Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1874, Page 3

TIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY B e e ————————————————rre————————me———— e e e e e e e 6, 1874, THE PULPIT. Prof. Swing's First Sermon in MeCormick's Hall, The Rev. Robert Céllyer on Character and Genius, Dro Adler’s View of Old Testament Jmprecationss Addross By Dr. Thomas on tha Future of Our Country. Sermon by Dr, Moss, the New President of the Chicago University. Tho Suudny—School Union. PROF SWING. The First of TiisSerlea of Scrmons in Me Carmick®s Iall, The froo roligious porvicos, under the leader- ship of Prof. Bwing, about which 8o much kins beon gald of Iato, aud which Lave boen anxious- 1y awalted by thousauds of admirora of thnt distivguisbed divine who could not find even stauding-room in his cliuroh at the corner of Rush and Superior streets, wero begun yeater« @ny morning at MeCormlok's Hall, corner of Kinzioand Clark stroets, North Division, and wiil bo continued evory Sunday morning until furttor notice. Their insuguration was happily necomplished, tha oxtont aud obaracter of the attendanco at the outsct boing such as to cronto tho improssion that in & short timo thero will bo sn urgent demand for more ac- commodations than even this mammoth hall affords. Every scat on the floor and in tho gallory wus occupied yostorday, and tho actual number will hardly be excoeded when it s snid that 8,000 porsons listencd to tho sermon, It took the nudience fully twenty minutes to leave tho hall, 80 great was the throng. A liberal col- Jection was taken up duriug the services, which waro of thousnal simple charactor, The ball did not betray tho slightest attempt b oruamens tation In any park. The speakor's dozk was of tho plnineat possiblo doscription; sud at the right of it, on the platform, stood a piano, which aid- ed throo mombers of the Fourth Church in fur- nisking tho musical portion of the oxevelses, MMr. Biving'a discourso was ag follows : He bLath not dealt so with ooy nation.—Psalm exivil,, 20, ‘When days having & special history and asso- ciation como near us, it seems o duty of the hour o cost ourselves into the atmosphore of the gpecinl day, that wo may breatbe in what is hoalthful in tho possing air., Buch slaves are wo all of association that wo can think most wigely and most willingly of our country upon pome duy that comes with nntional memories sround it, ench hour being the symbol of » great ovont. Let us thon, whilo we stand so near our great national day, give it ane liour of thonght— thought made moro Rober by the sanctuary, aud by our hymys and prayera made moto akin to o worslup af Gad. Wo oan but roeall the fact that our fathers, assombling & hundrod yoars ago to Iny the found- atidu of & now State, must bave seen but little of that United Btates which now lies béfore our ight {n such vastuess of arca, and industry, and resources, Bometimes an individual stauds up whoso henrt is o Lappy, and fancy so buovant, that Lie zees more ini the future of Limaolf or lis enterprise than overcomes out of himor bLis schemo in tho subsoquent day. A more common custom of the human heart is for it to fall short of mensuring the futuro, aud to so¢ only an hum- ble outcome of what it conceives to Do humblo agoucies. 'Those who sssemuled in convention snd upon tho battle-ield 1’76 wore mon without oetry, and without vanity, and, perhaps, did not Eapn for anytling boyond a poacoful coun- try where not ull their industry Wonld go tosup- ort royalty, and where not all their laws shouid o passed by an nssembly across tho sea. Hera nmrzlmm an artist comes nlong, and puints for & great coming uge, and nay aud thon o philoa plicr springs over a contury or two, and sees b yond an intellectnul raco wbo will fully appre- cinte his privciples; but the geveral rule seoms o be that a Shukepoate writes withont knowing anything sbout the comiug greatucss of his thought, and & Watt invents without enjoying any glorious visiot of tha reartng machivery of tha yoars bayond tho graso. Under this geueral ruls, which may ba called tuo rule of huwility (and noblences i nearly always lumble) our fachers planued thig commonivealth, snd in their eerious and humble natures suw only o moderata peageful futurs, and dreamed not of & Ropublic w080 Weatern States would spread out upon tha Pacifle shore. If wo mis- take not their longings, thoy wore mors auxious toesaape o bad Enclaud thau they wara pro- phetic of & glorious America, 'I'hey ware notso much marelsug towsrd glory a3 moving sway from sbame aud sulfering. As Shakspeurs wrote lus plays without half realizing how far thoy wero gning to follow the Eugllsll lasguage, aud be accopted as the widest and wisost aud most. beautiful of all its thought, 8o our falbors worked o hundred yeurs ago without half knowing that thoy woré plaumng & drama of ara publie far beyoud nulhs‘.mm iuthe theatra of nations— 8 ar{un- tho widest, tho wisest, the most boau- tiful. A reason why wo may all the more willingly bring offarings of woralip fo Gad apon thess rational duys miay bo found in tho fact that, in lnying out such & countey as this, wa parcelve that thera must have beon komo mind groater than thnt of our sucostors—somMo vision more prophetio than thows, which &tood bealde the mortal, and iuclosod the mor- tal wiah in tha brighter design of heaven, Iloroes were ali thosa sous of the evolution, but tuey were not propbets, Muny were great in deod and in courage, and In virtito, but they coull nt bavo foresaou’ o land_reaching to tho Golden Galo, and able to_dofond itaelf ngninst all tho kings of the wide would, ITenca wo should not seaolve teliglon into auly & hero-wor- alnp, but must resorve a picco for that Being who atands back of heroes, and tranaforims their doods into uationy, and their humble thoughts futo the lifo and luwe of a continent. In Italy thore in said to be a cavorn, the Ear of Dionysius, where & wlhieper la enlarged [uto a reat whout, as thongh an army woro aiing it cluef ; and in tha Alps a short roport of thundor iu taken, and redoubled among tho mountajus a8 though there, wera & group af atorms sweeping dow.r from hosvon upon those inot hilla, Thus, thaugh great aud brave wore ho heraas of this nation's bistory, the hoart at all roliglous must feel that thejr voices and doods wero tuken up aud wonderfully oxpandod by the great providendo of God. Our national day oan bo fully colabrated only by & mind that coinbines the worship of Lerocs sud the higher woiship of God. Many stroams unite to form oach rivor, These would ba no river but for tho hany mtresms, ‘Lhus there would haye boen no such nntion fn this coutinent to-dsy hind not thore been & confluence ol streams, making of muny fountalns ona majostio flood. We must add to the moral and polltical work of '76 the great geiontitlcal and industrisl tributaries that camo floiving down from the pracileal phulosophy just gettiog # foothold in tho civilized world.” 