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THE CHICAGO DAY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1874, THE PULPIT. Science and Religion. Sanday Sermon by Rabbi Kollers The Subject of Preshyterion Infl- delity. Dr. MoKaig's Reply to Criticisms on His Sermon. Prayer, and How It Is An- swered. Sormon hy tho Rov. Wayland Noyt ab tho Michigan Avenue Baptist Chureh, Dedication of the Church of th Ascension, z Sermon by tho Rev. Joseph Hariman, of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, SCIENCE AND RELIGION. Sormon by tho Bov. Dr. Kohler of the Iteformed Jowish Churcl. Tho following is tho first SBunday mormon by Dr. Kobler, proached boforo tho Siuai congroga- tion of the Reformoed Jewish Church, at their place of worship, cornar of Wabneh avenue and Pock Conrt ¢ The sun and'moon, seys aJawish parablo, wore onco equal in mngnitude and splendor ; both got in Heavon by the Divine Master, in ordor to re- ciprocally givolight by day and by night. But tlo moon said, * Iow ean two Kings weors crown togother ? ono must bo subordinated to the othor.” *Jenlons ruler of tho night,” re- sounded » voico from sbove, *‘you have an- nounced your judgmont. Your own jeslousy has lesaened you, and your splendor will dimin- ish through onyy.” Then the moon bocame tho ossor lght ; but the hopo was Joft to hor that sho would hereaftor becomo =8 clear aud shino brilliantly s the sun, i Tho sun and moon of tho mental Leaven of bumanity are selonco and roligion. Religion of- ton watches selonco with jonlousy, and fears tho brilliant diurnal splondor of her sistor will ob- geuro lier own light, and thus 1t often apponrs ns if the silyery radisuce of tho one would fade away ontiroly before the comlnnring king of day. But envy and jenalousy alone ha k- onod her light., It is thoe mission of both to il- lumino tho sphioro of human lifo. Scienco, the lnst-born’ chi‘fl of tho mind, has torn empire af~ tor ompire trom faith, until at last ** the knowl- adgo of Godfills tho carth as wator covers the son.” Dut tho growth of scionco doos nob meanz n diminution of tho sphoro of roligion. On tho contrary, tho light of faith shines all the brighter in tho splondor of scienco. Roligion and seionco must illumine ono anothor, and must barmonizo with oue nuother. Not the leasoning of tho one or tho other, but Larmany ond union is the aim of thoir carcer—harmony of mind and of fecling—harmony of the wholo man ; that is tho aim of both. Phore {8 no either—or. Ho who is continnally calling out eithor—or,—tho blind bolieve or tho rubeliever, fpls to recoguiza tho uui? of hu- man nature, and brings*® discord and division into humanity. Scionce and religlon need not antagonizo,one another. Tho lmowledgo of na- ture and tho royelation of God noed not be op- leus. They aro rovolations of one spirit, lie one through tho omotious which feol 'I'he One in all; tho othor through tho roason, which, Investigating, rocognizes the unit in tho wholo. Tut docs it not appesr to-day as ifsroligion would have to give up the field entirely to world- tonquering scionco? Aundas if oll which was Goc-liko and holy was to bo cast down from the throne of heaven—and all gpiritual lifo was to disappear in an abyss of matter? Tho epirit of investigation points its toloscopo at heaven, and sy €Vo seo jufinite worlds coming and going, hut uo ruler of Leaven, no God.” It scarchos through the depths of tho earth, opens the abysses of the scn, finds out tho gecrets© of tho sun, tho so-called fixed stars and tho comets; dissolves in ils craciblo all inorganized mattor into 1ts original cloments, and follows the traces of doveloping lifo from the lowest form in the bosom of the gen up to the high oak, and from tho celi of the embryo to the completest avimal organiem, and says: * Wo can discover, neither in the heights nor in the depthy, that God whom religion teaches ; forco and matter we sco ruling overy- where ; we can percoive no frac conuclous crea- or." My {friends, this is only the exultation of vic- tory of young ecicnce, It is morely the formont- ing must which has not yot becomo the clear heart-warming wine. But the sober wisdom will come, " Eternal bounda Laye beon got to human reagon. which it canuot over pass. The Midrasch tolls us of o conversation botwoen the Emperor Iadrinn and tho Rabbr Joshua. *If & God rules the world, why does ho not allow Inmaolf to bo seen by hia creatures, so that they may roveronce aud sorve Lim with honor?”” asked the Roman Emperor. ‘' Noman cau contem- plate the splondor of divine majesty and live,” yoplied the Rabbi. “I belioso ouly what I can gor It you cennot shiow mo your God Ido not Lelfava in him,” seid the Emperor proudly. To +was then noon, and the sun cast its perpendic- aular ray down upon tho earth. 'Chen Joshua #0id, “Ruiso your oyes totho sun and toll ma what you sed.,” I caunot,” snid Ilndrian, $\Yhio ean Jook with unshaded oyes into the sun without injuring them?™ “Anl" said tho Rabbi, trivmphantly, “You confess tbat you cannot boar without injury. the full splendor of the sun, aud yot you are presnmptuouns cuough to say, *“Sinco I cannot sco God, I therofora not Lielievo that he oxista.” And if the son of tho ninetconth conturv, armod with his telogcopo and spectrum, can look deoper into the yeil of light of the sun, if before Liis bold glance tha cloudw of tho milky-way ve- solve thumsolves into forming worlds, can he explain the forco which -built up a world from nebulous gases and o millign-fold life from the primitivocell? Onn ho pnriddle to us how tho irat balls of gasea tore thomselves looso from the son of clouds, and gaiving o distinct beiug, became suns and earths and doveloped into liv- ng organisms, and fooling nnd thinking beings? As in old Egypt, n form mat the icung apprentico to learning, and, laying ity finger on its_ wmouth, jutimated o reverontinl sllonco ; aud a8 the fathor of philos- aphi. tho wiso Bocrates, was accustomed to Bay, 1 khow so much that I Inow nothing ;" and ag Kent, tho founderof modorn thought, prescribed the limit to human coguition, which it could not: ]msu ;80 has ouo of thomost promivont and iberal-minded soarchers of Nature in Gormuny 83t burrior o tho presumptions of matoviallsm wnil‘:]thu "qmnt remark, “We sliall otornally kuow nothiug, . Dut 1t seienco leayes us in uncertainty bont tho last and highost question of nlly exitt- oace, our feeliugs yoarn after cortain Our mind, sceking after tho flito, connob romamn ot thoge limits which are imposed upon it. It must on to the froshest, origiual causo, to tho etorual, to the absolute, aud on it 1ift itself up to tho highest freedom and happioess. Hure roligion olaims its ctornal rights, ond plants the dominion of o higher moral world Iigh above tho realm of blind mutter and force, in order that it mayread on tho high throne of heavon tho divine putent - of nobility of mun in tho threo words—God, free- dom, and jmmortality. Tu it not strange and significant enongh that ginco thia development of natural soionco a gloomy melancholy trait of rosignation, of the “ world-sorrow,” lias passed throngh the cult- vatad circlos of awlotia? While our age colo- brates the proudest trlumphs of the miud, and advances with tho powor of stesm aud eloctric rapidity; while progressive kuowledge i con- stuntly opening now sud inexhaustiblo wourcos of comfort, aud Is extending wider and wider tho nims and hopes of tho future, the possimism of a Belioppenhiater and a Hartman, are the popu- Tar wisdom of the day, and the gloomy contem- plation of the world of & Buddha, or the melan- «choly liopo of a digsolution into Nirwaua, into & Arightful nothing, flud o deop accord and