Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1874, Page 3

N Ry T TOTRG The Sadness of Hypocrisy. Address by tho Rev. Father -Terryy; of Bt Patrick?s Churche. ‘Wisconsin, Epiécopgl Council. The.. Sermon- by the. Rev., Dr. Stocking,,.of the: Epiphany - Church. A Farewell to His Parishionors. Sormon by the Rov. Kr. Wondto, of tho Tourth. Uniterian Church. .. Mr, McCarthy.Holds Services in: Grow’s | Opera-Ilouse. THE SADNESS OF HYPOCRISY.: Sermon of the Itev. Father Terry, atSt, Pate riels Clinreh. Yoblordny ovoning tho Rov. Fathor Terry delivored ut St. Patvicl’s Cliurch, coruer of Den. plaines nnd Adams strcots, tho first of. sorios of Sunday ovoning Lonton addresses, taking his. text from tho pixtn chaptor of Bt Motthow— “Tlo not of o snd countaunuco, ns tho Lypo; critos.” o sormon was 18 followa : A worthy sisturhood fu this : “Snducsa and Tiypocrisy. Christ ws not Lo fitst to recognizo. their kanehip, 1o found them walking baud-in- hand whon 1o apponrad in tho world: It was uot that sadnows was over hypocritical,—for, ITeaven knows, 1t nood not bo,—but. It wau that bypocriny was alwoys sad. In tho ondy Grook literature wo find tho ferme " snd-facod” aud *liypoeritienl " usod o8 oguivalents ;. aud- Lu- cinn spoake bittorly of.“ grim-visngod Lypocrisy.” Tho very Greek word “hypocriay”! comos of & faluo face, and wos.ugod-only of the acting of tho playors on tho stage. In tho old Greek drams. 1ho tragedinn nover spoko. Ilo . moroly -nctod {ho sentiments, whilst anothor read thom. . Tl | dumb uhow, or mere acting, wo. now cslt. panto- mimo, The Grooks callodif “hypocrlsw.” Dut, o8 1ho stago wns not tho only .place .whero men. indulged in niero neting, tho word soon asyumed a wider applicntion, and mon bocamo more Wlayors, or hyboerites, Who were not what they voomed, It was but short and roady stop from the atngo of tho thoatre to the stage of real life, for tho'drama, after all; is buk. & picturo of - tho world, Fhoro: was_tiat, howover, -in the sad-. e that wiw conplod with hypoerisy which maile it not tho sadness that wins “tho Intman heart. 1L was not the sweet, solt sadnoss that is born of mman lovy, but. it - was tho dark, repalsive eadnioss tint oomnos of -lmumen bito. 1k-was sk tho madnoss of the Lonest, open eye, but it was 10 wudners of tho lowerluy, downcust visage, 10 word tho Greels nsed for {b. thoy also used for " mger ;" and thoro wus porhaps as wich of wullonness i it us thoro was itndnoss - It way thin sullen, downeast face thab liypocrisy put ons anl on tho old Grock stago it was ropresouted. Ly tho horrid musks and_palnted facos of tho actors. - Soohow it i thab tha very langungo on our lips tell us of - our. hearts; for i - our_vory. lunguage, su woll as in zeality, tho grim-vissgod hypoeritd is but an uctor with & mask on. Lot us continuo tho_siudy a littlo furthor. low did virtuo nnd pioty bocomio nesociated with saduess,—that horzid, sepulobral sndness which turny tho vory buman faco iuto o coflin? It wus liocauso grin-visiged Lypucrisy always woro tho vabos of piety. - Vartuo, Lns 10 gaduoss in ity texturo, and if its whito robe now and thon wo find disfizured und Dlackenod, it ie only tho slimo of the kerpent which remains of this woar- ing. 1t was from such nssociations. that.pioty. beeamo sadj~aud o well might--she lnve spaved bor company. This, too, i prosorved in our lwguage, Worde in their moauing and_ structuto uro condensed Instorios and ‘mininturo skotches of Luman fooliug, - Like tho fosail reumivs of bygone uges, they presorve to us i tangiblo form tho thougnts aud baatings of winds uudl hoarts vilont long nz0. "Fako Lt common word *cant.” Porhaps it hos nover ocenrrod to many of you thut * cant ™ aud *‘chaut " "are bolh tho samo word, -the ono form being mozoly o corruption of - tho “other. What o history and. Josson, thou, axe hiddon in tho word_*cant,” whon wo learn that what aro ait-words to 'ua’ wero “chaus-words,” or Liymn-words,” to our auceators, and the Lumun hieatt is to blaine if whiat wes originally nothing Lut tho- * clunting” of tho glad hoart boonmo, in timo, tho * canting” of :ho bypoerite, Ol vonld that * hypoerisy had novor stolon this tho y ol the Court of eaven aud 1t is only wa shall have gumad onco movo the palla- dium to ity templo that the fate' of Troy will bo restored. Men_avo thomaclyes to biamo for it, it bypocrisy nud pioty, nud cant and slang, ard all wkin to one anotkior 3 for it was not LIl men “wugared o'or the devil with {ho visage of dovo- tion, " anil placod tho-toxta of Seripturo ou his Tipn, that holl and hotiness becamo velutod. . Nor wa it all the doiog of a day. - 1t taok many o lowg-drawnprugor to drag dovotion dowin with weary knoo, and lock hor wings o Leop her - from the skics - and tho warmtl' and_ the - froedom.‘af tho - sunshine. Many a proud aud painted Phatisco stood up bo- foro God's_altar, glorying .in- bimsolf, and cou- demuing ol wmen olay, aud muny u drawling prayer Lo uttored to'the, throue of “grace, before Picty uud roligion beoamo in mon's lnngingo a8 In miows disgust, tho aquivalouts of bLoliownoss and shom, and smootk: devotion,-oud of deadly crimo. 1bhavo ofton -shuddered as I read Dry- dow's. picture of .~ ypoerisy.- Who-look--and gesturo, uud tho scoming good, ore all presontod firsts but undornonth the quict robo und down- enst oyo in shinig death ond Iudden eriwo, There, nmong {ho -othor flends, * t stood 1Lypucriny, with holy leer, soft smiling, and do- oty Jodkimg down, and hidiug his digger un- dernenth the gown.” Tyould not horo imply that 1l hypocrisy is doudly this and_dangorons, forthora i o moro fumocent kind that 3u cqually o8 faldo and far mora -gonetat, livary wovming. dovoteo mid lous liypaerilo s uot nocosnrily Mopbisto in the Linbit of & monk. Then, too, thore 18 n plon- tilul supply of omptencss i tho world outsido the walis of thoe Chu W'hore Is such a thing ns social hiypoorisy, wnd such o thing an com- meveial Lypoorisy. 1t 36 thio hoart that s tho hypocrito; and, if it proves faluo in its rolntions with it fellows, it 15 hypoorito nouo tho loss {han when it faliie in ity relations with its God. Mon, howover, have given tho numes “jurincority ™ and *d Islionosty " Lo bypocrisy in social and commercial circles. “Phe lmman heart 4 not dishonost In roliglon uly.. Would to Uod it wero, for God can bot- tor Lear uwindlo and o gooinl choat. A man 1 1ot muchs robbod, whn o ozpecs the tnef sud ko provisiows for Lis coming, and gives | him- only chaft;- which oven the winds might ko with wolcomo, 80 far {rom hypocrisy bo- ing tho poenlisr property of raligion, I fancy that it erept 1 from tho world outaide, Tt is o slimy moustor, woiliug: all the lowors, and fright- nite s ey Trom Ui njoymont i i s cropt into the gardon from tho floldy without, Mot do not much fraquont th walls of pioty, nownduyy, aud if thore ju_dishonosty in Luman dealing wo shall find it wurely thora whoro T hourts ave most fu oxoreiso, ‘Tho fack i, thicra i 5o muoh iveality and mere sppenrancs iu our uociul &ind commoridal -rolations, wo hiave Docome 80 used to it, it 143 us so_naturally, and o wa it o aonstaitly, Liat wo brite tho,par mont into chireh, and Bisy our gaudy notbing. hews in th faca of God. W lonrn tha Lricks of social complinont, nud call: thom Fronch whon they uro must oxproarivo sud moauing lonst; wo hiave Logomo ko wsed (0 offor praine 1ot in'our hoartw, that verily, botimos, our worship and our praixo ot God fu nothing buk o moro Fronch om- plimost. Lhoro i no helping it wo will bo in churelt what wo nvo at home—a storling coln oF but n_conmtorfolt. Terhign it may Lo also truo In this