Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1873, Page 5

M this great garment of the Doity about to onwra; 18, and thoso noaront s in ite implo folds, an: I8y us n its Almighty's " couoly,s may, perhaps, y the yory powor and hopolosunoss of tho elo~ mont, mako' tho hoart wurrondor, and suddonly faol borno to the. presonce of Qod, who holds tho sén n the hollow of lis hand. Whon death suddonly appoars as au {novitablo eveat nt band, “alt bintory shows low ofton tho Fuulnnt natures ‘of oarth calnly neeopt ho rdeop mystery, and fun momont tyra trom tho lifo thatiiow 1 to the ono to cuno. Before thio inevitablo tho heart Krawa strong. [ Lbat sinling tnomont, whon the childion must bave jolucd thelr mothar in prayor, and on jooke ing upto Qod, it must hovo licon that thoso worda bocame trio : > Tho earth rocedles, It dlsappents, ! 1icavon opmns to their oyes, thelr cars With Rouuds seraplite ring, ‘Thus tho wholo group muat have sunk into a Brl‘lo.wllhunt violots Indeed, but not without Ged. vor tham hung ove star which had always fol- lowed them in all their blossed dllvn hore, o star rithout which a human lifo in dark, but with whm: boforo tho soul night is as duy, and doath op : B 2 When maralialed on thie mighty plaln, The glitlerig hiovt bodtud the Ky ; Que slaralogo of all the train . Ounfix the ninuer's wandoting ose, . flark{ hark] to God the chorua brosks ¥rom ovory hoat, from overy goin But ous alone & Kaviar apoaks, 1t s thostar of Bothlolom, —_— THE VILLE DU HAVRE, Jermon by tho Rove J. E. Forroster, of tho Chureh of the Redeowmer, The Rav. J. L., Forrester, ‘pastor of the Church ot tho Rodoemer, , cornor of Washington and Bangamon stréots, preached yeatordny morning on tho loss of tho Ville du Iavro, his toxt boing : *! Yo know neithor tho day nor the hour whoreiu tho Son of Man comoth,” 'His, sormon- was ns folldwa ¢ i - What a commentary on theso words are all the exporiencos of this lifo—all tho great ovénta of the warld—all that concorns us se individuals, a communities, and au nations even! No man ean " forocast the future as to what will come, or how 6r when the ovents of lifo shall shapo thomsolyes fnto tho control of his destiny. And yot nothing 181awloss and clhaotic,—thoro ia no chanco 1 God's univorso, but a wiso and univorsal Provi- doncerules over tho homos, fortunos, life, and destiny of Iis oreatures. Every thought and affootion of man, overy sontiment and deod, form o part of the indeatructible chain of oxistence roaching from timo to etoruity, from earth to Heaven. 3 The Providenco of God, like tho firmnment, archos over all life, covering ovory point and plncoof the world wherein we live; and thio lifo in the soul of man, : ‘Wo may, in the ordinary courso of our oxperi- encas, livo for a timo without much thought of God, without communion with Him, 'or prayer to Him} but whon somo unwontod exporionce is ours, whon some great avont startics us, and over tho sen 'of common living there comes s rushing wave that dashes over us, and blinds us, and bowilders-us in its cruel shock and florco- ness,then como prayers, and toars, and supplica~ tious, and roligion agsorts Ler rights as tho truo mistress of the soul. Tho Divine voice thon be- ccomea audible, and spiritual interoststhat bofore scemod dim and shadowy, ssoumen form and bacomo substantinly, The unueual, the unoxpected lossons and eventa of lifo, doopen within ua a rogard for {hoso snorod and oternal realitios which in our brighter houra and moro’ propitious fortunes 288 bofore the minds like clouds before the uky, E’u the midat of thero -couflicting intor. osts, and ‘the slrug ling = confusion of our matorial lifo, : it “is well that tho trumpot voice of atartling avonts sounds up 8bovo tho noisy world and arreats our minds au bearts, Vith all this tumuituous striving, {ns eagerness and tropidation i the worldly life wo lead, this lifo of gain, plodsuro, and ambition, T kuow not into what wild wastes of pasaion, into what doop wilderness of doubt and darkuess, wo might not bo awapt, did nok tho donth-aigol 81080 us with midnight torror aud slarm, piote- ing tho leadon cars of our canscionces with. tho Toud ery, “Watch thoroforo, for yo know moither the day nor the hour wheroin the Son of Blan comoth.” s . Bluco wo Inct mot Lere in thia our religious omo, our hearts have boon mado end and sor- rowful by ono of those mysterious calamitioa that from time totime darken over tho homes of oarthi. And ot only our heatts, bat. all hoarts, aro moved, for sucliis tho closely-linked chain of our humanity that o groat calninity must bo shared moro or loss by all. The wail of distross ond despair that went up from the ill-fated Villo du Havro 88 slio was crushed down into the dopths of the son, ias swept into all homes aud boen henrd around all henrthatones in Europe aud Amorica, for in our times nows flies swiftor than the wings of tho wind, and wo fool & wor- row whilo it 1 still frosh in tho hearts of those whom it most afllicts, Wliothor or not we are gainers or losers, so far 24 the sensibilitiss of tho heart ara concorned, Ly theso modorn oircumetances which oxpanud & noighborhood into & nation, and place ench man In certain fixed and deflnite relations to oveory othor man, our opportuuitios of gonoral culturo are greatly multiplied by this network of metallic nerves, braided “over tbo surfaco of every couutry, 1nelingr evorywhoro for knowl- 0dge, and focallzing itslight upon overythonght- fulmind. Our moruing paper tells us each dny Liow it fares with all othior people over all tha civilized world; their triumphs aud dofeats, their achiovoments and losses, thoir joys nnd BOITOWS, thoir rojoicings and weehinga, -deods of charity and deeds of cruelty, their apiritunlismy_nud sousualisms, moot us in onch issue of the mighty bulletin which rocords oach day tho history of thio world's doings. By our firosides sits the great family of our Father, whom we may touch with our words of wisdom, counsel, and oncourage- ment, and receive from them tho answor to our enrnest. love, dovotion, nnd spirit of solf-sacri- fico, God haa thus brought us togother, that we may Lnow of a truth’ that we are of ouo family, having a common origin and a liko des- tiny. " Ho would thus onliven the beat of sympa- thy. our gouls, and teach wus- to xead the want of our own lioartd out’ of tho common hoart of humanity. ‘When you read the othor morning tho datails of thatdiroful calamity which is our losson this moruiug, you aaid each to the othor, “ What a fenrful, dreadfulaccident] Whata myatertous ore dering of Providenco, if: Proyidence thera bel How uncertain is lifo, -and by what s brittlo tlrend do_we attempt to soourc the wealth of being.” But not more that morning than this, nd oach day, could wo but hold tho ovents of [ife 60 gronped togother that- thy ocyants of the miud's oyo ot onco, and. what i doing bo as clearly seon 2 what has boen ; our whols lifo is providantial or it is nothing;'God is with us a ench hour of our bolng or Ho i not with us ot all, and thero is no Qo z ' Events aro 1oaven's decrecs ‘or they aro tho blind ~ throos of unconscious chanco, The world moves, with all its stupend- ous forces, by tho presont, directing will of the Almighty,~ personal powor and aparsonsal intol- ligenco; or else all n{:pnmnt Liarmony and intolli- gent sooming aro the lifeloss rogularity of an automatio universe, You caunot banish God from tho world, and thon have a world to live in on .. which you can rely or caleulate, And 50, I say " sgadn, this which “peopla call an accident'is not su accidont, and this uncertainty of lifoof which wo talk is ouly 50 to ua, for .with God no syont can . bo uncorisin, for all ovenls are gov= ernod by unfaltering laws or modes of action, It s trus that mavy evenis scem to ocour without referenge to law, Thero, out almost In mid-ocean, in tho darknoss of the night, without warning, oue veusol madly dushos against another, and orsshos it down, with, its xich froight of human life, and the cry of dis- treas and the valco of sgony echo-, through tho land. It scems.an accident,—mon oall it an acel- gdont, It bursts out from the stendy progroess of thlu[iu, aud we aro tempted to regard it as tho ehaotio tumult of chanco, | Yoz 1 Novaertholess, overy step wo fako In tie knowl- edge of the government with which God sways tha univorso, Fivoa ua & cloror inwight into th fact that moral, sacia), intellectual, und