Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 14, 1874, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION (PAYANLE IN ADVANOR). Parta of & yoar at tho same rato, To provent dolay and mistakes, be sure and xive Post Oficoaddress in tull, including Btate and Oounty. Romittances may bo mado aithor by draft, oxpress, Post Office order, or in reglsterod lottars, at onr risks TERMA TO CITY SUDSONIDERR. Daly, delivorod, Sunday oxcopted, % oonte per weok. Daily, dolitered, Sunday noluded, 50 ceuta per wook, Addren THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner M Uhleago, Il TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, 10— Ialsted ntreot, botwaan Mad. A O A ngan?n:& af John_MeUallongh. R o rming Oall,» and ** Taming & Shrew, Evening, *' Tho Gladiator." "] RATRIE—Randolph sirost, O A mroment of Rliss Rogors, ''An ‘Unoqual Matob," bt ‘Kathorine " tR'S THRATILE—Madison ot, hotwrean D kator - Hagsgomont of Hiias At Goowbs. 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T,—Stated S O aria) auontaw, ab8 o'ctoak, ai Anrlum, B g b, fOF WOtk on 1or T Order, * All mombora intarastad in tho lé‘lz:r‘:wolhr:.d o Gormandory aze tarmestly roquostod taVApIIRy JEGRE Recordsr. - = hora of Oblonga Todko, 2 D ‘.‘hohiyamllganzflnl?émn 1ol o Wedites it 1! ‘el 16, “elock bt ond tho fnoral of our Tato Bro., Lao Behulof. H’Ivi‘flatfi el G, BUSINESS NOTICES. . PEOPLE BPEAR, “:‘ :“’m&.n&nm. Kan., Aprl8, 1670, R. V. Prence, Buffalo, N, ¥.: L V. RIER te ription hias wite DA, our e Kt e SRR T o t two yoa o mory Po! B e ey sohaation ia Lo boon acoustom o 35, el o1 rollol t, uny SXROBES e en o ezt ono boforo, T T — g Mg, M TS Troscription Sith wront ReRSL "5, writo, May 2, 1670: N3 R, V. Plorco: ‘Wit I havs fakon'st yaue mediy glanith Syrial epippets tome Son e The Chvagy Titbune, Tuesdsy Morning, April 14, 1874, A Dotegato Convention of tho Grangos in I~ nois witl meet in Bloomington to-day. About 100 dolegates will bo in attondanco. The object of the Convention is to consider the amend- monts proposed-to the Constitution of the ftate Oonvention, oo —— An important declsion ixnn boen mado by the THE CIITCAGO DAILY "TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1874, highor, alosipg irm st $5.00@0.00 for poor to clofco. Cattlo were dull aud wenk. Bhoop ruled stoady. Labor agltationa aro again coming to tho sur- faco, The fron-workersin tho Lebigh, Bchuylkill, and nelghboring rogions of Pennsylvania having Intely beon rofused an incronse of wages to the ralos ubtaining boforo tho panio, have struolk, Tt in ostimatod that 10,000 or 15,000 mon nro in the combination. Much dissatisfaction also ox- Ists pmong the conl-miners In tho eamo pork of tho Btate, A great Lebor Congross s now in scssion at Rochestor, N. Y., sud it I8 oxpeoted to provide & romody for tho ovils complninod of, Tho pro- sumption is that tho Congross will ordor a ms- torial inorenso In wagos for all kinds ot work that suffored a roduction jmmediatoly aftor tho panio, Whothor this ediot will produce much offact is yot to bo dolormined. The Grangors moy a8 woll givo ovor looking to this Congress for tho adoption of any ox- tremomonsuro in tho direotion of choap transpor- tation. Mr, MoOrary's bill rosts In the Sonato Committeo on Railways and Onnals, and thore is no prospect of its coming forward this sosslon. Nor can anything at all equal to tho farmors' oxpootations bo realized from tho report of the Windom Specinl Committee on Transportation. That Committoo has made n somi-offilal doliveranco_of_its viows, They aro, in substanco, that compotition I8 o mocossary olomont of s Lonlthy system of transportation ; nand that tho regulation of froight-tariffs or tho bullding of Governmont railways is inoxpediont. Tho most tho Committes will rocommond ia tho {mprovomont of national water-ways,—such o4 tho Illinois Bhip-Canal and the Niagara-Lako Champlain route to tho soabonrd. It is just coming to be understood what a task this Congross assumed whon it nndortook to gaugo the corrnption of tho prosent Administra- tion, Tho sossion up to this timo has been almost ontfrely consumed in providing forand making investigations, and in fixing tho salarios and perquisites of mombers. Not ono of the great quostions which most decply concorn tho country, such sa tho derangoment of tho | finances, tho rovision of tho customs law, the provision of roliof for the farmers, hna beon dof- initoly pnssed upon, The timo of membors is, to o great oxtont, taken up in: the sessious of investigating committeos, Of theso, cloven are already sitting, and it is now proposed to order a twelfth for the benefit of the Post-Offico Do~ partment. Quito o eceno took place in tho Houso yeatorday when tho matter waa brought forward. 'Tho Californin membors espocinlly goomed to know of mystorions oporations in the letting of mail-contracts, aud, from tho innuon- does thrown out, it is & fair supposition that tho Central Pacifio Company has managed to securo some very astonishing coutracta by tho ‘‘rou- tino" procoss. Mr. Garfields connection with tho Db Golyor and McClollsnd Paving Ring scoms to havo been established by the testimony of IIr. Tnited Statos Supreme Court in rogard to the right of Btate Governmonts to tax National Bank stock owned by persons reaiding without tho State. Tha Court decided that Logislatures possosa such o right, sinco ‘Nationsl Bank stock, though in one scnsc poraonal proporty, is sopa~ rated by the law croativg it from the pergon of tho oiwner for purposcs of taxation. A sop to the newspapers wad thrown ont by tho Lower House of Congress yesterday, in tho shape of & bill providing for freo exchanges and- for free circulstion in the county of publica- on. Tersons receiving county newspapers by sarrlor avo roquired to pay tho usual postago. Doubtloss this messure, if it should pues tho. 3onate, will secure to tho prosent Congross the stornal gratitudo of the religious nowspapera nd of that part of the country press which is iakon by tho people from a stern sense of duty. Beuntors Carpontor, Mor gan, West, and Fro- (inghuysen took part In o dobate yestorday con- erning the expodioucy of again bringing up the Louisizns question, Mr. Carpenier gave notico that ho would make s motion to that effect to- dny. This will call out s test voto on the Louisiaua iniquity; snd, siuco willingness to right o wrong is tho best measure of regret for its commission, thoro will bo an opportunity of judging upon whom of the President's advisers the recponeibility of tho Durcll-Cascy usurpa~ tion most hoavily resta. Btate's Attornoy Reed has been informed by iho Board of Railroad and Warchouse Commis- Jioners that the Warchonsezluw has not beon \monded or reposlod, snd that 1t 1s Lis duty to ring suit for violations of its provisions. e uan snnounced his fntention of accoptiog and Jcting upon this advico, Tho law has beon do- stared constitutionnl by tho Bupremo Court, the