Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1874, Page 9

'THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUND AY, MARCH 29, 1874, {be upper boxes. Sle was also presented with ismond stsr worin 10,000 francs, sad an ad- {ied with & fine piece of Brussols laca. At 1he end of the pecond act the houss was thrown mm.suw of great excitement, tnd she was callod before the curtain twenty-five tices, and Samerous baskets of florrers wero placed npon {astage. At theend of the third act the popu- ooy reached ifn climax. Bho was ealled out thirty times, and when ghe left the opersa-house was lited from her feet by a crowd of epthusisstio admirers and carried to her car- Tisge- ATl this nonsanse is gravely narrated asif it psd not been told a hundred times before. This glory, with very slight variatious, has been told of Nilsson, Adelina Patti, Luces, Mallinger, Di Mureka, Sessi, and every other prima donns who pas beon prominent duriog tho paat twenty years, except the late Parepa-Ross, who was too much of =0 artist and a womin fo allow any msnager invent such nonsense gnd circalate it sbout her. The sbaurdity of the whole story is manifest from one of its festures slone. We are told that Mlle. Albani o called befors thio curtain fifteen times atthe epd of the firet act, twenty-five times at the end of the socond, and thirfy times st the end otthe third, c= sixty-five times in all. This is iy » pbysical impossibility. Tho calling-out of sn artist, her sppearance, her scknowledg- ments and return to the dressing-room, and the timo which must be _consumed in gathering up the bonauets would averago fully five minutes foresch call. In this case, therefore, Mile. Al- psai must have consumed five hours of 20 @ time in trotting back and forward to gratify her importunate admirers, ‘which ja simpiy preposterous. It is a fair evidence, however, of the nonsense whicl we * gre compelled to read periodically about artists who aro intending to come to this conntry, and which has been ropeated so often that it is getting tobo tiresome. Operatic managers seem {0 proceed upon the dea that there is no limit to the gulliblity of opera-geers, and that they will guallow the same etnil yeer after year. It is time, therefore, that the managers shonld invent something nerw, or, what i3 still better, commence to tell the trath. The present systom of adver- tising 34ds nothing to their exchequers, and cnly disgusts opera-goers. VOLTAIRE.~-IL BT PROF. WILLIAM MATHEWS, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Af the conclusion of our former article on Vol- tsire, wo suggested some Tessons for an abate- ment of the severity with which this great writer isapt to be regarded Dy the +Christian world. “The sentiments of indignation, and even horror, with which he was viewed till a recent period, were never, perhaps, mors powerfully expressed tnan by the grest Catholio writer, Connt Joseph Do Maistre, 1n his Soirees de Sawt-Petersbourg. oo of the most brilliant and masterly theological works of this century. De Maisire was & native of Savoy, and for fifteen years was Envoy Ex- traordionry snd Minister Plenipotentiary from Sardinia to Russis. It was while thus exiled 4rom his countrs that he wrote his prncipal orks,—works which, though masterpieces of thonght and style, and intensely interestng to every scholar and thinker, are lnown, we fear, 20 comparatively few American resders. In the ‘hope of piquing the curiosity of some who have 0t mude his scquaintence, avd inducing them 10 brush the dust from his tomes, sud as a coun- ‘terpoise to our “Broad-Church " views of Vol- taire, we have translated from the Soirees the pusssge sbove referred to. We doubt if a more brilliant or scathing denunciation can be found in the entire compass of modern French liters- ° ture. It ia » somewhst remarksble fact that Ds Maistre has boen passionately admired 88 & riter by represcntative thinkers who have stood almost in polar antithesis to each other. 2. Comte, the Positivist, spesks of him as * the most eminent thinker of the Catholic school ;" declares that * Do Maistre has for me the pecu- Jiar property of helping me to estimate the philosophic capacity of peopie, by the repate in hich they hold him;” snd adds, that among bis other reasons, &t a certain time, for thinking el of Gaizot, was, that, **Notwithetanding his ¢ranscendent Protestsntism, he complied with tho test of apprecisting Do Maistre.” Arch- Goscon Hare speaks of the Soirces ss ** one of’ the wisest and most delightful works of recont times, whicly, though its euthor is sometimes overfancifol, and not neldom lod astray by his Romieh prejudices, is full of hizh and ho- Iy thonghs on the loftiest subjecta of spocala- tion.” Mr. Fitz-James Stephen, theZscute and able anthor of * Equality, Freternity, and De- mocracy,” pronounces the Soirees “gone of the Xiveliost and most interesting of books ; the vi- vacity of the style, and the originality, ingenui- 15, nd fervor of the thought, give it & charm very like that which kelongs to Pascal's Let- tera.” Sainte-Beuve, the great French critic, bas written three elaborate crafiques on De Mais- tre, and quotes and refers to him again and sgain in s manner that shows the great Catholio Jogmatist and champion of Popery and the In- quisition to havo been hold by him, in spite of Lis Ultramontanism, in peculiar admirstion and Teverence. Butto the translstion. Replying to those who urga that Voltaire, however ho may shock us by Xis doctrines of life, must be acknowledged to Lave bean & beat genie, DE MAISTRE SBATS @ “Call bim afine genius to your heart's content ; it will be no less true that, in extolling Voltaire, one must do it With a certain restraint,—I had almost said, against ono's will. The frenzied admiration which too many persons lsvish upon 1im is the infallible sign of s corrupt soul. Let 20 one delude himself : 1f, in ranning over his library, sy msn feels himself sttracted to tho Works of Ferney, God does not love him. Often men have mocked at the ecclesisatic suthority ‘which has condemned books in odium aucloris; in truth, nothing was more just. Refuse the Ronors of genius to him who_abuses ifs gifls. Were tLis law severely observed, we should soon 1ea a1l poisonous works disappear; but, since it ie not for us to promalgate it, let s st least guard ourselves from falling into the excess, ‘much more reprehensible than is commonly sup- posed, ef exalting without measure guilty wri- fre, and him especially. “Unvittiogly he has pronounced against him- ¢elf s terrible decree, for it iz Voltaire himself who has 2aid, A corrupt spirif was never sublime. Nothing is mare true, and thst is why Voltaire, with his hundzed volumes, was never more than Pretty : T except Tragedy, where the nature of thework forced him to express nobie senti- ments, foreign to his character; and yet, even upon ke stago, the scene of his trinmphs, he does not deceive practiced eyes. In his best Pieces he resembles his two great rivals as.the cleverest hypocrite resembles a saint. Never- theless, T do not mean to contest bis dramatic merit ; T only hold to my first observation: tho moment that Voltaire speaks in his own name, bois but pretty ; nothing can warm him, not even the battle of Fontenoy. : £ * He is charming, says one: I ssy g0, 1005 ‘but andemmnd that vory word to be a criticism. Furthermore, I cannot endare the exaggeration that pronounces bim unitersal. Certainly I seo £0mo fine xoepticns to that universality. Hois ;“;hlnsgn Isric poetry ; and who can be aston- oy edsiit? Deliverate umpiety had extinguish- in him the Divine fame of enthusinsul. i’ls:n he is nothing, snd ridiculonsly 80, in the d;“flnm-.