Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. Prof, Swing on the “Decline of Theology.” 'The Rev, Father Terry EBpeaks on “ Tho. Love of God for Man,” Dr, Rydor Roviews the Trial of Prof. Bwingy = s Influence on the Future of Proshyterianism. And Dr. Locke on iho Right of Ohurches to Turn Out Horotlcs. Rov. Mr. Goodspeod Disonsses Church-Quarzels. THH DHOLINE OF THEOLOGY, Prof. Swing on tho Confession of Falth, aind Srocds Gonerailye Pror. Swing yestorday morning proschod In tho Fourth Prosbytorian Clurch o sormon en- titled ** Tho Decline of Theology.” The text was the ninth vorso of tho first chapter of John—*¢ That was tho truo light which lightoth overy man that comoth into tho world "—and tho sormon as as follows : . Tito best interprotation of Christ's mission may bo found in romomburing to whom Hecame. It ho came to tho porchof philosaply, or to the gollorles of art, orto tho halls of logislation, then His words would be interpreted with tho special wants of tho paiticular do- partmont beforo the mind, 1f Chrinb camo to the world in all its conditions, to bo its 8piritual light, than His words and ustions must bo granted in world-trido Intorpretation ; that is, thoro must be found a version of Iiis language which shall be -a light to all mankind. If you will rocall to mind mome of the great teackiors ‘whoso nzmes aro embalmed in memory, you will find that somo of them camo to a selact class, small in numbers, but poworful in influcacs. Terw of tho world's vast throng know what Plato and Aristotlo aro saying in thoir great volumes ; that s, if tho world hiad the time and power to read thoso abtruso discuesions, it would bo nono tho wiser, hocnuso theso two great thinkers did not belong to tho world, butonly toa fragment ofit. Bo the works of Lord Bacon and Lacke aro words spoken to only a corner of the multi- tude, and the wiso words of thoso thinkers are sifted aud analyzed, and at Jost sowo simplo facty aro olimiuated and fod out'to thoe peoplo. ‘The pacinlization of cortain great minds for tortain narrow tlelds of thought, does not indi- . 3ato that the mass of humsn humgn enlled so- ciety is a poor, untaught erowd, behind the ago, andloss ingpived thau those worthios of Greeco or Eoglaud, and that, in some qul(luu 8go, Wo shall all bo Platos or Bacons. Tho sxplanation soems rather to bo tlua: that thero aro a thou~ sand differont works to bo done, 8 thonsand lincs of thoufiht to bo Eurmml, and that Bacon 18 grent in his placo, and soociety is good and grent iu its profound jgnoranco of Bacon or Plato. Tho poots do not troublo themselves about tho motuphysicians, It 18 not probablo that Whit- tior reads much in Herbert Bpencer, or thnat Stu- it Mill read much in Whittier or Longfellow. That individuals haye each their }mlu, arguos othing againat tho hionorabloness of eaoh ; for, the univorso being infinite, the individual min cn’::lnnly deal with a scotion of the immenso whola. _Now, society nt large roveals the same limitn- tiony, whon it is viewed, not ns- individuals, but a8 o vast aggrogate. It in o hmited oroature, and honce whatever truth of morals, or politics, or scionco is recoived by it must ba given it in a enoral form, and wot in technical dotails. usied in ils {ndustrios and plonsures, ita homes, its sliopn, its profossions, ita traflic, its madln?, its travol, its carcs and calnmitics, soowety is utterly forbidden to hear more than gonoral statemouts of morals or yolities, of art, of selonco. All that tho multitude can eatry with it from day to day is somo general psinciplo of Inw, of cthics, of scienca, of art, N'his doos not, I ropeat, indicate that tho world is an untaught, stupid ciowd; but thatit s mado up of limitad souls, which, f;iving themeolves to pootry, must abandon politics, or, giving themsolvea Lo politice, must abondon poctry. Society, however educa- ted it may becomo, will nover hecome univorsul in its tastes and learning; but will always ho minuto in ita soveral dopartments, but very suporficiul in its kuowledge of tho whole uni- versa, Theso proliminary romarks bring mo to the thought of tho toxt,—that Christ camo Lo Lo the light of the world. He was to Lo a light whict should lighton every man which should ever live after His prand advent. It was not His mission to como like a Plato, to somo corner of Jho outsproad family of man;_ to como to & group of thinkers here or thora but to como to ‘n}\-holg race, with not even the litilo childron loft out, You may perceive in an instant the distinc- Hon Dbotween such an crrand s that which brought a philosopher, and that which brought tho Bon of God to the earth, Men may live hap- pily without knowing much of what philosophy loaches, in Athons or in Loudon, but ull the mighty throng of earth must know something abous religion. Tt is tho universal truth which 2l must seck and learn, Tho mission of Clrist wes, therefore, peculior in that Ha camo to overy mnn in the world. Mo was the light to shino ;punt every faco, nud deep down into every cart. But I have just ealled your attention to tho fact that it is not possible for the wholo human fumily to combino in tho atudy of any one truth, or in tho developmont of auy one axt or selence, It may dolight the wholo “race some timo to kunow’ somothing of politics or goology ; bub thero Is no power that can ever hopo to mako the whole population.of our globo turn their attention to the profession of am goologlat or tho politician. " That must bo vur{ gonoral which shnil bo studied and Joved by all. 1In coming, thorefore, Lo the wholo family of mortals, Christ becameo thus goneral, becamo simplo, beeamo practical, and thus fully meota the Lighest demands of reason. As His Gospél isannounced in the Now Testamont, the mor- chant may fully know it ; tho poot may wenve it into his verse ; tho Rouuciun may, Webstar-, like, inweava it into his oloquence ; the little child may slog itiu a simplo hymo, or broathe it in {te evoning prayor, §From what has beon rald, nothing can be uni- Yoreal oxcopt what {8 full of shuplieity, Thero oro fow that know anything of history. It is ouly those who make a spocial study of historic works that ean tell what were all tho idoas of Romo undor tho Cicsars, or of Paris in tho tenth codtury, Whad the common scholur or citizen Laows, i su]y great gonernl facts and principles of those rémoto periods. It cannotbe otherwise In tho promulzation of tho Gospel. Its gront light, Josus Chulat, n‘“nwad the genius ormeathod of ourth, and fitted 1118 Godpel to become world- wide, by fitting it to tho limits of perfeot sim- plicity.” Can f'ou conceiva of anything more ¥implo than Hiy sormony, than is wholo creed from first to last? Tho heart is lefs to love Bim, or to trust Him, or to come to im, or to rollow Him; and it may call. Him Master, or Lord, or Bon of Man, or Bou of God, or Savior, or Redeemer, or Friend. Thore is n wondetful floxibility in Chrlst’s Goupel, the nnuhnng[nfi thlufis boing thet tho hoart niust love Him, aw musk becomo sanctifled within, £ nded not nttompt to give horo tho mast condensod state- ment of Qospol truth. Nobmli can publish any puch minimum of creed, My idoa is oul this, thut o Gospel dostiued to bocoma uhivorsal must flrat bo made simplo, and this Christ did in & most wonderful degreo. It was the subie- quont ages thut wrought out for us that vast sys- tem called thoology, & systom as_entaiyled “ns tho motuphysics of Aristotlo, and as wonderful 28 tho Inbyrinth of Daedalus, 1t is suld that true loarning ond true witdom tend toward wim- licity ; that is ignorance and obseurlty of mon- Fnl vislon that give the world the most complex, ost yorboss goncralizatlons, It I8 & wall- nown fact that the creods of Indla and of Ohina wholly