Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. Doctor Patterson’s Farowell Sermon, The Spirit and Charsotoristios of tho Ohristian Pastor, Briof ‘mstory of tho Church---Tho Parting Words, The Story of Our Dead. Sermon by the Rev. Robert Collyor, of Unity Church. ' The Rev, Mr. Swazey on “Chris- tianity an Unlversal Taith.” Mrs, Weoden's Lecturo on Poaco---The ‘Wes!minster Charch, DOCTOR PATTERSON. Mis Farewell Sermon to tho Congre= gation of the Sccond Prevbytersan Church, z e Tho farewall eormon of the Rov. Dr. k. W. Patterson wps preachod in the Beoond Prosby- taron Church to an audipuco which illed not only every seat in the body of tho churoh, in- oluding sottoos in all tho alsles, but also both gallorics. Pooplo of other congragations of tho same denomination, as well as many other soats, ‘were proseut to hoar tho yvaledictory of “a pastor who had 8lled the pulpit of, ono church in an ao- coptalle maunner for about: & third of a contury, ond tho occasion must Lave been gratifying to both pastor and people. Following is tho full toxt of tho sermou ¢ ‘Toxt—*TFor God is my record how greatly I long aftor you all 1n thio bowold of Josus Qlirist; Azd this I proy, that your love may abound yot ‘morg and moro I knowlédgo aud iu all judgment ; That yo mnay approve things that are excollent ; that yomay boslacero and witholt ofense (Il tho day of Christ ; A . 3 Being filled with tho frults of righteousnoss, whicl aro by Jesus Ohrist, unto tho glory aud prafse of God. " Phalippians 1:8—31, Tho Apostlo Paul oud Silss, his assistaut, ‘in the proscaution of thetr minietry, went, in obedisnca to a call of God, from Truas to Macodonfa,. Aud tho firgt city thoy reaclied o thls muiseion s Philippl, whero thero wag o Ronian colony, Here they immiediately entered upon thoir work of preaching the Goapolj and thus the Word of tho Lord was for the first time pro- clatmed to tho people on the coasta of Europe, But it Proved Bword on this na on other occasions, cutting neross tho wickedness and thoself-interest of men, It thorefore At oco stirred up opposition, Paul and Bilas wera beaten and shut up in prison by the direc- tion of the MMugistrates, Whilo they woro in the ‘prison thero wasa groat cartlguuko a¢ midnight, and the chalus fell froln the Mmbs of all the prisonors, Tho Jailor was couverted, ond Lo and Lis family wero baptized, Then Patl oud 8ilas werb released by tho suthorities of the city, but wero required to leavo tho place, This they did within a sbort period, but not untll they bad *Jaid the foundations of tho first -Obristinn Chureh. in Europo, At a later date, Panl vieted this church on two Qifferont occuslons, Mo was warmly stiached t0 s childien fn the Gospel at Philippi, both bocauso 1o hud auffered for their bulies, aud bechuae thoy wero distiuguisbed for Obrlatian liburulity, uotwithsta thair deop poverty, They uléo cherished tho mc. der regard for the Apostie, snd when near fhe o bia lifé, Lie was & prisouer ut Rome, they sent Egaphs Toditus to bim os the bearer of prosonis for his ollet ond comfort, It wag by this &mmno messeuger that Paulsent bis Epistlo to tho’ Philippiaus—one of lis most ufectlonata und miost deply Evungoical loter. Iu this Eplstlc ho mingles vxpreasious of tender rogard; Swith doutrinal touchiug, references o his poculk Christdan oxpercuces, und warm and earncst exhorla- tion, Iu the first chuptor o recognizos the Oburch nt Dhilippl a8 one of muny to which Lo sustalied b geu~ ral pastoral relatlon, and eapeclully in tho pussago from which ourtost 14 tnken, Lo de3cribes the spirii~ Work aud ends of ovary truo’ pastor’s ollice, and i Plics tho duty of overy Christfon Church under the caroof u Christinn Sliopherd. For Paul wo o shiop- herd of many flocks, s our pastora at tbls doy aro shepherds of purticulur folds, 1¢ way huve been tho expectation of somo who hear mo to-night, that T would dellver o set farowell-dis- cuurss ou tlis ocoaston, Tt will b my puryos, ratbor, totrugo tho spirlt, object, and churagteristich of thiy Oluristian pastor’s work, with un oyo to tho past aud Jrospectiva bistory of thia cluizel. At tho wsino dims, shall endeavor to direct uttontion to tho reaponsibill. tis of evory Christian church nnder pastoral cave, 1, ‘Yo example of Paui dezorvos o bo closely fol. Towed in rospect to persunal concera for tho welfars of tho churehies to which ho liad winlstered, o could sppest tu God w8 the Omniscient witness of bLis dep anud fender affocton and sollcituds towards the peopln with Whom ho hod lavorad ed fn whow conversiou ho hud Leeu fusirumental, "Ll lauguoge which be omploys on this point in our text g vingulurly oxprossiva aud emphatio: % For God ia 2y record, Low.greatly 1 long after you all in (ko bowdls of Jesus Cliriat,” This In not werely a declri- tion of guyneat anxioty for their ntorests os belovod friends with whom ho lus takon sweot counml. “Tliers aro Muny peskons of & warm temperament, who e couscfoutiously gly utteranco to un overllowing symypathy sud regavd for thoso with whom they nro or Luvo bec closely ussociated I teamporal Telutions, ‘while thiey liavo 1o apectal conectn for thefr apiritnal and eternal well-being, Thoro aro professed ministors of thio Gospel who, T thely pub o addrasses, secw 10 talko every person to tleir bosoms, and who, i ull their private lulercourss with the people, traat every indl- Vidual they meet us §f bo had o xpectal paeo i their hearty; aud yeb thoy seldom or nover mandfest any preuthur soucituda about the gonls aud the immortul destiny of thoir friouds, Thoy exert o nort of mea- moru fufluence avor thelr liewrers ond nssociatos, whilcl, howover, hus but 1ittla to do with their spiritaal churacter, und thelr relutions to God oud to eterulty, Thoy” tatk ubout moral wubjocts, and tonch many chords of aympathy by cntering intd tho littlo carthly troubles uud tlo duiticultics or Oxpostres of tho peoples and when deuth comes {ito tho virele in whioh they mosG, they are coutou o &golhu the nepsibijities of tha liviug by eulogles upon tho dead, and by giving the strungest asaurances that the departed huse entored duto réat, bowever badly thelr Uves may buva promised Tor thetr future Leyond this world, This was the kind of eympsthy to which tho Apostle gave' ex- presslou when Lo spoke of gready longlng for tho Pillipplan Chylsthwn “in tho bLawula of Jesug Clrist,” He mesnt by thly language thut Lo ‘was w0 ideutilled, heart and soul, with Jesus Chifat {n rolution 10 bis saving-work, that his toudier love aud compussion for his Tellow-Ohristians might bo alled thoss of tho Redeemer Limseif, fyase much as they wera inapired by Lis spirit, und portain- €d to tho sate ouds of sauctiticatlon. und walvation, for which ifo ussumed our uuture and entered duta our gorroww, No doubt Paul was o warm-huurtud frivnd {utho tomporal reiations, But his reaurd for hin Lrethren, for whose spirltual g0od e hiad laborod, wus 8Love uny mercly sockal ssmputhy, Io cared vastly more for the atauding of his fallow-men in tho alght of Qod ond fu rolution to the Kingdom of Carist thun Zor ull that portsined morely to thelr cartldy vomfort, Lake his aivine Maa.cr, e was ready to sutfer for tho sako of tho relfgiows ciuso 4o which he had devoted Lis Nfe—and ull bis tomporal miniatrations wero only tributary to- tho bigher injerest, Ho 38 1t with every trud ministor of,liu Gospel and evory toughtful Cliristisn pustor, Hiz coucern for tio temporal wolfare of thuso to whom ho luistors 14 nover separated In bis wind from the suprews eud of tholr spiritusl cdification und thoir flna futroduction into tho Kingdom of Glory, e fuels for them 18 Je5us fecls for them,—weoy 8 With thew as Jeaus wopt with Lis frlends ot ‘the gave of Lizrus; whils ho Alwus ondouvora to turn their thonglis to tho resure zoction aud the 1o, and the means und mothod of etermal biesaednuss, ‘Fath 13 tho tewt of uil pantoral fdelity, 18 the pastor's work, prompied by uh over- lowing 10v0 10F 1o souls of Mcu, manifested nceords 1ug to bis pecallar tomporameut ‘und mental bavity 7 Ifuo, it du entltled to bo duly acknowiedged by the eople, howaver tho frafltics ol Snuorfectjons of e dividuil trafts may apgiear I tho detally of ths puaor's soctul futercourso ind publle lsbor And - he poople for whom guch a concorn {s bubitually ‘muiifested aro galled upon to respond lo f, nat only by genurous roturns 3 ho forim of carngl things for mplritual INings, but moat cupe- vislly by allectionatoly vocolving * - fustruction und even reproof from the muuth of the Lord' ervant, and by waruly rocogutang b vs_us Vi Wutelies for tholr souls s 1 wteward who st give uce count, ‘Ihis mutus) Bty and ove belwaen (e pastor and bia floc, wha duly cultivated und hubity. ally maintaiued, insured (ho happy resulta of forbear- anco und chiarity, good understanding and co-opers. Hon, und u Llossed miermingling of persous] nuvioos for tho enduring beuefit of the wholu body, It fs tho opbosite exoreivs of un overbeating apiri on v oue sidy, qud of un untescliably, eriticul, und fault-finding upirit on tho other widy, Dt oiabittors ¥o ALY Tolue tions botwoen pustors und people, And ovets u fow i dividualy inu ehurcl, who wot themuelves” o un upe Lriendy uttltudo towards the shepuerd of the flock, with tie smallest reusou, muy in u course of years o dif- fuso thy polion of ticl 0w ovil Lo pors ak to noutrale 126 the st consinteut sud steadfust pastoral zeul, For 8 Jittlo Joavon willin thme leaven the wholo lump, The soeds of distrust grow upnce even whera porsonal ufe fection remalny, Tho opposition of very smull B~ by of perious moy fu (b oud couvines (Lo Lot tricuds that it a Lotler to ylold to the conatant sud i« portunute plos for changa, hiowsyernlight the reaous hioyod Ly sppuat, uid 1 sotue rtioa] hour 1o 'tha obufch’s Llatery the polut is carrigd, Burely it is the futyes nvm{v iatdan ougrogatiou to withaland and crusl in tha bud all such undarmining Influences, es- oclully when thay proceed from thoss who manifest EIII littlq interoat fu tho spiritnal wolforo of Zion, 3, Noxtlo the cultivation of niltual =affection, and for this, {a prayer for the succesd of both partios— prayer on tio part of the pastor for his peoplo, and on 4l pakt of thpeople for thale pustor. In éur toxt Paul dves the purpaso aud mubatauce of hin' potitions for ho Philipplan Christians ¢ Thia I, pray, bo says, ‘that your luvo moy abound, nd how often fu hin other eptation doca ho_wivo oxpéesaton to tho most forvent supplichtion ou bohalf of hia roadors! o, also, o froquently ro- qiteats the prayers of tho cliurches (o which ho hua ministored, for him and Lls agaociatos, thint tha Word of tho Lord may bave free courso nnd be