Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. The Able Minister of the New Testament. The Rev. M. J, Savage on “‘The Truth About Sunday.” Mr. McChesnoy Explains the Position of the Bible Regarding Wine. Br. Locke Is Opposed to Crusading- What Is Woman's Work. Rabbi Kohler Tells the Mission of the Jowish People. A Jewish Confirmation. “THE ABLE MINISTER OF THE NEW TESTAMENT."” Sormon by tho Rov. H. N. Powors, of St John's Episcopal Church, The Rev. H. N. Powers, D. D, proached yos- tordoy morning at Bt. Jolin's Episcopal Church o sormon on tho pastoral offao, of whioh tho following is n full xoport : ‘Who also hath mado ua ablo minstors of tho Now Tostamcut; not of the lotter, but of the spirite—I1, Corinthians, fif,, 6, are diversitica of gifts, but tho samo Now thero eplrit.—1, Corinthians, afi, . Tho Obristian minlstry is a nocessary out~ growth of tho Christlan religion. Tho intorosts of Christianity require a staff of duly-quaiified ©expononts, who shall dovoto thomselvea to its sorvico and promulgation. Thoir commission coming from Ohrist, snd tho sphoro of their employmont being the oxtension of His King- dom, tho more nearly. thoy resomble Him in character and mothod, tho more offectually must thoy sot forward what Ho camo to nccomplish, Theroe oan ba no highor ideal in religion than tho life and servico of tho Lord Himsolf, and for one, I will have no dobato with thoso who think thoy find in the Bible or tho Church something more oxcellont and binding than Christ's own works ond examples. It ds truo that all or- genizod bodies ocomprising tho universal Church bave the right to deofino the quatifications and fix the requiroments of such a8 they ehiall ordain to sorve at their rospective altars, and theso bodles, by virtue of their com- nct, can biold such ministors amonabla to the nws aud provisions of their ordination. Iam not now engaged on n discussion of the authori- 1y of religious bodies, and the limitations of rainistorinl sorvico respecting them, but of the ‘vital cloments that mako tho ministry most offi- ciont, 'L'haro i8 & view far wider than that which ia ‘bounded by formal complinnces, and ono which connot bo included in the moro lotter of ccclosinsticn]l confosslon, It involves the iden of tho largest _ helpfulnoss to humanity,—a servico that goos doopest in its influoncoon the spiritual nature, and which insures thoanost glorious results in actual life, The question bofore us will not now be involved in such incucs na tho expediency of cortain re- ligious instrumentalitics, or tho ndvantage and superlority of a cortain polity and manufacturod formuluries, It is what sort of mimstry is most truly Christian ; is doing most really Christ's work, and sotting forward His Kingdom. Tho two flelds 1 which tho minister of Christ labors are tho pastorate and the pulpit. Itisa raro thing to excel in both, ovon if he is equally udapted to onch. For extromo devotion to pas- toral work takes timo from neceseary studies, and, by oxcessive seclusion for study, ho ia tao much cut off from personal and sympathetic in- tercourso with his poople, Tho two must go lazgoly togather in tho most offectual ministry, bat, 08 wo shall seo, it is tho man in both casos that dotermines the rescit. ‘Tho relations of the pastoral offica aro peculiarily {ntorosting, aud thero is no sphere of lifo whero ono's porsonal gifts and graces moy be. moro Lighly in- fluentinl and usoful than in this, Tho wery rolation that the pnator sustains to the peo- plo makos domand for tho rarost qualitien of onaracter. Without sympathy, humility, unsolf- ishnosg, forbearance, love, ho cannot orve with 2 noblo devotion ; and if_he bo lacking in intog- rity, courange, independenco, purity, and a knowledge of mankind, he will fail to wicld tho influenco noceesary to large success. It is not the mere going from house to houss with punc- tual regularity, nor the doxtrous mansgement of the various parochial instrumentalitics, that makos one's pastorate valuable, Something far more is needed than an aminblo partioipn~ tion in socinl amenities, or a grawity that checks tho looseness of frivo!llfi. Tho pastor who sorves best must bo one in whom atl can confido, in whom all can find sympathy, wWith ‘whiom all can tako gracious counsel in the vari~ ous crises of their doepest experience. Ho must know how to receive the erring, and how to appeal to tho obdurate ; how to caution, and hovw to conkole ; bow to encourage, and how to commaud, Ho must bo abloto onterinto tho faclings of youth, and to appreciato the trials ond burdons of age ; one whom both the wise and the i‘;namnl can rovere, and who, with much of Christ's tondernese, and pationce, and purily, and insight, can make the hearts that trust him with their eing and sorrows feol lighter, and stronger, and richer, booause thoy sesm gotting nearer to Christ Himself. The ingredient of such a power to help is character, and it is ono that cannot bo manu- factured, It cannot be taught in seminarios ; it is not gnined by fino manners; it is o gathered from books, It is God-given, and fur- nished and enriched by the gracious epirit, Of courso all personsal accomplishments enbanco tuo attractiveness and usofulucss of such a charaoter, but still its busis and power aro the love and wisdom ond sanctity that reveal the in- dwolliug Lord, But it is of the minister in his P\lbflu attér- ance that I wish more particularly to spoak. ‘We bhonr a°good donl sbout ablo ministers, learned minsters, eloquont ministors, but whal ‘malos tho most "usotal ministor i the fullness with which he oxprosses Jesus Christ, By this I do not mean those who declaim moat londly about the dootrines that have boon, einco primitive times, thought out by mon and secribed to him., Ido not mean those who are most devoted to the maintenanco of a systom that geta strength by sacerdotal claim and pre- rogative. Idonot mean those who use most 1roquently tho boloved name, and hurl most pas- sionntely their invectives against all who do not -omploy their shibboleths, and Wuofl: thoir sym- bols, “But I mean, by oxprossing Christ, suoh a gé“hmm of His lovelinoes as shall win souls im—such _» manifestation of His spirit a3 shall moften and oaptivato and ivspirc human Learts and make them feel thowr brotherhood, and seryo each other io love. Imonn such a proolamation of Chirist's truth, suoh & portrayal of His esorifico, such a rovolation of His rolationship, such a demonstration of His ovorlasting sympathy, and charity, and grace, a8 shall be nearcst like the blessed roality, aud so most penotrating to the deopest senso of our hnman want and need, most affecting to the heart, and of mightiest in- fluenco to move and bless us, It s to cr on Chrlst's work that wo are sent to minister, and that is to make mon holy, and truo, and Lappy, and, in a word, Cbristlike. A ronewal aud re- l?nluhmout ore neoded af the very core of cing. Lifo asks for a gracious supply at its secrot and sightless depthy,—an inspiration wherostart the factors of all spiritual onorgy and growth. Humanity in its sing and gorrows yearns for a blessed resoue, for a liboration from ovil thralls, for sympathy and comfort, and an uplmmfi toa brighitor sky and o bettor path, and to an abiding possosalons, In their dark unrost thoir lossos, and paing, and disappointmonts, and guilt, mon do crave ministry that can go down to their deep ost necessitios, and up to tho height of