phystcal laws which surronnd us tzke unlfi of all .thg evonts of lifo, whotlior ihpy nigrtlo ug with tige expeoted ocenrrouce, or proceed from regular auccession. Tudood, this js the confral thought of thut Christianity vhose " aublime ' phil pusiares us that God {s now withy the ruco, sa of old, Holighted tho “camp-firos of 1lis favored ghildron, Hmplratl tho vast soul of “Mosca, and diregtpd tho stops of prophels and sears, hy Iin Jaw writton on thio hoart, Tellave this, and you baye the boautiful thoughy ilmlt Al ovonts are ayorned by law, swa to bring the rasults of obee {fiohoa ay woll as of discbudiguco, Tnto al hsmtas circumstances. .And in all_duty, trials, and eor- row, wo arg purrounded and [ufarpouctrated hy that boundiese linvo which l:ns woven its web of ction around every oreaturo, . e T ot bt ot causo and offect in which the Ureator holds all things. With i all things aro certain, In the groat scope of His Divine plans ull human ovonth aiid conditions huve cach & placo and mis- gion. Tt fs only in relation to oursolvos alone fhat life fu frall or ungestain, Aud how true in this roopeat it ia that wo bave no bidiug plac and no abiding loves in the enrth, Whon don i} entors our homos and bonrs off our frionds, fathor, mother, wife, huaband, ehild, brothor, or sinter, and wo know wo shnll feo thom no mora on earth, how atrongly wo foel thin, Illow does tho wholo curront of our life seam changad. Thoso springs of love and Joy that woll llr within us, how they burn to “toncs and llood, iChose tondoc tes thal bind um to happliens, bow thoy shinl and wulor wheu thoy aro e asundor, How the heart weopH nud guivors in tun awful baptism of n graod sofrow: 1low poo A thing then is life,—a moro #op from birth to aenth, We nra mich stull an dreams nra made of, Aud our litlo lifo s roundua by n aluap, I wish not to disparage liuman exislonce, In its Bpiritunl eapacitios and possibllitios it is grand and glorious. Only from mutorinl stand- vointa is it briof and fluating; ouly Ina matorial 8oneo do wo walk near doatl, Tut thoro aro a thousand ways moro appalling and ghocldug by which Doatli sproads his tantlg ovor tho liomen and happiness, yancg aixd pros- peots, of human life, than that which comos in tho rogular procean of disenso and deeny. Postilonco walka at noonday, and broathos its polson upon the pooplo, and thoy dio. War dashos down n thousnud golden bowls, rudoly broken at the fountain, Crime sonds up its lirid glaro around mon, whosg swift courso of ruin onda in utter night, and bratalized mon and dwarfed and hag- ' gard children perish by hundrods as ovory sin goea down, Al to this tho slaughter of travel, Which it chills our blood to read, and no man of thoughttul mood van walk tho oarth unmindiul of the might and mystory that {s around him, How many a time Lias tliere como to W8, ovon tho youngost of s, rad lossons of disastor and calamity,” Again and again have mon stood aghnut wilh ‘torror, na torrible tidings hnvo roachod them. Yo, ofton as thexo lessons come, wo noed thom, noad them all, noed to hear sounding in our own ears the words of the Di- Yyino Man, * Watch, thoreforo; yo know noithar tho day nor the Lour whoroin ™ your own sum- Inons may come. God graut wo may hear and heod, and thnt they may do us good, A great calumily is our. lowson, starting afreslh upon tho sotrows of the world, A stonmuhip_plying on tho routo botwoon thig country and furopo, fillod with huyman boings, was on her usual course, It was no long, un- usual journey ; this spanning of thoe ocosn ling besome common in quy time, sud Fon or I might Lave taken the trip without' much thought of dunger. And yob that Cily of Havro was o city 1n {tself, with all forma nud conditions of human life, - driviug -on its myatorious Journeg,—tho rich, the poor, tho high and low, the loarmad and tho'nnlearnad, brave mou nnd frusting womon Inugliitig childhood, and innocent infancy, an decaying old ngo. 'Thoro was tha carcless trust that cowes of familiarity with tho treachorous daop. - Thore woro quict trust and rost in' tho bandnfi hearts ‘within as tho rollivg billowa Bwapt by without ; thore woroe swoet droamings of doar onos at home left behind or towards rhom thoy woro going. o all, lifo was doar,— dearor now Lhau over, for soparation deepona and makes moro real the love of our hearts, And go the vessel drovo on,—on into the night and tho cloud, on into terror, dospair, and denth, ‘Thoro is a Llow, n shako, o_crash, and the jron city struggled and tremblod as though it were Lor - last throo for lifo,~ns, indeed, it was, And thon what.. n. hurrod rush for mafoty and for lifo wns thorel Wlint pioreing shrioks, burating from ashy, quiv- ering lips, roua nbove the honrse gushing of tho waters, a¢ the hoaving tido poured inl What -frantic orios of husband for wife, and wife for husband ; the mother clutching into tho dark— noss forbor child, tho child sobbing for his mother. Oh! what invocations for aid, shriek- ing in tho cam of mortals holpless and' porish- Ing ; what forvent prayers pourad out of nching, bursting -hearts, aud from lips all unused to pray, rising through the tumult into the mwful prosenco of tho night, sooking th pitying enr of od! What silont prayors in tho henrts of thoso to whom God is always near, and tho light of whosa spirlt no calamity can dorken. Bup stll Ahowaters como, the vessel is sinking down, tho death-grasp tightons, and_ down into tho unfathe. omablo sbyss go moro thau 200 living beins, whose Liopes woro as bright, whose lonse of lifs acemad a4 Bccuroas onrs, but & fow minutes ago. ‘Lo waves drink up the droad Beono, and, when tho morning light fails again upon tho wators, thero s nothing to mark tho place whora tho awful death strugglo camo s fow bours bofore, Thoy went down ; they were dond. Thoro was & man of great ‘tnlents and _loarning, whom ap Eaatorn collego mourna to-duy; who, at bomo andabroad, hadatudiod with the lovo and carnast noss of tho seholar, tho sobor senso of Iphuou- opby, aud in tho revercnt faith of roligion ; whoo brain was tho tomplo of groat thotights, and whoso heart was tho seat of warm aifoce tions ; who blessed tha world by tho nobility of hia lifo, and tho apiritulity of bis aims,—ho, to, is gono, gone 1 tho antinn ripenass of his powors, gono whou justice needs more than ovor such a judge, and could illy spuro such n column from her temple, Thero was one born in a foraign climo, homoward bound, child of wealih and honors,—but death lends all, nnd side by side tho child of poverty sloops with tho worldly graut, the jowelled hand and tho hard hand of toil, thoir cuuning gono, lio silont and ro- morseless in the doap ocean buried. Lovo and benuty wore thoro, DBut still is the herrt aud palo i the cheok that naw heave with tho waves, .or reat in tho silont doop. Matornal aection way therv, deep, fitm, and true to thoe last. Iow she struggled for the hoon of life, not for horsolf, but for hier oluld! Ilow could sho give her babe to the cold Losom of tho ocoan, whon 1t wag so pure, so sweet, and ©o uncouscious of comiug dealh, that she conld slrain it to hor owa bosom forovor? ow conld sle so0 it go down to death in tho vory duwn of lifa? But the mother and the child went down! Thore, to0, was another mothor whose eyes beheld the bittornoss of n thousand doathg—bor four cluldron swopt from hor arm, wrenchod from hor bosom, buried boneath tho waves, whilo heart aod hands were helpless to gave, And 8o, int various modes nnd under cir- oumstances marked by various dogroos of horror, tho youug, tho old, the rich, the poor, tho learn. edand tha ignorant, tho ‘wénk and tho strong, proud manhood aud tender womanhood, budding youth and tho holpless child, all ara swopt bo- neath the yawning waters,"‘unknellod,uncoflined, and unknown," Oh! what o scone was that How wa tromblo ns wo gazo, as though tho very ground on which we stand wero sliding from ua to tho vorgo of doath! Ohb, what is lifo but a ehadow? " Walch, thon, and bo renay, for yo know noither the dfly nor the hour whoreln the Bon of Man cometh.” But why, it may bo ssked, have those solomn losgons been arrayed? I answer, becnuso thoy 10 lessons, and we need thom, snd tho world neods them, aud God dewigns that wo should learn from them. Evory yoar, thousauds of buwman boings aro sacrificed on our reat routes “of travel, both by land and Ey son, und yot tho slaughlor goos on, Railrond