Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1874, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1874, PROF. SWING. Dr, Patton Consumes the En. tire Day with His Ar- gument, But Will Certainly Conclude It this Morning. Ho Explains Why It Is Impossible for Penelope to Do in Iicaven. And Oharges Prof. Bwing With In. sulting Adam, Moses, Eto, It Is Plain to His Mind that the Ac- cused Is a Sabellian. And -His Tenchings Gencrally Unsound. MORNING SESSION. The Ohicago Presbytery mot at 10 o’clock, yos- terday morniug, the attondance being ns large a8 usual, and Prof. Patton resumed his argu- ont. m'fln said when the hour of adjournmont arrived Tuosday afternoon, ho had teachod TIE FIFTH BPECIFIOATION, and wonld begin at tho point where he loft off. Ho took it that, 1f tho allegation aet forth in the epocification couid bo proven, it was o very serl- ous charge, nnd ono of such gravity that tho Presbytery could not afford to averlook it, or pnss iL by, ‘Tho speclfiention was as follows: i inlster of tho Presbyterian Chureh, and prgfc!flfix; ::',}fitllrly o tto Fourtl. Peesbyterian Churol of this city, lio Lns omitted 1o preach in bis sermons thie ductriiies commonly known as Lvangolioal,—that is tosay, in partioular, Lo omits to prewch or teach .ona or Juore of tho doctrines Judicatod in the followlng statements of Sorlpture, namelys that Dhlht i u “ propliiation for our sifs," that we lgve * redemp- tlon through His blood,” that we are © justifiecd by fnith,” that * there i8 no other name under heaven iven pniong tnen wheroby wo may ho maved,” ‘that gnaul is *oqual with God," aud in * God manifeat in the fleeh,” that “ all Scripturn s glven by uspiration of God, and hat «“ile wicked pball go away into everlasiing puulslunont,” Would it be questioned. that this waa tho basls on which all churches that had the right to be called Evangolical stood ? One of the elders of tho ‘Fourth [Bwing's] Church read that specitication a8 oxpressing bia view of what wos Lvangelical proaching, nud as expressing his idea of what doatrinos were embraced 1n the Evangelical sya- tom. The Church had taken special care to invees tbe ministry with the gravest-sanction, When a enndidate camo forward for licanso, bo auswered in the afirmative tho questions, ** Do you re- coive the Soripturca In the Old and New Testa- ments a8 being the word of God, and the infalliblo rule of faith and practice?” and, ** Do you rocoive siucerely the Confession of . Faith, ns contalning the systom of dootrine taught in the Worqof God ?" And subsoquently, when he camo forw¥id as & candidato for ordi- nation, ond was installed over a church ag its pastor, thoso questions were ropeated, and others like the. following ndded: “ Do you romiso to be zealous nnd faithful in maintain- an tha trutha of the Gospol, and the purity and peace of tho Church, whatever porsecution or opposition may arigo unto you on that account?" 4 Do you ongage to bo fuithful and gealous in tho exorcise of ail private and personal duties, \\'th ecomea you as & Christinn, and s minisier of the Gospel, 18 well as all velative dutios wua the public duties of your oftice 2" TUEAOHING THE DOCTRINE, If hio woro to usk what was cousidered to bo a {nithitul dischargo of the duties of a Christian miuister, and a full observauce of his ordination vows, tho answer would be without a dissenting voico, that thao ehiel amang those duties was tho prcachmg of tho doctrines set forth in tho alle- gations, ~1f Cliistianity had auy claim upen man, it grounded itself in the fuct that Josus Ciwist saved them by shodding lus precious blood. ‘Lloy wore nob vodeemed with corrupti- ble thiugs—silver and gold—but wich the precious blood of the Lamb ; without the ebod- ding of blood there was no rodemption of sius, Blood was tho cardinal fenturo in the Old Testa- ment, aud it occupiod & vory important place in the Now Tosinmont, ‘Thurotore, wlicu they found » man presching without' mention of blood, whea they did not soe tho scarlet throad inuing ity way thronghout the whola web of his Gospel-ministry, thoy woutd bo suspicious thnt something was wrong in respect to his views of the Gospol, He afirmed that this was truo of Prof Swing, —that Do euid nothing sbout tho blood of Onrist, and did not proach that men wore redeemed by the precious blood of the Lumb, 1t wos a cardinal fenturo of the Gospel that men wera justificd—counted right- coud—by faith. That was THE CORNER-STONE OF THE REFORMATION, and the grent featuroof tho Protestaut Ciristian Church. ~ He aflirmed that this doctrine could not. ba found in Prof. Swing's sermous. 3ore- over, ho allirmed that Prof. Bwing preached in direct contradiztion of that doctrine. 1f Chris- tjaaity had any special claim upon them, and if thoir missionary enterprises wore to be carried on with any zenl, the doctrino which Iny as tho reason of thoso enter- prises, and constituted the baats of miseionary offort, was that thero was *‘no other name given under heavon cmong men whoroby we can be saved.” It was this idea which laid the founda-~ ton for Paul's Xpistio to tho Romany, and which tulminuted in the doctrine of JUSTAFICATION LY FAITH, and it was this idoa, which constituted the ground and remson for the oxistence of tho Christian muiatry, and tho porpetun- Jdon of the Chrishian university, = 1o affirmed _that this doctrive was not tenght in Prof. Swing's sormons, and that tho contrmy doctrine was aflirmed, either diroctly or by mnplication. If Lo wero to receive thse doc~ trines us of any authority, there must bo someo one who ehoud tell him tuat he was bound to recoive them, and for some bettor renxon-than that ho supposod themto be true, There woro onl OSLY TINEE POSSIDEE BTANDALDS OF FAITH, Ono was the standurd of Rutioualism, which mede tho human wmind its own baals, and the in- dividual judgmont tho criterion of truth; uopther was tho Romish doctrine, which made the visible orguunization tho standard of faith, end said that tho doctrine was true, be- causo o given organization, inspired by God's =nirit nmf therofore iufalliblo, had said that it was truo. 'l<io cardinal fouture of the Protestantism 88 opposed to Rationallsm on (he oue haud, and Romanisio on the other, was that the Liblo was the staudard of foihnud practice,—that what 1t ozid was truo, thut whon it snid unything, it was sullicient Authox'it§ and thote was no weed of oing olsewhere, Ho affirmed that Prof, Swing S.a not preach tho doectiine that the Beriptures ware inspir¢d by God, and were the only rulo of {aith nn& practico, IF TUE IDEA wero onco lodged in tho human mind that all worn guing to Ilbaven, it would rob the world of one of the motives which bad intluonced men in accopting Clrist aud loading o Christian lifo, Thoy might say that wos an utllitanan iden, and he (Hd uot cave much if they did. If it was, God Almighty was s Utilitarlan, becsuse He Lud put 150 moti{vo in black and white iu His Book, and anjd ;_* If yo do not believe yo shall o dnmued, and_Jesus Christ was ug good authority to-duy as [o was whon those words foll from lis gentjo lips, Haaflirmed that Prof, Bwing did ot prouch that doctrine, 1fo should be told in roply, thaf it could not be oxpected that all men would preach alike; that a wan's individualicy must not be suppressed; that he must not bo yun in poother's mold, Cortainly naty Qod forbid| 1f o mun was emotional in Lis naturo, o lkod to sco Lin pronching show it; it ono way dry, ho could not hel¥ it; ho mnst do tho bLest with what ho had, Ho muat use tho gifts Gad ave him, He would be told that ) PHOF, WING WAH A YOET) and could not be expeoted Lapresont theso trutha with the eamo regard to furmuluted striciness as porsony who made that thoir business, .lh answerod that he hud far more respoct for Prof, Bwing's intolleet, knowing that wlen ha chose, hio could bo as trausparont as |il‘nn and ag am- biguous os & Dolphic oracle, [Lasughtor.] THE: PULLISUED BERMONH, o did not afiirm that it wow nocossary for s ach & dootrinul sormon; all fi‘:n f?.mz'ifi" wad that the grmm;l. work showid ba the goupel; ILHL 13 