Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1874, Page 5

i 1 \ \ i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1874 5 — e e e THE PULPIT. The Beformed Episcopal Church The Inangural Sermon by Bishop Cummins, germon by Prof. Swing. The First Sarvices in the New Church, The Free Religionists. An Address by Their President, Gen. Stiles. . Confirmation Services by Bighop Cheney. REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH. | First Service in New YorkesScrmon by Bishop Cummins. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. New Yook, Jan. 4.—The first regular services under the suspices of tho new Beformed Episco- sl Chareh were held st Sicinway Hall in this Gity, this morning, the hall being crowded. The Jorye attendance must Lave been gratifsing to the adberents of the now faith. Bishop Cam- mins conducted the service, assisted by the Rev. . B. Leacock, of the Church of the Holy Trin- iy, s0d the Rev. A. V. Feltwell The revised prever-book was used. The germon, which was by Bishop Cumming, was ou the new ¢ burch, 3ad the various elements composing the founda- tion on which it has been builded, or, rather, is puildicg. Below are tho most interesting fea- | tares 1n the discourse: Other founéation can no mzn lay than that is Iaid, which is Jesus Carist. This is the ¢zandard wo erect to-day as we te- gin our services in this city. On this first Sunday | of tho new year, We proclaim toall men that m {ho strevgth of the Lord we set up our bauner, 2cd ingenbe upon it one name only—a namo hich is above every nama—not philosophy, nor science, nor benevolence, nor justice; not truth even, sbstractly coosidered; mot Christ's Loliest eervants, martyrs, or confessors; not the blessed mother of His humsnity ; not His mystical body, the Church; but Himself, Propbet, King, Teacher, Savior, and Friend. We afo laying no new foundation. We are | tuilding aloue upon the old. Wo have no new pel to preach. If therears any people in this and who expect we shall preachscience, civiliza- tioa, or_philanthrophy, God undeceive them to- dsy. We bave nothing but simple geepel to presch—now and forever Jesus Christ. It is the eame gospel that Psul prenched st Rome and Peter at Jerusalem. We are not laying foundations. We are seeking to remove {he un- | zoupd superstructure mea have built upon, and | toplaot ourscives upon the solid rock. Itis | seal for tho Lonor of Christ's pame which Las Znspired our work. We make no naw departure. | itis the old departure begun eighteen bundied years 830 by tho sea of Galilee, restored and pu- ified by the reforms of the sixteenth cenfury, | 2ad songht to be established in this New Would | by the patriots of the American Revolution. We are part of the historic Chureh of Chriet, Our faith; our ministry, our_worship belong to the old way—the good way of our fathers. The vory prayer-book we use to-day for the firab time since the lapse of eighty-fonr years, was tho | revision effected by men, some of whom were mgners of the Declaration of Independence, and : all associates and co-patriots of George Wash- | ington,—a- Hopkinson, au Ogden, a Duane, | andsJay. ‘hereis oot a book in the world ! huch compares with that, bookin the spirit of | patmiotiem. ** Ob, Lord bless and preserve theee United States,”—how that prayer for the preser- vation of this _country wonld have_ filled all Dearts if it conld bave been prayed during the dredry war of the rebellion! ~ (To the Associated Press.) New Yorr. Jun. 4.—The insugaral services of the Reformed Episcopal Church were held 1n Steinway Hall this morning. The copgregation wes large. _ With the exception of the xdoption of the Pravor-Book of 1785, there was little dif- forence from tho rituslof the Episcopal Church. Bishop Cummins, who w010 no vestments of any Yind, preached from Corinthiane, iii., 11: “For ciher foundstiors csn mo man lay than that is lnid, which i3 Jesus Christ.” Tle said they nscribed con their banuer only the xame Jesus Christ; this was their cornar-stone ! 1nid in Zion. They built on the God-head of | Jasus, not_on His divinity; they built alsoon ! the bumanity ¢f Jesos, and on Him as one me- d:ator between wau and God. They proclaimed Joens the eole priest of the Christian Chuwich, | and when any man proclaimed himself a priest Lo robbed the Son of God of hia prerogative. Taey built on the truth of Christ’s presenco with His people by His gpint; mot in = . cxnal eense, or in the seose that min can make his God_ by coneceration. 1t waa the intentiou of the Reformed Episcopal Chureh to preach ouly the Gospel. They estub- li:bed 0o new foundation, but, casting aside assumptions which had grown_isto the Church, were retarning to tho old foundation. They Lad. 0 ill-feelings towards any one. In conclugion, Bishop Cummins appeatcd to the Throne of God 10 guard the Reformed Episcopal Church. P s PROF, SWING. The First Sermon in fiis New Church z Building. The opening of Prof. Swing’s new church, the Fourth Presbyterian, at the corner of Rush and Superior streets, occurred yesterdsy forenoon, and, notwitbstanding the severity of the snow- sioa which set in previous to the hoar for bold- ing service, & large congregation was in sttend- ance. A full description of the edifice was minted 1n the last issne of THE TRIBUNE, ad it s therefore unnecessary to &7 anything farther sbout it, ex- et that the acoustic properties of the suditorium are equally good for tho yrercher and the vocalists. The services were begun with an anthem by the quartet choir. Tbe pestor then invoked the Divine blessing, Tezd the thirteenth chapter of Paul's Epistle to s Corinthuane, and offered prayer. The hymn, "Com, Thou Almighty King," was sung by the coogregation, after which it was announced that® 2 Lutiness meering of the Society would be held Wedneslay evening, Jan. 14, und that praver- Meesings would be held every evening this week 7.2, It was also announced that the dedi- C2tioa of the church would tuke place in abcut I%0 weeks, sod thet the Ley. Dr. Patteison ¥ould in al] probability a8 st the pastor w per- fomin; the ceremony. Prof. Swing theu deliv- e:od the followiug sermon : “WhenIwasachild I spake as a child, I under- Food s a child, I thougat z» o chiid ; but when I be- 3¢ aman I put away chilaish things, For now we ecethrough s gisss darkly; bul then 1809 10 fare : mow I know in part; buithen shall I Xow ss alep T am known,"—1 Cor,, 18: 11, 12, beiemesniug of Peul in these familiar verses secma to x‘;l!m: that, as man comes through childbood,iu which he s a ‘cnfldish linguage, and thinks’ childich ]‘.—’!chu, supposing, for exumple, that the stars are Wapeciode by, en.t fhat (he world 18 little larger than I fm or village where the hears’ home 4§ s also regarding grest spiritusl truths, ® puses (brougl Lumble stages of kmowk &2t and belief, and Imows only as much 3.t God and butan destiny 28 8 child comprehends §¥Le eartivs size and wotious or of the orbits and dis- WDos of the stare. Madume Michelet relates that Tauithe was a clild ehe was unwilling for Ler fatler g0 0nt to the farthest £:ld to seo the reapers, lest be gt never be eble to return over the wide sea of ¥a%4in the meadow Letween. To her, thinking &8 & S, that meadow of score of acres poscessed i mignitude ond terrors of an Atlantic. It wes it gulf fized Letween her aud ber loved father, s, socording to Punl, our moral ideus repose in our Zind) miselispen, wagut, false, as though wo looked Wk an olecure glss that gave obiy (Tiues of objects, and these in confusca form i distance. But a8 childhood riscs up omt of E:mfmeu and no longer supposes z mesdow on the 10 b a8 large a5 the ocean, and no longer sup— 155 the stars to'be lunys or candles which one mmigut ’_}flh 10 possess, 80 the moral worid will become more n‘“flml; and’ better kuown, hece and hereafier. mflirum Clisistianity will become men, the dark tereure glass will bo withdruwn, and the communion {¥een man and truth wll be without distortion and :hrs'wm Lo face to face, Coming to this manhood ,_,_,’fllehn the soul will put awsy its childish things, foebungthus not a monotony bt a series of trans- rations, o0 in 3 drama - where the curtain fs Tising s 1alling npon successive scenes of growing interest, otght t0 expoct in Nature some confession of th IPeres of the great human dramm snd some Pution of Ler scencry and music to the oS upon bher stage. We meet to-day Vel Of those polots in Naturew time tag sabe seems to confess 1nan's destiny of diviston Sabdivision of powers, av.d learning, and wisdom, 84 hopes, and seems 10 say if God's Children must ‘pess through many stages between cradle and*tomb, 1 shall mark timo for theso children, and will com: mand the Earth to swing liko a