collisions, steamboat’ conflagrations, Abfi)wraa!m, and disastors ocour again and again, and thoy nro imputed to & blind chanco, "Bup this is ‘downright atheism. Thera i no chanco in God's universe. Every occurronco of this kind is tho logical rosult of somo boneficent law, by whioh the Crentor rulos tho world of mattor, or guidos the world of mind. At the holm stands buman rocklossncss, braving the waves aud mists, the darkness and terror of tho ocean, rushing madly ahoad, in spite of danger and dis- eater, that a fow hours may be gainci over a rl. val ling, and money bo gained to fill the coffors of the rich, It will not do to cast the burden of this wholesale slaughtor of mon, women, and ohilds son upon Divine Providenco. It is human ifi- norance, human carolossness, or human wicke ness, whicl hns caused this, Uuless all roporty from the scouco of disnsler aro = tissue of falso- Loods, tha ofilcors and oraw of the vessol woro & sot of coarge, brutal men, cowards aud vil- laiua at onco, who hiad only & brute's instinet of solf-proservation, not o man's apirlt of self-tng- rifice and chivalrio devotion toward tho wesk aud fecblo, I'rovidonco is not rosponsible - for ch things, unless you accopt an extremo op- timiam that anuibilatos all distinction botwoen g0od and ovil, &nd botwoen right and wrong, Again, thoso srd events should make us think mora soberly aud soriously of lifo and its mieslon, Theso momentous ovents, tarting u, evorywhore on. the hoaving soa of lifo, toach every thoughtful man the neod inoxprossiblo of roligioun culture and experionco. Wo nood that faith which ousblos tho sonl to riso above all storms, into a secura air where the brillinncy of tho morning is Hoen {o succced tho darkest night, and inflnite and andloss gogd 14 mcen to 'nfiu the plnce of partial ovil. “Itis tiia c; condition gf spiritunl cortalnty which tho goi neads, and without which thero is no con- solation for tho sorrowa and boreavements of life. With what a poor propnration dogs that man go forward to moetlifo who has no thought rising abave tho doad layol of material caros and Iabory, 1low alall ho wopt tho starms thay conje rolling aoross the ocoan of oxistence P How ghall ?m live without nny trust in the good Proyidence of Clod,—without any com- munion with, or prayer to, s Fatler in Ifeavon, or any religious and holy sympathy with onrthly or chooring hope of their progross? Tlow “shall he bLear the burdons of lifo snd ago, or wallk continmally among sconcs of decay and doath? And whon at lust tho olosinig hour draws noar, olther by suddon chaugo, or througlh the slower process of wast- Ing diseuso, Liow nhall Lo meat that hour? ¢ kvllun tho eyos mrow di,~when thoy close on tha warid iliat Law beon deowmed 4o luzurious,— . tinuer, than to whon the pulso hoats alowor and slower, and ho foel an loy ehiillincss cruupm;f rotnd tho hoart, and ho turns his thoughts within and finde that thoy admit no problem of n_highor lifo,—how uhall ho who haw ooffod at roligion and denfod it ancrodncss, and rojectod fmmortality, meot donth, grim and torrible, roady to hurl him into ondlosu night, like tho boasts that verlah 2 Ifow shall ho stand fn tha gront rolifg curront powr: iug futo tho etornal wasto, oxeapt by faith ho fu fastoned Lo Lho throno of God 7 Tt is Lo such mon God npeales in thoso suddon and. sovoro ca.. Intltics, to arrost the enrrents of their thoughts, and open to thein avenues of Divino Lifo. Does the trumnet-vofco atartlo us? ~ Thoro 1o canso of atwm, Do wo hoar the voico of Christ saying, **Wateh vo, theroforo " Lot ns hood f1is warnin, and draw noar to God. Thoro ia no lifo wortit Hviug that hina no roforenco to tho highor qual- ition and uoblor destiny of tho human soul. Whion wo go forward to moot new trials and hew omorgoncios, wo shall thon sco moro and fool moro of this nood of roligious lifo, Wa aball uoed it, when dosrtuction comes s ou tho wings of tho whirlwind, and Gashos down the Ollv ot lifo and shattors tho golden bowl, Wa shall noed it whenovor around the hiorizon of mortal boing gathor tho datl clouds of gorrow, and shut out"tho light of hopo. Had we too 8tood on tho deck of that ill-fatod vosael, or worno, bean imprisonoed in tho dopths bolow, ap Bomo of those whom we know 3 liad wo felt the ornshi that sent torror along ovory nerve, and n chill uu'oufih ovory voin ; had tho wild shricks for Lelp, and tho Aagony of dospair, piarced onr onra; had wo folt tlio cold fingers of death reaching oub of the blenlk wators, clutehing for vietims oro thoy foll, what should we hinvo ne ed in that dread and awful momiont, but tho hopo of Ileaven and tho love of God ? What but this wonld have ennbled the dopart~ ing srmz to look calmly through the night. and the cloud, througl the storm and tho ilood, as pausagds to an fmmortal home, whero thera’ aro 10 prrlings, 10 prin, no sorrow, and no death ? 1 would not bold {hoso ovonts bofora yon ag objeats of blind torror, oras Ronling tho- doomn of any soul, fimd or bad. Deatl, simplo doath, is not to’ bo fearad, oven by tho worsl man of mon, I hold no a{mpnlhy with those who think it moro terrible to dio a liva ono. And cortninly thoso Who aro ealled thus anddonly from tho life that now is, to that which awaits us all, Linyo gone in & way that is n roliof and a Dblessing to thom, To thono who are loft, it is indoed. unspeakably np- palling, The contrast, the rovulsion of feeling, tho instantanoous prostration of plans, nil scattoring of lopos, the blight which it goomp to cnst ou ovory familinr scono nnd object, all conspira to n&:f;rnvmu the sovority of the stroko. Thoro is a sudden ohill of dlnnflpninlmont, a crash and blight of hope, n quonching in a flood of darkness of n ploasant light that \was bonm- ing full upon our path, thatno words can ox. press, when devoted and loving ones are rudely torn from a weoping liouschold, and Borrowing {rionds. But from how many contlicts and sors rows binve tho dopartod ones beon kaved, They have not woon enrthiy objects fado ono by one from their sickoning gazo. Their henarls hava not bled anow each day, in tho sundering of chorished tios. Thoy have not known the Littor- nesa of death. Thoy have boon spared the last adioux,—tho Jarting throos, tho sight of ngo- nized -~ frionds about thieir Ledsidos,—~tho nuxioty concorning those to bo loft, which futrude thomselven.upon tho sonls of tho bost. Droparad to die. Lut tio bnttlo Lns boon fought, and tho victory won, almost withorit thoir cou- sclousness. Thoy know not thnt thoy wora dy- dng, till thoy found themsolves alivo from tho dond. But what menns this almost univeranl slrinking from suddon death, ns if the very worda wara a fourful talisman Bynonymous with all that is torrifio, and uothing that is bright and beautiful? Is 1t not becanso tho Luturo world bus Leen formed outof the sonsualisms and feara of men, instead of tho roligion of Jerus Obrist? Ta it not becauss we havo beon taught to doubt God's Jovo, and, In tho cruol rogiorof niigbeliof, have sufforad ‘our faith to drilt nyay among clouds and darkness, instead of holding fast to tho bright tuition of tho Holy Spirit? 1s itnot bucausc wo have mado the unchrintian mistake of thinking thet God is less gracious there than hore ? There in nothing terriblo fn death ; "Tis hut to east our robes away And wleop at ulght witbout o braath Lo reuk reposo il dawn of day, Why should woe not live in the conatant thought that nt auy moment wo may bo callod Lonea? Not alono in the crash of groet oalami- tiea, in tho fearful slaughter upon tho Jand and tho sos, but our daily walk ig by lid- don pitfalls nd lurking deathe. The putcture of u pia, tho sting of au tnacct, slight ‘misstop, aflash from tho storm-cloud, mny sond s ub once from tho bloom aud prime of hfo to tho cold embraco. of. .doath, Who knowa but that preacher or hoarer may mako hiy mext appoal in tho silent cloquonce of the dond? I Eay thoso things, not by way of rhotorieal osaggoration, but becuuso I fool” them, and becauss I would hava you livo with that constant preparation of Bpirit, without which tho alowest dissolution wilk e to come too soon, and with which death oannot. come £0 5aon or tao suddenly. TLooking up to God as our Tather, wo must accept all the lossons of His Drovidence, and all thosad and Borrowful ovents of lifo, ny tho ministrations of is spirit and tho will of Hoavan. ' To the thoughtful Christ:an honrt, lifo scems tho