Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. The Woman's Ciusado under Consideration, Robert Collyer in Frvor of tho Molerate Uso of Becr and Winés Thb Rév. Mr. Thomas Discusses the Same Subject: He Doubts the Sticooss of the Pray- ing Movement in Largo Citios, ' The Lost Eden, :mti How to Regain If. Eloquent Scrmon by Prof, Swl_ng. The Hebrew Conception of Immor- talily. The First English Sermon of the Rev. Dr, Kohler. . DOHE EARTH HELPED THE WOMAN. YWhnt Dr. Collyer I8 of 1hiéo Woni- an’y Wempérnnce Movements Tho Itev. Robest Collyor preachegl toa largo congrogation in 'Léinity Chureh yosterday morn- ing, having for his themo tho woman's prayiug- crusado agninst the naloons. For hin Seripturul sclections o rend thio 20ih chinpfor of Proverbs, commencing; “ Wino isa mocker, Strong drink in raging 1 and whosoévoer is deceived thoroby is 1ot wiko ;" and alio from tho 2d ohapter of Jolin tho marrativo of tho wedding in Cana, whera Christ turned water into wino. 1lis com- mont was to this effect: **If wo beliovo both thewo porlions of Seripture,—sud I boliove them Voll,—we 8co how wine may bo drankin two ways : holily and infornaily.” Tho toxt was from tho 16th verso of thé 12th chaptor of Rovela- tion—* Tho carth helped the womun"; aud the sormon wa as follows : It seoins to bp ono of the laws of lifo that wo should settlo down to n cortuli way of {hinling and working by somo such law b that which do- tormines the channel of n river betwoon the head wators and the ond of it, aud then that wo should look on all other coutsos of thought and action vory much as thoy look on the upper reachos of tho Missouri, whero melnmm uow nnd then that you shall buy o farm in Avizons iu all good faith this year, und sottlo down ai a cilizen there, and then fud that by somo now twist of the stremn, for which you did not bargain when you bought your land, you aro living in Nabraska. Aud it is'tho svecinl work of whut wa agreo to call gonius to surpriko us in this way, and very ofton to alarm nnil yos us. It may bo thio gonitis of thought or of action, Tt wiay uppanc u litor- ature, in seience, in art, or in religion ; tho form it may tako scems to muko o difference, gening is suro to cut a new channel, to sy its word and 4o ita work in o new way, and leave us moro or Toes bewildered ay to whers wo belong, and what wo ought to do if we come within tho scopo of its power, whilo if wo undortako to opposo 1t aud to bave our own old way m_tho faco of it, if wo sny wo do not Jik6 this thing wnid or that thing done beeause wo have gov used to some- thing olso, tho probabilitios aro that wo shall finid ourselves 1n the condition of the Austrian Genorals of the old school, who always main- tuined that tho bitierest thing about thew de- feats when thoy fought the first Nupoloon wans the way in which (hey woro dcfeated, 1f only the man would have fought by the old methods laid down in the books, thdy snid, they shontd now whit to expect, and what to do, but for man to mass his forces as tlio olectrie flres gather to a thundorbolt exnetly whon and whero you wore not expeoting thetii, and so sweop their Troops nway in oie nrcsfstiblo crmsh, that was somothing thoy never could look upon a8 fair fighting, aud nover pardon. A But ivis to bo nhservnd‘nfimin that with such exprossions of our enmity tltts power I umn thiuk- ing about lins little or no concern. Ueing, ag I Dbeliove it i, tho orto power in man which youean only aecount for when you say it is the gitt of God, thete is the Godlike quality in it to bave its owh way no mntter what [wo may think ~ of it or do to bar' its passnge, It mado no matter to the genius of Robert Burna thit Scotland should pile tho red grauite of her orthodaxy to ul’)puue the mighty tides of his truth and grace ; ho tossed thi hindranco bither and yonder, and cut a deop channol through which his wonderiul and beau- titul power tlows o cvermore for blessing. Noithor did it matter to tho geniug of Byron that Tngland piled mountuius of dead things bofore tho lava of his burning wrath; the floods swept on, and tho wreek luy all along its shores, wit- nossing only its’inability to cops with such o power, And, of oil the ways this Godlilte quality takes to supriso aud bowildor s, there is nove moro. certuin to find us standing with averted facos aud an unfriepdly mind than that'of the rolig- ious thouglit and lifa to which we Lrust tho most’ precious treasure we over posscds. Thero o no channol 8o dch, we thinlk, as thig which holds the waters of life, and no stream it is vo essen- tinl to keep witlin well-defined und well-bal- anced bauks ug this that makoes glad the City of God. 8o that, whon one comes along with this power of doing the old things i w'riew way, thoso who have got used to the old way ure bitter and resentful in the exnct neasure of ‘their fidelity to that way, and will go to any length in their opposition, and belleve’ thoy are doinyg Gud and mun good Horvico, just s you re- member Itennn thinks that thoso who eruci- fied the Lord's Clirist may Linve died with com- placent conviction, founded on their very faith, thut thoy never did a diviner day’s work in thoir lives thun In tuking purt in the terrible tragody of the Cross, Aud so I doubt not at all it must huye heen with all the inquikitors of every nnmo titico the world stood. ‘They had the "holiest renson; g it seomed Lo thiem, for doing tho most uuloly things men can do. 'Theso uow ways, tnken by the religious gonius of thoir time, illed thow first with blunk “wurprise, and then with bitter resontment, and thon they got their ropes and fugots and tried to make an end of tho trouble, Aud this, in its own small fashion, Is the rea- sou for the lronblo wo uro witnossing in ono of our roliglous papers, if wuch pupers moy Lo fairly tormed roligious. Our neighbor aud friond, David Swin watching shrough what dlsmal siadows ho ojd slroam of Culvinism has to run, tries to turna prrt of it ut lonat into o biighiter sud more sunny }miludo, to hold on still to the ancient nome, But to tako a8 much of thelr water of 1ifo as will ran that wuy through swoelor and bLrighter climes with a Tairer look upward into heuven, Iut Brother atton says, David, that will nover o ; you must keep within tho old granite ; you nre running your ntroam right into thut rivdk ot Unitarionism, We cunnot allow that theso Hinuitie elin',nnd thundors, and fives,prodesting- tion to hoaven or holl, tolal_depravity, ondless damuation, and the rest of it. “Lliese are’ your way-mnurke's you pass_them st your peril. ‘And onco in & while when Irother Latrd and Drother Hiuvago vex his goul with thelr hot words on ono nidlo, and on tho othor men ke the uditor of the nterior, hio eries out, **No,itls nob truo.” Parallol linh miy run on'to ali oteraity and nover touch that, is ouo of tho simplest propositions in phil- osophy. Your