thoir toftiest anpirations ; that ean meet thom in their doily worries aud afllictions with & joyous bopo .and an_{nspiring promise, and & discovery of the Eternal good, And, #o, whoever can reach mon as Christ did, so that in tho sight of the Divino thoy renounco their basor solves, and follow him, a4 if all things wero now ; who- over can persuade mento bo more loving, more true, mora gonorous towards each other, more xovoront toward thomselves ; whoever oau help souls to beliove that tho Lternallove condae- scond to thom, and in their faith become child- liko and ponitont, and oarnest in the puranit of tho heavouly viston 1 whoover cun got hearts togother in holy friendubip that brings swoetnoss, and " gontlenoss, and purlts smong men; whoover, amld dark hesetmout, | can shiow men the olow to light and liberty, and in {heir burdons and bereavowonts, and paralyz- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 20, , 1874, e e e ing ekopticism, can mako the graco of God so vivid to tho consclousnoss aa to movo that to duty and virtuo of faith on pationt wailing for the Lord—ho lt 18 that i5 most abundant In the worlc and power of tho minlutry, _But thoro is n groat doal to do. 16 pastoctly, oniy Nofesendo . partially and {n domonstration of tho Spl doos nak como Just bocanso so . many approved words aro spokan, or just such Lestimonios aro recited, or just such n{uynlty [0 announced. What la powerful and poraunsive hine to flow out of life, Cbrist, and to Him is tho glory duo, This is tho only pricstly power thnt iz effootual. A following may bo ssoured by anyoue who lg shrowd onough'to work upon mon's foars or projudicon, or solf-intorost, Lmt it is quito an= other thing to bogot n passion for tho holy and heayonly, n divine discontont that onnobles whilo it nbinsoa, bafora the fnoffablo God, to win Aouls to go_forwnrd in the li&ht whero thelr sonsuall~ tios, and hardnoss, and intolorance and greedaro moro and moro put away, and lifo geta more suushino and swootnoss, and tho confldonce of & gmm liope, that anchors ono to henyen. 1t s, 8ay, o groat thing to holp mon to bo true, an purg, and charitablo, and juas, to recoguize tholr birturight, and to live in the cou- sclousnass of thelr olosonoss to tho Diving and tho imporishable, ~ At best, thero onn be but artial succoss; yotitis n gloxions thing to fool bt ho is continulng Christ’s worlk right along, ovon vfllol:?l\ foobly, and that somo do soo and underatand tho apirit and mothods of tho Lord. But snothor aspoct of the uubljunt nceda our consideration. As thoro are varietios of roligi- ous eapuelty and exporionce, so there is neod for & varloty of ministrations, No man is porfoct, howoyer groat hisgifts or ploty, andsono onocan sorvo all souls equally well. While it is truo that all nocd & common Savlor aud sanctifier, it fs just ns trmo that oxactly tho samo afylo and monsure of worvice {8 not fitted for oall. You would mnot, .of course, expeot the child to bo taught oxnotly s tho mnn is in- structod, and those who carry the Gospol to tho untutored sayago have to use difforont mothoda from thoso employed in our long-sstablished churches, Providing for the soul iz something like proyiding suitablo subsistonce for tho body. All need food, for the object of food {8 to nu[y- port lifo and recruit strongth. Yotsome groatly profor ono kind to anothor, and tho coustitution of some roquires what othors do not orave, or ovon rplish, Because I cen subsist on o diot of bacon and Indian meal, I have no rliht to inaist that my delicato friond must do so likewigo; and bocauso you liko 3’uur mont raro, you nro not- to conclude that tho proforouco id unusunl. In matters of religion there aro annlogous tastes and conditions, aud yot somo inslst that the kind of ministration that nourish- o8 thom would bo equally well for all ; bocauso ono pastor is Euulmnd for their caso ho ia snited to all mankind, That epiritual nourlshmont is Dbeat which foeds tho hungry soul, bost, and makes thio noblost Obristian nanhood. Wo want the Gospol ; tho Gospol is cssontial, but tho G“Iml of Olirist, and not of Mr, Digot, or Mr. Smith, or Mr. Croamcheess, or Mr. Bluolight. Ho who can givo the largost measure of the Gospel is, of courso, its best exponent, and yot two persons of uqnnfi oty mny bave difforent roferonces. But thisis no disparagemont of the ruth, nor of him who proclaims it, It is nover snfo to judge from the mere interest that sooms to bo manifested in the stated ministrations of tho churchos of the aum of the good thatis nc- complished. Thoro aro many epiritual pulpits with crowded pows, and also” many with cmpty ones, Thoro aro 'churohes, too, whero Ohrist is but slightly honored that ' nro over- flowing, ane others of the . same kind with tho thionost nttondanco, Howovor anomalous this may soom, it doos not Lear an unfavorablo witnoss to tho fack that tho vitalitios of tho roligion of Clrist are potentia), aud of universal 1ntorest and valuo to the soul, Bubif wo allow the diversity of human capacity and character, womust also allow that some aro Dottor sufted to ministor to excoptionnl cases thau othors can bo, nnd that, too, without tho -donial of any truth that is given for graco and life. It i domonstratod as clearly as anything can be that some have power to dis- close Ohrist to n greater portion of a given number than others, and that some 1ill & placo In tho Cbristian, ministry that none elso 1ill 8o woll. Thero aro illustrations of this in our own and in other countrios, whero, aftor you eliminate all that appeals to denominational sympathies, and all that is due to the influonce of examplo, ouriosity, or fashion, or ail theso togother, you cannot explain the condition, un~ Jess you attributo it to such a disclosure of the Lord as is powerful to win, and com(lort, and control. DBat becausoe this is 80, bocause othors ure won to Christ, fed, encouraged, made brotherly, loyers of the good, dutiful disciplos, through &, ministry that you do not prefer, thero should bo rojoicing instond of compluint, gratitude to tho Lord of Life, and not regrot. To be envious of achurch becauso it is attractive to so many ‘who there learn to believe and pray, and because 80 graclous o light shines out of it, is & fooling that does not come from above, ‘but from below. Thoro are divorsities of ;;mu, ‘but the same spir- it differoncos of administrations, but tho samo Lord. All who sorve mustsorve accordiug to tbeir sovoral abilities, and to just this moasuro of sorvico are they called. If'I wora to try to apo this ong, because somobody is pleased by his stylo, or that ono to suit anothor, tho rosult would be & ridiculous burlesque thab would proporly offond all. I only do offectually what, in my propor porsonality, I am fitted to do. It 1is 8o with others, and 80 a far vaster number aro ministered to than if all who aro sot to proclaim tho Gospol would do o just alike. To bring all to uso tho enme language, the samo mothods ; to think, seo, and feel and ack alike is impossiblo, and contrary to tho diversitics of nature. . One oloment of strongth in the Roman Church is the way that all talonts, charac- tors, éma, nccnmg\llthoms, are utilized, tho' Ohurch finding a placo. for the Borvice of all, howover great the idlosyncrasy, or the antagonism of porsonality in type or taste. It is from tho varioty in nature, each thing fit- tin% its nppropriato place, that comes the com- plofest