that sonse, he belloved that every sormon shoul Yo dyod in'tho blood of Uhsist.” He doflod the Pronbyterg to {Ind tho dgotriney mentloned fn iho apaulfleutlnm in }‘mr. Swing'n aermona, and if thoy antd thoy x’lh* fing thom, o should heve 2omo doubt about their knowledga of the doo- trined. [Layghtor,) It might Lo snid that tha sormong offored in ovidonce woro only spocl- mond, That wns tho most plansablo roply that conld bo made, Tho theory of tho defonec, snd they are most oroditabla to it, woul be, ''Grant {hnt tho mormons naro mnat In form. Do ?um mosn to talio them a8 an indi- eation of Prof. Swing’s thoology? Do you not Imow that ho hina boon pronching sovon yours in this olty? that thoso avo morg fragmonts, aud would you rogayd thom as ropronontativoof whnt he balloves 7" Lo that o would anaor, that if & man pyblished s volumo of sormans, it wae 2in to prosume that ko put thom forward with tho idoa that they were ta do gaod,—thnt thoy wora tp go ipta nhan‘?unfln of tha publio thnb hosa who wero not roackod by his voloo mlliht 0 ranohod by the printed page. Xt wag nob in- cumbent upon him tp prove **THE NEGATIVE PROPOAITION. It ho raied n fair prosumption that Prof, Biing did not rrunch the dootrines of the Preby- teilan Churoh it was onough. Itwas n privole plo of ovidonce, that, whoro & nogative proposis tion of thin kind laid the burdon of proof upon tho party afilrming it, it was not nocossary for hiwm, in order to ostablish it to make plonary proof of thesame, [Po support this view ho rend from Cireonloaf on ovidenco aud o declslon by Judge Oaton, in ihe Illinols roports. Prof, Patton whilo ronding, stated that tho lattor wna in roforones to n camplnint sgainst o rallrond company for killing & mulo, whereat thoro was a gonoral leugh], 'Yho avermont must hoid ay provon, unlcss tho dofouso proved iho oon- raty, TIE LLDERS of Prof, B\vln[fi'fl church had beon eallod, and tostified that,'in thoir opinion, he bad prenched tho Gospol,—tho doctrine of tho duty of Chrlst, Tho valuo of their testimony could bo doter- mined by Lis stating that, to prove thoir views, thoy cited passages which he rend ns inatancos of Prof. Swing’s equivoeation, e did not want to any anythiog unkind or dls‘zm-nmng, but ho would submit whether tho Court would allow testimony which ran simply to the opinion (hat Prof. Bwing was n faithiul preachor of the Cou- pel, when it was offered by mon who admjted that thoy regarded tho prosacution as an attnck upon thoir church and tho clders, to bo rognrded as conclusive to tha sotting aside of tho ullegn~ tion. o had asked that tho sermonsin which it was sald Prof, Swing preached the doctriucs ho produced, and it was nfiirmed that they were in oxisteuce, Dut, as Prof, Swing had failed to briug them in, he [Pntlan}l hind offorod the noxt beat testimony to prove thoe allegation. Ile had requerted the Coutt to set asido tho tostimony of tho Elders, and was sorry thoy did nob do it, Ho, however, wns right in roquesting it, and road from tho Digost to show that Lo was. If it was true that Prof, Swing bad proached these doc- trinos, and ho was anxious to_disprove the alle- gations, and set tho complawt adrift, and bo ne- quittey, and bo recognizod by tho bLody as ‘still in good standing, and deserviug of tho con- fidenco of the Prosbytery, it stood to reason that ho would have brought the sormons into court, and flung deflance in the fuce of the rosecutor, by presenting writton testimony that Ke dld preach tEem. But it had been domon- strated, by his not doivg eo, that ho could not do it, and honco the ailegation was truo. TUE SIXTIL BPECIFICATION, b Ho then considerod tho sixth specifieation, which 14 as follows o declares that tho valuo of o doclrine {8 mensured Ly theability of men to verlfy it in their experience, Iu flustrailiig thia statement, ko hins spoken Tigutly of important doctrines of tho Biblo,—that s to sny, that, in a ermon cntitled * Qbrisiiouity and Dogma,” printed iu tho volumo callod *“Truihs for To-Day," the following and similar langunge I8 usod: * Tue doctrines of Christiunity are those which moy bo triad Dby tho Lmaau heart,” ¥ Tho doctriue of the Trinity, a8 formully stated, connol be experfenced. Man hns not the power to lasta the ononens of thiros, nor the thrceneas of one, aud sea that it s * good.’” " If you, my friend, are giving your dally thought to tho facts of Ohristinuity, and aro standing bewildered to-day amid the statoments of weiouce and Geuesls about earth, or ita wwarims of life, reeall iho truth that your soul cannot tagte uny theory of mun's origin—calinot experienco the orlgin of man, whatover the origin may have Leen,” Thig atntomont was not au obiter dictum on the part of Prof. Swing by any menne. It wns the onunciationof a princinlo wihich porvaded his proaohing and which gaye color to hiy theology. 1o {Swing] did not say that o doetrio was trio in propurtiou a8 ono _could verify it. ,If ho had, it would havo beon Rationalism. But he raid n dootiine was ¢ valuabla in Prnporticn as you ean vorify it by oxperience,” 'Thev might filla garrot with thoology, and it might bo truo, but what use was it to him when it was pronounced to bo rashness? When Prof, Swing undertook to set up his a\\bliecm'e stand- dard ns to tho valuo of a dootrine, he announced & principlo which, carried to its faglcal conglu- sion, landed in skopticism which was absolutely uuanswernble, That principle ruled out overy solitary doctrine of Christinuity that was myste- rions, ~ Could they verify the doctrine of the Trinfty, of predestination, of the person of Chuist, or of tho origin of man, in their experi- onco? Tho doctiine of election could not bo eo vorifled, What doctrioe could? Prof. Bwivg might bo pleased to lmit his lisy of excoptions_to the doctrines of tho Trinity and of the origin of man, but the moment he mado that statomont ho opened 2 door which ho could not shut again. Tho deity of Chuist founded upon o *‘sentiment 2™ It that wore ad- mitted, down would go Christisnity, and out, like o taper, tho Chrietinn’s hopo. Never was o sontimeut moro ratlonatistic preached from tho Prosbyterinn pulpit thau the one quoted 5 nnd‘ it it were tho ouly ono in *!ruths for To-day,” it was cnough to indicato the drift of Prof. Bwing's mind, and show that be was not o safe preachor for a Presbytorian congregation, DEVELOYMENT. Tho specification i regaid to ** development " was next spoken of. In the sermous entitled, respectively, * Old Testae ment Inepiration” and #'Tho Value of Yesterduy,” yublisted fn the Chicugo uI[l(l. and in sermons en- titied * Righteouencss Gilb, The Great De- bute,” printed in ** Trutha for To-day;"” aleo in tho “ Delino of Vice," printed in tho .t lince, he has ueod Isngusgo which, taken in its pluin and obvioue seuse, inculeates o phase of {he doctrive commonly kuown 88 “Evolution ” or “Dovelopment”; that {8 to say, he uses the following aud shnilar lingunge: “Low idolatry of primitive mau,” meaning Adum. *Tho | Biblo lina not mado religion, but veligion and righterus. neds buve made the Bible, ' Christianity fs not forced upon us; our own nature hns forced it up out of {ho spirivs rich dopths,” “'Tha Mosalo economy was nothing else bul @ progress; earth had come to Poly- thelsm, to Panthelsm, to Fetiehism, It was tho Liebrow philosopby aud its immodiute result Oliris- tianity, which swopt away tho iron Jupfter,” ®Thls multitude measures a great revelation of God above {hut duy when carth possessed but ono wan or fawily, and that one without Innguage and without learning, und without virtue.” ©In the firat human belng God could no_mcra display s yorfections, then s sl clun like Mozurt could unfold his genius to un infunt or to a South Bea Islundor,” ° Ho hoped the court wonld consider 1t no im- pertinenco if, for tho sako of fucititating argu- meut, and throwing mora light upon the specifi cauon, he went out of tho way a littlo to state, in substance, what tho doctrine of development was, It was tho doctrine in philosophy which moro than all others challenged tho attention of tho Christiun student, aud