Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 13, 1874, Page 3

THE PULPIT. The Salvation of Virtuous Heathen, Dr. Swazey Is Convinced that Thero _ I3 Nope for Them, The Rev, Mr, MoKaig's Iden of the Work of Oity Churches, Sermon on ¢ Pardon” by the Rev. Dr. Messing. The Rev. Mr. Errett Gives Some Good Advice to His Congregation. The Bishop of Yown Preaches on the Power of Miraclesg. Address by Mrs. Van Oott. SALVATION OF VIRTUQUS EEATHEN, Sermon by Dr. Ar Swnzoy, of the Ashe Taud Aven Chureh, The Rev. Dr. Arthur Bwazoy praached a sor- mon to the Asbland Aveuuo Prosbyterian con- grogntion, on ‘ The Probablo Balvation of & Virtuous Heathon,” yestardsy morning, at tho Bwedenborgisn Temple, cornor of Wost Wash- Iugton stropt nud Bouth Western avenue, from tho following toxt : But in evary natlon he that fearoth Iim and workoth, righteousnces 18 necepted of Him, Acts, X., 35, It is natural for good mon to nsk, with no littlo onrucatuoss, what shall bo tho fate of othors ns woll ns of themselves, It {a nsign that tho roots of a univorsal brotherhood aro alivo when thoso who have hopo towards God through Jesus Christ would, if it wero poesiblo, 800 80ma ray of light fall ou the multitudes who have nover heard nny word of prophot, or any tidings of tho Gospol salvation. ‘Wit s in storo for the hoathen, and capeclatiy for thoge among thom who have sought aftor God, and, according to tho light in thom, hove practiced tho vivtues of life? Aro Penelope (it thoro was such a porson), snd Soorates, and Aristides, and Onto, ond the not inconsidorablo zirolo of wiso and good men outsido the covonant of Iarnol, snd ignorant of what we call * tho grace of God in Cbrist Jesus,” shut out from tho boritage of & blossod immortality 7 1 will not atterpt an oxhaustivo, or aven a comproheusive, discussion of this groat thome. I will onlymake a fow suggestions, which, as I thiuk, iudicate a Proper answer, How much can we infer from our knowledga of the goodness of Ged? Wo use vain repetitions, 'Wo impoge on ourselves, wo run into ervilo au- perstition when wo eay ** God it good,” when we ndore Him for His goodnows, and call upon the wholo world to admire His goodness, un- Ieas ot tho samo time wo have somo rolinblo fden of goodnoss, unless wo renlly honor God for Hig goodness, insteat of atmiring the goodness be- auso it bolongs to God. That I8 to eay, God commands our admiration and gratitude beenuso Ho possessos an attribute which in our oyes, in tuo judgmont of our hearts and _consclonaos, is ocoducss, ‘Iho atandard of judgment s in ue, i our knoweldge, in our minds, or wo are sensic- less childron, rcg)nnling only what wo are muliht, when we Join with the Pealmist in saying “ 0, how great is 'Thy gooituess," *The oarth is fall of the gooducss of the Lord,” *“'I'hon crownest tho year with Thy goodness,” 1f, therofore, wo have v ourselves nu iden of goounoss, aud if, also, wo are sure that God is good, we have, nol n senti- mental or fantastic, but o solfd gronnd for infor- onco with rogurd to the dostiny of men. Our romsoning is of wneoessity full of limitations, cud i8 always labls to error when ' we go into doinil, but there i8 no reason to doubt that it sots us lool- Sug in tho right direction. When wo proy for the hoathen nnd organizo misslonary agoncies to bring them to the knowledgoof Gud, it is by a xight impulse, and becauso, away down_in con= wvictions that betoug to our worship of God, we sco no remson for aanonmg that God is onr Futher moro thau their Father, or o good God to us whon He is not equally a pood God to them. I cannot bo euro thata good man will not differ with mo s to what course of action is sood, but I oxpoct thot we shall agreo so far ag wo undorstand ona aucther, ‘Wa caunot infer justly that every human bo- Ing will be waved, becauso our reasoning is shiockad by what we observe in men's hives, and by tho overywhore-prescht analogies of the natural world, In ather wardy, te sea that mou go from bad to worso, that evil bacomes a torrible law, that sin hes o tervific downward pitch, that uander certuin conditions hope of ctange, of eal- vation, lessens rather thau increases by thelapso of years; that mauy ave slways rubning tho mold for a dostiny which every day makes mors robable. In roturn we are coufronted with mrge nreas of waste. TFecnudity is far boyond actual life, The things that survive aro a prac- tieal part ouly of the Wholo. A lundred blos- oma fall from the tree where oue bud dovelops to fruit. Out of & bundrod buds formod luto fruit, only o part rezch full maturity. ho fluhes spuwn by 1willions, the groater part of thom awim out in thoir firat exoursion where they aro maude food for other fish, l'hore is ns much tendency to belug which does not reach renl boing among animelsns among trecs. A lurgo port of evorything perishea by the way. Aud yot, to our viow, tho world g full of tho plory and tho goodness of God. 1t noed not sur~ prise, indeod it may coms proporly into our iden of the gooduess of God, that "huinan Jife, tho beoing of man, should be subject to the same law,—that not all should reuch mnturity, that pany an mdividual life should bo like a_wasted blossow, or a windfullen, or & guarled, ora worm-eaten spple, Put tho mattor in gomo such form ag this, and tho idea that God is love, that His gooduons on- dureth forever, doos not contradict the unwel- come thoughit of the peril, the porishabloness, $he actual fuilure of many who are born into the world. Let tho matter be sot in anothor light : let it bo conceived thet God arraigns men with Bovority for not Lelieving on Ilim of whom they bavo never board, or tlhit ho Iays to their ac- count @8 & crimo for thoso to expiato what our apcestors heve done on their represontative, or huve fransmitted to thom; that God depls engrily with them for stumbling in & night so dark that thoy could not sieo & house bofore them ; prosent the mothor aa though God sets the judgment, and dawwng mon for tho ignoyanco and wrotohadness for which they are not individuslly yosponsiblo, and from what thoy coald not oxtrioato thiomselves ; and othors may think what they will. 1 secin stch & concoption of the divine governmant nothi good, and indecd nothing which iy not in dir ‘{ opposition to all thut any human being cau con- colve of s#in any way good or related to goad- u;ma. I thiorofors dovy tho truth of any such viow. : It must be allowed thet God