Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1874, Page 2

2 i i EASTER SUNDAY. Special Sorvices in Prominent | Churches. Sermon by Prof. Swing on the Joyful Day. Sorvices: by Bishops Foley and Whitehouse, Ceromontes at fho Jesult Church, Grace Church, St. Paul’s, - and Others, Iaster Flowers and Offerings. The snow bogan falling at 8 o'clook yostorday morning, and continued without intormission fornearlytwelvehoura. Bat tho cars dld not coago running, and {t was not unploasantly cold, so that tho attondance al church yesterday morn- ing, wna not. greatly diminishod from what it would havo boon had tho sldes boon clear and tho sun shining warmly. Only invalids romained st homo, ‘Those who wero most inconvonionced by thio snowy humor of an April day woro tho sminfstora who had prepared sormona ' appro- priate for tho occasion,” and who had studied their hopos rather than tho weather-roports, Nonrly all of thom had prepared glowing com- parisons botwoon tho'doad winter iu ite frozon gravo, and tho joyful advont of Enator Sunday, rioh with sunhght, and melodious with songs of birds ; all which comparisons had to be thrown overboard, sinco thoy. would havo soundod out of place whilo listonors could sco through tho ‘windows tho stoadily-falling snow. —_———— THE JOYFUL SUNDAY. Enster Sormon by Prof. Swing, Yestordny morning, Prof. Bwing proached the. following Eastor sermon. in his oburoh, on tho cornor of Rueh and Ontario streets, taking as his toxt: L 7= s For my yoko {a ey and my burden is light,—~Mat- thow, xi., 30, . Three facts combino to placo this Bunday be-, yond the reach of the pulpit's proso. Wo would do woll to surronder thoe “occasion to song and fowors, and tho full hoart's moeditation. Itis a Bundny of tho Holy Communion; it is Eastor Bunday. May your hoirts sl find in tholr own dopths a mensurement of the occasion which no- words can oxpross. What holp you may not gothor from the pulpit'syformal words to-dny, Fou mauy find in the flowors that wrentho tho altar, ond in tho -epiritunl associntions of tho hour. What remarks you are.invited to hear stsall be in soma way_suggested by the presonce and charaotor of the Eastar day. It s only con- joturo that haa located this encred auniversary apon {he border of spring. Many of those do- tails which are carofully Toported in an ago of .printing, and in an ago of such rostless inquiry &6 the art of )Z;xnung hias dovolopod, wholly es- unpu;i rocord in the far-off timos of tho Testa- ment. The history of modorn oyents is gnflmud by hundreds of busy bands, and hundrods of presses multiply the oxact roport, 8o that the day that witnessos the ond of a war, or tho death of n groat individusl, Flnccs in the hand of every oiti~ Zen a history of tho firent war or tho great lifo. History, worthy in the high senso of the namo, bogine with the art of printing, All history, u; to 'tho coming of that *‘art presorvative of all arts,” is only a poor outline of s world, instend of a full-faced picturo of tho groat subjoct. It ia comforting to_tiso Christian, howovar, to fool that the lifo of his Master is full bayond the ous~ tom of profano blography, and in'detail of lifo and thoughts, and doeds and donth, surpasses the chroniclos tho world possosses as to any great charactor of the far past, not oxcopting such a philosopher ns Plato, or xuoh an Emporor a8 Omear, The lifo of . Cliriat is remarkablo for the numbor of its witnessos, and for the eredi- Bility they merit, by their honosty and opporsu- mity. Butthoy givaus no birthday or deathdny of ‘thoir Mastor; and, after tho old, half-civil- ized genorations in tho third century had_abso- lutoly fought batiles over tho time of tho Resur- section, tho Council of Nico catablished o day b docreo, and sinco that dato the Ohristian Churoh haw, 80 far a8 it haa regarded the event at all, colobrated the morning which our gonoration is loaming to love more and more deoply. % Aside from the exaot doy, it {8 quito probable- that this event of sorrow and joy ocenrred in the spring montha ; for, as tho organie, Church fol- lowad clogely the event of the cross it is hardly probablo it should Lsvo incorroot. dafa fogarding lie sonson of tho year when its Lord was cruci~ tiod ; and that théy should bavo loatod in tho spring an ovent g0 significant,- tiad it oconrred [n bnrvest or midwintor, - It sooms quite cortain that the Lord mot His death in tho spring time, and thus by design the * Orontor' associated His lifa and His roligion with tho realm’ of flowors, beauty, and boqo{ Bpring is the poculiar prop- erty of hopo. Woall, from the young child to- tho most venerablo father, foel ‘that whon the long winter relents, .and the wind hns begun to blow softly upon tha check, n new worldis about to como, and ench morning bird's song -ssems o terald declaring new _joy and new existonco to the honrt. ‘Chere aro-many wonderful, harmo- uios between tho God of tho soul. They- aro o Dumiorous that tho'splrit of man oan expross all the varying conditions by asking us to look up- on tho world of matorial things, I unhappy, it doolaros its sliy to bo clouded; ' if Lappy, it aky to bo bright. ‘It young, 'it ‘appeals to spring a8 n? ombiem, fl]hoyond manhood and forsaken, it orloss h ot . My namo is tho yellow leaf; -, BT e flowers and fruita of Tova are gont Tlie wotm, the canker, and the grief Ave mino alone, o Then thero'are no shadings in human expo: once_which may not bobold thelr imaga in & groat tomplo of nature withont: ' Tho majority of mortals come upon death in the night hours, 26 though tho'great ovening shadow 'which wraps wood and flold, and even the loved homo where the elck one lies, woro: designod of God to be an nccompaniment to the shadow abont to como to the epirit,- - * 4 1f, thorofore,the God of Nature, and the God of tho host are soon tomove slong in such parrallol linos, why may wo not supposo_ that if Savior wad to come and riso from the tomb in presonco of & world, that the Infinite wisdom 'would ask the gront springtimé to opon her flower-beds for that tomb of now lifo'and hopo. It is only one of o thousand hinrmbnjos it that sonson whioh onata its bost sunsbine and happinessupon tha* &slioros of carth, is tho scason - which cast tho Bon of Man npon tho shores of immortality, ' ‘When the Lisstor Sunday .was . establishod, it wag called Dominica Gaudil,—tho 'Sunday of Joy,~and thus, for fifteen’ hundrod yoars, this day has journeyed llonitn recoive, not the dust and sshen, not the'worship of sighing and 'do- apair, but'the offorings of tho sweotest flowars, and tho worship of gratitudo and hope, A largo l’lnrb of the Protestant world has faithfully closed ts oyos to tho renlity sud valuo of this auni- verenry in Oliristian hietory, .and' thus has robbed religion of, .one. of ils boautiful' robos, leaving 1t more and more dopendent upon o rostumo of notling but sackeloth,: 'Tho reason of this past negloct ismanifold. | Protostantism, In its Puitan and diesonting dlvisions, was a reaotion againet & . morvico - of an, ex- (romely moterial charaotor, - Thoe Bpintual scomed forgotten, and the ontward -sym- bola to havo'-faken .tho placo of an Innorlife. Tho pulpit, that had boen'sotup in, onrly yoars ng & tonchor of truth, Lnd boon ale amost crowded out of -oxistence’ by u groat stage’ fillod with Bishops, prioats, and noolytos, whoro nlcq'nnm:s soomed hopuud by pagoanfry, Against s roligion which sconiod an oxtravagant dovelop- g}nut of tho epootacular, Prosbylorianism, and ethodistism, and Quakorism worea fosm of ro- volt; for it caunot bo denled thot tho oreed of thoso new socts was not such o full doparture Irom Eplanornny sud Romanism ag was the sonu“: &t tholr now worship, its splrituality and smplicity, : Huying ot forth with & full disliko of tho Btato Ohurchos, and partioularly of the Roman Ghurol, those seots fenred and’ dosplaod ovory- thing Roman, and honce saw tho hand of Balan ot ouly in the confassional and in tho infalll- I:(Dlfi.zhhut 0l40 in a church organ and in Eastor A mocond remson for tholr mogloot may bo und in tho fack that theso ulm‘!