wnity. In realily theso difforences of ‘ministrations by the am spirit, and to tho glory of the same Lord, makes it boat for the furthor~ anco of tho Gospol, One shows impressively tho swoetnoss of Cbrist, another his soverity ; ono awakons by :the cross pungont conviction, ond anothor the most ~joyous _ zeal; one draws the multitudo by o sight of his painful sacrifico, and anothor by his tonder sympathies ; oune inspires foar that compela obadionce which finally lonrns tho way of love, and another teaches love that makes duty from the boginning a delight. Thero aro those who win bfl their eloquence, and those who conquor by their prayers; those who are mighty in sacrod learning, and those who are mlfi'hl.y through their sanctified affoctions, ut beeausg of il this, thero nood be no dis- cord. Indeed, thedo are like the einglo notes of tho organ, or of the scparate instrumonts of an. orchostra. We do mot got tho grand offeot till their straine are oll ‘poured out together. United, there is hormony, swoot, and noble, and majestio. In the varied miniatrios of his sorvants, God hears the whole ; and what to us seems so incomploto in the great chorus of humanity may be moro accoptable to Him, 'We can only roceive as our littlo earthly vessols will admit. Only lot us bo. “faithful to our light, and obedient to the epirit of the Master. But ot us not arrogato monop- oly of tho Gogpel. Iatand aghsst nt tho com- placoncy that declarcs, “All is known and formulated, and is mine.” It fs as if ono- familiar with his gerden or diminutive farm should smy, The infinito universe is all open to my gazo‘—suns and systoms, and stellar abysses, depth under depth, an hieaven over heaven, all_the sphery grandours, and the flaming splendors, the inconcoivable movemont, and the limitless glory,—all are com- Fruhnndud aud held in my finito grasp. We ara aught the way of blessedness in the loving and dying Bavior, and can ever loarn of Him, But- who shall faffiom tho natura and counsols of tho Almighty ? anp{l for uslif, with 8t. Paul, wo can 6ay, * But wo havo the mind of Ohriut.” It 80, we shall rojoico in Ilisloye, in ourselves, ;mnl in othors, for thisisthe fulfilingof tho 8w, ——— THE TRUTH ABOUT SUNDAY, Sermon by the Rtev, M, J. Buvage. . Yostordsy morning tho Rov. M. J, Savago, pas-- tor of the Thisd Unitarian Church, corner of Laflin and Paulins streots, proached the follow- ing scrmon, taking as his toxt: Tot no man, thereforo judgo you . o » inrospect s+« tbe Babbath,—Col, 1i,, 16, Lvon whon they havo no adequate reason back of them to givo thom vitality, usages and ocus- toms dio hard. And it js both natural and health- 2ul that it should bo so, I havo no fault to find with the law of progrosa. Tho prosont has its roots in all tho past. Thore is, and can bo, no suoh thing as breaking witli tho old, and making absolutely new begluninge, We aro the product of yoaterday, and the malkers of to-morrow, Ho the mont - distant leroafter must be forover linked to tho most ancient primevil, I hiave, Iuny, no fault to find with this law.’ No more have I any fault to find with the flowing of & mountaln stream. But it T wish to utilize ita power, I may oloar out, or obstruot, its chan« nol, or aven altor its bod, o dong, I do nob intorfors with tho law of its flow, but rather con- form to and corporato with it, “‘‘hus, thongh I hava no fault to find with the stroam of human prowress. and believe that It movou aftet the or- i an exprossion of | | or thought of, and have attompted dor of n dlving lnw, yot our,bummn’ intolligonco ‘and humaa will may modity, may hasten or ro- - Aard Ik T would put to it no rash hand. {But when *‘the thing that hath beon™ atands .in tho wny of aomot} ugi bottor that might bo, I would romova it out of tho woy. Iaoatwuo Inak yonr's corn-stalks were indisponsablo to lInst yonr's cropa, I wonld hardly lob thom staud, un- pightly and black, in tho way. of this yosr's rowth, Plow them unidor the soll, and lot thelr leath nouriah the new life. ‘Tho traditional Bunday {8 n th[ufz hallowed snored in tho honrta of thousanda, It stands to thom for all that ia sivootoat in old-timo nerooin~ tlon, nnd fullost frolghtod with hope for the future. It {8 tholr “' ark” In'tho wildernoss that carries all their holy ombloms, And though ¢ might monn littlo o me, yot I would not touch it with, what thoy might doom, a sncrilogious hand, un- loss Impolled by n yot more sacrod motive. But whon tho u:glug of Jesus gots rovorsed, and is mado to rond, * Man was made for the Sabbath," then It 1s timo that tho protonsions of an inatl- tution bo looked into, and tho truth be told. Tour wooks nga to-day a courso of Bundny Af- tornoon Locturas was startod in tho oity, Its gumnne inoluded locturoes on educational, sclon= 10, soolal, industrial, flnancial, and politieal toples. Whntover can instruck, clovato, aud holp man comioa within {ts scope. It was in- tondod to roach tho masses, and help them to n bottor understanding and practice of tho irue personal, soolal, and political lifo, ‘I'he movemont at onco attrroted tho attantion ond suspicion of tho ohurohly clomonts of the city, And in the ministors’ mooting of ona of tho largost aud strongest of our donominations ithas beon frooly oritiolzod, and, by many, soverely condemned. Not, by sny means, that thoy would objoct = fo instruo- tivo loofures on tho aforomentioned topics, but thn'.thn{ uostion tho Uhrlstianity, tho proprioty, the right, of giving such lcoturcs on * tho firat'day of tho weok,” just as, in the timo ot Josus, tho Jows had no objection to tho hoaled man's uurzylmi‘ his bod, but he must not do it * on tho Babbath." . In view of these things, It seoms to nic s fit- llu{ timo to traco.tho quostion of tho origln and history of tho dny, and let the facts speak for us ns to whatis proper and right to bo done upon it Bo tar ns intolligent pooplo aro concerned, it uught( by this time, to be sottled as to whother {t 18 *“Inwful to do good on the Sabbath Day.” There are thousands who do not know tha facts, Thoro are othor thousands whoso roligious projudico forbids them to accept thom ; and thousands more who, though freo from the suporatition of the day, ara not ablo to renson- ably oxplain and dofond thoeir freedom. That 1 may do what Ican to et tha mattor right, I H‘mpoaa for my eubjoct this morningy “iftho ‘ruth Concerning Sunday.” Itis n[;ulnrly claimed that the dny was insti- tutod at the crention, roaflirmod In tho glving of the law at Mouunt Binai, suthoritatively changed {rom tho soventh to tho first day ab tho Introduc- tlon of Ohristianity, and continued unimpaired inita authority until to-day. And it Is furthor claimod that it bae always boon Divinoly sot apart to what are konown technically ns ** ro- ligious” ocoupations. Thero may seem tobo a touch of nudacity in my making the assertion -that not a singlo one” of theso claims has sny substantisl bosis: and yet I hold that nothing loss than this iu the trath. And my oponing statomont, that traditional usagos and oustoms aro hard-lvod things, finds wignal illustration just bore. ¥or **orthodoxy” holds, and repoats, and ra-repents hor elnim, giving its utteranco through paper and pulpit and tract, right in tho faco of the expliolt statoment of her own best authoritios to thacontrary, Dr. Smith's groat Bible Dictionary, tho recognized standard of the so-clled ‘ ovangelioal ™ chiurclios, either by diroct assortion or by implication, admita overy point that I would olnim, Is it not thena 1itt!o romarlkablo, {hat auy freor use of tho day than prejudico and traditlon rllow should be ;nut?