Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1874, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1874. (ho pubject of_disccurse this eventng by Thomas Wil b e ibe Liall corner of Lakie and Scxmour streete, 1 e First Soclety of Spiritualists hold services in grow'a Opere-Hall, orning aud evering. O here will be English Lutheran services at the cor- serof North Dearhorn aud Erie streets, ot 11 o'clock pefie morning. end at the Bellilehcin Chureb, corner bt Sangamon ard Puillips atreets, at 7:00 in the even- %, The Bev, Edmund Belfour will oficiate at both laces. et perance experience meetings are beld every 3Janday erening in the chapel of tho Waslingtonian Home, West Madison street, near Union Park. ks il CALENDAR FOR THE WEEE. EPISCOPAL. March 8—Third Sunday ip Lent. March 9—Seventeenth Day of Lent, arch 10—Eighteenths Day of Leut, AMarch 11—Nincteenth Day of Lent. Marck 12—Twentieth Day of Lent. March 13—Twenty-first Day of Lent, 3larch 14—Twenty-second Duy of Lenk, RS CATHOLIC. March 8—Third Sundsy in Lent, March 9—St. Frances of Rome, W March 10—The Forty MartyTs of Scbaste. Mareh 11—S¢, John of God, C; (from Myx March 12—5t. Gregory L, P. C. D. arch 13—1he Fiva Wounds of Our Lord, March 1—Feria, - - TEE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. YWhat Liquor Costs the Community, o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Sim: The situation of tho teraperance cause and of our conntry is fearful. On tho one hand is esorbitant taxation, and on the other over- whelming figures in expendituro for the bottle and its consequent crimes. « From the official record of 1870, multiplied by four. bringing it down to this timo, it appears that the cost of stimulating drinks (alcokolic) jntho United States was, in round numbers, £5,048,000,000; timo lost in retsiling stimulants, ot €2 per day, for four years, amounts to 4408,800,000; value of time of those whose lives (0u0,000 in four years) have been’ destroyed by strong dring, at @2 per day, in tho last four sears, £130,000,000 ; expenses for crime com- mitted, lawyers' fecs, and prisons,—a large chare of whish is chargeable directly or iudirectiy to strong drink,—$360,000.000 ; making in the araremate, from these four sonrces, 37,146,900~ 000. 'This does not include the pauporism and uffering directly and indirectly from this raze. The taxation for crime and pauperism comes sut of men who have no sympathy with this branch of doing evil. Itistrueit vieldssome zevenue to the Government ; but what is this to the nuparalleled destruction of life, and prop- erty, and happiness? Let the people look upon these fignres and facts, and then at the heavy Dburdens they aro bearing in all deportments of bu s, and inquire if they are able to stund the satisfying of so expengive an appetite, doing no citizen good, but sending to a promature grave 000,000 persons_every four years. Lot “workingmen” talk of the oppression of cap- ital: what does this compare with the oppression of tho very thing thev pay for by the 5 and 15 cents per drink? Let Grangers talk of *“‘mo- popolics™; what are they in comparison to the whiskv-monopoly spreading bluo ruin all over our country? ‘When American Senators talk of finances, and currency-inflation. and a gold basis for firm foot~ ing. wkat does this smount to, if, within the naxt fonr vears, the people have got to pay $7.000,600,000 to satisfo an sppetite,—to pay more than & tax of this amount? What do our boasted libertias amount to when we are con- trolied by emigrants and whisky? European ideas of morality and justice are flannted in our [ace. with tho smell of lager and whisky. T haveno hope for my country or humanity in ourlarge citier. These are given un to Baccha- nalian rale, with the deepest, darkest, and most Jamning sentiments of ruffisnism in men who wonld Jike to bo called respectable, but who, with their wanton gaze, make every virtuous lady who walke the streets blush for very shama of her kind. This prompting of their baser in- aer self is by the brutalizing force of rum. With hope I turn towards the industrions, sober, and thivking millions of our country, who arc combining to strike heavy blows at monopoly wherever fonnd; who, for bundreds of yenrs, bave been taxed with the conseguences of Taking, selling, and drinking ardent spirits; that they will inquire, who pays for this £7,000,- 300,000 of stimulug, tho lost time and squander- od capital, every four years? As they have in- quired, Who clothes these monopolists in eilk ind fine linen; so they will inquire, Who will pay this Lill? i expect. before the stope set in motion by boly hands, renewing its impetus by woman's hand, shall cease to roll, that we shall have & sober Government. and laws relieving the pcople Irom the taxation caused by the bottle. Withover 2.500 galoons in Chicago, i8-it any wonder that {1 wholo people feel disgraced by their ecrvants, shore own condnet well-becomes & saloon, in- stead of tho Council-chamber of a grent com- mercial city ? But this is e}l accounted for by e fact that, in Chicago, $14.000,000 is annually spent for stimulus, drunkennees, and rowdyism, Cuicaco, March 4, 1874 D. DopgE, M. D. A Curse. Drearen, TIL, Feb, 28, 1874 o the Elitor of the Chicago Tribune: Smn: Sceing in your issue of last Friday various views brought out against the women’s crusado against the liquor traftic. I would like to present my views in regard to the other side of tho question. In ope of the articles signed _+Drutus,” I find that that gentleman expresses his mind that this temperanco movement is t 3 fanntical ontburst of narrcw minds against an evil that belongs to the very pature of our beinge.” Now, I donot wish to enter into an srgument against any of his views in regard to this movement: but, if he thinks thot this movement is a fanatical outburst of narrow minds, he is very much mistaken; and, if itis “an evil that belongs to our being,” the Booner that evil is banished the better, if we ever expect the elevation of mankiud. Tbere is rot an intelligent man or woman but what knows, from Lonest conviction, that the liquor proved o cureo to the human rrce. “ Well," gnys DBratus, ** I hold Christian views:" but I believo that Christianity tonld not tigepit in the same light " that he claims to. The sooner we get rid of this curso the better; then we may have =& better shance of “ eduncating men’s minds,” and also tringing the young up in the way that thoy should go; but, a8 long as this curso is prova- {ent, g0 long will men bo corrupted by ity §0 ioug will wretchedness and_misery be seen; §0 long the many crimes sbound, cursed by intoxi- cating drink. 7The trouble is, there has been nothing doue to banish this curso; and it is high timo it was being done,—if -mot by en- treaty, by force; and I think that theso “unthinking, wild, and mad enthusiasts,” 88 tho gentlemsn calis them, are justified in roch a movement a8 thoy have taken; and wo men ought to be ashamed to thus slink away in the back-zround, instead of coming to the front, 25 wo sbould, and lend a helping hand in banish- ing this curse that bas sent thousands to an un- timely grave. Even our Legielature scems asif it had no control whatever over the liquor-traffic, Itis true we have had a new liquor law; but what good does it do? We, from our own ob- tervation, sce as mnch or more drunkenness 10d debauchery at the present day as beforo such a Inw existed: What-we want is the law strictly enforced, and then it will be the means »f banishing tha curse soon from our land. Al I bave to say, in conclusion, is that, so fonz 23 we, as a Cliristian poople. et this cureo 10ld sway among us, we msy live to regret it ¥Len it i8 too late. Cassios. Adulterated Sirups. V. W. Daniells, Professor of Analytical Chem- {stry in the University of Wisconsin, makes an explanation, in the Western Farmer, which may sliay groundless fears in regard to sirups, and directs attention to some relinble tests of adul- teration. Haeays: “ Sirups _are made bg purifsing the molasses that remains after the larger portion of tho sugar has been separated by several crystaliza- tions. The juice of the cario or beet-root is con- centrated in'iron pans from which a small quan- tity of iron will bo diesolved by the scids in tho juice, Thus zll genuine syrups will contain a emall quantity of thin impurity, and g0 will give ablack color when added to tea. Tho coloring is cansed by the formation of tannate of iron, br the union of tannic acid of tea with tho iron. This is no proper test to ascertain the: gennines ness of sirups, as the so-called ‘corn surups,’ would be less apt to contain iron thzn those that are genuine. 