1t is said that Chiriatianity canie when it did becanse tuoro waa then o great Roman Empire, and n grent Noman language ready to receive it, and worthy of such & lieavenly philosophv. Thus onr Independence came at a mast fitting period, for thoro staod prepured a philatophy of in- dustry and of invontion just roady to receive the goapel of libotty. Cho age whon maakiud was passing rrom fdlenoss to émploymeut, from tho &x ohnwe to commeres, from stealtng land 6 agriculture, and from the tournament to the gohool-house, wad . just announcing overywhero tho advent, and thua tho stroam of liborty about to flow fyota Bunker Hill was to havo ‘its vio- lenco augmentod at onco by thess streams of 1n- st and vention flowing from the wo’:l ot lerge, ‘Uhe idea of liborty alone, or roligion slono, could not havo yen us our groat couutry, 1t was freodom and b6 atonm (ufg.nu, roligion and Iubor, the Doc- Turution of Indopendonce; and tha rail-car that met, ond, by mingling thoir streams, mudo that uat hwnnan flood witich we fondly call Amarics, wo bloss Qod that 1o gaye us our Novolu- tion and ita trlumph, lot v also pralso Him that 1o cameo with otlior gifts also, o that tho lberty bocame only the aronn of groat aud wide aotton 10t a simplo eacapo from taxation and xings, but a flold of fro and varled nctivity, An thoro aro timas In every educaiod life when tho hemt bLocomen weary of emall things, and wicked things, and lougs” for eome higher eail- ing and nobler lifo, na evon a Bolomon flunlly roponts of his follles, and gits down to wiito maxims of wisdom, and a8 his father botors had beeoma satinted mith splondor and sin, and gave himself up to penitential paalms, sv somothing simllat cama to puss amoug nations, aud all the Luropean world folt that nu end ehould come to its dospotiem, and its Idlenoss and vice, and false 1oligion. Al tho world had becomo henrt- sick of its-mnchinory, of ite politics, of its sel- anues, of Ita lnw, of i1 relimon. Our country was not simply o land of * penitontinl pealm” sung by nll the souls that bad boon down in the dc{!!lls of sin and ignoranco. ou may assure yourselves that freedom alone did not create this Ropublic, for Moxico bognu with hberty, and Graeco was fres, and Palesting was once blessed with a Mosalo democracy. And it was not the specinl purposo and endeavor of our fathors that gavo ue just such a natlon, for its oxtont, it invontions, ito oquality, its educa- tion, nre far boyoud their droam, We must con- feen our land to bo a result of a great unrest in the human bogom, the result not of an naglm- tion for o roloaso from taxation, but of n deep rovival of practical philosoply, of sclenco, ot industry, end true religion. With the flag camo the spirit of invention, and tho stenm power that carries frecmon around, oud flings thom from Germany to thoso prairios, from Swedon to Iowa, 18 a8 valuable as the flag that wavos over thoir homes, The musio of tho * gtar Bpangled Banner” is .grand indoed, but will not make a nation unless the reapimg-ma- china nnd tho factory take up their parts in thoe symphony. An end had bogun to como to n Bo- cicty that set apars the multitude to iguorance, and the aristocragy to idleness and smusoments, Man as & being of educationand of industry was juat belng roborn. The Amoricen Ropubliosprang up just in timo to receive him, coming not with o praver-book onty, but with an engine and o telo- graph, _Two hundred yonrs soouer, the Doclara- tion of Indepeudouca wauld have boon slgnad in vain, Mankind would have gono on asof old, atudyng uothlnri‘ but Latin aud Qrook, and dreaming of notling oxcopt tho thing that had boen. 1t i8 in this finnl moeoting of many swators wo must caufess tho Providenco that lays tha foundntions of _ Biates, wbile men know it not, just as Ho built this globe long bafore buman foot camo to draw & furrow or press the carpet of grgs, Beeing, thoralore, that s meoling of groat causes bos produced such o cowntry 88 you sll rojoico in to-dny, what moral lessons: may wo read (rom such o natioual ot 7 It eoms & most obvious infereuco that such an_arens implics o reat piece to be performed, and by noblo actors. f{ vaou have all been born into tho groatest theatro floz built by God or man, and if your part is to 0 acted iu presence of tho largest sesomblago that bas vet been gathored, tha inferonce ia plain that such citizen heart should riso to an appreci- ation of the grent surroundings, and be and act in thoe wonderful atmosphere, Tn somo old book it {a handod down as history” of the elder Cyrus that his custom was to eoloct a fow chitdron from villages in his groat empiro, and ronr thom in tho paiance, whero thoy would nover_honra buse or impolite word, and, thus reared, they wauld form a company from which e could solect men for posts of duty and gront trast, Bon kept avny from the Middle and Dark Ages, and commanded of the Almighty to be born and reared in America, ought to surpass greatly the Indiun who slacps in tho Wostern Plaing, and oven the chuldron reared m tho palaca of old Cyrus, Each form of our national groatnoss implics a parablel of spiritual groatness, A {)mns that ean spread ont the thoughls of man in a moment, thatin one hour ean print papers for 20,000 readers, presupposes tho ness of these thonghts, for what s the eylinder-press good for it tho thoughts it prints are nob valuable? Tho instaut the iden is poor, tho printiug-machine i1 not ns good. s tho copying-pen of tho old Scribe of Pulestine aud Egypt, Instead of oxulting in an art that can repeat tho morning puper for a hundred thousand, uvlees the paper ‘m pood, wa must look upon the ait a3 a now form of public calamity, * And tho existouce of tho rail-ear implica tho bonorabloucss aud the usotulness of the lives which it carries rapidly from pomnt to point. Au invention that saves time i8 onlv to be commeunded as far as that timo ig valuable, It s desirablo that citizen mwove forty miles in nn lhour be- tween citics, provided his movements are to bring hnppinoss, or education, ar industry, or law- ful weslth, or rehigion to some feagment of sooi- ety. 