Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. The Rtev. L N, Poyers on tho Brook- Iyn Scandal, Prof. Swing’s Sermon on s God of Happiness, Ho Utte'rly Donies the Possibility of Infant Damnation, Robert Collyer on tho Tender Meorcy of God. THE BROOKLYN SOANDAL. Sormon by tho Itov. I N. Mowers, of St. + Johw's Churchy Tho Rev. I, &, Powers preachod yostorday ovaning in Bt, Jolin's Churob, taking as his textus Thy mercy, O Lard, 13 in the Heavonn; and Thy falthfulness renchoth untotho clouds, Thy rightcous- mosa In Liko tho great mountaing; Thy judgments aro & great deop.—raatm XXX V1, B, 0, o Lint I8 without' 5ii among you, ot him frst cast 8 stone,—John VIIL,8, 1 shall not feel potfootly cloar in my own mind ¢ I poss by without romark thoe Brooklyn ecan- dal, which olrnumutulnnu havo now foreed prom- inontly upon the publio notice, I should profor to koop silout, it by this I cuuld prosorve my #olf-rospoct, but in & mattor so significaut and poouliarly rolated, I must bo truo to my seuse of duty, whother what I advauca be timoly and ox- padiont or not, To eay nothing now would arguo Indifferonce, or porchanco timidity. To spoak is to,run tho risk of censuring unadvisedly or too soveroly, or of gooming too lenfont with \rang- grosaion, God kuows that I wish, in the littlo I may offer to-night, to be sobor and disoreot, I Lave nothing to gain for myself. I do not wish to bo meddlesome. I cannot bo @ judge. Doth acousor aud mcoused are dear to mo. My hoart goes out in milof, nnd dismay, and n strange tumult of gonflicting emotion. Irpjoioo 1w the vindi- oation of every unme that 18 _anywhere and st ony time calumninted, and inall the righteous retributivus of ovon-nanded justico. Iam full of sorrow for the lupse of any souls from virtuo sud honor—for their injury and their anguish. ‘Wiio iy wisq quough, or puro enough, or learned enough in the mystorics of ilio human heart, to utter now Ch? right word,—the word that shall not only bo froo from bitternoss, aud weak pal- liation, and taunt, and . invaotive, but shnll be gravions, with Obrist's charity, and Lelpful, With His admonition ? < Thoro ara fontures of this case; 8o far ag do- veloped, that distingnieh it from any other Jmown to ma by roading or obervation. What 18 alleged is not & great atrovity that hag ripencd through yoars of reclklers transgression. It is not ouo of tho hideous axcrosonces that {s nat- ural to a ludoous life, It i not an oxplosion of criminality from tho circla of habitual sonsuality and dissipstion,” The portics implicated bavo moved 1o up illustrioys carepr, Lhe atmosphero thoy havo boén nccustomed to breatho is one of intelloctyn! and roligious refluement. Tho po- sitlons thoy occupy is 1olated to what is most sncrod aud conserving o the affnirs of our humanity. The reputed offondor is un- Burpassod in tho renks of those who intluonce mon through the minstrations of re- ligion, ‘The acoused 18 pno of the most gifted and brillignt of thosn who use yoico and pon in tho land, "The - wrong ul:lxguamd but not do- scribed, is ono that Larts decp to the dopths of tbo soul, Whatover the oxact facts of tho casa may bo, what wo deaire js that impartial justico should bivo it courpo—that tho inuocent should ba viudiosted, tant tho trausgressor should bo ado- quately punished. No erimo is to be eoxcused Lecauso of tholofty placo or the splondld goning of thooffoudor. (reat gifts II'DFI}' Rroat respon- sibilities, and the Jargor onc's fight aud oppor- iunity tho morp hoinpus bLig sim, it ho betrays hiis trust, What wearc to remomber always is the fact that the disclosure of transgrossion is Boouer or lator inevitable. Thore cay be no Durial of it so doap that in due tima it will ot boye p rogwrection, Tho yoico that tell is gomewhoro, The 8tain is gomowhere. The soro snd sheme aro gomewhors, Tho avengor is somowhero. The otornal right is ovor ail.” Out of thodurkness and silonoe, out of tho misgnided zoul of friends, out of the epgerncas of the guilty to seem indifferent snd unconscious, out of the pationco and suflerings of the wronged, out of tho ‘very emphasis of denial fortifled by Inyorable public opinion, out of ull conceal- monts aud suborfugos. will camo evontually the ravplation, tho confosslon, The diyine order brings it as suro as the rotting gorpse comen to the surface of tho water, as wure as tho subter- rannean firogshake the oarth,as surc as the graat movemont of the univeise gous on. 'Thore isno special mirgelo {o” all 'thus, howover sipgular soewme tho disclosurg, hut'an aternal miacle thrpugh the xighteous and lmrlunb mothods of God. It'is ono of the insanitien of ths sinuer tp think that for him, at loast, there may bo anim- munity ; that in his easo_the infinitely wise and gracious coustitution of thivgs may bq modified. But there is no gllowauco _for him, bo hg princa or peasant. Just oy cortain ng sufliciont aisenic kLills, so doeg guilt guully appoar. Just as guro a6 tho Divine law ia~ vialatod it will roact on the offouder, You cannot got round it, or over it, or belund it ko that you may escapo. You are in ho order. ‘I'rausgrosy, and you crima shall be Tovenled. 3 e Aund this is a rightoous ordination,—the rotri« bution {89 rightoous rotribution. The oqui- librium of tho moral world has to be sustained as woll ag tho material, Nature 18 all the whilo weoling to maintain its polso, Tornadooy, doluges, eartliquakes, eruptions, are all wigus of forcos whoso oxistence caunot Lo concealed, Bouotimes we aro proparod to expaph & couvuleion, thon - agaiu ~ the phenomopon surpriges and dismoys uws. Bo in tho moral world. Liko thunder out of & alear sky, like a rain of living orgaunisms on atoundod Bometimos by the about whom wo hind no suspicions, : af the cuso bofora us through the i through which wobave boop aceuntomed ok, it soems absolulely incrodible that Alr. Bogelicr can bo gpilty, o wholo drift of his lifo and ‘pursujte~~the atmospherg m which ko haa thought and _toiled—his conutant contact with the most ounobhng and insplring thomes ot dute and 1eligion—tlic koennesa and ragncity of bia spiritual instimets—Nhis srpngih of charac- tor—his ]u.rfiu_lmmqnny-—hiu exalted ‘position and reaponaibilitio —mn.lu_;nylycrlm[m‘ldnputum from rectitudo appeay wol] uifih ,mrunuiblu. And yob theie atands the iorfl lo indictment, writteu evidently in sorrow nftor yens of palient silenco by g wan wha profespedly dokires’to ba forglving—thore it stands, noluting sadly yet in- exo.g)ly toward ag al|ufzcd. yet' ungonfossed transgrossion.” Pho situation is Lowildering and distrousing boyond exproysion. I look ac ifrome- t;;uau \);m ‘in bmu‘t(h (17 :ln;o,lnud snmomfi?n with o dazed pensation, or o fooling of niiroal Tko ouio 1 Qegaa” Tot f tharsin wuroality thore has baon suffering. If the acousad is guilty bo has had the tormout of his hell, 'Whe con- Btant sonse of his doroliction, the ahame of his of- Zanso to” bijmsolf, tho droad of oxposuro, the' re- alization of hig poaition” befors thio world as teacharof roligion, the coneciousnosof hyproorasy, which o loatbes, his' goprow'at tho injured man's sufferings, tho recognition of tho influ- onco of his fall on tho Christinn world—all this, if hois criminul, must Lave pressed upon him, aud gnawod inta bis honrt gs with toeth' of fire, In tho light of Mr, Tutow's lettor, n good deal that Is signifloant in" Mr, Beocher's conduct during the lute controyorsy' connccted with tho formor's withdrawal from the Plymouth Church, con now ba biotter pudoratood, "It what iy at- tributad to tho pastor is true, ho haw certalnly endured a torture snch’au fow can well concoiva, It is no man’a businesy to attompt to aggravate it, If the offonse i renl, no ono ean point out a phygso or featuro of if that ho has yot fully cop- piderod, and folt to the doopest depths, With tho prosont ata‘or” ho ouso tha oxalto- mont of the Uhristian community i widesprogd ond l)ramuml. 