rouponso to tho mind of man? The opposito of thig philosopbio nibilism is fouud in tho lower grades of socioty—In the low mutorialism which ;;l;y% “Let useat and drink, for to-morrow wo 0." g /Are not those indications the strongost proofs that human powor will novor suflice to carry tho moral (?) world on_its shouldors? Ycs, man Iosoa falth fu himsolf a0 Aoon ns Lio consies to be- liovo in tho oternal ruliug of tho good spirit nbove tho stars, Il sinks into tho depths it bo is mot lifted up by a highor powor. In order to sirlve ever upw ho must lhiavo bofore himself the highest type of porfection, In order not to bo prossed (o tho ground b{ the nvurpoworhur forco of the for- tunes of life ho must bo insplrod by tho power of religion, muat lay hold upon the otornal all- oodioss, and clovato himeelf to moral perfee- lon., Religlon, that namoloss i'onmlu;;ol the human broast after a patornal heart high above the olouds, is throatoned by no danger in the slru[f- gles and orlsos of tho prosent, But thero is dangor for the darker, formnl, and dogmntio ro- ligion, tho biind faith in tho lotter and in sutbority. What is it that hag go brought roll- glon into decay and disroputo in our day? Hotonco? OLl no, 8clonco goes its way and sooks for truth, Cortpinly it csunot harm rgli- tzion, einco religion also wishes only truth, No, t in roligion alone which has bulit barricades ainst the progrose of free investigation, nnd which has declared yar on_svionco nnd culturo, It s simply theology which says, “You must boliove intha God who mada the world in six days; you must boliove in the God who do- scondod from hesvon fto earth nud did miracles, or you aro blasphemers.” You must tako tho Biblo and all which the Ohurch teaches, and has declarod as the fufallible word of God, or you aro unbelievers.” Thus all thinkers are driven out of the Church; out of tho roligioun community, Thua it is that cithor {lnlther scionce bocomo tho shibboleth of ;mental fo. There i one thing which can no longer ba donied, The great world-cdlfice which has un- folded {tsolf to our minds, can no longer bo foraed into the narrow limlts of tho toxt of the Bible. Seo tho hoaven of thie Biblo 3 Low smnlll A glass holl,—a wator-resovoir strotched over tho corth to give rain to its Inhabitants,—the crontion of the sccond day, And our hoaven—a limitloss Boa of ather, in which milllons of suna move in etornal orbits—a son of worlds boyond uomfiumuun, and without ond, Soo tho croation of the fourth day! The sun, moon, and Btars made in ordor to give light and set tho seasous for tuo paltry sons of earth, How childlike, ns if tho planct which wo tuhabit wero nught else than an atom of dust which vanishes from sight in tho All, And this world is ouly six*thousand yoarg 0ld | The astronomor has dlscoverod stars, tho light from which takes 80,000,000 yoars to reach us, even lhough tho light trav- oled 40,000 miles n sccond, In view of that how can they tallcof tons of centuries ?, Milliona of yoars uro not enough to cover that period of creation which the Bible puts into one day. 'Tho earth nlono, in ity suporimposed deposits, shows more than twenty odd stages of dovelopment, which it must have passed through, in immanso poriods of time, So tho fossil snimals and plants found in the bosom of the earth, the pot- ritied relies of oldon snd perished worlds, can hardly bo brought iuto accord with the Biblical system of creation, or with the assumption of & comploto covering of tho carth by » delugo. But all the miraoulous stories of ~tho Biblo— tho history of paradige, and the confusion of tongues st Babol, tho resurrcction of Elins and Elijah, and tho long lifo of Adam, and Noah, aud of Absslom, with hig 175 years, aro showu by the light of investigation to bo pop- ular legends and pooms. But is, therofore, the old faith to be put on tho dend list? Is the old Biblo to bo thrown into tho gorret, sinco wo look upon tho world from o now point of view? Is thoe old God of Turnel to bo doposed, aud the Goddess Scionco or Reagon to take His plico? My Isrnolite brothers and sisters, we noed no now faith. We need no _now,, God. We meed no mew Dible, I, the old God,” spake the month of tho propliet, *‘live not changed, and you tho sons of Jacob have not coased to oxist in ull the vicissitudes of of life,” Judaism of old, united and harmonized its now knowl- odge with its old faith, Jewish thinkers of old combined the new views of the world with their ideas of God, and have romained Jows, Tho Jowish philosopliers of Alexandrin, Arabis, and Bpuin, did pob beliove that a snake or an ass conld ‘falk. Thoy bolieved iu no eu- pornatural wondors,—the divino order of uature was to thom n suflicient tostimony of eternal omuipotence,—but thoy dil not surrendor their boliof in God, siuce Naturo bore witnoss to Him, They did not give up the rovelation of God, sinco their own heurts testifled to it, But they all spoke thoir philo- sophical doubts concorning the sssumption that God had mado tho world a fow conturies ago, “\Whnt,” said thoy, “did creative pawor aud oternal love have of old no objeot to which it could impart jteotf # Did the UVucliangenblo fecl o want, befora Ho called creation into being? " Bomo taught that the Ommipotent Crentor oternally made and unmade worlds, ncoording to the teaching of an old rabbi. . Othersdeclared a belief in the otornity of matier, nud yot the; hold the Bible bigh aud dear as the lesson-hool of humanity, sinco it sunounced tho true Creator and Fathor of naturo and of mind, Forisit nat, and will it not always remain unquestionably truo that God eaid * Lot it be,” and "it became ? Could seience, with all its giant strides, over have reached thoso heights, on the summit of which that motto is planted—"2an is made in the imuge of God" ? I can see no dangor for Judaism in that mod- ern scionce which s summed up in the deciara- tion that tho world was not mado atone moment, but Lins doveloped itsolf, and that man was not crented complote, but has doveloped himself : for this is cssontially the new Darwininn doc- trine, tho foundetipn and capstono of tho modern scienco of nature, And docs thig, sccoptod and constantly confirmed by almost all investigaiors of naturo,—astronomers, goologiats, botanists, and zoologists—lend to atheism and o doninl of God? All which Darwinism declares is, that creation is not _to be oxplained through o mixa- clo, but through the nstural law of progrossive development of lite uuder favorable circum- stgncos, Lhus, from tho simplest forms of lifo, undor varying inflnences, the muuifold forms of existonce” have doveloped themsolves, Do I dony God when I, instructed by scionco, declaro that God doos not send rain dircctly down through tho gates of heaven, but thak it is cauwed by natural processes? Do I deny God whon I cannot admit.that Lo daily leads tha sun out from its tabernecle, and loads it back ngain, but that through the powor of attraction the earsh moves around the sun and the sun around the highor central sup in atornal orbits ? Do I deny God when I do not believe that Ile, for tho benellt of mau, lots tho earth bear its fruits, but that the sun, through ita warm- ing rays, awnkens “and sustaing life and growth throughout tho whole sphoroe of itarule? Or do L dony God when I balieve in no Heavon and no Holl, madoe for roward and punisiment, but delaro that the justico of *God ullows good done to bo rewarded through itself, and tho evil to bo punished by itself, in tho spiritunl lifo of man? Do Ideny God whon I douy every immedinte intorferonce of God with tho” eternal order of thae world, and _question every miraclo ? Quito the opposite, My ides of the