Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1874, Page 3

T CTI T T T T TSI U T I T MO IVO X T JAINNUAITY e e 20, TS 3 THE PULPIT. Thoughts on Death. Views of a Swedenborgion Prencher on that Subjeot, B: F. Underwood on Matcrialism vs Immaterialism, Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kohler to Sinai Congregation The Rov. Father Riorden on Sim. Pr. Pook on the Gospol Plan, SOME THOUGHTS ON DEATH. Sermon by tho lRove €. Day Noble, of tho New Jerusiilem. The Rov. C. Day Nobls, of the Now Jerusalem Churoh, delivered the following sermon to his congrogation yosterdny morning at Murray Chapel. The subject, *Bomo Thouglne on Death,” wou well suited to tho wintry charactor of tho wentler, which held sll nature in ico- locked roposo, Eypical of tho lnst, long sloop. Tho toxt was from 1 Kings, xvil,, 18, aa followat And sko ssid unto Elijab ¢ What havo I to do with theo, Oh, thou man of God? Art thou come usnto me to call my sin to romembrance, snd to slny my son 7 Dontly, a8 wo know it, is tho rosult of nothing but wrong-doing in the raco. All that which makes it dreadod and painful, which loads to it through stops of dlscord or by blows of accident and torturo, and maokes it momory upon the living hoavy and bitter, has been introduced by man, and not God, into our human lot. Death in tho Garden of Eden would not have deserved tho namo, It wouid have been o Losutitul transition, a lissful passago through droamful sloop. It would haye brouglht no forobodings, and Joft no eign of Fufforiug or unsightly objoct of decay, The man in hig now birth into Heaven would have Llossomed upwards as the flour does out of tho stalk, and as the Lord Josus did out of His tomb, leaving bobind no empty body, no stony remiuder, of tho bappy miracle, ‘Whethoer, therefore, in thinkiog on tho subject, wo fix our oyos upon law or upon God, it is equaily truo that doath is thopunishor of sin, I'bat man is of oxtraordinary brightness and cxceptionnal lot in lifo who can declare, when death sppronchos, that ba has na tand n it ‘And who of us conld go throngh the dark passago with one of our children, and, as_we finally ro- Jensed tho little ono's huud iuto that of tho wait- ing angel, eny, “Lhave no sin to bring to ro- membranco ; I am guiltless of tho sinying of my child?" This womau, thereforo, In ber cry to Llijuls, was not only nntural, nho was right. Tho rroat Bin of her lifo, whatover that might havo con, in siriot justice, threw its Linckness over this hour. ‘Tho sin of tho paront had vory likoly been visited upon the child, Thus it is thint sooner or later, and in the Lord's own time, wo are nll solf-convicted of our sins. No one mocuges us, No one eays, perhaps no one even thinks, that the misfortune which has oyertaken us is the fruit of our own sowing, the nlmrr ro- retion of the lnw wobave broken, But wo kn it, and the socrot or open confession that is then wrung From us is not tho work of superstition, but of healthy and divine conviction. Quicker than wo can reason out the steps of law which Drouglit the trouble, comed tha sbarp thonght, liko o piercing sword, ** L'his is my punishment,” Lot us notice, too, that, as shown by this widow's history, the nearor coming of the Elvhm Prosonco toward us works for the punishment of brolon laws, as well as for tha rovelation of others which cure and save us, In ways which may readily suggest thomsolves to you, tho presencoe of the mun of God in the widow'’s housa 1miglt havo brought about the punishmoent of ber sin. And so the pressing into us and around us of tlio Divine influcncos of any given time is likely tirat to slay our happiness nud then to ro- storoit. A comingof God to our disordered souls must necassarily first bo in o kind of judg- Tent that ik, in & recolloctian of wrong dona aud the sonso of punishment for it, Aftorwards thoro comes to us a restoration from the dead and a new lifo. 'ho causes which the greator part of mankind assign for death are bittor onos. It hag, in thoir eyes, far more ovil than good. Tho human in- stinct which, with such poignancy and porsist- once all through tho ages, has lod mankind to dread and bemonn dentli, was not born of ignor~ anco or suporstition, It was the natural recog- nition of adreadful fact—the fact that death was, aud ought not to bo ; that it did not belong in {he primal order of things, and yot had somehow beon introduced thero, ‘ho roason, shallowly, whan wo sy that becauso death is found to have beon among the animal croation beforo tho ad- vent of man, thoroforo it is & part of tho wholo animal occonomy. In tho first place, the sdvent of man i now thrown so in- dofinttely far back into the past that we can scarcely venture to say what did take place pre- vious 10 it. And, fn the second place, we ought not to viow that which took placo bofors his ad- vout a8 vory difforently rolatad to him from that which followed. Aan ig ovidently tue flual end of creation, and from s epiritusl point we musc sofor, for the oxplanation of everything, to his unture and history. Thorofore, whatever may be the considerations which aro eapablo of lead- ing us to modify our viows of denth, and how- over great our hope may be that in the days of the Now Jorusalom there will literally Lo no moro douth, yot for the present we have nocause to rogard it Wghtly, to call it an unmixed good, or to view it 68 o pro-ordained step in the ovolu- tiou of the croaturo man, Our iustincts are right. The denth of the body, ns wo know it, proceoding and characterized by tho physical phenomona from which we shrink, is unnatural and deplorablo. It ig & most torriblo punish- ment, and, liko all othor punishmonts, should bo looked calmly in tho face and called by no soft named. It lins caused un amount of sulleriug, both physicnl and mental, to our follow-mion, which in its awful actunlity outwoighs a thou- saud-fold all the borross of hell and purgatory that wero ovor imagined, Lot us pass this, how- aver, and yot, bofore wo turu to tho brightor side of the subject, wo sliould nat fuil to natica that the spiritual crisis which accompanics the physi- al oue is & solemn one, Tho pertoct man sbould b0 oqually active in every rauge of thousght and Jegroe of life. 1fo should bo ablo to pass at will from tho natural to tho spiritual, fron the spir- itual to tho colestinl. But such a man is fo be found only 1 the glorifiod Son of Man, Jesus Chrigt. 