‘nntln le!l!lu arono furthor north than Palesting, and Italy, and France, and amid hardehip " of govern- mont, of sy, raco, and henoo ' amid 7, and """:fl."' thought 4 and Lonce raligion omittod gentle, and dealt mauoh that was boautitul and Jogioal and tho most Practical § grostlyin tho and if any furthor roflootion I noodod to ascount for tho noglect which this dny has recelved in tho Puritan’ Churchos, wo may romombor that .tho Froo Beots have Leon compollod to fight thoir Wholo way along through glnt‘ory. and henoo, could ndt secomplish much with a sword in ono hand and Engtor floworain tho other, Tho poot- 1y of roligion died in tho In"fi couflict, In tho.joy aud gratitu Lioarts should not fall to be thankful that tho wotld has #o advanced in tho enlightonmont which doatroys Frojnd[co, nnd 1in tho dovolop- ment of a Christian brothorhood, such that, at Inat, this doy comes back: to our ‘sanotuary and oxcftan 10 vl wo bittor momory of Popo or Blshop, but only & sncrod remombrancs of thoe opon tomb of CGhrist. I'ho Ohvistinu hoart uni- vereal is go omptied of old snimonity, that tho Protostant Chtiohes rojoloe, I bolievo, to join this day with the Catholia world In confossin, tho roliglous worth and boauty of tho hour, an in_joining’ thom, though nt Boparato’ altars, in this worship of joyfulneas, In coming up to sucl a day as this, wo ‘have not oncountored o kind of nceidont In tho ro- ligion of Josus, but have como to its innormost sud permanont gpirit, Whon the divine author of this roliglon deolares that Ilis yoko is ensy and His burdon light, womay accopt of tho words a8 covoring all tho daya of this_pligrim- ago. When looked at from tho standpoint of old Joewieh Iaw, full of imperfeotion, full of wrath, and too narrow. for eithor lifo or denth ; whoko conflnca wore s singlo nation, whoso roligion wns aun extornal offoring of flooks, and whoso whole emblem was & Bioal covered with thundorings and vivid lightnings, Christ's yoko, with its porfaction of rengon, and with its ro- dnmEuau on the cross, and with its forgivencas and brothorhood of man, and lovlni,v prosouce of God, boeamo onsy, and His burdon light. When tho Testamout in magy placon sasures ua that whoover would follow Christ must deny himse)t and take .up tho oroes, it would soom that Chrlstiamity woro sent forth npon a mission of sorrow; but much of that lan- guago was dirocted to_those immodiato times, whou to follow Christ waa _to move in- o faith which led to martyrdom.. It Was nocossary for 8¢, Paul, and for tena of thousands around bile wvo, to turn nwny from tho Rnuw ‘of envthly ppincss, sud, bidding farowoll to friends, to ok donth calinly in tho faco, a8 tho fate of o morrow not far away. ‘Tho prayor of Millon over the martyrs of Piecdmont pasges boyond i horizon, and becomes full of awful solemni- ty whon broathod over tho first four centurios of our-Lord: 4 Forgot not; {n thy book record thelr groans, Who woro thy shiecp, and in thetr anciont fold, Siain by tho bioody Piodmontesd that oled Mother with {nfant down tho rocks, 'Thoir monns Tlio valos rodonbled to tho bille, anil thoy to eaven ‘Thelr martyred blood and ashes sow O'or oll tho Ttalian fiolds, In' view ‘of those dark ages, whoso fary, it ooms, was not wholly to die away for a thousand onrs, Olrist handed to His cbildren the em- lom of tho cross, to go with thom; the omblom of mm{n sorrow and many o martyrdom. Thus Ifool that most of the Lalf-molaucholy words of tho Bavior wore spokon'ns againat tho purace outions that would follow, and oxhausted thom- solves upon that ‘speoinl shore, leaving Ilis ‘brondest and overlasting declaration to bo that of tho toxt: “'My yoke is casy and my burden fa light,” Borrow may come hero aund {hore, to this or that period, or this or that heart, but, as » gonoral truth, embracing all lands nnd all hu- manity, Oliristinnity is tho most abundant foun=- tain of happiness of whoso watcrs the humen lips ma; ik, If thoro bo any lmp{:iufl!n in this world, it ought to be found in the obodience of stoh morals s aro wiitten in the Bormon np- on the Mount, nud in such a lifo of broad love® nud charitablo laction as are scon in tho life of Ohrist, and -in the 'ml‘uiu for tho soul, found through Him, and intbat hopo which therobursts upon the vision boyond His opon tomb, . 1t I should deolare that, apart from tho fear of martyrdom, there s no cross to bo bomno, 1 should ovorlook a ceriain solf-denial which doea indeed belong to this roligion, But it is almost worthy of contompt, forit is not n donial of o good Bolf, but of a wicked self. We are not nsked to deny eolf anytiung that bolongs to tho broadest and highost rlurolormwfi. but it there 18 anything low and satavio In our naturo, wo aro invitod to cut off that form of human enorgy. *| Tho golf-donial of religion !ml\“ to bo in dony- ing tho hoart tho privilege of' its own disgrace. It not to ateal lio o solf-denial ; if not to bear false witness, not to deapiso tho poor, not to bo inscnsible to the wants of our follow-man, aro & solf-donisl, then Christlanity is full of it. ‘But if wo pnsa by an unworthy nature as boing some- thing wlhose gratification is o simplo disgrace, and if we think of only alofty soul, and thohigh-' o8t form of oharacter, Christianily 18 not a solft- denial, but & solf-love and a solf-gratification. Much of the self-donial which lingors in tho Ohristian philosophy aud practics, hna boen gatherod $p from haif-oivilized agos, all through whioh roligion sdvanced, inglod wWith tho horrid idoas of Poganism, As the Hindoos try to pleaso their gods by oop-awiog, and by thrusting hot irons through tho 1ilesh, so tho somi-Clristian timos, limping on the bordors of Pagan dorknoss, have had their snints of [)fl.lnr and of chve, and a8 the children of Bongal- have for thousands of yoars run farthor toseo tho fakirs coming into tho villago, ocutting their own bodies. with knives, so have the Oliristinn villages ‘in" Europe "followod, in wonder and rovorence, a procession of fagellants marching . to:a chiorus of whips, aud with feot eprinkles with blood. : Both thesn scones—onoin India, under Vishnu, thie othor in Europe, under Christ—aro pictures of the saumo . human heart, living in a native lfinomucu ‘which was still bringing to boar upon the now gospel & folly of logio and of soul that Liad boen producing the .samo_deformitics of ‘roligion along the Gangos, tho ‘Nile, and tho Tiber, Wherover o+ Christian has atarved him- 8oLt ;- wherover a Christian has.worn a girdlo of thorna; " whorever. o Christian mothor has. triad ‘to .love hor ohild loss that . eho might . love: lLer. . God . moro; wherever o Baint has withdrel from ‘the bright sunlight that ho might dwoll onlyin tho light of God,— thero uil theso woll-meaning ones hiave revealed, not the imfml of Olristianity, but tho dark’ shadow of that renlm away from Christ, whoro tho mothor drowns hor infant for God's anko, and ywitoro strong moen have, in tho, name. of God, Bold up their right arm fill it withered, or have azod ot the sun till they beeamo blind' forever. .| g(y ocouraga ha failed undor what it called 'tho crosg, but whioh was indeed only a folly, \When Madame Guion rovolved that slie would not feel 6ad whon hor-cbildren should die, but_should Ioy them in tho fimvo 08 6he had put them in tho cradlo at night ; and whon wo porcelve that this sho actually dld,"and ehed no toare, but smiled on them dead a8 eho had smiled on them living, wo must- not be botrayad, oven .by:hor ranlk, or culture, orfortuno, into the belicf that 8hio w08 unvailing any of tho, mysteries of.our roligion,” but muat " confons that .hor groat mi and hoart woro touched - by that shadow of ' infinity which hns thrown ite dark lino acrosa nll the Intellects ‘whioh havo over lived, howaver great or humblo, Evory soul' born'i1ito the world is born into mis- takod. 