1 need hardly add that this iron is in no way injurions. There ma¥ be sdultersted eirups in the merket, but the ‘tea test’ is not sullicient to prove adulteration.” A Prediction. This is the year in which tholate Sister Anna Maria Taiga, of Roume, predicted the Pope would die, with attendant convulsions of nature. ¢ For three doys and threo nights,” she said, “ Cim- morinn dsrkness will rest over the earth, hiding every object in the world from view ; the people X out of tho windows for tho purpose of ng what is going on in tha firmunent will -be immediztely struck down dead. : No, 517 West Madison street,’ REVIVALISM. An Idea of How the Work Is Progressing. An Evening at the Centenary Metko- dist Church. A Targe Gathering and Many Under Conviction, : The Fervent Appeals of the Pastor.’ They Are Rewarded by Numerous Cor- versions. Prayers by the Congregation.. Tho readers of Tne TrinuNe have noticed in the accounts of the Methodist ministers’ meet- iugs that there is a religions awalening in dif- ferent parts of Chicago, especially in the West Division. Revival meetings have been held for some time in the Centenary Church, on Monroo street, just west of Morgan, and many porsons have been converted. Tho pastor, the Rev. Ar. Peck, who has been in Chicago but ‘a short time, is an eloquent exborter and preacher. A Tnis- USE reporter visited this church last Weduesday evening, that the public generally might get an iden of n revival meeting,and tho following is & lieral account of the procesdings : fhe exorcises were opened by singing the hymn commencing : Dear Jesus, T long to ba perfectly wholo; I waiit Theo forever to live in my soul ; Break down every idol, cast out cvery foe; Now, wash me, and I sbeil be whiter than snow. THE OPENING PRAYER. Tho pastor then offered prayer as follows : Oh Lord let Thy spirit come to us while we pray. [“Amen.”] Wo offered to Thee & most colemn prayer whilo wo sung. We sro kneeling novw av the foot of the cross. Help us to make tho hymn tho langusge and attitude of our souls just now [**Amen "] and in onr hearts and in ur wills may we now yield to Thee, and cry “Sarior, at Thy foot o fal ‘i Amen,” ¢ Oh Tord."] Thoumy God, my life, my all. Oh Thou art more thau all the world beside ; Thou canst do more for us and be more through us then all olse; and if God be for us, who can be against us? [* Amen.”] We thank Thee to-night that it is possible for us to lose our wills in the will of God [* Amen "] and find a higher, and swester, aud richer experienco than o have our own way Lord, it is hard, some- times, for us to como so humble; and trustingly, and o willingly that wo can sayinall things, Ty will, and not mino be done.” [* Amon."l May Thy 'will aod mine be ome! [*Amen,” “Amen,” *Amen.”] Oh, NELP US TO-NIGHT todo it [ Amen "] for our present and eternal welfzre sro mvolved in the will of God [**Amen”], and inour submission to that will o pray Thee to ceuse all Thy paople to-night to give willing submission to the infinite wisdom and love of God. Wo thauk Theo that thero is & lovo past all finding out [ Amen "], Theroisa wisdom higher than our own, a3 the heavens are higher than tho carth; and when wo sink, W rise; when wo humble ourselves we aro ex- alted; when we are weak, then we are strong in God. [*Amen.") When we' give ourselves up wholly to Thee, the Almighty takes caro of us. [**Amen."] Oh, Lord, THERE ARE SOME NERE TO NIGIIT, a0mo here every night, who are not members of Thy Church, and will be again. O, give, to- night, this one blessing to our hearts—if noth- ing elte is asked for to-night—complete sub- mission to God on tho part of every human goul. [*Amen,” *Amen,” ‘‘Awmen.”] Ob, Lord, then shail we have wrought in us Thy complete work of grace. Then shall we havo our patures changed. Then shall we have our sins forgiven. Then shall we have our peaco with God. Then shall we bo eble to travel the whole length of the Christiag, life, doing every duty, beapmg evers cross, Fibmitting to every trial, patient in every tribulation, faithiul in avery Guty, steadfast at every post, willing, and cheer- ful, and strong in God to run the race. Then ¢hall bowe saved. [*Amen.” * Oh, Lord.” “ Glory to God"], completely, gloriously saved. [* Amen,” “ Amen.”] Then shell we be able to Tift up our heads around about us and rejoice in the victory thut God gives us, through Josus Christ, our Lord. Ok! bless the Learts that to- night are panting to know tho perfect will of God yorfected in them, and let them not wait for somo mystorious power to_como, but, in the strength that now is given to them, cry out, ‘L0mD, T DO YIELD Amen”] and give_mysalf to Thee. ™ I will_bo Thine. [*Amen.” * Ame) Thine while I live, Thine whon I dic, and Thine to all eternity. _ [* Praiso ~ the Lord.” *Amen."] Oh Lord, I will be Thine— inall joy and sorzow, in all trial or triumph, in a1l pleasure or pain, in all_prosperity or sd- versity, in all that seems wiseand best io mo, or o1l that ecems _otherwise, I will be Thine. [ Amen.”] I will take Thy haud, and will hold on, aud will come to Thy cross. 'Oh Lord, we want to lesn against the cross very hard to- night. [*Amen."] Wo wantto rest our weari- ness against the cross. Our aching heads need to be pillowed npon Jesus_to-night; our weary hearts to bo mear Jesus; our sin-sick souls need Jesus now. Our tempted spirits need Jesus to-night. Oh, give us Christ ! [* Ameén,” “ Amen.”] Ob, give us Christ to bo in 1> and complete the transporting, sanctifying powor. (*Amen.”] Gloriously Thino; forever Thine; Thine when in the fire, and Thive when on the mountain transfigured with glory; Thine everywhere. O suswer this prayer. [*Amen,” “Qh, Lord,” ‘“God bo praised."] Let the heart of the people RISE IN PAITH and in consccration, sanctified, snd cry out, “Answer this praver for me.” [“ Amen,” «wAmen”] Let-tliere bo a personal appli- cation, & personal petition by every soul. [ Amen."] Lord, fet me be all Thine—all Thine, complotely Thine. and every. tboushu and purpoke-and wish and desire of my heart Ihinni “Thine though everyidol be knceling in the dust Whiat though thero be a struggle. terrible and gevere | Thine, Lord, whatever be Thy will and pleasure. [** Amen.”) Oh ! make this the powor ot prayor that prevails, and this tho victory wo in here to-night, through Jesus Christ our ord, [*Amen.”] We know, Lord, THERE ARE HNEALTS HERE TO-NIGHT for whom Thou art inspiring us to pray, for they buve spoken uato us of their eornest desire, and yet of their feeblo and trembling and aching bearts; their longing, and yet of tho Dbonds of siruggle fhat are around them ; and we ask Theo that the struggle to-night may end in victory [*Amen”]. We prey that euch victory may behad to-night ashas not been had on any previous night. [ ‘‘Amen,” *Oh Lord”]. O Lord spesk the word that teachos tho beart, that Christ is love, and it skall be to Thy glory, and it shall be to the good of that aching soul. Ob, speak to everyong who is now seeking, who is now coming up, and now expecting Jesus, and eay **Be it .unto thee according to thy faith, And give faith to cling now, give faith to bolieve now, to take now, to step out on the promise of God; and we pray that the blood of Christ may cleanse, snd purify, and sanctify, and transform [* Amen.” ** Praige the Lord "], and £o completely change that the whole spint shall bo changed, that the thoughts and feelings ehall bo changed ; that tho tougue, and besrt, and lips shall be changed ; that every part shall be chianged, snd chastencd, snd subdued, and cloansed, and sarctified. and made complete in Gad according to His will [*Amen"]. Ob, save us. Ob, let us grasp faith, and ery ont ‘1 DO BELIEVE.” [(“Amen.”] He doce it mow. ["Amen.” **Amen.”]” He does it now. mcu."l On! Glory bo to Thy Neme. [*Amen."