Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1873, Page 3

THE CIIICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1873 THE PULPIT. Was Jesus a Myth or a Man? Sermon by the Rev, Laird Collier. The Rev. M. J. Savage on tho Work- ingman Problem, Historlcal Review of the Year by the Rev. Mr. Kittredge. Favowell Scrvices at the North Star Chapel WHAT WAS JESUS ? Bermon Ry tho itov. Laird Coliler, of the Qhurch of the Messinh. The Rov. Laird Collier preached yeatorday morning st tho Chiurch of tho Mosslals, his sub- joct bolng, *\Vaa Jesus o Myth or a Man?" Tho nudienco was, 08 usunl, very largo.” The Wermon was as follows : “ Tiie ohild grow, and waxed strong in spirit, Alled with wisdom ; snd tho graco of God wik ayon bim," “All ifalorlo religlous, orreliious which luvo records and giva an account of themsalves, begin in magic, In this reapect Olnlatfunity $a preclsely liko Buddidem and Talam. It records ara nacessarily confused Lo tho moderh mind nnd spleit of criticiam, Tho slory of Jesus' lifo 1 (bia mniter of miraclo and logond in all of & _pleco with tho life of Mahomot and Buddha and the Kgyptien jugglors, The same balluciuations and prelenses hnvo chnracterized ol now ond ariking religlous movements in the ~world, Luthor saw dovils and lad cncountera with the Wealuy given accounts of sounds and slghts in Lfs own oxporionce, which would wall nuswer for descriptions of modern'Sphitualiam, which, i turn, ftsolf began wholly i counection with the most crado aud ofiou- sivo physical phenomenn, sud keops fteolf alivo inztho minds of tho suporstitious by all munor of quoor ind odd, 08 well s uunccountabla oxhibitions, 8o that ull thirough and througl the hiatory of religion, from tho fivat uccounts of Egyptiun Juggiory to modeyn Spirit~ unlism, magie hus played on importaut purt, and to tho cxlileal Judgment thore ean o 1o olection Detween truo und faiwe, probable or fmprobablo, 1 mean to tha selenc of criticism thore can bo roparating between, and distinguishing ono from tho oiher, thiut which i likely ond tnot which {6 uniikely in the ‘scopo of the wogleal, Itis given out by thousands of eye-wil~ ncsses that Wootlen und wax Madonnoa fn the south of Franco and part of Italy wink ond weep, It wanid be harribio fo Leilovo that all thoso people aro imposters and falso witucasess and it would bo imposslble for s of u different tono und Labit of mind 10 belleve tho atories thoy relate about thess bils of decorated wood and wux, Maglo i# ono; worda ubout magle ara of two kinda: ticro fa o buman mogle and there 15 3 Divine magle, Tlutnon magle §6 called Jngglors, sud Divino mugic 8 callod miraculous, But tuo boundary lino Lias ben i coniraverey ovor bince roligion begad, Who hall sny what 16 Jugglory und whut 18 miraclo, which wondor 13 wrouglt by man, nnd which by God, ond which by ovil spirits, Tho oue can Lo just us woll suthenticated 49 the other, Tho moat trustworthy peoplo tall mo all Borta of fncredible atorlca of what 8 kuown as apirit- ual plienomena. 1 bollovo them, whilst I disbelivvo thedr atorfes,—tlioy aro verzeious, and tho things they 6coand ear' occur, but not s thoy bollovo, nor by tho ugencica toy’ ncoredit. Witchory had just sa credible witncsses pa tho _cluirvoyanca of epirit miediuma or tho miraclos of Josus. I douot dony tho things which ocour in darkened rooms—lottors aro written, guitars are_played, even portraits of do- ceased irichds aro skotchod, 'but whcther by God, unn, or (L devil, no ono yet ‘s proven, and 80, o & selentifie mind, tho wholo affaie fu valuclosa, ‘It 1a ¥ory queer, and so mog entertain tho curious, bt of cotirge it must bavo ita dey and duration liko Kgyption Jugglery and Now Englund witchicraft, Cliriatlunily Lins, from the boginning, boon painfully marred by this mgleal elemunt, which, nevertbeless, was au - ovitablo part of Christlunity itself, Tho whole world was tull of magle, or, a8 Wo should call it, supor- atition, Tiie, Jows, of Whions mco Jenua waa. bort, aliety Sesrs bifory Lo began to proicl had been con’ pelled, ot tho closo of uu oatiiato dofenso, to throw pen tho gutes of Jorusalen to tho triumphunt leglons of Pompoy, ‘Thia waa tho beginufug of 1 war which, in point of history, lastod oif and on through two centurics ainld perpotual revolts,numerons defeuts, aud prodigics of vulor, At the time of Jesus’ blrth, Jerus Balens waa tho slave of Rome, und was atrtehiig out hor arms_{o welcomo o doliverance, When Josus began to preach about the kingdoms of God and tho resioration of Istacl, o fow of tho most fgnorant of tho people geeoted tho Mberator with wild outhusiasm and would Luve mndo hiw o Kivg, 18 worda wero porverted, but with no iutont of perversion ; bia deodn wore mnguified by tho eyea which saw them and tho tongue which reported them, By the tima tho fricnds of Jestis began to collect the muterals togter to write an account of hjk dfscourso and tho mianner of bis lifo, It was a llerary imporsibility to acpar- Bto tho' {deal from tho real, tha logondary from tho historlc, Thus ull tho accounts wo liavo are eti- cumbored by the magical clement, But docs this mako {lio occonnts themsolves worthless 7 . OF courso, I noed tuke Lula word to auswer this question, No Beliolar, o man accustomed to deal with early rec- ords, no man who 16 fanukdar with the st documen- tary’ ovidences, would put auch o queation, The sources of ovidonco concerning tho lifo of Jesus are of tiree unlike uud distinctively valusblo kinds, womely, tho - heathen, the Jewisl, and tho Christfan, To all of thews we mag give crodit for oqual honesty, but not for_cqual trut, Telling what one belioves' 18 ouo thing, believ- ing whiat s true s quite a dilterent mattor, Cha ref- *r_uces whiclt heatlion writcrs mako to Jesus uud th Ject of Chrfatluns avo, of courac, very casual, but nro sxcaptionally valusblo on account of thelr ago, sud of Iheir indepandent sourco of- iuformation, ~ Tacitus, ¥ith great sccuracy, atates that “the author of tho 38mo of Clirist was ¢xecuted in tho reign of Tiberias, 3y the Proourutor, Pontius DPilate) Suctorius, + contemyporary of Tucitus, writes of Christ 0 o testless and scditious Jewish agitator, Tho Tousger Piiby,in tho year 1048 Goveruor of Bltbyuia, Aol to tho Emperor Trajau at Rowo 1o Suforni Lini \bout the Chiristiuns, In this colebrated lotter ho iay8: “Tho Chrlatiuns meot carly in tho moming for Tong of pratge and Loy vows,and fu the evening for o sommon meal.” Mo regarded tho Clristians s inof- fensive, and_snid be found nothing wrong amoug thom, excapt perverao und immoderate superatition. Noxt' romoved from Suctonius 18 Lucian, who, although ho doea uot quota from eclthict Jowls or Christfon sources, .iss much to say concorning fho crtieified eophist, Abont this timo the Ciristian books began to bs rend by Leathou authors, and theso Inter writers, such ‘ns Celsus tho Platonist, are only valuable for ‘our purposo, ot for their viows or eriticlsms, but s enbunclug tho umount of teslimony (o tho fuct of Chirist's lifo, Thio only Jewlsh writera contemporary with Josus 810 the Apostles, who aro of ouy considerablo value, 810 Philo, of Aloxendria, and Josophs, of Jerusniens, both of whom muke mention of Jesus, dnd give trust: worlhy accounts of the Ohrlstlsn acet. Yhilo, it ia belleved, was o fricnd of the Apoatlo Poter, nid do- werllen fbe Christinn socloty founded by thio Evan- golint Murk fn. Alesandris, though he Limusif novor bo- £a1n 3 diaclploy aud, s’ probally an Esscns, oF b fenst, fuvored thieir viows in hia spoculativo philosophy Bud writings, Jogeplius wus born in the year 4T, He given u splen- Q1d account of Johu the Buptist, bis Lubits of lifa, aud un incomparabio estimato of the valuo of his toachings, In two instances lio montions the nsmo of Jeaus, atd 10 o caso gives a skotch of his history. I meod’ not multiply thio names of writers who apcak of Jogus, nor atate the fact that dlstance in tho writer from tho time of Jcaus 1 thomure warrant of misconcoption, preju. dice, and falsohiood, Pdul wag tho first Christiun writer, Ho wroto bo- foro either of tho Evangelists, and nfter o considoration ‘of ull tho probabilitics in the case it is genorally agreed that tho drst letter to tho Church ut Thestalonics ens tioearileat Clritian, documont. 1 slall brioly speak of tha value of Paul's writings bad premisa i by anying what oll critics of note and worthiuoss sgrea suyiug aubstantially : namoly, that Paul wrote uot o bistorian Lt ana phllosophor, il eousteucted & Vysteni—a. religio-phllosorblo oreed. o it wis who' wmado of Christisuity rellglon and a Claurch, Jeans nover wroto s word, nior did ho form- slate o single tenet of efthor religion or pbilosophy, Lla left everything Just whoro the divinest prophet and sages alyays leave evorything solvablo—tentative, sspiriug, unfixed, coming to bloom in tho futentious, o tver taok & oy tuward urganlzi; » Ohbureh of 8 Soclety of any sort, He waa Intent upon realitics upon bringing tho senso of God fnto tho nution un thio hearta of the peoplo. 