myetery of mystorics, ond God's guardian care an incessant miraclo, Bo yo thero- foro roady, with o cheorful trust, u pationt spirit, an undoubting fuith, and thon, thongh { yo know ncither tho dey nor the héur when tho Son of Man cometh,"” you will kuow that whenover o doos come fa Wil find you willing to oboy tho summons of the Mastor, aud go up highor. — THE REFORMED. EPISCOPAL LHURCH, Sermon by the llov.hl‘lr.l Cheney, of Chrlst e nrch, Tho Rov. Charles Edward Cheney preached 1ust ovening to one of tho largost audioncen that ever peombled in a church in this city, Evory seat was ocenpiod, the chiancal was full, and the aislen crowded, There must Lave been at lest 4,000 poople in the edifico, Dr. Chenoy took the text : But wo desire to Lear of theo what thou thinkest; for, na con- cerning this scct, wo knowthat everywhera it is epokon againat." Acts xxvii1, 22. He enid : Ro- form and revolution in theory are two entirely differont olemonts of human history, I may ro- model my dwolling, chango its whole oxtorior appoaranco, evon mnko transformations of the chambers that it contains, and yot.leave tho foundstion wholly undisturbed. I may lop off the branches from my orchurd, on which the cur- culio is flourishing, or where the caterpillar Lias woven its nost, amid the blushing [fruit, sithout tearing up the roots of tho majestic tree or throwing out the soil in which they havo been sccurcly plantod. ~ So, precisoly, it .is very natural to belicve that we can give now slinpo to anciout institutions ; that we can remodel the Btate,that wo can adapt tho Church to tho wants of Luman sociotyof tho sgain which wo live, without upheaving the fowsdations either of political or acelesiastical soourity, It Booms fair to ronson that wo should applytho pruning-knifo to’ tho excrosoncas of falsanood and orror, and touch the torch of truth with its blazo to tho nests whoro the writhing catorpillara have mads their home, and yet leave tha roots of tha Church untouched and undisturbod, Dut, brethren, Eracucall » roform and revolu- tion go hand in hand, and’ tho roason for it is obvions to overy man who studies it attontivoly. T'or. ‘mon’s . affections aro yery often like tho ivy that cllnsu to the vory things- which, like ruins aud dangorons walls, nucf!n bo removed. Thera ja no abuse of ocolo: siastical prorogative; no’elaim of inhorent po er through ministors in its charactor ; no perver~ ston of. tho Seriptures so contrary to the wholo tonor of the word of God ; thoro s no multipliod coramonial Ao burdensome and yot so puerila 5 thero arono traditions so uttorly godless tha thoy make the word of God of no effect; thero 18 no canon, no rubric that bas beon cresatod, and molded, and dirceted for the very purposo of Fnrnnuhun,lhafi does not findits advocatosand its rlonds, not unl{ among those who miercly aro profossing Clristlaus,but somotimesamong Choso Who ara roal aud truo'and lowly disciplos of thio Bavior. And hioucoa reformer, ju the approhiension ©of most men, becomen a revolutionist, To many minds, ho who takes up the work of rofarmme tion in tho Church or in the Btate s a Vandal, “Thoso orrars that grow Info the wrarp gud woof of tho Church fly'to tha sanotuary of projudico f“ in buman hearts, In this eanctuary the; ny hold upon the horns of the sliar, apd ory oy Pitoously, “T'hoso that havo turnod tho world upaido dawn have como hithar also, Buch ox- fm‘hncn waa that of carly Christianity, ‘Tho oxt is but ong testimony out-of mullitvdos thnt I'might havo ueloctod alile in tho Nible and {n profane history, that the Ulrol of Chri t, aa it was originally planted on this earth, wi uvur{- whero “spoken against, No man conld z“ully ehargo tho oarly temchors of the ratl - with - subvorting © tho foundations of publio morality, No nian conld justly chargo upon tho Apostlos of he Lord Jeutis Ohiist thal thoy undermined tho doep foundation of private urity of cLaracter, But thoy did {toueh much tht tho world hud held saored. ‘The world raug #ith donnnciations of that which thoy wero do- dng. Whentho Light Irigado at Bulackiava presy- ©d down into that gorgo of donth, Cannon Lo tho right of {hom, Carntont to tho leit of them whon ono shust of firo buret uvon the dovoted ho foremost man foll aword in hand by a fragmont of burating shol, ot thoso who followed olosa bobind, but a litlo handful woroloft to toll tho storyof that fatnl day, And yot, ono ftor anotbor of ulx hundrad gllang soldiora prossod on to n fato that thoy know was inovitablo, 'Who roar man of the Inat column would havo boon a madman to expectn bottor fato than hig comrndes who had #ono befora, No man, 10 hody of men, who sttomipl to pruio tho path of ceclouiastical raform nood droam of cxomption from beiug vorywhore spokon ngainat, It thoy call thio mastor of ‘tho hougo Tewlsebub, how much moro thoy of Lin housohold. T am hora to-night, an advocate, opouly, of tho Ro- formad Epixcopalian Church. My mind Boes back nlong tho track of timo {o that scono. 18- voaled by tho toxt in Romo, the Frunt capital of tho world, tho cily “which Lo gloriod in boig o citizon of, Laul the -Anose tlo. Ho' vwas, brothron, ‘s rosidont in Tomo, oxplaining tho Ghrlulinnhy that lio hiad adopted. With such auditors it wnu not_an ouay task to mnko his position apparent. Whon, out in mid. 9conn, an island in Lo bo formod, it i not onough that, from ago to ago, and contury to contury, the waveu of tho oconn bonr tho soa-waod to tho 8pot; that tho wrecks of voseels contributo thoir shora; and out of tho mystorious dopths the sand of tho son is ovokod. “hero must firat bo togathor tho Jagged polnta of -oral rock ovor which thoso nccretions may bo placed. 8o overy tonclior who tries to build up the strong foundn- tions of some gront truth in the minds of those to whom hLo spoaks. Ho mnust Pro-supposo somo points that they already understand, - But it i thio mncked fact in roforonco to . Paul; it i the marked faol in roforonce to this paskago about which I am talking, that the congrogation that mot 8t Paul at Rome wos o COougrogation that gave him only one point_on which to uild, and that point was unfavorablo to succoss, Tho ouly thing they know about Christinnity wna the fact that it wew nbuked, The only fact that they Diad ever heard of in rogard to thivscct that thoy wara cortain about, was that it was ovorywhors #pokon against.” i In this congrogation thoreare many who listen to this subject with o vory difforeut pirit from that in which Paul wau accordod by tho congre- gation of Jows -af Rome. Ior fourteon yonrs thoy hinve uphiold overy offorl of thoir paator to bring abowt xoform iu tho Prototant Tpivcopal Chureh,' "o such 88 thoy, this isjtho dawn for which thoy hiave watched, through o long night of yoracention and trial and bitter disnppointe ment, Thero may be somo horo that know only in regard to this subject just what Paul's hoar- ors kuow in roforance to the Gospel. Thoy onlf know that tho roligious pressbias thundered forth its anathemas ogninet us, Thoy only know that tho pulpit of tha Episcopalian Churcl, j’ % Ly rosonnded with douounciations of our courso, ‘Fhoy only know that tho proclamation of Protestant Bishops hns been givon Lo tho world, doclaring nult and void aud uum{; Wwith- out effect ovorything thny may Lo done by this band of “schismatics™ who liavo allied them- solves togather, as thoy claim, against the Oliuweh, o st Thivo ouly one thing t6 adly and that i, 8 paw. ut and candid o hoating us. tho circumatances *will permit. Now, lot us look for a moment at the CAUBOB that have led to tho organizing of a Roformed Spiscopal Church, In tho sluggish wators of ouo of our Western stronms a tfriend of mine found, Iast. yoar, & wondrous wator-lily, In it broad leaf, in its porfect blogsom, hio recognizad atn glanca tho lotus that Eivptinn monarchs- ecnlptured on their tombs. 