\mh acousations of sacrilogo and frrelig- lon Whatover ' quentionable intimations may any- whore bo found of a woekly division of time, thera is no sufliciont rorson for aumi:)!lng ot tho Babbath had an oxistonco bofore the oxodus, Dr, Bmith says that tho claim for the S8abbath bofore tho time of Mosos rests, at best, on “a procarions foundation,” Tho arguments usod on the otber side aro oither frivolous or sophis- tioal, Porhaps tho strongost ouo_is that do- rived from the closing words of the Fourth Com- mandmont, whero Johovah is roprosented as basiug tho command tho six days’ lnbor of cren- tion and tho soventh of rest. But it iz quito cortain that this resson must have been an aftorthought of the writer, TFor wo now know that thoe wholo iden of the six daya’ croation is ouly a tradition or ‘o myth. And further, this roason ig contradioted by the one given in the ather copy of the Ten Commandments, found in Doutoronomy. IHero it saya: Because “thou wast o sorvant in the'land of Egypt, and the Lord, thy God, brought them out thonco—thore- fore tho Lord, thy God, commanded thee to keop the Sabbath day.” And, onoo more, Jesus denies the wholo idon of God's resting on tue Sabbath; for, in dofonse of somo work of his own on that day, o says, ** My Fathor workath hitherto, and I'worls.” But, without sponding more time on the origin of the day, lot us glance atthe mannor of its observanco. Were it not that mon are governed g0 littlo by renson and so much by tradition and oustom, it would bo a -standing marvel that the “Puritan Sabbath™ could havo maintained its footing g0 long, or ever gained it ab tho first, Neither tho Biblo nor history givo.tho lonst par- ticlo of countenance to the originating or keep- ing of any such day. It is commonly ssid that the Puritana lived much ju the 014 Testamont, and that thuB thoy went back -and revived the Jowieh Babbath: | But nothing is farther from the truth. They revived nothing; for there was nothing to bo revived. There 18 no botter au- thority on thia subject than the Inte Emnnuel Doutsch. Let me quote from him a fow words : “We cannot rofrain from entoriug an omphatio groionh against thoe vulgar notion of the ‘Jowish wbbath’ baing o thing of grim austerity., It was procisoly the contrary, s ‘day of joy and dolight,’ o * forst duy,’ honored by fine garmonts, l’{ the' bost choer, by wino, lights, spico, au obher joys of pre-eminently bodily import.” It was o doy of visiting, the moeting of friends, fonuting, hos{wltnllty, nnd good choer. Nothing like our roligious sorvices was originally hold— only the nuummu(-{ morning and evening saori- fices wero doubled. Aud horo lot mo romark, it Is vory noteworthy that thoso swho aro most stronuous in their pur- poss of basiug tho observance of Sunday on the fourth commandment apparently never think of such a thing a8 keoping it, What does it ro- uire? Bimply and only cossation ot Inbor. d censing from labor, aftor the lottor of the commaud, is what thoy nover do. While, on the other hand, thoy bave gone to work and fn- ventad a ywholo systom of things o bo dono and rofrained from-that tho old legisiator never heard to mako these obligatory on the strongth of a command- ‘ment that knows nothing about them, Thoy at- tempt to honor their Jewish master by noglect- ing tho one thing ho bids them do, sod doiog o wholo round of things of which Lo saya nothing. The Jewish Sabbath then was more like tho Now, England Thunksfiiv!ng Day than other with which we aro practically ncquainted, whilo the Puritan Sabbath is a8 romote from any rosem- b}a}c? to it as 1t ia from being like tho Fourth of July. \V'l.\n{ now about tho pmflmlu!ty of tho day and its transforenco in aposiolio times and by apoa- tolic authority from the soventh to tho first day of tho weok? What proof is thore that such o tranaforence was over mnde? Not only is thoro nouo aball, but thero is conclusive proof the othor way, TheNew Testamont contaius noithor rocord nor hint of nu{ word Sabbath ocours it alwaya roters to the Jowish institution; and this, so far from boing adopted, and mado pox"lputnnl. is _expressly, and in torms, abrogated, and_doelared no_ longor binding on tho Christian Church, It, along with other ordi- uances, is ever, uuuhclui;lyrurarmdto: and those who would mnke it obligatory ara charged with desiring to_entanglo ina new bondage thoso whom tho Gospol Liad made freo, Apart from the ncoounts of tho rosurreotion of Jesus, the *¢ first dny of tho weok is mentioned but thrao timos, aud the “Lords Day" only onco in the Now ‘Testamont ; and in nofther of thoso caos 1s thoro oven o hint of transforence, or command, or obligation, ‘What now is tho voico of history? When tho Ohurch was organized, thoro immodiately aroso anatural division_betweon tho Jows and tho Gontiles, or outelde "nations, The formor, re- garding Ohristianity only os tho outgrowth and completion of Mosaism, tonaciously clung to the. Mosnlo observancos and ritual, aflirming, * Un- loss yo keep the law of Moses yo cannot bo soved:” But Pauland his party, roprosenting tho great body of the convorts from henthenism, rojected all this, and preachod salvation through fuith In Obrist alone, Aftor a protractod con~ troversy, thoy compromised onthoe basisof o !nllawnh\p that should leavo oach faotion froe to follow higs own conyolonco in the matter, Thus, thon, things stood for 800 yoars, Tho Judnizing party kept tho Sabbath, along with tho otlior Mosnio ordinauces, Aud, at the snmo timo, they obsorved the firat day of Lhe wook in commemoration of the resurrection. — Tho Paulin pu'li, nogleoted tho Subbath on- tirely, on( iuinm - with thoir brothren in {ho oelobration of the ®Lords Day.” Dut thoy nover taught or supposod that the * Lord's Day " was the *‘Sabbath,” or even' that they Liad any nocossary conuootion with each other. It was nover called tho Bablath, uor kept as tho Babbath, It was not forbidden to walk, or drive, or eat, or dvink, or fonst, or such thing. Wherovertho | work, or play, Only tho custom grow of maoot- ing \ilpnn t in tholr roligiona’ nesombllos, 'and of ; making 1In tho onrly part of tho fonrth contury' tho’ Emporor Constantine—n vory quostionnble kind) . of Clirlsilon, sud no vory gront suthority. on. Ohristian _obgorvances, by’ the way—issuod an_ odict prohibiting judicial proceedings on the first: day al tho wéok. But . this, as Dr, Smith ob- wotves, was probobly from a dosire to put upon the Chriatinn fostival au bonor equal to that in whioh tho hoathon daya hied boon held, rathor than out of any rogard for the Jowish Sabbath’| or tho Fourth Uommandmont, : ? And horo Jot mo pausa in my statomont of facts long enouglh to conflrm my Hnulflon by tho silenco of the Now ‘Testament, and by the condi- tion of tho early Otristiana. Thore isno ron-, sonablo possibility of bolloving that auy spocinl “kun{:lnq " of tho firet dsy of tho woek could: have boon rogavded s b[nding. Considor tho monning of the Now Teatamont's sllonco, Horo aro churches just out of hoathonism, The keoping of any such a day 18 foreign to thel ! wholo atylo of thought and maunor of lifo, thoy nooded {natruction un{\vhuru 1t would be’ hero. It thoy woro linble tomistakeor failuroany- whore it would bo hiore, Aud yet, in all tho opis« tlos, tho matter s novor