surpasa all the acbievenents which Chris- }ian nations have mede along this path, Tho forms and ceremonies of religion aré generally vant in proportion to the abaurdity of the rolig- jon, the Hindoo religion being the most com- Eax, the religion of Josus being the slme lest of all, 1f it 18 true thut real wisdom nd eulture week the monat slmplicity, this would dicnte that the groat crood-uiaking ages which ruduacd a now catoclism ebout na often &8 our XII produses an klinauso mush Liave boon agod m}t of Christliko pgroatness, and henco sim- plidity, but ages nlmrinf undar & erood:mhking mauia, ages jitks boginning to caonpe from tho wildoruoss, wild aud ontangled, of wuporstition, and fiom tho labyrinth of Avislotlo, 1t you will thko tlio trouble 'to reild Aui(uauna ahd Tottule linn, and thon pass on to Abelard, and thon pass on to Luther, aud thus find what n most marvel- ous group of 'thoortats hud lawmakors thoy all woro, yon will thiuk or owh Conforsion of Faith quite simple, and will evormore feol that it eprang not fiow the Netw Teatament, but from tho peoutinritios of sodioty na 1t wab Just con- vergmg from heathonism upon one side, ayd from Christinn decadehco on tho othor, In a practicnl Ago lke this bre, it i slmost impossiblo to realiso that thero over was a timo when bloodshod resulted from intolleotiinl sthfod ovor tho *nntuto bf Oliclst's union with tho Fathar, and. ovet the kitid of light that surroundod tho Bavior in His transfig- uratfon, whother it was 1tatural light or spiritunl light. But 8uch wad ths prominence of fitel- loctual dobats ovor character and ploty in the past, that o formula In theology was vastly moro gouglt fof thau virtde fh fiu homt. Honco, Heury VIEL was a wonderful Dofondor of the Tuith, but a poor spocimon of virtue, Wihon Abclnrd flod to tho wildernoss snd dros ftor him into tho deep eolitude n faw thonsands; or hundreds, as vomo sny, studoute and scholars froin Lai, it was not thiat thoy might study th duties of man to man, and of ‘man to God,' dud thus lny tho foundations of lberty. and indus- tiy, aud univoranl edueation and happiness, -but thnt thad vast throng of studeats, with tho elo- quoent Abelard for s guido, wight discriminate about tho parncleto and trinity, and thus lny down exnct nilés by which horobics might bo burued in tho next generauions. This Intelloc- tual war rau right forward, diminisblag, indoed, a8 rapidly as the himan mind grow broador, but diminishing 8o slotr that tho spirit of the old de- bato is pinml{‘vlslbln among the phonomonn of tho ninoteonth coutury. " Olir Coutotslon of Faith tvag, Indéod,compared with tho oudlosa dofinitions and disoriminations which lins beon mndo bofore it, beiween Origon and the Boholastics, was ni offort toward grontor slmplicity, Cho early Ohtrol aud tlic Roman Ohureh had henped” thio doctrines up mountain high, and upon Pelion of dogmn thoso Church elanta had hoaped the Osea of logond, until at loant the clouds of porfect obucurity had boou roached by tho pilo, and to throw down this tower bf Babel wns tho fundamobital dosign of the Wastminstor Assombly, Targo and compli- cotod as our old siandards are, thoy wore abwo- lutely a flvst effort to secure simplicity. Onward tho world went in the grent davoloy- mont of education and porsonal liberty. It radunlly beeamo impossible to torture or pun- sl for holding now or auti-crodal oninlons, Now nuutabumrnram, o8 and flonrished, auch as Methodists, Daptists, Dissontors of many & name, and lol it become ovi- dont thet undor one ot of opinions the soul was as virtuous and happy as undor anothor; and that tho long and bloody logleal war had boen uttorly destituto of roason, and Liad beon full of only human error aud depravity, ‘Che momont socloty had been quiet long enough to discover that a rotostant could bo as good a citizen as o Catbolic, and that a Dissonter had a8 good & heart, a8 good o soul, as & communi- cantin the Bstablishinont, tho bhedrt was all takon out of that debato, which had raged furiously for five hundred years, from Abelard to Culvin. Tho rocent growth of religious lib- orty, and the consequont multlgllcnh\m of seots, are faots which have roscued Christianity from tho despolism of ‘muy ono set of opiu- fons, it s now seon {hat under the namo of DMethodist, or Baptist, or Epis- copalion, or Prosbytorian or Congrogationalist, the pamne roligion shines forth ; and this fact has emptied the old theological dobate of its doop meaning, and has_silencod tho noiso by robbing it of all results, In tho olden time, when a mor- tal hold some now doctrine about tho naturo of Clirlst, or of faith, or of the communion, e was doomed to perdition ; thero was no horoe for auy ono who varied from tho catablishicd form. Henco n debato among theologians invited the idea of heaven or hell. But in our_day, when it is confessed thnt heavon aud hell nra not in- volved in theso issucs of opinion, the mquisltion 1a robbed of all its signifieance, P oxporiment mode b( tho seots, aud this discovery that thoy all produco about the same kiud of Christianity, has joined with the growing cul- turo of tho ni: in demandiug and_producing & groator mimplicity of tho orcod. Torif many socts rovenlod tho samo Christinnity, it must bo becauso thore aro some ideds common to all— idens #o vast and so ibfluontial that thoy rido -right over the idens in which tho sects . diffor, “hus tho gradual oducation of socloty, loading away from tho obscuro toward the ratlonal and simplo, 18 joined by tha Inrgo experiment mado by tho sects, which oxperimont in each case points ont somo one thing that is non-essontial, ormit mo to illustrate this ided, Had it not beeu for the Protestant Church, the worid might feol to-day that a Popo and a ponanco nnd boly water wore ¢asontial ; but the Protes- tant Ohurch has differeutizted thoso ideas. Wore it not for the Romau Church, we might have concluded that thero could be uo piety away from our forms, but the usmes of Mussillon and Bossuet dobar us from that conclusion, Wero it not for the Methodists, it might hava boen H\Tfla!ud that Calyiuism was @ part of sulvation. Tho world might assumo tho imporative necossity of immersion were it not that somo socts only sprinkle, nnd might rely upon the baptism of {ufants wore thera not a grond Christiau host which wholly excludes thut form of religious caromony. Thus you will pereoivo :hat ench important sect demonstrates tho Insignificanco of eome one dogme, nud thus oach ono alds in driving Christisutty up to the point of simplicity, Coming to a rose-hush and never having seen ono before, tho red rose being hidden among tha lonvo, you find the air filled with o dolightful porfumo. You pluck off o leaf, but it does not givo tho swoot-sconted air. You rub it on your lingers, but all to no purposo. You strip off a pisco of bark, and yet thera is no answor to the mystery. Remombering now that it is the cus- tom of some plants to concontrate their powers in thoe roots, you dig out a fibre from the rich oearth, but you find no reward for your pains. It is ovidont, however, that each step you tako, you are coming nearer to the solution of tho problem. Iach movement purrows the bound- ery of that perfume. It will not long escapo {ou. You sweap ovor the bush with your almost impationt hand, and there the opening old- fashioned roso confesses the scerot; itis the xoso that contning tho breath from Piradiso. Thus, staudivg amid @ hundred sects, ench ono anuotnces somo placo whore salvation is not, and, by a grand climinating processs, thoy all contrive to narrow down tha presont, until at Inst wo emorgo upon o single form,—that of Jesitd Obrist; and, lo! wo have found it,—that hidden roso that flils all earth with the