nonso; {hat “ull the. \mruf'“.m;;u; and mon .oro but tho plugors.” Shall wo wny playors, i o, HoQmOLE— *ehiomern,” It you will, hypoorifes ™ 1 tho mcaning of tho ald Grook " word and iu tho o of tho nluctaonth contury? Soclety In n anuwguorndo, tho wholoof 1t, and “mon uro often what thoy wonld not ‘soom’ and dare’ nok: own o thémsoivos,” Loligion, too, has boon. Qrugged nto this great * Doflar Lazaar,” and cai o Dpurchisodus chonply na tho- rost, aud| mado To shino ns golden g tho best— And boas ey, Troro 14 our Youug Man of tho Perlad. Tlow fuir ho looka pudgoutlo, snd_mocming (o o oy; 100l educated, eilued, aceomplisiied, sud withal voligious,—1. o, hobelioves*in Loy, wator and_has grovious doubla of Olwlnts divinity. - Ho likow tho Sundny evonlng sorvico, and thbils tio muslo wounds to . such advantago o' the night time. Ifo' rathor hiles to goto vhureh, uot 8o much to-pray, but just beeanso,. Jou know, It fuvolves & littlo gallantry, I ot or[mnm] to ‘gallantey ; it in tho koul and fin- ikl of & man, and ho sliould wear it -ovor--ns 8 Jowel, Dut. it is not woll to make.tho Glureh oeension meraly of ity oxorelso, ‘and thus forgot tho purposo of our coming thoro, . Wo aatiiot. el unito tho world-and God,and we shall not Jo it with sdvantngo to onraolvos, evou.whon tho World 18 not stuful. ' Oupid 18 withal nn orthodox. I, butnot much glvon -to plu!r 1lo" Lolongs, Jowever, to.the,old traditional bower, bub. ho. | Tins not, to my knowledgo, over beon ontolled In the cord: of " Bt. - Francis. Thoro I8 & wooful emptinoss, an unveality, in* suck roliglon ; 1t hna, never ronched tho hioart, and novor has correoted o niugle ovil linbit, © A thousand sinful appotites . may - thrivo.and bo fndulgad boneath-ntich mask. of virttio,. Who In to boar svitness of this fuct? Twill toll you. Many o disappointed, brolen= Tioarted younys wife, ono yoar-attor the marriage Oli; yesT o walliod:with soomiy. praco, and nover ord dominroly thats whoi 1o lod hor to th pitar, All lioe womna's {migination waa at worlc st thon, und elothod liim roand with all porfaction ; and, whon ghio held out that littlo gloved hand, sha gave liim with it all Lor hontt and soul. I novor held . hioart-string back; for womon navar: do tgn by, hnives, -and, thoy aro dissppointad, all the tmoro for that ‘whon disappolntiont comen.: But hypooriay . is by no- moans n masoulin at- tributo ouly, In ronding tho Gospel domonstra- tons of tho lbng-robed Plarisage praying on tho stroot corners and.trumpoting tholr alms-giving to ot tho-praiso of men, ona ie alwost tomptod Lo wish thot it hind- gono too to thoir gilded" liomes, and givon us womowhat of tho Pliarisoes’ wives. Looling with impastisl ey upon sosiotyy wo shinll lind, I think, that ovon gontlo woman i3 not faultloss hiore. Tu hor -cano, 00,1 fancy o abiniL oftou. find that, whon tha maslk.iu wor, If i# wadly nocded. Thero aro. o socloty, i fsh= fom, i in dross n hitudrod wayaond méany tht- tratn tho hoarts of -womon,- from thoir girlhood: wp, tobo gontont with liow and more appoar- aneo. Soeloty taolf is biypocrite, and we must only thauk tho gontlor sido of lhuman naturo-for jtu’ fivnmess, that . yiolds not -to it .as n rulo, Thion, too, thero ara examples that batlly neod reform, - orots our young indy of. tho portod. Bho receivon,a visit .from o lady friond. . What a gush of wolcomio (horo s thew, * O { o glad foncoyou! What o blossing you have comel- T faivly thought I conld not spend tho days wiche out you, thoy soomed %o loug." Tho visitor it Dlonsed; h‘warm kiss of ‘welooma is frosh ° Riponher.lips, and in hor hioart sl foola anothor tio an. Tifa in. having sucli n friend, At lnst the hour of parting conios, and our young Indy is Heartbrolion that Lor: friond. must go. Sha fol- Jows hor to. tho. threshold, and lingers on hor. haud. * Bho begs o hundrod times 'Ol | woir't yout como-oon ngain,” oud sonls it withthat famo-ovorlasting Liss, waves. hor hand in flual udion, .sints the. door, and exclaims: “ Ohl \What i roliof | Sho' {8 such ‘a bore. 1 am glad slio is gono 1" Tshouldu't liko to trust my sxlvation o tha womn's proyers, I the picturo highly déawn? Tdo nob* sy thut: it is: froquont ; but that it hould bo possiblo is & 4orriblo, stai .on human, Iriondship. Friondship ! Thoro is nothing sacrod if thnt s mots 1t “is -our heart's’ roligion, and: without it wo woro - worso. han. dross—a- pagun. race, without a God. 7 Ot hentts wore mado: to Tovo, and friondship is their food ; and- God were worse thinu-.cruol to givo us thom to yoarn thus, if it woro only. ompty longing, Bat_no, our mmau friendship, t00, lins'coine from . Honven, . for,: “ib iu from: ridudship Uhat tho angols githior bl thelr foy. Ol 1}ot s thin of thls, and novar tritlo With & thing 8o sncrod - for, - honrt” and soul,and lifo and bliss, and all our'hope, sud_ truth, reality, | Yoligion, il go down Logothor with'tho wreck of Triondelip. 1 1a o ain, indeed,’ that hvoeriey should hiuvo ~usurpad: tho garb- of Virtue, and | doseeratodwith its bollow motkery tho senctuary of religion ; but itis awlw, it is ruin nosr, fo noar it may bo _ touched; . £6 thiuk swook,{riond=: uhip too should wour.tho mask, * Thit thia is not our chicfost canso of quarrel with ‘hypoorisy. If we ‘fiud uo comfort.and. divino Toposo -in_tha downy pillow of the trua- Triond's heact, wo may at loast find * asauranco of presond aud of futuro biiss i the happy,siniling- faco of religion, that, like -tha silvery tiioon, ro~- loots to us in diwkucis thio glorious light of tho bldden sunlit sky boyond. But-Lioro, too, hypoc- risy bins.boen at worls, and atriven to xob refigion of hor wmiles, and furrow.deop Lot brow, and Ineh into n storm of anxlony caro tho hieart'to which® tho angels brought Bwoot -posco - from 1loavor. Wo owo it to. hypocrisy and orror that roligion. shontd ba snd. - Mhoro Ja. no sadueus, griof, or gloom m doing guod; or in the conscioushoss- of Goul's friondaliip.: Ohl but what thou becomes of tho Instings. mortilléations, and ponances of the Christian lifo? Do thoy atleast not unply that wo should be sad aud sorrowing? Never n mito of it, Loy aro tho yery source and sprink of Chuiatian giadoess.. Bt it may bourged: Wik nead is thero of fastiug if wo must rojoico; and \what uso is thero of mortification if wo nnist bo always glad ? - Ulio answor is that tho doctrino of :penincs is ‘8 ecossary conkequonco-of tho docrino of temporal -sntisfaction. L'ho ono is corollary of tho othor. <'ho otorunl guilt of sin 18 forgiven by roponfanco aud tho'uacramont,: Lk, tho tomporal satisfaction remnins to bo wado oitfier in this 1ifo or in the future. This is tho uso'of fasting. But thibre is no- endness tn -tho Chrtuvian's sndnegs. Tho erring child hag come buck ropontant to ils fathor's -houso; but thoro iy 0o priof in his rocoption. 