wisdom of the Iiternal 15 too great to aliow me to bolieve that Ho is from time to timo patehing up sud improving His own works. The cternal lawe of nature are His oternnl wisdom, 1is unchangeablo will. Were He ever to chinuge is will, Ho would not to me be the Eterual. Tormerly tho oreation, at loast, wns looked on o8 tho immediate work of the Divine band,—as o'supernatural ack of God,—a wonder o8 mani- fold as tho number of things created; so that the many millions of plants and suimals indi- cntod just 8o many special crontive nets of God, all which wo looked at with nstonishmont ns marvelous, but which wo could not trace back to notural laws, Then camo Darwin, ; [lackel, aud others, and oxplaingd to_us that all thosd thinga took placo nccording to nutural laws, According to the smme law by which oy ear of corn with forty or fifty kernala snrings from a grain part in the bosom of the earth ; the variad spacies of plunty have, under more favorablo circumstan- cen of warmth and fortility, gradunlly developed {rom g simplo coll; and accordivg to the same Iaw by which the embryo dovelopes iu its mothor's womb, have sll tho varicties of the most differont grades of existonce come np from & germ, What mon is, that hos he DLecomo through the conditiona which creativo Onmirw tenco planted at the boginning in his doveloping naturo, With bjs _forchead ocontsiniug so strong and flnoly developed o brain, with bis noblo features, which throw all animal inutincts into the background, with bis upright attitudo, with Lis muusgenblo arms and fucilo fingors, with his melodious yoleo, his wonderful oor and oye, lio has renchod the highost round on the Iadder of croation—tbo king and lord of ihings on carih—and after the organism wos completed oxtornally, tho spiritual powoers devel- oped intornully, and the Loart became the mirror of tho wholo world, su instrument full of harmony, and the miud bocamo the reflax of tho lhighest mind, 1t ia #aid that body and mind are one and the samoe? Aro beast and mon tho enmo? Why does not somoiiody dedlare that plant and anlnal are ono and tho same, siuco both liwve sprung frem one roob? Jrom every graln of whout como kernels aud husks, Aro Enmol and husic tho samo? 'The firsl ongenders new life; the Inttor doos not, The animul romalns, where ua- ture sot i¢ first, Wit 1 the crostive power ne- complishod its purpose whon tho animal began its oxistence. Man docs uot romain glationury, The croative motivo power prosses him further and furthor snd furthar Away from bis orizinal point,—away from hin primitive condition up to tho higher ‘and tho infinite, and he flios nway from this temporary world, far boyond tho short space of tlmo, up to otornity, “Docs not this provo thnt thoro divolls In him more of tho cran~ ive power and tho creativo spirit than in any othor of his asnocates in tho realm of creation? You, 08 8]l naturo moving onward from the in- orgnu‘u to tho nrfinulu. through all organio forms stragples on until man, the mastor-work and orown of croatlon, fs doveloped, so man, with whom a now lingdom of mind onmo into oxist- onco, ptrives to ronch God the highost. In na- {ure pll things dovelop extornally ; in tho mind tho dovolopment complotos uuoi! internally. Thus all things’ devalop which make man man ~—languago, art, sclonco, ethics, and religion, all culture, from its rough beginnings to it highor complotion. Is musio meroly & phantom without roallty, aince It has graduolly lifted itself up from tho inhnrmonious notos of tho shopherd's rocd to ita molody governed by lnw? ).l‘hurn is alwnys neodad, in tho first placo, an onr which can_ap- preciato the harmony of tone, and n mind to which it rovonls itseif. Aud Palostriun, Beotho- vou, sud Mozart did not cronto musie. Thoy moroly revonled 1t. ‘Thua morality and religion aro the expressions of a higher harmony of life. And it thoy hiave not como down from " Hoavon porfoot and complate, but have doveloped thom- solves from crude forms, yot thoy nro rovolations of Dlivine powers which slumborad fn man and which point him to a power which hovera hofore him as tho highost type of life, otornally near and etornally distant, Beloved frionds. Is this view of the world, which gots up progress aud du\'n!nrmont ns tho law of naturo and of spiritual )ifg, and whicl snys to moy, * Btrive upward and onward, sock viotory over the lowor world. whenoo you sprang! Your paradise Ia not behind you, but beforo you"—is not this view of tho world the Llighost and bost praiso of tho Crentor? Doos nap this constant progress of nll existence prove tho control of o highost wisdom and goodness which leads ovorything on to complotenoss ? Does not this idoa of lifo perfectly harmonizo with our roligion, whoso history is ono of intornal prog. roas, and whose aim is the highest futuro ideal of hunanity ? Doos it not havmonize porfeotly with our comprehonslon of religion, which wo do not recognizo in form, but in reform, which hing ita living power in tho internnl romodeling of Judaism and its Messianic mieslon 1n prog- ress toward completod humanily ? Lot the ** Church ™ grow palo before tho now acionco. It has declared that tho views of Copor- nicus wero heretical, since they doprived it of its hoaven, Not meroly the Catholic Church, ‘but Melanothon, the founder of Protestantism, also doolared that tho Copornican thoory that the enrth moved sud tho sun ptood still was blas- phemous and sinful, precisely like his Borlin successor Knak, Wo do not deify tho Bible. For us it is morol o silver shell for the eternally golden kornel, Wo do not tramble and fear for our old faith, which has changed its form so often, but ity ea- sonco has romained, for ite spirit has rojuvonat- ed and ronimated it. Thus, with confidonco of victory, wo plant the bannors of reform of Judaism on the ramparts of humanity. Wo onter with truthful spirit the grent arcnn of the world to struggle with othor roligions, and, if some Inugh at us and others pity us, we sy wo do not die away from the old faith; \wo allow our spirit to bo oulivenod by the ucionce of this lator day, and we annopnce aloud to the world the-doingd of God, and the end and alm of tho spirit of man. v e DR. McKAIG REPLIES. A Scrmion in Answer to the Accusiie . tion of Infidelity. The Rov. Dr. MecKaig, whoso recent sormon on Miracles, published in Tun TRInuNE a fow wooks ago, attracted considerablo nttention and many harsh comments, preached yestorday ovoning in the Ninth Church, and roplied at length to his asenilants, taking as lus text, “For the lolter Lilloth, but the spirit giveth Lifo.” The sormon is as follows : You aro aware that somo weoks ngo Judge Booth, of this city, gave & lecture beforo tho Philosophical Socioty, in which be sharply crit- icised tho theory of verbal inspiration, and donlt somo hard hits at the Biblo, on tho pssumption of that theory being truo, I gaid to mony of my frionds who scemed a littlo flurried et tho time, that tho integrity of the DBible could recoivo no hurts Trom suth aseaults, for thore was s more liberal and rational theory of iuspiration, which climinated all such absurditics ustho Judge charged upun it. ishop Clolonso, with grsat taat, zeal, and learning, had gathered quito o huge heep of such incongruous sdmixtures, and tho Word of Cod bad sutferod nomoro than if a littlo clay or limo had boon picked from the walls of some mighty cathedral. Huch attacks are al- ways timely and salutary, s they aquicken thouglit, holp to break up tho monatony and languor of traditionnry faith, and causo men to dig for tha golden voin, and not content thom- selves gathering tloat nnd mica upon the sur- faco.. Moking tho validity of thio Biblo so largely to dopoud upon strango storics, uncouth dreams, bad scionco, and other foreign ingredicnts, isone canse why it has lost g0 much of its charm and attraotiveness to that class of hard-headed peo- plo who will sk for tho reason and authority of guch things., In my luto sermon on Lot's wife, 1 vonturad briefly i’ the exordium to hinta mode of interpretation that would extract some valua- ble moaning from the chapter and yot exclude the obuoxious portion which, if pressed too lit- - erally, would involve us in grave difficulty, This atatemont tho Inferior, the self-clocted Censor of orthodoxy in_this city and rogions round about, denounced as **one of the boldeat speci- moeus of rationalism we have ever seon,”—hond~ ing tho articlo, in londed typo, “‘A. Presbyterinn Tntidel,” Iconfess that it has over beon myuaim, in oxpounding Chriatianity, to roach, as far ag 1 was able, nfter foundation truthy, ultimate prin- ciples, and to seok to bring its doctrines out into tho whito light of rensou and experionce. 