Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1874, Page 2

THE PULPIT. The Decay of Vice and Its Causes. Blscussion of tho Subject Yester- day DMorning by Irofi Swlng.: Denominationsl Loyalty—--What It Really Means. Sermon by the Rev. Arthur Swazey, of " the Ashland Avenue Church. A COatholic View of t.hne Toemper= ance Question. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Riordan. THE DECLINE OF VICE. Sermon Yesterday Morning by Prof. Bwing. Prof. Bwing took a8 hia toxt yestorday niorne ing, * It shall bo more tolorable for the land of Bodom and Gomorrah,” and proached thoraon as follows : Tho names of thoso two cltles, over whoso ru- ina the Doad Bea is supposed to roll its bitter twaves, arorond beforo you thiy morning us words that may romind you that tho present ia not tho only age of vice, but that great sins Jio back of our times. I nnnounco ss my themo, ‘‘The Do- cline of Vico." Tho disconrso bofore you last Bunday closed with sn appeal to you to gird up your strongth against tho ovils of thoago; but, ihat we mny all possess somo goneral, truthfal viowof tho work on hend,—of its maguitudo and despair or hopo,—it secmsdesirable that an hour should bo given to inquiry as to tho nrosent atti- iude of human dopravity, compared with tho long yosterday, This inquiry may lead us alon; iwo pathe, the ona. Joading through tha a priox question, What should bo the result of the in- crenso of Imowledge? tho othor lending through tho actunl facts, with tho quoestiou, What has been the history of sin? . The relntion betweon knowledgo and virtue is, n8 n genoral truth, the rolation between a causo and an offect. Whilo no ono onn contend that knowledge will fully regenerate tho heart and mako a #aint out of a einner, yob the tendoncy of information ia to raiso tho individunl to a Tighor plano of morslity. Our penitontisrins and our observation teaclies us that ignoranco is the mothor of vico, Bays an old Greok: **Dots tor to be unborn than untanght, for ignoranco is tho root of misfortuno.” The great Robers Hall eaid: ** Ignoranco gives nn eternity to proju- dice, a perpetuity to error” Tho majority of tho convicts in the dungeon or upon tho scaffold cannot write, but usoe that fatal emblem called ¢ hig mark.” All through the Scriptures, virtuo s xoprosented as a light, and ein as o darknoss, nnd, in obedience of this distinction, Satan is tho Prince of darkness, and Christ tho light of the world, Every motion man makes is along tho Iine of his information, it beiug the great path- maker for him in the wildorness, his pillar of fire and clond in all Lis long journoying. . If you find an Indian planting o fow seeds in wild Oregon, or sotting forth with his spear to Lill fish, or with his treachorous arrow to attack his enomy, he is moving along the lincs of his m- formation, and ho will uge ol his light abont lanting his maize, or spearing the fisi, or way- nying tho whito man, Over his dend onemy he will :fimd no toars, for ho knowa nothing of a olden rule, and nothing of tho rights of man or the saoredness of lifa. Al moralists or cosuists o fecl - tue caussl relation ‘Yetween ignoranco and orime_that they hold tho heathen world to be responsible for not haviug sought such light as might have improved their virtuo, thus confessing that the order of nnturo s “light,” and then ‘virtue." Whon n mind like that of Willlam Ponn or Richard Cobden hasmado o study of man, and has looked into tho rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiuess, ho becomes incapable of tho atroci- ties which givo actual Bleuxurn to tho untutored Modog of the Wost. Penn and Cobdan aro rays of light upon tho henri—emblems of that soft- ening of soul whioh God’s great truth always brings. e ng‘n ‘moral world and his physical world being covered all over with a net-work of laws as numerous and delicate as. tho tendorast throads in tho spider’s wob, the first equipmont for liv- ing in the world is a wide information as to how thege laws of bedy and mind aud society and ro- ligion act. A lknowledge of theso i tho sun which must turn night nto dayand sloep into life, It is nowseon that under the incresso of knowledge in the medical art the average of boing dlspolled, congratulato the world upon a dooline of its moral sorrows. Haviog thus alluded to tho influsnco of in- crensed knowledgo, tho_question that romaing i#1 IIna human knowledgo incronged? ilnu this plagus boon somowhint sbated? Wo think no ono will dony that knowlodgo has gradually in- crensed in thone nations which have in 2,600 years spread out from the Moditerrauean, Light stondily ndvanced in tho 1Iobrow nation from Abraham to Danlel, and_ from the Grook and Roman starting points down through the groatb nations of Enropo and Ameriea, information In all dopnetmonts has beon umnfilly amnssed and iandad from ono ora to tho noxt. - Eepccially in the lnst throo conturlen has all truth bocomo moro a0 objoot of pursplt aud love, and honco overy scienco from politics to chemistry, avory inquiry from tho rights of tho throno to tho most prac- tieal physiology, evory thoory of Lealth, from o study of food to o study of exorclso, bas boon unfolded in now breadth and now nffeation, The sclencos of chomistry, ana phystology, and gonoral kyglono, havo marshalled their startling truths in front of tho social ovil and intompor- ance of diink and of food, aud have battled thioss for n hundred yonrs, and tho attack in- cronsea In florconoya 'nach gonoration. Ionee if there bo somo rolation botween ignoranco and vico thab_ought to bo abating the vico which is oconfossedly abating tho ignorance. But wo bohold snother gront light shining down from tho Mediterrancan shoro, a light ot~ {or than tho stars that shono from tho sky of Qrecce and oky of Italy, While all information in chomiatry, or politics, or phllnaonhty has i ancial Influence in fuvor of virtuo, yet i€ must bo confeusad _(hat knowladga of all tho high du- ties of man, man aa related to,self, andto friouds, and sonioty, and to Gud, is of all the bost, and if any truth will check sin, that rolating to duty, and soul, and God must be that powerful knowl- edgo. f;uoklng Dback wo Roo a star that makes ol othors fude, Its light, radiating out from nothing but s manger in the outsot, and from only o rudo crotant Inat, ing for vighteon hundred seara dintused iteolf all over tho Linstern Momis- phere, embracing Russia, Gormauy, Frauco, Lu- £Yand, America, nll, s & mother throws hor mfins around her ohildren who were loat but aro found, Ohristlanity seu forth not as conversion alone, but alsons n light for the mind, Pontius Pilato may Linve beon sincers, but he was ignorant of duty and wenle in his_mornl attributes. Christinnity ‘movod upon tho world not as & simple zeal, but aaa light, sad honce, if to know what tho bod: is, aud what tho soul in, what hoaven, what hol may be, if to have somo just conception of God, if to Liold some correct viows shout our noighbor and all tho reciprocal dutics of lifo, it to know the golden rule snd that the pure in heart shall #eo God, nre truthe of any value, then Christian- ity comos s the profoundest information which has ever burst through the clouds and shona down upon the world of man. Looking upon Clrist n8 a moral light, and as far s o fooblo intollect can ;i‘rnup such an effulzence upon the mind, wo on;t; t to conolude that vico has auf- fered a shock, 1n that so much of the foundation of iguorauce has boon swept nway. Butwe reminded you that evil had two clomonts in its foundation,—the onae ignorauce, the other hostil- ity o tho truth, even waon well-known. Chris- tinnity attacks both theso foundations of ovil, human life hos risen, and i8 now asconding. 