'Bo tho intolloct a8 lofty na that of n Do- mosthenos or a Matthow Hale ; bo tho genlus da divine aa that of Danto or, Bhalspearo; bo the. heort as swoeb as tbat of, Feuolon ,or ‘neross it somowhero will fall o dark shadow of man's frailty, rominding us that thero is none good but God. " Escapiug from this in- {lugnco of jnunto -infirmity, and of surrounding bagharism, aud coming up faco to faco boforo the actual religion of Chriat, wo seom bound to con- fos that its yoke I enay, and 1ts burden light. Pho caonpo from n low [ifa-to a highor: ono, -tha rofuge from siu found inthe n‘flnvfroulr‘ the now lovo toward sll mnnkind,.and toward- God, the bottor reading ol lite's significanco; and the por- petual looking to hoavon from amid all the sor- row af this shore, ahould notbe confessoed a'cross for bowed-doyn shouldors, but rather a joyful crown for the forohead. ' . "Chera 18 ono considoration that stands to rob Ohsistianity of that lightnoss of. heart which bo- longs to tho innoconce of ohildhood and to tho sbyolute plonsure-geokors of maturc yoars, It hog not so loud a lsugh, nor o many idlo, sun- Qowper, ling, the shiny days ¢ but the reason of this is #o vast'and | 80 nablo that one might' wall accept of -its snori- fico of morrimont to gain inaténd n sobornoss that comes from o honorable a causo, ““Lot tho human mind and Loart cepouse’ any truth that leads to n:deoper:study of mau, & philosophy that studiea the wants: of ‘the human family in all 1ts racos, ages and conditions ; & Dhlluno[lhy which must ool slong all thodo yeats, and thon ‘look' over 1nto ' otériity; a -philosophy isenin from an :infinito sympathy, -and whicl muac_go whore the orphan i wecping and ‘the sick dylug—is ono which, * in what 'we call merrimont, oan be surpassod. elways by tho ohikihood which Lnows uothing, and by the empty yoars of sin and fasblon,. which nothing carog, As tho statesmen who, liko Cobden, or Bright, or Bumner, espouse tho destinics of tho multitude, aro borno away from the buttertly Joy whioh. they pousessed in ohildhood, and Which they oan &tlll behold along the fashion- able avenues, so Ohriatisuity,’ lnll}v neoepted by tho maturo mind, brings with it ofton study of mankind, and a loving for tho world's wolfaro which sobors tho ,waking lhours, aud oven in- Invades with its anxiety tho once peaceful sud Bwaet world of drenm. ompared, however, with o childish life, or o sinful lifo, or an ompty lifo, Ohristianity is not, 'in our wutury—nunnyod a8 it has from Pagan sbuogntion, axd entoring as it doos fupon sn ora of love and happiness—any longor a bondage, but is nn emancipation of the hoart. Its orosy wa3d borae by ita Obrlst that it might not be borne by His ohildren, ‘I'he cross wolghed dowa o of this dnv‘aur. THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1874, His -body and Spirit to the tomb ; but by Hig ohlldron'it fs'worn on the bosom, an emblom of bonuty and hopo, - Onco siained with blood, it 18 now wreathed with flowora, fai) Two Bundays in tho yoar aro now dodlestod to thio"aplrit of Linppinoss, - Tho Proteatant Olvarch has now, for the most part, admitted theso two casos into its brond desort, and all that romatus for us now Ia ga to rond tho Gospol..of.our Lord that we ghall make thoso two Islands In the snndy plain widen out until tho vision of waving ralm-lmno nhall always llo before ovory travolor n this long, lonoly maroh; hon modorn art aud modorn ambition® hsd digged n caunl from tho Nilo to tho Buos, stationary vorduro fol- lowed the wators through the désert, and now troos wave In blosslng whoro onco tho burniog. snnds blistorod tho foot and filled tho travelor's bonrt with only o sonse of desolation.. It la comlug ta pass, and will bo conteasod more fully in future timos, that Christinnity- {s such o stronm, flowing {brough o desort world, onlythat moro vorduro may spring u{: for. tho joy of tho multitude that aro travellng across the wido plaius of lifo. % i Buoh aro our thoughts for the dny, whon tho oross of doath i8 wroathod with the' flowors of otornal lifo. In presonce of this wreath all othora of earth fado, Tho brido wroathos hor hond in tho namo of & long friondship, but hor boauty and her joy, her Lomo would all bacomo dust aftor a fow yoars, ms porishablo na tho orango-blossoms on her tomples, wera it not for the hopoe of immortal life whioh wafts her and all.sha lovos forward to n world of bliss, o the wronths of statesmen and philanthropists look to the great resurrcotion beyond these narrow confinos for tho fulfillmont. of their hopos and the reward of their tolle, Henco we have como to-day to the wronth of all wrenths, to tho bloom that causon all blossoming, 'Okl blossod Enater flowora ! .'Tho scattorod roses of ovory flold cast tholr color aud perfumo down befora your more snorad import. As tho slienves of his brobhren all howed boforo the shoat of Joseph, in tho old, boantiful dream, becanso they saw that his hands- would food tho hungry -in far-oft yonrs, whon tholr own graina had ‘porishod, 80, bofore tho Enatorn immortelloes all tha llles and rosos of & wido .world may come to worship; bocauso, giftod with prophooy, thoy may woll soe in those cmbloms of fmmortality & bonuty whioh shall roapponr in tho world boyond, atter thoir own loaves shall havo beeu Roattored, and_tholr por- funio all breathod away in the silont night, GRAOE ' CHUROCH: > ??hn boautiful custom of colebrating Eaator Bundny as a doy of espocial Joyousness was ob- sorved in the Episcopalian churches in” genoral, Tho marked fontures in tho observances aro the. gifta of spring flowera with which thoe altara aro decorated,” tho recital of musid of & more than uaually, jubllsnt charaotor, and tho delivery of o gormon ‘suited to tho Eaator sonson, At Grace Episcopal Ohurch the scason was commomorat- ed by thoso sorvicos.. The nave and chancel woro crowned with many wroaths of. flowers; and the altar was hung with fostoons of the sumo lovely ornamonts, equally appropriate to tho an- niversary of tho day of resurreotion and tho birth of spring. . e Probably tho boauty. of theso fragrant offor- ings was onlianced by tho sombre .sky and the wintry nspoct without; at-any rate, nover did flowors find o more useful and boautiful mission than these,which shons forth in.exquisito lustro. Among tho Eromlnnuk ornamonts wero .tho fol- lowing : .'The momorial wiudow, dodicated to tho momory of Lucius S8herman, was docorated with o bod of whito flowors with a_cluster of immortellca spolling tho words, In Memorinm in the centro, + Tho” Lieotorn was Lung with o wreath of ‘snow-whito buds,»-in - tho centro of which was tho moncgiam “ I." Thomost prom- ifuont offering was o large anchor made entiraly of calla lilies, camolliss, and roses, which was E:nmd in tho baptismal font,, ‘Fhis’ was_giyon ‘memoriam to tha son of Clisuncoy T: Bowan, Tho, anchor wns ontwingd ‘with o deli- ento ving, aud stood -imbedded in - o masa - of whito , roscs and litics. A bouk of flowors.with the word ‘Mother,” in Bpriog violots in tho contro, was the mouiorial gift of Mra, Loitor. . This was placod at the baso of tha pulpit. A lafgo cross of roses and other tintad flowers; with s wreath.on' esch sido, was hung avorthe allar; this was prosentd by tho ladios of tho churoh’ who nitonded the Lenton sorvicos, ‘Cho. cholr-gallery was. orinmentod with'a orose of Whito eswellins and rosos given by Nra. Fairbsok. , Altogethr tho floral- dogora: tiona'woro vory beautiful and fragrant, tho wholo Doly.of tho church boing. ladon with' thelr: rich perfumo, . . . e Extra ondeavors woro.also mado to have the musio exprosa tho colobrativo charactor of tho day. ‘Tho following was tho.programms of this part of the sorvice: _ Baster Antliem, Dudley Buck Glorin Patri, e+ ¢ Bodouthal To Doum (usw) by Jubilato (liow). [yran—* Chr oy, 7. “Houry Wilson Offer{oiro, Frayer, and Quartotts, arranged . . drom Lohengritlee...us. ++ Wogner .. Tho musicwas rondered . with excollont offact, ‘although fonrs woro ontortaincd that the absonce of Mr, Biachoff would mar the harmony of tho -quartette: ' Mr. ‘Willlam Hununemau took the tonor aco1o very acceptably. The rost of ‘tho choir, composed of - Miss Fanny Root, soprano, Mrs. Oliver K. Johnson, ‘contralto, Mr. Foltz, Dngso, - with Prof. Baumbaoh nt tho organ, ron- dered their parts with thoir accustomed correot- ness and &b, . : Aftor tho choral servicos wore concluded, the Rov. Olinton “Looke pronched from tle text, ‘¢ Whonco comest thou, and' whithor wilt thon. go# Lo following iy & summary of bis ro- marks'’: © 5 . 'The-quostion nakod was one that moots 8 man in the full matuyity’ of his yoars. It might bo 8nid that s ppirit mot him -and . asked the ques- tion, ** Whenco comost thou ?" ' To the spirit wo ropllod, “ I came from a Fathor ; for thoutands of yorts"'my rnco hns boon struggling on.' You may.traco overy stop of my progross from tha entlicst ngos until now. My maroh has boon onward and upward, until now in tho ninetoonth century, with all human exporience back of mo, I am wondering, waiting, expeoting,—n man o deatiny weiting for tho futuro. Whonoe comoI? Bomo eay from a monlkoy, and this from somo ottior auimal, -and ho from's bird, a - flsh, & rop- tilo, and so to tho boginning; but whence tho boginning oamo wo know not. - = Homo ciaim this to bo o porfect thoory, but thore aro, no proofs in the' world' to show that n bird Lms ever approached a bnast, or o boast, man.