1 wout no ductrino—though honry with age, and having o train of authority aud tradition as long a8 the fabled Chinese history—that cannot stand tho most rigid sualysis of philosophy, scionce, and eriticism, It i8 true that mauy of tho doc- trines of roligion shude off into depths of mys- tory too doep for Lumsn reason to fathom, which ouly faith can roach and reslize; but i want no faith that does not stand upon reason us tho church-steoplo standsupon a solid foundation of brick and stone, If this is what the sapieut cditor of tho JInferior calls rationalism, then I proudly plead guilly of thochargo, and promise no amoudmont, And, as lie seoms to huve seen vory littlo of chis sort of thing in tho chureh, I will just call hin attention, not to go any far- ther, to Coleridge's ** Aids to Reflection.” I am not aware thint L ever hold to uny bolder ra- tionalism than Lo will find there, and this is surely very goad compauy to be in. And, nftor all, this churgo of rutiounlism, which to many find it quite casy to moke, 18 just about tho most puorile and coutomptiblo that cau be mado, 'T'ho fact is, the Bible docs uot toll us whut kind of n construction weo wshould givo it, and, to mako this out, wo have no othor possiblo agonoy but our reason sud oxperionco. Butler, upenking of the reasion, auys that 16 is, In- deed, the only faculty wo havo wherewith to j:le?n concorning anything,—oven revelation itsell,” “That spicy little shoet, the Alliance, recontly rominded us of tho story of Buron Munchnuson's pointer. * On o voyage to tho Baat Iudies this wonderful dog, which tho Baron took wjth him, surprisod all on board by pointing whon tho ship was 300 Joagues fromland. As ho contluued to do this for somo timo tho Barou was conildent that his pet had sconted game, and wagered n hundred guineas that gamo would be found in Lialf oo hour. Inless than thirty minutes somo of thosailors harpooned a shark, and, on cut- ting him open, there wero fouud in hig stomach 1o loss thau €ix_braco of partridges.” Mardly less koon-scented aro soms of tho dogmatists of tho day, who detect in overy potty doviation from catablished dootrino—overy noyel exposi- tion of ndmitted truth, overy attompt to roak down purty walls, and to mako Christians fra- tornizo o far us thoy can without sserifico of vi- tal truth—a starchug herosy, Dr. Chalmors used to sponk of certain busy, prying, obtrusive liunters nfter dootrinal aborrations awong thelr Drothron, as mon ** who ad a fino noxo foy scout.™ Tho incumbent who illuminates the pulpit of the Fifth Presbytorlan Chuveh, nud who is ovidently suxious to do sometbing vuliant for orlhmlox{, seoms to bo thus marvelously eudowed, Ilo charges mo with toaching ‘“that comparativoe mythology is & guide in_the interpratation of Soviplure’; " thut Lonlled ** parts of sacred his- tory o jumble of abeurditios; " that I denied #tho personality of the Holy Ghost; " and also an “ objectivo rovolation.” Now thore is not & word ot truth in o singlo ono of thoso state- ments, and I leavo tho ssue right thero to any oaudid iind thag caros to take Uho troublo to collute the two sermons, But I would romind the gontleman thut it {s in vivlation of ull tho courtorios of debats to cliargo upon au opponent our fuforonoes ns Ly falth, whou tho subjeck matter of tho {nforonco was nob thé question under considoration, ‘Tho only question thint could lufium-mly bo ruised was thin: Was it over allowsble in our roadings of the Biblo to tront sny part of It as pootical, allegorical, or mythioal? ‘That was the vory 3uuuhmu I suggos- ted, and the ouly ono that could bo fuirly churged upon mo, and to lug in those sido i wa ouly sorves to show to what pitinblo shifts wud WTral tricks oven a ministor will rosort to whon he ls dotormined to mako out n caso, And now haa it not scomad o little romarkabla to nomo of you that thoso mon, who nre 80 quick to raluo n broozo about this mattor, sliould wrap tholr owii viows In suoh profound sflonco? Doos it not seem rossonablo to oxpoot that a genoroun opponont, in nsssiling & position Lo thought dangorous, would nt loast onlighton his hoarors or ronders n8 to what Loregarded as tho bost way .ontof the difloulty? Aro{hoso man aslsop to tho fact that tho Bible fs losing ita lold npon na gront many gond ond ntelligent paol:la just bocnuao it in foollshly londed down witha vast mass of absurd and intractablo matorial that they aro told they must boliove i8 inepired of God? Itmay bo vory bad in them, that their culturo and mential organization is such that thoy cannot bolievo that n litoral sorpont decoived thy firat woman, aud that real fire and brimstone did nctunlly rain out of Hoaven upon Bodom snd Gomorah, nnd that tho snn and moon wero nrrestod in their courao through tho sky whilo Joshua slnughtered tho flve Kinges, and that God took part in tho battlo, liko the Homerlo divini- . tios at tho slogo of Troy, and rollad down groat stonos out of Hoaven upon thom. Thnysnr: From what wo know of tho operations of the mind, from what we havo read in the Htorature of othor coplo, from what we havo obaorved of thoir modes of thonght, feoling, and way of using words and highly ocolored expressiops, wo must _conclude that & gront deal of this anciont Hobrow litoraturo miny bo mythical or al lonst a pleturo Janguago thot shrouds some deoper meaning thau lios upon tho surface, Now, why do not fimsu athlotes of the Ohuroh Yrom whosa lips tho word infldel glidos go ensily, and who muust bo mwaro of thia"kind of tall golng on all around them, even in their congrogations, speak right out in meeting whut thoy bollove about tho metter, aud not leave us o infor tholr position from goneral and covert oxprossions. In their singulnr haato to deal out the cant eplthets and vocables of roproach upon any ono who would adopt & theory of inspiration that would olimi- nato many things that all feol to be incongruous in tho Bible, ns mythical, symbolical, some local nooretion of tho poopla or agn, thay justly lay themsolves linblo to the impliontion of (nking tho wholo Biblo from Genosis to Rovelation ipsissima vorba. Now I would not follow tho unkind and impolite rnslmess of my nsenilants, aud, by taking disjointed montonces and frag- menta of sontences, hastily procoed to chargo them with holdiug somo disguised and subtle or- rofs , for my sido of tho enso dogy nok noed this Xind;of torgiversation ; andthen Thave my doubts nbout it being oxactly honest. I leava it you to Jjudge whother I am not fair when I charge theso Valiant defondors of the faith with still holding to the bald literalism of tho text, thnt corpac- candle of Gansson, verbal iuspiration, that