great pendulum south. Wera and nortbward, und thus measure for mankind thie scary of Loghiocd, and manhaod, snd old age. Tc- day. therefore, we itsud, mot ot pome pointof time muac consplcuous by the decrees of the ¢ Almanac,” but by the grand voice of Nature, for now the sun, the groat TULNG stur of life, siarts back fowurd the great bubitable zunes 10 renew all things, from the verdura of every Lill and the growth of every field, to the in- dustry and hope of every heart, The Christmas and New Yeardayaaro not days created by the convenience of man but by the wisdum sud power of God. Man's soul loves rising und folling accents, loves joy and pensiveucss, waking and_sleeping, the opening leat and the falling leaf, the heart’s unticipstion and the beart’s remembrance. In harmony withthe whele music of man's sou! tiie great God _of wan and Naturs commends tho sin to go_uwsy cud come again, und thus God carnes His children from storm to yeace, from suow to Larvist, from ico to flowers, from tho imprisoumient of winter to the grest emancigation of lesty Junc, By this fulling and rising music God marks the time in man’s murch between virth snd decth. And whfat nmarch it 5 At titaes Joyous snd quick i Lappy duys; ut times slow and sclenin, when we are followibg tiw dead or ave oureelves dying. Having akuded now 1o this New Year period us oue of tho great coufelons of Noture, thet man s mot o momotone, bt a varled, progreesive piece, I must Jeavo to your own poetry lunger reflection over this greatuess, and kinduess of Nature, and wust inquire whiat it ju in man that tho greatsun is Aividing up wo esutifully into turee-score and ten ports, for the individual aud futo thousands of puts for the worid? <Luc answer is shadowed in our text. That which the suu is count- 1ng for you is your slops from thinking s s child to thnuking 33 a wan, frow your joy of elildbod to your puiting away of cuildish things, from your sceing 1hrouga s bscure clust 10 your seciag tiuth fuce 10 ace. According to this outlook of the grest saint and in hsrmony with Naturc’s spirit of change, we are fuly ~awhorized to expect uatious, sud Mtersture, wnd ecience, nud Christianity to undergo great changes ' snd pass along from childuood toward munnood. Every department of iife wid numost equally put awsy childinh thiugs, for Nature {8 no respector of persons,uud if min moves away from childhood in sclence, and art, nnd government, Lie will move away from infancy aiso in religion, As childhood tettles down upon ihio whole world of our infuncy, snd makes us no poorer in our soography than we are in our theoiogy, es we havo Lo ess wise view of the carth und tho slars than we have of the sleigh and tho reindeer that bricg Christmas presents: us childhood thus affects alike every opera- ton of the brain, 50 the coming of manhood wil Le to and for all things, snd nations wil no more reform their sclences und their aris than they will their re- ligions, Esch New Year comes to everything aud 10 - everythivg equally, letting a2 curtain fall ugon yestrdsy and rse mpon a sweet morrow. Thero are many who do 1ot believe in any New Year of the soul. It comes to | the harvest-field, but not to man in his sauctuary. Etcrnal rest in thle ideas and practives of yeaterday ia the ouly Jaw of Life to them. But wo know their his- ory o well tast we cannot any louger accept of them 18 good iuterpreters ¢f God to muu. When the mie- sion work begun they opjosed it on the ground that | God would attend to the leathen world in His own time; when the Sunday-school movement began, they opysed, for they had Dot seen it thus in their chi.d- hood ; aid when the abolition movement Legan they opposed, becauso that which had Leen was the only thing which in their minds should be, and aurely sluv- ery uad been from Waehington to Moses. To them the world was not an unfo.ding plant, not a chilahood siruggiing toward manhood, but it was o finished work, waiting for death to come. Notwithstandin, these stationary minds, Nature went forward with Ler New Years full of new thoughts aud new jmpulses and wore her new garlunds of mirsions, of Sunday-schoals, of ifberty, and of religion, In each ora the world, like the Apostle, put_sway childish -thiugs and begin to €peak u8 5 man and uct a8 o Jnan, But so familiar are you all with the grest Frogress nations have madein these paths thatno furtiier words are needed from the desk ; and furthermore to w5 all to-day the individual bearing of Puul’s words is the most valusbls, Nations are of long life. Tho in- Qividual hasiens uwsy. Nations aro of the earth only. Individusls hasten iway to an immortal carcer. On | account of this briefuess of life and this goiug to God thiese words about passing from childhcod to manhood como to us_all to-day with ol tho power of paesing yeurs nud & coming eternity, What s most to Do feared s uot that the world will not advznce rapidly enough In its reform of theo~ Iogical doctrine, but thzt you and I will not 5o feel the brevity and solemnity of individual life 3 to mako us put away childish things each year, and sdvance to beiter thought and life, That {s the voice of esch new year, unlces this: # You, ob mortal, have kad an- other long lesson from the world; you have tat in its great echooi-house for twelve long months, and Lave seen, the wise aud tlo unwies, tle Wickdd and tho rightcous, the industrions and the idle, the murderer aud the bencfactor, the kind and the cruel, the Atkcist and the Christian, and all conditions and 'qualitics of 1ife and of character pass before you, and you have studiod then long and deeply, and now the curizin has fulicn upon the scene, and what has your soul learned in this thrilling scLiool-room 17 You have scen those led to the prison who onca lived in palaces ; sou have seen homes desolate which W ereonce Lappy ; y0u have seen numes cnce honored snd trusted Ly the public covered st lest wath di~ honor; you bave eeen men of sclence and men of famo become dust 2nd be carried to tno tomb; you haveseen the merket-plzco snd the sanctuary, the home of the happy and the cemetery of the dead, ‘sud Tnow coming from ench 3 wanderful experience, frou such a varigd spectacle, you stand at the open gate of 2 Dew year znd the great eun fhot marked your sol- emn time geoms to avk, With what kind of & eoul do you come from the last scene, and with what do you enter thenext ? Unless each one of these years sirips us of some childish thing or wicked thing, and clothes us with some mow truth or virtue, the grest sun goes and comes in vain, As earth's soil grows thicker and richer every year, because the leaves and grasses of last year full upon it, and carry to it the ‘Wealth of the stmosphero and eunshinc, stolen from {he upper atmosphere, so man’s soul and mindaro ex- pected to grow more divine in their Successive Leart- Loate. Tho evenis, happy and sad, of the past, the ex- pericuces, bappy and painful, of yesterdus, sro the autumn Ieaves that fall und moulder on the beart, to to miske it ricker for coming fruits and flowere, Tn- dividual lifo is cumulstive, Itsets forth very swall, but it increases by a compound interest. The whole sum of decds, and thongute, and successes, and £or- Tows, up to {he last night, become the princiyal,—the capitil in trade of ‘to-morrow,—sud, s this fumense _experience is heuped up, ' the mind ought to be found cutting Joote irom childish {hiugs 3nd putting on the grandeur of & manhood or wonuunliood noblein every lineament. The modern method of spending middle life, in the pursnit of weaitl, is one of the calamities of our age, Tor these middic Yeurs are the very ones in which thc mind and soul should put on thelr’ grestness; not the grentuess of moncy, or dress, or equipsge, but of cul- ture nd svirit. Aiter the romance 4nd false coloring 25d vanity of youth are past, life should seck w sim- Plicity of material things and a richness of mind and ccnduct. The greatest King of Europs is the one of siviplest dress nud cquipage; and the world is just bo- ginuing to laugh, and, inving begun, will never cesse Tow tolaugh st the Ligh leels and lofty head-drets that Louis XIV. wore in order to make himeelf lofticr than common mortality—loftier in body, be~ cause ke did not know that man s not a body, but & soul. But the world now knows it was hin mind and his morals that needed extension, Ono of the saddest thing. in the world is to see a rationai ond even a divine Leing, sl fashioned by & temporary acci- dent, wedded to-dsy to what the wholo world will laugh at to-morrow. Couid the past como up beforo s to-day in its costumes, we shonld all be convultcd with laughter ; and yet to make those ald toilets and to ear them took up the day and night