1o naturally ask- od what brought it horo. What irauge causes could “havo conspired togother (o tako from Egypt's torrid climo the_symbol of & dospotiam that flourishiod 5,000 yoars ago, and trausplant it to our northorn’ skics, to otr mod~ orn cwitizntion, and to our atmosplioro of froo- dom and equality?” So to-day, if wo havo trang- planted Episcopacy—Episcopucy that I do not hesitata to say bas been in every £go ninco tho Roformation, moro or loss, in proportion to tho dogrea that tho truth has beon suppressed or Locn doveloped, the symbol of a dospotio powor and of ecclrsinstical _arrogunco—into. tho atmosphora of ovaugolical raligion; it it js tho samo Historic Church, = and Yot,"undor circumstancos, changed, wo naturally oxpect a question here, T do not sheink from meolng it, No man in (his movemont Lositates to angwor tho intorrogatory. I anewor that re- form in the Episcopalian Chiurch is tho direct ro. sult, in the flrat placo, of intalleotual sud:spirit- ual ‘growth, “Two nations aro in thy womb, aud two meoner of people shall be born of thao,"” was God's doclaration to Rebecca bofora thio birth of Esau and Jacob. The amo strango statement could have beon mede of tho Lipisco~ pal Chureh from the vory hour of tho Reformation down to tho prosont duy. Twvo systoms, the oxaet opposites of each other, have been struggling for tho supromacy within her. Tho Ptolemais theory iu rogard to tho movoments of tho plane oty around thoir contre, aud that of Sir John Horachol woro not mord 1rreconcilablo, 1 stand Liero to-night and mako this assertion without fear of contradiction, that the Gospel that my doar brothor, who Las eaid somo hard things about me, preachos in Trinity Chiuscly, i8 as 1t torly irroconcilablo with that which is proackod in the cathodral on West Washinglon stret nw thoso two systems of astronomy. Thoy are ut. terly, and wholly, and rudically difforent from each othor, I can make discordant oloments in chemistry blend together, but_ thero i no ~ possiblo mccord horo, If tho doctrino of justiflcation by faith in the blood of Jeans in the truth of God, thon justification by sncramont ia g lio, whosa author s the Father of Lica. ‘'hero in no possiblo ground upon which to stand botween tho two, If tho one is true, tho other is false. 'ho tlcoryof tho High Cburch party, down ot tho vary foundation, is that, while' the Bible s indeod the ivepired mord of God, it s fo bo recoived by the poople only with tho suthorite. tiva interprotation of tho Church, In other words, it I bolleve the Biblo tonches mo ncortain truth, aud my minister tolls mo. tha that truth is not in the Bible, I must accept his tonching, bocauso lio iz the represontative of the Church, rather than tho plain, unvarnished statoments of tho Seripture that God inspired, ‘Fho theory of the Low Church party, on tho oth- or hand, g evor been thnt which Chillingworth aunounced loug years ago: that the sole rulo of faith, practico, and belief is tho Biblo, “and the — Bible alone,—~tho Lible intorproted to the Christinn conacienco, not by churchos, not by conncils, not by croeds, not by confessions of falth, not by the dootrinas of any human authorit; whatsoover, but ul:pro- Londed by the Christian conecionce taught by tho Spirit'of God, sought in prayer, Betwoon thoso Lo ayatems thoro can be no harmony, To reconcile thom is as impossible ne to walke truth andorror aporfectunit.If botl thesoopposites had romainoddormant tho work of reform might havo beon indefinitely postponed, Thero was & Ix‘uriml of many ifinrs during which the Amorican ipiscopal Ohurch showed cortainly no rorarka- blo intellectual growth. The ginnt minda—tho men that wout down and found the vory bottom of tho great problom that surrounds human Bal- wvation—wore not found amoug tho episcopato. I'ho theology of America had for its oxponents Ldwards, Dwight, and Alexander, tho grand preacliors of Amorican bistory, The mot: who ewayed vist congregations, {ho mon Wwho por. suadod tho resson'and brought tho QGospel homo to the hiearta and conscloncas of mon, yore rare- ly men who lzid claim to the apostolic succes- slon, And noither elomant, consequoutly, grow in intellectual power, and honce the two gorms slopt poncefully togathor. But in the Inat twent; (}'unrfl thoro hay beon a groat change in regard to this intellectual procoss, The Episco- Fn Chureh bas folt the restlossncss of tho 8g0 3 t sympathized with that freodom of intollcotial dovolopmont that is obaracteriatic of tho time ; tho throbs of intellectunl nctivity hayo atarted its eluggish pulscs, and both partios Lave folt tho effoct, On tho ono side and on the other (I am not epealting for the Low Church [‘mrty now, nor on the High Church eide, but on tho High Church side 08 woll ag on our own) thought has beon evokoed, and honco thoro hns boon a conflict. A man ' who thinks but littls will entor on & path and_ st down at ity beginning, aud nover ask whither tho path will load bitn, But he who thinks, ho who in- ventigaten, ko who ronaons, will Inovitably in- quire ‘what is tho other ond of this road on Which I hovo entorod. In othor words, mean that mon who think, {f they oceopt cortain romises, witl pnsh thoso premiaca to their ultimato concluston. Tha thighor who starts with putting an infallible {mnr?mhtlon upon the Horipture, will unquos- fonably £o on to n mare highly organized ecclosiantionl systom, becauso tho Church de- manded i, Ho must have the confossional, ba- oanso that will give the Church moro pricatly ower, 1o muat have a sacrificiug priothopd, acauge that roveals that pawer upon the noopla, Homust bave the iody sud Blood of Olirist, presont In the broad and in - {he Wiuo, _becauso it places the diclum of the Church nbove tho Word of -God. 1o must toach that every baptized infant is rogon- erato in tho hour that the drops of waler ar sprinkled on his brow boeausa by that agt ho Is En“d within tho Church, and’ he wauts tho “huich to boliave that the not of rogenaration is somothiug of ecolesiastical, and not of Divine, accomplishmont, On _{ho othor hand, " the thinkor who atarts with tho Bible, and the Nibla slone, as tho foundation of 'Diving wulh, inovitably will push an b0 his con- clusiona” also. And ko will. discoyer that {he Divine authority of Bishaps Ia tho tig ment of human fancy, 1o will disaover that ritos and coromonies may b multiplied to a oint whore thoy will becomo an uualtorable Eoudngu, Ho will go on to fool that tho teach- Ing of the Gospol ia above the surplico, and rites an amont and d coromonias,—to_that [)lolnt, abovo all things clro, whare ho will fovl int that {5 an authority as oarih, “And heaven whon lolda thom togothor,s tion had got tv come, sorvatism aro ovor. Tho High = Church aod I honor not & ‘moro with moro foot-ntool of unaweryin not n man of mora gel(-s: amen Do Koven, Liaving belioved cortain them down aa_thoir fou ostly and consisteatly to equally for the Inst twon! builds obvious, in the Church will strive mon divorging paths, becauso they think aud Invosti- goto and push their premises to their ulthinto conclusions, they must burst tho bond tat his_Qrentor, Rector of Trinity Churoh, Now York. gh above all ocolosinstical is highot than tho Iollow out theso I might domonatrato, alno, in the rame Iine of argument from the roligious growth of tho Yrotoatant E{xlnuayml Churah, that this reforma- Tha dnys of chilling con- Thoro is downright dovo- tion on the part of both parties in the Church. party aro thom for it, detarmined i earnest, Thero s man, @ man ng purposo, on _tho S, T Morgan Dis. thoro ia acrificing devotion to tho grnlt purpose to which he bas given his lifo than I honor thoso mon because, rinciplos, hnving laid x':m.uo'::, ‘thoy dare hono build upon thom. On tho othor hand, the Evangolical porly hog had ty yoara a spirit of solf- snerificing zoal for the "prinaiplos on which {t its_myatom of truth, The mon whoso roligion_ is contored The result in to drmw a doopor holi noss and nspiration from tho Church itaolf; theroforo thoy try to do it by ritunlistio worship; thorafore they hiave their rocassionals and ro- cossionals ; thoroforo it fa that they multiply tho raboa and prieats until tho Ohurch of Rome has invade sanctuarios of our land; conse fumes ; therofore audy atylo of the gmulllmdo! of the thorefore it {8 that in~ it is that masecs are heard through the: long-drawn ajales of tho churches, ‘whoso _'prayor-book boara'gupon its fnco' tho - nmamo of Protestant Episcopal, ‘Thoso who bolieve the Bible to ho tho only un- doveloped wail of Divine will atitdy the Biblo; the; strongth and Dicasing, y will proach the simplo Qospel ; they will {alk moro about Josus Christ than thoy do about ceromonies and symboin they will talk moro about the pracious blaod that olodnsos from all win ¢ wators of Baptiem, The grosth of Nitual han' they will about tho lism s anotbor oloment that hind doveloped thiu roform, It may startlo you when I tell you that in the last twonty yoara ovory esgential elomont