1t vestigntion should prove tho aljogution true, the slivek of tho disclosure will bo aflictiva boyond_dekcription; For the fooling, Iu #o unparalleled o rovaluion, fa diffor- ent from that oxporienced in sight of gome brutal crimo, Boru liariible not in the wajka of woildlj- noun and dopravily, T'ho'great fabrio of Olirise tian contidones aud charity tramblos, Right intp Eho heart's holiost pluco,—whero prayor 'ls born whoro God fs_embruced, whero the bonds of brothorbood aro ceniouted, wherp tho snered trapaures of lifo are gatherod, \J'lmra rovorence, and honor, and fove abide,—right thare tha blow falls, if at oll, stunning snd torrible, What grief and_constornption to the wsoul that h mfim-nu and fruated this wondorful pronch- o, and by him boon rofrpshed and edified, I};r who has spoken more electrio words for thoe injured, und poor, and ‘downtrodden, thau this groat popl? Who braced tho sinews of our gountry's faith and’ courggo more firmily iy tho four of hor trja}? Who Lge hold up loftior THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIB TONDAY, ' JUN 20, 1874 idealn of human duty and brotherliood, smitton all forma of moanna@s and Iniquity with 'n might- for seourgo, throttlad wrong with more horote ansaull, yoarned over tho weak, and orring, and alliotod with a mora toudar sympaihy, of for- trayed moro lovingly or poworfully tho Christ of @od? Who hins hind o vastor andienco, and whoso aayings have fimm fuethor to tho lioarts aud homes of mankmd ? ‘I'ho offect of tha fall of ‘nebnman on the Christian Commonwealth Cu..d bo nothiug logs than a lnmontablo oalnmie ty. Bosldos tho widesproad sorrow and ohagrin and the withdrawal of w powerful Influenco for cod, tho ovent would be unizod by somie to the fiutrlmunlol religlon, Ono clasn would afiirm ‘thnt the utilitioa of his hifo woro simply illusory —ihat hi teligion was apurious. Anothor would inslst that boro was simply an exposuio of the goneral hypacrisics of Chriatinua—that all within tho Ghurch of Chriat ts hollow and unsound, I pity nny, if tho worst comaos to worst, who in thofr deopest hoarts can say to thomaelves that thoy aro glad, God graat Lis name bo cleared, But if, on the othor hand, what fs nllogod should bo eetablished, then wo have in Mr. Til- ton an oxample of long-sufforing and fortitude a8 brava an it 1s golf-dovotod and admirablo, an oxample of magnauimity, gouerous even to self- sacrifico, It will appear that for yeara he hing boon o nnrtyr thas a groat man's induenco bo not dostroyod ; that Lo lias borno a hoavy croas that a strong frlend of humanity might toil on without reproach ; that ho hne taken into his own bosum tho shafts of dotraction aud calttmny, that ho might shiold & precious name, and ward ©off a public calamity. If Tillon standa true at tho last, then his character is morosplondid than Ins splobdid talents; but if Le proves falso, thore is no titla base onough for his shame, no pit doop enough for hus dishonor, ‘What I would counsel noyw is forbesrance, and charity, and trust fn God, Not that charity which looks lightly on sin, but that which, wiilo quivk to tmprovoe all mstruotion, makes dua al- Towauce for tho temptations and frailtios of our Lumopuity, [ would bog men overywhero to ro- momber the great servico done by tho acousad to o grateful gonoration—to romomber that God works throuyh iustrumonts,and that his graco and glory may bo wondsrfuily set forth and advanced ovon though Lis iustiuments should prove un- worthy. £ Would Insiat upon tho inovtable dis- closura of transgrossion in the Lord’s good timo, and tho cortainty of its rotribution, tho vindicn- tion, soonor or later, of the falsely accusad, aud tho st rawards of Yalmnt aud steadfast idolity tothe courso of truth and vightoousnoss. But thore aro othor_ cousidorations of tho highest moment which I briefly touch. Wo are to look higher than to men, who aro dust, But we worely nood each othor'shoelp, It is so ordor- od lu tho way of Providence that wo moy belp onch othor. ~Aud ovils are litted upward by tho strong confldenco, the love, the sympaihy, the generous faith of somo who Lold them doar, We all uged tho bost that true and pure banrts can givo us. But wo must look lngher still. Thore must bo a living Lold on Jesus” Christ. Woo to us if we nllow cursetves to feel that a human banud 18 safor than his—that & human face is sweotor, thot & human voico i8 dearer, Tho best man is least positive of his own virtues, enid Mr, Sumner, to n friend, *““ Nover nomo & child after mo whife I am living,” How often aro wo tnught by the downfall of our youthful idals, by tho sad lapses of the virtuous, by tho strauge avd bitter u.\m;iu of lifo that batray per~ chanco our own infirmities, that our only effociual helpis in God. A very dark pnga is beforous now, and tears aro falling” fast upon It from hearts that fear and ache all over the land, 0, dear {rionds, I do uot know how bitterly wo arg to bo taught, or how deep Is to be our humiliation, or Low slmni;oly wo aro to bo lod in the “‘living way." But Ido know that we shall find comfort and strength, the spirit of purity and truth, nowhaio but w the rofuge of the Almighty. do know that in all the bowildormonts of sor- row and human frailly thoro is but ouo haud that can snfoly bold us, and but ono honrt that cau give us ovorlasting consolation, and that is fully touchod with the feeling of our infirmitics, aud but ono lifo in_contnct with which our own shll bo kopt faithful and pure uato life otornal. —_— A GOD OF HAPPINESS, Sermon by Prof, Swing In the Fourth Chprok. Tho Rev. David Bwing pronohed yautorday morning 2a follows from tho toxt ; Aud all tho sonw of God shouted for joy, Job, xazolil, Wishing to spoak to-day about happinoss, 1 Lavo taken my toxt from one of thoso sacrod writers who ataud farthorest away from qur times, and whoso words thereforo fndicate what the common estimate of happiness was at that far-off dute fn bistory. It fs tho feeling in all oxisting society that pleasuro I an objact of ex- fstonc, and if in ongof tho oldest baoks pf marals wa find p moay sublime wrifor asgorting that tho sous of God shout for joy, we soom to bo able to take observation from points widoly soparatod, and thug to possess pettar data for oyr inferopces, whatovey they may bo, It tha puisyit of anjoymonl wora an invention of only Franco and America, and wore spoken of fovorsbly In_only a fow oxcoptional writings, it might bp dificult for us to determine the valyo of such o pursuit. DBut if all the way from Job's romote ora to our far off century mankind Las folt that God's morniug stars havo sung togoether, snd His sons shouted for oy, then doos the ground gcom morp wolid beneath our feot. .Hanlnas- thus becomos gpufeased 88 A pursait aud a condition of life, By the poetic words of the toxt wa may undor- ataud only the abstract 1dea that Goil s tho By~ thor of jay, aud tha millions of yeats before you werg ‘happy or your frieuds ever experiencad any happiuess, the morning stars wore pin qu in their blossod qaroprs, and other sons of En wore plsawhore shouting far joy. Instaad of saying, with the simple nstronomor, *f Whero wast thou when God made the material forms 7" ustead of spying, with Darwin, * What knowost thou of tho day whon lifo hegan iy ‘insoct or worm ?"—Job “takes his stand at tho ides of heppinoss, aud says, *Whore wast thou whon tho first song was' sung, and whon the angols ralgod Eheir firat joyful shous 2 i From this toxt a8 & starting polnt, and from all subsoquont writings, and thoughts, ud ox- perience of man, we wish to draw thoinforenca that haypingss la pn’ cloment in tho whole unj- yo188 of our Fathor. 