} Oh! forit to come now. [“Amen.”] Oh! for that ire- mendous effort of the’ haman soul by which it casts iteolf out of telf into God. [‘“Amen.” “Amen.”] And we pray thatsuch may ko the swolling up of tho will. and of the desire, and of all in God, that it ghail be like the child in its Motner's arms—sho presscs it to her bosom when its cries are heard, and its aching heart is stilled, apd all is peaco [“Amen*]—not the peace of death, ‘but the peace of life. [“Amen.”] Ob, Savior, come to Cvery one, and Jet every gndouverted eonl who has been standing out aeainst the will of God vield to-night [ Amen hd may this night_ witness the coming of mi Htudes to God. [*Amen,”.* Amen.”] Another bymn was then eung, at the conclu- gion of which the pastor addressed the people substantially as follows: OSE THOUGHT bas impressed itsell .upon my mind, and I want [** Amen,” [* Oh L your prayers. What I hiave to gay will nat be con- Eenial to the self-will of tho rebellious heart. The thonght that presses 1tself, and bas for two or three hours upon me with unusual force, isin the words of Jesus, * Thy will be done.” You Lnow where it is found. in his prayer—the gmym- He formulated befors Ho had been rought to the severe trial and test of submit- ting His homan soul to the will of His Father in Heaven, And yet Ho failed not when the test came. God's will is not an arbitrary, tyrannical will, that simply determines so and so for some reason, and hos not the welfare of His subjects, and of His universe at the bottom it. But it is a will that is formed and fixed under the guidsnceof tho infinite wisdom, 80 thut thore can bo no mistake in infinite love, so that there cao bo no Jack of benavolence and kind- ness in the will. And therefore we ara asked to submit to the wilt of God ; we are simply asked to submit our erring, and beclouded, and short- sighted wisdom to the infinito wisdom—that our love, which may be misguided and misdirected, may submit itself to the infinite love. TIESE PROPOSITIONS aro 8o simple and fair, and perfectly self-ovident that the eoul cannot by any possibility object to them. And Iwant, a8 this is the foundation of tho whole of this blessed Gospel,—the founda- tion of all God's requirements, to make that foreible and more clear ; that when you and I aro ssked in anythiug to submit ourselves—our Wills—to the will of God, it is simply that wo will submit to the infinite wizdom to guide and the infinite love to plan. Now can any ono make objection to that? I could not. _ I dare not think of making an objec- tion, else I am immediately nrrested. It Isay that I am not willing to submit to the wisdom and love of God, and say thatI know better than Ho ; that I can plan better, and thot I thus have neither confidenco in His wisdom nor in His lovo—that is what every act of rebellionsness againgt the will of God does. If it does not as- sume in your mind 60 strong o state a3 expressed by rebelliousness—unwillingnoss to smbmit; povertheloss, juet as far as there is opposition, it i saying that it is not best that God's will should be accomplished. And yet I cannot con- ceive of a person candidly meoting the thought— . THE FUNDAMENTAL THOUGHI— of God's character entering into that will in its perfection, without st onco assenting to the truth of that will and accepting it cheerfully. Thero is a grester differenco, infinitely greater difference, between the wisdom and love of God that presides over your Welfaro and mine, be- tween that wisdom and love of His and ours, than there is betweon our childron's and ours. Now then, is it unrcasonablo to ask us fo submit, that being 'the cesa, snd doing it cheerfully ? God’s will always has in viow our present and our eternal welfare. There is not & single passage of our life—a single porticn of onr history whica He rules over and brings His power and His graco to bear upon—but whose objoct is out of blessing to bring higher blessing, out of disaster to bring blessing, out of our cxperiences to bring us to & higher condition. And disciptineis the word that often espresaes what God soeks to accom- plish—our submitsion to His will—to, Fo to speak, put our characters into the promise of God and weave the web of our life after the pat- tern of His in infinito love and wisdom. And when we say that we are, we submit to have Him weave for us such a charncter aos . shall bofit us and glorify Oim. Now, I know that there are many passages in the lives of every one of us when it is very hard for us_to como to this, end when it is very trying to submit, and where maoy per- sons never do eubmit, but .8 SDIPLE REBELLIOTENESS hold out. Iow many times when death has en- tered the family and some one Las becn taken—a husband, a wife, & child, How often has the will, in gomo affliction, whon reason is against it, said. *I eannot bo reconcile: and yet how foolish is the thought, when we stop for a me- ment and seo that we cannot help ouraelves; we cannot make it otherwise: we*cannot chango the fact; but we can change the results—the fruits that moy come from that fact. BESISTING GOD will not bring back tho dead child or tho dead partner; but resisting God will shut us up and deprivo us of the graco, and love, and sympathy of God. Coming to Him will not bring back the lost one, but it will bring to us God m His in- finite fullness, in His compassionate tenderness, in Tis sustaining graco, in _His vivifving hopo that He gives us in the ontlook for something Detter ; it will _give to us what, in eternity, will be more to us than the tenderness of the love of that dear ome. It is bard for & man to lose his property. It is very hard for him to have disaster overtako bim when ho had Jooked forward to competence and fo a scefal, restfnl sufficicney in old aze—to find imself robbed of thnt hope and reduced, in the midst of his matured or advanced years, to poverty. Itishard for o men to meet this. Tt is hard fora man to be deprived of health. Tt is hard for us to bo deprived of blessings that meet us in & thourand ways,—of tho frendships and tho joys and the companionshipe and of the pleasant and beautiful things which make up the happiness. Nevertheloss there como times when theso experiences must bo ours. We cannot belp ourselves. Weo must yield, or elso stand out agninst God and be crushed by the iron wheels of fate about us. INSTEAD OF BEING CRUSHED in rebelliousness nnder the iron wheels of God's chariot a8 it rushos on, by submission, He stoops down and picks ns up from under ihe wheels, lifts us into the chariot,and wo rido with Ihm as_His children. [**Amen.”] If you will take hold of Him, He will hold yon. If yoa will take Him by the hand. He will sustain you. He will whisper comfort in your ear. and will bring peace to your mind. Ha will walk the waves of our tronbled soul, and rgy - Peace; bo still.” Will you sneak to Ilim end let Him guide you ? Wil any of yon hold yourselves up in rebeliions- ness against the will'of God when Jesus sub- mitted and drank of the bitter cup? Are vou greater than He? Are von better than He ? Aroyonin any manner to b let off where Ho submits? God's_will in perfect, His plan is righteous, the eud is glorious. [**Amen."] om, T AX GLAD there is a fecling gathoring hero—I can feel it in the nir—a feeling gathering here—that I will vield to God; I will not stand out against Him ; He shall bo mine, and I shall be His.” Oh, thero will be such comfort, such jov, such rest, such strength, svch triumph, such power, such walking with God, that it will scem as though you had been born into 5 new and higher destiny, o nobler and grander being. And then how pcediiy Ho will possess the ronl,—fully and completely His. ‘Thero