alluded to, Hero are’ full and dotailod instrictions ou allothor polnts of Chriatian dootrine and digcipline, Yot it is novor. lintod that this is o dootrine, or that horo is any’ 1lubility to failure in disciplino, The Christinn virtues sro doscribod in dotnil; but Babbath or, Bundny kooping is never onoof thom, Tho vicos and sins are catalogued; but Sabbath-broaking 18 novor ona_of thom, Tho Colossian Christiang nro ox‘pwnaly rolonsod from tho *Babbnth™ obligation; but it is not ndded: Though you' neod not keop the Jowish. Babbath, you must kua&) the Ohirigtian Liord's Dny.. Considering tho linbility of misconceiving its nature, and how dif- fleult jt Lias beon to maintain ita obsorvance in thosa lator years, it is simply inconcoivable that Puul ahould nover have spolon of it, nor given any dirootions concerning it, had ho occupied the * Lyangolieal " standpoint tn rogard to it, And then thore is auothor considoration that is, if possiblo, more conclusive #till. Tho ocarly Christian conturies wore .conturics of froquent orsecution. Whole years wera ondurod. ywhon 0 bo known to be a disoiple of tho COrucified, in' cortaln rogions and citios, wastodlo. And durlng all thoso years it waa tho bonst of the Church thab tlm{rhml socrot adheronts in avery corner of tho empire. From tho peasants in tho flolds, up through all ranks of sooloty, to the officors of the army and tho houschold of Cmear's self, thore wero bellovors. Had they beon roquired to keap sacrod from smusomont and worl auy ono day In the soven it would have beon, always and cortain oxposure and death, And yob amid all tho monns by whish thoy were dotected, this wns nover ono, - There is no traco of thoew havin, tried to keep it, or oven of their hnvlulg offere any apology for not having tried. submit, there 18 no possible way of explaining this on the “ovangolical ' basis. Lot us now pnes on with the history. ¥rom Constantine down to the Roformation of tho six- toenth contury, the Lord's Day waa the Loly day of the Churell, Rules and regulations concorn~ ing it multiplied; but the claim was nevor ad- yanced that thoy found their authorityin the Now Testnment. It was only tho Church muk- ing her own laws. But the day never lostite oharnotor as o fostival; and, offor tho mass, or the church-goryico of Whatover kind, tho paoplo woro novor forbidden to enjoy themsolves. L Even Calvin and Lnther would to-day bo sub- jocted to digoipline by the vory churclies that aro called by tholr namos, for their **looso™ and ‘contiuontal” practicos on ‘“tho Babbath,” Noithor of them hesitated to ongage in athlotio sports on Sundny afterncon. Noithor of them ‘confounded the Lora’s Day, or Sunday, with the' Babbath, And thero is no good ronson, historio or. otherwige, for our using tho word Sabbath at all a8 synonomous with Bunday. It is is'entirely anothor day in nrlfiln, slgnificanco, and manner of obsorvance. Tho custom first aroso with thoe Beotch and Engliah Puritans : g0 that the Pu- ritan Sabbath,” both the name and tho thing, originated in the sixteenth contury, and was nover bofore heard of. ‘Tho Jowish Sobbath, thon, was simply and only Jewish, It has nover beon binding on the Olnstiau Church. . Thoso who hnve choson to koep it have dono go_in obedienco to their ‘own will, not the will of God. The first day of the weolk is & day of memorial, voluntarily set apart by the early Church in honor of its found- or, Ithes justthat forco and authority that thero is in tho romson and the use of it,~no more. Tho Puritan Sabbatl, a8 a day of rostric- tion and austerity, hns for ila sutliority only o mistalen zonl thnk enbatitutod itaown inventions for a " Thus snith the Lord,” ‘Would I, thon, abolis the day? No. Would 1 adopt the * Continontal Bunday"”? No. What would Tdo? I will auswer: @ However porverted, and through whatover misooncoptions, the day has como'to us as a pro- clous lagacy of tho past, I would thanlkfully no- copt it and mako tho most of it, Becauso X iu- | herit a fortune from my ancestors, I am not thorefore bound to their theories of financa, nor their mothods of ncoumulating., Whatevor dofl- nitions thoso torms may have recoived, Sunday has gtood for physical rost, and the oultivation of tho higher part of man. Resorving tho right to defino what I moan by rest, nu:l how it aball bo taken, what I moan by the higher wants of man, nud how ihey ato to bo mat, I_would say that, in all the future, Sunday should stiil staud for'these. I would take away its supornatural protonsions,—or, rathor, sLow that they aro un- founded,—because these tic the world down to ceremonies and routine, and hinder the right use and dovolopmont of the day. 1t has, then, slmply.a natural basis in tho nature and neods of man, Our life is rhythmical in its motion, Summer nnd winter, day and night, are movements of the universo to which the xh{thm of our lives is sot. We cannot disre- gord these lnwa with Xmlmultg. And, just as we noed special hours in each - day for rest, so ex- orienco hrs domonatratod -that man is the _bottor for o specinl day of rest in esch week, And this voico of exporionco is the voico of Nature, which is the voico of God. Hero would I ground the day. And though hore is suficiont renson for its observanco, yet tho law is floxible and fluid, yielding to occasions and adapting itaolf to oiroumstances. This mokes it man’s sorvant, not, his master. 1 wounld have tbis physical noed ono pillar of its support. As the othor piilar, I would sotup tho novestity for loisuro to sttend to msn's highor neods, As n mon might exist without baving any particular hour for his meals, 80, of courag, ho could got nlon§ without any sob timo in which to givo haed to, train, and dovelop that in him which Is super-phvsical. But, asin the one onso, hie would probably be ill-fed, and suffer from dorangemont of hig bLodily system, so almost cortainly would a like train of conse- quoncos follow in his highor lifo, But what would I include undor the head of physieal rest, and how would I nourish the higher lifo ? The answer to this will indicate my conception of thoe proper method of Bunday observanco. e e Ang, here T would say that I know of, and could recognize, no law in the matter, but tho Inw of human oonvenienco and well-belng. Whatovor will help mon, is holy enough to bo done; aud all that legal stafutos can justly claim in the matter is the right and duty of rrutootlng overy citizen in bis rights and libor- fes. Theso rights and llbertios belng dolined to be whatover ho chooser to thiuk, or act, or be, that doos not {ntorforo with the rights sud libor: ties of any other. May ghyalenl Iabor bo Purmrmud thonon s Bunday? Most certainly, if thore is any necos- sity forit. Though it is'a duty that each owos to himeolf, and to others, to belp in keoping it snered to rost; becauso it is nooded as such. Nay men jomrnoy ona Sunday? If thero is any noed of it, thoy may; and that eithor In stoam- cars, or horee-cars, or buggy, or on fool, May men ride or walk for pleasuro on & Bunday? They moy ; elthor on tho streot, to the park, tho Iuke-shore, or the woods. And if they onnnat find moro of Gad, of truth, of instruction, of nigh stimulua in churol than in thoso placos, thoy should soarch for God aud truth whichovor way they boolon, Blaymon visit and cultivato sooloty on & Sunday? They may, And if they would give the morniug to ‘church, to thought, to prayor, I boliove it would bo oven an advan- tnge to go back to the Old Tostament idea. If tho latter half ot tho day wore given to visiting, uonvorslm}, oulturo, and choer, it would ben groat galn over our presont mothod. A port of {t might bo devotod to visiting aud help- ing tho slok and the poor, to Eutflng n practico tha morning Gospol. 