Leglelature refased to listen to the petitions for * |tg alferation, and it only romains for tho prapor pificers to see that it is enforced. Wo shallsoon xpow what the warchonsemen munnl' whon thoy snid that tho entorcoment of tho iaw Would clogo overy elovator in the olty. e —— “Fhe Erlo Rallrond sooms to huve bieon mado to fight over. ~1’re§ldunl Watson has returned from Earopo, and finds avaiting him the ugly:alloga- tions made by ox-Auditor Dunan. Although Mr. Watson's roputetion for integrity {8 too fismiy cstablishiod to bo seriously sifocted by tha ansupported tostimony of a discharged employa, got tho management of tho road cannot afford to rest under suspicion of improper denling, fhe proposition of the London stockholders,, that the Compuny's affairs bo invostigated by an expert accountant. hes thoroforo met with cheerful soquicscnce, -If tliore has been any fresh corruption, the present Dircctora of Erie swould liko jo havo it shown up. S The Chlmg:prndnce markets wero gonerally Arm yostorday, grain being in good demand, while provisions werd glow. Mesa pork was quictand & ebads ‘frmor, cldsing sé #16.00@ 15.95 cash, and '§15.95@16.00 goller May. Lard was quiot af 8o advauce of Go por 100 Ibg, closing at 80.00@9.03}¢ cash, and $0.06@0.0734 sellor May. Moaty waro quict and unchangped at 65§@ B340 for shoulders, 82f0 for shorb ibs, 830 for short closr, and 10@110 for sweet pickled hnme, ‘Highwinos woro quiot and unchanged at 93¢ por ZLake froights woro dull sad onslor, at by enil to Buffalo. Flour was sulob and frm, Wheat wae active and 3o Jiigber, olosing nt $1,203{@1.24 cnsb, and 81,273 golley May, Corn was in tair domand and 5o Ligher, closing ab 02)¢0 cadl, and 0853¢@05%40 seller Moy, Oats woro qulot and Yo, highor, .closing at 4830 cash, snddeyfo sollor May, Ryo .wa8 in good demand, and firm at 00@00}go for tresh, Barloy was moro sotive, and 2@4o Jhigher, closing at £1.70@1.72 for No, 2, and §1.88@140 for No.5, Hoga wero notive end gallon, 6340 for whoat Parsops, member of Cougress from tho Oleveland, 0., District. Up to this time it Lag been charitably conjecturod that Mr. Qarflold wos simply unforfunate,—that, ab tho worst, his offense was the making of nn argu- ‘ment betora the Commiesionor of Patents for an oxtensionof the Do Golyerand McClelland patent. But Mr, Parsons' ovidenco domolighos this theory. The substanco of his statement is that Mr. Gar- fiold's argument waa sddressod to the Distriot Board of Public Works ; that it was an exposi- tion of the economy nnd beauty of * ironized " pavement,and that it was paid for. Atthe time this transaction {8 said to havo taken placo, Mr. Garflold was Chairman of the House Appropris- tions Committee, and soon aftormard horeported a bill sppropriating 1,000,000, which wont to pny for “ironizod” pavement and other rub- bish that the Board of Public Worke had boon porausded fnto buying. A cbargo of this kind oagalost a porson of Mr. Garflold's charsctor is too sorions to bo reccived went full significance until ho has mado some ausywer, to it, or refused to do s - Trof. Palton, oditor of the Interior, 8’ Prosbyterisu newspapor published in thie city. hus proforred chargos of heresy against Prof. Bwing, pustor of the Tourth Presbytorian Church. The two Prosbyterinn Professors rep< rosont the oxtromes of the Now and Old School of books will bo made up at Cambridge and Yalo, at the Now York Btate Library, Columbis Col- logo, Cornoll Univorsity, and at tho Univorsily of Wiaconsin, at Madison, and porhiaps at othor institutions. 'Tho Teolandorn aro an Intolligent kind of pooplo, who will approciate thla form of gitt and this oxprossion of sympathy with them in tholr national colobration, It hns boon sug- ostod that thore aro porsons in Chicago who would llkoe to particlpate in fthis matter, andit horo bo thoy csn communieato with tho Rov. W. A, Bartlott, and if thoy havo any books. to donato thoy ean gond thom to Prof. R. B. Andor- gon, of Madieon, Wis, It is not ofton thnta peoplo are callod npon to colobrato tho thou- sandth yonr of thelr political oxiatonco. INFLATION MADE EABY, 1t would bo uvjust to sssumo that all tho wis- dom of the country and all its intelligence, espo- clally on financial mattors, wore to bo found in ‘branchios of the Chureh, which wero recontly Tinited after an organic soparation of more than thirty years, Prof. Bwing moves too fast for nis sesociates; Prof. Patton docsn't movo at all. Prof. Putton boliovos that the aclonce’ of theology hus mrrived at o stago of porfection of which his wing of tho Church is the ombodiment; Prof. Bwiug has a very poor opinion of theology 88 a scionco, and revels in his ignorance of Sabollianism and kindred vagatios of tho human intollect. The charges proforred by Prof. Patton will be found in another column. Thoy aro drawn out st great longth, and tho points insisted upon aro amplified with considorablo ingenuity snd per- pistonco. Somo of the nccusations will doubt- Tloss provoke o smile fron poraons ncoustomod to hbotal troatmont of honest opinion, while othera are . too to ba passod lightly over, Of this lattor cluss is tho slato- ment that Prof. Bwing confossod to Mr. Collier bis sympatby with Unitarian doctrino, and said la .proforrod to romain in tho Presbytorisn Church bocauso he could “do moro good! in this way than in any othor. This is equivalent to charging Prof. Bwing with decoption and by~ poerisy, and want'of falth with his bost friende, i can plesd in rofutation a singularly honest prosentation of truth during his yesidenco in this city, avd a stylo of pulpit discourso that conld not be affeoted by tho ro- monstrances or throats of Prof. Patton aud all hie condjutors, If he dared 8o much, why shionld ho have hositated to-avow boldly Unitarian doc- trines, or any others that o might have held ? oorious In tho extrome northern ocean, the peoplo of Teoland propose thia year to colobrate thae 1000th anniversary of the eettlement of ho island. It wae in tho year 874 that some Norwegiaue locat~ od n colony on tho island, and Ofty yoars Iator thore were enough poopto thewo to sot up a kind of ropublie, ‘Tho Icclanders have boon prepar- ing for thig suniversary by making domands upon tho King of Doumark for o now Constitu~ tlon, and it hay boon granted, to take offect on tho 24 of Auguat, tho date of tho anniversary. Some gontlomon In this country havo dovised a gohema by which Amoricans may join in the colobration, All the clorgymen and mony of the people of the island road and epoak tho English langunge, Tho planls to send ag largo & con- tribution of American books' to the Jeolandlo publiolibrary as canbogot togethor. Tho publio library a¢ Reykjavik coutaing 10,000 volumes, put fow of which are in Buglish, Boveral oases Congress, It {s truo that wo of Illinois have Logsn and Oglesby, - Barroro, Osunon, and Mo- Nulta in Congross, but the delogation has not oxbausted the firat-class