1ioonlone hasanature active in every part, and equally fitted to liva on earth or in hesven. Thospiritsof thedend havenot, ssho himsolfsoid, flesls and bones like him, neither havo they, nc- carding to Bwedeuborg's testimony, such’ con- soiousncss of tho exictenco, much loss of tho action, of thoir carthly nature as tho Rodeomor ling, Loy rotain the facultios_of the natural degreo, but thoy do not oxoreise them, ‘Lhey have pussed up fnto tho use of higher and finor ones, and 80 gain much, Novertholass thoy loso much. The plousures and beauties of a hadily life on enrth wre closod to thom. ‘The study of the universo through tho scuses is no moro possible. The vigorous powor and the growth Which bolougs to the soul when firmly plantod on its earthiy foot, and able to command thio nso of such divine forcos as are found most fully in exerciso In uaturo, thoso aro now foregouo. True, thero is compensation, plenty of it. 'I'hero are now advantages which, in soiao rospocts, fur outweigh tho old; mnow knowledges and now ploasurcs which may for awhilo permit no eonsa of want, Novertholoss, the human Loing aftor doath is not posrossed of such wide posutbilitics a8 befora. Defore, it was possiblo Tor him not ouly to exorcise tho flrat, or earthly dogroo of his naturo, but under n proper and nrgnrly davelopment, such as somo of the raco have reachied, 1t was possible also for him to ac- quiro the use of such facultios s aroused in heaven, ‘Phis condition is tho ideal one, tho only porfoct and symmetrical ono. If, ou the ono hand, it excoods our common exporience, 8o on the ather it exceeds thab of iho angels. ‘Chat this is the trua view wo must infor—as I eaid bofore—from the state of the only perfoot wau,~—the gloritied Josus Clirist, T'he shuiting up, thon, even if it should bo but for s timo, of ono part of our naturo, aud the u{]\nulug of auother, is a crisia of the greatest kind, 1bis s vorifalld bueth, aud, an such, may woll occuby our most eorions thought. This natwial world I8 s benutiful, a wondorful warld, Tt i8 the bLosls of all tha heavons, tlia destiny and declsion-plave of all the ques- tions thut ooeupy tho myriads of immortals, It is to bo lived in with thankfulness and joy, sud to bo toft with resignation and roluctanco, But now, although wo lavo uo more than touched upon these varions profatory conslder- ations which throng upon us with v 3t nn- proashto tho eilject, w.i w2l the mind, let ns tako death nsitis, mot na 1L should bo, might bo, and some tims may Lo, aund glanca at ita advautazea, And sinco thoao aro roadily concadod to the ngad, the incurably nick, and” tho incurably misorablo, lot us soo if theydo not also bolong to tho young, the hexlthy, and tha happy,—in short, to thoss who, liko tho widow's son, suddenly fall ill and loava what 18 to moat n aufliclont honvon bolow, Cnn wo doubt that howover theso deaths como about by brokon laws, thoy are yot within tho overaigiit sud direotion of “the Fathor of mon ? 1t 8o much a8 ono littlo child could fado awny from signt, and tako its way in strict indopen- denco into the great Horenfter, tho thresd of {ts littlo lifo ontirely notwistod fromall on enrth, and not dostined to be woven in willt any happy cirelo of littlo angels abovo,—in sbort, 1f lifo in this world could becomo with all who knew the child oxactly as though it had nover baon born, and Jife in heavon continuo exnctly ns bofore tho little trangor arrived, thon might wo eliminato from tho subjoct all Divine oare, purposo, merey, ond wisdom, aud leavo it to tho grim mnun&- mont of low. DBut nothing of tho kind is tho caso. Lvery soul is tlod to' evory other, and the dopnrturo_of any singlo ono from this world chianges the futura thonghts, sympnthios, and activition of whatover family IV I8 a momboer, as mueh as It doea tho lifo of tho Loavenly family jnto whioh it comos. Bince, theroforo, tho toxtura of ono soul,—that is, onr montal and spititunl lito,—is socomplicated, and at tho snmo M]:nn 80 sonsitive and plastic to overy addition or decroass of tho forco and excitation which other souls produce upon us, how can we con- sider tho death of any ono with whom we are conncetod ng nullfiht thing ? Liko tho broath of summor air which atarts a tiny votex of dust nt our faot, its influencas will swell, rovolve, and widen until thoy girt an wholo etoruity. Like & pebblo dropped into tho ocean, tho vibrations which thoy make will rigo into grent musical waves that will meot us on tho far-off sliores of now worlds, This second birth, thore~ foro, of our young momber of the raco is as eritical to the welfura of all an its firat birth wos, It i divinoly watchod over with the same ton- dernoss. Tho samo redonmlnf powor that thtongh Elijah called el into ita body the soul of the widow's son, which lingered near, calls out of tha body thoss who loava it foraver, Thereia no inherent immortality in the soul. 1t has no powor of itself to reloaso itsolf from thio companionship of decay, Itis ovory mo- mont as much dependent upon tho divine Lifa and powor as the body is, and continuos to live only becauso it contlnues to roccive. In tho light of that tonderost, sweotost morcy which ingpires tho angols of tho Resurrection osnd nre Lhe safo releaso of overy soul from its decay- ing body, liow is the aspect of this and every nlhnr punishment tranefigured! Denth is o pun- ishmont; but puvishmouts ato alwaya the vory essonce of meroy, aud always hava in them tho powor of recreniion and restorstion. Nover ro- vengelul, nevor dostructive, never tho end of hopo snd possibility,—thoy are tho bitter crises of sin'a_disonso, the tarning-time when the forces for §oorl, and oure, ond restoration bogin to work, Justas death iy thus blaok on ono side, and dazzling bright on the carth, 80 aro all tho flls of carth and woos of holl lined with Di- vine splendor, full of imprisoned light. 