'Tho relation of air, and exerciso, and food, and sleap, to hoalth, bas boon so studied from the stand-point of &cience and oxporiment that this nevw light pouring around the body strongtheus 1ts years and makes them not ouly longer, but happier. But, God's world being all foundod upon tho samo fundamoutel laws, its formation will play tho same park in morals that it por- forms in tho medical ark, snd will tend to’add {0 the quantity of virtue os truly as tho study of athology has extended tho buman lease of lifo. n such vast Empires 08 Indin and Chiua, whero maurdor, and theft, and infanticido are customs allicd to those of religion in a wondorful, but senselees, parinorship, the entrance of light alone, omitting any religious priaciple, has gono 8 far toward chacking the customs a5 the now steam-plow in Turkey hns fono towards sup- pianting the old crooked stick that was ouca dragged through tho fiolds, IE74 o great mistako to supposo thatall tho ills of mankind come from tucir not beivg ro- ligious or conacientions, und that all the haman foinily noeds 18 sudden conversion to our Christianity. Conversion will only check thosa actions which tho mind knows to be wrong, but will only #dd fuol to s lino of conduct which the 1ind supposcs to ba right. Religious conver- gion bringe only an increased desire to follow the right, but it does not designato a now lltzht for the mind. Honco in the dark ages o rolig- ious ravival among tho Catholics way always at- tonded by anew slaughter of Protestants, be- cause the now zoalin tho heart did not bring uny now_ information to the intellect, but only fanucd tho oxisting idens into flume. What is demanded aloug with & well-disposed hoart is o woll-informed intellect. Iowever good n man may be, it will be porfogtly impossihle for him to oHoApo A vico upless ho knows it to bo such, and hoence information or knowledgoe is an nbsolute condition of morality or mauhood. Vhe oplum- cators nmong the lowest classes in Chins, the dirt-oaters and whisky-drinkers among the Indisn tribes, do mnot doscend from su origin of ein only, but from an ancestry of "ignorance. Thoir nobler life will como vot simply from o study of roligion, but also from u study of physiology, and all the luws of health and rofiuement. Mon aro bad ouougl through sin, but they are wretched boforo thiu turough ignorance. In Indin, the most devout fakirs, who live for nothing but God and tho goul, will, onco a day, roll in the mud or in the foulest gutter in order to show their contompt for the sinful thing ealled the body, Now, what thoso fakira neod i# not an_increaso of roligion, butan_incrouse of k‘nn\vlml‘i:n. ‘Thoy nead to Iearn that sin is not in ‘tho body, but in the soul und that tho true God {8 not a being worshipel by a henstly conduct, by a wallowmg in the miro, It by o noble, perfoct soul in n purs, perfect hody, When Christ forgavo his inurderors on tho oroes on the ground that thoy did not know what thoy did, ho reafiirms for us the proposition that much of tho world's sin and cvil comos from e ignoranco that thinks, in tho midst of awful actions, that it is doing God's service. It serves Sutan under the supposition that ho is God. Tho evils of the world a1s wider thau tho direct desiro of mankind to commit sln, for millions do’wrong supposing it to bo right ; lenco, 1 ordor to find wome foundution as hrond us the droadful supor- structuro wo _must combine ignorauco nud wickeduens, and wo have the baso adoquate to the fabric. “l!n'ing thus found that ignorance ia n vast causo of the would's great evils, we ufor, from the gradual spread of ntelligenco, thut tho grout vices are on the gradual docline, LT tho cauto is declining,woneed 1o a posteiiori inquiry to sliow us that tho offect must be so far on the wane, It tho supply of food hug failed m ludia, wo Tioed not wait mnety days In ordor to loain tho effeots from the notual dying beds of mothers snd childron ; nud if s rioh harvest soon comes, we neod not walt to learn tho result from the virong mou in the stroeli noxt summer aud from the ringing langhtor of childven. God's world ji s0 unbending in fts rolation of causo and cffect, that the moment u cause is abntod one jot you may assume an oqual_ahatorment in tho jesnlt. Now, much of the evil of socletycominy Lrom KUYEALGE WO M8Y) U0 LW Wh iguoiaugy i and works oqually with the intellect and the ‘l!:m:rt, rovealing duty and malang the soul love uty. Beuing, thereforo, a gradual increase of knowl- edgo from tho great Eastorn soarees, Grecco, Rome, and Valestine, sud secing this kuowledge spreading out wostward in all that varied mag- niticenco of scionce aud_gospol, of crucible aud cross, of body and soul, of humon litorty and diviho love, and thon remomboring the invention of printing, which lins ponred this varied wisdom into overy houso as sunlight pours in at the win. dow, I must reach the conclusion that tho vices of the civilized world ought to bo on tha declino, Our gocoud inquiry was derignated as boing n survoy of the actual facts in tho case, Having saou what the spread of light ought to accom- plish, wo inquiro whothor thore has beon auy such moral achiovomont. Tirat, lot mo warn you against suppcaing that tho loud outcry mnow raised on all sides ngaiust every form of vice and dishonor indicates tuat covil is on the ndvance and’ goodneces on the doclino, for tho prosent turmoil proves only thnt the public sonso Lns progressed so far thut it will no longer submit silently to groat wrongs and follies. ‘Uho judgmont aud the moral aud pru- dential sonses hnvo beon sodoveloped in tho past, capecially in tho recont past, thut silence is no longer possiblo, What formor agos on- dured qsily because of the feoblo® publio light aud public conscience, raises now a vast uproar whon sieqn iu the now light and now morals of tho passing contury. Tho great cmancipation war which raged iu ouv land from 1830 to 1850 did not ariso from thoe new barbariem ot slavery, for as » fact bondage lad not grown wore inbu- man, but arodo from the fact that an old ovil had enoountored o now intollectual and moral dovel- opment, nud honco camo the great contlict. It i8 with such roflections we look upon the presont contlict over intemporance znd the social ovil, ‘Theso monstors Lave not absolutely gained in sizo and foracity, but the public conacionce has grown until it as not tho indifferonce to vico whiol marked the world when Kings lived for ploasure, aud nollos for banquets and tho fox- chago. Those wmousters, which we call by tho poueral namo of Vice, have boon dragging thoir foul lengchs along over bundrods of years, and much of battle is located iu our timos because it has so gathored light from reason and Christi- onily thatit can no Jonger cndure such great wrongs. Laenying these ungfieetiouu to the judgmont of each, it remains tn alinde ouly in a brief manner to tho historical points in the case. \Yhoever would deduce suy conclusions regarding the moral progross of Boslety must doal only in long periods, for carlh iy a siar whoso physical deys are composed of twouty-four hours, but whose 1noral days are enchas & thousand-yonrs. Comng up out of God’s eternity, where ages sink like snow-drops iu the ocou, our ourth brought with it this awlul disregard of time, aud makes little count of tho days of you and me, looks upon o sutnmer and o wintor as only grainsof sand upon its mighty shore, and all our three scoro yonry sink into’its mighty lifo ns autumn Jeaves Inil upon the ‘mountain side, uud are ouly recsived tondorly Into its mold, but croate no jarin tho wide aud doeep foundations of adumant, To estimato tho morals of tho buman famly, to mark an incroase or decrense of sin, you must look away from this day, this yoar, tlus genora- tion, and, ko far as possible, to behold all the im- presvive spectacla that reaches from the old liden to the nowost Amoricn. What was that past? The words Sodom and CGomorrah recall atonce the world’s corruption. The vices of that period, as roveulod in tho hisfory und con- duct of Lot, are not the inoidontal vices of & snvage tribe, but the vices of tho moat eivilizod nations, for the Hebrew Commonwenlth a8 far a8 tho nge of Dayid and Solomota ropeated the ains of Sodom, only upon s graduslly diminishing scalo, and thus was a mirror not of barbaxism, but of the best typu et old civilizalion. The history of Exypt is & history of mingled scienco, ond splondor, and sin. ‘The Bgyptians uctuslly worshiped gods of vice, . and in il respects oquuled tho - reputation of Hodom and Gomorrah for indegoribable dopravity, The exbuming of Herculanowm and Pompeii has lift- od o voil from .the customs of the Grook and Rowan worlds, for those two clvilizations aro combined there, and thoro atthat mountain's base those two citios sat while natura suddonly ewbalmod them for far-off ficnurmnuu. Tho excavations there revesl equulily old woulth and old vieo, art and dishonor, o cultivatod