financial dootors of the Stato, Just ot this time tho deatinles of tho Ro- publican party in llinols are largoly Intruated to tho care of Mr. J. K. Magto, editor of the Canton Register, whoso iseno of* April 10 contains an oditorinl solution of tho financial problem. Aftor reciting the prosperous condition of the country and expreseiug tho opinion that the whole na- tionnl dobt may be pald within the next, five years without injury to anybody, ho suggests thiat tho ““matorinl of which money is made is of no significance,” snd bonco that mixed ourron- cloa of gold, slivor, and grooubacks ought not to bo tolerated ; and that there should bo but ono ld of monoy, viz, “logal-tonder notes.” Having thus disposed of tho fundamontal prin- ciples, ho Iays down the following plan of got~ ting tho greenbacks distributed : . Monoy shiould bo supplied to tho peaple Just in pro- portion fo thele wanta and necessities, with 1o arbl trary limit, - Wo thorefore favor tho plan of tho Gov- ornment losniog to tho pooplo, on o real estate sccurlty worth doublo the smount, all the monoy thoy wantat® por cent intorcst, with tho privilogo of roturning it to tho Government ot any timo and stopplng tho intorest, Thus, if thero should bon rodundancy of currency at any tme, 80 that 1t was not worth § per cent. {ntorost, it would bo found flowing back to the Governmont. If monoy should become scarco, thoro would always bo a source of supply ats | por cont, Thoro could be o panies, ro fuatuations, undor systom of this kind, The interest could bo fixed at 3, 4, or 5 por cont, a8 wisdom or experionco might dictato, . Without being disrespactful to Logan and Oglesby, wo suggoat tunt this * takes tho rag off" anything they hisvo proposed, Thoy havo voted to have more groenbaoks, but they have failed to auggost the machinery by which pooplo can get them. Hore is a plan which proposes no otbor limit to the issuo of greonbacks than one- half the valuoof all thareal satatein tho country. When that roal ostate comes to bo valued in the now greonbacks, the igaue of ourrency will be- como 1llimitablo, Mr. Logan claims to ropro- sout the Republican party of Illinois, but Alr, Magie haa a botter title to that distinction. Any man who fnsista that tho Goyernmont shall lend greonbacka to the poople at 5 per cont intorest, the principal being payable at-the option of, the Dorrower, is ontitled to be considerad the leador until somobody proposes that tho Government sholl lond ite greenbacks without intorest and without sccurity. Logan's plan {s fottored with soveral practioal cbstacles, but Magic's plan. i perfectly foasible, whilo in prin- ciplo there is no difference betweon them. Wo have soveral times inquired how the infla~ tionists were going to ‘get tho now gresnbacks ont, nnd havo suggested that thoro were only two ways of accomplishing the ‘much-Qusired result, viz.: 1. To ropcal tsxcs and pay tho Government expenscs with the now issues ; or 2, to embark in a grand systom of internal improve- ments, public buildings, connl-digging, river improvements, railroad-building, irrigation, cloud-shooting, ete., paying the contractors with greonbacks, But Mr, Magio's plan is preforable to elther of theso, bocauso it puts the monoy in the placos where it is wanted, without any eir- cumlocution. " While Mr. Magie is- porhaps entitled to & patent for the practical machinery of tho plan, tho Hon, O. P, Morton may juatly olsim priority ‘of invention of tho iden that tho rate of inforest i regulated by tho volame of. ourroncy afloat. Wo find it amplified In his spocch of the 23d ‘altimo in tho Senato of tho United States, in the following happy aud convineing way : Intoreat 48 tho ‘measurc of valuo for. the ffo of ‘mioney for & given perlod, Othor things being cqual, the rato of intorest depends upon the abundauce or searalty of mouey in o given Stato or country, to to usoed in tho way of loans, Tho rate of intorest, llke tho prices of commoditics, is determined by the law of supply snd demand, Whoro monoy is plenty, and thoro {5 small demand for it, the rates of interest aro always low; whero {ho supply is sbout cqual to tho demand, the rates of interest are medium ; where the domand s groater thau tho supply, tho rates of inter~ est aro corrospondingly high. Wlien tlie curreucy ia contracted, tho rates of intorcat aro increased until guch timp an tho business of {he country has been 80 far destroyed 01 to deatroy the domsud for money, and thou tho rates may fall, and money scem to bo plonty, from the absonco of demand ; which s very much the casonow. By increasing the currenoy 50 a8 to make it just keep paco with the increase of popula~ tiou and busincse, the rate of intorcat will ‘be undis- turbod ; but if &t b6 8o {ncronsod 88 to mako, mionoy plontier when compared to tho businosa than .1t vas Vofore, the rato of Interest must be docreased, - Thoso pro tho viewa of & * practioal man,” a8 opposed ta the doctrino of '*theoriats,” who Told that the rato of intorest doponds upon the abuiidanoo or scarcity of tha commoaitios which monoy will buy, snd’ not upon the amount of monoy by which thoso commodities are meus- ured and exchanged. .. Tho theorists oven go so far ea to Aoy that It greonbacks were multiplied hundrad for one, 1t wonld not make o particlo ot differenca in tho rato_ of intorost, because it would noithor increaso tho amount of commodi- tio8 (capital) in the country, nok diminish the domand for'tho samo. Alr. Morton' thinks dif- ferontly, or pretends,to. "Mr. Maglo thinks dif~ forontly, and we Judgo thathe kuows ho batter. It wo aro to try the experiment, wo trust that the man who gots mouoy at a lowor rate of In- torost in consequence of it will send us his name and address, . Daotore closing this articlo, howaver, lat up ask MM, Mortou why he has #o long neglocted to take stepa to reduce tho rate of {utorest, Evorybody oxcept the monoy-sharks wanta the rato of jnter- estlowored. What has Mr, Morton boen doing those six yoars past that ho has allowod tho peo- plo of Indiana to pay 10 per cont iuterest, whon it was #o oasy to reduceit to b, 4,3, or2 por cont? 