'I'his viow of tho true nature of punlshmonts brlm}n us to the firat of two gront conaldorations which invest the doath of the young and happy with 0 lovely n?m, It ig thia: Tho dying ono by his donth will not in the ond lose anything cither of enjoyment or of use, out of tho Divine- ty-ordnined " sum of nls oxistenco. Our grief for tho desd is, with raro exceptions, mainly solfian, ‘The thonghta cnnceminfi tho renl mean- ing and cuuro of denth which I have presouted to-day, aro 8o entiraly crowded out of sight by the provalent beliof that death is clear guin to tho dying that we cannob excuse our grief on tuat ground. We boliava that our dopartod onca aro bottor off than thoy wora boforo, and yet wo wishi them back, It is'hard to bo unsolfish, hard oven for lovo to mnkeuy so, Bab yot doubtloss thero pervadoes our griof an obsenre (flnhnf that theroe would have boen much in thia world for okr young friends to enjoy, mueh for them to nequire, and flually, and noblest thought of all, mwch for them to do. For tho raliof and satis- faction of this feoling, thereforo, lot us considor tuat if wo waro to sot asido all that wo know as nmattor of fact and revelation concorning tho lierenftor, our viow of death ns a bonofleial pun- ishment raquirea that it should occasion no por- mavent Jogs, In the ond the dcm? con miss no Bpiritunl growth, no enjoymont, snd no useful- ness, Our Fathor in Honvon hns n grent storo of oxtra meaus to meot cmorgoncics. There aro always Inteut laws and latent forces which come to light whorover disorder is, and correct it, As tho injured polyp or broken plant fluds astonish- ing ways to restore itself and repair its loss, so tho soul that misses a long period of cducation throngh tho senses fiuds a way still to_grow. If thia growth bo chaoged somowhat in churac- ter and even in ordor, if some things aro lenrned first which otherwise would Lave beon lenrned last, and for even & long period the lower faculties which a life in the body devol- opes should romain in embryo, yot we may rost assured that tho immortal soul will not stop short of symmetry. 'Thoe Divino can suffor no permanent .Qofect or blotch in hia univorse. "I'horo era several waya vo be imagined, by which tho Yuculinr fundamental oxporioncos of an ocarthly lifo may Lo sufficieutly aoquired by n disembodicd spirit, all of whicl might bo drawn from Swedonborg's statement that such a spirit weara forever a fine impalpablo garmont of nat- ural substances, and thoraby must retain a per- manent connection with tho material world, But passing all theso by, tho fact that tho remaius Test upon tho oarth, and the minds of sugels and of dovils upon tho minds of men; in other words, tho fact that the vigor and ]mrfockion of' n tho epiritual world is strictly dopendent upon the state of lifo among mon, assures us that thoe counoction batwoen the two must grow mora intimato aud tho condition of each better. Swodonborg assorta that angols wero as much designed to know and participato in tho affairs of enrth as mon to know and participato in thoe affairs of hoavon. And this, too, mot now by ‘monns of the perfection of their individusl or- gonizations and the rotention of auch a natural degrae of ifo as our gloritied Lord hag, but pro- visionally by & boautiful lntordopondence and barmoay botwooun the two clagscs of belugs. Tho mind of the angol is designed not only to on- lighten, comfort, and guard the mind of the man, but also to receive from it knowledge and strongth. We think oursclvos dofranded of our Dirthright in being so spirituslly becloggod aud imprisoned in mattor, DBut tho peoplo who have departed honco and are callod_angols, aro oqually defrauded. Ioaven is not por- foct and waits upon tho advauce of onrth. ‘The whole crontion grows togothor, in groans too fino and scerot for our ordinary oars, for a futuro consummation and deliverance too great for our imagination. But I eaunot pursuo this point furthor, and Ihave gaid cuough to show that the mind of tho youug angel is fit- ted to nasimilate and to grow by the foud which it recoives from gouls still in tho natural body, and that this means of growth is coutimually bo- coming moro porfect, The question of enjoy- mont need not bo dobated, for you will concedo that the cup of the immortals is sufticioutly full, aud is certninly filled fullor a8 it grows larger, I'ho question of use, too, wo may diswmiss, for confossedly the dead aro of ueo to two worlds, and oftontimes do moro for the living than tho living do for thomselves. I am obliged some- what_hastily, thorefore, to pass to tho second consideration, why donth, oven aa wo Luow it, is benutiful and bright, Thin is, bocauso it i, for those who tako it, the bost stop toward the eud of pertect being. Dying is bottox than living only under orii circumetances and for cortain douls, but theso cireumstancos aro all nbout ue, aud thaeso souly aro many, Our world is out of joint. Some can giva moro holp to mend it by going outof it, and others by ramaining in it. Individual humun unaturo is disessod, dograded, undeyeloped, Some can best bo curod, nszhted, oxpanded hore, and others somewhoro else. Tho physical body, which should bo the soul's rondy uud vigorous sorvant, its olariied guide and coinpanion, is of- ten o cruel, smothoring burdon. ‘Che soul it~ solf, which 'ouglt to start fair and froo in ita raco, unlonded withdobris from tho past, and un- linblo to injury from its ancestry, must ordinari- ly find more timoin fighting tho ovils of ita blood than the evils of its own will, Our livey aro bosioged by daugors mot of our ohoos- ing, obutructed and complicated by oross forcos over which we have but n secondary coutrol, Every ono of us neods extraordinary halp to win the fight and to emorgo into tho upper world unmoimed for etornity, Wo all %:c the help wa need, rud some get it by dyh.