tho yory worda and forms of oxpression in the Bible are’ the infallible coinago of Lhe Holy Spirit, Then wo must have no more spiritualizing of tho text, no morc homiletic explanations, wo shiould burn up our commentaries and notes, aud juet rend right slong, taking everything literally, wud if wo comno fo any hard placesskip them s tho childron_do hard words iu reading, and should wo ncoidontally run into some denso obscurity, such as Moses spoing God's hinder parts, the Sou of Man coming in clouds, and the trumpot awakoning the dead, we must shut our oyes and go- right on, for it is dsngerous to think, or pause Lo ask questions. It would bo Amuu(ng, porhaps edifying, if one could join a Biblo class taught by one of these Gamaliols of literalism ound seo with what adroit artifice and pluy upon words thoy will mannge to throad their way through low idens of God, jarring dates, his- torieal discropancios, cruol bloody Inws that on- acted no less than thirty couses of capital pun- ishment, and yot contrive to look very wise and pious, I would like to know just oxmotly what theso learned oxepgotes would do with tho story of Eden. Lnugo snys, sponking of tho tompta~ tion in tho . gerden, ' Lilio the Biblical his- torics overywhero, and especinlly in tho primitive traditions of Gonesi, it is o historical fact, to bo takon in a roligious ideal, thatis, & symbolical form," but ovon this moderate way of reading that narrativo will Lardly {llnnuo theso sticklera for the absolute perfection of the language., Philo, Maimonides, Grotius, and Coleridge cail it an sllegory that *contains o doctriue of the origin of moral evil,” but you must got this residuum out of our crucible, thoy say, or we will hoist you on our potard, or stoio you as o Iintionalist in tho pillory. Now, it docs seom as if thoy would bo justified when tho result of our investigation 18 ny good in quantity and quality os theirs, and uot try and pick o quarrel with us becuuse we did not thrash 1t ont with thoir old wooden flail. Why ourso tho mill, if the truth ia in the meal-tub # Perhaps tho guillotine must huve somebody's head just now, to keop the ax from mmm‘i‘ And what will these scioliats of vorbul infallibil- ity do with tha firt chapnter of Genesis? Aro thoy eatistled with tho &vhllasaphy of NMosol? Will they throw overboard the Copernican sys- tem, and hold with that ancient writer that thoe heavens uro & golid crystalline concave, along which, 08 on smooth icg, slide the suu, moon, aud stars, flaming bells speoding daily aroun: theearth? And when they come to adjust tho litoral toxt Lo tho establishod facts of geology, what & squirming and wrangling wo will sco over Tiara, Yatior, and Asah, and how that littlo word day, that honestly menus in_all langunges only twouty-fpur howrs, will suadenly Le taken with & sort of dropsical intumotcouce and ewell iuto vast periods, cous, or suy given immonsity of size tho geological market mey domnud, Per~ hops they may bLoye imagination and gkill enough to try and inflato tho balloon theory of Rugh Miller, and call this wholo chapter n gor- geous phautasmagorin of the emorgenco of the Croativo ides into space ond time. Nob fool ing quito able to knead the sUf and infloxiblo litoralism of the text into anylhing liko Lar- mony with modern scienco, they would most likely tako refugo at last in tho modost words of Dr. Dodge, who has mera than once helped them out of o tight place by this ploa of vatop-.f pol: ‘“Ihe language of tho Bible 18 tho languago of common lifo, and the language of common lifo is founded upon apparant, and not upon acientifio trutl.” ‘Choy aro wolcomo to this lit~ tle hiding-place, but in the monutimo what bo- comes of au intullible communication put into such vague, ambiguous, and transitory words that to this day no ono feels confident” that ho understunds them? Wo can say that Moses was uot commissioned to teach science, but only roligion, and that ho is no authority only within tho bounds of his commission, but the advo- cates of this theory of verbal inspiration are barred from availing thomsclves of this way out of tho difliculty, and wo must leayo thom to have out thoir fighe with tho sclentists. as best saionee, . collnncous matters,” X they mny. Some of tho pagan natious have o grotesquo concoption of doparted souls kotting so nuaterinl from hovering neur the earth that thoy way boe killed over again, as in tho caso of the negro widows, who wishing to marry ngaiu, alwaya go and pluuge into o pond of wator until thoy think thoy lLave drownod tho doparted hushonds that they supposo still eling around their necks, ‘This theory of a verbal inspiration way bs u very “lively ghost” justnow iu soma pulpits _that fail to romombor Lat's wite, but feol quite suro that if theso miniators would loolk at o fow oratohon mudo upon the primitive rocks by pre- Adamite avalasnches, or tuke passage upon ono of thoso bugoe joe-locs that tloated over the enrth in thoso wild, stormy days, when tho valleys wera plowad out and tho tops of the mighty hiils wero benten round, or dive deoper into the molten gen of trap and granito, thut atior this ducking that ngly thing that hugs and coutrecty thoir thonghts would relux its grasp snd thoy would not wheeze and stuttor so whei thoy come to intorprot the seionce of Gonesis. ‘Wa feol o littlocurious also to know how these mon who tako ovorything in the Bible as it litor- ally ronds, will roconcile David's Psalms of im- ‘preeation with the sweet, loving and forgiving wphit_of Jesus, In epenlkiug of an ence my, David uses the lnlluwlui torrible words: “Bot thou o wicked man over him, and 16t Batan stand at his right hond. ‘When he shall be judged, lo: bum bo condemn- ed, sud lot his prayor como to sin, Lot his doys bo few, and lot another take his oflice. Let hiy children ba fatherless, aud his wifo a widow, Lot Liis childron be continually vagabonds, and Dog. Let the oxtortioner ulso catch all that Lo hath, and let tho HLl‘IIHfiBl’B spoll ins lnbors, Leb there bo nono to oxtond wmeroy unto him, neithor 1ot thero ho any to favor his fathorless childron, Lot the Iniquity of his fathers he remembored with the Lovd, and lot not the sin ot his mothor bo blotted out,” Now, I ask, wore those words inspired by God? Is it 1ight to curse au enomy in this way, oven liy fathor, mother, snd chil« dren for his sing ? T auswor without hositation it i not right, and that this psalm canto from Davidandnot from God, The nble snd pions Lo Olero, whose writings are iu all our librarios, suys those ara the words of » mum full of oxcossiva cholor, und an_oxtrome desiro to bo rovonged, Wo do not got rid of this boulder in our way by calling it o Llowmporary I}Fl!pil'utmn given for an uge, s cortain stugo of iolrow c¢ivilization, nmt’ that hos faded “sway in the swoot #ofb light of the Beatitudes, I csunak coneeive of God ns oven \\'h:kmint o display of bad tempoer thut u Sophovles or Bpictotus would condomu, ‘Lho law of yight is otornal, ubsoluto, and unchangonble, and whilo ovolved in tune, through human lite and history is over consist- ont with itself, not one thing in the pust and unothor in the presont, oursing un chemy in Dayid and forgiving and praying for tho good of an enemy in Chilst, veering with the Jines of Intitude, r)fihc in one civilizetion aud wrong-in angther, 'Phoso strango looking lpmps the antiquarian hng exhumed from Pompell ouoy mhod w bright light through pal- | of Butlor, Paley, Larduer,and othor, nca-balls, (mllnrlou of art, and homos oy with foalal joy, but thoro camo o dark duyl whon tho ofl fallod and the Jight wont out ; bul tho light of tho Ioly Word Glod has st In his templo nover