bade dofinnce to the history of the Ohistian Church, and the historic faith of tho Christion disciplo,—n philosophy wlich at tho prosont dny was assuming o position of paramount authority, Applied to he materinl world, tho doctrine iag that all the forms of materinl oxiatence had developed by n procoss of ovolntion from an original othor, whatever that was, Applied to lifo, it wan thal the higher forms of existencejhad come, throngh successive transmutations, out of lowor forme of being. Applied to soclal enlture, it was that man was first o envage, that religion was an aftor-thought; that Lio was nt one timo as unablo to worship God as he was to build a fires thet Christianity was as much’ the natural outgrowth of ‘“tho law of clrcumstances s stoam was tho natural result of a progross whioh began with tho race who could not biitld s fire; and when they did succeod in building a fire, it wan by rubbing two sticks togathor. It was & philoaophy which told us that man was at ouc time without language, and that, valuablo ua Lo wus to-day, ut otio time ho could not speals, It told us thut man first worshiped his grandfatlier, and thon an animal and thon o stick, snd from’ Fotiohism Lo wont on to Poly~ thelsm, and from Dolytheism to Pantheism, from Pantholsm to Monotheism, ond that monatheism found fts culminating period in Judaism, and It was Judnism trausformed undor the proosss and action of natural eauses, which gavo them tho Christinnity of to-day, "That was positive puilosophy-—the dovelopment hypothe- i, FHOF, AWING'R VIEWH ON TIIS POINT, Tho spooker theu resd passuges from Prof, Bwing's sermons, to sliow thut his views woro in nccord with thoso of Buckle, Lubbook, Tylar, and enckel, aylug that an Impartial reedor would suppose from Prof, Bwing's statomonts, that ho had beon in convorsation with Sir John Tubbock, and eat at the feetof that evolutionist, Qamaliol, W HAT OURISTTANITY 18, chrlnumxlty was not an * outgrowth of ofr- onmstances,” Qod Almighty cume down on earth by & direct and mirnculous interterence with its history, in the formof Josus Christ, living, dying, and rising from tho dead, and sete ting in work u set of foroes of which Christian- ity was the outgrowth, [Applaueo,] God mada man ju His own image, and, if eo, he refleoted the perfections of God, and for a man to Eay shat God “In the firek buman being could not more dlepln Hi arfeotion than o musicinn hlmpl\{nurfi 1:0 i unfold his _genfus to an infant or a Bouth Hoa Talandor,” wan to toll Moses that ho did nob toll tho truth: for Monos said, and tho panxln anld aftor bim, it Glod did_mnko man 1 1His own fmngo, 1o belioved that, and that Adam was o gront deal moro liko God than ho [I'atton] would bo for somo timo to oamo § aud tha idoa thint this ninotesnth contury could diaplpy tho porfoctions of God moro than Adam did, wes nn outrago upon common sonAo, Irof. 8wiug—Do you think Adnm hnd any miaslonnry soolotios, or any asylnms of any kiud to glorify God with § Trof, Patton—Tharo was not anybady ta go to, —thoro wera no heathon. [Lauglter and ap- plauge on tho loft.] Pl progoontor thon quoted from the sormon ontitled, ! Influence of “Domooraoy pn Ohirigtian Doctrinc," nseorting that tho pasiages ho roud, if they had any monning, taught that there wora no standards by whioh etuma‘} vorities could ba monsured,—that {ho moral idons wore lable to ohango, aud wera subjeot to tho law incidout to oll buman things, If thoro was any hopo thnt ho chorlshed, 1t wne that Prof, Bwiug was Dottor than hia pronohing,—that his eread was bottor than his oxprossion of it. Thoy wero donling with tho expression of i, beosuse it was that which oxorcised influonco,’ Tho spoalor then quoted o passagoe, tho loglcal inforenco from whiok, ho smd, wag that Prof. Swing (lroppad tho doctrings of ** Prodestination " and #Futurg Punislont," A WORD OF WARNING, It was the provinco of tho Prosbylery to 8y whother Prof. Bwing was or was not In accord itk tho copfosslon of faith, and whathor, if havig dngunml from tha standards of the Prog- bytorinn Clnrch, ho should still have the right to miwster at her altar, and bo. rocognized e in ood andl rogular atanding, ITo would toll them tho time waa coming when they would seo, if thoy nfilymed this, that thay woro wrong; and the time was coming when the ministers of thig oity would find their own influence undermined by the influonce of suoh preaching as ho had ro- torrod to. Thoy romembored the day of Tenol~ opo—how, when waiting for tho long-looked for ‘Ulyssos, pressed by suitors, she fust- poned tho mot of mccoptanco of o favorite, and gave ns hor exouse, that sha would acvopk him when sho should have finishod a cor- tain pioce of tapeatry ; and how what glio wove in tho daytimo sho uravelod in tho night-tima. The Presbytorian ministors of Ohiongo woro the Penolopo of tho daytime, and Prof. Swing was tho Ponolopo of tha night, They wora proaching tha doctriues ho was decrying, and _plantin thomeolves upon the time-lionored stand- ardy, and maiataining thom io the faco of n godlens aud scoffing world, and ho [Swmu} stood in their presence, and told them that hie had drifted away from thom; aud, bf' Dis niroitnoss and floxibility of languaga, an slill in the arrangomont of his_thoughts, por- aunded his pooplo that ho was still in sympathy with tho groat doctrines of tho Prosbyterian foith, The timo was coming when they would #co that tho prosecution was right, and he would wait a contwy if necessary for his own vindica- tlon. [Smules on the loft.] BABELLIANISN, Tho ninth specification was then advorted tos Ho has given his approval in the puipit to the doc- irine commonly known ns Sabellaniam, or a Modul Triuity ; aud bas spoken slightingly of tho doctrine of tho ‘Triuity, s taught tu the utnnsnrds of the Presl torlan Ohtirch (Confession of Faith, chap, 32, Sce. 3), that i to uny : In tho volume, * Triaths for' To-Day, Lo uses tho following and sinilar langungo : % But the moment Lo (Jusug) bus uttered our tuxt,—that ¢ thoso which mnn can subjoct to oxporience nre tho dootriucs that bo of God,'~reuson rigoa Ill‘l and uuites its valco with that of simplo authority, The doctriucs of Oliris- tlonityare thoss which may "bo tried by the human heart, The doctriuo of {he Trinity, 2s iormnlly stat- ed, can not be oxperienced, 3Man Lias not the power to tasto tho threenesa of one, nor the ononees of three, snd beo thnt {t s * good,’ Hence, Christionity bears readily tha didea of threo ofiices, und permits the one God to appoar In Fatlier, or iu'Son, or n Spirit,” ‘Lo idos that ovo could be threo sud throo could b ono lind been ridionled by Prof. Swing, and he hiad given his public approval of a Madal Trinity, which was not tho Tripity taught in tho Confossion of Feith, the Trinity of the Bible, or of tho Gospol. They beliayed in ono God,—that . was one fuotor in tho dootrine ; that the Father wos QGod; tbat tho Bon "was Clod; that tho IHoly Glost was QGod; that was tiio Booond fagtor. The groat problom of the world on the question of tha Triuity, was to combiuo these two factors, and thexe woro two waya in which it could be dono. Tho ouo waa truth, aud tbe other was orror, Trof. 8wing gave his sanction to the error, aud tho Prosbytorian Chuch held the tinth, The orror wad Babellianism, tho truth was Athonas- ianism. Tho Snhollian viow was : Tho Father is God, tho Son is God, and the Holy Gnost is God, and in such o sonse that th samo Gad apponted at ono time and in ono place as Father, at anothor timo and .uoder other citcumstances as Som, snd ot anothortimo, and undor still other cir- cumstances ay tho Holf' Ghost, just us tho sama ma1, may bo & Deacon in the ohurch, & Judge on the bouch, and a Goveral of the army. Could the Deuncon evor say to the Judge, * 1 cannot do thut while & Judge, and act tha Deacon;" or the Judge to to tho Uenoral? "That was the problom, and was why ho could not accopt Savollianivm, T'he porgonal rolations betweon Father, Son, and Holy Glost, wero much that tho. Son could spenk to the Tathor, different from limself, and the loly Glost coulid proceed difforont from both. "What Prof, Bwing taught, wus that tho Fathor, Sou, and loly Ghost wero threo ofiices of tho ono God, dony- ing the separato personality of the ‘Frinity, and In'wo doing ho bad controverted und coutravencd tho doctrine of the standard, which was thiat thera were three porsons in the God-head, equal in power and glory. 