[i' oath doos not ond the contestin thewoul; it doss uot in the caso of tho infant soul preciudo it. It only ro- adjusts the forcos, rurrangos the ciroumstaiices, cloor the way for a froer run on a wider plano. It I, theroforo, prosided over by the maost doli- cuto and far-gcoing wisdom, Tho thread of curthly lifo is cut, a4 the surgeon cuts, in cmor- gonoiow, It fu cut, too, in ordor that 1t may be removed from the wob of othor lives, muy not entaoglo itsalf in other mortal destinien, but may bo woven with its fellows_into finer immor- tal pattorns. It is not possiblo to consider any singlo soul 08 under tho Euldmeo of un Indo- ondont destiny, It {8 not possible, thorofore, o thinkof Ita romoval from oo world toanothor apart from the intorosts of its fellows nnd its raco, Wa oaynat sny, thorefore, in auy givou caso, that doath iy sont for the sako of tho ono who dios, any more 4hau for tho suko of thoso who live. Wo must romain in satisfiod wondor over His wizo might who can tuke otorunl caro of prmdets and weows 10t ons of them, A sigh of Fiadtons demwen buost /08 WS ELAt Waare in tho haads of Law only au that s form of Divine Will "I'he faolinhiness of foar, the usolonsnoss of worry, tho nunroaronabloness of doubt, theso appoar in the atrongoat light, do wo but interrognte Death, naud atudy his socrot for half an honr by the ligh of rovelation. It is noatly 2,000 yonra sinco Panl shoutoed his pean, ©°0, Donth,whero in thy ating ?" Init not time that its moble Christian musio should stay our tonrs and sbsorb our stgghs ? —_— NATURALISM VB8, SUPERNATU- RALISM, Lecturo by B. F. Undorwood to the Freo Ieligionn Socloty. Mr. B, ¥, Underwood loctured last evening st tho Wost Bido Opera-Houso, before tho Froo Religious Bocioty, hin subject boing ** Nnturalism yoraus Supernaturaliem or, the Belontifle vorsus the Theological Viow of tho Univorse," Tho howso wos woll filled, and the sudienco vory attentive, Tho leoture was woll detivorod, and ovidontly put togothor with groat caro. Whon tho theologian cama to n stand-still, sold tho lcoturer, he' loft tho rest to *‘ God;" tho scientiat ondenvorad to traco tho relation of onuso and effoct. "Tho roalm of sclongo was tho roglon of the natural ; that of tho Ohuroh was tho realm of tho supernatural, Binco men be- an to epeculnto on rolentific mattors, theology ogan to lose ita hold on mankind. The empiro of sciencp was once very limited, but whon man Dogan to exoralso his renson, his horlzon bogan to extond, and the theologian saw his forts and flolds surrendored injquick succossion. The- ology gsinad but one victory when lg- norance oxisted over the earth, Tho strugglo botweon theology and molouco wis ouly & question botwson man and man, Tvery mnn saw hls God only in the projeoted figure of his own innar self, Man hind advanced from an undeveloped condi- tion to that which ho now occupiod. As thoro was a groat dilforonca in o photograph of man as on fnfant and man in_ his fullor maturity, so naturally bnonfih tho ‘phulogrnph of tho God Pro]oclvd from infant humanity was crude and 11-outlined, as compared with thiat of tho manof to-dny. In allresson somothing must bo takon for granted, Tho Idoalist assumed tho oxistonco of the “Ego" which gove imnaginary oxistence to tho umiverse; tho = ma- torialist to tho substantial nature of overything around him. The speaker assumed, therefore, the oxistonce of man, We had no monns of determining the absoluto oxist- once of objocts, Weo judged of them only as thni‘ impreased thamselves upon our sonsos. Philosophiors know no moro of the ultimate dofinition of space than in the days of Plato, or oven Pytbagorns, Spnce was an actuality. All wo could say was thnt spneo was solf-oxistent, Whatover had ex- istod must havo oxisted in space. Thiu propo- sition would be assonted to. Thero was only ouo substanco of which wa could talo cog- nizanco, and that was mattor. Mattor alono could make an improssion on man's senses. Whatover man percuived was nocessarily ma- torial, A man could nat imagine anything, tho congtituonts of which he bad nover 8eon. The iden of o golden calf or n mermaid was & com- pound of idons, formed from the union of sim- ‘plo idens formed from reality, By the vory na- turo of our constitution, whatover wa thought of, must bo throngh our sonsos. Speaking of abstract ideas like beauty or love, we deluded onrsolves with an adjective, Beauty, strength, virtue, wore unthinkablo, unloss ansociated with an objeck. ‘Tho abstract swas not tho thought. Whon we_anid wo loved virtuo, wo mesnt wo loved what wns virtuous, Thoreforo, wo concluded that o)l substeuco that wo lmow was inatorinl in its naturo. Mind conld not bo snid to oxist a8 an inde- pondent cutity. We woro all consclous of o mind, but not of an entity, 1o would unot dony the oxistonco of a spirit, or s spiritunl figuro, The existence of mind could bo proved by in- duction, not ho assnmod a priori. Wo had not ovidenco of nnythh:f; but mattor, Matter was indestructible : could bo combined, trausformed, and recombined. What was faintly bolioved by tho anclents tobe true, bad beon proven by modern science. The flowers and grasses above the graves containod tho gases of tho departed, and pnssed fnto the body of tho cattle, which wore in courso of custom Blain for food, and thus wont to make tho brain of somo ona olso. Thero wero Arabs wandering round uow who contained the original elements of Moncs. Binco matter could not bo destroyed, it could not have bogun to oxist. Lternity could not hane one end cut off. ‘I'ho theologian argued that God bad existed forover, nud would bo for- over. What wes truo of o porsonal God was truo of mattor. Matter was otorunl, and could not bo abolished, The theologian insisted that matter was cro- ated ; to creato was to act; to mct was to oxort forco; if thora was’no mattor to upply forco to, fo what wan it applied? If tho theologian snid to nothing, thon wo must roject that proposition. [Applauso.] If, a8 tho thioo- logian insisted, thero was no heaven and no onrth, what wos bo doing thmufih otornity, in o dtato of masterly inactivity ? What was ho thinl- ing of? Tho thlsolu(:mn snid it wos a profound mystery, 8o it cortainly was, Ho had'to rejeet tho theologienl conception of a God existing from all eternity, with the latont posaibilities of this nxchulmto univerao buried in him, who awakened from his Rip Van Winkle sloep s fow thousand yeara ago, and called out tho boru- tiful uaiverae at a word, wns unthivkablo, What appliod to mattor, n‘l;p“ed to foreo, the oycles of mattor corresponding with thoso of foree. Evon tho Nowtouinn thwrfl supposed thattho plaucts must bavo roceived s _primal push to sof them going. 