Unitarin wators aro too far out in tho detort for mo ;-things don't upring to snit wme over thero; and w0 we give and tako; hut it it shonld turn out thiat this man inono of thoso primal powors I om trying to loak at, tho waters will ruu the now way uftor ho in dend and. gona, and, if ho s not, tho ohaunol will bo liko M, Bonfamiu Butlor's cut-off down ou the Mirslssippl,—u lino to show how s mun '\rlm) to’ alter Ylmwtnry motlon without tho Ipowor at his back whicl swinges tho planet, | Goniua wlways doos these things; talent never; sand #o the isow way mado for (he wators of lifo by one of theso men of gonius is sure Lo nst aa long os thoro 8 any need for it, and thoy, in o stnanant fashion, & good deal longor, ‘Vhis thought, agnin, a8 I have tried to tonch it ~ame to wo in- conneotion with this move- Bivay 101 olduning out and closlng up our driuk- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNIT: FOND [0 “ 1874, Ing places , Uirough the powor of prayor, The thing has lolen on_ ugin o way tat sooms al- most_grotosque, It soomed. no great wonder that Drotlior Moody, two or throo yoars ngo, should have fushed Into somo of tho worst of theso plnces, drojipoll down on' his kiioos, with hin praying Dand of men abont him, whilo por- #ons of good taste nud n finor sense of the pro- priotios slirugged thelr shonlders and said, * T told you 8o, ne thoy saw the gaod man go his way, and honrd tho glassos clinlk to tho u(d, n- fornal tuno tho moment lie had, turned tho cor- nor, * Brotlier Moady’s hoart is right,” somo unid, *Lut thon, you koo, his hemlls not quito wiiat 1t ougt” to Yo, or lo would nover do such a thing as that;” and,somo #nld tho, 010 organ was no more sound than Llio olher, and so nt last tlie thing died awny and was 1urgntloxl. or romembored only a8 a curious fustanco of tho longths to which an ardent and impulsive man may go who is urged along by a singlo dovouring, ovormnstorlig iden, But boro is somotling lis never could have drpamed of. Hoats of good womon, wives aud mothors, and minidous, sltting in cloan quict homes in Now York and Olio, nud brooding over this gmnt woo_tholr husbands, niid falliers, and rothors hiivo beon talking nbout, and trylng to cltminate out of the Commonwenlth ; or, por~ haps, caroless of what migiht come, havo tol- oruted flrut, and thon touched, and thon sub- mitted, to go down at last with tho innumoerablo multitudes to tho gravo. . And somohow it camo to pnss out of this brooding that the flro has burned, Ono womnu spake to anothor of the burden that was ou ner henrt, and they found that thoy had beon thinking of the samo thing, —not {u tho way men think of it, but in tho womaa's way, by impulso and intuttion, and tho stendy strokie of the lienrt that fuels for anotlior s it can'uever feel for itwolf, What shiall wo do, thoso women said, whon they got togother, and that was prosontly ns cloar as thelr yonruing to do somothing which lind nover yot licon dono in tho somo way. . lero and there for yoars past woful wives hnd e togother in sheor dosporn- tion, and, shiclded by that invisible armor of their simple womanhood, which In this laud of ours is g tho shining mail of Milton's augels, they bad clontied out some utterly ovil placo and then gono their ways to fiud it was bnt a mo- mentary rollef, for tho father or the son bore tho mark of tho boast on thoir forohoads again by and by, and so the ovil work wont on, But theso women will not try that mothod; thoro soems to bo something of the rowdy clomont in such raids, whilo thoro is at the samo time a pa- thos in. thom which goos right to tho heart, What thon shall they do? 'They havo ono woeap- on tho mnjority of men havo lost. . Thoy have been in tho babit all their lives, when & groat troublo Iins como over thom, of golng into somo seerot place of which thoy would not even tell their husbuuds, so sceret it wau and so sacrod, and there, whoh there was no more heart or hopo in them, nnd_they know not what to do, thoy have eried : O Qod, O God. seo tothis; it is moro than I can Dbear. must heve help dow, I must hove light: 8o Thou to i, =ms I mn . utterly undone. And thon thoy bavo cormo oiit with shining oyos and stendy loarts, nnd token hold sgain, aud tho strongth of God was perfecied in their weaknoss.~ I supposo, then, by n divino iustinct rosting in all theso Loarts, that thore wrs somo- thing invineible in prayor,—thiey mnde thoir league to pray right wheyo the troublo was, and right at the man who made it. lfow they shrank from tho ordenl, ouly thoso ean guess who have somo insight into the dolicato poiso of tho na~ ture of o trao Ameriean woman, sensitive not in Lior spirit alone, but withiu the whole web of hor being, to whiitsoover things aro pura, and lovely, aud of good report. Ovor thero in Fredonin,. whare [ lectured tho othor night, this movomont begau, and if you know Fredonin you know that betwoen thio seas thoro is no pluce of & moro ox- quisite rolinement or a fluer intelligones. I found out nll I could about the wowon who orig- inated this strango thing thore, and not au onemy, if they bad one, could whispor a word ahout Amazous withshort hair and loud mannors, Lvorywhore a puro aud dolicate woman was found in tho first muster of this for- lorn hopo. Now, whon I 8o just that and 1o other thing at thé heart of ‘this movement, and usk mysolf that it menns, I am false to tha Dost iustints of a man's nature when I goe in it only !flmnlhinfi to_regrot or to laugh to scorn bocauso 1t is what I would not quite lika to keo my wife and duufiumm doing lieta in Chileago, or tho wives and_daughters of Unity Clurels, © I suppose it is not possiblo for mo oitlier to hope or fear thatiany woman within thioso walls ever would do it, - Education, train- ing, aud impulso all stand dsmcuf in tho way of ull the women I know, when I think of tho possibulity of such a thing, All tho same for thoso who have beon urged in that way 1 have triod to doscribe, who had the burden on their hoarts to do it, and in the fuce of thoir horror, for God's sake, and for tho sako of tho man, Lknelt down thore in their dainty garmonts, with tho smolke and smoll of tho saloon abou them, and poured out their whole hoart in ono groat pleading prayor that tho plaguo might bo stayed ; clutchiug somo socret of healing out of the very serpont that had brought tho woo; thon I pgivo up to that, aud eay in my heatt, this may bo omo of those strakes of tho gonius of lfeaven for which wo never ean bo propared. It may be whal this man saw iu his dream, whero the earth helped tho woman agaings the otd dragon who haa sought to dovour hor first-born ; but whother that bo so or nuot, out of the deopest and most tonder ad- miration of my son!, I sny, God bicss nll such good women, and make the small onon groat uation. For, firat of all, I do not fear for one momont what I notice ninuy