of the Romish Ohuirch hing beori: {aught Church of England and either from tho pulpit of tho tho Protastant Episco- pal Clurcli in Amorica, or has boon (more dan- gorous yel) acattered broadcast ovor the land in tho forim of the printod pago. Daos Romo claim that tho Bible should bo kept T'ho Ritunlist holds thnt out the Bible alouo, Do Lord's suppor is o facrifl tiat Lho priost offora tho “allar™? You Trinity Churoh," Now York, an it tho prociicta of - that 1 ship at Albana Qoctrine taught [n & d;:t::u ine taught in t! oit. on these avenies to fin from tho lnity? it is not safo to sond 08 Romo toach that tho co, Toponted ovory timo it on what ho calls Iavo to vislt to atand ittlo placo of wor- the mamo onl, to hear mbol; to hoar that samo o ubterancos from the pul- Nay, yon have onlx togointo tiio churches the doctrina of a sacri- ficing priosthood taught by tho fact that man aro inatructed to bow with Dbefore the placo whero & Wino have beon transmul blood of Jesns by a word Docs Tomo teach that ion should bo absolute, i to God, ns it has = scarlet covor, Bearlot Woman, 8hip of the Body." It is ant Episcopal ministors their pooplo ; a Look,tha I want #omo rules for {l “At the prayor s my blood'—Christ is altar under the form of tho faithful tho immediate prosonce Again: flect as you then the rail is full, kn mont. In tnklng your pl on the appointey a kind of throne for (Thoro ought tobo n 7 L to your month, hand” lest any fragmoy which cass you must tougne, kince” evory pa tho whole body of your thitt'vot & crumb fal fro more precious than gold the pricat in both to your lips, 'Tho for him to communicato to yon of your Lord's bow in devout and: thaj ‘Amen’ at the closo of sontonce.” i ing what would bo trul forita uttor porversion are some horo believed, & weck ngo, Dovs Rome lold that Bixteonth Contury was Christ Church, in York, thronged ago to _hear & copal Chureh, proach a object, aa announced, ministor ‘who holds_n bo a lofty position ha and havo bon some mon whi things without horror, doomed,. ' After some furiher ns roformation wag morall coutinuod : -prosent as ho it in Hoaven, : ho bo soen without tho sacramontal veil,” “In golng up to communion, nch the lovel of tho Chaucol, If Aoys, ‘how carefully oughtsh with your hand also, As blessed Body and Blood, only Doctor " of an ordrined presbyter in the Protestant Lpis- that Proteatantism was a failure, cago, an ordained ministor of this samo Church, a winister high in the favor his pouition,” Mr, Chunu,y “im th‘tbllhe folar. ly impossible. Ie then lowly gonutlexions" littlo bread and a littlo ted into tho body and of tho gacrificing priest. the minutest genuflox-~ n ordor to do honor,—I hositato to ropest tho blasphomy,—to do honor ho s enthroned upon the altar? Iholdm iy hand a littl book which, although did not como from the It is called “A Ceramonial for the Laity ;" another name foritis “Tho Wor- book that the Proteat- hove circulated among t was issuoed by o house that profosscs to be the publication-hodna of the DProtestant Episcopal Churoh, I hesitato to do- tain you, and yot, to prova whiat I have assortad, fo read Jou & word or bwa. Horo are 0 guidance of communicants: of consocration commences tho moat solomn part of the oflico. U point [now listen] Christ is not ob ectively Preauntl but at tho irords to this * this i my body—thiu roally present upon tho broad and wine, ‘hen should bow in reverent adoration befora thoir Lord. Romember, wo are thon in of our Lord, a8 trnly only that thon il eny- eol on tho floor until thoro is o vacant placo,” Now hear: ‘It is unscemly to stand In tho progence of the King of Kings in tho Sacra- laco at tha rail, kncol stop or cushion, aud upright. Recoivo tho Lord's body on tho right hand, crossed over your lofl, 5o s to mako Palm of your it, and 'so roverantly aftor {hat word) rnito Do careful to examina your mt remein thorein, ‘in tako it up with your rticlo contains equally Lord, and as 8aint Cyril thou to obmervo m theo of that which iy and precious stonos.’ On receiving the Lord's bload, take the chalico from hands, and raiso it rovorontly riest rotain hia hold of i), but it is ulmost Impossiblo will in all probability on unless you guido it yho announces the gift nkful adoration, sagin the firat portion of oacl Doar friends, I owo you an apology for rend- ly ludicrous wera it uot of tho truth of God. 8o gradual has bhoon this work that wo have falled to percoive it, and I doubt not that thore to-night that would not have hat such doctrine was taught In the Protostant Episcopal Churels the graud crimo of the the Roformation? In. the: City of Now B year or two Divinity series of sormons, the of which was to prove Horo in Chi- of his Blshop, a lofty vosition, if that whicl: consiats in Eplucopato favor, has, publicly declared, in o moating of tho clorgy, thal the objact for which s brothior s ualtata ok bis * tho unprotestantizing of tho Church.” was 'hore 0 _could not see thoso Rovolution was fore- rgument in support of }:rch,v of I know that my excellent brother of Trinity Ohuroh bas said that Dishop Cummins shonld bhave waitod ; that.lie ought to haye remained within the fold of the Church, and, like a brave man, fonght tho battle outupon that battle-fleld, rathor than dosert Lis col tho work outsido. Theso Bishop Cummins should Protestant Epiacopal Ch lors and try to carry on vory mon who claim that havo romained in the urch and fought ont the Dattlo thero, though it might take yoars to do ft—that it liko mo were o fight thobattle ous to put us out of its was all wrong; and that I and somo ually wrong, bocause we would nthe Church, and not suffor somo precinets, [Applauso.} Dr. Ghienoy then noticod tho chiaractor of tho Roformalion, ninetoenth contus tho ring of its Lnel book, To commenco tho roform in this Was & vory solemnn step, but 8 of principles, of its prayor- of its simplo rules, is tho puro goid of God's truth, Whon, four of accloainstionl discipline, yoara ago, tho haud was laid uwpon your E‘nstor,- lottors uncounted poured in upod mo, han 6 was that all over this Church, that T found, to my amuzemont, in ovory diocese, from one ond of this Iand to {he othar, thore’ woro mon and women whose vory nomes waro a towar [ of streugth to the cano, who were praying and dnploring that God would sond to thom f now Lpiscopal Churoly, Aud whioh meu have hunted us, through theso yoars in beeause wa would not forsake the Church of our fathers, wo havo beon erying ont to God that weo might not buildup & now, "but n reformed church; not that wo might' go out of the Church, but that wo might Chureh ng it bolonged to' our- fathers Protostant Episcapal havo an Iipiacopal of . tho Roformation, and of tho period that followod tho roformation in Amorica, Dr, Clienoy thon said it was a yomarkablo fact that the first oharaoteristle of tho movomont was that it camo ferred to the smull trom tho laity, and ro- attendanco of olergymon at tho Council maoting in Now York, and thanks ol God for it, dvawa from their thoy would not know wh wus tho common eolilivrs, It fitty olergymm\ connection with bad with- tho Church, At to do with thom, It uot tho ollicory, that hod taken up the bannor, aud wore pressing onward to victory, The grand featuro of the Romish Chureh hias boon the elimination tHolpation v the work in of ita Juity from wll par- ‘which ¢ho Church Is on- gaged. In the now mavement tho laity aro tho powor within i, Ilo then wont on_to sliow that tho consecra- tion of & Binkop by one Bishop was porfnote 1y logal, and ciled (hio .cane of - Bishe op_ Tolnkons, tho only . Tialiop — of 01d Catholio movoment, in Gormany, In g ing of tho prospocts of tha roform, ha sald, in concluaion, that ko could not foraensttho future, TThoy ind hiad_ ovary oucouragomont, and within 8 fow dayn thoro would ‘ho two arganized churchios of tho Reformed Epincopal Ghnrely in Chieago, New York, Ohlo, Indiana, New Jorsoy, Virginia, Masnachusotls, Con- nooticut had nont thelr greotings; every ono of thom had thelr gorm that was to go_ Into churchos. Ilo had & faw words of counsol and advico for tho Iligh Clurchmon whom ho be- liovad woro prosont. Thoy woro old, Moro than olghitaon hundred yoara ago Camclion, a doctor of law, stood up in tho Sanhedrim in Jorusnlom, and to the mon who wero: raging ngainab o now sach, gavo thin dvico : “Aud now I way unto you, rofrain from these mon, and lot thom wlono, for if this