1ie distinetly proclulined 1y kingdom waa ot of this world, ‘Puul way au feonociast and agitator from tho first, he cut loose fram tho Apostles, declared himself au lude~ ‘pondent and chief Apostlo, gavo 1p the rite and core- moules of tho Jows and substituted nono In tholr pluce, 14 writiogs aro almost without valuo for thoir facts for o porverts fucta n 1 philosoplio coicoptiouy au 40 hia facts and Lis thoorles ure overyiwhero Juexfrica- bly confusod, ‘Panl was a noblo men of n man, 18 full of mioral wtegrity av of spiritoal enthuslosh, In at lust wo inptances ho recognizes the fuct fthut Teaus! work and mission woro limited to the Jows, aud soumn to Delleve that bo Wuk rafied wp 0 cafry forward tho Gospel to the Guutlles, Lo payn 2 tho letter to the Romaus, in tho 16th chupter, 510 : * Jesus Ohirist wus o ministér of tho clreumeision for the truth of God to confirm the promises mada unto o fathom,n Aud b ko th chiaptar, 4th and bth veruo of Gala- Munshowrites: # Whoi the fulluess of lime wi 20me, God wont fortl 11fs son, wndo of « wopi, inde auder tholaw, to redeem them tbat. ware undar the Paul rurdly glves vorhally the uayings of Jeaus snd Lo B0 confuses his “own conceptions s awtlers of foct, “maklug facts futo concepe sione aod conceptions Iulo’ fuctw, thut the Iacts themuclyes scem to fude frani the hunds whioh would welgh thom, becsuso they wro concopiions, Thus it Dus como to puss that his wlitcss has wuni in' tio scalo, and that of late the arguineats adduced oit of Faul arg et by tho most subilo critics with the objoction that tley offer stonea for broad, the tigmenta of thought for fucts.! Mark's wus_the Airst Gowpel, o prove which ona goueral internal evidenco 'Is wuflivlout— i hua a4t loost of tho sungleal eloment, It pute Tesus upon the humsn plano sololy} suys ‘not s word about the supernatural birth, 'but gives & uiple, atrulghforward ucoount of hix Master, und ro- Jits micgclon us o deeds of m proplic, el mort 31 uis fomfly life and of His fathor Josopl, 'sv woll ua 31 Lis motkior Mary, and of hig-brothers sud aluters, Ehen come Mutthew und Luke, both of whom glve {lig story of Hia mirsculous’ conception, ouo, huwover, ditying the gedoutis of tho oller, mud treating it as adream of vislon, Lastly John wrlten, e was the most ntimato friend of Jostis; and Mary waa an in- mato of his family aftor tha death of tho Moater, Ile, who should liavo known most of tho family history, says not & word of tho supernate wral orfgin of Jons, when nt tho aame timo tho fact ahonld liave beon of' inealeulnblo valuo to bin Platonfo tligory of Clirit as tho {nvurnated lopon, 1 have sod ol theso _thinga to put it beyond porad- vonture that Auch o belng ua Josua livod, that ho lived ot (ko timoasd did toach, and that ho was crueifiod about tha timo and under tho_eircumtacces which universal bistory hos Liold and allowed, o1 daro presunio that my first poifit tn made that Joaus was not & nyth, My socond point {8 thin ¢ * Wan Jesus A man 97 Tilo queation would Lo’ proposicrous n any othier light than thint of theology, ]J\lt thioology Lus put forth proponterous thoorion, and_makes fhis ueation, whicli olliorwise would ho Historically trifling, nocos: nity of oritlelsm, What would Mary, the mothier of Jeaun, hiavo thouglit of auch & question ua thin? o wan Lorn and matured by Jis motlicr proclsoly sa il ailior clutdron are born and maturod, and (hin I do not uny dogmatically, but upon tho wholo tenor of tho records and many apoeific roforences, tho welght of Whicli nolhing but fguoraneo snd. prajudica ca dis- allow, T aliall refor only to two ot fhreo which are con- lusive upon tho ono point T wish to mako, 1 muat promise, howovar, to sullica my own desire o bo wliolly honcat with fayaelt and_cnunlly frun with you, thet did tho Obrlstian records mako for Jozus tho eluim that medlwval theology iss put forth in in behall, Tshould Lo compelled, on grounds of fura roason, Lo disbolieve and cojoct this claim, tnowing whit I do of thls boundless univerao, la millions of worlds and tho ordor of its ovolution, 1 could not believo and allow that the sourco and siip- ort of ull these worlds, bo hio the cosmos of sclenco or o God of religlon, conld leave tho seat ond ceutrs of hils yower, and for thirty years, In tho semblonco of o 1an, dwoll among mon 10 the order and with tho Linb- ita of our human lot, Tho only concoption of God which anawers to the neceesity of elthor sclonce, phi- Tonapliy, or unlversal religlon, 1s that of o Loing Whoso absoluienega wonld procludo tho posibility of aiich ac- commadation to humuuity, IIo could not ba born inte timo, for Ho 8 tho kouireg of o nor iuto spuce, for Hels u‘mm. Bt it tho llfo of Josus tho providenco of God Lng left no room for such a aliock to human renson, such o rpotunl annuliing of all natural lows uud tho fnovita~ o confusion of all hitman consclonngas, No mau kuows just what i meaut by tho theory of tho Trinity, or the rreciso sonse {n which any man hiaa bold that Jesus wan God, the Bupremo Author and Governor of tho Universo, Nevertliolesn this claim i El]m foundation postulato of all orthodox Christen- om, Tlhio thoory, no doubt, hos its romoto wazrant in tho swulmll of tho supernatural or unnatural irthof oune. Mury {8 not only tho best witnos, but th only pos- rible witnesa in tho ease, and sho nover set upany auch o:aim for hor mon, Thero i8 no acconnt in all tho Glristian records of Mary having intimated that tho generation of Jesus was otber than natural, Besides this, which n itself might bo decmed conclusivo, ior wholo relation to Jeaud aud_conduct toward Lim pos- Aivoly prove uch a thcary to o mpossiulo oud abaur, She subjocted Lim to tho ordinances of Ler race, 18 clrcumicision and to tho ordiuary fumily conditions With tho rest of hier ehildron, When sho missed bim on hor return from tho Temple, whon he fa roported to lave been 123 years of ago, sho was surprised, and snnoyed if not ungered, aud doubtless whon ho sald “ he must bo abuut his Father's Lusinees,” sho wan at a loss to noe connt forhie strange conduct, for tho Evangeliat adds #They understood not the saying wiich he apoke unts thom," What & strange contradiotion! Tho samo Evangeliet tella of tho angols’ rovelation to Mary Lefore lice conception, aud of Joseph's droam during eleep, and such words ought to Lava been perfectly clear {o both father and motber, They cor- tainly jusisted Ho sliould leavo the Templo with them, aud, roturning 10 Nazaroll, tho Gospol adds: “ o ‘waa subject uiito thom, After Io began His minfstry His motber and breth- ren dhi not understand Ifhn, nud followed Him to Capernsum ; and Mark saya: “They went out to lay hiold of Iim; for they said, * He {8 Leside Himself, or, 88 tho original Las i, Ho s crazy,” Now, I'ask how utterly inconcolvablo tho thoory that, knowing Ifis “miraculous concoption and il tlo bledges aud purposce of bip lifo which wero based upon this unnatural gencration—bLls own mother at any thoe could hava supposed him crazy or conld haYo been remotely uncasy concorniug bim as to tho rectitudo of Lis conduct or the succoss of his mission, And lostly, hia mother stood beside tho cross on which o mot is traglo and wublimo death, n, brokeu- bearted woman, and leard from bis' llpa tho strongo languuge—tho longnage of disuppojnt- meut und desolation: “aly God, My God, why st thon forsakon mo?” This man, bord of Mary, who lived o lifo of catiug, drinking, slocping, teaching, suffering, and who was put to death at the carly agoof 83, §s the world's peolotypo of manhood only upon the gronnd of his pure lmmnnnly, and the whole ‘moral vulue of his lifo as an example and in- spiration {s based on the fact of hiatory thut he was a mun sud a brother, By flnal thought, for which I cravea whole bouy in which to ameu ita fuliness of love, reverence, and adoration, thot Jesus was the Iucomparable ond " uilquo man of his race, = Tho oo man, 80 far a8 we know, Who mit the porfect law of rightconsness, sud so sot it aflame ‘with emotion a8 to make it posaiblo and sn enthusiasm to his followers, But superstition hos turned tho weary and unsatisficd oyes of the race awny from tho minu 10 & diviite yneogniio, to n God disguised in ordor to play & dramatio part. 'Thie thoologlo jugglery has been thoe obstruction of Cbristianity, To 1nuke God Limeolf n_decelver, In to destroy the fouudation of Lotk religion and morality, ‘Wo aro coming to Christ—let us thank God for the criticlam which has made it poasible— from a different point of view, upon a puroly rational bosls, sud K0 wo behold i himan and only human—ile {8 not onty moro real, but even aublime, und more worthy to take His place as at the horizou line of Lope whete mon_touches God and makes tho {mminanco of God in mun no louger n Lope but o bistory, Tle orbit of Jesus i fixed. The fuct {8 ity oxplanation, 8bal wo ask why the Creator did not muko tho earth rather than the sun the rourco of llfi;fl- and heat? Wo kuow thut Jesus {s the finite whose life is tho perpotual suggestion of tho infuite, S THE WORKINGMAN PROBLEM. Sermon by the Xov. M. J. Savage, of the Third Unitarian Church. Yesterdoy ovening the Rov. Mr. Savago pronched at the Third Unitariau Church, at tho coruor of Lailin and Monroo streets,on tho impor- taut question of tho hour: ‘ What is to bo done with tho uncmployed laborers of Chicago?” His remarks wore as follows ? 1 will ovortur, overturu, overturn 3 until He comea ‘Whose right it ja.—Ezek. 91 ; All ye aro brothron.