of those lords 2nd ladies of yesterday. How they oll exulted i what tho very nextage wea fo receive with merrimen: ! Now, whea we wish to amuse cur children we parede befote them some playmates or_friends dresscd in tne style of days that are gove. Now ihis devotion to toflet 18 the rutuldiwg of a fonl {0 an accident, Itis 3 eacrifice of a divine, sweet ifo uron the altar of to- merrow's lauglter. But there are aitars of to-mor- Tow's love aud veueration. Men speak liphtly of the riches of Ora:sus, but mever of the poetry of Dlind Homer or the fables of Eeop. We all laugh at King Louis XIV., but pever ot Fenelon and slsasme Gayou, _Louis XIV. was #n zccident of timo end piace. = Fenelon was 3 part of God's grest eternity. ‘Fo-niorrow, my frieuds, the world wiil smile at your tollet whichl you bave arranged to-day with so much care, but it will deeply love your charity, your in- tegrity, your morai beauty, if 50U have any, in deeds orin memory. God's grest New Year gite should open, not for new fushione, but new souls, - That mid- dlo life may bespent in the puruit of gold is cdmit- ted, but it must be gold about to Lo well opplied—ap- -ied not to cLiidishnese, but to tbat clearer view of uman life which comes after the olscure glo:x of fashion and vanity bas been removed. It is uot the pursult f gold that is so injurious, it s the spending of ftafterward. Itmay be so divbursed s to keep the mind in constant childhond, in growth, in boauty, and leave its owner an obfect of man's con- tempt and God's wrath; and it may Le 60 isbursed as to be like tuition-money in a good school, every part of the fortune leading the soul along to Righer realms. ZEschines baving adesire to be an ora- tor, plicod gold in the hand of Uie greut teacker Gor- gins, and thut hanafull of gold was transformed into fie eloquence that zstouished Atbens aud made De- mosthenes fear for Lis own Tich laurels, Gold may iherefore always be sought when it 18 goiug to be truns- formed into £ome amtaity, of beauty, or wisdom, or Christianity of man, Tho alchemista sought, day and 2ight, for a chemical agont that would change stones into gold, but Nature gives us a reality Yelter far than their dream—a living, divie soul, ‘whero gold will turn into ecucation, and love, and liberty, sud religion, This sw , the’ alchemists, ' Each one of you has o héart whero wealth or almost poverty msy turn inlo the image of God. When the pumsuit of momey is scparsted from the pursuit of_spiritual good, life is no longer curaulative, but it falis into s decline, One reason Whysome men and women of 50 and upwurds look Lack with joy only to childhood and south is because fhiey Luvo miade 8 deeert of all middle life, and, in oider to Bnd an oasis of trees and flowers, thcy are com~ ‘peiled to go back to childniocd, where God and Nature Lfere near the beart. Tho moment they parted com- pany with Nature, and began to live with the accidents B¢ life, the great field of existence became a burning pand ; and, when the hoart secks a Lappy memory, 1t Tmast'go back to childood’s daye, God, however, Las ot declured all life to be s descrt, except_childhood. Y4 fa.t, He wishes the soul to put away childich things, ‘id, 12 middle life, baving thrown down the obscure gizss, to come nearer 10 Him, come withs @ nobler Sharucter, come with o crown of actione, come fres from superstition, come with a conscloussess of His prescnce, come purified by experience of sorrow, coms with such an upproach as mo childhood ever Shew. Itisa great misfortune if in old sgo we have othing but childhood to Jook back upon with jor, Tt oour srrapgement, and not God's. In God's plan, “hi1dnood 14 not o day to which one would return, but a day that 18 slwsys to go with us,—indued, held i everissting Temcmbrance, and hence alwuys our Owhy—a part of the soul’s very Leing, ut yetit is de- ‘signed to be only one star in the disdew Aound it middio ifs xad old sge are to sline with o brighter, disiner light. Xt must be that in the econo- my of God buzman lifels to grow grander oaitad- Yinces in the individual cwseer,” The ' Licum of beauty fades from the cheek, mot cause God is aLgry or penurions, but that pride may pzes from ihie form to tho spirit, and that wo may gofrom el to meonkind. The'hair whiteus, not” becuure God's patience Or plonis ex- baustcd, but thut, udmonished thms of immortality, Lie that wears the Hlver crown may speak kinder words to tie world bejs aboutto lcave, and may look up with more love Lo the world whither hc is about to iy, aa the song-bird, Lefore 1t migrates, looks onautumn and flies a ittle toward the South. In God’s plans life husan_ incressiog inferest, All thio sorrows 5o call=d are cnly the encpping of cords that fasten ounr barks to these shores, That friend who lost wife and children in the shipwreck wrote lately, “ There is nothing left tome of earth.”* Thus what We eull sorrows are Gud's method of cutting Joose the ship, and, when the last sorrow conies, the soul moves ot intd eterrity, and, escaying frm the clouds of our coast, floals 4t omce in reams of light and blise, In Tresence of fuch a method tlunk not, any,of you, of whatever age, or of whatever for- Tow, or Of v.hafever condition, that the Lest yartof 1ife §6 past, Let not the dark curtain that has fellen Letween you and past years feem, to have closed up ifc’n 1 orid and Leiuty for you. The eoul's greatest dnys are always before it. God would mot creates Leing in Ifis own fuage, and then fermit its past to Lecume more fwporiant’ {hen ite future. Tho grest sen which now rtans northward, with a growicg warimth (bt sball dissolve the ico ond ehzll Ledeck every forest and field with foling, comes not only to nzture, Lut to the heart, und carrics not only fluwers for every field, but hopé for evers borom. Tl geie of the new year Is grander tlan tle triumypbul arch of any Cuesar, for through thote orches marched coc- querors end eoldiers rich in dishenor and blocd, and they murched cnly to a fomb and duet But through this guteway ¢f Time you ull pour zlong 10 2 better cducation, and friendshij, und Clzisticnity, and mzy peo Lefore you, uot o Lero's dust, but a soul's Siumortality. It does not require much POetry to be- liold in eacl: New Yeor's-duy a sarly gate Luiit of joy 2nd with go.den words uon it Ly thesume finger, £33~ iug, “Puss ouwsrd thiovgh your soul’s tijunifhal " You who stund here to-ay in 0ld oge, remem= Yer there is noiliug valuabie Jeft Lebiud.' Al the world’s {ruth and culture und its Chriet are in front of you. You who stand bere to-day in decp BCrrow, re- m(mber the lost oncs are ot Luck of you, but Lefore you, The truths of past years snd ihic &) irits cf the dead Lave yaseed sround and all Lefore you, leaving Dotling n the gulf of yesterday but thin dust. In sad Lours tho poet may eay : 4 The hand of the King that the eceptre hath borne, Tiue brow of the pricst that the mitre lath worn, The eye of the ke and tho heart of the brave Are hidden and Jost in the dejbs of tho grave.” But we know that thesc children of God have paseed atound 1o ke future, and that nothing fs n the “ depthe of the grave » but the eceptro of the Kirg and the mitre of the pricst, When the painters drew mor- tals and the croes, they placed thie crurs on their ahoul- ders; but when they painted saints und the cross they pliced the jeweled emblem uron the bosom, Thus the Trutbs, £nd lesvous, aud eorrows of yesterday do rot remain) 3 Lurden or grief bekind you, but are upon your zosem for the future, Paseing up to Ligher wis- dom, pesing along toward s greater enrth, sud toward Deaven, the voice of this far oif century joins withs the voice of tho Suint {o juvite you fo put uway childieh inings, snd the “obscure glaes” ikat conceals duty and Lleseodnese, £nd ec tho great future aud Savior faceto face, Looking aright into futurity, “ With dreamful eyes Your epirit les Beneath tho walls of Paradiso.” —— FBREE RELIGION. be- Criticism of Prof. Swing by X N. Stiles. Yesterday evening Gen. I. N. Stiles, Prosi- dent of the Fres Religious Society, addressed that organization as follows, at the West Side Opera-House, corner of Randolph and Jofferson streets : A learned Professor and pastor of one of the Pres- byterian churches in this city hos recently debvered & sermon iu which ho undertakes to refate what he un- derstands to be the doctrines of the free religionlsts. Te treats free religion as tho religion of pure logic, and says, *Logic, it well followed, may lesd us to doubt whether there i3 such o thing sa beauty; whether there is such a thing 35 honor, such a thing as ‘benevolence, such o thing as mind, such & thingas gratituda or pure affection.” Using the term untellet, 0 T think, n the eamo