may do what Ho will with His owu ; that Ho 1any mako ono vou. sel unto Lonor, and suother uuto dishonor, ag- cording to His b 1 &n injustice, caunob couviet & man of orimes ha nover did, and, as & judge, punish & man for any evil not prosured by his own porsonal and uu- questionablo guilt. Tt is His prorogative tomake ouo life more full, more honorable, doopor and wider, and moro enduring than auother. Here- in is that sovereignty of God of which you and I bave no right to cowmplsin, though we bo like n windiallen spple. It s far, vory fur difforout from & judicial sontonce in whioh tho court inquires mnot of the merit or blama of thoe arralgned, but muinly of its own predotermined will. The formor cou- ception may conswt with God's goodness ;' the Iattor is n st agaiust & ronsonablo soul, n Llus- phemy agaivst God. Tn other wouds, goodnous tloes not roquire that the same thing bo dous for one man which it done for anothey; but it does yoquire that ovil judicislly intlioted bo aceording to o roat, downright, aud not & wrong, couatiuc- tlvo ill donert; thut the same law of judgment be regarded in deuling with the Lioathon as with the nowmiusl Christian, If tho Christinn is deomed fl& for eternal lifo beoause e has done what ho could, or, at loast, 80 nently Ko as to in- dicato loyalty to God, tho sowmo law wmust hold with the heathen who has been equally faithful to the light that ia in him. And, as I know no ronwon for thinking thav many upright Loathen aro, or huve boon, less faithiul to thelr knowl- edgo and oppostunities than nomiual Christiaus, Iknow o roason for doubting that i large pro- rtion of those that seem upright will bo found mbo rightucus in the eamo souse in which any ropenting sinuer Iu rightoous; .that s to say, bearing iu thow tho sced principlo of truo right- | entiso, without Inowing whero thoy found tho key, ohest ; but even God cannot do- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 13, 1874 oouanoss, the heathon as woll ag tho Obristinn, Dy, tho spirlt nnd graco of God, ‘Wao may infer from tho goodness of God that o will tredt the bostuon aa fnirly and as loni- ontly na the Ohristian, and, morcover, that God {6 nd lkoly to bo Intorosted in tho snlvation of, tho hoathon 08 In thet of the Christian, provided thoro bo not something of tho {mpossible in tho iden of enying Lim, Lot us, thorofore, conaldar for a moment tho question, {6 it possiblo to savon henthon? Leavo out for tho momont tho question of probability in tho cavo ; 1a It indispansably nocossary that n man should know God undor tho namo of Folo~ voh, or that ho should know the stona tables of Moses, or that ho should henr of n_Mossiah and Mediator, in ordor to bs saved? Admit that most men will not find God, or ropout of sin, and lend o good lifo except by such knowledgo nnd power as aro brought inlo oxercise by tlhe 01d rnd New Testamont Beriptures, yot may not: o man attamn-all that oconstitutos ealvation though ho hayo no Dible, no prisst, and no Jnowlodgoe of the Gospol ? What is unlvation 7 ‘Wit i nocossary to sulvatlon ? Lot tho two quastions molt fito one, Salvation 1a tho ad- justmont of logal aud moral rolationa to God,— that i to soy, it consists of the pardon of sing {:"d bM.m rogaueration aud ssuctitlontion of tho entt, As totho pardon of sins, is it not written plainly that Christ tastod doath for ovory man ;" that Ho is **tho propitintion for tho sing of tho wholo worla;” that through Iim ! tho froo qm cama unto 21l men unto justification of lifo?” Whatever tho snorificial work of Christ: nay effoot, indopendent of man's condition or character,—and wo orthodox pooplq Bupposs it is of vast moment, o8 maling tho ground for Jjustification,—it may s well be for Hocratos na for Moses, for the original Buddha na for Blijah, for Chundor Sen aud _tho Mikado of Jopan ns for Dean Btaunloy and Queon Vietorls, Christ diod for man as mau. Tho altar at Joruaslom whicl drl‘)pml with tho blood of the suorifico was thoaltar of the CGrent High Pricst who atoned all sin, for all nations, and for all ttmo, Bo far, then, as the ground of gratuitous justifi- cation s concornod, justification without works, Penaolpe, and for that mattor Mossalinn. horsolf, ia 1o Jurther romoved from tho grace of God than Balomo and Mnry Magdalon, ~'Thero aro no more diflicultios In tho wey of an outright. for- giving of ono than another. If tho atonoment of Calvary bo, ns 80 many_strongly insist, tho underwork of salvation, and, as & ground of for- giveness, ia such indopondontly of the knowl- odge, or virtue, or tho faith of tho man, thon it way 88 woll bo the ground of maroy to Beneca, to themothar of tho Gracoht, ns to Issiah orto the mother of Tobedeo's children, Tho ab erxira end_supernatural part of rodomption fits tiio condition of tho henthen o8 it doos {hat of tho Clirigtian, The other part of mnlvation, trust in God, Ioyalty to God aud tho truth, tho' acquisition of the seod prinmiple of right-living, tho domivauce of moral idons, victory ovor the world, solf-de- nial, good will, and wiiatever olso 18 included in a hiourt cssontlally right,—are not theso things possiblo to tho heathon? Could Buddha havo conceived & reformation go puro and so spirtiual thas munlvJ o Clristian may bo aybnmod ag ho compares his lifo with tio procopts of thia yon- orablo heathon, withont being posuessed of that somothing which wo eall tho true lifo? Could Arigtidos allow 80 much money to pass through Lhis pands and not an obolus stick to his fingers, and in all things oppose corruption more steadily and with & cloanor rocord than any Christion statesman of our times, and nob havo tho soed principlo_of the good and true man in him? Could Epicarus preach and practico tha doctrino that the soul i tho man, and atmain o virtuo a8 govero o8 that of tho DPurltan, and mnot Dba at tho ooro what tho Purltan was 2 Conld Clcoroin~ quire_so stendlly, and think so cagerly, on tho %unmou of immorzality, nud not, like & good bristinn, interrogate bimsclf scriously as to tho way in which o might attain tho blossed- nous of that yonder world? 