'TUE TENTIZ FPECIFICATION, Drof. Patton then read tho tenth specification. Iniho sermons centitled, rospectively, “Tho Great Debate,” uud * Pasltive, Rellgion,” printed in the vol- yme caledd Teuths fop Loy, fulso und dangerons statoments aro made répecting our knowlodge regard- ing the Belog aud attributes of God; that Is to say, thut tho folowing and similar Junguogo is used : “ When logic informa you and mo that God §s lay, or a widesproad blind agoiicy, lot s not bo decolved, Tor all it hae done I8 to tuke away our God.” ¢ Perfect as- wuranco {8 just ns impossible lon free religlonist or nthelst, as it I to tho Christiau, Rememtefug, thore- for, that lhiere Ju no moral idea of beauty or love ar soul that may not be denied, and _remembering, too, that the newtirance that there'1s o God {8 alwaya loglc— allyequal to tho opposite belief,” *Wo know not what nor whero is our God, our Leaven, He quoted from the sermsn on * Positive Re- Iigion,” soykag, "in justico to Prof, Swing," thint Bo far as it taught falso dootrine, it dit not teach it in tho intercet of athioism. Its objoct waa to consiruct an argument ngainst tho nega- tive tendencies of tho times,—an urgumont which should {mmum]« mou that, notwithstanding what rationalists might say, rohglon was worth hav- ing, 1t was to the modo of constructing tho ergumont, and the nocessary inferences that followed, agaiuat which ho protested. His argu~ mient for tho boing of (od, and against the being of Qod, balsnced each other. What turned tho scale in bolalf of God, was, *‘if you get ro- Iigion out of the world, you rob the world of ail oys." hat was not tho position for o Cristiau minister to take. The statemonts in tho sormon were in accord with thoso of Mutthow Arnold,— on Atheist,—that was, ono who did not beliove in n porsonal God. e [Patton] was surprised thot in the niueteonth contury, the gospol of nescionco should be proclaimed, aud a man rise in bis pulpit and direct hia poopla to worship at an altar eracted to an unknown God. INFANT DAPTISM, Tho noxt specification was then alluded to : Iu nacrmon entitled, A Religlon of Words,” pub- lished in tho Ohicaga I’u!nl{t sud in the scrmon en=~ Ut Bellgloun Toloration,! he uses langnaga in ro- gord to tho Bucrament of Tiptiem fuconristent with tho doctrinal standurds of the Yresbyterian Church, thnt in to any, lis speaks Nippantly of Infant. baptiss: aud, in the sermou alove mentioned, Lo uics the fole Towing word: Vo nationa swait, With tears of past BOrTow, o roliglon thutshall, iudeod, baptizo men and childreh, eithier or both, bué counting {his ns only a bontirul form, whall ko the soula of mon Into tho atmosphere of desus,” etc, o read what the standard of the Oburoh sald upon the Sacramonts of the Ohurch in goneral and tho Seerament of Baptism in partioular, and uoted from ** A Religion of Words,” to show that Prof. Bwln;idld uot renlizo tha solomnity of the raorament of infant baptism or recognlzo itw importanve, Prof, Bwing remerked that ho fully indorsed what Prof, I'atton read, Pror, Patton continued, saying that not only i this city, but in other citles, thure were a gront mauy I'rosbytoriaus, goud in othor re- spoots, who neglected tho' ordinanco of infant baptism, and did not aeo the imporianco of the honsebold covenant, nud of bringing their chil- «dron to the haptismnl font, that they might re- celve tho senl of righteousness and faith, And It overy Prosbyterian ministor afiivmod that boptism was “only & beautiful form," bp would not bo snrprised if this negleot of {nfant bap- tiim became ®o gonoral that the Baptist de- nomination would swallow then uy nmr ond tho talk about * close comumunion,” fi\ppluuu.) TENELOPE AND SOCRATEN, "Tho progeontor turned to tho twolfth specition~ on, o bus used languago fn reapect fo Ponclopo and Bucratos which s unwarexutablo und coutrary (o tho toachinga of flie Confossion of Vajth; that b to s thint in Dl sermon, ontitled @ Bnul Ginture,? tho 1 lowlng punango ooeura s ¢ Thoro fs no donit the no: vlous Oathorfuo I7, Lold mora truth aud bettor trut then wne known to ull classle Groose—hold to hollet in o Bavior, of whosn glory that #u’m know nought 3oty such tho grandsiir Of sous nbave wnind, Mt doribt ol that Gucen Tauclops of o dark whd snd the doubling Gocraiea have recolysd i Heaven's gate aawaster yolcomo (han grected tho car of Rusla’s Beilimat vt frsvaetiyod Qhosn.r o then read fho following from tho Cone foesion of Falsh: Oltiora, not elocted, althouglh thoy may bo called by the minlatry of the word, nna mny hnys somo common onotations af tho Bpirit, yet thoy nover truly como to Oliriet, ‘and, thoroforey’ Satmot, bo avod, ATuch less can gnsmy mot professing tho Ourlstinn eligion, bo #aved o sny dthor way whataosyor, bo Lhey over o Qiligent to framp thelr liven aocording to the lght of natiire, and_{he law of thap Teligion oy o profosn | und to assert and maintain that thoy msy I8 VOry pop- niclas, nud to bo deteated, v Was Irof, 8wing's toaching in aosordance with o Confassion of Talih? 1a undarstood why ha exprassod no donbt about Penalope aud Sacrates. il (Bwing's) thoory of ealvation was that mon entored Hoaven on tho ground of their good works, ‘Uho teaoing of tfin atatomont, was that Qsthorina went ta Hoaven, and Penelapo wont to Hoavon, sud the gnly point of differoha was that Penclopo got thove ilrst, and hod o botter welcomo givon oy, Ha had no right to dog- matizo 04 to the poaition of Ponelons, and cor'- talnly no right to dogmatiza to_tho effcot that honthon withont grage oould bo saved. Ho (atton) shauld ke to know what tho mission- Ary socitins meant—why it wasnecossary to ga to Indin to carry ohristianity to tho lirahmins, why tho Apoatlo Paul felt himeolf gallod upon o go and pronoh to the cultlvated Puaplu of Athons,—if thoy conld bo saved by their good worka, and if tholr morality would hring thom iuto the Kingdom of Gad, THE QUIIBTIAN MINJBTRY. Tho sposkor then yaferrad to the sormon on :lflu“_"(!hmunn injstry,” whoraln it was alloged al =Lo ropualated tha {dea of & call o the ministry, and taught that an oflice of the miniatry, ko tho profes. plon of Iaw and mediclue, ia tho paiuml ontgrowth of circumatanceay that {4 {0 ey, bo sald fn subatanco, {hat tho mercliant s called to his business, tha lawyer to his profasefon, Just as 1nuch as tho minister 1o the dutics of hin allice, and oflior stitements contradicied the Confeasion of Faith and Form of Government, Coplous extracts, in fact nearly all of it, woro rond -from the sermon, and, to” show that tho tonohing was nuutrnr{) to the Confession of {"ML':I, ho rond tho mubjined extract from the ook ¢ Unto this cathiollo visible Olnrch, Olirist hath given the miniatry, oracles, and_ordinancesof God, far the gathering and yerfocting of the suints in (his iifo lo too end of the world; and doth by His own preasnce and spirit, aceording to s promise, make thom effoctual thereunto, The Presbyterian Cburch proceedod upon the iden that thore wag a !nclnt{ in this world, divinoly appointed, dlvinely ollicered ; that the minfatry was o divivo appointmont; that men wora called into it by divine providences; that men wora inveated with the oflice by thoso who Lad tha xifhn to transmil tho offico, *Ordain on Eldor In every city, and tho thinga which thou hast board of mocommit them to faithful men who shall tonoh othoranleo," Trof. Swing's toaching was that the Christian ministiy had no vght or sianding in tho Bible; that it was - an outgrowth of circumstancos—the result of tho law of a division of labor. Thoy, held that o Christinan minister was tho ambag-" sador of tho Lord Josus Obrist, spenking by authority, ulllnpf‘ and blossing tho ‘people, and admiuvistering the sncraments in the name of Iim from whom he hold his