fear, that soncliow this per- fectly original and unexpected oy of holding & proyer-niceting will debase and degrado the ro- liggious spirit und 1ife of our poople, or soil tho fair whito garmouts of roligion horsolf. I think, indecd, that the whole weiglit of probability licx th othior way, Wo are far too prone to thinlk of religion a8 somothing liko one of thoso dolicato waxen crosses we ulways koop under glass for feur thoy may get woiled ; while the truth is, that of all tho robust, sturdy, and uuspoilable things God ovor made, this buars awsy the paln. We can no more spoil and degrade it than wo can spoil and degrade the sunshine or the stars, It is truo that wo can dograde n great denl wo agree to call roligion,—things we confine to churchios ns we keep thogo crosses under gluss,— Lut tliere is tho snme differouco botween theso things aud o truo roligion as thera s botween somo wonderful waxen fruits I saw onee in Bos- ton fifty years old aund tho ripe wlobes which wil Lo bauging all about us mnoxt October, Ite- ligion, really and truly, is the spint of God toniching our humanity with its ripening and clasping powor,—liftiug us continually in 1 now lifo a4, yoar by yenr, this whola oator world of ours i lifted 1nto o now lifo; and so we might us well fear that tho physicinns’ pharmacopoin would catch tho cholera as tenr that iny gonnine roligious spirit in man or womnn would take s taint through carrying it wherover it is most needed and gotting it to work in tho diroctost way. I'ho troublo is, I eny again, wo hinvo Licen #0 Tearful of tho hurm whick might bo dono to roligion, if wo did not cosset and tuko caro of it, that it 18 vory much'as if a munup thore in Culorado should refuso Lo turn a clonr mountsin _ stroam - broadeast over his laud for foar it would then turn to mud, while tho rooty uud kceds of things are perishing on ull widés of hiin, which would spring up into beauty and blessing if ho would but let it flud its way smong them, and theh when it had dono its blossed vork find its way into houven nagain puira aud cloar a8 over it camo down in dew and Tain, L'his, 18 X look at it, is oxactly what the noblest and most truly devout womon " are doing to-day —the delicato, shrinking wives and mothors of our country towns, ‘I'ioy seo thero all about them places kept by mon who novor go to o church or hoar a prayer from one year's ond to suother, while st the snino time thoy ara carry- iug on s business whioh is not only working - moasurablo miseluef, but is considerad in theso communitios s business no man will engago in who has not gone buyoud the renck, whilo he is in it of tho better lifo, Dut, thoy sy one to another, if wo can once gob near thiat man we can reach tho latont powor Tor good ho must bavein lum somowhero. Ha is ono of God'schildren attor nll, if ho does keop a saloon. Wo will plead withvhim avd with God for him, and seo if wo caunot do something to savo, not our own homes alono from the curso of thoe sgo, but the homo which opons into that Lar-roon, the man who owns it, and the wife und children who love him, poor fellow, just ag wo lovo our own flosh and blood, ‘I'horo we #eo tho morciful action, ns I boliove, of thix good woman's heart, Slo fools, somes how, that this man holds even God Limself ut buy 80 long ng no human being comos to his Lolp, and that it is o usp trylng to convort o sfuner u mile off by pmylu% for Lim on & Brus- #ols carpot. Bo slo stays hor shrinking hoart on Uod onco for all, goed right in there whero tho man has ontronchiod himself, and it scoms to mo thut tho roconllnfi angol draws hls pon through a good many bad places, as ho soos the pure courtesy with whioh lio moots her, stops his trado for tho momont at lonst, and hiears what sho has to 6oy, Bhio kncals down there on tho floor § ho honrs u womua's,prayer aud sdos her tears, ho naver conld roslst a” woman's pray- o and tonrs, right or wrong, mnd so, though ho hus possibly to look bemgary in tho {uco when Lio tumblos thut whisky into the gut- tor, down it goos,—brond for hisobildren, house- rout, fire, garmonts,—liftod for that moment out of himself, ho mulies thorough work of it, whilo the womon stand thore alnglnfi old jubiles, and 40 tho thiug is doud, Now this man may go baol fo his. old trade by-and-by, Lut ho will navor bo Lho sanio man, and the women may lot him alono whon thia crusado Is ended, If It ho moraoly n flnal, and nob o sloady onward powor which is to rosult in o thorough’ clonusing from all that 18 vilo and beaatly in the drinking habits of our tand, all tlio sama thitb vislon will vomaii. Ifo will honr thosa voioos, nnd oo thono tonrs, and rernembor tlio one grand, unsolfidh fmpulio out of henvon which mado him toss away his wholo substance for tho intolorablo pain that wag iy big honrt whon mothors plonded with him for their childron and his own, Bomothing will bo won which lind nover boon won but_for that pure picco of solf-snorifico, whon tho onrth hielped tho womni a4 sho knelt down on it and crlod in that uad stress of soul to God, This, then, is. all unconth, strango, uttorly agalnst Lo no ind wont of roligtous pooplo of thio dnintier types ; vory unwoleomo to somo, ab- surd to othors, and Wrongovery \vn‘y, I notieo, to the womon who lead in woman's rights, 'I'o mo In this ono aspect I have tricd to touch it is filled with the most beautiful and tehdor powor nud graco. Not ono word would I say to, stop that cry on tho dirty floor of tho drinking-nloon, or I should oxpeot to find that word again smong tho wrecka of tho things that strow tho shoros of tImo, where mon linve tried to stom theso floods of ‘the wators of lifo, and soon thoir work withor in thelr hands, 1 suspoot thus {s an inti- mation of a new mothod, & atroke out of tho very Leart of the Divine power. 2 But if 1t can come to naught, I think ngain wo are alraudy watcling how this is to bo done. It it is indeed truo that tho children of this genorn- tion aro wiser than tho children of light, then tho men who want to sco flrinklng-sl\fimna prosper will seo that my friond Dio Lowis hns lus 800 n dny jJust os long as ho oan sponk s word, for ho dm _auro to Lill the thing whorovor ho goes. Decauso, if T linvo ronchied tho nerveof this mattor, it dopends in 10 way on gotting up crowds and exciting on- thuslosm by Bpeoction and organizing braying- clubs ot 50 much o day ; tho moment you put it futo that shape you try to bring down your man with a feathor pillow. And 80 nothing has so shaken my faith in tho fitucss of most wotnon to unito for tho conduct of affalra of gront moment a8 to notico how engerly they canght at this Devil's bait of turn- ing a marvelous spiritual iuto the merest me- chnnieal powoer, and thon axpecting that would do tho work. Tt caunot and will not bo dono eo, though all tho women in America goy it sball ; onlyus it was dono at first will it bo dono