'Thus you may cnst your thought over the wholo great seene, and you will everywhere per- corvo that tho'grandeur of the natfon presup- poses the grandeur of those bieartsthat are baat- ing undor the folds of its banger, SWo sro happy to confess tuat tho inventions of the agoe ara doing servico forpublio education aud pubkie roligion. Tho imumcnss influx of por- sous who, in tha Old World, have boon robled of education and property hasall along rendeteditn difticult task to maka this country ouo of wide- spicad educutionjond morality, The emigiant- slip has_outdone tho schoolbouse and the church, The gutes of emigration aro wider than our gates of reform. Amorica might Lave edu- cated and Christisnizod horself, "but it is too much to demand that sho shall refasbion the Chineee, and the Indisvs, and the millons com- ing in trom the Oid World, SWhen My, French Lured himself out to manage somo Irish outstes in revoit, his mothod was to £nip to Amerien all who were idle or troublosome, and from ono singlo cstata ho sont 5,000 Lo our shores, 'Iliat our land hag atood this adultera~ tion without yuin, and almoat without injury, speaks in uo doubtful words in behalf of tho power of onr moral agoucies to travsform the minds and hearts of its populace. Wo iufer from tho prosent status of education and religion, renoliod ngninst_gront obstacles, thut our rapi Prowses hitvo printed truo and useful Idoay, our rapid cars have cwrried noblo mon around upon orrands of God and Lumsau- ity.. Liborty alono could have achiev- od mno such euccess,” By tho help of inveution, and of practical ecionce, tho Stato haa Leen able to add trausformation of goul to the civil Ircedom, aud hienco ho whowould bo justto Distory must Intwine togetlior the bauner ot '76, end tho banner of scivheo, aud the still greator banner of tho eross, All through our last War all were amazod at the transfor of aumnies by rail ; such a transfor that battlos were fought by the Potomae, and behiold! in a fow doys the same tlage were pross- ing omward to victory by the Cumberland, Thus 1136 old yenra of Uauile, uch ns the Netherlands saw, or old Rlome eodured, woro condensed into months, and 8 campaign condensed imto a day. But tins_enlargement of lifo by multiplying its events Lelougs not Lo the days of war only, Vbut marks far more uobly all our'days of peaco. The monns of oducation and roligion aro thus lurried from mflun to poiut. Truthe aro car- riod from the best hearts, and aro quickly dis- tributed; and echOlurs, Btatesmen, men of seionco, men of religion, can gonvene in » day, aud dravy from oach other, not only mnew thought, Uu, what is Lotlor, now inspiration. 1le rends only one pagoe of our nation's life, who woos _nrftes puddenly osried from Fast to West, for every day tho friends of scionco, tho friends of tho public ivstitntion, the friends of tho Bunday- sehool, are gathored into one group, and granted & ** Poutocost "—un uut\murhxg of love, human and divine, ThoYuuug Men's Chirlstinn Asrocia~ tion Lias just convenod In tho conrre of w contrul Btato; great Bunday-school leadors like John 1ull are mado the prqurty of the country, their worde moting people tho sen yosterday, by th Inkes to-morroyw ¢ tho Lvangelieal Allianco iy I\um-ndluln ong city to swoop away iu anhour seo- arinn walls o thousand years in buitding. Thus not only wore Lloud-stained armics huyled from rivor to rivor, but the children of overy art, and evory reform, ond of Jesus Ohrist in all tho branches of 114 great sulvation, are carried averywhore, and porwitted to mako Lheir truthy a4 freo to nll as tho awr, and a8 widesprend as the fiolds of gruss and graln, Blessod fortuns for u, not that freedow omno, but that it came ab that moment when inventions were sbout to spring up from the bram of man, aud whon tho pintosuphy of mdustry was offering iteolt aun purtuor of the philosophy of liborty. Tho over- trow of Kigs was 1ot Balf 4o grand an event as the ovorthrow of public idleness und iguor- anco, A poor creed fn tho Churel, and an education In ouly Latin and Groek, stood in tho way of hu- munity as much as did thd stamp aok or the throno of Ring Goorge, Many-sidod is the glory of onr Ropublio] 1ts name 4 a Btate must ok lend ua to focl that ite worth has all come by the path of ropublicanism, Ly the Binto camo tho 'nhany to uot, but by education, by sclenco, by rali;lziuu. comos tho desize aud tho power 10 ack noblv, Boforo we dismiss oir themo for a year, lot us alludo to tho relutions of our lund to religion, Thore i great turmoil among oroeds, On uvery hand there is doubt and now inquiry, But it conld not havo bogn othorwiso, and it ik our owy want of forodight that brings us this surpriso. For l‘blludyunm tho public miod bad lais un- tuught, and its powors of reason undovolopad, Wo ook back upon 1,000 vosrs ot loust of neglectod intellects, sud, theroforo, silent lips and crodulous hearta, A fow persons woro ompowered to say anything, and all wers hora to bolieve it. A aivine Liook wnu interprotod ings wora bolloved by force or by birth, Mon can bo born into Mahommiedanism or 1uto Pan- tholsm, and thoro thoy will romain until domo uphonval gomes, Our” Iand, in bringiog nniver- sal education, and univorsnl froedom of thaught, brought ut onco ho poril of & gonoral new inquiry, and exposos us all to tho turmoil of & removal from “tho pnst into a future. Dut, notwithatanding tho troublo somo suffer, and tho alarm many oxpross, so soom to sco tho great roligions houso undergoing ita romoval and ropajrs without much worrow to tho fn- matos, 1t {s all the whila their homo, with good sunlight on the sill, nod frosh rowes in the wine dow. ‘Lhe great disturbanco was unavoidablo, Tho conditions which Iay beneath tho old churches—condltions of public. iguorance, of suporstition, of bondago, and of union of chitrch nnd stato—having all “passed away, the oronds thnt grew out of those condittons must nooda accopt of raview from times that havo ecscapod, in part, the cnuses that ounco wero adequato to tha creation of auch formulns and cnatoms. To mo, speaking nul{ for ane heart, it appoars that the public oducation and froedom of our Ind have in tholr rolations to Cluistianity passed thoir day of groatest coufliot, aud that s period of greator ponco is coming with tho life of Christ from tho Sormnon of tho Resurrcotion, for tho central goul of our whole religions philosophy. The groat daily pross scoms unwilling to cnst its influonco in favor of an athelsm for tho pooplo 3 they tend toward the Bermon upon the Maunt as to a reiiglous policy, and tho most ul- tra men of scienco ato more than willing to com- bino tholr theory of tho world's origin with the Cltistiap theory of tho world's ond, Bhall we dismies our themo without romarking that nothing can socure long lifa to this nation oxcopt the morality of its citizens? All tho erumbling columns of old cillos aro tombstouos polutiug out the places whoro virtuo died. _Tho raing fall B3+ swoetly upon Ikulr. eud tho sun shines” a8 gloriously thero, aa foll the rain or shons tho sun whon o hundred orators and pocts passad daily out and ip at thio Romna marblo gates, But thoso great minds aud heartsaro all gouo. Cicero, Virgt), all that long splondid roll, has passed away as o geroll whon It is rolled up, Tho cluldron of lux- ury and idloncss took tho path of vice, sud, com- ing to manhood, inatond ot taking up Virgil's harp or the aigument of Tully, they sought the