ntmos- phere of heaven, Thus the great experiment of the sects is constantly polnting out the non-essential, show- ing us the ‘places whore salvation is nor, sud thus leading the world inevitably to whoro it may bo found, T'o this eliminntion by tho various denomiuations, the publio education joing ita tendency toward gimplicity, and, beweon both tho th“E' loug oreeds, which formulate every kind. of theory, and which undortake to dofend overything, ara all being ground to find powder in this mill of tho gods. Every oraod in the Ohvistian world bas, within tho last twonty- five yenrs, shrank in sizo, and still nore in per- tinacity. ‘[he communion table of tho Baptist 18 legs close; tho Lpiscopal Church is esch year bouding that proud form which once stood up a8 though it were only tho religion of Kingd and otentates ; tho Roman Catholio Ohurch issileént- , but just a8 sufoly, drawing a littlo nearor to ite gront head, Josus Olrist: bundreds of its aceidontal idoas are falliug off liko frost-bitten leavos; nod, as for ourjown Chnreh, it hogalmost wholly partsd company withita sharp dofinitions, and the darkness of its past centuries fades hour by hour, befora the love that bouts upon it from tho othor denominations, and from the humano apirit of the century. Asthe iceborgs tloating down into tiio Southorn ocoafs are eaton into colls, and caves, and ravinos, by tho boating of warmer wavos, and aro smitten on all thelr shin- ing sldes by the powerful muns, until ab lust, ns ono of the poets says: ‘' Thoy woep thumufilvuu away upon tho bosom of the summor soa,” so that ull that was inhuman and un-Christilice jn Calvinistio history, and in all Church history, is moltiug in tho warmer sontimonts of the -gndml han loved the poor nnd bny freed every slave. Tho creeds of the many denominations bave not boon foduced by sontimontality alone, but by the progross of learning, and tho’ perallot progresa of real bumllity. Not only does tho world no longer attach salvation to ininuto ine telloctunl statos, but it does not kuow as much a8 it once aupposed it did. Public education ks dimiuished public condért, - Whereas once men coutld detine Gad, and conld dofino oarofally and most definitely the himan will, and could aflrm all nbout fore-ordinntion and decroen s now thead idens pass out of publio formulas, and, with minds mora practical, and wilh Loarts moro loving and virtuous, the Chrjstian Host contonts itself with tie nlmfillc(t_v ot Uhrist, and of thoke tumluhltn 8 which fell liko manna for the huvgry multitude. My friends, did you evor think of tho dreadful regponsibility aby ono assumen who insiats upon a long, formulated crood? If you have not, lot e remind yon of {110 groat responnibility, You botiovo tho sinnor is to bo saved by his fiith, or b‘y his cordial acveptauce of Jesus Chriss. ¢his 14 6o, thon ovory dootrine you add, which niakes It more diftioult for himt6 doma to Cliriat, tlw pote terriblo respuneibility tpon you and THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 11, 1874, iou_r Ohurel, If, in ordor fora soul truly to ofm & filendbhip with this Bivior, ohly tivo of thred doctrinds hro essantial, Wt in injtistico to that eoul {f your Churoh standa for thutty are ticlos or a hundred, Itis for tho most port in valu to sny thnt 1o ndod hot addept of thiom AN, for thoro thoy lie botween him and the oross, ond in gomo sgonse thoy must drag hia intolloot . and consclonce over the mags, Lvory olorgyrmnn hng folt thid, whon por- soud havo infortiicd him thht thoy love his Ohelst but not his doctrino of election, or his fm- morsion, o lfu dollsltion of tho trinlty, Thng tho gate whidk Olitiat ojiondd to lova'wa obpen only fo doctrivo, And, whorons Christ said " Lovest thou Me," w say * Accoptest thou oll thbad thingn? Bub tho momont for dloslng those romarke has ¢omo, 1t Christ iy to bo o light to lighton every ndn that comoth intt the world, Ilo uivst be & siniplo light, 8o that 14 oan Lo udivordnl. Tho roligion of tho next genorntion must bo anch that tho sclotitifle man, nhid tho Fodsbnabla man, and Lho liboral man, and tho busy mat, and tha littlo child, and tho profound phllosophmi may moct in its slmplo, wwoot light, It {u to lighten overy zmmb that ““m"““ ihto uumx m-m.b l: wilt h:t‘dnrlu 0 bo n complox thoolo ut 8 Iriend- shin * for “*Clrist_and. 1 virbio. “Thoology will oxist, but ohly na & moral solensd—n atudy of God, not aplan of ealvation, As all tho Emnt rovivnliats, from Savousrolato Wesloy and Whiofleld, hinve gone forth, tioh armed with formulnted thoblogy, but with Jostis Chtist na o wlnmhu§ Bavior, so the day ls coming when otmnl theology will_only bo' n moral scionco, soparated from tho Clureh's grant work of load- ing n lost world back to its Rodcomor aud to its holiness. e e GOD'S LOVE FOR MAN. = Bermon by the Rov, Tnthor Terry of St. Pate tlotc’s Oliurel, Tho Rov. Mr, Torry, of Bt. Patriok's Ohureh, yostordny preached tho following ologuent sor- mon on God's lave for man, taking n bright view of uur rolations with the Houvonly Fathor: Hig toxt wnst 1 will comtort you, safth the Tord, a8 ono whom his mother comfortotl., * Jauialy 6019, n How vivldly thls comfort comos boforo us. Whio over forgota the calm of its soothinga? Tta fivst gontle brunth of fonduesa is still fresh upon tho mirror of qur memory, and tha touchings of ita tondornoss still bring the same rohef. I deom it but juat to the human hoart to say that it nover becomes wholly Indifferent to Jove or proof against callings for sympathy andald, and this is thiofly due to the improssions of tha mothot's care. Lifo may ¢omo, with its strifos and ith atruggles; battlos with tho world, its intriguos, 1ts ompty hopos and oruel disnppoint- monts, may make tho heart cold and repolling; but it always romaing calm whero tho mothor's lips kigsod it with comforting sympathy ; it for- evor s aoft on that particular spot that tonched tho mothor's heart when shio pressad It away fromtho world, and hidit from caro in her bosom., Orimo may doprava asit will, and sin may disfigure and harden, but thero is one fon- turo of tho human Lonrt'thot always keops ite freshnoss aud its bosuty, one spot that sin cau- not touch, and crimo cannot reach, and that is whoro tho henrt of tho ohild leansd on the hoart of tho mother, - . Anxiety aud trial may bo road on the brow, in mauy a liuo and n wrinkle, but the brow I8 for- ever #oft and smooth where the mothor's band touched it of old, whon life’s first caro was upon it. Al down through the struzglos of life tho human henrt goes, waftod by its storms, chilled Dy its wintor blnsts, tossod on tho angry waves, ond dushed on the shoro; yeb nlways eslm whoro the mother breathed, warm where sho preascd ity soothed wharo she kissed it; nuraed to ropona in tho Liaven of lovo that fhst reccivod its help- toss infant cry. Wo never forget this flist com- fort, and life bas no other liko that. It comos to us earlyand lato in our toilings ; it comes iu our slumber of onse. Tortuno ia wesk 1 replacing it; and otbor friondships ara but its rofloctions, I novor coase to bless the beautiful heart that, after a long life of fama and succoss, and sur~ rovnded by friendahip and comfort, yotloft them tho whilo, and rotirad to that dear old grave, aud, stooping down, said in the stillness ; Wo niss theo, our ntother, when Jounghoalths i e, And wo slok {n the langudr of pain: Where, where {a tho arm that onca pilfowed our head, And the ear that once heard us complain 1 Othor handa may support us, gentlo accents may fall, For the fond aud tha truo aro still onra ; We'voa blossing for eachi; wo are grateful to all 3 Tut whoso caro can be soothing ay yours? Thare ir & now eweotnoss, thon, in roligion ; a new joyin its promisinga; a vew smilo on its evar gontlo visago; o new soothing in ita always boallng accents ; n new tendorness in all God's tonder love, whon He comea to the poor, wound- od heart with tuo love of & mother, and lifting it up with hor caro, folds it awsy with hor fondness. ST will comfort you #8 one whom his mother comfortoth,” Tlioro is an unspenkablo bonuty in this imagoe, o magic power, appealing, as it docs,’ to tho most sacred justiucts of our bosons, Ono might almost wish that, having nfivau us that ane imago of God, the Secriptures had beon silent evermore, and left Him to His children only ns & doting mothor; that having onee given us that aingla flash of insight Into God's relations with tha world, Revelation had forover closed and given s nona but that, However, hiaving onco given it, wo care not what of chustisemont; or anger, or of wrath the Beriptures olso mn{ speale; sl is calored by this central light, ait ls qualliied by this central fact, that the love of God is the love of amother. And truly was it said, that ‘Thera is nono . 