at lnst. Thoso that have the burden on their henrts, as thoso women had in Fredonla, and know the way to tho throno of God's powor ; not oven thoso who think they would liko to do it bocause it has beon dono, only the women in this apostoli suc- cossion on whom the_cloven tongues, like ns fire-light und stay, and who cau spoalt to overy man _in his own tougue through tho power of the Holy Ghost,—those alone can do this worl, tho reat can only make it & laughing-stoclk. Aud_suroly wo_must all wish such womon s these God specd, For whilo, a8 ovorybody knows who has & mind to pry into my lifo, I maintain my froodom ngninst all comers to drink a glags of German boer or of pure wine, if L want one, and should bo o mere hypoerite it I wont into o dnrke closob , to got it, orif I failod to say first this word aud na other in this connoction ; and whilo I am entirely willing to lot my Gorman friond, or any otlior friond, do what sooms good to lim about theso things, 8o long ag he hurts 1o ono, and welcomo, and furthor boliove that overy offort to root out a certain dotermination to drink somothing in theso northern zones can only end in 8 domoralization of the spirit of our pooElu, who will keep tho word of promise to tho oyo aud break it to tho sonse, about threo things risivg out of what T havosnid, T am entirely cleat : 1. ''hat wherover good women liko these go with this burdon on tueir hoart broaking out into mighty prayers, and ending in n softening of tho heart and & picee of self-gncritioo like that of the man I have described, this is entiroly a good thing to do. Wo nood nover fear it can (1-0 100 far—it can nover go far enough, It is only —God Lelp thoml—as if so many llollanders should undortake to bar the wator out of a field while the son is breaking over a province. Still, tlint muich 78 doue, and we may thanik God for it ; so much they havo won in Winning one man, ouly, to make thorough worlcof it, thoy should kucol as surcly on the marble of the Grand Tacifio as in tho mud of Pat Casoy’s, and if Pat Fivos in, and_says something about tho *chil dher,” they should sca to it that he las n fair, chance to mako hondway again ngainst hunger, and not merely toll him'to trust i tho Lord, 2. The second thing about which I am clear is thnt wo slinll havo to wake root and branch work of all theso ovil places in which thoy soll all sorts of diutilled damnation to sweop them outof the land, Aud whilo wo allow for this determination of our Northernman to take some sort of stimulnut, strong coffeo it Lio talkes noth- ing olso, it soems tomo to bo our instant dufy to Lreak up all theso places that breed men liko Rafferty, to banish these maddening com- pounda to tho vinls of the druggist or to some othor well-ordered place ; and for the -public good only to permit the sale of such things as the common senso of onr peoplo sottles down on 28 wholesome and fit to uso, for I have no donbt at all that if our tomporanco-mon gonerally would agreo to somo such mothod of Land- ling this ovil, the day would instantly dawn for & botter stato of things. 8. And then the third thing I am clear about would come. The Americangentloman would not biugh and look tho othor way whon you saw himn drinking his glass of boor any more than the German gentloman does in Munioh, ile would nsk for it in open daylight, as ho aske for an_orange, aud with no moro sonso of doing womething wrong. Theso things, tho way wo o thom, aro making a nution of hypocritos ; t is a thin hell on the surface, andthe rest is ashes, Wo ought to be as one man in our de- tormination to put every ovil thing under bonds that o man can take to "his ruin, and clenn out all tho evil places whero ho_taken it, as wo are uuprosnd to clonu out gambling holls, Then wo o ong\vlmt can bo takon without harm, if o man is’ his own mnster ; aud then wo ought to be s ono mau in our determination not to havo ico- water on tho sideboard and n sample-room in the closet, but to muke the closot in this respect as fair and cloan as tho Louse-top ; aud, #o far as theso wemen holp this good work, I sy again, “ God speed thom.” e THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE. ' Sermion by the kieve ML W. Thomny, of the'EFirst Mcthodist Church, Tho Rov. 1. W, Thoins predched yesterdny morning to thoe congrogation of tho I'irst Motho- dist Church, upon the groat topicof tho dny, his toxt being: “I spenk by pormission, and not commandmont.” Tho sormon wes a8 follows: Tor somo Limo wo liave boen saying one to another, What do you think of the Woman's Lemporanco movemont ? Will it succesd ? What will be tho after influouces? Will it como to Chicago? Is it at all practicablo in o Inrgoe city ? and #o on, Somo ara enuguine, somo doubtful, some feaxrful; but, #0 gontlo and prayorful hos thie miovemont thus for boen, thit few, oven among liquor-dealors, have scemed unwilling to lot it hiave o fair trinl, What the final result will Lo no one knuows, Why, thon, you may say, talle or preach about o thing that nono of us, fully comprebond? Why not wait? Tho answer is, wo cannot walt, 8o rapidly do great eveuts come and go in our times, that if we waited to undor~ stand them beforo we bogan to talk or writo about them, wo should saon{bo so far boliud that wo could nevor catch up—we should soon all study nothing but history, Aud then the gonius of our times 18 to learn by talking and by wateh- i,llg ovents aud to correct our mistakes Dy expe- rignco, Iu seema diffieult in our unbalanced world to carry on all the work of life oventy, Chings como nronnd by turus; ot ona timo finance fllls tho public mind, then politics olnims attention, theu siomothing elso, Just now tho temporance movement is uppermost and compely us to give it p hoaring, . Lot us, In n.onfim, stand asido, s It ware, from the contlict and look fairly at the wholo ju~ #uo, What s this temperunce quostion about whioh 80 much is snid? Let us go baok a little and get af tha foundation of the subject. Lvery- thiug which lives and grows must Luvo nourish- mont in somo way, “Tlio stationnry forms of lifo, such as trees and E‘""h" nre coustantly in conneotion with tho oarth, from which thoy draw their nourishmont, Movablo forms of life, as beasts aud men, take food and drink ocensional- ly, and are provided with n mcnl)mclu, or stomnch, In which to enrry 1t until the systom hins time to approprinto it to its usos. Loants aro governed by an inotinot thint usually keops thom from thut which is hurtful in quility, or harmful in quantity, and lionco thoy mo not intemporato. Mun is more highly on- dowod, sud, instond of heing govornod by dnstinet, 18 loft to govern himself by renson and consolorico, 'Temperanca with man, in its fullost aonfio, I8 to eat and drink wnch artiolos, aud in such quantity, and ot auoh times, as are bost suited to hin noods, Could wo got at the foun- dation of