scnse, the Professor farther says: **Unbelief 83ys, I believe mot in God, henco not in prayer, not in virtue, not in sin, not in man’s greatness, not in his future beyond the grave, Hence Jet me alone. I will eft Lere forever, and pon- der und wonder, aud then die.” If these premiscs of tle Profestor zre true, theu most of his conclusions drawn from them ought to be accepted. Ia it trua that the tendency of fres religion {8 to destroy our Le- lief in virtue, our hatred of sin? Ido not Enow that Tree re.igionists Lave any crecd, Lut oue of its socictics Lias u platform, which reads es follows : * We Cetine Reiigion to be 3 code of morul government based on ndividual convictions of duty, prompting man to sock his grestest Luppluess in the riactice of tle highest virtue. Thet us each person is revponsillo for Lis own nctions, Fo each ehould be perfectly free to choose his own Teligion, guided by tiose mentul factltics whi'h guide him in 1he ofbex aflairs of life, That in matters of redgicus opinicn, reaton s 1be final arbiter, znd the only legitimate suthority.” The Professor concludes hiy seriwon with the following proposition: **Should you not all rek union with sume yosiive, aclive, " sivging, piaing, trustiog church 77 X am not eware that any peron is empowcred to speak auiLoritatively £a to the cardinal Laliefs (f, in- decd, thero are any) of the freo Teligiouiuts of Chice g0. 'No pervon hus, as yet, Leen rdaiued or called to Take charge of this littie Aock. No synod kias yet been couvened. Iom ot aware {Lat,as President of this Socicty, T have any vuch autbority. Ferlaps, however, 1 may, Ly way of furthier preface to my iccture rofer, give Lriety my cwn views of what scems {o me to be proper, amorg ctlier (Lings, (o Le discarded by this Soclety, aLd of tle Jropriety uf which il mombers are to defermuue, “Thiat tLe soul does not exist separnte and spart frem ihe Lody while (ko junctions of the body coutinte, is gencrally admitted. Thet the sonl livea on and con~ fwues 16 act afier the dissolution of the body, 1 have 10 evidence which 1 deem relisble, nor do 1 know of any ove who bes, The luws of Nuture, 8o faras I am abie to understand them, forbid me’ from Tesching such a conclusiou, Mauy jiure-nuinded and intelligent men and women claim i0 beve reccived Euflicient cvidence through o called “ spiritual manifeetations 1o satisfy them of the verity of {oe immortality of the zoul, They have Leen witliheld from me, theugh I have given the sub~ joct more or lecs attention for more thun twenty years. None of these people, so far an I am adviced, Lova ever Teachied such a couclision by reseoning upcn facts wluch are uzderetood by any considerable number of {houghtful persons 1o Lo well estublished, It does not seem Lo me to e desirable, therefore, to devoto auy furter Lime o reasouing upon the subject independcnt of some evidence at lezst of a_trustworthy character, 2nd which I (an comprehiend fu eomo_degree tLrough the medium of my sences. Eora whilo longer 1 jre- fer (0 trust to this * medium,” axd to_diecard others, 1 prefer facts irst_and theoHes afterward. One fact bearing directly upon this question will do to start with, And until oue such fact, well attested, is vro- duced, it scems to e Lest to give our energics und tioughls to the solution of some of the countlees probiems which surround us in this life, to the practi- cal afizirs of this world, obout which we know some- 1Ling already, snd of which wo need to know much more. So much by way of preface. My subject js in the form of an fquiry : What are thofacts? If it ehould be thought cither neceesary or sppropriste taat o text ehould Le choscn, I givo the words of Puul, the srostle Ecrvant of Jesus Chnmsi, 4 Prove all things ; hold fast that which 18 good.” 1f & Jecturer should discoureo fous upen iis ob- servaticns wnd_cxperience while ona voyage to the moon, though he should proceed ina atyle never o giond, cud In terms never €0 eloguent, he_ would soon Lo interrupted with tho rcquest fo frst ralisly us thut le Lad cver made such a voyuge. What would be our conclusions if be wero to inform s that it was our duly to Leifeve that be had made the voynge, in order to biderstid the importauce uf 1ho {nforn:ation he was aLout 10 impart 7 “'Whiat {8 your belief about it?” rald David, I ave none,”taid Natlan ; * why ehould 17 I domt now the facts.” * It ia'sour duty o Lelicse; yon Luck fa:th 3 pray for it, Nathan, jxay for it.” * And will fuith help e o know the trush 7 ” aid Nathun, ** Will it enable meto distinguish error 77 Very muny of the difierences of cur opinicos come from our ditferent understandings of tlo facts from which our opivions bLuve leen deduced. It is no easy awatler, in allcmpting to. soive sny eoclal or religions problem, to determine What the real faclu e which bLeer upen the guestion, 200 whichs ought fo constitute the foundution on ohich to build, When thiero fa complete banzony of opimion as to <l {he facts involved, there comes alho ‘Wondrous hanmony in the couclusions reachcd, The &tory i o famillar ono of the two Kniglts who quar- relcd over the color of & shield, peitber of whom saw Lut tho eide next himeelf. ' Natue is cmineutly, strictly trutbful. Everythicg in nuture s a fact, changeablo only in 118 afpeete, from ail thme and to all fizmo a truth, * Nature,” eays cnecf the ola philo opbere, i n great Lundle Of facts ;7 Lut these fucts nuust be arranged, sorted, genraiized, and, when Qis 1s dome, such of them cs lesr upon the question £o be considered constitute the cvidence upon which our conciusicns are to be reached, In rosching them, I sgree with an emizent law writer that tho only guido to the real truth, * whether the object be to explore the mysteries of mature or un- ravel the Liaden_trsueactions of matkind, {s reason, guided Ly expericnce.” And though reasou fa inade= Guata to ibe rolution of tzany rroblems, it is equal to toach o truth ot to be forgotten, that, in the natare of thinge, many prablema canuot e soived at all. Very early in the histcry of man we find Lim endeavoring %o solve that most insolvalle of all mysteries, the origin of matter, the probiem of creatiom, the first. great, cuuse. The conclusions reached by some of the ezily thinkers huvs Leen edopted by many of the ablest of to-dzy, ond a knowledge of such tends somewhat to confiri the irite waxim that “blstery Tepeats tcelf.” e conclusion by some wes reached long 3go that haman reseon was inacequate to solve tho mystery of creation ; thet ns tho human mind couid not con- ceive of the time when matler would cesta to exisl, $0 aleo It could ot concelve of the {ime when it Lad Dot begun to exist. To gay thut it alweys bad existed and always would cxist was Dot s satisfactory folution, It was mot even 8 comforting ome; indeed it was Do solntion at sll: it waa » conclueion. That conclusion, etated in anc othier form, 18 this * It is impossitie for the mird of Zian to conceive of anything us tke product of creative power, but ag the Tesult, the erfvct, of something Fhich was before it, and this cgain of ‘what was still ‘Tefore it, and oz, 35d on, and on, till the mind is 1ost save in the contemplation of its own ignorance ard Helplessnoss, Aan in general, bowever, was_slow to Deifave that hifs reason was not euflicient for the solu- tion of this and all other problems of mature. For 8 time he was content with the assumpition that the vari- otx forces of Dature were conirolled by in- Vi spirita to which he guve the ‘mzme }:flm Even Kepler, wko discovered that the ts moved around the sun In elipecs, and de- Sozibed aqual ireas in eqacl Lisass, bellaved’ that ia such there existed a splrit who guided its movements Now there cxista not s spirit in each planet, but one in Denven who guides all ; God, o pernon, say3 the theo- Togien ; gravity, = iaw, says the scientist. The num- Ber of aparits o gods came to e reduged to one, who was invieted withi personality, and who, as man con- ceived Him to Le, wes very like himself, though pos- Bceking greater yet not superior power. “Thero were men who founded great religions, some of which still endure, who assumed to have received from ihis perecpality revelations concern- iog Timself and Hs purposes, These Tevelations it was, though, explined many if bot all the problems which reseon had Bitherto fatled to solve. Historians in the main fal to Kive us the reasons why many of the Jearncd and thinking men even in those days rejected these ussump~ tions, Lut bittory Joes ot fail to give us what was then, ond by many “Lelievers * gl in, regarded s euiicicnt evidencd to suprott {he genuinenees of the so-calicd Tevelations, This leads 1o the consideration of the nyture sud character of ecme