'Why s ho sufforod thom to bo plunder- od in tho shaving shopsof all tho country vil- Ingos, whon the means of rescuing thom wera go ample? jEvory town in Indiaua has ite Shylook demanding the pound of flosh from hig lmpless victims. Lot tho bleeding, quivering sufferers from usury ssk, in thunder tones, Where was, Morton all this timo? It the rate of intercet can bo deoroasod, as ho says it osn, by multiplying greoubpcks, it could Lave Doen douo five yoars ago as woll ay now, Many 5 man has lost his farm in the meantimey many an honest meolianjo Lias soon his tool-chost sold _with - what precodes undor chattol-mortgsgo. Thers Is an awful re- sponsibllity resting on Ar, Morton that ho has not sooner applied tho remody to this gigantle ovil, COANA OF GALILEE. . The temporancu crusade now sweeplng over the country hins again brought into prominaenca the supposed teachings of the Siblo in reforonce to tho uso of wino, and tho disoussion hes, in somo instancos, arrayed the pulpit againot tho orusadors. Tho firat countor-movement in ro- liglons circles camo in & point-biank denial by roepoctabla olorgymen that tho Biblo favors or advisos total abstinence. Thim position wag takon by tho Rov. Dr, Thomas, in this city, aud 1t has boen taken by eundry clorgymon olso- whero, of the Protoatant, Catholio, and Iobrow foithe. This position has not yet boon ovor- thrown by tho advocates of prohibition. Tho offort now is to turn the position by showiog that thore aro two kinda of wine mentloned in tho Bible—formented and unformonted, DBy virtuo of this distinction, ovorything in the Bible which ia advorso to tho uso of wino is charged to the fermonted sort; overything in favor of wine to tha unformentad. Upon this basis, the Rov. Mr, McOliesnoy framed on argument in {avor of tomporanco in his last Bunday’s sermon, an abstract of which hins been printod in Tne TripoNe. Redaced to tho brief- st spaco poesible, Dr. MeOliesnoy's argument is na fulluns, The wino spolion of. in. tho Diblo could not have boen fermented; if it wore, then tho Biblo is contradictory ; but aa the Biblo can- not bo contradictory, theroforo the wino must ‘havo beon unformonted, It Is only nccessary to apply this modo of reasoning to tho evonts in tho Biblo thronghout in order to show theo reductio ab absurdum of such an argument., In sddition to the intrinsio fallncios in Mr. McChes- noy's eyllogiem, tha suthorities aro againet him at tho outeot. The testimony of travelers and historians, and tho Jewish Rabbis, tho Bille dictionarics (notably the standard work of Dr. Smith), tho scholarship of Andover, Princoton, Chicago, and Now Havon, sad tho theologicnl roviows all maintain that the Biblo Qooa not describo two kinds of wino; and Mr. Boocher, & strong prohibitioniat, aftor examining thoauthoritics, s has been aiready shown by ono of our correspondonts, doliborately saya : “Itla tho almost universsl conviotion of theso com- potent to form a judgment that Our, Lord did both make and uso wines which answor to the feimonted wines of tho present day in Pales- ttne.” With such facts against him, it iu little wondor that Mr, McChosnoy comes to a conclu~ alon which, if applied to othor ocourroncos in tho Biblo, would lead him into the worst school of theology over kuown, snd, after lsboring painfully and struggling and floundering sbout in the most distraoting manner, onds whore he be- gan, in hopoless confuston. Thoro are Ways, however, in which Mr. Me- Chesnoy and othor clergymen iu thosamo trouble may help thomeelves out to a cortain ostent. Tho worst rock]of offenso in thoir way is the miracie of changing the wator into wino at the marriago fonst in Conn of Gallleo. If thoy can only got over this, they have hopes that thoy may gradually plok their way out of the morasa. “Pho old argument of two kinds of wine has ' boon applied to this cmse, and Mr. McOhesnoy and othors have zealons- 1y labored ‘to show that it was unfermonted wine which tho Bavior mado out of the water. Ono of our city clorgymen, in fact, at tho recont. meoting of the Alothodist Ministers’ Assoclation, ingenfously claimed that the miraclo was only » changa of tho water into unformented wifie, bo- causo it takes timo for wine to formont, As _this, however, is tsntamount to overthrowing tho possibility of miraclo aitogethor, and in- olves a limitation of Dlvino power, it is a mora hopoless solution than Nr. McChesney's, and will never bo adopted. It might bo added, that tho only inferonce from the story as parrated in John is, that tho guosts woro alrondy el drunken,” that it was good ‘wine which made mon well drunken in those Qays, and that, tho Lord mado good wine; 4 gyory man-at the boginning doth st forth good wine; and whon men have well drunl, then that which is worso ; but thou has kept the good wine until now.” Tho best way to got out of this mudalo is to abolish tho atory altogether, and, fortunatoly for Ar. McOhosney, this has al- roady beon dono for him by tho German critics. Tho most eminent scholars who have studied tho manuscripts and oarly toxts bave afiirmed that tho whole story is nn intorpolation. Chief among thoso is Tischondorf, whoso Sinaitic manugoript, the oldest known version of tho Now Testament, mukes no mention whatever of the océtrronce. 1Io and many other critiesl commontators have shown conclusively that tho story was interpolated into tho ‘book of John gome timo aftor it was writton, and, therefore, haa no authority. This disposition of tho mat~ tor not only romoves tho worst stumbling block in thio way of total sbstinonco, but it also clears up many other difficuities. It romoves n story srhioh I8 uttorly aimless, and bas no counection or what follows it. It rolloves the clergy from tho embarrassing duty ot explaining the Savior iu making wine at.all, whother formented or unformonted, and of explaining tho singular answer of the Bavior to ITis own mother, who had asked n very natural aud proper quostion, to which ho replied * Womnan, what havo I to do with theo? " Tho story is not told by any of tho other Evangolists, aud as it has no apparont object or aim, and thore is no reason why it - uhould bave boen told at all, thore ia no reason why it should ot bo fgnored and thrown anide, ospecinlly as the schiolars who aro compotent to form s judgmont have shown clearly enough that it was s popular legond, floating about, which some ona plaked up and sdded to the book of Jokn without any authorlty, These facta prosent Mr, McChesnoy with a safe and suro avonuo of eaeapo from his promont diMoul- Hon, ] MENTAL EPIDEMICS, Tt {a but a fow yoars sinco Ducklo sprang sud- denly into famo by publishing his ** Tistory of Qlvilization.” Tho foundation jdea of. the work was that man Iu the plaything of ciroumstance. Ifo commits good and bad deods according to his own impulses, indeod, bub those impulsos aro brought into being Ly outslde and indopondent causos, Ho drifts, a castaway, on tho flood of Tate. Tho doctrine was no now one, but Germany nad boen ite fleld until Buckle translated 1t into his own dazzling aud misioading logie, and won & roputation as briliant aud as ophomoral ns s moteorlo ghowor, Tho theory has, no doubt, many grains of truth mixod with its orrors, Lhe fact In it explalus, go far a8 oxplanation Is pos- sible, the frequenoy of mental opidemics, Brown Bequard and Fernand Papiilon iavo both trented of thoso historioal curlosities inoldentally, aud Dr. Frederlo’ R, Marvin, of -New York, has ro- contly summed up tho oaso in » papor on Epi- domio Dolusions ra:,d Jbotoro the Now York Lib- purpose of tho-| oral Olub, Mo ia o thorough-paced disciple of Baokle, looking upon individusl sotion with a8 much Rcorn ag tho Englishman did, The pab- lished