things, it {s probable that the basls of life iu excitation or stimulation, ‘Iling the suu- ligh, tho alr, tho earth, and molsture stimulate the gorm in tho sood and the plunk grows, Bo light, and aiv, and food, and d‘:'lnk stimulato the Immian systom. Dut Nuture hns wisely tonpor- od hier stimulauts #o0 that wo gob tho good with- ht to settlo down, usthe Germnus have dong,, out the hyrm. Thua oxygon in water and air la modified by tho presenco’of hydrogen and nitro~ ron, Ho fn food, It s snited to our wantg ; and tho Iatitudo In _which we Jive, tho less stimulat- ing vegotablo dleta abounding in tho warmor climntes, But man, by Lis highor renson, s not compollod, to tako things, ns ho findy them, ntd_ lhmas mnot been content to do #o. Ilo hns lommed the art of componnding articles in which the stimulnting proportios are in oxcess, and may ensily prodice lntuthllou. Not only haa . man loarned this, in many cagos fatal chomistry, but ho has discoy- ored thowo natural productions of the onrth which contdin tho grontest stimulating proper- tics, as Lon, coffoo, tobacco, and opiumn. Man's Jove of stimulants is ono of the most univerenl and romarkablo facts of life, Whathor civilized or snyago, Christian, Molinmmedan, or Tagan, it is rll the samo 3 ho soems to erave and will havo somothing that will stimulalo, Lny- ing aeide “ton, coffes, tobncco, and opi- uw, Jook nt the ono fnct of alcololio stim- ulants in our own country, Look at tho fmmenso amount of money and labor go- ing in tho ouo direction of that ona form of stim- ulants, Tho oflicinl records show that in the United Bintes tho monoy spont for lquors in 1870 was ¢ Tinported and domestio distilled and pirituous Uquors, ... Browed and fermented Jiquors, Imported winca Dowmestio wines, Total., During your 1 o cost of flour and meal o cost oy cotton goods, o cost of hoots and stio Tio cost, of clothing, 2 70,000,000 Tho cost of woolen » 60,000,000 Tho coat of nawspapora and Job Prntig.. 40,000,000 Totalyioeesis 2o benaanenenass $005,000,000 It s almost inoredible to think that wo pay ‘miore monoy. for this ono kind of stimulant, not cmmlln[.: tobaceo, oplum, &o., than wo do for bread, clothing, boots and_sboos, and newspa- pors aud job printing, and yet it isso. The writer who compilod from the pubiic records tho abovo facts, suys furthor : . “Thoro were 140,000 licensed liquor haloois in the United States, cach hoving (ostimated).forty daily cus- tomers, maklog 5,600,000 driukers, who, 1€ 1s eatlmat. od, speut their money during the year fu tho following Jropertious: riukers, . +100,000 epent $1,000 each, .. $100,000,000 Drinkers.. 100,000 epent 900 cac 40,000,000 Driukers., 100,000 apeut ¥ Drinkera., 100,000 spent 10,000,000 riukers., 100,000 speut 60,000,000 Driukers.. 100,000 apent 00 Driukars. 1,000,000 spout 400,000,000 Drivkers, 1,000,000 speut 400,000,000 Drinkors. 1,040,000 spent 000,000 Drinkors. 1,000,000 spent 160,000,000 Drinkors. 11,000,600 spent 000,000 It is dificult to realize tho onormous facts mot |, forth in such figuros, and tho miud may bo holped by further statements from tlio snmo sourco, a8 follows: ‘The 3unnmy of distilled, fomented, and browed liquors drauk wns suflicient to filla conal'4 feot deep, 14 feet wide, and 80 miles loug, aud if all the drinkers could Uo placed in procession, five abreast, they mako sn oriny 194 niilcs long, and 4F thoso killed' by tho in. fomperato use of epirituous lquors wero thore also, wo shiould beo n suicide ot overy five miles and 650 funorale por day ;wund if oll {he places whoro Intoxi- ‘cating Hquors ura sold wera placed in_rows, in lues, thoy would make s atreet 100 miloa long, "Thiers wera 400,000 more porsons cngnged fn {hie quor busiuess in tho United States than 1 preaching tho Goapel anil nehool-teaching ; nud from tho offects of intoxicating driuks, 100,000 aro annually sent to prisous, 130,000 to_drunkurds’ graves, and 200,000 clifldren ore reduced to want, Tho totul number of yersons engaged in tho Lusiziess 18 560,000, of which 663 are cmployed in making and selling annuilly 5,665,030 Unrrels of beor, 1t i eatimated that the clorgy of tho United States costs annually $12,000,000; tho lawyers, criminals, prisons, cte,, $90,000,000, and intoxicafing 'Hquors, o8 boforo sald, $1,474,000,000, . I confess to you, that, standing aside and look- ing at theso facts of our world, I am smazed st thelr magnitudo, and confounded almost boyond utteranco ot their siguificance. Great God, what an animalis man! More money for whisky and beer than for bread, clothing, newspapers, law, and Gospell Noarly half'a million moro peo- Jlo‘eugaged i tho liquor businaas than in foncl- ing our schools and proaching tho Gospol | Chicogo olono has somo 2,600 saloons, and epends snnually for | intoxicating drinks £14,000,000. Lot ng continue to stand asido in thought, 08 lookers-on, aud observo the offcet of all this. This stimulation is not food nor streugth, but excitement ; and carried to n cortaln point. is intosication,—the wild rule of appotites and_passious without renson, the ani- mal without tho man,—and what is tho result ? Demornlization, wasto, want, dissase, suffering, and erimo, ~ OF courso wo do not Iyl e and crimo to intemporance, bul it will not Lo questioned that it is~ Lho great curso of civiliza- tion, aud tho causo of moro sinand sufforing than all othor canses put togother, working, as it does, through all otbers, and intensifying them. Still standing aside, let ask what may bo dono to stay or modify tho ovil. It 18 only £a & civil question, aud not ns a religious one, that logis- Intion can touch it at oll in this count Wo cavnot logislato it out of exist- ence. The luw con only recognizo a8 o fact, and = scek in the Uest way it can to rogulate it. Our prosent lnw is probubly as goodas wo may hopoe to soon bave. Ti tho present stato of public opinion, a probibit- ory Inw is not practicable; it cannot bo enforced. I'ho various tomperauce organizations havo oach been usoful in their day, and thoss of our timo ara dolig ’f"““" but a0 tlmostas nothing bolore the ewolling tide, ‘The churches nnd tho sehools hievo boen in this, us thoy are ju every moral causo, tho main_ rolinuco, but tho ovil is overy yerr gaining upon us, It ib worse this yonr than it was last, aud it will bo worso noxt than it is this, unless o gront change comes, Is it not timo to look tho facts fullyin the face ond agk il wo linvo been working ‘in the right way, aud what more, if anything, can bo dono ? Mayitnot bo that we hava attompted too much? The Bible can hardly bo mado to teacly total abstinence. The Savior mado wino, and Paul permits its ugo, av lonst for invalids, Tho old temperance pledges discriminated between malt sud spitituous drinks, Ly attompting too much wo muy have failed to gain what was pos- sible, I think théro s a Scriptural ground on which abstinenco may be put o 88 to appenl to most consciences, vumely, lest you causo othors to offend or full, On tho ground of propriety and & common good, men might agreo to largely supprees the enlo of spirituous liquors, and the abominublo bitters and mised driuks, Suroly this would bo o grest gain. And it may bo that tho uniyersal de- desiro for stimulants eannot bo botter gratified than by tolerating beers aud wines, All good citizons would agreo lo a propor regulation of thowo. By a course too radicsl, the tomperance canuyo commands the whole support of only the most radical minds, whilst tho solid, thinking mnsses atand aloof, not from want of interest so much, a8 because they canuot cousistontly in- doreo extromo measuros, anddo not care to ol counter tho abusoe that would como from flp?