'The groat outlook of Job, which in its wide survey embraced aven tho morning stors, gocms now too wide reaching, a8 tho uamo of God iuvolyes the ldoas of wisdom, power, justico, goodness, and trath, mo it i volyas tho nation” of happiness equalldy jnsepar- ablo, Tho conception” of & wmisorablg deity is wlml:{ imposgible, Not ouly s the abatraot iden destroyed 38 to its beauty and perfection, but as to pawer forto bo a God signities to bo a master of all ewrcumstancos, aud henco tho master of all good fortune, All nations, as 1apidly as thoy have developed s heliaf in & Ureator, have with parallal pmgra_ns clotyed Him with robes of blesseduess, aud have spon in the gorgaaus colors of sky and land only embjoms of the divine beauty, and have heard in all the musio of sphores, or of the nightingale, or of the Layp, only a confpssion of tha blesaednoss of the Infinito Ong, ' Into this stroam of tentimony tho Bibls emptios its volume of clear wators, so that ‘wo may say that tho Lu- man eonception af God contpius within it tho sesumption of His suprome blessodnosy, But that Being whom we call God {s tho sourco of all other life,and honce wo have traced ail the lifo of earth and the univorss up to a Cause which claims happiuess as one of ita cardinal elemonts, Honce you and all the myrind inbab- itants of this world aro the ohildren of a Croator who Himsolf {8 happiness, and whose pamo *would be robbod of its glary if it were capable Qf any gasoclations with griof or sufforing. Now, whon we know (Liat the watora are as tho fountain, shon we know that tho fruit is as tho treo, ad when tho Biblolfsolf informs na that wo are mado ip the impge of Gad, wo cannot but conclydo thar man {3 born to o jllr ful carcor, Just as ' truo ns that " his origin—God—hns tho attributo of blosa- odnots, Luukhg i 800 the imagp of God in man'g rpasan, ayd und menjory, and Lope, and iy his moral naf, [ Lonco wo must go (urdmr, and, opening tha ki man hoart, must bohold in it the outlings of liap- Fhm-u—n rollection of that Oreator’ who oin ipto man's mind, y?lu . 1Oy 10 pain and no emptingss of spirit. Thijs 8 yat a postio form of pocplt, & droamy conjeo- tyre, but it js ay truo pp any dofinjtion’of God ls true. od bo what the miud of man afiirmy of Him, then tho conolusion s mbsolute that man comed from a foyntain of happiness and muat earry within him s birthright of posce ayd oy, ! a‘ho vory yord “lifo” inyolyqs the word hap- pluoss,” for thero would bo no explaugtjon of ox- 1stence, if existonco imphed misery, Borrow de- ;zruyu .t" veasou of beluyg; life presupposcs on- qvnjont. whu this ro[mal;iun in thanght, look npon all living aplwal forms, aud luqhol&] they conflem i, for the insect found in a drop of water by ‘the microscopo Is moving about joyfully fn its liftle universo, All tho bounds of light and color are bung out in its watery realm, just as in our largor arona the bjuo sky oversproads us and tho greon flelds anvolap ua, In ali-the intorvening oir- cloy of lifo botwesn tho ephormersl fnsgot and man, thero {s ono spootacle only, that of poou- iar " joyfuluess; and all oroptures, from tho Kiog of beasts to tha brillinut ¥ plotured " bixdy, cowbine in bewing wituoss that lifo s aweot; they all afiirm that happilness ia & cone dition or roason of existenca, No ono ean pass into the Kingdom of Naturo 80 far an to 5¢o all its dotails aud oxplain all its faols, for dod alono s omulaclont; but wo aro all permitted to go far onough -to soo that joy s tho gonoral rulo of boing—tho ‘great accompaniment of that vatied ~oxistenco which comos down from tho Infinite One. Pain fa woon, indeed; doath Ia ovorywhoro; thoro are bright, sun-lov~ iug insects that, it ia snid, livo but for a dny, but whilo tholr dny Insta it is happy, full of sun- shino aud sportive activity, ‘Lliors would seem to bo nothing in tho death of the brute kingdom that militates againat tho gonoral fct that God 18 the author of plonsuro, and not of suffering, for denth comes without fongy foroboding, Itis not to tho irrationnl world a worrow, but only an ond, If the ephenioral muect lives hut for & day, that day is all joyiul; it involvos no approlion~ slon, and passes awny withous regrots. It is when we appronch man wo find tho troublosomo oxcoption to tho law of happinoas. Then the fact of Aorrow bocomes so Iarge that it asuma to throaton the very rulo fteolt, and raises tho question whothor God in tho creator of happiuoss, and whothor (ndeed lifo implios binssednoss, Man doos not come to his KIAVO unconsciously, as come tho brute world, not knowing death from sleop; but death Is neon nfar off, and marchen along as & king of terrors for {nrn in tho path boforo us, Comiug to Luman- ty wo confoss wo soo through a glnas darkly, and the shining of tho morning stuts, and tho bunt of the sons of Gad for jov seem & ploture of some far-off ago boforo the human family came to this globe, Yet in tho faca of il eartl’s sorrows wo #hall Bay what scoms to Lo the trath About humon buppiness. Uuablo to solve all quostlons, lot us group togother what facts we u:ln upon this thomio which aojdeoply coucerns us Tirst, do we not see & groat ponsral tondoncy {0 happmesn so gicat o8 to make sufforing ne- sume tho part of an excoption ? There fs soma- "thing vory suggoestivo of a God of 1Ia) piucas whou you find iu the child of poverty udot ig- norance tho same playfuluess which you find f;u the little ohild of evary comfort of mind or body, ‘We may l)osu‘mly bo shedding too muny tears over tho miufortunes of yesterday for whilo Wo_nre dnluj(lng tho muddlo and tho dark ngos, and, indeed, all sutiquity with our tours of commiscration, thoso far.off times did all for tho most part langh and slng and en- Joy deobly tho yoars over wiich wo plago tribe utes 0[(11"3. OL, how thio Roman childten did sing and danco In their houses whoere now we aco orumblad columns and -old, pictured walls, The ladics who wont to tho Groek snd Roman rlnyu under tho bright sldes of thoso besutifal ands wont in o light-heartodnoss that simply reappears in Amorica, I'ant contentment - which beams up the humsn facs in our ning~ teonth century boamed also fu tho firat coutury, aud it must Lave boen almost na pale and sweot in old Babylov ad in our *Gardon Oity,” It woll to appreciato our own timos, and Lo clnim for them o groat advance over all former yoars 3 but we think very hastily upon & suvjoct of hap- inesy if wa suppose is to bas discavory of our times. Wo do gront wrong to the Tatlior of tho human family it wo fail to seo the joy He has poured out all along the pathway of Iis ohildron, Tho Inughtor which makes our homes sclio and our hill ring {n June, made tho homes happy Wwhen Homer eaw them, and mado tho hills ro- sound whon Judoa's girls ran in pursuit of wild flowors, and the Lonios charming whon iu the ovening they touched thofr harpe. No oue age or geuexation can monopalize eithor God or hu- manity, This book of Job shows s thoro was grand pootry bafore Alilton or Teunyson, as the writings of all antiquity show us that there was mind, and culturo, and powerful logic long ba- fore Bacon aud Al So wo may ognoludo bo- youd doubt that all around in the laud of the Chialdecs and tho classics thaio flowed the samo wave of happlness that lavos our own shoros, Thio wave waa not 80 puro, or &0 doop, bub thoro it Iny, spaikling sud beautiful, for the Luman henrt’ was tho same, and the samo God Was above it. 1t ls & groat misfortuno that tho ‘past has Lkopt no repord of anything but its sorrows, Al we know of tho Cheldeos is that ono man Jub was aflicted thero, and this is n fair specimon of all history. All wo kuaw of Inbylon jy_summed yp in the so- couut of ita gieges and final doom. All wo are taught about tho Jow is thoir lawa for criminals, and therr roligious forms, and their fiusl ovor- brow. Athens aud Romo send ue tho account of thelr oalamitios. Egypt auke us to look only ot her ruiug, aud woep theyo for pity; but thera 18 0o page anywhore to which wo may turn and 800 how muen bappiness_thero wasin tho lnud where Job Jamentod, aud in tha great empires in their long brillinut centuries. Bupposg all you know of the Unitod Statgs' wero contalnod in n hfe of Elijah Lovejoy. You would fael that this must have been p land of most abject wrotel- ednoss and iujustico, Or suppose 8,000 yoars hianca no history of aur country romained exgept thpt involyeq in the history of Jobn Brown, ox- ecuted for attempting ao fusurrection. To thoso {ur off renders thia would appear an nga without any Justicq or _pity, a desort withont 8 greon troe or & spring. But it in this kind of history wo must read when wo would_study tho past, We do not soe Chaldoo, byt ouly Job, Vo do ot s00 Babylonia, but anly *Belshazzar's feast, and the vast overlbrow of palacos aud henging gardens. That world of huppiness which God grauty his