Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1874, Page 2

PROF. SWING. lo The Accused Makes an Ab “and” Telling " Avgu- "7 ment - oo Aud Eilently Tiad tho' Sympathy | berbiadar, ™ ° 0 CP0E L of tho Audience. - 2 Ho | Contrasts His Theology with That of Prof -’ Patton. . Au ‘Explenation of Hin 'Views of the 109th Pslm, - Good Presbytorlan Authiority. for lils Words About Penelope, | Dr: Patton” Thinks Moro'of the Con- fession of Faith than the Bible." | Reasons for Eulogizing Mr. Mill - ¢ Swing’s i .Dr, Noyes Continues His- Remarks, ' .. Tlto Chicago Presbytory- mot at 2 olclock yes- Jorday aftornoon, in tho First: Prosbyterinn Church, corner of I'venty-firat strest. aud Indi- sns svonue, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell in tho ohair, The room was orowded, 84 it. was nudor- stood ‘that Prof. Swing was to make some re- * marks, i e S Tty .After n fow momonts of silont prayer, the Modorator paid tho trial would bs resumed; wherenpon Prof. Swing aroso, and as he advanc- «d to tho platform, ho wasgreotod with applause, which Ingted sovoral minutes. When it cossed, o oddrossed tho Prosbytery os followas ~ PROF. SWING.. . - b Mr. Modorator: It was tho understanding among my brathron tht tho burden of this mat- #or should not fall upon mo, bolh on scconnt of: tny ill-bealth and distnato for it;.and up to this . miorning I ‘sapposed, I should have nothing'to ., moy. But, my oounsel having very poor health, =~ ¥ havo thought it best to asslst him- this after- hoon by speaking for tho ‘spico ‘of° porhaps nu . hour, and touchiog upon some of the points . which perhaps I gould do more oasily than he could himeelf, I know mot what may be tho otis |- quotte ofthio case, and hope the prosgoutor will conslder ‘It s no Dbremoh, of * etiquetto; I do not know tho ‘exact ‘dutios, of the’ prisoner at the .bar: (laughter], but wonld atatd + that the groundI will pass over willnot bo paated’ over by Brothior Noyor, “and thus time will be, sved; at least not lost, by both of,us gpoaling. ¥ I thought it would bo iy ploasuro to tulfill the words of the old Latin poot, that it is delighttul *to slt upon the shore and"look down upon the snilora Inhm‘lufi and storm-tossod in the sen be- neath,” but the illucss of my.couneol lina dis- turbed my repose, nud,hulcom{nlleu ma to go down into this battlo-fidld, and I hope I shall ge compellbd to go only to the ekirmieh-line, for { .TIE SOUND OF WAR'ALWAYS FPRIOHTENS ME ' Daughtor], and espocially - whon war is waged only for conquast and.far'tha axtangion.af- alav. ery boyond its old domaius,’ Tn ordor to entor boldly into war, it must bo a war:for a great pur~ iposo. "As a statesman oroe said, he would not want to toll o lio' for anything less than an '+ empire;: 80 . it. does ‘not ‘scom dosirable to go 'into n thoological warforo whon' the rizo of vietory or tho pain of ‘dofont ia excood-: g:gly.‘ small. [Laughter.]. Xmmihon suys of Clearchus that,_notwithstanding bis bright ar- mor and his regal robes, whonover the baggage- wagons* becamo oitangled or stalled, ho would ut bis own shoulder to the wheol, and go down Elniaolt into'the mud. The theological baggage- wagons on my sido of. tho . houso are blockadod to-dny by the illuess of the vounsel for the da: fenao,.nud, . like the old General, willingly I de- . Bcend into the mud., [Laughtor.], s © " WHY §IE EULOGIZED MILL.' i I first ask attencion to Stuart Mill.” ‘When he. died our atatosmen had jusy beon broaling their heexts over the pursuit of Presidentinl. honors. Mr. Greeley aud Mr, Ohase .had both rocentl died of grief, in part from lost honors. ' In suol an hour, I thoughtit o picce of good fortune that I could hold up-beforo tho public a'iname-that found safticiont honor snd sulficient objoot bf lifo in the Erentneeu of poreonal ¢haracter;. ‘aud honce X anid : T e R 1f it were not for such men as Mr Mill coming hero: and thoro In_Lman lifo, we might fall - o kuow what that thing called soul 5. 1 do nok know where, in the publio merrof our Jand, wo cun ag0 80.wall hs plature of buman dimity awayed out of balanco by s loveiot oMo and gola: diatusbed by o sterm of bad passions, our public meh reveal the out, ot in ils mollen but {n_somo sliopa tust bega, ok plty anid forglvon ar groat mon aro all ald todls: dissppointed ai balf broken-bearted, becauso they fafl to eatcli-a. four- car baublo from the tumultuous erawd, To.run for reaidont, and then dio i glory or in. cloud, ,acoords Ing to the counting of the votos, baa becomio' 8 brief ey s aeg et d A0 of Mr. Greoly a 3 3 fi?&‘!‘{?g"r‘:flm st ofon turacd i Gaye (nto & content, S8 G s Sy ot ‘our land, it ssoma’to bo forgotton that g hu= man soul may bo aomething to which no ofiico can sdd anyihing, sud from which no political defet can take snything awny. = od has in no & bullot-béx: "Thie lioast of horaldry, the pomp of power ~ 3 “Aud all that rak and-fortuno e'or gavo, “Await alike the inevitablo hour; - . And yaths of, glor: Iead but to thé grave, From auch a eceno 1t {s Aweet to turn td a'man who might Lave honored' nnfi]ofl\no but whom no oftice could have honored, - Nothiug lasling fonfour years could have added 1o o soul grent” bafora titwfour yoars and groat afterwards, BIr, Mill would scarcely have known when an earthily honor oamo to lits forchead, or ‘whon it dopartod, Like Murous Aurelius, whoso lau- rols of * yirtuo wero grentor than tho tlrono of the Roman Empire, Mr. Mill's own forohend wng noblor in staelf than it colid Tave beon rendored by all the polite 1cal wrenths of hia genoration, ©* +. . - y ‘True greatnesd tovor roveals nor chiorishos much am. ‘bition, for the gift of mind aud tho possossion of a pro- fonnd character leave little for the soul to wieh or for earth to confer, Henco, In the Llessed lifo of the Bavior we perceivo no trace of popular ambition, but gretywhere slnplo grealueds of unirit as If that. ‘rora thio Guprowo destiny of rational beiug.' Oh, what an cra wauld begin‘iu our lind if, {nstend of walting for something ontalde of wel{ to come to us snd honor u, our citizens ahould unfold the glory ‘within them a5 the great beauty and perfume of lifo, Aund thon this was the chiof point: That the glory of #uch & miud and of such a philosophy 28 Mill posecesed cawa to him through Chris- tianity. For I said, though Alr, Milliwas ot & Christian, yot Ohristianity had. always beon all around him, and had forced- into him every virtue he possessod—had given' him the entire oharacter of the nineteenth con 3 just ‘as Lady Hostor Btanhopo, flylng ta the Houthito escape England, carried with hor everywhire ‘the English oustomsand English thou&(nt,‘nn Stuart Dill, though. nn_Atheist, caried {in oll his thoughts and - lifo- ovel orm ‘of Cbristianity, oxcopt bis porsonal boliof. Mijl's character was all wrought out in a Christian nt- mosphore, - elthongh his father vainly tried to Bhlafd the child fiom tho influonce of ‘the great roligion of Josus Clrigt; tried.in vainl “And then I eald, what n liboral world noed regard most was, not thut ho was not a Presbyterian or & Methodist, but that the pogr unforlunate man had no trace of any kind of roligion in hia saul. Wa would have beon thaukful if he had had any religion in his heart, WIIY PATTON PIATSED AGASSIZ, Now, whilaI was thus dealing with John Beusrt M, what was my prossoutor doing? Had he callod _togothor 2,000 to' toll you how Btuart Mill had beon sont to perdition for ‘all otornity 7 Was ho faithful as'a great publio man to his trust ? That was o matter of opinion, But it is my improsaion ho was praising Aiuualz, not becauso ha bield an orthodox oreed—Oh | no, That was not what his liberal world rejoiced over, DBut he was rejolcing bocause upon ‘some ocoaslon tho grent naturalist hnd ackuowledged s .Buprome Dolng, ~and just baroly oscaped bolng an. Infldel, And qld tho roscoutor avail himscif of Agaselz's doath - pronch at BoVioker's that & pm{or 18 only 1. offonsive.to God unlesa it be commitfed with & awbeliof in the Delty and the expiatory atonement of.Christ ? Did ho rise to the greatness of the gronalan, el (QIoEm the oumBuDity tn there o =S i iy "conacetad luman greatnoss with | not matbomatically know what our God is. .. Wi .