0ld and hollow world, no fount ng, doathless love, Save thut within heart, It I8 one of the naocssary domands of our earthly state and limited knowledge that, if we bo approached with messagas from auotber sphero and order of idosy, such mossagos st oome in tho garb we aro accustomed to; clothed in the idess which we_ have, and which only are intelligiblo to ua. It were vain to address us after o fashion of thought and order of knowledgo wholly boyond our aphore, and not within tho rango of otr present understanding. Hence, it scoma evident that, if Revolation would come tous with messnges from beyond, it must como in Liumun form, and must prosent Buch mussages in our buman language, and fo- cording to our modes of thought, They must bo presentod to us in familiar images, tuken from our human life, which aro best enlcu- Inted to give us soma idea of the truths to Lo conveyed. If wo should suppose & student of ‘seienco, learnod in its highest dovelopments, to be suddenly pleced on an island of tho South Bou, Low vainly ho would speak, to tho untutored natives, of sciouce, of literaturo, of civilization] No mattor how perfactly ho might spealt their language, he would.™ ful sigoally of convoying to them ideas presuppos- ing o knowledge of chomistry, or facts involv- ing the sclence of mathomuatics, Any small nnd faint, imperfoct glimmer he might succoed in giving them of civilized life or of kndwledge a8 we possoss it, conld be conveyi auly hillmnortcut imnges Lu\(qu from their daily. lifo. Ho must take up or paint out familiar ob- octs around them, familiar customs of their omop, and gay, © It iu liko this," It is liko thats ™ “Itis tlxla," or *1t is that.” Now, there i 110 lack of complaint, no dndne humility in aiirming that o ra;ir.rd to Henven aud of God wo are iu Lhe position of the South Ben Yslanders, Any thought, uny notion of what Heayen i8 or of what God ig, in as far from the reaclungs of our intelleot 88 uro iho profouud searchings of scienco from the mind of _tho savage. In onr caso it is moro than this, TFor, in view of our Prnaonc oxistonco and modos of thought, it is utterly impossible to hnve suy ne- ourato notlon of God's natura or of Hoavon, It wera well to avow at once that such things aro not only not rovealed, but that they are not voulablo in our present state, Old-timo schols ship, that was 8o fond of denliug with thess questions, of soaring away from practical life p into thosa regions of spoculation on tho un- knowable, never claimed tho possibility of such knowledge in our prosent sphora; and even sfter death, it wus maintaived such knowledgo camo only by a supornntural medium called *tho light of glory.” Livon ud regards this oxplanution or expression, “Hght of glory," it muy bo added that if it con- 'yoys a dofinite notion to any one’s mind, the for- %lt‘\m;t_e t.llnuknr desorves the congratulations of 8 friendy, Placed away off on this littla planet’ island of the universy, wo Lave close rolations with a ligher state of things boyond tho groat soms, and of which wo uoufil know nothing till Revela- ton, like tho student, camo to ourslioren, Then it sob about instructing us iu our own rudo, im~ porfeot apirit, g to what our rolutions with that Atate wore, and how wo might attaln it. In ench caso it brought out ob;uulu ond imoges from onr daily life, and said : *“Iho'Kingdom is like unto this." The very iden of * Iingdom” und tho name helong solaly to us,: Ho also do * relgn,” and “Kig," und “govereignty.” In order, howavor, to glva ua somo gllmnior of tha atate of things bayond, Rovolation was ploased for onr #ako to use thoso wordy and images, which aloue wore famillar aiid Iutolligible to us. TFor no other ronton iy Lho Groat Unthiluknblo Bbtng givon o sox and fiuudunnnd ualid to be » " King' and & “Judge." By theso lnages Rovplntion Las trlod to convey to our minda some fdes of His powor and supreme authority. Noxt, it wiahadif instruct us oa to His proyl- doncs bad care, Hil ofioo of yrovides, aud Hid exhaustless {ndulgenco, and, to do this offactus iy Revolation oo’ fnto. our. Logashaide, clwolt bt our hohrthwiddi; btudiod tho tondek ros Iations of paront and child, n{:d thon safd: * God ia your Father.” Whon it 80ama necossary to givb u soms Idea of God's 1dve, Ahd Elib éxcori of ita tendornesa; so, pnssing by all othor forms of love, nil othor modes of friondship, all other \loptivd of fotidnoks, Nbvolation hoiited at et to tho thothot's arms blnsping to hor heatt har littlo idol babo, and satd, Tt is that,” T will comfort fou, ng 010 Whoht his mother somfort- otll,” ook at thy plothro! Thb iother and hor ohild—God and the sinnor! Marl, 1 do not say, **CGod and thd saint,” bocauso for tho ninoty-fine jiiat thos God hine no solléitule, Lot un study the illustration further, Sinen Uod iimsolf has givon us the imago, it woro well to yohdor oh its teachings. Lot ub, then, go into tho family, Hero nra tlie childron gathored in tho household. = Which of them rocsives tho attantlon of tho fathor, Buroly it la always the woll built, quiok-witted boy, who 11 king of tha racofves all the ploudits and premiums of tho wchool, and of wloln averyono says: "What o Dbright boy!" ‘“Whai n model of n man!"" On ‘him the fathor Luilds Lis hopiés to him the forluno gou, But this is by no nteaud the mother's favorite. Bho loves Iim, it ju trus, and with all hor mothe ot’s love and pride: Wut not on him s &1l hor spocial fondnens lavislied. — Looking around among (ho childron, wo shall at last find ono sho {0 its holplous yodrs Yodolved an Injnty thnt has_orippled and disfigured it for lifo, "1t 18 wouk and sickly, aud canuot enjoy tho games ahd pleamites With the rout. It wWehld scom that fatnlity was on tho child ; ahd svine neol- dout, some uew fall and injury, are forover hap- Rohlug. This one fis tho mothor'a darlng," il 8 tho ohild that Is thost in hibr arnty, this fe tho oue that {s nearast Lor heart, Does ho congh througli the night, when the others ara «uigt In thelr slumbor, tho wakeful oar of the mothor Ia listoning, and sho whispers & prayor for his roat. ~ All hor care, her.whola lifo, i do- ¥oled to that 6nd ohild of il tho rest; hor Wwhole lovo dooma centrod upon it, just boetitne ft 1an orlpfiln, and thoroforo Lins greator domands upon hot heazt. . . This is the typo of God afid tho slnner, of tho great, infinito “mothior's heart of the Croator, and it wonk, crlflnlml creature. “Iwlll come fort you a8 one whom hik mother comtortath.” T'his Ia tho truo and only idea of God and the sivner, Itis tho only idon in keoping with tho Gospel, Upon it aro foundel the touching story of the prodigal, of tho shephord and the fold and the wandoring shoep, of the