intollect und o dorkoned conrcienco, a light upon cunva: aud marble, but Littlo light upon the noul. Prysing by tho notorious immnorality or im- purity of the Groek, and Roman, and Heyptiu Iulllls, look upon some foatures of those nyges not 80 commonly alluded to 1n these surveys of antlquity. b Slavory was universal —the rights of man s man wore unknown, Tho Grooks know tho rlghts of Greolts, tho Rtomuns tho rights of Ro- mans, but neithor kuew tho rights of man, Honca no man_did anything which a slave mighe do, 1¢ possible, the literary man lay on u loungoe whilo slnves wrote down his thouglits, or bronghc and took away a volume, or prapared o glass of frograat wino. Marringe waa frail partner- ship, snd the coyrtesan often moro honoved by gtatosmen thsn the moro rofined, home-loving wife. Tlie mnphitheatreswero a full Blossoming of tho ignorunce of tho rights of man, aud of | tho absence of worey frou thoe honrt, In days whon 10,000 innocont men woro dying 1n ono reign, in presoncs of 80,000 spectators, com- posed of the best oitizons of Houno, Uicoro way natifying tho blood{ spectuclo ; mul, in ono iu- stance, when uo exhibitions had voun given for u thne, a potition was sont to tho District Gov ernor or Y'rofect thnt o would ordor o show at the rmplitheatre, and ho grnuluual‘f snid, “thet uot to graut theiv requost would be cruelty.” All through this Roman n‘)londnr parents hold the powor of life aud death aver tleir ohildron, nnd infanticide was vory common, and next in cruolty to that, was tha oxposing of infants un- dey tho Iaw fhat whoover found tho: exposed c¢hild conld claim it a8 lin slave forovor, Moth- eru who did not chiooso eithor of those barbaro us resoris could sell theiv infants into bondago in open market, Locky wnys tho olasslo religlon oxorted no influenca upon publio moraly, for whon it taught sny valoablo truth thoro wan no roliglons zeul thuat would nouwrinh the truth into iite, At your leisuro, my frionds, look into tho pieture of Rumuw sud Greok hfv. and you will rigg from Lho study thaukiul that vou live evou in this wicked city, and Lhat botween your home and sntiquity the light of & now knowledge and uow xeligion Lus tullen in Licuvenly beauty, THE CHICAGO' DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY} MARCH 30, 1874, As to tho zi:rau ospoclul vices, intomporance’ al and the aoclal avii, which now enwrsp our land it ought to chieor {ho honrt that thess powarfu foos nro.only two ont of o largo hiost which onco attacled sociaty, and thnt these two nro feoblor than they woro n hundred yearsago, Tho social avil waa nimost univorsal i Europo from Omsar to Nnpoleon, Montnigne tnya thero wore no vir- tuous men in his day, and, indeod, wo il know that tho soolnl vico hns swept over the Old Worldl as no postilence or war over dorolatod its oltios ond liomos. As to tho use of drinks, it mny be eaid that nbstinoncy was sinoat une dreamed of before our goneration, and_an fns temperato uso of llqnors; from alo to diatilled drinke, 18 08 old as tho goniug that Invouted the | villlos. - Wo need not descond Into partfoulars, You onn recall them. Called upon an you aro to con~ tond to-day againat the vices af our land, wo all soom [ully nuthorized to fnel that knowledgo and roligion do gradually wear nway thoro hard rocks and give tho world n boster soil for tho rowlh of our gonoration, and our childron and ghn mytiads to como. God Is no morv in tho law of gravitation than he is in the lnw of education, and lionco as the Ningara hns out its doop ravine back from Qnounntmm] #o tho mioral powers of education, and roligion are ns uurn‘lly earving » channel through the mass of wicked- nesn on earth, God's word, His truth; will not roturn unto Him vold. As the sun's heat always maelts tho snow of our flelds and always will while sun_ond snow continue, so the word of trath spoken by any one always will add somotling = to fhe progress ~of mankind, God Is not only immutable as the law of chemistry and all physics, but in the lawa of His love, und It Iiis childron sesall ignorance with truth, and sin with conscionco, every movement of tho humblest Ohristian will rocord. iteolf for good in the bozom of thoso that como after tho rocord. Lot us look at theso groat facts and al- way bo of good heart, for that ‘out of this knowl- odgo, outspreading from tho Last, and out of the knowlsedge and virtuo both issuing from Christ, thoro i8 coming a declino of vice as surcly a8 thore is n God to whom the lawsof man’s growth oro moro sacred than tho laws that hold tho goa in {ts dopths or move tho atars in thoir path. Tach good nct dono, ench truo word spoken, hecomos a purt of tho wolfaro and salva- tion of man, as onch troo helps malko tho dark groen and doop shade of the forest, And though the heart that does thid good may not know whom it will bless, and though tho ono blest may not know what mortal to honor with gratitude, yot the fnud is treasurod up in the world, an God will counb its worth in the dny whon Ho malkes Hig final award to the ohildren of men. —_— ; DENOMINATIONAL LOYALTY, Sermon by the Rev. Arthur Swazey, of the Ashland Avenue Charch. The Rov. Arthur Swazoy proached yestorday morning to tho congregation of the Ashland Avonue Ohurch. His toxt was ¢ Now tliere are diversities of gifts, but the samo apir- i, And thero aro differences of ndministrations, but the eame Lord, And theresre diversities of cpera- tions, but it ia the sumo God which worketh all in all, 1 Cor, xii, 47, I tnke those words asa koy-note in making some remarks oo denominational loyalty. What 1 hiavo to say will not bo in tho way of formal ar- gumont, but rather of fragmontary discourse. The demand for & reopening the dobato on the foundation of denominational right comes from evary quarter. The cburches aro sgitated by men of two closses,—by men whose typo of thought, or whose opinion on matters of usage, aro freor, and more sensibly affected by tho ro- ligious thought outside of the' donomination, and by men, on the othor Land, who are alarmod at anything difforont from the usual modes of coucoiving or exprossing religious opinions, Wo shull only tako a look toward the groat questions st issuo, Our business is rather with tho Presbyterisn Churel, ~the Church welove and honor; tho de- nomination whioh, whether rightly or wrongly, wo boliove to have the best of all Church politics, to present tho Lost underlying system of the- ovlogy yot propounded, and to be not inforior to ony other in all that constitutes truc liberty ; o ohurch whoso dootrine mey bo caricatured into thoological monstrosity by s hostile critic or an unwige {rieud ; & church whoso polity may bo pervorted to purposo of tyranny ; but afterall s church which, in dootrine and polity, is & vast gud bouoficent power in this world, and which comuends iteolf mors and more to the moral and intollectunl judgment of Christiap believers. It is not uocessary to iuzfl:im into tho right of denorainations to oxist. They oxist as a mtter. of fuct, 'Thoro may, possibly, ba too many of them; and, possibly, “uot ¢oo many. The mnuy judustries of lifo work oach on _some soparate veln of the publio. wealth., The denominations, with ex- ceptions, work, each on some separate voin of ovangelical woalth., Desides, they scem to bo ns necossary aa a multipliolty of nntions. They balanco and complement cach other. A given denomiustion may be » poor thing in itself,but a good thivg with tho reat; as Mercury,and Venus, and Murs aro poor worlds to livo in, but good worlds, for the greater astronomio world, Organ- io unity is too 1deal for human uature. =Or, may Inot eay, too formal, &8 contrasted with spirit- ual? Orgauio’ unity would probably bo truth gtereotyped, not mn the workshops of hoaven, but in very different piacos, or the workshops of fho theologiaus. So lontz 03 tho inspiration of be- liovers is lower or loss than the inspiration of apostles, tho Church must $ contont itselt with something short of complote truth. Tho Romou Chureh, ciaiming o bo the hoad-spring of ingpiration, the authorship of tho Now Testa- mont, is logieal, and is the only church which is Togicdl, in climing uniformity. From uny othor standpoiut there are yot stores of wealth in the Now l'estoment to be doeveloped. Commarco, governments, the arts, eoionces, snd philoso- phies, muiso