Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1874, Page 2

2 world now noods deoply & Boing who loves thom. 800 proof that the world will dostroy this vory charactor by making it an ally of opon sinfulnees, Not atall, “In craying for a God of hnniq(n(ty-, tho thoughtfut world wishes to escapo only tho idon of n God with tho attributos of a cruel, rocks loss potontato, - Lot ua accopt, thon, of this manifest need of tho publia, Wo puru%lvn ‘that all our follow-men cry qut for a meroitul ,Ono, whoso car slall not bo doaf, and whoso lieaven shall not o brasy abovo thom,—One_not secking whom Ile may dovaur, but'whom Hq inny saves Lot us acoapt of this fact of socloty as 8. prograus Gowfixd tho intorprotation of tho words * Ged’ and ¥ Jeaus Cliriat,"” $ Naw 1t would ba prafitablo also toinqniro what now want soclety bas revealedasto Huaven, for oxamplo,—ns to” fta need of mind and of bappi- ness., Should you loalk iuta this mattor, you will find that tho civilizod world is reshaping its eld thoughts hore, aud 14 foalin dooply tho noad of licnven 0 a Lome. -Tho old iden that it was auly & forn of churcl sorvice, o continuation of carthly. worship, is rapidly fading beforo tha couception of o realm whero humanity shall ba posfoctad In its montal and apiritunl states, a Fotin whero man shall put asido tho woak and tha ginful, and bo groatnat only in raligion, but alsoin iutollect and in hoppincss. There isa great rewodeling of ITeaven which we must all canfoss—a grand now \mukhmugmug up in the hoatt, Whon men woro slaves thoy iutorprotod Deaven as a liberty, ond it was onough. When men wero Jomeleas they interpreted hoavon as a refugo—a bome. Whou thoy aro sick aud for- snliens thoy droam of tho ky aa full of kind miu- istoriug angels, and this is euough. But whon, under the miluence of wide cducation, socioty tegina to porccive tho longth aud breadth of mauhood, then heavon becomes a place whore tho soul paeses Into o sl higher dovelopment, Thus tho timos bring always a now want, and out of this graws o now shaping of idens; and undor this grand teaching tho gloriea of Loaven all sprivg up afresh. = = Now, in the J’,NBW ion of thia line of thought, you will find that our day Las como undor o uew necd rognrdiug tho Savior of msnkind—a new, positivo, univorsal, uumistakablo want. All tho exporionca of tho lost fow years indicntos that it sz uotn theological Savior which tho heart ned but just that Christ which ia seon in the New Tostament. You behold this waus avery- where. Seon in His varions phages of Prophet, Priest, oud King—juat e ‘ha waas there tho childsen sea Ilim aud love Him,and just g Iio was_there the adult throng se¢ Him and sdoro Him. This bas bocome so ovidont that it wmay bo confeased to bo & groat publio dosire snd longing for tho Chrigt of the Now Testa~ ment, May I not say, thorefare, that thero {a under all h:xymmx al\'flh'ys’n l’xm-ld%uca that ehapes the truth to the age? s thero not o Henveul Father that knoweth well what things His clil- dran bave need of bafoxe they con ask.—before thoy oan shope their prayer? Dutif this moral warld is wholly under the influeuce of a wisa de- eignor, it must be 80 not only in relation ta its doctrines, bu also In relatioi to the teachers of {hoag doctrines,—the sdvocates of the new oroed; and. hence, n8 our ago plinly needs & pow portraiture of the Doiby, a new portraiture of Christ, a now vision of teaven, sa it deoply nceds ney men In all the departmonts of Chris~ tian worl, It is not mero fashion, it isnot caprico, that ssks for now ministers of rolig- jon from tho most di?nlflod pulpit to tho Lumblest Sunday-school room; but fkis the real need of the age built up by tho world’s prog- roes, just as the want for books, the huuger for Jowledge, Lins been elaborated by tho progress of sdueation andof mankind., When ansge sends bold, strong, frosb, indepeudont men into all its flelda of Inquiry in scionce and politics, 1t 18 abuolutely ecsscutinl that Christianity do the some, that ghe way adyancoe with equal step in thia long und responsiblo march. If the world’s monall_be freo and the church’s mon all be enslaved, the resutt will Lo that infidel- ity will advausco far wore rapidly —tusn {lio Church’s Loly faith, Wo must all Bink in the groat unequal coutest, Liberly und education must come just as rapidly to the sor- vico of God as to the sorvico of seionco and phi- lanthrophy, and all tho honors aud all tho fm- pulses of Jife muat gather no mora rapidly, no more fearlossly around the Orucible, and the Porch, sud the Tripod, aud thoe Bar, than they gathar around the Cross of Jesus Clrist. Upon suy other hypothesis the Church will aink ; it caunot ub sink. It-is not mennt by this that +tho Church wust have no fixed croed and no fixed method, but must be loft to the poouliarity | of wmndividunis; by no means, Tho statesnen all stand upon-s defiuite croed. There las elways been beneath tho statesmon, from Gro- tius to Wobeter, n definito, fixed creed, plainly end sharply ontlined, but oh lLow fow end _sublime have been the simple priuciples ba- nonth il those men; and, ob, what liberty of speech, aud of illustration, and of argument, and of thought, has ou\'nln{md tho fundamontal orcad, lcu\'in% thom bound by fow principlos, but all at liborty in the great upper air! Tho success of life depends upon having o fow simplo priuciples, and then above them a grand priociple. In our immenso world of trees aud flowers, and hills aud Inkes, and beasts and birds, and may, what o rich varicty thero is—n varicty that bafles the botanist amoug tho plantg, and baffles the geologist among the min- arals, and baflles tha grrdoner among the frulty, wd bafMes the poet among the forms of loveliness ; aud yot all this wondorful 1cone_of ouchantment hg been built up by tho Almighty from & fow simple elomonts, mingling In tho strong laboratory of Nature. Half a dozen elements make the groat world, Thus in the Gospol—tho Gospel of the same God— thero lie 2 fow simple truths which e child can count, and can nahnost undorstand ; but upon theso truths the_ liberty of tho individunl Roul* should como and build its great world of dntg, aud faith, and hope, and lifo, and death, sud _work its own enchantment by its own hands, and God looks sapprovingly down upou tho task. Come, tneroforo, in any lan- guege—CGorman, French, English; come, thorefore, in any _ atyle—argumontativo like Butler, ornnte like Bossuet, plaintive like Tenno Watth, porsunsivo like Bishop Simpson.; como in the breadth of laamlnE or in tho nar- rowness of sentimont, and, in the name of per- sounl frecdom all uvrestrained, ssy its parnest, falthiwl word, eud thon die, and, if neod bo, bo forgotton. This iy what the world neods in our age, whon jpersonal liborty is wiolding its onormous power ; for it is measure- {oes, for tho progress of sclence, when even the Infiael rovels in an atmospliore of independence sud _eays his thought as froma throne ; when tho Father above, who knows what things ‘Hig childron _ meed, will lead His Qhurch forth into & mew land; whon upon_the fow elements of tho Gospol, ho wil permit the freedom of the Lumun mind to slt down and weavo its many-colored and many-por- fumead wreaths with no one to blamo it. Yes, whon overy infidel boasts of Lils hiberty and speaks from his throne of ludependoncs, then must tho Church also xise Lo that froedom, and thus spoak, Tho granduor of the Gospel will corne from individual froodom, elaborating 1ts idens around this contral thought, Tako for oxample tho single iden of the crons, Lot human liberly come to thatiden snd see the change. That cross isa slmplo element which may bo wrought up into s world, As the lomp of Alad- din could ovoke n jowel or = paluce or an empire, could vall togother angols or dis- crso flonds, o the simple ombiom of the avior's doath may in the hund of unrestirained lberty becomo tha crontor of a whole world of woral beauty, ‘The toars of Josus Chriat and of penitonts tnil like dow upon it. The hsndsof tho sinking muy grasp it, and this is snlvation, Angels may look In wonder upen tho acene, theologiany may show its logal aud its moral atonement, and the poet may say : Nothing In my hands I bring, Bimply to the cros I ou;:g :a il And yet this single clemont of the Gospel llea nnuxhugmstod aud roady, liko the floatiug nebu- 1m, to form anothor sun or another system in the stacry doptha, _ All