1o, indeod,. may bow bis hoad tho whilg; and_hido it iu tho old ‘mau's robos, but in hig hourt i8 joy, 18 he fools tunt warm ‘grasp _of-wolcomo, and hears-the blessite fur bis afo roturn,.. Thore s undness and loom in tho dovart whoro-n siuner hins wan- ool ,unkmown s but tharo is nothing _bus gladucys. and soug..in_ the honsohold to” whicly that vory ‘sorrow has brought' him ropontant. Sadnoi, gloom, anxicty, and fear in - roligion aro purely tho offupring. of vrror.. And: reallyl Loldin such ~ views of Ieavon , a8 8omo ,of our good - forofathers hold, I-do not 400 oW elso thoir hourts could bo 'than full of” gloom and fonr. - Whon peoploimsgined - oach hudividial's chnco-of nulvation as morely a chance, and only uch - chanco o3 ono lus of tho prizo iu & lotx tory, it is o - wondor.thoy. should.bo..snd .and tromblo. When-peoplo's minds hud boconio so morbid ns to'cunblo thom to seo-tho souls of lost Chiristinns filling into Jibll o thick aud fast-us snow-flakios: in & storm, it is no wonder. that thoy shiould drond +tho comitr. of tho storua, - Whoi men bnd 50 concoived thuway to.houvon that it was a saudy devert track in “which tho peoplo’s bones lay bleaciutig, and only tvo survived to uao tho promised land, it is no wondor that tho Christians’. ong.should Do.atanoral dirgo, that wmen sltould look s if tho pall of death was Toli- giow's robe, nud ail tho cartli a tomb, Wheu it was maintained thut $t. Paul compared tho Christian lifo to tho ruco-courso on the Tothmus, in this rospoct, that, ns i tho lattor, only ond of tho ruunerd rocalvod tho prize, o i tho formor, exceodingly fow would bo crownod in Koaven, it i no wonder that many. Christians who felt ihoy Woto 1ot vory good runnors, should'bs tompted to Ing and_ovon fhng-thomsolves in tho dust by the wisy-sido. 1sut 10, it is nobthus; wo aro uil contending in this racos but it i, a ravs in whicli tho erown is-nob to the wift, but.io tho truo und.pationt, who, oven thongh thoy limp along tho courso, will reach tho goal at_last; and bo rewdrded with tho boat, Ik tho Lioiding of suoh viows doos not by any moaus imply Lypocriog, It frou it o e ohiiof s, 1t i always tho’ truly good aucl - pious it aco tomptod to i orrar.Four rollicking, dovil-nny-caro Christinn is alwoyu o, as a rule, and roady at all timos to cling to anything-that i casy und {nduigent inr tho Clinre's dootrine, Ho would well dimpenso with fusting aud with prayer aud delights in dwolling on tha Wwondrons long sufforings of God, whoio morey knows no ond. T um convineed thnb thero iy s goodly numbor of ik bavnnclos on the kool of® Potor's bari, and thouglr they ara now gontly borno through tho billows, thoy will flud thomsolvo in port, bo- neath the surfaco still. Mon will go to oxtromes in ll thoir viows and thinkings. Tn polities oy woll au roligion, g will’ forovor tond toward cithor oxtreme. ‘Thoro aro forover thoso who will porsit in Jooking on tho -dark sido, forovor gliding from thio sunliight awsy into the shadows ; and tiion thoro ure those who dwoll forover in tha sunshine, thoughtloss of tho comlig night and carcloss Of ita noods, Happiness aud safo- ty bolong to noither, bt 6ro the right of wuoh ns onjoy the light whilst light thoro s, and whou tho.davkucss comes, havo ofl in their lamps to guiddo thom to_ the ‘banguot: to suck sy phuel the flowora whilst they're in bloom, #4100 preservo to them willl all the fragranco of sum- mor Whot tho pummor and bloom aro all gono, ", 1f thoro is anything true undor the sun, ™t {8 i that the * gospol ™ is “good tidings," and-poaco, and joy, and hopo, and promived rast. 2t it i also trite that this is’ tidings to tho cap« tivo and afilicted, Compurad with what we were, and what wo own of heritago, wo aro buf cap- tivon all, and wandorors fron Liomo. Tha gospol i tho tidings of our switt doliverance, and it comes on wings of angols atianting n tho night, and bidding us bo glud, and welo, sud ralso our draoplug ioads, 1 our“vodomption s ¢ hnnd," 1t ins itu * aco Tlomo,” It [ truo, and brolka heartod mathor ; its fust'of forty dnya, It mid- nlght prayor, and ita hoiclass Liond thi has not whioro to Tost froim sorrow; bug thoss aro only tho shadiugs of tho ploture, Away abovo thotit all aro tho Drightness and the glory of thomonn- tain, shining ovon fu tho darknows; and tho voico ‘0t tho Mustor bidding us in fonduoss to * foar notat all" Away boyond it all I the rosureeo- tion morniog rialng b’ e erlumpb, and oll tho onrih honeath i deekod i shrub aud flovr, tho happy smiles of Natura; and tho Bridograom {6 fathiorod horo with Uis:Joyous tralu, to.mlugio. in tho peaco and glndnosk of the bandnot, e ridhin THE WISCONSIN COUNOIL, Sermon by the Rav. €, 1, W, Ktockdng, of tho Uliurch of the Epibhanys . 'The. :Rov. Dr. Blovkiug .prenchod yosterdny| avoning fu. tho Glurel of- tho Lpiphany, taking. for hiu toxt, 4 For wo aro made n spectncio unto tho world, and nmto dngols, and unto mon." Tho sormbn, which Is of spocial Intorost on” account ' of itn roforencon-to tho racont- Episcopal Couneil in:Wincountn, 1a 08 follows r- ! It Is among the remarkable charaoteristics of St, Ponl's wrilings that, whilo ho is nlways tho profound theologian, ho' s “nono tho loss tho practical preachor. - In allhis stately proso thero is o constant and boautiful tributa to tho powor. of daily. and .humble ministrica in tho littlo things and small_ concorns of lifo, Consplouous boyoud an ordinary dogreo, in station and char- actor, 1ifo and lottors, hoscoms nover diveatod of, tho consclousnoss that ho was moving under tho sloopless and tirolons oyo of publiv serutiny. Ifo: cannot closs his Eplstio.to tho Romens, which i & summary.of. tho . roliglous philosoply. of tho world's Listory, without rominding his rondors, tonll time, that Nono of us livoth to himself, and no man dioth tnto himeelf,” " Tho walle by tho waysido, - tlid chanco opinfons of. casual ob- servation, _ihe..carringo of tho-body, domostio ‘mathods and constitutional, ohnraotoriatics, . our moats and driuks, ,and. ovon. (o quality, and fashion of our raiment,—all aro noled, andserve to nggrognlo that thibg wo call public opinion. That stowardship of ‘tho mysterien of God, tho moasnro of whose rowsrd-was: to bo found in® ity fidolity, .and - which: had “beon :80-largoly. committed - to..the. gront, Apostle,. gouorated & conscions - rosponeibility that . lifted commonest acts of lifo up into tho senlo of im- portanco and dignity.” Plnco In-ono scalo tho worthiest motives; and in tho other.questionnblo mothods, sud, ns.wo well know,’ tho formor, would *Eick the beam.” - And uo ‘36 *constantly find. constrnetivo appoals. to:.publio: fudguent. - In. is nttompted conquest of tho. world to, tho obodionco of tho Crois. tha Aostio was nob un- mindfal of tho conditions of Auccess... ‘liat Hol- dicrsbip.would invito.tho ridiculs .of mon. and thio sport of history which supplicd on_cnomy with wonpons mado rendy to ik hwid,.and_hoi ontored tho lints with coufidont wtridos, - ovly-to bita tho dust undor blowa itsolf hnd niado po- siblo? Tho Clristlon lifo was to bo' u warfare indacd, > not with -carnal,. but with: moral and upiritual wonpons, yob nono .tho .less. real and carnost. " Whon principles wero af stako, than, if neod bo, wor.to tho knifo; whon mothods. wore iu quasdion, ton publioexpediongy. . HTow could ho oxhiort (6 o Joyal allegianco Lo tho Kingdom of Christ, unless Lo taught soclocy to pay Cusnr's: tributé-monoy 2 - What oanco hind Iovo .in tho W ulfilhmont of tho Inw ” of tho Christian lifo, unloss man was first- remiuded of that necos~ sary love to his neighbor which dotorminas ovory. condition of Linship ? “Iho “satisfaotions of ‘appotito’ wero, suroly, most nbundaatly logitimated: by tha.'indofatic gabilo missionnry lifo.thut multiplied the records, of its worthy Apoatolato ‘all tho way from tho bino’ hills of Judes to tho horos of ‘moa-. girt. Britain; _yot St... Paul,. with on . oyo fo n luown' réligious xoutimont, nud_to Lis ‘ministorinl success, had onough of oxpedency to rouolyo that, yoonor thn,offoid weak broulior, fie would neithor eat. flosh nor drink wine * so. long a3 tho world should stand." - Nutural rights - af jierson and proporty had fonnd dotinition in thio ancient colo of - tho, twelvo ables,~nud principlos of civil Iaw nd boon freely Writton out from thom,. Yot lie would make surrender of somo,of theso if need Do ratlor -than sean- dulizo bis causo by litigation boforo heathon