coune cilaud. this work Dbo of man' it will comorto nought, but if it be of God ye cannot oyorthrow it.” o thowo who mot around thoir astor ho would say that this was n doy of rejoicing and nf’flndnuua. Thoy lind scon Lim dishonorod and’ disgraced boforo tho world; biw namo cast out as a vile thing, and hoard the sentenco pronouuced against him ; but they only twined their nrme wround him tho moro tondorly, ana atood by him with s strongor dotermination. The torch of porsccution had boon lprllnd, and tho -powder of ccclosiantical fulmination lad ~ been laced bonenth thom, Lub they had not beon liftad {from the foundntion of tho Charoh In which many. of them wore horn, in which all of thom had found togotlior aweot’ communion with Gad; and, thnusll rouk from somo thay lova, to which thoy would cling till God called them liomo, —_— DEDICATION OF UNITY CHURCH. Sermon by tho Rov. Dr. Furacss, of Philadel. phin, Unity Olureh (the Rov. Robert Collyor, pas. tor), which has beon fully describod fn Tie TwnuxNEe, was dedicated yesierday forenoon, ac- cording to the simplo sorvicos of tho Unitarian faith. Tho attendanco was vory largo, there be- Ing scarcely a vacont seat in tho auditorium Mauy of thoso present were mombera of other Unitarian congrogations of tho city, and not a fow Universalists could bo pleked out here and thera, With the excoption of soveral boautiful slands of flowers, which gavo a lool of fresh- noss to tho platform and desk, the church was ontirely dovoid of decoration, The vonor- able Dr. Furness, of Philadelphia, whoso sot- mons, twonty yeara ago, wont far to couvinco Mr. Collyer tint Unitarinnism was tho proper flold for bia religious labors, oceupiod tho pas- tor's chair. On bis right eat the Rev. Robork Collyorsnd tho Rov. M. J. Savage, end on his loté the Rov. Lalrd Collior ond tho Rev. 0. W- Wondte, Tho lattor gontloman oponed the services by roading some intraductory Beriptural seutences and ropeating tho Lord's Prasor. Tho hymn commencing, * Ob, worehip tho King, all-glori- oua above,” waa thon sung by tho choir and con- gregation. Tho Rov. M. J. Bavago rend the Beriptures, The Rev. Laird Collior mado tho dedicatory prayor, aftor which camo the follow- ing dedicatory hymn, written by tho Rtev, Rob- er Collyor, and Zsot to the musio of Old Hun- dred" ; . 0 Lord our God, when slorm and flame Lutled homes and templos into dust, We gathercd Liero (o Lless thy nama And on our ruin wrote our trust, Thy tender pity mot our pain, Buift througli the world thg anel ran, And thon thy Christ appenrod aguin Incaruato, in tho Loart of mau, Thy lightoiog lent its burning win To bear his toar-blont sympathy, © And fiery chitlots rusked to bring Thio oiferings of Lunanity, Thy tendor pity met our pafn, Thy love hos Taised us fron the dust, We nieet to bless thee, Lord, again, And 1n our tomnpla sing onr trust, Tho Rov. Dr, Turnoss then road one of uls sarmons on ‘' Faith,” in which he contrasted tho strong and firm faith of the eurly Christians with tho weal and Iukewarm faith which charne- terized lho beliovers of to-day, Thongh the discourae far oxceeded in length tirona usually deliverad to tho congrogation of Unity, it wiy listonod to from boginning to ond with that doop attontion which its origina) theorios and beauti- fullangungo doserved, Tha faith'of the firat Christians in Jesus of Nazaroth had alwaysbaen totho npenkera beautitul study, teeming with tich oxamples. ‘I'hoy foarlessly proclaimed thoir bolicf, whon it was noithor safa nor popular to mention the namo of Christ, aven to ono’s near— eit friond, Tho power which movad them thero- towas the mighty ono of truc faith, to which evon their livos wero subordinuled. 'Tho faith thoy poesessad becamo nll the more romarkablo i, the light of bloody parscoutions and frightful torturos to which they wore subjected for their roligion, ‘horo wa4 mno Biich faith in the Clristinns of to-day. What now went for Christian faith, had not the power to raise men abovo the ordinary level, as had tho fnith of the early Christiana, which was shown in tho casos of tho Apostlos and Disciples, and their followers. It required no strength of mind to De a Christian now, and no (Inugflr would be in- curred in proclaiming ono's . belief from tho bougotons, The mantol of faith was worn now simply for fasbion's sako, and tho rosult woa ap- parent in tho monstrous suporstitions of tho timos. How difforent waa tho pure anciant faith, which was oreated by nature, and conld not be shaken off. ''ho spenker then skotched the char- actor of Jeaus a8 a muu, dwelling particulnrly on those phiasosof it which won tholove uud admirn- tion of Lia followers, nud woro the groundwork of their faith. Ifo touched brioily on tho skepti- cism of tha hour, aud cloaed with tho hopo Lhat tho day would_speodily coma whon tho dovolop. menta of science would prove conclusivoly to all that such a man as Josus bad lived, and wWhen L] lively faith in Him wonld becoma universal, The Rav. Robort Collyor noxt approached tho desk, and, assuming his most winning emilo and seductive tone, mado o fow financial remarks, in which it was stnted that tho church was gtill soy- oral thousnnd dollara in debt, aud that a collec- tion would have to bo takon up to holp clear it off. o said Lo hatod collections, kuowing that his pooplo woro affected by tho provailing: hard times, aud would not have askod for auy money Liad not neceasity and tho Bullding Committeo mado him bold, . **Tho response wau vor liberal, After thosinging of tho hymn ‘0 Thou, whoso own vast tomplo etands,” tho benediction was yonuun&ml by tho pastur, and the cougrogation igpersed, In the avening, tho church was woll filled, and briet addrosses on tho past and futnro of Unity and othor churches of tho denomiuation woro deliverad by Ui clargymon who participated in the miorning servico, § — DOWN-TOWN EPISCOPALIANS, The Firat of tho Sundny Servi Methodist Chinreh Blocle, The servico to bo Leld Bunday afternoons in the prayor-mooting room of tho Mothodist Ohureh Block, unddr the auspices of the Epls- copal Church Guild, was bogun yostorday by the Right Rov, Bishop Whitehouss, nssistod by the Rov. Mr, Van Duzen, At 38 o'olock, in spito of unploasant woathor, quito & large congrogation Lind sssembled, a favorablo augury for tho suc- coss of the ontorpriso. ‘I'ke order of evouing prayer, a4 laid down in the Miusion Borvice, was oud, and the hymn beginning With ona conscnt let all tho earth To Gud their uligerful voices ralso, wan sung, “'ho Lishop atatod that liorenftor, ovory Euns day alernoon at 8 a'clock, services would bo bold In that room, for tho accommodation of tho largo portion of tho population who lived in tho contro of the city, and to whom the rogular churolie wero not easily accossiolo, I'ho olorgf’- nuon of tho various Episcopal Churches wonld attend in snccossion, and conduot the sorvicos, The Reverond Hishop thon prenchied an elog uont exhortation, taking for his toxt Jerominh JO, b “Thoy shull ask the way to Zion with their facos thitherward, saying, Camo and lot us join onr- solven to tho Lordin a perpotunl covensut that sholl not Lo forgotlon.” ilo dwelt upon the nocoasily of roalizing the need of unlvation, of abandoning fndecision,of turning our facos reso- lutoly Ziouward, and of submitting ourselveu to s in tho - God, who wanld then load us in tho right way, Mr. 1L 7, Whitehouso wag organist, and lod tho siuging with his acoustomed ability, —_—— CITY IN BRIEL, The aalo of tickota tor Qorald Massoy'n lecturo, Tueeday evening, begius this morning, Botwoon the hours of 1and ¢ o’elnck yester- duy morning tho utoro of Qluge, Carhart & Mal- lary, at the corner of Mudikon stroot and Tifth avenuo, wis entered by thisves, who carried aff goods valuod xt 1,000, Au entrauca was offectod by ajronrtransom, whizl was reacliod by o Inddor. No nrrasts wero mado, Tho alarm of fire from Box No, 203, nt 3 o'alock yeslorday morning, wan occasionsd by the digcovery of firo in a barn fn tho ronr of No. 032 Weat Van Duron utroot, owned by Mr, W, H, Butlor, and oconnod ss n coal and wood,_hsnao, Loss ahout £450; no fusuranco. The origin of tho firo is unknown, Youtordny aftornoon, about 8 o'clock, a man named Johin Butlor waa nagatilted by o’ paintor nomed L. W. Black, on Fifth Ayonuo, near ferr, Davis & Wals's foundry, aud badly beaton, Tho fight grow out of & ‘dispute about the posscaalon of & caeo of paintor's tools, Ofl- cor Dollingor arreatod Butler, and lockod him up ab the Avmiory, - Blaolk livoa at No. 484 Twenty. elighth niroor. s g ) No. 466 Milwaukeo avenuo, owned by . It. Dierhoft, aud ocoupled by John 'Guinn ne & bonrding-hotso. Tho fira started in a dofeotive fluo, Tho building wes damaged to the oxtons of 9500, and tho furnilure nbout £1,000; Thaured for 81,600 in the Globo of Chicago, el OUR INDIAN FRIENDS, Capt, Wilkinson Snys o Good for the Modocs. Wora Capt. 0. A. Wilkinson, of Gon, O. 0. How- | ard's ataff, who is on hia roturn from taking the Modacs jnto the Indisn Tarritory, delivered a locture st ovoning at tha Iirsl Congrogational Chureh, on Modocs, Apachos, and Indians geu- erally. ] Attor tho regular evening sorvicos, the Rov. Dr. Goodwin introduced the speakor, who iy quito » young man," Io commencod by saying that while on his way to Washington to maken report abont hia tranefor of the Modacs, ho stopped ovor at Chi- cago Lo visit hin friends, Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin, and at thoir roquest ha consented to give his ox- porionco among tho Indians, Ifo was ordered to Arizona Inst March, ag Aid-de-Camp to Gen, 0. 