—hip ear having deen abeolutely o toharmonic beauties, 8s his eycs were t0 st of Art, In the kinds of writing which most enslogous to his natursl telent, bo . drags; he is mediocre, cold, and often (who would believe it ?) heavy and coarse in comedy ; for thewicked man is never comic. For the s2me reason, e could nover make an epigram, —the smallest effusion of his gall never filling less then a hundred verses. If he sattempts sgatire, he slips into libel ; heis insupportable in history, in spite of bis art, his elegance, and tha graces of his style,—no quality sufficing to re- place thoso which he lacks, and which are the 1i%e of history : gravity, good faith, and dignity. “ As to his epic poom, 1 bavono right io spesk of it ; for, to judge of & book, one should have read it, and to read it one should keep awake. A drowsy monotony characterizes the majority o(_ his writinge, which have but two subjects, the Bible and its enemies: he blasphomes, or he in- sults. His boasted pleasantry, however, is far _{tom being irreproachable. The laughter which it excites is not legitimato ; it is a grimace. « Have you nover remarked that the Divine anathems was written on his face? After 8o many yoars, it is time again to test the observa- tion. Go, contemplate his figaro in the palace of the Hermitage: never do I look upon it without congratulating myself that it has not beon trans- mitted to us by some chisel that was beir to the Greeks, which would have known, perhaps, how to shed over it a certain ideal besuty. Here all isnataral. There is as much truth ia his head a8 there would have been in n plaster-cast takan from tho dead body. BSee that ab- jecs brow which shame never colored! Those - two extinot craters, where sensuality and hate goem still £o boill That mouth,—I speak ill, porhaps, but it is not my foult,—that frightful rictus, running from ear to ear; and those lips tightened by cruel malico, like & spring ready to fly back and harl forth the blasphemy or the sar- casm, Do not speak to mé of that man; Ican- not bear to think of him. Ah! how much mis- chiof hes he donme us! Like thet insect, tho scourge of the gardens, which bites only the roots of the most precious plants, Voltaire, with his sting, ceases not to wonad the two roota of society; women and young people; he imbues themywith his poisons, which he thus transmits from one generation to another. ¢ In vain, to veil his unhitterabledesigns, do his stupid sdmirers deafen us with sounding tirades in which he has spoken finely of objects themost venerated. Theso eeif-blinded xen do not see that they thus complote the condemnstion of that guilty writer. If Fenelon, with the same pon that painted the joys of Elysium, had writ- ten the bool Of the Prince, hewonld have beens thousand times vilerand guiltier than Machiavel. The great crime of Voltaire is the abuse of talont, and the deliborato prostitution of & genins created to celgbrate God and virtue. He could not allege, like many other persons, youth, inconsideration, the fury of the paseions, and, to conclude, last of all, the sad weaknees of onr nature. Nothing absolves him; his corruption isof a kind which belongs only to him; itis rooted in the last fibres of his heart, and forti- fied by all tho forces of his understanding. Al- waye allicd to sacrilege, it defies God whilo be- traying men. With a fury that hss no example, this insolent blasphemer comes at last to declaro umself tho personal enemy of tho Savior of men he dares, from the depths of his pothing- ness, to give him s ridiculous namle; and that adorable Iaw which the Man-God introduced into the world, he calls THE INFAMOUS. Abandoned of God, who punished him by withdrawing Himself, ho henceforth knew no restraint. Other cynics have astonished virtue ; Voltaire sston- janes vice. Ho plunges into the mud, he rotls in it, he drinks of it ; he surrenders his imagina- tion to the enthusissm of Hell, which lends him all its forces to hurry him to the very limits of evil. He invents prodigies, monsters which make one psle. Pans crowned him; Sodom ould have banished him. Shemeless profaner of the universal language and of its greatest names,—the last of men after those who love him !—how shall I paint to you the feelings he excitesin me! When I see what he could have done, and what be has done, his inimitabie tal- ents inspire me only with & kind of boly rage that has no name. Suspended between admira- tion and horror, I could wish sometimes to have rearod to him & statue,—by the hand of tho oxe- cutioner.” —_———— SUICIDE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Tranalated from the Staats-Zeitung of March 28. The United States Senate has sealed the dis- graca of the country by giving its consent to the action of the House of Representatives increas- ing the national forced loan from $356,000,000 to 2400,000,000. The ovly question ‘betwoen the two Houses is now the settlement of the wording of the afore-mentioned determination; as to its, substanco they are agreed. All the stock-board cheats, swindlers, and speculators of the land are rojoicing ; all honorable men, who had beliaved that tho Republic wonld dsal fairly snd without evasion with its ereditors, mourn over this dis- fal crime against tho honor and prosperity of the nation. They say to themselves that this first step on the road to rmin will necessarily araw many others sfter it, and that the action of Congress is likely to drive the finances of tho TUnited States on those *shosls and rocks on which Austria suffered shipwreck. To try to cure & Bick headache by drinking brandy is a folly which no man of sound sense would commit ; yet it is just the stupidity which Congress bas committed when it sought to ban- 18h the decp misery into which mad specalation with fictitions values has plunged the country through a new deluging of the country with such fictitions values. An increase of the representatives of value is not an increase of values, but it gives rige to an appearance of such an increase, since it shortens the measure by which tuey are ‘measured. If Congress were guddenly to order thata yard- stick shonld be only thirty inches long, appar- eatly, 1,000 yards of cloth would be cbanged into 1,200 ; that is, the same quantity of cloth which was formerly called 1,000 yards would be oalled 1,200 ; but;still there wonld not be an inch more ofit. Thus an increase bf the amount of paper ‘money from £856,000,000 to 2400,000,000 will so Jessen the valuo fof this money that 112 paper dollars will only have the ssme ex- chapgo ~ valus that 100 did before. In otber words, sppatently, all commodities will be dearer, and it is thus that they hope to broathio new lifo into trado and commerce, buy- ing and selling—to cure the headache by new in- toxication. Democrats snd Republicans bave united in about equal proportions to carry out this un- Dappy determination ; but the pecial responsi- biity falls upon the Republicaue alone. They have a decided mejority in both Houses of Con- gress, and they were pledged, by their party pro- gramme, to vote against every: ‘measure through S ich the rosd to restoration of spects payments was abandoned. They have committed & base treachery to their platform of 1868 and 1872, and. have declared themselves to be o party 28 for- getful of shame and honor as the Democratic party of twenty years ago, when they adopted the Nebraaks bill. The Democratic party then departed rom tho solemn pledges of its platform of 1852, and thereby dug its own grave. The Republican party has now done the same thing, by faithless treschery to its own fenchings and promises. That which now beara thie name of Republican party is nothing more than an organization composed Of a mass re- strained from deep thought by vis inerlia, and held together throngh the greed and vanity of tricky politicians in ordor to plander the Federal Treasury- . ‘Evenassnch, it may, like the Demoeratic party in 1852, carry another Presidential clection, €0 long 88 DO distinctly-defined new party‘stands in opposition. Whether such o party will come into life by 1876 i8 herd to say. It ratber looks at present a8 if now, 88 twehty yoars 880, & Vio— lent nativistic temperance. ‘movement would stand in the way of the creation of & new nation- al party. = Wo publish, on another psge of this paper, & letter from 8 promivent member of the order Jnown as the ‘* Advocates. of Justice.” It soams that the six lodgos now organizod in this city have made arrangements with several prominent firms to buy from them for cash at greatly-reduced rates, The saviug in the item of groceries is said to sverage & full third. This Society, likoits rival, the_** Sovereigns_of Li- dustry,” thus combines gocial and pecuniary advantages. It doubtless does good. _——— ART. LAOCOON. Ax Essax UpoN THE LIMITs OF PAINT- ING_AND POETRY: WITH REMARKS ILLUBTEATIVE O Vanious POINTSIN TnE ILISTOBT OF ANCIENT Anr. By Gorrmoip Ermnan Lrssino, Translited by Brigs FroTmisomax, 1 vol, 16 mo., 245 pp. Boston: Boberts Bros. .