| mlone. . It the Holy Bpirit was so unfortunate {n for Agndnla? no12] DId:tia somi his ordinntion vqu upor him an i tb flordltion ‘ln tho! follonin st s L L b iy u TN SN S Miich Jekw cari mti, not [:rumfnmg {ha Onriatidn roligion, bo eavad in any other way whataoovor, ba thoy nover no diligont to frame thelr livon nccording to thollglit of nature, and the law of hat roliglon thoy doyirotoss ¢+ and to amort andt mmaintsn-that thoy may 1a vory porniclons, and to bo detoated, And yot in iy papor that wont to 14,000 fam- {lios, _hio_hold_up. Agaesis. as_a. Qhristian and. | solontifio man, 3 THE BECOND OFFENSE. & Lot ua pasa now to tho sccond offenso dlloged the prodooutor : henven, p s > This sormon wag pronched to show.the roason why tho roligions world had. alwaya beon full'of dabate. It camo partly from tho fact that moral idona Lavo -no such oxactnoss an is enjoyed by mathomatical {doas. Thore bas nover boon »'sot of men to hold that twico -two make four, and snothior sot of mon to hold that twice two mago {lve, bocnuso thoso idens sxo fixed ;. but thero havo boen. sots of mon to hold to the theory of an oxpintory atonomont, aud anothor to hold to tho theory of propltiatory atonemont, becatwo mon haye no alate and poncil by which to .fix thoso idess boyond all debate—no yramid upon which to gaugo and menauro theso Pblugs. Tonco tho dobate. ‘The progoaution horo poundod tho Confossion of Faith, aud declarud thst we have o taudard ; but unfortunatoly, the entire religious world aro not Presbytorinns, and, un!omma{u)v, Prosbyterians themsolves do nof sgrao rogarding his staudards. 'Ihoroforo we do o aro not called upon cxaotly to know. = You do it “ma yon know that 'two and ¥:Jg“n}a fou'\‘.) or that thoy _are. mot five.. And- honco tho. dobatos and_discords 4ust suoch na.bnyo gathored us horo to-day. But! tho prosceutof hne -not arralgned mo only for this drondful idon that woedo uot kuow mathema« tically abont our God. Ho haa not arralgned mo 8 Inngunge as to.furnish- poor me with such & ?\}xt “K"-‘hé of the nnrmm‘l’, ** Clouds nud.dark- nesa aro , ronnd about him,” tho prosecutor knows where to Iay his chargos and his spocifica- tione in thia caso, It 18 intimated in.Job that no_ one by ' searching onn find ‘out God, and honeo, when tho- Prosbytory shall pass son- tenco upon mo, I aball insiat upon thoir making . - JOR AND TUF, DTTIZ PBALM - . S articop oriminis {n this .cago. [applanso and ughter), and.if in such good company as Job and tho Paalmiat I ‘should not much foar the prosecutor °’xfm°m°§“1" ho noed not be much Burprised, [Lnughter.)’ b4, i“{pwxll ant clpat% tho reply of tho proseoutor. T will not wait for him: to. riso to oxplain, . He will plead that tho Biblo was written - bofore. tha Confeasion of Faith, and that the Pealmist was in doubt about the nature of God, snd that l’la.ull shrank before the mystory of Heaven “afln{]gg,cyu .Lnth ‘not. -goon nor oar + hoard,” i Lo- cnuso’ thoy lived 'before,: the “Westminster. COonfession had been formulated at [lay, r) ‘Westminator and oxpounded at Ohicago, the revised editions of tho Biblo, when roaders shall' :come upon my text, ** Olouds and - dnrkness'are round about him,"” thoy will no doubt soe & mar~ glned- roferonce, * For rofutation of this ido: 8oo Prof. Patton's charges and .specifioations.’ [Laughtor.] * . ¥ > o o But, to bo sorlons again, Prof,Patton poinis to tho Confession, and roads *God 18 & Bpirif." Woll, dooa the prosooutor know had ¥ : WHAT A BPINT 187 . . Tt is to be hoped ho will olucidate this point, and nleo toll us whero Lenven, is; for he will not o o unkind ne to nrriign a_brother for want of information when ho himself- prosumes it ‘and rofusca to deliver it to mo and tho Prosbytory., . A young man stepped up to a clorgyman Enst, and askod Him if it was poasiplo to know.all about- @God..- Tho clorgyman, who wag' s dull fellow, as Trowbridgo says, replied that {mrnunnlly he-had “no snch knowladgo, but that'thore was s man “in Worcester who knows. Well, now' brothren, if wo have this information' st gorio’point nearer than Minnesots, it 'bught 'to’ bo forthcoming - [laughter], and freo to allé % ADAN, Lot us pass to anothor {don that has tho pressoutor. It was this ¢ .- &) © 4 This'multitade monsures a great rovelation of God atova that day whon earth possossed but ono men or fumily, and that ono without lsnguage, snd wilhout ‘learning, and without virtuo,” #1n the’ firat humau belng God could no mora display His- perfoctions tupn. & musiclan llko Mozart conld uufold his geuiusto an infant or to & Bout-Sea Islander," ol ) Novw the menning of thnt passago is thia, I know not how lio mgny misunderstand it, but the porplexed a n A ave packs "t Abk n‘\‘:??l‘la"a‘;x“mt’imth:r‘xls“_gnn'ku!.oo into his- tory;” and I found in looking into history that the glory of "God unfolds “itsclf as the Lum; race ndvances, .. Tho 6,000 yonra paat aro a gieat: unfolding of the Aimighty, not in & Datwinian seneo or in the Bponcorian sonso, but in Ohristian aengo. * Adam, howevor innocont and howover beautiful in his charactor; as I bolieve he “was botli innocort and Posutifal, had mo oitlos, no arts, no eloquoncs, no poetry, no cross of Josus Chriat, no bonevolonce, no charity for tho multitudo. Hence God no more unfolded - His porfections -in Adam than Mozart or Begt< loven could make -known their ‘vast reslm of musio to'an infant or o eavage. It is tho grand opeuing up-of i wrorld that givos s tho gloty "ot ‘God—tho manifold glory of God. The many-- pictured glory of Godis all ‘thrown forward sod kn itdila by this over-untalding onrth, and from thio vory moment God created Adam His own glory went marching forward.: If tho proseoi- tor * know tho mnnnlufi _of* an illustration, he ‘wonld know that this language did not imply that Adom was either un_infaut or o savago. It _aimply moans that God's glory ia too.largeln spectaole to be cast upon Adam alono, - Allithe £,000 - yours of humanity combinod togather o xeyoal'this wisdom, and power, and-grace, nnd ‘manifold - glory 'of God. . "Why, tho' prosocutor bhas, taken the cross of Jesus Christ out of .the world, aud ,bas the world just as- great in Adam alone ns it s-{u tho.whole human raco. ' * And thenI-wenton to illustrate or to apply this thought " - ak g ., 80 ench individual caunot gathor np tiie glory of, hfs life in'any one year. 1t niust bonll over fs past; 'I¢ 10 w1l his past Lo wuat drog. along aftor Lim, and if Ls ligs for fifty yoars fed the poor and blessed thom Hke o Bavior, or if ho has cared for _the slavo like o Wilber- forca nil life long, or ‘preachod like s Paul or o Whits fleld all life long, ho will go into futurity with all ir | this glorious recurd buck of him, *And hero' tho Bible must be arralgued, for it says, Tholr works do fol+ low them,? " | And-the convorao was shown to be trus, that if a human soul zpand lifo in sooking gold only, or in seeking wicked ploasure, in buying and selle ing slaves, or’ ovon in peraecuting . horetios Iaughtor], that long lifo thusspont, would come raillug up’ after' the soul, to be an influerico which eternity would have to wash out of the: memory with toars, Tho wholo sermon was up: -on -the valuo ‘of keoping up a glorious part. And I srid that, “No'man-can go to heaven glo- riously unless ho oan look swectly bacl.” If this bo horesy, Mr, Moderator, write me down a8 » herotio, and'malco the lottera largo and plain, Why, even old Livy said, * You must keop von- tinunlly Jooking at'the" past,” becnause, ho suys, * thinga that a0 past may - be reponted of, but thoy can never . bo orasod.” * And ono of our poots aays, ‘f To-niorrow you may.do your worbt, for Ilived yestordsy.” ‘Aud old Marshall sags, +* Did'st thou say'thou wilt live to-morrow ? * He is n wiso man who _lived yestorday.”