0. Howard. Shortfy aftor their arrival thoro, an old Yuma Indian ‘came into camp, and mut- tored, whilo making gesticulations with hia arms, A fow years, n fow ycars, s fow years, sud now nothing,” This Indian Chiof had mado & treaty sevoral years ‘8go with ‘Geus. Thomas and Hointzelman, and roceived yoarly stiponds of corn, molassas, olothing, and other things, but tho Agents gradually swindled thom, until at last thoy received almost nothing, Another Indian Chiof wont into tho tont of a white Agent to make o complaint, and ho ra. ceived o Inrgo doss of srsonic in his whisky, but, boing an overdoso, it only mndo tho Inding gick, and whon Lo returnod to tho tent and said o waa sick tho Agont puta bullot through his leg. Of courso that mado n good Indian of that Chiof. Ho ghortly aftorwards bogan o war agaiust the whites, ~ On another occagion, when with nu.‘)lrty of Apache Indians, ho noticed that the mules would not ot tho corn, o took o bandful of it and found it was about two-thirds pobbles, 'Chis showed why the Indians wantod war in Arizona. Whilo.thoy wore en routo to the Indian Yorritory thoy never traveled Sun- days, £0 a8 to give the Indians nu idea of tho Christian Sebbath, They kept clurch services, and eang glorious old hiymas. The Indians wore all eagor listeners, Aftor ser. vico, an Indian followed bim, and coming up with him put his arms around him and bugged bim, and gaid, ** Apachio good.” 1o would tyunt his ife with that Indian any time, but tho son. traotors of Arizona would “not, aud they knew hy. The Indian villages in Arfzona were built of adobo, on the hills, one room on top of tha other, with nothing but a holo in the top and a small aporturs for an ontrance. Whito mon would nayor bo contentad to livo in such & place, but tho Indians wero porfoctly satisfiod, Ha wont into ono once, and ‘thero wora four aquaws sitting around & wooden box grinding Gorn, "This corn, fter browning ou the firo, was mixed “xéu‘lg goat-milk, and they mado roal good calos of it. Tho romnant of tho Modocs, among them fitty-threo women and sixtoen' children, woro transported in box-cars, tho mon chained, Theso oor croatures had been moro sinned agninst han sinuing, Capt. Wright was tho canuo of the maysacro ; he mado the Commissioners be- livo thoy woro eocuro, and that be had tho In. diaus surrounded, but o had not. Ho was moro afraid of border rufians with whisky-bottlea in thoir pockots than of Indians. Scarfaced Charloy, Stoamboat Trank, and Bogus Charloy asked him whethor thers wna wuch buat down thero whero thoy woro going. 1o told them thero was not much unt, but very much work., Iio nover s moro trastworthy sentinols than these Modoo Indians. Ho put Stoamboat Frank, Bufiufi Charloy, Boston Char- loy, and Searfaced Charloy in_chargo of tho cars, aud thoy woro tho best aud most vigilant guards lio ovor had, . A Toporter e Eanuas papor told a story, which wag all o lio, that tho cara wero torribly dirty, and that the Indians woro trented badly ; that roportor camge iuto tho oar ono day and kicked Bhiack-Nasty, who was Jying ou tho floor. Ho, the spoakof, should liko to kLick that roporter. Iove hLo wopt for a fow minutes. Bogus Oharley wan Eouiu ashamed of his namo, beeauso Lo bogan 0 understand tho' moaning of it, At Baxtor Spriugs, thoir paint of dostination, ho_found an old, empty hotel, in which to place tho Modocs temporarily, and Lo again placed hin faithful and trusty Modoc aentinols on guard. At that placo o explained whut the Govern. mont intended to do for them, ITe won theie hoarts by his kind mannor, and bacanso ho tuok sucl pood care of their blind and childron. “hego Mlodocs, when sobor, wero excellant dis. ciplinarians, “He told thom all their trouble cawe from drinking, and that ho had boon talk- ing with God for fitteen yoars, and was talling with Him then, and asking His blossing for them, Ho told thom all about God, aud tho Lad whito men, and that they would bo like the leavos on the trees, it it had not boeu for whisky. They arrivod at Baxtor Springa Sunday, and Monday ovoning their barracks woro all ‘com- plotod. Thia “proved that Indiany coula work, but, bolng sensibla people, they did mot 'lilq to work, Ho told Bogus' Cbarlay, who could speak English woll, that thoy muat raise their corn and potatoos, or they would have to staryo, and boforo eaying his lnst prayer, Hero tho spoaker shod tepry Pprofusely, which stopped Lim from coutinuing for moms minutos, - 11s had the eatisfaction of knowing that he had dealt with good aud trustworthy peu{»lo. All that was nocossary to civilize Indinns was to bo truo to them, and not give thom. rocke for oorn, and flour for sugar. He nevor in his life 88w people 5o devoted to their childron as theso Indiane. Steamboat Frank's child diod, and the {father camo to him and enid, God bad taken it M"yt: God did not want it to coma to the new country, After gettling tho Modoes, ho went. into the Ohorolico country. Thoy woro partly civilizad, and had good scliools, Thoy ava wall drosnod, and hiave an oxcallont Iadios"sominary,and olher institutions. The Paw-Paws had " also good schaols, iy judgmont in tho matter was that Indiana would work, for the Modocs had shown'it, - I} oy would put their childron to school if they ro~ coived géod teachors, If somothing likon Freed- mon's Bureny, with such meun as Gen, Hownrd and himselt, wore placed among thom, the In- dian quostion would ba solved, All that was wautod was honest mon—men who were Chrias tiaus—for ho bolioved in a Eaivor for all, evon for rod mon. U The speakor closed with a fimnfl Ppororation about tho goodnoss and the godiiness of the In- dians and the wickedness of white men, in the middlo of which i stopped to toll tho raportar, whobad censed writing, to go on with his roport ing, for ho meant just what lo A —— Now Marringe Lavws in Xendy. Thie Italian Ministor of Juutice, Sh{" Vizilans, romarke tho Palt Mall Gazetle, is to introdues a now marriugo bill in the Chamber during the forthcoming nossion, Although the institution of civil marriago hias boen ndopted in Tialy, thara in 1o Inw to provent the roligious ceremony from heing porformed without provious regintration Leforatho aivil authorities. Tho consoquence is, a8 the prieats do all thoy can to dincourage clvil marriagos, 1, 0., of thoso which have not beon proviously porformod Leforo oivil magias tratos, ia far gronter than that of logal oues. This stato of things was allomed to conw tinua for somo tiwo, in tho hope that the evil would right itaelf whon pooplo found that unloss thoy were wmarrled bofore s magistrate their children would bo troated na illogitimato ; but it appoars from tho reports on tho ubjeot colleoted by tho Minister from the proviolal profects that the number of {llegal marriages, ,nnumd of diminishing, is on the incroaso, Al though no ravm‘lu have been rocolved from Tloronos and Y'arma, thosa from olher districly show that no fower than 73,000 illegal marriagos hiavo bean porformod siuca tho bill for intradio. ing clvil marriages booamo Iaw. ‘Lho bill- which ianow tobe introduood provides that no priest shall perform the marriage coromony in a chureh oxeopt on produiction of n cortillcnto showing Ahat it has alvcady beon porformed boforo the waglstrate,