childrey aypry- whore, in all “ages, is wholly withdrawn from sight by higtorians, who love ouly the record of Stato oyents and of calumitips. l‘erln[m the qnnuty of hisfory oomes from a disposiion in the hoart to'despiso tho far past, and to Bupposo that gl that iy goldon Lolongs to the future. Wo neod not speculate hero, This e knayw, that lifo hos meant happiuess all along ‘the himan pathway, and that, a8 a great gonpral rule, laugh- tor, and amilos, and kopo, apg )lpflco hove kopt thoir doar place in the Liearts of humanity wher- over thosa bearts have kuown tho pulso-boats of this life. Liven the ralley-sluves bung pt thojr oavs, and 8o evouly flows the stranni of content- mout that philosophors have wondered whotlier the King woro any bappier than hig sorvant, sud the wise man any moro blogsod than a ohild, Lot us alludo now to tho excoptions in this &regt ossa. ‘Plio caso ia s groat that it reguires & volumg rathey thau a Lrjef discourse, We can. only aot as an indox to tho subjoct, rathor than ae s full treatmont of tho thema! f'lie morrow that comes intg this world tn a eroaturg of hgppj- neas from a God 6f happiness may susialn vomo vary groat though msatorious rolation to' s i 'lxarhnpphlcsn Jyst boyond. As tho pain we ol under ok aw school-ehmidion, stadsiog 3l it was to ua less dorirable than play, in o prisou-hqusp when the day ‘'was glorjous without, brought pleasure attorward, and now, in tho oducation those long duys brought, becomds n catteg of theionor and ancu of our middla lifg, a0 many of tho illa of all times bear some actiinl relation to the moral, and aro still acting ns gchoplmastors of the goul, ‘Thero are many in- stanoes in which the curtain drops at lust, o mon 600 in lntor years thatall the so-callod griofa uf formor days are ouly tributarics emptying {uto tho strosm of subsequent contentwont or sug- Geud, gwplling its volume, But the gront exceplion of human happiness Is found ‘in tho p.lmuomnn& of death. To reooncila the fact of ‘death with tho churnator of & oreator of joy, and with tho proposition that man is & happy boing, i8 indead difloult, Dentl ie not the sawp phenomenon 1n Lho rational and irrationaf worids, In the ratjonal world jb is always forasoon s coiping. * It is not fo man a8 to tho bruto, a sydden, unexpected torminatjon of lito, but it es alwavs boforo man ; not a suddon end, but & long, impouding calainity, The bruce world dioy, indeed, but it knows nothing o death, h{:m upt only digs, byt he forpuges his doom, That mind, tha sonsibility, thai ffec- tion which makey Lim go JofLy, secms to turn sgainst him now, for bjs mind grasps denth, and hjs pitoctions {ael its comlng blight, By com- mon cunsent this potontate whose empire is un- dor the sod, and whose command all will oboy, hng Leon ealled tho ** King of Terrors,” 5o dark i tho realm futo which he dyives us nl) at last, Wiy the morping stars saug togothor, and why tho sony of ‘Gbd shioutod for foy in the world of a oroator of doath, muy be confoased an ouigma indeod, But, drivon ’Lhiu great onigma, we fly for rofugo to our orlgl nnl_[]yropnnitinn that the idon of "God invalyus tho idon of happiness nat ouly for Himsolf but for His childron, This joy o uee rovealing itaelf all along whore an insoot theu fn & sunboam, or o ehild pluys, or a phjloso- hor thinks, Huoppiness s tho 3uly reuson of ifo. Mhis Loing #0, aud man being robbsd greatly of this happinesu by the shadow of doath maviug in solemn wnd sura footstep beforo him and toward him, sbout to tako sway from him his doar ouew, or him from thom, thoro it only ong aotion that will make God a creator cf heppinoss and mon & creaturs of hapy pinoss, and that avtion is tho ° oating adlilo of the vell called daath, and the ushoring of man {uto & botler exintonce, God bemg Lap- Plness, aud |ife being explicablo only by the assumption of hpppinass, lflu nocessary that wo digsolyo thut groat sorrow callod death § itw dark pell myst bo removed, for if that: drapery ig per- mittod to trail aliout our foot, then man fs not Lorn to jov, and smilay, and ponce, but ouly for a tomb, ~ Immortality,' thorefore, is the word and witting that solvos thio mystory, and gives back to Lap- l"""" aworld dripplug ab timos with toars, With a futuro lifo bofore tho sonl, Its pain horo Dbocomes only educationnl,—a part of o develop- mont ; and, Instond of Lelug & total eclipse of happinoss, A auly tho slow working out of a far more exvooding and etornal woight of glory, But :hnra romainy an enigma utfll, Do all the 1obabitants of earth xoach porfoot happiuesy be- ond the grave? Do all rational minda find that fuy botrayed in the song of tho morning stars, and in the shout of the Sons of God ? ono might eay ** Yes,” What s, ono might sup- poso that tho childron of n God of happlucss would all como to a condition of happlnss; but this progumption fa arrostod by tho fact that God sooma to havo gonfarred upon'man a freadom of will, nad hns clothod him' with that power of cholce, which wau tho attribute of a God. lustend of bolug » maochino, man fs a divino bnln;i‘ e?ulmmd with o will, Tnoh human goulfs King of & roalm, Upon avory forchoad reats a orown. FEach- hand holds a scoptro. Lvery mortnl {8 born to a throno, Thoro caun bo no delusion about this, withont destroving tho moral charactor of God. and the nccountabllity of man, That ronlm, that crown, that scoptre, that throne, is eallod froo ngeney in the books of‘religious philonophy. The world of liappiness comes or goos at {ts diotaudon. As for God, Ho Lins mado & croatura for hnppmcsu, and & hoavan of happiness Iargo onough for all } aud Lay pont Savior o Invito all; that beyond thin thoro stands the mouarch man clothed with ~ n frasdom of will Which must bo confessed a8 roal, howaver groat tho myatery, 1loroin this will lira tho only obatncle bolweon you all and blossednosa, The extornal universe is full of joy. It was mado by a joyful Croator. 1ts boauty, its laughe tor, its_smilos, ail besponk its quality. Tho clouds of doath itself aro mado golden by the morning of immortality. Henge tha final” sor- row of human lifo is driven into tho human will for its oxplanation and adequate sourco, Out- sido aro God and happluows; in the bosom roiguu the only vicirsitude, A priori, t follows from this nrgument ihat no ono 18 born to . punishment beyond tho gravo, Al those horn in oarly ltfo, Loforo the mystorious fros will has takan its soat upon the rogal throne, fall into God's world of blosscduous 3 for, not having chosen thelr own world, they fall into God's world, whero tho morning stars sing, and s sons shont for joy, In the roalms of sorraw, wheraver and wlatavor it m:ly bo, this I know, thnt thioro is no soul 1n that dark 'imprisonmon} tlss oama not there by its own act. Lhat lond 18 peopled not by fato, not from the oradle, not by tha absolutism of Giod, but by tho decislons of thoao who knew their duty, and did it not. Any othor theory makes man not simply n me- chino, but a machine invonted by a mplicious being in order to produce palu, Borrow bo- yond the bLorders of this lifo mpat flow out of human froe will horo, and 'ba moasured not by God's power, not by God's weath, but simply by man'a actual pinfulness, Man's freo will is the only measuring-lino wo ean atrotch upon that lost world. The only wall be- twaon the soul and Paradise {s its own' absolute will. If there be & epul that bas pot arrived at tho power of cholce, botween it and Iaradiso E\?En isno wall. Its fest are upon the flowory old. Starting rom tho concoption of the Divino [mwnr, wo ronch tho concluasion that there is a "enyan ; starting from the conception of His wisdom, wa conclude thero is & hoavon ; arguing from His love, we rench tha bolief that thera in auch aland, To-daysetting forth from the inflnite Lappinoss, wo come at lagt to the samo hoautiful atos, hoaring the far-oft mnrniufi ators uinfilng n porpotual gladness. Between thiy triumph of blossadness and your hoart thors lies but one obstacle—tbnt freo will plantod in your bosom, ‘Whosaover will, may come, and may take of the water of life frooly, The New 'lestamont is nothing but an invitation. Christ Himsell, on nccountof the human will, walks to and fro before tho multitudes. of earih inviting them, saying, “* Como, for all thingy are roady.” If thore be not nroality in human troodom, if Nonven and hell pre not conneoted in any way with man's choice, tho Now Testament and " its grept contral flgurp are tho worat impositions ovor yot mot with by man on the way to his grave. 