“- ing them, for rudieals bavo an casy wayof calling overy man au cuemy to the canse, bo it tempor- auco or religion, who doos hot stand wholly on their platform. 1 do not question’tlio sincority of temporance roformers, but tleir viows sro not above enti- cism. Exfrome moasurcs cannot have enduring aticcoss, Somo things must be, endured in this world, and often the policy that would destroy the ovil, would destroy tho good also. Among tho things to bo endured, especially in our coun- try, aro tho difforences of opinions and customs coming from o mixed population, We must lourn to bear one with another, and try to agreo upon the best grounds wo can, for tho common wollfare, As an example, it Is not ronsonabla to oxpoet that our Gorman citizons should at once congont to give up tholr beeg, nor wonld it bo right for us to compol thom to do so, had we tho poiver 3 nor should the Cormaus seck to obtrusively thrust their customs upon American manners, and I am quito suro the bottor classes on both sides have no such intontion. Wo must also bo rensonable, 1f you sy to a sousiblo man that "it s a mortal sln to take glws of wine or beer, ho will say you lLave wot good menso, but it ongny to him your oxamplo may have & bad fiuoiico upon othors, and the habit may grow to your owsn injury, he will say that man’is ron- soinblo and I will thine upon what ho eeys, aud youmay snve him, If vou sery, tho modorato ugo of “stich drinks is dangerous to honlth, ho will sny, 1 guess T ean atand 1¢,” but if yon say, would it not o bottor upon the whola for us to adopt total_abstinonce, you may got him to go with you—at least you Will sacure lis rospoct. ‘Iho application of - littlo conmon sonso to to tomporunce queslion, and many other Bsocial problems of our time, might holp to tholr solu- tlon, But, atter all, lot us make up our mmds to this, thut mon are mon, and that God |l||V|llfi failed to make & world freo from ovil, wo shal uot probably sco all the world's wrougs sob right in our day, ‘Tho bost we can do is to work and wait, ) Lut what of the Woman's movemont? It s simply ono phaso of the ‘irni quostion weliave been digonssing ; a spontuncous uprising of a lmrtmu of gooloty 1 an offort Lo froo itself from ho drondod prosence and awful scourge of in- tomporanco, The Churoh dare not disown the movement, nox,whilst it is In ronsonablo bounds, should it discournyo it It ia In the line and spivit of tho Churcl'y teachings, and the Church will have to share vory largoly the resnity, whathor good or bad. Whilst Iv is of tho Chureh largely, 1 think that not only the Churoh propor, but ell good witizons, should ook to- gusr i from tho abusich to which it ia so linblo, 8o loug. u it la in tho litnds of womon, and adhores to itis prosent ppirit—that of prayor and tonder ontroaty—IiL appronchies bumanity on its divinor sldo, “and Wil not _ and should mnot bo rmlnl]\' ropulsod, It s not strange that patient and long-suffering womon whio Tinvo oo Lho- oy aud poneo of homo and Jovo and the strongtly and hopo of husband ftid #on withar under this demon's toueh, should at Inat loavo their closata whoro only God lins soon thielr toars, and, with ono accord, como into the very presoncs of the destrogors, and thero plead thelr causo, The wpeataclo is morally sublimo | And g lumi on it i b tho lhiands of good womon nnd abides in tholr upirit, 1t will have muccess in tho smallor towns nud cltics, whora thoro in or méy bo common_sontimonf, Tt in tho largo citios I cannot hiopo for uny great success. Tho faelings and intorests aro too atrang on difforent uidos Lo Lo carried all in ono way, In tho small- or places tho firat Iadics in socloty join tho movo- mont ; in the citios such will” not likely tako opon ground in it favor, True, wo cennot toll what may bo dono. Somotimos & tido of feol- ing and faith will rise and ovorilow tho banks whera renson aud esleulntion rundry. The crusades listed nosrly 200 yosrs, and involved tho grentor part of Ruropo in wastoful warg, aud ‘all over a moro sontimont, But this is not the tonth contury. Soma predict marvolous rosnlts from this movement; I do not. If God {8 in it, nothing- shall bo impos- piblo; but to me it would not bo less o miraclo to seo Ohicago' all at onco froed from ealoons than wag tho crossing of tho Ied Son by tho Childran of Isracl, The agitation will cnil at- tention to the tomperanca quostion, and will in that way do good; but I ean omsily soo how it may bocome a most, painful oxhibition of foll; and wenlkness in the large clties; should it fafl into tho handa of the ignorant and fanatieal. I wish it all possiblo good, and stand rendy to do all I cav in its fayor. Tho offort that has dilven out tho gnldonu from the smallar towns will, if continued, koop thom aut. Tho Insting Dbonofits must come from tlo creation of & highe or and bottor sentiment. Tor tho bettor seciug of tho subject we havo Daen, in thought, standing aside from tho con= flict, buk in fact wo aro in it, and muat act our arts, Moantimo, I fonr it will bo many years oforo our aons shall bo free from outward dan- gers and tomptations, and I think the best so- curlty for thom and for all of us is, in an inward p;laul"lylo, Learts renewed and kopt by the power of God. - e, THE LOST EDEN. Sermén by Prof. Swing, of the Fourth Presbyteriin Church. Yoaterday morning Drof, Swing preachied to o Iarge congrogation in his churolt, the Fourth' Prosbytorian, cornor of Nush and Superior streets, Ho took as his {ext : Ho ha drovo out tlio man, and ho placed at the cast of tho garden of Eden charybims st o Hamisig Miord: which turncd overy way to keop the way of tho tree of life,—Genesis il : 24, The Biblical history of man’s firat days npon earth is a mont wondorful eymbol of all tho sub- soquent history of mankind. That honor and that dishonor, that happiness and thnt sorrow, Boom & microscopic photograph of tha coming world, whoso 900,000,000 of poople, in two Lom- isperes, woro to tiud and lose, honor, and .find nnd loso bappiucss daily for thousands of yenrs. As thera is an art which cau copy the