1 think no truer ploture of solfishness could be paintod than that of vaut throngs of the wealthy and eultured going’ twico n du{ to thelr luxurions churchos to bo® thrllled with eloquonce, and tickled with rhetor- i, and soothed with wong, while the groat mngges of mon are without, ntnrvln{; in body, starving in brain, and starving in soul. And 8t this s what pauses to-day, undor tho head of * Chrlstisn duty,” I knoi, thon, of no way to spond tho lattor half of Bunday Lotter than that which Noliomish lag poiuted out: “hen ho #nid unto thom, Go your way, oat tho fat, and drink the swoot, and sond portlons to thoso for whom unlhhni is proparod : for this day is holy unto our Lord: noither bo yo uurr&; far the joy of tho Lord is {our strongth,” Old-Testament idoas do T oall this ? It is wholly in keoping with the teaching and the practico of Josus, Ho ac- coptod an invitation to a great dinnor on o Sab- Dbath, and, instond of takiug oocasion to tell -his Lost that Lo was doing wrong, ho used the op- portunity. to disouss I?m princlples of true Los- it the timo for nu‘lug tho Lord's Bupper. | . nssortion, not ary " time whon it hn‘( gunllty, ‘and to toll him how his foast ought to e rogulated. Huoh’ praotices .would endangor: 3 hia standing wore ho momber of au ' orthodox schuroh to-dayy - - - But tho highost uso of Bunday, and one not ot nit incompntible with tho forogoing, mny con- .mat in anything that tonds toreveal to mou their highor selvons,—In honrt, or.brain, or soul,—and 1o bring thoir Towor into hestthful subordination !to thohiglor. ’ Hohools, leaturos; musio may help this.proooss on for thoso who have no other lois- uro, Divine enongh for auy day ls anything that tonds, in any way, to holp men gg toward the Divino. And sinco tho way to God fn nu direction ia knowlodgo of the truth, and solf- control in obodience thoroto, tha object and aim +of tho Bunday Aftornoon Leeturo Booloty is to lond mon Godwerd, And whatover truth, in soclology, or financo, or politics, its apoakers ‘onn revon!, 1o just a new and wider glimpse of the Ilvmfi, working Doity, . T would koop Bunday thon foraver, I wonld hodge it in with fenco of oustom ‘nnd publio opinfon. Quard it jonlously as o boneficent riviloge. Mako it Loly by conscorating it to Em aspirations, hopes, joys, socioties, and cul- tures.;of hamanity, T.et 1 bo, an {nstrument with a bundred ‘ootaves. Lot its . koy-board rango from the doepest baso to tho- higliest so- prano of what is human. WMay it have o koy to rospond to tho sympathotio touch of every fac- ulty and oxporionce aud want of man, Thus made out of tho proclons ptuffs of humanity, and ]nsu(ylufi itaolf by answorlng human neods, bimanity will guard it and_mako it pormanent ng itgolf, Lot ita nssumed frionds mnke it n burdon and a restriotion, snd men will fling it off liko all othor shaokles, and ‘cast it with all rubbish on tho wasto-hoaps of tho paat. e i THE BIBELE AND WINE. . Bermon by thie Rev. Mr, McOliesnoy. Tho Rev. Dr. McOhoanoy, pastor of Trinity Mothodist Tpiecopal Churoh, spoke last ovoning on tho subfoct, “Tho Bible and Wino,” the dis: courso being o roply to tho comments of tho Rabbi Tolaenthal on his ‘marmon af the pra. vious Bundny cvoning, published in Tne Tnin- UNE 8 fow daysago. Ho took a8 his toxt: ~ L The childion of Isracl who look to other gods .and love fiagona of wino.—ZHosed, i1k, 1, SR 1In the Introductory portion of the sermon, he sndd that the onticlems upon hisdiscourso of thd provious Sunday evening iad not touched on tho throo following important points of the mrgu- ment: 1. Tho physical .noture of man, according to the testimony of nearly all modienl authoritics, repels sleohol in ovory form, ns it ropels any other polsou, If the Bible rocom- menda ita uao, then it contradicts tho plain laws of physllozy, and Naturo and Rovelation are squaroly at variance. 3. Modorato drinking, ac- cording to nll human experioncs, tends toward drunlkennoes, end drunkonnoss I8 a groat onomy of clvilization ; therefore, if the Biblo encour- nges oven & modorate uso of intoxicating drinlk it is the .enomy of civilization. 8, If tho wino of tho Bible is only intoxicating wine, the book is solf-contradictory, One class of pnssagos lainly rocommends wine L‘anothor class ns plain- ly prohibits it, Xf tho wine in both cases 18 tho gamo thing, then there is a plain contradiction. Mr, MoOhosney then discussod the position takon by Rabbi Felsonthal in his communion- tion. That gontloman saked the question, ** How is it possible that any unbinsed roader of tho Bible cun appear bofora the . public with such an unfounded and untonsble nssortion that the wino of the Biblo maans in all cnees the unfor- mented juico of tho grapo?” No temperance re- former, howover radical,bad ever said that. Could the Rabbi inform him of the man or woman en- gaged in ‘the tomperauce movement who evor an(%] anything equivalont? Tho temporance Vradicala® lad esid, snd do esy, not that the wine of the iblo 18 in ol cosos unformonted, but that whenover God or His inspired servants arouk of wino ap- provinglv in the Biblo the alluslon is to unfor- monted wino, The learned Hobrow assorted that the Scriptures nowhore made a_distinction hotweon fermented and unfermonted wine, but this was bepging tho question. This was moro ment, In tho very moxt brenth ho snid that in nearly all cases tho wino of tho Bible was formonted wino, thus ndmitting that thoro were & fow excoptions. Would ho vouchsnfe the information what' kindof wino ‘was referred to i the excoptional onses? The conclusion to bo_ronched from .his assortions was that the Biblo did alludo to two kinds of wine, If the wine of the Bible \was in nearly all cases formented and intoxicating, was it always g0, _or was there B an_to forment? What kind of wine was it on the day whon it wns taken from tho pross 2 Who ever saw fermonted wino made from the juico of the impu which wag not en- tirely free” from alcohol, unfermented aud un- toxicating, whon first made? In Nehemiah's dany, a8 was lenrned fram Cuufinr V., 18, there wore all sorts of wino, and this accountod for tho fact that thore arein tho original Hebrow difforent Wwords which are translated by tho one word wino. Tt wos to be regrotted that. the learned Rabbi did not~ carry his criticism .of Hobrew worde o little farthor. It would havo saved others the trouble of doing so. Was it tmuc that thero wore pine . difforont words in the original Hobrew . which . in. the common English version weroe translated by tho ona word wino? Ho mentioned four only—yayin, tirosh, shechar, chemer—and said that thoy are syn- onymous. ‘That, however, remaned to be soen. Was it truo that tho word tirosh ocourred it tho Hebrow Scriptures thirty-oight times, and that in every cago, with o singlo exception, it was spolien of ad o blessing promised by God, » proof of the Divine goodness to be recoived with gratitude? Was it true that it sometimes monnt, not a liquid, but vino-fruit—grapes? Was it truo that there was no Divine warning uttored respecting it, not n singlo admonition, not onae clear cago of condemuation of the article callod (irosh by the Hebrews and transiated by the word wine? Was it irus that tho word shechar occurred .twenty-throe times in tho Heobrow Scriptures, and that twico it stood con- nectod with a religions sorvice, aud that in every other instance It was spoken of in words of warning 7 Tho Rabbi said tho worda meant the 8rmo thing, yot tirosh was umformly spoken of o8 blessing, and shechar a8 a curfe, Was it true that the work yayin occurred in 141 pnes- oges, and of thoso passages thiore were twventy- four whioh spoke of it t& permitted, while in sovonty-one it was branded with words of warn- ing bocauso of its intoxicating [;.uwnr ? Tho loarned Hobrow nesorted that shechar, meaniy, litorally * intoxicating drink,” was recommondes in tho Biblo, and roferred to Deut, xxiv., 26. He must have mado o mistake about it, however, as thore wero only twenty-two vorses in the chapter, sad no mention of tiio subject anywhero. DPor- haps he would reotify the mistake ? The sgenker thon discussod the oninion ex- prosscd by the rabbl, that & choorful and happy nnfoymunt of the Dblossiugs of the carth was {fully in nccordange with the lettor and epixit ‘of tho Scriptures. Prul speaking to tho Hebrewa was quoted a8 authority that some things spring from tho carth which wore ourscs, not blossings. Tho earth itsolf, oursed as it had been for man's sako, hnd neyer yet produced a drop of alcohol or formonted liquor without man's help. It ro- quired a sin-oursed enrth and a sin-onrsod mon opnrntlnlz togollior hoforo alcohol could bo pro- duced olther in wine, beer, or distillod spir~ its. Yet n Jowish Pr iost plendod for shechar asono of the bloaslngs of the enrth, On tho Sabbath day, by the will of the Poople's arty, snloons without number woro distributing Tio Dlousinga of tho oarth, nd on tho folloying Monday mominn cartlonds of prisoners could bo found in the Police Court, brought thero, by the aforosaid blessings. Tho speaker saw a man on ‘Wabash avenuo tho other day who could not koop his head atill, becauso the blossings of tho earth wore too much for b im. In answer to the Rabbi’s word of advice, that, in tho enjoyment of carth's blossings aud God's gifts, man hould not make a boast of himsolf, but always romain mindful of tho fact that ho was a Dhuman being cndowed with an im- mortal soul, the speaker rolated tho fablo of Ulysses and Oiroo, whore it is told that the soraoress changed tho Grocian warrlor's soldiors from mon to swine by a polsonod oup. Heroat tho oloso of the nineteenth contury men were pleading in tho namo of religion for that cup whose poison had traneformod so many thou- sauds into boasts, and left thom o for both worlds, as oue of Gol's gifts and ono of tho blessings of tho earth, The Rabbi nssertod that Jesus drank wino, Would he point to the partioular chapter and yorse which said so? Ibwasnot donied thnb Josus drank of tho firult of the vine, but of this evon thero was no positive’ proof, and moro inforonco had to Do rolled on. But the Rabbi pald Josus waa called ;I ‘ wino-bibber” snd a glutton. Was 0 a Hg]ullon? Ho _was called a sioner, but was Honslnnor? Ho was charged with blas- yh‘nmy. but was Ho a blasphomor? Tho anclont ows oallod Him a aiuner. A modorn Jow in- slsted that Xo drank intoxicsting wine. How woll did tho anclont Jows succeed in Jprevlu Him a ginner? How woll the modern Jow hia succoedod, or would succeed, in proving Hima wino-bibber miglit be judged, In order to provo that tho ancient Jows he- lieved unformented wine to bo tho most whole- some bovorago, the apeskor hovo doscribed the austom oxisl ln? among them of burying now ‘wino in vessols in the ground to provent fer- montation, Iho rofusal of Danlel, whon taken captive to Habylon, to drink formontod wine, bo- ouuso it was defiling, was also fustanoed, Tho Rabbi quoted Cans, of Qalilco, Did he necopt that acoount in John, or did henot ? 1. lio did not, why did o quota it to prove any- thing? If he did nocept it, why did ho not ro- colva Ilfm of whom Moncs in the law and tho prn{)hotu didwrite? ‘he question was prossed il tho more beoause, nccording to the Rabbi's {ntorprotation, the firat wirnclo of Christ was & use of wFomntuml power to furnish n Inrge atnount of intoxieating drink., As thin act of Ohirist colnclded witl: the Rabbi's doctrine of madoration,” why dld he not recolve Iiim ? ,Tha sermon closod a8 followa: *And now I approach with somo hesitation tho subject of tho Linst Suppor, beeausa of tho Holomnily of tho occasion, In o fow hours the Bon of God was to lenvo tho world, and o forotold tho mammor of Mia death, Tho time had coma for 1iim to lny Ilis hand upon an institution which had como down through the centurles, and give ita fuls ness of monuing it nover had possessed Lofore, The Passover had always mosnt enlvation from wrath, from the dentroyhlg{ angol-— (enlvation by blood, tho blood of & frosh- sinin - viotim. Mho time had come for Obriet, to tench His dlsciples = how 'in & spiritual senno they were to ont His body and drink His blood—that blood which Iy ropra--|! gonted 08 having such o froshness of effieacy,’ that, nccording to 8t, John, in Hoaven tho Son' of tiad apponra as f lnmb that.iad been slal. And I tromble whon any roligious teachior veu- tures o #ny that tho immeculato Bon of Godap- Eolntud intoxicnting drink to ngmlmllzu His own blood ; that, to symbolize that blood whioh keeps tho desiroging tngol bncls, s whould. ivo chiosen tha w&luh lins lat looso more destroying angels in society than anyothor ono thing. But wo aro told that Christ drank it Himael? on that oceaglon,” Whint! did he drink His own blood? Whoro s tho ulm!-tur and vorso that tolls ns that o drank ot all on that ocenslon, Ho did say " Iwill not drink honeoforth of tho frit of the vino until I drink it now in My Fathor's Kingdom. Wo are told ilat after suppor He tool the oup, and, whon hio had glven thauks, Ho gave it to' tho Disolples, unyiog : Drink yo all of this, for this is My Dblood, Aud o nro told that that oup was formontod. Do thoy moan to sy that the' blood of Christ was algo formonted? Ho (tho Rabbi) charges us with blasphomy, Is that the blasphomy to which wo aro to be arivon ? But that is not " all of it. He tolls us Olrist drank at loast fout cups of in- toxicating wino at that supper. A little lator and Ho lios prostrato in tho gardon. Wb had always supposod that He was prostratad by s myatori- ous and redomptive agony. Aro we now to be romindod that only n fow hours boforo He bad drank onough intoxicating wino to prostrato any ordin mon? But the Disoiples, then, ss lnw-abiding Israclitos, also dranlc four cups of the samo article. Thon no wondor the Disciples wore so stupld in the gmlun that they could not. koep swako, Poor Peter is to be oxoused for douying his Lord and for his profanity, for he robably hiad not recovered from his four cups. ‘udas was simply drunk, for it was immediatel; aftor that supper that le natht to botray his Mastor. No wonder thnt ho sold ont his intorest In the Kingdom of Honven so cheaply, His suicide, porhaps, aftor all, was the rosult of wine, and 1o was simply drunk whon ho hung himsoelf, and, haviog drank o much of the for- monted’ wino, ho was much like an_old bottlo, and thoreforo, ns we are-told on good suthority, ho buyst open. And tho Jows who crucifiod Josus had, a8 law-abiding Isrnolitos, each taken four cups. The oruci- fixion scene which followed was the result of ubiversal intoxication. No wondor that thero was derkness over all tho oarth, 'That darkncss haa not all gonoe yot, Thoso are some of tho conclustony to which wo are lod by the doctrine of rosurraction. 