over new conditions of life, "Maun is the sama, but always in now conditions, Noth- ing but that which is strictly divine—in .its spirit and in its forco, in substanco aod in detail, in wholo as woll as in part—can, without changing, guit tho changing condition of man. The Now ‘estament forover; the iuforonces from tho Now Tostamout; ¢tho uninspired Lundicraft, whether of polity or doctrine, for & time longer or shortor as the neod may be. 1t is enough for mon to say, * this is substan- tintly truo,” * Lhis i wise," '* wo challenge tho world to find a botter,” It is oue of the insaui- tios to say, ** We have eurvoyed overy inch of tne groat lleld ; here is the field-book and nobody will over rightly blotor add a line.” Tho na- tioual observatory on Piko's Mountain is found to boat an clevation of somothing more than 14,000 foet, instoad of 11,000 foot, as enid tho formor survoyers. It may be some theological clovatious will be corrected. One of Turuor's pictures was ance hung i the oxhibitiou-room wroug side up. ‘I'ho_same thing has Lappencd Iately to u picture of Ruskin’s, Thero aro studics in *fpolychromemarblos” intheNow Tostamont as woll as elsewhore. It is not impossible that some of thom are hung in the gallories of history top downward, mountaing, lLowover, are survoyed with a proximato accuracy. Most of the pictures are nightly reluted to zonith aud Nudir, sud azo Luug, if nob in tho bost, at loast in a tolerably fuvorable, lght, Itis, cnough to justify neserlions, tonacity, and obedlonce if we have the last proximate of truth, ‘Thero aro agos in thought, in oloquenco, iu art, that diroct the attornges. Wo donot go into publio assombly, oven' though Chatham, Wabster, Clay, or Wondell Phillips bo thers, ex- pocting to_hoar eloquence greator thau the, Graokn and Rtomans honrd in their time, We lovk for uo pictures botter than those of Tiaphacl, Titlan, or Romandt, Wo do not ox- peot Chicago nrehiteots to surpnes Michaol An- gelo. 'Thought 1s somotbing difforent from modes and forms of u{mwch or beouty, Art iy Inrgoly individunl gontus, Thought i8 the ag- grogato of ull himaw, tho entailod wonlth of gon- orations of totling mon, And yob thero are groat flogd-tidon of thought., Thero is also ebl ns well ag flood, Tho Tand blossomg by the over- flow of rivors, tho outbreaking of springs long 2go, ‘The groat synonym for history i prog- rosa; bub not by nn even growth, “A firat for- ot nay be gigautle, tho noxt growth dwarfish, aud tho next luvgor than the fivst, Tho ort of printing, the marinor's_compass, and gunpowdor, vmuhd a8 madern Buropean discovorles, vame in faol from the heuthen Cu~ thiny, whora thoy wera Imown long, long ngo. So did Savros porcolnin, Ho did tho Hegelinn phi~ losophy. Vrogress has suoh laws that modesty, and humility, and o roverent looking back, be- como indlspensable faclors in teno wisdom. Thore aro nswos that nover die. Thera i thought whioh nover bocomns obsoteto, Coufu- ciug, Origen, Augustino, Abelard, Culviu; Wos- loy, the Jdwosdsos, Ao tho groat muaters, slthongh wise mon spring up after them, They are not mastors, howaver, in all the dotail of thought. Men maol sinaller than thoy, mon whoso namios do uot vutlive the famlly nourn- ing, may think more correctly, A muster- founder only can cast a columbisd, A common workman may fllo off the spurs, or oven discoyor that thers is too much metal un ono or tho othor side of tho gun's bearing, or divine n now olo- ment in gunnory. ‘I'ho impuléo of the past Iy that which gives the prosout its superlor opportunity, 'I'he ox- traordinary wisdom of Culvin it {8 which, in certain things, wakes a man born threo hundrgd yoars afterwnrds wiser thun Calvin, The ehl‘d 18 not o - braggurt who, 'standing -on hin-fathor'’s | ghvulder, muintaing that Lo 8004 & moro distank horlzon. Mon do not grow at tho name rafe. Nono ars capablo of universality. lienco do- nominationa, "Tho donominntions have aome into boing:in auswer to this coll of the human hoart, ns_the frult of the nul}murlng of tho Spirit of God, nwakoning tho intellest, nwnlkonityy_tho cons solonce, qulun[i tho liopo of & bottor dominion, cronting & longlug for * tho Clurels of tho' fu- uro," domandiug “a froor and more vigorous Iife. Bomo of {hem aro the fralt of alrifo, of porsonal ambitlony, of gullty hatrods, and all monuor of ovil pussions. What I havo enld {s nono tho losa true, The Church neodod an altorative, and would hiave porished without it. Tho question is null whothor the bost remody was upplied, Mon did s woll as they Lnow how to do, aud 'tl‘mu was cnough. dlaiy of tham did gloriously. Tho I'aritan ravival, making war on the Angil- can eatablishmont, ond at Inst building up a now order of churchos, was a double power, It originatod o now strenm of mllx{ioua thought for the world, whose wators, rushing onward, also overflowod iuto tho old river-bod, andgave n now vigor to Ita stagnant tide. When the Wouloysbo- gan thelr prayor-mootings, it wag tho voico of tho Lord, saying, *‘Lhoro ls not prayor onough, not exporimenta! roliglon onough, In tho Church of Faglond; My people shall not bo bound.” Whon Toger Williains was driven out of Mussnchusetts to sotilo Rhode Island, carrying with him tolora~ tion and tho soed-vorn of tho Baptist Chureh, 1t s thio voico of tho Lord, suying to the Judn- izora of tho Buy Calony, * Liko the two disciplon who colled down flre from Ileaven, yo kaow nob what manner of apirit ye aro of.” Thore {8 n lesson ‘worth regarding in tho history of tho formation, sixty yoars ago, of the Cumborland Presbyterian Chntoh, au offshoot from the church to which wo boloug, aud, hav- Iufi’\vmught ity fndopoudent mission, very likoly to bo absorbed again fn tho original body. It was formed as a protost agaiust hypororthodoxy, and, e adomand for a rovival spixt, protest, oand domand, determined and uncuml)rumlulnsz. and unhoodod by tho powors of tho Ohurch, It was formod amidst extravagances which it fs difloult for o sobor mind to justify, It was at- tendod, also, by such matvolous demonstra- tions of mower by the Holy Ghost na hava raroly boon secon sinco” Ohrist ascended into Honven. ‘I'ho vast oncampmonts, some of the poople travoling over thoso primitive roads n hundred milea to attond the mootings ; the numerous convorafons, hundreda of pooplo falling to the enrth ot tho samo momont as_though swopt b a battery; the whole Stato of Kontucky, as wol 28 neighboring places, shaken as by an carth- qunke, nud, withal, a protostagainst tho fatalism of the nufl)n coming up liko tiie voico of a tom- pest, tho Church, troadiug its boaton path, cara- ful of its orthodoxy, hLostile to rovivals, its lifo at & low obb, could not comprehond. The obstluate ministers insisted on the right to prench their own way, and on the right, aleo, to liconse zenlous, but uneducated, mon to answer the cry of thoso who wore seattered like sheep without a sligpherd, 'I'hoy woro cut off. Did Cod own tho lwife of tho surgeons? ldo not ask whether you or I would havo dono bottor than tho snr- goons, Idonotnot make any harsh charges ngainst thom, for the Listory of tho aifdir shows that it -was no casy matter to givo judgmont when lhell and heaven wmote each other in 80 mnovel n manuer, I do mot stop to ask, ss I might do to good purpose if I had time, whethor less orthodox: and moroe of the spirit of Paul, ond Whitefleld, and Edwards, would not have avolded schism, and utilized for tho crel in which it oceurre -this yost outpouring of tho spirit, [ simply ask Did God own the romody of the surgeons-? Did the soversd limb die orlive ? The ministors of that day, snys thio bistorinn, “aimed at littlo else than to enlighten the undorstanding.” * They spoke of tho elect, tho redostinated, the preordaiucd; bub littlo of ndividual accountability or epiritual regonera- tion. A stiff, tochuical theology, or a dry, speculative orthodoxy - left tho loart and congcience unmoved.” ~ Did God rocognize tho rovivalist? A woman uttered thoe first call for somothing botter than the husks of tho D‘:ul\}it. Trom house to house she rung hor appeal. In- fidols in conpidorable numbors wero among. tho numerous converts, In throoyears Cumberland Prosbytery grew into o synod numbering aixty congrogutions, Iu elghtecn years the one synod Liad multiplied into four, eserting a wido and benofleial influonce over a vast region. The Cumborlang Church to-day numbers about fifty Presbytories, extending from Ol and Indiana to tho States on tho Guif of Moxico, its standards tho same, substantially, as ours, with tho ex- coption that tho articles on deorees are framed ngsinst o fatalistic interpretation, The rise and rosperity of this honoved branch of the groat 'rosbytorian family.is & palpablo factor In’ tho divine power which makes tho Presbyterinn Church of our day & Ohurch of revivals, and so conspicuously that many moy flud it hard to suppouo that & timo ever was whon zeal #br, the conversion of men and s great religions -awakening wore regarded a8 almost iufullible sigos of the Arminian horesy" A denomination ia the oxpression of an idea, the perpetunl demaud that some thought, or line of thought, shull bo recogrized. 