the Now Testamant wats for is the free and untrammoled study of a new race, lofty in their oulture, holy in their :mmoat thoughts, fimud in their smbitlon for good, and, above all, doeply roltgious, It walts for theso freo mou to couo, Ot take anothior idea—thnt of a future lifo, Tt lles in tha Gospel & slmple eloment, but, lika oxygou whivh holpk form tho Jand and tho wator, the roso-laaf aud the air that carrios its perfumo, thig olemount, under the libesty of the thinker, opene out into & grand paradise which Las no lmlt to its bonuty and Lappiness, and no euu- megation for the multitudes " that hava flocked thither from tho tombs of carth, All that is domundod is that the frecdom of our country should reseuo this idea from neglect and luda- Icnce, ond hury it to the front asone of tho grandest planatsin the wholo systom of rollgious truth, But this houven we, for the moss part, louve to the nmmunlis&u of tho prosent or the porstitious of tho punt. & n tho boldnoss of inl)r]nmfl, in the untram- meled study and toll of all tha acionse, from That which moditatos over empiros o thal which stndies sy inseat, we should all read the noed of Lhiena virtuos in religion, and confess that tho times aro hungerlng for a parullel toil and par- wllol froedamn around tho eroes of Josus and the gutos of Ll paradivo, Allof the past thatis pzood muse bo retained, for tho porsoual liborty that touchos & good is not a liberty but o vaudal- jsm3 but it tha pat idea of heaven wau falue, aud was not & trumph of tho soul, but- only o continuation of some earlhly accidonts, if in Danto it was ouly an imaga of Ttaly, or {n Eo- gland was only the sugeos of & uational Oburob, ' porsed. ] ! THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 25, 1874. = .. ———————— —————— — " ———————— = ——— ——— ———————— . ____" #ho new _timos muat strip it of ity falso docora- sfons and palnt it in tho colors of tho Bavior and of_a wido humanity. s e In their many changings tho timos ara not or~ dored by man, but by the infiulto One. 1o knowe what Iils childron noed before they oan auk Him, aud indood whilo often thoy aro Erlil- fugg for the pnab to_romnin, Ho slowly orowdn In tho morrow upon thoir miataken hoarts. Itisa singulor delusion smong some minds that it "1s tho rocklows vaulty or iguorauce of socloty that bockons back tho yesterday nnd worships the presont and tho future. . Thoy weop over tho linvoq of tho oldon timo. But I have lenrned to feol that il thoro bo anything under the supervision of God, 1t {8 not tho enrthqunke whicl trombles for & momont, nor the thinder whioh rolls from cloud ta _ground, and from mill to vallay, but it {a tho solemn march of yoars which boar upou thelr bosom 000,000,000 of souls, transportiug them with jrosisticss powor from cradlo to gravo. _ Although Qud I8 averywhoro, yot In tho years that doom Ilia childron to ]n{ or Borrow walks tho loving Fathor, stepping tons dorly in these chambors of lifo aud doath. Iero He {a propariug new thinga for the naw neods of Il{a Jovod anok, aud tlo loves all, o ruus on in adyanco of our prayers, for Il kuows our neod bofore wo can ask 1lim, Rioo, my frionds, to the wants of tho passing daya, Behold your follow mon roaching aftor a Joving Gad, a loving Savior ; beliold them roach- ing sftor a pnre and simplo Christinnity. Do- hold tho kinducea of governmont and of God, and doduco from ths spectaclo your own Lind- noss duo your follow moen. DBohold an ora of jponce, aud tho peaceful ; an ara of thought, and the thoughtful ; an ora of liborty, aud be free. As the sunlight is In tho midst of the fiold, God {8 in tho midst of tho days. The past Is always only the harbinger of the future, It is the voice of ono cryiug in the wildernoss proparing ways for the mora glotious hour. o need not deptora thom, tho dsys $hat are past 3 Tho glootn of wisfortune is over them cast 3 oy are longtnened by sorrow and sullied by care, Thele gricts wora to0 many, (heir joys Wers 00 Fto. Fet, now that thelr shadows are on us no more, Let'ua welcoma tho proapact that brightens beforo! MEETING TUE DEDT. Aftor the usual short prayer, Prof. Bwing anlled upon the mnsmxmun 0 tako the bonds of the church in order that the flonting indebt~ eduess might bo patd off, adding : ** Nothing haa ocourred which will sundor tio plonsant rolations that have horotofore existed betweon the con- grogation and mysoalf. We oxpock to go right forward an usnal; and the chlef reason why I have loft the Presbyterian Church is to putan immediste ond to all this trouble sad find penco.’ ! Eldor Loe stated the flnanoial plan which had boen adopted to get rid of tho floating indebted- ness, Bonds wera fo bo issued running threo years and bearing 10 per cont interest; aud tho; would bo recoivad ns En\v reut. It was very evi- dent that the presont church edifice was not Inrgo enough, and, though there was some talk of erecting a more commodious ona in a mors conkral locality—a building that would seat from 2,500 ta 3,000 poople, the project could not be ontortained until ihe bills owing wore pald. Those who wero willing to take bonda wore then requos| to give their names,. and in about fifteen minutes €20,000 of the bonds wero taken. Only this sum was neadod, aud thongh many other J)anp]e wantod nomo of thom they did not succood in gatting auy. The nomes of the porsons who took the band and the amounts ara given bolow: 0. 3%, Xoot........ 1,000 Mr, Duokioghawm, ... $500 3. McGrogor Adimus, 500/ Persy 1, smith.. ... 600 N. K, Fairbank, ;500 A, L, Ohetlul . B0 600'A. L. Mortimer,.0.. 800 ) - pring. . 800 Tonry Greouobaum,. 600 0018, E. Barrot 500 Afr, Belknap, 500 F, W. Crosby... 0, W, Fotter...... Warren Norte P, Merrlll, Mrs, Perry Smith, Mrs, Eliza Shedd, ... After the beuediction the congrogation dis- ———— e RESULTS OF THE HERESY TRIAL, ° Soruwon by the Itev. Dr. Thomus, of the First Chiurch. Tho Rev. Dr. Thomas, pastor of the First Mothodist Church, preached yestorday morning to a largo congregation on ** Tho Results of the Horesy Trisl.” For his toxt ho chose those versos of tho third chapter of tho First Epistle to tho Corinthiaus: % Who then 18 Paul, and who 1 Apollos, but ministers by whom 36 beligvad, oven 8¢ the Lord gave to overy man?_ 1 bavo plunted, Apollo watored, but God gavo tlo increase, 5o, then, neithor {8 Ly that planteth auytling, nor he tat watercth ; but God that giveth the inorense, Dr, Thomns snid that about tho timo of the opening of the Bwing trial, his rolations with Prof. Swing wero such that ho thouglhit lie was at liberty to speak on the subjoct, though well aware that he was laying himselt liable to the chorge of meddling with other men's matters, The results of the trial to some extent had justi- fled what he then felt and said. Ho, with tho publioin general, had felt ihat thero was no foundation for the obiarges agninst Prof. Bwing, 2nd that the Presbyterian Church eithor onght to allow tho disputed dootrinal points to remain o dead lottor in thoeir hooks, or olse expungs thom altogother. Tho interest in the trial Lnd nob beon contined to a denominational basis, and it had rested upon something mora than local aud cvdonal friendships, Poople felb that, with Prof. Swing, tho truth was o trial, Buch was the luman Jova for the truth that mon would gather about it, and show horoism, sncrilice, aud wmartyrdom i its behalt if neceesary. Lrof. 8wing's peculiar ministry had drawn in peoplo not accustomod to attend chareh ; had attracted thoso who had fallen away from religious patha ; membors of other douom- inations who were struggling with doubt wore drawn by his preachivg, ‘Therofore, all those woro on trial with hiro ; it amounted to liitlo lon than that thair Christian judgmont, their ability to discern God's truth, was on trial beforo the coummunity, He had questioned whether the Prosbytery would say whotbor all -these pooplo Wero ‘mistaken ; that all this oxercise of culture and discernment on the vart of tho congregation of Prof. Swing was a mistake ; that the people who thought thoy were boing load to Leavon wero roally swallowing deop, durk Lercsy. IHo was glad “that tho body of tha Presbyterinn Church bad, by au overwholming majorisy, de- clarod that these poople woro not mistaken ; glad that Prof. 8\\'in¥'a gocloty was not forco out of thechurch to follow what they belisved was true and right. ‘I'he publio folt that the Old and Now in thoolo- gy and