—Slutt, ‘The marching of 5,000 day-laborers {o the Oity Hall, and thorr unticd demand for work or Ureat, togother with the agitation whicli sccompanied and hs follow- «d t, 18 no mere ripplo or chnuco-wave on the surfuce of our soclety, Sonio yeurs ngo I waa eailing off {ho const of Ouba, whon our steamship encountered sowe of tho largest ‘waves I evor saw, Thero was no wind, and the duy wud eloar, Tho waves wers not cdged with fret nor foam, but wero a8 snouth and enlm us tho surfuco of o sununer 603, But the wavea rolled on with o reslst- lesa foree, aud Ao Ligh that, when both our ehips and b convoy were in tho trougli, wo wera out of sight of eacl other, 'Cliuking that “iith waves nlways accoms panded u sform, we ssked the Oaptuin what it meant, Suld bo, "It mcane s burricane ; ono has cither passed, und we ure gotting the olfect 0 it on the wu- ters; or clse there's one u~coming, and this is its fore- runmer,” Aud €0 X say to you, this wave thut rolled along onr mireotw means’ o wrlcame, | No muis ter though the day wero calm, and the wave of Lumaaity smooth, un:erx, aud unbrokeu. A smooth wave ouly nevds uti obstaclé to makedt breal, oud foam, und roar, It moans, then, I say, s hur- ricano, Tuls ouly tho local appearaiics in Ubicago of that uprising an onrn!llh{f; of the masses that lLas bad its manifestotions in il agoa and all lands, Ono of it eurllest movementa wus when a rabble of Jowish alaves swamped the dynssty of Egyp 1t over- Howed and buried boneath 118 illowa the Empire of ancient Rowe, 1t undormined the solid-looking clifya of Frauce, until tho topnilng ond crush of its old monareliy was drowned in the uproar of tho Revolu- tion. Itisto-day l\\'cu})lllg over and wipiug out the laal-ilrlnlk of tho pust in Spain, 1ts tidal-wave rose over Puris In the mad sweep of Communiem ; and, though beaten back snd hold with barricrs, it rosticas movemunte, discontented murmur, aud threateniug upray aro tq bo Leurd und soen on {le shore of overy couitry in Europo, snd now it Lus urlsen 8o quietly nnder us that we hardly knew of its coming until the solos of our feet were wet, Dut, lika Camiita of old, ‘womust remembor that the tido i ralug and nob obbing ; 40, 1f wo can find no_means of commanding this ocean, e hiud batter net tho prudeut purt of movs ing back ouz chuirs, In_roading Carlyle's “Bartor Tiemurtus” tho otlier day, T aceideutally came acrons tho vory brilhy oxpres- slon of his opinlon on this \!Ilb{::ut, 1o whieh I ask your attention, In his sarcastic foehlon, e {s settiug iul‘(ll tho two ultormoat ex{romes of socisty under tho hamoa of this Dandies sud tho Drudaes, au he sayu : %L could liken Dandylem and Drudgism to (he bottomlss Loiling whirlpools thut Lud broken out: on opposits uartor of thetre luud: s o ey sppoat orly die quieted, foolishly-Iubbling Wells, whick manls art bt cover fu; oty mark them, thlr dlamcter iy datly widening thoy are hollow cones that boil u rou tho tululfo Decp, over whicn vour frn Tand (s but a thin crugt or rind! Thus dully i the inter- niedisto Lind Grumbling fu, daily the empire of the two Buchuu-ullers extendiug, tll o there s but 4 fool- plank, ¥ mors flm of land botwoen thous 3 this, (00, s washed away s aud then—we have the 'truo Uell'of Waterw, and Nouh's delugo 16 outdslnged | OF bettor, unfnl cull them two boundless und Indeod unex- ampled electris machinca (turned by (ho machinery of Socluty), with attorles of apposite quailty, Drudglam the negutive, Dandylam tho positive s ono altructs honrly towards i, and sppropriates )l tho Fositiye electelcity of the fation (uunicly, tho Money thoreon); ts otloe 1l busy with o Nogutivd' (hat s ta auy, tho Hunger), which 18 equally potent, Uitherto you o ouly’ partial trunslont sparkles and aputtors ; but waft a little, tl the ontire. nution I in an eloctelo state s )l your wliolo vital oleotricity, no Tonger bealthfully noutral, is cut into twa luolated jore tous of Posilive und Nugutive (of Monoy and Hune or), und tands thero boitlad up in two Worlde Bitorion 1 “Tho “stirriug of ‘5 childs tager brings the wo logethor ; and then—what thon? The eartls 1s but sbiverod {nto tmpaipable emoke by that Dootn's thunderpeal ; thie sun mistos ono of his " pi et 1u #puce, aud thhceforth thera 1s no eclipase of th moon,”-~Baook 111, Quap, 10, Do you thank this Iw ovordrawn : and that the peoe plo wiio tulk {his way ure ularulaly, or desirous of u scuwation? 1 know that Gnssundras uro nover lsteued to; prophets of coming il are ulwuys unm;ml-r; aud oviey Al Ohinl wvury EIAl B (FGNDIOS Of Tarabls It Toquites un effort of thought hurder than most ure ablo or willlng to 1uke to upprociate the fact thut our suclal oustoms and provent organization uro not ati- rul, fundumental, aud uescossary by human uaturc, Tainily and property_relations, sooial graded and cone ditions, suck sa wo are acoustomed to, s60m t0 us in- erentn the vary nature of man, We tuink of nob nlwaya an 10w, thoy ouight to have been, and that thoy ouglt o contiinio un Uiy e, “Wiin consorvativo natinet s a hoalthtul cno, aud fa th neceasary hupulao of wolf=prescevation, Bt thore aro limoa when this instinct ought to bo dlareyitrdod, bocause somolimes tho best rervieo o man or o aociol or- dor cun ronder {lio ruce 14 {0 dlo, It nods only n wila acquaiutanco witlh i world and witl history to teach o that muny things wo rogard ns fandamental are not hold to ba fundamental, or In any way necessary 10 oilicra. For oxamplo, Uiera iava beou races amon; whoin it bos scomed snfural that busband and win should bo marriod only four days In the we, thio rost of the timo being freo, Among atlior polyg: my secma natural, AUOHg others, still, It scoms nate ural to practico polynndry, or ihe oistom of ona woman Naving sovoral hisshands. To othors, htter community scoma right, and thon, an to. inhcritance aud deacent, In romo pations, proporty ind dignily alwaya deacend by thio fomalo imo, fnsted of tha mals, Tn othors, still, to nepliows and nlocen aro trented o clilidron, 'while tho roal obildren aro disregarded. T spewk of theae things (o show thut, becauso’ soma rovolutionite and roformora havo different {doss on thoso aubjects from our own, it docs ot neccasarily Lollow tlt thoy aro utterly 'sonvolern. ot iorly do= pruvad s und, fiewo troat. them an {haugh (icy’ wero lter tho oula o tho otlicr, wo shall wofully miiss our nuark, 1t soems to ns natural, snd nocossary to tho oxintonco of sacluty, that our prescut marrligo customs should contiuuc,’ 1t appoars equally natural and necessary thiat our presont Jawa of deod and {nhoritanco, onil property enuro shonld hold, But it ia o fact thnt liero are, within tho Loitnds of what. wo eall clvlliza- tion, thotiwands of personn to-dny to whom thono prop- vaitfon, 0 fur from seemivg (ruo, sppear falaa and mifschiovous, Aud somo of thono who' differ with us aro among tho oultured, tho kuman, and tho good, Karl Murx is (ho licad of tho " Intornationals, an organization of workingmen that counts up ith roll amung tho tons of {housands, and that ramificn inta eveiy” land, oud evory ' couslderablo clly of every Jand, 'Ho 18 tho mifghty front of s mighty fact.’ Culi bim demngogue, rovolutioulst, fanatic, or what you will, uo ono of ' theso opithets_annihiliten Jhim, “Hods, ‘Ho fa aleon scliolar, well zoad in tho Bistory of thio world’a fucts und thinking, IHo In ac. quufuied Wil all our soctal ways, aud our accopted theorlea of poltical ecanomy. Yot lio hos theorics and » poiitical oconomy, ot _ouly difforiug from, but ut- terly subvoraivo of, our own, Ho donica tho Hght of Ipheritauca o our preseni teuro of proporly. 1fa denfos thio prosont Lasis of - foclety, nnd would ovor- throw our presout theuries aud practico of marriage and home, Whint hois porsonally I do not know, Among his followers thero nre {liousands who aro roudy L0 riso for wny ehunge, becauso Loy Liavo uothing to lose, and tho pomsiility ofn gain ; tiey aro ready lo botome thio wilthing body of suy’ monster _mob {kat can find o lioad, Nk tho aans culofte of the Fronch Novolution, it tiicro aro_othors, and theso smong (ho moro in: telligent, who really regard_themuolves a8 tho leadora and Yanguard of & great reform, ond who, if need be, aroteady to becom ita martyrs, And os thozall of a Lreaker on the shoraof some small bay on our coast means the lifting of tho wholo ocean uuor tho povyer o an fnilneuco thut graspe ta lobe, 60 tho unusul flow olong our streota lnst Mon- dny 111ght moans o local manifostation of this lifting, vostlos tide of Lumnnity that cncompasacs the cartl, Hero, then, i3 our fact, and onr_condition, And, i€ T roud things rightly, tho mighticst, sockal and political question of this oge {8, What areyou golug to do about 42" 1t s & ghost Hat hos zleen, and will not befZindd with any saperfictal adjuration, It in knacklng at our doar, and will not pass on until wo have communed with it. It fa tho subing of this gen- oration, It bus propounded to wa ita riddle, and whether or nol wo can answor it igltly shall docido tho question s to whotlier our systom'of things shall live or dio, As for e tuture, In e long run, I havo oo fear. Humanity I Liold to Us of Phasix blood 3 aud though you burn to dust its body,—which {s its qutward order of things,—it will still riso out of 1ta ashes, to take to Htaolf nnothor Lody, and build taclf anothior nest. My {30 texta ndicato tho procoss oud tho eud, Olaigo Ia the law of growth and progress, Tho ovil and the rifal sball bo overturned and overturned, and tho tter bullt on its rung, until the right'shall bo foundation-stono, inclosing walls, and crowning dome, “ho day will como—if human hopes and sirugglon have any God bohind_ thom—whien that volce shnll bo heard, understood, and lived out, which declares, #You' iaya our Father in Icavon, and ull of you ure brothron,” Bt though the future 1a safoin tho hand of God, wehothor or not our temporary intoreats, and hopes, and passing typo of civilizuion are sufo or not do ponds, ap X sald, upon tho question, * Wuat oro you golug to do nbotit it77 1. And firet, It s0oms to me, prudent self-Intorsat, and not only thut, but duty, incunibent aud nrgonty that wo sliould heek to comprehond it, If wa muko tho attempt it wil roquire study und thonght, I, after thut, we propose to do auything furthar, it will réquire ‘perilaps moro than atudy ond thought,—wmaybe, time, and work, and motoy. Thoro * o soveral otlior things