'OL, that we cotld ‘all roalizo what i bound np in the “froe will” of man. Had all the Christian ngos, instoad of making man foel that ho was » powerless worm, wailig in the dust for the footstop of the Al- wmighty to come along and crugh him, only mog- nitied amly His divine attributes, and told him “what an ompiro of joy mpd grandouy lay within bhis hearl's easy pos- sessjon, what & scoptro of dostiny was in his band—what & crown of nuthority rosted upon his tomplea, To-day our earth would not, porbaps, ba trodden by multifydes who bow 1n torror bafore futo, whao kuow nothing of ‘tho ossibilities of thoir own souls, and with whom Gad i3 Lnlf mouster, half mystery ; byt trodden by men who, for 1,800 years, in ancostors and in self, have bLoen fooling the reapousibility of a diving unture, that can make and unmalio the Joya of timo aud otornity, Somo ono hng snid tho materlal world.is only the will of God rush- ing into life. But thare is & similar phonome- non, Happiness ig the will of man nmhiufz along tho ‘path of God. ~God is o God of joy. and “you bave tho choico to becomo n crantyro of similac blesseduesy, Whatovor sorrows come o time, oternity s destined to remove, if you follow God, whoso- oypr will, mny como to & blossed immortality— uot whosooyer willa the immortality, but who wills the virtuo that formsita foundation, We Furcuivo, thorefora, axoalm of happinoss issu- ng from tho Oreator, and fufo it tho irrespopsi- bio poss without the loss of one. Bnt into it the nccountable go only by a divine fros-will, Comg all yo, thorofors, ho Jove happinass ; coma Lo God the gatoway, and you have found the priza. TSR R THE TENDER MERCY OF GOD. Serwen by the l!pv(:llluh‘nu Co)lyery of Unjty Shyreh, The Rov. Robort ‘Collyer preached yestorday morning ut Unity Church, taking as his toxt: ‘Turough the tendor marey of our God ; wheraby the dsyspring from on highi has visltod ug, The tender mercy of God is a subject over which tho saints and scers of the Bible bond with perpetusl delight, and it Js not to them n graco which toachop man slone, for when thoy spesk of i in fhoir loftior moods, it appears to rogeh through the whole creation down to the rayeus, the young lions, the grass and troes, aud then upward to men from those who do not Lnow their right band from their left, to the bojy sonls that roflpct tho vory imagp of thoir Maker, Tho carth is full to thom pf the tonder mercigs of God—Ile is rich’ in meroy, plonteous in morey, and Hig mercy endureth forover. There sooma to bo no bLoundarics by which thoy can dofine and limit this quality when 1t comes home to them in all its wenlih, and no adequato yyay fo Lell of it nxm:hn in gougs. Ho thoy sing tha onio psalm with endloss varla- tions, and noyer tiro of their singing any more than the wators tire in the bod of a ewift river, or tho Liorbs and Howara of answeriug to tho call of the spring. : But it {3 the babit of qur time to put this qual- ity iu the background, cs]lmmully with thoso who bave brokeu'awny from ihe boaton path of tho older rofigious holiofs, xod taken to the study of Lbature, and man s the most perfegt rovelation of the mind of God; &0 that tharo sooms now and then to be a kind of ruthless cournge in tho way thoy will ptrip thomgolvos from all belief in this tondor grage, Meroy soems to giich nion fo ho n weakness rather than o poiver, wher thoy look at 3F in this divino conpection, Such men will recognize this quality of moroy in their own nuturos a8 one of thio most blessod things, right- ly nyed, they can possibly possoss—oa. tho "ono thing, indeed, without which this world and }ife of ours would bocome bard and bittor boyond all bearing, and lurch forover botween' ravolt aud deppair, Bnt when thoy should riso out of this eonso of the worth of a tendor moroy botweon wen - aud man, ‘and by to find the Bume powgr In lhe mource and Bpring of “being, ~“thon iheir sight giows dim, they ennnot imagine how this quality of merey should drop av tlhe gntlu dow from Hoayon, and so, if they stjll bai on to p boliof ju God st all, it is in'one who 15 to be loved for qualities w‘llxlluh l):e»;or ‘im{“‘n love in ‘mu' ru:nlinn mtn"h other, hut quly fogr, or, at tho bost, respoct, T odiifess Lkt t1id 18 to mo only & pars. of tho truth, and not tho better part, and I fmaging that 1 our Bible had vaver touohed this seorot of tho tender moroy of God, and if Josub had not como to foveal it thraugh tho uuspeaknble tendernees and meroy of Lis own nature, still the day would have gome pt last whon, in watoh- ing tho revolntion of ‘nature aud life, Wo should have oaught tho blossad conviction that Cod’ iy plontoous in meroy. Lvery Jigtle eprig 3;: it wonldw l}u’v’m Lbenin k:mwlp ;‘{ Tast to it onean in tho heart of dod, and whils ono class of thinkors would aliays do just what those are dolug I hnyg triod to daworibd, another must have riken who would have steadily iusistod on watching for gloamy aud gllmvpon of this power, so that in tho opd Wwo miust have iad & groat multitudo of men sud womon gottled down to this conviotion which Lins come to uu all the sooner, gud in tlm noblor tashlon through tha revelation of God Chiriat, and in'all Qhriat-liko mon and women, For onco morg jt is cloar onough to mo that this is & quostion of porsoual insight und ag- elmilatlon, " of "the way we aro lod to look ot thgso things, aud whiat wo make of our viy- fon, Just asp the nmury of thie Hible one mun will oul! find food to faed tlig narrowest, the most bigoted, oruel, and forbidding oo.mapllnnu of God possible to tho human soul, whilo aye otbor will find food for the largast and lovelioat rovolation of Thu naturo andgrace, or as the lh?a youmx;iah:zwuumunnge lglu ) Jp:,llul)luu’:ll; and rouy Lufora the King on black brogd, p beans, n{:d waper, while Ham who had beonfod on tho ohofcost moata ani winos of Babylon wora a4 lmfignrfl and yollow an o prairio farmor fod on suda-bisenit, 80 thoro 18 o quality In this nature of "ours whiok will tako this, and sojoot ihat, and leave two mon, ontlroly unlike oach othor, in tho ullimato result of & grand, swoot thought of God, Bo it is trie, boyond ‘mil question, that two mon shall start from this olty to tho oroat of tho Racky Moun- talns, the ono with & wholosomo, engor appotits for evory futimation that may como to Lim of this tondor morey of God ; the othor with noth- ing but a monso of the storn nnd teady so- quonoes of causo nnd consequonce ; aud, when thoy coma bacik, the onu suall Lo Lapplor un- spoalably, and mora fullof praiso far what ho hias soen, whilo the other shall ouly s wisor and Eurhnpa a littlo sadder; aud it fu to mo Aot tlad boyoud all queation, that tho man who can athor tho heaviost shonves of theso waysido finwum of morcy must ho more truly tho be- loyor than the man who has ouly burdoued Limn- solf with hard and heavy proofs of thoe stornor royolation. 