glorified. Tho Apoatle belloved in tho diroct pflicacy of prayer, 08 woll aa [ ita rolux fntluonco wpoit tho minds of the fnterconsors, 1o know that flie Christian canso conld nat muke progross without iho prosenco of tho Divine Bplrit upon miniators aud pooplo I answer to their Prayora for ono ANbINOT, Yrayor was tho groat condie tlori of pucocss In prosching tho Gospol and in ho work of tho Chrlatian Lrothierliood, in Paul'a duy, ns it ina beon ovor sinco, And it aceni to b instinolively felt h{ wkoptica at the preaout hour that, if thoy would overthrow Chriatinull I{, they nust begin by seattering doubta In regard to ihe niility of iyer,” A praying pnstor and poople aro a kot 1ot to bo witlistood, For od fe witl thoin, And (Wi §a poculinrly o wiion thoy offer their forvont petitions dally for ono anothor, For thon no root of bittorncss can ' \vell spring up (o dofila many, But & pastor whio forgota to futorcedo fervently for his flock loses his spiritusl fitnoss to mintster {o thom 1n lioly things : - aud tho peaplo then coaso 10 romembor thul¥ paste 1n hoaxty nhd babitual suppHeations at tho throno of the Heavénly Grace, and tho samo timo begin to grow cold toward him, and thoir miuds becoio opon {0 wnggeation of tho afvar. sary who I cvor on the alerd to disturb the peaco and 00 followship of tho churches, Go through nny Chiriatian flock {n bs land and pick out flio dfwaffeote ed monmbera_ who. aro workiug ngainst thelr pastors aud, on {nquiry into their dovotioual linbits, you will Sud tlst Uiy ‘seldom pray carnestly for (hy shap- bords whom God hus sot over fthom, Fraye e a8 a pover with ‘God and men, et first “ombraco for ita subjocls tho polsous with whom wa aro most immediatoly conneclod, espoctally in the roligions rolations, And whntovor htudors prayor for thous o whom wa owo tho firat dutica of our Lves, hindors our own epiritual growth, and fita us Fatlior for disorgantzing work shun 10 Lo Letyors i tho followalip of thio Satnts, - Womust Vo mutiially given 10 pragor for ond anotler, £ ketp s In clono spiritunl co-operation, Thia iu tho tentinuony of sl oxporience aa well vs of holy Serlp- ro, 3, In tho noxt place, lot s motice the frat ob- Ject of tho Apostle's dealro aud labor for the Chriatians at Phllippi: “Thnt your Joye may avonnd yet moro and woro 1n knowiedia and 1n all Judgment” Tho purposo of ull postorul work and the oud of all wells diraetod prayor, for. dhutcl, fn o davelopmont. of Tovo under projier baluncing inflicncea. “'he great changoin the hearts and churactora of mon which tho @uspel offocta consists in_tho substitution of love for nolfishnean—to heavenly apirit for tho garilly apirit, Lova to God, love to Qlriss; love to tho Saviors disel= ples—lovo (o tlio ministoru'of ths Word, lovs to tho sdeamor's Kingdom and to tho sows of inen—nniver- sut aud impartial love, intonsified by our proimity to 118 objects—tlls 18 tho graco that springs up Arat and relgus Lust n tho regenerato mind. And It 1s among tllo loading enda of ull Ohrlstisn ministrations to cul- tivate and dovelop this supremo grace in ovory Chris- tlon heart snd du the wholo brothorhood of the Ohurch, " Love, both sa an_ impuise_ond o principle grows under tho watoring of woriptural fufluences o _tho frequont commending of God's lovo (o tho heatts ‘of those fn whiowa tho now 1o Las beguu to bo s con- scloun powaer, ¥he Holy Spirit 18 the author of this now life in tio noul, aud tho fuyooation of thnt spirt t0 be an Indwolting comiforter nud sauctifier {s, thcros foro, amoug Lto priinary dutics that o awad LY every Clirfsilan to Mimsolf and toward all hla brolhreu, Houso thio Apastlo prayed for {ho atrougthoning of Tova fo the fuforlor lves of tho Phillppinu Curlstisns. For o' knew tlut, without love, Olriatiantty s oniy & uamc—not a powdr, 1int prayer in slmply tho intro- duction_to labor, to accure tlo objosts of potition, Faur prosebing dud writings woso full of appeals (6 tho Cliristiun uffections of his hearcrs and rendorn, Aud o every falthful pastor, and overy Cliristinn churel, imbucd with the spirit of tho Apoatlo, ywill fix thielr eyo on the cultivation of broad Ohrlstias lov ng tho chief purposo of (helr high calling, And tho ha~ {ory of any puoplo tint iavo beon elitily eharastorized by this_endenvor to meko duly blanced love the su~ promo and all-comprelionding graco, must bo n history of growth,—of incrensing strougth in the Lord, Lut wo 3unl1fy the love to by cultivuted, bocauso {t 18 qualified by the inspired writers, sud by Christian oxjicrionce, It must bo lovo balancod by knowledge ,oud all Judgmont, Wo Loar 6 grast deal 1 theso duys about refigion as b sontiment, aud 1ova s o sentiment, According to this viow, wo aro ot to have any deflnite idean of God aud Oliri3t and the work of redemption for that would bo fo Liave o theology and o creed, and creed Is dogna, and dogma is somothing to b dréaded and cachewed i this ago of progreus, Lut Puul thought, sud consldarato men stiil think, that love, to Do anytiing but & dream or n{rage, must bo tempered by o knowledga of tho objocts and duteresta to bo loyed. Want in tho world_have wo- to love, i wo do ot bo- Tievo somethiug definito respeoting tho Being and ata tribntes of God'nnd the person and work of Josus aud L relationa to tho peopie whom Ho canio £ redoem 7 Lovo to komo wmists, unknown, and unknowablo causs of motion und churigé, Whoso toights ond feclings uro in 00 reapect annlagotis to olir own, fs an eifipty vapor, It soon degenorates $nto mero humanltarisnism, snd becomes us cald towarde God s towards tho uricons selous glare of o remoto comet in tho heavens, God and Christ, aud sin and atoncmont, aud forgivouess through faith, ond hoavon and Leli, aro subjecls of knowledgo to the Christiun, becauso they ara rovoalod to mon in the divine word, ond theso nro ko great theines on which overy truo pastor fs accustomed to dvwell, that e may toach bl people what, aud hiow, und by tiey aro (o 1ova. And tho poopl ho reccivd aueh instruction'in preferenco to all the noveltios of sonsutional guldes aro thoy who Grow ot onco in the fgraco of lovu il 4 the Luowledye of our Lord aud avior desus Ohrist, Such fustruction, it Is true, niny bo one-sldad In tho diroction of too much theory aud too lttle appoal to tho Lioart, DButdn proportich na o people ure woil taught i tho word, thoy roquira that appeals to tholr sensfbilitics slull bo mude through thelr understandings, Thoy must 0o in order to fecl, they wust know (o Tove, And in yulu do you at= tompt 1o satisfy thetr minds for any long perlod by addressing their Smagiuations slone or thelr sympn- thles olons, Iotco sirong church is slways s woll- fislructed Chiurell, Who bave o zeal ccordiug to knowl- edge. Sl 1t {8 not enough that a clurch shonld bo taught Inthe nrunm of Cliristiun doctrine. Tlore must be, in nddition, what the Apostlo culls Judgment, or ethical porception, using tho tarm 1n n Ligh Chriatiun sonss, Ihero fa &l maua ttural caracly o scoand realize the clatms of moral duty and the form of nbligation that uro revealed in the word uf God when oneo thoso forms are aistiuctly set befors tho mind, his is whit we call the moral scuse,—a sort of insticiive ap- prebension of truth’ in its' moral applications,—by wwhbicli o person whoso underatanding 1s property pi lighteued dotects at_onco the difference between right aud wrong, Tho (raluing of this ficulty—tho con- sclonco—is o great yart of tho Cliistinn postor's work. It 4y Wa duly to waen Lis hearcrs agaliist bluntmg el conselences, aud to urge ther to sharpen thefr moral fudgments by following thelr conviclioun at every point.” Thus will ho bo enabled to prescribo the metes aud bounds within whieh Chyls- atlovo 4 to have ifs fit oxorciso. A mere senti- montul kludnoss, that pecks tho prosent comfort of ovurybody without uny discriminating regard to (he moril boarings of condict, muy Lo cailed love, hut it is not tht Curlstian lovo’ which has tho spliers of its exerchys 1 knowledgo snd_all judgment in overy succien of nglt moral perception.. Ourdstisn matruc tiou, with dus appeals to tho consclence, puts tho raing on uifeetiduate fmputses, and directs 'them into tha cliunnl of Intelligent uud o bouovolence, * Tt makes Tovo self-donying und cousiderata, and gives it u wiso dlecretion, where moro aficctionatonicss, without Imowledgd and cultivated moral_porcoption, would yiold to to demands of temporal frfonduhip at the ox- pouso of prineiplo und fmwutable right, This fa the Teasow wity the'religlon of 8o many poisons is 100 kind to bo Orin 1o matntafufug trath and the Inws of God, . whoro by so_dolng it would cross o incliuntion of others, and run o sword (hrough sociely, The bon alence'of tho Gospel fs moro far—soeing, sud takes & broador swegp fu fts uxerciwo und uppllcations, It Iooks to the greater ultimato good, whatover prescut sucrlficea muy bo roquired, 1t 14 God’s forin of love— vegenorating, transformung love, And thin it (s tho agica of every falthful paator to cultivato in the peoplo of lis cluirge; whilo it fu tholra {n return to receivo with mockneta tho ingrafted word, which fs ahlg to bulld them up fu knowledgo and il Judguient, sad to deyolop fn thiem alf tho, graciqus nifoctions, 4, Ono result of ‘mach 'Chrlstlan oulturs s, that thio poople Who ara thuu trafnoed aru lod to ap provo things that aro oxcollony, or to distingiish bow tweon thinge that ditter, 50 us (o prefor the buttor aud Toject the worso, ‘Thioy are not easily misled by tho Tlauublo. wophiitrios of falas feuchers, wio doery ull cetablishod views D fholr plois for pro- tended Nberty of fhought. They provo, or test all things by tho Infalliblo word of God, and hold fust that which Is good, ‘Lhoy ure uot cartfod about b every kind of dootrine, by tho soight of moen an cunning craftiness whareby they 1o in wait to doceive, Thoy contond carneatly for the faith which (wus doliv- ored oneo for ol Lo the sulnts, aud they aro serupli- lous and cantious 10 every apecles of npparcut cou- formity to tho world, bocatso thelr mioral parcop- tions ure quick to distihguish botwoon good and ovil tondwiclen, A churel mado up of such” wombors ia grreat moral light in the community, a rilliaut oxe aumpl, wiucory, trangpuont fu aliaractér, wd free froim offensd I polit of Chrlstian doportment, “In prepi- ration for tho duy of Jesun Ohriat,” Th pastor who can honostly clatfu thut ho hus contributed n sonia gaod measuro 1o the dovelopiont of such Chriatisn Shuraclorlatics in tho peoplo of Lis fuck, s whereof ho may glory in humanity ; for by geace ho has buen yasblod fo Gotler yplondid sheaves 0t tho. garior of od. ; “Anather rosult of stich pustopal work I sioon n_ the outward