are souls here to-night that might have beon saved if they had been willing te submit to God. THEY WANTED TO TE CHRISTIANS, but they didnot want to become go in God's war. They would not seek in His way. They wanted to avoid publicity. They wanted to get relizion in o different way ; wanted, in short, to have their +will. Submission i tbeessence—the quintessenco —of belief; tho fundamental fact, the supreme characteristic—the most marked evidence of o Christian character. ‘Not my will, but Thine, be done.” There are brothers and sisters here to-night that are not satisfied with their Chris- tinn lives, but if they will t¢ zht make a com- ploto surrender—en unconditional jenrrender— God will teko possession of them and there will bo peace. [** Amen.”] APTOMATTOX WILL COME. and the drum will bo mufiled, and their arms will o reversed, and the sword will ba sheathed, and peaco will be blown all over tho Jand. Blessed be God! [“Amen,” “Amen.'] Wil yon say, “Igicld to God to-night, wholly. Hia will shall be mino from this hour ” ? * If you do, you will walk in the light : you cannot be in the dark any more. You will walk in the path of duty, for Ho will guide you. You will not make mistakes ; you will be safe and eaved. Blessed bo Tis name! [“Amen.”] Will you not doit? God has tonched you in a way I cannot stop to mention. Let Him come and possess you. Let Him lift you into joy; let Him guide you. *t Jesus is in the hollow of my hand.” Let Him hold yon; let Him carry you. 85 God promises in Teaiab. ¢ I will carry you; I will bear you.”® I want you {o say, 41 WILL DE PERFECTLY WIS."— completely His. And I waut every wanderer to gay, I will yield up my will,” and “eyery uncon- verted man to say, “Iwill; let God's will be done in me, and I will scok Him.” Ho needs if, and He nceds it now, and Ho needa yon, and Ho needs ms; and tno way fo Christ is by way of this will—by prayer here to-night. Now while we riso and sing let every one in the house that wants God come for- Fard and eay “Thy will be done.” Tet every fuch soul gather around tho altar bere, and if there are too many we will move the chairs back Yo mako more room. Ob God, msy we have » fieid day bero! dfay tho victory be great! May Aetd I5% transferred oat of self into God, and mada 1o the likeness of His own blessed will! Come! [*Amen."] Yield! That isall. Then Ho will do His work. Let us rise and sing. The people then stood up and sang & stanza of the bymn commencing : Almost persnaded now to believe, 2nd during the singing soveral persons went to the altar and knelt down. DO NOT HESITATE. The pastor—Let no hesitation keeg you from comivg to receive God's bleseings. Imow God to-night has _promised blessing to hearts that Wil come and scok him. Iam glad some havo come. Letothers draw near while wo ing. L | Anotber stanza was sung, and more persons walked forward. COME. The pastor—Let every unconverted man and woman come forward, and every wanderer come and ask God to bloss them. He will doit. Let overy one think for himself, not for another, what he onght to do, and be ready to do it now. One more stanza was sung, and etill mora seekers knelt at the altar. Singing and brief appeals by the pastor alter- nated for fifteen or twenty minutes, and the Rliar was crowded. _Among tho eeckers, who pumbered about thirty, were saveral gray- headed men and elderly women; in fact, only Lalf-s-dozen Foung persons were noticed in the group. THE CONVERTS. Five minutes were then devoted to silent prayer by the people. Suddenly one of the con- verts commenced, in & low voice, to pray. He 6aid, in substance : Nay, but I sield, T vield, 1 cah hold out mo more; T sink by dying love compelled, ‘And own Thea conqueror, (Clapping his hands.) ** Thy will be done, in my heart. [*“Amen.”] ~ Dlessed bo Thy name! Thy will is done in my heart this evening. Ido submit. Bless the Lord ; I am a converted man. Oh! blessed spirit we pray Theo that Thou will como into every heart here before Theo [* Amen "], and that Thou wilt enable these sonls. each one for himself and for herself, to submit_entircly, snd completely, and uncon- ditionally, at this moment, to the will of God. {*Amen."] Obws bless Theo that it is our privilegoto submit to Thee. [““Amen.”] Oh God we know that Thy willis our best interest for time and for eternity, and we do submit to Thee. And we pray that Thon wilt now come into our hearts. Oh wilt Thou come into mine, into mine, JUST NOW. Let my heart be wholly Thine. Letme bo sancti- fied wholly, and _eotirely, and comoletely. Oh let each Tbrother and each sister sot apart with Thee, and_bo sanctified to Thy service. And oh God, if there aro_any wander- ers here that have come back to their Father's house, let thom mect- Thee with ontstrotched arms. [**Amen,”] If there are thoss here who are secking pardon, and wo believe there are, oh Blessed Spirit may they be able to submit to-night. May they submit unconditionally just now! [“Amen"] Ob wo praiso Thee that salvation is hero, and, if we will meet the con- dition of entiro submission and of trust in the blessed Christ, we may be saved. Oh blessed bo Thy name, we are saved when wo do meet Thee in submission. [*Amen."] Oh may our faith reach the point where we can clothe onr- selves with salvation. Oh blessed Jesus Christ [0 Lord,” * Amen, "], we praiso Thee, in our Learts, for this salvation that saves us unto_the uttormost, thut saves us fully and completely,— that gaves ns from our sins. Ok we praise Thee for the salvation that brings peace, and brings rest, and brings joy, and that gives us power Witk God and with man. Oh lead us up‘from tho horrible pit and mire of uubelief and place us on the rock of fuith, and wo will praiss the forever. Amen., TIELD. Another av the altar then cried out: TLet there bo a yielding to Thee mow. [*Amon."] We come, feoling our weakness, and knowing that we can do notbing out of Christ, and therofore we pray that Thou wilt help us to let o of our own vill and the will of the Master. Oh, may it be the cry of overy earnest heart bere, “I vield, I yield.” Dlessme. Oh, Lord. T want Thy love. I want to feel that T am wholly given up Lo Theo. And now I lay my sonl upon the nltar, I leave it there. Lord, takeit, and tnke me and do as thou wilt. [** Amen.”] AND YET ANOTHER. 5 Then another commenced. Oh, Lord, what a victory! [“Amen.”] Ob, Lord, what a vari- oty of charactera are bowed down at this altar. [* Come, Jesus.”] There is s foundation for everybody—Tfor sinners, for believera, for back- sliders, for all closses in this assembly. and we thank Thee that thore are so_many applications to Jesus for His mercy and His grace, His par- don, His salvation to the very greatest extent, to ba saved unto Thy image, untohy likeness— mado entirely like Thee. Ob, blessed Savior. it it just as it was in tbo days of Thy flesh; whithersoever He entered ' into cities and towns ard villages, Ho healed the eick in tho streets. Oh, what 8 sceno that must have been. Ob blessed bo God! In all the variety of diseases, and distresses and pain, they Isid in tho streets and in tho lanes and besought Him that they might touch but the border of His garment, and a8 aany a8 touched Him were made perfectly whole. Glory to Thy name! [ Amen.”] ToucH NE! Touch me not only with the hand, but by faith. [*Amen.”] For it were ouly such as came In contact with the Savior. 