'T'hero was no phenom- onon that was not attributablo to forca, TFor o long timo ecientific mon bolioved thore was anothor clomont, vitality, but Lyndall has shown that vitality was force. ‘Pho various forms of foreo wera only different in molecular arranget mont. All forces could be resolved into inor- ganic matter. Tho lnsousato forces of an egg could be convorted into thought aud intolligoncs Dby oxternal heat; the uncouscious forces lLud boen converted into conscious forces. Tat oxygen and bydrogen topethor, with n spark of olectriclty passcd through thom, what romulted ? Wator. 1o did not say the principle of * nquosity " hnd possed into the cloments. So with the sgyr. 1o wished his Spiritualistio hoar- ors to undorstand that he waes not assailing their Dolief, nor endeavoring to arguo against u faith which ho had no doubt was full of consolation. But enndor necossitated his romarks. [Ap- plauee.] The theologlan argued that the laws of matter necoswitatod & luw-givor. Iu seply, ho would say that the lnws were mstter, aud necessary to mattor, Low was, thereforo, cternal, unvarying, and univorsal, eanvius Lnd Dburiod ler- culaneum and Powpeii, Thoro was no specinl intervontion, = Drought aud tompost swopt lifo bofore thom, Was there any spccial intervention? Law was inoxorable. Christiana took good care when they built o churel and dedicated It, to Pnt » lightning-rod upon it, [Applause.] If the speaker could onty regard God 08 s porsonal bemyg, ho would think of Him as o demon. What must the concoption ho of & boing who amitcd npon_ {he misery of lifo ? ‘'he oxistence of suck s God was a phautom for which thore was no warrant in Nature, Ior tho dignity and Lomage of God, bound by his own laws from stiotching out Ilis arm, o would mot barter tho fow short oars ho expected to onjoy on earth, 'ho theory of LuPlaco wag tho theory of tho day. As Mill said, it was built by induction up- on known luwa, ‘Lhis theory was tho homoge- neous origin of muttor become heterogeneous ; our world o shapeloss ball of fir, and long ages afterwards life commencing in tho shrine of tho ocean, und that, too, through the same process of differentiution, Iluxloy said ho bolisved if hie conld hinve gono buock he would have ssen protoplasmic lifo evolved from inorganic mat- tor. And sinco that utierance, scionce had kot~ tlod ns o fact tho spoutancous goneration of lifa, o would not sny Darwin's theory was ostablshed, but ~ he could sny thoro was o goucrio rolation smong thio aulmals, and that thoy woro ulidoveloped froms tho samo sourco, [Applause.] A super- flcial obsorvar would, if lesrned in “anatomical structure, or ombryalogy, modify his scevticlsm, “[ho sposker weut o to diseuss tho subject of ombryol ofl{ and rudimentary structure at proat longth, ‘fho argumont which applied to ani- muly appliod to man, Hpenking of somo of the lowor forms of man, tho tpookor told au ancc- doto of two missionatios who, in Now Guines, camo norogn a batch of natives, and, attor trying the offectu of baptism among_them' for woveral dnva without suscess, consluded they were apes. Languago and morality were orlginally homo- §mmu\m and were subsequontly dolforontinted. iven tho lower animats bad rudimoutary worals, Marriage, which had boon rofined and elevated, commonced, ag Bir John Lubbook showed, in cap- ture, In tnoso enrly communel days a mau cap- tured hiw wifo from somebody elio, and from this camo our benutitul rite of merriago, Ie- ligion was a natural Liably, sterootyped, mgraine od, Indigonous, and a part of mun, Mun wag orfginully un atholst, und his fivet idea of God was 0 fotluh, Athoism of another kind waa tho ultinate point which man would attain, "Tho sponkoer followad up the lecturo with the study of fustancos of horodity, und the trans- misnton of instinet, Religion wau a nocessity of & majority of mun, and they would grow out of ik, {unt au thoy grow futo it A8 to hus boiiof in & God, ho would seply that it God were meroly usad as X In an algobraieal problem, ho hed no objection. Tho theologian hid his ignoranco wlth the words * God ia love " booause tho man was lovo; God was wWhat man was, Aud, ne Ttobort Ingersoll Iind said : An honost God’s tho nohleat work of man, At & camp-moeling or a revival he eould judge chnvactor bottor than o phrenologlst, Thoman who prayed _with tho utmost noire, a8 though ho movad Hoavon aud oarth for an answor, was nob the man to go toin trouble. TIn answor to tho quorler of selenco, _thoology gavo the Biblo, *!Thoro was light.” ~Light was motion, and the old Hobrow writer evidently did not know what ho waa writing about. Tho unfortunnto cliapter of Genesia purporting to givo & synoptionl nccount of the univorse was troatod with quiet frony, ——— URIM VE TUMIM. Scrmon by the Rev, Dr. Kohlor, of tho Sinnt Congregntions Bnaturday morning the Rev. Dr. K. Kobler, of the Jowish Roform Congregation .Siual, preach- ed n vory ologant sermon In tho Gorman Iangusgo on tho * Wondor-working Roligion,"” at Martino's Holl, cornor of Twonty-socond atrect and Indi- ana avenuo, o tool for his text the namo of tho bronat-plate worn by tho Jowish High Priost Urim vo Tumim (Light and Truth.) This broaat-plato, ho satd, was named aftor tho ono worn by tho Egyptian High Priest, and which used to bo in tho form of n sun. Tho Jowish Dresst-platc existed no lomger, but thero was auother iustead, the ono which Abraham wora on his neok, according to n rabbinleal parablo, and when ho died, he hung¥on the sky, that tho siok, tho destituto, sud tho dintreased, miglit look upon it sud bocomo consolad and happy. 'J.