wo can do, if we think thom wiko ond best, Aud ouo thing f, hopo that it won'L smount to any- thlig i our tivie, 4o g0 on yonr selflsl way and. ot 1t alone, This 8 tho caslest thing to do, and; I om afraid, will be popular witn the crowd, Lut n’ O tatu silutting bis oyes to breakers nover yot aved hils ship, Tuis was tho policy of the French Kings pro- vious o tho Revolution, They snw tha troubie, but hoped it would not comd in tholr ngo, And this 'neg~ Iect und bope has been put fnto tho moutl of ouo of them i words that liavo lnco boen provorbizl—t Af- terus; tho Delugo "—e,—the peaplo,—nro tha King i Anterica ; and_wa hold In hand ot own destiny, 1t ia wo, If suy one, who hera must play tho Louis 3 of we, if dny, who niust b wiser und better, and scck to savo, Auother thiug wecan do, Is to carry o bigh hand with all_fault-findors, and disregard il complaints, But befors entering on that pollcy, itis safolo nal one queation,—cai we succeed on tht Line? To disre- . fard the risks of thie marsca Lus nover Loen quite safo In nny country, even wliero tho rulers wero strongest, aud the peoply'to weakeat, Lo peoplo azo e fonn dution ; ond 1f thoy really dolermfue to move, the su- perstructurc had bottor look to ita balnce, When Kiug Munaswell, tho 800 of Solomon, drovo away from tha foot of i fhrono the discontenied petitioncra tho reault was thut ufter that thoro woro two Kingloma {ustead of ono, And it will always boso, Tho pebplo aro strongor Lhait any government : aud all govein- meuts liavo really rested on tholr congent, whether thioy wero cousclous of it or not, just aa all lous and eleplunts oboy thelr musters volntarlly. A Hon walls Juck and forth In hia cago bebind tho Lora instead of breaking through, ot bacause Lo Is not able to break througlr, No moh yot over rode a boreo that could 1ot throw kim or drove obo that could not have tukien tho bita in L4 tocth and smushied bia currluge to atoms—and tho peoplo uro begluning to kuow their power, One moro thing wo can o Is to deny that they have any right to complalni—tell them thut they nra only working out their appoluted_destiny, which 18 gaod enough for them, sud tht tho proper thing for them 1o du ls to work tvay and bo contented, Lint thors {a » cerlafn absurdity, 88 woll 4a fupossibility, in tho wuy of our makiuit thnt policy o success fu thia, our Yaukee Natlou, The Yaukes typo of character & woll set forth Ly tho littlo Laby, who, down at Lanuibal laat summcr, cried for a long tinlo becauss hfa mothor would not givo bim the moon. Wa studiously fencls our children to sot 1o Umit to thelr awbitlon. Can’e w toll them 1a 1 fool's word + and our dletiodary hos in it no wuch word s fail. Al of them aro oxpecied to be Presidents, and ‘the boundsry of our financlal “pilo" ia oxpressed by tho mun wio, when awked how mitch money Lio was deslrous of dccumulatiug, ro- plicd, 4 tltle more, Ta'oxpct, then, that the poor wlionld livo among 1A and not desiro to better themuelten,un we 5oy, ia to ox- pect that moen wil breatho our air, uud got 10 oxygon Ji“thiie. Bood, If tha ervantginl in o Mitshen leaves us for family that will poy bor more, she ouly docs, st wo abouldgall “our son, or' wurliewy the or fricnd o fool fur nob doivg; aud workingmen desires o largor sbare of tho producta of his labor, he 3 only deairous of what we all are striving aftor, to get us good returus o4 possible for ns _eflorts, There’s a good denl of Luman uature in oll of s, and wo sro Prolty much alike, We don't ook quilh wo plcturesyue i Tag 1n broadcloth, and thoro 18 moro romanco Ju o o car- ringe than in a thick-soled eloo—but, whether with cano or pick-az, wo nre both scckinf “life, liberty, and the pursult of happinoess,” " Thio best. thing wo can do then, T any aguin, 4 to scek to comprohend this problem of ' the woikiugmen ; to find out whether there fu nuy reuson fu it, wnd where it lies—and, n order to do this, wo must fook at their compluinta’und aseortions, Aud Lot mo vay riht et that the limils of oy dis- coursy to-night will only yermit that tho huge propor- tious of my subject shold be qutlined, To complote 4t, Teliould want on hourand » half instead of less than half that timo, I provewd then ta the ketch, and, 1, Tho workingmian domunds lees hours of lubor, and Ao tmia to wash bis fuce, got on botter clothes, and. look after heary und brain, This 1 gnum ‘grant, uot grudgingly, in snswer to & douand, hor condencendiugly, ws o preleded bone- faction, bt hoartily, anu roilioly right, T Lellova that no man hos any right to turn himsolf into a mere ‘miechanc ; mtich leas has socloty » right {0 compel him to, Holv's mun firet, und bo ought to bo ono lust, and all through, snd Le otight to have time to remember the fuct, to straighten up sid get the crook out of Lin 'back, to et tho grime ol his hunds, and put tho means for living under Lis feot, 'whilo for n littlo whilo, ho simply lfves, Tlo hns a brain ; he otight to hava t{mo to culitvate it, to thiuk, sud loarn ‘whut othiers bave thought, Mo lus a heart; he ought £0 bo abla to trui its aootions, Thoro 48 in bim u posnibility of s appreciation of boauty ho should bo ablo to develop it "1lo shoutld Lo abloto e s family ; and then bo aughit to huve time to Jook ut his children after thoy wake up in tho morning, and befora thoy go to sleop at night, As wo uro ¢acti of us mado part foot, snd part land, and Ful’t heart, and part brajn, I sorlously question tho right of woclbty {0 tuko eomomen und mako them all Joot, oF all hand, whilo it pormnils others to bo all heart, or dl brain. Aud it I6 hardly an suswer to all theso clatmu to Any thut when the worklugnieu hiave had more Iofsiire, 1t " worked to thelr (nfury in nuaking thom idls nud drunken. Buppose you grant thut thin s the first reult, what then ? 1 ull the idle aud drunken of uo- sloly Skore luken i hund by tho law, and copelled to sobriely und labor, I am scriously 'spprobeusiye thut mulititdes of rioh peoplo would bo in dunger, 1 kuow thal {dleniess in called lefaurs among Hoh pooplo, aud thiat drunkennevs gooa by the pleasanter tltla of high Uiy Moy do ot Lt o atroetworer bt only {oltin drawlng-rooms, Jiut I preaums tho poor woul be willlig to loll in drawlig-roome~—i they ud thew. And ticw, ugaln, s o the ovil of tho ubimo of tholr now priviliges T think fow carpentors have over Tearnud to v their fools without cuiting thomaclves, 2, The 'Vul'\(llllunml.\ also clalma thut he s the Ern— ucer, and thut ke s rightly entitled to u greater ahare of the praduet of his lahor, Thia {n partly true, and pattly folss, Tue workiug- man I Lo praducer, fu tho sunso uud to the extont that thers would bo ‘o product without bim, aud he otght £0 Liwve o fafr pharo of the rlches Lo creates, Tint, ou the athier hand, s power of proditction hus beon ulmout ninitely multiplied Ly o Lrnius of thinkers und tho wklll of inventors, Aon that the lurd-tisted warkera huve Losn wcoustomad fo_ thinke Iy, bcauso thoy wero worklug with subtle tools thoy i ot understand —huvo done wore to smtlloruto, uplift, and onrich the workiugmen thau all thelr brutd forco could kavo uchioved to all oternity, Was Mc- Cormick doing nothing in the work of production whet he thought oul iho reaper? Alas he farmer donoall when fio Taleen bia gran, and Walt and Htophenaon nothiug when they onablod Lim to got i {08 murkot 7 Thoro in 1o right of positian botween tho workers in thonght aud th workers In nusclo, and ¢ tho ig= naraneo of tho day-laborora shauld atthok the muppoaed {ttlencen of atudents, b wonld be about as wiso as for tho banda 10 got jealos of and cut thofr own ead off, 9. Again, the workingmen. einim that tho law of fne heritance in wrong, An wo tako timo fo think thero are some quentiona about it laxd to anawor, We stand by tho eradlo of A Princo, Thin littinluinp of lifa in to liold in 1 Linnd {10 lives nnd fortuncs of millions of his fallown nud multiteden to_ bow down to him, nnd oboy biy slighicat wigh, Why? O, bocause f minn fhioy eall King was i fathor, and n woman thoy call Queen his mother, He may nol bo vory wike, nor educated, nor fiood : but iho wise, (ho educalod, nd i good sk cotinted bis inforiors, Another has fortune, s title, s Innded estato mercly by tho aceldent of birih, Thiis whils hundrads aro 1 lusury, Hownadsaraltingey, and poor, and fge rant, It corlninly isu't an idoal elatoof thiilgs, ~Becauso Willam thie Conqueror was ablo Lo ateal a wholo king- don, and givoibout by countlea to hin favoritas and followers, {8 that quito n good reneon why the children aud heira of thoso from whom ho stole it shonkl for over bo tonants on tho acrea thelr fathers owned 9 Wo oy that originally the earth wos froo toall comers, and that cach ono acquired & right by possceaion an 410 valnio bfa Inbor bad added to tho sofl, But o ona will ‘lmnnd thiat much of tho land-tonure of the pres- et timo {a based on this principle of vr[wlly‘ But it doesn’t follow from that, that I'm to abdfcate and give up my olaim {0 tho firsl wunderer who comea nlong and demands it of me. And yol thora {s Lige injustice and Snoquality hera Ut nceds_good brains and gooll hands to roctiry, Unless tho Lordeof Eugland, and othor parts of the world, cliooso to scol and do Juatico, I confoss 1 should not bituna tho peoplo for rovalution, 4, Ons _moro, the worklugmen clslm that thero oughtia bo lihi fo dividust otnerabip, Tiey say, 0 man can got rich oxcopt by Hie he.p of otliors, wiio still romaiu poor. 1o ought not then 1o be allowad to Amasd i his own hands mora than $50,000 or $100,000, This {4 na much as he is ontitled to for Lin sbare of tho ‘work: and the rest ovor and abave somo such