8o vital, that were made perfectly whole. Blessed be Thy name! Oh! we thank Theo that we may touch Theo ; that we may touch Christ ; that virtue is in Chriat [*Amen.” *Lord!" Lord."];_ that that virtne comes out of Christ. Aud now Lord what remeins ? We are hers before Thee. These seekers are here bofore Thee eecking for pardon, ani they shall get it. [*Amen.”] They yield. They lay themsclves down at the foot of the Cross, willing to be saved in God's own way, in God's own time, by simple faith, Venturing on tho greatatoning sacrifice, and what remains? It is donme! Glory to Thy name! [**Amen.”] For wo have submitted. The work is done. [*Amen,” “Amen."] The workis done. The debt is discharged. The ransom is' paid. My father docs_forgive. Glory to Thy name. [*“Amen.’] And if theso believers in Jesus have subritted to be saved right here and Do, blessed be Thy name. g WE SHARE TIE YICTORY through the blood of the lamb—the Iamb that was slain and maketh intercession for ns. Oh glory bo to Thy name. [*Amen."] Wedo plead the merit of Christ. We rest upon the word. The word of God is trne, and never can be re- moved. Wo shall, in our hearts, be puro snd porfected in love. [ Amen” *Oh Lord."] Oh wo will rejoico—rejoico with all Thy saints. We rest upon’ Thee, we believe, and will give our wanderings o'er by giving Thee our hearts. Lord hearusand accept ug, sud save us, and may wolove Thee, for Christ's sake. Amen. [*Amen.”] THE PASTOR. Take my poor heart, and let it by faith be closed to all but Thee. Let it bo necar Thee. andlot mo wear the pledgo of faith forever. Now let everybody sing. ‘And all aid sing os if their hearts were full of joy. Threo verses were sung whilo the peaple wwera on their mecs, and then tho pastor prayed, saying: Oh! Lord, scal now on every heart Thy bless- ing. [*“Amen!"] And may the spirit come fiwoetly os a benediction upon every one. Aud we pray that these dear_ Christian brethren and sisters asking for full divine conformity may to- pight receive it. And wo pray that their faith may grasp just now the promise of G “To it unto you according to your faith.” Ob, Lord, we pray that thero may bo this moment all around this altar an unloosfg of chains, and s yiclding of hearts to Jesus. Ob, seal with = Thy blessed seal this grent work. May this night prove to be one of the field-days in our church [ Amen "], when such wondors shall have been wronght, such im- pressions ehall have been made, that these souls skall remember them throngh all eternity. May this work pervade the entiro andience ! may tho thoughts of this hour follow men and women {o their conches! and may they be eleepless while they are in_sin. Oh, wo pray that they may turn to God. Lord, may Thy blessing go with us_when we leavo this place. Lord. bless us and save ns, without one goul exciuded from Thy Kingdom, for Jesus’ sake. [ Amen."] A hyma was thep sung, and Mr. Peck made snother address ; the benediction was then pro— nounced, and_about two-thirds of the people left the church. AN AGED COSVERT. Tho others remained for half-sn-hour, and conversed with one another and with the pastor. The reporter went to the altar—to speak to Mr. Peck—and on Lisway met an old gentleman who was superlatively happy. Said Lie: “Aro you one of Christ’s foldz"" “No," replied the re- porter. * Well,” rejoined he, “You ought to be. I went to the altar last night, and you can- not realize how my heart swells with joy.” The reporter reluctantlyleft him, whereat theconvert scemed annoyed, though he eaid nothing. THE ‘TRIBUNE representative noxt met a brother re- porter, who blushed very deeply. 28 if ashamed. ** What are you downg here *” said Tne TRIDTNE reporter. * Well, Mr, Peck asked me and my wifo to come, and'we did so. She was converted tho first night, and I heve been bere seven times. and have been greatly comforted.” Words of encouragement were spoken to him. and his bluches dissppeared. After enconntering sev- eral strange gentlcmen, who shook bands as cordially with the reporter as if they had known Dim for years, Mr. Peck was met. Hosnid the religious intercst was increasing, and that many souls would bo gathered in this harvest. _And yet theeo mere wordy, thongh faitbfally given, can convey but a weak idea of thig Teviv- al meeting. The spirit which animated it, the passionate and imploring tones of the pastor, the rejoicings of the converted, the tears and the cries, the magmetism which thrilled, all dis— appear. and the expressions which were 80 warm when spoken look so cold on paper. This report is a body withont & soul. and et it furnishes to those who canuot or will not attend theso reviv- al t?Aax'vir;vm a8 good an idea of them as’ they can ge! BULWER. ¢ Falkland” Parisians.” From to ¢ The A Long Line of Cbarming Fictions, The Only Novelist Who Moralizes and En- chants at the Same Time. A week or twoago, the frequenters of our principal bookstores found themselves con- fronted st every turn by a printed strip an- nouncing * The Parisians: A Novel. By Lord Lytton.” Although many had already mado 3 partial acquaintance with tho work through the serial publications of Blackwood and Harper, its final appearance in n completed form excited in some of them a peculiar intercst and emotion. It was something like the Jast letter from & friend who is no more. The book is the LAST OF A LONG LINE, of which the first was * Falkland,” issued half- a-centary ago. Doubtless there are few novel- readers now living who remember the advent of that cloudy and romantic hero, or his immediato successors. But no ‘oue can pass a just judg- ‘ment upon this latest work, or duly spprecisto its sathor, who receives his first introduction to Lord Lytton through ¢ The Parisians.” To those of us who made his ac- quaintanco in childhood, the name upon this title-page is, in spite of long usage, not the most familiar. In vain docs the old Cockney librarian, scowling severely npon us, reprovo the irroverence of our demant for * Bulwer's Works,” by the awful gravity of his: * You'ra surely aware that he's long been made & Pair!™ With the conservative Peer, the elderly aristocrat, we have nothing to do. Like our predeceseors, we know him best as THE “ BULWER"” over whose Algernon Mordsunt and Isora the ‘maidens of former days wept their eyes out,—as the author of “What Will He Do With It?"'— of tho “ Strange Story,”—of ** My NoveL.” Bettins Brentano says, in her charming * Cor- respondence of Goetho with a Child,” that her grandmothersaid that Goethe was the Devil—znd sho longed to seo him. Tho first thing that somo ofus ever heard with regard to Bulwer was the prolubition of his works by certain of our elders, with tho warning that they wero *highly im- moral.” Whether or not we wero like Bettina, and this imperfectly-comprehended caution prompted the desiro toread them, it certainly added a mysterious fear and interest to the de- light with which we came upon an old volume of 4 2y XOvEL,” and—no, it is of po use to say perused: to peruse implies a languid, critical survey, 88 im- possible as it was_unuataral to us then—the dolight, then, with which wo_dovoured, galloped throngh, it pages. ** My Novel; or, Varicties in English Life,"—what plensant memories those words awaken! I scem to see a group of chil- dren cttering, with eager, trembling feet. that ‘bread and enchanted domain, the English novel. The ancestral osks and chestnuts, the moss- grown palings of Hazeldean Park, riso up before 9s. Here aro the good-natured Squire, and his gensible wife, and their idolized son Frank. Wo explore the village-green with its stocks, and the parish-school, and tho church. We 50 out to fish for sticklebacks and minnows with Dr. Riceabocea,—benévolent Mickiavel, with his tali. spare figure, threadbare garments, 2nd wite proverbs. We welcome Miss Jomims, cheery and thrifty, to her honors a8 Madsme Riccabocea and wo lean upon-tho gate with them both, rod bid good-bye to Leonard, who goes away to aeek Lis fortune with no other capital than his beau- tiful eyes and his fair hopes and illusions. “ Thoy will stand long wearand_tear,” tays the Doctor, turning away with o sigh 28 the bero disappears down tho dusty road. ‘‘A yearat least,” rejoins the late-Mies Jomuaa, WITI CARE IN TIE wasn!" How wo réjoico in tho discomiiture of some, purse-proud Dick Avenel, when shabby sister comes to seo him and her c! tho fine country-house where bo is_ontertaining tho nobility, when he locks them up in_s room, and they cecape by tho window. Whatever amusement we derive from the lighter portions of this book, nothing is so plain to us, even in this first hosty reading, as that it is a ftory with amoral. Randal Leslie becomes the type of Tntellcct warped by