‘h(«iswol wos tho roligion of Iaraol, shodding light and warmth upon tho spiritual lives of mon as tho sun sustained life and vego- tation by its raya of light. And as the sun not only gave light and warmth, but slso dispersed the imnpurities of tho nir and tho water and draw up the vapors of tha oconn to come down again o8 rain, and thus give lifo to all vogetation on onrth, it might safely bo snjd that men aro tho childron of tho sun, Without light nolh!ulg on cartlh could oxist. Every plant bent towards it, and without man' would have . po conception of things, aud nocloaruess of thought. It was light that crented cloarnoss of conception, ag woll as the comprehension of tho beautiful and divine. And, as the sun was the fountain of all physical life, 80 wae roliglon nocossarily the fountain of all spiritual lifo. Bciouco was born by roligion, and nursed on its brenst. Astronomy, musio, chomistry, and all scionces and fine arts, wers but tho children of religion. Rational religion raised tho quos- tions, Whenee, why, aud whorofore, oud tho ro- ligion of _to-day enlightoned tho mind for the hfiml. Tho history of all gront men proved this, Humboldt, Behillor, Gosthe, snd other ront mon wero brought up and oducated y truo_and pions miothors. Ono spring dny alono did not mako the summer, but from tho dopths of tho earth the sun hind todraw the stora of ‘warmth dopositod there, and from that hid- den warmth tho life and vlfnr of the spring and summer wero imparted, It was, theraforo, im- possible to say what was from the carth andwhat from tho sun, sinco tho lifo-giving warmth was coutributed by both in cqual proportiona, 9o the socinl ntmosphere in_which they lived was_n combined mixture of roligion sud tho ideal. Manyclaimed that religion was tho only thing nocessnry for amoral life, but religion alona could not edueato tho buman mind, and would be liko tho polar rogions whero no vogatation was possiblo, Morality alono was too cold and did ot warm the heart any mora than reason, Io- ligiou led us to the central fountain of lifo and showed us the world a8 o unit uud mnade mon o co-worker wtih God, iospiring him with divine blies and happiness in all his undertakings. Iven tho belief of savages wrs that thore must bo & Great Spirlt who was tho croator of all thangs, and thua at last they como to recog- nizo & truo God. Although tho Bavages bo- lioved thot the dend would bo resurrected and appear to thom on corrtin occasions and in thoir droams, it was just that boliof which ox- teuded thoir knowledge of a future lifo until thoy reached the uoble idea of o lrue im- mortality of tho soul. Bo it was with the super- stitious boliof that there was a real hieavon and holl ; it taught people ultimstely that thoro was a heaven and hell in esch man's breast, and edu- cated thom in true unselfishness and morality, Religion also showed the destination and the aims_of mankind; and, as roligion might bo called tho sun of Efllrimul’lam, 50 might tho Jow- iuh religion bo called the sun of all other reli- gions, hoving nursed on hor brenst all obhor sreat creds, and particularly Clristianity sud slamism. Lho inecription on her standerd had over boon **'Truth and Light." According to & Jowish pllllnunghur, the only mediator botweon mon and God ‘was the mind, and the prophots in thoir struzglas againet idol- atry appesled to renson as well ns to the otoranl laws of morality. ‘Thoy put no value on sueri- flcos, fasts, and prayors. All that God asked of man was to do good, practico love toward his follow-beings, and walk uprightly beforo Him, their makor. Int ns the sun somotimes becamo obscured by fogs and clouds, and os tho day was alwnys pro- cedod by night, so was roligion somotimes ob- soured by suporstition and Loliof in ampty forms. God did not cronte tho world atonce, but brought it to porfection by degroes and periods, thab ‘man might loarn from it that it was his duty to Gtrugglé onward and upward on tho path of moral porfection, And ns tho sun gaid to oaok living boing, **I'he light I givo you, impart again to others n warmth and in_brightnoss of color and boauty,” so the Jewish religion ssid to every ono who bnd recoived from it light and life, *im- part it aguin ond shine by thy good works, and strivo for the great and the besutiful" It was often forgotten that it was tho sun that gave us light and life, bocauso it hind diffused its warmth ovorywhiore, and the timo would slso como wheit religion would bo lost sight of, not bocuuso f did uot impat light and life buk bocauso it had pormeatod the wholo human lifo; thon it would not bo said, * Look up to Heayen for God,” or “Die and meot God bo- yond the grave,” but the bumsn and divino ‘would dwell in every heart. BIN. Sermon by the Xev, ather Riordan, of Ste Jumes? Church, The Rov. Father Riordan preached yostorday morning at St. James' Catholic Church, on Prairio avenuo, near Twonty-ninth street.* After tho celebration of Iligh Dlass, tho reverond gontloman choso bis toxt from tho gospel of tho day, and addcessed bis enormous congrega~ tion, 1o opened lis discourse with s goneral definition of gin, Wo could not realize tho supremo control which God bad over our intolligence and boiug, becauso wo oould ot understand the snuctity and wonderful porfoctions of God. But thero waa & way o understand gradually what gin was, by Jooking at sts offacts, Tho frgt of sin way rebolliou of the angel s in heaven. Tike mankind, thoy wero a given atorm of probation, in which'they were _to work out their heaveuly reward, which could not bo obtainou untess thoy labored for ft. When thoy bhad come to that moment of time in which they wero to provo their loyalty to God, they rose in opon rebollion agafust Him. Lucifor Haid to the Lord, * T wilt not _sorve,” mud for one act of robollion ' against tha law of God, for that ono refusal to obey, he fell from the sight of God and remnined in hell for all time. ‘Onr fivat paronts were placed in & garden of dolights, Thioy were left freo to choose whother thoy would oboy the law of God or not, and they chioho to brenk God's law. Yor thatone breach of God’s commandments tho gates of Paradiss were closed ngainst the human lnlul(l(; that ono act “brought death Into the worldund all our woe3" for that one act, to-dsy the buman raca are suffering ; atrugplivg sgainet calamity aud tomptation to regain the place forfoited through tho sin of our first pavengs, Ono mortal sin oxcluded man from the friondship of God no matter how many works of charif o man might porform, no matterhow earnost ho might havo boon, ono mortal sin mudo him au , ouciny of God; and if ho died with that sin upon his soul, 110 was God's onomy for all time ; for this 1ifs was a term of probntion, Lhe preach- or illustratod this by comparing man's soul to & stronin, ‘Lho (rast camo und fixod it as it found it; #o tho state in which God's judgment camo ag tho utate of man forovor. 1f a man woro found in o stato of morial i, ho was wn caemy of Giod forover. 