fruila of rightouustioss, which are by Josus Christ, unto fho_glory and jraiso of God,” Theso frulta tira produiced undor tho cultaro of Chrlst us. tho wreat dressor “of tho vinoyurd, Thoy appesr in tho wariest devotion uud ackivity of o Chelsan poopla | thelr hubituul support of rollglous ordipstce theiz minlutrics of fove o the neudy und the aniferin and 10 tho sorrowful and tho porisbing, in tho i wiruction of the youug, fu_tho awakanityg ond con- verslon of muny front ranks of thu youthful, sud thioss of matura lfe, in tis tratdrunl foliowsllp of the Olieletlan brothieriood, sud in Muoral and choorful bouoleenco for tha suport of ovory Gheitlon ontor- Driso thut has for 148 objeet the ovanyolization of our winful race. Buch frulls glorify tho Gad of tha ohureh, Wlio gIvoA fhe Lieraso from tho plunting aud watering of His wutvuuts, 'Thoy Hiuntrato tho wisdom und gruco of Gud, Tlioy emonstrate the power und etlioiuncy of thy Gospel of God, “Whoy Luve Shulr lssue i L promised yalvatlon of Qod, 5. I 186 ko oftun beforo roviowed tho hiatory of tho chureli from which T huvo hlready askod und rocolved dhatntauon, that it susts only Biting thit 1 should tuko mufi:i rapld glauce Dackwura bofore I closothis dis- The foundations of this churgh worg latd fu prayor wlmost tLIFLY-two yeurs ago, Our muollngs for pruyer wero for yeura attended by nore purwous {han thers wero membors i aur cousnunton, And those meatlugs syoro ehurnctorlzed by wspiey of yraco und supplicie ton, T verily bellevo thut wa hiave owad our success {0Lhd preseace of thia eyidt in our early islory more thou to ull other causss, Bure I sm thut our least erful daye have Logn our darkos! and our béau tue K:Y 4 of greatest furvér i wesking g - LIPSV VPRe Tl R R R R R R W S e S S U S S [ PSYE briglteat wo have known, Mon deny the cfiicacy of Prn er with 8 cold and defant aplrit 1~ but romnohoy it i lwaye (ruo that Apiritaal prosporlty fallows tho bo- Huving nud porsovering Intorceasions of God's poople, Qur i, un puntor and tlaok, wora fn (o bogluulug and for long yours, wnitedly difected towards tho cul~ tivation of mutunl affectfon and earnest co-operation in the ono work for whicli this church was organized, And wo may el elalleuga comparlson with any otler peaplo, in potnt of Iutorial penco and hurmony, aud ity of pittpose nud Jubors diring tho 11fa of (ho mn. iurlly of thoks who analsted §n Inylug our Christian foundations, 1If the original nplrit of Lrothorly af- footion and unambitions conseeration to a xingle ob- Juct Lius 1ot beon porpotinted Lo tho prosent liowr, the fault doos not 1ib at thie doors of those who guve the chametor and nequired tho property o which (ho chureh 1w largoly fudobiad forito existing yosition aud ° proapects, For mora (han twenty years mutusl confidoncs and good will relgned omionyr s with undispittod awny, And still thore aro tokons of the samo spirit operating to bind into closor unity tho nower elemonts that huve beon only fmperfoctly assimilatod iu luter yoars, If thia clitrch hna not beo 8o ed with knowledgo and understinding as ta tempor Itn lovo by brond views of truth, nnd by a ready porcoption of moral mid ro- Iigious diatinetion, tho deflulency hus not nrlson from ho absence ot an carnest- desiro and endoavor Lo pore form thig govd work, on'tha part of ite’ pastor and lis loading iemborship, Complaints have been mads that tho teachings of {ho pulpit aro tao doptrinal, Bt have thoy not Lron practical also? ayo not fafth nhd works boen united fu tho leasonn that bave been come munleated and tirgod wpon tho attention of the con- fuloncea saud boaets of tia. poople? fud whoh hava thonicer distinctions of &’ traditfonal tlioology bren ‘prossed o nocessary to Ld accopted ih ordo {0 acouro n place in the communfon of Huinta? Iavo I not wit~ nsses enougl to iear mo ont in_the declaration that coustant olfork Liag beon mado to keop cloar and plain the Une botween Scriptiral facts and feachings, and ho uncortaly fnflusneds of mon fromn tho revelations of God? ~Aud who will riro up and ssy that tho great duttes of royontance toward God aud fulth in our Lord Jesys Obirist hove hot beou prosented with frequoney of appeal and fervoul epiroaty? Or who will' testify thot tho moral dutlen fnculcated in tho Ton Commandmenta pud the Sermo on the Moy linvo not becn clourly and practically oxpoundod n tho hearlng of this congregation? Tho pul{)lt of tuis cburch. Lins pot Leon usud, it fs truo, fur loctures on the current topies of tho day, or for’ sonsailonal dise cuaslons of oli tho notorlbua’ villninios of tho times, On this subject tastes differ, The minisirations of thia ohurch would ‘have beon groatly’elianged ' by #udl detailed referonces ta individunls and lvoullcnl questions’ a8 somo might ‘have” dosirad, 1 lcavo you to judge whether the courss that hws boon pursued lias ot been the Wisor one, My fret sorion to this congrogation was. founded on tho tost: I determiuod not to know. auyibing among you, save Joaua Olirlst ond him crucifiod,”” The epirit snd dee sigu of thot lext, ns thon literaily expouiided, I have over endeavored'to muko my gude iu il my publio milnistration, Aud fn sll my privato’ intetcourso withtho pouple, T havo trled to fullil the samo pur- pase. ‘o God I now commend thio résults. “Tlio frults of our work hera huva been olthor fow nor small, As already suggosted, peaco and _goode fellowslip havo rolgied smong Us during all our carlior scars in an eminent degroo, - The members of this chiurch have been distinguished for stability in tho faith of thoGospol, 1 canut thinkof half-o- dozen porsons who Lavo beon drawn awoy_ from our communfon into aflifation witl any wiovangelical body. Nourly ull of our momborship Lave stood, and allll ‘stand, firily ou the platform of our rectived faith, orbuve dfed, trustiiig caluly i tho Diving Ttcdeomer who Lo been preached to thom os the Touudatlon of horo, And in'respect to {nteqrily of {{fe, what oburch twa o botler rocord to exlible? Wa huvo beon aconsed of teaching that snivation wam by fuith, without regard to porsoul chorscter, Dut in our wholo bistory nog more than lalf-n-dozon, orat tho most eight or fon ficreons,” nmong B8 muny Lundreds, have beon found chargeablo with ofenscs agamst_good morality that could bo sustained by cloar proofs, “This ohutreh hins bean from tho boginning fafthul in tho support of Chirfstinn ordinunces ahd Justitntions, If any_othor cougroyation Lus been moro unifornly full “or more miontive 1o tho truth ou tho Bubbath day, wo Linvo not been acquainted yiith i bistory, If any ofhier body of communicanls havo been moro regalarly ot moro dovoutly i thelr plnces 8t tho Lord's tabls, wo hinvd beow fgnorant of tho fact, 1f any othser pedplo in our clty, or tho Northwest, cone trtbufed mote steadily or moro lberaliy, sccordlng to thelr ability, to {ho_catabiistiod canso of ‘Ciristinn bo~ novolonco, bouldos reapoudiug to_privat applications for hilp it many dircctions, Wo kiwow not whero thoy aro (o bo found, ~ Tu addition to funumorablo acts of yrivalo benoflcence, and all that has bocn donw for qur own Church ond ‘miulstrations, amonuting to him- reds of thousunds of dollars, fho members of this cougregation havo glvon niore 'thun $200,000 to aid tho various enterprises of religion beyond thoir owa limita, This Outreh took tho load fn_{hio work of mission, Sabbnili-schools I thisclty, The first onterpriso of thin class evor established in Chioago, was the Lethe), aftorwards the Lrle Strect Misslon Bchiool, which was Duainly conducted by mombors of thiag church, and was eiinoully succexsful until the greaffiro of 1871, Also, tho Tuylor Stroot. School, which was amung tho carlior and nioro prosyorous ‘minsions of tho city, wus sustaiucd cllofly by this church until it was purround- ed by other enterprisen_moro advantageously located aod vas Qlucoutipied witha viow fo how mosenien furthor sonth. Thoachool In Immecdito connoctlon with the church was organizod thirty-ono years and o Liulf since, sud hos always embraced Dearly ull the chil- dren of tho congregation—of whom o very large pro- portion have been hopefully converted, most of waoni aire now active workors in tio caiso of 'tho Redeomer, elther among us of in othier places, Compnrativoly faw chilaren of this church havo grown up to matu- Tity witlout making an open canfession of thoir faith in Christ. 2 1t Lias sicver been the polley of pastor or peoplo to #colk for great nomiual ingatherings by aproals dircet- ed chledly to fecling or imagination; honce, while wo Lavo not reported as larga umbors of acccssions (o tho chureh by profession us some othor congregations, w0 huyo beew permitted to refolco in o eteady fncreass by the recoption of now converts, at aimést ovory come mundon sinco our organization, mmounting fn. all to Dotween four and fivo lundred, besidos largo additions by lelter from other churches, And, of fiioso whom wo havo recolved on confession, uot hulf a dozen Invo gono back to tho world, or abjured the Evaugulicul faith, Tho cucmy will Sow tarcs amoug thio wiicat ; but Whero hus u smallor_proportion of tates appodred thai fn this field? Wo daro to hopo that 4 rery large mafority of thoso ‘who have cntered thio visibio Oliureh hore will b found ot lust umong the trjumnphinut saints in glory. Wo linve coutributed Lirgoly toward new organizae tlons n tho city, beginning with tho North Presbyte- rlaxt Chaureh, i1t 1818, and furnishing vatuable materfals to the Now Englund Congregational Oburch, tho Oli- vet Preabytoriun Church, sfiice_rounitod with us, the Westmintor Church, tho Calvary Church, Lako Fors cat Ohuzel, Hydo Patk Chureh, Evanston Chirch, und Christ Epiacopal Churchi, And doca It savor of vauity i us 1o sny that many of tho lending members in theso und ollier chirches, have fn formor years, ro- elvod part of thelc Cllatian tralfug i our comdune o DMuy X be permitted to refer, in thia connoction, to tho czample of Uhis church und_ congregation in polnt of general consatondy und ptabllity of churucter 2 No othir congrogation of our city hus embracod moro men of talent, learning, and comnisndiug inflieuco, or biere families hold in Ligh estoent s mewmbers of goueral sodluly, o i congrgation, by proserved o Datter record us 3t regards tho nobrioty and niodera- tion of its peoplo touchiug ull the oxoitiug questions of tho urljer poriad of our Listory, No other moro unitedly and firmly sustalued our Govarnment in tho duys of its poril und cobillot with intoruul foes, No other has oxhibiled 50 littlo appearanco of flcklo- ness through ull tho varlutions of “octal tasto und ro- liglous gent{ment fu tho community, No otber Evan- gollcl congrogutlon, ' during tho liangeful gencratlon through woich wo buve nearly passed, has Leon cop. tonted under tho sune ministrations during the half of thirty-ouo years, And do you ballove thut thfs o awple of Chriitian constancy lias Leen altogotlier un- fruitful in potut of restrafiing influenco npon otlier Clirajlan congregutious that might otborvio lisve givon way muich farthor and morg disastronsly to tho Tovolutinnary spirit of tho times 7 This church stood tirnly by ity pustor when ho was likoly to Le Jeft al most alone in upholding tho causs of Presbylocin or- dor uud falth fn tho Nogthwost, . Aud never did its principlen boud, when other cutirches around s wero widely distracted by weakoning and divisivo Influeuces, Thers Luve beeu tifuos §i our Listory who the faltor- ing of thls churcl-or of ita apiritnal guidbs might have baen fatal to tho outire beaueh of the Prosbyter- fun Quurel with which wo #tood conuocted In tho Northwoat, God bo praisod for (e conservativo wisdom witel it ploased 1fin ta vouchsafe to His paople fu thoso critical years. Tho dungers uro now past, ‘Tho clouds havo rolled awns. Now tha two bratichies of tho grout Prosbyterlun family nre oue, on & Lusta brosd ondugh to cousist with tha iberly of the cutire hausehold, und nat. 00 liberal to resorvo power for tho oxclusion’of open snd covert enomivs of tho truo Goapol. 