- I will-toll you whonco I came, and ult things combine to corroborate tho revelation s I.camo from tho Father. * God placod mo in tho Qurden. The first man was mado not a cul- tured, but & porfoct man- aftor - Iis’ own henrt. Ho hod_hoart, soul, sight; hearing, consclence, —for ‘God mado’ hil nd he ling even boen found acknowledging and worshipiog his Crantor whother be knows him-as Jupiter, Brahma, or by any -other henthenish namo, 1 know him ns O’od the Father Almighty.. ¢ - .-t And whithor gdost thou,™ says the aplrit of Man; and hoe replieg, ** to tho grave, for to 'all mon’ comos tho sad day, This 18 my/ plac, Horo ia my homo. ' Horo_fhay keep a’ placa for mo, and hore, Icome.”No matter what have beon my ambitions, my succoss, tha'grentest nnd buniblost alilo folu'tu tho kame procossion, From tho onrliest “time ' this' procossion has mavad onward boring ‘mankind to dust, to ash- o8, tothe'gravo, + : o Thon would the' Spirit say, “Ipity you, oh man,’ Your existenco'hos' beon a failure,” Yon boye livod in vain. Isit for this thatlove haa poured out -all 'its ponniless - treasurea; ‘that Jour poota havo sung and your orators smokon 8 It for this, that tho world is ohoking full of all injusiioca? 'Oh, what s fallural? -+ - : Bub tho man would reply snyiufix 1t i true that I havo suak into the coflin, but: my Bavior Las snid, ¢ 1 am -tho : resurroction and tho lifa and whoso believeth in me shall nover dio,' Linyo o blessod faith. Look over the gravestonos iu tho churchyard, they aro- insoribad with the Topo of a blossod rosurrection, Look over the “world to day and houv tho joyous.ory that arisos, Ohrist I8 rison to-day, : Oigo ‘men “wero buriod without a hopo, " No ono’ had- ever como baok alive from tho tomb, but one day.thore walied fort ‘one who . Bsld'I am the Bavior. Ho :met - with sorrows, o wrestled with death, © o’ died, but . tho third day IHo Toto agaln in lifo aid boauty, bringing tho mose -8R:1o thint tho grave would.not hold the soul, Evory man who ovor was born is living now, and wo shull all live and moet and- join togother again. Bo, Bpirit, whon I enid” to theo the gravo is my home, T meant onlf a8 far 08 thiy world i concornod. Who body is one of the garmonts which thoe soul wears, and at tho rosur- 1oction I shall put on another and a better robo, Novor shall I logo m‘y porsonality, my soul.” Tho_queations -of tho upirit hove boon an- ewored. : Look up, my brothron, oo {t sl Beo tho muititudes thronging. tho gutos of Paradiso, Heo Olrlat walking among thom in his glory. ‘Thero thon aro scones of sotivity, of restfulnoss, and of poace, Doautls ful world, whore mortality is swallowoed' up in to Hoavon, and fol - At the concluslon of the sormon Mr, Yooko | mada au earnost appenl for tho Easter offoring, which ho deslred should bo ospocislly large, ag thoro was o hoavy dobt imponding “over tho ohmroh. Tho amount collosted as tho Esator gif} ronched the sum of 10,000, The sorvices concludod with the minlstration of the Lord's Buppor, s lgn the evening a choral servico was given. The Sabbath Holiool Lold its auulversary Eustor oxors cisos In the aftornoon. Tha differont olasnos” prosonted their embloms and Esater offorings, snd had tho usual happy olildron's fostival,: !loln(nu in thoir.Babbath Bohool songs snd in stoning to tho ruFum of thoir progroes and nuacess throughout the yoar, —_— 8T, \TDH"N’S OHURCH. Sormon by the Rectors tho Itov. I, Nu Powe ora; Tho Enstor services at 8t, John's Ohaurob, cor- nor of Bouthwostorn and Ashland nyenues, yes- torday morning, waro partiolpatod in by o com- parativoly emall numbor of poople, tho unpro~ pitious wonthor hoving Xopt many of tho con- grogation nt home. Only about 250 porsons woro presont. ‘ Tho ohancol was rondorad attrnetive by docor- atlons, tho princlpal ono bolng o oross, about 4 foot high, composed of ‘moss, camelias, and 1lles, a fow rosos boing scattorad hora snd thoro smong tho white flowers to rolieve tho monot- omy, and holghton tho offact, In front was tho communion-table, on which, i addition to the sllvor, was an urn, from whioh trafling’ vings woro led in difforont divootiona around tha stand. Tho rosding-desk wns ombollishod with two oxr!nlalm bouquets, while in front wore a oross of forn-leaves, sud lilies and o notwork of run- ning plants, . The sorvicen woro tho ‘sama as on othor Sun- dnys, with tho oxcoption of tho ronding of ap- pruEflnLn pealms and the singing of tho Eastor anthom, s Tho Reotor, tho Roy. H. W, Pawors, proached &n cloquent sormon, taking as his toxt s Du:‘mln swalloiwod up in victory.—I, Corinthians, xv,, B4, - z 4 Ho snid thoro woro momonts in our lives when tho slmplo conaclousncss of being was delight- ful; care did not ruffle, pain was unknown, no dork momory* haunted tho- mind, nor waa It distingalshod by doprossing antiolpations ; tho light was swoet, honrts everywhero apponred kind; all tho earth scomed to shura In the glow that we felt within us, and wo went abroad in a kind of buoyancy and ‘inspiration ; the wholo ntmosphero of oxistenco-was frosh, balmy, aud seroue. In intorvals of oxperienco liko these wo snid, ** How-prociousis lifo!™ and ronched pway in- ita joyous impulse for an end- logs fruition. Doath was not thought of thon without a shuddor, sinca ' with it was assoolated spontancously the thought of. the cossation of boing,—tho grave, unconsclonsnoss, docny.- As life was full and rich and swoot, tho moro dread- ful, at tho firat ‘glance,r was tho aspect of thia which. scomed: to torminato it, Man- not moro- kind, thorofore, ' clung to lfo, Iy. through ‘an' nstiuct of solf-proscrvation, ‘but boeause in lifo alone was an asauranco of of their good. Ofton, when' existence was bur- denod and afiifotive, thore was still a rovalsion ot death, . P : +" Tho groater portion of mankind woro situated unfavorably for onjoyment. - In fact, the major= ity hnd to undergo griovous iils. Thoy strugglod Tor a moro physical Bupport, aud woro ougrossod and axhisiod by Tebguing. Iabors,. muloriag ‘mauifold hardships, penury, 6xposurs, siokness, and. injustico.: Billlons Woro grouud down by torrible despotisms, The groat procession of humouity was a sad company, with ig- noranco’and _outragos, its: great burdens aud physical nflligtions, its _beroayoments, aud its toars, 8till, lifo was dear. What strugglos warao put forth to presorve it! . What pains and dangors wore endurod to improve its condition | ‘What examples we _had in ton thousand isolnted conaon of pationt oudurance; the courageous effort of sublimo . solf-dovotion and fortitude, whare there soemod nlmont nothing to live forl It was true that, now aud then, one, through tho fronzy -of nfliiction, ws gumi, of" self-dostruc- tion ; still, in the faco of this, it was won- dorfdl, considoring whab- humanity. had on- dured, that tho strugglo for oxistonce wna 80 univorsal and so prodigious, Tho fact was death itself was abhorront; tho strong in~ atinot of tho whole man was agalnst ft, \With life, there was atill hope of activity and of pos- siblo good, that would male aftor years opulont in what was most procious and delightful. ‘Tho Resurrcction was the realization of immor- tal lifo. . We- woro told that flosh nnd blood conld inhorit tho Kingdom of God. Honeo wo, would bo changod, “Thoro was o natural body and a spiritual body. What wo wished to bo ag- sured of, .wna tho fagt of oxistonco under such conditions as should insura its blosgedness—tho realization: of its supromo - oud. In tho reaurroction of Christ, ' Death was swallowed up in viotory.”