Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1874, Page 3

. Bhuceh 'PROF. SWING. Mow Mo Looks wupon Creeds and Confosstons of Falths First o .,Ohristinn and Lost o Pros- byterian, The Rev. Mr. M;:clanghlan Comes to the Defense, Axid Responds to Dr, Thomas' Attack on Calvinisn, * "A Good Word ro;' tho Sixteenth Centary. - BROAD FRESBYTERIANISM. Seruion by Prof. Swing In_the Fourth I'r byterlnn Ohurclt. r - Prof. Swing proached yestorday in the Fourth Proabyterian Ohurch to s large’ congrogation Ho took i tost from Ephcilons, 105+ y tent that now unto tho ‘princpalities an e '”"x.’.“fif-veéif o gk be w1y T tlio manifold wisdom of God 'Thio vormon was a8 follows ;: The thome drawn from this toxt for your thoughts this morning in contained chiofly in the words, manifold wis~ dom of God." Tho othor idons of 'tho passnge . moy be attonded to aftor this one thought may fluti' In its immonte store of truth Liave boen studled, 1f, na some suppose, Cliris- tinnity is to be_all summed, up in any ono doc- trine, then the, Bible ia an unususlly large book for so elmplo & purposo. . But if God has . made tho Church, and the Bible is a:mirror, in some Bonso, of 11is vast and yaried . thought; as to the and destiny of His children, then tho Bible, Dotwaon Gonosls © and the A}mcn]ypun, is only &' pioturo of the mnnifold wiedom of its author, hoover reads tho oruales of religion as_contained in our Serips ture must feol how fitted thoy arc to tho meny forma of human went and clinracter.” If thero aro minas fond of symbols thoy may find, all through the Old Testament, or In tho vision ‘of 8t. Johu, a stalement rondered almost wholly in tho Ianguage of symboliam. - When we : romom~ ber tho happiness and the knowlodge awhicl the buoyant, poetio . years of youth. roach mrol_l!;h figures of speech drawn from the material world, wo must rejoica that the book which is to influ- - ence their “moral careor'is #o full of figarative langungo, from tho Penlms of David to tho Inst chapter in Jobn's Revolation, 3 R thongh an immonse amotint of timo and Jabor have beon wasted over the offort'to make - bitoral prophecies ont of John's poom; and to find fullillmont along the path of history, yet, not- svithutanding this long orror,, tho pootfo part of “{ho world has oxtractod a grant amount of good theology from thoso pages, 8o terriflo as to the * wicked, so glowing ns to the rghtoous. Co From that book comoa the new Jerusalom, the © wihito throno, the river of life, the pearly gatos, the cryatal sca. PSR ~When we remember, aleo, what a multitede thore is of Icss pootic and more formal minds, ‘wo fool tho value of tho gront Apostlo, who spolo always pa n solid reasoner, with dofinite promise aud deflnite conclusions, . .In the world overywhers there is a group wmore limited indeod,” but powerful, who study Queations of duty ss botween man and man, . ond man and ‘God; and to thoso what an ox- buuatless fountein of thought is opened up:in tho sormons and words of Josus. This many- sidod wirdom of God has, however, saothar sig- nificanco, to notlce which'it i otir purpose more prrtionlarly to refor, o . Thero is & many-sidedness of dootrine just ae marked as the varioty of litorary or logical style. ‘We come along with our ardent’ desire to form a catochism or & formnla that shall include and oven' contain the wisdom of ‘God to men. But no_soonor do we close up our estimate wnd pre- ' paro to rejoico ovor our work, than nlovg comes Bome new student or some new sage and rominds us of something important loft out. Tu bis history of Christian doctrine, Dr, Shodd olindes to perbapr a score of catechisms, all of wlu'ch‘n&nng up within & small orrcle of timo, and within a emall area of space, all which com- pilations differcd from each othor. Tho variations of Protestants formed thethemo of a latge and once called poworful argument. Bo * mumerous had catechisms become before the day of Jobn Knox, and as varying as numorous, that ho announcod when ho publishod his that if ou friends discovercd somo point whereln it uceme to como into conflict with Snrjlp:m, ho would change it in the next edition. This multiplicity of confosaions of faith must descond from the fact that thestudy of God is toobigh and too broad for man, and that after his most pationt effort be must sit down,ovor tho rosult, maying: “Nast thou by sesrching found out Gudp Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection ? " * And, vext to tho infinity of God, as rondering fucompleto tho theology of men, comes the wonderful ecope of want and charaotor "Where are myriads of heads and myrinds of minds, and largo must be tho volume of trath that shall offor food for all, There havo boon timid, distruscful soulswhich have goue throush life fooding all the way upon a score of truths culled fiom tho Biblo, which truths would have Leen of little forco had they boen ropeatod to . tho ear of tho extreme ogotist. Thore have boen sorrowful souls such a¥ Gowper, and pen- sive souls such as Fouolon, over which has daily pussed in an autumnal sigh tho breath of oalya fow dootrincs, na if the gorgoousnoss of summer bad gone by, and nought remained but for faded loaves to fall. When Maria de la Motho read tho Bible, she never passed away from the Now Tostamont, and seldom far from the story of Chriut as rolatod by St. John, for hor roligion, baing one of love to Christ, ehe passed hor life whore I was neatost ia J1is words and char- cter, .. i This immense scops of the Bible and this similar breadth of human lifo aro facts which ronder it a vain attempt to gather up Christian- ity into a catoohism, and thus troasure it up for oursclf and our childron, A “ confemsion of faith " can be only an imperfoct™indox of the book, In somg editions of Homer and Virgil thero stands o nrfiumantum at tho head ‘of cach canto to toll us what the noxt thousand linos are all about; but oul how dead that statoment is to tho mind that knows what & world of beauty and sontiment, and of “joy and suffering, is beyond, fashing i tho sunsbive of fienh:s and arrayed in the full verdure of tho wart, ‘Whon we bohold the magnificenco of the world and tho groatness of man, and then turn to the throno where Ho eits to whom oarth and man both are as nought, we realize how vain must be tho dosire of the spirlt to ind some symbol in Ianguage which carry in it the meaning of the great book of roligion, lying open for the guid-. ance and ealvation of socioty, It is amid some of the manifold shadings of doctrino Paul stands in the lettor to the Corinthisus, and at the closo of amost eloquent roview ho names’ thrao virtues, and then declares charity to bo the groatost of the thros, Whether it 18 the enthu- slosm of tho orator or tho calm remson of {ho Pplulosphor which spoaks, is uncertain, but thia we know, that ho placod faith and hopo both in :ge sooond place compared with the hoart's Ve, g % It seem to us un-Presbyterlan in any way to. slight foith, which has %o covored iteolf with' glory since the Roformation; bt whoover roads the Biblo with any thoughtfulness will orten his favorito word quito ovorthr and the subsisnco Of things pue i i placo, The. worship of “a “word i, wonderfully ovorthrown in that book, and, go to what tune you pleaso, you will soon henr the commandment, * Thou shalt have no other Gods before me,” No sooner have Zuu concludod that thero is nothing valuable bub faith than alon, comes tho yamo Poul and says: ** Wo are unvafl by hope ;" and hefore you cun get your council Logethor to announce hopo &8 tho saving doo- trine, the samo