Judges. - Clirist - bad ordnined that -they” who prouched the Gospol should livo of tha Gonpol, but tho Apostle stitched his tonta with scriapi- lous nssiduity, that ho might -bocomo &+ burden- o nono; and. o rescno -Lils. ministry. from auy - suspicion of marconary, mokiyo, o tho Epho- winus lio writes, * Soo that yo walk circnmapoct- 1y." To tho Colossionn, ** Walk in wisdom toward thiom thint aro, without, redoeming tho timo. Lok your.specoh bo alway with_grace, scasoncd with Halt.” Titus ho oxhorts to ™~ Sound wpooch that canniot -bo condomnod; that ho thak iy of.tho contrary part_mas. bo ashuumed, baving 1o ovil thing to nay of you." Aud whon ho would incito tho Hebrew to 6 raca that should make tho gonl and -suateh tho prize, ho reminded them that they woro * Compassed_avout with 8o _great & cloud of witnesses.”" Until thoy conld drop & curtain bofore every. oye, Lie- overy touyuo aud seal ovory car from humau spoceh, public opin- fon would e arranging its vordict for or agaivst thom.and their causo.. In .what. socrob tribunal ths -vordict .should ‘bo soaled, and who ghould woar its crmino, thoy might 1ot luow, but its gontenco thoy wero ouly too. uro to hear, and Docause he fult 1o littlo solicitudo as Lo that sen- tatico, thoreforo St. Puul rominded tho Corinthi- ans that they woro “mudo a spectacle unto tho waorld and to angels and Lo men," Tlow graphic 8 tho similol As so often clgo- whero, K0 here, tho langungo is aganistic. The #gpectaclo!’ was the, thatron—tho.. arona— whoro. the - Grooks and ‘Romans.congrognted to witness glndiatorinl combats: and th ward 4 alko usod of *tho combuts.thomsolves. .About ninoty. yoars beforo. our Apostle pouncd tho.| words of our toxt, Zmiling Seaurus had built o thentro-largo enough to-hold 60,000 -spoctators,. Tyico & day (ho, gladintora -fought—nt. morui With wild beasts, at midday with cach otlier, and tivico & day tho. rining - tiors wero crowded \ith oxcited lmman. lifo: oagor. to bohold tho Uapoctaclo”. bolow. . Littlo. cared thoy whoso Dbeawn' and musels wora bared ‘to the brntish- blows, o lashyof . stool, as blade. mat bludo; tha swift thruat, and its ukiliful countor-thrust ; henvy perspiration (hat bondod tho bursting forchond; and’ thon minglod its drops.with tho watm -life-blood -from {ho opotod veins of tho. combatants ; thoe uncertaintics of victory, which proclaimed its promises now to one snd now to tho othor; tho roar of: wild, bonsts, that sout mow's biod in o swifter curfont througli tho distonded voiu; and that other and huian ery that” cumo up ' through tho . dust. snd di of. (ho. nrong, lo, chill. the blood at its fountaino —all" theso stimulatod human-. pssion wntil: oxcitomont . vassod into fronzy, cud frenzy fonnd vobt in. yolls of Hnollfuh gloo that might eclio- rom Lho regious o tho lost! s How init not, thon, almost with s atart of sur- priio_tiat wo fond that Chiristinus, ulso, aro “mudo o spectuclo unto tho sorld and- unto angelaand unto mon." - -And jyet tho Apostic's fignivo woudorfully falfills the tonditions of tho Cliciwtinn ifo. It o raco, ' fight, astout strug- glo with win. Ith dusty areus i bounded by tho circum(oronoa.of timo.and tho whole wido oarth. 1ty gludintors aro belted at, parbiby fonty, and it yvenpons aro taken from sich & .goodly toro au. tho uamo Apostle opons to his Ephiosia couvort —tho whiold of falth, tho mvord of tho spirit; tho bresstpinto of - righieous- noss; nad tho halmot of salyution. among, tho many, Chirlstian_giadintors, oneont passed’ about by so great-a ultitudo of wit- houson that tho attor . ura -like to, not -only n, nopholo, & nobula, . but,. to & nephos, & donsa . cloud, ato notors 1h u “spectclo " that shall ineuo in hissing end oxecration, or in tho shous and in tho palm.of victory. A, in tho cuciont theatron, spectufora of distinction woro some- timos curtained off from thosoof loss omioivo, and uo, could soo _ tho. spostaole, though theni- Helvos wuscon, o 'i6 tho Apostlo's figuro mado g00d, in Ehint angols, who form tho invimblo por- tion of tho ono gront oroation of God, aro nlio witnosscs of tho life-strugglo of_tho " Cliristian with ovil. Greeco and Romo — digni- fled overy fon- of :a -cortain -dosdont . whom they adunittod to o aroun, aud whotlior yatel- cinn or ploboinn biood molstenod its sund mo forod but littlo,- 80 thab tho -raco - was worthily un, and the Aght courageously .fouglt, . Wo, who have somotimios felt tho power of o singlo oye, whoso quick glayeo was charged with o mingnotinm that chained our foet at its will, or lod the bluskian of rhawa ovor the fuce untdl they tinglod nb,tho flugors' onds, or ot tho hoart o (hrobblug with moro rosoluto purposo—wo cau, porimps, oven in-the fooblenous of fanoy, uudoratand somothing of tha tronoudousness of that conngiousnoss that lay at tho heart of ovory athloto, Ilo fonght and ran for move than lifo,— for country and_honor, . Evory :blow” wan spiod, and every top was run undor ‘au impulsion that cuma from tho concontratod gaze of thousands of finshing eyes, And Christiouity, too, has en~ noblod_oqually ovory I'rinco- nnd ' peasant who hins onterad the Jists for that lfo-contest that shiall mako or unmako tha otornal fortuues of tho sony of men, No ilian oF .WOIAH: OYOP Yol loft tho parisls font who was nat followad Ly tho oyos of human and_ angollé spoctators, and who hud “not-somo. storn -ohcounter ahcad, Komo gonquurad o Loasls, and Honlo wero wouquored by thom, snd thio watohing world had its word of a0d dlidor for £o ono, bocausa it could not sluy 1, aud its nuoer for tho other, beoauso it loved it Dt the good angols hud Joy in ieavon ovor thio ane, and wopt at the full of tho other, And aro-wo,:then, tho moro . oresturea of pub- ho opiuion 7 14 tho standard of Chrtstiun iviy 10-Lo the moro_resultant of woclul forcos, deto minod by tho-svorage moral-sentimeut ol ag or poople;? ) B8 kLo hiddon, dueiple st to i the. Bat fow: auiro, * Tlave any of-tho rulers or tho Plitiscos Dolioved on im? I onooyo tobo fixod.un Tiovelation'n pago, and tho otficr thrown over tho Bhouldor. .to catoli tho nod of approval or th Iestyro. of disyeun?, Mlutsounnd 1 bo.con, stantly isking * Wliat do poplo thiuk,” and not “What doos God roquira? " T roligion » bonis ngo to. socinl - proprieties . moro .than n willlug furyico to hiimanity sud to Christ?. Is tho in- dapendsnco of tho Olristing solilior uttorly eur- roudared in tho talloginnen pledged.. in thia Eue ohaxistic oup ? Clod forbid ], Whero alinll cour- ngo and candof, monlinoss’ and merey find & fairer, flold, aud a worthior :roward than. in tho Cathiolio. Churel, whoso onth of disciploship angayien ws 0 0 porpatia] contont agajust ity th6 world, sand tho dovil? Tohold its (aniple arons, on which aro bonding tho-oyes of millions of the world's plny-goérs, and whathor thoy shall frook ity lndintor. with'tho - snontaoous eut- st of theit involuninty rospect, or hiss us into confurdon of fce, will dopond ‘much on_our- selves.” Infidelity'whota tho cilo of its uuboliof on avory; stonoof offensa.agalnst which tho bos Tiovor stumblos.. I {t hato Clriutianity, it ros- peetn ‘conyiatoney-and fidelity, ~If it wmilo at rotonso, it lua o Llait bisssing for practico, 1¢ t rafly ‘n penitont. for .clinglog. ton pastor’s miivplico; it plants n Toso above tho hond, not " a ' hnir- of which-was-. over dlshonor- od, whon e Christisn's -gravo: is . nodded. . Ghrislinnity is more thai n schome of doce trines b 14" o lifo. Tori: thounnnd - orthodox croodlnl statantonts ,gob loss, livorago under : tho cltadol of Batan thrn can bo_fouud in tha lifo of ono fooblo Christian girl. ~When wo would opit- omixo-all