'This was the elfoct of mortal in. Dub taking a vonial sin for examplo. To fully understund [ts enormity, tho spoakor said that if, by tho commission of one venial sin, intentioustly, all the millions of peaple who woro outuldo tho Onthollo Church could be con- vertod, God would not allow the commission of {hat venial sin, We conld not do ovil that good might como from it. Ono sin uot only wndid the good 5 man hud accomplished in his lifo, but mado him an enemy of God, Thore was i tho worid o two-fold npvm’elsnlfl.-—n HOVOL- oignty of God und a soverciguty of the dovil, snd betweon thowo two there waa an untiring hostility s what one Joved tho othor luledj what ono hated the otber loved, Qod hnd banished the Evil Ono 1n tho boglnning, nnd ho waa God's onomy forovor, and there wns ondlosn warfaro botween thom, God tried to brlu‘; soula to Iimsolf by mysterions wn(s; tho devil triod to draw souls from God and mako thom his sorvanie forover, Thero waa God call- ing nsonl on one hand, and the devil ealling ¢ on tho other, Iliat grand tabloaut woread of in ono of the Gospola yomained liofora the mind for all timo, the dovil etnnding with Christ upon & high mountain, and offering Him all tho Faumron and posrossions of the world, ''All Done shalt ‘Thon have it Thou wilt fall down sud worship me,” Thero was no medium batwoon thens cEmelng soverolgntios, Wo muat stand under tho baunor of Ohrist or undor that of His enomy. Wlion asin was committad in the soul, it made tho sinner an onemy of God. Whon, thorofore, now and thon pooplo told tho spoakor that thoy lad Jost tholr faith, and gradually got away from roligion, and found no attraction in tho obsaryanaes of tho Church, it was becnuso thoy had loat their virtuo firat, and their faith weut with it, Bin polsoned and corrupted man, and oranted in him s batred of God and & hintred of God's law, and mado tho commaudments of Goil & hoavy burden, Gradually, little by little, tho sinner found himself fighting in tho ranks of tho anomy of God. ‘I'his was tho offnot of ono mortal eln, This poisoning influenca hnd communieated iteclf to the vory well-springa of man's ifo, On tha other hand, the spoaker bade his hear- ers to look upon the economy of God's redomp- tion; to go with him in imagination back to tho night before the Lnat Supper, The Eastern moon was rising bohind the treos, throwing its Enllm light npon the man-God, 'Thoy saw him oudiug to tho ground boneath a load of sorrow. If thoy appronched & littlo noarer thoy conld hear words coming from His Divino lips, which they could not underatand : _* Fathor, fot this cup paar from me," a8 though ho said I cannot boar it." 'They saw tho bloody sweat ponr down on tho ground. - It waa tho 8on of God in agony for tho oxpiation of the sins of the worid. ‘The vory lieart broko bofora its timo, and the blood of “the Bavior was spilled upon the ground. Ho was the God who mado all things, ond thoy could seo Him in 1magiuacion, passing tho stroots of Jerusalom, His oross upon His manglod shouldors. And when his congregation reileoted that this wan borne becauso there was fin in the world, they could batter underatund how hateful a thing sin was in God's sight. Would thoy, thon, triflo with this wondorful porfeotion of God? Would thoy Icopnrdizu their chances of oternal salvation to ivo in this world ps onomies of God's law, and refuso to live under His dominion and under His law? Thoy had light in thia Catholio Clurch, Thero was no doubt about it. 1t was writton for thom, and they had an invisible Voice tonclulnf them. Yet them from this moment forth, until they went to their graves, love tho Iaw of Godj let thom acknowlodgo His right to govern them, and they uckuo\\‘ludfind Iia right to gathor thom forever round His throno in Heaven, THE GOSPEL PLAN. Scrmon by the Xev. J. 0. Pock of the Centenitry Churchi. Tho Rov. J. 0. Peck preached to & Iarge con- grogation yeaterday morning in the Coutenary Motbodist Cburch. The Seripture lesson wos from tho first nnd second cbapters of Nohemiah, which was read with en impressivoness and of- foct which mark Mr. Peck as an accomplished alocutionist. The blonding of choir and con- gregational singing, under tho leadership of Drof. Blackman, togethor with the superior mau- nor in which the fino organ was handled, wore also most onjoyablo features of the sorvices. Tho pastor's text was a portion of the 18th vorse, second chapter of Nehomiah: ‘Lot us risc up aund build” Ho eaid that the Gospol plan of salvation was an old fogy plan, but, sin- gularly onough, it had nevor boon eupplanted by any other. For several thousaud years, tho on- omlon of Christianity had been at work diging away with their sappers andminers, drilling liolos in tho rock and firing off the powder; but, somo- how, the foundations fsiled to blow up, and throngh all the lapso of centuries thoy stood as firmly a8 ever. Christianity nover stood so strong in tho world ns to-day, Its enomics wore trying to accomplish an fmpossibility, Ho pitied thom, It was strikingly true that the old-fash- foned form of the Gowpol was tho only form which was uxtuuuln{‘kuell through the world with power. Otbors had come up fram tima to timo, only to sink ont of sight again. Somo timo ago tho Unitarians senc out n missionary to convert tho heathen, and tho result was that the henthen converted him. Did anybody hear of & Mothodist missionary leing copverted to lioatbenism? It wes the broad, practical preachers who woro doing tho bost work —preachers Liko Dr. Tallmage, of Brooklyn, ‘beforo whom, on _ono occnsion, 8,000 people stood up and asked to be enrolled in tho army of Curist. Dr. Tallmage was a Mothodist—no, not oxactly that; ho was a mothodist in the Presbyterion Oburch; “an embodiment of Christiguity in earnost,” They read evory Sun- day in tho religious columne of the newspapers alf sorts of announcemonts of all sorts of pulpit thomes—somi-roligious acd quarter-roligious subjects; but where wore tho results? Were any drunkards picked out of the guttor? Any gamblors arrosted in their course? Any rostitutes rastored to o lifa of virfus? o such results wero visible. Peopla bad outgrown the notion thata rovival wasa sort of a spiritusl opidemic which made its ap- poarance nt intervals, and sffected all classos of tho community to o groator or less extent. A rovival was simply earnost work to zave our fal- Jow boings; an Lonost Leart touching anotlior honest hoart, uniil all beat high with fire and en- thuslosm. Christinus must not be coutent with living merely moral and rospectabls livea; thoy must have spiritual powoer. = Tho people of tho world could not bo fooled with & galvsnized Christianity; they had a gort of nitric acid which povotrated_ the conting and exposcd tha gham. If men snd womon profossing Christian- ity wore in earneat, thoy must follow Nehemial's exhortation to * Rise up and build ;" clear away the rubbish of the ruins snd rostora the walls aud gatos. DRY GOODS, BANKBUFT STOCK DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, WOOLENS, WHITE G0ODS, &o, Bonott for Cash at 1he Great Anction Sals of Oberholser & Keefer, . Y. 