- ‘A noteworthy sign of tho growiog refinement of our reading publicis afforded in the gradual multiplication of treatised upon Art among us. Tho last year has been especially prolific of works of this scrt, and we have welcomed from the press a goodly number of volumes, both new and revived, of a high standard in Art-writing. Althongh wo bave no extensive collections of +-works in our country, and are favorod with fow opportunies for cultivating a truo tasto by contact with good picturcs and marbles, we sreina fair way to goin an understanding of 1he theory and science of the Fine Arts. Weare demonstrating that & nation may arrivo ata respectable aitainment in esthetic culture through an Acquaintance with choice specimens of Balles-Lettros and an enlightened observation of the wondersand beauties of Nature, all of which are prodigally scattered sbout us and within easy access of the intellect and senses. The gallerics of painting snd scalpturo in the 01d World are bronght so near by the facilities of travel that no mean proportion of our citizens are ablo to visit them st least onco in a life-time, and,with suitable preparation beforehand, obtain in & brief and rapid study, practical lossons in ‘Art that have a lasting infinence in clevating and purifving the taste. Thus, throngh theso varions means, albeit we have as yet scarcely begun to develop a National School of Art worthy of the name, and are almost destitate of representatives of the achools of other nations and ages, wo have reached that point where we realize the import- ance of such & Imowlodge of the Fino Arts as may be derived from esthetic history and enticism, and whers it has becoms profitable o circulate Jiberally the books which open up to us tho Jiturature and philosophy of Art. Itis now twenty years since s translation of Tessing's “Laocoon” was published in En- gland by E. C. Boasley, one of tho tutors of Teamington Collego. A fow copies were im- ported for the use of American readers, but th geanty supply wes very £oon exhausted. Ap- prociating that 3 reproduction of tho book would bo opportune st the prescnt time, Mies Ellen Frothingham has propared a mew translation, which is brought ont by a firm that is ever alert to provide for the highest intellectual needs of tho poople. Miss Frothingham has before shown her capacity as & trenalator, in her ele- gant version of Goethe's ** Hermann and Doro- thes.” Hor easy and accurate rendering of the hresent work, oqually with the provious eseiy, desorvee the encgmiums of tho critic. The f ‘b such gems of Gerrasn literaturo, trans-" ferred to their own vernacular, should win her the gratitude of her countrymen. 56 Taraous group of ancient soulpture cnti- ilea tho Laocoon was discovered at Rome, in 1503, among the ruins of tho Baths of Titus, which iv originm\}y decorated. _According ‘to Pliny, it was the joint work of threo sculpiore, L A erandor, Polydorus, and Athenodorus. of Ruodes. No record bas survived of the time when these nrtists flourished. Winkelmann, the crest German Art-writer, believed it to have g:eu ‘produced at tho period when Greek Art wea in ite highest state of perfection,—that is, Titho time of Alexander tne Grest. Lesslug, on the contrary, sustains the opirion that it was created under the first Roman Emperors, during onoe of the brilliant but spasmalic revivals of Art which characterized their ara. "I legend of-tho Luocoou is of great an- tiquity. It wasa favorite theme of the Greek pocts, and was introduced by Viegil into the Enead. Along with the dispute among the ritics 5 to tho._epoch in which tho legend was carved in’ marble, there i8 8 question whetber irei) had tho groop beforo him whea he wroto Lda description, or whothor the eculptors, com- fng after, borrowed from the poet. their concep- Hon. TLessing, of course, argues in favor of the Tattor opinion. _The legend 1s to the effect that s pricst of Apollo, in Troy, while offering, in Company with his £wo sons, 8 propitiatory neri- Feo to Neptune, was destroyed by two enormous Forpents which Mincrva, being inconsed agains Dim, caused to come out of the sea for tho pur- Dose.. The serponts first attacked tho sons, and then crushed Laocoon in their folds, whilo he a8 vainly endeavoring to redue his children, Tessing takes tho remarkable gmfl‘)] of sculp- tare which illnstrates this myth, for the point of departurs in his esgay,—d:gressing from it to Giaouss varions subjects in _the bistory of Art, i to defins tho Jimits of painting and poetry. ‘His book holds somewhat the position toward the Laocoon that Ruskin's essay on +¢ Modern Painters" does to the pictures of Turner. The work of the Germau author i inferior_in mag- Ditnde, in ardor, nd in cloquence, to its grest :{1 but is one with itin motive, English congenar ; Tesearch, penotration, und reverence Without evers sight of the marblo cclébrated by the one, orof the canvases ennobled oy _the other, ono'may bavo their subject, their history, thelr hoaning, and theix merits, fally and eloarly im- Dressed on the mind, through theso two naiquo and masterly critiques. The canons which Lessing laid down in the Taocoon,” over s hundred years ago—tho ‘book was published in 1755,—have been 80 often reiterated in various esthetic writings that they Tuvo becomo gencrally familiar. He devotos much of his remarks to o refutation of the theory which obtsined among cortain critics of Tuis day, that painting and poetry sharo the same domain; and are bonnd by the ssmo limitations. o establishes the rulo that uuccession in timo is the provinco of the poet, co-existence in Fpuco that of tho artist. Postry properly ropre- Fhats progressivo actions, whilo painting must Somtent iteolf with portrzying bodies at rest, in Sttitudes suggestive of action. | Buta moment of timo is allowed the artist; therefore he must boiso that which ismost pregnant, which best recalls that which has passed, or foretells that +which is in the fature. Nor must the poes trench upon the ground of the painter, and attempt to present a complete plorhre by & consccutive enumoration of its sev- Fral portions. This involves vain effort of the jmagination. Before the 1ast are mentioned the {irstare forgotton. Langusgo as the instrument of poetry cannot depict & corporeal whole by o Soacription of succossive dotails, The entire conception mast be pregented to_the eye in a glance, or to the ear in o word. Hence tho poet Bionld not strive to create elaborate pictures of objects, or portraits of phyeical beanty, unless fhey can be summoned forth by 8 siuglo virid epithet. That which is nglyand deformed, that disgusts and revolts, is ot fit for the