dofiifte nmount, ought to ho dlvided with lioto wio bavo boen tid bolgs and tho_ meana of M gainn, 1 it roplied to thls, that if you tako away tho power of controlling ll Lio éan get, you remove tho Atlnulus for Individual exartion, 1t scems to mo that both aro ight. I men aro to 150 thelr ability, 1t must bo vndor tha stimulua of o deslro for ownership, or clso it muat bo from tho im- pulso of benovolence, or a ltovo of activity, Capnbla men cannot keop atill; thoy will work, Tiiera in hopo o thia: nnd then T havo onough boliof fo humanity 10 think that (he timo may coma When love and benevo- lenco alio)l prove s strong o8 sclwhnesa s and mon ahall find i¢ n sufMclont oh?cct of ambition o glorify nud elovato tho world, - A fow auch Live been : cannot ‘we hopo that moro will bo? Tiat this Hmitation of itdividual greed, it seoms {0 ‘me, must somohow bo reachied, 1 cannot fhink it right that one man showid domitate Ls fellows, It caunot bo safe in o republic, Aud what motters it, if & tan, of a corporation {a to rule, whother it be by n greenliack or o swoed 2 Tom cott to-day is miglitior linn any old Bsron that rulod his vassals fu foudsl days, and ho owns bia dopondents quite na effectually 45 did tho lord of tho Manor Lis sorfa, 1 do not wonder thut thore 1a reativeness under this state of things, nud I shall not wonder if ont of it counen i, uiosstheco it fonnd u wor and pesce- ul fssuo, 5. And agatn, romo of the workingmen aro demand ing n reconntructlon of tho family, Of thin, for lnck of timo, aud becauso 1t {6 not s living question, oa yet, in Ametica, I ahill not speak to-night, (8, Woman's Work—No ono objects to bo absolved from work, But somo may, If the condition ia abso~ Lution from tho o of bread, o paying for ft with vie- ue, ] % Whon wo havo studfod all theso pofats, and mastored them, then we shall then linve understocd (ho ron tions of tho problem that this age Iu strugglivg 1 ‘work out, I donot claim to have mastered it} I only seok to help toward an jdea of what tho points are that need mastering, and to point out tho linca of search, 11, Tehull nak you to glance, in the brightest possie Llo munner, at some of tho proposed solutions of this problon. 1 can only hint ot things well worthy of wrolonged dlsoussion 1, Thoro s tho mod ; or, aa the eame thing is callod witon on 6 latger scale, rovolution, A reptie, whon atépped on, willsting, and a man, when down, will hit with any weapon, But this is *Imuflnhln only as thevory last resort, and, until all elso u tried, this should not only bo_disconnienanced, bt be crushied out with all available force, A mob 15 rare- 1y wiee, snd vory littlo good Lns ovor come from it, It 18 0 good thing only us an cartliquakoe da a good thing, when somiething noeds to bo shaken doten, 2. The uext ls agitation and discussion, This T wel- como on all subjects. That which cannot live through o discussion lus no right to live. 8o the workingmen have o perfect right to meet and discuss, in all ordorly way#, the things that periain to their welfare, Tustead of borating themn, or letting thom ulona sim] Dl F ol th coolioaded, and wie, aud bouovolent of leaying them {n thio Linds of demagogues, wo migh Took for gaod to como out of the agitation. 4. Some proposo tho deatruction of capital, Dl capital meaus civillzation, Conaciously or uncon. sclously, ho {8 on enemy to all that lumanity hos guined, fn the way of forward marcls, who looks it favor on (ufs, _If thero'a a dispute over the ullotmen of zooms n w great Louse, &t Lsi't o good way to uoitlo 1t to burn the hiouse, If 'thero were troublo about the distribation of Laka Michigan for our use throughont the elty, it would hacdly Lielp matters {o hatter down thio Wufor-Works, and 611 up tho tunmol, ~ Tho capital of tho world is fhe world’s enviugs ; snd everyihing wo have, beyond simply keoping eoul nud boily to- geihier, {8 tho fruit of capital, Cupital Justly distril- uted, aud uot capital destroyed, s what wo uced, 4, Othiers would rewody ull by somo monipulution of tho machinery of Governmont. Ous of tho strangest and absurdost of all delusfons 18 to oxpoct mien organizod to bo wisor, Justor, moro Lenevolent thay they arosingle, Putting rotten apples {n s pdlodocsn’t mako the Wholo muss sound 3 and T Bavo yet to learn thiat mnking men into corporation, or sending thom to Washington und calling thoina Cone gress, makes statesmen out of blockleads, or Las auy mogle. for manufacturlug coscloues out of corrup- lon, 1 And partionlarly does this hold true in a Topublic, People go to tho capital whom Wo send thore, An a8 tho Goverument {ssues from tho yeoply, it fs folly for us to look for it bolng belter than thapoople, un il wo find somo chango in the natural law that fotbids water to riso higher than ts source, 7 jud wor only fn & folly for i to expect tho wisdom of government to olvo our” problem for us, but it 46 no fess foolleh'to look for. certaln specific aidd thut somo are demanding, - . Tor exainpl, somo Would havo e Goverament Lo goneral Lanker for the peopls,’ snd furnish them loans on call, and without interests’ Theroaro two marvele ous fallucics in suy such expectation of help, irst, tho denunclation'of usury s folly. If I use Jourhose, you sy b 18 vight fgr me to oy you for . If Tuge your Lorso, I poy. \(%‘:: 80 your cars, T wwould meet with, talk o, and_{nstruct thom, lucm.uq pay. If T e your muching, I Why not pay wlicn I usc your ‘money? And, scéendly, borrowing from Goverumeut s what? Who i C{uverumnnl ? Where docs it got mouney ? It {s almiply our agont H sud the money is our taxea, Borrowing of Government, then, js only borrowing from tho right band by tha left, —or golting rich by taking money oul of your vest pocket aud putting it futo your trowsers. But, thon, fome havo a patent method of having money enough to go oll round, And, it Wendell Phllz 1ips badn’t safd aud dono so many queer thiugs,—along with ll Big wie and noblo work,—I_should thiuk hy hud lost Lis senses on this subject ; for I notice that in a recent speech in New York le advocates thls patent tnrupilio ta rickes for all, The method {4 very simple; it conslats jn'laving the Governmentutart up its prin= iug press, and manufacture enough greenbacks wo that wo can all have our pockets full, It might by o vory hormless awmusament, It it wero eugaged in simply for Jun; und to keepolargo number of our Cougresue nion'busy at tho business might keep thew, aut of mis- chief, But to call such munufacture mioney would scom Nk o godd joke, wero it not that so many seetn to by earnéat gbont it, As alliogu dog's tail @ log doean't mako it ouo, so nefther does calling o Elncu of Dagor monvy, mako {t moniey. / Neilher groen- ucks, nor bonds, nor\Natlonal Bank notes are monay ; tliey, ko far o5 Goverument is concrued, represcnta debt, instead of wealth; oud, so fir as holders are conctrnad, thoy are simply promiges to pay, Wo uso them for monoy only so jong us wo can ugres o do 8o, aud thelr valus deponds upoh the amountdssied, A wreouback now lsn't s dollar ; but only so'mnch of » dollur us 1t will pay for u guld,’ Tesus enougl of thom, aud they will bo wortls #0 fuich & pound for popers rags, \ Another phaso of this Governmient ugency comes out in Hollman's proposition ;thit tho city nssume (ho gnurdlauship of ull (ho por, \Such action would be goverument sufeldo, The Repiblic guarantecs rights uud opportunities 1o all: Jav-abiding citizans, Wiion it assumea to do moro 4t doulcs ita ewn uatura and destroys lrelf, g iy And they who mukosuch demonide onght fo know that thoy are verging towards treason nud rovolution j for they arn aaking that we cense to bo a Republic, And then the poor ought ta bo sshamed tousk it for it is simply, on thelr part, s begiing for the posl. tiou of public sud .permanent pauperism, It I8 fn- compatiblo with ang fadepeident manhiood, 1d rathe fight ond dio; and"so seo if I conld mot find Fomu Dlnca, if not lore, ‘whero I could stand up fn the righta ot only, but the'dlgnity, of a man, 2 6. Another rownedy ls'education. If only this conld bo mude compuisory sud general, it might work & radical curo, The mon who s educuted {8 moster of hineelt ond of hiw couditious, Foreuight, eelf-control como from dlaci- line nnd training, and'tho posscsston of theso quall- foa §i what diatinguishes cfvilization from Lorbarism, Ho wlio ot everylling o las and then sturvas, Ja Darbarin, fin this conntry or any other, e who thinlu, aud plans, oud_savos, fa started b flo way of civillzution, and these qualitics conse from education,— o kmowlodiio of welf und surroundings, sud b vision'of o Ligher statoto whicl ono may nrinv, ‘Tt 18 impoesihio 1o holp permunently one who 8 wholly uneducated, Givo im an ndvantugo, uud bo knows Dot Liow o uss or keop it. o connot understund its cost or valuo, e knows not tho Pms!, aud underatands not the pres. ent, and truces uot (i Loarlngs of olther on thy fu- tura, 1o Iu {lie dupo of demagogucs, und will a8 fou fghthis frlonds ax iy encmies, Education, then, ought to be wmnunori/. U Aud ow lustly, ¥ como to closo, aa 1 baan, with 1y toxt. ot o s no uvull, or, at bost, of only temporary vilue, fs broth- erhood, ‘I'his 1 the sum ull!