Paul has declarod that charity is botter than eithor ho poor faith; and while you stand amazed awmid those Eema of truth, Jainos comes along aud declares that * By works are yo . eaved!” Now theso are not: contradioting voloos, but harwonious tones. mesents a pheso of Christian experience. They urocolorsin agorgeous morallandscape.As among the hills in autumn a company of rambling frionds wiil #ay to onoh other, *What a blua is that eky; what o russot on that oak; what ® orimton on those leaves; what o saf- fron heio, what a purplo thoro,"—so in tho wordu of dod tho freo wind, turning its pagos, must eay: *What faith, what hope, what Works Xé:‘alillflxpunm thoro s in thoso rules of life and A falthta) uudlng of the Bible i tho death of all word worsbip, The life and_snlvation por- r:gell in it are w0 Godlike that thoy olude exuct 3 e Lieaveus mave over us by ni eannot moasure, and stars we cannot count. Our books of doctrite are valuablo as' outlined in- dices of a volumo too Iargeto be foily manterod or retalued, but, compatod to God's word, thoy. aro ng tho akoloton to the body, compared with that body itself, when, robod ‘i benuty it greotod its frionds in’ tho strost, or was _ the life of the sacrod homo,, Tho nn‘ulnt in o persou who sat down to rond tho Tostament, and who came to four or flvo nusages whick Informed him that * 1o that bo- l’«um nnd [s baptized shall ba saved ;" but who poused bofore he_como to tho sixth, which would hinve omltted tha immorsion, and have snid , * Ho that belioves shall _be waved.” ‘Tho Solifidian 1 nothing but o Biblo-reader who, having found fivo texta (hat falth only, went away and made up his orced without whaiting for auy romarlks from any quar- ter ahout good worls or immotsion, . Tho Fatul- ist I8 & mortal who hins turned tho Sacrod Book ovor to fiud pnesnges that should indieats tho sbroluta empire of God nnd the humility of men, mu)‘ fixing hia whola gazo at Inst upon che figure of Yelay In the honda df tho pottor," has an~ nounced the dogma tlnt * man is prodestined to his condition on acoount of nothwg he has doun, or over could o, but solety by the will of God." While the Armiuinn Is ane who ins rend all such vwn‘h: 08 ' Como unto mo," ¢ Book, aud ys shall find,” * Whouoover will, let_ him take tho wator Of lire freply, - - * e LT n T Thus, much of oach orond {u only an fndicatfon fo the world ns to what part of. tho Biblo tho mnkera of it hind cauvassed. Whonaship anchora nt Now York and boglns to unload a cargo of urnu%nu and pineapples, you porceive at once that that vestol doos not comoin from afl natfows, -—from Greonland, and England; atd Gorninny,— but from somo siand or port in thoBouthorn soa, It is thus in tho world of theology. . *Whon you plok up the Confession of Faithi of any Church ianud road a foiv pages, you porcolvo at onco that tho book Las not. come i from all tho groat Biblo of the Almighty, but that thls pattioular ‘ehip has recofvod. {fa onrgo at Dort, or Nico, or Qormnuy. Far.be it from you to despise thoso human compondiums of trith, for book is valu- abloif I, in a condensed form, makes only & tolorable estimnte of the Divino truth; for, going to tho Biblo yourself, you would not bo ablo to doduco #o full’a” philosophy ‘of lifo and salva~ ton, R d 5 . Whon the Wostminater fathors sat. in Councll for four 'yonts, it is presumablo that thoy summed np the doctrines of: tho Bible in such n way as would have boon impossiblo to tho world that stood in vast multitude without, Honco it ‘would bo folly and vanily not to confess the valne of their groat digost, Dut after all this admim+ tion, we still know that croeds aro not the places ‘whora divine wisdom 'fully oxpresses itsolf, but are places where the human mind fails ; places whore tho mind givos up aud .8coks rost. Tho oroed of tho Baptist only informs us whore the student paused,’and the oreod of tho ! Fatalist ouly tolls; us .whut vorses. ho: rond, Thus. all thoso conipendlums aro marks set up to tell us ‘where tha toiler qait work. - 1 - :. Do you - know, my - frionds, how weary Dr. Chalmors became of - buman poywors in Lis later yonrs 2 -Aftor ho had pronched his astronomical dormous, and - had - by soientifle study bogun to' 600 how yast a chlng the univorse is, Lig scoms to have ontgrown tho ‘medinoval thoology, and' Each ono of these torms. nition, and paes and mrn&u ha‘f%ro fluu a:s tho’ ght, with depths wo' to-huve placod great stross upon the gaueral bub nupopuiariden of bolug a good -Christian, In Doon Stanloy's bistory of tho Ohurchof Boote land, tho historinn says: * Even Iato in lifo bo (Obalmers) was necusiod by suspioious zoalots of being an enemy to systematic thoology, and his roply was certainly not_caleulated fo_ allay tha alarm.” I omit tho roply. It was, in briof, that -lio proferred *‘the Now Teatament.,” Who thoso auspicious zenlots wore, Doan Stanloy doos not state; and porhaps it would bo impossible for Ani'l bhistorian to soparato their names from the oblivion which comoasoon and deep to the minds thint aro only “suspiclous zealots™ in the groat battlo of lifo. i . Tho acousation brought about no ,mrnrm,' for, in the dobate over tho *Bustentation Fund,” Dr, Olalmers exclaimed, **Who cares about the Frop Chutch, compared. with, . tho Christisn good of tho poople of Scotland! Who carcs about nny church but:as’ an - instrument of Clrigtian good! . For; be assured that the ro- Hglous nad moral woll belng of the poople. is of infinitely bigher importnnce thin tho ndvance- mont of any seot.” Ohalmers, in one of his broad discourses, quoted this Jittlo fragment of vorso: Tho man ‘That could surround the sum of things, And spy ‘The boart of God and socrels of Hin epire Would speak but lovo, Witl lova the bright result ‘Would change the hue of lutermedinte things, And make one thing of all theology. =~ ° ' ~These thoughts .and this poetry, from Dr, Chalmers, too, in bis glnl‘ioua old age!l -It is not to bo iondered at that under tho losdings of such beads the F'ree Olurch of Scotliud spraig forward to & groat oarcer. His was not the o), Wido goul in thatday. Tho alnost orl‘nnll; gren Dr. Duucan expressed ideas’ equally horetical and alarming. .. He said: _*Thoro is & progross- ive demaund on roligion. It is a mistake to look on our fathers as our sgeniors; thoy aro our juniors. ‘The Ohurch has advanced wonder- Tully mnco .its ' foundatious were laid.” . . § 41 am first o’ Christion, noxt a broad Christian, ghinvlvly & Calvinist, and fourthly a Preubyler]- ian, B I bavo drawn thoso illustrations from history to romind you that tho manifold glory of Godis too variod, and t00 vast, to be caged up.in tho phrases of a fow monat sonpo given time and place, Bay what we may in our condoused formulas, the glory of God will flnsh in on_the Now. Toutnment ns though wo had taken nothing away from its profusion, X ! “Aftor you have declatod that one 18 saved bfi t‘l\-‘n gmtr of Christ, Igo to tho book and fin o dinci ploa all busy with Mis humanity also; and after vou have cried ot, - **Faith alone " 1 find Magdalon much forgiven- bocause sho had loved much, sud Petor forgiven besauso of his tonrs of poniteonco; whilo tho wWomen who omptiod the slabsstor-box' soemed 'Dblossod .on acoount of the good worka dono in the name of Jesus, Tho truth is, salvation soems liko thé Oity of Thobes, entored Ly auy one of a hundred gates, all beautiful portals of marblo, or brouze, or gl'itmrln brass, but all ‘'opening from the dronry, nmufg country into tho spletdor” of 8o ciaty, and art, and governmont} but como in_at any gate, it was Thobus you' perceived and roached. 