joy in Hogven wlien tho angols hoar that ono erring Loart has turned to repentaed. On this iden i founded tho Church’s dogtrine of suffleiont graco from salvation, whoroby she tonches that all einnors have sufticlent graco to holp them ro- ];nnt and bo saved. Any other ides is a contra- diction of tho Gospol, and is only ealculated to miko h religlon of despnir, Thoe ldos of God as o0 ahgry Judge, frowning in_His ¥age upon tho wayward sinner, who is ready overy momont to bo hurled at His feet, 1a only n distasto of human savagery, aud an unwelcome rolio of a barbarous age. Thesoft tondor band that was held over the orring one in tho Temple, liold no thunder- boits to crush her ; théro was no voice of wrath or anger for hor, but of ouly % Go, and sin no mora,"” Still wo must boar patiently with many good and wéll-intonttoned Chtisttans who cannot oven yet biing thoir hoarts to this swester ap- preciation of roligion, who will assoolato piety with gloom, thé Olristian lifo with a Fuueral maich, and Wear long faces, as I our Adlker, Tlie God of gooduess, was an undertaker, There is more of this spirit and tosching abroad in the walks of Christian life than tho ponce and good of the human hoart can woll af- ford to atlow. Wo want more of love in religion, und less of wrath, "It is tho sweot economy of God that this heart of ours should ba surgod and wor to goad, not by tho rod in the hand “of tho fatlier, but Ly the swuet caresses of the mothor, not by {rowns of nauger, but by smilos of pre- clous love. As far back a8 the yoar 520, tho Catholic Churcl solemnly defined in'the second Counoil of Orange, that the siunor, evon tho hardened and hnBimnl, hind always at hand, for timo and .plan, und ‘espocially at the hour of death, suflicient (irnoo to ropont and bo saved. Moro than o hundred yoavs before that, 8t. Au- ustino had snid that * whilst the sinnor glentlma, ho may repent and bo saved.” This is tritly the eplrit of the Gospel. In order to bring this idon before you moro rominently, and to nnfiruxu upon your minds Lo tuuanlnf,v of the Church, I may bo permitted to enbmi tho following : A fow wooks ngo, m; attontion was called to n passago in & so-calle ** Cntholio journal,” whick rends thus: *¢ Fa- milinnty with sin _makes men ot lnst indifferent to punishmont, and o thoy o on xian, rr.ullml mercy s oxhnusted, * Tho Almighty eitiar wipes out tho sin in His motoy, . . or wipea out fhe sinner and {he sin from bofore His face forover.” Now, it 18 uttérly imposeiblo to recoucile such lnngnn;iu with the spirit or teaching of the Church. It contradicts every page of the Gospol aud the ex- press dofimtions of faith. What a characteristio pleturo it gives us_of God, with suflicient graco in ono band and thundorbolts of truth in tho othor, and annibilating with the one, beoause tho othor continues to bo refused! Wo can well underatand bow such & Gad could exist in tho myths of Pagdniem, butnot in the Gospel of Christianily, It is alarming to think how Iargely such viows have imfimssud thomsclvea on our litorature. Into books they have crept from a cortain flnished-up school of thuolufiy which has ever mat the condemnation of tho Church, In many crses, otherwiso good and woll-desorving theologians have ailowed thom- Belves to recoive this loaven under the garb of holiness, In roferring to such theologinns, nnd such o slinting of God's love, the colebrated Josuit Father Porrono writes : If ot any time, surely, such o way of thinking should bo abandonod, it fa in tids, our la= mentabilo ngo, that spocial care should guard us from i, this ago in which wa scs o many follen into unbelief, for of such thera would Lo then no hope,’ and they should a1 be regarded as already reprobate, What' Catholle will bear this thougt 2 That tho Jansoniata should have concolved it, thero 18 no wondor ; but that Catholic thoologiana should stlll continue to 5o think, excites indignation, and mekes tho Christian religlon odious to unbolievcrs, 3 Boliove me, ne rogards the truerelation of God to tho sinper, thera is a lino of thought, whoso importance you will dicover beforo you have travoled far'on the path. How much of your reading you will have to correct, how much of early unprossions many will have to biot out; bLow many faisely-applied texts of Seripturs you will bo obliged to revise, it {3 for each one to dutormine. ~ But certain it is that much of suock work is to bo done by auy one, and all who havo any other ides of Giod nud the Sinner, than that of tha weak und cripiflml child, wayward in its illuess, yot nursed all tho while to tho hoart of its mobfior, who, ovon to ita Itst brontli, has Liopo of ita oura, awd even whon'tis guilty holds forgivoness in hor mothor's heart. T'hiy s tho only emblom of Christlanity ; it iu ivith this best and noblest blazon of love upon hef baunors that sl shall murol among won, winning first thelr hearts: and afterward thoir minds, and conquorlng thus the sinning world, We aratold the Obristian lifais n warfaro, and in patt we accopt it ; in o certain sonso tho Obristiun is n eoldicr, But bis battlos dro not of & sorious naturo, for beside him in tho strife fu the “God who is faithful, who will not suffor Bim to be tompted above' that hois ablo,” and who, whon & wound is receivod, is roady at hand with His balm for the heuling, Scenes of war and of battlo strifo are still fresh in our mom- orlos, and wo may ench recall how naturally the wounded heart on tho battlefield or in tho hos- lnlul ulfihud for tho cara that flrat nuraed it in ifo, aud would bo soothed only by the hand of tho mother.. How manya time the longing camo when bleeding aud hul]i)louu tho dying boy lay on the trampled flold, with not & voico to sootho his agony, no mintstering hand to lift tho aching hoad, or moisten the parchedlips, Ol | if slio vero thore, how tenderly sho would Lift !)reclons head, nnd lay iton the heart that loved t ; how softly sho would breatho into those cara the acconts of that old familinr fondness ; how 8woetly sho would kiss that palo bluo faco snd Ataunch tho wounds whore life was obbing fast. But nouo of this was thore to aootho and his dy- ing hour, In the solomn shades of the wood that awopt Tho feld whero his comradps found lini;, Thoy burlod him thore,—and tho blg tears creph Iuto struug mew's oyos, thot ssldom wept, But, away in tho far-off homo, Tt mothor, Gad pity hor, smlilod aud slopt Dreamiug hor arms woro round him, . Home day wa shall replizo tho othor sceus that toole place, invisibly, upon that battle-fleld; how inwardly tho woitndod soul, in all its ngony, woy nursed and soothod into a 8weot reposo, and litted up aud- given now lfo, ond watted to ite rodt foraver on tho mothor's hoart of tho God who paid s I will comfort bim as oug whom his mother vomfortoth," N ——— THE SWING.-PATTON TRIAL, lloview of the Nituntlon Ly the Reve Dr, Itydéi ‘The following is the u:n‘mou proachod yostor- day oyening by the Rov, Dr, Ryder, of Bt, Paul's (Universaliat) Ohuroh ¢ Liut, boloved, b ot fgnorant of this ono thiug, thot e iy 16 WIY Uho rd mek SUomAos Yonbs s thoussud yours a8 ono day, 92eler, 8, b, For poyoral ronsons I havo not made in this p'\nhn.w pfomlnant roference to tho contro- nlnyf;ronud and mastor in the glass-room; who' voray concerning tho nounduoss of the -theolog: feal boltof of tho minisior of ihe Fourth Proa- bytorian Ohurch 1 this city, Among the con- slderbtiohs which hnve wggostod ellohoo are theso tvo t 1, Poraonhlities iu sormona I vory muoh disltko, Bome of the Ohicago pulpit aoom tome to havo fallon into & vory objectionnblo habit in this respoct, I would not intentlonally encourago ik, 2. 