. As tho Toprosontativo of - tho raco He lived, aud thoso who wero His. shonld live nlso, Tha only intorest that could bo attaohed to & body was In tho fact of oxiatence, immortal-, ity, and triumph, ‘Tho valuo and aignificance of_the Resurrcotion—all that was meant by it— culminntod in tho obnogo of sn carthiy body for & mpiritunl oxistence, with ita frcer and andor estate. This was all that could o .dosired, Al that comprisod = bhistory was i lifo; pootry, science, art, philosophy, woro - thero, .Within it wore govornment and power, sud what was gracious in roligion. How ropulsive a lifoloss world would bol Ilow awful in its spacos without & conscious spirit! On & day like Easter Sunday, which was roally o fostayal of life, it wns natural to look away-to the oonscquence of such a victory as that galood for us by our rigen Lord. Our natures hero Woro in the gorm, but their poseibilitios of at- tainment wero limitleas. Al worked under some, disadvantages. Opportunities . woroe . fow. or unfavorablo; doath came soon; Wo were congcious of aptitudes that lad not yot boon exercisod ; of fuoultios that woro fot- tered ; of a vision dimmed that wo wished un- clouded ; a thirst for knowlodge and perfection that was ungratified. - Wo know well onough that wo gained but n portion of our ineritauco, and that our joy wne not full ; but,whon immor- | tnlity had swaliowed up all lifo, that life would bave a froodom, and an_insight, and a position, that would forover promote its nobloat [i‘mflaas 3 and its capacity would enlarga with tho Jargor light and the mightior grandour of ita now os- tato.. All thot was tien dono and enjoyod, sought and nchloved, that should accord with the Influite Will, wouldjtond;to maturo its oner- gics and enick its overlnsting horitage. " In tho evening, tho childron bolongiug to the Bunday-achool bold their colgbration. Tho ex- ercises consisted of singing- liymns, on address by tho pastor, and the presentation of Enstor offorings. T, —_— ! 2 ST. MARY'S OHUROH. Tho R, Rov. Thomas Foloy celebrated high masd yestordsy morning in 8t. Mary's Church, corner of Wabash, avonuo and Eldridge court, The chancel was boautifully decorated with flow- ors, nnd two croases of flamo woro placed in tho contro, Tha church was filled to oyorflowing,- and ‘tho gorvices .wore more than usuelly im- proseiye and boautiful, The singing was unusu- ally fine, J . . 11The Rev. Father Coughlin proached lh_o’aur- man; 9f which'the following ia o synopmss 'Hia toxt.was, *‘Thia s tho day tho Lord Liath made; lot us rojqico in it.”” Falhor Coughlin said that tho ‘glorious myatery of Orist'a rosurraction;: whicl thoy ‘colobrated, was oue of the most im- Enr!\mtnldm obscrvancesolthe Chureh, Nodoubht horo woro othors which appealed more noarly to tho hoart, but, ag tho umwulnF ovidonco of all, tho othor ovonts of His lifo, it took tho ‘flrat placo. .Thoe Churehjenlled upon her childron that day to xejoloo; not with tho worldly joy of ov- ery day, but with that noble, Loavenly joy which was o feretasto of that of the great horeaftor, ‘This mystery was, tho strongeat proof of the divinity of our Havior, and henca.of our faith.. The- cardinal dofiml. of . Ohristinnity .was,- the divinity of Jesus Obrist. It bound ugion mon the nocoesity of believing all the other procepts of His Ohurch., Wo woro bound.to recelve theso dogmas, evon though thoy excooded our capaoity of comprohionsion. ‘The vory foundation of our roligiou would bo_ovorturned, if this, dogma of tho divinity 'of Ohrist should bo overthrown. And Ilig divinity was.dopondonb upon. the faot of Hia resurrootion. For He claimed aud prophosiod that Ho should riso sgain aftor death, and if He had not dono o He would bave beon an im- Houtor. claiming powers and authority whioh Ile id not possess, Now, if e had decelved us in sonoe thing, it wonld bo possiblo that Lo could decolvo us In another, and tho doctrines which Ho taught would boburied in the tomb with Him, Honce the procautious which tho Jows took to koop “tho guard ovoer the tomb, .Immodiately after tho oruoifixion, thoy went to Pilate uud -aglted o gunrd of soldlors. And, lout tho Roman soldiers might bo untrustworthy, thoy solected o Ruard of Jowish soldiors complotoly” under tho control of tholr mastors, tho prieats. Iow thoy - must hisvo uoumm.ulntod thomsolves aftor binv- ing laid Jesus w tho tomb, and soalod the stono| Yot on that bright Easter morning, what cone stornation must have apread among thowm whon tho guard camo {lylng in hoste aud dread, to sy that tho body of Ohirist had disappoarod| o throw disoiedit on tho theory of resurrootion, thoy told the soldjora to sny thut whilo thoy slept the Disoiplea came nnd stolo away the body, Ilow poor was suoh a story | I-‘ax'l asido . from. tho impossibility. of such & guard sloeplug at Buoh a time, thorewas tho positive diflioulty of oaerylug out suoh & sohomo, Tho Disolplos wero fov, timid, aud not possessed of the monug or frienda to undertake such & tasl, Agaln, if the Jewlsh leaders belloved thoir own story, wh Qid they not inatituto search for tho body, an by producing {t, prosent tho cloarest evidonce o tho imposture? It would huve beou impogaible 16t tho Digcipled to_have Gidden ‘it awsy fn.n single nlfiht. ?['hu Jows, 4 tho body had not beon tajen by _mortal hands, snd thoir conduct plainly” ghowed. their foar o lnvnnnq«unu tho mattor, R 2 2 But, It thio conduct of Fiis enomies provod 80 concluslvoly that o bind rieon, how much moro convinoing” wns that of 1is friends. It In clonr that thir faith had boen sayoroly shitkon by tho B jflmmlnlous doath of thair leador, Yot to them all-Ho appeared in person, and sntisfied tho most dullbthlg that it waa Ohrist tho Lord arison from the dead, And tho Lost ovidence of tho forvor of thoir falth wan the constancy and porsistouoy with which 1is Disciples worked thereaftor for thio causo of Clhrist criciflod and arfaon from tho doad, If it Lnd boon possiblo that thoso men could hiavo conspired togother, what would havo baen the- obgunt of such a conspiraoy? - Thelr lot was ono of hnrdship, solf-donlal, porscoution, and, finally, martyrdom. Men might conspiro for woalth, honor, or Fuwur., but who conld im- agino n consplracy whono lmxltngn “wag a lifo of voverty, denger, and doath? Though any of thieso mon could havo Lind wenlth, saue, and lon- ora heapod upon Lim I.v{ ax{umlug tho alleged conspiracy and fraud, yot not one avor for o mo- mont failod in Lis ndberoneo to tho orlginal ao- uolll:t of tho Rosurrection or kis dovotian to s astor, Now, it was admitted by all that such s man na Ohniat lived in Jerusalom; that 1o was crucls flod; that His bod{ was Inid in & tomb, sealed nod guarded by Jowlish eoldiors; and that that body was romoved from that tomb withont tho kuowledgo of tho watchors.' Thore could bo but two ways of accounting for this Inst fact : either 1To wrodo from tho dend as Ho had proraised) of o was an Impaator whoso frionds aidod in tho decoption, nnd enorificod themsolves to an ab- surd fanoy which econld be productive only of wotldly misfortuno to thomesolyos. . Tho history of Obristianity disprovod the Inttor hypothosts, It woula bo imtmuslhln that such a rallgion, so antagonistio to the natural pnssions of mankind, should spread g0 rapldly and gonorally unloss tho ovidonco of Ubrist'a resurrection, and con- soquently of Ilis diyinity, wna strongor than tho argumonts in opposition, Mon mugt firmly bo-~ liova themsolves, to convinco othora; and that acconnted for tho powor which tho tonchors of Ouriatianity- hnd oxorcisod over .the bistory of the world, * Ohrist froquontly in His "todohings spoko of His rosurraction. Now, Ho must havo arison by Hia own diviue power, or olso by the diino anthority of His Fattior, But wo know by His own words that it was not by Ilia inhoront divinity, bub by that of tho Iathor., Now; if Christ was not divine; wo snoutd have God con- tributing to decolva his craatures by ono of tho most Btupondous dccn{‘llonl on record; Wo know this could not be, and that Christ was proven divine by tho groat mystery of tho Ros- urroction, 3 i CATHEDEAL The sorvices at the Cathedral, corner of Peorin and Washington streots, woro of unusual longth and of a particnlarly tmpressive obaractor. Tho altar of tho Oathodral 'was dooked with lilies nud othor appropriato ,flowors, aud presented a vory beautiful apposranco. ‘Tho’lossons of the day wore road by the Rev.