great commission. Dr. Bwazey hisd said that Lie nover heard a ser- mon whioh bettor exprossed hiu idess of tho Chuistian ministry ; that Prot. Bwing attompted to got at tho rationala of il ; that ke dug under. Ho (Patton) thought it was a * digging under,” oo undormining of the whale Christian Ohm}: [Laughtor.] GIFT WORGHIP, Specifloation TFifteonth aot forth that Prof. Bwing— —had mado faleo and mislending statementa respecting tho Old "Westament sacrifices; that is to pay, that iu the mermon entltlod A Xeligion of Words,” Lo epenks of tho aforesuld sacrifices aw * gift worship,” and uses tho following and slmilar Janguago: *Giftd to the Deity wero the infant creopings of religion; tho shadow of & coming reallly, tho manifesting of ah in- ciplont love that did not kuow how to oxpress ftaelf. Not knowing that what God most wished was o pure lieart in Iliw children, they londed Ilis temples with thoir jewels and yalment, snd MHis altars with thoir lambs,” -3 Thero was no question bnt that, in the sermon alluded to, thoancrifloos of the Jews were putinto the eamo cntogory with tho eimilar servicos of othor nations, Ho had no fault to find with any thoorios ra to the ongin cf eacrifioe, whon sao- rifico roferred to what the Romana or thu Grooks did; but when a theory of sacrifica_such a8 was hinfod at fn_tha sormon, to the offect_tant it was gift_worsbhip, was nl‘fillud to tho Jows, ho protosted, bocanse suc o theory dis- vurded tho cssentinl idea of tho atonement. If he road the ook of Loviticus aright, (Fnrliuuhu-ly the sixtoenth chaptor, it gave a vory differont notion about secrifice, Ho did not find thora that it was an “expedient thut Enunlu resorted to bocause they did not know ow to sdrvo God any better," but that it was & divinely-appointed ordinanco, observed with a minutenoss of detail which had been appointod by God under the sanction of His law. When ho wad told that the socrificos of the Old Tosta- ment wero simply gift worship, 1t robbod tho Bible of onc-balf of its doctrine of siv; and the groat difliculty in Prof. Bwing’s tenching, a8 it was tho roprosentative dilliculty in all mora influence theology , wns thet it robbed tho Bible of the olemont of guilt, and took out tho sen- tenco of damnation, justitication, and the vicari- ous atonemont of Christ. T'he Presbytery thou adjourned until half-past 2 o'clovly ——— AFTERNOON SZESSION. Upon resusombling, Prof. Patton took up the thread of his discourso, aud ronawod thoe weav- ing of his web around the sccused. Ho had heard it aaid ropeatedly that the groat difference betweon Prof. 8wing and his ministerial broth- ron was, that he avoided the use of theologi- col torms, or, as it waa somotimes facetiously put, * Gets out of the usual theo- logical rute.”” 1f he (Swing) wero studiously to avoid the uso of theological terms, he thought oue of tho great causos of the misunderstanding Which now existed would bo romoved. He ho- lioved that ono grnut reason why he (Swing) ro- taiucd tho confidenco of evangelical poople was bacaueo he continued to muke use of evangelical torminology. And » point which ho believed to bo vital, or an important one at lesst, was that, when thov usod the words * rogeuor- ation," *‘ conversion,” ** justifioation,” * divine," * galvation,” * Savior,” they wero not to con- clude,; without examination, that these words mennt tho same in Prof. Swing's dictionary ag in their own. DEFINITIONH, The prosecutor then spent an hour and o half in defimng the words montionod as tho Presby- torians understood them, aud showing by T\ou- tions from Prof, Bwing's sermons that ho did not utio them in the sense in-which they should be used according to the Uonfession of Faith, sus. tainiug Lis position by the Janguage of tho hook, Ho censod speaking at 4 o'clock, and roquestod that tho Court adjourn, stating that ho wished to have'tho moruivg scssion to-day to finish his argument. . — Votiug by Telegraph. ‘The' Gormau Reiohatag' is loreafter going to do its voting by telegraph. The wirca are to be 80 arraugod that ench member can indicate Lis vote from his sont. In front of the seatare two buttous, ono indicating yes, tho other no. A prossure on the button telographs the vote to o circulnr table in front of tho President's desk, upon which the namea of all the members are written down, fo that immediately after pressing the button each membor can seo a pieca of Ppr- por appear under his name with hiy yos or no on it. B —_— Duryeas’ Satin Glosa Staroh, If you want & pure white, strong, and glossy starch, ask your grocors for Duryeny’ * Satin Gloas Btarch,” and sco that you got it, SATIN GLOSS BTARON.—KALANMAZOO, Mich,, April 4, 1871,—I Liave been in the waubing and starching busi- ness for fifteon yoars, aud have alwuya used the best atarch I could get; but after uslog ong. six-pound box of your Batin Glows Htarch, I bocame satisfiod that it waa by far tha beat that I havo aver used in my lsun- dry, Tmustany toall houswkespors, If they wish & aniooth sirface, and want & fing glosn on thelr shirt frouts, use Duryeas' * Satin Gows Bturak,” Yours truly, T, 0, GRERNWOQD, Elegant Oil Paintinga, AL 10 o'clovk thld morulny, Mosnry, Eilson, Pomeroy & Co. will aloss out the eutire collaction of elegant ot palntings whick have boen on sale during Tuesday aud Wodnesdoy, The collaction yet contains soveral vory fine works, which have hicen selling at low prices, The owner has fustructed a positiv closing out, re- @ardlosu of price, rather than reahip to New York, - e ‘" Attomptod Bank Robbery. A desperate attouipl was niade to xo fhe #afe of the’ Bavings Bank at Now Milford, Pa,, a few nights ago. The watchman win gegyed and bound, aud the safe vigorouuly attacked by burglars, with all tho modern {00ty at thotr command, the work beiog kept up until aftur § a'elack In the morutug, but without sucooas, ‘Tio wafo wav Herring's now patout fira and hurglarn proof, X Millinery Opening. atra.M, E, Rloughton will lve hor grand milltnery opeuing to-dsy, May 14, at No, 404 Wabazh avonue, when sl tho novelilos of thy sessou will be dispiayed for {he benedl of ber pajrons, RAILWAY MASTER MECHANICS. Discyssion of Roports on the Incrus- tation of Boilers, The Mechanical Laboratory, ‘Tho sgaond day'y seeplop of fho sgvonth an. nual Convontion of the Amorican Ra{lway Maa- tor Mechianics’ Assacintion commoncod yostorday morning at 0 o'clock at Kingsbury Blunlc-Hall, Prenfdant H. M: Brliton, in thq chalr, The at- tendance wns somowhat largor than that of the day bofoye, one hyudyed ‘and fonriopn mombers boing prosent. ; LOCOMQTEYR DOILERS, Prof. Rogors rend o paper on the incrnstation of locomotive hollors and the purification of wator, as announced yesterdny after tho ronding of the report of “the Commitfee op “Tho Onoration and Management of Locomotive Doilors, Inclydjog tho Purifiontion of Water,” Tho Profossor mado o vory sblo and sciontific argument, showing by chom- ial oxperiments how boiler * pxplosiops ooony, Hgaleo howed by numberless expori- montg tho gotion of ope kind of water upon an- othor, aud how watar could ba purified to pro- vent the incrustation of boilors, A long disoussfon on the roport of the Com- mittoe followed, My, Towp of the Northorn Paciflo, contended thatthe only proper way to purify the water wns to purify It bofora it was put in tho bollor, Raln-water was much bettor than well-water, as it contained much lcss of foroign substanco, and, therofore, it possible, rain-wator should bo used forlocomotive boilers. Mr. Jackman, of the Chicago & Alton, slated that o gentloman who came with him to Chicago Lad mado somg cxporimants, and he would like to lave the gontloman invited to mako somo remarks on tho subjeot. On motion of Mr. Robinson, of the Groat Wostorn Rtailrond of Canada, Prof. Sewoll was requosted to gddross tho moeting, rof, Bowell commoncod by gaying that the incrustation of hoilors was a grent ovil, and must bo stopped. The qunntity of sulphate of lime, of carbonato of lime, &e., conld not be known, and thereforo tho water must b purificd boforo 1t wout inta the boilor. By dividing