'L'his moro omphatically at tho boginuving, Tho ides,, tho Tiuo of though, being rocognized, bolng projeat- od into the thought of other churches; or, on the othor hand, s in some instances, the iden bciufi Judaio, * beggarly," or trivial, the ‘*ism loses prominence or passes away. Thu idea porpetuated, tho denomination becomos shwply one of tho great armies of the Lord, to which Ec\m]u attach thomselves, mivistors and laymon, y the acoldonts of propinquity of taste, or under tho stronger intluence of habit and education, and without the strong convictions thut charac~ torizo o timo of development or o time of con- flict, ‘Uhe many who onter coase to onter pug- naolously, or for the purpose of protesting ngaingt every other denomination, or for & thoo- logical end, or for tho purpose of roviviug tho liternlisms, and insisting on conformity to the jotas of its written laws; but becauso, needing & bonner under which to enroll thomselves, aud desiring to work not foran “ism,” but for the Kingdom of God smong mon, thoy rogard this or that douomina. tion a8 occupying substantially a Beriptursl foundation ; a4 suiting their idea of a ohurch better than another; as boing somotbing, in doo~ trino aud poliy, avalablo to themselves and the world, Aud, having entored, they love their Oburch as thoy love father aud mothor,*brothers aud sisters ; as they love the old home, whero the old clool, the old family Bible, tho chimuey- corner, the sun-mark on window-sill, tho old woodblne, and tho shade-troos, are full of momo- ries, and very likoly waro touched by the foot of the laddor whosa fop remched heavou. And if thoy should cliauce to suffur an old fenco to go to decay, or to replace & woodon latch by ouc of jron, or to introduce o chair with o back not so rigidly vortical, or to put tho grandsirc's old match-lock in the curiosity-shop of the houso, thoy would be no loss loyal thau others. The denomination is the placo of rest aud followslip while men worl out the works of lifo. y A donomination is to be judged by two stand- ards,—its writton law, and ‘custom and usage, T'ho Intter is the inlorprotation of tho former. Thero is & dead lottor in everything that is not uew, oxcept the Bible, If not, there ought tobo. 1 must not axcopt the Bible, though out of venoration, aud fear for tho momont of mis- construotion, I have so spoken, Thore is o dead Jetter In your friondship, m your soholavship, in your soience, 01d Englund Las -on ler statuto- ook moro than one law that is o dead lottor. So Lias Massnchusetts, so bos Dliuols, o have Ox ford and Harvard, In the ritual of tho Episcos pul Church “ regenorale means either the iu- ward or the outward rogeneration, Usago bids you toke your choico. Who articlo in our Con- Tomsion on doorces and predestination may bo read in tho interest of the toughost und most ro- pulsive theology ever propounded to au intolli- izout boing, ever presonted as u transintion of tho attributes of a God whose namo is Love ; or it may bo read as the assortion of tho wise aud good savoruifiuty and redooming grace of the Almighty Fathor. The Assomblics of '36 and '37, tho Auburn Couvontion, tho Harrisbur, Dbly, and long-time ussgo, allow you to falke your chotee, I'ho Presbyterian Ohurch—by the unwritten bub overywhoere undorstood torms of the Reunion ; by tho notivity of its Bourd of Misslons, und the notivity of its misstonarios; by the partits gifted and trusted londors bave taken in the ondeavor to break down the middlo walla of partition, and bind all Olristians in an evangelical allinnce ; by the columns of ity bost newspapors and reviews; by the known opinfon and de- moanor of the teachers in its most important thoologloal sewminaries; by lhn_uvauchoa and ner- mons of the rank and file of ministorial laborers, sud by tho known sentimots of & vaet ormy of godly nud woll-informed lsymon—nssumos tho sttitudo of the Olurch militant agninst tho rauks of darkuess, and ot against tho ides of suy other army of Chriation soldiors. Ita dis- tinclive doctrines, aud yiolity it maintalns sin- caroly, but not pnlum(unlli', not obtrusively, Its language to tho world i, Wo aro dstorminod to kuow unlhInF BmONg you save Josus Obrist and Him crucltiod. Not indifferont to its own dootring, it exults above iteoif the eternal and universal Kingdom of our Lord and Bavior, And so clear tud 80 nearly univorsal i this voloo, that. whon ono rises up to ask whotber all this fratornity nmuuxu Ohristians does not foster lax dootrine, or to intimato that, whatovor tho calling of sny other dengmination may bo, our special calling is to maintain orthodoxy iu tho world, a discord goea twaugiug_through all the glorlous harmonigs of our grewi housshold. Ausem- | The Church life is the charoh dootrino, by & law undordtood in all timon, from Moges and Lyour- gus, from Paul aud Conatantine, to our day. ¢ The {doa of a truo Chusoh lmfpn to nn nbdore stunding of this mattor. Its firat idon Is tho ab- solute authority of the Bible, authority over its virliton erced as woll as rvur averything olse. A chatga of Liorosy propor! rian Church, ronds, © Contrary to Confossion of Teith and tho Word of God.” "In the * Form of Govornmont,” ns well ag In the Confosslon, 1t is declared: *'The Iloly Beriptures are tho only ruloof alth nand manner,” The second idea in tho true Church is, such an administration as tonds to unity with nll bollovors, ‘Tho aln of sehiom I8 offsot by tho sin of afiirming or roquiring ' things ‘which unrcasousbly in- cito to wchwem, Thoe . prayor of the 17th" chaptor of Jobm roguires ‘s ochurch to soole unity, nud, in epirit, forbids the middio walls, T'ho” 12th ehapter ot I. Corinthians rep- rosonts n chnrch ministorod by mon of all sorts of gifts, nud wanting all sorts of Emu but ono. I'he thivd idea of tho Ohurch is that of adapt- ation. lts_teaching should bo so framed aa to moot all ordors of miud,—tho hoathon, the ra- tionalist, tho tranrcondontalist, thoe sciontist, ns ml“t a8 tho docilo child fn tho family of the saints. But our book takes caro of Itself, ' It is mado up of {wo parts—n systom, and B form, of o syatom. Ouo part contnina o somewhat minute cosmogony curront 200 yoars ago, parbaps true, and porbaps not true; quite apeculation on natural and ravealed religton, ns relntod to each othor; certain rules which for- nd you, a3 a Biblical scholar, to question tho gouninoness of the 10th ohaptor of Joshus, or the well-known Intorpolation of tho famous pas- sngodn tho Epistlo of John ; a rather gratultous and possibly dofective intorpretation of tho mo- tives and dosigus of God In His esdministration of the world; and a not sltogothor plensant degoription of tho outlook from tho point of otornity whore tho doorees wore mado; Bomo rather Porploxlng motaphysics on daocreos and freo will; aud not a fow minute statemonts touching various doctrines of the Gospel. But thig cosmogony and tho rest which I have reolted ov alluded to do not constitute Prosbyterinn- ism, Ono might recoive thom all, and not bo o Prosbytorlan. Opo might doubt somo of thom, sud have . a decided proferenco to oxpress his opinion in some other lan- ungo, and yot bo asoynd, staunch Prosbytorian, "Lho césontial thing in {tho systom” coutained in these long articies,—4 truo, wouderfully-com- pact, and glorious systemn of l)lmaun_u doctrine ; & system writtou on llold and forest, in tho bowela of tho earth and tho wators of the sca, and mado clear boyond misunderstandiug 1n tho New Tes~ tameat.” It is not the vesture