representation of e, After the illusion of the first survey, & picture resolves jteelf into its elements, and Those which'aro disagreeablo i the mastery, tad dostroy the pleasing and ennobling effect which it is the suprome object of Art_to cresate. Tn poetey, on tho otber band, uninviting objocts may be introduced, as the force of their impres- sion is softened in the narration of their concur- rent parts. The theory has been advanced that the test of a poem consists in its availability for the artist; Dut a poem not in itselt pjpturesque may bo rich i in themes for tho painter, 'while ono that is in a ligh dogree picturesque may yicld him nothing. P ting and poetry seck tho same cffect: 0 Troduce a plessing illusion but they differ both PG ha objocts and in the methods by which they Dursn ft. They should Loid kindly relations Daatd auch other, “like two just and friendly Tlghbors, neither of whom indeed in aliowed to T oecumiy libertics in theheart of the other's Jomain, but who exercise mutusl forbearance on | the borders; and effect 8 peacofal settlement for all potty encroschments which circumstances ‘may compel either to make in haste on the rights of the other.” ¥ ——————— Thero is a mournful prospect that the public has not heard tho 1ast of the Tichberne case, a2 it is announced that procoedings will be com~ menced to carry it to the highest tribunal. . 1tis intimated that Dr. EKenealy will move the fall Court of Queen’s Bench, next term, for a writ of crror,on the ground that certain documents wero ruled out during the last trial which were ad- missible by law. and that the conduck of the jury bas given rigo to geveral formidable excep- tions. It ie sincerely to be hoped that thern- mors are withont foundation ; ‘but they come in such an apparently suthoritative manner that allits forti- few vears for & repetition of the farce. It is bard, but there does not seem ‘to be any escape from it unless a syrapathizing ‘Providence should see fit to remove the irapastor from this world of strife. ETERNAL PUNISHMEAT--00 Mr. Hanson's Answer to Mr. Reed’s Second. Zo the Editor of The Chicaqo Tribune & ‘Sin: Charlea H. Recd, Esq., in his rojoinder to 4ny correction of his statements concerning the word aion sud it8 derivatives, indulges in 8 littie playfalness, which wonld not be wholly out of place in an ordinary controversy, but which, manifested on the theme he is diecuseing, is fearfully p MALAPROPOS. Endeavoring o prove that thousands who should read his words are to find the grave trap- doors into endless burnings, he hss the Leart to squib and- joko while arguing bis positions! Sarely, o capnot reslizo Lis thomo, He must treat it mechanically, mercly. To realize 18 awfal horror, and quip and joko about it, whata monster he would be! *Nero fiddling while Rome wa8 burning” would be a model of coosistoncy compared with one who could comsent to Plsy the wag while con- templating such & doom for millions. warn” 1 havo come forward to vindicate the character of God from the charges Mr. Reed makes against Him, which, if true, would blacken His name swith horror ; and my correspondent says, “ The it bird flutters.” I aclmowledge the imputa— tion. Though mob simed &, I am ‘“hit” When the character of my Father is assailed apjustly, I am whit”' Iwill do Mr. Reed the justice to believe that, if his esgjhly father Woro traduced, he would resent the aspersion, though ot * aimed at.” Ought I not, then, to speak-in God’s behalf, when He is accnsed of doing worse by His children than any mortal paront was evor bad enough to desiroto do by hischildren? Ism “hit.” +Ithank thee, Jow, for teaching me that word.” A TOLAND FOB AN OLIVER. Mr. Reed advisea me 8o to live aa to oscape s ondless punishment.” A lifo shaved by such 2 motive would bo littla better than the lives of desire 3o Reea's proteges, who .only to ‘escape conviction At . his ‘hands. P Sepe o live .uprightly from higher considerations. Mesnwhile, thanking him e Kindly wishes, and not to remaim in Lis Sobt, ovon on the score of well-wishing, let mo Congest that it would be woll for bim to make o with tho doctrine of universal salvation, Sovin )l probability, it will ba all tho grounds of redemption available to hica. Mr. Reed 8438 : T stated that tho original meaaing of aion was ife (8 period long anterior {0 the Christian eza), and also that it came to signify efernity in the time of the writers of the New Testament. proved this by undoubted e avitlos, viz: Liddell & Scott, Cremer, and Sophoclos. 1 might Lave referred to mapy nore. ‘Will Mr, Hanson dispute these distingaished scliolars and Jexicog- raphers? BCRIPTUBE USAGE. Now, there is more of the sirewdness of the advocate than of the candor of tho truth-seeker in this langusge. What is the question in discuse~ ion? Dosa tho word translated eternal, over- Iasting, in the Bible, mean endless? How shall we obtain the answer? By consulting a lexicog- Tapher's opinion, or ascertain the usago of the Word in the Bible? Manifostly the latter. If Mr. Roed were arguing the low of case, Le would not qnote the opmion of a lawser when ho had the statute before bim. If he should, the Judge would probably remind him that the Court had the facilities for knowing the law in the statute. This 18 precisely what bo bas dove. Ho rests iiis case on & lexicographer's opinion, while I Drove by tho usage of tho Scriptures that Le ie wrong. i LESICOGRAPHERS AGAINST HIM. But he is overborne by the lexicographers. I will give Lim & few instances, some of shich he evidently hias not geen. Hesjehius (sixch contu- ry) gives no reference to sternity among the Iheanings of aion. Pharoninus (gixteenth cen- tary) sags: 4 Aion—life, also, etorual sud end- lesa, as it scems {o the thedlogian.” Hero, with the thieologizns, who wanted tho word to mean “eternal, did this meaning originato? Cruden’s Concordance: - Sometimes tzken for o loog time, and not always to be understood etrictly™: And, in particular, where the word * forever " 18 ap- plied to th, Jowish rites snd privileges, it commouly Fignifies no moro than di e hmonwealth,” or **until the comingof- Messial: Fxodus, xit,, 14-17: Yo shall keop it (the Passover) S fwst'by an ordinanee foraver.” Numbers, x., 81 %\ And tho sons of Aaron, tho pricets, sliall blow with {1m trumpets ; and they sall be to you for an erdi- ‘nance forever throughout your genrations.” Parkhurst gives it several meanings: “Aton denotes duration or continuance of time, but with great variety Jarst—DBoth in the #ogular and plural it signifiea #gternity,” whether past or to come. ‘Second—The duration of this world, Third—Aionca—The nges of Yhia world. F e ot 4o ottos—This present lito—thia world, the 88 We 3y, "Fiftha0 Aton erchomence—The world to. come, nest life. Sixth-An nge, period, or periodical dispensation of Divine Providence. SeventlAtones seems, in Hebrews, xi., 3, to denoto {ho varions rovolutions and grand occurrences which Tiavo happencd to this created system, including als0 the systean or world itsclf. Dopegan ion, time, & space of time, alife- time.” Outof 351 places in the Septuagint in which aion, aionios, occur, 220 are applied to temporal thiugs ; and, in many of the remaining 101 pacaages, it does not denote endless dura- tion, s in Exodus xiv., 18: “The Lord shall reign for over and ever, and, | farther,"—evidently age Upon ago. THE GREEK TESTAMENT. The substantive aion occurs 128 times in the Grock Testament, viz: sixty-six times in the singular and sixty-two times in the ploral num- ber, In our cowmon translation it is rendered peventy-two times ever, twice elernal, thirty-six times world, seven times never, three times ever- more, twice worlds, twice ages, once course, coce Toorld without end, and_ twice it is passed over without any word affixed 28 & translation of it (nine different translations). Tho ndjective aionios occurs seventy-ono times. Tiie common tranelation has rendered it once ever, forty-two times eternal, three times orld, twenty-fve times everlasting, and once Jormer ages (five different meanings). Those who will take tho troubls to examine these references will conclude that the strict and proper sense of the Greok aionios is of limited Quration, for aion is an age,—that is, a limited period of time,—ond its sdjective, 85 quoted above, is,properly, last for an age, or ages. In fiko piauner, the English words * everlasting™ and “ eternal ” are strictly, from their derivation, words of limited duration; the former being from the Latin @rum—an age,—and the laiter from (e{as—also an nge Or Beason. CLASSICAL TSAGE. Homer, in tho Tiisd and Odyssey, employs aion thirteen times; Hesiod, twice ; Aschylus, nine- toen times; Pindar, thirteen times; Sophocles, ‘nine times: Aristotle, twelve times ; and Eurip- ides, thirty-two; but neter once is it used in the senso of endleesness. MT. REED'S DILEMMA. 