-Mr., Higgins, of Hydo Park, tho Rev. .Canon Knowles reading tho prayors,- and the Bishop reading the communion "servico, and preaching, Tho main musical fon- tures woro the singing by tho choristors of the sothem begiuning ¢ Christ our presorver ancrifioo for us, thoreforo let us keep tho fonst;" audalso Handol's Hallelujah Ohorus from tho * Massinh,” the lalter boing -capocially woll xon= dored. Tho foxt of tho_sermon was from tho sixth vorsp of thd. twonty-oighth ohmnr of Mattliow, “He i ot hero, for Ho s rison, as Ho said." th i MWW s In tho opening of tho sermon the Bishop con- trasted tho woras of _the text with tho' insori tions usually to ba found on tombs, ‘T'ho doatl of Christ might havo caused us to mourn and sorrow with many tears, but we might now riso with joy fu our heart, snd on ourlips'tho words : 4 Mo 18 r1gon, Ho is vison,” DBut wo must not {ail to roalizo the full meaning of tho .event of the rosurrection. A heart full of faith and love i nocesyary at this soason for the full ombracing of God:, Wo must come to tho Eastor sorvico with a now hoart and & right spirit. The groat evout celobrated on Eastor Suuday must bo con- sidorod tho_crowniug ovent in o Ohristinn's g oarcor, . Had . Curist, ofter tho oruci | fixion,” " romained ~ in the mnatural con- dition of- mankind - aftor doath all would havo boén -lost ; thero woutd bo no rosurroction sud men would bo of all cronturos tho most misorable. Tho proachor briefly re- viowed the crucifixion aud the eventa precoding and subsoquont to 1t, and in an eloguent closo to his discourso showed bow fit o thing it was to malo Eastor o day of joy and thankegiving, Aftor tha cloao of tho tnorning sorvice thirty- sovon caudidates for confirmation, of which the majority woro young Indios, prosonted them- sclvos ot tho altar, when the' slshop porformed tho lmpressiyo coromony of thoe lnying on of hands, Ie then addrossed thom upon the sub- Jeot of ‘tho now nature of their life as symbol- izad by the coromony through which thoy bad just pagacd, and counsclod thom upon tho nature of thoir navel 10sponsinilities, e Tho offertory wos then taken up, tho Bishop ern(finz ita collection by vomarking that the loflcioncies in tho Church finaucos are ordinarily made up by tho Easter olfering, and that thero was ovory nocessity on tho prosont occasion that it should bo a liboral ono. Judging by tho ligh pilo of paper currenoy whioh covorad the colloc- tion-plates, tho romarks of the Bishop recoived s vory Loarty.rosponse, e Aftor tho offertory, the snornmeént was admin- istored to about- 20 3 thoto who Liad just rovived tho rites of confirmi- ation, In “the aftornoon, the annual. foslival ofi tho childron. of the Cathedral .Bin- .doy Sohodl - was cclobrated., The oceasion waa » peoullarly interosting one, being enlivonod by Enstor carols, sung by tho scholars, led by tho church choir, ‘Tho Bishop delivored an ad- dress to tho school, after whiok tho soholars, by olnesos, prosontod him with thow Eastor offer- ings, mauy of tho bannor-bosrers accompanying tho glft with » bouquot or bauket of Losutital lowors. R gt OTHER OHUROIES, TUE JESUIT OHULO. . Laster was celebrated at tito Josuit Church, on West Twolfth street, yestordsy morning, with all tho pomp which belonga to the faith of Romo, Tho mournful drapery which. during “Passion ‘Weok " shrouded altar and crucifix was romoved ; tho long tapers burned with splendid rofulgénce, and: floral wrenths decorated the bigh places of the tomplo, Tho stténdance’ at tho Pontifical Migh Moss, which wasg colobrated at10 o'clock, was vory largo, more than 4,000 pooplo beivg ‘packed within tho- walls of - the sacrod edifico, ‘I'ho coremonial was of tho most {mposing char- acter. FathorBherlock officiated ns colebrant, ng- sintod by Fathors Chovosu and Baloks, who aotod 88 Doacons, * Fifty - youtls, gorgeously attired . in ‘orlmeon cossnoks, and coverod with Inco vost- ‘monts, servod maes, = At the' olovation of tho Tost, th cse young men formed {u & clrele around tho edges of tho dals, cnoh boaring In bis hand o onndlo of Jerge proportions. . Tho censers were' .Jiopt gwoying with .great vigor, and the oloar tones of "tho colobrant’_eang the High Mass in the most accomplished ‘manner, Tho viow from £hé choir-gallory was vory Imposing,—tlo Gathio archos, drapod priosts, ‘glowing lights, and throngod aie} ture, aud, upon ouo uuaccustomed to such dis- plays, praducing quile an 'oxtraordinary offcot. " 'I'he sorvices woro vory Jong, but the Interost of tho worshiporn Aid'not sppoar o flag, - The ohoir rendared suoyed seleotions with oxquisito ‘;unl]hl)g—thn organ ‘accompanimont boing almgst ‘faultioss, ", o e ) Fathor Damon preachiod ‘an eloquont normon on’_the Resurrection, and Lold tho congragation spell-bound, us it woro, by tho torrent ‘of hls rhotorio and tho vehomenco of his declamation. His thundor-liko volco, athor. unplessaut to liaten to in a contracted pluce, was softouod by tho expnnse of the auditorimm, and bad, there- foro, & more plonsing effoct. . Bonediotion wag pronounced, aud tho congrogation dispersed, | **"TiLE OHUROI OF THtE HOLY NAME, y Tlhe cangicgation in tho Holy Namo parisly has . boon worshipiog sinco tho five in a low but commodious - framo ‘buildivg on the cornor of Ouss und Buporior stroots, in the viclmty of the rains of tho grander edifico, which will soon bo robullt, Orowds attonded tho' various mpassos youtorday. At 10:30, whon Solemy High Blass wna colobrated In a manuor bofitting tho Tastor fontival, the attondauco was very largo. T'ho aliar wou simply desorated with natural flowors, o Rov. I-‘ullwr 0'Connor was celobrant, and the sormon waa preached by thoe "Rov, John MoMutlen, D, D,, who took his text from tho gospol of Matls as follows : And whon tho Babbath wns _post, Mary Magdalon and Rary, tho mother of Junies and Balome, had ‘brought sweet spices, thnt they might como and anofnt hm, And very oarly in thomoralng tho fivat day of the wuok, thoy camo inta the sepulchiro ut the risiug of the suu. Aud thoy &ald muoug themsclyes, Who aliall rall away the sioue from tho door of tho fopule v ? Aud whon U.In’ laoked they eaw that the stons wos solled away, for it wad vory groat, Aud ouluring inio tho sepulohro thn{ saw & young mun mitting on the ¥ight sido clothed iu & long Whito gormont, and tlo Yoo atnghted. Aud 0° Baith unto thoth: Bo n afrighted, Yo B i Joaus of Nuzarolh whioh waa \oruatfied however, knew that | " Tu gflto of tho suow-storm o largo congroga~ OF 8TS.. PETER . AND PAUL, % £3% et communicants, including,, o8 prescuted quite an operatio plo- | ho fa risen, he fsnot horo, Beliold thé plach whoro they Inid him, - ; ; - Tho royerond gontloman wng sufforing from & sovera oold, owing to the arduons Inbors of Holy ‘Wook, Ho proachod o ehort, nlor}unnt, and onr- neat dlscourso on tho Resurroction of Ohrist oxhortod bis honrors to follow in Ilis footstops 3 to riso from sin and load pure lives; to bo firm 1 thoir faith, and to pronh, by thelr oxnmplo, tho saving trutha of thoe Ifoly Oatholic Oliurch, 1f thoy oxpeotod to rino, na lirfet roso, from tho tomb to a glorified catato, tholr lives should ho modelod aftor Iis; and if thoy oxpeated to enjoy tho_boautiful vision, and possces tho Flory of God, they shiould nt all times and fn all placen confoss tho faith of Josus Obrist sud glory in Hin cross. Tho usunl Enstor offerings.woro made, and tho solomn coromonios onded With tho bonodiotion. §T. PAUL'S OHUROIL. tion was presont, yostorday morning, at Ht. Poul's (Universalist) Church, to take part'in tho Enster gervicos, Tho altar waa boatifully dooo- rated with choioo flowors and plants, whilo tho woll in the roar.of it waa tastefully fostooned with Ivios and evorgroens, _After the usual ro- liglous excrolses, the Rov. Dr.W, H, Ryder mado a roportof tho work done by tho Iadios and tho various organizations of young paople connocted with the congregation dnrlng:the yoar, showing that the rospoctable sum of £4,409,08 bad boon raigod in ald of the Church. An Eastor offering wod thon taken up, amounting to §844.01. t: Tho Rov. Dr. Ryder, after makiog an able and eloquent; saddross, . ndininistored tho rito of baptlsm to sovontoén Pnopln. and thirty-thrao wero taken into tho followship of tho church. Amovg thoso admitted wns o g*'uflu wtsa 14 yonrs of age, and an old lady of 4, “Tho holycommunjon was then adminis- tored, and tho congropation dlnPnrued. At tho concluelon of tho regular sorvices, s lady mem- bor prosanted the young man of 14, who had just boon admittod into tho followship of tho Churoh, vith & magnificont bouquot of oholca flowora, - 'The young man was groatly delighted at bolug thue honored, and tho boautiful prosent will undoubtodly decorats and porfuma bhin omo. =2 T Tho Bunday-school concort, which shonld hiave takon place in the ovoning, was postponod until noxt Bunday on account of tho snaw-storm. BT, PATRION'S, At Bt. Patrick's, Ohurch, tho attondance at all thio marses wns vory largo, deapito