2 Tout duo lioor shiowld bo accorded to themen and womon now Kouo to Heavon who nphokd tho étaudard in the dark duys of our past warfare, The fathure, whero ura they ? And the prophots, do thoy livo fors ovor? OF U twenty-six mombora’ who cutered fufo coveunnt togather ol the oranization of this churel, em tho frat duy of Juno, 182, only nlno azo nov o the land of tho living : and_but six uro still in ot tondance upon tho reglir sorsice of this congrogation, 1t would not bo scemly {o speak purbionlariy of tho utrong men still among us who boroa noblo part fu tho carlior s(ruggles of this churel, Thoy uro yot fululling thit purt un (o, Lorda telod wiinois iy Lo mldat of this community, Tt will not be long be- foro 1t will bo dovulved upois othor pous aud tougues to ko spoctul mention of thoft signal virtues and graces ufter they sholl havo goto to thelr rest, But T Tuny properly mentlon tho 1A Of BOMO awong thiose who uctod loading. part i our formor history, and whoso conpleted yocnrd oud_hogun rewsrds aro already on high, OF the origuul membors of tho church, Mra, A. N, Fullerton, Mr, Georgo W. Merrill, Mr, unid Mrd., Jobn High, and Mra. Johu Wright, who Wora taken Trom 18 iy ysrs uio, are atill held i fond remembranca by thoso who know thein us our Lullqw-lpors i Cheit, who placos lisvo over yot ti0en entiroly fillod by othiers of liko upirit nud zéal, Furtlier on b our blstory, wo followad to the grave the mortal remaing of M, aud M, Johu 0. Willkams, . Jobm W. Hooker, Mes, T, B, Carter, Me, Flavol Moscloy, M. oud Mew, G B, Stakweather, and fde Mow, Wiltium IL' Dfown, in whoso Qeatha wo gl felt that 80 muny ' pillars bad fallon, 'Whod shull wo weo the ke aguin of Eidora Willlums ond Brown ?-Who lias yot stood up T tholr afoud 7 Of thosg wlio bocamo conticoted with % uftor tho'orgauization of tho chirel, und who wora woll known a8 ublo supporters of the Christian stand- ard umong 1, Wo muy Duno such rlght exaiuples of fidelity an Mr. and ATFa, Jumes Avorill, AugLuJucobis, Tuay McOuges, Mrs, 11, 13, Slowart, Weburd aud E, D, Ly, He ry‘fimlm, s, J. D, _Quinlan, Hiram I, My ther, Roubpn D, Jouvs,Mrs, D, Graver, Luther llu. vet, Ming dulin Adarw, E, 1. Alion, Mew, Abby Fore tor, and lust of all; Col, Memioz, who Lot hut” ltely pusod on w brigut'cloud from earth to hoavon, Thso iiro but o fow of th hoat of Withesses Wl bave won thu prize, and by whom we Who retuin ura bald in iirvoy whilly wo ruy the raco thit §u sot bofore us, “Whioy buya Iofe for vur fnwtruotion the radinnt ilus. tratloms of thotr good livs aud thelr strwig chardce tors, 10 show ua tiow o do our work aud’ Bow o luy our armior off with u sleudfust fulth, whon tho Mastor sl ay to us ono after wnothor *Woll dauo ; como up Dilgher. Bore thun 200 of our brothors aud sistora 370 bave wituussod p youd confession Homof man nt hie comtug. One gatoration gassctl away nud another comolh, Tt hina beon my privilogo fnwomo fuatances to bantizo, mmiy parents nml tholr childrou, and to haptiza U cllldron's’ childron, Many of the oldor anes among s who nra st spared 4n tho lanit of tho living, have begun 1o lay tho bur- den of tielr nelivo labors tpou tin shoutder of tho youngor brothiron, Tho_ reapouslbilities of this ago sro eing rapldly pomsed over to now. hinnds, Hoon thowa who hayo Intd thio foundations wil bid ndiot to Uit cartly oo and comuit, thule folln to yowniior and strongor workéra, whase duty it 1 und will bo to il the Auporatructure of the Lurd’s templo and of- for ucrn an o tpgolhted altues liere, Wo of this church have merved oir generation on one theatrs of action, Tho stage,sa well ns the laborors, lns beon chnngod, This ‘mow and splondid sanctuary hns been erccted In the midst of a donno and ontorpristaf populalion, wliero Uoro was notbing itk o wasto prairic for many yeara Aftor the cotorpriso lioro ropresoiitod waa inaugurated. . Now this congro- gatfon, mafnly now and youthrul, sots ont In s froshs dArenty—mAy We 1ot iy, & frekh oxporiment? Tlio old principlon aro fo bo sustalucd, but fho forms of. 1ifo and netion aro o bo hartly notw. * Anothigr ptor 18 to 11 this pulpit, and toach Liin peoplo in publisadd in private, Dy him your sons and your daughtors nro to ha mirrlad, vour ‘chillron aro (o bo baptizad, your fathera and niothera, your husbands, wivos, brothers, elsterd, or your Littlo otos aro to b prayed for in slck neas, aud followed Lo tho tomb with- words of. comfort 10 thio survivors whon thoy dic. I lcave Yon Lo carry ot “tho work snd warfare in which yoi aro eniistid, undar another commander fo 1o chioron by yourselves, ~ Beo thal you delect n good man and trie, s man of prasor pud_sympathatic fer= yor, of practical wiadom, of aound fallb, who will feod 1116'flook with knowledvs and understanding,— nti~ doat of tho Biblo, who firmly boliovos that all Baripturo. 18 given by iuapifatian of God, And %8’ profilable ' for doctrine, Tor roproof, for corroction, for instriictian in rightcausncan—a man who will rightly divide tho word of truth, fl'\'lng to overy ono lils portion in duo ncason,—a beight oxample, nnd oo ablo tencher of Lvangelienl roliglon, wlio will stand by tho Gospol ot ol bazaxds, nnd who will watch for soula nnd_not for human nrplmmu, for tho fruits of godliness from bis eareful plinting and wstering, md not for the unmean= lllg commondations of tho outalde workl, Oontinuo in'tho Elderabi of thia church such mon of God s administorod its spiritual affairs during all tho pertod of its carlior history. And romember that upon tho whola body, pastor, sesslon, Trusteos, and people titod aid iartly co-oporutii togatlier, will dopand tho future prospority aud succeds of tho congrogation, Lot tolincan (o fag Lo be dusaribed upan e walls of thesnncluary, and upon tho bearis of the worshipera here, and » glorlous soquel (o tho change now _ocour- ring'may bo safaly prediolod, Lut lot worldly polisy and’ apirit_govorn In your counsols, lot o pastor b chosen ta ploasn to fancy of novelty-sockers, and to uddress crowds of curlous hearers without much ro- gard to tho butlding of the iutorior, wpiritual tomple, let works bo soparatod from' faith, .ond onte ward progress from prayer and dopendence upon God, and 1 forowarn you that Ichabod will bo the namo of your sanctusry aud of your progpects for comiug gon- orationw. - Duf T am ersubdcd osttor thingn of yoii, and (hlga whiol acoompsny salvation, tough I Hug speak, Ihavenow finjshod my pastoral moesagos to thin congregation, I mourn that I have not been ablo to accotiplish moro for the Kingdom of God and for tho spirltusl profit of you ond your ohildren during thé many yeuts of my labors among you, Aud most of all am T oppresdod by tho roflection that thére nro sl go muny ncighbors and friguds in whoso welfaro T sball ever fool thio deopest intorest, to whom I hisvo ministarad for ten, twenty, or even (lirty yeara with- ont tho Joy of woclig thon' numborod among th ac knowledgad followars of or blassed Bavior, I cannot closo this discourso without ouca moro oxhiorting overy unconveried member of {hls congregation to nccept tho Goapol call, which may ugver ugain be repeated from theso Lips, My doar frlonds, o8 thongh God did bescooh you by mio, I pruy you it Ohrlat’s stend, Do yo now raconciled fo Gpd.* Ero loug wo shall o)l sland togethier beforo tha judgment.seat, the apeaker to reuder an account of his Adelity in delivoring tho Mastor’s measage, and tho hearors to anawer for flieir trdatinout of the messago, OF Icbus pll bo rendy to render that account with oy and uot with grlef, Tho younger and tho oldef of ua will nll alike have done dhole work Liero baforg mauy cary sliall havo colled by, aud wo ahull meot togethor, if children of God, whiere thoro nzo no auch separations ns this which hos now takon place In this churoh oo eartls, For n sca- son I alinll, 1 tritet, bo among* you: fu o privato capdvi- {2 to sliaro n youf Joys and sorrows vuey miich us i tiimua past 3 but honcoforward sy offlclal duties will load mo 1t othor nssociations, I shall, howover, corvy with e to life's Litest Lour tho momory of thoso ecents of glnducss and oflliction In which T ave Leon with you ; aud the gratitndo of my Loart for tho Iinduoss of {lie many friends who I buve learned to lovo 8o londerly itero” vill ba “cherlshed {hrough all earthly clinnges aud bo carrod uto the world beyond, May wo ull bo gathered into the pame ullimato homa boyond tho stars and tho sun, sy parents and chil- dren, brothers und aisters, husbands and wives,nastor and Paople, all moct there, and #0 ho ever with tho Tord, after oll tho, rovolutions and conilicts of this lower world shall bo recorded in the history of tho past. Tinally, brothren, farowell, T porfoct, bo of good cumfort, bo of ouo ‘mind, live in peace; and the God of lovo and peaco bl bo with you, Thie graco of our Lord Jeyus Christ, and the love of Qod, aud thy commutfon of tho Holy Ghost, bo with you'all. Amen, B8Ry s OUR DEAD. Sermon by the Rov. IRohert Cojlyor, of * Unity Church. Daring the foroncon sorvices at Unity Chureh, yostorday, the Rov. Robert Collyer delivered the following discourse eulogistic of those mombers of his congrogation who died in 1873, Ho took bis toxt from tho sixth -Suaptor of Rovolations, eloventh verge : ** Whito robes wero given unto overy one of them: and it was said unto thom that thoy should