~ To-day is tho sublimo part of life, beosuge it Is continually muking thut yostordny which willalways follow us, io Wwhero wo may, for glory or for shame, nd lioncs £ rebuked the voung poople presont for alwnys lving in tho futuro, and " paying no attontion to tho pust, And I quoted from Drydon to them, saying: . LR Trust on and think the morrow will ropay; Iho morrow's fulser than the forior duy ; *Lies worso, and whils it eays you skall s bleaned,' * Blealu all tho pleasures thut you onco porsesuod, ' PENEZLOPE AND HOORATES, Vs Let'us comoe now to tho dear Ponelope -and Boerates. [Luughtor.] My brothren, you must oxcuse ‘mo for tronting' this cnse with somo. thing “ like ’luvlt{, for has not one particlo of golomnity In it to mo, That sormon waa all ding the yaluo of belng abova'say- ing or socing. It was on’ *Boul-Culture,” The 1den was that tho value of alifo lies not in what - "oraed ono says over and oyor, but in what oreod ono lives, And henco I snid that ** A soul with a defectivo croed wmay bo higher,” pnd may bo noblor, than a soul that knows moro, but whioh disrogards all its procopts,"—an iden I Lave hoaflf all mylifo in the Presbyterian Churoh, Dr,_ MoMastor, whowm the prosceutor guo- coeds legally aud chronologically, epid that'he bolioved that * somowhero ou the chus finos of Ifeaven would ba found Socrates gnd -| Penelopo ;" aud I think our Gouoral Assombly, a few yoars ago, offercd & premium to somo ouo who™ would prodnca tho best tract upon the #gondition of the lienthen in the future world,” ond Dr, Bmythe, of South Oarolina, who took the prize, nu‘d “Call thoxo hoathen who lived up to tho light of their best knowledgo, might hopa for happincas boyond.” I did not gay Low great was the happincsa of Peunelope and Boorates, But-tho’ prosecutor bas unwittingly arraignod Christ. I foar my zoulous friond, or onomy, —triond, I guess,—docs nob read his Biblg a8 much a8 ho does hls Confossion.. But no won- dor, for ko says we must guard ngainut too great. attachmont *n Beripture phraseology, ~ aud must have our roligion well formulsted. [Laughtor,] Rogarding Soorates and Peuslape, wa ghinll now rond from the worde of Ohrlst, dome |8 rhtds Bnd Pon olope) dn-tho day (o Juf Ao a0 aghln satioipate (i obiobtion. ot th . Now wo ngain antioipate the objestion’ 8, tor. Ho will aay. tih ‘\Bui'fifmg weaane:| hio "nounced boforo the Confeaslon-was \fofmulatod [lnughtor], and that my ordihation vwa are upon mo, Well, in subsoquent editions of tho mglu, . xoadors will_find.a marginal Toference-upon this. pnssago from Clirisb, " Tor rofutation of this passago about ’l‘%m‘md Bidoh, neo. Prof: Patton on Booratos and Penelope. Confouslon of Fafth, Ohap:-10, - Boo: 2 E’Lnughmr]:‘ Many "~ glass thoro will liave t0 Do in’ the:Boripturon fioro- aflor. . 5% b LI Dat lot us pase to othor ihings, The lonrn- od prosooutor; sftor nufolding to you Lhe evolu~ tlon theory of Sponcor m\fi othors, snys, B8 -nsual, Mr. Swing folds . those; :And yet T am, believe, tho only Chlcago miniater who Las pub- lished & sormon in x;nrz againet-that theory! Tt i8 a pity that I should bo the only one nrralgued for mnot dolnr it. Whilo tho prosecutor was. Srovin;_x tho alvinity oz deity of Ehrm from.the ate Anno Domihi,—olalming ‘that no “nation would reckon its yoars from anythiog less thtn # God,~whilo ho was thus 'showing the divihe origin of Mohammod, and of the Olympiads of Groeco, and of Romulus aud Remus, I was on tho pame Bundny trying to. overthrow tho.Spen- corlin ovolution. A ¥ ey It {s not, cortainly, s mytti that ;thero i & human raco; aud houce thero must “have bacn a firat pair in this fong sorios, And this first pair must have bad a first homo and s Creator Just at liand; and this must hava mado thele firat move in virtna or sin; and from what sin wo now see in' the world, not muoh doubt ean Temnin 8 to what. lina of conduict thin rat pair followed, and" that they early loft a paradise of virtuo is tho verdiot of history, Tho theory most in ' conflict with this Biblo plcture of primitive man is tho.r almoat. popnlar notion. that ‘man. i8'a. grad- ual” rosult ‘of progross in 'the animal kingdom, and novor had 6 pazadiso, butis on_the, way. toward one, from a collulat and olootrio sterting'point a mill- fon years back, Against this thoory, however, ri .up the fact that in the thousands of .yesrs of hist 00 aninial {8 showlng 'tho least algn ‘of passing over into that moral consctousnons, that solfhiood, yhich Kos| wonderfully distinguishes man. . Tho highest. order of Lrules are dofng _sbeolulaly nothing toward form- ng 8 Inuguago, ot toward roaching that ' conscloummonn Hmeé” and-“not ‘mo” which jolus- man to tho divino; ;. thero 1a.no offort visiblo on tho part of the most inteliigent quadrumana to build 'a achool-housa or atart s country newspaper § and if in one bislorio. poriod no progreis . whatever tus buon mindo, and that, oo, with tho, advantage of human as- 7 ‘conld they hiave dono in two historio . IE-0000 yours glva nothing, Wliat will ,000,000 yoars give 7 . Tho best reason ¥ can mysolf Lring to boar upon thia matter loads me fo seo man setting forils an - man, and sotting forth from & Oroa- tor ; henco hohad & place whioh wo mny call Eden, andlcoaily reaton may Joln tuo Bibio fn gising it ivert ‘Lauks, and trees, and flowers, and song of birds, * 'The prosecutor hae read my sermons tolerably well 'only. > ¥ e 1007 PaATAY, Lot us pass now to the 100th Paalm.’ I ‘am very glad to age that this matter has at last been put-to rest, Tho prosecutor haa wholly given up all that - ho claimed hore. ' It was my theory you know, that this:was a spooinl ga;lm,—no part of the ;nrpnhm hymuology of the tyorld,— ‘not'inspirod for all timos like tho 23d Panlm or tho §0tt. My theory wasthat it was an adaptation ‘to.a military ago, whon tho Ohirch advancoes not by porsunding ita enemios, but by extorminating' thim,—a psalm dictated - by the Almighty for an 8go of 100 or 500 years ormore ; and that Obrist ’hus announced tho porpotual law of life, the everlastiug law of life, whon Ho has. sald that ou “shail “ pray for, your onomies, and " bloss thom'that persgoute you and duapllolully uBa ou." . 8fy point was thiat, ns Ohriat, revealed & divores,Inv, which was divinely filvon {or s cor- tain poriodonly, so He did, by His" porson, ro- !vool - also o pealm L of oursos, aud 'took it "away from .. the - evorlasting ' "hymnology ot lifo—that tho same God thnt passod a ‘bad divorce law could inapiro a'bad &unlm olio, and that when He' rooallod ‘tho one, Ho could rocall tho other. © And though'1 mnx ‘be mistaken, yot my whole principla ia founded “right on tho in- spiration of the Biblo: But this' iden tho proso- cator has at last given up,—that it was a por- otual ‘' psalm,—for ho saya now that the 109th salm was writton as o *, A QUNSE UPON JUDAS 1S0ARIOT. ' This {8 all I want, osly his flm‘m{ is narrower ,than mine, for. my theory was that it, was usdd | :by the Joiva a8 a military hymn for hundreds bf ‘yoars, and then by divino command appliod -also . 15, Jittiag Tacarlok. But, if tho prosooutor tells ,us that it was even too bad for.the Jewish poople “to eing, and that it lny dormant a’ thousand yoars, wWaiting for'n grent traitor lika Judas to comg, before tho "paalm could spring into Lifo, I bayo not in' my. lieart ‘any. ronson to objodt,-: 1 and; Judna being now dead, the pialm, Lins boon abrogated from, (Jlxria!.h'mI hymno}lngi} I trua»-‘—- i 1. ng s sspired by, luliation, flaugutart, It Tulap, o any one needs a word with regard to N THOSE HEDREW WARS, " ,but I will maho & Femork or'two concertiog ithom,"- My. position 'all “alonig -has beon thus: Tant God In the Bible .revoals two forms of Hia will; that in_some 'pérts of 'thé- Biblé he ox- roggos himself absolutely, aain the Bermon upon Bm,;' Mount, . Hé ' thero sannounces = evers Insting prineiples “for all; the human race everywhers, but that, in’ ofhor parts of tho 014 Teatamont, God .aid lcmapl .of a tomporary kind of-morelity, and tliat God was everywhero influenced by tho presence of man, and was not promulgating Hia own abatragt idoas, but was overywhero accommodating Himself to tho prea- once of o sinful raco’;. and lonce all through the' Old Teatamont, It is not ttod alonewho is march= ing along, but God and a, wicked race, And hoeuco, whon ho pormitted or ordered tho Isrnol- itos to go up and dostroy the Catsauites;” it was not God aoting absolutoly, and announcing 8 great principlo of aotion, but 1t was God aoting under tho influencoe of the prosenco of thoso' wicked Israclitos ; not inventing thidso ' tvars or- evolying thom from ' His"dlvine mind, but per- mmin&: thom, 'tolérating thom' just as he_ did tho pld divorce Inw, and. sllthe “wiokedness of- that ora,. . Thia 18 my position on that pofat, . . But whon Cbrist camo_ with .the New Testa- mont, thore Ho anuouncos’an ora of poace, over- ‘lnsting peaco.” He bogan to unfold Himsolf, not sa s _Deity restrictod by the prosonco of sfoful men,'but a8 & Daity of ‘all—glorious in His own" xlghl, and in His own name unfolding tho ever- lasting . Jesus Chriet.” I hopo I am theologinn enough to understand this;, and honco I said thab “young’mun were coming along now who wanted to. know “about tlieso things," and thoy all'know what.infidela uly—thug all know what, Mr. Froudo Lias said about tho 108th Pealm, and ‘honco ‘they want.a .thoory to be handed them by our theological profossors «d our olorgymen that will save them from the infidelity of Froude snd mon of that clasa, *. A . TAE PROSECUTOR HAYA I INDORSE FROUDE: . This is eimply’ nonsenée.’ What I, pload for ia that men of learning like Prof. Pation, hnving: his high - position,, slinll’ olaborate’ some theos of .rovelation thata young man can take to bis- hoart. {*Gipod,” Taugbtor sud “applauscl, ‘and not sy, When'some one’ asks him, * What abaut €40 ' 1000h 3 Pasim,” " ' You go’ aiid ‘mind your husluoss, “young ‘man ;. that ‘' is iuspired.” [Luughmj' Thiat is what I call tho theory of sdmiration. | [Loy ‘%m,] Ayoung min comos to him and says *“What about these bloody wars? ‘wherd tho tlie Israolited wont out and destroyed tho Oanagnites,: mén, women, and children,” and. ho replios, ** Young mian, the Bibl s inspirod ; i: b‘l“? 0 word of God.”. Now i8 that not lLor- riblo TIAT MAKES INFIDELS,~— covora the world with infidels,—ond yet there is an -explanation of all the difloultics of the Old Tostamont, whioh it iu tho duty of every-olergy- man having the.vowa of -Jesus Christ upon him to unfold to tho young mon of this age, and: orush Froude to powdor boneath their logic, noc thelr; malice. ‘Chien: I observed, too, when it cato timo to build tio tomplo, Hod Would ot lot David bwild the tomplo at all, bocauso ho had made his handa so b][q'mdy in those wars, ' It nooms God himself did not lile thoso wars, and Ife let Solomon build it because he wanted s mao of poace, whose:hands woro not etalmod. with blood, to build it. & " DIFFERING THEOLOGIES, Novw, Mr, Modorator,:aud brethern, I coma: to & point whoro X ahall point out to you the dif- foronce betwoon the prosecutor's thoology and my own, in somo_respocts, And ny ho-justly quoted tho' apliorism from Nowman's Grammar of Assont, that thore aro times wlen' ogotism is modosty, T shall ropont it ‘hers, bocawse I do not wish to protond that anybody holde the views I shall expresa hore exoept myself. I shall not protond that they are accepted or welcomo' in iho whola Presbytery. They may.bo n wonkness, and honco to stand by them alono is an egotism that' {8 modosty. ‘Che remarks nbout to 'be offerad will oxplaln - my [mulllon a8 to faith and infidelity, aud to O1d ‘estamont inapiration, and to tho call for tho ministry. My idoa ia bhls Prof. Pattou's theology ll procoeds from God as a simplo despot i mino from God &8 o reason- able Heing. Iy Prof, Patton's thoology Ido not meau the Prosbytorian thaology or thio Cal~ vinlatio thaology, far I mean it s inlluitoly woro., than both [Inuuhtor‘.—hln own personal theol- ogy, B3 he has unfolded itisinco Le came to this olty, and latterly at this trlal, b5 Ono of tho eighteonth contury philosophers anld that tho uulverse in an encrmous will rushing into lifo, You darenot subjoct Prof, Pacton's - doity to any question whatever, 'As Luthor gald, it iatho glory of human faith to supposo God to'bo_ Just whon bo damn the ine noceut, Bo the theology of my friond is one that doos nothing but look down.to sarth and ey, ‘Godl" *“God!" as though God could Did you kuow he has spoken to them ? - He has. **Wol unto theo Ohorpein (Oatherine u.k for It sball bo more tolorablo for Tye angd Kidon not - be thought about, or prayed to, or spoken to, But who dllu-(lud {l how He sots, ‘and: upon what. basis,- he ‘dares not luquize, bocawse 16 would be *rationalism” fato/ ble, bldg\y sud | humbly Bsks about the siaughte ~0_mn& ; *How shll I answor and all tho bold Infidels that my reagonablo Church?" the aunmwer {8, ‘'Go, fl.-ihnk,iq loars Yatlonalism, Wln,cn,.flmml 8 -young man, comoy to this 11m o1 l.m‘ o niths;.or tho 100th Penlmi, hud’,shys, Mr, Fronda, and shot him, Ohuroh in nsenal- -young..man,.nnd toll. Fronde- that ho-was foro--| “hope L have atudied; it woll, aut I8 s mothod with’ rogard to +This ton of by Tallh, whother | 1. tlm%hu indyiood God to orown it with suoh glory in thie {on, iem,” ‘Which, ut that Ho {8 & reasonablo Bovereign, | bonoath ail Hia commands . thoro, will, most with § intrinslo worth .in tho mind ‘and Buch. to, olicor up the hoart in “dark hours, transform us ;torminates your Inqur; I binve road it all on t{:u opposito, f ISI unfol Srnl -ordajnod to bo dnmnod., . Go, and if you raise auch '.:;nml";l:xlryz agpind von will .. 6qod ;Lo In A condition,” " fLaughter.) Now I do “hi “thédlgy "o infitaticd, K{ thought’ over ft. Filo Tnapitn: f tho Old-Teatamont, o with Balyatibn ‘You dara not nek,.what; talth 15— 18 in nntural or.in moral oxcollonco,— or it Ndw Tostamont,—in the Ohristinn. yelig- A’? inquiry. on this". point is * rational- It {5 your. business to bollovo, snd thore nvzr..lnd rend It Jong. Now, 1 DELTEVE A THEOLOOY ‘o 0ot only believos that God is a soverolmn, nud thiat . for iho'| Art, bo somo bosutiful reason visible, over iteclt.. Faith, thorofors, is clothod nl worth, bocause it posyosacs auch an in tho hoart. power it has to carry the mind forward, +and to Josus Ju into tho Mkouces of Christ, that God, looking _out and sooing this falth wo hind, had powor to take tho whole world ourac. dom. men Yos, shall, oran the - about poran honver poso Ho rald, * By faith yo sball bo saved.” He did not go {. rorgonablo, loving fathor of usall, . thia ourao, blood, in the burnt up coatings of the n\‘.nmnuh, h} this intlamod brain, in tho: [oss of mone: of min damuntion like ln:nmtpnmuco, o woll as & cial one; arrafgned’ bofore tho rogarding ‘brothren, : ] 1ito of ignorance inquiry, the soone dination vows the batf ter, and orles of ' *Amon,"] 4 1 Tho fact ‘that intompotance ;injures ‘men by into bis arms and remodel it; thoreforo orth na o tyrant or ag -n despot, but asa INTEMPERANCE. God has. pronounced intemporance to bo & No druukard shall ontor into tho King- .This, boing snnounced, .all the aclontific Rgo to_ work. nnd find a roadon - for Thoy sook it in the mind, inthe , losd in the ruln of tho wifo and tho chiidron, ) God hnving sald tho intemporate man bo banishod, men look _into thia intom- 0o to find tho renson of this banishmont, ut when God pronounces the wos upon infidel, you must' mnot --inquire othe natural drift of. this infidolity. That s rationalism.” . You dare .not,ns whother it wages an; war in the.soul ns intom- 1co does in tha body,—whethor it closen tho Enu of moral soneo and shuts out a world from ho honrt,—whothor it shuts out 'Obrist and n from tho soul,—whethor it bnnnnlugl;] udi- g bo reabytory* for mot our ordination * vows, Well, my ordination vows im- upon me tho obligation to live n d stupidity, destitute of nll u ralievo mo of theso or- (_ur." [Applauso and Iaugh- Ohl no. Ifyoy do this you God's deoroo' doos not: debar: tho-from looltifig into. the' hatural ‘oporatiod of that intombor- ance, by, fa dg‘un ‘the tho. ‘all I hath* no Bweoob reasonabloness in a1 on “to tho fields of his owni'dear childron, trampling alike over thoir cradlennd thoir grave. = NowT'am aa firm .a beliover in Salvation by Falth despo fool, i ‘brdte born [ man” ‘guined‘'aud & hell to bo.phupned:: He.was: a moral creaturs, and Prof, ‘Patton in . his inau~ gural says's ““Man is religious at bottom.” Ha ought -to have -made’ “ reli thore oamo had winge this Bchool theology ia; and . furthermore, it. would soom world searcely, for when'I atiemptoed to show that Goy Inid tho foundation "of the Christian ministry whn apart robed ‘Daniol to bo o prophet, and thus,: fir tho deeply roligions naturo. of _bia. ohildren Inid- tho foundniion of the Christian ministry—for that difforentiation of man’ which wards roinforced b&fll- gogpol and b¥ His Holy 8pirit, our proseou ,faraifrubfioq, and says tho mintstry began in tha yoar 1, Anno-Domino, and refo Confossion of Faith again, minisf posos -situnt] That Thus botwo, up at found upon & MOt this b o then thase Yxeurs o loan - liove oarhe: namo since’ Mr, [ kinowa i thiat God doniod the one and command:: 2d the other, ‘and thore ho stops. His thoology always torminates with thp 'faot. - It ovon nsk a single quostion., Itis just !‘belleve’ and bo'saved ; bolieve not and 'bo damnod.” That is all thoro ia of it. dom to His childron.: Honce,” my ‘olgthied not -ionly with good.