leoture s studded with facts in support of s theory, England snd France both foll victims to commercial delusion in 1721, Law's Bank and Misaisnippl schomes rulned Franco ab tho samo timo that the South Ben Bubble ruined Fan- | gland, Doth peoplos ran mad. Joint-stook companios neodod but & namo to find dupos In prodigal profusion. Ono of thom, announced 28 ** A Company for Carrying on an Undortaking of Qroat Advantage, but Nobody to Know What It In,” cloarod £2,000 in six hours. It the pro- joctor hiad not boen acared by bis own succoss into nbuconding with that amount, e might have got & much larger sum, Eyory paniois an epidemio, Thoussnds of troopa will often run it halt a dozon cowards load off. Foenr broods fonr, Tho crisis of '78 was prolonged for wooks by tho contaglon of timidity. Tor thot matior, tho contagion of folly is proving iteolf now in Congross. Bocause & fow battored bollwethors loapod ‘off tho Ropublican platform, the crowd followed lile sheop. ‘T'ho opidomics of crime linve boen many, Tho world's ora of blood was between 1588 and 1085, Its contof arms was a daggor and & bowlof poison, Tho nssassin’s dirk was poiged, liko the aword of Damocles, over overy man of promi- nonco, Within a contury, Donmark ing_seon an opldemio of infantioido; within twonty yoors, TFranco Lina scon ono of suicide, This last erimo i3 on cspocinlly ‘catching ono. Anybody who commits it in " poculiar way {s sure to find imi~ tators, Whon a person throws himsclf from s lofty tower, tho placo must bo gusrd- ed for wooks to keep other fools ‘away, Epidemica of roligion aroespecially froquont, Poter tho Hormit throw Europe into & frenzy. Multitudes of children startod on pilgrimages to the Holy Bepulchro, snd to starvation and slavery, Dr. Marvin hae passed over tho nota- ‘blo world’s rovival of the tenth contury, whon the universal beliof that tho ondof tho world would come in the year 1000 A. D, bronght Turopo to tho feok of the Ohurch, . Whitofleld, orying in tho wildorness of Goorgia: “I contd writo damnation in tho dust that covers your Bibles," scored the backwoods- mon into repentance. The rovival was caused directly by the proschor but indi- roctly by the storm of fooling that had swopt over England nud blown alive in thonaands of hearts the dying embers of faith. Comlug down to lator days, wo have Spiritualiem, Matorialism, o dozen isms which nations Lnvo caught 08 & community catches o disoaso. Ro- ligioua circles in - East Tonnosseo wore once the victima of *tho jerks,” under the’ influence of which Christians grotesquely contorted them- golves for tho glory of God.' In Eentucky, during tho rovival of 1810-15, an old hunter be- came convertod, and rosolved to destroy the davil. Whilo attending o meoting, ho would sud- douly run at full speed in pursuit of n fmag- inary flond. Tho contagion spread. Wholo con- grogations indulged in this * running exorcise,” | 581t wos called. The * olimbing exorciso” camo noxt. It. consisted in clinibing the treo tho' dovil was Bupposod to. havo ascended. This manin lnsted for months, It was succoeded by othors, among which was madness for playing marblos and other childieh 'games during divine gorvice. The Women'a Orusade, which has be- gun since Dr, Marvin wroto, is nnothor mental opidomio, Founded npon the enormous ovil of intomperance, it has a starting point sure to on- list tho sympathics and co-oporation of & vast multitude, and itia not to bo wondored at, in view of tho usual features of montal opidomics, that it has devoloped many eccentricitios. m———— Tho matrimonial eligibility of tho country en- rato has boen a standing joke for many yoars. _Punch found an unlimited deposit of humor in it, The ardor of the unmarried ewes of tho flook in proparing slippers for its pastor, and in otherwise advertising their domostio tendenocies, have furnishod tho world with some of 'John Toech's happiest illustrations and country fire- sides with much plenannt scandal, Tho country parsion once marriod, usually sinke into insignifi~ canco and is nover more henrd of. Now, after a Iapse of more thon thirty yoars, tho marringe of a country clergyman, tho Rov, E. B. Fowler, is recalled by the death and will of his bride. She married Lim in 1842, snd & fow days aftor- ward loft him, resumed hor maiden name, and mever failed in hor thirty yoars of self-imposed widowhood to oxpross hor aversion for olergymen, Hor; will, by which she left all her property to distont rolativos sud frionds, was contested by hor hus- band and threo aunts, who sought to ocstablish ber insanity, but was admitted to probato by Surrogato Hutchings. She is deseribod 08 o woman af eccentrio mannors, but . hor intelloct, aceording to the tostimony of many witnessos, + was unusually lucid and strong.” - et — The uso of comprossed air ag a motive powor Lisa boen nttompted in varlous .forms and with varying degroos of success, The priuciple -of tho pneumatto tubo is one form, which has been sufliciontly successful to encourago Lopes for tho future, Another form of its applica- tlon was in locomotive ongines for pur- posca of stroct traflio, attemptod thred yoara 20 by n Chicago gentleman, sd sbandoned only for tho cheaper and more powerful expediont of comprossed steam. Comprossed air, howaver, is being nsod with unlooked-for enccess in tho peno- tration of tho Alps for the Bt, Gothard tunuel, ity npplication for tho purpose bolng. due’ to AL Colladon, The primo- powor i furmshed by wator, which is used for loading the propor Ye- coptacles with compressod afr, to be attérverds appliod to porforating tho rooks of tho mountain * chaln. Vory little of tho wator-powor 18{wastod in friotion, aud tho convorsion- of |distant water-powor into an immeodiate and direot motivo agent {s ono ‘of thoso' triumphs of ingonuity which sciénco hns resorved for the prosont day. Tho succoss of this simple undortaking! throws open & wide fleld to tho mechanically inoljned. . Rt At & meoting of the now York Enst{Confor- ongo, hold a dny or two ago, .Bishop Wiley cautionod the younger ministers before him agoinet & tondenoy to fllthy lucro vislblp in the ministry, addiug thut ‘*nowadays we have too mueh nioney.” A8 a porsonnl exporience ou the Blshop's part this may be true, but as applied to the thousaunda of ill-paid olergymon;ajl over tho country, struggling on salaries of from $300 to $700 a year, this must bo rogarded as.gontlo frony. In view of tho solld phalanx of thivty- five superannnatod ministers, dopondont upon the Conforonce for thoir dally bread, who sat before him, tho Bishop might reasonably have gpared thow thia pleasantry, Porbaps he would not objoct to giving his suporflnous means te Lig noedy brothron, or dlviding sularies with gome of tho youngor onoa, ——— What is ono man's meat may bo a dozon men's poison, Hoveral peraons living on the west Dbauk of tho Miesissippi antlcipated an overflow, and honded it off by cutting n