of Westministor divines which wo put on, but wo appropriate tho truth under the vosture, as old na Christ, ns old o8’ Mosos, 06 old a8 Adam. We wiold not their ecabbard, but tbeir aword. And o our book reads—to tho man whon hois liconsed, and to tho man whon he is ordained—always tho same: “ Do you sinceroly rocelvoand adopt the Confos- slon ot Faith of this Church, as confaining the system of doclrine taught in tho Holy Serip- tures 7" Aud if thero woro any doubt a3 to what this langungo monns, the thoology taught in many of our sewminaries, the controveraics of the last forty years, and tho silent terma of rounion, leave no room for thoe shadow of & question, No man when he is ordained promises to preach the langunge of the Confossion, nor the dotalled opinions of the Coufession, bub tha “gystom " which that Confossion contaius. No man promises to prench more or leas froquently on ono or another doctrine in the systom. No man promises Lo dwell oftener ou faith than on ggood works; but that, preaching as his Christisn imlgmout suggests, ho will stand on this founda~ ion. No man promiscs that Lo will define tho I'rinity, which the Confossion ia wisc enough not to dofino; that ho will eschew tha torminology of tho sotentiats for thatof tha theologians, that ho will abandon his individuality, and tske tradition o8 his guido in joadiug men nto the way of lifo: but that, in good faith, o will stand upon and presch “the systom " contained in the Con- fession. Ho may bo wise or unwiso; he may please or displease you or me. That is a mattor botweon him’ and his particalar clmrfio, botween him and his God. Tho *“sys- tom " of doctrine to which ho holds, and not any man's typo of theclogy. determina his loyalty to the Church, tho *“systom™ dotermined by usage and tho goneral conront, as woll ay by the words of tho Confession, aud not the shibloloth of porty. And if sny question bo refsed touchiug the loyalty of & miaistor, it ia maiuly this: Docs hie preach tha gospoel of tho grace of God? The " wystom," even, in Lo bo rozurdod, not ay n fixed quantity, nob o8 n thing of dimensions, not as a matfer of theological formula, but ag o tbing of spirit, a8 & gonoral conception, as a divine power, a8 an atmosphers, heavior o lightor, purer or less pure; aa tue call of God untosalvation; ag the opon doorway from the world into the kingdom of light. If a douomination be confossedly built on the proph- otu nnd aposties, Jesus Olrist boing the chiof corner-stono, the the higheat loyalty therato is in o clear, single-minded, and faithful miniatra- tion of tho gospel, as Eomothing earlior, and douper, and more trus, and more lnsting, thun auy artioles framod by mon. A truo sya- tem, iustend of boing - somothing to which _ uttersnce s _over saoking = couformity, and thoroby indiosting that it is arti- ficial and mechapical, melts away in tho Gospol, ‘becomen in pulpit discourso as olastic aud uuiver- aal, and a8 free from this type of the schools, as the New Testument itsclf. i 8o our Church toaches, as I could show yon, Ly its formal delivarances, and by the voices of tho groat masters. She makes no scruplo in d.isnppmviug thoso who preach * auothor gos- cl;" but sho loves avd cherishes those who onostly love hor and eleave to her goodly fellowship, and, in whatover vaviotios “of acquirement or specch, preach tho true gospal of God. Thore are, without doubt, contrary witnesses, It is not sirango that good men, who confound terminology and thought, or who belisve that tho Diblo” hns pourod all its tronsures into thoir cistorus, or who fail to sgs that argument is useful, or useless, according to the condition of iho mind, or who concoive ‘that the keeping of the ark of God.is spevially Iaid upon thom, should devlora and oppose auy departure from traditional interprotatlons, or any other than the conunon approaches to tho great truths of re- demption by Josus Christ. Wimoe snd oxperi- enco, however, toach their lessous, In the end no harm is done. The Churol; like the great Bhopherd, knows her own. Not tar from forty yenrs sgo Dr. George Howe, of Bouth Caroline, had bis little exporionce of opposition, o8 o subtle and dangerous euomy of the Presbyterian Church § but the Church lnew her own. - M. Hpring, afterwards the widely-useful and ighly Lonofed Dr. Bpring, of tho *Brick Olrurob,” Now York, ¥as onco proounced * un- sound in the faith;" but tho Ohurch, in due time, knew her own, Mr. Samuel Haneon Cox, aftorwards Profossor ot Auburn, Moderator of the Goneral Assombly, the brillinut postor in Brookivn, & and honored unme, was, by the suggestions of the thoolo- 1ans, rojeotod as Oty slissiounry. by tho Young §lon's Minsionary Socjaty, **on tho grouud of his thoologics! views," “by a voto of 160 to 00" ‘I'ho Oburch kuew hor own. Mr, T, H. Skinuor, attorwards, and long, the houored P'rofessor 1n the ‘Lheological Sominary in New Yorl, was ouce uundor * suspicion,” on account of his * Edwardian viows," Tho Church know hor own. About the wnmne time, Mr, Joseph Pattorson presched with so much power, drow so muuy to hear him, and projected so graud an offort “for oity evangelization, that it was thought thera must bo some denial of soverelgn grace in the mattor, snd he and Mr. Skiuner wore followed, with the cry of * Lioresy.”, But tho Olurch knew hor own. 2 Br, Georgo Duflield, of Carlislo, attorwards tho well-nown and able defender of -the ortho- dox faith, for_muny years tho widely-estoonied nstor of tho Flrst 'raub‘{terlnn Oburch in Do« roit, was, in 1833, tried and convisted for her- cuy, having writton somelhing sbout rogen- aratiol fimt had not been written before. Tho Church know her own, Albort Barnes, & young mnn whono sorvices wre desired in Philalelphis, ventured o proach & sorwon on ** The Way of Balvation,” in torms not thon, but siuce, quite familiar, and, thero- aftor, to mako some aunotutjons on Taul's Bpistle t6 tho Romans,whish wera not agreeable to tho theclogionl duators, For fivo yoars he was deuounced, jnvestigated, [rlnili;llall in P'resbytory und Assombly, and acquitted, T noed not toll you who Mr, Barnes was, The Ohurch kuow or OWD, ‘About tho same time a theological Professor in Cipeinunti, by the uamo of Bocobor, ** was oliarged with holdlng aud toaching Palogian and Arminfan dootrinos “in respect to I'roe Agoncy, ‘Acoountability, Orlginal 8in, 'Potal Dopravity, Regoneration, and Clrlstion Charncter, contrary to the Confension aud the Word of God," and,ns if this wore not ouough, Lo was aconsed of ** the sin of hypoorisy" or “dieslmulation in importunt roligious mattors,” beeauno he sald ho wad not a horetio. What shall L say of Dr, Lyman Deoch- er (the fathor of all tha Boocliors), the blazo of whose ouareer has nob yot tm.lml away? ‘Cho Oburch, liko tho groat Shopherd, kuows her oWl * @od was in Christ reconciling the world unto himsolf, not fmputing their trespasses unto thom,” That is. the best denomiuation which gounds ous this gront mosaage most clenrly, Aud hio 1s most loyal ‘thorelo who ds most fudthiul, gront: y mado I tho Proabytos. and most lnfinnluna, in making men shorors in tho Reconolliation. . i \ ————— 5 THHE TEMPERANCR QUESTION. Sermon by tho Rov. Father Itlordam of St James’ Ohurch. Tho Rey. Father Riordan leotured on the sub-- Joct of *Tomporanco " in tho Roman Catholig Church of Bt. James, on Prairio avenuo, last ovoning. In commonclog his disconrse; the locturor al- luded to the'now Tomnorance Agsoolatiou forms od inhis parish, and sdvocated the prinaples which it 1ald down for tho guldance of its mem« bors. Ho-sald that tho cause of sobrloly {a ono of tho noblest in which the human heart gould Lo intoroated or the voico of maukind ralsed. Ho did, mlx.t bolieve l{mt 2 dm}xk(;nnunu conld ovor Do conquorad ogistation, but fo did” botiove fhat lompesanos . amon the masaes might bo achioved by the power o good oxamplo, While there was™ a domand for elcobiolio drinkn thoro would be found porsons to snpl)ly tho poison. Thorafore 1t was useloss to h-x{ n at tho wrong ond of the bnsiness, that is, trylug to convort tho sollers; Whilo tho popular tnato romninod vitiated, thoro was little ]:opu of roformation in tho way of liguor-sollers. The truo way to striko dotn iutempernuce was by gradually lnfluunulni( tho minds of the consum- ors; by directing thelr tastes into puror