1 am sorry to convict Mr. Reced of either want of candoror demso ignorance in eaying that ‘+gion came to mgnify eternity in the times of the writers of the New Testament.” Ii came to signify no such thing, and 1 am happy to farnish the Jamo!. . Wo are both agreed, what nobody denies, that the Pharisees in the tine of Christ believed and taught endless torment. But they never em- ployed aionios Lo state the doctrine. Joscphus, himselt'a Pharisec, says : ** They [the Phansees] believo that the wicked are dotsined in an over- Insting prison [ergmon aidion] subject to oternsl punishmont [aidios (imoria) ; and the Esscnes [another Jewish eect) alloted to bsd ouls a dark, tempestuous place, full of never- ‘ceaning punishmont [timoria adialeipton], where they snffer a deathless punwiment (athanalon {imorian].” Thus, not only did the Jews of our Snvior'stime avoid using the word aionion, which, applied all through the Bible to temporary affairs, would be too equivfcal to teach eternal durstion, but they also rejected the word kolasin 25 inmilicient for their purpose. Thay did not accept tho ides of disciplinary ‘punishment, and lienco used the word timorian. On the other band, if Jesus intended to teach the doctrine held by the Jews, would He nov have uscd the tercas thoy used 7 - Assuredly; but He did pot. He-threstened age-lastiog, or Jong-enduring, dievipline to the believers' in endiess punish- ment. Aionion kolasin were His terms, while theirs were aidios timorid, imori adialeipton, _or athanaton,—thus ing. their doctrines by nct only never emgloying their terms, but by using_alwass and only those words that denoto limited sufferiog, Yesulting in reformstion. - "And, still farther t show tbat Ho bad no sym- pathy with these cruel * men who procux death, Jesus said to His disciples : ** Pake heed and beware of the leaven (dcctrine] of the Phar- jsees and the Sadducees " [beliovers in endless mieery and believers i doftraction]. "And more than this : Philo, who was contem- porary with Christ, alwsye used aidios to denote endless, and always used aionios to temparary duration. Dr. Mangey, in bis edition of Philo, says be never usod aionios for inmter- minable duration. He uses the oxact phraseol- ogy of Matthew, xxv., 46, precissly as I have shown ihat Christ used’it. ‘It is better not to promise than not to give prompt assistance, for noblame follows in the former case, but in thelat- ter thers is dissatisfaction from tho weaker class, and a deep hatred and everlasting punishment [I-oiasis_aionios] from such 2k are more power- ful." Here we have the exact termiz employed by our Lord to show that aionios did not mean endloss, but did mean, limited duration, in tho time of Christ. What, then, becomes of Mr. Reed's assertion ? This is in accord with nniform usage in the Bible, and with the Christian Fathers. I have shown that Origen and other eminent Universal- ista in the first ccutaries of the Christian era taught aionton punishment, while belioviog in universal salvaiion—thus demonstrating that the terms are not contradictory. ) THE HEBREW WOBD GNOLAM is the word expressive of duration in the 0ld Testament. It is found GO0 times, applied to God, the bills, msn's grave, the Jewith covenant, tho Jowish inherjtance of Canaan, tho slave's captivity, etc. Samuel was carried #'t0 appear Lefore the Lord, and thero abide forever.” This word gnolam i8 rendered by aion throughout the Septusgint, and is applied to puniehment by onr Lord, whila those in His day who taught endless punishment never used it for that purpose, but always employed yne- quivocal words. This Josephus and Philo demon- strate. Can stronger proof be roquired ? Is it not ubanswersble? Josephus speaks of the everlusting glory of the Jowish nation ; of tho overlasting roputation of Herod; of the over- Jasting imprisonment of John the tyrant ; but ail these are to end, sad ho uses gionios ; but, wheon he desires to describa the endless duration of punishment, aionios is inadequate to his purpose, and ho seizes aidios. Will Mr. Reod explain, in harmony with his view, why Jesus used tho equivocal word when there were at least six unequivocal ones that might have been employed ? And why, if aiowios had the mesu~ u';g u'ftu?ndlcns, Josephus and Philo did not em- ploy i “Phis renders Mr. Reed's claborate disquititions of *Threo Great Periods,” and * Macedonian Conquests,” and much of hia _last, of no conso- quenca in this discossion. Whether the Jows Who spoke Greok wero * Hellnists™ (an ovident misprint for Helleniats ™), or whether ; MB. REED I8 A HELLNIST, is of small concern_after tho evidence I have givenof the errors into which he has fallon. He continues : > Ar. Hanson says that my admission that the original meaning of aion was life 8 fatal to all that I asserted. 1 nlso stated that in tho New Testament poriod this ‘word signiBied efermty, snd that the New Testament writers used the word ainmios to_denote everlasting, eternal ; and that aionics was derived from aion, al- {hough Mr. I. says I did not give the derivation of aionios, A Teperusal of my article will show bim his int. If aionin tha New Testament pe- Tiod signified eternity, then it cartamnly follows that aionion, derived thercfrom, was a correct word to de- note eternal, everlastina. Mr. Reed misre resents himself here. Ho did not esyin_his t_article that uion signifies oternity. He said it significs lite-period, but that another word, aionios, means eternal. Now e claims that aion in the Now Testament means oternity, and tlat, too, when it speaks of the beginning, the end, and of more than one aion! Hethus asts on my suggestion that be could im- prove his brief by claiming that aion contains the iden of eternity, and then the adjective trould aléo mean endless, He ought to give me credit for the euggestion. However, as this etornity has a beginning and end, and, 25 thero Sto several of them, it is of no value to any- body. 1 have shown that the word aionion means limited duration in the Biblo; that kolasin de- potes disciplinary punishment; that the hrase everlasting life is the con- ition of the virtmous soul, regardless of the duration of the conditions; aund have Jomonstrated my positions by Scriptural cita- $ion, and this is sl the reply my opponent can make : 1 still most firmly adbere to theso statements, not- witlstanding thz pse dixit of Mr. Hanson, Ho counld not more conspicuously confess judginent. But I must correct ONE MISTARE into which he falls : Mr. flanson gec:ns to think that a lawyer should not study the Greek Testament. Mr. Reed wns never more mietaken. Mr. Fanson thinks, on the contrary, thai one lawyer cortainly should study tho Greok Testament, in nqlln ot only not to make so