am- Bmtlmauo by day, and tho glittering saloon y night. Whorever the marbla column Las ornmbled man has fallen firet, God in perpet- usl, and {he suusbive, and springtimo, and the uightingalo of ltaly oo ovorlast oy fut man sullers his glory fo be caton up by vice, and makes himgelf ephomeral in tho midst of the ovorlnsting. Bohold 1 your conntry not an arcna of elvil Hiberty aloue, but of apivitual freedom, (reedom. from ignorance, from idloness, aud from sin, It is valunblo only for tho oulturo, nud virtuo, and bappiness it brings us aud our children, The moment wo turn from indus- t17 to idlonecsg, and from God to vico, all'the cities which new exalt tho mind by thoir life and splundor will erumble o as to poiut out by thoir sorrowlnl rutng tho places whors tho soul was rufned first, . ‘Ilie flag wo love must bo porpotually cntwined with tho banners of education nud of Chris- tinnity ; tho rod stripes that emblom our State must be 1o dearor than the banner of tho Cross which ewmbloma ‘man’s virtue and Cluist's love. Well would i bo it this day of God could always come thus alongside the day of our country, for our fatberland drawy its lifo equally from Americn and Palestine, from tho life of our own fatliers and the lifa of Christ, 'I'his many-sided lifo camo npt fromany Independence Day alone, but from tho days whore seieuco began to hope, nnd whers Onristianity bogan to spenk, Our Nation ¢ame not by an act of Congrass, but by an act of God, 1t {8 fitting that thts Sunday of religion should lny its holy liowrs dawn besida the great day of lberty; and that men should go from tho Lappincss of tho ono to the sutlime happiness of the othor, aud from tlse womory of putrivls pass to the worship of God. —_— CHARAQTER OR GENIUS. Sermon by the Rev, Itabert Collyer ut Trinity * Chureh. Tho Rev. Tabort Collyer pronchied yesterday morning at Lrinity Church, taking as his toxt: And be measured the wall thercof, an bundred ind forty amd four cubits, acvordiug to thie measnro of & mau; Alat 13, of the sugol,—Kevelation xx1., 190, Thore is an idea growing up in tho miud of our peoplo wherever you turn, that the old- fauhioned Fourth of July hag scen its best days, and I think thot idea Is true. Bince I came to this conntry the tenor of the day hse changed totally, so that if 8 man should now attompt to moko such o specch ns overy man felt eallod onto make who addiessed his fellow-citizens fifteen years ago, bis spocch would be recoived at the bost with a quict disdain, 8o the old ora- cles aro sflont, the englo screams and bents his. wings no more, the flag flies to a new story, over a new race, aud beforo a ceutury has rounded itsclf from the old anniversary of tho Dec- Iaration. While men are still in the world who wero here when the sun rose ou Independonce Hall 1o witness the birth of n na- tion, the nation looks on_the time with hitio r\\lurrul}umtuub tuan England looks ou the time of rod, But while this is truo, it is not and cannot Lo truo that Americans aro forgetting those things for which this anmiversary stands, or the men who woro tho great sctors in the drama thab wag | written in Hoaven bofora the curtain lifted, and tho flrst seene opened” on tho stago of o new world. For, a8 a few weeks sgo we gaw apple treos white and crimson with blosgom, that ar- rostod our attontion and touched us with do- light 88 o Bwept across the land, while now wa have to tuke a good quet look nat thom in order to mako sure that tho wealth of their prowiso hus not gono out, and Jeft nothing but leavod, so those days, of which I saw only the fast, woro tho blossoming days of the old ora, eatily nrresting us, and, by thor laming glory, atorming our hearts ; but now wo havo to- look closor, aud with a keoner attontion, to seo whothor thore is auytliug left. And there are thiose among us, of an aarnest and manful sort, who are aboat reuady to concludo that in truth thero s to bo no fruit worlk gatheriug aftor all that teoming promiso. ’hoy say—1 have heard thom say—that wo ara driftiug back to gomo such thing as tho Futhers ransomod us from with their mosnt recious blood, aud tears, and prayers, A third erm for Prosident Grant they say mounsa fourth, nnd that o Presidonoy for lifo, and in tho end o Jing, ond a King & despot who may harry us and feltor us in & more futal fashion than wo wera ovor larried nud fottored by the King aud Parliumont of England. And the power to pro~ vent such a dienstor, boing now and always in the manhood of the nation, wiil not be found, thoy fear, whon it is nceded, because there aro not onough mon auywhere who care more for the Common wealth than they caro for thelr own privato wenith, and what it *stands for. Ican frankly eay thut tlus scems tomo to boal- together & mistake. No wuoh - thing can happen In our timo, or in any tiume to which wo can look forward, I might, aud you might, como to such & conclusion 1f the matior was ontiroly In our owu selflsh hands and honrts ; wo might then, indeed, be ovorborne by potty and loval things to the ruin of ail our hopes, but, oy n thoso troes I touched for illustration, thoro is invoated not merely the skill snd care of tho husband:nan, but the purpose and power or heaven, which, whilo the man sleops rs whilo ho wakes, works on fo the perfect fruitage of Oc- tober, from tho blossoming of June, sv hicaven bra an Intorest sbove mud bosida our own in tho finitage of this tree the fathors planted, ood must bring by its prodesting fon tho frmt from the blossom of overy troe uccording to its kind; and, as that wag and is tho plunt of Ropublican justitutions, of a wanhood ripeued iu the suu of Iaws thab are solf-made, and maintained aliko for the gov- ernmontof ull, I cannot doubt that, it such o crisis should come aa that wo onrselves have witnessed, ju which thoquestion of salvation or ruin must bo sotiled 1 the Souato or by the #woid, thon wo should see the manhood of Awmerles nsing ouco move lovol to the ocension, The now man would be equalto the new demand. And, 85 God did raso up men to spealk, and fighs, nud govern thon, jusb ko moen wo wanted, and, may I not suy, tho mon we uover suspestad, as spocially fitied for such o ciisls, o would and will again ruise up’men to maintain hiy pur- poso, aud earry out lis plan; to guard this promise for which o propirod & new world, by ‘ovidences a8 striking and singnlar as if Lo had visibly cawe out of his glorious hidlug placo, and, in words of thundor wnd strokes of fivo, hud_marshalled Lis own forces and fought s own buttlon. Tt in nono the leas truo, howevar, that, what- over tho future of Amorica may bo in_graudeur and worth to mankind, must dopend directly on oursolves, od it must again depend ultimunfy on the oternal providence and prace, Qod makes the mon, and tho mon muke the nation, and whito some will believe thac in God alone