2 4 1f I remombor woll, thoro Is & woo resorved for tho man who puts the bottle to his noigh- bor's lips, oven If his neighbor bas onough solf- ocontrol o drink modoratoly at firat.” ) _— WOMAN'S WOREK IN THE OHURCH. Sormon by the Rov. Dr. Locke, of Gruce [ : Yestorday morning the Rev. Dr. Locke, Reotor of Graco Church, preached the following sor- mon, taking as his toxt: And some of them bolloved and_consorted with Paul anudBilas: and of the devout Greeka a great mulhitude, aud of the chief women not a fow, Acts, vil: 4, It is to the Iast phage of the toxt I would call your attontion, that nmong tho converts made in ‘Thessalonica by the proaching of Paul and'| Bilas o large number woro women, and women of the bettor clasaos, chiof womon, It was notling éxcoptional, for wo find Jarge numbor of women always in attondance upon our Lord, & large number alwnya spoken of as supporting and oncouragmg the apostles. Womon figure Tnrgoly in tha orgenization of the infant Uhurek, and when wo pass -dnto history and meet the raoords of writors of tho third ,.and fourth cen- turies, we ses that women assumed the moat con- splouons position in the great work of the cou- | version of the Roman Empire. Lecky says: Inno other important movement of thought was femalo influonce o powerful or so acknowlekged, In tho agos of persecution, femalo figures occupy man: of tho foremost places in the ranks of martyrdom, au Pagan and Christian writers alike attest the alcrity ‘with which women flocked to the Oburch, and the In- fluonce thoy oxorolsed in its favor aver tho male mem- Lors of their families, Tho nothers of 8t, Augus- tine, Bt. Chrysostum, Bt. Basil, and Bt Gregory, hind all a loading port in the conversion of their sons, St, Leleus, tlo motlier of Conatantine, aud tho wife of the Emporor Theodoslus, was among tho moat con- spicuous defonders of the fuith, and in_tho orgoniza- tion of the good work of Christian charity women wero prominent, 2 I am not intending to enter into the general question of the rights aud wrongs of women, I am on that grent subject by no meauns cloar and sottled, of female suffrage. 1 Lave learned as I oldor very soriously to doubt that right. BeO jmmense wrongs heaped upon women. I soo, aldo, wild and extravagant attempts ou the pnr[ of women to stop out of their station, - I hail with dolight tho . gradual abolition of laws and cusloma in almost every civilized country, in my own, thank God, more especially than in any othor, which, resting ov the old os~ sumption £bat every woman should beo Za wifo, “ habitually doprived them of tho pecunlary and educational navantages of men, excluded thom sbaolutely from very many of the employmenta in which thoy might carn subsistenco, encum- Lered their course in othera by a hieartloss ridi- oule and stosdy disapprobation, and assigned, in consequenco, many thousands to the most xoW extremo poverty, and, porhaps, a larger numbor _to the paths of vico” "I rajoico, I suny, that thoso things are chianging, snd that, while theorlsts aro quarrel- ing over the absurd question as to which sex is the groater, the malo or fomals, women aro day Dy dsy admitted to do whatover they can do and want to do, Whon competent, they get fair pay. They follow any trade thoy aro abla to carry on. Thoy give loctures, fill profossorships, and ench day looks on it as more and more a mattor of courao. i 1 rostrict myself to woman's work in the Qhurch a8 s part of tho Church and to huléz on tho roligious views of humanity., What is she to do? What not to do? I con- feps tho consideration of this hes been urgod upon mo by the conduct of women all over tho country, emerging from their homos and, under the sanotion of religlon and oponly and avowedly as Obristian women, ontoring the Iowant dous of iniquity as woll s {ho most pub- lio places of respectablo character whero liquor is sold, nnd thero,in tho midat of‘grent crowds of men often disrespoctful and’ribald, scldom 8, atbizing, never hearlily approving, uyx'hngrllng s cortain claws of ‘mon to give up their businoss, to nhln(;a tholr mvooation, adding to thoir ontroatics tho most oarnest supplications to Heaven for ita ald and blessing, and the moat forvent out~ pourings of sacred prayer. s this part of the daty of Obhristlan women ? Ought the women among us to consider them- solves a8 derefict in their Christian duty bocause thoy do not go and do likeiso ? Nvmv, inrogard to the gonoral duties of & Christinn, thero is no difforence betweon thosa of aman or woman, Both foll intoein. Doth noed ropontance ; both bave been made mem- bersof Christ in Holy Daptism ; to both the Body and Blood of Chriat are given. Wo have common rules of purity, sobrioty, tomporance in_oll things; forvenoy in prayer, dovotion to God, froquonting of God's houso ; and oxemplary conduot In privato and sooial lifo apyly to both soxod, 'n'nll this, wo do not rocognize tho slightost ifferenca s but apart from ol this to woman a8 to man, n peouliar work is sllofted in the COburch of God—a work naturally springing from hor sox and poeition and hor endowments, What iit, and doos it imply any such duty ag that now tokenupon thomselves upon by sumany love- 1y end infinential womon—tho duty of 8troot- pronohing nnd ‘exhortation ; the public and open attack upon vico and sin? It i no argument to say womton should nover eponk in publio, If a woman i8 qualified to do 80, why should shio not? There are even oxcoptional ‘women gifted by God with gront wisdom, great eloquonce, fif"“ administrativo powor; thera is certainly nothing in the mero sox which should {)rnveuz- tho-oxer- oio of those gifts, The Oburch Liag nover tuken any such ground, and some of her femalo sainty havo been persons of immonsg infliences I oan weo no reason why o giftod Christiau woman should not ncnuPy withoue blame s vory import- ant publio position in the life of tho Ohurch, But wo all recognizo such ones ns oxceptional, Tules whioh spply to them do not apply to the gront body of womon. 1am now aski . of tho rank and file of Christian wunllgs.“w duty ; Thero 18 alan anotlior phass of fomals life whoro publicity or opon pronevution of Chiristian work would nitract no “blamo und oot on all #idos with-only npplnuso, I moan. tho case of « women bandod togothior for life-work againat * Bin or tho njloyintion of any human misery, Tho Ubureli, from 6 begluning, not - only rocug- nized tho right of women to do this withont any neigma, but bas encouraged her In the work in overy woy. Il was a tromendous mistako of ' o roformntion to lay asldo this great auxiliary work of winniug souls, Ouo branch of thg ‘Ohuroh Catholio has within tho lust tswonty yoara awakened to its Importance. Lugland is belny eovored with institutions and nssociations and of women for Olristion work, and ycar by yonr ‘witnesses in this country a gronter advance in this form of ohurcly duty. Take tho Bisters of the Good Bhopherd whoso mission i the rofor- mation of fallen womon, who would aven accugo’ thom of stepping outside of their station, no (Hoo Sovonth Pago.) THE GREAT ADELPHIL . LRONARD GROVER. MANAGER THI§ MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, RETURN OF TE GREAT ADELPHI FAVORITES. 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