unfavorable an oxl on of himself a5 he has doue, but for tho Digher purposa of learning what it feachos. Lawyers sometimes lecturs ministors who ex- Dibit their 1gnorance when dealing with unfami- Jiur topics, but Mr. Reed Las volunteered to become & -shining_exampls of tho propriety of not. getting beyond one's depth in_ strange waters.. Mr. Reed demonstrates the errgr of his po- giiion ini one of his own citations. I quoted He- brews vii., 16, to provo that, when endlessnsss would be taught, other words than aionion are Beed. “After the power of sn endless [aka- tcluton] life.” This word means, a8 I stated, and Alr. Reed confessos, indestructiblo, indis- soluble, but he says it does not denote duration, “assuch.” Isnot this a distinction without a difference? Will ho explain kow Christ can pos- ess an indestructible, indissoluble life, that ig not endless, ““a8 such”? But lio afiirms that Hh noxt verse expresses duration: “ Thou art o Tigh pricst forever [{on aiona] after the order of Molchisedek.” He seems to forget that Christ i to surrendor Tis priestly and all other suthor- ity (1. Cornthians, xv.), and theroforo_that lon aiona is to end, while the eudless life will nover know end. The dcfinitions of Noyes, Maurdoch, etc., to which Mr. Reed devotes so much space, a8 per- Toctly acceptable to me. .Everlasting is the proper cquivalent of ionios,—i. e., dZoum, or £150,—lnsting, 80 is etornal @Zas, 80 age, O 803 oo, Sometimes all these terms scquire the meaning of endless; but peither the Hebrew Tolam. the Greek aion, b Lotin @oum or {Ftas, nor the English everlasting or eternal, sig- nifies endless duration, unless coupled withsome- thihg intrinsically indestructible. What, then, bas this discussion §0 FAR ELICITED ? Firsl—Both of us sgree that the noun aion originally denoted life-period, and thereforo, lim- ited duration. I proved that the Ngéectifl: ionios cennot poseibly mean moro. To this ALr. Recd hos made no attempt. to reply- Kecond—By Josephus, Philo, and ‘Origen, I have shown that, at-the time of Christ, and for 200 years after, aionios still meant limited dura- tion and that believers in_endlesa punishment nsed other words to describe their doctrine, never emploging aionios. Third—I have show that Jesus carefaily avoid- od using the torms that the Jows employed to descrita their doctrine of endless punishment. fourth—The word translated punishment lemmw xxv., 46), quoted by Mr. Reed, comeo rom & root signifying to prung, to chastise, to amend. This Jesas used, and not timoria, t- punish regardless of the reformation of the pun ished. To which Mr. Reed has no repls. Fifth—Tho punishmentadministered (3atthew xxv., 46) was 1n this world, before the death of Fat Bavior's hearers. Here, oo, silencs is Mr. Reed's answer. Six{h—Eternal life is not endless life, but the reward of goodness. ‘‘He thut heareth 1L Word, and beliovethon Hizm that sent 3o, Svorlnsting life,—is_passed from daath unto life."—dJohn, v., 24, How long will this life lust? Aiiong 28 good charscter is maivtsined. 3r. Roed vouchsafes no roply to this Scriptural doc- trine, which destroys ono of his 7ital. positions, that Matthew, xxv., 46, makes the life of the oo snd the punishment of the bod both end- esa. s Seventh—Aion and its derivations have the mesaing of limited duration gesorally, i the Bible. = G ishii—The ancient “Universalists, jmmedi- ately after Christ Sgrnigun and others), who fimos Grook better than any modern, called pun- iuhament aionios. Origen speaks of ‘eternal firo, ecternal torment, overlasting pupishment, habit- ually, and yet teaches upiversal salvation. 0r, Reed sof out by saying that aion_is a word denoting limited duration ; but, said ke, there 15 another word in the Now Testameat, Gionios, which denotes unlimited daration. This decla~ ration is untrue, for aionios is no more another word thau swect is another word for swectness. Tlomusthave knovn that eacha statement would mislead those unacquaiuted with Greok. And now Le intimates that aion in the New Teetument means eternity, After we have told bim that Lis Toust contain only the meaning of tho ad- not jectiva. But the factis, that the word in all its forms only o8 the mosning of endless when it acquires it from the subject with which it is Seabcinted. It denotée, of itself, indofinite du- Sotion ; and, whon syplicd to the punishments Inlicted by & just snd mercifal Godgcan only ‘mean limited duration. e In conclusion, I CONGRATULATE THE PUBLIC that the columns of so powerful & journal as Tre TRIBUNE are fearlessly open to the discus- sion of #o weighty a theme. Leligions topica sre t00 penerally taboocd by secular papers. Whea Josser ;aminanes-sball follow example of the great jowrnal of the Weat, knowledge cf theological questions will Lasten space. I also CONGRATULATE MB. REED that he takes time from his bnsy lifo to discuss this question. Yar from tlaming him, I should bonor him the more shomid be aban- don his profession of conyicting criminals befora an sarthly asaize, sud devote sll bis ime mensa energies and superior abilities to the task of proving £o men their exposure to infinito ca- lamities. (Our resders maust not gange his eali- bro by bis efforts on this subjeck. ~He is an able 1awyer, though they might not mistrast it from his efforts oo this topic.) If Ar. Reed believes tho doctrino of endless_woe to bé true, he msy well entor this areas. Bat he shonld first pre- pare himself. And I ‘will venture tho prediction, should ho ever carefally explore all the facts, he will have the experience of many others, and notably of the Bev. Walter Balfour, who, to put down tho herosy of Universalism, w23 sent to this country by the. London Society forthe Pro) n% tion of the Gospel (Heaven save tho mark !), and who, in thoroughly preparing him- self for his work, became conviaced of the truth of the doctrine, and thus, though “ He came to scoff, remained to pray.” 3ay so happy s fato bo in store for my zble but riistaken correspond= eat. J. W. HaNsON. The Coming of the Son of fan. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Six: In my article, published in Tie STNDAY TRmUSE of March15, in reply to Charles H. Read, on “Everlasting Punishment,” and in which I showed that the Greek adjective aionios or aionion, translated “ eternal” and ** everlast- ing” in Matt.,, Xxv., 45, does not mean endlesa duration, I took the position that the declaration of our Savior in that place—*‘these shall go awny into everlasting punishment, vat the righteous into life eternal "—did not and does not refer to the future state of existonce at all, but to scenes and to a judgment and punishment in this world, and which havo loug since taken placo. In the present article I propose to givo some reasons and evidence in favor of that po- gition. And here let me observe, that a correct toderstanding of the *Coming of the Son of Man,” or, as it is often tormed, the **Second Comng of Christ,"—the time and manner of such *coming,”—is the true EEY TO A COREECT UNDERSTANDING of the New Testament snd the whole Gospel plan; 8 koy which will readily unlock many of the seemingly mysterious sayings and declara- tions contsined in that Book. WHEN was the Son of Man to come—*" in the clouds of Heaven" —¢in Tis Kingdom”—“in the glory of His Father, with His angels"—is the important question; for upon that decision depends the proper understanding of the doctrine of rewards and punishments, 83 taught by Christ and His ‘Apostles, u to time, place, character, and dura- tion. If that coming is yet in the future, aond belongsto events besond this present life,—us the great body of Christians profess to beliove, —then poseibly there may be such & monstrous thing 1 eternal or cndless punishment for the sins of this life. While, on tho other hand, it that *‘coming " has LONG SINCE TAKEN FLACE— as T maintain it hu—wfiether with the scenes which were to attend and follow it, then there is, in my opinion, no good reason and no evideoce for believing in the dogma of future and ond- less punishment. The whole idea and doctrine of future and everlsting punishment binges Tipon this question of the ** Coming of tha Son of Aan "—* Coming in His Kingdom,” ete.