roligion were on trial. Thoro was nothing o which the public mind was more auxious or intent ab this time than this indofiuite ground— tlflanorlml of transition batween the Old and the Now in religion and theology. There al- ways hod been, and always would be, men who stood with their bavks to the future, looking toward the past—looking Laok to Lutler, Qalvin, Armiulus, sud Wesley, Thero were mon to whom was given the work'of bringing out the stated truths of the past, aud all that waa left for us was to fiud out What such truth was, and aay it, If we did not, this was horosy. Other men there wero who looked forward; mon who re- garded roligion as a thing of Diviue growth, and who woro on_the lookont for cloarer stutaments of tho truth; who revered the truths and statoments of tho past, but wero mot roady to stop with auything short of God's Bools, and wonld beliove that noue but in- spired mon could peak authoratively. For all ages truth pronoutced was influsnoed by por- sonnl charnoter and surroundings, Polugius, man in good hoalth, with u warm, gonoros, kindly nnturo, guve exprossion to the dootrine that thore was in maw's Daturo much thut was good of ituelf, and without divine md, Telugius spoke thiy out of thio anslyats of his own tom- pornmont_and feoling, Just as Augustive did yritls his differont tomporamont, when he pro- nounced tho doctrine of lmrolnus aud total de- pravity, It was in acoordauce with Calvin's oold, Jakly xmum to oxalt God, soas to dwarf into nothingnoss. m;‘l"’lxa sponker Kwu profoundly glad that tho learned Prosbyterian” Church, & body emiuent for its bearing and diguihfl, had suid—and this would not be roversed by the Bynod, which was throg-quartors — made u{n of thoso very mon—be was glud t'up thoy hud said thiat ovon the Confouslon of TFaith might bo rovised with advantago; thut somo of its stato- monts are unfortunato, and, if givon uowl it oould bo improvod, ‘Fhat was & grand soeno lnst wook whon Dr. Patterson and Dr, Bwazey stoad thore, uttoring noblo truths, whilo littls Prof, Tatlton, with his baok to tho futuro, was cling- ing to tho past, sud vainly trying to arrast tuo growth of the nincteonth contury, It way a strango sconv—the old inon looking forward, tho young man looking back. 1t bolonged to oultuto to bo Jiberal and catho- lic {u feeling toward those who in judgment dif- fored from ue, aud to graut to otlior mon what wo olaim for ournolves. Tho want of thia spirlé of catholleity bad dono muoh to mnr the past and mako it tho dark thing It hod beon. Ros Hglouns porsocution slmply wmountod to tho punlshment of mon for their opinfons; a o migtaken viow was p crime. In tho lifetimo of tho sponkor, ho had soon religi- ony donominations mearcaly troating each othe or with common nnurtuny(, standing apart, like ugilista who weighod onch othor bofaro enter- ing into a fight, inatead of rushing iuto asch otliors’ arms like Lrothors in Ohrllnl. All this had changed, though thore was still toft somo- thlnfi of tha spirlt of intolerance. It traa shown by tho attitudo of the churchos towsrd tio Liboral Obristfans. Buch mon sa Hobert Qollyor and Dr. Rydor woro welsomed in evary- thing that portninade to patriotiam, genorosity, cliarity, snd hnmanity; their nobls voicos were gl heard in theso intoresta ; but no minister arod £o invito thom to his pulpit, If ha shontd do it, thera would ba anothor horeay trlal. The spoaker did not mean to aay that this was wruu;i, but that it was a lingoriug remuoant of the foel hlf thnt difforance of opinion was a crime. Prof, Patton undertook to damn Soorates and Ponolope; a Baptint proachor cama all tho way from Doston o Chicago to send Olarlos Sumner to holl ; aud, bocauss Abrabam Lincoln died in & theatro inatoad of nrohool of thoology, man: good paople thought it not well to say mucl about bis fatare stato, Ob, how our Liearts re- bukod our livs in theso thlngs, Tho sponkor would ot abolish sccts, throw down, theologlonl sominarios, and burn up libraries. Bo long ay tha human mind diffored, mon wowd gather around ideas, and build churches and schools in thoir support. This was all right, Whoro tho {anflm ran togethor, lot us walk inlove; where ho ronds diverged, lob us part in n}:enco. Was thoro auy ronson to believe that all truth had you boon touched? Highor aud batter under- standings woro to como, The Bible, like the bools of nature, had not given np altite truthn., No ono would have o monopoly of truth. Religlon wag s fountain, the Billo & living atraam, to which all could came. In the Bwing cago thoro had beon a valuable racognition of the diversity of taleuts, nud of the liborty of souls to do tholr workin their own way In God’s Ohurch, Dr. Patterson took ground for individual soul-liberty, Monthaago e and othors bad waid: * Lot 8wing alone, T ba sure ho is not like all the reatof us; but he oannot Lolp that ; ho did not make himsolf, If he bas Rono or shall go a littla outeido the liue, ho'll elthor got baok, or clse preach himsolf wholly outside vory quick.” It was a graud thing o honr theso old mon standing for lboerty, and culture, and progross, Patton was Ukoa jug- handlo—all on ono side. Mo was full of né]c and tho Catechiem: mno ona could duni his ability ; but he Jagked the eympathy an rnalry and humanity which camo from the prac- ical mlnlsir;. A theologlosl profassor wna not tie mau o follow people around, and tell who was orthodox, It was not fair for Patton to follow Bwing about in this way ; and tha Pres- bytory eatd &0 in plain torms, Dr. Iliomns was sorry that Prof. Swing felt thut holnd togoout of the Prosbytorian Churoh. Nothing was gatned to liberal Chrltisuity i€ wo had to toar down ono church to build up another, Tho gein was to go out into the clay banks and maka the bricks, ‘;o futo the forest and hew froeh timbor, swith which to build auew. If thero was a tondonoy toward liboralism, there was also* an ovangelical ~tondonoy smoog ~the liborals, n this clty, the Unitariang woro sighing for mor of Ohrist, and more gpirituality. Ho was worry Hwing wont nur} though he could underatand how ho dreaded Pattou's remorueless critiolam, 18 waa ono of the grandest things when tho Presbytory uttored its rebuke to horesy-hunting, Swing by goitig out rould not atay tho agitation, Ono.of tho bost of the Prosbyterian ministors had sald to the ::meknr that morning, that tho Prosbyte- rian body in Ohicago, was committed to l”mf. S\rinfi‘n ground. It wpsta bs hoped that ha would come back, not to heed what might ba #nid of him, but to proach from his hoart just as it was, Dr. Thomas wanted It to go abroad that, when aman became a preacher, ho wasto be hhnltzall, snd answerablo onlyto God for his worl. —_—— THE SWING TRIAL, How Dr. Yowers Views It from a Liberal Church Standpolut, Tho Rev, H. Powers preached yesterday morn- ing at tho Church of tho Moasinh after the uaual sorvicos had beon road and sung, Ho took for his thems tho trial of Prof. 8wing for the violn~ tion of the croed and practice of the Prosbyte- rian Ohuroh, He mado no apology for chooging. ity it was owing to the wide intorest it Lad gained, and as the Liboral Ohurch was vitally - terosted in tho settlement of these issucs. In- dividually, the spoaker bad lenrnod the Confos- aion of Fnith, kuevw it word for word, was taught to rely upon it for his galvation. By speoial dis~ pensation, ha went to Dr. Cleveland's church, inatoad of Dr. ‘Faylor's, at Yale, s the latter was herotical, From the begivning he had been trained n Presbyteriau, and went into the Con- gregational Church without repudiating those tenots. Bofore he went into the Liboral Churoh he was placed on trial bofore associutions, coun- cils, and convooations, and was always viowed with snspioion, and called o horotio. 