crovasso in the opposite lovan, ot Husbpuokany. Tho crovasss ia now 100 yards wido, and tho wator is pouring through it, throatoning twelve plantatious with dostruotion, ——— Logan, in his roply to Bohurz, pska ipdignant- Iy: *“Doos lio think this Benate is made up of a Aot of neses 7 Now that this-Benate hns voted for {nflation, it would bo unkind to answer the question, ‘yours {n the bonds of the Goapol PROF. SWING. Annual Meeting of the Chicago Presbytery. - Prof, Patton Presents Those Long- Expeoted Chergas. Prof, Swing I8 Accused of Sabellian- ism, Unitarianism, Etc. He Has Used Unwarranted Language About \ Penelope. He Has Preached in Aid of the Mary Price Collier Chapel. He Has Rejected Three Great Presbyterian Tenets. The Whole Matter Referred to a Com- 3 mittee. It Will Report This Morning. MORNING SESSION. Tho annual mooting of the Chicago Presbytoery, which embraces all the Presbylerisn Ohurchea in the city and vicinity, was held in the Third Chureh, corner of Carpenter and Washington etroots, yosterday morning, Partloular interest ottached to the sossion, from tho fact that it was understood that Prof. Patton was to profor charges of horosy againgt Prof. Swing. Both of these gontlomon woro prosent, as were forty othersof the cloth, and thirty-five churches woro reprosonted by Eldors. Tho Rov. Arthur Mitcholl was elected Blodor- ator, and Mr, Barrott Olork, UOBRESPONDING MEMDEDS. On motion, the Rov. J. B. Drury, of Ghont, N. Y., tlie Rov. Mr. Loonara, of the Rook River Presbytory, the Rev. William Beccher, of Chi- engo, nnd the Rav. Mr. McLaughlin, of the Can~ sda Presbytory, were invited to elt as ocorre- sponding membors, . THE SEVERENS OASE, The Committce appointed, at the roquest of the Oloveland Presbytery, to take testi- mony in the cage of tho Rev. J. 8. Sevorons, who is charged with financial irregularities, re- ported that they bad discharged tho duty as- signod thom, aud sent the evidence to tho Olerk at Oleveland, snd aaked that thoy bo dischargod. They werae relieved. ; PALATINE. ) Mr. Davis presented a potition from people in Palatino, asking that thoy bo organized inton & Prosbyterian Church. They Led o place of worship alrendy, and he believed the flold was a good ono. It was roferred to tho Home Mission Bacloty. THE RIGNTIE CHORON. . Mr. Reed snid tho Eighth Presbyterian Church of Chicago was financlally embarrassed, and he had resigned his pastorate. On_motion, the paetoral relation was dis- solved, and & committes appointed to notify the ‘congregation of. tho fact. ., H THE GENERAL ABSEMDLY. The Modorator called attontion to the noces- sity for making nominations of Commissionors to tho General Assombly, and & numbor of clor- men: and laymen wore nominatod. The fol- owing wore oloctod: The Rovas, Mosars. A, E. Kittredgo, E. R. Davis, and E. L, Hurd;_lay- mon, T. B, Gartor, William O. Wood, and'J. D, Walfaco. : . COMMITTRES, The following Comtnitice to nominato stand- ing committees for the curront year was au- nounced: Tho Reve. Mossrs, Bwazoy aud Bur- roughs snd Elder James Otia, 4 The .Committeo to organize Westminater COhurch roported that their dutics had beon dis- charged. The Chair Ir‘c‘wolxflmd tho “Roy. Mr. Wood & Committeo on Nai rrative,~state of religion. A lotter from the ogk River Prosbytory, recommonding the Rov. Edward H. Curtls for fellowship, was roceived, and the brothor ac- corded the privileges of a membor of the Obica- go Presbytery. R 2 7 MATWOOD, . . % . A potititon was proseuted from the ‘churoh of Mndy\vood, stating that thoy wore in debt §2,000, and, being unablo to raise tho funds to liquidato “i asked assistanco of tho woalthy conimgutlans of Chicago. The membership of the church was thirty, an_increnso of thirtcon since ita organ- ization. cial committeo of business men. it BTANDING COMMITTEES, The Committes to nominate sfanding com- mittees reported as foliows : . Fwtrign Misslons—Artiir Mitchell, W. O. Young, F. A. Riddle, D, R, Holt, G, F. Blsscll, - ‘Home Misstons—J. H. Trowbridge, E, Rt. Davis, 0. 1, Tuompson, Walter Forsythe, O, D, Nelson, §, B artor, Chureh Erection~R. W. Paticraon, D, J, Burrel], E, R. Davis, W. G. Holmes, J, H, Hollingaworth, Edueation—J, I, Taylor, Charlcs Elliott, D, Bwing, 8. P, Hodges, B. M. Mooro, Publication—E. R. Davis, L, 7, Halsey, C, L. Thomp- s, Thowas Dont, James Olia. - Mintsterial Relier—E. L, Hurd, G, O, Noyes, Jobn Qovert, 3. B, dould, V, A, Turpln. * Sabbath-Sehool—0, L, Thompeon, J. T, Walker, O, Wisnor, W. A. Post, J. McGregor Adams, Sustentation—W, O, Youug, K, N, Barrott, W.O, Waod, lienevolent Work of the Church—J, 1, Taylor, G, O, Noyes, D, 8. Johnson. o 4 Ezamination of Candidatcs for the Minfstry— Ex- o ial Tifgion. tbo Tiov, Artiur Mitoliolls “Arts) and Sclences,” the Rov, David Swing: W; Patferson, D, D,; * Ed ry,” J. H, Mathe “ Greok and Hebrow,"” thd 3 ‘“Church Government on" Eacramente,” the Rav, G, O, Noyea; * Trial Places,. fho Rove, Francis L. Pation, O, L, Thompson, A, Kittrodgo. 3 3 P . . AFTERNOON SESSION. ‘Aftor lunch, half an hour was dovoted to a free conversation on tho stato of religlon in the ochurches. ‘Steady.growth and many acgossions by profession wore generally reported. ORE BOOM NEEDED, G - Tider Koys, of tho Third Church, stated that the congrogation had bocomo 80 large, and room was g0 limited, that, at recont meeting, a com- mitteo wns appointed to consider tho advisabil- ity 'of oreoting a church that would accommo- dnte 8,000 people, T, & | ‘"Soveral other pastors reported that their churches . were too .small, and that now edifices _were_contemplated, but it wns not yet certain _wilether the neccasary funds could be raised. ' TATTON V8. BWING, g «The Clerk eaid he ‘hed &-lotlor from Prof. Patton, and if tho Presbytery dosired to hear it ho would rend it. No objeotion boing made, he road na follows: v B 3 . To the Reverend, the Presbytery of Chicago, {n'seasion in the T Presbyterian Chureh {1 the Oy uf Chicaye s Diean BRETUI Iu the nionth of Auguat, 1873, T wblishied futhe Inferior uu cditorial roview: of Prof, EWing's sormon on # Old Testaniont Tuspiration,” -Ti- was writton u tho apirit of kinduess, with nothotight of contravoray, aud with uoides that it would lead to o judicial inquiry, To tho dlscussion between Prof, Biving und mysolf I need not refor, oxeopt to sy that it was tho occasion of a careful oxamiustion of hia hicological views na thoy n})pn‘-\r in Uis writings, 1 have advorted to some of theso,viows, as you nre awaro, in the columne of the Interfor, Indeod, fidelity to tho church of which I am a minfstor ro- quired mo to do o, It would havo given mo fgreat pleasuro, 8 I know it wowld have beon o great satiufaction to many others of his ministerial brethron, had this discussion resulied in a vindication of Y'rof, wln%{mm any imputation of berosy, and i showing that ho {8 a sfncero bellovor in tho doctrinal syatom of that Ghurch in which ho lina bieon 80 hoticred