— theso being but different expreseions to repre- Gont tho same event ; for when the Son of Aan a5 to come, * in Iis Kingdom "—in “power,” nd * glory "—witl the *boly augals,” etc.— THES were tobs gathered beforo Lim ** all the Dations,” sud—* Ho shall separate them, one Fobm avothor, as 3 shepherd divideth sheep (rom the goats ; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on thaleft.” . . . T84 theso sball go away into overlasting pua ishment, but the righteous into life eternal."— Matthew, xxV., 46. When was this comiug to take plico? Asal- ready siated, I maintain that it is an event loog since past ; in other words andto bo more def- inite—that the phraco COAING OF THE 86N OF MAN, s0d all similar expression, zefer directly to snd (;uly::“. Christ’s cm-ffl‘ ‘aléhl'? D!B{rzction of erusalem, to abolish the isponsation, pun- ish tho Jews, and establish His K_‘\ngdm::zgthe Kingdom of Heaven, on earth; and hence, that it took place some eighieen hundred years ago : That then, were gathered tbe nations before Jriza; that then they were “ separsted,” snd that then * these went intp everlaating (aionion pun- {shment,"—(that is, correction _or chastisenicnt, 45 tho Groek-word Kolasin properly signifies)— + bug the righteous 1nto aionion oen—life eter- gl > ‘Sappose this view of the subject to be the correct one—do you not see thiut it changes the Shole ides of punishment, acd throws a new Tight over the pages of the Now Testament? bt 4 8 key, it unlocks many of the mysteries of that volume, and in ull probability relioves ic of the groat stambling-olock to infidels, skeptics, and to raany of the most intelligent snd best men of all ages—I may 887 the i GLEAT CAUSE OF INFIDELITY and skepticism—ine doclrine of fulure and end- less punishment ! Bub waat evidenco i there in support of this view? Letus see: R2d firat,. bear in mind the very important fact that the 24th and 25th chapters of Matthew form but one continued disconre of our Savior. In the origiual text thereisno division of tho discourse into two chapsers. 8o, also, in Camp- Lell's New Trauslstion and Tamily Testament, thero is no such division,—and should be none, in any version or translstion. Fear in mind, also, tho still moro important fact, that this was » privale discourse,—one de- livered by Christ to his disciples ! privatels.” Let us read—DMatt. xxiv,, 1-3: “And Jesus Sont out aud doparted from tho templo, and His_ disciples came to show Him the buildings of the temple. said nnt o them: See yo not all these things ? Nerily, I say uato you, There shall not be Tott Tiore ono Stone upon another, thav ghall not be tnrown down. And as He sat mpon the Monnt of Olives, tho disciples camn to Him privately, Saying : 'Tell us, when shall these things be, and what tho sign of thy coming, 'AND THE END OF THE WORLD 7" You notice hero that the disciples “camo to him privately,” as He sat on tho Mount of Olives, and therefore His discourse was directed_ (o fhem, nd taem only, and that in private. But what of the *end of the world?" which was to fako plzce at His * comng ;" surely that has not vet. bapgened! Indeed it bss. ho Greek phraso ‘hero tracelated *“end of the world” is Pantelia tou aionou—and shomld bo rendered *Vend of the age,”—that is, tho Jowish sgo or gispensation, Thero is abundant evidenco of this fact, both among learned cornmentators, and from the way the words are used in other places in the Now Testament. I nced hardly take up room to show this; but two or three instances may be cited: In Hobrews, ix., 26, we read: _** But now once in the end of the “world, hath He appeared to put away sin by tho sacrifice of Himself,"—more properly, per- baps, Uat the onds of the worlds,” or **ages.” Thio Greek is, epi sunteleia fou_aionou. Again: I cor., x.,11, * Thesoe things are written for our ‘sdmonition, upon whom—a tela tou aionou—tho &ue come.” ends of the woild,” or ages, ’Alexander Campbell, in the preface to his Family Testament, says: * Suntelia fou aionou, transiated ‘endof the world’ in Matt. xxiv., 3, means TITE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM and termination of the Jews'_religion.” The fame view is taken by Dr. cKnight, by Dr. Adam Clark, snd by orthodox commentators genorally. And this word aionios, aionion, tho end of which is_spoken of by Christ and His Apostles, and which *¢ end " has long sinco taken piace, 18 the samo identical Greek word used to iy ©lifs,” and *punishmen,” in Matt. xxv., 46, and which Mr. od relies on to prove eteroal or cndless lite and everlasting or endloss punishmont| But let us proceed : "It the reader will take tho trouble to open his New Testament, 2od read on from where Ileft off—Matt. xxiv,, 3,—ho will seo tbat Christ continned to address His disciples ‘and remem- ber, it was His disciples alone to wl om’ He was tatking) ; that Ho cautioned them (Verse 4) to take heed that no man ** deceived ", them, 28 to Tiis * coming,"—* for mdny,” said He, ‘*eball comein My name, saying ‘I am Christ,’ and shall deceive many.” They wera to hear of wars and umors of wars; but “be not troabled.” for all these things must come to pass; “ but the 2 ia not yer." Finally, when they (who?) whonld *seco the abomiuation of desolation, Spokon of by Danicl the prophet, stand in Holy piaco, theo'let tiem which boin Judea 'PLLE INTO THE MOUNTAINS, and those ou thn housetop not enterto take 80y~ thing out of the hose,"—or, if **in the fiold, not to turn back for iheir clothes,—but to_1lee, ete. ‘~Forthen (Verse 21 shall be great tritala- tion, euch as was Dot since the bezInRINE of ths o o tuia timo,” and uball never be again. Aot if any man (Veree 23) sball soy unto oo, "hore s Chrst, ot there, Do O, it mot: for thero shall arise falee Christa and false prophets, . . apd,weselt possible, el doceivothoveryalect.” Versai: “Behold, o told you (who?) before.” Veree 26: **1f thor s2y, Depold, ho is in tho desert,—go not t Behold, be is in the secret chambers,— Deliove it mot. Yor ns the lightning (Verse 27) cometh ont of the east and shineth to the eat, o Also the coming of tho Son of Aan be’ B ea0: ~Immediately piter the tripulation of those da! the sun be darkened, and the mosa a0t give hor light, atc, and fun shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, and then shall ,ALL THE TRIDES OF THE EARTI mourn.” That all the Jewish tribes. Sa Dr. Adicn Clark ; By fes ges,of tho lend (trac 5 of the carth”), in the text, is ovidently meant here, 33 in several other places, the land of Judes and its tribes,” ete. Verse 32: ** Now learn » parable of tho fig trea : when his branch is vet tonder, and puttath fosth leaves, yo know that summer is nigh; so likowise ye (who?). when ye shall see all theso things, o imt 1 g\;h{:? is near—even at the doors.” Verso : “Verily, I eay unto you, this generation shall ot pass till all these things be_fuljisied.” Here I am willing to rest. I will a3k tiis whola estion on the mesuing of this single doclara~ tion of our Savior. It setiles the question,—so far at least 38 time is concerned. Notice, firat, that “all these things™ (the things of which Christ bad_just been speaking), ineldes, a8 ono of the things, tho * comicg of the Son af Man,” in the manner spoken gf, cic. This, certainly, no one will deny. Sccond, that Gigll these things"—the *‘coming" inclndod— wero to be fulfilled—to take pilace and be accom- plished— PEFORE THAT