the water-tank into two portions, filling ono with ehnreonl, and letting the water go in through that portioy fiilad with charcoal, the wator swould como out of tho other portions purified. Tho geological atate of the country must always do- tormine what remedy tvas to bo usad. Mr, Colemen Sollors, of Ihiladelphis, in his romarks, stated (haf o finn in Philadol- bin lind tried tho exporimoct of hent- ug their tanks, which were mnado of old locomotivo Loilors, The hented wator became porfectly pure, butina fow years tho boilers Locamo 60 inorusted that they had to be throwh away 86 warthiloss ; nothing could bo found that would remove the incrustation. They used tanuatq of sods, but it had no olfact on the seales, - * RESULTS OF HXPERIMENTH, Mr, Jackman, of the Chicrlgz & Altan, said that for g year or moro bo hud boon experiment- Ing with two different kinds of compound, o bad used ono kind of comguuuu iu o large stationary boiler. When it hnd been in use a yoar or two, ho found it inorustazed an inoh and o half, which Lod worked off tho ground- sheet. Tlo put in awothor ground-sheet and used the other compound whicli boe followed up for about a year, andto-day the ground sheot was a8 cloan as a shoot of vaper, and the tubes wora equally clean. Tho lime and magnesia set- tled on tho bottom s & Hoft liquid mass, of which about sixty gallons were taken out evary wook, Dut ho did not think that the compoun, could bo nsed equally well in locomotive boilers. He Eut from 12 to 14 pounds of tho compound in the boilor without experlencing any difiiculty from ita use in runningthe trains. DBut, while oy cauld got on with tight train, ho did not think it would do for beavy ones, aa it would mako tho boiler full. On the ongines whoro thoy did not uso tho compound the seale was hiard as fiint, while on the othors whero they did use it, it was 80ft and could bo rubbed off, “The question was whother they conld afford to pay the cost of using theso ‘compounds, winlo tannate of soda, a recommonded by Dr. Rogors, would accom- gliuh tho sama rosults. In somo portions of lissouri they wero using sarface-water thick with mud, still tboy experionced no trouble from itg uso, tho sedimont boing casily cleancd’ out, it consiating of a soft clay. ‘The water did not incrust the boilers, while with water pruontly olenr but which contained much alkali thoy ox-~ poriencod much troublo from scales, Mr, Jellrey, of tho Illinois Contral, related his experience in rogard to incrustation of boilers, Mr. Woodraff, of the Contral{Railroad of Towa, askod Mr, Jackman what compound it was ho bad usod, ¥ NMr. Jackman roplied that it was & compound gold by a cortain firm in 8t. Louls, Mr. Woodrufl asid that ho hod ueed the snme compound, but had derived no beneflt thorefrom. Mr. Hudson, of tho Rogers Locomotive Worke, s0id ho agreed with othors that tho water should bo purified before putting it in_tho boiler, ‘Co get rid of deposits means should bo dovised to throw the sedimont out when it comes to the surface nund bolors it sottlos as hard scales, In Cubg, where tho water was very bad, mud-col- loctors wore placed in the boilers, which provent- ed foreign mattors from settling. Mr, Towno, of the Northorn Pacific, prescnted n drawing showing that tbe surface-water, after etting rid of the clav, would cause but very fima incrustation, Tilters were not necrssary; that was a slow process of purifying. Sottling would answer much bettor, and could ba done much easier. Aftor a large number of other delogntes had made lengthy romarks on the subject the dis- cusslon was abruptly cut short by tho Chairman announcing that the time for faking up the question on MECTTANIUAL LABORATORY, us doclded yusterday, had arrived. Beforo commencing the discuesion of this noyw subject o tecess of ten minues was takon, On reassombling, the Chaivman stated that any person who bnd any subjects to be roforred to a committee for disoussion at the nexs Con- vention, slould make it known at, onco. The question of a mechnnical laboratory was thon taken up, > Mr. Betchel, of tho Little Miami Railroad, moved that the raport of the Committee be di- vided, and that that portion prosonted by Prof, Thurston, of the Stovonson Institute, be not dis- onsaod until next yenr. ; Mr, Robertson moved, as an amendment, that the votes which the Committos recommended bo a!so deferrod for oue year, Mr. Hotchol thought Mr. ttobertson's motion should be modified. Action on thls question should be taken at onco. Mr. Robortson replicd that by postponing the voto on this question it would nov compromise them in a matter which thoy wero not roady to aot upon, 3 Mr. Robertgon's motion was onrried B, JACKIAN, of the Alton & 8t, Lonis, suid _that sofar paa Mochanical Labaratory was colicerned, it was a valuablo thing, provided that it could be placed at o point accossiblo to all the membors of the Asgocintion. Tho question was often asked, How many cars could an ongino pull? To do- tormina that, thoy had first to” mow what the tractive powor of tho engine was, and then pnt on a certaln number of cars and go up a certain grade. Thoy had to flnd how much stenm was requirod to pull that train up that fimue, and this could_only bo determined by the dynamo- mator. If such Instruments “could mot ho nde convenient to all, it would bo a useloss ex- pense. 'Thoy could gain moroe information by gotting the tabulated statementsof tho soientlsty who were always engaged in investigations of this knd. . GENEBAL DISCUBBION, M, Mudeou, of tho Rogers Locomotive Works, seid they unght to heve sume apparatus to ar- rive at conolusiony coneeruing questlons coming up in the proper dischurge of thelr dutios. Some might say thosoe thinga were not accoseible, but, in the long run, it would pay to do i, Ar, Coloman Bollovs, of Philadelplis, anid that, n'rogard to the vast diflloultios Eo Lo avarcomo, it would be woll to make u thorough Investiga- tion of all similar inatitutions now in existence, a1 for examplo tho laboratory of the Mechanical Luglnoors of Loudon, ‘Thorswag no quostion that thoy must borrow from the knowledge obtalned by other gnaplo. o hoped thero would Lo no hiasty action in mfiz'"d to this ma.,tor. Mr, Joftroy, of tho llivois Central, thought that thoy liad to abtain much knowlodgo from chemical investigations, a1 for axamplo, the tost of rivots, axlos, ote, ‘L'hero was no doubt that roat bonoflts wonld result to railroad compan- s, It thoy hiad a Jaboratory, which thioy now had not, Bir, Lllfott, of tho Baltimoroe & Ohlo, said that the quostion aroso whether suoch a Inboratory was requirod by Mastor Mochanics, JIf such au Institution wexe ostablishad, it would haye to Lo put in oharge of an axsm. who would have to toll thom the reaulls, aud they would haye to tako ont all thoy could {n pragtios, Ho could 808 no reason for oatablishing guoh an fuskitue [Iun, a4 they could linvo thair exparimenta made £y tlpq Igcos whoro thay had thair shapa. r, Hndson, of tho lmgn_'nnoqnmnfi{%fl Warke, onld that o Mastor Mechianio vaquired mor Imowlodgo than that of mechanical art only. 1o ought to know what would provent the oxi- dntion of coppor, and abous oase-hardening, ofc. Tholr business involvod ohiomical and mo- nh&nicnl‘fi:t combined, hiest T, nman moved fhak tho aubject on Moohnnlca‘l Ln?mmory be a‘érfirriq for n!q OpFs and that the Commitica to s appolnted sHould cunln; with the Committeo of tho ‘Englncors of No: '?r!r, who biad tho same subjeqt undor conr sideratian, ‘1([. Jackman movod aa %n nmo\gdmunflhut tha whole mattor Do roferted back to'the Commltten of last yoor. Tho ameudment was adoptod, i o:(:} mO“O‘ll‘l ot Mr. {lnl:fflugn, the B‘&m‘m of ho Conyaution woro tondored fa Dr, Togors nad Prof, Hewall for the {nfarmatio) R\e had given to‘gm Assooiatinn, Haex ol FDEL FOR_LOCOMOTIVES. The Committeo on Fuel for Laoonotives thon submitted thoir report, whioh wuts forth that thoy had roived hut sevon yaplles In roaporiso to thoir giroular, Thoy, thorefare, wore unnble to make s report Inconsonanco with the im- portanca of the subject, The ronson why their