8o ho had lott the orthodox Church. He based bimsel? snd his helief on the su- prome authority of individusl reeson, the right of tho buman 'fudgmonl to Bit in judgment on roligious matters. This way the only sure wmothod of coming to tho truth, ‘Theroforo he rojected all councils and convooations catlad for thiat purpose which_convenad the Presbytory, With thia understood, ho would see how tho trial onme about. * 1t was the pirlt of the age to demand indi- viduality, to refor everythiug to the individual conscionce. All communions of Christians, publicly or privatoly, had adopted this principle. David Swing cawe to this oity to preach the Gos- cl. Ie shaped his doctrives in obedience to Lig principlo. A mombor of tho speeker's orthodox cliurch in Danbury, Coun., hud spent somo time in Chioago, and enjoyoed the speaking of Prof, Bwing, He was drifting away, preach- iug truths for fo-day, not for yesterduy. Tho clurges formulated by Prof. Patton had boen brought againut Prof, Bwing Joug Lofore Prof, Patton came here. Tho lattor hud been faithlul to his truet, aloyal Presbyter, fighting for and receiving without question” the catechism of his Chureh, Prof, Patton had beon Lrought hera to toach thoology in tho West; to combat the ton- doucios of David Bwing. And belioving, as he did, that DProf, Swing wag & herotio, 7“ rose against public opinion, and dared to brave it all, It wan o pieco of heroism which few men could display, ~Altbough. Prof, Patton's God was tho speakor’s Devil ; though hiu religion way the ro- ligion of despair, the spenlcer conld not but ad- mire the courage and abllity of the man; ‘I'ho position of the prosocution was that Prof, Swingbnd a8 A mattor of fact not baged his whole dootrino on the Confesston of aith, Prof. Swing's theory wa that tho latter of the Cutechlsm did not corrospond with the spirit, Dr. Pattorson claimed that » man might bo a good Frosbyterian without accopting tha inter- pretations of tha stornor fathers of Oalvinism. He would liko his henrors to got & copy of tho Confession and_soe whather three-quarters of i was not in absolute opposition to the common senge of the world. "DBnt this quoation was ovaded by the Prosbytory; thoy would not daro to touch upon it. Thelr eoxplanations of the doctrines of the New Bohool men was only the fron hand of Calvinism in the velvet glove. No jumble of syords would mooet tho issues. Tho position of the defanse was not that of Prof. Bwing. Ho mersly allowed the Now Hehool party to bring thair caso to trial for thoir own purposes, Ho bad made up Lis mind to leavo the Church bofore the verdios was given, Ho had told tho spoalter thut the Church wos too orthodox for him. Prof. Bwing's theologleal standing now was indefinito, His mind way in a transitional atate, and would romuin so until ho had thought matters out, He compared it to Hamlet's cloud, described as resembling now onmol, now o woasel, uow & whale, chnnging with the winds of thought. He had denied tho infallibility of inspiration, 1n mrmf- instances, showing that his mothod of urriviug at truth wa uot the method of tho Ohureh. I'he results of tho trial sutisflod nobody. It wis_an_unfinished question in Prof, Bwing's mind. Prof, Patton could net ba satisflod, ia liad rocoived all the truth thore was, he tuought, and muet renols n couolusion, And ho would gob his case from the Churoh, for the Ohurch waa still largoly OId Hohool. Tho Now Hehool moen wero now on trinl, It had to be shown whether there could bo such o thing us liboral orthodoxy. A mun who had loft the Prnub{!urllll Ohurch told hum that hiad ho romained in the Ohurol another weels, o would have been just as likely t0 lio 8 toll the truth. Tho porpotusl jugglory with orthodoxy olug on in”the mids of retional Prosbytors was dostructive of thelr worul percoptiony. Lho Prosbyterian Ohurch of England guve birth to Unitarianism; sud the Prosbytoeriant of England were Inrgoly Uniturlan, Tho sume was the cudo with tho Congrogationalists of Massa- chusolts, Tho lesson loarnod hore whs that oroeds wore dond, Anothier lensan to be loarued was that of hon- outy, 'Tho New Holool party had no logitimate sianding in the Clreh, and he had no syupathy for thom, Comparing fhelr private statewonts with thelr public uttorauces, the New Hohaol party woro not consolontiously honest. Buoh trily oy these did muck good, Tho very .| of tho trees of righteousness that woni prrading of thesa dootrines only alded in tholr more ‘oxtendod condemuation, The rude and ungonorous, troatment Prof. Patton . xocelvod from the audlonoe In tho trinl was an oxcallout symptom. Tho sormon concluded with nn anco- dota In tho lifo of Martin Luther, indicativo of hils full relianae in tho providenco of Godto pro- toct and gulde 11 oreaturos. ——— ROBERT GOLLYER. The Fifieenth Annlyoranry of the Chnrelies Hin Opintan of Prof, Swing?s Toachingn, At Unity Ohurch yestorday, Robert Collyor was eloquont and touching on tho subject of tha fittoonth anniversary of hia settlomont ovor the porish. Ho biogan with the atory of & picture ho once eaw,whorein was doplotod an old ploneor leantug on a dilapidated gate, looking at a rulned log houeo, his old-time roaidonco whon lio was & lonely bordoror, his wifa aliaost n brido, and his flrst obild a baby, while in the background of thoe picture stood his Iater spacious farm-house, with all its prosperous surroundings. While the farmor looked, hia thoughts wora with tho old timos, not tha now; ‘and while be, the preachor, utood befors them, his miud's eye srw rather tho old ungainly mooting-houso than his prosont surroundinga, Tha timo scomod mo distant rathor becauso of the evants than of the yoars thot bad Intervenad-—~such evonts that tho year 1809 soomed almost back in another age. BMr, Collyor went on as follows s A vory small band or mon and womon, In & vory small placo, and with only one purpose, I bolleve, in our hearts and minda—to establish & church in this quarter of our wondorful yoing clty which shonld maintain tho simplest forms of congrogational worship, the most porfoot froodom of thought and speech, and such a *aystom of religous truth as could bo possible to us without & cread; and, above all, tho largest and most gracious revolation of tho truth about Gtod and His Qlirlst, and man sud his naturo and dostiny, shout the Biblo and iospiration, the Church, the sacraments, holy placos, holy t'h_\'u holy things, and hoaven and holl, tlint wo conld fiud in our hoarts, and {n tho hoarts of all the trutlelellors God bns sont inta tho world, wltethor in the old days or the new, heathen or Christian, plulosopher, paot, pualmist, sciontist, thoologinn, and scoptie. Mr, Collyor puraued the subject 1n tho aspact of the personal rolations that had subsisted bo- tweon him and bis flook, and finished with tho lfinllo;dug thouglity, appropriate to thoe timo we vo in: T can well Imagine how tho close of our fiftoouth yoar might give us gcant pleasure, If, whon we bogan to work and worship togothor, wo bad taken qur staud for tha muintonance of samo ayatem of thaology, and aame conceptiona of lita which wora essontially false and wrong, though wo ht boliave evor so elncoraly thoy waro right, and In the maasure of our couviation that we were right, and all who differod from us wrong, had shut ourselves up in a fastnoss of bigotry, refusing followship, denounaing free- dom to think outsldo eur livos on pain and pen~ alty, and then found that the ground was_grad- uaily slipplog from wunder wus, tha dogms fading a8 ~we looked at It, .nnd tho whole world moviog onward and lesving us it wo had fouud that tha purcst ganius au selrlt of tho ago was against us, langhing at aur abaurditios and pitylng ane darknaess, tuen, though wo might at Jast mako wp our minds thal gomething must bo dove to' bring us into line, and porbaps march in the roar of tho groal army of God with tho mules and tho hufigngn, thero would be hitlo gladness for us cithor in tho position, the prospect, or tho retroapect. Butibis to me & joy worth all the rest, orat lenst cortainly worth all tho enjoyment of theso fiftoen years, to feel as I do, and as you do, that through no special merit of ‘onr own, but by the grace, [ truat, of God and of Qhrist, we ware aot liero aa plonoers of the highost and sweetent ro- ligious truth—to olear away the hindrancoes and Iet in the sun on tho soil of this humau naturo and life all about us, to drajn nway the missma of error, to burn up the thorns and briars of bigotry, and to fot out some lg\:m 0T fruit to blosa snd hoercen the wholo world about us, Pardon mp, If the slmglo truth seoms to bo touched with egotism, whon I pay that when fifteen_yoars oo We began our life togother in Unitfl Church with & few grand afirmations, in which we folt sure wo-wore borno out both b{{ roason and Boripture, we wore very far indeo from tho recognition and essentisl fellowship which jg coming to us from all sides to-day. Wo bolieved then, andstated our balief frankly, in the Unity of God, and not the Trinity; in the hu- manity of Chrlst and His divinity, as