tho coucurriug, motal sontimonti ‘of mon ns to.tho_ powor of . real goodicsi,wo say . “tho Dovil haton holy wator.” Allalong tho streots which ontorpriso has oponed up wheroon towers of an onduring civillzation, nudmon, most of thom witly tho fenr of God and the lovd of souls in thoir-hoarls, ato pronching o Gospol of grace to a dying_ worid, Consldor -for a mio- moit that thia very dny hundrods bf thousands of sormons hinvo tostifled: to the funotion. which pronching. I suppouad.,to fulfll.in tho, divino: cconomy of ‘tho radomption. of tho’raco.. And yot, -after . arzuwant hind. sponte ts ingeimity, ator sciolurhip hus cullod tho cloleos. Howord of ity ehioicent thotoric, niter lny has proclaimed. it ponnltics,-and. porsunsion- le-oshaustod it art, and after, oloquence lns hited thom all-on hor wingn for hor Lixhost light, thon, alus ] Low insigniticint tiio apiritun rosulc! + And why nlkthis 2. Bimply beoauso tho'world ivant leas proaching, nid. holior living, -Unbo~ Tief oan incob nrgumpnt with argument, sl ns it +ds;. but. beforo o consceratad: 1ifo, it is dumb.: iso Chugels hat shall convart tho,world will b . worling and pr:uglng Church, ovory pulintion of swhos fifo ahallbo quickencd by tho Tloly Spiri, and.. overy. ,ock..and .abtitude of v whioh wnall, Do . pérformod oud, assumod -n3 . un= dor "tho .oye—uot only_of . God, .but—of “angoly and of mon,” ‘Whou you and I, nnd ovory other diseiplo) live accinding (o bt Divino'nattern which"lins hallowed tho sod of Nozaroth snd of Bothany forovor sud fovover, thon uhall we, like Tim, o followod by tho ool and tho foofof o world-wido umanity, oagerly striving that ko they. may but _cling to the hem, of onr garmeits, Ohrlstinnity is mora than cightoon coiituries old, and -tho world s nok yob wouto the Cross.. It ng .borno tho burdon of Iaboked ucholarahip and miesionary sncrifico ; it s compilad liturgios aud bullt costly ohurche it has summonod to its. sid tho flowor of chiv= alry and. tho miight of . majesty,; it hus weddod rospeetnbility “and strucl -hands™with human progrois, and now, in this: yenr of grace, out of tho1,400,000,000 of souls, it can count aboint 200, 000,000 nomiun! Christinua—somo of thoin vory poor-onos. Thoro s & millomium promiso, aud & fature. which . Chnistianity claims .n wholly its own, nid thoy who seo_that. day will 800 it ouly by thopowor of o raligiots consistency that: nover forgot that it was mado. o spootacle wato; tho world, mid unto angels, and wnto mon. Ouo wock from to-day, God \vilhng, hoada will Do hawed b thischaucol rail for-tho graco and bleasingz of Confirmatiqn. . And.to sucly ns avait that solemnity, fot mo say that whatover of helpfulnoss .to humnaity, . encouragemont. to otliox scaters after. truth, and houor to roligion, Hluill radinto_from that ‘scouo and contro, sholl come;. mot from - Confirmation" voil;: nor from nction.of Epjagopal spocel, nor-yot from pload- iz prayer nud ‘loly song, k0 _inuck 3 from o woll-ordered -lifo: that -reniombers - hourly - how trulyitis % mndo. 6 spectaclo unto tho world, and unto_angels, and unto mew.” Woro auything nceded to dospen our apprecia- tion of tho-truth «wo prosch to-night, it ean bo supplicd by rocont, ovents.. . A sistor diocaso hay boon firnishing “n spectaclo into tha world,” A pralato has Inld dowi tho crozier ; th earthiy - *shopherd will fold his-shoop.no longsar! .. Voicos, choked with.tears have lifted, a8 bost thoy. gould, tlie iupiting notew of tho Church's burial song over thio,departod Bishop, and boforo the altar whero an eazlier ministry as sbundouly provod, | aud now in tho city of tho silont tho saiuted Armitngo sleops-well, Aftor n decorous interval, tho boreaved diocosai houschiold aguin gathors in tho Cathedral which momorializos his “faith, , Liope, and love, to malke choico of a flt person'to sotve in tho: yacout .bishopric..; Draporioa-in purplo and blick and whito symibiolizo_ beroavo- inoit, and flowors, with all & florist'a- art, and o Joaplols goncrous lovo, ropent.tho Eastr prome luo - thint. shall, soon &ild theso Lentou ekics, Trothron and fflends come from farand noar to stand and knool:uido by side in_holy -worehip of im oo iamo they b, aud b brother priost swhom tru-heartod caurchiion will not willingly forget, or kmowingly dishonor, standsgup to tell, inn Words thad il ono's soul, iho talo- of the Qoad . prelate—what the shepherd did far bin ahioop: © \¥hnt -more_congoninl -atmosphero; a8 ono sliould eny, for a prayertul.-solicitude and u divino guost? ho world followod thoso broth- ron to that 1louso of CGod; and *angols and mon looued in upon thiom.” Thoy.wers “‘mado- o Apeatncla,” thoy pinyed thoir part, fought tholr fight, and tho curtain hos fallgn. Tho gladistors u¥o gono from-the arons, and tho world i -its Liss and ics uoor! - In alludiug to , tho -Wiscansin _Council, I sm awaro that, £o thioro who bonnd daty by diocesan " linos, T sy be thought guilty:-of “an importi- nencd, . But Lam quito unablo to distingnish, botween tho wmorality of sy historical criticism and that-of o prasont asano. 1f it bo righs -to youd in & pask wyaut o losson to the souls hoalth, it caunot.bo virong o deduco . similax losson from passing ovonts, *That Connil has becomo the propurty of bistory, end what aur ohildren mny do unchatloned, God forbid that tho futh-, ors should fenr to do. ‘Whe Clmreh *in’ thiy contry bau beon #0. Jong in _tho -attitudo-:of apology; sio hus ko ofloit 1ot obitaclas i Moulc havo inthuridutod o Jod robiis faith :--sho it ovon now #0° mortiliod. and: grievod: ab tho fuithlossncss of onp of hor ronogado. son, thut nothing which offects her. woll-hoing can’ bo o mattor of uncoucorn to ovon tho lenst. of - hior ohililron.-..** Thro 8 a timo to kaop silence, and a tima ta spoaks,” and when {ho Intlor is como, trutl bocomes the highost wisdom, -and_candor consista with tho (ruckt, charity:--1io who admitu a wroug has mcasurod b o strido moro than hialf tho’ distance betweon it and pardon, and you shull got tho world's:as by & Hpocol, sansou-: 2d with fairness. . o soculet -presy lias mado it iniponsiblo to drop tho- voll of oblivion over tho lumantablo proceodings of tha. Council, and #+tho pitiless ologruph, o 1L boot out tho story, Las 1o sont tho orinivowof shnwoe to the chodlk of the Churchman all- ovor. the. countyy,” that thio pulpit may hinvo,its nny * whon #0. niany aro spoaking,” Aud.né wo lisyo 3o oxpectation of ovor inviling thio fTrages of our brethren in any. Diocoss, our; chtoos of boing -mada Tishop will not'bo infured by tho_ most caudid Bpooch! o uny that tho Clureh in this Unitod States 15 10w ut an importont potiod inhor .history, i but to ropoat tho afifrmation of tho pulpir, “tho pross, and tho individual. Wo.uro witnossing tha ogsical developmont of horatical “toaahing, and thio prodicted rosulls of & hontad partivan: ship, Tolorauco of individual opinion, aud in- torprotation within tho recoguizod., lmits of thio Church's law and_standards—which js, indood, att of our Catholie horitago—hay boon ‘pushed Fito toanwo, and, in somo mntancos, . oidad in individualivm, _Tho dofootion in bigh places ot ono of tho aworn custodiuis and defanders of 110 faith, who hs so recoutly stolen tho Chureb's livery to sorve himewif ,in, snd_ tho Nowaniziug practioes of a,vory fow’ zenlots of an "oxtromp and opposito wing of hor militant hoat, have brought frosh_ncorotions of sirongths to that ros ligious consorvatism_which may bo Loth our dauger and our anfaty, 1 boliove i to bo'a faut g novor was thoro & mare wholosomo sound- nes intho faith, and that tho Cliurelinover Lind roddor blaod andstoutor. sinow than to-day, Whoover has gono ont from- s havo gona ®ho=: causo thoy wero not of us," snd_tho sigus of the times warraut tho_confident_oxpectation of o glorious harvest of souln if our motliods bo char- ucterived by caution and_enorgy, ‘Ui unrigh- toous loavan of disloyal Clnuchmanship that fus 80 long wrought ovil to the Church i fast dij- disappoaring, aud Diovosos that woro. ongs din- turbad - by : Church polomics . aro., now nt wnity In thomsolvos, * Nolubly wmohg thoso, standa Wisconsin, which, 60 fur s wa kiiow, has always bea o giggnol expmplo to or sistors in this rogurd. 