1Ia it gaid thoso men all fell into many errors cnucurniui G Is_not tho same too sadly true of Obristinns? Is it sald that thoy beld to dootrinas whioh justifiod many forms of wrang doing? Did tho Church nmever hold doctrines which justifled the gallows, tho stako, the whip of tho plantor? I kuow of no good hoathon who erred more than Isabella of Spaiu, than John Qulyin, thon Bishop Gnrdiuor, the orthodox Alatbor, May not tho Spirit of God, tho samo that moved on tha formless void, {nat camo down on Pontocost, aud who, sineos that timo, lis brooded over so many hidden hesilations of nop, bave beeu abroad in tho woild outgido of Judaism, and since Christ camo, outside the lino of Christiandom ? Is not the Spirit tho gift of God,. und is not God a sovereign to dispousa fho Huly Ghost upon any man's heart ? But they know nothing righty of God, I am told. Who know enough to aflir this—if the cardinal doctrine of God is *that Ho iu a spirit sud tho truo worshipers arg thoy swho worship in spirit’ sud in truth?”” I am told that they know nothing of Jesus Christ the Savior, and tharoforo cannot believo in Him. ‘W'hisfs cor- tninly o grest misfortune, There is, indeed, o Erent doticionoy of moral powor. DBut X remom- or that Enocli and Noa Iaclced this same moral power. T obsorvg, also, that in many Christisn churches Chrikt is bid away' among ¢oremonies or theologics. I call to mind that there is no Christian scct which does uot ropudiste the idea of infunt damuation. And yob, of Enoch, aud Noulh, sud the theologians, and the ruunimis, and the groat throng of infaut souls, we hope for thoir salvation! I therefore sce no reason for doubting tho snlvation of good henthens ho- cpuso thoy hinye not heard of Jesus, for doubting tuat, evon with thoir great lack of moral power, the hieathen iu many instences moy be mado 80 nearly 1ight in heart as to bo among tho redeem~ ed of the Lord. Do I beliove, thon, that all theso heathon porsons whom bhave nam- wd ara_ truly in the Christian'y boaven ? Ineither beliove nor disholiove. [ simply see no roason why many of them may not bo saved. But do I nat mako void tho grace of God by tho Gospel? God forbid. 1 establish that grace. What advantage then bave wo? Much every way, but chielly that to us aro com- mitted tho ornoles of God, and tho glory and tho strongth of that Nemo which i5 above evory name. Becauso there is no adequate moral pewer to anve tho world, becauso most mon will go on loving darkness bottor than light, uu- lesy the light of Cbrist mokes it broad day sl about them, does it follow that no child, no man, can bo impolled out of Limself and bo fot nglow with the enorgles of a higher life? I think not. Bupposo » meuntain swept sround the esstern and sonthorn boundary of this city—a mountam 80 higl that wo could nover see the sun; thero would bo light enough to keop somo alive,. Tho air of heaven, tho groon oarth, are the conditions of u benlthy lifo, ~ Bug thero are peopls, born and nurtured in the mines, who notwith- standing makoe something out of life: Thero ig the glimmor of the stars, and then n long twilight, beforo tho sun rises. Ho it was in tho old ante-Oliristiau world. If there be no Christ known to all men, thero' ig; evorywhero and nlways, the living God | "Phere are threo great books to guide and in- spiro men, Ono is the Biblo; ono 18 Nature,— the Grave snd the Btars,—and auotber iy tho Heart of a munn, Evory man for his own hablt of impression. Thero ‘is to mo onough of awo, of power, of wisdom, and Io\'u, in the pago sproad over us overy pight. Thero are prom- ia0s, and throats, and revelation, writton plsinly unough in overy human hoart. 1can well bo- liove that somo men oven uuderrate tho Bible, be- thoy rendovorylhing in thomselves and on the face of God's world. [y it strange if' somo rond without the lme» ? Notat ull. = Wo havo, thore- fore, Paul romlnding tho half-clvilized tribes of Asin Minorthat Uod rovealod Himsolf to them in' tho rain, and fruitful soason, aud daclaring in his opistlo to the llomans that all men are *twithont oxcpso,” “boemuse *tho invisible things of God, from_tho eroution of tho world, are clourly soan, Loing understood by the things that aro ade, ovon His = otor nul -~ power and Godhoad,” Wo find him aflimaing that * svhon the honthen which hinve nol tha law do by maturs the things contalued in tho Inw, thess having not tho Jaw nro o law unto themselves.” “ho seo- ond chapter of the Romana is dovoted to the Idea that whint Qod roquires, with or without law, of Jow nnd heathon, ia righteousncss, Men may porish without Jow,’ and “they oy perish with law, God knows no iffarenco, it thoy do wickedly, e knows np dilforenco, if they do woll. 1tls, llmx'flfuru{ Puut a8 natural for Paul ua for Potor to sy, *‘In every nation Le that fanroth God, sud workoth righteousnoss, lg ac- coptod of Him." Iudesd, Paul, whose viows of tho dlvine gov- orutient ara yot to be oxtricatod from tho mass of hursh aud mechanical Idens with which thoy Lave heon overlaid, ls never, like many of our modern doctors, wonting In sympathy with the groat outside world, 1t was his glory to bo an +# Apostla to the Uountiles,” becange moro readily thau others be bolioved in God a8 the I'athor of all maon, aud recognized lu tho Gospel n power to froo unlversal thought from fts bondage, e desoribes tho folly of tho wisdom of thiu world, But many soem {0 tan{ut that it is by way of comparison with tho light and graco of ‘the QGospol, rahor than by way ot anntliomu as an uttorly worthless possosslon, 1lo ploturos tho wiokeduess of the Loatheu world in ternblo terins ; but jtwooma to bo lm-flmon that it wag to sbow that botwoon Jow aud Gontile ** thero Iy no diffceronce. Forall have sinncd aud come short of tho glory of God.” Paul wus tho fricnd of tho Goutilos, aud bhailod ovory sign of their ' inheritanou with tho ohildron'of Aliraltam, While in tho Jowish synagoguen:hoquoted tho l[:mplmtn and tho. penlms, fn Asla ho quoted - the Grook Emus, and {n Athons ho fihda an althr to thatrma ut: unknown God} sud, with' a-quick rosponse to tho I:llngran 4 of thoso hontlion, finda a littlo. common foothold for himself aud thom: * Whom yo-ignorantly worahin; Ilim declirs I utito you.'" It {s commonly. thought that the. Prosbytorian - Confossion of F'aith tenches against tho snlvation of’any nmong tho honthet, Tho common’ thought here, 88 in: some- othor particulars, ia orroncang. The Confosslon rocognizos [nfants ns porsons’ who' *'are regonotnted’ and snved by Clirigt-through. the pirit; who worketh whon, how, and whoro Ilo ploasoth,” and. catalogues thom with ** Imruon» whio aro inenpablb of ‘being” outwardly called-by'tho iufstry-ol the Word," If this bo inconsistont with. auothor part of- the: Confoasion, I cannot liolp that, Bluco; then, itis possiblo-that o' besthon may bo lod, by tho spirit. of. God, and sinca heathon somotimes worship tho true God ignorantly, it is no great strotchi’ to prosumo that thioso hoathon who.aro Imofva to history ni just and:good men arc joint hoira with-all other good men of tho hoavonly inhoritance, and, also, that many un- known to history may have * dono by haturo tho things contnined fu.tho law” in the same- impor- foct sonso in which tho Christinu does thom, and will, therofora, find'favor with tho good God, wwhose principlo of jndgment fs; * It thera. o0 flrst a.willing mind, it is accepted according 0 that which n man Linth, and not aceording'to that hio bath not.!” ‘Tho limitation of atorlenl or covonant favor boforo God aro not always undorstood, Thoy are somatimes concolved too: rigidly, as thoigly bes enttso Judaio training and Clristlan tratuing aro indisponeable to tho redemption of the world, God'had no favors for; and slied no* Hght upon, thoso outsido tho Judaio and the Christian boun- dary line, Tho Biblo {8 not responsible for this rigid:ides; Indecd, it intimates- far othorwiso. Abraham :is the “fathor of tho faithful,”! tho root of tho Judaic and. Clristiay Church. = But thon was contemporary with him Bol- chisedék, & _prioat: of God. 'fo. Ahimoléch, o heathon King,.God appeared in a: droam, Thus st the bogiuniug of nchoson line, Wo ob- sorvo: tho samo nt the' beginning of the New- Teatament: liue: in.the Magi, heathen, to whom God spoke by tho stars of hoavon. Away from nny proaching of tho Gospel, tho Apostids atum- ble;.nowand thon, on o:manwhom God has boon h-n(nlng. by Hia spirit no less than themsolves, Is tho Gospol, tharoforoe, of less valuo " in our oyen?’ Ia: ft any tholessitino that tho nations ara+in.sore nood of: Christ- and His Goapal? It it Booms o, it. is rather from tho babit of ‘tink- Ing- that God divides light-and‘darknoss; ns wa* do our flolds or-our houreas I8 thoro an-abrupt- polnt whore the enrth’s atmosphero onds, or whoro _tho- irrignting' powor of n_grent river’ oansos? Doos light ondrat-a cortain mile-post ?* Doos- loye terinnto ab.n precipico? Do bont and cold stop in mid-air as ngainst a barrier 2 No moro:db tho powers of- the ondloss Jifs oper= ato in woll-deilnod .mmclosures, but through- all history, and all over God's groat, world, tho groat contrea being' always- the ' Judnte ‘or the | ovangolical word of -God.! But whoro is tho faith swhich justifles? How shall thoy beliove'oxeapt they hear? And bow: shall. thoy: hoor. unless tho Gospel: bo proachied to thom? It is. whoro' faith:{s in tho imbacilo, in the child, In those whom tho Pres- bytorinn Confesslon doscribes as* peraons ‘who are ingapablo of hninq outwardly: ealled- by tho- ministry of the Word,” It is whoro next year's flowers aud'frults aro’; whero ' tho- cmbrace is* which you will give yonr-old' mother when you roach tho: hoartn-stonas. whero tho.anchor. ia iwlifel shall hold fast a hundred years to como; whares your witigs aro on which you will sail into Leaven; Lob:itbo.romembered that 16 takesibut:little | to doutroy, aud somotimes ns littlo to eavo, | any: man, Tho heathen may have tho-littlo. that snves. Idreamed, tho othernight, of swimming over'a stroteh of miles, from’ oue’ point”to an- othor, acrosa tho river,or' bay, near- my"old'| bome.. Half wny ovor.I-grow: wonry, and ‘ began to fear lest I should. sucoumb® to the 'elements, .when. & more burel-stavo floated . near me, Beizing that bit of wood and putting it under ‘mo, I layon the wator na muclrat eago as'aman in hia'bed, and: after- a'little pushed- on, joy- _ously and-onsily, to the farthor. shoro; thinking: all:tha way, trafy'2 pounds of - load would Lavo ‘earried mo'down, and only 2 pounds of float- wood buoys me above all'harm ! = Man, with the divino'nature dorlved from’ God, yob swims:eo henvily' that. sometimos, with. & litlo-added weight, he.sinka to riseno more; ho also swima .80 lightly. that, flinging himsolf on some nnmnls itruth.of God,.lio lands at laston the olornal: shoro; — THE WORK. OF CITY' OHURCHES: Sormonby tho leve Dr, NcKalg, of tho Ninth Churcti, 5 Tho Rev. Dr. McKaig,. of the Ninth Presby- torinu Church, preached the followiug, sormon Yyosterday morning : Now whilo Taul walted for them st Alhens, his spirit was atdrred'in Ui, whon No saw tho'elty wholly - given to tdolatry.. Acts XVII,, 10; You have mout: likely noticed tho grent impor- tance thet Jegus secmod to attach to large towns aud cities ns: centres'of moral.and soliglous fn-- iflnonce. His ministry was no ‘“voico: erying in' the'wildernoss like'that of iy grent predooes- gor, 1o did pot linger aronod: some lomely: ford of tho Jordan, or'in the golitudes of tho ** hill conntry” noar Ifébron, waiting: for tho peoplo to so\&Him. Whon the divina coneclous- dess liad iy possessed Him' that' the time \had como- that® Ho- shonld’ be about His Tather's Vusinoss; He left" the', mounntain valley which' onshrouds' in such mysterious eflenco His: childhood, and youtliful* oducation, and made: His pormanent home ab Capernaum, w bustling' tittle city of' Galiles. Trom. this point- Ho visited" all tho towns and. cities along the- borders of’ Lake* Gonnoearctl:, and at ono timo mado a-tour ns-far north as Tyre! and Sidon, tlourishing: cities- on tho - Meditors+ ronenn, and.lying wholly within. the sbadow of: poganism, He went up to Jerusalom on_all tho great fostal days, and commanded His digciples to begin their ministry thero, It ia.well known: that the Apostles, following the'examplo of thoir Diviue leader, confined-their attention: chifly to largo towns ‘aud. cilres.. Not: that. thoy undor- valued tho worth of sonls in the moro sparsely sottled romions, for' their commission rondy Qo proach- tlie: Gospel to overy oron- turo,” = but they wiscly comcludod, in. planning thelr labors, thut tho poskcasion of theso great gocial aud business centres in tho ibterosts of the Gospol was tho most ready. way to guin nccots.* fo- ovory’ erontnre.” Liks ablo-| . Gonernls, they knowtho strategic importanca of firs seourivg.tho great strongholds of wealth, commerce, lonrniug, and political power.. What .| oro tho * Acts of tho Apostles ” but a roport of | oity misslons? It 1a largoly oceupied with' the travels of Paul, the enrliest and mostonthusias- tio missionary, “Qho rich . provinces,” saya.