flickors, nover. goos out, and ity shining I8 **tho samo yestordny, to-day, aud for- ovor,” "' Tho Word ui the Lord endurath for- over," and whon wo find snything that in crudo and porishable we may test nesurod that somo- thing human_has oropt in, _And now the eliml- nation of Buch a pasim aa I have quotad doos nob enab the slightost shadow over tho llluplmunu of the othor panlmg, that ‘aro cortalnly offulgont with hoavenly light and warmth, somo_of them swolling nway into concoptions of God, his glnrly and providenco, that no unaided human thoug] ik iu thit ago confd havo ronched, I allow no ono fo oxcol mo in admiration of theso Jnmlmu, thin hymn-book of the anclont Church. Thero s nothing in all _the IHobrow literaturo nqunF to theso odes, thogo praluc-sqngs of the tomplo, and it doesnob in tho lonst impair thelr bosuty and claim upon us a8 {napirod offasions that wo find horo and thero & speck of humnn passion aud folly, sny more than n magniflcont orchestra would bo qullm.l if somo playor in » subordioate purt of tho pieco flattod on ono or two notes. And now I will add that absoluto perfection in tho ]nu;znn;m of the Bible, such as the thoory of vorbal inspiratiop contomplates, and which cor- tain mighty moh of tho Church are anxions to do battlo for, wea impossible. Tho vehiclo of stch o communication, in tho vory nature of the cmm'J must be words; and words are imporfect Bymbols of thought. They may bo sufllcioutly adequato for all practical purposes, but sbso- lutoly pertect thoy nover can be, Words are over changing, Tho rivor of human spoech grows mora full and céoplous a8 tho consclousncss of the y‘xel?plu that flows into il hocomes moro deop, rich, variod, end rofincd, and those fing modes of oxpression that ous poople admire and desm quito garruot, anothor pmg‘\c may rogard a5 faulty snd imporfgct, or even the samo pooplo in a moro ndvanced stago of oulture. A rovelu- tion givon and fixed in the languago of Chaucor or Spousor would now be quite unintelligible to tho urfllnn\al reador. 1t follows then that i€ tho style, words, and phrasoology of the sacred writings were as perfeot as theso men clnim, thoy bave long sinco Jost that porfoction. Evcrg'- ono knows that such has beon the change in lnnfiungo, tho thick hazo of obscurity that has gathored ovor a vast numbor of toxts, that the commentator finds it very difficult to undorstand thom and tho moaning of certain 1dioms, and the derivation of many words still are un- sottled, DBut thon wh¥ mako all _this great ndo about verbal infallibility? ~What good comes of it so longas the translators aro not inspired ? If anysuch commuuication hasg boen made, it lies byried in' the Hobrew and Groek, and only the learned reador can go to theso fountaing and drink theso waters puro and fresh, and all others must take their eharo on trust. Drs. McClintock and Btrong, in their sblo work on * Enoyolopedis of Biblical and ‘Thoological Litoraturo,” eay that ** Nothing i3 gained by asserting tho vorbal theory that is not nqunllz gecurod in point of Divine sanotion and infalliblo truth, by simply claiming for the Holy Beriptures that their stntomonts and sentiments nubllmllial?/, and in their goneral import, repre- sout the miud and will of God; that theycon- tnin Divine thought clothod in morely human lauguage, auch is the obvious fact, recognized by ovory devout nnd judicious intorprotor.” Thus far I have simply been muking a fow random stricturcs ;{wn that dryand bony literal~ ism that soma timid but woll-moaning peoplo think go essential, and who scom to foar the Bible will dissolve into a fairy-talo unless tho cosmogony of Moses, & goneral Deluge, tho neuagoris in Noal's Avk, and the Pillax of Balt, all bo takon down wholo, As tho doso has ?rovnd » little too big for me, it is due you and hio publioc that I now dofinitely state just whoro Istand. I bavo no hesitancy in laylng myhiauds on this Book and saying I boliove that * holy men of God epake as thoy wero moved by tho Holy Ghost." 1 belioyo that this Book containg & Diving communication, and that an uncarthly spiritual light shone wupon tho minds of those sucient prophots, psalmists, and nEmHou, aud, according to their sovoral ability, they hnve here reported what thoy uaw aud heard. Tho communication camo from God, but the record of it is of man, Tho aobjcet of this communication is to give us a faithfal xeport of all thoso toligious traths, sontiments, and {)ro\'lduntlsl workings that ara nocossary to kindlo faith and hopo in God, cause men to feal tholr need of & Hnvior, and. Aill tho soul with sspirations for all that is trueand good ; ayd while doing this, theso writora wore under an influenco thiat kopt thom froo from orror. De- youd_this limit they were linblo to blunder and fall into mistekes,” That in many cnees they actually did err, but while & great denl of bad curonologiosl annchronisms, incorrect ronsonings, and mythicel and logendary stories, cropt into their writings, (M their authority a8 religious toachers is entirely unharmod thereby. Ihope now that Ibave mado wysell under-.| etood. Aud now thisis no strange and novel idea that has Intely como into literaturo on the warm, rolaxing broozo of llberlism that so many good people fear is going to smite the fair goldon wheat-field of the church with rust and mildew. This theory of inspiration hag boon svowed and dofended by some of tho most illus- trious usmes in tho Church, Among thoso who assert that the roligious eloment of the Biblo will not bo impaired by admixtures of errors in soientifia hiatorical statomonts and othor miy- may mention the names of Baxter Tillotson, Wauberton, Bishop Horaaly, Bishop Chandler, hiuhop Butnet, John Lock, Thomps Scott, the great commentator, Bihoj Whately, Dr. Pye Siith, and Desn Alford, T hopo I will not weary youifI give you a fow Llnnlntlunu. Dr. Duwroll, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, and Probandary of Canterbury, in sponking of the improcatory psalme, said, long ago: ** Haw far it may be propor to cone tinue the rending of theso psalms_in the daily sorvico of our Ohurch, I leavo to tho considoration of the Logislaturo to doter- minoe, A Christisn of erudition may consider theso improcations only as tho natural sonti- ments of the Jews, whick the henign religion he profossos abhors and condommns, Bub what are the illitorate to do, who know not whenca to draw the line batween the lnw and the Gospol ? ‘Thoy hear both road one after tho other, and, I fenr, think them both of equal obligation, and evon tako shelter under Sunrtum to “cover their curses. Though Iam consoious I horo tread on elippery ground, I will take loave to hint that, nntwltbfi!nndmfi the' high autiquity that sancti- fles a8 it wero this practico, it would, in the opin- jon of & number of wiseand good men, ba more for the crodit of the Christian Church to omit & fow of thuse psulma and substituto some parts of the Gospol in thoir stoad.” Bishop Burnet, in his Ixposition of the Thirty-nine Articlos, soye: ‘I'ho laying down n scheme thut assorts an immo- diato inspiration which goos to the style and to overy titlo, and that donics any arror to havo cropt {nto any of tho copies, as it seoms ou the one hand to raige tho houor of the BSeriptures vory bighly, ko it lios open, on tho othor hand, to groat ditlioultios, which 'scom insuporable in that hypothosis, whorowo a middle way, as it settlos the divine iuspitation of theso writings, aud their being contibued down gonuine sud unvitintod to us, 08 to all that for which we can ouly Bupposo that iuspiration was givon ; so it holps us more easily qut of ull diflieultics, by yiolding that which sorves to answor them, with- out wenkoning tho sutbority of the whole.” Bishop Chandler, spunkinfil of Paul's stylo of rengoning, says: ‘‘In ihis ho saith no more than -thut tho subject of his ioystical vemsons, pa they rolate to Christ, wes taught them by the Spirit; tho doctrines were divino, yet tho means and topics from whence they wore sometimoes urged and confirmad, woro human.” Lo Clore, whouo loarning and_pioty nons will question, says with great lutitude of oxpression: * Thus, then, nc- cording to my hypothoss, tho suthority of the Soriptures continuos in full force, TFor you seo, T munintain, that we are obliged to Loliove the substance of tho lnmug of tho Now Testamont, and genorally, atl the doctrines of Josus Christ, all that was fuspired to tho Apostios, end_also whatevor thoy hnve said of thowolves, so far as itis conformublo toour Bavior's ductrine aud to right renson. 