4 *1 gladly admit,” Darwin says, ‘*that hosts of things seom to havo boon mado benutiful for besuty's sako.” Then he procoeds to give a na- ural rosson for all benuty and grace in the ling of his famous doctrino of tho seloction of poolos, 1 cnnnob: but belieye, au I road his ohaptors, that thore muat bo this diviner reason, lymg all the timo within tho patuial, that tho tondor meroy of God could not bo content with simply croating this or that creature or thing; it muat ndd beauty oy the ovmilxluu of baiug, an: at tho samo timo ‘hido tho dellght of benuty in tho honit of all, so that tho vory shelle flsh must feol somo dim glorying in Lis urpls and crimson chambor, and the nsoct hura a song for tho palaco bo tinds in the beart of n flower, as euroly us wa glory In our world full of summer, or in the bluo vault of Heaven studdod with stars, Ho one mnn sunll cross sonmo of the desorts Humboldt telis about, and find only a haggard wilderuoss. Yot ipn thac hnrshest and most bit- tor bit of nature, tho philosopher reports how you find & plant full of cool, sweet water, awny down in tho burning sand,—hidden thoro Ly somo iino balaueing of natuie ho wouid ssy, hidden there, tho 10ligious Lieart would ny, by tho tou- der morey of * God, whiok will lenvo no spot bore of somo gleam of graco and good- ness, Bo thinle it fs Humboldt who tollp us again how, in cortain purts of South Aniorica,, whore serpents’ aro most abundant and most doeudly, o plant grows which is a sure spocifio agaiust tho poison, aud you only fing the plant whora you find tho sorpont. Wild beasts roam and roar in other Klm‘"“’ soeking their meat from God, as the old Heriptures sav, with o magniticent fuith in tho vast sweop of Provideuco, But Chovior rolatos in his travels iu Morocco how ane of the uptives, lighting ono morning on’ two eubs loft to play by a lioness whilo sha wont to sook food for them, foll to cacossing the animals, and was giving them a part of e own breakfast. When the mothor cawme quictly ou the scono with & sheep in her Jawa, Bho . muw what tho man was domg, crawlod to bis foot and licked lus bands, Now, Iknow you aro saymng: * But whatabout tho suoop 2™ Well, you romombor how good Dr. Liyingatono tolls of falling into soma such roublo with a lion, In ‘which, aftor the firat shock, aa he was borno aloug, hie felt no pain, but only a cortain eythanasin of ploasant anuuntloug, Itk thosa that persons rescuod from drowning report as their last recolloctlon of life, Wo must plso romoembor how phyrionl selanco {8 ho- ginning to flod it is not truo, though Shalka- peare enid 5o, that ‘tho meanast iuscot wo may troad upon may feol a pang as koou na whon & giant dies. Quly in the monsure of the fiucucey aud fullness'of our orgauization wo can suffer pain. How miuch more, then, is » man than a shaep 7 But Inmnot trying to explain away the hurts nnd evilsof nature, only to touch some 1ntimations of this tonder meroy of God, that glenm out upou us from the durkest pnd most dinmsl hiding-placen of thoso ovils in nature and the lower lite, Af- tor a terriblo thunderstorm, when the sky grew clear aud tho wir cool, Lyther orjes: *Oh, that beautitul thunder! geo what good it has brought usf" It was this gracious instinct in this grest map which ean sep the soul of ‘gooduess in things ovil, snd the honrt we must always bring to Nature when wo want to #lud iu bor horshor appearances proofs of this teudor mercy of God. Naturo eprings hop mizjos Loneatli us, and brows hor storms apove us; her sony ar Igghed into fury, and ber shores degolnted vith drought and dlood ; hail-stones and fire camo down from Hoaven, and postilence and poisons breed in hor wwampi; Lor desorta burn or treoze, spd hor sorpents hiss and bito, yob thede are not the great wide rules of hor kingdom, but rathor quictnoss, ordor, Lo blosing ; gud gqvap through theso things t burt and alapm us thore runs this bright throad of tondor morcy. Tho desorts hnve 1t. and tho wild things which run and erawl sud fly. And 80 it i8 to mo a4 if God was saymg toua out of Henvon': Children that world of yours must bo what vou find it, I could not make the man I want in any ofbor way. You must meot stern rutblogs things fn vour flnum_oy, bat you can find in tho bardost and harshost, " touches of my Lou- dor moroy ; nud beauty and gooduess rhnu come to yon in a vast overplus agningt ovil nud pain m the vory lowest renchos of my creation, ‘L'ho gross shall b groon for you, and tho flowers sball have n goodly smell, and there shai] be miusic 'you do not mako sud cannot stop, mnd wild tungs aund ovil things sball boear in thoir ngture koys that may bo touched to nobler straing, or 1 will plant by their side ‘some gloam of " my love sud succor to keop you in hoart; for m{smcmy ondureth foreyer, ub it is only a8 wo riso from nature to man that wo find this morey growing from a hint ayd- 8 gloam tg 8 coralnty, and we can find it first amoug thoso human instincta for swhich wae are in no wnfl responsiblo, traco thom back aswe will to thoir racts and spriugs. They uro instincts thot can only bo explained on thig ground I have taken, as proofs whoraver you fiud thom, of the ténder merey of Gad. Consjder thosg clildron, not yours or ming meroly, who bave o good, Bweet chance at their shuro of blessing, bu all'childron. /hink what weplth the yory poorost and most wrotched manago to nnitel gué of the yems that como aud go, from eacly childbood to early maturity, How woundorful this world is to thom with jta endloss surprisos of ougq)'muu_l. and joy. Tho touches of touderncss that hida aiway in tho poorest liomos. Tho grace wlich comes with all * sea- sous, The power that can transmuto n rain-storm into a plonsure greater thuiv thoy got out of tho sunyhine of thoir latter days. Thet hojds out oager handa for tho frat snowflakes and siugs Lo thew'ss if thoy wore foathors from the wings of the angols, Tho glory of a alule. “Fho dauwsk rouo thoy goe jn the cup of a daisy. "Tho dainties of o tablo we sliould ‘turn from.in dismay. Tho tonted benuty of an "old_parusol. “The grace iu aDuteh doll wo do noc quite fiud in ihe sledicinu Youus, ‘Llie poor picturo-book which outvaluos tho Gallery of tho Louvra or Urafalgar Bquare; the splondid rivalry of playing Banios whicn conio in their seagons on pll gides of all tho sons, and ar as good to tho American child _as they wore to tho Egyflinn who pluyed oxactly tho samo pames’4,000 yoars ago, - Tho zosy of ‘Mother Goose aud tbp Ginnt-Killer, of impossible adventures in impos- sibjo lauds with Sinhad, of eucounters with tho lions gud tho bears, The oxquisito teudernosy of & ninid child with » mawied doll or alame bird, ‘I'ho wonderful rido on horsebauk two or threo tinos 1 o wholo vouth, ‘W'he square foot of gardon plat, and ‘the plant of parndiso thoy raino from tho soed, and the drenms awsy on to the timo whou thoy will bo men and women, b paoplo the world for thiem with noblo nresences, and sull findy joys, and are forgottan when their memory would make lifo degolate by their fail- uro to appear, This is uatire wo say, It is nature with this overplus i the soul of it, of the tondor mercy of QGod. It is the gruco of our Tord Jesus Ohrist and tho communion of tho Holy Bpirit in back alloys, and rooms 12 font by 19 as euroly ns in Buuday-sohools or mavsions kot 1 gardons by clonr rivers, [t iy tho whispor to thoni all out of Heuven: Childron, your lifo fs tobp bard, aud it may bo o wil, but its morning tido shnll Lo wweet sud fair to yon by my tender moroy, no matter what' may huppen 1in tho Lot and dusty xoow. . Ho It Is aguin whov we touch oyr maulogd. ‘Tho young man's’ dreasms are n noblo’ cstute. hat wondertul power of going aboad bocauso thapom is st onyard, and the mau mugt fol- ow. " Chat smiting of the naturg iuto graat wmel- odies whou thio'one hand touohes ue out of all the world that Lolds the socret of tho hidden mysie, Thut glamour jn the eves of the youth aud maid, which for love's make makos them caroloss of tho doubled sorrow which will como to them, and 1fts them to tho lavel of the noblg daring of & hqu aud_chil- dren, The glorious fatulity of all true hiealthful ponls by which thoy find cach other at last bo- causo the matel fs made in Hoayon before it in suspocted on carth, aud the Diviuo tonh if thoy oo truo to each othor, whioh always turuy tho watar futo wino, an s wodding-dsy that may lust bulf &’ coutus Inatinoty of uaturo we say sgain § true, but more than that, instinots of b0 within tho oyorplun of ihe tender motcy of God hiding within thom, and turning the law of lifo into tho law of love, i And then that gontlo ossiug off from tho Dardost stroko which opn ecome and doos come to us ull, That ¥weot deoeption of Heuveu by which those who Lava loast to be Lfinuk?ll]l e‘fir 810 °“f‘t thv‘mwi‘ Ahn;n‘kf,ul. lund Logo that havo egnt boay o ghoyiselyos zn ?m lmuglun’gvnl. :I.’hng cfulul inward pro- coss whioh, ag lifo draws on toward ils aloso, slacka tho cords of tho Inboruncle one by ono, sronus us from tho bronat of our Mothor Inrth, and loonona our olnsp on the bond of onr Tathior ‘lime, and Lotchos us, na o aro novor toucliod before, with tho lustinet to laok not Inta tho gravo but boyond it, That axquisito vll, 80 wovon of llonvon's own blonsiug, in whigli our dond ~appoar, which will only lot s dwoll at “Inst -on what wag bost in thoso wo love, and oan exalt the dopartod in the oart of the woe-ntricken motbor or wifo, to & place nmong the salnts,—that pormits no hell to oxist oxcopt in .tho systems of theolo, y for those of our own flush and bload, but deitly aud swootly opens hoaven's gates to the forlorne o8t nnd most hopoless of our kin, and, ne the cirale narrows Lorg, touches us with the hopa that 1t widons yonder, and waits with an o or weleomo for or coming. 