| Qibbon, *that extonded from tho Huphrates: to tho Ionian.Sos, woro: the principal theatro ou which the Apostls of the Gontlles displayed s zanl and piety.” Among tho ancient sociotios o founded in 8yria aud Grecce by his labors, tho most ilinstrious wore in the' groat cittes of Antioch, Damnscus, Roren; Coriuth, and. Thousnlonien. Tho Soven Churclen of Asia, Tiphosus, Bmyrnn, Porgamus, ‘Lyatria, Sardes, Laodices, and Philadelphia, described and im- mortalizod in the - Apacalypso; wore all grent contral lighits in the Task that scom to have soon- waned and died out. Indecd, the Listory of Christinuity in all nges Las been tho story of the zeal or npathy, the growth or deeay, of splritual lifo in ity churohen, I'ho responsibility’ of oity:'churchos- is; thon; the subiject I shall ‘invite yon. to: conslder- this' morning, In the evangelism of. tho world, I. Lold that tho moral snd spiritual -condition of tho city should flrst cluim our attoution, At i Br\lflnfl!m‘ &t tho motropolitan contrey, at tho" beating heart of our civilizatton, should our' chavitios and miniatries-of hopo and lave begin, Amore-direot survey-of this. fleld will olonrly show that.its importunce 08 a baso of religiouy oporations cannot bo too highily estimatod. Citioa nro tho great theatre of financial activity and- the storchouso of a. nation's woalth, “Tho prineipal park: of o na. tion's@lwealth may uot be foucod in Dby the brick walls, but tho greatest amount of rendy cupital and portable wenlth is cortainly cotlectod and mnmamr in- tho- groat centros of ‘trado nnd! commorco, The princely jobbers, marohauts, and manufacturers wio govern tho schedulo of prices, give law to the markets, and-supply the cauntry,tindoare horo, Tho lurgost insurancacom- panies, who protact all this vast accumulation of” capital from cantingatioy by lund or s, arohoro, The most-solvent banks, that control exchange, adjust the barometor nI-curmlmiy,‘ ond furnish. tho motive power that. drives all tha whools of industrial. entorpriso, nro hovo, Thero sitting, on 'Chauge {8 tho kingly powoer that makes war or paaco at tha dash of's pen, and by one eleotriot flash may shale whola blocks with finaucial carth- quako, blight the fair prospocts - of tho farmer, or Al the fand with-ploly aud glrdnesy, > Now, It becomes the duty of Chuistians in the oty to sny, to the extont of thole influence, whother all' this vast aggrogation of* vower shall bo wholly expendod-for inore setflsh: aud utilitarian onds, In building and patronizing maguiflcent theatros and onarus, muulticontly furnisbod, billlard-halls aud saloony, palutinl homes, commerelal palscos, or whiothor ab least || of' a* Christian elvillantion; arta’ and solencos; and: nnéowlng librariok; cols logas, and sominarios. You arato say how large o portion of” this nnuunllf ‘accuranlating wonlth shinll bo consocratad {o rolfglon, nnd expended in buitding aniplo: and’ nttractive churchey in tho midat of this morconary hivo| Younroto ssy. how much of it shall o used in Flnut(uz i ninnai bulldmmg of” buthels; loapitals, adylums, and: homea' for’ the friondloss, and in‘ this and overy gonorous way godine . tho wardd- of'” poverly, ignoranco, nud wralch- odnesa it the aweot' and’ bonattitil- EhllnnLhmlnuu'qr Josus: At lonst, It eannot bo lonfed that tho churches which llit thelr spires ovor’ the: harbors: of ‘a’ world's commiereo, and: sound ont the call of tho Babbath bell nlong the ' stroots whoro all thio zones intersoct enoh other, and whore'all languagoa-babble in' tho market- lnces, - have movo - thin an'ordinary responul« llity rosting wpon thom. And thon yon wil bo'still mors improssed with tha- importanco of’ this" fleld of oporation whon* you conajdor the fact-that the-talont, lonrning, and ' ediieational foress which firnish tho pabu- 1um of n nation’s thought and culturo’ nré -prin- |- cipally assomblod. fn_tho Inrge towns and cities; 1 do not proposd o diaparnge tho intolligonco of the rurAl populition,but after all the Goorglosaud - Bucolics thab hiave boon written on tho suporior- charms and freedom, freshnoss and sweotness, of o countrylifo; from Viegil dowh to Thorean, it ntill romaios trito, that! lio ten of mot rosticss” ambition, aud_indomitablo: onorgy for muking. money, speoulating and wild' adventiire, rish ‘wlhiord the battlo of lite in foughit most hotly and - obstinatoly, and plunge into the thickost of the fight, Tho mon possessed with a polltical, luqfll modical; - clericnl, or “scholnrly’ aspiration, fl it hore tho "seans of success, acquiring knowledga, and gaimng “distinotion most ™ amply provided. Haro'aro“tho groat librarles, art gallories, aud' musenmes of naturaly soiontific, and'literary curi- osities. Tha best Iaw, medical, thoological, and commercinl gchools nro umally i or nonr thess gront social and’ business- contros,” For' thoso and kindrod. rensons, tho mon of scienco, tho lovors of ' art and - literature, tho nblost min~ isters, Inwyorn, doctors,” aud politioinns'love'to flock to the cities. Tho uonao?uunuo 1s;'thio city govorns: the. country. It fs° the brain of the nation.- All tho elootrio lines of-thought couvergoe hero. Horo aro tho vast publishing-houses and printing-prosses that sond forth the schiopl-beoks, popular literaturo, tho poriodicals and “nowspapers which manufde- {ure publi opinfon, and ;Smdunll “pormonto tho mnsscs with their political, moraf, and’ roligious idons, passions; and ‘feclings. In short, tho cily stands amidst tho population _sproad: over ‘this' brond Iand a8 o huge'mountaln of social’ and odueational forces, whose stronm#-of thonghit;" farhion, and custom irrigato all tho: plains ang valloya far and noar, Now, it is-for you - to say, who ocoupy theso bigh placos of national “cliaracter anil intalli- gotea, whethorithoso stronma shall'fertilize tho country with truth’ and-noble inepiration: or Lie- | como a sourco of minsma and death. It ia for you' to sny’ whbtlior tho ‘thoustindsof tray- olora- who'comd: Lore: to trado' or for rocreation, who throng your atrcet-cars and " oninibuges, mnd’ crowd your spaciots” hotels, slinll meot nono whb scem’to’ bo intorest- od in their woltaro but the drumuer of s jobbing- liousa, tho porter of a thentro, or ono of tho lay- omlered- recrniting-officors - of thd'social holls; and go back to-the country to poison its - ealu- brity and happihioss with tho taint and loosoucss of city ways-aud'uanners,' It ia'for yon"to ‘say whether 'that great’tide of foreign' omigration”| onnually pouring. into the bosom of our large towns ana citios, shall entail upon'ui "the ‘vicos, ignoranco, and" jrroligion of : tho - O1d World, ory b‘y the quickening aund rofining influences of our| cfvil and roligious institutions, Lo mado to con- tribute o gonorous and importaut elomert to'our | civilization; It-is for you to-say how far the stalwart, entorprising, young men who annually flocle to thoe city for labor, or to attend our "com- mercial,- law, and medical -_schools,” or the young. mon. growing up in our.midst, shnll” bo an bhopor and an’ omamont to-gocioty, ora blight and ourvo: It*fs- for!you to say whother the-thonsandaof &hildren now througing your publio schools and filling tho hontes of wealth and poverty aliko with thoir in- nogent mirth - aud eunny Inughtor shall bo swept out by the great tides of wickedness Loro into thoro Lroalkers whonce so'fow ever rottun. 