Sclfishuess : and the satis- faction with which we arrive at tho failure of his crafty schemes i3 eoftened by the seriousness Shich attends the recognition of & great truth. By tho timo wo have fuished * Aly Novel,” wo trouble ourselves no more about the morality of Bulwer : he has taken us captive. Not curiosi- t, but lose, impels us immediately towards tno charming romanco with the _enigmatical title of ¢\What Will He Do With It#” Then,— not to bo tedious in telling what was so far from tedious in doing,—did weo not bunt up * The Caxtons,” and “ Harold,” and ** The Laust Days of Pompeii,” until we came to tho “Strange Story,” which was, and was not, like the Bulwer weknew? And then followed a long silence, until, in those bleak dsys of the eurly spring, came the message that tho old enchanter of our youth hand- ‘WAS NO MORE. It was ead to observe how small a fipEII:, com- pared with that produced by others of his craft, Lis death made on the current of the worlds daily life. He had outlived the brief period of personal popalarity Which rociety allots to_one man. Tho sad-faced old mon witom the illus- trated journals revealed to us boro no resem- blance to tho besutiful youth whom tradition calls the idol of London drawing-rocms. There “ero reasons for this in Bulwer's life and char- acter. Somemen crystalize early their genius takes with manhood & mold never afterwards al- tered. Others are until death like clay in the hands of the scuiptor, Lifo; figure, features, expression, he altors from year ‘to vear. Im- mediately after death the fame of such men suf- fer as, to borrow Thorwaldsen's illostration, the statne does whon it passes into plaster. Thoy are so near us that we can seo the pettiness of their faults; they are too near for us to see tha grandeur of their virtnes. But let a fow years pass, aud they look ont grandly from THE MARELE OF IMMORTALITY. Nothing is 80 clear a proof that Bulwer be- longed to ‘this second class of men as this last irio of yolumes,—issued anonymously during the later years of his life, and dealing with all tho great “problems of our day,—of which ‘“Tho Parisians” completes tho series. A great preachier of our_day bas said that, bo- tween “The Coxtons™ and all the works that go before it, there is o difference 5o absolute ay to imply what our Methodist brethren call “a chango of heart.” Dut, with a full comprehen- sion of the great superiority of *The Caxtons o apd iho novels which follow, in point of artistic construction and moral effect, the difference be- tween this work and its predecessors seems to us not go radical ; o difference mora in degree than in kind ; that between the rough draft_and the perfected picture. “Falkland,” *Pelham,” e Disowned,” * Devereus,”"—appearing be- tween 1526 and 1830,—vwero written, as the au- fhor himsclf states, when bo was little more than o boy. The first was mever incladed by him in thelist of his works, and is not now to be found smong them. Our knowledge of it is gathered from his own descrip- tion; and it is fair to conclude that its ‘defects were, 2s ho asserts, numor- ous and great. * Petham" was autobiographic in style ; and its hero was intended, if wa may trust the sutbor's declaration, to contrast with fhe Wertberian and Byrouic types of hero, ot that day so popular. If so, the public did not give him credit for his intention, for ** Pelham” appears to have been regarded as & veritable ag- tobiograpby of tho writer, and as very Byroni indeed,—both of which ideas appear to the later reader unfonnded. The pleasantest part of tho “Disowned ” is the openiog of that TRULY BULWERIAY VIEW which was never exhausted during_the anthor’s life, and which glitters evenin ** Kenelm Chil- lingls,"—'e mean the escape from conventional life on the partof the bero ectting forth in search of sdventure, and the sppearanco of tho vagsbond philosopker, quoting Shakepearo and living smong Gipsics, who fiually reaches a per- fected forming in the charming Gentleman Waifa of % What Will Hoe Do With It?” In ** Paul Clifford,” Lis fourth novel, he entered upon the ground afterward occupied by Dickens in * Oliver Twist,” introducing us to the * arget " and babite of the London thieves. Of all his early works, this _sprears to have pro- voked the greatest ontery. He was accused of introducing his readers to low life, of glorifying the career of & highwayman, of attacking the existing laws, ond othcr bulwarks of society. That Dickens afterwards found bLis highest pop- ularity in these very features, is only evidence that Bulwer was, at this time, A LITTLE ATEAD OF WIS AGE. The scene in thisnovel, whers Paul Clifford, & condemned prisoner, confronts his unknown father in the person of the Judge, and his oloquent denunciation of those features of law and society which first produce and then punish the criminal, exhibits in a bigh degree the dramatic power which Bulwer possessed,—a power afterwarda forcibly displayed in ** Riche- liew.” * Engene Aram" is & powerful and painfal work, but, in poiat of art, superior to all before * Tho Caxtons.” Itsanalysisof thoughts ind motives 18 not only remarkable, but in- structive, The anthor states, in tho. preface, that ho desired to_show how One crimé might blight a mind and lifo_otherwise brilliant and spotless. He scems rather to have depicted tho fatal regults that may -attend the distortion of intellect,—the disease which must inevitably follow the morbid and cxaggerated development of asingle facalty. If, in ** Eugene Aram,” he exposed tho danger of unnatural concentration, in “Godolphin,” written at the eame time, be showed the misery attending the intellectual irifler, fnttering away the energies of the mind. In * Ernest Maltravers,” and its sequel, ““Alice,” tho design appears to us less evident and less striking 1 execution; but in *‘Lucretian” he fist entered upon a themo which must have been an exceeding favorite with him, siace it forme & prominent part of his three greatcst Works,—we mean tho theme which he character- izes in * My Novel” ag ‘‘TOE ABUSE OF INTELLECT.”. ‘What ho says on this subject in * Lucretia” hos 5 singular pertinenco at the present time: “A promipent vice in tho hot and emulous chase for Lappiucss, fame, or fortune,—in that state of society to which wo have arnived. The vice I atludo to is Impatience. That eager desiro to press forward, not so much to conquer obstacles 84 to eludo them; that gambling with the sol- emn destinies of life, sceking ever to set suc- cess upon the chance of a dio; that thirst after quick returns to ingenious toil, and breathless spurrings nlong short cuts to the goal, which we wce everywhere around us, from the Jechanics' Institute to tho Stock-Market; characterising the books of our writers, the Bpeecies of our statesmen, no less than tho dealings of our spcculators,—seem to me to constitute o very diceased and genoral symptom of the times. L Lotd that the greatest friond to man is labor; that the continuous effort for fame 1 nobler than fame itself; that it is not wealth suddeuly acquired which is deserving of homaga, but the vircues which 8 man exerts in the slow pursuit of wealth, the ability so called forih, tho self- denial so imposed,—in short, that Labor and Patience are the TRUE SCHOOLMSSTERS ON EARTA.” ¢ Lucretin " closes the list of novels preceding the four remarkable works on which Bulwer's fame as & writer will chieily rest. Between this work, however, and * Eugene Aram,” como his historical novels: *Rienzi,” *The Last Davs of * Harold,” and “The Last of the Barons.” Of the industrs, conscicntious re- Bearch, and delicacy of Buliver, these works con- ~voy tho vory highest ides. Nomoro accurate, carefully-finished historic sketches can be found in the whole field of : English literature. The opening chapters of “ Harold” contain dotails which the student will find’ nowbere eclse go graphically combined, from Hume to Macaulay ; and the servico here rendered to early English history is extended to the Italian in **Rieuzi.” and in *The Last Days of