and loved ; and, since (his 14 not tho case, it would huye boen Inora In accord with my feollugy if sonma older member of the Prosbytery could Luvo sssumed tho rospousjbility of brivging .ihe erroucous viows of brgf, Swing to yournotics, Olrcumstances, howaver, havo combined to imposa iy painful task upon me, Pormit mo, therofore, to call your attention to the accompauyiog cliarges, with thoir II,QEL““M“DHI. which I ask leavo to prosecuto nt your bar, ; Praying t{hat tho great Head of the Church may guldo s {u tho solomn dutica which will dsyolvo upon s 88 n court of Jeans Ohriut, I am, Very sincoroly, 1 Foavon L, PyrroN, < OIATIOES AND BPEOIFIOATIONS. . Prof. Patton then spproachiod the Moderator's dosk and sald: With your permission, Mr. ‘0i1gauo, April 18, ‘The documont waa referréd‘to a &po-+, ‘Modeorator,.I will rond the chargas ai . T AILE Ty phoinan a8 aud ‘apoolfica The Presbytors changed thelr poatanoas to bo within hearing distanco, and, whon nll was quiet, Prof, Patton read tho lollmrlng chargos and Bspovifloations, in olenr, distinet, aud calm tonea: David Swing betng & mainisior of th avld Bwing belng & ministor of tho Prosbyt inir el {he Dolke Biaton Of AMCriCh, i " sane o of tie Prosbytery of Ohicago, hias nok aen zoalous and falthful {n maintaining tho truths of tho Goap andl lina not been faithful aud diligont in the exorcias of the dutics of lils position, Specification Firat—Ilo fa in (ho hublt of using cquivooal langiiaga in respoct to fundamental doc~ iring, fo o manlfoat injury of bl roputation ax & Ghirintint ministor, nd fo tho injury of the causo of Chelst; that ia to ay, In sundry sofmons printed lu tho publication kuown aatha Chiteago Pulptl, and in aundry other eormoua printed in tho Allfincs news= ‘papor, and also in aundry thor sermono printed in & Yolumo ealled * Trutlis for To-Day,” sud in other sormons, entd_sormons all purporting to havo proschod Ly Lim, tho = roferonces to tho porson of Christ, regonoration, ~tho atoncmont, E54 other doctrined are exprosnod {n vagno and am- iguona Innguage; thiat eald roforoncos admit casily of conatructions in accordance with {ho ticology of tha Unitarian denomination: that thoy contaln no dis- tinct and unoquivocal afirmations of theso doctrines sa lioy are hold by tho avangelical churchen, Spectfcation Gecond—Thee offect of thicao vaguo and ambiguous statoments has boen to cause gravo donbia fobo entortained by somo of r. Bwing minlelorial Drothron, and by others, respecting is position in ro- Tation to tho dootrinos aforoanld aud othior doctrines, that loading Unitarian ministors have afiirmod that his reachivg fo autatanially Usltarian ; that M, Swing, nowing that ho fs olaimod by Unitasioua na ‘fu au slantial accord with thom, sud of tho doubts oxlsting w aforoaaid, snd mordovar, having had his attention called in private interviows to the smbignity and yaguoteas of his phrascology, lins noglected tofucor s teatimony to ihio truth of our Lord's Doity, the doc- trino of tho Trinity, of Justification by Fafth slonc, aud of tho olornal punisiment of tho wicked, ‘Specification Third—Ilo hns manifestod a ' culpatlo Qintegord of tho esseplial doctrincs of Christianity by giving tho wlglt ot his inloncs o, tho Unitariai octrine, and by tho unwortby and oxtravagant lauda- tiona fu {he puipit and through tho press of ono who 18 known ot to ve beliovod in tho Christian relig= on 3 that {8 Lo say, that sometimo in tho winter and Grlng successivo aya Lis waa advertisod to Jocturo in tho City of Chilcago in ald of o Unitarian cliapol oroct. ed in momory of tho 1ato Mas ps: he did lecturo in ald of sald chapol, snd in dotng 0 aided in thepromulgation of tho horosy ‘whicl dontes tho Deity of our blossed Lord ; that in o1 articlo writton by him, and published over his namo in tho perlodicsl callod 7'he Lakeide Monthly, bearivg date Octobor, 1873, aud entitled * The Ohicago of tho Chrlatian,” o Paseago occurs, which, taken in its_piafn aud obvious sense, teaches that Hobort Collyer, a Unl- tarian miniater, and Tobert Patiorson, a Presbyterisu ‘miniator, preach substantially tho amo G tuat tho Gospol, meaning the Ohiristian religion, ia mutablo and may bo modified by ecircumstances of time an place, that tho “ local Goapol,” meaning the Gospol of Ohicago, 18 & * modo of virtuo " rather than a * jumblo of doctrinea,” And morcover, that on the Sabbath fol- lowing tho death of John Stuart Mill, s woll-known Aticiat Me. Swing preacliod o sstmon In refarenco to Mr, 3ill, tho natural effeot of which would bo to mis~ load and'Injuro bis hearors by producing in thom o falso charity for fundamental error, Spectfication Fourth—In {ho sermons aforcsaid and 1n other sormons roported in tho daily papers of Ohi- cago, snd purporting fo have beon preached by BLr, Swing, language 1s employed wiicl 8 dorogatory to the slandards of the Prosbytorisn Ohurch, or o ous or moro of tho doctrinocs of the sald Ohurch, aud which s caloniated to fostor indifferouco to truth, and to produco contempt for tho doctrines of our Chufch ; that 18 to eay, that ho hna at !umh‘¥ timea spoken di paragingly of the doctrine of the Trinity, of Prodestl- nation, tho Porson of Ohriat, and othor articles of tho Confedsion of Faith, That by insinuation, ridiculo, {rony, and misrepresontations, ho has roferred to th doctrlnes of our Oliurch 80 4 to show that ho doos not Valuo them ; and tuot by placing in justaposition trus dootrlncs and falso minor points in thoology snd care Qfoa) doctrincs of ovangolical religion, he has trested oino of the most procious doctrines of our religion With contempt, 2 ‘Specification Fisth—Tlo does not teach or preach i his serinons tho doctrines commonly kuown a8 Evate gelical ; that 1a to say, in particular, he omits to teach or preach_ono or moro of tho doctrinoa contained in the following statements : That Ohriat is a ¢ propitin- tion for our sins," that wo have **redemption through His blood,” that wo are ‘‘justificd by faith alono,"” and that there I8 “no other name under Heaven givon among men vhoreby wo may ba saved.” pecification Stzth—To doclares that the valuo of 3 doctrine is measured by the ability of mun to verify it in thelr experience, and, in Jlustrating thia statemont, he has spokon lightly of important doctrines of tho Blble: that I8 to eay, that in = sormon ontitled * Christianity and Dogma,” {llrlnlod in tho volumo called * Truths for To-Day,” the following sud similar Isugusgo fn used s # The doctrincs of Ohristianity sro thoso which may bo tried by tho human hesrt,” ¥ Tho Trinity na formerly slated cannot bo oxperlenced,” ‘Specification Secenth—In the sormons entitlod o« spoctively *Old Testament Inspiration,” and *Tho filuo of ‘Yoaterdsy,” publistied in tho Chicago Puipit, 22 wol 8 in othior’ sozmon, languago s used eiicly ‘{aken {n its plain and obylous snse, inculcates & pliass of the doctrino commonly known sa *Evolution, or Dovelopment § that