8lio hog beon whik s kuown us o # 1T litiroh ™ Dincoso, aind_any iutornal’ dis- sonslons must therefore be rofurred to. athior ouusos, A # Low " Churehmen would bo rogurd= od thoro o a soven daye' wonder, if Cetinjony Do rogardod e lablo, and tho Atataniont of sumo portion.of tho publio prosy sbat tho rogont cotis. tent Wan a partisan ono in this sonen Iy uitos) dsolf, bofuot thas. all tho olorgy of. tho_ Dia- o0 1t aokually abyoil, frony the boutry Wero Fho sun shinos riso, Chivistin plpits, tho watoh- - in attondanco, and thnb menrly, if not qulto, ovory parish_ontitled to roprosuntation was ro roproented, i ovidonco of tho intoroxt tukon i tho ponding olodtion, 'Tyvo eandidatos of Gavnlly and woll kown - Ifigh Cliureh * planding voro tomatod, s encly browght Lo thnt nomfintion gunrautaes of wnsulllod porronal hohot, ‘sobint qualition, and unquostioned ability, * "I'o an nne projudicod obsotvor, it was ovidont that fu tho praliminaricn of -organization was: to ho' found tho koy to all tho subsequent procoedings, . Por: mslont offorte wora mado o Intradico Lo tho buniness® of * tho - Cotinell “porsona_and” maltors : which the Uonuiolt was not: compotont. to_enfor- -tuin, and jt smust bo confossod thaktha thing had a uitistor look. * Wilon tho nomitintloh v reach- cd biodd had bocomo moro than warm, tnd that +ducorous:. rovorenco for the -Lord's hiotiko, whicl 14 taught 8 n tho oponing kontouco of our nor- vico of dommion prayor hd boon quite forzatton by a fow, : Tho- nomiuntions - woro mado’ the _opportunily ‘of offonmvo porsonalition mora bofiting - "8 ‘eancus-room than o Christian -Ghureb.” W can* convelvo tho nocessity of 6 statemont of tho gonoral or speglfio morlis of u cnndidato” for tho high oflich of Bishiop, for tho Informntion ! of witclias o personatly uhno- quaiuted, and whoso votos- aro tolicitad ; but whon privato Iifo is omptied of ith socrots to feed dotraction and. nbnse;: olinrity floca dismnyedl from the houso {n which eha s wounded by hiow fefonds, ~ Aud snich was tho history of thnt Coun- cil. Callod: togather “to_cloct n Bishop in'tho Giwrch of God, it pont ita strongt in keends af disordor. that exhausted tho nrts of tho politi: clun. - Privato convorsntions; confldontinl corce- ‘wpondonco, tho unguardod intorcouraoof Lrator=" nal companionshiy, wero-convertad into capital for patty votes' nd for tha world's #com, too, Ono may: bo -pardonod” for- nyling that tho cug- tomary aud solomn proprioty of mvoking tho old of tho loly, QLOit, though manifostly nover moro noeded, sbomed: in somo casen sadly fll- timed, for i€ wns -ovidont anougl -that not all cnmo to be eo dircotod. Mo wpocel of gome of tiio membors-of thio Cowholl was not “*songoned with malt,!" but: wicl poppor, and ono wondera -whethior * managomont” hnd’ not moro ta do in; the'closoly- contontod vots® than tho Taraclits. Tor tho chiof purjioacs of this difcourso womust wpontcw littlo In dotail. - Provious to tho meoting of tho Councll, & circular, fignod by six of thy clorgy. of tho Diocaso, wafi ‘wovwn- broadenst, not ouly over tho Diocese, but ovor tho whole coun- try, clisrging one of tho enndidntes with Itomane Lzt practicon. - Ono of thosa sigilors, in - tho faco’ of tho--witolo_congregation,” rocallod his wignaturo, confossinge that Lo hind_sfimod that whitlt - bo '-did - not” know " to bo truo,. . and-. - askiag . the' - pardon * of Iifm wwhom Lo had thus tnintentionally injurod. | "o yomnining fivo had adhorad to Lhoir original churgos, which woro amply rofuteddn the sonso in whiol: thoy. wero intonded, Not hnving thot circular beforo s a8 wo. writo, and -thorfora’bo- fug. wnnblo-to_onumornto Acenrately all its clinrgos, wo noto only- thoso-of confession, ox- cossivo titunl and cucharistic adoralion, ‘Aftor & wearisome and- ropeated roitoration of theso chiazges, tho .Wardon of- Rucko Collogo, -in spocel ' every.syllablo of which was intorproted by Lfs own, and confossed, lionost aud Inborious lifo, aud tio subliiity of Whoso intonaifiod by his thrilling sppeal Lo tho Mosk ligh God, tmply rofutéd such’charges, and many n hiearer, joalous - for tho: purlty of tho fith, breathod moro frocly. In n poriod of twonky yonrs! ministry, it appeared that_ho_had Lioard -tho confeasions of only - twenty adults. Tio clinrgo of intrusion mto Nashotah Theologi- cal Sominary,for tho purpoeo of auricular coh- Tension, and ngainst tho' Dishov's wish, wus ro- futed.by the testimony of its own President, "iio wholo mnttor issued i tho sotunl fack - tht lio bnd'never compelled n confession in_bis Iifo, but had simply dono what tho oxbortation in tho Communion oflico provided. [Tho preacher hioro road from tho Book of Gotamon Prayor]. Now,ns to oxcossiva ritual. -1t was aflined thint, if olected, ho would-convort tho Cathodral in Milivankeo into a Romish oua; one in which candlos should bura.on its altar, ' whers swiuge iug cousors and prostrations. mnl.-clovations of the host should texch the fablo of transubstan- tintion, and -whoso *walls - should: -bo_lnod with confossional , boxes,. Tho fack -appearod- that nothiug In his nst usage or_prosont. boliof Tind'ovor justifiod stich a foar. Ractno Colligo lind now engraftod on its evitom o mora orunto ritual than its lato Disliop had_olsowhora toler- ated, and not 8o ornnto nono ns chnrehmen of tho tamp of tho Rov. Wardon's ncousers are no- custome to, aud uatistied with, olsowlioro. - I & surplicod choir is ovidenco of Homanism ot Ita- cin, it it ovidonca of tho enno nll over our lind, and {n many “Low” Church porishos in En- gland. . Processiounls and yecesuionnls Liavo no posuible doctrinnl significanco, but mugt-bo ralo- gated to tho splioro of pure-oxpedionoy. - Lights on tho altar, when usod for purposes” of sight, aro Jusht no mora nor leaa than (hio samo’ lights & foot nbiovo tho altar. Colored hoods aro collogi- ato badges, and whon thoy. aro_condomnod our awn Cathedral, St. Stephow's Collego, and many HlslmFs of our Church,—not to speek of Anglican “churohimon,~must fall wndor tho sumo ban. And thus, it would scom, disnppears the grava- man of thiat chargo. Tucharistio adoration - ins an ominoua sound, and undor 1ts magic spoll wo look for o crowd of nearly 200 prostrate yeultents, iu tho poreous of thie Indw of Racino. Nothiug; of the kind! Our experionca and obuorvation justify tho agsortion that tho atmosphoro of collogo 1ifd s uot cspaci- ally fivorablo to"exceasivo rovercnce, much loss Lo suporstition, for. eacred Lhings. And, know- ing how fruitful for.good fs tho roeront colo- bration and recoption of tho blessod vacrament of -the ' Lord's .