4 An inspiration ia attributublo to the Apostles, to which thoy never protended, and wharoof thero is not tho least mark loft in their writings. Horoupon it happens that very muny per- sons. who have strength ctough of undor- utnm\lnf to dony ngsout to m thing for which thero is no good proof hrou-_:ht-!hmlgh preached with novor so-much gravity—it ‘hap- pons, Louy, thab thoee porsons rejoct all ihe Christinn religion, bocunso, thoy do not distiue guish truo Ul'u'lutmul%y from thoso dreams of tuncital divinen," By Inst quotation will bo taken from tho * Aids ‘to Faith," u work which was oxpressly propared to countoract the last sentiinents 1n the *Eesuys aud Reviows,” Iid- ward 1 Browno, Norsisian U'rofossor of Divinity, Cumbridgo, was invited to contributo the urticle ou inspiration for his known orthodoxy, from which I maka the followiug citation: ¢ Tho subjeot ut present eausos groat anxiety, and not without renson. Many fool that, if thoy must givo up o high dootrine of inupiration, thoy give up Christianity ; und yot they think thut a,high dootrine is scarcoly tenuble, Buch a fooling 18 not unnatural, and yot it is not wholly truo. All tha history, sud’ oven all tho groat dootrines of tho Goxpal, might be capablo of proof, and 8o desorying of - erodenco, though we wero obhgod!: to-iadopt 'slmost thu:lawesp of all thay- modorn -theories- of lnsfilrntlon. For inutance; all, or almost all, “the = uments 0 Bu thor, aro indopondont of tho «uostion * What | is the nature sud dogroo of spiritual inspira- tion?' DPaloy, for instanco, undortakes to provo the truth of Chrlst's roaurrcctions and of the Goupol history, and thenes tho truth of thoe doctrines which Christ taught to the world. But this ho argues out, for tho most part, on principles of common historieal ovidence, Mo troats tho Apostles ag twelye common mon, of common honesty and common intelligence. If thoy could” not Jwve hoon decelved, and had no motive to docelve the world, then wsnroly wo musb accopt tholr testi- mony o trite, ovon if tho Apostlos and Iyan- golistd bnd no specint anspjration ; yeb, If we ndmit tholr cars and fidelity, wo may trunt to thelr testimony, and admit_thoir leachings aa trua, 8o, then, if wo nro driven to take tho Towoat viow of inspiration, wo nre not bound to givo up ot faith, * Wo need not throw nway our falth if wo should bo lod to think Lhnt Howo books of tho Old Tostament avoe only historical records colteotod by Jowish antiquarians, and ‘bound up with the writings of prophots, ns vau- arablo and valuablo memorials of the peenliar people of God.” I iny late sormon, which tho Interior sunthomatized with *bell, book, and candlo-light,” therawas nothing half so liberal ag thoso concesslons of an orthodox divino of high standing, That amiablo journal may sull sy, howover, that such lax viows fu referonce to tho Bibletoud to lnfldnll%r. Good Lord dollvor ne from Infidelity! Well, now, that iy jnst what I hove been irying to do, ouly this good brothor does not ‘scom to apprecinto owr (See Seventh Pago.) ROBINSG, biasiai & 00, BANKIEIRS, No. 18 Broad-st., N. Y., Tranact & gonoral bnnking brsless {n ll its dotails, dffGiwinie inthrost unon dononits to DANKS, SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, PRIVATE BANKERS, AND INDIVIDUALS, - Particular attontion pald to th investmont of ESTATE AND TRUST FUNDS, And Information regarding the ssmo furnisiod upon application Buy and soll wnor commission Gold, Unlted Statos fl“(uegn.nn:ul':ll sosuritics dealt iu ot tho Now York Staok xohiah) s Muntalpal and Railroad Bands negotiated. 0N, THOMAS B. ATKING, i WinLias T, Monnia, . BAILROAD TIME TABLE. _ ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. FXPLANATION OF REFENENOE MARER.— t Saturdayac eopted. ¢ Bunday axcepted, 1 Monday oxcoptod. | Ar- rive Sundoy aL8:00 8. ru, § Dallv. MICHIGAN CENTRAL & GREAT WESTERN RAILROADS gt o " St of Teensgeonin. ecofice, §1 Clurk siv, and I8 Ganabate, cormer of adisone e Y Hardalpha s ANUSBMENEE, o WOORMIOK'S MUSI0 HALL, Grand Festival Performances. THE APOLLO CLUB Huvo arranged to glvo thro Grand Featlval Coucorts, on Hiorins: Micadars Wpduosduy avonings, lob. 16, 11, audity e o Graid alatineo, on Medrowday aftor. nvon, Fvh. 18, for which accaslon tha followlng calolratod artity have haen specially eugazod: TETEO. TEEOMAS and his entiro Coneart Company of sixty distiogulshad postormora; tho Gorman Mivonorohor; Miss Clara Doty vinan Donta Sonrano (hor st apnantanav) A, Myron WL Whitnes, < thio enlnbratod Oratarlo and C ‘Singer, Mir, Louis Lubook, Violonoollo Virtuoss Apnbaranco); and tho followite ominont salolsts of il . dohnon, irs. Il A, White, Mes, T b Btagy Mre, Annn Lol Mrs. O T Pz, e Frita ¥oltz, Ar. i A Roullng, Me. Li A. Pholps. Notwithstanding tho unusital attraciions prosontod by iy oxtraordinery oombinstion, tho ponular, prico for tickota will bo maintainod, viz.: cart Admission. s eeeersos, L S0 Royorvod Hoata (main flor) 50 conta oxtrn Rosorved Soats {Baloony).. N 1,00 oxtra Tho salo of Tlckots will bogin Wodnceday morning, Fob. 11, t. O o'olack, in Janaen, McClurg & Co,’s Hno Storo, 117 Btataat., botwoun Madisen and Washinglon, Carpents N, B.—Full programmos of thn four c ‘miisio stoces, and at Janson, McClurg & Co. THE ADELPHL ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. This Wook—37~ LAST WREK ot CHARLES and CARRIE AUSTIN. Loat Weolk of LA Xy ¥R, - Tast Weok of LEOPOLD and GERALDINI, the LEON BROTHERS, FRANK and OARRIE LAVAR. NIB, OELIA BELTRAM, sod WILLIS CUBH'S eouipo of Kducated Animsls. Flrat Appearanca of MISS IDA FRANKIE. Tho Tour. r:mz,oom&lh;u. EniiaH N WARD, (1 ARLES % BILLY RIOF, HOWARD, GHIARLES AND @ OR! OHARLEY HOWARD and tho Full Deamatio Gom- paay in tho Bosutiful and 1aalistic Gomie Drania AXE ’I‘QL"R ’.l:I'I]E '\YJ&. Naw Sconory, M d Sunorh Cst. HURSDAY. NI, Tob, HoRIHST LADIIS' NIGHT, when snioking is prhibitad and saloons closed. ‘PRICKS-Varquotto snd Oirole, 51 couts; Dross Cirel, 8 conta; Gallory, 15 conta;. Scouod Orchastra Soats, 2 “ADELPHI POPULAR MATINEES-—Wodnosday nd Baturday, nt 3 p. i, Admission, -atinoos, 2 conts; Ghildron, 18 cants, No rosorsed none. EINGSBURY MUSIC:HALL, Get you ready, . There’s a meetin’ here to-night, Cowe along, . There’s & mectin’® here to-night. THE TENNHESSEAND TO-WNIGET. Seouro Boata TARLY. They are for salo at tho Box OF fico und at Cobb's Library, undor the Palmor Houso. NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. "Tho Organ used at thosa Concorta s from tho Mason & ‘Hamlin Organ Oo. MYERS OPERA-HOUSE, hroe-st., bot, Daurhorn and Stato. Avlington, Cotion” & Remhle's Minstrels, AN ENTIRE NEW BILL THIS WERK—Kirst weok of tho Grand Speotscular Burlosqus, ontiticd IMAZBEPPAL Or, THE WILD HORSE OF KAN-KER-KEE: with Noiw Soonory, Drosses, Mochanical Kifats, and Propor- tion. Bobiby