8o in roligion, Bo the goldon gate {aith, or hope, or charity, or penitence, or virtue, it must open out upou the presence of Ohrist, or olse you nro not a. Christian, central object, the motive of the footstep, the visfou before the oyo, whethor the eyo is radiant with tho saving hope, or bedimmed with ‘peni- Jtoubtoars. . Now, we ‘are informod in tho toxt that the | Ohwreh way organizod to make known to . Princi- palities and Powors : this many-colored wisdom of God. To thé raptured vision of 8t. Paul, to his olevated mind, which nover took a common view of any subjact, but to which all the truths of roliglon loomod up toward tho very throtio of the Alm:j;hty. it seomed that the Oburch was es- tablished that it might unfold the glory of God bofore all the Eolamnms of enrth lmfiy o Bo grand wau this redomption of a world to'be, that evon’ the very seraphim in heaven would lovk down .upon the earth and seo .God’s love lmnrh)g forth through Jesus Christ, and flooding | Lo earth, not in wrath, ag in the days of Noal, but witn tho_windowa 'of Leaven opened for & now outpouring,—that of infinite grace. pn{xm in_presenco, therefore, of -an august com- _em,y’ and to which 1 we, losa postlo, less divine, . mota oarthly, add the nations.of tho’onrth, tho henthen world, the cducated world, the scoptical world, as boing the * principalities and powers,” - 8 proé- | that plainly encompats us all..:In su ence let us make tho church & place not where tue narrowness aund vanity of man is unfolded Lut where all oyos lnnkln§ ‘may catoh glimpses of the manifold wisdom of God. 'The manifold dlgcords of mon have alrondy made sad havoc in' this manifold wisdom of tho Creator and Savior, The Churoh hes boen so narrowed that it would seem not ordnined 88 a gate to heayen, but as wall to keep tho world away from its bliss. The rineipalitics and powers looking down from Ennvnn]y placos must see the tumult of sccts rather than tho sparkling sea of redecming love. Ol, may this scene haston away from earth, ,and may tho Church throw opon Iifo, that future ngos may oo tlio world coming by many rosds—some by Faith, some by Love, some by ITope, somo by Clarily, but. all by the. ono Obrigt, a8 Mo is frecly offered to all in tho Qaspol. - —_— A REPLY TO DR. mOMAS. The Rov. NMr, Muclnughinn Oriticises Xils Seruton on Prof.. Swing. The Rev. Jawmos Maolaughlan, pastor.of the Bootoh Chureh, cornor of Bangamon and Adama atroots, prenohied a sermon yesterday moraing’ having for its subject *'Dr; Thomoa's SBermon on Trof. Bwing.” Tho toxt choson wad s To the law and to tho teatimony : If they apeak ot according to this word, it is becduse thore is no lght in them,” Teajah 83 20, The sermon preached theroon ‘was as follows : It would bo plonsantif we conld view tho Ohrlstian only as a poscetul pilgrim, with staff in hand, journeying, from a barren ton bottor laid. But this is only ono phaso of the Chris- tisu's lite, A pligrim it {a true Lo iy, but hislifo 1 uot peacoful. When the Lardy fonundors of this American’ nation pushed tholr way woste ward, to settlo down on these rich prairies, thoy braved many dangers. More like a military. band, propared for war, than peacotul colonists, was thoir march in Benrcl of now homos,, Tho riflo, Iay In the wagon beside the sx; powder avo salvation. to | Ho must be the | heaven, | ‘which Paul ealls: * principalitics and pow- | a.| what I bolieve to be most agreanble to the \vbn} 1 tho gates of | and bulleta wore storod up for uso, a8 woll ng pork and broad, and whon night's shados gath- ored around the omigrant band, thoy formod ‘| thomsolven into o littlo militacy camp, with arms ond atmmunition roady for tholr dofonse, and sentinels postod to anoounce dangor. For all this thoro wan nood. Tho rod wnn, in savago wildness, roamed . around, and none could toll whon ashowor of arrows milght whiz from Iudian bows, nnd the wild war-whoop ol to tho strugglo. L @ Junt 8o In it with tha Obristian, Ho Is trayel. ing to tho placo of hla rest, but ho must arra; Litmealt in military garb, and bo in constant rond. Inoge for tho coniict, His Land gt be as randy to grasp tho warrlor's sword as the stafl. I'ook soon and unsoon haug upon his path, and it he would eafoly roach the end bis fourney and sottfo” down in the pomce of heavon, bio must bo ensed Ju armor fromhoad to foot, aud propared for tho onset. In tho last sovan opistlen addrossed by tho gloriflod Savior to tho Ohurchos, tho promiscs are only to him that overcometh, ‘This points bnok to the bat- tlo-flold, the confliot, the struggle, through which tho Ohristinn renchos hia promleed glory, But ‘tho Chriatian's fight 18 o fight of faith, Hiuarmor is spiritualj it protocts not his own flesh from, tho sharp weapons and scorchiug firos of orsoaiition, and ho i allowed no weaion o Illnme and paln the body of another, It is the libortios of his soul that ho must guard; it is tho truth of God ho must hold and dofend, and whon an- onomy ‘would attompt to zob- blm of eithor tho ono or the othor, thon ho must stand liko o man; and whother bLin nssnilants bo mon or davils, ho must noitlior fear nor flee, buit, with' Lhis causo onthronod 1n a valorous hoart, ho muat ling out the moitlod purposo of his soul,—xu~ surrondor. i i Now, among the things dear to_the Ohriatiny 18'the truth containod in tho Holy Seriptures, and Jjnstly 8o on account of the place it ocoupics in the mattor of his sslvation—donr to him bo- cnuso of ita author,—it is tha rovealed will of hia Heavenly Fathor. If tho salvation and ond- losn blles of my moul’ be of nny value tu me,: then oan God's word, which is the only monns of all this, munt bo priceloss to mo. If tho snlya-: tion of others be the object sought by mo, thon I cannot undervalue the principlo of that Gospel which_ia the power of .God unto salya- tion.. If-obodionco to the form of doctrina de- livered to us in tho Soriptures' be tho only way. rovoaléd to mo, - by which God: saves man from tho tyranny of Bin and the trenchory, of the de- ecitful hoart, and ralscs man up to the liberty and rauk of a fon of Gad, thon can I be faithfal .to God; con I bo tho friend of man if I surron- dor that form of doctrino wmyself or allow it to be aseniled, vilified and abused Dy othors and not: apeak, ‘Hero i & battle-flokl for the Christian. The old citadol of truth ls being constantly as- sailed by seoming ‘frionds and avowed foes, and Ohristians ars forcod sither in fidolity to defond or jn infidolity to lay, down tholr. arms and open the gates to tho fad. b . :-Paul told Timothy that - the timo -would come - whon men wonld not enduro sound doctrine,. If ot beforo thiv, that timo scoms to have como now, and many in Ohioago put s very emall valuo on doctrine and dogmn. : Ruligious truth novw is nothing and roligious_lifo is overything. I don't see how men can think of hnving the ono when thoy discard tho othor. - It is by what men ballove that thoy aro influonced. It I bolleve tho bank is not a eafo lace for my money, I shall’ not placo’ it there, r I baelioyo that a certain vogotable on the tabto is' unwholesome, I shall not cat it, aud eo it is that practico is rogulated by beliof. It has be- come very fashiouablo to say: - For modea of faith lot graceless zealots fight, 1ils can't be wrong whoso life is du tho right. * - Very true,- bub a rightJifo cannot grow on'a wrong. faith suy moro than figs can grow on' tnistios. This was Paul's opinion, yes, the opinion of tho Allwiuo who luspired Bim, and 8o jtisthat Ho warns Timothy -to bold fast the form of