1 have beon jn serlous doubt asto wint thé thdslogleal position of tho atoused minfator roally 18, and s bava hositatod to at- tompt to Blato it, lest I might do him injustice, But now sinca the trial of Prof, Bwing for heresy Ling actually commencod, and ho hos dofined his theologicn!l position, tho wholo question be- comos one of genoral pabllo concern, and is Intgaly romovod from ity {nmoedlato personnl to- lationk, ‘Tho question at issud in the Bwing-Patton trinl i this: The oditor of tho Jnterior scouties the pnstor of ‘tho Fourth Presby- torian Church with proaching and oncournging docttinos that are not In agreomont with tho Dresbytotian Confersion of Faith, and he cltes ovidonco to sustain his position, The acoused ropliod that ho has abandoned cortain doctrines which nro statad in tho erood, but that he holds to all the dootrinies commonly togarded as Evan- dlicnl. His procise position is stated by him n his plon boforo tho Prosbytory : 3 A dlstingtion ovidently oxista bolwear Proshylorian- 4sth an promuigated in pnst timos snd Iresbytotianistn actual, A crood §s only tho highest wiadom of 4 patticalar time and placo, Yeice, as in States, thiere Ia a quict Blipping awny! from olil Iawa withont nny walting for o foraul ropoal. As somo of tho old statutes of Connootitut avo lying dead, mot by nny Jogal death, but by long emaclution and final ubfer nex- Ject by ftiend and foc, ao fn” all formulatod religlons orceds, 'rotostant and Oatholle, thoro I8 o gradual but coustant decay of somo article or word, which was onco promulgated nmid groat pomp atid elkcitmatanag, And yot uo Oaurch {8 willing to confoss it past fol- Jica, and msv::ll the injurious ond untrue. All, Prot~ estaut and Catholio, slmply ngroe to reniain aileht, Further, in the same plon o saya: Chief among tho docirincs which our Church has passed by as being incorroct or clse an ovor-dovelop- mout of Beriptural feas, are all thoso formulas whieh look toward o dark fataliam, or destroy tho humun will, br indieato tho datunatioh of some infants, or thut God, for Iiis own glory, forcordained s vastma~ Jorily of 'the racs to evorlasting doath, 1t fias boon my gaod or bad forttino to spenk in publio or fu privata to n largo number of jorsons hos- tilo to our Ohiurch, and in nearly all casea I have found their hostility based upon tho doctrines indicated nbove, and ' in all ways I lhave declarod to them that the Prealytorinn Ohurch had left Lebind thoso_doctrings, and that her religion was simply ovangellcal, and not pax oxcelloneo tha religion of despair, In my peculiar mluluh‘i‘ o simple sllenco hus not beon sufligicut, I havo therefore at many timea deelarod our denomination to bo simply & chureh of the common Evaugolical doctrinos, Towards tho closo of bis plea, ho gives the following na tho articles of his porsonal bolief, uslug hia words, a8 ho says, in tho Evangolicat Heneo : Tho fnspiration of tho Woly Bcriptures, tho Trinity and Divinity of Christ, tho ofiico of Olirist es mediator when gra sped by an obedient foith, the conversion by Qo' spirit, man's natural sinfuincas, and tha foal separation of tho rightcous and wicked. At this dato tho trial is in progress, aud is nt- tracting vory genernl attention. Lut ns tho publio sympathy is protty mich all ono way, thero is loss discussiou outside tho court than is usital in connoction with such cccasions, The publio foeling is that 'rof. Patton has signally Iuiled to mako ont 8 case against the Profossor, and it is tho editor of tho Inferior that is con- demned by tho people gonorally, and not tho mimster of tho Fomth Irosbyterinn Church, Tho justice of tho popular verdiot I do not stand hero to question, and yot I am very grate- ful that tho trial has Leen had, It will do much goad, not only bocauso it is conducted 1 a vory Erupcr spirit, but mora especially becaiise it will ring into prominence several important ques- tious as to what constitutes horosy, and by what standard herosy is to bo dotermined, Nor do I ®oe any roason to masnil tho accusor in this case, e clhinrges that the accused proaches sentimonts that aro opposcd to the Wostminster creod, nnd to theao changes, 8o far es they relato to cettain doerrines which we have alrendy cited, Prof. Bwing is guilty by his own admission. This thon 18 ono of tho singular features in this trinl. The charges are based upon the writton creed of tho Church. In his dofonso azainst thoso charges, the accused not only admits that he doos not beliove cortain doctriiigs that tho cresd teaches, but thon aud there vigorously assmily theso doctrines, and then proceeds to sliow that thoy aro no partof the Prosbytorian Ciirch of to~dav: And tho Pmabymr{ instend of de- fonding_ tho lotfer of tho crood, seom disposed to join Trof. Bwing in doolaring that the * religion of the Prosbytorian Church is simnly Evangelical,” and does not includecor- tain doctrines that are writson down in the oread with * terrible plainnoss,” Prof, Patton says ‘* tho writton creed of our Church is tho faith of our Chureh, and, rojecting that in auy hnportant Boneo, you are no Presbyterian, lhoth you ma bo n véry useful Ohristian ministor,” To whic] Prof. Swing replios, ‘* the writton creed of our Charch is not _strictly tho faith of the Chureh, but tho falth of tho ‘Church is that form of dootrino which s _actuelly Leld by the momborsa of it, even though the doctrines thus hold may not cover but a portion of tho mauy formulas contained in tho Confession of Faith,"” Brother Patton says, “I hear you, Prof. Bwling, no ill will ; I do not question your flfiht to Imanch what you believe to be the truth, but o long g you s n tho miistey of tho Pros- byterian Ohurch, you should preach the doctrines of that Church, nnd if you cannot do that, you ghould retire from that ministry.” To which DBréther Swing roplies, ‘“Broiher Iatton, I would not withhotd my conviction that you have noted ( from a sonso of duty; ‘but tho trouble iu your caso is Lhis: you suppose that, in ordor to bo & consistent Prosbyterian minis- tor, I must proach those doctrines which hither- to have beon supposed to bo peculiar to Prosby- terianism, In this you are wrong. Tor thoso doctrines do not now bolong to our Church, Wo have slipped away from tho religion of despair, aod come unto Mount Zion into the atmosphera of Josus, as Ho was lu }ifo and in_denth, full of love nnd forgivenecss. The dootrino of the de- croes which tho fathers of our Church used to put {uto overy sermon s not now any part of actual Prosbytorianism. We eimply hoid to the doctrine commouly called ¢ Evangolical,” It will thus be seon that the real issuo in the trinl, us tho case n@w stand, is neither I'rof, Swing nor Prof. Patton, but the Prosbyterion Ouurch itsolf. Tho real question which tlis trial will decido takes this two-fold form : (1) What is Protibytorianism? (2) Shall the faith of tho Church bo dotermined by-the writton lnw of tho Churoh or by what the Presbytery think Preshyterianism is? In othor words, slinll tho decision bo according to law and evidenco or pub- lis opinion ? Perhapa the full signinoanco and important boarings of tho jesuo thus raised in Prof. Bwing's ‘plen docs not at once arpaar, to thoso unfamiliar with quostions of this na- ture. Let us give it our ulteution for o fow moments, } 1. As to the fact of & revognizod distinotion Dbotwaoun formulated and actual I'vosbytorianism, Has tho Chuarch thus drifted awny from the faith of tho fathora? May ono deny’ cortain dootrines of tho eroed with impunity ? Notably, has the Church abandoned the doc- trino of tho !deorees, olection, and roprobation ? Tlopo it has; but I'was not nwaro of the faot, nnd should not lile oyen uow to muke the statos mont_in my name. For if Prosbyterianism lins abrndoned the dootrine of deorees, what is thero loft of Prosbylorinuiem as o