Newcomb, Waltoranud Morton, Dty Gaurt- sright, Eruest Lindon, Georgo Davonport, Willlaw Ar- Iington, Bon Cotton, and John R, Kemblo, in new aots aud spialties, ovory ovening and Saturday Matluoo, GLOBE_THEATRE, Monday, Fob. 9. and Wednosday nad Saturday Matic nees—Bidwell & MacDonough's famous BLACK CROOK! Now 8¢ ,, Now Effocts, and Costnmos, Tg‘:nfi)‘:‘lfilfl Uh‘{ld-\v:ndllr. BABY BENSON, ’fl:n l’mn{lnrwgrkllfl‘\;w““'LIJ‘I LUPO. T | N | i BE D e 1115 % TUOUPE. And thy famous MERNANDEZ GRAND BA of 40 Young Ladios. Sheliton, Managors. T at the Prices— o, A HOOLEY'S THEATRE. GREAT A'PTRACTION [—Monday, Fab, 9, overy oven- ing, aod \Wodneaday aud Saturday Matinoas, first appoar- anco fn Gtiloago_for two yoars of the distinguishod Eino- tlonal Actross, Miss LUCILLE WESTERN,ADV m in h t_doublo charactor of L TEATEL B S D RS VIR G Fibtonors bioy o€ EAST LYNEE: Or, The Elopoment. T t ful play of modarn tiyos, 'The emi- nons et Bk Wo I WILALLEY, as Bir Franoin Lov- . Other chapnctars by Huoloy's’ Uomndy Uompa 15 broparation, +Olivor Twist™ :ugfl thy, “L'l:fid.smfh McVICOKER'S THEATRE. Engsgoment of thu Distinguished Comedian, J.EF. STODD.ART, From Wallack's Thoatro, N, Y., who will ho supportad by an entira eomyany trom Now Youk, undgr the manngo. ment of RINGGOLD & ROCKWELL. Ksery aveniug and Saturday Sutioos will 'bo’ presontod Boucfcault's groat drama, TELER LONG STRIKIE, And the beautiful dumastio_skateh, A DANGEROUS oy, o M. Stoddart aa Jool, & Heoteh Sorvaut, and fonoyponny, 3 AUADEMY OF MUSIO, ONEH WEBK ONLTY, With the logitimato Chinzactor Actor, DOMINICK MURRAY, ‘Who will mako hig first appoarance in his wondorful Drama, fonnded on tact, ontitlod ESCAYED FROM SING SING. DUBUEE'S G&A}EP PAINTING PRODIG.AL SOV, Now on Viow at tho ART HALL,, Expositicon ISuilding. Day Exhibltion, 10 to 5. Evenlng, 7 to 10 “Tiokets, Bo, _Boason Tickots, 8l,_Ohlldren, 2o, PROF, SWING AWl doltcor s lootazo on PUILOXOPILY, Tuesday Bro: 1 Proshytorfun Chureh, cornor Twenty li:":!-‘:l.ln‘x‘:d 'hmlnm:-lv?. for tho BENEFIT OF llAlfl- ROAD MISSION, iskuts, B centa, For aalent Japsen, MoOlurg & Co.'s, and Doxtor's licoketorv, e | MIOHIGAN-AV. BAP'T CHURCH. MISS ANNA E, DICKINSON Will dolivor & now looture, entitled ¢ FOR YOUR OWN SAKE," Mondny lyoning, Feb. 18, ut tho sllchiganav, Haptiet Olwuroli, Adwivtlon, & vbnta; Rusorvod Soatsy 25 conta oxtra. Resorved Huats can Uo sovured after Thurvidsy, Fob, 12, at Jansen, MuUlurg & aud 110 Stateat, and iliss & Blarp's, coruor Budou $5 Packages oF FRACTIONAL GURRENCY FOR BALR AT TRIBUNE OFTICE. Teave, Mail (vin wain anduir lino) ay Iixpross. HENRY 0. WENTWORTIL, Gonral Pasaonger Agsit. CHICARO & ALTON HAILROAD, Chicago, Raneax Cily and_Denver Sharl Line, ola_Lowists ana, Mo., and Clicago, Springfeld, Alton anid St," Londs Ahrouyl Line. ~ Union Lepot, Weat Side, near faditoness, Uridge, Zickel Opficex : At Depot, and 133 Kandolp Leave, | Arri 8105, m, . £7:30 0. m, * 81l Kansan City IEx, vin dacksonviilo NN A e 1 anias Cliy Voot ik, cli sk onvillo, {ll, and Loulsiann, Mo! KU Touis' Kxbress, vin Alain Linw L. Louis East itx. vin Main Lin Bt Loula Ex, vin Jaoksonvilie, Bpringtiold Expres !gn'vllnunuh(l‘ llu:”['f K dJelorson City I¢xproas, Pcorln, Keokuk & Duei' ix. Chicago & Paduen Raliroad i Wonona Lacon, Washington fix Joliat & Duright Accommiodation. el . fi p. w3, 12, m T T e s sy CRICAGD. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY, ndon oo, corner ar il Canail-sta, * Ticket Oter S5 S Clariatey onposis Shepman Hosees i Dot Teuve. “Arrive, Mflwaukes, Groon Bay, Stovans! Pty Tairls du Ohion, & L Grosé Duy Iixprass 00, . P 015 Nigith, BADIORS.csrerers 19:80a, m, 6:00p, m., [+10 800 . m. *11:00a, m, * 7:55p. m, * 408 p. . CHICAGO. BURLINGTON & GUINCY RAILROAD, Depote—tunt of Laleat,. Indiana-as., and Sizteenthon and Canal und Sixteenth-sts, Ticket o No. Ut ey Cramit ineifa ioteh and af depota v o+ 80 Clurk: Arrive, Dubunue & Slou: b Drooas L, o Sl i 33 Auora Basmonga urorn Passenio %lul!;}qufi‘kh%(fxlé(;y . 8 i e Pacitio ixp, 5 a. m. et ?fig- xp, for Omabia, 4 7:45 ! m! ohison 110:00 p. rn ¢ 7345 8. w, pmenst Rl Balitome nt 16 Dowaers Grovo Accommadation|® 6:16 p. m. (¢ 7:20 5. m. ‘oxal 10:00p. m.| 7:458 m, "¥Ex. Suuday « Saturday. 3Fx. Monday, ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, Depot fool nf Lakeat, und foot T el S Yoo rear Graesecontat, Ticit (a) Runs to Cuampaign on Saturdaya, CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILRO4D, ity aicen, carisor antalph and LoSalissis, an 8L, corner .|la(lhon<nx~ ¢SRS it a Pacific Fast, Line, aDubnque NIqh 4 Orealia Night Txir a Frecportd Dubnaua iy @ Freoport & Dubuau Expross. & Milwankew Blall. & Milwaukod Eznrass & Milwaukoo Pastong & Blilwaukeo Passonio § Grogn ity iaprast, b B eotiotts Faoes otto Lanross, Badtion & firoy Pa a—Depot coror of Weils sud Kinzlo.sts. 8 Denot cornge of Caal ahd Kinsia-ate. W. HUSTENNETY, Gon, Pass. Agont, COLORADO. KANSAS & NEW MEXICO. Spoolul Liducemonter roay Nam oo Fol. Tt " TR EEDS, do CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. Desaty carner of VanltuPen and Shermanaate, Tick Gran Piciio fioret. 0 Tkt alice Leave, Arrixe Qmaha, Leavonw'tht Atohison Ex[*10:15 4, m. FPeru Atcommodation, 0D, .| 3 Night Expro pom.ls b LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD. Depot, Van Buren-st., foot LaSalle-st, Ticket odtees, sartlscest corier Clavk and Raudolphats,y and soutice st corner Canal and Jadivon-ste. Mal.., pecial’ Roiv Atiantlo Expros 18] Lkm'xrml South Undusgo Adeoimmotintio CHICAGO. INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATI LINE. VIA KANKAKEE ROUTZ. Front the Great Central Railroad Depot, foot TLeave, To Glusgow, Belfast, Liverpool, Londonderry, &e. :fi:{:li OF @ D}'lgh suils, Saturday, Feb, 7 STATE OF VIRGIN Covdss, Mavstd Buturday, March 1 FROM PIER o R, N. Y. 2 Weally Sailingu rioxt Summor, Ratos of pastagy: Cubln, $60 and 520 gold: s oty paepids b ourronts Hotm Stegage ates, furthor prrticnlars apply to AUST! Q00 Auonts, B R e otk | BALDWIN A . BARLE, Generaf W ot NEW YORK T0 CARDIEF, The South Wales Atlantlo Steamship U 's N Tiratzolous, Full-povored: OB as-bulL Steamenins v sail from Pounsylvania Rallroad Wharf, Jersey U\LYX ANDES, chartorod.Jan. . | GLAMORC; D‘}:J.T ! versenaseas FOb, 7, | PEMBROKE..... Carrying goods and passongors at th gh ratos f; il pakis GF tho United Niaton And Cawads 1o ports 1n tha “[‘l{lfll L‘I'mmwz.l lmdhlllll 2( hor [Iuill;llll (ll“":nflnlljl v e seamalie, bulle e ic frado, are pros vided with all llmllu(nll,Lu]uluvn’[?mn{‘::larumn ctllnlorlplrund ‘couvaniencn of HIN AND STRERAGH PASSENGERS, v};‘fl{fflrlller l'nrlluul;\mk dh ly )In t.'nn\fi- fl\} un{'c?(m. s Ot Mo 4 et Ohsiiors: At 1h Now York ta O o TBALD BARTIERS P0. et o ruudivas. ~ WATIONAL LINE, . NOTIUE~"T'hls Company takes tho risk of luk to B100,000Tn koId) o1 ouoh af 1ta steatiors, thun Sivlag pusuniivra {16 bust bossible. guarautan 10r safars atd lv’fl.duneu l:f ll’xfibrlll llln‘. N B 4 "o most southerly routo has alway o TR o LIVE! ., and SENSTOWN, Nos, 44 and-47, Norih Hivor « New ovk, (o Flere J’nn. ‘i‘l Uanada, Jun, g Troh, 7] Gieoo, For Loudon (oot oSty e 4.at 3p, 1, HT0, £H0y 0 Stccritnes 320 G Roturn, tlokets ut reduved rates. o Goprian uud Seafiasian polaina o vz Tl Blenmships of thiv -lito ure the fargost in tho trado, Dratts un Great Hritaln, Irolnnd, and the Continant, at Northeast corner Olark and ““"dn]rh-'“‘ (OLDOSItY 1o Shosnu Houso), Chicago, WILLIAM MAQAL WR, Ggnpral ory At 2 oh. 11 HOLLAND,, Cabin Pnosg St ul BV0 Curroney. TODEY, Passongers booked tu é?‘:i FAIRBANK® - BIANDARD ‘6 SCALES: I OF ALL BIZKS, BipenFsidy PATRBANKS, MOKSH &00 { a,y' s 1L AND 113 LAKE-8¥s