sound words, and Tilus slso to apesk the things which becnmo sound doctrine ; that tho aged man, smong othor . things, may bo round in the faith, Boundness in the faith, then, iy'somothing, else Paul could not have given theso_instritotions, to the two young ministors rogarding {f. But Poul was not a ninoteont- century man, aud porhaps thiy accounts for his old-fasbioned notions. Now, what lends mo to refer to these things just mow is n sermon which was proached on last ' Babbath morning ' in -tho First Mothodist Church of i3 olty.. Tho prencher’s professed thomo was the trial of Mr Llwlng. But instead of attempting to harmonize ‘the teachings of Mr. Bwing with the doctrings of the Presbytorian Oluroh, of which ho isa min- - fstor,—whick a8 8 friend ho shonld Linvo dono,— tho sermon -is “an -attack upon the third ohapter of - our: Confossion .of Faith, ‘This #ormon was délivored to hundreds and olrcu- Iatod among the thousands of renders of tho Ghicago. popers. - “The proncher, . no doubt, dosiguied {6 san tokenof his regavd for M. Swing. Buc wavy will seo that its languuge, if irue, is complimentary. noithor to tho chnrity of tho proscher uor to the candor of his friond. It Dr, Thomus had possessod o Tittlo of, that * awaeb spirit " which he says bolougs to Mr. Bwinig, wo would tcarcely. tind him umployingthe foliowing Janguago . reghrding some of tho distinetive principles’ of tho- Yrosbyterinn' Church, nud: saying :these things withont the slight- eat provocation ,on;the -part of Presbyteriauy— that thero is not n systewm of baliof, aticiont or modern, Pagan or Christian, so' dishonoring to God and ‘80 dostructivo of eyery sentimont of Justico s the doctrines laid down iu the Lhird ohapter of the Confossion of Faith; that common pxoP‘ufly iss, pioty compared to such toachings ; thut, poor. stroct-swearers are ignorant and thoughtless, but this, meabing Calviniam, is taught on Bunday and ju the naine of God and religion; that Calvinjsm is abominable stufl ; that Universallsm oud Unitarianism are goldon bosido such divt.”” Vory charitable, indead, in Dr, Thomas | Sweet-spirited ! Suroly itis bimselt 1o racans. and not Mr. Swing, whon' ho éays, Ha wan whose nature {a as tondor aud goutlo ns tho véico a8 the dove,” 5 . But thon, coming down to a more pergonal * plattorm, Dr. Thomas displays tho kamle nminblo ‘ahd charitablo spirit by saying, * For.no cluas of men do I have 8o little rospeot as for.these self- appoiuted horesy-liuntets—those “orthodox in- quisitors, 'whose chiof delight is to find fault with -other . poople's -theology, and, -with true Tharnsaio bosst, onil themeclves tho only sownd mon." A stroot-Aeavonger is a king compared to .them.”, It :this:bo' so, 9“16]{ -Dr, Thomny has very Jittlo respect for himscif, for of all'men in the City of Chicago hoe fluds the most fuult in that sermon with othor people’s theology. Hig adwmiration for Prof, 8wing Las led him to attack the whole hody of Onlvinistic Presbyterians, Calvinistic Baptiats, Culviniatic Mothodiats, aud byands thoir toscling a8 niuety-nme - times worse than the. infidelity of Gorald Maswoy. Suroly thig is finding fault with other people’s thoology, and doing it by wholeealo ; and now, Judging himsolf by bis own standned, lot him toll u1s how Lo cowmparos with tho stfool-scnvengor. Hovw illiboral are theso hiboral Chuistians., Tnoy aro the ones whoery, “Bigot,” aud yet it how Deen woll said, **that thoro are no more deoided Dbigota on _oarfl than thoxo who aro-bigoted to 1iberality.” 1. havo nover seomn defente moro, enlenlated to damage both counsel and cliont than Dr. Thomas' performance on lnst Babbath: morning. Tho proacher attempts to exalt his friend by moanly vilifying tho standurds of that vory Chiusch of which that frioud fs o ministor, by 8landering thiat_august assembly of divinos at, mot in 1648 at Westminster for tho purposo of ‘ottling the govornment of tho Church n‘ England -acoording to the Word-of- God, an sa- Bombly, cach one ,of. which took:tho fol- lowing vow: “I do_ soriously promise and vow, In tho ‘prosence of Almighty "God, that in this nesembly, whereof Iam. a, momber, T will maintain nothing in pomt of doctrine but’ of of ‘God, nor tn poiut_of discipline but what shall conceivo o oconduce most to the glory of God and the good and ponco of Lis Churen"— an assembly which has nover beon surpassed for talout, for-learnivg, for a knowledge of God's word. And yob of thoso mighty dend, who searchod the Beriptures with keen eye aud under solomn. oath, a Methodist pronchor says that iprofanity is ploty compared.with their toaghing, #What a-acone is this for 1874." Dr. Thomas speaks of trving to keep Lho little soneo that ko -has, ag.if Calvinism made s man wonseless, Il sousa must bo vory Jittle, in- deed, when he did not see that bis langunge was & virtual acknowledgment that. his friend, Prof, Bwing, was opou to fim charges preforred against lim by Prof. Patton. ITis “sousc must bo vory littlo - idoed when ho did not soo that it would bo a poor way to spologize for hia. friond’s do- arture frony l‘r'osl:z'tnrmu principles by slandor- ng all the'dead and all tho living, called Calvin- 18la, Prof, Swing must fliug back the compli- munt to tho cornor from which it camo, aud say, “Bayo me from my frionds,” Ho oaniot reviva it. It ia_too exponsivo. If Dr.Thowmss hasn good word for his friond lot him nng it, but in~ stond of this ho sasumes that Prot. Bwing ocou- plor the theological position which Prof, Patton uupponnsg aud then what docs tho Methodist oragle do? | Ho rushes to the graves of Onlvin and Knox, and other hioroes of the Reformation, and, with the clenchod fist of indiguation, asgeris that tholr toaching way dirt, comparod to which Uni- versalism ung Unitarianism are goldon. o vir- tually summons before his nl:gunt prosouce tho sphits of Chalmorw, and OCunningham, and Candlish; snd Guthrio,—thoso mighty loadors of the oxodua from Trastion tyrauny,—and tolla [ thom that thelr Oalvinism “twrned CGod uway | from tho pevplo, aud * gave thow' & morotleny ty- . HEY T T RS Eflxrlm‘!' ront, 1o igoes to Spurgeon, on whose "H“ thousnnds m‘;fi' sud by whom thoussnds lavo boon -lod-to hide’ thomsolvos ‘fu tho rook of agos, and ko tolls bim that, by proach- tng tho Calvinism of the pixtoonth contury, ho g turnod the God of love away from tho poo- l)lo, ond has given thein o morcfloss tyrant. Ho t i that Dr, Thomas, of -the Motliodist Churoh, makos all Calvinists of overy. land, of ovory ago, of overy church, Lorotics, for the purpose of oxonorating ono Lrosbytorin ministor from tho chargo of aupposed orror. Thia iaa hune aftor horotics, “'ho oaso must bo bud, indood, in Dr, Tnomas' oyos when R0 many must suffor slandor that ono Prosbytorian. minister may en- cape gonsuro. But Dr. Thomns hag a kind word for Pres- bytorinvs, aftor all. Ife" aamitas thot tho droad- ful docirinos of Calvinism aro in the Confesslon of T'aith; but thon Lie is too oharitablo to olirrgo tho Prosbyterians of to-day with holding thone dootriues, = Very kind, ludeod. W tinve hoard it gald of tho Ohurch of England that’she’ hnd a Calvinistio orood bub an Arminian clorgy;' ‘but Dr., Thomne Lins dlscovered that thoro 18 ns: gront a disoropanoy between the olorgy and oreed: of tho Prosbyterian Clurch. How,. hasho fopndi out this? 1Ins Lio not sald in that samo sermon that tho Calyinistio systom is taught on Bunday, and in the namo of God and roligion ; 'and, it 80, -with 8o tampering with thoir convictions of _exalt ghora 14 it taughti—in what churalios, it! Prosbytorians of tho prouont day