tho torriblo storm. At 10:30 the church was crowded. A Grand High Msg was colobrated, Fathor Cortin colobant, and Fathors Terry and Conwny, Doa- con and Bubdoncon. The grand altar was hand- somoly lighted. Tho choir aud_tho nuw organ wero in hoppy, ncoord, aud the mass of ‘Lo Hucho was sung in admirable atyle. "Tho Roy: Mr. Torry preached, taking for his text IL Petor, i, 11: * Donrly beloved, I be- socolt Izt‘m a8 strangers and pilgrims.” Tho themo was tho Rosuirection. Tho Church in its carly ofliccs followed tho lifo of the Savior to tho tomb, and thon colobrgted the Resurrection, the triumph over doath; Mankind woro but stran- gora aud pilgrims in this world ; they wore jour- noying to tho end,, the lifo etornsl. The death of tho body was but the closo of the exile, of tho pligtimage, and the oritranco into tho joys' and bontitudes of° Hoaven, _All paturo wae buta succassion of dmmg and death, and the putting on of now lifo and beauty. So with man: when tho body perishod it wan that tho vital spirit sliould pngs into that otornal homo of bleauéd* poaco, love, and happinoss, % ——— ILLNOIS NEWS ITEMS. ~ Tobert T. Forth, of Fairfleld, Wayne County, amembor of tho Illinols Legislature, has ro- contly welcomod into Lis_family circlo a lively ‘boy—his ticenty=Aifih obild. Sl —Tho Joliot Signal snd Republican have for somo time past boon carrying on a cuutruvnrflly. which hns finally grown so Lot that the Republi- can hos wucd the Signal for libel, lnying tho danagos ot 810,000, . : A —Tho militia of Tllinols ig said to consist of ““fonrteon Brigadier-Goneralsand forty superan- puated muskols, with iobody to cairy them." With suchfacifities_as thesa for broaking the pence, no wonder Ohicugoans havo so hittlo loft, and; in caso of flre, have to callon Gon. Sheri- dan.~—Detroit Post. —Affairs ot Abingdon College havo rénched n very - unbnppy stato. Tho Demoorat says: “When tho Board mot on Tuesday, thoro was ono_student,” & lonesomo chavity ohap, Btill prowling arotind tho collogs,” —Tho people of Abingdon propose suing tho Trusteos of Ablnsdon Collego for domagos to the city and surrounding country in bresking up tho sobi0ol, and thersby dostroying tho proporty-vatuo of landed property, and producing a prostration. of business, in consequonce of thelr vindictive coursa toward tho only_man (President . Butlor) who is capabla of conducting tho collogo ou snce ceasfut and propor priuciples.=~Canton Register, —Gon. Greon R, Raum, of Harrisburg, was in tho city on Saturday. The Gune;vé bLas resigned his position as Attorney for the Cairo & Vin- connes Railroad Company, and, we learn, has brought suit agalnst that gorporation for £30,000. ° A big llfiht with o railrond is considered just now 8 atopping-stono toward Congressional Lionorm.— M, Uarmel Register, —_— . . Thtlos, e - Popo has stood firet 5o long that we may pitt it: first onco moro, though it was not nntil the- fifth contury that it Locame -the. partioular nt- tributo of tho Bishop of Romo, who, #0 far, had been -called Bummue Pontitex; it appeara-to .have beon attributed to him by the Concilo of Toledo in the year 400. Emperor and Kivig aro bath older, oapecially tho latter ; but Emperor unturally hoads the catalogue of pride, for’no' othor title lus stood eo high In his- tory, no -othor sound ° brings back: to us '8a that ono dooy the momory of Tomo, of Clariomagno, of -Napolaon, = And yot this vary_titlo disspposrod in Westorn Eu- Yope in 476, aud remained unknown from that .timo until the new conqueror_ rovived it on Christmas Day, 800. It existed moanwbile in Constantinople, it is truos but this is no argu-~ mont in tho caso, for the sohismatie Enatorn Bm- oror never counted in the Catholie world, * And Tion wo got o King, tho univorsst King, which hga Iasted from all timo without oven'a chango beyond that of Jiteral translation from one langungo to anothor; the ranl whioh has boen 80 loug-lived thas the Radicals must sometimos nak thomsolves: with porplexity how thoy aro to succeod in - fiunlly .eupprodsing so tough an inatitution, and must wish for moxo yonrs lilro 1870, which proved again the truth of” Vol- taire's saylug that ¥ offonaive wars make Kiugs, dofonsiye wars make Republics.” It Lins indee boon immonsoly and persistontly em‘}floyud. Iis originator can roarcely hinve suspeoted, whon ho got tho first example of it, that Lo was ostab- lishing the most durable of human grades, nnd that, after him, tho “carth - would behold more Klogs than tho 8tn1s wo ros on & frosty night, {)Lnflt the éxnctness of (his ' comparison should adisputéd, Jot it at once Lo obsorved that, in our latitude, on! '{4,200 stara are visible to the naked ovo, and that thoro inyo boon vastly more Xings than-that.] Hiorarchically. tho next plrce bo- longs to Grand Duke, & dosignation which was fimat concelved ‘at_Moscow, put which was nc- climatized in_ Southorn - Ilurope in 1569, when -Piua: . V. - beatowed it on - Cosmo Do _Modios. " But; though Tugoany. waa- the {irst Innd to'owi it, Germany only bny l}:rusnm:d it, tho soven Grand Duchica™ still -extant bolng sll boyond -tho Rhino, Thon apponrs’ Tlootor, s namo*full of memorios of pride and stiife, o name which tolla tho wholo Listory of Cantral Burope for fonr conturics, DBut Elactor hins uot enjoydd the vitality of King ; the soven ront Elcctorates: that wore' croatod by, the olden Bull in 1850, * tho soven lamps of tho Toly Roinan Empirs "—which, to quoto Voltaira Qneo more, * was nelther_holy nor Roman"— havo - now dwindled -down to one : tlo shadow of :their.' former name, Tho Prince Blshops of Mayenco, Troves, and . Cologuo, tho Bavarisn Duke, the Chiefs of Sax- ony; tho 2alaiinato, and Brandonburg, are rep- rosonted now, alns, by tho Flootor of Hausa- ,Onsgol ] . Thisia a fall indded:" That the Em- ovor-makors of the'middld figos shonld (oxcopt ho Bighops) hove' onded by becoming Kings thomselvos, was® natural nnouiih in tho timos through which thoy pnssed; that those gront chlettaing who had hereditarily botween tliem tho obnrgos of Arch Chancollors of Ger- many, the Gouls, and Italy-—of Graod Btoward, Grond Equoiry, Aroh Meshial, Avch Chambor: Inin, and Arch Tronsuror of the Empiro—should havo struggled highor still, was but a conse- %llunf.o of nature which was luman, though loctoral 3 but that tho grand titlo of Eloctor, abaudonod by tho’ warrlor-priosts and war. rior-princes who had borno it with say= ago pride for 460 yonrs, shonld be ploked up, - appropriated, “ond ' rotained by tho Lanndgrave of Ilosso-Onsuo), i8 ono of thosa ab- sutd mcongruitios of history which offend our roason.pud rovelt onr imagination, Wo wot noxt to ])ulml which coasod to be un Independont sov- croign titlo under Louis XIL in Franco, and dls- appoared in Gormany (excopt in Nasswu) at tho commoncoment of tha present contury, with Talatine, Margrave, Burgiave, Rhingravo, Wild- grave, aud Altgrave, audgrave alono, of all tho old Toutonio titles, Is_atill kept up by .tho rulors of Iosso - Homne burg; aund it is as woll that.it should bo pre- sorved, for it is tho most anolont of all the speolal Gorman names. 1t was Invonted 8o long lqo 8 1180 by Louis, Third Count of Thuringls, who adopted " 1t in ordor to distingulsl himself from the orowdof Counts around lum. The Idop wes ovidently admired by his colloaguea for Thiorry, Count of Lowor Algao o priated r"{I'm BMNo duunmlnnunnu' :J;‘.