ono in whom dwolt the Bpirit of God witbout measurs, but not in His Deity; in the heavouwhich is to be won by personal fitness for heaven, not as somothing bought or begged for us by snother. Wo enid we are nob paupers bofore God, but Holdlera; and we eaid thon what we say now, that no firo was ever kindled by the wrath of God to punieh, but whatever of woo there is comes out of dm loviog heart, and by the tendar hand of our Father to purify and savo; that tha ible 15 & baok to bo read “with honeat eye- sighté and hoartsigut, not bringing truth to the test of the Seriptures, but the Scriptures to tho teat of tho truth, Wo said then, what wo say now, that divine iuspiration is perpetual and perenuicl, tonching the whole oirole of science, philosopby, religion, and art, and that Provi- dence ia master of the situation, clear in its pur- poses, able to carcy thom out, never circum- ventod, navor breaking dows, nevar at a loss, and uaver at & standstill, aud finally-that Usaven will not akut forevermoro Without n knocker left upon the door, Leat soino belated wanderer should come Heart-broken, asling just to be ut home; And that there will Le watchmon through the night, Lest any s far-off turn them to the Jigh Aud He who loved us into life must be A Father infinitely f:l!he!ifl‘ H ‘And groping for Ifim nll ubould 8nd tholr way From antres durk through twilight inta day, That was our stand fifteon yeara ago,—our marohing ordors wors i those propositions, Now, then, when you read Brother Bwing's ser- mong, nota well what forty-fiva good and true mon of the Ohicnfi? Prosbytory bave indorsed by solemu sud dollberate vate just now as goad orthodoxy, not merollzy in singla passoges, but in their whole spirit aud substauce of them, mark tho inclusiveness, their aatholicity, their aunuy human spirit, thelr bravo deflanue of dogms, aud then try to monsure the distance botwoou fifteon yearé ago, whan Dr. Rico, on this North Side, used to altoruate batwoon tho torments of tho loat, the beatitudes of the saved, predostination, olection, final perseverance, total dopravity, and **cureod bo Caunan,” I'tell you, we sro in a now world in reapect to all those things, “I saw a cave,” Bunyan says, “‘and in the mouth of it sat two giants; tho one was called Popo, and the other Pagan, oud formerly they lnd great power to hurt those who were on the way to the Colestinl City, but now they could only gonsh their teath as the pilgrims pasecd by tho cave,” If honest old John had lived in our day, ho would havo soen throe gisnts in that sore candition, aud the third would have beon Cal- vinism: and ho would have noticed ona stand- ing by the chird glant, wlxlupnrin;l “'Got up noy, and show your strongth”; and the giant would make an effort tocatch onan&llxrim who was go- ing on the way with shining oyes and a heart overflowing with Rwoot ongs of God'n grace, but he would have scen forty-fivo strong men, with Robert Patterson at thelrhead, holding him down from using the_romnant of powar thiat is lett him, while the pligrim wont rejoiclng on his way. Wo stood up for theso truths about God and man fifteen yenrs ago. Wo stand for thom now, oud wo have not gono ane stop buck loward or- thodoxy, but orthodoxy has como a groat many ataps toward what thon was tho rankest herosy. Wo had fow men snd women thon who wore with us, oven in sympathy: now, tho whola orthodox warld 18 honoy-conibod with such mon and women, It s not of works, lost any man should boast, Wo have simply staid in our cormor, snd tsken care of our little Dlat, and owr bit of sood; butas all about that old ploneer, others came in timo, broaking a way Into tho forost, draining the marshos, planting new areas, aud building now homes, 80 noble men have coma aud settlod down all sbout s, and aro do- ing the work we canuot do, Iven Brothor Moody is acousad now of bolug liberal, X hoard 1is last sarmon fu Ohloago, and I have no doubt atallitis truo the good juan said some things thore in biy tubernsole that will make themn opon thelr eyes if ho eays thow iu Sootland. ‘And whst we havo to do, in one laat word, is to stand fast by those groat primal prioiplos of fraodom, of followship, and friondship ; to make suro that tho truth committod to onr trust rows no lous, butover moroin our hoart and lfo; 0 touch by evory wuy in our power the height, aud dopth, nmllanglh.nudhroudth of the love of God s i¢ Is in_ Obrist Joaus, and to bo- llave, s wo suroly may, that the whole Olrls- tinn Obiurok i# coming o our standard as surol: asthe flowors aro comiug thick fu June on afl the prairios, ** Ob' ekid & good frlond theothor day, “it, Inatead of wpendiug thelr thmoand strongth on thoso empty and worthlegs matters, oach oue of those mon had grappled hold of some poor fellow-oreature who is going down to death, and bold on to him and saved him! " Tt Is what wo shall all coma to at last, and then we shall all ba with Olirist and with God, sud may God spoed tho dsy is my prayes, at the end of i fifteon yours of my ministry, for I know of no noblor or grandor work to do. pe=ee— QPINIONS OF CORRESPONDRNTA. TATONIUAL MIBRTATEMENTS MADE DUNING THE AWING TRIAL, To fhe Editor of The Chtcago Tridune ! Biz: By the nbove hoading, I do not mosn that thoso statomonts to which I shall advert woro noconsnrily usnd by elther prosocutor or defendant, Subjecta hava besn started at tho 8wing trial whioh have taken & widor range than oithor of thoss Interosted partles might hava proviously ~imaglned; assortions havo boen made, oither at or about Is, by psrtisans, which oithor or both might ropudiate, Now ‘for tha standpoint from whioh I shell oritiolso, Thls will be by a constant reforence to the pamd. The trial bas, in my opluton, besn too muoh looked at from an imegined standpolnt. Men, women, and children have, I think, argued about opiu- ions, rather than looked for fuudamontal faots | have arguod rather with e-priori thsn with a-postoriorl logle. The first misatatomont I may couch in the Iollowing Janguage: ‘‘Thore are somo persons who are of so bigh position, and who are doing %0 much good, that the Presbyterian Qhurch will not Iot thelr orthodoxy be lmpugned.,” To this, I reply that its founder, Oalvin, did not so think, In Prof. Bhedd's * History of Qhristian Doctrine,”" vol, 1, p. 883, he says: * Natwithe standingthe clearnesn and oxplioitnoss of Calvin's viows, ho was accusod by Oaroli of both Arjan- lsm (s kind of Unitarinniam) and Habollinniom, He defonded himeelf hefore tho Bynod of Lmu- sanne. Caroll hold It to be horosy that Calvin,’ in his confonsion thero prosonted, afrmed that Clirist {s that Jelioval who of Himaolf alone is always eolf-oxistent,” Calvin, then, acoording to this Prosbyterian writor, waa oliargod with tho asme horesy with which Dr, Bwing las been chbarged, mot and rofutod it poss to ' eecond misstatoment, whloh i, that ¢ The dootrine of pradestination i reapon- siblo for all sevority in tho pust ; and that there- fore, singo & gavarnmont of love haa suparseded all assertiona of torror,the dactrine must now be quistly aholved,” That predeatination has aver boon opposed to & gospol of love, I deny. Theorizo as wo may cougorning what we might suppose it would bo, the bad effact of the doctrine is_not 80 cnsily shown from_lhistory. Tho firat Christisn toscher aftor Bt. Paul who brought tho idon of election into prominence was St, Auguatine, With that writer, somo men aro snvod, and pome_are not, becauso, from tho masg of mankingd, oll altke undor condemuation, God peloots somo upon whom he bostows renowing grace, Thore was *‘ morcy upon tho ~eloob who ~ havo obtain- od tho rightsousnoss of Gad, but justico upon the rest who wera blinded, Tho haathen are pot saved. ‘‘Fabricius was losg sinful than Catllino, not boonuss ke possczsed trae holinoss, but becauso Lo did nob dnfilrt f0 far from true holiness," Now, I grant that, long after this Baint gave uttorance %o the oxpression, W Nothing conquors but truth; tho viotory of truth is love," ho advised tho poraecution of ‘the Dapatlate. "Mhis advico, howorar, was tho re- sult of tho faulty interprotation of 8t. Luke, 3iv, 23: ¥ Compol thom o come in," rathar than his predestination viowa, Thoso that ap- posed Augustine inhis day, and sfterwards,— nay, tho Donatiats thomsolves,—were willing to” ues forco, This advics is » blot upon Bt, Augustino's toschings, Still, ho was a man of love. For passages epposling to a brokon and & cooirits hoart, no unin- spired writing can approach to his *‘ Qonfes- sions.” For support under the trials and afilic- tiona of life & caroful "‘"d"’SM“' tho * City of God " is most usetul, In tha AMiddle Ages, noxt after Gottachalk, the strongeat dofender of pro- dostination wns Ausolm, Archbishop of Cantere bury. What was his character? Noander (vol, iv,, pn{u 961-2) says : * Love wag tha inapiring soul of his thoughts as of hiu actiona, . . . Ha was An cuomy to the dark, rigid dissipline of the mouks, Au Abbut who enjoyad s Ligh roputa- tion for plety heving onoa complained to him that, with all the strict soverity employed in the eduaation of boys, still nothing came ' to pass ; that, after all tho ntrlgna inflioted on thom, thoy remainod incorrigible, utterly stupofied Aungelm rophedfto lam': ' A Losutiful result of imxr trajuing, to convort men intobonats . . . 