1t is ovidont, at Jorst, that city ‘churehies, standing-at tho focus of o uation’s learning aud social powor nnd holding in their hands the diverging lines of nll.ecommunicationyhavo o most foar l»wnl[im of* responsibility Jaid upon them.- Lho rural Chrle- tian in bis cottago-home mny safely §° to sleap, littlo troubled by the' porplexing probloms of so- cioty; but you who atand with your hands -upon the switeh, whore all tho great fraina of “thought and commiorco dash momeéntarily | by, daro’ not' sleep. 'The churches' which shed - tholr light over those dark, wild & titho of It may not Lo usod tb fostor tho stream- breakors of social folly, vice, and tomptation, upoun which 8o many sonla’' oro adrift, dare not let o single burner grow dim:: Iero-there is ouo department of {he Church's work, and one that claims " preceddnt-to’ all' other flelds; If you: would save thocountry, you must first convert tho city, Itiis ovor this sensorium, this arterial centre of 'sovial and civil lifo and "action,’ that thego numerous ity churchos, in the providence* of (od, aro detailod as sentinols, and there aro no other guarda that can for a moment roliove them of their important duty. It may- be- well for- us row to- make a gort of roconnolssance of this intronched camp of wicleduess; and seo what the - chances * zro’ of succoss:; Paul's ppirlt was stirred within him on ontoring. Athous, becauss ho found- tho city whollyiziven up to idolatry. Tho passionato lust, for' gain, thie’ sbsorbing strife - for material Dlaco aud powor, Ia tho firkt thing that would ar- rest his sttentlon wero Lo to visit a modérn city; and nowhoroe would ho find this oxelusive dd- votion toMammon so greab as- in this country. And tho. reason is obvious: wo have no privi- lddgod classes, founded- on anacstral podigreo, +No man among ug-is known from the color of tho bark on'bis famlly treo. Aloney is the gront symbol of * distination, power, and: influence in Amorica ; at its touch oll pew doors fly open; it carries off "the honora of “tho universities and ‘wibe the- cleotioun and suits- ab law: A man’s manpora. may be _boorish, hig edueation impor- foct, bis porsonal appoaravce loutish and for- biddiug, bis morals bad,' but if he- has plonty of ° money. ho: can- bravo. public opnion,; woo the fair, #nd find = himself houorably 'montioxxo(i in the papers, Lo scol for' woalth - in order “to wicld 1ta mighty power for good is cortainly & most Jaudablo ambition; but, in a couutry liko ours, Whero' wealth 1s ‘almdst tho only tulisman of power, it is vory easy for the groat mass of thopeople to forget 1ts more uoblo uses, aud sook for {t as tho chief end of lifo, nud drend povorty us tho ouly pordition ‘one need try to avoid. Now, itisin the large’ towns andcitics that" this: oxclusivo dominationvof material interouts most paesionatoly provails. ‘Cho spirit of cupid- ity and gain doubtloss domindites i tho country; bat, as compotitions are not so sharply defined, and tho clasbing of - self-interest so hotly con- tosted, the force of thoourront is not o swift, and 'the-danger ig-loss+ great, But: in- the city this. spirit fs. intousilied into-tbo florcost bluze, ‘Talout, skill, shrewdness, and mor- dinate desiro and ambition aro whotted to the~ Leouest edgo: by daily- attritions and tivalrios, or by witnessing the success of adven- turers. Tho onlr vroblem “lioro seoms to bo, how to mypke tho Inrgeat pousiblo fortuno in the smallest possibloamount of time. Inu the mean- whilo overgihing olso must etand from undor. If roligion or ‘consoienco ‘should oscapo out of the Babbathy and got in tho way, they must ba fun ovor, Ono thing at & timo 18 tho ralo. Ifa moan would alt up his thousands, and how him- solf n goodly position 1u tho world, he must-givo lig undivided attontion to this one thing, tlenco youway ovoss the diamoter of tho city, and earcely #oo anything.to romind you of Goland the futitro, unlesa it bo the silent spires of: tho churehes poiuting tothe sky, or tho passing ‘fanoral cortoge casting its solemn and transiont: losson over. tho' hurryiug scono. Those who ‘erowd thio stroat-cars and omuibues, throng tho otols'and bonrding-houses, talk only'of gain, 'lie multituds thnt surgos all day long around ‘businesn cornars, along the stony alsles of trade, sthrough thomarkets, stores, foundries, factories, shopa, and ofilooi, are sololy sulmated:by mate~ ;vinl aims and purposes, Itia the thoory of Dr, ‘Darwiu, you Inow, that any congenital or ac- seidontal variation from the typleal form or cliar- actor in the- individunl may, in time, on the :prinetple of nattiral selection, whero climate, ‘food, and othor total conditions ore favorable, +ba olovated Into a varioty, and that varlety, in :timey gradually shape itsolf into a well-detined ippoacios, Whatever you may think of this plaun- ible and ingonlaus theory, as a doctrino of "tho ‘spooion; it stlll romaing true' that: all matorinl {nppeteuclos in tho Luman heavt find. 8. congo- ‘msl goil in ety lifo and oustom. And, ‘when' yon' remember © that’ this tondency is: nnturals and. spontancous,. i it mny wondor under such ciroumstances thub it shoulit bo so dominant? The niost earnost Christian confesnon thub it I8 heed to Iny up: tressure in ‘hoaven whon questiouable speculations on earth aro In sight, and that so great is the fasclnntian of wortdiinoss that it voqires all’ the watvhlul powers in-sleeplosy vigiluuco to keep from going Jnto tho abyes, laro, thon, is one of tho first Lindrancos wo :maot to tho diffuslon of tho'Goupol in the. city, ‘Nohody “caron to honr it Whilo thiy yeging idelirium of gain is upon thom, what cuxs they ifortha'wurds of Jesus, or (ho' meaninyg o1 tos {Crows 2 Uhin world, thoy.say, s & subshxntisl ]mnlltfl o, oau snl'nly.uunt. Qood {ncomes, golid bisokly'of "roal'egbito,” comfortable- lhomos, i1 otidgtiraging the | and plénty of ‘méndy In'thio bink, ko' palpablo fncts that* do' not run' awny! when you' sleop. As to tho futurg, ~who knows |, anything about that? Gpnomllon aftor gonor- tion has'pabsod away, and wo_bavo not” heard ‘n | word -from thiem, sluce they loft our sphoro of |, oxistonce; L.ot' us not; thon, soutimontally throw nwhy the snre realitie; th' plensuros: and posaessions of the prosont, for a beantifal idonl, n shadowy ploture paintoed on the aky of tho fu« turs, - which; for'all wo know; may tantalize us’ with a - pleasing illusion, ~ Buch, if'uot tha- avqwed conviotion, a at loast tho taelt Iangungo of worldlinosa” whorevor it hdg'oatablishod it reign, Lo countotact this tondency, to broalc | this apelt of illusion, and arouso men from this -fourful apathy and stupor ‘of wénbo to a'livoly appreofation of spititusl thimzn, 18" always o difs floult tagl -undor the most fayorablo con- ditions; but’ in tho oily, whero ovory- thihg consplres * to *_ stimidlate” tho —mor- bid ~ oraving apd desiro, and Iull tho spirltual sonibilitios Into torporand Indifioranca, it 18 1ilé goini out into the thick surf and bolling surgo of & Ningara in sonrch of souls. Another groat hindranco to the spread of the Qospol in tho_oity is tho potent atiraction of amusomont and fashionablo dissipation. This i naturally tho rosult of matorial abundance and prospority, Thoso'who rido above all tho pinch. ng necosaitios of lnbor and want ofton findthoms golvos, if not {u‘ovlmmly sehooled to thoughtful habits, wénried and lonoly by tho great atnount of suporfluous timo thoy have on hand. To kill timo, to chare nwny tho'yawning brood of enuuf, tho temptativn becomes vm?' strong to nlpnlld tho ovening ' nt somo fashionabla billinyd-hall, or to go- to tho opora or play,— which moy bo all !)ro or . ebolgh 08 an oceastonnl relnxation, but when It becomes® babitual is's wasto of time and monaoy, didsipates thonght, stimulates tho passions to an ovorween-, ing indulgoence, aud may softon tho fibro of prin- ciplo. The “young' olerk, after buatuess hours,’ cannot boar, tho todlous lonesomencss of hisroom in tho attic story of a bonrding-houso, and swill often seck ‘Bucli plemsitros from-tho shoer hungar ‘of thosooial fooling: Thon, too, tho faverish com- potitions, tho excitomont of busluess, and tho orforal higli' prossure ridoet whibli'most’ pooplo n tho" oity live, mny* causo ‘many to rosort to narcotics and stimyplativg potationain ordor to rovive thicir jadod and drooping energios, In tuedonntyy there is vatylittlo attraction to gay and’ convivial ploasyres: . Tho recurring bolidays, and tho comiug of tha circus, and pitening of thoobig cauvagtont ‘on'tho: greew;‘or an oceasional’ hop* at the inn, nre about il the objects 'of amuse~ mont whichbreak the silenco and monotony of o cowitry-lifd, But'in the city the incenlivés to {ovinl-vlcou, ploasant follies, ‘amorous and divsa- uto indulgonces, and wastoful oxcessos aro consitntitly in sight, and tricked out in their moet bowitvhing and sliowy costumes, Evon the flne arts, ;Z‘outry, musio, pnlnun?’, wit and Lumor, nll combino here to fiiva 1 pleturosque charm to tho brond road; ‘and'hide tho seerot’ of its tormiuation. - Multitudes all nround us sre marching to perdition, colors flying aud bauds pinying thie most lively airs. Now, the~ people” in" the aro -nob - thus: drummed - and’ goroppded into idlo and disolutc ways. Tho forco of " popular habit' and custom” does’” not striko tliem with such - power. They oftou attend church just to whilo away tho day, and'thig uconseionsly may often form n insto for spiritnal things ; bus,+In tho city, the heer- garden, fros lunctl, ' turtio-soup at some stylish: resuiurant, & stroll into tho country, n ide on tho*boulevanl,” or'the' love of games, may help the {dleand thoughtless multitude-aronnd us to forget tho ir ksomences of tho day. and noglect tho" hongo* of “wotship.: To ;in' nlo this vast soothing - mnolstrom of * fashion, dissipation, amusement, and all forma of plensing aud mis- londing vanities,” aud try and porsuado men to malto & bettor use of their time, and not to neg- leot tho walks of honor, virtuo, aud roligion, is o patt of your work, &nd mo Jight tasle; - which - can bo* pelformed by &' good resolation mado at o prayor-meeting || And theu you shonid remenbortiat tho Luman Ledrt is lko thio magazive of a ship in'battle; if but one ficry temptntion ponatrates it, tho whele soul may bo instantiv lighted up with blowing and’ unmatagoabla’ passions, tempers, and ap- petites s and vat horo tho nir is all aglow with the' falling "sparks of ovil. Aud to edd to this dartiger, aud increnso thie difiioully of your work, thopublic sentiment'is indifforent 'or lengued agsiustall roligious work, In tho country, the farmer who plows on Sabbath, or reaps his giain, becdmes o noighborhood ‘tallr, aud gives groat seandal to the popular sonso of religious provrie- ty. But here thoSubbath is fast degonarating luto a holiday, whon thd strost:onra aro most orowded, whon the livery-stables are most patronized, when all plnces of gay and dissipatod rosort put on thoir fiuest attiro. Indecd, thoro are many things combining in the city to make this day ag the old Romau ‘snturndlia, a day of caronsals,’ almrl.u, rides, visits, and eriminal plorsures, Tho slates at tho station-houses show that this day, a8 now kept, is a curdd instead of n blessing to many. - And yet to loso the Sabbath, orat lodst a part of our time coneecrated to public worship, would largoly holp'to seiid our civilization atag- gering back to tho Dark Ages, "Thoro are statutes protocting this day, ropressing all places and practicos "that “would ' tend to demoralizo tho moral-oharacter of tho' community, bLut-who thinks of cxoouting. then? Thoy atand ue tho gravestones of » doad public sentiment, 7 Bub snotber great obstaclo to' tho diffu- olon of tho- Gospol in tho oity, is-tho foct that all the foul progeny of vice multiply more repidly: horo than elsawhero, Mind, in this social hot-houss; sprouts into ma- turity too rank end prematnre