}{‘h yours aftorward, nud Albort of Iapsburg, Count of Higlor Alonao, followed tlio oxamplo pf 1160, Thoo wora tha threo roal Landgraves, the only onen thnt were recognized as original by the B pira ; oll tho othors woro Imitatlous, Margraye ‘wad_namoto modorn title ; It was limited to tho four ruler of tho Marchos of Drandonburg, Moisson, Dadon, and Moravia, Wo mny tnke Doge mnoxt, with' {ts memorles of Gonon and Vonloo; ' and Protaotor, which Napo- laon reuewed from Oromwoll, wheon Lo formed tho Contedoration of tha Rhine. Btadthalder oud Vicoroy wake ug vory dlfforont recollog. tions; ono carries us to the chilly shores of Hols Iaud, tho othor to tho bright akies of Naples, Indin, and Poru. Voivode, liko Palatine, wad 0is0 o Vicoroy's titlo; bu tho formor was Sola- yonio, tho lafter German, Czar wo will look nt by itself, and Hospodar ia almost the only ro- mnlnln(f titlo which is worth montioning; for wonood not expatiato on tho Bana of tho Last- orn Alarchos, though the namo oxists still in Croatin, Bultan must bo counted as Asiatlo, forit wes first ndoptod by Bajnzot; and with it comos tho old namo Caliph, which means * gubatituto,” and was originally attributed to tho succossors of Mohammod; but tho Cal- iphatos of Bagdad, Foz, Gronads, Egypt, Mo rocco, aud Tunis Tinvo all becomo sucaeasivoly "axtinat, " and. their rights are concentrated in the Bultan’ of Turkey, who i3 now solo Caliph, and thoroby Commander of tho Faithful. Of Bhahs thoro fs but ono, though' thora ar throo Khane (Khiva, Kholand, and Boukbara), two Imauns (Yoma and Mascat), two_Rogontd'(Tri- poli sud’_ Tunls). Doy, or Bog, has now diaap~ poured ; but, thnt it iso ongo’a Lighor name lian Sultan is shown by tho fact that it was pro- forred to the lattor by Thogrul, foundor of the dynaaty of tho Solgucidos. Bholkh belongs par- tioularly to tho Govornor of Madinn, and is otherwige a moro village chioftain’a name. Pasho is_now roplaced in_Egypt by Khedive, And thore wo may oud tho list, though it is very faiu- from boing oxhausted.—Blackwood's Afaga- &ine, L ——— MISCELLANEQUS ITEMS, " In the Oonfedorats Cemotry at Now Orloans aro statucs of Lo, Bishop Polk, and Stonewall Jackson. i : —Ex-blayor Gilbort, of Troy, has given Unlon Colloga 81,000 for. fho furnlehing of its now. gymnasium. 4 —Hmalloy tolls us that tho Duchesa of Edin- burgh's Eh\mnnnl mquuinm the . cockney pop- ulaco, whom Aloxandcia's beauty has spoiled, —Tho lnlo[imph sadly dlsguised tho namo of tho Democratio candidate for Congress in Oro~ on. It is Goorgo A. Ln Dow. Ho was a mom- or of tho last Logislature from Umatilla County. ! i o Tov. Dr. Fulton scoma to bo fn hot water in Brooklyn, owiug to the vigorous wa ho has of saying of any one who disagroos wit -him, that * his outlook for'the futuro is deplor- ably bad,” ~—The Nowark Advertiser closes an nccount of tho withdrawal of somo- old -horsa-cars with : #“Thioy arg a8 ohock fullof memories as thoy are of flons. Wo no'er shall sco tho like agln, - Hail and farowell.” arles Sumuer, in his youth, achioved tho arduous font ‘of swimming “across the hboiling rapids bolov. Ningnrn Falls—n- foat which fow mon bayo had eithor the musclo or tho norve to porform. . Bandrag hag communieatod to the French Acadomy of Scienco a mothod of making infanta suck directly from the toatsof s cow. He has tried it auccousfully, and thinks its employmont would diminish tho mortality among children de .prived of mothor's milk, ! i : =—Dr. Brown-Soquard, whoso namo hos come Dororo the publio 1n tho Inst illness iof Agasalz, and SBumnor, is not a Fronchman, as in gonerally - supposed, bit th son of Capt. Tdward Brown, a hiladolphis® ehipmaster, - and was born fn Mauritius Toisn: —The newspaper-report that Longfollow way in Oanada hasa curlous origin. Itug:ouran \u: & dopgoral police-roport'in the Hamillon Times, 4u wlich tho reporter parodied ono of Longfol- low’s pooms. Another Canadian papor, tho noxt day, in o fanny mood, roferred to ** pout Liong- follow" beiug in the city, and the correnpondents, in‘all earnsstnass, folographed that the dloie Fulubed Amorlcan poot was in Hamilton and go- ng to epond the summor-in Canads, The ilem is now going the rounds.—Doston Advertiser, - —John 1i. Winslow has rosigned the I'rosie dency of tho Boaton, Lowell & Nashun- Railrond, o has been connected with rallronds_forty yoars, his first exporience being upon tho Boston & Lowell as enginaor, when ho took chargo of o ** Stavans " engino without a cab, which ha ran for six yonrs. At that time, Conductor Tucker of.tho Boston & Maine Railroad, was cunductor, and s Mr. «William Morntt, formerly -Buperin tondent of the samo road, was baggage-muater, ~—Tho Town Bocrotary of Stnte is overrun with applications for copiea of the Railroad Inw. Ag ba hws no printed copy, aud tho.bill is, big onough for m mali ehaot for tho Grent Eastorn; ho can't. koop up with tho domond, ‘The law ‘should Lo printed in pamphlet form for funaml information, Undor the old-plan of publishig the Iaws in weokly nowspapors, tho - State would have boon thor- Dufizh ly .informed with roferonce to all the do- ::;u‘f:pg' tho pill by this_timo.—Des Aoines Reg- 0. B, Wright, ‘tho thioving - Tellor of tha - Beadford (Vt.) Bavings Baul, {gvhu was . bound over in tho sum_of 15,000 for. ombozzlemont, on Moudny, waa sibsequently-héld in 86,000 for _appearauco for arson,: Saturasy, Wright wont to tho bank, pointed out false entrics in the books, oud confessod to teking 92,600 sinco July, 1872, which, with” tho amount ‘taken at the fima he. Ioft, makes botwoon $7,000 and $8,000, although further -1avestigation oy show the total to ex- coed this. = - ; —Further ‘examinations by tho Board of Su- porvisors..of Humboldt County, in., into tho accounta of tho dofaulting Tronsurer, Borgh, da. not help matters,- Tho- total amount'of the de-. Inlcation is found to be about $3,000 moro than. indicated by Mr, Bergh's balance-sheot, bolug in round numbers 817,000, Besidas this, Lo was box Lind ag- Trenguror of tho Dakota Townslip Sohool Dlstrict’ about £3,000, making his ontira doficit nenrly 820,000, Tho feoling 13 50 widos sprend and déop-soatod that lato rovolations will not justify the supposed rectitudo of Mr. Bergh'a intontions.” Ho hus usod monoy sont bim to pay taxes-to the amount of hundreds of dollars, Emflulnz tho amount to his owa oredit on the, ooks.~—Jowa Stale Journal, 1817. His mothor was s Fronch- L —_—— A Wild-Ronr Munt in the Fnstnesses, i ! “near Bald Point, Ky. ‘. - Nrom the Covington Advertiser, " ~ Pn Baturdsy about 160 porsons, with dogs, s et mot in, tho publio squeto of Unioa, - organizod undor tha loadorship of Mr, Olarkso: and procceded to*tho farm of J. D. Bmith, o Ganpowdr, which vicious wild boar Liad visit- od the nighf providig,” Horo Medoo, o noted do Dolonging to Lucian Dickorson, found tho trail, and the onttro pagk was soon in-full cry. e Altor & run of more than an hour Mxn“x“gh the . dongo thickets -and among.tho bluffy, tho.hoay: brplie. covor toward the opon country, ‘withi the dogs in lot pursuit. Horo tho hunf grow very oxciting, the pumusrs bolng fraquontly full viow of "the chnse, and using their guns whon. evor tllnz could, ‘and tho dogs (fox-hounds) Emualnn he gams olosaly, butas yet unablo ‘ta ving him to'bay. - In faok, it was nlmost cortain, deptlfor ono to . appronch Lim, his formidable tuske proving such fearfnl nnd doadly weapous of, dofeuso. that. ko Lad up to,this time Lilleq euil\t outright and woundéd four, - 64 K Finally, as he was umm[ng( tho Big Bona Road, mogr tha rosidenca of Ernstus Garrizon, & pow- érful bulldog, bolonging to Ira Peralyal, of Union, - - s lot ,loode, and immediately ‘nttacked tha otooious boast, Then ousuod o desperato airug- ‘gla. Tho boar fought as if he knew that his life woa in the balance, and tho dog . was equally : nmo, ‘Tho:latter soized tho maddenod animal - y tho right foro shouldor, and in spito of staba and gaslios from tho' ehinrp Lusks, beld on with. | the tennelty-for which tho brood |anoted. The : hunters coming . upjoined in the battle with , plytols, clubs, aud stones, and undor tho attack . of 'tho combined forcas' the boar was st longth | stratohed "on the - ground, conquored onlyin, doath, On examiuation it was found tunt during; the chinge ho had rocoivod fourtacu shots, all in- Nuundg sovero wounds. He weighod about 500 polnds, aud Lis tusks woro 8 inohoa in longth by actual mensuroment, J “Tho ohaso lasted about fonr houvs, aud n notas .. bla featuro of tho closing scono was the fadt ~ that though tho dog was nyarly torn to piecoa aund his antugonist was covorod with wounds, noither uttored a cry during tho florco denthe struggle, but both wore guiny, silont, rolontloss, and game to the vcr({ Jagt, and not until the boat };-ui;ddnud oould the dog bp induced to roleaso his old, —_— Decrdonce of Now Orleny Ono of the oldest merchauts in New Orloan In o vooont lottor to a corrospondent {n Boston, sayn the population of Now &lunna ias fallon of iu two yesr 80,000, and there aro no loss than 0,000 houses and stores at present. unocoupled, Fittoen Yours ago'Now Orloins was ab tho aoma of its wealih, prosperity, and commorecial im. iwmguec, secoud only to Now Yorl and Boston, {4 river and ocoan tonuago in port, loading and dmeunruiuon was seldom loss t“nm 160,000 tons, and in tho buslost soason of tho year double that, amount, -