system of dootrines to distinguish it from othor sects ? It Mothodirm should drift awny from the doctring of Freo Orace, wore it not to abandon its distine guishing foatura? If Univeraslism should qui- otly slip awny from tho doctrine of the final ro- covory of all souls, would it not foraake tho Lo- 1tof peculinr to that seot? But Ineed not disouss the question ; tho Proubytery is competont to dollup its own position on Lhis subject, 1f Prof, 8wing's plen is allowed to go unchallonged, orho is nequitted on the ground that he preachos Preshytbrianiium os it §8_now held, it will bo equivalont to the declaration’ that if ono would lImow iho futh of tho Ohuroh, homust not goto the cvced of tho Churol but loarn in othor ways what soturl Prog- bytorianlsm is, y ‘I'bin I avidently what our friend Thomas of tho Methodiat Ohuroh should hnve done boforo ho mado Lis lato attack on what ho funocently believad was good Trosbytoriauism, judging by tho oroed. Butit sooms now, thAt what ho nsanilod is not Presbytorianism ut all though, it I romomber rightly, o faithtal ministor ot that churoh stood up in hig pul{nlt in this clty, and In a reply to the aegault'of the Methodist, main- taiued that I vesbytoriuns did Luld to tho tima- honored dootrings of tho Westminstor orood, and that tholr church was still pailing undor tho good, ald Prosbytorisn flag, Whothov that valiant brother will now taka down his battle- flag, and orneo from it ‘all referouce to tho ** decroew," abd all similur dootriucs that mny Pux'putunlu disagrooublo controversies amoug * tollow-oitlzons," I do not kuow. But tho faos that so prominent w minlstor ny the aforessid dofouder of tho faith hud not himeelf loyrned thut Proshytorianiém sctunl, and not ae formu- Iated, wal the arood of the Chnrch, may at least oxoyo tho ignoranco of my triond ‘Chomay, and Ahio rout of us who nro connocted with othot do- nominntiona, 4 am not us familiar with the cnatoms of m{ roligious nelghbors /s poshaps X ought to be bul 1t la my fpression that candidates for the Pros- byterian minlatry litve to hubaurlhn to tho formu- Iatod faith of the Ohweh, and I shionld not wone dor if a similor approval had to bo given by those who boceamo mombors of tho Church, If thoy do thus subicribo to the written bread, it s a mat- tor of publiointoroat 16 know whether thoao thus subinr‘blng ure told thut tho dacument thoy sign dobs fiot rénlly state thoe Iaith of tho Clwrch, a3 it now 18} that they will learn eldowhoro, Lorhaps an unsophisiioatod porson might in- ?nh‘m 1f the cracd of the Ohmrch docs nob firly atata tho falth of the Church, why nnt change tho erood v conform to the actual bellof, and eavo individuals from tho act of futolloctual dishonenty, by nuomln% to tndose what thoy do not protond to boliove : : Duit, dmitting that thero Is an tmportant dif- foreuce hetwoon Presbytorinniam, as statod in tho croed afid ns netnally held by the Chureh, bns Prof. Bwing ay right "to ask . for ncquittal on that gronnd? Ho rofors to momo of the atntutes of Councctlont which gro, “*lying dead not by any logal doath but vy long omaciation aud Aual ultor noglect ol friend ahd foo,” eta, But Prof. Swing is proba- bly ntearo that tha statutes of Connectiout, how- avor bluo, which have nevor boon ropealod, nro #till In force, and_conviction may be had under thom ahy tlay. It would bo \‘olil ‘proper for one to plond thai, slnce, by general conrnnt, theso statites have long remalned inoporative, 1t would not bb wiso o ool to onforco thewm, Dat supposo gome I'rof. Patton ehould bo of a difforont mind, and should actuslly en- ter complaint for the viuintion of such Inws, how wonld tho ondo thoa stmnd? Drof, Bwing's Lr‘n)nu was npfllcnblu until tho com- plnint was mndo, but was It portinent after that ? uphoso ho should make & similar plea in sy civil conrt in Uonnectiout or IiHuols—* T know that L have violated corttin of your Inws, tut you should not try me fur your Inws—I object to bolng go tried,” 1 appoal to public opinion,” It isonsy to mseo what response tho nccused would rdcolvs from niy elyil cours thnt . ho should addross,” And is not, this what tho Presbytory is wooking to nscortain, whethor Prof. Swing is Evangolical ? Ava thoy not procoeding in the ovidonce, as if the obnoxious formulas hnd boen roponled? And it loois to me as if Prof. Patton did not slaud up to his own position, in rogard to the fnith of tho Church, for lio hears Prof. Swing's denial of the decreos fu_his nrgumant in oppoat= tion to extramo viows of tho Divine Suvorclqul:,‘y. and not only makes uo protest, but says immodi- (See Neventh Page.) AMUSEMENTS, ~H0RMIOK MUSIO HATE, ™ FIRST GRAND CONCERT TO~-INIGET, BY THE CAROLINE RIGHINGS-BERNARD OLDDE FOLKES. Matinocs Rl A R P SECURE YOUR SEATS At Jauson, McGlurg & Oo.'s, 117 Stato:st. Admssion, only§lie; rosorved s3ats, Zio vxtra, Carpenler (i Shefdon, THE GREAT ADELPAL TAST WEEK of thoQuocn of all Gymnasts, - IaIEIONLAL Tho Flsiug Moteor! Tne Intropid! Amorica’e © Lo the Worid I ot hrilling and mostskllifu orial Act! ALEX DAVIS, KARL LIN. LAST WEEK of most pronouncod succoss, OHRIS. DIE'S Gomfo Trick Pantomino, TETERIET DW.AREFGS! Revloto with glorlous fun. _ Infinltely tho BEST PANTO- MIML ovor produocd in Ohicugn, ‘Tho programmo of this wook ha: solately novor beon CqUiod I any Varlotios Thoates 1o th merd "N vooh show oxists | EXTRA LADIES' NIGHT—Tuorday, May 12, Pricos: 5 2 e, and lbo, Bsourc, %o ostra. TN EiN—Wednosday at 8 pon. Admislon, 250, Chlidron, Tho. By unanimous requast, soourad eafs for Hlatinacs2io oxtrs. Monday, May I8—BAD DICKEY. ... RAILROAD TIMB TABLE, RRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRATHS, JEXTLANATION OF IREFRENCE MATKS, 1 Hlmlrd‘lll Ar- eopied. * Honday oxoepioy; e Eaday aLE10 b2 gns 'y Deftp 20T O2605tad. WICHICAN CENTRAL & BRE WEQTE! Bt ok RN RN AL and 76 Canal-shu, cornsr af' Hadison, T ¥ Kandolphy Mail tyla tna{n and alr line).. Dy Rapros \Inokaon” Ao Atlantle Expross, Night Kxpross, GUAND RAPIDS HENRY 0. WENTWORTH, Goneral Passonger Agont. cHInATN & M TOY HALAAYY . enver Skort Line, ‘T:fi’.‘mkm:.flcfi"” o Spring , Allim and &t Through Bridye. Ticket City and Danver Nast Bx. Uny lixiir b 81, Tous Frepran BL. Louta s 1 ;‘L(-‘\'ll;"fl pringilol s Sprinanala s 1xpro JoNoron Liry Hxiirons Tearin, Kooxuk & Buriin'sto; £ et Luoon, Washington Fx. Joliot & Dwieh Acoommndatians) CHI"ARD, MILWAYI Unton Depnt, ‘corner M 03 Satif, Gl & ar, PAUL RAILWAY, uml Canal-tte,* 1xcket Oflea lay 0ppu nd al ‘Depals Jirrive, Milwaukon, Madison & Praitio du Ohilon, Mafl oo ovees " 8:00a. m.|"111008. m, DAY BApass.s.e. 904, m Milwaukea, Groan” iiaj JRIT YL Ot i, MalL, Hllwaukoo, 88, Paul & Kl olis, Night Kxpross. 16 p, m. 500D, s . . 't 9:30m.m.'