~ body =and: :blood, wo cnn easily. undorstand ~ tho . eatimation in which* - it _“is ‘held by ‘the Wardon of Racine: In the (Genoral . Convention of tho Chinrch, Liold at Daltimoro in 1871, o aflirmed that ho himsolf adored, and would, I nocossnry, ‘or his duty, teach- othors to adoro, our Lord presout on. thoultar undor tho forms of broad and wino. " [Horo tho proachor read from tho book of Common Prager.] It will thus bo seon that tho voal, spiritual presonco of our Lord in tho Lucharist is, and hns always boen, tho dootrine of o -Chuireh,- Tho ncoused clergyman ox- prossly.avowod-his abhiorronce of tho doctrino of & carnnl prosenco and of transubstantiation, and proved that ho adored our Lord, and not the clomouts, aud that such adoration-'was intornal, uot oxproased by auy onlward gesturos, And horo_wo' thiik wo may etop. We ard no partisan, Our-words havo been prompted: by duty, and by no human being. Our acquaint- aneo with our dear brothron of tho clergy in- volyod in this sad business 15 onflued chiofly to that patty which has.arraignod before tho wholo world a Lrothor prosbylor, who_needs nob my dafonso, but who doservos my justico, Haviug nover liad five houre' convovsation with lim i my life, I am 1ot opon. to tho suspicion of may poroial motives, and, wero ho tho lumblost st priost in o lind, o should Luvo tho ittlo Lonofit of my humble'defonso.. It 18 not o lililo snspicious that, if the charges ngainst hin wato belfoved, ho waa not long rinco” presonted for trinl in conformity.to thet solemn ordination vow which engages ovory clergyin to banisly and deive mway ol orrencous und strango doc- trins® from tho Chureh, Not having beon commonly olassod among tho “ Ritwalistic " parly, our words aud viows aro not inspirod_by any sucl intorcst, but simply by a lovo of doconey: and fair play. Any euiiso thint must bo bolstored up by disgracoful arts fu o bndcanse, and overy sharor in such_arts will bo'buried undur an avalancho.of publlo, raligions, and moral sontimant, and boyoud tho Dossibility of * resurroction. Dut ‘just Lero Jot it bo eaid that tho aots of the fow must nat boj charged to tho many. Bad a4 was tho blood, and intempor- ato ag was e spoach, tho clergy did not ficoly anlloach othor *iafs™-and “ncoundrols,” ns tho papers wonld. hiave it, and many bluslod to find thomuiclves in ouch strange company, How gronttho ity that Rucinoand Washotsh havo hoon dragged o (ho front of controvorsial discussion, Aun Westorn mn, now, it is onr privilego and duty to lond onr- wdluenca to them, In #o far uy thoy aro faithful to-tholr trusts. Thoyaro both ropresoutod In our pariul or, rathior, our pasish ity thom, and it is my duty to you, fathors and wothers, and to your children, to life my volce for tho truth. - My worl in this parish, thio work of avery claricyniun [, tho land, bt Boon masly harder by this® * spectaclo " that has hardonad tio honst of -ourbolief, - Clirfatians mnst Lo fim and degidod ; thoy ought (o bo tolorant. and lov= Aud thisds tho losson we learn in_ (s Holo wattar. *1iad na it fs, 1t might liavo boan worso. - And if sobor aud prayesful rofloction #hall aid tho futuro ecounsols of our donr brotbrau;-as wa bollovo thoy will, thoy will yot do & work for -God " and IfiR Ohrist that shall mako un’ proud of thom, * No woup- on formod againat theo shall prospor,” is tho in- spirod_warning sgaingt all. who would push o ciuko by unworthy mothods, And, fnally,; lot tho world havo tsancor. Tt Is in ibis caso ontitlod to ft. -But lot it lso con- sidor thut if ot ovon tho gatos of holl sball pro- vail ngainst tho Ghurels, much loww ahall_this broaoh in tho samo houseliold of faith. rom tho day whon, I tho fieat Conneil ab Jepusalom, thoro ‘wus ™ fuch diopntfug ™ oll though thd nges that enll thomaolvos Chrlstiane, thoso strfos havo, boeu.but ripples on-tho nurfaco of that great oconn_of lovo that rolls on from timo to sternity, and God binth promisod to mako © ovon thg wratls. of o o prawo T, g TFAREWELL, . Turtiug Heruiou by tho Tov. (1. Wi Wendto, without foundution, Thisbrings us to the Connell | Llie Rov, O, W, Wendto, of tho Fourth Unls tarlgu - Ohunvgh, progelied Wls farewall sormon ynsgqn_lsy forougonto & largo congrogation of ororation was | mombera of hils own churchand porsonal frionds, Mr. Wondlo has suffored_somowhat ‘in healih from his Incossant oxortions in behlf of his churely, tho Chuistian” Unlon, and othier good worls, ' < Who toxt wa tekien from Provorbs xxiil, 7, and Matthow vif., 16, 24 follows ¢ *As ho thinketh in Iis lionrt, so s he.” U Yo whall know them By thelr fruits,” Vollowing is tho sermon ¢ I T woro to- Inquiro of you, my frionds, what coustitutes n, Christian, I should probably ro- colvo ono of two differont answers, nceording to the polnt of obsérvatlonyou might oveupy. TFor olthoryou would sny: A Cliristian {5 ono who s faith in tho " faols of Christian histoty and tho ‘principlos of tho Clristinn 1ife, for ‘s n mian thivloth in his henrt, so is hoy'" or you wonld say: “Tho production of good worls, ‘n hnrmony, iith Christian procoply nnd ox-- emplars’ {8 what conntifiitos n Christian, for *by their fruits yo ehall know thom,' " 1lero, thon, wo havo' o definitions of Chrls- tinnity: ono baned on faith, (ho othor on taors, Oud donsfdors tio inmor disposition” s n nocoy nary-ontacadont to the oxtornal nct,—n plous heart ny tho sourco of gonorous deods; tho, “ othor deams _tho outward nci o ‘sofidont indiealich of tho inner dispouition, 'Ono starts from tho contro, tho ollier from tho cirenmforonco, e good and you will'do good "' fayk tho onos 1o good und you will be good," uyi tho othet. Now, botls thoio dofinitions aro correct, and yob oach {8 incomploto withont tho othor. Tor theao two fuctors, boing: and - doing, nro not antago- nistic, but mutunlly condition _and supplement onoh other.* Falth “without works I8 doad; works without' faith aro morally’ ¥aluclass. Thoy derivo thelr chnractor from tho ° dia- poultion ffom which thoy sprung. . The question thoroforo §if not thio absoiuto oxclusion of one mothod in favor of tho' othor, but rathor what In thole’ olativo finportanco, wl Iu othor words, sinll o Tsy tho omplidsis;—on dolug, of Aud thiin hag always beon tho chlof point in controvorsy in tho Christion Ghurch, Admitting that both olenotits uro casontinl to the roligious dovolopment of man, tho quostion atill r What is to bo the “ proportion of faith " wo shall givo to encli othor? Thui nll greab rolig- fous protosts in tho Churcl voom to-have boon mioro or less n change of emplinsis, . . Tho Phariages, wo know, ncoountod thom- | dolves na righteon tirotgh (ho doods of the ky Thoy gavo tilhes of wniso and cumuin, di tribatadl nlmis at tso itraot-cornors, wero puict long i thele obsorvaneo of praye mud st and in ol things aimed to achio¥o thcir kulva through the miorit of good works. Josiid, Gn tho other hand,” thotgh ho went about doing good, Inid ulill moro stress on. tho. importaneo of bofug priro in heart, heing porfact inlikeuess to the Futhor, unid_having tho falth that iy oporative in us to' romovo mowntaius of arror, aud to resiut tho templations of sin. From s Hoight of spiritual hoinig*Ifo looked dows ‘with contempt unon tho littiences of doods dono on speculation sololy, and withy rightcous indig- nation® denounced the I'harisess us self-seolker hypoctites, and * whitod sopulohros.” “U'bus tho faith of tho Giospol was pitted againsl, th deeds of tho lnw, 'Lho spirit was assorled ugaingt tho lottor. Tu the early Christinn Church, wo find tho aportlo-Paul following in tho foolitops of tho great enchior, unid siobly contending for inward pioty “as_opposod to tho marit of Hood works. ‘Lo very veliémonco, howovay, Wwith which ho smphavizoed tho suiiclency of faifl, lod to an - conticious oxaggzoration of ki truth. According to tho dootritio coutuined in mavy passages of, tho Epistlo to tho Romnns, u taan i justitiod (or nceountod ny rightcous) Ly faltls aloné, ithout tho deods of the law, y "hin in turn provolied A romonstranco from. Lis fellow-arostle, Jnmes, in bolalf of tho valuo of