ofithese evidences, Witls & view 1o det.rmine the fact, the zeal truth of the matter. So long 08 this domain was regarded a8 escred o]l inquiry was forlidden. Chernbim opd seraphim have ceaced to guard its postals; scicmce has opened wide ita docrs, and i rearch of truth rrofeseors and presche ers even buve dared 0 enter, andwith ofl fustead of fulth in their Lps. Faith, 35 Bacon says of riches, 435 like beggrge Wik hindereth the march.” I brings comiost, it may be, Lut not substantial aid. It rheds no Lght, but darkeus ; it £erves only to lull the encrgies ard quict the cmbition: it tesches us o {rust: it fortids us to inquire. Let Doult be cur Dbandmaid, * Doubt,”says Buckle, “is e key to knowledge.” Zucu who have no doults. end who' sre Fexfectly eztisfied with their own knowledge, will nev- er ativmpt (o ircresse it. Doubt must pre- ccde inquiry, 8s jnquiry precedes Lnowledge Religion ~ bid favglt the mavigator M Relliu that the esrth was flat, but, ssid {hat Dravo deubter, “Thorgh it bath beeh evermcrs affrm- ed Ly Holy irit {lut thecarth should Lo o wide- spread plain burdened only by the waters, yet { com= fort myseif when 1 remeniter ihat in the ‘eclifres of the mocn the thadow ezst f the exrth is 1uund, avd ca 18 the thadow, such in like manner is the substance,” Teligious teaclero have (cr tho 1ost part alwsge dis- couragud n skate of doubt end fotered 5 spirit of be- Yef. Evenat this late day meuy religious peoLle rtig- maflze a etate of doubt upon ecme questions as einful and e deulter am an evil-minded und_dangercus jerson. Such u Jorition may be in the highest degree Tcligicus, but not in -Le smallet degree ia it utional or 1 hiloscphical. Bays Mr. Lecky: “If toy eystem stigmumtizes 18 criminal a state of doult, de- ncunces the excmination of scme one class of aigu- ‘ments or facts, fecks to introduce the Liss of the af- fections inlo the inquirles of reugon, or regurds the onest conclusicns of zn npright nvestigution 28 in- voiving woral guilt, that #ystem is sulversive of - {eilectusl honesty.” It s not difficult to understand thict many comforting eseurances como o {he man of faith, srd he deserves but little charity who would rudely pluk them sway. Thcre can Ge mo_ doubt that, with some, adherence to ralpable errors sfiords preat comfort of mind, while fhe ccceptance of the re trath would e followed with great_ menful pain. “No great men- {al revolution,” seys 3r, Spencer, “cun be wccom- pilshed withiolt great laceraticn.” What 1nust be iho anguith of he Hindoo worshiper who yields Lis beifcf in tho dévine sttrilutes of Ma stone god, who can no longer with fufth ook to him for forgiveness for past ofCucs, and for Liessings upen his future under- takings. What does be not dceerve who would de- yrive him of the com forting arstronces of bis simple, eLildlike faith in a god be cin both cce aud fec:? Wo are not reeking comfort, but reurching for truth, What aze the fucts T According to man's {estimony, there i s power greater than Nstue and which ertoblished Natv1e's lawe. Ho tells ua that that jower Las a peracuailty, Dot who.ly talike Limadf ; inceed, that be Limeelf wi in tho beginning created Ly ard in the likeness of thut Ferscnslity, tLat Be has ¢cen tLat person : nay, more, tut he hew talked with Fom face 10 fuce a5 with friend. Since Nutore in ail her vaet Jaboratory of fucta furnishes nct s tirgle cne in su)] ort of 1his cluim of men, W the evidnces mpon which it Teste? Ecleiy end alne tpen the fesumons of min hinsef. “Let kim, sys Dr. Dra- per, “who rlies urom 1ibo suthority _of human eviGence in the gulidsnce of Lis opivions, first vettle with himeeif what that evidencois worth.” It is with no Jittle cegree of s:dncse, says another, that T have reached {ho conclusicn that of all sources of truth to which we rgort human testimony is the micst upreliatle, What, smorg the thirgs of the past which are zow Tegarded as abourditics, czunot b Jroven Ly human tiet'mony 7 Rater let’ mwe under- iake an casier t:a%, tnd call your stenton 103 1ew of {he many sseumpticns of fact which Lave come down fo us fiom tho pust, eanctified by age, many of them suricunded Ly » hialo cf zelfgicus glory, and zll sup ported Ly the festimery uf 3 cloud of witnese T will favs over {ho fumiltar stories of tho etoping of ihe planets in their course at ccmmand of an ancient . itary chieftain, the cdventures of cne of the early navigaiors in tLo stomach of 1he great fish, the aston- islm(nt of (he traveler at hearing the besit ou which De 10de ssking him questions, and talking £ot Lo an aes, Lut fiko s an. These ond many ofhers, which 50 attcnisbed ts in chidhood and comioried us 3o nutorer ycais, bad Lest bo persed over to_consider occurrences of much later date, scme of which, tiough mot rccorded in holy books, seem to be everl Tetter zitested. Plato war born of 3 virgin ; his fether was the god Apollo. Simon Mcgus couid ipstantly mtke himsclf invisiblo. Jic fermed a man out of the air. He couid sit unharmed iu the midst of burcing fiames, As be wulked the streets be cast many ehadows in dificrent directions. He was fu meny places at the same time, Ho rafted » young woman from tle dead ; end finally, ‘Weary of this world, ho asccnded Lediy juto Heaven. Alterius Msgnus constructed @ brazen man so skill- Tully that he was used 28 5 cervant, but, becoming gar- Fulous cid quosrelsome, Thomas Aquides broke bim in pcces wilh 2 Lammer. Muhomet, the founder of great religion, performed many miiracles, end, after his death, Lis cofin, Lis ody, or toth, were Euspended for o lobg time in mid- air without any sprort, Jesus Christ, the founder of amother great eligicn, Lke Flato, was born of o virgin. e cast out devils, raised {ho dead, rose Himself from ihe Gead, £nd, Jiké Bimon Megur, atcend: d Lodily into Heaven.” 80 late &8 tho year 1464, a Lull of Pope Inno- cenl VIIL annovnces that many Fercons axc having in- tercourse with the Devil, £0a £0 ure Llasting the fruls and grains cf the £ed, {bo increzfacf catlle, etc. In oledience (o (bo ccnmonds of this head of tho Chri tien Church, msuy huudiads of sged women wera burned a¢ 16 stuke for Boldiog Inicrcourse with the e Lutber, tho fatker of Protestentiem, rays that he fre- qenily cenversed will tke Devil. On Gzo occation, When woreted in =n argument with him, he threw an inkstznd at bfs (the Devii's) hesd,—for Luther wzs uo less wanting in coursgo thun fn faith. * The Devil £ays Luther, * knows well bow to construict his argu- ments, and o urge them with the ekill of & master. Ho celivers bimself with a grove et with a shrill ~olce, Nor does he use circumlocution, sud beat about the Lusk, but excels in forcible etatéments and quick rejoinders. 1 no longer wonder that persons whom lLie acwafle in his way are occasionally fcand dezd in their beds. He 16 able to compress and throttle, and more then once he haa 50 aseaulted me and driven my sot1 into 3 corner that 1 feltas § the next moment it wourd leave my body. I am of o injon that Gesner csmo to his death in this manner. The Devil’s manner of ofening e debate i pieassnt enough, but b soon urges things so peremplorily that the Teepondent fn & short time knows mot acquit bimee.t,” Kings oven bear festimony to the truth of thess re~ markablo_ occurrences, Junies 1. havicg hesrd {hat Agnes Sampson, wiih 20 other Scotch witcher, hed safled in' eieves from Leith to North Derwick Chrreh tohold a banquet wilh the devil, or- Qred her brought before him, and proceeded to hear testimony in support of the charge. Tho evidenco showed (othe eatitfection of tho Kingand his Court that che, with cther old crones, hd bagtized a black cat, rnd thicreby rajsed a dresdfal storm, which nearly wrccked the ship in which was the King, and Agbes was burned at the stoke, calling on Jesua to have mercy upen_ her, for Christio mep would not. Ata still Iater period, a monk who biad grievously sinned died u horrible death, exd when Luried (ke grourd {Liice vemited Lim up, snd it was only when contecrated brcad was rlaced oyer tho epot flat the earth would zetain him. We lock with wender {bat fbese things should bave lcen belicved, yetfor full 1,500 years thesc and mony ofbr kindred alrmdities were be- leved by L'opesud prest, by Kiug nnd minister, by the lesned tpd ty (he unlemmed. Of many of thom Dr. Drorer ssys: “In their support might Le j20duced & greuter maen of Ltmsntestimony thinn 3xobsbly could Le brought to Lear on oy other matter of Lelfef n tle eutire Listors of man.” Yet who tcievs dn iny cme of {Lum mew? For 1,600 yeara theto abeurdities wore nnchallenged. It wen exsier to Eelfevo hsnio doult, The spirit of doubt was a ein, while fhe spirit of Felier wes a virtue, cr, 88 tLe *Profesecor” of to-day hes it * Distrust s {he dezth of tho eoul, Lelief fs ita }fe.” 1t wan safer 0 Lelleve. To doupt was to be dezaned —iiterally. Tho burning wes not postponcd then il God +houid kindle the firs n the eternity which luy teyond. The fiames were aturted here,—not He, Lut Hub minfeters, o plicd the tozcb. Our woudcr s tomewbst akated when we conetder the mesns which were cmplosed to discover trath. Yihen one coulet do that which Lis feliows had Litlerto thought impostitle, it was suficiont yroof that Le wue Lorn in 8 rupernatusal way. If the claractcr of & Privcess wie mrailed, ko chore s champlon to vindicate #t. If he come Off the victor, it faoved that the the wis mot frall. Even a Natiotal Assembls, which could not decide after & long Qiscassion whether tle children 2ould inherdt the progerty of their fathcr during the Jifetime of the gruncfather, baving chosen » numberof _combutants, and for the children an cqual number, and thoee of the children provizg victorious, the luw was fixed in their favor, 1ie who conld chavge a stick into a ecrpent, or seem to do 10, corld tioreby jrove that thiee wan greater than ten. 1f De failed to cliange the sick, if the trick was discovered, be ccmd, neverinel eflence all doobt with, * Thus eath the Lo T have eaid, eulstantialy, that all evidence ss o the ‘teginning, the nature, shd chsrzcler of what we call God, or the condition 'of man aiter this life, rests on tbe word of man slone. I think rome reaecns have Leen ekown which sustain the reeition that the testi- mouy-of man uron douktful questions, when uDsup- gorted, fs worth but little, and when opposed by the Tacts of nature is worih nothuzg at all. I havo little confdence in the assLmptions of man {hat Le i in the porseesicn of eny evidence whatever vron there qechiion, whether te clai: i gt forvard Ly Bud. hu or Jests Curis, Mosca cr Joe Smi, Emanuel Bwedenborg or Andrew Jackson Davis, Do not tnéerstand me as malsting 1hat reason is suflicicot for the solution of cither of these probiems. On the contrezy, I do niot sec Low, i the nature of thicgs, they can be solved at all, 1 speck upen the surface of crestion, 3 mere bubble upon the immeasuratle ocezn of etemnity, thongl he pretends to know miuch, rezlly kucws but litte, Of_ chsnge, he knows mich; of creation, nothing. He knows thst ho and all tht 18 around Dim ore the effects of former effects, froducts of the yest, and parents cf the future. Lven bis ovn thoughts are born unto him, atd, 34 Herbert Spencer say?, *azo like children which Le 1oy mot cardessly Iet dle” 4 Esery human thought,” saya the Duke of Somer- eet, ©Las §i8 jarentago; every word in our languago hed its pedigree.” Ho ind ail things elee hzvebeen caused, produced. evolved, through ionumersbie +hanges under ever exiating Inws, fixed, unchenging, ipexorable. Let bimi content Lizuself with bis ever imcreating effiats to wndersland s Luws, to Lve aad ow 1o act in reverent obedience to their commands, Let him +acek lin greatest happiness in the pructice of the highest virtue,” and alurdon his attemts to solve the irexplicabie, by Lis pretentious efforts to explaiin the Dlss wud purposcs of 3 Creator which he himaself created. R BISHOP CEENEY. The First Confirmation Services of the Reformed Church, The first confirmation by a Bishop of the Re- formed Episcopal Church occarred yesterday morning at Christ Church, Bishop Cheney pre- siding. The Bishop was arraved in Episcopal lawn, which was vory becomiug. He wus assist- ed iu the chaucel by the Rev. Mr. Tucker, of tho Reformed Episcopal Church, andof Chicago. The congregation wis very large. The driving #1orm biad failed to deter the faithful from at- tendance on & ceremony 8o full of interest to the new denomiration, and the spacious church was titled. After the notices of the day had been given, the candidates for cortirmation, forty-five in number, of whom thirty-four were ladies, walked up to the platform and stood in front of the commfinon-table. Their sges ranged from 15 to 55,—gruy-huired ladies and grsy-Lesrdod me ns well” a8 quite youwy girls, being foun omoog the uuwber. ‘the Auglican custum of amaying tue ladies in vigiwal white, emblem ~ of purity in lifo, was ignored, Nearly all the “cancidates wero dressed in Lluck, silk and velvet predominating, ihere nas but oue excepuion to tns suneseal garb. A tail, giaceful bloude, with tine features and deli- cate cowplexion was becowingly attired in s biue dress ana heavy whito sucque, with boonet to correspond. Viewed fiom iLe stundpoint of o 8pceiator, tho contrast was pleasmug. The Little laco csjs usuwly WOrn utconurmation were alzo dizcurded, andthe forty-tive caudidates stood arebesaed vefure the Bislop, 'Tiie asnist- autelersyman read the pruyer, aiter which Lishop Cheuey preceeded with 1ho ceremony, 1epesting tho prayer ordained by tho Lturgy of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church, comtneucivg, * Do- fend, Ok Lord, this thy servant,” for eucii caudis date. ‘When the rite was ended Bishop Cheney ad- dresced the confirmed biietly and carnesily. He comyured their connrmation to the stous Ebe- nezer, erected by tho Israclites 88 a monument to celetiate a noted victory. Choir coatirmation ‘was & mopument of Victory, Lasmuch as noue of those Lefore Lim bed reached the glorious eminence npon waich they s100d Withoul & vic tury, wrought, 10: by their owu strengti, but by the arm ot God, through Christ's sacritice upou 1hocross. 1t wasa monument of their geati- tude, qunemuch as their ealvation was given to them by God, certified vy His word, and sealed Ly the Spait who ~gave them the un- speakable pesce of God; it was a mouna- went of testimony, inasmuch &s they stocd before tho world and the congroga~ tion, witnessés of Goa's gooduess to them aud tueir comgact to walk belure Him in righteous- nees all the deys of their life, washed and sane- tined Ly the biood ot s gon; it waw, fioally, n monuwent of Listory, because they were Loe first perrons confirmed in the Roformed Episco- f"d Chiuch, to whom future geperations would ook back through the coming ceoturics of tLat Chumck. Let them, therefore, bu exhorted, go forth Lravely to meet that reproach and perse- cutioa which must ineviiably rollow the slep theyhad taken, uot trusting in theirown streagth, but strong in the belief tuat they took no step whoro Jesus ad not lead and point tle way. “The pddiess cnded, the commumion service was read, and the new communicants partook of the Sacrament, with mauy otaers, on this the first Sunday of tho new year, PERSONAL. THE CITY. W. A. Simmons, Internal Revenue Commis- sioner for the New England States, s stopping 85 the Sherman House. JMiss Augusts Dargon, tho celebrated star actress, has faken quarters at tho Sherman House during her engagement at Hooloy's. William O. Avery, Chief Clerk of the Internal Revenue Department, and John B. Taglor, of the samo Department, aré stopping at the Sherman House. HOTEL ARBIVALS. Palmer House—C. B. Newell, Springfield, Mass.; D. W. Corwin, Cincinuati; J. ¥. French, Cleveland; J. B. Rethbun. New York.. ... Grand Pacific—W. P. Ciark, Washington; Spinger Harbaugh, Pittsburgh; Geo. M. Foi- rester, St. Lowa; Geo. W. Durnell, Lexinzton, Ky.; Jobn Boundly, New York; G. B. IKeut, Byracuse. Sherman House—Gen. M. A. Reno, U. 8. A.; W. II. Reynolds, Providence, R. L ; Wm. Howell, Puiladelpbia; J. H. McKider, Montreal; the Hon. O. i. Iograbam, Wis consin; Johu M. Douglas, Connecticut. 5 Matteson House—1i. D. Goodman, St. Louis ; J. Chariton, Chicago & Altoa Railroad. IN GENERAL. DeLong sold his carriage to the Mikado be- fore he left. Heo'll do for Chief-Justica,—Boston Post. 1) Pierco Burton, editor of the Aurors Herald, was married on Christmas to Mias Maria A. Silley, of Athol, Mass. Jobn 8. Hager, the California short-time Sen- ator-elect, haa boen delayed m Lis deperture for Washington by tho sickness of his wife. Fred's jump from Brevet Second Lieatenant to Licutenant-Colonel shows what can be sc- complished Ly the right kind of backing.—Ecans- Tiile Journal. - 3. L. Pennington. the present Governor of Dakota. was an spprentice boy n the old Ra- leigh Siar oftice thirty-three years ago. Ex-Gov. Holden was foreman in_the same office at the time.—Raleigh (N. C.) News. Marshal Bazaine will be allowed to walk about the island of Sainte Alarguerite, bis place of “gecluvion.” His wife, who is noar her conflne- ment, has aolicited permission to live with her husbaud, and it is generally believed that this request will be granted. J. B. Breese, youngest son of ths Hon. Sidnev Breese, who has been absent from home for tho past eix or eight years, attendivg to_ his dutics a8 Licutenant in tho Marioe gervice, during which time ho has visited China, Japan, sud many othor foreign countries, is expectd homo this weels. Gorv., Dix has appointed Alexander S. Johnson, of the Commission of Appeals, to be a Judge of the Court of Appeals in place of the fate Judge Peckham ; Theodore W. Diwight to be s Com- ‘missioner of Appeals in placo of Mr. Johnson, and Edward Countryman, of Cooperstowa, to Lo a Justice of tbe Suprems Court 1n place of tho late Judge Parker. JIr. 1. 