$ 6:48 . Dt ot SIS CERTRAL wattions. = ey T3 Wantane near i LNt Tieknt §t. Fouls Expros 8t Lonls Fast. Lino uiro & Now Ocloans K. Cairo & Now Orlowns Lix. o) (ilman Favsongac. ubnguo & Siix Oty Dubuque & Sivux Oly iéx. " (@) Runi to Unampaign on Saturdays, CHICAR0, BURLINGTON & OUINSY RAILRIVL, Dapoté—toot f " Lukestes Indianuo., and Sioleenth-o,, and Canal and Sixtcenth-ts, — Ticket upicas, No, 19 (larks sty Grand Paclic Hotel, and at depote, * Leave, drrive. Mail and Expross,, Utimwn i Sueeator P Dubuguo & sloax Uity By Pacino st Line, fur Om Kanane Qitg, Lodronwortt, A1 Jurol g w. 05 &L m. 0u alm. 115 2, m. 15 8, M. m City, Leavouwartn, Al chiton & 8, ‘Josoph Exp.., Duwnor's Grave Accommiodniion, Bownor'stiravo Aceommodation| Toxns lixprass. day, CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILYIAD, - Clly adices, corner Randolph and LaSallesta,, and 75 Canale oy corner Sladison-as rrive, a Paclfio Faat Lino, BuiahiL 1 aDubuquo Night Es. vla Uliutoa 1 aOmaba Night tixnross... H a frrecport & Dubiiauo Jsaps a Froepart & Dubuauo lxore £ Siiiwaukow Mall, b Nilwaukeo Fxpross. ‘a—~Dopot cornor of Wolls wnd Kinz| —Depot corngr of Canal and Kinzlo-sts, W. HUSTENNETT, Gon,'Pass, Agont. CHICABD, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIZ RAILRI4Y. Devot, carner of FonDuren and Sherman.ats, - Iickst ofics, Grand Puclfc Hotel, Arrive, T m o0 b e 12 D, M, Qunana, v.emnwlulnucefilmm S0 n. Porn Accommarot Night Lxpross... MoVIUKER'S THEATRE. Bocond wook of tho favorito artisto, Maggie Mitchell, ‘Who will apy¥Ar for a faw nighta In Tiar renowned char. actor, FANCHON! MYERY' OPERA-HOORE. WAIT--“WE ARH COMING.” TEIR OXEXG IIN.A Iy TROULE, ROYAL MARIONETTES, Andonly anos that ovor apposred in ST. JAMES TALL, TONDON, and utw at Concors. Hall, Piliy Aliing IHETRTENTHWERK, - Lookt aut foe two travols ing Feauds, OLATMING TO' BT OIGINALS, BUSBHS, BIODONOUGH & A KNSITAW, Mausgors und Propriafore, CHICAGO THEATRE, NOS. 218, £, 222 WESI' MADISON. GRAND OPENING TO-NIGHT. THE LARGEST AND HEST COMPANY EVER PRESENTED TO A OHIOAGU PUBLIO. MLLE. FONTAINBLEAU, AND TWEN1Y SPECIALTY ARTISTS. Boo progranimo, ACADENY OF MUSIC, TEB LIVING HBREROBES, BUFFALO BILL! TEXAS JACK! And the Poorless MORLACCHL in a beautifal new Dramn, entitled SCOUTS OF TELH PLAINS! KINGSBURY MUSIO HALL. Commencinie Tuosdsy Evoning, May 19—Tho maoat ra. finod and legant suturtalnimont of the sgo—Sumothing to talk of and wondur at. Bullock's Royal NMARTONETTES! From Grout §t. James! Hall, Landon, and Robinson Hall, Nuw York. £HAny Company travallng without BUL- LOCICS o lsspurlous. Hullyok's Maclonatte Show fs tho fitiost and mast onstly PUPPRT-SIIOW in the whola orid o, Manipul vor TWENTY, ART) % Ghorus, aud Band numbor T8, and ths Stago ocouplos 6} fpunco foot. Mho, Drogriinme comprises tho Original eien, Misitrols, o, Wondactal Tuutacelal, and a clo: rluus Pantoniuio, in 13 Soonos, entitled LITTLIC RIED RIDING-II00D; concluding with a roally Buporh Trans. farmation Soano, TRINITY M, E. CHURCH, Iudiena-av., noar T'wonty-fonsth-st, TO-NIGEIT, Prof. Alian Curs, ‘The d{stinguishod Scotch Orator, will deliver his_cole- brated Lecture on the “‘Glorfous 'A‘hrun,_ or, Mind, Muselo, and Money." To commonve at 8 o'ologk. Ad* mipsio, G, o e STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGS, _ Oce of Chicano & Norllwestery Railway Compeny, 82 w\’lall;st.w - L Vou, 3 ‘The annual mesting of tho stockholders and bondhold- ora of (o Ontemen & Nocthiwostara Rallvay Compans, for tho oleation of Dircctors pursnant to law, aml for tho transuotion of wueli othor busius«s as muy ' vome bofure said lflnollllll will bo held at the ofice of tho Cunpany. in tho oity of A‘lh:llzl’. on Thursday, the dth day of Juno noxt, &1 o'vluok E. m. Bondholdora will authentleste their righit to vote by prosonting thojr voting bondsat tlio fmcln ol the uflmtumn{{ Ifis\'\l}li\nl.. New Yurk, for rogies Fation on or Lotora tho 1) o e, AL IR, Prosidont, M, L. Brass, Jn., Bootelary. QFFICE CHICAGD, ROGK ISLAND & Pi- CIFIC RATLROAD COMPARY., April 93, 1674, Tho anaual mooting of tho Stockholdors of tho Chieaio, Raook Islaud & Paoitic Rallrond Compnny, for the eleation ‘of Dircators, pursusnt to law, and tho transaction of such ottior husinoss as may como bofara thont, will ho hold at “tho ofice of ths Ucmpan, Ia Ahnellya{ Shlnllzu, on ‘oduosday, tho third day of Juno noxt, at 11 v'eluck a, x‘:. aneh o "JOHN F. TRAGY, Prusidont, I, 11, TOWS, Roorot STOUKHOLDHRS MUNTING. it the mwoting of the B e e et hrandiy Docke Con pany far tho oleotion of Dircctors of sald U:,‘l“lh’fl( will a hold at the otfice of sald Compa! 0, 123 Wabash- :Wx 1u tho Olty of Chicago, at 1V a, l’i Avflg'flfg.‘l)l ¥, Juno o otary of Ohloaxo Bouth Tranch Lok Goml EE UMMER RESORTS, HATFIELD HOUSE, Massona ‘Bprings, On Jtuguistts Jilsar, thras wiles from St, aterance Rivar, JUNF 1, fap rocoption of guests. Accommia- B e K i P £565 Risodl ad farnialod with 0v0ry Todota DoRYoRIoHme: Quod fishiug and hunting, 'iho yieonifotors havo dafsriined to presunt & houto in thy of patranago. Tl ators aro highl; %fio’u’ufliflsfl u}il‘fk,‘; i’f'n‘x“l':' %\ghfm" do rango Sf:un’. b FriLL 2 Massenn Bprings, BV Lawreace o Now York, " L LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILRIAD. Depot, Van Huren-at,,'foot of LaSalleat, Jickst ofices, nerthest corner Clarls and Randolph-ts., and southwest corner Canal and ladlison-ata Arrive, X prass. ., South Cuicugo Accomumodntion, CHICAGD. INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATI THROUGH LINE, VIA KANKAKEE ROUTE. From the Great Contrul Kaflroud Depol, rool of Laks-tt, Day Tapress. ikt xoross.: ' OCEAN STEAMS. NEW YORK TO CARDIFE. The South Walos Atlantio Steamship Uompany's Naw First-class, Full-powored, Cisde.buile Stoamships will Batl from Bounsylvania Rallrond \Wharf, Jersoy Cliy: Aprll 4] GLAMORG g Abed 18 | BERNRORA a3 16 Gurssing goods and pissongors at through ratos. feo I parta o tho Unitod Stutos and Ganade to parie s ks Byftal G, andatloioe yolnta 1o Bugided. “Thiano stcamanipn, bullt oxprosaly for tho Lrage, aro pro- vided with all {20 latos: impravoimon(s for the comibrand Convewonco of 10808 Diatia jor £1 32 pwarde, : Uontars, apply In Cardlll, at the Cout Dyt O, Mo 1 el Chumora, ki 1h Now ¥ ork ta WROATBALD BAXTI & 'C0., Agants, No. 17 Brundway. STATE LINE. To Glasgow, Belfust, Liverpool, Londonderry, &e. 2 OF PENNSYLVANIA, SRATEQE VIRATRL BTATE OF GRUAGIA,.., FROM PIER 3, NORTil RIVER, N. ¥. pasengn CAbE 8 e T80 Sl Steors e assage: Cabln, £61 and $8) galil; Steoragn, B ey repaids 851 curroney. Leafts ot Tawast o A5 artor pactularaaooly (o AUSTIN BALDWIN & " ts, 73 Brondway, Now Yurk, G, e G Wt N 6 inrlst., Obleago, National Line of Steamships, INOTICE. Tne mos forLunion (dircet) avory fortnight. EH, '”""'“f' 8100rago, at grealy ml‘c):fhn luwost rates. upsard. WILLTAB MABALISIIR: Gom W Northoaet cornor Oiark and Itandolpt: Shoruan Huuvo), Uhioayo, ANCHOR LINE, Feom Now York to all pasts of Great Eritatn, Iroland, and Continontal Europe ovory Tuosduy, ‘Thuraday, und Buurdar, UAMN (rom QU3, Sreeikas from 225, Unlted Bintas Curconcy, Beitth purte to Chicago, 53 10 8lght Draits at lowost ratos, Apply st Compuny'a Oifioon, Ntk cory LaSally and Madison-atae, Chichia, LENDIERSON HILOTH LS, Agouts, BITTERS. rn Agent, . (0pposite naw PERFLOTION! BOKER'S BITTERS. Bownre of Counterfefts. MISCELLANEOUS, Property Owners, Attention ! Until 15th Inat, "oz Salo Cortitleates hold by tho G, Cllcagn onn bd fooamad AL 10, sF comt prami, Codeer wiich dato t rate Wil b ercpred el o eut, Cnroaag, April 1 1871 SNy dompillens 871 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. 279 8, QLADK-ST., oor. Van Buroy OHI04GO, L ks woll kn Ly all roadars of tho papers that Dr. U, Bigzelow iy 1lub oldost astablishud H)‘ilcl having buan rnun(ulm: n Chicugo for the last 10 years of his lite, have ing dovoted 20 years I’Inflflolhld romod| hat will vurg l:unll‘vull the worst caco of UIRONIC DISEASES in olh soxes, Gentlomeu of thisolty, of the highost ro. apactabllifty, alll] wombore of tho madicel faculty now practiving iu Clileago, hro willlng and_ reau; ekill, tend his ADIOAL T Al S uy padross Inscalod auvclops. SUEATATE PARLONS foF n&lul and goutlomou. Uall; you vo» only 1ho ductag, Address i fotiors, Waiosing stammp, o O, O, BIG LLOW, NO CURKE! Dr Kean . ] NO PAY i1 CLARK.ST., OILIUAGO, A 360 souTn May bo consuited, porsonally or by mail, Sroa ut L J, KR SHQULD FAIL (o roud DR, A g I'hirty Leotures, u-p.:uunn Y'ounsfllflln ouls pliyaloliu £ 10 clty who warrits Girda ot o p e OLIN'S groat \ Xsars Aniong 50 Amictod. o ‘Fail snudy “savod f . hook fo dolivored batora'tho URIOAGO Mkl IOAY, INN I LTI, L 58 etk pid g 1o VAR LU 00, - Oall to8p, m.; Suaduys from ¥ to NO ONE & oe wilte, Patioaty