- works, but clothéd 'with gonse. [Applause.] : Tins dreadful hostility to rensont has robbed Prof. Patton’ of - almost'the: entire world apart frowmn his- little narrow churgls world, * To say that man was a-religious being bnlorg Christianity, and that religion ‘was'not" forco ginning. Rk - That, however, isa small .mattor. - Ho says tionity here becauso ‘he wantoed to. :pothing kindness.': There was. nothing in ‘the human' family to rander natural any such gift from Gad." The gitt of Christianity to the world: is_just like tho:giving of spaoch to - s 'norgns, orlike giving theology, afl -of thousands of ministera of God’g own roligion ‘had minigtered at tho altars, from' Abol to Sam: ;uel;and from tho time of Samuel o the vary day.. .{ of Christ.: Then God' come’ nnd founded tha. -ministry, not on accoupt,of* any custom of, Hig .Oliurgh or of mankind,—not on account, of ‘ang desirablenoss in tho ofl t ) bo any’ divielon of ' labor,—not 'for any réason vialble ‘or “invlgible,—but great; wonted 3. That ia all. lovin; tong. Tho God of my friend soms” only.'to coniolto’ by, building u‘) ho Iden of ed, . Bu gglr-‘:xd—lf thoology that oan be called that hu{ a}mxihln {n it excopt God~tho o and- tho fact that .God snves & soul ith aud condemns a soul for infldelity not “debar mo ° from " looking” into- natural now, and 'foith moy bo a'-vice. All-ho -'daro -not Honco I say his God. marchod right throngl'his theologv, hath', it, but is only ormous will' rushing out like a hurrioano BALVATION DY ¥AITH. ! a8 the prosscutor, only his / faith Is but,a tio command from - the Almighty ; -mine, I s from a God sll-wiso, unfolding His wis falth ia oho upon man a8 1t might be forced upon the world,—~that it was ‘demanded by man's naturo, and was ‘s flower ‘that came naturally sisut up out of hia’ hoart, groatly angers mim, g{“ somothing that eligion i . somothing right out” of* the heart, bocauso sow: beforo - him & heaven ..t0 be . gontonce’ end in’ glons,” and - put the ' * bottom "' at the'bo- mughter,] < f 18 no fitnoss that.we know.of naturally bes twoen tho soul and Chistianity ; stmply God in the days of Obrist and planted Chris: )¢ The time dolng - it! ~Thero - was man. to: ‘suggest - any euth’ como for in +to & clod—a"purs .act of omuipotence. Thus;. fn° tho theology. of .my friond, .on .the opposito, you will porceive .notbing oxcopt nn’ enormous roat rnru-m‘dnlninp Emm-. Fntolllganao and ' of - humanil will -that oxplains: nothing,. It & destituto ‘alilo of ty. ‘By. pondering :ovor, . you. will find “what the New that this enormous will does not touch tha anywhore' botween ' Adam and Olrat, Ho made man, nnd ‘that da ho set Moses for o Inwgiver, and Aaron apart fora white- pricat, sob David apart “for » 'King, and ist aftor- r-notually: arraigns- meibo- ~me to tho Tho *’ Christian - try began at.tho Advent; that ib, {n' his fu{ 4,000 yoars bad passed, after fens lice, or that thoro should Just “bedause -this whom the °‘prosobutgr.’ sups God, B0 " dogired.” 'God ‘so God'so . compassed ' the i"Ho 80 conoluded; Ho so ordaifidd " Dol to "bo . .'THE THEOLOGY THAT MAEKS INFIDELS. God iy sepuratod for all those* 4,000 yedrs on Chriat and Adam : meparated, to make Inst for s long nogloct; and conclude to o religious mindstry:. . Now, although the progooution hins made the’ acoused out to be an infidel and »” Brahwin, and an - ovolutionist, Unitarian, yot the reouod, ‘with- all nud “a° Sabellian, “and i a | those faults him; oan show to this court Vi ‘A BETTER VIEW OF PROVIDENCE, j e univorsal and a more ocaroful nnd a mara ow, than has yot beon uafolded by my My Prpvidonco ia a Hoaveuly Fathor. .world .onco in n . wlulo, and thou, olup _of. thundor, atrikes. . :it iap withdrawvs for & thousand yenrs: [Laughtor,] . His _Orentor -, camo suddenly and lald down a Ohristianity as. though ina night. Ho had not been preparing for it at all 4,000 yoars, Ho suddenly inyentod tho Ohiigtian minutry also, and endowed it for tho flrat time ab the assont of ‘tho Savior. Confesslon of Taith,” ho says.' [Laughtor.] Whorens my Irovideuce “Lns ‘been holding. and bulldiug ~up thot * minletry for 6,000 “‘Boo without any intormiesion, uny rest. Whon gavo man & roligious naturo, when He plnced heaven and hell beforo him aa places to bo won ‘and lost, and when ho called the gons of Lavito tho altar and decornted thom with whl!otupnb robes, ~this Providence- which bo- in, hes beon aoll along from the 5t _morning of “earth - right cloko thit holy ministry in whose wo como horo to-day I trust. And now, in our contury the prosecutor holds to the AN IMIERFECT PROVIDENOHE . coming o the worlo once, in- & while, and then for tho mont part coming {o bla ohurch [Inugh- ter], and hia own wituogtes hore, Mr, Goudy and Miller, * joln with him ' in separating- God from all such beings as Lincoln and Washe ington, aud, indoed, from all the human march-. Ing host, and joined with him {n employing God only in Jooking up youn% ioal sominaries of ‘our givingus » world of porfect. athelam, exoopt men for the thoolog- lurch [laughtor}, thus the in Churol's the- theology of ar 28 Nfo' {8 cone m; rovidence ! of Imighty hath undergone a nufl more pafus uality “of “that bolief hnd | thnt unbelhiof.' But, according to thoe theology of. L)rauuuutur, {nfidolity . may be a-virtuo, for (Now| yor [} 8 | prgaesol d "doniod thw God s it eAToR htko o alotgy- - mon totho pulplt, The adVantagd of Davin o ‘-ficlty to superintond this work™ mus 1o in s supremo ld'll’llllxfll for knowing tho fruo theology-and thomnro honrt 1y~sml~1mm:a we- sara not to suppose. that -Ilo ealls o hoterodox mlnlum:‘tmlhn»%nlpm‘ Tonco all hotorodox clorgymon must bo sot._asiilo. from tho_onro of.. God's speclal providono. 1f in tho ministry thoy must comd,; they muat™domo.ns Sumnor eamo_to his bMioo, or ad Wilborforea to his. Bo tho ffiosctutor Liag * < * - * LIMITED (OD!S.SPEOIAL PROVIDENOCH atill moro_yat to only the orthodox clorgys and. when ho proved uot, long . ago lirhis prayor, that™ bo that rejocts infant - baptiam 18 nn[‘urlllodu'x you noo how ho is limiting tho caro of God. And thua o must cast away .from God's spoctal loye all thoso who- hold not our standards. And, furthermore, ¢ ho. -dxcludos ail olders 88 having movor boon enlled to this Lol work—excludos_guch as l}uo;fiu H, Bluart, J, \H_ Farwall, and oll womon such ns Miss Smilpy’ Inughter], and nll rovivaliets suck as Moody (for 0, L boliove, 1a rot an-orda{ned miniater), . and thus narrowing down the providenco of God until'wo find, iu looking”aronnd, only hera and theto™a fow olorgymori loft in Zion's groat COhurch, .Whon I look uponsuch men as Sumnor, and Burke, and William Wirt, and Wilborforao,- " andl feol that thoy camo into belug only -ty du ordinary providénce; or olss through .God's nog-" loot, becausa thase Blders do not know whathor Lincoln wns onlled at all,—ho ‘eamo, perhaps, by God's megloct; and when I look upon somo olorgymon, and'am-told - that those olergympn camo by o spacial miraculous mothod, lot us pray Qod that He may rotarn to the ordlnary . provi- donce boreaftor. [Appisuno and Taughter.) . . ot PRNELORE~PATTON," -’ 1 izava bub two thoro romarks to mike, and ohe' is this: Tho proseoutor calls your attontion to Penolope, who in the -dny-timo wove hor woof and in tho nlg]l:t-flmo unraveled it. I thank him for recailing this, for 1t “has” Leen soveral years sinco I rond tho Odyesby, Ho is_tho.-groptdat .Penelopo of..all:in"this "mattor ; ot Wwlicrans on ono day. ho proved,to higlo’ long argnment: that Lo son in _a whol dup's Sdid'not bollove in hell, ho yeatorday shiowod you that he held a xo- ligion without hope—h- religion of good works, ho eaid. Whoro . oan -yon .ind, hope in thab “Whon yoti come to condemn’ mio: I do you to condemn mo for holding both rall| Ign without hell'and a religion without Lope. ’fn 0 ono or the other, [Laughter.] w x .7 " 'BADELLIUS. 3 +_And agnin he proved by.a long- argument that The tiuth is, ‘excollenco; - & boliever in of Jesus COhrist, for, in iJm of “Sabollius; Jesus Christ is nothidg olso than,a great Father, having for tho -mo- Obrist with God., o having becomo- the ;Holy ,8pirit. Thus the thoory ‘of "‘Sabellia’ is " the" ‘theory above all othors that . makes Josus Ohrlst tho very God. Havin 0 show that I waa .. Babollian, he tolled all the next dny. to. ehow._ that :I' was, a Unitarihn, . othera reparates ‘Jesus Christ from God. And now Iwant you, whon you ‘come ‘to iake np: your verdict, not to make me_\;rlh of thoso ohar-' actors, . Iam willing to thor, not bear to be, both, : . W : At the conalnslon of Prof, Bwing's argument, Ar.