ciroular did not meok with s btépr rosponge, wag probably owing 1o tho faos that,to reach tha subjeot proporly, a hoavy nx‘runau for koap- ing tho necessary accounts wauld have to bo ine ourred, They recommendod that tho subjeet be ‘continued for'another year, and that it be dj- vided for two soparat committpos, tha one ro- Intlnieo ' the actual consumption and cosf of onch kind of fucl used por mile run per woight of train hauled, inoluding cars 3" $ho other * on the best form and proportion of tubo fira-box hoating surfaco to grato surfaco reprosentod, to produce the regults with onoh kind of fuol nacd,” On motlon, the roport of tho Commilteo was adopted. TOJLER_EXPLOAIONS, The Committos on Doilor Exploalonathon sub- mllted ita roport, which substautially gives tho 8amo scoount of tho explosions at Hell Gate and Bfmd{ Hook, Naw Yorl, as was glyen in the Ae- soclated Prous dispatohios at the timo thoso ox- plosions took pluco, Mr. Tloberison moved that tha report bo ro- :zrm:l‘dbaqk to the Commiiteo, wWhich was opiad, On motion of Mr, Betohel, tha roport on boiler o3| r losions, Iald on sho table two yoars ago, wag eried to tho sama Committoo, The Conventlan then adjourncd. PLEAABUNE-HUNTING, Aftor tho adjournmont of yostordsy's sossion of the Asaociation, s largo number of tho dole~ iqtu weut ona lako oxcuraion to the Crib and incoln Park. In tho eveulng s snciablo was givon to tho delogates at tho SBherman Houso, GOIRECTION, Mr. Yaries, 8 dulofma to tho Rallway Master- Machanios’ Associatlon atates that in explaining & safaty-valvo, ha did not claim it as an mven- tion of bis own, as reported in Tug Tnmune, but as tho Invention of Mr. Mood. THE COUR,’ET Miscellancous Whisiness Transacted Yostorday. A deolsion, involving tha questlon of good faith nud ocatoppel croated by ropresenta- tions of a party on which anothor party has boen Induced to act, was mado yesterday by Judge Farwell in tho caso of Jacob Lona v. John D, Long and Isracl Epstoan. It appesrs that, on tho 20th of January lust, Lonz sold Epstosn a bill of goods, taking & judgmont-noto for the smount. At that timo Epstoan represented that bo wos the owner of a salovn build- ing, No. 80 Dearborn street, which ho had recently purchased. Complainant, not boing . entirely eatisfled, lhunted up Long, from whom Epstean had bought the_bullding, and asked him about tho Intter's oredit, Long Rove o very satiafactory account thoreof, and the ioodu wora delivered. “A fow days afterward, ouz filed for record o chattol-mortgage for #1,000, purporting to bo for part of the purchase money fur tho ubove-montioned .saloon, which was dated Jan. 26, or threp dayn boforo the dato of the judgment-note to Lenz. On the 4th of Fobruary, Lenz went to colloct the note, but Epstoan said he was in a good flnancial condi- tion, and was not debted to Lenz, and Lonz not boing aware of the oxlstence of tho chiattel-mortgage, _ do- | Iayed entoring-judgmont until Feb. 11.. Long then eeing the condition of affairs, and at the instigation of BEpstean, took possession of the ealoon and slock undor the chattol-mortgage, and advertised it for salo. Lenz wmmediately filed a bill stating tho facts, claiming that tho mortgago was void and glvon with & view to defraud him, and asking an fnjunction against tho sale, and lion of thse wortgage. Judgo Farwell decided that the circumstances showed fraud and o combination to cheat the complninaut. Moreover, Long's representa~ tiont to Lonz that Epstean was not indebted to him, and his negloct to inform Lonz of the mortgago at the timo of the &alo of goods, pro- cluded him from now attompting to enforco a rior lion au n‘.znluat Lonz, eapecially as ho way induced to scll ou the auggestions of Long. He, thereforo, ordored the proparty to bo surronder- edto Lonz on his oxecution, ‘This decision ho thought was going to the limit of the Iaw,and he hoped the Supreme Court would bave an oppor- tnmity to dacide tho caso, For this purpose the defendant took an appeal, DILL ¥OR SPECIFIC PERFORMANOR, D. 8. Warnor, of Boloit, flled a bill againat Jobn H. Andorgon, to compel him to perform a contract. Warnor says that he made an agreo~ mont with tho defendant to oxchange a farm in Roscoe, Winnebago County, for thros houscs und lota, Nos, 60335, €604 and 606 West Lake stroot, belonging to the defendant. Complnin- ant was alsoto pay §6,500—&5600 cash, the remain- dor in flye years—and assume o mortgago for £8,600. Anderson, however, has apparently re- pented of his bargain, and tho complainaut has Luun compellod to apply to a court of equity to compel the porformanco of tho engagement. ITEMS. The ovidence in the Howell cage Is all in, and the arguments will be bogun to-day. cCord will cnse is expected to como up to-day before Judgae T'roe. 2 In tho caso of Mooller v, Honnershoots & Menitt, the injunction granted ‘Cuesday was dis- solvod by stipulation, aud an agroemeut entored that the barley on which the warehouse receipts in question were given should be sold, and the procecds hield to await tho result of the suit, UNITED STATES COURTS, J. 8, Samplo begen a suit against Androw Warren, Jr., for 56,000, Casper Hagomeyor, sued Thomas 8, Qonatan- tine for $1,000. DANKRUPTOY ITENS, Tho cases of Goorge Bornstein et al, 8, V. Kline, A, M. Kpskotbockor, Honry Tlagg, Jr. . J. Behick, J. C. Harper, 8. M, assett, J. B, Coo, A, M. Klinefurth, D. W. Diliman, and Alilos Story wero reforred to the Rogister for s finul roport. An ordor of seizure was mado in the caso of A, B. Vau Cott & Co,, against A. B, Van Cott. Inthe case of Maghon, Daly & Co., arule was issued on W. F." Mayhon to produco the books 1n which his accounts with Eastern parties are kept within throe days atler sorvice. HUPERIOL COURT IN DRIEY. William Charnloy bogau suit for $1,600 againat W. H. Thomas, David Levy and Lewls Nowgoss commonced & sult agaiust B, Greonburg, clalmiog 31,500, W. )’ Roud & Qo., brought suis sgainst the Bdg&uon Bmelting and Refiolug Cowpauy, for 2,000, lyam Raphedelsky bogan o suit In tresspass lngnlnnt OhnrYull Ctn:gn&sgor an Herman, syiug dnmsges at $5,000, L. fiflnom'fammk sued N. P. Loborg for $2,000, TitE COUNTY COURT. In the matior of tho estato of Poter H, Fisch- or, his will was proven, and lotters tosta- montary wore issuod to John Btoinmotz and Joln D, anuzd ond the oxaacutm‘ individual for $90,000 was approvad. baa:lnm o’; :IKH-“M!H‘.\P[I was {ssned to Zacha- rins Simshefwer a8 guardian of Bizmund Behul-+ hof ot al,, minors, nndor an approved bond of ,000, Wln the mattor of the esiate of John Brady, inventory, appraisemont, and widow's award wore ""Ss’.fi"“" inat tho following entat ro al s agail ates wal - lowed: Jolin Reld, §465.08:°0, V. I, Kosuman, #3,610.80) John Kenner, §54.87; Joln Rankar, $47.10 aulina Tieider, §10; 1. H, Steln, R0 1 Robort Westwator, 867. A voriificate of good moral obarnoter was fs- sued to John B, Thomas, and ho was admitted to priotice in thiu oourt, ‘Tho olaim of J. W, Aughlltree et al, against tho estata of 1foraco Read for 81,281,00 wis al- lowad, but not to bo paid until the partnership augots aro exhansted, L. 0. Oollios, Ir,, was appolutod coneorvator of tho estato of Mariha Ttobb, an insane person, aud his bond for §3,000 was approved. A decroo was fsaugd for thosle of roal oatato muglng to tho estata of Barah McQurty ot al,, ard, to remaove tho TIE OALL. Junax Damnroxp—From #4 on, unlimited, Junax Roarns—35814, 868, 850 to 470, Junor Doorx—170 10 100, Junex ''nen~3,767, 1,406, 017, 101, ote, = Jupae GAnr—107 to 129, oxoopt 108, 113 11 g, nd 15, T s, UDGE JAMESON—208 to 222, JUNGMENTS, Burcnion Count—Coxriastoin—Tohn G, Medym v.Henry Doverlok, §490,—lointich Yogol v, 0, Vore yollor and . Gado, $231.10.