don't hold it ?: But wo venturo to toll Dr, Thomas that he may' chargo Prosbytoriana of the present day and! “hour “with -holding tho * dootrines ” ‘o?’ tho. Cpufoslon .of * Faith, ~They hold them boonuso they flud thom ~in - this: oldi book, called ~ tho DBiblo—s ‘Look of which Dr. ‘Thomns gooms to have holy horror, for Lio cites not a single passage from it in con-. domnation of those dootrines which Lo calls' drondful, Calvinists aro nccustomed to nppoal to tho Inw and tho testimouy in support of thelr, prinelples, end do not consider that oitbor crood | or Church is well founded tbat Is hiot bullt on tho! foundation of apostles or prophets, Jesus Ohrist himsolf boing tho ohief corner-atono,. And, bo- leviug thai, thoelr religious dootrines aro so, founded, thoy.consldor them proof against tho Lold raillory and the vapid ,declaration, of overy Thomas that lives, TR oy I But doos Dr. Thomag’ littlo soiiso not teach him that what ho considers & complimont "to Presbytorinns is. an assault on their honesty ? Ho makos overy minister o liar worse, lio brands -evory miinister with porjury,- Twic,i first at his liconsuro, and nlin.ln at Ins ordina. tion, overy ininiator of tho Presbvieriau Ohuroh ! Tias had thls question, or ona squaliy biiding pubto-him: “Do you sincoroly receive and, adopt the Confession’of Faith of this Churoh no containing tho systom of dootrino taught in the Holy Saripturos 2" And tho anawer has * been “Tdo.” "Aud yot with all, thia solemn socopt-; auce of tho Calvinismot the Confeasion of Falth, | Dr. Thomas suys the Predbyterians do not hold that Confassion of Faith. ;fs this-the poor cor-: tificato of charactor that wo can, get from ai Methodiet divino?- Must he ‘make nll'men liars: for the purposo of apologizing for: his assump- ¢ tion that Prof. Swing ia not a Calvinist? Dr. Thomus,” if ho " ploases, may' profess one: thing with bis ip and bol{sve:another - thing in Lis hoart, but itis on. effrontery which may well make him blush to chargo Prosbytorions .truth, No, Dr, Thomas, you may charga Pras- “ytoriong Wilh holdug’ Calviniam. We waat no complimont that makes us all Hors,; by saying wa adopt & orcod which wo bolieve not, nad we! flg back with scorn an insinuation that would! drag us into thoranks of ccolesinstioal swindlors. | Thero is no one who has more ronson o ro- rot Dr. Thomne' porfomauco thau I'rof. Bwing himself. Tho atiack on the Coufessioa of Taith, without any provaeation, will not tend to| . Thomas in the esteens of Prosbytorians, .and when the sttack is mado in 8 sormnon dollv-[ ered in° praise of a Prosbytorian miistor, it will rondily appear that_something is -out'of - oint, Dr. Thomas must suppose that hfs friend, rof, Sing, s not a Presbytorian, olsoho would: |- not sttack tho creod of tho® Presbytorinn Church iu his dofenso. The zeal of Dr. 'homas in the oauso of Lis friond may bo ‘strong, bub'it has not beeu discreetly exercised, and'wo hopo that tho publio- will just let this eloquent sormon L)lml! unnoticed, and not bo influenced y the ground - on which it is - based aud _ the concluston to, which it londs, that Prof. Bwing in not in sympathy with tho die- tinctive principlos of Lis Oburch. Dr. Thomas should allow Mr. Bwing himaclf .to say.what his theological position is, It is very unkind in him to volunteor an opinfon, and mako an admission which virtually sustaing’ the oharges mow pre-- forred against his friond's orthodoxy; But in bis sermon Dr. Thomas mauifosts an nbuiorrence of the sixteenth ' contury, He says thoy caunot pnt the dusty garmonts of tho six- toonth century on the living men of thé nine-* toonth century ; and he nlso eays Lhat tho ashes of old Gencva cannot abido the broath of new Chi- crgo. This Los become rather a popular argu- mont against the Calvinistio systom, SBome men , do toes “E: honest -Presbylorinus: of “tho prosent day, Oh, thoy wore born 800 yours. .behindi their ‘hends in derision,” and eay ofi| enroful nud prayorful soaroh, wo recelve, beeauso it ia tho word of God. Dr. Thomas venturon a ploce of kind advico to Prosbytoriana; thnt, {s ofthor toturn tho Oalvinism | of tho Confesslon of Falth into o doad-lottar, or, uxfixm @ it altogothor. - And for what objeot ? wo, aal, lsluonunn ho thinks that, it mon who doubt COnlvinism, or who-'do not preach it, are turnod out of. -tho Prosbylorian , Churoh, , vory fow would bo loft, This Is only an assumbtion, slaudorous to the Prosbyterlan minldiry. “'Thero 18 no nacessity for tho Prosbytorlan Churoh to mndity hor standards until those standards ap- poar ot varianco with rovenlod truth. If mon want to prosch Arminianjem they oan find o gonial home in tho Methodist Church, If they want to preach Soclnianiem thoy can find an oo, closiastical home to reat in. No matter what ‘! man's religious vlows, he can flud a spot whoro ho oan reat th ponoo. * But that Prosbytorisnism shonld dostroy all hor old lanamarks, and broak, down all her.dofonsos,sthat mon of evory ecolosi-; astioal comploxion might dwoll within her . terris tory, would bo an expodioncy too costly, " If. Prosbyterians woro to be so accommodating nsto: wl,I:n ou their oroed, and Joave mon, without lot! “or hindrauso, to' be onrrlod away by evory wintl; of, dootrine, it is quito possibla that tho tastes of come would 10ad ta further domands, evon (o wipo, “out portionn of tho Biblo as my;lxlcn\ and abiurd, and unbacoming thé intelligence of the: prosent BRO s 0 le gl i) 3 fl . 12 thorg 18 & Flolding " to tho popular cry for, vubun\lx‘r, thero’ia no tolling where thit cry may: ond, and bow far the Qhurcli may, drift from her old &nd safo moptings, If truth ohanged, thon wo might havo to-morroi s ifforont trod from | ‘'what wa havo to-day. But thora:are theold gos- | !znlu, the old epistles, ovor which tho early Ohria- tinns, the Waldonsos, tho Rofomors, betit if b ‘goming roverenco, -"Thoy remain unchangod to-" day. I, like wine, they Liave not, bocoma botter through ago, they have bocomo no worse,, and | aro just as trio, 1’1““ 08 Bweot, just ‘a8 usoful ! 10w to the soul that sooks light, ", and, Iifo,: and honyou, a8 thoy wore .to thoso who are now in: Bpotless robos boforo the Ihrone. . 'Bomo’ objoct to- tlio «Calyinistio systom bo- cause . thoy. think hampers thom tholt offorts to bring tho wondorig and wonry to’ Jesus. 'Dut ‘thoy must’:not bo!| afrald of, that, .If scriptural, thon wo muat not rojoct it, a8 it wo knew bottor than God whnb would do most good o & world lying ‘In 'sin, | That a mivstor should oxoraiso ;prudonce in tho cholco of religious topics and in the manoor of | “prosonting them to- tho human mind’ nono will dony, but nono stiould fear to do harm..byde- claring tho. wholo counsol of God.. Bome of tha most popular proachors ow both sides of tho At~ “lantio have womn ** tho. dusty: garmouts -of: tho sixtoonth contury,” and_thoy linve not boen the Tosn Buccessful in thelx Mastor's work for doln, d0.' “Weo-bld our Mothoalst® brethren 'God specd | whon they procipim Christ and Him orucified ; we giva thom orodit for doiug » good work in'the sorvica of our common Lord; ' and’ whon ' we sposk of Calvin-and, Knox, Ohalmors and Guth- rio, Whiteflold snd Spurgoon, Soott and Nowton, | Davios and Edwards, Mason and Talmage, we are sure:that our Mothodist trionds. will.not despise thoir Iabors bocauso, of their Oalvinism, ,.Wo hopo that & Prosbytorinn ministor will novar #o far forgot Lils dignity'as to ‘sbuso the religions principles of the. Methodist Church by calling them ‘‘dirt compared with \which Universalism *and Unitarisuism aro golden.” TPresbytorians