I’omEeii " to the ex- position of tho influence of Greek civilization on Ttaly. On their power of fascination there is no peed to Gwell. Who does not remember the spell which summoned before him the young darling of tho Saxons, vanquished at Hastings ; the 1o Great Brothers Inng dead at Barue! Xrvdie flecing from the buming city; and the glomng, Southern beaaty of Nina Rasselli? With* The Caxtons " began TUE GREAT ERA of Bulwer's career a¢ a novelist. It is a great encovragement to notice how, through the Sarious attempts of bis earlior works, his goniug slowly cleared itself of impuritics and discovered its true mature, until in this it_came forth strong, mellow, and_perfect a8 old wine. In Pigistratus he achieved what he had attempted in Pelbam,—a hero who gave, we cannot help beiieving, & deatli-blow to the Byronic school in fiction. A hero who is a8 pure a3 ho is manly; who confides his Jove-affairs to his father, and finds consolation for his first grief in the affec- tions of his mother; who consuits tho happinesa of the woman he professes to adore, rather than s own paseion,—Wwas as great an innovation upon the time-honored model of & hero in prose,as was HouryjTaglor'si Van Arteveldo” in poetry. In'the wonderfully-gifted sonof Roland e have the perfection of that type to which wo Dbave alluded in * Lucretis,” aftorwards repeat- ed in thé Rendal Leslie of “ My Novel,"—Intel- Tect independent of principle. ~We confess to a great affection for the quaint character of Mr. Caston, whose delightful peculiarities reappear in the introductory pages of My Novel.” s What Will He Do With It?” is the most per- fect in plot, and, in many respects, THE MOST CHARMING of oll its suthor's works. It containg in George orley probablytho finestrepreseatative of ihe Clergyman to be found in English fiction. Parts of this work aro intensely dramatic, and more than one successful play Lias borrowed its most striking incidents. This book is also noticeable as containing the most felicitons and musical janguage of any of Bulwer's works. Tho con- cluding chapter is, in fact, & poem ; and_the lit- tle chapter entitied * Beware of Parting ™ is, Jike all good poetrv,as trueasit is beantiful. Ins form bnt slightly altered, it appeared in one of ourmagazined a fow weoks ago, and made considerable repuation foriss veraifier. When tho * Strange Story ” appeared, 1t was & period of much interest and excitement with re- gard to Spiritualism. It ‘was gaid that Balwer Satered to tho public taste for marvels; it was, and is still, regarded by many a8 & pure extraya- ganza, This is not the light in which we look at . ‘Tho table-turnings of Spiritualism, tho pro- fessed revelations of this pseudo-scieuce, at that timo unsettlod many minds, some by no means of the lowest order. Curiously, the men wilk whom tho most extravagant manifestations of the kind received the fullest and easiest cre- denca were those to whom belief in simpler and more clevating theories of s spiritual life Lad goemed most impossibie. The key to the au- thor's design is best expreesed by onc of his quotations from Novalis : “‘¥YIECE GOD I8 NOT, SPECTRES RULE.” To us it scems ono of tho most eloquent argu- ments over written in support of the simple and ennobling faith in o Supremo sud Benoficent Tntelligence contralling the world,—a faith Which. in its prmitive form, stripped of the in- cumbrances of cant and tradition, hos thus f{ar commanded the assent of the most powerful minds. Somothing like tho samo subject, or rather a complement of this ides, had been pro- Sionsly attempted by tke author in * Zanoni,"— & work of moro romantic and artistic character. With tho *“Strange_Story,” Bulwer’s work in fietion might neturally bave been regarded as comploted. But minds like his must, ko long as life lasts, fecl the pulso of the ago beating through them. e was profoundly impressed by this now era, 50 diffezent from that in which bis genius had matured. Its problems perploxed, Sttracted bim. .He longed to grapple with them, and the result was *The Parisians,” ** Kenelm Chillingly,” end *The Coming Race.” 'Inthe latter, he fled to romance to express his appre- henion 8b ihe iucreasing power which the womanly clement was so rapidly attaining in the field of active life.” He had written—none more enthusiastically—of Woman the Consoler aud Woman the Inspirer; but Woman the Actor and Creator DAUNTED HDf. Thero did not occur to him the solution which Jean Ingelow puts in the mouth of Braudon : “Tlis is a woman-ridden age. Well, all the others were man-ridden. Aftera while, we hall find our true balance between the two.” But nothing is 80 indicative of a certain greatness of soul as the fact, 80 patent in this work and in “Kenelm Chillingly,"—whero he depicts tho hero of a transitionary ers, the man born in ozo age, but inheritor of anotlier,—that he met the eat problems of our day in no spirit of ancicnt B rejudice, of small Lostility. He docsnot sa firizo the weary young sago who finds tho world out of joint,—ho tries hard to understand and ide him. He does not eneer at the Coming Yoman,—ho endeavora honestly to comprsbend Der, o fepresent her justly, though Lo turtcd away smiling, but sad. *The Parisians " is 3 sketch of the VORLD'S anzfir C_AI'XTLL[ ¢ aesrlo in the latter days of tho Empire. i t see Liow attractive to a mind so sddicled to phil- oeophic reverio must havo been that kaleidos scopic, rcculiu‘, ‘brilliant cciety of the Paris of 1869, 7T ‘he best feature of *The Parisians ™ i3, that it is an inside view of the city and society it depicts. Whoever knows the interior of French aons, the tone of Frenchmen as home, will ad- it thet this is not the skotch of a hasty tourist, a foreiguer otserving from the stend-point of ommopolitsn hotels. Neither has tho author Sritten s 8 _partisso,—Imperialist, Legitimist, Communist bave littlo to complain of in their ropresontative. The Lepublican slone is an exception to this pervading tolerstion. Balwer, in political principles, was casentially an aristo- I P the government of hia choics was always id S ocrscy. Inhis earlies works, par- toniana,” bo betrsyed his great dietaste for the of the American Revoblic. * The howa 8 great change of ‘sentiment P teaard to us. Whils, in " The Coming Race,” hie points out the most dangerous rocks in tho way of our ship of State, tlio draft of the Copstitution institotions Parisians ™ ¢l from him ; and his American dramatis persol character resulting fr, HE DID NOT COMTRENEND the French Republicans, either in their aims or characfer, " Yo the seclusion to which they wero compelled, a fortunate chance alone could have made him acquaiuted with that thoughtful, pa- tient, and intellectual minority on whom, what- over may hsppen to the Franch Government, tha hope of the resurrection of French nationallife maust chiefly rest. With this exception, the vari- ous types of citizens aro sketcned with slmost too partial a hand. Some of the secrets of the Great Centro he did not fathom; some of the darkest shades Decessary to that pisture aro wanting; but, on the Wwholo, the first bal of the novel shows unusual powers of inaixht snd description. ~His best sod most originalcharacter is Isaura. In her He shows that he had very truly learned the problems that Dbeset, the difficulties that encompass, the heart not less than the lifo of the woman of gonius in our ers of expectation and trapsition. Dat those problems he could not soive. He quailed before tha epirit he had 1nvoked. He could not fil out the statue tothe grand proportio: had drawn. But it i8 & necesaary and significant fact, that the hero who embodiea these dsiicien- cics of the author fails of his proper height in proportion as the heroine fails of bers. Tho greatnesa of Balwar's creations belongs almosk @xclusivoly to his men. 1lis women are_gener- ally devoted, lovabls, but not independout or original. In Teaura he began s grander tspo; but the stroag lines fade away into feeblencss. This is true of the general conclusicn of the book. The hand so long