groat Lon- don papor upon & Bpnco not Inrgor than a child’s fingor nail,—ns all tho long colimny of markots, and of daily ovents, and of spoechos of mem- bors of Parlinment rotreat into that image without tho loss of n siuglo lotter or even tho minutest mark of punctuation,—so tho vast his- tory of the human fam coming in from old Asin or now Ameriea, 1 baclk from the days of Bolomou, or Creasar, or Napoleon, botakes it- solf into this firat plctire of man, and finds thoro » porfect imngo of allits joy and grief, and of tho_ causes producing thom. In ono of tho Arabinn stories a sightscer beheld a long bright cloud which, like & columin of smoke from u vol- cano, reaching ont from the Lnst, began to withdray, and, watching it, he sy it bido iteoll all awsy in o copper vase on the beach,—n vase Which a fishorman conld have carried in one hand to his hut. Whoover looks out upon the great outsproad human race, and thou looks at this first Gonesis, will seom to Lave found an_vrn contaibing all of human life snd doath—grontness and wealnoss, Sibse- quent conturfes havo boen only the enlatgomeont of tho picture, Paradiges inuumorablo huve como aud gono: Adams and Eves many lavo ouo dny beon happy and tho uoxt boon owlos, and always for tho eame rendon,—a ‘disregord of divine law. Boforo wo logk at some of the minor causes of human frailty and success, lot us rocall to mind whaf & large part of this story of the Garden of Idon must bo truo, ovon if it made no protense to being an indpired narrative. It is mot cortainly a myth that thoro is o human race, snd honce thore must bave been o first pnir in this long scries; aud the first pair must have had a first home and o erontor just at hand; and this pair must linve mado their first move in virtue or sin ; and, from what sin wo uotv ‘sco in tho world, not much doubt ean romain 28 to what lino of con- duct this fivst puir followed ; and that thoy oarly loft a paradiso of virtue is the verdict of history. o theory most in conilict with this Bible pic- turoof primitivo men is tho almost populir opiniou that man _ is- b gradunl rosult of progross in the animal kingdom, and nover had a ‘paradiso, but in on tho way toward one from a collular and clactrio starting-point, & million years bnok, Against thia theory, howov ios up tho fact that, in tho. thousands of rs of history, no animal has shown the loast signs of prssing over into that moral consciousness, that solfhood, whiol 8o wonderfully distinguishes man. Tho highest ordors of brutes are doing absolutely nothing toward forming a language, or towards reaching that consciousnoss, of “mo " and * not me,” which joing man to tho divine, Thoro is no ‘effort visible on the part of the mast intelligent quadrumana to build & school-bouse or sturt o country nawspapor. And if, in tho historic poriod, no progross has been made, aud that, too, with the advantages of human association, what_could thoy have douo ju probistoric periods. If six thousand years give nofhing, what will'six mill- ion yoars give ? The best reason I can mysoll bring to bouar upon 'this matter leads me to seo man sotting forth as man, and sctting forth from a creator., Ieuce hio had a place which we may call Eden, and casily roason mny join tho Bible in giving it rivor-banks, and ‘trees, and Howers, and tho songs of birds, ' : Lot us now, in imagination,visit this primitive man iu his Selkirk lonoliness, and find what thore is in his situation which explains the loss of that Edon, and tho loss of so many blessed Lliours siuco that carly banishmont. 1 shall not try to gather up all the facts of the cato, for this would involve & discusssion of. frec-will and of the relation to a ‘;nrrecc God, to tho fact of evilin Iiis world, We must omit mucly, also, of tho pootio moditation one cen- tury might weavo ovor tho littlo ora, Lot mo ask you tonotice only oue fact in tho surround- ings of the original man,—tho fact that he was orderod to live a restrioted life, and must not oxpoct to bo ay boundless ns God. Tho sit- uation we may suppose to bo oxpronsod in these words: * Lliou, Ob man, must claim & grand large world, but it shall not Dbs infinite. Thore i & troo of which thou shalt not enl. Be- tween thee aud mo & porfect absolntism— o groat dlvldiuiuconu—mllnt aly roll. Thy world shnll not bo the wholo universe, but only a continont. Thy power, thy ambition, thy knowledgo, shall be within bunks,—betwoen banks endowed with sunshine and flowors,—but atill boundaries to checkthy stream.” Buch was tho eituation indeed, for wo rond it no longer in Gonesis alone, but in subsoquent facts which move tho pictura from the dauger of mythology and have uternl?'pnd inall hislu_ri'. This Inw of limitation man did not respact, but ot onco deolared his world Inwloss, himaelf to bo monarch of all; and oo aftov- ward ho found himsolf an exilo, and o flaming sword ‘“Mmix botweon him and the treo of life—botween him and the absolutism of God. T'his is the event which hixs tory s takon up and verified, not only in nn- tiohs, but in_ almoat oneh individial heatt ; aud out_of this long history comos to us to-dny, in foud acconts, the announcoment of tho grest principle that buman lifo 18 o rostrioted life,—n ]l{o subjoct to Inw,—und that Lo'who confosnes this subjeotion remaius in Lden ; ho who donles it is buvshed, The “antiquarians nre secking the placo whore tho flrst Bdon must liave boen; but, whilo they thus taok, tot us_beliold only the ruins bo- tweon Babylon and_Rome,—placos whers the gutos of appincss havo boon closad, only be- causo the inmates of the garden declined 10 no- copt a world limitod by any Inw or ansmmu of Gad, and daily hurled thoir froe-will along, ns though the human’ broust woroe the enly doity. Jusg us the body willflourish ontyundor its limit- od T“"mi( of labor,or food,or pam, or ploasuro, #o tho soul, oncompassed by its poenliar lnws, and all its dovelopment and happiness lie within thoso Gud-mndo walla, And tlie hour thav Heos man rnuuhiulg his hand for fraits boyond theso wally, soes the flaming sword drawn botween the Lund and the Invisible, The human sonl was filled with n rmup of ‘virtuos, and opoh one of these was markod with its contines, ‘within which was joy, beyond which was grlof, * Each virtiio had lis"own” forbiddon troo, Tako any ono. TFor' examplo—Ambition, By ita powerful stimulus socloty hns been cnr- ried nlmui to suceoss and happiners, Tho ol quonce of old statosmen, from Loriclen to Burko; tho Bweotnosy of. poatry, from Happho to Dry- ant; the bonuty of. nrt, fiom Phidite to Air.flolu[ tho wtruggles for lihorty, from the . IHebrow wloves to tho Ameri- can colouios, have all come in part, from tho kontiniont of ambition which hs ovoryiwhoro fillod tho sonl with nobloness, aud redoubled tho powor nid desire to cseapo dogradation and 1iug up Lo o hollor roglon of warlds, bolng, and