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Jones, arobitect, and which mny bo sson at his office fn ihia Gty of Madidon, Wik, on and aftor ob. 3, 1874, Work to_bo cummencid ss early as possiblo in the spring of 18M, and carricd on rogularly thruugh tho a0t Thalidtng to be Inclosed fn the fall of 1874, sud com~ e 35 Bk casupanery vy e 1ot dey oF Auguits ur tho construction of & Psyments for work done and vl in building will be mado on the first Phursiay of each month, to the estont per cant of tho value thoyeof, upen the sertitiod outimatos of tho Suporintandent, Bids will bo recolved for tha wiiolo job, or for soparato waatloreol Wil dors must stato plainly what thele bids tnchida, 1¢ i or prel ool staty il pact, ar yact 1 bids 015 Job, ™ ; "o Tosed fosarved tia ikt o sofoct auy orall bl Hutiataotory sucurity will bo requirad of sontractors, and s awa Wil 0 i fo auy biddor whuso'bida sy bo Tolgated, Urotirals will bo sealed, and fndorsod on envelopa, o e o el Norwal oo alifie ivor Salln, " ud seni roliigol Haditom, Wi &%t ), 1R, Jouow, A ollvorod 84 ofis ot fh s o e 1ob. 1 T ot ’ W gttt i, o, o fouit of s bf Ser sy Bkl x. 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Resorved il 81,69, aécordiug 10 location, Admisslo Iy Clrclo; to.” Balo commences hursda o, = EXHIBITION OF DUBUFE'S GRAND PAINTING , OF THE PRODIGAL SON RXPOSITION BUILDING, Opan day and ovoning, ADELPHI THEATRE THE GREAT ADELPIL OPENS WITI A MAMMOTH VARIETIES COMPANY, NEXT MONDAY, Fah. 2. ; b, 4. AT c! RS OCEAN STEAMSHIPS, " STATE LINE. HTRAMBUIIPS: BTATE. OF PR STATE OF VIROINIA, TATE OF GEORUIA, bulll's, ATE OF FLOWIL .| STATE OF INDLANA, BYATE ¥ NEVADS, bullding, To Glasgow, Belfast, Liverpool, Londonderry, e, o aturdny, JJan. 34 Ty aturdny, VANIA “sally. . nl\:a:;. ¥ 3 FROM PIER 36, NORTH RIVER, N. Y. ‘Wockly Sailings noxt Summer., Rates of passago: Osbiu, §60 and 830 guld; Bteerago, M curceuoy; propaid, $I currency, Snlu at lowest Tat; 'J5aF furthor partlculnrs apply to AUSTIN BALDWIN & B e R A, e Gaai, Y DALDWL 97 £} EARLE, Goneral ertora Agent, - G Olark-rt,, Dhichgo. NATIONAL LINE, NOTIOR—This Company takes thorisk of fusurance (u 1o SHG, 00T Bald) O "nchof ta stosresns thus piving Dassongors the bost bossilo guaruntud far safoty ud Rvaldanco of dangur at aca, T ot southicrly souioins. aheays beon adopiod by U CTRARER IR A BORENENN, fom T To q . and SENSTOWN, from Diars Nos. 41 and 47, North Rivor , Now York. LLAN 4 ‘Fob, 4, at 3p. m. Cubiu Passnge. 37 0y itndd 300 Corrency. Uit 550 Lirreney: i Return tlokots at reduced rutes. Pasieugors bookoed to or from Gorman and Hoandinavian pointeat low rates. Tho Steaniships of this Ilse are tho niflfl in tao tradv. Draits ou Great Britain, lroland, ana the Qontinent, st Northicast Clark and Itandoiphste, Shennan Hormol, :;fifc.}‘u. VLIRS SRR, e Getieea] oLk NEW YORK TO CARDIFE. ThoSouth Wales Atlantle Steamship Uompany's Ny T e T lepoota CRAS Bty Homhmne il St from Pounsyivania Railrond Whart, deviny Gty ANDRS, stnrterod.Jan. 24, | GLAMORUGAN, .. Feb, 93, lllul.’l:;i . Fob. 7. | PEMEROK. Mar, i, Car dy and pastongors at through rates from all nheks it tho Unitod Sinton and Capada. o orts (n (40 Bristal Channol, nd alf othor points in Fagland. Liiese stonmuatiips, bullt oxprsaly for (1 (rudus ate prog vidod with all tho Iatest improvements for tha comfortand couvemience of ahbly fn Cardlt, at the Coun- i dhamioes and 1h Now Vork 1o TEI & GO Agonts, No. Y1 Kroutieny. _MEDICAL CARDS. o @ SUOULD FAll 70 GATL ON DR. A. G. OLIN, N@ @N @8 Taadolph-at., corner Stato, tho oldost aud lougost-outablishod whysislan in.ihis cit i the treatment ot private d ‘in’all tliotr variod an catplicatod farmy, Jixperlonco hias onablud Lim ta yer- foct Fomodien that novor fafl, Flin Into wrk, & Leoturos duliverad bafore tho Chicagn Modical Instiiute an Lort Aanhood, . Wanwnbood, 1 book form, prico 2 esn(n. Ciroulara' for Ladles,two stamus. All fusiuoss” strlotly coufidenital, A pleasant Lomo’for yuti Call o write, and rogolve his eplnlon freo of char NO QURBE! N8 €Z5R! 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The questions which have engrossed and divided the publie mind during the past twenty years are rapidly passing away, and we find growing up in difforent parts of tho country a party called by vari- ous names---in California tho Inde- pondent party, in Towa the Anti- Monopoly party, in Wisconsin tho Reform party, in Illinois the Farmers’ Movoment---having 8 com- mon purpose and inspiration, and eoxhibiting a strength which provos that it answers one of the chief de- mands of the hour. The CHICAGO TRIBUNE will give o large share of its attention to this NEW MAN- IFESTATION OF PUBLIC SENTI- MENT. It holds: 1st. That the old party organiza tions are esscntislly corrupt and fraudulent. Having no longer any principles to carry into effect, they have become more business ontor- prises, moking o show of opposition to each other, but really sharing in the proceeds of profligate and dis. honest legislation. To suppose that any healtbful reform can flow frcm the pretended efforts of theso worn- out end demoralized partnorships is altogether vain and illusory. 2d. That the tariff system now in vogue is & cunning device to rob the many for the beneflt of the few, and that its effoct is to cause farmn pro- ducts to exchange for about one-hall the quantity of foreign or ‘pro- tectod” goods they would otherwisa buy. 8d. 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