0 boys treatod with severity, the evil propensities rostrained by mere forco would only thrive the more in socrot, and thua they would grow hard- ened againgt overything dona for their improvo- mont. Becauao thoy “:Y\mmm no love, no act of kindnoss or friendehip, from you, they givo you credit for nothing good, but imagine that allyou do progoads from hstrod aud malevo- longo,” From this oue clroumstnnge judge the man. Tho first defonder of love in schaols & predestinarianl How fact smiles on thoorios. But I am pointed to Oalvin ; his troatmant of Sorvetus, and hia governmont. Soveral yenrs ago, L carofully read * Tho Inatitutes,” and, 800R aftor, two lives of that author. Projudicod both against the man and bis works at the com- menceiment, I rose from tho porusal fully con- vinced that he was no marble blagk, and that his theology, whils wrong, contained coustant rof- eronco, not to God tha Mouarob, but to God the Fathor. If it bo ever & wise policy in a Btate to do wrong, the oxecution of Hervatus was such a monsurc, The non-burning of a heretio wonld have invelvedGoeneva1n an imputation of heresy. Noxt, tho Puritans and the Blue Laws aro brought in as proofs of the bad rosults of pre- dostinartanism, Further on I shall maintain that the influonco of New Eugland las ever been towards a very modifiod yiew of the doo- trine. 1iero, 08 tho descondant of one who Inudgd at Safom within twenty yoars aftor tho landing at Plymouth, I shall quly say that he who i solely asquainted with the Buudl\! Labits of the Puritaus kpows little of their lifo, Let auch a ono rond auy of the larger worlks on tho history of New England, and ho will ind that thoy aotually Isughed somotimos; that they had tholr bundings “and their olection-days, and their thanksgiving-daya; that thoy: loved eider Eul firo-water; thoy loved to kiss but notto anco. But let us look st the practioal offeot of pro- destination in Jansenism. ‘Che Jausanisty wero thoso holders of a Roman Catholic theology who held Augusling's viaw, Tordeods and words of love, the anuals of this dsmuuutud aud not-por- cuting party arc full, Ono iustance must suf- fice. Any work on_Jauseniam will corroborate my statomont thay here at least prodestination brought no bad influcuce, How many havo road with the grontest interost Pascal'a **'Choughts on Religion,” Pascal believed tha ¢ God is the Author of all graco, aud Ho gives it aocording to His good plessuro, not ag forseeing in tho recipient eny fitness, but simply boonuse He wills it.” Compare the livos, toachings, and jinfluonce of the Calvinist Wahiteflold and tho Arminian Wesloy. Tho ono wag no more undor the hampering of dark do- spair then the other, Road the lives of Church- of-England divines, Whatever thoir opinions concorning God's deoroes, othor thiugs boing eyual, they wore equally offectlve. The Uni- versullst vago, ©If I wa boliover in_otornal punisbment, and lost a friond of whoso salvation 1 way not absolutely certain, I would nover laugh again.” History aud -xporl‘oncn alika show that merry-making i8 not confined to thoss who be- liove in tho flnal salvation of tho wicked, If o man wishes to be sn Arminian, I will not quar- relwith him, Whon he intimatoes that a beliover in prodestination lonves biy hoarera to durkdospair, é musb say bistory doos not bear out the ausor- on, 1 poss to s thivd misstatement. /'The Eut," it in'snid, “rocotved mthout a question all tho statemonts of the Bible; now tho agois one of mental sotivity, full of doubts and-questious; honee, cortain doctrines must bo kopt in the baoleground, and solutions muat bo invonted for these now diflioutties,” If thiy ba & fair state- mont of much which I hava hoard and road during the past two weoks, I must sy 1t js a grent historionl mistake, The Presbyterian Churoh of to-day, the Chrintian world of to-day, iu frour from doubt thon it has ever boon, Let mo quote from Blunt's “ Diotionary of Boots, Heresics, Lecloiastical Parties, and Sohools of Religious Thoughts," page 448: “In tho yoar 1719 two promchova of the (Preabyte- risu) seot of Bxetor, who had adopted the "Arlan vlows thon becomin, fuhionuli:lo, wora turned out of their ohapols by thoir frus. taas for refusing to subscribo to the dootring of our Lord's diviutty, Ou Aluy of that year, nine- taon out ot wsventy~five Prosbytorian ministers of Devon and Qornwall rofusod to agcept the tout offered thom, whioh was subsaription to tho secoud of the Whirty-nine Artiolos ; whilst, at » moeting at Baltor's Hall, soveral voted aguinat requiring from ministers any deolaration of faith in the Holy Wrinlty," The bamo work, a littlo furthor on, states that, ** O 200 Unltarian meet- ing-houses fu England and \Valos, in the year 1834, n8 many as 170 had orl{glullly boen Pronby- torian; buk many of these, iy & pnm:‘ Woro kopi on entiroly bocauso thniy g owmonta," The subotunce of this last statemont is also mado In Obambers' noyolopedia article, '* Prosbyterian.” In our couutry at tho prevont tme, ta thore a Presbytery which would pormut its wembers to fleug tho Holy’L‘rlnil{? 6t no reador think that I Lave mentioned the abovae facts iu order to cast ntones. Tho votors 1u Bultar's Hall probably biad tholr doubts af the '.I.’rlxm(,mougtlmuufl by Bamuel Qlarke, of the Ohurch of Englaud, and Ohaplain to the %l‘ 0. Truth, however, compols ae to add that ¢! fonss of Waterland Joft {hat Ch or no disoiplen In that Churoh. stautinopolitan creod iy to-day held with more firmuess. and by o greater number. than ot _any tima slnce tho Reformation, I bollavo that thero aro fowor skoptics than ovor before, But what are the objeotions agalnst tho Bible which thase skoptics aranrging? Ara thoy facta and thooros which the Christian world has, up to tho lust fow yonrs, received without having hoard thom questioned 7 No. There is not ous of thom that has not Loon boldly stated and frequently auswored not ono for which history bra not loft soveral solutions. Thero 15 not s dilioulty connooted with the Old Testamont Which was not discarned, and for which n_moral and reanonablo folution was not given, by Jewish Tabbls hiying befora 400 A, D. There ia not one of thoae diflioultios which wae not montioned by Pagan and Guoatic objoctors, and which was not tully consldered \'fl oorly Chrlstian spologlsts, A knowledge of the imprecatory pun'mn WAE & dificulty fo Bi. Augustiue, uniil he hoard 8t. .