8. Kalloch, formerly pastor of the Tre- mount Lemple Clurch in his city, has upited with the Iurst Baptist Church in Kansas City, 3Mo. He had for some time ceased to be a mem- ter of & church. His penitence is spoken of b the Watchman and Rejlector as most profound. 2nd his contersion caleulated to move the stout- est heart.—Boston Adverticer. The Philadelphia Fress has this remarkatlo announcerient: ‘It is not correct that the Hon. William A. Wailace bas_resigued as Vice- President of rhe Texas & Pacific Railroad, as re- ported in the newspapers. Col. Thomas A. Scoit, the Pres dent, has simply relicved lira from active duly for a cerlain perind of time, during which he will serve in our Stale Senate.” Detailed for Secatorial duty, eli? The Iandaulet buciness revives the fact that Andrey Johnson perempiorily refused to accept = handsome carriage cifered bim by a house in New York during his Preridency. Ko such act of self-denial has been witnessed at Washing- top since Audrew Jolneon's time, and, what 13 etranger sfill, the Lepublican party at the time did not think auy betier of Johnson for it.—St. Zouis Repubiican. The Congressionions! pot in Mr. Kasson's dis- trict is alzeady beiling. Tne uames mentioned as Nr. Kasson's successor includes A. Dey, Dr. Dazbiell, and Judge Perking, of Dal'as; H. W. Aaxwell and P. Gad Bran, of Warren; B.F. Murray and W. D. Leonard, of Medison; Fred Leale, of Decstur, and W. S. Dangas, of Luces. There is evidence that the offize won't £o ‘beg- ing even it the sulery it reduced to old fignres. Duthique Tmes. ; 1In discussing the craracter of Gov. Bootb, of Calitorpia, the St. Louis Democrat eays: *“If the old Senators underteke to snub or Bnow him under, they will find something of the Broderick in bis style, and they may succeed in ‘making him the champion of the people’s rights and possibly the people’s csu—obut weit till "6, Thereupon the St Lonis Republican thinks that *Thia from a Republican organ, in commendation of an insurgest who recently smashed the Republican party in Californis, is worthy of some attention.” LOCAL ITEMS. The Second Baptist Church, corner of Morgan ana Monroe streets, will have servicea every afternoon and evening thie week. The Bev. John Gordon preeches to-dsy. The Daniz Soclety, ¢ thelr semi-aandal meci- g Saturday evening, elected the followidg ficers for the ensning 8ix months : John D. Klug, Yresident; A. J. Alstrup, Vico-President; Nicholzs L. Hansen, Corresponding Secretary ; Geoge L. Morck, Racording Secretary ; (. Jor- gensen, Troasurer. Charles Millgaard, William Lwnd. A two-story frame dwelling-houze, No. 863 West Indiana street, blew down during tho high wind Saturdsy night, and wes considerably wrecked. It was unoccupied, fortunately, and 10 one was injured. £ A mau named Fred Davie, workiag in the liv- ery, stable at No. 9 Monroe stroet, fcil from the bay-loft yesterday morning duriug an epilertic £it, aud injured Limeelf 8o seriously that he died an bour after reaching the County Hoepital. John Btirling was attacked at Eighteenth street bridge the night of Dec. 4, and waa sc- verely beaten. Since then he has been drinking very bard, and New Year's day he was moved to the County Hospital, whero he died yesterday {from tha effects of deliram-tremens and hia in- juries combined. The Coroner will hold an in- Quest to-lay. About 0 o'clock yesterdsy morning 3 man namod Emil Gregor, liviog at_No. 872 Archer Svérus, Win foatil 66 be B b dmnambe state from the effects of & dose of laudannm. Three ounce-vials of landanum wore found st his bedside by the people with whom he wzs board- ing, one empty and the othets untouched. He was immediately taken to the County Hospital, wmhore Dr. Stroug worked over him for two Lours, using every exertion that gkill and exge- rience conld suggest, to bring him oat of his stupor. He was too far gone, bowever, and diod about 4 o'ciock in the afternoon, He was a German, a butcher by trade, and a singlo man. The Coroner was notified. ODD-FELLOWS. Iostaliation of Officers in Dwight, 1lee=An Address by Mr. Colfax. Srecial Lisvatch to The Chicago Tribune, Dwiart, 1, Jan 4.—The Independont Order of Odd-Fellows of Dwight installed their offi- cers last evening. Large delegations from Odell, Pontiac, and Streator wers present and took part in the ceremonics. After the installa- tion, the fraternity listened to 20 oration from Schuyier Colfax upon tho priuciples of American 0dd-Fallowship. The oration was purely of a benevolent character, aud no allusions whatever werc made of o political nature. The church was crowded, and Mr. Colfax was heartily re- caived and listened to with deep sttention. POLITICAL. The Wisconsin Scnate #olitically a ‘Tie=~The Office of State Librarian. Special Inepatch tw The Chicano Tribune, MaprsoN, Wis., Jan. 4,—A gdispatch to the Democrat, of this city, annoauces that Francis Campbell, Republican Senator from Lafayetto County, has 1eceived such serious injuries by tho runhing away of his team that his recoverv ig doubtful. This leaves the Senate politically a tie, with the Licutenant-Governor a Reformer, £ud, unless something else happens, gives the Reformers a clear swing all around. 1t is reported that Francis 3assing, hero of the waraguinst Sunday ealoon-closing hera last summer, is to be Stato Librarian in place of Prof. Conover. —_—— THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. Kts Meeting 1 Springfield--Probabili= ty that o Quorum will Be PresentTo= Morrow. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuna. SrRINGFIELD, I1l., Jan. 4.—Very few membors of the Legislature bave arrived, but thers will probably be s quornm in both Houses on Taes- day. Those who are here talk of making a win- ter of it, and calculate upon drawing pay for three monthe. RAILROAD NEWS. No Change in the Presidency of the Philadelphin Railroad. Special Diepatch to The Chicago Tribune, Paraperpuia, Jan. 4.—It is rumored that Asa Packer is 1o succeed J. Edger Thomeon as President of the Pennayivania Rrilroad Com- pany, and that & general chango in tie manage- ment of the Company is to take place, but the reenlt of careful inquiry proves the rumor to be withont foundation. — ——— THE VIRGINIUS SURVIVORS. The British Subjects Taken Charge of by the Comsul of Their Govern= ment. New Yorr. Jaun. 4.—The twelve subjects of Great Britan smong the Virginius survivors have been taken charge of by the DBritish Con- sul here. They leave this week for Liverpool. THE ST. LOUIS BRIDGE. it ¥s Said to Be a Nuisance. Sr. Lotis, Mo., Jan. 4.—The Board of Trade of Keokuk, Iows, has parsed resolutions de- nouncing the St. Louis bridge aa serious ob- struction to the navigation of theriver, and calling on Congress to abate the nuisance. e e b ey WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES. The Ancicnt Fauna of the Far West. Dr. F. V. Hayden, in & letter to the New York Tribune, gives s brief history of tho United States Geological Survey of tho Territories, and articularly of its operations during 1873. From 1t we taka the following : 4 For the past twenty years or more the vari- ous expeditions to the Far West have been a0- cumulating the materials which will enable the geologist to recomstruct tho physical history cf thege mow barren, treeles plains. Numerons cemeteries of the ancient inhabitants have teen discovered, whose remains have been more or less direntombed by the action of tho elemerts. 1t is now known that a vass chain of fresh water Iakes covered tho surface of this continent, to & grester or less extent, from the Missiesipri to tho Pacific Coast, and from the Arctic Sea to Mexico. Some of these lakes were of enormotns ize. The great ancient lake basin, known ew Mauvaiges Lerres, or the ** Bad Lauds,” covered a large portion of Nebraska, Dakota, and Cclera- do,—an aree of 139,000 to 150,600 square miles, Ag far back as 1826 the writer visited one of iheso far-famed bone deposits, on the White Earth River, in Dakota, near the porthwestera osse of the Black Hille. 