'I'hia ia nature Bgaln, and not natura morely, but the tondor morsy of God. 'Wo could not win this out of tho mora Inwof lifo. Wo do win it out of & blossoming of tho law of lifa into the Iaw of love. We could not boloftso dosolate as moro naturo would loava us, and 80 wo are mot loft dogolato, but ~ from tho rudest man to tho most porfect, in all timas and in all Iands, thoro bins boon this Divino intervention to broak the harsh onst wind of fate, as tho shadow of & greas rack in a woary land, 1 notica Inst of all thas there is a graco above this inatinct, through whioli wo como to the fult rovelation of this tonder morcy of Qod, It fu that power wa find when we como to God himsolf a8 Ho clasaon Ilimself in Christ in our own lifo, and in tho lifo of thoe about us. Naturscan do anmmhlu(i to roveal this tendor moroy I have tried to touch, nnd thoao fnstincts which are rooted in naturo, and riso from that root with the flawmors of childhood and of mav and woman- hood 3 in friondship and love, fn homo and childron in the alchiomy of the spint which can cloar BwRy the dross from the fine gold in_thoso wo love best when they have left us, and now and thon whon thoy aro witl us; aud, an hioro and thors in tho Bouth to-dey you will sae & ploco of o ald bombshell filled with earth, and aflamo with verbona or somo othor flower by & coltago door, #0 by this tondor meroy tho hurts and ovils of Tifo ean bo so burled and hiddon with bloasings tunt wo havo to look at the shard to recall the 1ull talo of sorrow and pain, 'This is what Nas ture can show us, and tho powers which aro close of kiu to Naturo, nud reach townrd Hoayen, "Thoto fa & atill mora oxcallont way of touching this tendor meroy of God, and that is In accopt- Ing thoravelation of it a it ehines from our hu- man lifa In evory form of goodnoss and benuty, aud shines in full perfoction in Josus Christ. Tar, ay that f8 truo valor wiich can riso to the lovel of tho dirost misfortuno, and fight on With & courago as bright and strong as if victory was sittivg on all fho bannora; andas that in true genius which cau sos in tho common placos of lifo tho secrots of Hoayon and hall, and weavo napell outof what itsaes which shull shako tho soul to its controsa hundred or n thousand years aftor tho hand is dust that made it,—so0 that iu true faith, and truo haope, snd true love, whick, nccopring this world and lifo of ours just as it is, with jall its burdeus, can go stondily on, and find at'eyery stop naw ropson for a porfoct trust in tho' tondor moroy of Cod. " Tula wos the fuith of Clrlst, and it must Lo ours if wo would ‘towch the hoight of this gront nr&umont: aundit can be oury ag we grow into His likeness ; for, as it wos not in talking of thig, but in Leing fonder and mareiful Himsolf, that Mo founa such infinite tondornoss and mura{in tho Fathor, o, as wo aro of this quality, wa shall find in our boarts that powor_which can win through nature and Jifo, through all fortuncs and’ all oxporioncos; and 13 tha quicksilvor finds overy grain of gold in | the mud, and sand, and Lolds it fust, and at Jast rovenls tho troasuro, we can by this hoeart of Emm find this grace whorever wo turn, and ring Hoaven by it dawn to eprth, TIO THOUSAND MILES OX FOOT. Arrival of the Mysterious Fomnle Pee dostrinn at San Franciseas From the (San Francisco) Call, June10 The woman concorning' whom 50 much has been writton, a4 baving walked from Iows to Californin, prrived in this city yosterday. Aftor all tho troublo ‘and anxiety” of mind, aho wau forced to submit to tho torture of au interview by the roporter of gu evenjug paper, It in stated that when the poor woman was takon to tho bouso of o Swodish gontfoman **sho burat into toary, pnd coyering lor eyos with hor hands, phe sobvod long and lond, but wonld nof speal.” No wondor that” sho was_gratoful for hor narrow escapp from a lingering doath, Tho roportor says: “Tho fact thpt sho hoarg all that is enid to her dirsipatas tio thought that sho may bo dumb.” "This intor- mation will 'bo rocoived with gratitudo by modical men pand grammansns nu£ usad to such oxamples of incohoreney, Tho woman has light wavy halr, combed smaothly biclk from hor tomples. Lor oves pro blue and haye o plonsing “though wearied oxpression, "Her calico ‘dress bLny” beon YMvhod with cloth'of various colors, and is tolgrgbly clogn considor- mg ‘the dusty Toads sho mmst huve traveled over. From ali that can be ascertained, slo is in search, not of her Lusband, ay wus giated by one of tho nowepapors, bug of hor father, Sho wroto somo iucoliorent! soutonces ‘intho Swed- ish languago aud rovealod the fuct that hor nanio is Soplip Auguston, and that sho is 88 years of agd. ~ Cupe. Kontzor took clnrge of Lor and escorted hor to tho house of a Bwedish gontle- man, where, ab last accounts, she was onjoying a rofroaliing 8noze. Somoe shrewd fioopls sig- szost that it was the appoarance of Capt. Kentzot that strack the good womnan dump, Nover bg- fore could sho bave boheld o noble a figure. It Las not baen adcortainod whothor eho infonds wallting to Chiua ; but she is more likoly to find Lior futhor hero. She hay bad & Jong and wopri- gomo'tramp ovor rough’ roads, through narrow gapy, and over dangorous ttestlowork; aud if she bo not ‘nsmn}. #ho certainly displays an smount of filial dovotion that’'ls highly comn- | mondablo, Many absurd rumos have been sot afloat concernjug her abject in comipg here, Bome newspapers agaorted that sho wished to obtaiu & lock of her hisband's hair, or the whole scalp; but this iden 18 generally ecoffod at. Whether dementad or not, the paor cresture do- sorves much sympatby for the sullerlngs sl has undergone.’ —_— A Dapgerous Rox~Tricics Hroni the Pall Mull Guzelte, At & performanco at Lincoln, Lngland, ths other day, smong otbor fouts, a mugician, ors wonder-worker of maodern miracles," as ie waa tormed, was handouffed, placed in a large canvas bpg, sud thon liftod into & box, whichl was nut into o cabinot, Tho ‘orchodtia then pluyed an ovortiire; sid if all liad'gouo woll, tho captive in & few minatos would haye u(tr_ utod biuolf, or beon extricatod by spiritupl agency, aud lave mado his ronppoarance sittng'on tho top of the box. Fifteon muinutes, howeyor, elapaod without any sigus of tho mugiciay, aud the audience not unnpaturully becamio auxiois, “Nor “was tlielr anxioty diminishod by the sound of a voice from the cabinet falntly calling for assistance, Tho box \vas, of course immediately opened, and'a terribla sight disetosdd to view. "Thounfortunute mnu, it Js stated, was noarly dead, sud blood was obseryed gushing out of his oves and nose, A medical gantlinion forbiuately was prosent, and tho sulleror was coriveyed to the ante-room and promptly attonded to. The menager subsos ‘quently appenrad on the platform, and annouioed t‘hnz & mont cowardly act hind boou coinmitied by the man who ssourad tho box, as ko must hayo lnown something about tha working of tho foat, sotwitbstanding the chailango of £100 to auy person who' could scours the box and solve the wystory, — —_— Chickering Planos. Eversbody yhio gees angd hears thoss uew styls pianos adiits thom o bp tho vory bgat, IRced’s Tompls of Bublo, corner Dearboru aind Vau Buren sireots, ——— COonnoigseurs in Perfumes Rank bp * Phslon " wbovy the best Fruch Extracts, Plalon’s Halr Invigoralor, thosplendid long-tried Hair