{ cayence of true Ohrintlni- ty, und in bubinoss 1t tueans co-oporation, instead of u fighting competition, 8o loug ub Fich aud poor con= wider (Lomeolvos notiiral encintos, ani each Hoeks o outwit or compel tho othor, there can bLa n0 solution of this Frnhhsm thut will stay, Thoy must plu)’ iuto, instend of grab out of, eaoch other's bands, Tho only way you can_ muko' tho workingin ap- ummm tho cost, tho work, the triuls, und tho roponsi- itities of oapital, to make him a cupital- {ut, so tko laboror should huve & peoiniary intorest fn biw work boyond his Wugges and the Inborer, Instead of eiriking madly and iynorantly at capitsl, should imako hitmsolf eapable of lundlivg " and wwing i, For,nd cuplisl badly used drivos this poor on tho lugliors of burren povirty, wo & ukdllful sallor zuy Leat wgatust und utilizo oven hsd- winda Lot 1o rioh learn the lesson of nablesss ablige ; and foal that power 1s mot # Losuss for indulgence, uban | Rave besa t0 a great axteut, aotive 'tu obligntion of servicos and lot tho poor learn that, whtlo mankood-cquelity 1s alwags possiblo, maney= equality ia not o nntural right nor & necesnity of {rio 1iviug, nor posmble 1n the nataro of things, For, aluco God hiar mado capacaty dlffer, it 18 impossiblo for man o mako acquisition, and possession, ana usa equal, Malko an avout disteiinitian of al tho world’s wenl fo- duy, andallthe ald inpqualities would appear to-morraw, Let th rich rek to holp and Let up tho poor, ond lei thio poor ecck to rigo fu capaclly, culture, und sll tha requisites of a completo monhiood, Equality must ho baked fn characlor. For, £ long u eu pacity e chiare acter differ, posscsalons will be us sbifting ua desort wands, Lot o say, thet {0 (o wlol: ook lo malio, tho poor educated, capable, and noblo : and do it atauy oost, elao yowr prosyority s built on o slcoping enrthiquaka s and lot mo say o tho poor : Beck to mnko yourselven cducatod and triio: o olsc, oven thongh” you guined nll the wealth of thoso naw rich, youl lid yourselven fn n boll of dixcord and trifo, inatend of “tho hoaven of n new oivilization, Tho brotlierly co-operation of all meana tho Kingdom of @od come dowa to dwell among men, —_— HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR, ’ Sermon by tho Rov., A. B Iittrodgoe, of tho Third Church. Tho Third Prosbytorinn Church was denscly filled yesterdsy morning by o congregation of lndics and gontlomen, who had assembled to liston to o sormon by tho pastor, tho Rav, Abbott E. Kiltredgo, on “The Propinont Historical Evonts of the Year.” Tho toxt was tho 218t and 22d vorsos of tho second chaprer of Eplestans, and tho sormon was a8 follows ¢ In ealling sour attention fothio promineut historieal eventa of tio yearnow closlug, woura fmprossed, at tho beginning, with tho largo number who wore wilh us ono Jraio, ut o paseod avay into thio Gren Ticrenfler, cath haa been very Luay (o past yoir, and e pro- cesglon lina fannd 1o brenk in tn riuka, but each Lor. and miunto have noted o soul's departure, Of tho great multitudo whoso names huva beou engraven au tublets, hut whoso meinarics sro engraven 1 indoliblo clinrnclers o human hoarts, I can ouly call your ats tomfou tos fow of tho moro dlsthiguished nomes whiono loes I widely foit, and I do {his hecauso, o bo unaffoctod by thoss groat mwath of doath, to bo aeaf to tho olcm teachiigs of sl ovouts, 1o b o fool in wiliful Ulindness, for anather yoar may write o ‘ames i thy columha of tho miswed and loved, i mourna the loss of tho skilifal hand aud more Leantl- £ul character of Hiram Fowerd, Literaturo weaves tho urlands of Lonor to lay on thio graves of Jolin Stuart 11l und Ldward Butwor Lytion, The pulpit in draped in sorrow for tho lons of muuy of her most falthful preacliora of the Gospol, amoig whote ames aro thok of Blsliop Aryltago, of tho iplscopal Guurech, aud Baptlsto Nool, the profound theologin_and practical phillsnthropist, From tho Palnco of Kinga tho sged motlicr of tho Empress ol Germany hos - pussed, \o {rust, to the Palaco of tho King of Kings,whila tho oxilo Bmpgror of Franeo has suddouly disappeated from tho theatre of tho world’a politics, where ko latoly Lo wa thio chiof nctor, Two havo closed thelr Congree- slonal career by tho call of tlio medsenger frony ue other and bigher Court, (o venerablo Johu T, 1o, of Now Humpshiro, and Foator, of .Michigau, froni tlio Houso of Ropresenintives. Wisconsih inourus for oz Liculenani-Governor, and Pounaylvania ls covered the new-mndo grave of Jobu W, deary with the wreaths of well-dosorved ronown,—wile from tho Diunch of this country the numbér of thoso who buve disappearod beliind tho cutlatn of efornity hos boew unusually large, snd soma of our most_richly-storod intollects’ have possod dnto tho prosenco. ot tho Judgo of al (bo wrth, From fio auch of this clty onr loved and respocted Tortor s from tho Bench of this State, Judgy Mlchmond ; of Tounessco, Judge Nelson: frofn tha Supreine Bench of tho Unitcd Btutes, Judges Nelson and Chuso} whilo Bugibd hos placed the 6tar ogatnst the nate of Lo most vouerablo statosman ond juvist, Stophen Lushington, Aud ogain, within "tho ‘past fow doys, Deatls, ‘ns 1f not” matistied with ‘it har- yeit! of caft'a noblest aud boat, has touched tho Mfo-pulse of tho loved and child-like Agassiz, and scleuco tud roliglon closp houds tn deep Heart- felt grlc abova hia gravo, whoro tho flowees uro still fresit sud wot with a natloi's fears, And so, yoar by yeur, from overy position of rosponsibiiity, hionor, sud usolbluesy, thioso whom we cab spure tho least, and whoso deatls fa 5 calamity, fall by tho way, for tho ar- rows of the King of Tervors fly thick through the air, olflling the band which Lolds tho rceptre of power, Lusbiug forever tho voico of eloquouce sud wisdom, aud witicriog the wreatbs of carilily fame, This your Los bocn pocullatly sad in twa of our Bouthieru cilics, where, by tho Tavages of tho yollow fovor, cutiro ioines wero wwept away, and. thousands in o fow weeks woro Jald burricdly u tho grava; but from ull parts of our land_contributicus of ioney and comforts for the slck wero literally poured {nto {hoso strickon citics, shd prayors went W as o thick eloud {o tho Tarono of Grace tuat the Omnipotent Arm would stay tho plsguo ond bless tho lige compuny of mourners, 1 rojoicc that fhin cougregation reapouded nobly, a8 thoy nlwaya do, {0 the ery for relief, tnd 1 bavo In my possession |+ thie ofliclal acknowledgment of your generous gifs, und tho curncat thanks of tho authorities of the two ciiles, Ta the funuclal world thia yoar liy bebu wmarked by o wide-apread panlo, whose immedlate cause was thio sudden faflure of u prowinent buuking-house in the City of Now York, but whove truc cause was the rottenness of tho principles of trade, so that tho first wave of disnster ‘mndo the whole monetary world tremble, for the rock of principle hud been slowly but stirely chunging to sand.” God's laws w0 immutable, and with the vivlation of thoeo laws comes tho fnovita: blo penalty, and when trudo doparts from rectitudo and righteouences, and sceks to build up. fortunes by dishonesty nu gambling, the consequent pinio is no miore slralgo fn its conng, than fs physical discaso ‘lien arsenic is taken {utotue systom, ‘Thero hoaleen throughout tho laud & fruntio abearjtion {u moncy- miukiug, a passlon for wealth, which hus swepl away evory obsticlo of virtue in its way, end 8o, In the hour of our grestest prosperity, when ail human prophecies declared diseuter imponsiblo, God touched the Hli-gotten guiun of mon, and thoy ‘faded mwoy in o night and soclety trembled, and wondoriugly usked * W uat docs the punic mean 77 Aud ro in respoct to the rovelations of corruption in Congress, Wiilo theso havo brought tho biueh of shunie to the choek of every Lhouvst American citizen, yet o dooper sorrow arlscs from tho weil-kuown fuck that the: scattorod exposurea ars but tho surface- drops of a muddy sea of soclal and financhal corrup- tion, not anly or chiofly in Congress, but tainting tho ED\lllL‘l of every State, nnd to o fearful extent control- g the secular daily press of the land. Ths evidenco of this 1s scen in the alarming number of defalcations in thio land, aud i tho_ nctual pornicious character of 8 largo number of our tafluentiul papers, who could be rlmllllu.l by any honest tribunal for dissemi licentious literature every day, Says one writor Weo have sometimes feared that it would be difticult to placoa stone, or a timber, ora lock, or o screw, or & null i your houee thut hus not somewliere on its pas- aayo felt tho stafu of o bribe, 1tis doubtful whoilier the food whicl suppoela our lives, or the coling which will convey us to onr graves, can wholly eseape contaminution, The _consequenca 1s, dlaturbed faith i ek other, und Bomotimos o distrust ~ of our 'country snd our like o suadow, thut ou’ all merlcun socleties §a but the old doom of Dabylon and Rome, One faith alone saves from dospalr.” Thore s reason, however, for hiops, iu the fact fhut #ome of our dally pajors are of pronounced morality, and fearless in thelr ndvacacy for the truth, aud theio havo been mighty agencies in the conviction of crim- inals, and u streagthoning tho pillars of socloty und gov- ernmiont, Tiiere f3 great reasou also for eucouragmont 1utho late judiclul declsions in the commercial contro of tho land, whers thoso who bave reveled inopen pub- le diabonesty and leentiousness bavebeen condomned and punished by the civil law, It Is impossible to overestimate {ho Influenco of this triumph of truth over error upon tho future legislation of the different Slates, and wa ure rominded by jtof tho oxistenco of & deepund over aclive curront’ of moral priuciples ut times, it may bo, concealod {rom view, but nover do- stroyed, nud, in reality, more powerful than siu, aud ultimately stre to triutiph, : Iu our national history tho year has been an eventful ong, and, on the whole, honorable to the Goverument of ths Innd, The inauguration of the President and Vice-Pre=lident at Waehiugton ; the lullrx. but success- ful, eonflict with an Tndian {ribe, antt tho exccutlon, aftor a fale and opon trial, of tlio murderors ; the abolishment of tho frankiug privilego: the preacrs vation of peace with ull the nations;” the successtul termiuation of our Inte difliculty wilh Cubu, fu spite of the unprincipled efforts of u portion of tho press, and of muny polilicluns, to plunge the nation into war, We hiave greit cause for gralitude in the digoiied, cautfous, but Arm positfon which our Government has muintaled, upon all tho questions und esues foreed upon it, und enpecially for presorving us, us a peoplo, from (1o ravagea and daop livsrt-agontos of war, “Iho most promiuent events of universal fulcrest in forelgn lends, lave been tho abdication of Kiug Ama- deus, of Bpain, who was auicceeded by tho peaceful es tublislnaent of s republlc, nnd tho clioica of one of thip ‘world’s moat libers thinkors and rfl\\‘nrhll orators ns the ivat Presldont of tho natfon, Threa republica to- day in Europe; Frunce, Spain, and staunch, beautiful Bwitzerland,—1his i o wondorful, choering spactucly to all lovers of frecdom and lovors of mun, Tho bold ‘movemont of Germuny's Primo Minlater, to_declarn waur sgaiust the Josults, hes been followed liko movement fu tho Oity of Rome,bencatht the very shad- ow of 8t, Pelor, by order of tho Itallan Parliamant, oxpoalng o the eye of the world the deatruetive chure ncter of tho Order, conneoted withithe RRoman Gatholfo Ghurel,an Ordor oppoed to ull lberty of thiought nud #peecl, toall lovatio of tho peopio, and by helr unl» tlo undwioked doslgns, tho greatest onemny of (ho futol. lgence, tho peaco, ond tho lnurlly of un¥ nntion, the Jenlls hud “beon Il from 1850 to 1800, 8 of wodern Raclety, the coufesalonal, and by controlling tho aufTznges of the Ignorant clussce, to Justill hutred to the. Germon Empire, sud loyalty’ only to tho Pope, In tho month ‘of Moy Just, 1t fas ordored thut o Siaty suthorities snperviso all exluting sominarics aud colloges, thus to rovont the fncreaso of clevienl funaticlsm wnd iufolore unco, Also, that one Royal Ecclesjuntical Court Lave thu oversighit of all piritual discipling, aud oven ree movo uels clorgymon frans thelr oficas who whould teacl dizobediuiice to tho civil law, or whould seok to infuenco tho votes of tho people, tius pratoating Tib url{ of coneclence, and punishing all clvil disobedience, This advance step of the groatest Protestant natfon in tho warld [u victually the banishmont of the Jeaults bumanity, with a feur, modern Llropean and & In voring” for to sup tho and through , without which ull othors will Le o?\!mxn the realm, for, sluce thelr mission in every land 1n thae disjutegration of civil government and tho de- siruction of fudividusl Wberly, by tievo. onactimonts tbey are oxcluded from all actlvo and publlo working, Traotieully, thorafore, nfshed (rom Gorisuy snd from 1tuly, " thoy uro’ flocking to Luglind aud to theao shores, wnd - have already begun thelr warfare ogallist tho ible, ngalust onr common Aciool syatein, aud, beneath all Thelr argunscuts and speclous pluas, thoro 1 Lot us hus ulways beon trne In other lunde, & deep determined purposs” to undernine our Hibortios und possoss themualves of political power, But thelr efforts will be all fn vain, unless this peopls aro hath bifud und doaf tosll tho listory of (o pusl, Lut Thaston to call your attoution 16 (o posttive signy of roliglous projress duriug tho yeur now clos- {ug, for there has boeu progress even 1 the midst of pochiliar dlvcouragoments, 1 Liw been u yoar of eurnest ind succosuful work by tho Obrlstiung of our Iand. Thoro has been no wido spread powerful roe yivais, aud yot, all ovor our country churclios of Christ ‘wioning soula to Tesun, Trom ull parts of the Jand hns como_ tho teatl~ mony of the }wuuucu of tha Ioty Bpirit, and of tho converslon of soul, 8o (Lot tho aggregale number of additiona to tho chiirchen muat hayo Leon very large § aud, mora than this, thers han beon o8 far ax I can loarn, n growing apirltuality among Clristiang, & bLroadening of lova aud sympathy, moro carnest abor fn Lhe cause of lenmi~ perance, nnd & moro faithtul and direct rrnlchlnw of the Gospol, a0 that we may truly say that ha Clirlstian Churcli was nover more activo, and vigle Iant, and apeitual tinn now sinco tho daya of ita carly Llistory, and nover was ita hold strongor on the publio mind und hieart, as fa ovident from tho violanca, of tha attacks upon it; from the aclivity of sin ta strongthen tufidellty (for thio Devil nover aistirba n quiot ehijtel); from tho prominesico given to tho namea of Chiriatinn men who haye boen accused of dirhoneaty, but who, with ono oxception, Lisve not yet. boen proyon gullty; and from the {ncreasiug cirenlation of religlous iiteras tiro_ through tho lund, which hias morg thian doubled thin past year, o now departuro from tho fold of the Eplecopal hiirch is 8 marked ovent of tho times, for no ono can oubt the earneat spirituality of those who have, by 18 step, soparated thomaclves from all rolationship to ritunliani nnd (ho Fapacy, and terecan bo no doubt of tho ultimato kuccoss of & movement so catholio in apirit, and fed by mon of such uhdoubled plety, Andwhen woturn to tho work of Evangolization In foreign lands, thero bas Ueen o great advanca taward the final triamph of the Redecmer's kingdom, In nominally Chiristian Jands, Moxico hna_ deolared for religlous toloration and tho soparation of Chrel from Hiate, ond Protestant missfonarios aro welcomed by tho people, whilo tho violont opposition of Romaniats only fudicatea tho Interest of the multitudes, Tii Italy, thiero are Livaugelical commuaitics in all thio imporlunt contres of fniluenco, whilo tho Itaifan ‘Gavernmont Is certainly the froest in all Europe, Ons of tho most eminent. and carncst of the mouks in Rome has rocently joined the Protestant Ohureh, and when summoned hefore the Inquisition fearlessly cone feased Lis wpiritual boratfon from boudsge and Lis logaity to Clrit nlone, n tho Austrian Empire, steps aro baing taken fo- ward rolfgious loloration, nad eight missionarlen from this land aro Iaborlng . that land. In Bpnin, not= withstanding tle civil war, the Gospel huos been mak- g p and Projostant communition ure being esta Tu nll thero countrics thera in an dnorenss ing rovolt of the gemoral mind agalust tho en- slaving forms of Homanism, oud the th denro clonds of suporstition uro dlesolving boforo tho powor of the Loly S8pirit on Individual hearts, But the most ey eurl), the most wonderful fact, as & manifestation of 'tho }c, zress of tho Rodeomer's kingdom, bus been wleiJskuownas tho Ol Cathollo movement, Its iginal couke, hnwonnly speaklug, was tha dogimn of CiLbIy, July 18, 1870, Tho first cougresa of those who refused thus to'deify an orring man was held fu Btunich 1871, and the second in Coiogne 1872, At this congress thero wero present 400 delegutes, including pricats, theologlane, istorians, und puiiosophiers, with almaont all tho professors in tho German Uulversities, togothor with muny educatod lsymen, The action of this Congrees aboliskied Indulgencas, {he adoration of the Virgln Mary, of tho saints, keapulnries, the ney- ment of surplico focs and stipends for mossen, Tho German languugo was substituted for Latin in tho korvice, ‘Ciie cellbacy of tho priesthooil was declared ot binding, and the confosslonal wan chunged from & duty to ‘u privilege to those who dealred to “improve it, The wyllabus of tho Popo of Decomber, 1850, with referonce to Btatoand modern elvilizution wus rojected,and tho mem- bers of tho Cougress declarod tholr alleglanco to the Constitutions of thele soveral States, On thodth of Juno i1t this year, Lwenty~iwo prieats aud_8fty-Gve Jaymon, ropresentlig 60,000 souls, clocted Dr, Reinkene, of Brese I, tholr prositing Blshop, and to him they promised a0t obedfence, but Joye. 1o wos_ordained Aug, 11, and on Sept. 14 Lo oflelally removed the Papal odict for- bldding the reading of the Bible, rocommending that all should read the dear Holy Dok again and waain, ‘There urc now 5,000 Rflcllfl who Liave Joined this ro- vival church within - the fold of tho Catholic Olwrch, aud I eanuot but quote o few lues from the Jetter ade dreused by (hi Cougress to the late Councll of the Evon- gelical Allauco . Wo wish to”eleanaa. tho Outlolis hurch from the slains of n depravity which has gradually iucreascd for more thau 1,000 years, Al that Tomon domination hos created through ‘egolism must b romoved, Every fnstitution and oustom which s crept in, huriful to irue Christin vitality, must Do -cist oul. Instead of fustiieation b{ ‘worl, justification by faitli; instead of iiypoeriticn] bigotry, b puro Chrlstian lifo must bo brought luto its bellef and conduet, Wo wish to reform the Chiurch iu Auch o manuor that b sball havo o fellowship in love, fu bolief, and in tho wouks of all who believe in Jeaus Olrint ns the Son of God, an the Savior, who alono uas beou, and st {s, our Mediator,” T'hiere hus been n great progress during the year to- ward o higher and truer Civistian unity—not an ore ganic unity, not uniformity, not losing right of difrer- auces of futerpretntion and religious forme, but a unity of spirlt, & recoguition of one uuother, and recopuition of ono common Saviorj a unity of all beliovers ne membora of vne mysiical body; o mutual respect, confidence, and love, biuding &l in bno sweat fellow= ship 1 thio Beloved, 'The profoundest realization of this unity was witueased at tho lute meeting of the Evangelical Alllauce, and nover before did wo acom 80 mear the glmdous consummation of the propletic prayerof unr Great High Prigst, “That they all may ba ve, 18 Thou, Father, urt