have . their :principlos, . and they . hold thom | . .becauso, thoy - consider them. soriptural, | and they 'pronch thom because they oconsider that .o right practico will not- flow out of wrong ?rinclp o8, any moro thau a true | oonclusion will logically flow from false prom- | “isos, But, while tva consider that dogmatlo truth i in somathing which, should be hiold fast, and held | forth, yes, oven earnostly contonded for, aud; while wo considor that:the correction of an un- sound faith roquires. sharp rebukos, still we do- eiro to oxtend toward oil that charity thatbe- havothinob iteelf unsoomly, . R - THE COURTS. ‘Miscollanéoits Musincss Transnctod u Saturday. f PERBONAL, - On motion of Robert E. Jenkins, Esq., Luther Lnflin Mills was admitted to practico in the' United States Cirouit and Distriot Courts. ) 0 ITEMB, Judge Heaton has goiie Lomo. Judgo Blodgett will doliver ‘a declsion in the Jonathan Hay case this morning. S In tho case of Love v. Love, the alimony to the wifo was .inoreasod from $1 a day to $800 & yoar. . The judgments of tho Board of Police against Thomns Walsh and Joha McIunerney were re- versod, and the policomen’ reinstated. bus with' the loss of their pay during thelr susponsion. - ' © -, DANKRUFTOY, ITEMS. Flold, Lelter &-Co. filed ».potition agatnst: Harris Levinson on aclaim for goods sold, to the! amount of:8437.70; Thoy allego that ‘ho- has timo: they are mnot' ‘fit for ‘the nine-. teeuth contury ; they are sixteontli-contusy men —far, far bebind. tho_ngo. Wall, what doos all! this stulfamount to? Was tho sixteonth century, an ago of imbeciles and dwarfs ? -1t is snid of’s period farthor away than the -sixteenth century: that thoro wore gianty In thoso days, and can wo not say of that'sixteonth century, which somo seenk of .40, irtoverently, thors were giants in- tboso days. Tho sixteenth centt nd its horoes, its mighty men,” The Puritans wers #ixtoenth-coutury mon. Thoso. brave -mon who Inid tho foundation, of ‘this mighty nation.on! Plymouth Rock wero sixteenth-century mon, and ! are they to be laughed at and dospised as ‘woak-' lings fu whom the mon of tlis sgo cannot find anyllung grand or groat? . ‘The Huguonots, thoso fine ‘old sufferors for religion, syhose bloo baw faltened thosoil of Franto,. and tho guilt.of whoso martyrdom hos made France evor since a troubled son with tho reoviutions and roigus of terror. _Thoso heroes. were - sixtesath-century men, Luthor, and: Molancthon,, and- wera sixtoenthi-contury men, and Calviu, and; Zuinglo, and Knox. Yos, this Is tha trouble, If. thoro bad beon.no Calvi, no Knok, that six- teouth contury ivould have beon'n grand chaptor in the history of rfihih)n, but the ufipam\ncn of these /men bas, robbed that birth-nge of the Ohurol's famous reformation of all its glory,! and turned it into & synonym of ridienle, But Dr. Thomns aud others nced not go so far back ay tho sixteenth contury for tho Calvinism of tho Presbyterian Clurch.” It was uoither| Calvin sior Xnox thas framed the formularies of ; the Presbyterinn Church. Thoy will find, coming from Wosbmiuster in 1648, thesa; Counfossion of Futh, it would bo more correct, clirpuologieally speaking, to namo them sevon- toou-aud-a-half-contury men. But' what has the sixtoenth . century or the -nineteenth. contury to do with the pormancncy of revealed truth 7 Do the Holy Seriptures chanigo with the couturies of the world’s history? Istho Biblo of tho nincteenth century difforent from the Biblo of tho sixtenth contury? as the world beon blessed with anothor Gospel ‘more suitablo ! to tho-times than Luther found, in_the Biblo ho discovored.in the library of the old University of ; Erfurt? Doos God save mon difforontly now from the way he did boforo? From tho manner in which some talk of tho ninoteenth contury, : you would fancy that revoaled truth was unsts- le, " that il old things hisd passed sway, sud all things bocoma now. i sl Ir wo must locale thq roligious prluclma_a which we hold wo. must go baok to_the first contury, to the ago of the Apostles, in which God gavo to the Ohurch the Now, Testamont. Heriptures, and there findtho faith'oncoe delivered to the yaints, If we nre to know what man is to beliove concorning Giod, and what duty God re- quires of mau, we must go away back to the first contary ; farther still, away back to tho daya of ' Mowas'; aud, however humiliating to.the nine- toouth ' cobfury it mny be, it must lonrn from theso bygone Bgos the doctrinos and duties of roligion,” COnlvin did not mnko - what is_called Calviniom, The Westmimstor divines did not malke tho doctrines which are coutained in tho Confession of ¥aith, -These mou only arranged | in .order tho. doutrinos which they found laid; down in CGod's Word, and o subumissive wera' Ahey.to the authority of Soripturo that they did not daro to reject auything hocauso it was hard | to be understood. Muoh capital has boon mado| out of the epitliet applied ‘by Calvin to the doe-! {rine of Prodostination,—he oalled it: horribile decrobum,—but this ' goos to prove .-hia‘ fidolity to Boriptnre. Delieving tho doctring to bo .taught thero, ho does not re~ Laut» it, though it appoarcd mwful -to him; ut gave it’ o plago iu his syatow of thoology.: Aud i\m 80 is it with tho minlstors and membors of the Presbyterian Cburch throughout the world, who hold the Coufession of Faith, They: Tiold it, not becauso 142 divines _made it in 1648, not beonude Calvin wrote his Institutes in tho sixteonth contury, but because thoy consider it & sydtomatizod form of the dootrine taught in tho Word of God. Not on the opinion of Calvin, not ou the lestimony of church or assombiy of mon, but on the authority of Horip- turealone, dowe bulid our beliof; and wa receive thoso systematized doctrines, callod by way of distinotion OCulviniutio, becauso wo bolievo they aro doducod from tho Word of God, Our flual appoal, thew, in dofonso of our fuith, is to the Beriptures—not the enlightonod mon of thenine- tuonth contury ; not to tho men of tho nixtoonth century, whom somo ungratetully dofamo.; not to buman opinion as to whap God shonld bo, and what God sbould ‘do; but to the law and the toutimouy wo go; and what wo fud . thore, - atter And if)]. honest Prosbyterians are to bo named- after the||. | &ugust Melsted, $158.04. allowod - his goods, at his’store, 4068 Clark streot, to Do taken on logal procoss ; that ho is owing $10,000, and has no'assets but his stook of mer- chinndise worth about §1,600. A rule to .show! :08u80.,.and ; warrant of eizuro wer lsaued, aud| also an injunction to prevent Wilous, ‘who re-! coverod judgmont, from solling thio goods under " it. A warrant of arrost was aleo issued to provent by tho combatants was ne romantio ne.it was, i| 1sts, hor and tho I'rosonce Chinmbor will bo resorved for the uso of tho Imperor's sulte, nnd npart- maonts for the Inttor wll\ also bo provided iu the Tound Tower of the Custle Keop. st A Duel of the Gentler Boxe 1t i rolatod that two gluls i tho Rloyal tobacco faotory at Madrid rocontly killed oach othor in & hand-to-hand contost.” Tho mode adoptod barbarous. ‘Whe antagonlsls, who wore about 201 yoary old, and romarknbly handsome, ropaired, on Bunday morning, accompaniod by cortain of thoircomrados, to & villago nome fouror fivo milea diatant, whoro thoy broalfastod sumptuously nt differont tables. Tho repnut onded, thoy closed the window-curtaius, alrlpl]md thomselves to tho walst; and roquontod thefr frionda to loave tho. m. Then, at & given sigual, they attnoked each other with their navajas, and slashod and thrust, uutil