Tonle, Bold by ALn drugglsts, ‘Wholesalo by Van Buolsack, Slayopsen & Reld, —_— Kingsford's Oswego Bilver-Gloss Starch Gives uubstuutiul stiMiess, o puro white and glossy fnish fo Unen, obborwise unattuuablo, " PROPOSALS. Proposals For Goal, oroby Invited for dullvorlug to thy Nor- e e e dor i eriaw tp Y Nov: Eihony e Attvay Sl Uil to L dai pri to Ronidtbar to aud the baluhey et T el Bublod piovorats sy bo sont 1o 0 Dy PLANTT and 153 Bt TeAdooh-utey for o0 weck feom tils atay o gl tovoiist sy b o da 1 Horoly rosorgd, U0 i, 1874, DB AN, Yionaes Jung? fo I LWL Oummitico af Conuty Hoard of Fiducatlon, SCALES. FAIRBANEKR BIANDARD ” OF ALL BIZES, 73 PAIRDAN L, MUKSH 00 L AND 104 LaKH-HT, (=] .. AMUSEME NTS. HOCLEY'S THEATRE, - TAST NIGHTS OF MR. AUGURTIN DAT, VIS GREAT COMED WEEK! SATURDAY] Tuly 3, lnnt Bl MATIN 33 plelty Y and [eroat comody, >4 tho cast. ~ Wou for tho uily i, COMPANY, “Thoatro, Now York, day,and Thursday Kven- Diokans dramn, OLIVER TWIST! [With evory momber of the Sorneay n uaday ovening, Ji MONSIEUR ATPHONSE With ts favorito cast uly 3 for th DAV d, on I'rid; kAR Mise POIT, " Bhoridan's llod tho' Tant Nient, (School for Scandall . THE GREAT ADELPHI, yConfostedly * Mosanvofor 3 wrioty Thoatro o Ti Vory HreL i the wertd o oA8 ossuro,"" the vory first continont, Corollarys Last Wook of the Most Suocossful Season | Thia Monday—Tho Famons Extravaganes, THE FEMALE FORTY THIEVES! Tha wonderful Jackley Family, dnneo stnrs, Wayna and Lovoly, ‘an the T} Cioaras ifonon: Mo ooe sl ars, Wiy itico, u“;l:‘ur.rd |A‘l;‘l“m!“:"l 4 usiay—T.a Y 3 aneHOTINOR ol ostan, and ail tho starn, ¥odhasday—Matinvo. tho fon great song and rotls; tar o Thurs riday~onoflt of Manager Laonard Graver, MoVIOKER'S THEATRE, TETH LINGARDS. WM, HORAGE LINGARD TAINGARD, R Misw DIOKIY LINGA' M, HARDIIE aud tho onilxa Cumpang, Deilliant eombination for tha praduction o lot'a gecat Socloiy Play, In als aots, entitiod e ALIOK DUNNING 1D, sinlod by J. i fort Gatare Yosa? A TENTATION, L. (The original titla), ax nctad by tho Lingarts 13 ahts, and In Now Vork 150 fncs, undor tho tila. of o ARV rury night thinteaek apid atiunihy Slatioc EXPOSITION BUILDING, PARIS 3Y DUBUFE’S DON JUAN INTC-EXLT, AND HALDEER, Now Toature. Purls {llustrated by splondld photos &rapbion glass, thrown upon an Immonsa acrean by & POWERFUL STEREOPFICON. * EXPOSITION B Grand promenads Concert Commoncine JULY 20, Wednarday at s isio storgs UILDING, | 1y Giluore's Baud Bubsoription tiokets rondy OCEAN NAVIGATION, THE STATE LINE, ROIAL NOTIOE.—Aftor Saturday, Juno 13, tha Breamars of this Linn will b ‘dls) WEDSRESDAY uatil July 22, wii ingy, ovary WEDNESDAY, will iatened ssery altornnte on cogular yopkly aalle comnionea, STATE LINE, To Glasgow, Tielfust, Liverpool, Londonderry, &e, NIX TATI OF GLORGIA.... TATI OFf PENNSYLVA BTATE OF VIRGINIA,,. FROM PIER 36, N \vookly Sullings in A1 Ratos of parago: Oabin, 10 ar Aapie lowas by iy ficst-olisa iu or furtlier arl{culars Apply 5 Al CO." Agents, T Brmadiear: Now ¥ O AR LA S AL +vdiing 13 i, b Juno 3 Saturday, July 11 RN Y. rrenoy: Stoor. n ci . Tieaitn at Towost raton. y Ué'i‘m'ul«'zfi\v'mfl ] ew] Weatorn Agont, B0 filarkst., Chiongo, National Line of Steamships, INOTICH. J ths Company, to avold fve auil outhorly route has always boon adopted by hoadiands, Salliug from Now York. for LIVERPOOL s NS- ailug trom How Xorle for LIVEREOG Land QUE ovory SA'T Salling from N. York for L Cahbin passag &, roducod ratos. "Hutlris thcke Drafts for £1 aus), upwar atlon Shorman ouso), Ghicaio. d. . EARSON, W Northeest carmor Olsk nd Randofph llvact) avery fortnight. T g, e storn Awont, {opposits naw NEW YORK TO GARDITF, ThoBouth Wales Atlantlc Stesmship Uompany's Ny ol Cliiincbuily Stonmgine Wil frond Wharl, Jersey Qity:’ yl|r'ill PEMBROKE,... Finsiciass, Fullnoworad, 0 from T n i Rall 8all from PENBROK] GLAMURGAN June Jugo 2t Oarrsing gnods nd pas t through rat aATying gnods nd naasongors at through watas from utes ond all gthor points n ilt oxpch Canada ta’ports In the nglaud. o fei aly fur (ho (eudo, aropro. 4t improvoguents for tha ooinfortaad UABIN AND STEERAGR PASSENGERS, Tirat Cabln, 875 and $60 curro: currency, Stoerage, £3 currancy. iifiaten foom i Prepald Stoorago co Dratts lor Cland upw For further partioulars, pany's Qliicos. No. 1 ply in Cardif, Dack Cimnbers, and 1 Now York ba AROHIBALD BAXTER i mor. Socond Cabln, 85 ST 838, t tha Com- & Co. ANCHOR LINE. Fram Now York ta all Taits of Grent Britain, Troland, and Continental Jarope overy Tueaduy, Thurday, n T CAIIN from ny. fatos Ourroncy. LUl United Sight Dreafts at lowor /1. cor. LeSull K5, § SUMMER BESORTS, OAKLAND BEACH HOTEL, " Thio undlavaiinod, formorly of the Atlnntle House, Now oty 3. 1., hias takon for thio presonit sonson the Holol (T OAKLAND BEACI], WARWIOK, R. L, and will open tha saio to tho public July 1, “This Htotel fu llh:an\l\lfl;[:g:;l;n‘?;ll‘ ooy modiinds and Hght alt wator; stemn Inundrys G Jargo and gome plied with fresh olographio comunicn- s au Fonlwitlialt bointe: Sieamibent, domiunication with Prosidouce four tinos oauh we ¥ Applications by GEORGIE A, ITA7 iy, ise prompt attentlon, Tel Tt attention Teoyistonco, It. I, BAY VIEW This finely.| Mol (-d;nl{ O aoting Grunnd, will A op Honso i slinatud near tho witor; u tishiug, hoalng, olaws Liirauichout, dopot in Saco to modorate, toeatod house, situatad at Forr ning O1d: Orclined - Bunoh),: and o ond slnglossnd wil command view of thououn HOUSE, Beach, Sacn, noar tho i pon Juno 1, 18 rubnis largo aud w ASEA_U‘\‘?{IE.\_(} THOTEL, FORT POINT, PENOD. oo, ok . Ma. unt e Inrge, alry rooms, In suity or in Ao GonTort anid Govonlenen of 5 buwrlig, telograply, nows stand, guna st pipulae pricos.” 3 traveling publis twdon Buston, Portland, und 1o oud for gircul i with way, wtoin host, salt und froal batlis, o is horeby " oxta . Just camplatad; ovarsthing naw 1o, apiolally dowlgnnd (o8 “I Dol uvidod 0 P \nll’“nrdfl. livory atable,'ote. " Oron ‘gonbral’ fnvitcion to tha All stoamiors bo- ] Iand hero, . Pustootiice addreus, Staokton, Mo, "D W.RANLET, Propi FARRAGUT IHOUSH AND APDIANTIC EXOUTSH, RYE BEACH, N. H. Now open for tho soason of 1874, F torn mnruam North Hympton (itys Bosol Ntion), Whora cunolios o olegruph oflic e o B i honws, & BON, Propriotors, "CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Twalve miles from tho Villags of Catskill, N. Accogsiblo by the bost mountdfu-road fn the country, Elovation, 800 reat, aduare nilles of tha by any In the world. * Gelobrato: &nus,-fin : Temporal ol New York City, ¥ 1,80 por day, or $38 par wae + Viow, oxteuding vnn?flr e atiann: Dnonepa over nbout 10,1 for its Invigoradng at- tury 1546 20 degreos lowor than thad louso opea Juno 116 Out. 1. Buard, BEAOH, Propriator, C. L. Catskill and NMountain Btages and Ca 0 House wrringes. Visitora will plonso fnqulre for JAMES Ji IRACH, Laodiog, who Agént at Oatskill , o yion tho arrival of all Teafn L b o attundanve s, CNAGIR BRAO, Propriotor, MRS, SYLVANUS REED’S uglie, Fronob, and Garnyun lioarding mnd Day Sehoot r s g Iudies fnd litdla gir thld N Dexla nt'® . . eitt, New ol will'giass thioy ow Yark, rs will' roport & Raord s fo 6%, 1, Whon ) pitpila ehoud Enst Fifty> 0% o noxt yoar wil 0 pron- opt. 29," whon toacliors ['PWARDS PLAOE annuod, TOR HOYS AND onng tmor, * Blonkbridi eur Sont,'23, #6500 por A 2" 5unlie’ far Oulloga, Séiont Mogiri, HOFEANY YLAGK: ns., boglos its” 20t B frofuisora propare o Holiool or Bidslies Assaeinte Drincipa! BITTERS. i PLEFECILQON! BOKER'S BITTERS, SYRACUSE, 4 e deon, anrding Sohool fr Kok Ladles o Odeon, wdy e onet (e K bt Hnghsh ovnrs ag l.mll(ua 01 dar will Taca woply MADAME 0, du BLVA LIES, A eation niay bu nuyg Poskskill ‘Mlqum Acudde GALnflvi.(l\ ey HORE] Boware of Countorfolta. ~.... EDUGATIONAL. KEBLH SG i gt i At i ", usio and Drawlng, The upxt 29004 monee un Wednostin, .L’q ot 16, For Cij yin BALRY J. SAGIKRON: Speatusoc pe g — |1\ T !)E‘] i 1 ly Mrs, Ogdon Hoifmau'’s) Fngllah, it tehoul r Tovng Lok 17 Wi !Tllh’hdflu uste, N, YV o T FHOOT, N Y. . b struction gy lont and Mo . -,IHKAI)F_UII‘IVQ renoh und B e oo ey LWur al al e \'ll Lova, a1 ans 8y % Y oo Sens. 5, 1k PR ; TPrinolpals-