tho rout lseno rents, and othors as entirely sincero will bpliove it rests 1 wan, as if thore were nu Qad, the true conclnsion, to my mind, s, that it reuts In both, and, o fur a4 wo aro concornod in tho solntion’ of the problem, it lics in that froodom to do thig or that which nbides forever within the awrul cirolos **of proyideuce, foro- kuoowludge, will, aud fato,” through which the Abmighty bas always left imuself freo to spponl by fauoy, or craft, ox ignorance, and thoao rendor- | 0 us lu tho ono way lnv which Ho orles through ot Ilis prophota, **I hiave Aet Jifo and doath beforo you. Now ohooso life, that yo may live. And it is ono of the thoughts which aro suro to como with our great Natlonal annivorsary, and always will como, 8o long g history s life tonch- ing by oxamplo, {hnb thera is ong way in which woenn find the clow to our futuro, and at tho samo timo mako that future what it should be, aud that 14 in tho valuo wo may set on character ‘and manliood on tho ono slde, oron the other, on what we call or miscall geniusy o the n[:lou- did pnssion with whieh one man cun soy o thing, or the quiot, nualterabla quality through which another man ean be what his follow citizen snys, For, it you will conslder for a mument tho real substanco of that story of tho birth of our Na- tion, and tho porll through which it has passod, you caunot miss tho conclusion ‘which other Ropublics show In thelr ruin, ours ghows, so for {u lior estabilyhimont, that gonius 1a tho ligbtning, while charactor s the hoarthi-fire of such & nation as ours; charactor tho solid foundation, and geniua the exquisita flavoring of tliar and domo, that muat abuddor down to dust I’r thore ia no immovable substauce ta rost npon fu tho hiddon recosdes that take nold of ‘tho golld world, Genius 18 the fina sweap of arch and battlement, and character the keystonoe ; ory 8 in the bridge thoy oponed yoaterday in our sis- tor city, tuogroat, agxmru Dblaska down below tho tumbling wators and tho shifting eands, but for which tho wholo worth of what they have so nobly done wonld bo by this tumo whelmod in tho yellow flood. In our Rovolution thera wore men of charao- ter, and mon of gentus. Ench {n their own way took a prominont part, and hero and thoro a man who in lis nature conbinod hoth thoso qualities, nud this timo we nre forgetting in ono way, wo arg romempering in another, becauso cach mag i lifted out 'of tho passing time intd tho stilt hooven in which ho must stand forth for tho gazo of all thy ages, And now tho man of char- nctor who had no genius, is unspeakably mors procious to us, aud was beyond all measuro moro valuable to the nation than the mau of gaulus who had no character, on which thoso about bim _could depend na luu‘y would dopond on ono of Nature's primal laws, ~Wo 800 men in those days who wero able to fascinate sll who heard thom with the grace snd glamour of tholy spocches, or who, by their personal progence and magnotism, wou thousands to thor standard, or who ou tho battle-fleld fonght with such a dash- ing vator and unquostiounble genius that they wero Lisiled nt first na tho hieroes aud eaviors of tho struggling peopls, and others whocould only toll & plain tale of facis and figuros as true an tho return of thoe sun, and as casentisl, who had no special porsonal popularity and no following excopt that they wou by & motbod as quiot sud clear 88 & sum in _arithwotio, or who as soldiers like Washington could show no gonius for iighting, only for never @wing up the Hight, iu_the contral citadal of a Houl 130 disaster could storm ; mon vou could do- pend on whorevor thoy went, aud whatover tho might do, 88 g0 much cloar, bonost manhood, good a8 wintor whoat or pure gold, Aud now what is tho end of it all as the con- tury draws touscloso? Theend I8 this: That while we give tribute fo all the gouius of that day In tho fall rato of its value which kept tselt cloan and trme, wo glve our Inghost homage, our hoart's best rever- once, to the modest, steady, unflinching men'who did tho work which must bo dono by the might of their singlo maulicod; and were through and through the mun behiud the word and deed. Wo havo to100, also,now tho mists have cleared away, that tho venson why we give these mon the bighest placo lies in the trutbs that they were of uil tho men in their duy tho most indispousable, ‘Cho Fathers might #omehow huve worried sloug without the mon of geujus, but witbout the mon of character tho wholo movomont would have endod at last In disnster, It was on theso the new-born natfon dopended iu hor durkeat sud hurdest days for the powor to pull turough, and stand at Inst cloar all hor ' poril, Thewe ilashing, tlaming follows, with thoughtas that broathe an words that bury, have thoir placo, and do their work, but the most solid aud sorious work iy due by the stendy substance of houesty and fu- tegnty, and of this the people themselves ara ot Iust swaro, and trust the most gacred thivgs to thie clean, strong hapds. : Out of tho wholo struggle, thon, this qualily T enll chinractor stunds forch ab hast us tho one grent thing nothing can alter. Other meun havo their eliques and partios ; these havo the peopls about them, as boes gathor about their quecn, and then all is over. = Tho ono man who, of all who fought the good fight, showed this quality in tho ‘most . molid and pers feet ~ fashion, had ~ nokb only “the heart of tlie nation with him, but the real heart of the world, Aud thiy is the losson for tho day, the word tho old tinio sends to tho now, that charnctor rather than genius was what tho Father hold on to st last a4 the esscatlal thing, and trusted us thoy truated God, ‘Lhat was tho ultimate roason for their victory, and if wo will hold what they have won, wo must follow after the same rule, and miud che sawe thing. 1t is not to bo doubted, once more, that ono of tho most dengerous and fatal elemonts in all the Ttopublics which have como nnd gouo before our own, has been a popular preforouco for genius, or the semblunco of genlus, over character. Moy who had no roal weight of mawhood, but only tho power to say or to do things in nway that would cateh the popular oye and heart, huvo become the leaders of »tha peaple, and led them on to tho ruib of their hope, so that, from the days of old Grocce to tha days of the first mpire 1 Fianco, thia has been tho story of all Kopublica which bave had & name to live, and are dead, But they, again, I do not think it would ba bnid to prove that tho reason why this came about wus not #0 much in the glamour of that gauius whioh could cluteh s Kingly power at last, and orect a throne ou tha ruius of s Common- wealth, as it was [n tho debasemont of tho people which could permitit, and that debasoment only showad 188 ultiumte outcomo in that way, while {n many ways it bad already shown its quality. And'so 