ohan- neld, and by showing thom the wreck and ruin brought upon thomeclves and their familios by porsiatenco in tho violous and extravagant courso of inobrioty, ‘The roverond spoaker davotod some littlo time to aconslderation of the woman's crusnde against whisky., 1lo gave tho ladies engagod fn tho movement credit for good intentions, buthe con sidorod that tholr mothod of aseailing the ovil was ill-coneldorod and impolitie, It waa not good to bring roligion of nn{ school into ridiculo, b nsooclating it with whal some pooplo might clfi sooialistio fanaticism, Prayer was an eflicaolous wespon when proporly used, but it ehould not bo mnde subjoct to £0off by being introduced in improper piaces, and offored np beforo pecplo who dolightod in the moakory of religion. ‘Tomperance organizations, by pursu:ng a pra- dont course, oould deal with he moral malady in o much moro offective way. Ho doprecatod all moveomenta in which prayer degoenerated moro or loss into what the irroyeront mighs torm cant. Ho had no wiali to find faulé with peoplo who wero oconsciontious .in their ideas relo- tivo to tho prosent ocrusade, but ho was. gorely afraid that the popular ronction would find .religion in a worso plight thau bofora the innuguration of the movemont. ‘Tho jucvitable tondoucy would be toward infidel- ity, for, it tho resulta of the praying movement woroe not spoodily apparont, the oynica and skeptica would huve some ground whorgon to advonco their rationslintic ideas. In fact, it was always dangerous to mix up religion with social movoments. Ihllglon was only powoerfal whilo it romained dignifiod ; whon T: surron— dored dignity it surrondered power. Could the dignity ~ of . roliglon bo advanced by holding _saloon ~prayer-mootings, or by pronching” thoreln? The Word of God preachod in the templos conseorated to Him commanded the rospect of the religions and frro- ligious alike. It should nat be lightly dealtwith, That Word was too sacred to bo mado & gcolf in tho mouth of the unbeliovor, There were soasons when it might bo proached outside,~pronchod with poworand with offect,— but saloon rovivalism appealed too strongly to the grotenque sido offhuman’ nature. Towmper- ance was, somothing that could not be acoom- plished i & month, or in & yoar. Ithad to boof slow growth,—the result of example and of edu- catton. Tho roligionists should train the young Eunuuflon in tho lessons of sobrioty,—should old bofora it the misories rosulting from in- dulgenco in tho ueo of intoxicating liquors. Thua alone could the sensual appetito bo suraly subduad, and in this way, by the establishment of organizations, by tho cultivation of tho young mind, by contrasting - the honor and dignity of # sobor and useful careor with tho dihonor nnd ignomivy of a drunkard's life, could temporauca finally hope to conquor. —_— e RAILROAD NEWS. . TUE MILWAULEY 4 ST. PAUL ROAD, Bupt. 0, H. Prior, of the Chicago, Milwaukeo & Bt. Paul Railroad, has flled in tho offico of the Register of Daods of various counties a cou- solidated mortgnge-desd of trust from the Com- pany to Russcll Gage sud Lievi P. Morton, Trustoos, This instrumont mortgages tho fol~ lowing lines of railway, with all tho franchiscsof tho Company, ood all lands, railway tracks, sidings, &c.: From Chicago to Minnoapolis, via Milwaukee, Portage City, and La Crogao, being about420 miles; from Milwaukeo, vin Prairio du’ Chien, to 8t. Paul, being about 405 milos; from Hastings to Glencoe, being about 75 miles; from Conaver to Docorah, about 10 miles; from Col- mar to Algons, about 126 milos; from Labuld to Marion, about 87 miles; from Milton, Wis., to Monroo, about 42 miles; from Watertown to Madison, about 87 miles; from Horicon, Wis, %o Borlin and Winnoconno, about 58 milod ; and from Milwaukeo to Potage City, via eloricon, about 95 miles. n Upon tho propoity thoto Are alréady miort- gages to the oxtent of $26,220,600, aud {n ordex to pay theso_mortgages tho Chicago, dilwankeo & 8t, Paul Company make this mortgago, and algo to raise means for comploting, improving,. nnd equipping its lines of railway, iuvolving tho building of threo railway bridges across the l[iuuiuslprl River, and ho Bubstitution of stasl rails in placo of iron upon those portions of its main line on which steel rails have not already boon Iaid; to accomplish which will, in tho agprogate, cost $35,000,000. The rond issues for thoe purposes aforesaid bynds to the amount of $25,000,000 and £2,000,000. Tho total num- bor of miles 18 1,895, % 3 TUE NORTHWESTERN, The officors of tho Northwesteru Railway Com- pany aco grudually contzallzing tho sautiol of heir vast and variod systom. Sovoral of tho Oompany's now lines, though wholly owaed by the one corporation, are not yot cousolidated. Though oporated _jointly, the soparate corporato names aro malnteinod, ‘This course futtors tho rido of the sovoral localitios. Thus, the Winona St. Pater Railroad, cxtun_din§ from Winona ncross Minnesots into Dakatn, thongh s much tho property of the Northwestern Com- Enuy as_any ‘known under its namo, has con kopt distinct, bocause of the “looal objactions to consolidation and of tho unjust con- sideration domandod by the Legislature for an act of- consolidation. - An eutiroly saparato urglnuiz_nnan for this lino has hitherfo been maintained, with hcndr‘uartgm at Winona, Tha$ rcgonn{ explres with this montl, Horeaftorthe line will be run as & Divigion, with a Buperin- tendent in charge, and .a General Agent will at- tond to all freight busincss, both of whom will bo undor tho direct supervision of the genoral officors at Chicago. Mr. John 8, Mulliken, Agent of the Company at Bterling, Ill., has been ;fiynlutud Goneral Agent at Winona, in place of » A, J. DMoad, General Froight and Ticket ‘Agont, and Mr, H. W. Boad, Agent. ° AIr, B, B, Hand, for several yoars past chiof clork in tho companv's geonaral freight office at Ohieago, hns been appointed agent at Storling. ‘I'hls being o junotion point with™ tho Rockford, .Rock Istsnd & 3t. Louls Redlroad, the agent Toprosonts both roads. MISCELLANEOUS. The Baltimore & Ohio Railrogd Company will prtona line of stoamers from Saundusky to Olicago s soon na navigation opsas, The action of tho maungora of the Kankakeo 1lno.in rostoring the wagos of tho employas to tho samo ratea as bofora the roduction mado in Decomber, gives gonoral satinfaction, and sever- 1 othor Companics that have made roductions will goon imitnte the good example, Tho Presi- dent ‘of this road hes issued & oironlar thanking the employes for the spirit in which the roduotion was met, and the faithfulness with which thoy worked. e e She Smiolt o Ohinaman, Fram the San Francisco Chronicle, On Monday eveung jaut A, Homwe, who re- gldos an tho corusr of Callfornin streot and Van Noss_avenue, requested hia daughtor to go to tho Litohon tor some articls which he noedod, Soon afterwards she roturned with a trightencd look ou her face, saylng that she had emellod o Ohinaman in the kitchen, This aunouncemout caunod her father to laugh heartily, but in conse- quence of heor earnestuess ho consented to go aud entlefy Lor of the absurdily of her iden, rigid soarch of the kitchen was wado, but no hiddon Colostial was found, and the sonrcl was sbont to bo abaudoned, when the daughter, who bad been prying about in the wash-room, rau in with the announcoment that hio was ‘‘in thoro,” Hor assertion was unmodlntely proved by tho soarohoers, who found -tho Cselestia] who had hind an array of wash-tubs, An ofilcor was sent for, nud the culprit wus taken to the Uity Prison, whera & charge of burglary was entorod agains him, The exsmiuation yoeterday in the Polica Court educed the foregoing faots, aud resulted in tho bolding of tho fragrans heathen to auswor lé?’tggg tho Grond Jury, with boiled fixad at ,000. || ————— g ~Tho New York World has figurod up tho ‘welght of u Indy's toilet, from her hair to her shoos, and tha Bum total is elovan pounds thir toon ounves sud eight drachms, . " PNE“EMM 80 extensive o scont concenled be-,| COLORADO. Gold and Silver Mining---Prespoct of a Prosperous Scason, Why the Mines Pay Bettor Now {han Formerly. - 'Tlx;s San Junn Country.