rest": 1t 18 tho'citstom of newspapers o8 the old yoar goea outand the now.gildes in to givoa listof tho dead whose loss Las boen folt espocially becansoof thetr worth to tho world, thelr rank, or (helr goufus, Thoso papers which liivé a world-wido sweop,_select anly tha groatest uames ont of ull the nations, but s you trovel fnward toward the centrea and tako up thio local Journals, you note numes you neyer hieard of if you ore & straiger 1u that locality, snd Fhey aro mentioned with 28 true a feollng of thelr worth to that neighbor- hood a8 tho great ones you fiud i the larger con- nectlon are to the world, s And you knoi when you read theso necrologics that they by 1o meana exhaust the cutalogue of the dead iu the past year who uro stili sadly missed In narrower. areus {hun the world, the nation, and the countrs- side, You know of houses in which tho passiug away of ono mun, or womow, or child hus mudo moro desula~ tiou to thoso that are loft within thoss four walls than tho whiolo lost Wealth of genius and goodness God hus talien uway from tho fawily of man, 50 that you realize atoneo liow those you thiuk about will havo to say whesy they read such lisis of tho fullen, ours Is still the worst caliamity becauso 1t 18 the nearost, and you do not Dlotue them wid oy thy is uureasonable.” You havo Leen fu other years whero they aro now: thoy must seo ud feel e they do now, or thoy could establish no clulm to tho truest Lumanykinsiip and friendship ; o Jio would be less of's man who, by resson of bis yant sympathy for the devastution made by (lis panio through tuls wholo lund, fs not theroforo most keenly and deeply troublod 1f Lo séos tho littlo toes of bis own children froatbitten bocuuso bo caunot buy thom slioes, oud the faco of his poor wife grown fen years older'in ten weoks, trying aud fulllng to hush ‘their hunger, . ‘Aud, a8 in tho homes thero i8 auch a senso of loss and such & sorrow for it, wo thera §s fu the Ohurches, which, by tholr uaturd, nct our homus togotlior with u larger, und sometimed u finor, brotborhood through the Olitltiun falth, ' Lhos who nre 50 yothiored aud mado oti¢, may read tho catuloguo of the fullen in the wholo world of good men and \omen outalde, aud it 1u through uo wint of sympathy and appreciation of such gopduoss (hst thoy. still look fnward and mins thosg most Who were noarest to them, und feol thelr Jovs most sadly, ‘Thase may bo greator aud more sufntly, but thess were tlielr "own homu- mado sainte, 1 it an hour lust suer falking to an nged lady in'a Jog-houso on thi prairie ubout tho ten- dor liglit of o duy that {6 dead, sud she toueled, among othor things, of the way thoy used to dresd down in Tenncssoa when shie ws s young girl, Why, Dless you, she gald, thera aro no such drcsses uow us thoso wo * used to grow and upin, and woive und dye, and make ourselves, Thess tings we gotat tho sloro nefther wear ko well nor look so well,~ Giva md tho good -old_Uinsoy-woolsey and I don't want your wiiks und satiug, not I, Buttho secrot of thut preforenca could not'llo, I maw, fu the beuuty of (ho'gurment, bucauso sho sliawed i ot vbio kept in momory of Lie g0od old duys ; it luy in tho nearer pud sweolor truth tuub whio bud seon the flux deck thefr own fleld witl itw purple glory, hud epun and woven 1t in the light of tho great irs winter evaniugs, and bad hid lon within evory thread soma sweet human olomout the most Loautiful work of ullen looms .und spindles could novor bring, And 8o it f with thosd we huve lost out of our homes und churches, Tuey hiad this home-muilo quulity which mukes them more 10 tho roul heurd of our lova thn the greut sainta aud , mgon, tho caplufua und Kings for whoso loks tho world muy moitrn, ond who ssam to Toave for an fu- stunt o blauk placd i human hiatory, _Our dead may Jiavo filed no groat place, but thdy Alled our placo. “Thyy vevo ol tmmavulats it for walunt gurollment i the book of the mafuts, hut thelr good, storling, ‘honiely qualitiea wore wnord indfspenssile to tho 1o woluvo o live thun tho shiniug glory of ull thuwo greater sturs, ‘lhese siaru skione right it our home, our cliured, and oue lifo; thut fu how we camo Lo mis them and mourn their 'bunfshed Ught, and why wo think of them as nioro to ua than all tho worid Lo- sio, Al whon wo think of theas home.mado sufnts, 4nd fecl hele loss 1 this wuy, wp ure ot to tuiuk for ouo aouout that thiv vigks personul connoction with them 16 loading us uwuy frowm the heart pud woul of good- n0ss, w0 thut wo- blunder fatully whon We count tho 1itt1o one an moro than u thousund aud (he sl ond as moro thun gros) utlon, Fac thero 18 1 relutive wd woll ug w posltive worth, and ‘wo only miss our wa whon',wo fuil to coutit eacs for What It 1 wortity f1y o i of yooduess, T notice in the deug-stors tiiero on Olurk sireot that my friend how o wculo of wolghitu anid wouauru of the iudst exquisita Auoness uud porfection, by whioh ho regulutos bia proscrlp- tiond, und T nover tie of watehlng how carofully Lo elenty, oy tho auiallor il thon Ui largor, eccordy 1o tho sigus by which o has {v work, I uted not us D whon hie tloes thut why Lie does not, take tho geeat- er fustead of tho losser, Decsuse T know ulroudy how Nis ueilon 8 govorued by the fualght wid ‘genlua of thourandy of yeurs, Thut pluce of puper, 1€t fu trath und not i i, fu tho ossenco of all th lubor ind thourht of the bost men of '@ hundred gonerations o v fouglt wnd Callow guardine the pissce by- tweon lifo und deatli, And so 1t 4 thut what our own aro worth to us upart from what they ure worth to the world, or fucluding that, in the real fest of tholr valua und df our boroavumedt, Smull ud they wore, uml u the wids of holr oburch aud comuunity, have nL-udy wed ibu, ligbgt In the whlo sum of Nfy, thyy stood for un In~ din ponsablo welyt sud messurs {f thoy. were real follfa true to tho standurd to walch they werd mad » do rigt 1o say they J‘m partand parcal of i o sh ¢ / thio caence of onr cxistence, and o feel aa wo do about thutr going, T think, nlno, thera (3 another frith about thom” wo dave the right o tell. Thoy wero not only of that worlh fo us nccording to thalr welght and measure, bt thoy eld in tholr no- turo mu trcalonablo orts o (he world ey livd n. 1 remember, an T walked up {ho Alps toward thio Fureas Toan, weoitig closo fo o small homestead o flat rock, pose wbly Dty feol wnare, on which, with_inflnite fabor, the peasant hnd plied oo six feot of fitio mold ond madn o gaedon, i, shicl o way wrowing ronts ond Diorba, nnd f vory faw flowerd fof hié tiouschold, whilo all about him.wan o waste, i comparison with that pot,Now, that gardon hud two distinet quolites, 1t e, ek, 8 tiny storo of bleastng for the peoplo i tho housns_and, then, it was n_need-plat, front whiich (o wholo warld’ eonld_have been sowal with thers Dlessinga in th courso of time, sl from whicl somo Hitlo cornor of tho world onts{do tha rint of that rack i, 110 doubt, kowi ovory sedr in tho mensre of the Utnge it att ringt o porfection, Aud thia s the lar- ger trnth about our dead, In the moudtire of thotr gooiucen s Hpeno, -thole worth wa ‘something el caul bl 1o zorio s way and” that, and i the whole with'blessings, If cacli one of them had lived fen thoysand yoars nga you would soo thole idoals in marhlo fo-doy, dug out of twelvo fect of debrin ntid treantired {n thamacuoa of Romo and London, Just an 1€ that rock held the inguthaeing of all tho genvrutions it roola und floxera, nnu there whs no_equal worth outride, it would hio'tho Zion or the Mecea of all tha agricultural fairs of tho OId World nnd tho Now. You #eo what T medn, thon, by b *positive and o_relativa valuo, Whiat thicao men and women wero srorth flioy weto trorth, They held in thelr lifo what you hold yot in yonra, i€ thoy ware truo to the mneasurs of lifo qual- dtiés this world'of oura demands with an imperinl rea- alution, They were uot ouly worlh 0" nuch to' as, but to (ho wholo nrea in which they suffered and gors rowed, boro their urdens, faced “their atorme, mek their Cana nud thelr Calvory, nud snid it {s finished and gavo up tho ghost, It inakes no mattor to ticlr roal valug that otiicrs mude o braver show' and - filldd tlig warld with s vaster porrow whon they went out of 1t.” Thiat babo of yotirs, mother, was n fndispensable {9 this lifo in 1t poor lltle way y the Lroadeat and beat lifo wo over heard of, and left romething os full of worth i1 t8 own way when it Joft you for tho bptter and_brighter_climato, 'Thal_wifo, or busband, or frien whoao death fise cast meh o etindoi crosn your living.ropm, your ghambor, ond thin chasct, Lield a, scoral of ' tho Towd ' thelr. natur, _ yau nooded, ~ wo_ boeded;” and fha whold" world neoeded, It 48 mot your luss alone, it In fho loss of fho lifa we lve fn, X doploro whop T miea them out of these scats, und out of thn Linunts of their lovo aud duty this day, They wers ouen niid youure, and tho world's frionds nd kinsfollc, Ouo sldo of thelr 1ifo was local tho other was uuiver- sal. Thoy woro like thoso lanips wo sea that casta ligit strong nd olear o oue placs, atll thoir ehinfiiy cutnot Lo conflucd ; ila rays mako thelr wiy into ull thio darkness about 'thorn; #nd’ shoot fomoglimmers 10 doubt, iuto the farthest Apapes of tho aky. ’ "And 5o when I eul thia roll of our_dead within tho triclve montlia, ynd mention'the nnmes that ard weit- {cn in heaven of Jano Irvine, of Ellzabath Bates, of Elizabetn Melntyro, of Edward Tinkhani, and of Ed- wazd Wriglat, wiio was o strangor to most of you, but o dear friond of min, whoso kindly, carncAt cyos I Toved to luok fnto, all throngh tho sufmer and fall as lie snt with it our wol’ll\llp, I aco iu cach one of theso NlnIv ciotis things I biave touched ns tho réal eskence of {ho lifo of good. mon and_womew, bomes nindo nlnts in their own ey, overy ono of thom, whoso logs I know not yot how fomako good, nny mora than you do who havo to bear it, — God holp you ‘in n’m best wuy you can find, ond {ho only way I frust wa can meot theso boreavemonts i by canting fhom back agoin ipon tho heatt of God. Jano Trvino ‘yery fow of you knew ns I'did, for thn home sho kopt #o right and full of sunny Teat was ouo of tho places whero I Joved o go when I was tired and not ovar well fn_spirit, fo got bold again of tha clicerful side, I€ abohad_not boen 8o patfect a Mar- tha, withont: a touch: of Marlba'a quick lemper, T sliotld liavo {houglit sho was Mary como back again o 1 walched hor gitfet fnward ways, and wondered at her quick appreliention of whatsoever things are truo snd lovely, and of good report, Aud thon whon lier sum. ‘mons eame, with what clear, unflinching eyes she lookod a4 tho ehindows of deatly,n0t donbling that tho