1t is that, if on this day wo want to guoss wlap is coming 80 far 48 W6 are cot- corued, tho solution of the problem does not lie in vast philosophical speculations of tho dritt aud tendency of natlous ond races ; it lies in closo persoutl applications of this trath 1 bave tried to touch, of tio way wo look at character in comparison with what. we cell or mixscall gouius, not merely 1 its rolation to tho wolfare of the uation, but of the most Iocal und porsonnl things wo bave to touchh Because that is not +gouniua alone which cau captivate us with thoughts aud words. There is n onjus lor woney-making, for speculations in usinss, and politics, aud. roligion, for every- thing, ina word, wo can talte Lold of in our dully life or {n our higher lifo; naud wherevor we tura the question faces us ag tho ouo essontisl clo- mont in tho problem of our coutinnance as & sound and stroug uationality, which do you pro- ter in tho coro of your bienrt, the splendid fasci- nation of suying aud doiug, or the honust sub- stauce of beiug. Is that man your idenl in Lusiness who bya fow grot strokics makes a fortune, or that men who for forty or fifty yours, quintlfl u8 tho seasous como and go, builds up bis man- hood and his fortuno togethor or faily to build wup bis fortune, bub rotwes in his oid nge with o character clean and pure as tho unfallon angot in Miltow'a epid. Whioh do you tall abuut ut your firsnide Lo your sous as their pattern und inspiration, aud which of theso are you fu your own moasure yourself ? Does your ronl heart flume’ whiols blinds the' oycs, or tho stoudy glow which warws and works forallnoblouses? Aud do you, mothets, talk to your duughers about those women who dress und whirl in the voriex of fasbion, and muke sploudid mutehos which ond 56 ofton in empty and cheorless homes, or thoso who with quiot Womauly endauvor seok tho livos of duty and usefulnoss, and then leavo the rest to God ? Orin poltics do you tollow and msintain the mun who oaros not whothor the ovuntry sink or swim, 50 thut ho can bring hig sliowy, fonguy gifus to the bost markot, aud soll them for what thoy will bing, or do you cloave to tho man who has nothiug owpeciuily to com- mend hun bug the simplo manful ~qualitios known and rend of all ?—tho taloutod nmun who meroly esys things, or tha honest wan you can trust whatever happeus ne you trust oternul vorities 7 Or here'in our chuirchoy, whoro as I bolieve thio most esnonusl ossence of tha con- duct of Nfo1sto be sought for aud fouud, that man greatcst and bost to yon who can make you drunk onco a weele with thoe flash and flame of eloquent words, and draw you to him a8, In tho story, the mounteln druws tho ship, by his personal ninguetism, or do you hold buok, counting (hese thivgs at their tiue' wortl, but sthll counting a prece of houest, gonuine man- Lioud Ay move than the tobgues of mon, and of augels with that left out ? I confuse that 1 for ono have earviud w snd hourt 1 my broust us 1 hiave watohod the drift of theso Hilngy in oon- nection with tho flist proachior on the plancy for o good wiule now, sud cspecially for the lnst twonly days, sud the sadness hag lnln in tho fact that he hitself should Liositate, or kcem to liest- tate, for ono moment sbout clearing bis chinractor from 8 cloud which must bo ns fatal in tho oud to hus geniu it Lo doos not send tho cool, freo winda of truth and verlly - flaming through it, as olono Lot mists ro to the wheaf at the turn of larvest, God help tho doar troubled soul of him! I kuow what worul work it must be, lot the truth lio whoro (¢ will, to do this; bu it s not now a queation of ano poron, or two, or ten; {18 8 question which touches the nution, utl the whole Ohrlaan world, The aloud that sottles to-day on Plymouth pulpit, sproads its dark wings over evesy pulpitin our g0 out aftor tho flash and Inud, and the wondar whothor. there i8 a ub- sitanco of truo manhood touching Mr. Jeechor, tottches us nll, o' that if the worst any man oan fosr should wrove -to bo true, aud that I do ot bellovo, still thaso doubts and surnises aro worso thinn all, ero, thon, s the word T say: Ilow moar aro wa that broforonc for character ovet gonius Whicli wan ot thie teart of all when tho nation ©amo throurl hor first fight and was cstablished 7 Iayo wo that wisdom tho Fathors had, and ava m:nnmf i$ in our homes, ont businoss, our politieal, and our religious lifo? In renlity, hon- osty, tho man bohind tho word, the great thin; tous, of Ia tha grentor thing that glnmour o Apeech or deed whivh has no “manhood within if, aud do we care miost for chnravtor or for the splendid powor which oan lond s at its wiil, and do with ua what' such powor has always done with popular governmonts, when it has bad froo courso, and beon glorified in tho popular henrt? If thors s to-day this proforenco for tho substauco over tho shadow, a worship of wortha which has pothing but ats onn quality Lo commend it ovor all semblances which bave no Aucli quality, thon wo are 50 far aure of our fu- turo, and whtlo this heart is in us tho day tan novor como when the hope which rose with a onoration will go out 1n o despotism, and tho blood and tearw of tho Futhers and sons of the Ropublio b lost In tho dust of ruined hopes. winted to to ———— OLD TESTAMENT CURSING. Bermon by tho Rev. Dr, Adlor In tho Wabash Avenue Nynagogios Aftor reading the two able discourses deliv- ered by the Rov. Dra. Bwing and Kohler, con- corning tho cursing usod in the 109th Pealm, it 8till may not bo unintorestivg to hear a third voleo In the following sormon, delivered by the Rov. L. Adlor, fn-tho Synagogue, cornor of We~ bash avenuo and Pock court, relating to tho Bumo Bubject, of cursing used in tho Holy Writ in general, Thoit shalt not curas, Elohim,—Fxodus, xxii,, 28, To tho anclents the curse was a houschold word in heaven as well as on earth.” Tho Gods cursed o8 woll as men. Curses wore not thon mattora of jest, nor wore thoy used in the mere outburst of an excited mind; thoy were usod with full ronlization of their mesniug, aud with an abiding faitl in their ofteacy. Dalak scnds s rogal embagsy to purchasoe from & profesaional curser & powerful aud destructive curso for tho annihilation of Isracl. B ‘Tho Holy Writ, to bo understood by the peo- plo of its time, must necds bo written in the language of thst time, Ionco, tho earth is curaed in punislunent of Adam; Cain reocives a ourso; Noah curses his grandobild ; Jacob oum- es his cildren, Tho onthe of David in the Pgnlms ara full and strong ; bis oursing of Joab is moat foarful, Elisba pronounces a curso over his mecvant Gehuzi. -Bolomon tosohes, “Do not take it nmiss if othors curse theo, for woll thou knowost how often: thou hast doue so to others," thus neknowledging in the curse ono of the customs of tho'day. llehns worda of worning agaiust tho cursing of Kings