>Noyos . took . tho. floor:in .behalf of :the de- ‘fendant, and"'snid it would' be -romemberad by {tho Pranbytery - thalt:whon he concluded: his er- gumont’ on the’ preceding day he had spoken. somowhat briefly on the third specification in the indictmont. the Prosbytoryto . ke ° %" THE'FIFTR 'BREOIFICATION, . 5 wihioh aegorts that. Prof. Bwing dmits to.préaoh +tho dootrines known as Evangolical. - After read: ing the nfinn iflontion, ho eaid that tho aconsation sgainst tho dofendant was n véry ‘sbrious'one, d’ that {if . ho™ supposéd : the / ‘doferndduf was - guilty - lho - certainly " would " dot stand: “up” . Bofors " the" " Proabytery : .to vlead fils conse,” IF thio - Prosbytery wers' to n- ;derstand by the spucifioation’ that " the' acoused *falls to proach * evangelical” dootrines”by way lof mnkln;i o got of formal -discourses upan.oach 'of; ‘them, it wonld-.bo' readily. concodod - that! the' chinrgo was true so far aas.thedocumentary-ovie deuca befora thé Oblirt.was concorned: -But it the apecifioation -moant -thnt- Prof. Swing had: not, interwoven. all thoge subjects into'hig sermons; and taught tho truth concerning thom, thon the oharge wa# utterly donted, and by tho testimohy from tho lips of living twitnosues in the court it bad. been proved..to- bo baseloss, ! Tl proot of ita brselesn: oharactor was -to be found' in tho 'very.'sormons by which itlio. prose- “outor i‘hud'.ig!amgtad t0. provar that Prof, Swing had - not .. preachod dootring ‘[he prosecutor, in all his mr‘gnm;m Boamed'tolinve:gons upon ke supposition' thuh ‘the languago of Prof. Bwing. wes tho languego. of leratics,-unleas ho.was granfed the bonofit'of tho'nsgumption that he was a Presbytorian, ' Hi Ir." Noyes) thonght- that “most of the mem. ors of ~ the Court' :would . be the ' couteet to: qut‘ Prot. i:.Bwin, ipbor banofit! of: suoh h- assnmption, and thiat ho. nuaumdptlon ‘would bo pormittad to atand un- til it was demonstratod that it was not true," | . i ONE OF THE MODES OF' ARGUMENT |} " }l:‘sex;b the prosccution.aeomed ' to indicato that rof. caso. - At ithe outset: of: hia: madothoterm * ovangelical” & toxt-word, and' in Speoification 17 ho had- said ‘that. tho “ovan- golical sonud of:-torms was tho standnrd by which by to judgo the languago ot Prof. Swing. " L, *EXTRAOTS. / after brioily comnmenting-apon it, passed to tha reading of oxtracts from the” sormons of ' Prof. Bwing. [ He' road ‘for .about” an hour; and;was then compelled by fatiguo to desist, - ;. ‘Tho Prosbytory thon'adjourned until, this ‘mornivg, i | : H the A-Rnce for o Brido.. S " From the Jackson &Tmn.) Whig *.t | - . Lave laughs at bolts: an sawe timao thore {s .‘‘many a slip botwixt :the: oup and -the lip.” © Tho following truo ‘story g\mgnntly illustrates both of the al trulsma. ; t happenod.a fey .days . ago: in an nd]elnmg county, A comely youth fell madly in love wit! o rural ballo, - Bho emilod’ upon his suit and doubtloss sighod upon his waistcoat, Thoy fo- solved to:bbcomo **fwain df ond'flosh,” biit the sgainet it and florcoly forbid the bane. But.!*Joy ."‘“P:‘“ ot bolts and bars,” and the young'coupla atolo away amid the friendly darkness of & moon: loes night, flad to & neighbor's, and’ about dawn tho next morning eucooeded fn- proouring tho servicos of a parson.” All things were made ready to'tio. the gilkon. knot, aud the ‘hopos‘of : the -lavors-beat . high - with " the joys of s g sofly fruition. But right here tho parson manifeated. somo doubtd #s to tho proprioty of the prooeqd- Ing, and insistod on sending: for the oruol parant sud gotting his consent - befora procoeding -w‘%h‘- tho -ceromony, - After ‘much arguing, -and his promising to mtercodo with the girl'y tathor, alid convincing hoth crown hig appeals i their behalt, .they finally consented,’ aud the irrasoiblo old:gent was sout for, Horo comes in tlat other truism many a elip -twixt the oup and the lip."- ‘Tn dua’ aoason, aud within the hour for the mesasngor toroturn with the cruel parent, s floros clattor, of hoofs washeard down-tho fano and a volce ‘wildly uhnuting - %I won't consont, d—d ifIdo; T-qolomnly forbld them buns," strick constora., bride and groom, ‘The groom- rau.to the dopr, and, ‘looking down tlio fano,- saw at its fartior. end the infuriate Tather com}ng lie " the wind,’ under | whip aud spur, hat.in hand, his white bhair wildly stresming, nnd‘nhonung‘mm ove broath, *Iwan't consont," oto. ‘With tho prompt., noss of a votoran the lovor: golzed ‘his Intondpd bride and monntod .his ateod -in hot haste, bora hor off in tho - opposaite dircotion at;n furiops' spoed, Tho fathor, with tho-vigor of duapair, plunged his “P“m doeper into his foamiug horae, and g:nvu lot pursuit, followod by tho parson and tho sssomblod guests, all mounted, and taking a lively intorout in tho soquol'of the rnco. Down the road, ovor tha hilly, through tho mist'of valleys, inlo forosts vooai with t ho songs of morning, they held thelr mad career, -But the stecd that bore the lovers gradunily slackoned his paoe under the * doublo burden, and tho avenging paront stondily. (ialncd on thom, Finally ko overtook “tha tlylng poly, and. ronching' forth snatohod h{a daughtor from her lover's grasp, whoelod hia' anting stecd, and bore. hor -vapidly towards ana. Tho lover, maddened, bub not deapajr- Ing, gnvo chaso; and bok aver tho same roud, ohoerod by the elouts of ‘the oxclted: party, rushod tho fathor aud dsughter and lover, Tjia: oung mun soou dovoured the distanco but\vepn fnlm and his intended bride, and, with a grasp 'of iron, tore ber ‘from tho parental armeaud ga- sayod to boar ot off i trjumph, But tho qid an, gamo to the last, rencwod his strongth and spood, and again solzed his daughtor, uu(i{ a furl- ous atrugglo for possession ousnod.. But the acty of frionds and tho parson put au end to Fhu atrugglo by giving the girl to her father apd- advising the ynunfimm to walt for & more pro- pitious ocoaslon, 'Thus endod, but - not finally, we fool assured, one of tho- moat-exoitiug rages tor bride known to elthor truth or lotion, ;‘l‘i}‘i'hiu}t"a;fi}/i 38 et oA ;Eu"& wi [ SUH 010 . e LS e S e not want- tho Babollinnsis a man who fally idontifics.Jesus . the Babel-’ "ment become' the mediator, or for the moment- tollod all that day to. [Inughtor]—that _donomination , which , of ¢ ali* but'Ioould | the snow; and ; o' 'fiix) sud apun it npon hor” foot-wlicol, and card- Ho would flrat call the attertion of" Prosbytorian. roady at’ atton had perceived -the weaknesg of his¢ angument ha'bad yos thon roadtho.speolfication, and, . bars, and yet at the | slorn father, of - the ; would-bu-brido .was dund‘ that sncacsa would cartainly |- + “Tharpa, tion and torror: into the Leatts of “tho would-bo.| . | perpetuato to faturo gonorations tho family iname nndliome, arc among the highest achievo- monta of any clovated people, Tho fnansion “| mnkos tho micleus of the Lome ; and that na~ tton which bos the Jargust number of the por- feated and consoorntod homos {u tho groatest in all that can malko a pooploe truly groat, - AB the struotures of past agos show, thors has been, in all historienl porlods, much mn[umncnt vullding in publle edificon, cliurchos, ‘cdthodrals, -Tha--Advance: Made-in- the— P'T“-’?‘"!" ‘l‘:‘i’l‘(‘t t;ufi'r:}ssfinuflln palacos of tho rulers aud no- s tho habitations of tho pooplo bavanok b ,.ACenlury from” Primitive sliod lustro upon any ago boforo tho presont. e .