inMoand 1in Thee, that they mioy e mudo_perfoct in pue” Bub not oilly in . thig wonderful ussomblego huvo wo seon his incras ing unity amoug believers, but also inthe growing desire to study the Beriptures, in the prominencogiven to theology a8 o Beienco instead of & denomins- tonal dogung, in the elevation by preachers aud roligious writers of faith as tho eeseuce of real ety and tho only iuapiration of Ohristian labor, In the in- creasing power aud ferveucy of prayer for this une- ness of believers, ond in the many words of cheer and fraterusi love which, ou the {elegraphic wires of com- muulou, Lavo boen ' ysesizg from church to church, from déuvuluation (o deuviaumation, aud from vatlon nation, “ 3Tusio 16 not the monotony of oue sound, but he harmontziug of many; tho pire Lght which gilds the ‘whoio world around U8 {3 nut eolorless, nor even one colored ray, but fs the bleuding of sll the prismatic hues,” snd so the Chrislian Church §s gathoring iuto ouo tlame of dovotion and love the different, socts of Curlstoudam, blending oll differences to a awcel fol- lowship with the Futher and tho Son snil the Holy dhost, Tho words of John Wesley, uttored 102 years ngo, aro being reulized, * Love me," he said to fallow- Caristluns, * uot I!Illt‘l a8 thou loyest all munkind, not only a8 thou lovest thine cuomies, or the cucmica of Gud, those that hato thee, that despitefully ure thee and 'persccuto theo—not only na o strauger, us ono of whom thou kuowest nelther good nor ovil, I nm not satistied with this, Nol If thine heart be right, ag mine with thy licart, then love me with a very tender -affection, 08 s friend that is closer than o brothior, a8 8. brother in Christ, as a felloy tizen of the New Jeru- saleny, o fellow-soldier engaged in the same warfuro, under thb Captatn of our wulvation,” I had Loped to bo able to trace with you the prog. reas of the Savior’s Kingdom in heathen lands, but I can only call your attention toa fow fucts, reasrving the rest for another occaslon, wlen wo ean study spocitically tho glorious history'of Christian wisslons, by which, under God, the wasta pluces ure beginning o bud and bloasom with righteousucse, snd the dark- ncsu of nges i8 rolling off frum thase Lenighted twill- fons, _Tiiero uro nearly 4,000 inisslonazles Jaboriug in hieathien countries, aud thore ia room for 4,000 moro, for tho flelds are opening moro rapldly than laborers ean bo found fo enter them, harvests aro ripening fuster than thero aro earncst hunds sud [\l’u;‘lng hearta to bind the whitened gratu In the sheaves of sovereign lovo, Thero aro H06,U00 members of the Chriatian Ghurch who onco Lowed down to 1dols of wood and slone, Tunot this o glorious fack? Why, in Indis slone thore are 79,000 communicants, thero aro 380 or- dafued untive preachiors, nnd Christ ds preacbed at nearly 600 stations through the land, while Mahom- medunism 8 fust boing nuderwined, sud her power i wrning, ns the bLannors of ‘fthe Qross are belug plavted in-redcemed hearts ; and so in China, Japan, Egypt, Torkey, and even ' Africa, God is dolug great things for iis Cuiurch, whereof wo are glad, Trotoren, wo ure living In graud duys. They oro fowlng grimler overy lour, Tho forces of fidelity und win are uttacking the very citadel of Churistjuuity,—not only ls tho inspiration of tho Serip- tures denicd, not. only I prayer @ subject of Tidicitle, not o“ly do thoy seck to tear the crown from the Iew ducmer's browand placo tcraagain thocrown of thorn, ut the very extstenica of Gad i called fn question, and Atlielern, strangled and loft for desd on 1,000 Lattle- flelds, I8’ boldly rearfug its head sgain, And ou the othor sido is the Army of the Lord, in themselves ua fecble av was David witls kis sling etfore Goliath, but panoplied with tho glory of Jehovah, led by the Great Cuptuin of our Balvation, armed and inspired by tho indvelling of tho Holy Ghost, sho I8 marching fors vard to couner svory fo, nid by the “omuipotent ower of ouo irresteliblo weayon, Chrlst, His lave, to reals the fotters of slu and emuncipate tho world into the glorious liberty of tho Sous of God, Fear not, thon, the "blows of futelloctual thonght on the shield of Chiristian folth, Tuey are ouly tho old shot fired by fufldelity smatit and dgoin, and (hoy uover yot. buve, and never will, plorce through the secret place of tho sholtored faith’ and wholtorcd_diiciplo,—the winga of tho Almighty, Only lot the Clurch ba indued with the promiasd powor from on Ulgh, nud, Ieying ssida avery welght, put on the robes of Fghteousnoss aud boe wholly conseerated to the work of Balvation, and 1he coming year will witness glorious mirscies of yrave, aud thonsurda shall be born Inu duy 1o the glory of Jbsus Chirist, our Lord, o FAREWELL SERVICES. 'Tho Reve A.J. Gravves at the North Star Chitpel, Tho North Star Alission - Chapel, corner of Division und Sedgwick streots, was lled with peoplo Iast ovening, the accasion being the olos- mg sorvices of n season of rovival which hes boon in - progres durlng the past weoek undor the loudorship of the Tov, Mr. Qravos, the. woll-kuown traveling Evangolist, As ho loaves for Now York to-day, to conduct & rovival in one of tho Mothodist Churchos of thut city, n largo number of, per~ sons who havo listened to his oxhortations sinco his arrival here, took ndviutage of the oppor~ tunity afforded of bidding bim farowell, uud tostifying iu other and moro substantial ways to their lively approviation of his efforts in their bohalf, The sorvicos wore oponod with the singivg of the hymn unmmmmmf, ** Thora s o fonntain fllled "with hlood.” 'L'lio pastor of the churoh, the Rov, Ar. Whitchead, thon offered prayor; and tho by, *Josus, T my cross Lo takon,” wos sung, The Rov, Mr, Graves then read the tonth and olovouth vorses of Malaohl, contafus ing tha divino promiso that thoss oxposed to tomptation wonld bo saved from it If they would ouly trust In God. ~ As Lo went aloug he oxpinined tho hidden meaning of the sacred words in hls homoly nud peoulinr, but neverthe- losu forelblo, way, “Pomptation, ho sald, was the baue of humusnity, sud it wus the dutv of churches and pastore to fortify young Chrig. tiaus, and enable thom to rosist’its attacks, Ife ava soversl quaint illusteations of the wsanuer n which the Bvil Ous prosouts falso doo- trinos to the miud of tho youth, aud exhorted s hoarors, whon troubled with temptation, ta turn immediately to Jesus, and contido In i all-pervading love and power. Tho hymmn, “Thoro ia & happy lund, far, faraway,” wai sung, and, at its conelugion, Mr, Graves prayed long and earncstly for tho North Btar Mission, and for tho contlmunnce in graco of thoso who had found religions conso- latlon _during tho ravival. Tho Rev. Mr, Whitchead then publicly thanked him for tho groat lnterost lio had tuken in tho wallarg of tho Misaton, nud in tho causo of Christ genorally, and mado the unuouncomants for this wook, from whichi it appoats thnt thoro will Lo sorvices ovory ovening, and that toward tho along of tho weok thoso who dosira can bo bap- tized and admittod to followship with the Ohurch. A hymn was eung, and the Rov. Mr. ° Graves spoko vory briofly on the question pra&muulod Iiy tho Macedonfan inllurkxl‘nul. ¢ What sball I'do to bo saved 2" 1o eald tho quostion was ou {m- rortant one to evory Obristian, and one that should bo froquontly selted. T9e moro ex- preesion of a dosiro to bo saved, would not avail ; noither would baptiam, nor prayor, nor uny othor outward form of religion. Lhoro must bo o camplate subjugation of tho witl to Olrist bo- foro _salvation could he mecared, Whou tho boliovor had given up his will and all clso to Oburlst, prayor and baptism, and the othor out- ward forma would assint im groatly iu reaching o bottor lifo, Ono of thio worst foatures of relig- {ous wocioty at the presout timn was, that 50 many poople who professed Lo bo belisvers woro outside of regular church organizations. Tho reason was that their strong will woald not ormit them to publicly ackuowledgo Elhflet, Thoso pooplo could not ke saved whilo they continued iu that course, Thoy should broak thielr prond spui, In uccordance with tha Divine command, bacome baptizod, aud lencoforth rogulatiy attend some church, Tho bymn, *“To-day the Huvior calls,” was sung., and Mr. CGravos preyed again, Tho pasor onoounced that My, Graves was going away to New Yok, and that at tho closo of the services ho would be happy to converge and shalto hands with those with whon lie had labarod durivg the past woek. Ad Mr. Gravos had nothing to dopend upon but the frea-will offerings of petsons who took an Inter- estintho rovivals lud by himy, suy gfts that might Lo offorad would bo thuuktully “uccopted and gratofully romomborod. M. Graves himeoll {hen gave o short sketch of big cnroor mingo enterng tho ministry, and explained his mode of work in the dilicrent citios of tho country, to which Lo was vitod from time ta time. 1o offered suothor pruyer, aud ag ity conclusion callod upon thoso who "be- lioved thay would bo saved to arigo, Abouta ecora stood up. Thon le requesced those who dosired Lo bo sayed to arise, L'no catire congre- gation immediatoly lefs their sonts, Mr, Cauves proyed earnestly for tho latter class, nud tho bynm, “Rook of Ages,” was sung. ho boua- diction was pronounced, and & suort ** tostimo- nial mooting ™ wau hold, wherein some of the couvorts made during tho revival guvo their rengons for belluving that thoy had found Christ aud would be eaved. An old mau said tha do- light he took in perusing tho Gospels mado bun think that hls salvation was sure. 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