and nebles, even in tho most secrot chinmbers, be- causo evon tho birds of the air might * becomo irsitors,” But other objections to the practice of cursing do not seom Lo havo occusred to Bolo- on, 2 I'ho Talmud continues this prantice of cursjng oven upon the most trifling provocations, The chirdo {8 ovon nsod ns an ald in thoadministration of justica, 1r on o trinl one of tho parties took advantago of a technica) dofect to break agiven pledge, the Cotttt wars to punali €16 rasoal with 1o surse ¢ ** Ho thut punished tho gonorations in the timo of tho déluge, He will punmish aleo them that Drenk their words,” Only the celebiated witoof tubbi Mein,deems thia practico a godioss one. o curde signifles to pray to God to iujure the hated ono to tho fialt oxtent of our deeires. The ourso g therofors s form of prayer. Undor theso circumstances this prolibition of tue cucliig of ““ Blobim” wne o narrowlng of the bounds of o wide-sproad ovil. Another passagoe ‘[I)roliuhltn tho cutsing of one's pareuts and of the enf. _To-day thoro 1a not as mnoh of prayer, in the highor accontation of the tern, nor is there as much of tuat Jower kind of praying, breaking out in o curso, Even the Iopea—once unap- pronchablo in the use of the prayer of angor,— 1eel themselves compelled to hidothe velemenco of ihelr cuiges in more modern phrases. Poo- pla of iutelligonce no longer betiov it tho loflu- enco of the curse upon tho fato of man. Tho cur:6 of to-dny is but the outbreak of s vulgar mind provented irom violent acts, or not yet aulliolontly aroused to resors to viotenco. Socio- ty bas banisbed tho curse. For ‘us the word is stporiluons. Our only nse forit 18 inita onabling us $o.understand the ancients. Thousands of years were roquired to clvilizo tho tongnes, and o0 far eolighten the minds of men as to destroy thio belier in tho efleacy of curging, Low furare we from tho timo whon the minds of men will be sufliciontly onnoblad to forget the fuclwrg which once found vend in oursus 2 Bus who is the * Elohim” whom our text comnands U8 not to ctirse 7 Our Rabbis tolls us it is God. 'he trausiation of the Biblo by Pnil- ipson foflows this vorsion. Othor sages trany- lata it ** Judges,” and@ with_thom are Moudol- solin, Zunz, and others. Philo and Josephus render it * the Gods.” In accordauce with this lnst rondoriug woe are to abstain from cursing religious gystems of every kiud, no watter how erroneous thoy may seeni, As the word Elohim " may bo undorstood to have varlons meanings, 80 also ** thakallel,” the Hobraw term for ‘s curse ™ in our text und tho xecond word of our text, may signify calumivas tion, or any uttorances of disrcepectful langusgo, a8 well a8 actual exoeration or sursing, In tlng day's dissortation we will treat our text in all of these nccoptntinus{ namoly : tho torm * Elohim " ag *‘ God," a8 " Judges,” and a8 " Gods.” Aud so the terin “ thaiallel " an ‘eurao " and as * disrospectful * uttorancos,” Who is more frequiontly traduced thmn the Bue prome Being ? Compluints againat fato, fault- finding with Providosico, giving way to oxcossive gricf and dospair, all are, in offect, oursing of God. The discussion of tho aftributes of the Deity has heen poing on thesa six thousand yonrs, Twelve bundred million individuala have been engaged 1 offorts to determine tho existenro, the nature, und qualitics of God, somo itolli- gontly, othera without reason or understanding; doms tilled with awe snd reveronce, others .in idle frivolity and reoklossuous, But tho fact that tho name of Godis intho moutha of all cannot bo doniod, Bpealt not lightly of Gad, do not mingle his name with your jests or your sallies of wit. Words which, when applied to man, may bo tho most harmlevs ploasantry, bo- como, when n{)pl[ed to God, rauk blasphomy. Disgraco not the belief in thy God by supersti- tion. Do nob think Heavenn tobo ruled by whims, its decroes omauating from trifling cansew, such as if applied to tho munngoment of thy houso or the povernment of thy State would diggeaco thom. 'Lhore is many an Israolite who is unawaro that bo frequently brings disrepute upon the belief in his God by his ridiculous fanr of providontial [uterforence, not based upon tho course of naturo; by Lis beliof in the infin- ouce upon events of spirits and angols, of the intorcossion of the dend for the lving, and of :.lhu {:mnnuy of tho prayers of tho living for tho lend. Ervery Israclite who, by bed conduct at iome, in busiuobs or in socioty, becomes obnoxlous to ,bis non-Jowish noighbors, brings obloquy upon liis rellgious beliof and upon his peoplo. Ifis guilt fulls upon his faith, upon the.God of his beliof, ‘I'ha second intorprotation of the word ** Blo- him,” g8 sugnifying * Judgos," also Justifies a spocial probibition of the outsing of - the sauto, evon in our days, In all communibies the Judges and the authoritios in general ara apt to be in conflict with tho deslros of the peoplo ; pattiouburly s this tho case among the most abundoned classon, and thus the Judges are the more oxposad to our:os, improcations. und de- famation. Tho malignity of the attacks npon the ropresoutativos of justica by tho many whoao evil passions are vurbod Dby its strict ud- miulstration becomos greater in proportion to the incrense of eneryy, faithfulness, and inpar- tinlity in tho oxocution of tho laws, aud more partioularly undor a repuiblican form of govern- wenk, where the existonce of politicul parulen 15 W nocosgayy ovil, acting as & mutuul gusrd and chock ; the Lonor of the judicial ofticors nud of the suthorities at larga is constantly exposed 10 the most scurrilous attacks, DBut tho respect folt for tho Judiclary, tho honor in which aro held tha courls of justica, nre wmattors of vital importanco to tho main- tounuco of onr social system, The publio rogard for lnw and justice is Indioatod by tho hunor psid the judiciary. Thou ehult not ourao or malign tha judiciiry. Do not joinln the chorus of the traducers of onr public authoritiey uudor the guidunoa of party funaticlsm, Treat thom with impartinl rogurd, und with the (hor- ough convidoration that should be givou evgu to the most trilling matter, And finaily, the Listory of the world, the story of our dmty oxperionce, ns woil ns un intelligent considoration of the subjoect, prove how woll jus- tiliod iu tho probibition of tho ourumg of * Ltlo- Bl in the wonso of the ** Gods " or idols. The story of the propousity of mun to utieck the' conbioienaes of othiers, to moddlo with the Gods, with tho eliof, the walvation of aihurs, is weit tenn tho book of lustory with & pou dipped in ynlnon hlood, and gall, whethor tho recoed is Iint of Intorforchoo and nseault by the law, or by the mword, or even in tho potty attacks, sortous or nnlhiunl, of spooch and pen, What is the bearing of the Mosaio law in this quostion 7 Mosos prolubits idolatry