- Habits, How Our Forefathers b;essad, Lived} ond Worked, . . e Thero was a wide spaco in fltness of strusturo bo- - | twoon tho‘church of tho oldon timoand the 4 Liomos of tho familics for.which tho church waa o o oongtitnted ; and thoro wero fow homos of cnse ' and comfort to fill the chasm batwoon eabin and The Machine. is. Now . the Only. | pnlaco, ‘ho prosent age hns brought tho conve =t ufont houso, and e v 2 i Slave. ’ 2 5 A DELIGNTFUL HOME i ) o d - . : ln“;hlnh to ttml"'n ti.hlu )fi;:th of tfi:drnytfiur hlghc; P oar. '| achlevemonts n tho ronch of. the muss Tlie Ninotsenth Gentury 1a this ngo of Invon= tho pooplo, The oltizons of tho ULites Btates tions, discovories, And rushling progress, This progross hng been made upon certain fundamon- tal wants In man'a pature. As ‘ho is nob pro- vided with n porgiobunl and roprodiicing cont of: hair, fur, or fenthers, to protoct bimeslt agalnat changos of wonther and rigor of olimato, bis’ firat conditlon of nded, after food, is bis raie .mont or olothing. We do not afiirm that man's inventive gonius has boen' moinly oxpended in modorn times on the stylo or matorist of tho fabrio of hla covering—for it sooms to have ‘boon & frailty of humanily in il agos to dolight “in'gay olothing, and to flaunt in bright silks ‘and !fiue linon, and in tho' eplondor 'of tuo Tyrian dyes with which the Oricntals made themsolvos gorgoous. " But the ‘averngs man nud woman, bofore thi contiiry'bogan, wero "dontont with : hnavo a Iarger number of good habitations for -the commou and Jower olassos than nny okier nation, Tho Englisli, smong tho midd)%.clasg (the lowor can Liardly bo countod 08 sy those who havo abiding places) havo the largest nume bor of homes. that are constltutod upon tho higheat idon of domeatio 1ifo, 'Tho hogoe aud tho iome ropresont the family in tho line of pore potunl succossion, as an ingtitution that shall tiover come to an ond ; 8o that when the head of tho houso bullds or adds to tho adnrnment of the louschold, o doos it with rogard to the gouora~ tons that aro to follow him. %’orlmps a0 oxtrav- agance of thongais scon In the gorgeous and oxoessively ornnmental stylo of the building of tho nilddle olnss at tho prosent time in this coun- fry. Thoro ia s porceptiblo want of adaptive~ ness to the ends. No truo mansion for tho per potuatod family can bo built of wood ; it is ont of charactor, from its poriabnble uature. Thore. in too much money in many of thom, and in thelr fitting up, for & judiolous investmenton one, hife alono. Tho noxt stop in tho ling of tho progresston of' lt;m Luman raco, and whioh indicates ity wantg,. < - - FLAIN crotmes, or were compolled to bo reconciled, at loast, with homospun wodl,’or flox, or tow, or the cotton spun o the factory- shd woven on -the hfnd- 100m;: ~ For'the grand attire of tho imitators of Boalomon was out'of- the'-reach of the mass of the pooplo in the Unitod States. Bilk waa tvated in'somo of the back towna of Connoctls~ - out; and in Now Jersey and Dolawaro, whioh.was reblod from the balls, spua and knit by tho ris- tio maldons of estly times; so that, wliile they, covored their bodies- with woolen frocks, thoir delicate Jimba were incasod in sill: of thoir own . workmanship, | . . 5 Bl e Y Machinoty for tho manufacture of ‘cofton of Jool,] of tha choinical difcoveries by, which colora havobeon conjured out of tho hiddon springs of thio" eloemonts; "had hardly bogun 'to . © THE EMTLOYMENT - & that ehall ocoupy its hands ‘and thonghts. The mogus of Aubglstenco command thoe employment. Rising a step from the mere primitive, nan finde it neccesary to live from tho carth rathor than only on_it, - He. bacomos agrarian, so far a8 ho attachea himsolf to tho_ soil, befora ho bocomes grogarian, to combine ‘in tho mnss for gonoral clovation, As a tillor of the soil. for his own primitivo wants, ho needs but littlo, ug wo'are told tho ancients had but.vory rude implomonta for their agrioultural . purpoges, Tho forked stiok to soratoh the_carth, for a plow, the hook and gloaners to'aave the harvest, tho threshiug- guoa- o \{‘l].fnhhfin‘:r:ngx ?ut the gmis, thgh" fan Fn T A nad " with which to winnow out tha ghatf, th be known in the' beginniog of this contury. | hand-mill with whick to grind tho corn, cohatix Thon our farmers raisod thoir own flax' and boat, | tuted the outfit of ity gront “farmor . of the fibre by’ band ‘with the-“break " and tha'| Bothiohom, like .Doaz, ' Our fathora sawingel; * foy-raised tholr own. flocks and: | 74vauced. somewhat mpon_thoso, rudo.con- ‘shonred tholr 6wn flosges, and, if thoro happoned | Hoicor , Bub. famning - fifty “yoara' sgo Ared ¢ Vo flodges f thorg lospised all moolinufonl - dovices, and truste 20 bo & biaok shagp in tho flock, it was no black | to hacd worl alono, It was r:gnrdnd w‘;i‘% ‘mark of disgrace; but an acquisition mugh to bo | honest basis of #ooiety; it dospised aV .',1,,1,. dosired; and they wasbed thoir shcop in' the g trap and. ehame; and all machines 4o save +running bropks, ond mado the wool white like tho enow; and tho housewifo combod’ the- Iabor wore tricks of _tho lazy and ** " o got1id of work. A Dodaior ot pntont-siont ...... was A % * 2 e A HOVING YAGATQYp, o Bit, ‘a8 tho agricultural 16 the busts o fndustrial intorosts, 18 1t ¥ of moents B o) cloty, 16 could not alwayis resist the tido of the times, The tido of the times, in tho begiuniu, of tho oontury of inyeontions, was to get townfi tho-application of the powers of Naturo to do tho work of man'rathor than humnn musclo, Miud was comnifasioned to control matter, and sabjoct it to its will. Thoro tho farm has como ed and spun the wool, and wovo ‘tho oloth from” tow or'wool for the 'garments_‘that” mnda both .malo and, fomalo, respectable and comfortable, The biack wool of the black shocp'.of the flock was nover a oolor to fado, and the skill of apin. nor and weavor mado It into that deleotabls” olothknown as . ... . o e v ik s el aa a2 ‘which was alwa ifed as g color ‘that, would “th i = ‘stand, and o sham. -And 6o_it was tho prido of | 3CF tho manipulation of tho machiino. {ho tinosthat thew o o cloganily sid i | 1202l BEBIAa canot live by culivating the | ratod Grat: Drosidant: of o Doiad MxloAtEU:. | natirally sought out 1n-tho doyolpmat L o in gilver-gray, or in % poph el "'hfl' i““ human race in gregarianiam. The farmor neods gult of black, of wool. b he feaey piro 2248 | tho mechidnio 16 bufld bis machines. o mnbe o0 A o ook sLwunl of the faest fibie,_apint Improved plow. and to mako nnd mead his wagon laom,‘ hsnrmnuy’i ;u]gr"tlsdll% G‘lim dyfl-l'l‘:'- and hand- | oF 'fua“é’fiifilu‘é' fl?:te fl: uhnxf:ghfi;éqggrnun:?& on tho tontor-bara s of soms wiees o 4rd. |, mora nocossitiss.in bns housohois: s iy crslea ‘whoso vooation I8 tow gono. . Aud Ao the tailorass [ £9 0U6 aud ;;-‘:nslu it the world, Tho wants of tho nmzhhnflmndh Fomo consooratod. malden: | .2F TR mb’{k":‘}n.;:;m?: u:":““o’l" 08 o B i moniale s, s Tonsly | gy i SR Attt ‘speatability—no sowingmaohiiie, -0 bubtar: | Instruotion in “olomonts “of knowlodge, Tt tha Tolor 10 811 Bok,—ont Sod mauds. un oo feal man-must grow upon thonght. 'Dlaco is. manta in th lotes whora, they Woro fo bo worn, { L10ie[oT6 faund for the professions. Ho ro- *out, - Tho farmer fed and fattened his own oxon, e i8 pratectod h? his i, he«‘ x:uhg ':m':fia i’ W%Ch: for bis Qo o tho.squeumplian of the nolgbor- |'to toll Lin what has hoon loatnod by shis Juoentr. tlimo" ot catilo-kiling aoutd wrive, nont g | GaSi9n of olors {554 & pyaician to Loal him of: b o o tovn Bt o W v o | Dpimbemiosis bl i ° 0 Pt e hatbetly e - | out, ond find thoir plnocs,—for man ia not now madb foth ‘the sking of Bib oxn onsts, of his - living to. himeolf ‘alono; ho lives & part of ‘the. £ 3 maes that makes np liumnmty,=~a si ok d l:}:l?nril:é?fi-' ;vfi‘:vmg“g‘;.‘:n:"!m“% !»‘;!1 i ""‘gj tho numbor that taakte up cfi&;:lffngx]‘fl::g:m: the oarly moral. training that made Liss e Ay o rond radgo of purmila that maks tho ome | Fuon or tho- gallow that evr.wont, to oxo0p- '““’flfi“‘,“t‘flf xél{pfm. and porquiaiton, "t -| - Tho leather brought back to theé domisile Trom | DO orall soek after thoir own, while living ‘Willobh it doDrcted & mootn. hh!t. ST the ] Hovondony upon oach othar, It isliko o bub- - bling"cauldron. But. in it thero is a place for every man, sud auan for every placo. To the purposos of man ho subjects the powors of Na- days of winter-camo, the traveling ‘shoemake: g oallodn, - Ho bsme with Iap-stone, clvmpa, andawl; andhosot” his, bonck by tha. kitehbn. -0, and thera. every’.fook ‘was shod to tread {n- | t2r¢; and to thoso onds come in the aid of the, dopendantly ovar thy domal of whinh sho perile [ macbine, This is man's ouly pormitiod slave. waa hoad ' and " meater, - His ® worki]- (- ¢ i o N Waeer, dono,’ . tho: - rotating, ~ shoemaker - passed ¢Son-Devil?’ atthe Brighton. St _Aquariam.. On' Thurilay, remarks tho London Daily News ot:April 20,'thero was rocoived ab tho Brighton aquarium a morfater Anglor-flaki, or sen~dovil, tho largest, it.io belioved, over taken in Dritish watord; . The flsh was_oaught o day or two sluce ot Hoatiugs,” As a rule, the anglor Is oxceoding- 1y fonacious of. but this one spoodily yicld~ ed o tho * inevitable,” and aftor doing daty for & few-hotira ‘ag’ o *‘rare ‘monstor " at Mesars. Gllton's, in tho Haymarket, it was presontad to the Aquarlum, whera arrangements woro spoodi- ly improvisad by Mr. G, Reoves-Smith, tho Gen- -oral Manager,.Lo oxhibit it in -the. ontranco hail. This monster fish is of a dusky brown color, tad }m]n sbaped, that s, all head and shonlders. It s nbont five feot in Inufl.\, and somo thros feat norossat the flappors.” In it innnimata stafe th .4 tair proportions " of “the fish are foon At & dia- advantage. . Scon,,_howaver, * under any condi- 0: on'ito "the - -next - neighbor, thoto ¢ fo | Momst ronder lika. honorablo sorvico.as ausctal mem-. |- -ber of * the community: "The'town-hattor made tho hats from tho poltq gathered from his noigh. “borlng customers ; hia fur had ‘been takeh from: :the mink of-the mill-pond; and he gays an Lion- oat, wolkmado hat, wliothor it wera. falt or fur: 4 The sillveham and‘paste-borird body Wwas a dovies - never yot looked npon a8 a possibility. -The vil~ Iags .man-taflor’ made tho “ groat-coat " .of ;tha, fatbor, and the, best “suils of . himself and tho “big boys,” ~ - PO L T Thus tho family of. the ‘past - generation was woll clothed” and shod, and woll fitted 'for tho plain, honest dutiés of* life; they had'woll don- gidoyedall the' honosy ln?ulxloa in thosopro- ducta: Will it wear?.. Willit last? Is it well mado? Are the atitohos woll putiu? Wil tlie:' - buttons lold on?" /Will the *biitfons woLp ox ? 'Oh!"whit s slgnifleant,_question’ this is] . Lot yourvtqllpr of 1874 anawer if be dares | N <0 aT % L NOWNOW OHANeEDl ¢ : \'| tions, it would not ba:likkaly to gain tho prizo for Ia. it oortatn: tht 1t In for tho,, ottéir 2« No pro- gly -customer " it wonld ducor or houscholdor, can afford to make np his The mouth at ouca ar- . Amagt rosta attontion, It strotohos litorally right aoross tho creature's fico, and whon closed as much s it can bo—tho under jow protrudes somowhnt— “it moasnres “ninetesn - Inches ™ At ‘tho edgo of own material, or; indeud, to make thomatorial of his own consumption; ho oan no longer: clothe jmes|f : homust ba clothed upon, aa well as be pounasd npon: 'Ha.says..he. can buy- anything . oheaper than Jip can- mako ,or, produca it. oncl aw aro two or throo rows of toeth, hara, ot ..,ar);?mng avaribody Bolta la o oliees, | atsotiy. nd poystod sbg 1l tho Drongs of & st t,.nd ong can afford to selt t;.and everything: | trap, thoso of . the lowor - jaw dirooted obliquely body hes £o buy ia 6o dear nobpdy can af- | inierd; and, onco intorlooked upon proy, oss ovorybe ford to buyit! : Yot -somobody (somewhers has produged that which:everybody consumes, We no longer hear anything of . the home' tannor, thio man who takos in your hido to honestly do,it for you; tho tailoress has eith ot married or abandoned the' business; the -**walk-around ™. shoomakor no langor makes, his annual visita- tion, tho fown-hattor has gone no one . knows.| where: the man-tailor keopa a shop and hires "girle, and tho oustom of tha times forbids you to. ‘ollow his exampla, - i MACHINERY ; hina taken-the-place of ‘hand-labor; syntem s boen substituted for pergonality, and rlogs.run | fhe trades, and strikos ,become tho order of tho “day. " Wo go‘to “the fnotur{ for “the making n{‘ro! that which was done 1n tho littlo, shop by tho wayside, And, a8 a part of tho pop-, alty of this rovolution in work, tho maes of the. Fnopln' wesr shioddy for cloth ; the garments of ho tollor of . the- poriod rip In tha senma; the buttons - hang by a single thread ; pogs are in tho bottoms-of - tho shoos and boots, and priclk up;” hats wiit down in & summer-showor, ss the rose, ‘nippod from it atom, - fades beneath tho teun. This is s nure of llw“gnnnlly in com- mon'thinga which the'man of tho day pays to Prograss, :, But thore ik some racomponse, His +wifo and daughtors_appoar: more lovable under \Froncki flo yors, in Lyons silks, or Irish poplins, or Lanoashiro prints,..or ribbons in gay colors, than our auciont damos did_in tow aprons .an blus woolen gownu,—annu[nuy when sot off With the nluqnm. combinations of . the Paris mil- linor, . And *fathor” himself s more of n gon- tloman In tho broadeloth of tho YorkabiraTagtory, aud,tho nice fit which the gontlomun-tailor dowhe town has given to his upper and nother gar.’ monts, And tho *boys™ aro ronl jewals, with their shining atove-plpes, delioately-turned neck- tlos, pnnts tapering " liko a_mold-candlo, aud ¢ Buit’s bool’s . putting tho finishing touchos to the ripeniug:man “at tha point of the lowor ex-~ .tremitics, Aund, on. tho vhole, the reproscnta- tives of our raco hava the appoarance of belng in process of improving, if not happier. as hu- man belugs, ‘The next primitive want of man is ? I8 HABITATION, - Tho moro domesticatod tho race becomes, the mora it **locatos,” or fustons itself permanontly upon tho roil, aud thoro makes tho dwellings to abido theroin, Whe hut of Lark, or tho wigwam of skiug, or tho oabin of thatol, sorvoea the pur- coapo would bo hopeless.” It 18, howover, when open, that tho “enormous “capacity of. tho fiab's moutli -Is apparent. If tho flsh ochoso to strain o point, ‘s four-nnd-a-hslf gatlon barrol might be got into it At all events it ia . ciroulnr shaped, over & foot in diamoter, and lt~ tlp less than two fect.deop. * Just at tho gullot, at the base of tho uppor. jaw, are two Y\ [py subs~ stancos, onoh armed with torrible teoth, and as corrosponding teoth aro via-n-vis, tho fate of any Iuokloss fish ontrappod into . the * Devil's Cav- ern” would be doubly sealod. The fish i vory rapacious ; and, had not nature endowed 1t with & 8pecial contrivance for proeyring food, it would faro budly, boing but's slow swimmer. 'To this contrivauge it owos its name, tho ** anglor " fsh. On tho top of tho Lead, betwoen the oyes and ,mouth, are two_tondrils, oach about o foot in length,, ono huving at ita ond n tleshy substanca which Gorve as a bait. Whonangling foramaal thedovil-flsh covoraitself partly banoath tho Ban or weeds, “"holats these “tondrils, and bides hia timo. DBy and bf" incantious rovers are urod by tho bat, "thou the flsh—its oyos being capnbla of lvoking in almost overy direction—* reviows tho situation,” gots Lis body by o spocial nction inta Fn&mon, tho enormous mouth opens and uoizes ts proy.” Judging by tho quuntity of brafn tho ‘fish possesgos—the brain is no largor, we are told, than a aparrow's—ono would scarcoly supposa that it is such n wily dog. Tho flsh is, however, altogother” an suomnly. Its “head, tho largesb ‘balf of it, {a all bonos, whilo -tho body is almost boneloss, . It carries its ' breathing "apparatua undor 1ta armo! for the flappors (poctoral fus) renlly sorve tho uso of arme, the frumework of Tones baing exactly oquivalont to the human wrlist {uiu . -In every respect tho fish isn curiosity; and during the timo it is on view tho oarligat” opportunity should bo taken to inspact % S b John iloclcors Ar. John Heckor, whose death at. New Yorn last wook hns been announced, was the oslos brated balor and flour morchant whose busincss and personal reputation wag well Lnown in all our [atgo oities. Ho had, at ono timn, Bixteon broad storas.and, mills in New York. Just bofore his desth bio -disposod of all but threa.- 1o loaves & mother, widow, » son, and two diugh- tora, His brother, George V.' Houkor, survives him in tho flonr trado, whilst the other brother i8 tho woll-known Paulist Xatbor, Tsaae Hoclcor, oses of monkind in somo conditious of lifa. | Mr. Heokortook quite n prominent part both- in ut {t 18 novorthcloss truo that tho houso is the | political and roligious mattors, In 1850 he ran groat educator. Tho hubitations of mau, like | &8 5 Froo-8oil candidato for Congrons, but- was. ithe roads mado for his transrt, mark in s very | dofentod, In 1852 he foundod au E; iscopal mis- acourate degreo tho monsure of oivilizaiion | slon obapel In Now York, in which tho ricualistio which hie hias uchieved, ‘o build well, tastefully, | and choral sorvices wero first introduced lu this and usefully, to tho ends bost adaptod to the | ‘country, He way, ulio, for- sovoral yours, the subatantial - manuer of Illvelihood, or even | editor of the Ohm:z'hmml. n paper devoted to the to bud magnilicently aud mweslvoly, to | Episoopal Ohurol's futexost,