Clirist who brought lifo aud immortality fo light was within thom all to Lo counted on and rosted in ns ho roals with God, whilo this solid carth was gliding from un. dor hier feet, und tho mystery over which hier spirithad brooded was_opening ut Inst and taking hor duto ite hieart, * Slie was not ono of us in tho sectariun senae, Dollevo, aither by aiuestion or learning, but, liks many others who camo to s, sho wue too largs and freo to bo'bonnd by any scctarian Unes, Tho followship of tho epirit was mora to ler than tho bondngo of tho letfor, and_so miio went whero sho loved t0 go to worhip, Bhodid not enre for tho stump shia +aw on the bread of 1ifos it was tho bread alio cared for, and that sho fed on in her henrt by graco with thanke- giving, dolug Lior doy’s work willi n checry cournge notliuig conld datuut, nnd passing through & flery fur. ‘nace of sickiies so brightly that you skl whon you sat by her T sea nother in the' fire, and is fori Is like tho Son of God, This was thit first of theso Liome- mada saiuts wholeft uy Inst year ; an truo a wifo, o truie o woinn, and ag true a Cliristian as ever sat with s and sang and prayed, white etill her duty and love relgued wupremo o thofirsh condilion of ber sani ship, v You know.Elfzabetls Detes hotter, and you nover know a bettor womun, 8ho filled o lurgo placo aniong e, and whe filled 4t Wil thd Lrileat wortn, What nl- wiiys touclied mo to tho heart_when I talked with Ler of tho more futimato matters which belong to my calls ing washer tremulous apprelicusion that. she might como abort when all was douo of hor wholo duty and Tove to Gad, to Christ, and to her lofty ided! of what o trug wifo sad mother nud Obristion woman ouglt to do, Indecd, sho had not' tho faculty some of us-:huvo of keeping protly rieadily on the sunny sido of tho wuy, I olyays thought there was o touch of sadnese in her constitntion, and then [ four this wus nggravated by her earller rellgious edu- catlon ; for, liko the good womn T havo just named, #he did not belong by birth-riglit to oiir Church.” Sig settled among you beeauso bt heart led her Lioro, and lier mfud wus ‘ono with her heart, I well Temoinber thie Inst Sundoy sta was hers ; the Suudoy bk ono be~ foro o was einging among tho risen Suints, and wou- derling, no doubl, how sho bad ever doubléd whetler sho should find ier way thero with God to take her by thohand, I rémombor how her besutiful faco und carnest e5es glowedi, and how sho seomod tho very pie- turo of heulth; past that burd, ebary coruer of the great culawity, and looking onward to Ler appy pud beautiful boino on this side, It was not to bo; nolther Liavo o long etrugglo with lor doibts ind feary, ICL LY e €)' Cainie $ww - bier be 1uB00 3 1186 all aviout her 80 that. shio should not £os whera slio going. It seemed ver'y sad 10 us, Lt it waa all divino, Gou ald to Lory My poor cbild; you aliall ot suffer in that way,’ ‘ard so hor' ‘spirit fell uslcep, 60 that sho was/ bardly sware, if sho wus at all aware, that hoy wero {nkig tho tabernacla 10 pleces’ aud settiniy Yer froe, Only lioss who know Elizaboth Bates trly could guees her workl, how nobly eho Uore her/erass, how well alio foughit lier bat= tle, liow tendecly aid trilly she did . her ‘wholo duty, aud how fast her kieart wos anchorod to those sh loved and tenided, | 8ho nearly died onto, T remember, serving In her chureh, and I think tuat if tho old duys Liad como agoin 0 which men and women must ‘mako thie clioico Whether they would ‘fico_from teuth and duty o face death by, tire, she would have shruulk wilh hier elicate, nervod nturo from tho ordeal nu fow could slrink, and then she would have summoued ber goul and stoodd tho torturs s u perfect soldior wlands with white faco and _unflinching heart In. tho foremost of tho battle; Onco olear abont what Abo muat do {o bo b {rio womut, T canno fmagiho ler standing aong thuso at lust o will not Lo faithful nto deatl, snd sho was fafthful unto death it ever womail was it this world, T ' Elizabeth McTutyxo came among 14 ritealing fn i awarcs ot of ber Nomeamong (ho Green Mouhtulon, ano of thoso exquisito nutures'wo find. so oficn down thero, that come in tho, puro mpiritual senso o na perfect o womunhood as tho world over savw, biit 60 frutl withal that the wino of life glows turough its deliente buse, oo frail ull of them for wueh anibition 04 bitrns und throbs n (helr learts, but too proid sud resolute ever to say {hey aru tried and must’ give up. Ellzabeth Lawrenco Melntyro was ono of thoso wo- men, high-sirung, cultivated, baughty almost in hor disdain of hor awn comfort or coavenfence, and Helf- torgetful, if such thing bo possibio, to s fault. low woll I reieruber ber on thut duy when {ha clementa ‘melted with ferveut heat aud we fled out of {ho flamo 1o thohomo where 8o Wug stoying, How sho. weut sbout with tender words and untiviag feet 10 nutse us in our pain, ond 1ift us out-of cur despalr, tho good Samaritun, i the gufao of a wonwn, fearing noting, and dofvg othing Tor herself, nd ' fhien, when tha lioma wus {0 g0 Among tho rost, oo of ihe.very Just, bruve, resolile, quict, watehfe), and Lopeful ‘to_ the Inst, '#he was ono of 'the old: Uniturian stock, Dorn withh lio Chuireh, educated fja it, full of itu swectest nurtire, Whion You saw her you knew whut our faitls can do for o woman, I can Jmogite no telll of our trust . fn the love of Guod more woful thau that she: hud fo pass thouph, when sho way avyro with ier Orst-born closo to Lot fieart, and her luvé blooming iuto perfection, that gho mubt leave it allandgo through the sudows, But sho was cqual Lo tho uttermost demand, only thoso about bier broke down, aud thelt, truc to all'tho old fn- stiucts of ber 1ifo, she bore (hom nll up togother, Wien hier wholo uature gave way Ler spirit was stroug ayd true ws ovor, Tho" ono 10 weep most orely ug whiet was eomiug had sho nottouched tho aprings of tho cternnd coneoation, slio drank decp of tho wells of salvation, aud breld tho cup while U£o lastod to thosa beart-broken abiout ber bed, ' 1 eiuim 1o mayopoly for this faith of oura of victory over death, but I atlow no - question us to Jts perfort power, When 1t 14 caught unid lield by sticli & ivoma a8 tiis slio know i whorm slio b boffoved. Whon her 1ifo was full of prombses, abd wheu theeo promises weso ull to find thelr positior Leyond (he grave, they.Lore hér above il desolation angl opened ko gites of Heuven, T uved not ask who knew Edwurd Tinkbawm, but who did wot know him (et bus Tived i our city und wcen ita growth Bix und thirty years' ago alimost ho catne liero Lo do hfs- life work, il a finer und betlor wor's fuy men bave done fn that thne, o was nover bLeong man, us you could seo utu glauea i€ you measure trengtli by materinl powor, aud 1l al- swuya scomed to mo tint Wi mutbood waa tbo_delicato and huo for the rough work of u ploncer, It ulways kills sucb mou boforo thely tme, wnd_ho dieik of it uk suroly ud o woldier diea of his hutt, But all the moro noblaund grand was Ul accompiletimont, 1 cair ros membier binco I camo tolivo hiere, und for Jougg ufter, Just an Jong o be bad an_aunce of power or 5 dollur {0 wpure, Low uvery movoment of the bigher or. mora morciful sort cotnted Edward Tinkhum In without uekiyg b, put bim dowst for ouo of the workers und fivers, sud thon 1old b ofterwusdw, 1l B pase sewsot'n dittorout nuturo, he might have died u ich s bt guel mon eldow dio vich, Yot (horo In wealthy i what bo un Toft Tike thut. God’s sants Ieavo, whothier - thoy 'dis rich or poor, Whe fhwo u bruver or a stexdfor mwn In the evil duys when the nogro was desplsed and rejected oF uen—au won of soirows und acquatnted with grlef, Who over then hoard a mean, or buso, or resetionaty word come out of Edward Finklum'a mouth, or . et it might, bo uritug In is beart? " Who loved him beal, und #tood by i ' durk daywand bright 7 Thoso who Knew Wi beat, who hud plumbed tho duepa of bis honest hoart, aind could tell yon of lix troasures, ‘Tl battle of o went ugatnst hity, but o stood b 1w ruuk whouldor to shoulder witls B come rades uud foll at his podt, L trled to hopa whon L'auw lim prosteato, scon aftor tho fivo, that bo would get up ugain: and tako ik phico anrany s, wd Mtk W workub @ good old wgo] ot Ils work Was Sbladied then, Lo would wuy, 1 yin ko tirod, Aunie writes aftor all'was over ; but Lo wus so clioorful whion the pain would giva ki the ghout of u oliasico, sud #0 putiant i - thy paly, sud thiey whiwn ho tinil pasaod awny, all tho ol beauty eatno back into his facoun bb lay therv sleoping, so that it was na if {ho fipidon gates hadingere opest toleb o gt whiue o hin oor worn framo aftor his apirit lind - onchiod it desired havon, 5 Whon I flest know Edward Tiakham bo was In zolls glous thought n Bwedenborgian, so far sy lio could call any mnan maater, 6 T prostims 1t wis B fi & 1n0AIFe to o ond 3 bt Jio Toved heat ta look ut hieaven through tho oyba uf that wonderful ofd manj fhers wod 1o fusctintlat to him 04 tere Acoma t (0 somo peopla n wiiat (hiy call tho torments of tho dnmnod, o did not bolfove that tho will of man to wanidor way atd o Jost can bu an potont fn te end aa o willof dod 4 t0 havo 3 and mo o workaway ak Inst with that light in hiw Neart to whero tiioro i no mora pudn, and tho inhabitants novor say I om _sick, lcaving ho- Dt Lfm in this chureli and fn our city n memory fra- grant of goodl deods, Cul, Edward Wright'a dust. wis borno liero aa thiey carried litm to is burial§ and fem the thiib hd caito o ivo u o lty bo eamo horo oftan to worship, - tuld you, ah hio lay (here bolow mo, what I thonght of lim “and what T Know of bim, ' How ilo lifo wns deafncd out of bim through hise burt fn tho nervico, and hls death added dhoter to the Jong list of our fallen msona and brothers Edward Wright only anfd onb ihing, the simplo teithy 8 man of fow words. Thoso Word_his Wordld. I don’t boliovo that It his_whiolo mauly Iifo. his lips woroever anllled with @ lie, Tratltellor wia our English Alfrod named. Tentli-tellor yon might woll nanio Cal, Wright, Atid as Lo aald ono thing, ho did ono; ho wan as good a8 his word,” Askind s heart ke had s ovor beat, but Justico was his diadem, ‘Thens, frionds, Aro the home-mudo enfhts ‘who have boon with us for’ o longer.or. sUioFlor sbace aul aro now gathered, within this Gelve nionths, to thele rest 2 thote roward. Thura fa o tlino o, apeak of tha slornal lifo uto ¥hich oy iavo pataed out of and 110 tcéd, This tras thio eternnl Mfo’ yor maw im- prisoned [n their wortal frame, Thoy did not fln toit, 1" Wont with thiom o surcly a8 1t went with God'd deat Son. Tho momory of stich mon_and women, and tho sonso T hayo thnt theix kouls’ prosonce