tircless DEGAN TO FLAG. Tho fertilo brain was tired. Tho drowsiness of the Last Sleep was falling upon tho oyos of the old Scer. No. tho less, O my master, at thy name shall the moisturs of gratefal thought rise in eyes still new to life, and violets of tender tribuie be strewed upon that far-off tomb in West- minster, on which Thackeray looks dowa with kindiy sadness, and €0 near to whero the rus- ing fignre of *‘ the only Shakspeare is.” Tn sn ngo when the Grotesquo snd the ser- vilely Real domineer over Art, Lo led usto’look npon the calm besuty of the Ideal. Tmperfeo- tion and deficiency we find in his eatlier works, but their immorality we fail to diazover. Thoy are all written with a distinct, and most of them with an earnest, purpose,—a purpose which, in his later and more perfect works, is nobly real- ized. The pulpit will some day more fully recognize the writer who, more than any other, has shown its noblest daties, and suggested its highest capacities. The scholar owes apprecia- tion to one who represented in the brightest colors tho fascinati Anewerand » fiver type of ovel hos Fme- cecded his; but & typo o raro that it has yot but one creator. Besides, to appreciato this Yo~ quires o ceriain maturity of oxpenienco and thought. Bulwer is the novelist of tho young— in hoart or life. He is the only ono who can moralizo and enchant at the same time. CuARLES LASDOR. DEATH ON THE RAIL. The Late Accident on the Great Weste ern Road. Canadian papers farnish us with detaiied se- counts of the terrible sccues caused by the burning of s passenger car on tho Great VWest- ern Railway, 3 miles oast of Komoks, and T miles west of London, Ont., on Sunday might, by which & number of lives were lost, 2ud mzny perscus badly hurt. A letter from Strathroy to the Toronto &l says that the bell-rope was not -attached Lo tie engine, and consequently there was no way of stopping tho train, I was running ot the rate of about 50 miles nn hour, and ran abous. § miles burning. The car was destroyed in about six minutes, burning like tinder:' The followiny accounts aro farnished by the same corraspond- ent: Dy actual count it is ascertained that at leask thirty-five inhabitants of Strathroy, or partica coming to the town, were on board the ill-fatod frain. - How many more is uncertain, Tha fol- lowing ara the Strathroy casualties,” ss far a2 ascertained : N. McKollar, Assistsut 1 the High Sebool, burned to death ; Mr. McReliar, with Mr. Dearnoss, Principal of the Pubtic’ Schools, was returning from the School Convention iz Lon- don. ALTr. Dearness cscaped through o windew, and sustained o severe contusion of tho brain by Talling among o heapof rails.” Mr. McKellar was, owing to 3 broken leg, incapablo of active exer- tion, and from s desite to avoid the crowding sl the rear door allowed tho remaining passengera to pass hmn, at tho samo time eudeavor- ing to quell tho excitement that existed. Portions of his body were sfterward found lying insmde the reer ‘door. From their position it is surmised that ho survived. & few minutes longer than Miss Purvis, who waa recognizable from' his baving fallea upon her. W. H. Murray, dry-goods merchant hate, wat sitting about the centre of, the car, on the south side of the car, and, when he perceived the progress of the flames, broke the window to let inar. After romaining with lua head out for » moment retreat becams impossible, and L moved his body outside, placing his' cvercosi around his right arm to prevent his Laud being burmed. As the fire gained tho coat took fira and bo let him self fall. He was injured on the hozd and hand, and burned_slightly. Ho it confined to his bed. Mr. A H. Orton, wrgon- maker, placed his hesd out of tho window fot air. Mo fell heasily, seriously ipjnring onc leg, and had to bo carried home. Ar. A B. Re- moy, wetchmaker, jumped on tho Lrst 8ppear suce of the tire, and alighted on his feot unine jured. 3lr. Muller, patent-mediciue agout, jump- od out of tho window; he has sustamed several sovera contusions. - Mr. Augastus Dlessing, marble-cutter, jumped out of the winduw ; he \was sovercly injured in the loga; taken to Lou- don. Mr. Daniel Decow, who was in the smnk- ing car, i8 uvinjured. Mr. F. Saxlon, woyerely injured; taken to London. Jr, Neil McGugan, soverely injured in tho Lead ; taken to London, Mr. Archibald Carruthers, glovemnker, Struth- Yoy, with Miss Claflin aud auotbor Lady. sl made for the rear platform on the first appearauce of fire, and ren:ained thero till the train was broagik tonstand. While in this position several par- ties jumped over their beads, and they were sov- eral times nearly pushed off. Ars. Samuel Crav- ford, of Globe Fouudry, Loudon, with a Jady friond, Miss Specrs, wero on ther war to pay & visit to frends in Strathroy. Loth' Iadics escaped through the windowa with their _clothes artially burzed. ‘They returned to Loadon. ary Browu, recently living in Strathroy, but now of Petrolia; jumped from the rear platform on to fsst sppoatsace of tho fire aud_cscaped uninjured. Dr. Smith, formerly of Struthroy and Komoka, but now of Quecn street, West Toronto, was severely cut in the face aud his ove injurcd. He escaped through tho door. and fell | on his face. He has returned to his friends in Komoka. Mrs, Freeman, liviog at Clarke's Mlls, Caradoc, injured ; taken to Loudou. Her grandson was bumed to’ death. 3ir. McKinnon, telegraph-operator, who was on lus wsyto ful~ fill un engagement 1 Strathroy, spravg from tho rear platform and elid & _car’s lengifi on tha jce, Ho elghtly sprained his poile. Mr. John Hay, formeriy of Brayley & May, Toronto, very badly injured in tho head, lies at Homoks. A man named dcCarthy is reported missing, Hir. Lee, insurauce agent, wbo mads Strathroy his headquarters, is supposed to have béen among tho lost. Itis yot uncertainas to whetlier he was on board, but it is fearcd that b was. Miss Lawrence, daughter of Dr. Law- rence, of Paris, was on 5 visit to her sister, 3Irs. Burnham, wife of the freight ageut a Petrolls, With Miss Purvis. They wisited Loodon yester- Jay morning, taking with them = yousz lad, sou of Alr, Burnpam, aged sboat 6 years. Thew were sitting in & double seat, haviog with them 2 dangliter of Conductor Mitchell. Tbo Luiter daropped ont of the window, and Miss Lawrence fonbmed, while Afies Parvis with young urn- ham mado for the door. Both of tho Iatter vero o8 to dexth. 3iss Parvis is a step-daugtér of the Rev. Mr. Muir, of Galt.” _ 3ir, Daniel Decow, who was in the smoking- car. states that when bo firet saw the fire con.- fag throngh the forward door ho closed it ta pre- Sent o draught, but the next moment two Ia- dians opencd it and jumped off the Grai-class car platform. He stood on the platform to try Fo close it, bat could not, owing to the intensity of tle flames, which shot up with frighifal rap- fiity. Conductor Mitchell rusked through them, and ho tried tohelp him up to the top of tho smoking-car, but he could not get up. Tie Conductor then directed tho bzakeman to try to . uncouple the passengar-Coach, whilo ho ren thromgh to tha baggape- car. Ho opened the side-door aud s~ cended by tho sides. Meanwhilo 3r. Decow saw tho fire drive the passengers towards the rear end of the train, all excepi one beavy mun, sap- posing to be Mr. Lee, who secined root d to hiy place. The cries was now heart-rendsog iu the extreme, and by looking over the sido Le could gee men and women drop off the platfurm and ontof the windows, some uninjurcd, otbers Iying where they fell. As the tiain stopped, Condactor Mitchell, who did nobly, asked nim to come beck and afd the injured. Tha fGirst bo found was & msu who wasg all on fice, and whom berolled on tho ground. O:bors, mon and women, lay alony the track for, a dirtauce of overa mile and a half. ’ found smong De_Maulecn's papers | Showa that our _political clarter hed won ad- | so¥s —Tt is pleasing $o gee that so.many of the suf- feross of | O'Uricu County taks hemo their conl and corn with such slick, fat-looking ‘horses.— Cherolee (Ia.) Times. - "