and in & romote quartor of our colintry, 6 wan whose kuowledge of tho Boripture was somo- thing of morvolous extent, Mo seomed to roeall v an ustant passages from overy book in tha Bible, and to bo wquelly familinr with the Mosalo record, tho glowing Imagery of the Rmplmtn. and tho sacrad atory of tho gospols, Nor wait it more disjointed, hoterogeous maus of racotlooted toxts, ~ 1Io had o sywtom of thool- ogy, Mo ravoled in nbatruso quostlons, IHe glorlod 1 hoaring overy wcoutrovertod topic thoroughly digosted aud complotely undarstood, 1f oypr a man conid bo eaid to posaoss religions knowledge, he was that man, How much good did it do his moul? He wau n worthless byp- oorito,~dishonest in his_business, and ( W his life. Ho was a living l:ronl that no nmount of spoounlative hoologleal — loarning i8 tho _tralt by tho peoplo of the Lord 1nny What says the Bavior? which * Whosoever shall do the will of my Fathor, which Is in Hoavon, the aswe ia my mother an slater aud brothor," ¥or 14 Ia obudlence to the Father's will which “thoy did not do what thoy woro told to rceom. mokos s liko to_the Sou of God, It was'JTs, ! who “ boenmo obedlont unto death, oven the ¥ denth of tho crown.” And such obodionco Is the' i family trait of His spiritual houwehold, Iom woll awaro that wo moy sny this roy quires porfection. Porfoct obedieuco no follet son of Adam can rondor, Dut, Drothren, it the spirit of obodionco mnnifestod in the life whioh our God requires, Wheu ono day upon a blondy battle-flold of Northorn Irauee, o rog] mentof Frenchmon wore orderad to eapture a- Dattory that belched fta fira upon thoir ranks, plish. But, whon, affor the falal chaige, but thistoon liviug men answered to the mustar-rotl, - 00 mulguu on varth conld sy that they lwd nof oheyed thelr order to tho letior, Oh for the spirit of obudionce that makes us liko Josns! They toll us thut, nob long thirty Josuit priosts, ench oponed a vel in i arm, and gigned in hin own blood o pledgoe to tia Chief of the Order to go whithcrsoover thoy might bo sent. With a purer faith—have wo o4 lofty o _npirlt of obodionce—not to kiimanity— but“to Divina nuthority # Tor in Honvon, the -\ deseription of Qod's pooplo i4: Theso are they that follow the Lumb walthorsoover 1o gobth.” "Ihora {8 o etory of a mother who had ot hov' | only child whilo it wag yut o Lolploss nnconscions ¥ infant. Lont it, but not by nndden nccident or the slow proceesos of long diaense, Stolan from ith cradlo, ils falo wao wrapped in impenotrable myalery, But aftor yeara © of unsponkable ngois,—of hopen wakencid © only tobo quenchad in'yot koonor disappo mont—tho mothor stood whora & group of eizht’ children wore nsaomblod, and lnow that in that } feors of orphaned glris hor own_long lost chil: wau waiting to bo_recognized. Cen you pictuy to yourselt Liow sho gought for the faco of ber loved ona? Can you not ahnost sso tho eagor | B0z, tho Intenso yernting with which sho tvies Lo - nenutrato the veil flung over that countounnes © Ty the chungo from babyhood to youth ? Iu it not ensy to imagino how hor very soul seoms to entor into tho seawrch for thoi troll poeutinr to tho family? o, helov-} ed, to-day, on the whito wings of mercy d Jesun * come to teek and rava the lost.” " Bai ing ovor'this cougreyation Ho s trait that marks tuiu noul and that, of Hig spiritunl family, Docs Ro findit? —o—— THE BAPTIAT REVIVAL. IRove Al 2. Graves, the Now Yock Te= vivalist, at the Union Parvi I2nptie) ChurchesA Discoursc on & onsecsa- | t1om.?? At the Union Park Daptist Church tho Tiev.| A, P. Grasaes, the enlobratod New York Tvangel-* int, officintad, o is an enorzetic, warm-heavted?. pronchdr, originally trom Mpssachusotly, whso| conveision took place twenly-two yoars 8go.) i whole time in given to revival- worls, in which he ‘hay had xemnrl:nblo‘ snccoes, It uob unfrequently happens, in ho, smullor towns during his visits, that all busis 14 suspendod and the saloons closed for the pose of attending his services. 1o hna held 1 vivel meotings during the last cight y: nbout one thousand churches. Very g the offorts made aro thoso in which the Evausi gelical donominations unite, Iin Jabors during: ton months of tho yoor includo tho proaching of: from twelve to fiftoon setons por weok. 'Lla Taptist fraternity, with which bo ia connoctod,” are always glad to avall thamsolves of his sery and hin vislt to this city ot s to that donomination. Notwithatauding tho un- plonsant waathar, tho largo sudionco-room war woll filled yestorday moruing. [ Aflor tho usunl prolimivary sorvicos, Br! Graves announced his text from Ml S: X *Bring yo all tho tithes iuto the storchouso; that there may be ment inino house, and prove’ me now horowith, saith the Lora of Honts, i L. will not open you tho windows of heaven sud; pour you out & blessing, that thera shell not be room euough to recolva it.” 'Cho first thing 1 want to call your attention to this murning, soid tho spealer, i to the word “ment " recorded g tho toxt. What can it moan? It is stronglh) God would have strength fn Ilis house. Moré' power is wanted. If ‘evor thoro wa & timo when God mnoods strongth If' s louse, it is. to-day, I do mol" care whore you go, ‘whether in tho pulpit of * pow, prayor-mooting or conferanco, there is soor! thoe need of moro internal power,—powor b mako ell more carnest, more consecrated, mor(. Continued on the Fightl Page. 1 SPECIAL NOTICE, Samaritan’s Gift, *t A ARITAN'S GIFT, SAMARVIAN'S QIFT, A posltive cuzo $n from 2 to4 days. 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