sLill brooda over un whon we meet, makes our restored templo very sncrod fo 1o, Lot mo any ohce moro thiat I trust sono ontward sign of thoir presenco and absonca may. bo pormilted within our walls, Wien wo rafas coatly monumonts In_tho comulory and leavo tho satice tuary bare, T focl tint thoy eara niora for God's soro, portisps, Liian thoy oaro for Iis houso, If:they. coill speak tow, they wotld. tell yau the otliee sido, Lo aluful thoy wofv, and fooliah aud tibfaithtuls hut I Ikaw, for all thoy can say wlion T meot thom that this a5 maid 1n to what tloy toondd say us tho light I3 to thio alinduty, 0 they stand theto In tho great multiiudo no Disn can number, and the great multitude no man vat mmiber atands hore walting 'Iis snmmons to join tige majority, For . » L “Iho aninta of God aro holy men, And womon good and childron denrg All thoso who avor foved Lo Lord, ud 1i¥o Iy faith ond fear, Wo aro not all together now, ' Tor soma nro dead and gono beforo And nome oro atrlving atill on oarth— Thelr rinl la not o'or, Great numbors ara thoy of oll States, And boria fn bvery pinco and land, Wiko nover saw cacli other's face Or touched onch ofher’s innd, But they aro all mide one fn Ohilst, Thoy Jove cach other touderly Tlio ol tho young, thio rich, the poor, In that grent compnny, And thera sball come a glorlous day, Wiion all thio good waints, evoty onie, Bhull it withiu thor Fathor'a homo, Aud stand boford Tils throne, ——— CHRISTIANITY AN. UNIVERSAL FAITH, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Swazoy, of the Ashland Avounc Chiire Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr, Swazoy, pas- tor of the Ashland Avenuo.Church, proached o sermon on * Christinuity an Univorsal Faith," Tho audionce was & vory litgo one. Tho seriuon ia as follows :, Tost—" And I eaw in tho night visions, and hehold one liko the Eon of Man camo with' the clonds of hepven, and camo fo tho Anclent of Days, and they. brought Hiwm near before him. And (iero wus given IHim glory, domixton, tnd a kingdom, that ol péople, nations, sud languages shoudd serve Him ; 1is domin~ {on Is an ovorlusting. dominion, which shail .not psvs away; and Itis kingdom that which shall not bo de- stroyed.”~Danel 73 13, 14, Away In tho far East, Danfel catches & glimpso not only of tho restoration of his own peaplo to tho homa of thelr futliers, but of & Coming Moz, who shall re- storo all things on enrth, J 2 Tho purplo and gold of the royal favor are far 1w Lo tlia groat ond atrangoly pure and steadfast servant of God thou the hopo of Taracl, ond the hope of the world. Superlor to persoual ambitian, ho is 8o high up that Lo soeg ovor {hio mmountafng, mvuy along he whtole rango of timo, Ul his cyes rests upon a, unfver- sl ne well as an everlstiug ingdom. It 4 ihi0 mero dovotes who dream only ofe nix oxclustyo and narrow Clurch, of tho destruction of the much for tho little, the many for the fow, of merely handful_of wheal from tho wido fiolds of bupn listory, Tho good wan, having an instinct of tho onences of God aud naturé, of tie divine and the human_intelligonce, of tha Lieart of Doity nnd the. human heart, forcsced thio ultimato unfon” of heaven and earth,—universal xiglitcoustiess and nn everlasting dominior great Hopo which low 1 all oges gladioned the world, snd which, aince tho coming of Chrlst, takea dofnifo form, oud after roprersion Dy the narrowncys of un ago or n croed, nSsori itself a)l tho mora vehemently,” ‘o Son bf Man whom Daulel saw coming with all the winds of Ieaven (wifl all tho pawers of th Holy Ghoat), & messunger of. the Anclent of Days, is the son of Mary, the Son of God, breaking away from Judsio limitations, and ealiig all Jueu unto hiny, Josuis said: T, 11 bo lifted up, will draw all mon uoto me.” His last words wera: “ Go teach all na- tious ; and fo1 T 4 with you totho end of o world,” Tiis clhosen Apoutles eay, * o tasled ddath for overy nun,” The p‘unt tlicologian aud zealot of the sirst Ciit it age, 10 Whoms Mo nppoazed oi tho way 10 Da- Mmusel, atd Lo Whom was given a comnmisubis an wide us tho dialvets of the Romon Empire, concelved of 1fim us the sccond Adam, the hesdsprivg of life to the whalo buman family, Tho first Adom wad a Mving soul ; tho Accond Adam is o quickening (life-giviug) spiril Wherovar evil flowed froin ' tho' frst Adam, 0od” overfows from tho Recoud Adam, Tho first Adam wus fho fulluro, fho = éde ond.’ Adom 38 tho triumph, of tho wholo human family, “Whero sin ohounds gruce dotl much mora bound.” Ohrist shall reconcilo all things.” o Laul. And John gotn ko cloar s viow from Patuios, that lio' drops Imogory nnd sava plainly, 4o formor things are passed uway.” ¢ Thero ghull b6 1o moro citso. only throo otlier religions thab il auy, proper seuse are itativals, Duddbism is about 8,000 years old, s fouudor beiug o contamporary, perhapy, of Solomon. Bralimuudm 1a 400 or 600 years aldor,its origin dating, Buy, 1,600 years B, 0,, or about tho thmo of Mosca, Matioinmedanisi 15 in_somo senso a ‘split-off, from Ciiristianity, 5 tigentlal movement of Arabian Cbris= tian lifo {u” {he sixih and soventh conturics, Tiue re ligious of Egypt, Persju, Greeco, nud Rome, und of aucent Europe, havo for tho most part pussod away, Drohmaulsm ald Duddbimm number tha millions of India, Thibet, Chiun, and Jopau, Mahommedanism oxtentled ftaolf " will great rapidity. It overrim Arubln, rooled Cbristisuity out of Lgypt, scized on Persln, ostablished widely-pxtended doinfnfons in Tn- iy, fised fteelf on Spaw, nud took poskossion of Bysin aug Constautinoplo, 1t reached tho heighth of its power 000 yoars ngo, and ulthough numbering to~day 160,000,000 f peopic; 18 uot ouly ot ugressive, but s lovg been o rapadly duchining power, Tho rélfgions of Indin and the East, embractig vast popultious, belong to v efvilzationt olfelo nnd cannot survive e connierclal, social, aud political revolutions whijob the ougoing ofgthno 'sure to bring tiyion them. = Clirfetiunity wetit’ out silently from Indin; in 500 eurs mounted tho throno of the Cacsars, wnd sinco, that time hos beei: .Identified with the ‘philosaphy, tho ars, tho fndustries, tho politicd of tho advanced thought of portions of Asls, of tho whole of Europe and ti Western World, ts fortunos have been, to vome extent, varinble, In Judea, on tho buuks of {lic Ofantes; iy Asfa Minor anl Corlnth, tho theatro of its_ourlicat iriumph; In Coustantitoplo and Egspt, olsg, whiéro i lttlo lafer ita nchiovemeuts wera cousplenans, 1t perished long since, to ba revived auly fo u ilmitad ¢xtent by tho lustrumentallty. of mod- oru Olirlatian missious, Tho phenotncnon should nol bo regurded os Atrange, ‘Those "eountrles, ouce the coutre of vast netivitios, rotied boforo, {ho new and fresher lifo of otuer- clllon and ofber lands, Following enterpriae, wealtl, und culture, Christiunity left burven for fovithng tlelds, For 8O0 years S8pain was.m the hauds of the Saracons, Leing conquered by tho sword. Inbunfsm, Lowever, was dnven out by the sword, the Inst urniles’ of the falso Prophet rolirfug ni tho clow of tho fteents contury, leaving the Peniusuls once more under the bunner of the vross, Whilo tho followers ot Brahma and of Buddha aro alrendy seokiug a now elvillzatfon, und Molnmuedun- dsw §3 ot -lust nearly wpent, the religion of the Nuzareno was nover Jnore vigorous or wora widely ox- tonded then attho present hour, Age, insteud of impalelug, developy k8 ouorgios mora powarfully 3 and’ tlme, fustead” of bringing forward someibing freshor sud more hopeful for the world, contrasts it fuvorubly with all othor forme of religiou, and et a over lnereasing value on (o Obristian ‘faith, Do it truo or falvo, it lus 10 orgaulzed tival on tho twe great continents which nre wieldlug the destinies und settliug tho order of the whaole world, True or falu, 1t is ussoclated with governmeut, soclety, educution, comimerce, und_Tshor,—wot us o Yenorable tradition; Lutus tho dolfoovident i every-uy consorvator of tha goud and desirablo in life, Ido not forget tho philosophors und the savauts who think tho world could get on well onough without the traditions of Judea, or, at least, that Curlutiunity 4 rated 100 highly us a benefactor of manking, Muny may admire tiele lugonuity, und applad tholr wits but tho grout musses of il people, fu all grades, go on helieyiug, or ot any rafe ucknowivdging, and meautng to uckuowledgo till n Uotter shull uppear, the relfgion of Jewun Ohriid, "Thora fs infidelity enotgh, but nof wuough o breuk tho hold which tho New Tostument hus upon the rellglous uature of the people, Nor In it Lucuse Ohristianity hus been wuffored o o nnchulle 1, From Celsus to Strauss 3 Crom the dubiators in “ thé sehool of ono Byrraunue ¥ to Qerald Massey, tho bigund tho lttle, Ui sorfous uud tho leurued tnvestigator, atid _the nnsclolarly uud vulgar vituporator, huve questioned, denled, or. Tidiculed its claint, ouly to prove to the warld that philosopby and loarnitig olistriict the wiy of th Lor unnointed 10 maro thun did tho superatition of the Guul und the Tielton, Voltufre, Diderol, Frodevlok tho Groaty Jume, Bulinbroke, Gitbow, we no . belter than ' iiny Canuto g Wi el on thoedge of the sea, while the great fsa of God Fluen ko un ocesu-tida'slong ull (i slurod of 1ifs, Olirlstfunity way luve chunged lis forms ; it lng chungod,—8 saylfug growing futo 4:frey clinies 3 By e aver earkjuy at. o furgoy Chung 48 tio, eyo alvare ’fl-;:t;&gn.m bouveud o4 § 08 au ju lual :‘;‘v‘vm{muum&, into uoy copditiops of ouliure aud “ho Jowlsh idea of Messiahi 18 tho germ of thot ' Christionity is nbout 2,000 years old, Thero aro* noctal ordor, clinngo ; but it s the wamo vifal oreg. inm,—tho samo arm, | tho tho 3 Bamo oye, Q nalviduat 1o, “the same gospe] " of . grace that shook Jerusaloms on the day of Peutecost, and that taught Peter * that In overy na- tion ho thal fearoth God awl Workoth riglhtoousnoss in accepod with Tlim.» ‘Ihoro arv those who think that Chtistionity lins run il raco ; that, & 100!1 thing in its time, the world Iy propared for, amd domands, somathing bottor. Lt no ono geems Lo know what thal somdthing ia, Thoro la a vagho tdea that Aalonco Ia to tako tho placa of religs fon, in what manner, however, nono fir wiss cnougl 1o sugrest, A8 well might sciowes toko ing vlaco - of pooley, or nrl, o of - frlonde shin ond domestio love, That selendo may corroct ccrtaln orroncous intorpretationk which lave bevn put on thy Bible fs not'improbablo ; that science, fhstead of teatifying -%mnu God, whil' persuade. men, moro aull more, of the unity of reation, and of 1 persounl divino Intelligonce, thore fa little doubt; it how & 3 to tuko thio placa of fnith, nud love, mud nors) obligae tion, sud tio