good wotks: 'y works a mian i jusifiod, and not by fuith only.” - 8lill Jator -in_tho history of roligious dovelop- mont wo find_ Martin Luther; tho mighty cham- ‘pion of tho Roformation, buttling against. tho suporstitions, sacraments; aud moelanicel picty of tho Church of Romo in_bolnif of tho_moro upiritunl doctring of ®Justifiestion by Taith.” “ho Chureh also insisted on faith, but it Inid still \moro stress on the officacy of pious woris, and the saving graco of tho. CGospel was woll-nigh lost in the mas of forms, itos and practiody which oppresued the momory and obrcured the mind of tho wordlipor, Aguinst this ontward mechanical roligion Luthor vigor- onsly protostod, insisting ou the importanes of Teing ratbor that doing, und saying'in’ hie forci- Dle and honly w A J * Godll, pious works can néver cnslitute good, pidus man; but o pood, plous: man pro- duces good works, 'ha fruit docs not beat the treo, but the troo beara the frnit.” » And what T ask i, 14 the prosont Issuo botwveon, tho liboral churehios of Amorien and the curront orthodoxy buta continuation of thosnme strig- glo botweon tho living fith and tho doad letter? For whal i the eurrent notion- concorniug the abgolutoe sanctity of tho Sabbath, the maiit in chiroh-gning or Lonten -obsorvatico, tho suving officacy that is supposed to rest in'baptisms, creods, or rilunlism—tho orthodox adyaeucy of tho Diblo in tho scliools or Chrise in the Constitu- tion—buta roliance on plous works a3 axsontinl to snivation. . ‘Tho Calvivist statomont of: tho doc- trino*of faitly moy Mud ‘o placo inits crecd, hut in its common ;practico -tho Church puts dolng beforo heing—{ho dend Tottor of tho Inw befora tho living word of tho spiril. “You can omit or shotton your sormon,” eaid tho warden to the strangor ministor In: tho pul- pit, on & dark Sunday. * But eannol I leavo oat n portion of tho sorvico % - Nob a word!” vy “tho roply Tein s falso emphasizing of tho ostornals of religlon which Jesus * donouncad, which T'aul combatied, ngainst which Luthor -protested with all-hio energy of his flery gonius, and which wo, a3 Unitariany, if trie fo tho logic of omr principlos, aro bonnd to opposs, 1t is & fundn- mental articloiu our boliof to rank faith highor chamuctor abovo conduct, being Not what a man docs s the great- esb matlor, but what he is, Novw, this is not tho popular opiniou, even amongat liborl minds,” We have hoard 50 much ubout _ nving - faith, exchtsivo salvation, paeddning grace, and L know nol Low many othor “veligious shibbolotls, that in ehoor solf-dofontio wo Lvo taken rofuge’ in tho simpla maxim & . Dy thoir frnits yo whull know them.” "This wonld saom ut first sight to bo an_infalli blo standnrd of judgmont. Wo can kuow othors only through thieir notiond, Thore muy possibly Do pivitual oxcellonco i o man who “yob_doos nothiing, but such o being will be indifforont to s since it i8 ouly by hin uctions that ho affects uu or fa brought within the rango of human judgmont. Bt whoro we seo works, thara wo can esti- misto worll, - Is not thls tho only possiblo ori terion? Good deeds. roveal a kind boart; bad deeds betray an ovil hoart. Tho treo iy known by its fruits. "Aud this apsumption undorlien ony estimato of self. Tor wo cumnob kuow ourolves wutil wo hiavo oxumined and pussed judguiont upon our own nots. What o do thuw bocomos thio mons- ure of what wo are. Novortholess, my friouds, this maxin, *Yo ‘ghall: ‘know - them by their fruits," i far Irom - boing _imialliblo . or of ~universul application, Its insulicioncy is shown whon you como to apply it positively. Negstively it nay provo o #afo guido, When o man by without work, or produccs only ovil works, you may ho right tn asswming thot thin arisos from an ovil of unsonnd_disposition” (though oven loro [ should wish to mako somo quuliiieations). Dut on the other hand, when you #eo o msen biing forth good works, 'aro you justified in- conclud- ing him, therofore, to bo good mau? Whon' tho # wickedost dramnalloy in Olio™ transforms Lis saloon into n prayer-meoting, do you, thoroforo, put impliels fuith in big vital picty? Or, aguin, I would liko your opinion on tho actlon of tho Methodint Churdh in canonizings Duniol Drow, of Gold-ourd notoricty, ‘simply becutio Lo o thom o million dollas o endow « thoologieul sehool, Tor, rawonther that such aots may Liavo boon dono oy spoenlation, to stiflo vouscionco, o gain publio “favar, o cheupo o dreaded hufl, ‘ot to heouro nn_nnticipatod- honven, in which easo thoy nro morally valuoless (0-tho individual who performs thom. “Whoreforo, ho who judges charactor solely by couduot, Wlio mansures being hy doing, will often find himsell feriously ot fanlt, For uab auly will o bo Iy dunger of thiuking oo well of tho wiokied, but nlso of not thliking woll onough of tho'oad, For it i oqually truo that 1o worls can ndoquatoly express the richout, deopost lifo of tha soul, * Whon the idonl s in- caruatod in tho gotual, thoro 1wt alwayu ho & dotorioration, Who 'f4 thoro mmoug . tlint doon ot feol himsolf to bo better thau his acls would jmply? 1lowmany of us would liko lolinvo thelr Chrlatlanity rookonad by thoir subscription to thin churoly; thelr charily by tho oxtont of thoiy nlmsglving 1 thoir ffoation by the monsuro of their dnily solf-snerificor Mast pooplo, L take 1t, aro & great deal botter than tholr acty, ' Tholr doun o not and cantiob truly reprosont thom, “Torhaps you will object to this afirmution "of tho muporiority of boing ovor doing that,” whilo _thooroblcally tmio, ¢ I8 not an anxiom of | practical ‘wisdom, For docs 1ot onr vommon oxperionco tasels us to Lo cone trary, that, whilo just thoughts often tail of pro- duoiuig just doods, Just doods must .rml\m«Suat thoughts {1t iw ‘easior to think right without g2l dolng right Uian to do right without thinking rlght, _And this in tho teaching of thal pansyo fn-tho Tourth Gaspel, ¢t wny man will do ilis will, o whall know of the doctriuo ihothor it fu of Gad." . . Lul it I ona thing to know, aud quito anothor thing to ho; ono thing to Lhink with tho mind, and another thing to think * in onc's honrt,” i anr toxt axprowsci 1k, T this Inrgor senso,whilo a mau moy know sud yot not do, ho caunot ho and uot do, for hoing is life, and, whilo tho contro | of 1fe is will, tho csxouco of Jire 1 sulf-communi- gullon, 17 You are_anyluing, ~ou il ool un ircontntible fmpulac to do somatliing. * :*Corlainly our actions must ronot upon our charactar, dolig muat affoct bolugz, but only in an Inforlor soneo. - Who Phnrion gavo alme to tho bogae, nt tho goto, end -thon, ontaring tho tomplog with aolfish prido, thaiked God thut Tio,wns botter: ‘bo'decalvod; *riglituousncss asimot. como ont of an uncloan or tudiMeront hoart, Tho wators of hoaling cannot flow from an .impur_fountaii. Let ua not moko tiio fatal. mistake of * pubordi- nating faith to works, helng Lo doing, Truly great worka do uat, broduco thomsolvas, . Thoy Hpriuuy from somothing antocodont that was far grontor. - . # Not from vain or-ahallow thonght 1l nwful-Jove young Ilidiss wrought § Nover from Hps of cunniug foll T'ho thrilling Delphio oracl “Tho liand that roupded Leter's dome, And grained tho alsles of Ohristian Itome, Wrought in n sad alncerity,” ., 5 . The highont croations of goning, the manter- placos of thought and study, tho noblost ncliovo 1ont of horo or saint, hava hoon tho fruitn of #ovaro digcipline of conscionco, of iutonsily of - fooling, and profundity of upivitual oxporionca. Not thed Lho thing wo do, but - the epirit in which wo do i, fe tho ail-important mottor, It k- Prge.) 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