smong the childron of Isrmol, aud appoints most sevoro poualtics for tho ronogades from the servieo of ho ouly Qod. But ho 1s not untriondly to tho honthen eroplo round sbout Ierncl, nordoes he command their perscoution on account of their Tailncioun boliofs. Iie oven apologizen for thom, saying that * God had permitted thom o todo.” (Dout., 4, 10.) Ie givos ng the reason for tho command to oxtirpato tho Cannanites, in caso thoy shiottld lonvo the lan,d—thoir gonersl de- bagoment aud demoralization. ‘T'lio golden rulo given by Moses to Inracl for guidanco in the doalings with the professors of othor religious bellofs is * The yames of sirauge Gody yo sliall not montion; thetr names shail not Do boitd Irom thy lips,” Horg Mosea prohibits all disoussion of idolatry, whothor in a feioudly or unfriondly splrit, Traducing his God and his religlous belief Is tho greatost griovanco wa can inflict wpon ont noighbor, Thore is no way of dolng bim n greator injury than by causing bim to loso faith 11 his God,—ovaon 1f a falsc one—unleed, impelied by his own reason and conviction, he voluntavily abaudons hls orrors, A man doprivod of his belief in his God Iu shattorod in his ontire moral naturo, He luaen faith in bimself, has no more beliof in, or respoct for, nu[fixc that is sacrod. It were unjust to forget the blossings which ro- lglous boliofs, evon erroneons oned, havo con- fercd upon mankind, Ilistory tenches that tho declino of publie wnmhl)i':, aud tho contempt of the Gods, wero_ slways followed by corruption, iminorality, and licontiousness, and that States foll and onded upon ,the decline of respoct for Dlvino anthority, When the giddy youths of Athens had malmoed tho utatucs of tho Smlu tho disruption of tho Siato woon followed, Roligion was tho_ first toncher of man in the regulation of politics, morals, and soclety, The roligious systoms of old woro not always trao, foving, and encoutng- ing mothers to culturo and publio mornls, bint still thoy wore thoir mothors, How mon and avents would have sbaped thomsolvos without roligion, wo eannob comprehoud, for roligion ling ruled tho hearta aud spirits of mon from tho day of the crention. ‘Tho Christianity of the MIDDLE AGER appeara to have boon the most bloody and gloomy of all ml(fi,kmu systoms, Iub it roquired 8 wild, and_torriblo, and firm a belief to ruln the stil} wilder and mora terrible Fenpln ofan ern dark with ignorance and superstition. We nbido now m tho midst of n community which woiship the Tiiune God, We beliove in tho Only Ono, In tho Ltornal God. But wo are tiob to traduce the Gode of our ueighbora, We aro not to auger or agriove thom by attacksnpon tholr faith, Nor must wo dony that this partiily erroucous bolie? has, and i still, producing great bledsings for mankind, Mow many find rost and conaolation and their groatest pleasure in it; many bearts have been and still ave boing softened and humsmzed by its agency, Much that is evil romalus undone, Much of good is dono in - cousoquenco of this faith, and the causo of knowlodgo s stoully IlLlIauhl by its schoola. Aud indeed, in Jewish circles, a barsh criticiem of the Christian roligions systom s a rarity. Fow of the rules of Mosos meot with moro” strict complianco thrn * Not oven mention ehall yo the namoes of strange Gods; ot their names not bo heard from thy lips.” The more deplorablo then are the exeop- tions to this rufe, but which ave recoived by tho Cbrigtian world as ropresontatives of the thonghts of our community, I refor tothoso Inraclites whose exposures of the weak poluts of tho Chritisn doguna wud of thelt reprovants- tiva writings, published constantly in poriodicaly devoted to Jowish interests, and procinimed in leoture-halls nud synngogues, koop this matter before tho poople, It i3 not our bolief that learned searchers for truth should bo restrained from publishing tho results of their rosearch in tho flelda of kuowledie for fear of hurting the fealingsof thaworld. Bat tho result of tho manner in wlich theso subjects are placed before the poopla is that, instond of boivg recolved e the sonult of neutsal and impartinl study and fnves- Ilfinhon, they are considored evidencos of Jow- iub hutred of Qlwistians apd Clriatianit Israchito takes no Flonuulo in such disquisitions ; tho enlightencd Clirtstian has no need of thom; thoy ara & gourco of anger to the, devout Chrise {ian, and if hio should’ be narrow-minded, and still'sbaken 1 hia faith, thoy would do Lim in- calculabla iufury. The curse ia nolonger heard, The teachors of roligion necd no longer avtack this vice, which any one capable of shume is sure to shun. But vituperation, malignity, and enlumuy still live in various shapes in their former strength, Dofamo uot our God. Do not speak lightly of divine truthe. Spesk the uamo of God ouly in awe and voueration, Calumniato not tho public nuthoritics, Do not lower thoir reputation b; thoughtloss, uuvjustifiable fault-finding. And, fiuatly : Traduce not the Gods, Lova thy Drother with all bis orrors; honor thy brothur by treating rospectfully his 'roligious viows, and s0e in his roligious boilef a hodgo, ovon s Ledge of tharng thut inclukos aud proteciy bis moral- ity. Awen, —_— OUR QOUNTRY’S FUTURE. Address by the Rev Dr. Thomns, of the First Dethadiut Eplscopul Church, The Rov, Dr. Thonias, pastor of the First M. T, Church, corner of Washington and Clark streets, deliverad tho following address, porti- nout to the Fourth of July, yestorday evening: Tho sontimont of patriotism s oua of the higher and botter feolings of our common na- ture. It slways Aluds approval in our conscious- noss, nad never faila to commaud tho respect of mankind. Wo love tho peoplo who lovo their country. This love of country is not something dufforent in kind from the feelings we chorish for our familica and friouds, but is rather tho same prineiplo in {ts bronder and mora inclusivo forms. Wenll Legin hfe by loving ourselves and our parents, or thoso who have tho care of us, aud the brothers aud eisters of our own family. When we grow up a littlo wo becomo attractod to our playmates, aud & fow years later to our nelghbors, and later still wo take in somothing of thoe idoa of our town and Sinto, and we come to have a fooling of attachmont for them,—aud from this we rise to the love of our uation and aur country. In the love af home, to which I bave alluded, thezo fu not only tho lova of paronts and Iriends, bus also tho love of the house in which wo were born, and tho green yord and shaded lawns whors wo plaved; of the orchurd and mendow, tho field and the woodland whero wo labored, and the stronms along whose banks we wandored. And o iu tho love of country thore s a foollig of kindness, not only to its people, but also for its soil, its eonory, its mountaing and its sivors. 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