GENERATION SHOULD PASS. Hence we have brought tho matter down to s ?p;gla point,—to tte meaning of “lhis genera- o . The crigival word hero translated gereration is genea, the first nnd primary moaning of which is *faniily,"—* generation o descent,”—mean- ing ths offspring or children of oo parent- nge; ond its secondary or ‘accommodated senso is, ‘“An age or race of men,” includisg onjan average “a spaco of aboct thirty yoars.” So says Greenfield, than whom there is probably no better authority. But it is mot sim- ply the meaning of the Grock word genca, but the phrase, e genea aufe—* this generation " — that wo must seeli. Aud bers let'me sav, that no wmstance can be fonnd, eithor in the New Testament or in any other work * under heaven or smong men," whers the phisse, this genora- tion—he genea qule—means anything more or less than * the men of this ago”—tho genora- tion of people living 6t the timo—including, ou an average, o apace. of about thirty years. I challengo Mr. or auy ore else, to produco such an instance. It cannot be done. What do ‘wermean when we say, * this generation?” the N prosent. gencration,” tho “past,” the “next,” o tho “rismng generation 7" Wa all know what ismeant. The pbraso hea but one mesning, *the poople living at the time," apd DY SO POSSIBILITY can. mean moro than the ordioary duration of & man's life. And such is the meaning in the text. It is ‘the proper mesning of the phrase itself, and the meaning our Savior intonded when ho made use of it. _~Thia generation "—the peopla now living—sliall not pass away “till sll those things be fulfillel.” Hence, and to conclnde, the i coming of the Son of Mon"—the estab- Jishment of ** His Kingdom "—the great ‘“Juds- ment,” o muck talked of sad fesred—tho “gathering of the nstions,” their ‘geparation ™ —ind tho awardsof “ Eternal Life” and *Evo:- Tasting Punishment "—occurred ad took placo in Judes at, or “immediately after,” tbe destruc- tion of Jeraselem—gome cizhtecn hundred years ago! Leu him who can show to the copirarr, Pre all things, and hold fast to that what which i good o true. Mancr 26, 1874 3. H. Joavax, M. D. “Give Us a Rest.”? To ths- Editor of The Chiccao Tribunie & Sm: Itisall very well toreesii irom an €x- position of the * Babellisn doctrine of & modal Trinity,” but how about Reed and his Gi=iios? Between him and his opponent (I forget his name) we have already had more than four ‘PRIpUNE columns on this momentous question. Do but coneider for a moment. Supposo— Which is not impossible—that Recd ehoald get the bestof the argumens: whata fearful box we ara all leftin. Pray lct us rest in doubt % while longer. He protaises mora of it next Sunday, and ! in detail” at that. For tho dear God's eake, couldn't you give us arest? Isn't TRIDTNE spaco too valuable? A Wony o2 THE DTsT. Note.—As the Sunday TRIDUNE contains only 112 eolaming, perhiaps we have given teo muck space to the Greeks. But so many peoole ars interestod, one way or the other, in cternal pua- ishment, that wo &hall let the controversy goon a little Jonger, unicss the Graeks e themaelyes exhausted.—[Ep. TRICUNE. - THE EMOTIONS, A French Novel in Five Skips. TFritten for the Louisnille Courisr-Jonrnal principally by the author, Ralpk Mchistick. SKIP L—GRIEF. 1t is Alphonse ; elegant form exquisite man- nors; ditto mustaches, botn of which ere wazed. He hpunts places ; Bos }s ‘Boulogne—Les Trois Freres—Dal Mabille; ddnces like an sugel—a French one; and he has—ha! “'mille francs de yente.” It iis riches to that chor Alphouse. Buc ho is not happy; his tender Leait i8 blases it beata no longer. His_last “grande passion”— etornal—was consumed in throedaya! What shall he do, the desolate Alphonse? ~He sips “‘can pucre” on the EBoutevard des Italicancs. His slonder and emotionsl legs recline on three Cbairs. A starsing women Bpproacis; bread for herself, for her child. The heart of Al- phonse is moved. He has bought violetsfor five Zous. o preases the bouquet into ber hand, and is gone. Ah, monsicur! she exclaima. Sho appreciutes the noblo and gublime chariiy. _1pia 2057 of sunshine from tho post: the cmble of modesty has fellen upon her soul. She is redeemed throngh the caresses of thesa modest Howors. She falls inecosiblo upou the pave- ment, and hor last sigh, mingled with the {ra~ rance of violets, asconds to Heaven. Noble g-lphonsel . SEIP IL—JOY. Ttis Mathilde! Eightcen: hair; eyebrows; sraist and things—the idol of her parcnts. Deso- Jato purents! They havo p with her—to him. How shall sho forgot their first moeting ? It was at tho altar; tho wodding day. Uk, ciel! Ho s mot the idea! Ho is stout; hes fiftss 2rd his hair—alas! she kas never secu it; she can only caress tho curls of his wig—but ske it the Countess de Sarg Froid.. Her bearl has nof yot boos; it oxpocts 0., She will moct Aim, (hat adored 1deal, in the whirl of fashion—at the ball. Oh, ciel! Oh, rapturo! perbaps his arm will clasp her waist: he will have eyes; he will Jook. * Oh, mon enfant! Ok, mon idol tres adore.” 1 can listen to him; is it not my right ¢ 1 am married—I am frec. SKIP IU.—RAPTGLE. He hes come ! who but Alphonse. He jovee ‘Hoadores ho; her Leart beste. He ison hif Tnees at her feot jfhe preszes ber hand : i izes for intruding; well-bred Countess; forgives him ; prescgte monsieur ; monsieur i3 dolighted ; Count euchanted ; both embrecs erernal frendship; touching ; madame =achs— omotioual. To ber husband : Ah, mon ami, bow ‘tenderly I must love 50u- SETP IV, —ANGUISTL. e Madame is anhappy. The Count porceives it. e bogs her—implores her for the caure; but ia vain, CHa! be sees it st lsat: 'tis Aiphonse. "They love each other ; and he—he tno husband, i the fatal obstacle. Ope tender kiss; one emn e a6+ he rashes from her prescnco; yes! uho shall be happy ; pan of charcoal: the noble heart o raver atll. - Anguish of the Countees; sbe e weep for Lim. Al her good fricd: her eiband; martyr to friendship; pever will slo o lamont him. Detested Alphonse. Her heart beats no Jonger; it 15 » mausolenta th=t T oue the image of tho Coant. alil Low sae I iim.; never, never, never ill ehe ceaze (o love lim—hor Jost idol—hor treasure. BRIP—Y- P.Zs)lhonsr_m & ” Despair of Alphonse. Sho wiil not so bim, that sdored [atkilde. Sbe will not permit Eim B o their tears; no, their teara ehail uovet o aie. vainy dous ho writo; in vain Lo paints tl risery of bis bleeding heart. ‘He is frantic the aidory OF A resigned! "Tis auother flu- om poviive, Satutly mertyr tolovoand friend- oo T will respect her sorro s ho will imgor- ¢ D et mo more, What shall he do to I peace to bis own lacsrsted hourt? TG s o the Bal Mabillo; he dances Tregticslly; 'tis the dance of a brokem oatt s 'tia the denco of death; madly bo wwings bia partner; he upsets their Viea-vis; & quar- o W llows to » Erench citizen!” a challengo; Ther fight; Lo falls; bis vomb i iu ¥ero I3 Cloise” Who beuds over it in agony and grief? Chat vailed woman—'tis she—the desolate Mu- Uriide: ube colls bim from tho tomb, and Al- bhaons replica not. Probably becauso bo s dead. Bia fall and ber sweepiug hkirta cover the touching and noble clezy clisoled on_the cold Htono: tis this: Alphonso-Sebastian-Victor- Tout-Coear— Victim de Chonmeur. Moral—Dry your tears—it may not bo trus. e The Rev. Mr. Murray, of Boston, more famil- jarly known as +sAdirondack Mcrray,” hos fallen into disfavor with tho Deacons of his ccngre- gation because he keops fast horscs szd objects to being passed by another team on tke rosd. This i3 8 eerious matter. Accordicg io fne Deacons of Mr. Murray’s charch, therefore, the ‘iadol minister should ride in a **shay,” and his horse, to ba orthodox, hould be iean and old, and, &axhnpe. blind in one eye, with & disinclina- tion o pass anything on the road, unleas it weso & mud-tatle 05 & 0OW. =V