‘\lmbmu. glving to tiiem a myatical intorprola- on, But I pass to tha fourth misstatemont, Pras. bytarianism, we are told, has ever beld in its siriol Intogilty the doctrines sontalned fn the Wostmiuster Confossion of Faith. This I, T think, true sssertlon, but onl{ true 86 far as it goea, In Hootlaud this aymbol has baon taught and oxplalned according to ono uniform method of Intarpretatlon. In that countsy thore have baon differonces of opinion and sohlsme; buk theso, with the exception of tho long-forgotton Morrow men, hava been excited by tfi- unforiu- nato disposition of lay-natronage, ~ in this coun- try, however, Prosbyterianism Laa beon divided into_twe groat partics,—striot coustruationmuts and liboral interprotera, Its history hns boon & oonatant repelition of strugglen batswroen the two parties; doctrinal assertions mado by tha ptronger (genorally tho moro rigid) &nrly mot by » Hrm realatanas on the part of thel{berallata; tha forma- tion of rival Prosbytarissand Synods, a rounion ; . rcenmmuncam-n{o! the fight. If the Prea- bytorianism of this country hnd nob loved so denrly the Wostminatar symbol, she would nob throe timos have driven from hor fome of ber nablost toachers. If grost difftersncos of opin- ion wore not upheld by many of her sons, so numerous bodles would not in threo inatances liave gone forth, and on two occasions come back Lolding boldly those things for which thoy wera once sent forth, Ahout the comincncement of the eightosnth contury, Presbyferiavism bogan to be establishod in this country, Its firsthome was in Maryland and Virgivia. ~ Ite first minis- ters were from Bootland svd Ireland. Its firsy nqngruq;u«ml wore omigrants fram those avun- frion, Hpreadlug in tha course of » fow yoars northward, on Long Island {t met and coalescod with tho Indspendents or Congregationalists, Now, whenever that lattor roliglous body, nsa denomination, has s}:okan, and given uttorauco 28 a body to it bolief, 1t has spoken Galvinistic words, ‘The Gnnhrlr\ga Confession, the Boston Confosgion, the Baybrook Platform, all adopted, bodily and almoat withous any changs, the Woat= minsler Platform. In England, as lato as 1881, tho Cougregstional Union aet forth & ' Deolera- tion of the Faith, Ordor, and Disclpline of the Congregatioual or Indapendont Diesontors," Tho Niueteonth Artiolo reads: ¢ They bolieva that all who will be saved ware the objcats of God'a oternal and olecting love, and wers given by an act of Divine soversignty to the Bon of God, which in no ways Intorferes with tho sys- tem of meananor with the grounds of human responsibility; beiug wholly unresorved as to its objects, sud mnot = rule of human duty” The_Plymouth article {8y *‘They beliave the Boripture stoach the final persaverance of afl true bollovers to a state of etornal blossodnoss, which they ara -Epolnud to obtain through con- stant faith in Obrist and uniform obedlence to Hia commands.” But, whila Congregationalism in thua Yw(oandly an ultra as Presbyterianiem, the lnlinonce of the New England theology has alwnys been towards a softoning-lown af the traditionary Bcotob-Irish intorprotation of dootrino, Within twonty yenrs oafter the founding of Presbylerianism, the existe cuce of thems two partlen are discernible. The Old Lighta ware, mout of thom, either Bootohmen by birth or fheir immodiste descend- auts. Tho New Lights wero New-Englanders, their_ehildren and their grandoblldron, The 0ld Lights inslsted |ignn.| flém exam{uation into the dottrino of their eandidates for tho winistry. The Naw L!Iflhtu earod leas about & bolio# In.Dalvinism, oir domand was, Can thoro condidater give what thoy termed an ag- surance of a change of hoart? Whiteflold's vinit to Amerion wna as fire to tindor, For sev- enteon yoars a division was in the ranka, The rounion in 1787 permittod each_party ta hold its own ylowa, This waa followed by twenty ycars of indifforonoe, In 1788 the Westminstor Con- foaalon of Faith was formally adopted. In 1801 tho Synod of Kentucky demanded that the Cumberland Presbytory should examine thoirministers aa todootrine, The rosult was tho formation of the Cumberland Prosbyterian sect. In 1834 the old disseneion on the interpreta- tion of $he Wostminister symbol was renowed. 0ld-School and New-Bchool, Hcotch-Irish and an—Erzglmd.—-Nuw-York thoology hava fust burled their differencon, One word I muat add in defongo of Dr. Pat. ton's determination to carry the Swing trialto tho Bynod. But & year or two ago the Chicago people wore claiming that the not grnnllnli' Dr, Chenoy a right to Tepos], and tho not providing some foreign judicetory Lg which he could oarry his onso, was a mark of flliberality on the part of tho Eplscopal Church; now they ara elaiming that tho exoroiso of tho right of :Bpual is tho mark of bigotry on the' part of the Proshyterian Church, Far my part I do not believe that aither position is illiboral. Hexgy 0, Kinxer, THE THEOLOGIOAL DODGE. Tv the Editor of the Chicago Tribune ; Bir: Prof. S\vflf seoma to have d(sphycd ox~ traordinary asgaoity in bis racent conp d'etat, if that namo may boused for whatiasotn the ling of oll his provious action and oxpression, Ha hns dono tho best thing for himself, for the Fourth Preabyterian Church, aud for the Chicago Pres- bytery;_ for all concorned, exnugk tha proseoutor. ‘Tho Presbytory Lave establlshed their own roputation for candor snd catholiolty in thaiy acquittal of thelr eminent brothor. Thoy hayo {llustratod that which Arthur Helps calls the rare art, and one ocharacleristio of Iargo and noble minds, the *‘ Art of Making Excaptions.” SBuch men as Dr. Pattorson and Dr, Bwazey— men whoga woll-grounded principles of theology, Inid firm and strong, can nomore bo shaken than tho solid rock—are yat broad enough to recog- nizo that mou's minds cannot allrun in the same ovo; that it is in the nature of genlus not to 6 mensurad or limited by standerds, Thoy know that every Christian denomination has had in it men who could not, from the vory make of thoir winds, conform at every Poin: to its formulated oraeds, yot men loyal to their fathera' faith, and shedding luslre upon their Churcli by reason of this very quality which served to make them sus- pectod by somo of the iweaker conacieuces and moro narrow intollects. Thoy know that David Bwing's preaching I8 exceptional and snomalous in the Presbytorian Church ; that, from the very cast of hismind, it must al- ways be, in any church, excoptional. Ho ia not a Unitarian, or » Prosbyterian, or a Congrogation- list, pro-ominently,—but & Clrlstan, Yot Robert Oollyer would porhaps etill olaim him, so long as_ho had him not, and, it he had, the Fourth Presbyterinn Church would scarcely lot K‘a thelr hold of the renegade ; and the Method- ata would fool sure be was theira; and the Rationalists wonld predict that ho wonld yot come to that atandpoint ; and, in epito of them all, and in the face of Dr. Patton’s oharge of ambiguity, the renogade himaolf would still aver that ho loved the Prosbyterian Ohurch, and wanted to eling to it if he could, Mugh as it may griove his friands of tho Chi- oago Prosbytery even to soem to lota Lhe follow- ship of the bro{her whom they have so unsni- mously uustained, Ihe[vtuanuot, withoutimpeaoch- ing the valldity of their verdiot, as impartial and u!fi)hsnd jurors, olaim to have shown him eapecial favdrs, however tholr judgments in the onke may have compromised their own theo- logical orthodoxy, It was only at tho earncat raquest of goma of them that Prof. Bwing con- sented to stand trial at all, and then ouly with the oxpliols deolaration that he should withdraw in oneoe it were prosecuted further. True, ho has boon trivmphantly soquitied. But it fs more than doubtful whetlor the Byuod would give vordict in liw favor, Tho country-minlgtors, shut up in the seolusion of thoir studios, for the most part dobarred from much voncact With the progroes of the age, sud unused to any except the stereotypod oxpros- siona of thoologloal doctrines, would bo less dis- osed to favorsme or to infolligent fnterprata- fous of tho lmbl?ultlsl of David Swing's # gormona and Trutbs for To-Duy,” than the clorgy of the olty and iis suburba; while, to some, Mary Prico Collier, and John Btuark il and Pagan Pouelope, would ba allke, and without disorimination, ~synonymous with * athoist and inlidol" Boaldes, the dooumont- ary evidouce and Apvemnnuanfi utnndinfi by themselvens, would bo quito a difforent thing from the samo intorpretod and vivifled by the ocontrasting animus and tomper of the two men, prosecutor and dofendant. But the accusor and Lls accusations, and tha ac- oused and Lis dofonso, boforo tho Jutelliganca, nud ploty, aud acholaraliip of the Prosbytorian Church pl America, without any slde-lssues to biaa their judgment, and lot them wtand or fall on their own merits as ' faithful ¥ ministors of tho Gospel as taught by the approved staudards, snd tho most realous friends of Prof. Swing ‘would hardly fear the result, Tut such a hoar- lni’md such n verdiot could hardly b hoped for, , a4 lo probable, now thnt Prof, Pation hna inserled tho wedgo to ruo%nn tho breach betwa the Old and Now Hchools, that jus shonld oome up, it might b yory mitch leas compteated an dinleult of settloment without the personal proju dicos and partlalitios of Drof, Bwing's conneoy tion. In tho event of nni’mvhlnn of the fo; mulns, whnt Now School Presbyterianiem ia an what ita ndhiorents bollove, in_opposition to the 01d School, might ba' moro onsily arrived at wheg the question was disentanglod from Prof, Bwing’s conneotion of “ambigulty.” The Ohi¢ ongo Vreabytory have all disclajmed Loldin thomselvos responsible for any of Mr. Bwing' peonliar modon of atntomont, or bis individu: aatlons. All thay havae sald i, that thoy bellove him arthodox,, faithtal, and L'resbyterian, * Il;llu‘ bo troason,” lot Dr. Patton ** make tho mosd o : A8 to Prof. 8wing's alipping out from undes his antagonist's bolaboring, and leaving him td oxperiouce thio middan and startling rovulsion of vigoroun blows agninst space, ** tho do(fiu" had the encominm of the olanmie Virgil; snd, if wa may crodit tho ' aacred" Bt, Paul, 16 wan s &04 sition he himmelf took oare not tobe foundins **Bo fight I not ns ono who boata the air.” 1 The Congrogational roof and correoting gove ernment is just an good aw tho Prosbytorisn for far practioal ?