s to esy, he uses the followiug and similar Janguago: * Tho'low idolatry of primis tive man,” meaning Adsm. * Tho Biblo has not mado roligion, but religion and rightcousness have mado the Bible, Ohristianity ia not forced upon us; our owd nature forced it up out of tho spirit’s rlch gitta* 'Tho Mosaio Economy was nothing also_but a prog= ross; earth hind como to Polythelsm, to Panthaism, to Felichism, It was tho Hebrew philosophy and its im« ‘mediato result, Chriatianity, whick aweptaway tho ison Jupiter,” T'ho multitude measurea & great rovelation of God above that day when carth possessed but oug man or family, and thot ons without langusgo sud without learning and without virtue,” *Intho first human boing God could no more disp! His porfece tlons, than s musician liko Dozart could unfold bis genis to an fofant or to o South Boa Tslander.” ‘Spectfleation EightA—In 5 sormon_ entitled * Infina enco of Demooracy on Christiau Doctrine,”. he Lo mado false and dangerous Alatements regardiug tho slandards of folth nnd practico; that is to may, ho usos tho following ond similar language: * Whet we como to moral ideas, we are compelled to do without any standards”; “Y¥ou moy, my frionds, at your lefauro, scel and find further nstances of this modid. ‘cation of Christisn bolief by tho new surroundings of | govorument, Clristian customs will also be modified along with {ho creed, In this casting off of old gar- monts, #t 1o moro chieerfully throws away tho incons colyablo of Olristinuity than the inconcelvable of Kant or 8pinoza.” # In this abandoument thero 8 no charge of falaochood cast upon the old myateri they may or moy not bo true; thero ia only a poesing thom by as not bolng in tho' lino of tho ciirrout wish or taste s ralment for o past nge, perhupa for o future, but not lcfgo])m;lo .'Iar ll.l‘n‘])rlucg(."u 4 ) ciftcation Niith—Ho bas given lia approval, in tne,Fulpit, to the doctring cmfi.’auly Eoraaa b anism, or a Modal Trinity: snd hadspoken slighting 1y of tho doetrinc of tho “Irinity, os taught in tho standords of tho Presbyterin Cirtirch: that s to say: 1n tho volume called * T'rutha for To-day” lio uses li\n followlug ond similar languogo: * But tha moment he (Joaus) L uttorad our toxt,—tiat ¢Thodo which man Can ubjoct to oxparience, aro tho doctrities that bo of Gad,” roason rises up and unites its voico with that of simplo suthority, Tho dosirines of Ghristianity nro thoto whicls tusy bo tried by the Luman lisrt” * Tiio doctrine of {ho Trinity, 6 formally stated, cinnot bo oxperlonced, Man L not tho power {0 tasto tho Tlireoness of ane, nor tho onences of thrco, and Heo that it 18 ¢ good./» “Hunco, Ohristianity boars readily the Idea of threo offiees, and permits to ouo God to ap- ‘poar in Father, of n Sou, or in Spirit.” “Specification’ Tenth—In_tho gormon entitled, ro- spoctively, % Tho Grent Dobate, and 4 Dositive Rto- 1 glnn’," printed in the volume cullod * Trutls for T dny,” falso ond dangorous statoments aro mado r specting our kuowladgo of the Being and atéributes of God: thet {8 to say that the following snd slmilar Iangnoge is usod ; “‘Whon logio informs you and me thae God s n law, or o wido-sprond bliud agenoy, lob s niot bo docelved, for ol 1t has done 18 to tako away our God,” * Vorfect araurance Ia’ just na Impousiblo ta s free religioniat oF atholst, ua it 18 to the Obristisn, Ttomomborlug, thoreforo, that thoro is no moral fdes of Dosuty or love or sonl that may not be desired, snd romeinboring, top, thut tho nssuranco thab thors s & God' 1 nlways 10gically equal o the opposite bollef, @1ye Jmuow 1ot what mor whera i3 our God, our Loavon,” ;, Specifention. Blesenth—ta 8 sormon entilied, 4 Roligion of Words,” and in_other scrmons, La uses langnage fn regord to tho Bacrament of Baptism fue conslstent with tho doctrinal slandard of o Presby. . terian Chirclt; thiat {s to,sny, ho upeaks fifppantly of $nfupt bapthem, ind, In tho seriaon above mentloned, ‘usos the following words: . **Tho nations swalt, with toarn of past Aorrow, a roliglon, thnt skall indecit Lape tizemion and children, eithor oF both, but, countin, this 8a only -a.bewutiful form, bl fako the souls o 1uon Iuto thio atmosphera of Jestis.” Speciflcation ieelfth—1io s used langusgo in reaipoct {o Penolopo and Socrates, which fs uuwarrant= ablo 1nd contrary to the teachiugs of the Confession of Falth, chop. X, § 4, that {3 tosay, in his sorman entitlod, #iou Culture” thofollowiug pussagoocours : * Therd 18 no doubt-tho notorious Gathorino_ 11, bold more truts and bottor fzuth thao wae kmown to all clsalo Greoto—hold ton bolief in n Suvior, of whoso glory that gifted Jand knew nouglt; and yot, such ia tho grandeur of coul shava mind ' thut I dobt ot thut uoon Tenclopo, o tho durk. land, snd the doubting oortes . Tolind ot loavints ntas swator wol come, nung of angols, thian grested tho ear Of Russia’ Deilliant but falro-lived Quet, » 2 Spectfieation I'hirteenth~In & sormon prenched on or nlbflllt ]5’"].\ B(-pleldulmr, 1373, anl?nm 1. Poter fil, 9, ho Tande uso of looss and unguarded lauguago ros il frovidoues of God. : ; UL EoApsoLing Succhication Fourteonth—In n sormon_ proach tho Aul(n]lnuon of tho Raov, Arthur HWflZIg' D, 5 pastor of (ho Ashland Aventio Presbyteriun Ghuret, in tbo fl“f' of Ohicago, ho repudiated tho fdeaof n Diving ::ll to ;ln:;\;:h;rly, m“‘llwngs{ll‘ l:I‘ml.’flm miniatry, like o profession of lutv and medicing, 16 (ho ua e OF cire At teou, gy 18 Huo ustutal oul. ‘Syecification 1fleenth—TTa his mado falso and mise Teading statoments respecting the Okl Testament snce at s .xifices, that § to say, In tho sormon, entitled “A Rtoe Tiglon of. Words," io apeaks of tho fforceaid sacrifice ol RgIEE worslith ™ mid s Lo followiug g sitaiine langiugo s * Gifts to tho Deily woro the fnfant crecpe inga of roligion ; tho shadow of a comiug roality, tha anifeating of our inciplont dove that did not: knog i {0 osprosedack, not knowing Uit it God nionl inhed wa o puto Léutt iu Iachilaron, ey louded owel e T and raiient, and Hia pecification Sixteenth—In tho sormons ‘afoross roliglon 3a ropresonted ne mysticlem, whibh i ‘yalues tho evidouces of rovoalod religidns pud tho dis. |m{mamnn doctriucs of Cliclstiunity; that 18 to say, tiat in the sormon proackiod on 116 bocasion of fhe th of Jobu Bluart Mill, abavo referrad to, and in ior aormons, tho foliowlng and similar lnngnago oce iw: SThat Dr, Mill did not accapt tho orthodoy ercod fanot what a liberal world nood rogrot tho woat, but tiat o sovealud littlo of (o roligious acntiment ol hops, 8 what wp must confess to Lo & shadow upon his mmuur{. Victor Cousln, of Franco, was tha wival of Stuart Mill In wisdom, in 'gonius, fu intolloct ; and 50 Guizot, Theéo threa Woro hlmilar and atriks ingly great, - But the two latter possoesed tho powor of sautimont," Thet golden etmosphoro of lave sud koo, that Langs sround religlon, euveloped Victor Cously Price Collior, and that - . S