action. Boforo nll minds thoro f8 an idesl ox collonco in the dopartment of tholr apecial.in- dustry, The world dospises the one who hns nob tho nmbition to wool tho hottor thing along his M.ll,l ‘Wo all scorn the hoart that hny no noble mpulo. s e i aving now found this troe of which ono may oat, and of which all noble souls hinve onten, wo immedintoly porcoive that, God has placed.ro- strictions in this gardon, and has satd, **Thoro is ono treo of which you may not oat.” Thiy ombitlon must flow wilbin o lim{ted chaunel, It mus, bo clothed with humility, not with tho vanity of an Aloxendor ; not with tho presump- tion of an Herod, who dosired to bo .onlled o goil 3 not with tho {usano bungeriugs of Cardis nat Wolsey, who wept forth Ellug away smibltion, By thot sin fell tho angels, For the instant this tsentiment pasues the aonflues of tho most tendor justico toward oth- ors, or begin to muke tho , hoart aspire townrd thothrono of the Almighty, the paradiso all diusolves, and vesenrchos can, nftor s timo, find 0 trncox of 1iden which this henrt possessed bo- for * voulting smbition" had " o’erlonped ituelr.” A > Literaturo i full of praise of this sentiment in {ts young, sweot duys, and oqually full of sad roquioms ovoer tho grave of its fnal dishonor, Bhukspenro says: *Who sorrs too near the sun with goldon wings molty thom.” Another suys thiv: | ¢ Anbition s the mind's immodosty,” Byrou anyu’ - - oo Bldod s valuable'to wash ambitlous landa ; and you ail reember the familiar line s Cho puth of glory leads but to the grave, It muy b singular that, in the sume garden, Lhioro misy bo trees of which all may ent, and thou, near by, growing in the same soil, a tree of which aating * thou uhalt suroly dio.” Bub sueh is the world into wlicli we ure born; aud, the boundary having boen orossed, tho light begius to fado, tho rose turns inte n thorn, tho vine tuto o thistlo, aud tho heart that wos happy yesterday to-dny **oals its bread in tho swont of the face ;" at” night tho eoul's dow is only bittor tonrs, ‘Wo Linvo all koen this sentimont—I use it to illustrato o wholo class—foed upon the Loart nud soul of statosmen, loading them nway from study, from wisdom, from howor, and from hap- vinesy, and finaily, as Lilly sayn: * It kuows but two places, 116 down to tho blood, or anotlior up only ko far b5 envy.” Thus tho. vory hands which wro appointed of the Croator to build up u puradivo stand evor reudy to pullituil down again if u given boundary is passod. I'ho lovo of monoy is a Iawful and most wise sentinont. Thoro are fow scencs more churming than that of the industrious man acquiring ench year preporty which may kolp him to contont- imont, or may farnish tho tablo of his ohildron and stand botweon them and beggary and ‘hard- ship and vico. Thislove of gold; rising up with civilization, i8 & troe of whickl you may not ent. 1tis o'troo of lifo or doath with you. “Eatiug of it, the fnco whitous, the fontures hurden, tho Llionrt sbrivels, and *misor tho miserable is written upon_the brow—tho worst curse-mark from moukind or God. It is almost an occupu- tiou of n year to look over literature to lenrn what terms it has triod to find worthy of application to ko wrotched a membor of socic- ty. lLiyen old Publius snid : * Lhe misor is re- markable in thiat bo wants what ho already has," Another says: ** A muser's life is an nct av Which we appland only the closlug scono.,” DBut thig wrotchod mortal 18 only o sontiment whicl has, in a briof time, traveled from o heaven to & holl, It iy man out of his boundary. Whus it appears that the foundution-stone of human life is thet of ebedience to law. Cod only is absoluto. Ho graciously fashionod & lifo apart from Himself, Lo crowued it viths His image uid shadow of Iimself, but Yo lag mado tho oconn to roll Dbotween the shorea, and enid toit: “Thus far shult thou comoe, aud o farther, Ilore shalt thy proud waves be stayed.” 8o Ho placed tho cro- olod soul between the banks, and said: ‘‘Here only tuy thy bright wators fiow,” The beuks aro not narrow. 1fuinan life need not be ealled o river, for it is tho vast occon,—deep, and strong, and sublimo; nud it Las s shore all around to woparate it from God; sud oll sloug that shore cherdbim stand, and flaming swords gleamn, 1o banish thoeo who erosy the boundary marked all around by the finger of tho Almighty, In anch o limited “but vast world it is casy fo #eo what is that thing called sin. vis o want of conformity unto or actunl transgression of tho lnw of Ged." Tho industrious man God lovay ; but the misor hus taken n bosutiful sonti- mont aud transgrossod it, abusod it, roviled it, crucified it. 'The noblo aspirations of the young God loves ; but tho vauity of an Attila, or & Bolshnzzar, or & Cicsar, or a Napoleon, where the soul outs all the bonds of justico and of humility, ond finds at lst a lone- ly grave ot 8t Holons, or at some feant ronds upon tho wall tho words of sud- den, lolpless doom, and Babylon ‘is dust. Boon iithin thoro is' an uprising of tho hourt against God. It is tho ovortlow of the stream ouce beautiful,, saying, * I will bo a river no moro, I will ex Fnud into infinito spnco and be a law to tho shoro and unto myself alone,” 1f thorg bo a secret of human well-boing and real triumpl, it muat Yo in o full appreciation of tho graud breadth of life, and then in o willingnons 10 pauso tha instaut the foot comos to tho boun- dn‘l? of God. ‘oars ngo, whon utiversal liberty bogan to bo Qiscussod in our National Congress, oo distiu- guished speakor aroso and snid : T deslro to wpeak to-day of some lnwa greator than any prssed in this Capitol or in this country 3 older than Ameriea, older” thun Indla s T e the T of od. “Ihis was a montence full of real eloguengo. But it was true not an to human politics alone, but as to the whole heart and mind of man. Haore wa all are-to-day in this wide world indoed ; but on nll sidos our love, our nwmbition, onr pleasures, our actions toward our follow-men and townrd golf are to act within the laws of tho Almighty. As o birdcan fly only within the at- mosphers, and may move a thousand miles nlong tho surfaco of the beautiful -earth, but-not far upward awny from its powoers; g0 man may move within cortuin confines, but the moment he ro- vyeals any “want of conformity unto, or any transgresgion of, tho laws of God," his world is ruined in all its bosuty and delicaté plan, 1t s wouderfal that the human Lioart is not so thanliful for tho gift of lifo a8 to bo perfoctly willing to aceept of the limitations which sur- round it ; und, boing in a vast gardon with only one treo deniod, and with a whole forost of swoot fruits ou all sides free, it is marvelous that we do not choorfully accopt tho situation, and leave the forbiddon fruit to bloom and ripen and de- cay untouched, undrenmed of. 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