lopo of Jmmortal 1ifo, it §s hard to_cone celut, tinlow it o ta provisico o provo that mon N 0 heart, 50 consclence, anil no destiny beyond the panslng hour, ' Beléics must Live Bowictling more flattering thonr thls, or the Qalllean will prove strongor than sclonco, 8o long g4 o logk sy luto tho spnces of (0 universo; wo long anthoy heor Lo beatings of tie great wuscon fide un. derneath thom ; o long oa thoy feel like orphans who ought to hava a fuilick; so long ha thero Is asnything in them rovolting nt littleness and erimo ; 80 loug ha they ' stand at tho opon grave, longing for their fricnds or trembling for thémselves, 6o long {eill they cfy out af- tof their unscen. Gody—cnll Aomething o rovelation, ulld for thomeelves an altar, and. filng themaoltes o #omo great triist, somo great liope, And until ono wlser, stronger, nnd more truo thun Josus of Nazarctl, aliall appoar, ho will coritinue to bo tho Guide, the Triest, sl tho Hopa of 1neid: We speak of Onristianity os thougl it were new 1,800 yoaraago. Dut L fnuot exaolly no. It ia niors giely Fuo Lo oy that 1t 14 tho Llossom from & gorin as ohl ba tho humans fanlly § that it 4 tlio outgrowth of oll tiwe and all_thought, 'Its roots may be traced through Inalah, David, Moscs, Abraham, and Noab, dwny back o Abel, It would nover hnve bppoared - to bo 8 mew: faith 1f Jests had not been rojocted by tho Jows, Tholr devfal doca nok alter tho fact, Judaism, in e best eatato, wan, Lo bosurc, soriously fmperfeat, bt ot falss, not forelgs to the Gospel oven, but morsly incoms pleto, As tho steps in o problem are ta ite solutivn, 0 tho oad 18 to thia goal boyoud {t, na green frult i t tho motlow cluaters of autumn, Judaism fa to thy Chirlatisn fafth, Tt 18 tho vovenant with Eyo whlch g fuliltled in Christ, It §s tho Vblessiug of Abralimm which falls on the Christian bollever, It is Gideon, and Uarach, and Sawson, who sre examples of fafth, 1t i3 the Son of David who tho Messiah to tho world, Esscutfal Clrise tlanity is older than all the religions of men, Tt bas recelved jnbo tself ns tributarios, in_Tan) and Apollos éven, tnll more particularly fu the diselples of tho scademyy ail thougit touchiug God and man which the leadivg nations of the eldors’ timo vy thought vorthy of presorvation, It fu {hls most ane clent falth, nover tronger or Dioro ouger thau at the presant hour, which s declured to ba an everlsting dominion,”. "WILl the docluration bo justified? s i Tho great duy of tho nacendancy or dacadence of Clrlstianity in ot band, Tho dynamies of religlons, falio and true, avo beltig hronghit into play under cons dftloun, altogether ditferent from thoto of any other age, ~The mteam-cngine, (ho magnotic cure. reuts of earth und afr, uro bringing alt the Tearniug, all tho falschoo, and all'tho tritthyof the workl intp one reavtice cbamber, i You can put your finger.on the workd's pulao at Te~ hetan, 08 woll s fn Paris or Now York, 00 professor of lsugungea i o longer {n the academy; but everya rwhere, in palaco and workshop, Thero aro 1o mors Obineso watls, Tho Dralimiu, tho priest of Duddhn, and the follower of ths Aral oplich tho Straysscr, Uy Itenuns, tho Eriersons, tho Stuart Mills, tho Darwins, and the Aggalz, instead -uf occupying cabing in the great Buip that opens ovly on tho guards, looking out upon tho brond sca only from thelr owi windows, ara. brought together on tho moin deck - tu think fnfh o1ch othot's cars, to look with each otliers eyen over tho broad_oxpanss wnl into tho great dovp. "Tlio best men, tho best idcas, win henceforth, 1€ lifo o n_riddle, who evor attempfs au anawer, onswers ot 1ho bar of uyiversal judginent, No man'apeaks in u whisper to o fow ; he speaks to all, _If Christionity by ot tho truth, ita honog wil ceaee, 50 of any Tolgion ¢ 50 of olonto, -On.tho other hund, if Christinnity bé truo, it will po bissed and derided, and then ackoiowledged. snd lionored nmong ol people. What will bo tho result? Tho Bible aesurcs us, Take, howover, # Lutian standpoiut, The soul of man ‘ruu’wl{ 3n the hope of fmmortality, Christinuity offers this hope. It propounds It boldiy, not with the {inidity, tho chveats of Sihor roligions, but s a- (hing ,wado surp by tho word of Christ, aud by Hix, reaur- rection from the dead. Tt matters nol hat 10 momo thu resyrrcction is o sjumbling block, The many will cling to 1im who wan dead and 14 allvo agaln,” und do= clate {hat Ho “ has the Leys of deatls and of hell, Whilo, too, somo meu want nomediator, aud the crons i an bifene, tho moss of nen, firat o Iast, ara xo reyprely couscious of il desord, of separation from God, tht tliey erave aif altar from which tho vofces of peaco may fall upon_thelr hearts. 'Tho rollgion that opens a way to God without self-torture, without por- soual perfection, nud wluply by itk faith, sotly- n & groat crying uced of men who at Lest aro only htwgering sud thicsting ofter rightcousness, A res liglon which siye, “ God 8o Joved tho world that Ho ‘gave His Bon " will aiwass warm tho lcarls of men, Add now that whilo the Now Testament provision. and promise offor & leaning place for tho siiting and {he Borrowlug, Lhoy sre ut tho samo, time the highest incentives to goodiieas, and that Now Testament pre= cent iealwisn kindly, mellorating, und Lolpful, and o liavo anolbier essGutial purtionlarof u wuiversl re- on, "‘vmu too, thab Ohristion ploty.is simply goodnossand faith, But thero s muoh more _in Chrlstinny; Tt presenta to the world what, the world s alwuya lunging for, » Mun, 8 wmun e great aud srong, au 0~ thoroughly In wympathy with oen, and without mchl“z #o clenrly” Into things naturajand things spiritual, things nour oud things far nway, that comig to 1lim fu like coming to s God who (6 4 per- sonal friond, Tho world eecks wisdom; God sends o mun” whose gooduess and sirength persuade us tha Mo i abla to keep that which wo commit to ITim, 1t is not tho birth of an idea, but tho'burth of a Savior, which gladdeus tho world, x Christianity makea uo war on any natural good, bul, ko & great magnet, drawa overy atfainrient of 'mon fo dtscl, It does not originats ovorything, but whatever fs high and noble, whether in Judafem, or Buddlism, In Helenco or fit song, i matter or SPIrlt, it eliminates und tako futo itw own all-embracivg pirity and love. It puts itself in the world a4 4 niclous “around which shail erystallize all right thonghts, all humblo aapizations, all Piire churis ties, all the divino results of tho world's wrestling and il As i regenerating o man it pnts now lte Into s learning, domentic afections, and honorsble in. dustrics, #0 in regonerating thn world L ets np no autagonism to its attainmants or means of culture, but rathor puts now 1ife i thom ond briugs them into harmony. If o wiso procept is found in Confuclus, if a right fdca v found in tho Vedas of Indla, {f tenth flashos from an Egyptiau altar, or from tho straing of: Homor, it subsidizes ull o liself, If thy eclentlst Lids some now thiought about life, it draws it oway' from -ite falss position futo fellgwship with prayer, and love, and self-tacipline, and the hope of the wotld, It forbids anly indifference to God, self. sufliclency, and, sin, It is fho Hbcrator of {deas and docirines, mokes all thinus finld, and gatliors to flalf Whatovor any mou mny Tigtly lovo or desire, It Jtnows no_scet or order ; Dbut ouly nten. It knows no given form of Lellof bui ouly the trudh, Xt knowe na styla of ultar or altar sorvico: but only worship, It knows no favared chii- dron 3 but only fillal, confiding, and toving souls, It {a uoiiior Popery, uor Enlacopicy, nor Prerbyleriai- {sm, nor Methodism, These aro only things of au hour,—fashions which wear out us time goes by, as primitive nnd scanty us fig-leaves compureg with the wWhite garmuuts of tho lant doy, ; Christianity {8 untural and supernatural,—just ag man {8, Christ 1A its geeat High Pricat, sverriog eve erywhero that mun §5 Not mide for tho Sabbath or any other thing, but thut the Subbath ond all things sre miade for man, « Evory kea shall bow to Jesus as every river runs to thio aea, by tho samo law, 1t 1 el to refresh oursolves with Dantel viston, Thero_are; clouds’ enough hanglng ovar tho hagplest housoliold, tho happlest human life, without the Blige plelon that tho prevailing drift {8 awoy from God, mway from Obrist, God has mot lannched a world lo canmob gulde, Satan {s,uot greator {han Christ, God’s great thonght in not of dumnation, but of salvation, The Diving Spirft s abroad, rovealing the thingas of the Bplrit, Tho Lord God Alwighty 14 and will bo; and mian §5 Ws child, and though 46 bo a prodigal, will, Bt his surfeit of ploanuro and Mwugos gad saws, ind big way back {o his Fatbor’s house, SWEET PEACE. Address of Mrs, Jane E, Weeden fir' the First Mothodise Church, A lnrge congregation of Indies and gontlomen assembled yestorduy morning in the Fivst Mothe odist Chursk to listen to an address by M, Jane E. Weoden, agent of the American Peaco Bociety. Among her hioarors was tha Ton, Johu Waontworth, who tostifiod his intercst in the lady's remarks by going woundly to sleep bofore sho wag lislf thremgh, The usual proliminary davotional exorolses were conducted by the Rev, Dr, Phomns, aud tua zousio. by o most inharmo. nions choir, usslstod by sn. orgavist whioso dise cordunt wrestlings with the gaudy sceumulation of pipes colored like Chineso firoworks woro not caleulated to oroate foclings of peaco on carth and good will to musicians on the part of his listonors, Consid- oritg her publio poeition, and the hundreds of thousands of pooplo sho has nddressed, accord. fug to ber own statement, il is.a ltlo siugular that Mrs, Woedon shonld have succoeded iu ae- quiting #o small & quantity of self-posscssion aud confidenco. A couscionsnoss tfuat overy- body was, looking at her was npparent from thu unonsy slilfiing of hor glancos from placd to laco while £he regulur morning uvxorcids wors [\ prosons, and who tho thuo oamo for har to begn talking sho soomod vastly rolioved, and away s#ho wont at a rato which™ would drive s shart-hand voporter wturle mad. Whother it is hat Mrs. Weeden has much to say and but litle timo Lo kay it in, or whother sha is afraid Lhat somo othor woman will interrunt hor, ic. is cor- taln that for gotting rid of tho Inrgest number of wordd to ho minute, Mrs, Weedon s onti- tlod to wear tho belt, -After luving aside the heavy, gray, avorcont-looking garmont with which tho assuults of winter ara succossfully do- fiod, and having doffed tho conventional Qunker bounet with whito silk ribbon strlngs, slio ups peared in a pluin suit of Lluok, and this is whik slio snfd, among muny soriptural quotutions-and " (Qiinad on G Bighth Fege)