both fell to” the floor mortally woundéd|! Whon a fow minutos had elapsod thoir frionds re-enterod tho room, Iistefauln,’ ouo of tho combatants, Lind rocolved ton wounds, from whicl'she bled to doath ‘in_about lalf an hour! - Oasllds, ber antagonist,’ died somewhat soonor from & ghostly wound in the nock, ARRIVAL AN DEPARTURE OF TRATRY T drdnaont . MANKA, =+ Batirday e nnmv WESTENN MAILROADY ol 0 Poentyarcondoa ‘outi Ll ruer oyt Hg e coTner W Moty HItNRY 0, WENTWOITH, Uoneral Passongor Agont. i, ST W eaga, Kane and_Denver Bort Line, . s Mot Chigas ST ingaidy Al st Sy et Through Lina, oty West. &ide, near Hadison-op, bridge. Tickst Offices ¢ At Depot, and 133 fiandolph.i -— . French Antagonisms, Parts Corresporcdence af the New York Ierald, °; If anythiog were wanted just now to make the oonfusion of Fronch politica worso confounded 1t might bo sought In the fact that M, Paul do Ons- saguac, tho champion firo-cator of the Imporial- disapproves_tho now' programmo of M. Touher, sud the Napoleons of Chiselburat, and s rather inclined..to aido with Plon-Pion, who bas sot up an_opposition establishmont 1n Paris, , Moroover, M. Victor ‘Hugo,: tho apostlo of tho' Radicals, has had & quarrol about bis new book: witls M, Qambotts, the popular tribuno. Mar-; shal’ MaoMahon doclares that he cannot hold. power withouiitio Ditke do Broglio,nd tho Duko' ooazos, who. in ihe best mau in tho Osbinot,. looke somewlint cooly ow his overboaring cof- loagues. M. Guizot and M. Ollivier aro saying .unkind thinks to cach othar, oven in the poace-! ful precinct of tho Acadomy ; snd Frobsdorfis “gulking with 8t. Gormaing, G _ Virtue. in Paris, N4 " Tho Pariaians are gotting to bo virtuous at longth, inoradible asit may seom. Tho Oatho- 1io party hos for some timo kept up an open warfare against tho oxposition of nakod atatuoa {n tha public gardons of Daris, and hay at last suocoeded in gotting the authorities of tho Lux~ umbourg Gardon to romove all’ the nnked atat~ ues In that place, They aro now urging tho Goyvernment not to buy "any. more nudities of artiats, and to prohibit, moreover, the snle of all finuda ¥ wort of boolts, such, for inatanco, aa thosé’of Madinie e Btacl, Paul do Kock, Georgo Band, oto. « 7 3 . AMUSEMENTS, ; -~ M'00RMICK: MUSIO:HALL: - “Don't Fail fo Hear Then” “The most enjoyable Concerts ever given in Chicago.” : " “Amovelty and a beauty.” THE CAROLINE ; RIGHINGS-ERNARD “OLDDE FOLKES," For One Week, Commencing May 11, ; MATINEES ' ‘Wednesday & Saturday. Bala of resorvod sasts at 75 cunts, bogine MONDAY, May 4, at Janson, MoUlurg & Co.’s, 117 Stato-at, i arpenter & Sheldon, “THE GREAT ADELPHT, THIS M%’g’é‘;}g{ggfi”““ n, COMBINATION - F _SPECIAT, ~ STARS AVIS, Premior Ventriloquist of the World! B, thd Stocklinim yondots o s 2 FILA] 8, M BELLA FRANOIS. Misa KRODORA FRANCIS, Misa KLLA HUNT, in thelr distinguishad Corypheo and Bal- 1ot Kosombles, togathor with Atr. ARNOLD JKIRALEY, the Hiarof tho vory famous Kirallry Brothers, MISS FRANKIE, JENNIE MORGAN, )] BTANTINE, the Tuu nntemimiah, ML EVELIN BILLY RICE, LI LYNELDS BRDhIEM. Goory - Oharloy, LEON BROTHERS, Harry Littlo, H: _Blanats Uarmon, Loonora Bradloy, and ‘the ‘matio aud Pantomimio Company, concluding with S1G- NOR CONSTANTINE'S Comlo Pantomime, KIM-EA; Or, the Advontures of an Aoronsnt | dala Matincg Wodnosday, L3 p. m. Ladloe! Night, ~Thursday noxt, April 8, lcos: 60, ‘45, or 15 oputs. Beeured, 25 conts oxtra, In active preparation, BA DICKEY. - : 7 : s © " MGVIOKER'S THEATRE. ERENOIH OPERABOUEFEHR. CHAS LEVY: Hgon A DURAND; Freasirer, ‘Lovinson loaving the ofty. S BUPERION COURT IN BRIEF. - 3 Bornard Heouney and Archibald: Carapbell be- gon an action against, Emily B. Jowell, claiming , 1,000, . Leliman, Billings-'&. Cnll began & sult (for $6,000 sgalugt Damel Gooy, . - - - > GIRCUIT COURT. Tdwin *Walker bogan o sult in assumpsit | against Josiab L. Kook for $1,000. i Fraoklin_ 8, Woodward began a suit in debt -against A, D.'Rich and H. 0. Cone, Iaying dam-;{" .agos at §1,080. . ¢ , . - I s “Goorgo Erickson filod s potition agninst Anton “Engebertson, Potitioner claims £878 on o noto, -§226 on'a judgment, and about :$8,000 on san-, “dry loaus. ; It. is_oliarged that .the.debtor has | ivon a warrant to confess judgment’ to one 4%1“15'1.‘“1 Hangen, on which 'a judgmont was mtered yn againgt him. . A rulo to .show - causo “May 4, & Warront of -lssued. i . In the matter of Wyatt and Wustoom, bank- nlxpt grocers, a dividend .of 6 por cont was do-; olared. e 3 - L (e Eie THE OALL, * L) | . .Junae Roaems,—2060, 291 to 808, except 204, 205, 297, =3 1 Jupae Boori.—T79 to 84, 86, 87, 94 to 100, Juvox Tnee.—32,946, 2,846, 1,180, 2,686, - | Jupar FArweLL.—1,670 to 1,700. w"fl%lsnl MoRouenra.—77, 70 to 83, 85 to 88, 80' Junae Jaxeson.—105, 107, 109 to 112, 114, 110 10120, 123, 124, 120, 127, 128,180, 181, " ? JUDGMENTS, 4 Unrrep Brares Omourt. Qounr.—George P, Whit- ‘akor v. Willlam Bturges $13,462.60, 3 Burenion Count—UoNrEss.oNs.—George F, Glaser s et al. v, Augustus Fronch, $37.05,—Fridolin Madliner i, Louis Mohna, $249.68:~Commercinl Loon Company' v. Bamuel J, Walker and Joseph E, Young, $2,305.83, ‘Jupaz McRopents/—~Thaddens Fairbauka ot al, v, Mioliael ¥, Osney, $136,70.—LenfamingPeency et o, v. Gatherine Bason, J, F. Mason, nnd {Merrll Ladd, | $74,25.~Granville Dates v, Landmark Lodge No. 423, A, E nd 4, 3, yordiet, $112,60 s moldon for 2o rial, - Junax, Butira,—Robert Porter v, Jamoa Sifnson; finding, $93.15, and motion for new trinl ‘¥ QunGtrr Goun—Convnssions.—Adolph Winter v.! Jupox Boorii.—Towoph Gultian v, Dridget Dwyre, $342.60.—1oury R, Kim| et al, v, Thomas MoArthur, 5,647 é “Theé Itoumaninn Jows. : The Jetish Timep contnins & potition of Rou- manian Jews to the Clamber of Deputics at’ ‘Bucharest, demanding the' rights which have boon withheld froni them. ' fhoy buse:thoir de-. maud upon Art. 21 of the Constitution of’ Roumania, whiok guarantges the froédom of all roligions. Thoir griovances -ara stated ‘as fol- .lowa : ** We ask you; goutlomon, Deputies, to consldor our posfdlon’ in the prosent momont, We are denled almost overy right which man -ohorishos as dear as. lifo . itself. :We have no political right, no olyil liborty. . We cannot hold ‘property in or till the'soll, (Vn cannot purchinse ovon the dwellings sholtoring our familles, Weo ,are shut qut from tho :learned professions, ox- oluded from several Industrial ‘and ‘commercial purauits, and,:in tho m‘m’y, where soveral thou- Band soldiors of Jowish faith sorve in the ranks, sl hopo of promotion is donted, Nor iu this all ;, the th!lu mind of tho country I8 continually ex- cited againat ua by dinfigurations and inveotivos, while gonoral aud systematio persecution hes its -apologists," S 4 ——— The Ozar’s Visit to Englana, Tho Ozar of Ruesia is expeocted to visit Queen Victorin, at Windsor Caatle, in" the first wook of next month, . During the Queen's absence In the Islo of Wight, the employes in the Lord Chawm- borlaiu's department, under tho supervision of Mr. W, Beabrook, Enspector of Palaces, aro on- gaged in Axmnurlug the atato apartmonts witich lwoverlook the north torrace for the Emperor's ro- ception, Tho snito of rooms elscted will bo noarly similar to the apartments. used by the Lmperor and Empress of the Freuch on their visit to tho Quoen at Windsor Oastlo, in April, 1865, and will fuclude the Vandyke room, or old ball-room, tho Zuoharelli room or Quocn's stato iro, and injunotion wore | . . oA gt woole of AIMILK. Mnday, April 37—t Porloliolo. Tucsday-La Vio Pacislonno (Lifo tn Parls), Wednavdsy=La Fllodo Madsmo Angot, > Gonovloyo o Drabant, ] 1 o, Baturd é{,‘,’fl?n.