«-Its Reputed Riche nesse=Locntlon of the New Mineral-Fields. ut Correspondence of The Chleago Tyibuna, 1 Dexven, Col., March 23, 1674, Nover, in thé history of Colorado, has the prospect for s prosporous scason of mining bosn Bo great asnow; and thore are many causocs , contributing to this which hnve heretofore not oxisted. Krom 1850 up to tho present timo, thore has boen a steady increass in the yield of gold and silvor, Gold, shows a groater return Tor the Inbor and invostment than evor boforo, Bilver-mining is unquostionably the more profit- ablo of tho two; but, racontly, both have made an extraordinarily-good showing. Tho maln roagon that mining is now paying more largely, and yiolding with moro cortainty, is the fact that tho systom of velus of this Torritory is rapidly boocoming 3 DETTER UNDERSTOOD, and the adaptation of machinory snd procosses ia » mattor which no longer puzzlos minc-owners toany vory groat extent. Tho mining and ro- duotion of gold are fast approximating a degres of certalnty that was hardly hopod for a fow . yoars ngo. Tho character of tho metalliferous voins has been closely studied, and now thoro is not much difficuity in determining the host method of troatment for any partlonlar class of oros. A lnck of this knowledgo' (and only within short timo past) ofton rendered tho reduction of rich oros . & mattor of almost unwar- rantablo _expense. Thore is. & peouliarity attached to the ores of overy locality, aud this is more ospecially tho caso in Colorado. Ores sumilar in appearanco fre- quently require s very differont treatment; and, failing to recognize this fact, many mineralogiats from abroad have frequently hed ill-success haro in thelr efforts to free the metal profitably {rom the rock surrounding it, when the reverse onght to bovo boon the case. Dat, as the de- sired knowlodgs is rapldly becoming ' more gon« eral, mining oporationa throughout the Territory aro being carried on moro extonsively, and mmi of tho oldor and bottor-informed minors thin that the yield of gold and silvor this yoar wili be NEARLY DOUBLE that of last yoar, The minos that have been worked to the groats est extent flvocvmeucun of beiuy inexhnuatible ; ond a peculinrity worthy of close atlontion is, that, gouorally the deepor the mine is worked, tho greater tho quantity of yaluablo motal taken out. Many fixoupuntom bave discardsd the richost of localitios on account of a poor snrface- showing ; but thoir error in this respeot. becom« ing apparent through moro rocent ‘diacoveries, thoy bavo traversed theirold stamping-grounds to open up fortunce for themselves, and othorx who hiave come forward with capital to develop the localitics rich with gold and silver. A fact that was slow to bo found, but is now fast baing improsgod upon the mining community, is, thak thoy wore guided too much, in their prospectin, aud working of mines, by precodents furnishe by the Moxioaus, 3 “I'ho Mexioan systom of prospecting andminin is 1lttle or no botter than their crude method o sgriculture when compared with tho improved niode of the intelligent and enterprising Ameri- enn farmor. Toaliziug this fact, the miners arg adopting mothods, tio rosult of roflection and exporlonce, which gre dostined to mako the winig and reducing of gold and silver ALMOST AS CERTAIN 1o their charactor s the mining and working of coppor and iron. The mining camps of Colorado uow presont a scone of activity that was nover bofore kuown, In almost every locality where work is goiog on, thio ¥iold of paying oro Lus neerly, if not fully, doubled during tho past fow months. The ro- duction-works of the Tenitory, mining doy and night, canuot acoommodato one-Lhird of the de- mands made upon their oapacity. Almost every train that Jeavos this city convoya ore East to ba reduced at Olicago, 8. Louis, Nowarl, Balti- more, or some points still farther remote,~much going across Lthe ocean to Gurmm:fi' and Wales. More reduction-works are rapidly becoming necossary, sud movements have been insugu- ratod to have them cracted at sevoral points throughout the Territory. Many mines in which much capital was sunk by reason of thoir improper working, have rccundy boen rovpencd, und ate yislding bandsomely. Tho moro kiowl- edgo gained rogarding our mines, tho more profitablo does their working becomo. 'Fhe reports rogarding the oxtreme richness of : TIE SAN JUAN DISTRICT, . in the southwostern portion of tho Torritory, bavo caused o gront furor. Steps havo been tuken for the rapid development of tha country. Several wagon-ronds are undor courso of con- struction, loading directly to tho mines, and the; will be finiglied Within a few wooks. -Work is boiug rapidly pushod forward on the South Park Rullwny towatd Fair Play, and which will ulti- mntely pais in closo proximity to the mines, A groat oxodus to the San Juan country has alroady commanced, and it gives promiso of incrensing weelkly along into tho suwmmor, a8 fabulous re~ orts have gono forth regarding the Sun Juan lines. From all scctious, ndventurous peoplo nia moving to take up mining proporty iif that locality under the pre-emption laws, in the hopa of securing valuablo lands, aud thma obe taining foriune with little labor and lees capital. Most of-this region was a ‘portion of tho Uto Indian Resorvation, and Wwas. scoursd by the Unitod States last fall, through a troaty made with that tribs. They bavo, however, some country adjncont to this; and the Socrotary of the Interior, auticipating the great influx of ad- venturous white men to that looality, called upoi tho War Departmont, last weok, to. send a body of troops there sufliclently largo to prevent trospneses on tha Indian Resorvation, and to presorvo order, The Govoroment mil also Bliortly dispatal Prof, Hayden and bis exploring arty to this section to investigate further into 118 character, To givoan outllne of what is already known of that section of Colorado, which is destied to give rise to anothor of thoso GoLD-¥EVELS that periodically brenl forth to netonish the ouvuntry at largo, it may be well to siate that it comprises what i8 known as the Districts of Lna Animus, Lalio, aud Bummit. Theso e from 30 to 100 milea boyond Dol Norto. Yo rench this place, there are sevoral rontes, varying in longth from_220 to 260 miles. That from this city via Lair Play is rogarded as the ebonsa:, especially for parties who start from the Enst. The prinoi- Rjfl outfitting points are Denver, Pueblo and Dol orte, The latter is regarded by many as the Dest point, g Somo portiona of tho mountains of San Juan aro termed solid maesed of mineral ; but this is spoaking in the bronacst senso, Some of the gold ovo takon out hou yiolded more than $530,000 por ton. This is the richest.* Most of the poor- et golections hiave nesayed 1,000 por ton, Some of the silver-ore hins turned ous $6,000 per ton. Much of it crushos out nt the rate of from £300 t0 81,000 por ton. Ou poouliarity of the aurif- crouns and argontiferous formations of this sectlon is, that they lio t - 'NEAR TO THE SURFACE, 4 and in great oxtout—making the working &b onco both easy and profitablo. The' richost de~ pn‘ulku lie {’A‘i‘l‘m ‘\{‘uln{ln slope of tho moun- tafve, which, though very rugge ara not i0loult of = mocous. 'fih:d' vale leys -adjacent give' evidenos of bein, quito fortilo; and, tho climato boivg quite mild, both coreals and fruits con be raised for the com« munities of miuers who will ultimately sattle in the mountains, CGsme is plonty, and thero iu much olso that is conduvive lo rendering this now sovtion of the Torritory Inviting to the miner and tho agrioulturisl, ~Sevoral town-sites adjacont to the minos have already boon lald out, and much enterpriso Is belng evinoed by the ploneor population, ‘o, ——— ‘Ihioving Ah=IKow and f2is ‘Ttwo Xnts, . I'om the San Francisco Chromele, Ab-Kow was detooted on Wednesdny night in $ho act of conflsonting a bag of potatoos bolong- ing to a Front strcot morchant, and was tried yosterday and found Tuuy, ‘This Colestint in u remarkahlo sbirawd follow, and has soldom boon * deteoted in his nofarious operations, e is pro- vided with two hesd-coverings,—one & stouch- Ing broad-brim, and the other a Bloek-looking slull-onp, © When Lo ig noticed in the exeoution of somo of Liu practices, he {8 woni to dart lhaatily sround an sdjscont corner, and, concenl ing the brond-brimwed obapesu beneath. hin onpmlnu? hlousu,x dons hmfintugmlflnnklng oap, and, assuming, an ocont expy * waiks calmly away. 5 i puoaslon, TS T i e S i e