\\rmflm of individual necds, al- though asoolntions and convictions might give o mai & choico, Tho dootrines of faith bolog substautially $ho samo, moen of lags sympathien” find nmo diflonlty in stops ping from the ono to ths other, gz the ravarond and boloved pastor of the Thir Prosbyierian Chntoh, born and brod 1n Congre gationnlism, and gradunted u n Congrogationed sominary, has ministored by turna to Congrega~' uoaunlln:‘;ll P):nahy'fi‘dn?d c;urnhu. | lo nk we should give Prof, Swin, ondé: for Chrintian sagaoity as woll sa canufnu\lo cousistency, No doubt be would have preferred to reruain with the Progbyterian Churoh it Frof. Fatton had not forced Lim eithor to leave it, ox to commit himsalf and his brothren to an ondlosn warfaro. Thore isn pathosin his words, “ E mnst go alono,” But, now he ling had the graca tomtep aside, it will bo caslor to soo what Prof. I‘ntlgu wanta to stab, aud how deadly bis wounds 0, ¢ ——————— CROP REPORTS. Tho Cotten nnd Corn Crops in the South — Miscellanocous MReporis from tho West. Inpunarorts, Ind,, May 24,—The following ig an abstract of the lending information published by the National Crop Reporler to-day s GORN AND COTTON. TReturna now boing rocefved from corresponde ents fu the Cotton Siates, the full deductions from which will be published nast week, indie cato that in all thesa Btaten, oxceps Toxas, the aron planted in cotton, this souson, is conaidora bly loss than the aren planted lsat HoASON, while tho number of aores of oo is abont cfln’oapondln{ly inareased. Thove is o very grnoral complaint of tho destruotion of the fret plantings, both of cotion and corn, by the qool weather and high water, and, though much of the replanting has been accomplished, it is foared that, owing to tha lateness af tho seaton, oonsiderable ares will have to lie over. As far s con be judged from rcports roe coivod, tho stand, May 15, was cousidorablo bos lowa full avarage, althongh the stand of oorm waa much superior to that of eotton, % . DABLEY AND RYE. ‘The roturns of gorrespondonts in the Btates of Tllinois, Indinna, lows, Toxas, Llinnesotn, Mis- sour,” Ublo, and Wiaconsin, show an averags falling off in tho ares sown thia epring in borloy In comperison with the average of the samo grain last epring, of a fraction over 10 per cont. The ostimated avorage . of spring rye shows a falling off in tho samo States, avoraging ovor 634 por cont.. MIBCELLANEOUH. Tho refuron rolative to tha number and condis tlon of beof cattla May 1,in tha same States, show an oatimatod decroase in numbors, from the corresponding dates of 1873, averaging over 18 per cony, and o falling off fram an avorage &00d conditlon of ovor 53¢ per osnt. Roturns, dated Moy 15, denote that, as a whole, tho spring’y sowiug of small grain wore got in ggod ahape, and tho preseut prospoots, sspecially of spring. whau.t, aro flattarlog, Generally apenk= ing, this is true of winter wheat, although thera are, from some lacalitios, complainta of dame agaa resulting from the bnd weather, Coplaints’ of tha potato bug are froquent throughout tho West, and farm & 50uree of von- aldorable apprelionsion, —————, SUBURBAN NEWS, LAKE, The Board of Trustees of Lalo mot Saturday, with all present. After the reading of tho minutey of the bvo last moetings, esveral plats were approved, and sevoral licenses were grant= od and bonds for the samo accepted. The bill of P. J. McQuado, for &5 for groceries furnished o4 ontdoor raliof, wog xallnmer and ordored paid. TF: ;xslll of . ‘N. R%unltgr,‘ {ow"( engincering, o , v roforred, and tho bill of Patrick Cone £61d, of 97,50, waa allowod. On motion of Mr. Colman, tho Commites on Outdoor Nolief was instruoted to propars soma sytomatic mothod ul:]g' ing outdoor reliof. Tho petition or J. oung, roquosting the Doard to moeot hilm and vonfer in rogard to tho Inyiug of tho track of the Chicago, Danville & Yinconnos Railrond, wag roceived, aud tho Clerk lnstinmled to notify him whon the Bonrd moots Bgain, "A'potttion for wator-pipes on Sixtoth atreet, from School to Wright streets, was roforred to the Waler Commiesioner, with instructions to roport an ordinance. 'ho report of Sorgh. Talhien in rolation to tha ditoh wost of the Chicago & Northwestarn Ralle wal track, end tho coudition of the sidewalk on Tifty-first street betwoen Wentworth avenna and the Rook Ialaud track, was referrod to the Prosident, with power to gct, s A communication from Wallace Wright, Rond- mastor of Distriot No. éfilqr bridgoacrossing t l‘.\uw lgunvmrflnnd on Nhoridan avenue, was re- errad. g Tho mntter of granting a liconso to Dr. Roach was lnid over till tho néxt meoting, The Board then adjourned. UYDE PARK, At 10 o'clock Saturday, Fred Webster, & ‘noy 14 yaars old, aud tho ouly son of L, TWeb- ster, druggust, i\lmgad frow an engine on tho Stock Yard track, whick runs across to the Illi- nols Contral RNoad, was caught by anothor en- gino on the othortrack, which he did not notico, and cut_in two iv the middlo. Justice Ford, of Oukland Station, jimpaneled & jury, which ro- turncd a verdict of killed by acoldent. The hoy Was o goneral favorite, ———e THE MICHIGAN INSANE ASYLUM. Special Dispateh to Tha Chicago Tribune, DerRorr, Mich., May 24,—It may bo considere od that tho Insauo Asylum will ba loeated in this oity. Tt {8 to bo placed in Eastern Michigan une dor the lnw, aud for some time it bas boen une doratood that tho Commissoners would put I here if money for the necessary site could ba raigod. Within tha last day or two private citi- zeus hinve offerod the necessary smount, 880,000, it the eity authorilios would ‘agros to ask the next Legislaturs to anthorize 1§ezmu to refund this amouut by issuing its bonds, The Comwon Council hag nErend to this, and the Bonrd of Ea. timatog, which is the tax-lovying body, last nighs informally amsontod to it. A public meating was called to-day for Tucedsy to sctile it, and no doubt the money will soon be subsoribad end she matter olosed, i R » UTAH ITEMS. BarLt Lake, U. T., May 20.—Another ledge of oinnabar huy boen discovored in the Camp Floyd digtrict, olaimad to assmy from 20 ba 756 por cend quioksilver, Honri Rochofort is expected hera to-marrow. Boolotios of the Order of Enoch are being rap- {aly organizod througbout tha Torritory. Four Bocletios aro being organizod in differont wards in thin city, - Minivg prospecta thraughaut the Tarritory ate favorable. —— THE JUMEL WILL CASE, New Yonx, Moy 23,—The lanfi and perafatently contestod Jumol estate cnse ended yestorday in & ra:umuunc viotory for the Clases, unlesa Gearge Washiogton Bowen ahall ap) from Judge DBlatehtord's decislon to_tha Bupreme Court of tlo Unitod Btatos. The Jumal estato, neur Port Washington, Is valuod at sbout $0,000,000, and those whose titio 10 it is quitted by the decress, unless roveraed on appeal, ors Mrs, Lerry an hor brather William, the children of Mrs, Chase, who was Mary Jumol Bowen, Antidoto to Potsoning, ‘The experimenta made by Prot, Binz, of Boon, with reforonco to the effeats of aloohol on ani- mals, avo rogarded as of much {mportanco, inaz much as he scems to have dlecovered tho reasons why aicoholio stimulonts are o useful in cases of muako-poisoning. Ha found thnt whon de- compoked blood was intraduced into the veina of the living suimal, all tha symptoms of puirid fee ver wora shown, tho tomporature inoreasing une til death ensued. Alcohol, it is statod, re(fimcd tho hoat sud rotarded the putrid process, in- oroasing the aotion of the heurt—preoisely the eoffoot of alcoholio stimulauts, it ia ssld, when sdminatored in onse of rattlesnake-polsoaing,