‘l’.;., e Mgt ironing —Farows % -~ Rf\aion Canduotor, Mons. O. VAN GUELE Opora Books, the ealy carravt odittan, for tale st tho Thioatro, Monday, May'd, Makglo Ditotoll as Jano Eyra. MYERY' OPERA-HOUSE. Monroo-st., bot. Doarbiorn and State; " ARLINGTON. GOTTON & KEMBLES MINSTRELS! Entiro chango of programmo. _!‘Somobodp's Contty A Lesson for Ladies]" All's Woll that Ends Wolli" Moat,My Lovoat Four!” Now songs! New ballads! Now -jokes, Kvery uvonhln’und Saturday matinoo, Look ont £ tho *“BLACK SMUGGLERSI™ B, ATTRAOTION RXTRAORDINARY! MONDAY, Al af ovory ovening and at the matinges irst timo at this thoates, Boucloanlt's reltfih{. THE NTREETS OF NEW YORIL, The Groat Firo Soeno! The Groat Fire Soonal oNow Seaneryi. Now Moshanioal Kifloois aud tho aatire jompany In tlio oast, - Titat appearanco of MR. HENRY 8, PAGF, tho colo- ratod ‘Oonot _Bopisty from Covent” Gardon, London, ""‘M#HGP&'&Q}H&F of this clty, in hia Grest! “Banjo Bolos 1n ne N Filday, Hay 1-Yolat Boolls of GEU. MILLER and BLISS WHITAKER, M'VIOKER'S THEATRE. FRENCH OFERA DOUFFE. OHAB, LEVI, Agont. | A, DURAND, Troasurer, Posltively Lunt Wouk of AIMEE. = -] ERICHOLIE, '—LA VAL fx’.fiofix Faris:) T ¥ednsedar Afion: non, at 3, LA BRLLE UELRNIE, A {3 MaRANE, AR, u Matinoa—LA PEERIGHOLT. Haturday Evon- —PAREWELL NIGHT, Musical Gonduotor, 0. Van Gohlo. Opora Bnoks tha only corract odition, for salo at ‘Theatra ‘Thea e 8y 4~MAGQIE MITORELL s Jano Eyro, ACADEMY OF MUSIO. Tingagoment of the eminnnt charaotor actor, MIt. % FRAT, Whio will stnonr 15 hia groat Amorican Draima, o The Arkansas Traveler. Suppurted by the ontire ACADEMY COMPANY, Pro- duoad with new and beautlful sconory and offoots/ intro- ducii the torelio’ Sicamboat Explosian, Howle' Kuifa ght, oo, eto. ! HOME LODGE, NO, 416, 1, 0, 0. F. - Bpscia} Reusion tn hosor of the Afiy.fth snsiverssey f i 11 91, ot Firat, M- e o T R b Ao THE FIRST BALL Of SILVER LINK LODGI, No. &1, 1. 0.0.T., in Lonor of the 55th annivorsary of tho ordar, will take placo MONDAY, April 27, at Turner Hall, on West P'wolfth-st. All brothers and thelr (rlonds are fnvited. BITTERS. l’lilgl;'i;&DlONl BOKER'S BITTERS. ' Beware of Countorfeits. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, NO CURE! DI‘. Kean, NO PAY!! T, CHIOAGO, O e, nocssmally o by s fog o chrgo, sultad, narsanally or by watl, frog of 1 B io or Hokvons ditasses. DG, J. KEAN le 1o o an tn e olty who watraits Guras or fio pay. e aburniod from Karobu, Aflas yiviting to fauor- A St doriin, anl iaris, 1 s (ully bro- Parod to giva ths atilicted tho bonolit of tay loug and saried Do e ANkl ‘sud eaporioace, on tho ueual torias, ks abara. 2 BHOULD FAIL to road DI, A N’o ONE G5, QLN geeat work iy Vin Ayaong tho Amotad. Thou- nJ: savod from an oarly gra y Tagturos, espscially ta You: drawing-room, and tho Council Chamber (which was ‘néed as tho bod-room of the Emperor and Tappross of tho Freuch), The Audionce Cham- avo, ng Mom, tn buok forn, ey L e T LUAGO MIEDIOAL INNIT TR, $Hou B ota. post patd. Otlice, 1 ‘ashinglon.at. Hiiondor Uonwnitatlon troa, Oall oF welto, | Patioas provided withs board and rooss, ! e B i Tete, | Avrive, Enasas Oty and Donver Fast Ex, [> 10, m. Kanta Gity xpross. GHi5 . m. Bt Louls Rxpress, o A R bR - EDTMRIoI JoproNyes e 30 he e 15 1 2 2 145 p. m| ‘earis, Kookik & lBur N 48 5 m! Ohloago & Paducah Raflroad i Am, Hteontor, Lacon, Washingtan Yx! Jollot &'Dwiglit Accouni 4505 b e ation, CHIPARO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILWAY, Unfon Denal, ‘corner Wadison and Cunaleste, Ticket Offe* G South Clarkcat,, opposite Sherman Hoie, and at Depots Arriv Lea 100, Mall:. vve a0 m. ["1:008, m, Milwaukee, G; 4 s dinty O, PR & ilinespo : 08, m* 418 p. m. DY DTSR, cover et rprs Milwaukeg, G ay, dio Faint. Pralrio du - Ohlo Miiadikon, B olle, Nugtit. Fixprota 09, me 1t 8:30p.m. * B:c0p. m. t 1208, m., Dyt foot ot S NOIS UENTRAL nAILROAD. : aices 131 Seasdolahies near Diare iscondst, Tiotu tark " Teave, Arrive, ~ CHICAGO, ) Dipete o e Sttt G 7 entheate, TVeki at., Grand Jucific Hotel, and at depol Mail and Express, Ottawa snd Biroa! Dubuque & Bloux ity 1 Paclfic Fast Ling, for O Lokvonuox Josoph E: Dabnaue & Sirdity & Pacily gt Exp, foc Oipat Kaneaa Oflyr Lelvonmortt, ohison & BE. ‘Joseph Lix 00p, my | 75 SLx. Bundays. 15x, Baturday, 3kix, Monday, CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, &ty affices, corner Randolph and LaSalle-sts,, and 73 Cunat. ., corner Aadison-st Leavs, & §t, Paul Rxpross., Marquolte Lixpro; & Winons Ta—Dopot corner of Wl b—~Dopot f O o NP NT R o COLORADD, KANSAS & NEW MEXICO. Fieket and Freight Ofice, 71 Clark: E!uolnl Inducemonts. - Great Now Routa. .,‘T. &8t Feolt. R, W. K, WEBB, Gon'l Ag't. CHICAGO, ROOK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. Devpot, corner o’ Van Buren und Shermants, IVcket ofice, Grand Pacific Hotel. ¢ A Leave, Arriy s Qmaha, Loavenw'th&Atohison Rx|*10:1 a, 1. [* 4:00 p, m. Poru A0commodation,sse.. * 6:00 p. m, |* 9:0a, m. Night E1prosses.s H0:00 p. . |t §:30 8, ma LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD. ket conmee GIA e Tracamtaats, ket ofleery Corner Canatand Hadison-sge, et S southi “CHICAGO. ' INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATI THROUGH » INE. VIA KANKAKEE ROUTE. From the Qreat Central Kailroad Depot, foot of Laks-st, Leave, Arrive. Rl e AT PROPOSALS. x| GINVICE LABOR 0 T, Oprios Kaxasa Szurx ProrreaTiny, ) 'LEAVENWORTH, Kan,, April1, 1874, SEUALED BIDS will bo received for the labor of 200 CONVIOTS, or what is not .required to do tho work at the Prison, until 2 o’clook p. m., HOOLEY'S THEATRE, [ JUNE 1, 1874, 840 Convlata now tn the Prison. Wagon aud Garrlago making riow carried on. Coniracts will be_mado for five or ten yoars, TEN "HOURS wil bo & DAY'S LALOR. Allshops now and prinolyally briok, 2 A New, 65-Horse Power Engine,. and boller, now sot. Btatewill furnish fixed machinery, lino sbafling, blower and pipes, Paymonts roquirod monthly, Ordinary branohes of mlnu!Aullelnl( will be allowod. - Coal for fuel hiad from 13 to 18 gonts par bushol, Tull {nformatio: d specifications furnishod on appli- cation to A, J. A!B hairman Board of Direotors, or R e ST e SR e ST o COhairmsn Board of Dircotors. STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS. OFFICE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PA- * CIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. April 23, 181, The annual mooting of tho Stookholders of the Ohicago, Raok Taland & Paotflc Railrosd Company, for tho eluotion of Direotors, pursuant to law, and tha transaction of such athor businoas as may come boforo them, will ho hold at tho ofiice of the Company, in tho city of Chicago, on Wedaosday, tho third day of June next, at 11 a'clock a, m. JOHN T, TRAOY, Presidont. . 11 TOWS, Beoratary. MISOELLANEOUS. FURST & FLANDERS, ‘Washington fHlack, soatlwiat cornor Hith-dv, sud Wash- Ington:at., Jtooms 1 and 17, Offe Tnteg-Stale Tndustrial Exposition of Chicego. OHIOAGO, Aptil 2, 1874, of tho Stockholdors of tho abavo oryaniza; 5t day of May, 187 tion Huidia, on Hiobi mating lhfin‘?ll‘l‘ Uahola on'raseds 't o Bikey A 3 "n‘.\":or‘:m':'('mfi‘nr Ruara-at, T the ntyoso of ol s or the & 5 g a Hoacd of Dlre g B HILYNOLDY, Beorotary. Property Owners, Attention ! yax Bato Certificatos held by tho Cify of uH;'.‘L‘Jfi'.‘:.'.:‘;‘.au::m:.lF.t‘iu Dot son, prorilum, aflar bo tnoro 3 whioli dato tho xate wig by T3rAt0308, Gity Comptrotlor. Omosao, April 1, 187k i FRACTIONAL CURRENCY $5 Packages oF FRACTIONAL CURRENCY FOR BALT AT TRIBUNE OFFICE.