1t is one of thie wildest and most desolate regions on this continent. It has been very appropriatelv named by the Da- koca Indians, Aa-Ko Seetcha, or * Bad Lands.” which gignifies s very diflicalt country to travel over,—not only trom the ruggedoess of tho sur- #rce, butalso from tae abscuco of a1y good water, ¢ndthesmall supply of wood and game. Itisonly 1o the geologist tuat this placc can have any permanent altractions. He wends his way througis its wonderful canons among some of the grandest ruiLs in the world. It rese:nbles, indeed, a gigatic ety fallen to decay. Hunses, towers, nunarets, and spires may apparently be con on every fide. These fantastic piles as- ume the gicatest variety of shapes when viewed in tho distauce, and not unfrequently the nsing or the setting sun lights up theae srand old ruine with a wild, strange beauty. In the summer tho sup pours its rays on the bare white walls, which reflect them ‘on on the weary traveler with 8 double intensity, mot only oppress- ing him with the heat, but so dazzliug bis eyes that be is not unfrequently affected with temporary blinduess. It s at the foot of theeo ruins thut the fossil treasures are found. In tho lower sirata wo find the teeth aod javs of o hyopotamus, a river-horse much like the hippo- potamus, which must have lived in the marsnes that bordered this lake. Here, too, the titan- otherinm, & mgantic pachyderm, asscciated with 3 species of hornless rhinoceros. Higher up in some of these lako gediments thousands of tur- iles were imbeqded, aud are preserved to tho aresent time with surprising perfection, their aarder portions being a3 complete &8 whon the animals were Awimming about in the tertiary ‘saters hundreds of thoussnds of years ago. They vary in size from aa ioch or two acrosa the back to three or four feet. As- sociated with the remains of turtles aro tncso of » number of ruminants, a'l belooging to extinct genera, and possessing peculiar chiarac- ter3 which ally them to the deer and the hog. indeed, Dr. Leldy calls them rumiuating hoge. Liii the domestic specics, they wera proviaed with cutting-teeth and canines, but the grind- iag teeth are constructed after the 8sme patter as those of sll living ruminants. The feet of {hese animala wers provided with four toes, sod 2000 of them possessed horns or sntlers. Thev appesr to have existed in 1: nense nuiabers, anc 0 have lived in great berda like the odison of the \Vest. Bemains of more than seven nundred individuals of one species have been already siudied and described by Dr. Leidy. Their ene— \nies were numerous; among them were wolves, iyenodons, and sabre-toothed tizers. Ip tbe summer of 1857, while the writer was attached to the Exploring Expedition under the sooand of Lient, Warren, he discovered on :ho Nivbrars iYer acoshior of thess zemarkabls [m Trustecs—Fritz” Frautzen, | x | which was entombed s faoue, closely allied to, yet encirely distinct from that on White River, and plainly ntermediste bo- tween that of the Iatter and that of the preseat period. Several species of extinct csmels, and at variety of the borse family characterized this fanna. One of tho horses was about tho 8ize of the common domestic animal, while aa- other allied form, sbont tie size of a Newfound- land dog, was provided with three bLocfs to each foot, though the lateral hoofo were rudimental. Dr. Leidy hna already identified twenty-seven species of tho horse family which are thus kuown to have lived on this continent prior to the advent of man— about three times 23 many as are now foucd living throughout the world. Among the car- wmivores there were several species of foxes and wolves, five varicties of tho cat family, =nd three species of hyeun. Sowme of the skulls of the tiger-l animals exhibited the marks cf terrible condlicts with the Lyenas. Among the rodents wezo a porcapine, small beaver, rabbit, mouse, &e. B *The pachyderms, or thick-skinned animals, wore very nuwmerous, and sre of the greatest it- tercst, from the fact that nons, of them aro veyards, living on the contineat at the pres- ent time. Five species of rhincecrce are found; a mastodcn, an - elephant, aud oumerous forms alli d to the domestic huy, varying in size from that of the African hippo- potamus down to that of the domestic cat. From the discovery of this group of exiinct animal: wo may draw the inference that Nebraska a d Dakota were the homes of & race closely allied to those inhabiting Asia and Africa attae prescut time. From their charasteristics we aro led to beliove that the climate durizg that period was cooeiderably warnier than itis now. The infer- enco1s aloo drawn tha: America, instead of beicg, as it is usually called, the *'New Werld,” is really older thaa che Eastern Homisphere. 4 Tho diecoveries in Kausas and Wyomiug are still more wonderful. Duriug the past_summer Prof. Cope has occupied considersble time under the auspices of tne Survey in exploring another of theee wonderful graveyards of a long past period, from which ho has taken tho osseous romans of more than 100 species, more noa:ly resembling those of White and Niobrara Rivers, but most of them specifically distinct. At least seventy epacies are new to science, ranging from the eize of the 1aole nenrly to that of the ele- phant ; sixteen species ouly are roptiles. © Many forms of the insectivorons animals ra- lated to the mole, and of very small size, havo been procured. The delicacy and m’nuteness of theso_ fossils is surprising. Gnawing snimals, or rodents, left numerous remaius of eightecu species, some not larger than the domesti mouse: Some were tho predecossors of tho rao- Lity, others of sqairrels, aud others of mico. Of clovea-tootcd quadrupéds a great many species Jiave heon Toundl.. Bowma Lhis nendls (atetmed ate betwesn the deer and the hog in structure. Liko the lutter, they had no horns. They were about as largo as sheop. Others were about the mize of gray squirrels, beiog tho smallest of this class of auimals over dis- covered. Several species of-horses were liviaz during the same period ; their boues and teeth are found iu zbundance. Therbinoceros abound- ed in Coloredo in former days, 0o less than seven. species having been procuied by Prof. Cope. Oue of the specimens is a porfect skull, witk teeth complete, aud covered with the mous-Like crystallization 8cen in tho moss agate. Dut tho most romarkable monsters of the past whoso oxistence has been disclosed by tho preseut survey are a series of horued species related to the rhiinoceros, but possessing gome features in which, according to Prof. Cope, thes resembls the olophant. ‘They st00d ugh on the legs and had short feat, but possessed osscous horas in pairs o different parts of the hesd, One of the largest specica had & huge horn over eacn ove, whie snotle- had one on each side of the nose aud moro than a foot 1 lensth, resembling, on the back pait of the kead. tho ox, cte. A third one, of laruer size than the Isst, hadrudimental horns on the nose, Stll another was about as largeas the elephant. Its cheek-bonos were euormousi: expanded, and its horne were flat. A fifth s cies had trisngular horus tarned ontward, Car- nivorous xpecios were not Tare in this aacient world, and served then s now to check the tco rapid incrense. Of the fourtecn species of car- wivores known, there wero tiger-cats and doga a8 Iarge as the black bear, but.probably much ‘more carnivorous in their propensitios, whila some of the cats had remarkably canine or cye tecth. Iaa new specics, tho size of a panther, these teeth greatly rescmble thuse of a shatk. Theto were also many reptilos, such a8 turtles, lizards, epakes, & ———— A Domestic Drama. Here is a domcetio drama from Paris: young gir] was about to be married to 3 man carpeater, whose suié was by Do meaud agreesble to her. She bad refused and proterted against the match, but her father was iaexoia- ble on the subject, and insisted on tha marriage, thovgh the mother would willingly bave vielded. At length tho bride-olect appeared Tesigued to her fate, and the father, pointing out the hapy result of his firmness to bis wife, triumpha. 1y exclaimed, “Itold youso.” Next dav, how- ever, tie poor girl, baviog loft o letter at homo cxpiaining the causo of ber action, Jumped off the Bridge of Austerlitz into the Seine. She +was, bowover, saved, and caried home by twa spilors. The father reinrned bome just as tho drippiog girl vas placed in eafery beside the paternal hieartl:, when the mother. with pathaps more poiat than discretion, simply observed. ** 1 totd you =o. DRY GOODS. =’LI$ gl DRY GOCDS CLOSHEOTT SUE! STMPSON, NORWE & (0.5 WEST SIDE STORE, 196 & 198 WEST MADISON-ST,, NEAR ITATLSTED- Having determined to close out our West Side business at once, ‘'we have MARKED DOWE Our entire stock to prices that must sell it, and will offer MONDAY, 5th Jénuery, Bxtraordinary Baroaiis DEPARTMENTS Until the whole is closed out. Store to rent and fixtures for sale. Possession given atonce. Apply on ‘t,hs premises. 166 & 198 WEST HADISON-ST.