—Tho Natlonal B oy Commorco v, Thomns D, Bayder und J, L, Locs JunoE GAnY—8, J, Jowott ot al. v, Geargo O, Brvien, $200.20.Charlon Gardner v, THo Trisies 1t N Modical Coullege, $1,128,42, Junaz JaMesoN--Putrlck Thornton v. «wus Traing or; 'cl‘(l!flhfl_fl@. wonir Oounr—Coxrrosions—Wilhelm Timmera 5’”‘"“ Ohristian Krugor ond Garoiine - Kruger, oy s g 1nqurT Cou Ens—Ppli o B Moneas—hilp iete THE FREE LIBRARY. Boolka Called for and Their CRarges 3 tor-The Ontalogue, ‘When March camo with its tempostugna Dlasts, tho Publio Library, which had long slopt, scourn from firo and gonoral accoss by the people, in tho Tank sprroynded by the Ojty-Iall building, moved fram those dismal preoinats to tho corner of Wabnsh avonuo and Madison'stract. Hitherta its ugefulnoss had beon meroly transitory. A reapectnblo person in arrears at lis boarding. house, and too soedy to vonture into a first-olase hotel to warm himaolf, could sit at ono of tha ! tables In tho old building, Improve his mind with Tue Curcaco Trnuve, ond feast his oycH on {ho Indy olorks, DBut whilo, a8’ a sholter from the wintry hinats of Apsil, the old roading-room was s pronouncod success, it was wanting In cortain ossontlals. One of those was n remotancas from all BuUggos. tion of evil, aud that could not bo obtained {n the neighborhood of tho City-Hall, 8o that the romovalof the roadiug-room was quito doalrs able, "The Library, which had been gradually davelop. ing durlng tho pnst yoar, would bLuve bLeen dwarfod in carly iafanoy in tho Tank. To allow it to oxpand_nacording to tho gonius of the clty, it was moved to its new quartera for birth. - Au thoro the evont occurred, greatly to the satiafacs tion of Mr. Poolo and otlior gentiomen. How gront tho expanslon hna boon In twelye doys tho publio can judgo for itself. Books wera first issucd on May 1, There aro now 20,u00 volumesin thelibrary,shelved away with graatoaro Thoy comprise gll tho donationa from abroad, and " make a vory imposing nEponmucc on the nont aliclves, Some of thasa shelves aro bercen, but will probably blossom in time, THE REGULATIONS of tho library aro vory eimple. Anybody csn malo an agplication for books who so dosirea. All ha or shio has to do is to notify the head of tho department, mako a deposlt of '28,—or moro* 10 special onsos,—obtain a ooitificato of rewpoate nbility signed by anybody na scourity, nad get a book. Bnoks will bo purchased to moot tho do- mands of tho pooplo, ns long as the treasury holdaout, A great many peoplo: esirothoprivilege of bncomlng their owu uurelios on thacertificates, and requesé Mr, Wickersham to laok ab it in tho samo light. But that obliging gentlemnn cannot convemtently daso. It doos not mattor who tho surty {8, #o long as Lo is rowpootable, aud writes & legiblo autograph. Tho lattor is osons tind, for what roason is nat apparont, DOOKS 18SUED, Theso almglo regulntions have thus for been obsorved by 890 parsons, whose names are regis- tered in_the library, ‘hoy are mainly young peoplo. Tho majority is mado up of vory young mon from 12 to 18, and ladies of matitd age, Young girls do not read. They might, but thoy do not as yot got books from the Publio Library, 'Thoso very young mon and maturg women have mot” Paken out quite twe volumes each up to date, The total number of volumes eirculated {3 1,408, ko thab 1t takes 890 poople twolve days to read 1,408 volumes. This shows with what carnest attention the precious pnges aro conned, or it showa the labor required to master them. THEIR NATURE, It might bo gratitying to find that g0 much timo was apent in tlius reading, marking, loarn- ing, and Inwardly digosting theno boolis, if they woro of a serious and highly improving charac- tor. A cousulation of tho record showa thal this is not oxnatly the case, Fiotlon leads tho list, About 75 por cont of tho books issued wore works of fletion, History and biogras Ly, scionce, and other brauches of literatura fare about equelly, Tlx1 latost novels, Eggloston's ** The aimm; Ridor," Viotor Hugo's Iast work, and some of Diakens’, are perpetually an“imd for. 8o that, howover much care may bo beatowed upon tho roading, it does not follow that nnl highly matisfaotory re- sultshuvo been nahioved for education during the past twelvo days, TTE DOYS, As tho patrous of the Freo Library are boya, ond tho boy who roads Is & personage of compary utively rogular, if not oxomplary, habits, it {6 to be supposed that there is a flxed time for his op- pearsnce. Between noon aud 3 o'cloak the boy comes for his work of flotion. No mattor what sort of weathor it is; what opors company or defsulting officor ‘ocouples tho attontion of graver and wiser boings, the boy " comes for his littlo dose of’ flction, 88 rogularly as that misorable croature, the grocer, sendsin bLis bill. The greas advautage that Mr. Wickersham and bis Indy assistants enjoy is this: They can put o their applicant with stalo inventions ; cash alono entisfles tho croditor. ~ Some of the Luyn follow Madison street trom tho High 8ehool, aud Jand in front of the Library door, chauging thoir books at the right time—after sohool, At 6 o'clock, too, whon tho stores disgorge thefr clorks and olorkesses, thero is a rush to tho Library, How 890 pooplo can be continuslly rushing to the Library without drawing moro than 1,408 books is o little lmuzllug. ‘Tas only solution is that they donot draw any, but go away to tea without them, SUNDAYS, 2 The reading-room is open Sundays, and the daily papors are on filo, Books aro not issued on that day, and thore hard-hearted scoffers who aro not at church, rowing on the lnke, or flirting In tho parks and Sunday-schools, may sit and road the advertising columns of Tum ‘Cursune and #ce how many houses thers ars atill to ront because landlords poraist in robbing themsolves to keop up ronts to their highost possible figare, If they are arithmetically ine clived thov will say that a houso ronted for twvolve months at 40 will pl‘xiy a landlord bettor than the same houso oceupied for ten munths ag $45, after doducting tho cost of advertising for two monthe, If landlords will go up into the reading-room_Bunday, and thoughtfully look over that fatal columu, they will feel happlor in . church that ovoning, with tho conscioushoss of good resolves. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. The booka of roference in the Library are nof allowed to bo taken away, How many peapla have availed themsclves during tho past ton days of books of referonca Mr. Wickersham dooa not know, Perhapsitisas wall he does nob. ‘he figures or figure would be ludicrously ine significant, 'THE CATALOGUH, The work of catuloguing the 20,000 volumey now ou hand is chnndmg vory quiotly, and with gront dispafoh, Patrons of the Library suffer the disadvautnges of not knowing what i on the uhelves. Butif they bolong to that olass which knows what it wants, the employes of the ciroulaling department have no difiiculey 1 find; ing it. The namo of avery book ia written on & glip of paper, thus Pilgrim’s Progress, 7, Bunyan, Lolp, 1885, 16mo, so slips are arrangad In alphabatloal order, lnw\}:‘gxou.. I{’lphlhnucnlly laboled. ‘Thoy will ba used in setting up tho forthcoming catalogue, and serve its purpose on ana side of the counter, at any rate, £ ¥ THE FOROQE, The foros employod to run the Library at press ent [s fiftoon, soven of whom are gentiemon, and eight ladies, Tvwo ladios and oue young man ate toud to tho wants of the reading-room, while tha athers work at the catalogue, chat with the vis« itors, look radiautly lovely or gorgeously ate tractive, acoordiug to sox, Xn polut of fast, tha clmulndng libraty s quite o boalthy twelvo-day old infant, and, when ite inoreadod and more rapld circulntion sbisll attest ite growth, will prove a highly benotloisl institution, Tashingtan (Jiay 13) Distiatoh 0 the St, Fatiis Glode, Mry, MeCoqlt, wife of Gon, Ed; McCool rocontly nominated Govornor of Colorado, dio to-day at 1:30, undov distrossing circumstances, Hor disvase was typhoid pneumonia, superin< duced by nervous prostration s:rc\vh\n out ol certaln ' dastardly ~uttempts ta defeat her husband's confirmation, oven at the resort of orsonal dofamation of hin wifo, It was broadly R.ummn bythe Washington lstter writer of tho Chicago Times that dirs, MaGook lobbied with Mrs, Urant sud othors for hor husband's posi- tlon. Tho lettor eomnlnlugi this cume to her notice when rocovering elightly, and caused a oomplote renotlon, from whioh she uever rose.