for good hoalth and golid eharactor, Nowhere do children ripon 8o'fast into a knowledgo of the follies and vices of theday. In (ho country the incoutives to vi¢lous indulgences aud lacivious desires Ara not so stimulating. DBut fow .temptations prowl meross tho dasied pastures, or slalk. through tho woodland glades; but here temptation, in pro- toan shapes, bides in overy cornor, ghtdos nloug every. avenue, und.looks' aliko - through plate- glass or paper-monded windows, Tho city, though) tho emporfum of intelligonco, srt, sclenco, and industrisl onterprivo, 18 aléo the regervoir of o natlow’s depravity. There is every inducoment for vico, dishonesty, and paint- 0" shnmo -to flock to tho oity; for hore thoy can more onsily hide; and mora.sceurely ply the arts of villainy and dostruction. You may find here; nlong the dark alleys, in garrots, wood- shods,collare, nils; brathels, nnd station-howses, tho mout noxious vicos and nnstivess of tho whole country, 'Tfio most lonthsome garbage of the 1and pours luto thiu groat social sawer. Thin has boou truo of cities in all ages. They drain off thio foulest vices of tho country, aud yet, in this marshy eoil and mephitic air, lies your work a8 a oity church. 1 have Jong thought that ono of tho groatest Junderances'to successful ovangelism in the aity sprung from the doprivation of our social con- dition, Tho city i p sore of opitumo of the conritry globe. It is & hugo nountsin 2oned by. all tho Intitudes awd longitudes of civilization and chsracter. llere, ten minutes' wall, you may pass down from the ioy, Alpine heights of wealth, along the sunmy slopes of contentment end lucrative in- dustry, to tho flals whore honest povorty has daily o stand-upfight with diserso and starva- tion, and Jower still into those cavernous deptha whoro squulor, ignorance, wretchodnoss, and drunkonuoss huddles in filthy rags. Tho stone- front of- aflinonco and-easo cnsts its shadow ovor tho woodshed ‘of indigenco and want, Graco aud rellnoment, stolld ignorance and benstly stu- pudity, erowd nnd elbow ench other onthe strool, Amd the whirl nnd glare of rich equipage sud fleshing iuwulry. goos tho rag-picker under his load of {ilth or hica tho lusty artisan with strong stepa to his boneh or forge. 'Tha,adoan of die- trons mingles witle tho peal of joyous laughter, und tho ring of merry voieos, B And now will you stop & moment, nnd cast a glance over the hilly and rugged sur- faco of this social landecnpo? Botwoon thesn financial extromos you soo thore is no frisndly intorcourae. ‘hat-marblo mansion never leavos its card nt tho lowly, weather-beaten homo of toil and penury, ‘I'io mon who rido in drays and in superb carringes noevor rocognizo enok other, "fhus wo aro worted and platooned into poeiat groups, according to tho longth of tho purso, fhie riponoss of bhie'bruln, or the delicacy of tho moral fibro. This stato of things, to some ox~ tout, of courso, is.unnvoidable, Wator doos not find itg levol moro naturally than poople. ‘Lhero is & chomistry of atiinity among sonls us well au among atoms, and nowhere nre you mado #o conscious of this graduation of human- ity as in tho oity. Tho dlerco strugglo for guin, placo, and power wnob only praduces great aflluonce, but also develops the most ul':jJ t want and wretohod- noss, Nowhoro do thosa Lowid chasnw and flssures in our social strats yawn so widely and dismally, Nowhore do tho sharp anglos of oliqua snd easto Jut out 5o prominently, And it ie right hore that Chriatisnity finds ano of the most formidablo barriorts in the way of pormonting tho mass of the city population. A llnnrlluun and artillolsl conventiouslism hors pushos tho uatural law of olassifleation out of all logitimto bounds, and puts high bars bo- tween those for whom Christ diad, "This obsta- clo searcoly troubles tho couutry ohurohes, for nocfoty thore is not so widoly rives apart. ~The wenlthy furmer and the &warthy luboror wha mowed his hay and ¥ out moot ot _tho threshold of = the = mumo chureh, aud st ad oquals before God ut tho sume commuvion-table, But in the city the sooulsr wpirit lnvades itho eanctuary, puson aerons tho ultar of prayor, und sorty the osuhipors of our eommon - Father u tho thrwk, 18 cordwaod | your oy undbnd,' and” third rito’ churches., Therd 1 groat gulthoro hetiveon or‘:nuud chinrehds, dai- nulk pows, upholsterod Chrlatinnity, aud- the plain meeting-house or mission clinpol, orowd- od'In antongtho atablesnid baot-anlons, a8 11k | (oo Savenill Pagey. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, Tony Pastor's Trotpe Tha tdwn ' talk.. Posltivoly tho last waok of ‘this matoh- :‘!‘:eg&r‘:flln‘nllun. Now Htars—Extea Attraction, ¥in- SANDFORD AND' WILSON, Who will sppoar tn.thelr.favorito Musiaal, Bkotohos.. All tho favorltos In A néw Jirdgramind, ropleto withinow sanga, IL‘Inr‘Xn' n,l’;xtl‘lr.wnlwnfit:tfaul.llluw'luu‘\l, ulux uto,, sta, 0, siday: Popnl 1 " e, Foata sooured At Tioknt OMoo" Wy teunD &t 4poms ACADEMY OF MUSIO, MONDAY AND TURSPAY, THE WONDERFUL VOKIES! FUN IN A FOG.: BOENE—Tho eabin of n yachtin tho Golt of Moaton, . CHARAGTRRA= Dorcieal Foutiofbivatto, e o0 Volkos: Dan, Me, Fniwdon Vokas Graco Gasbird; Miss Vistac Vokbar 16 dsmitton, Sies .1n.‘|,n’ o hiot, Bhies iy ‘nkan n bosutiful oo s, Iroviounto tha 0 Dramatfo Company. toxina Vok ditta by the Wodnoiday and Thura« day—BELUES OF THE KITONEN, * EXOURSIONS, RUNS TO Evanstom; THRERTRIPS DAILY; * T.baving Clark. Drldgost 8416 o; 1., 11 8. aad b v. a B, eonstug Evinstonat §a ., 1p. ., aid 62307, m THE' FIRST ANNUAL PIONIO or Oricafel” Lodge, No. 43, Kaiguts-of Pythias, WL bo hold nt}Vl;.'Ifll“.’l"S GROVI, North' Clark-st., MONDAY, Ji A 4 JloNDAY, Jul 674, All brothron aca invited. 15 AR brathrofy n intform who wish to. taks, 15 o pavndy. eons At Nk 16 NOVU-me: T S e gors ol 1% 9 olalook x: m. whary, b tho hail, 17 1016 el at Ntk s ibor o omaforspe il orth-av, 10: i Grova, Tlokots fof parading mambers feape . 25 ° her froe . . - THI; COMMITTEE, EXPOSITION BUILDING: Tor Your Tiokets to GILMORE'S: CONCERTS: AND GRAND PROMENADRS, Oommenerng Mondag, duly 20. _Admisslon, 75g. . Singlo ) T Dk T ot o o ot e s YRR 85, for salo for o at usun] pincos and at ho EXPOSITION BUILDING: DON JUAN AND HAIDER! STEREOPTICON, ind .VIEWR OF .PARIS.. = SUMMBR RESORTS, SUMMER RESORT. POMONA HOUSE, ' FRUITPORT, MICHIGAN. © THE ORIOINAL SARATOGA OF THE WEST, Tita Tlouso hs boou recontls rofittod and rofurpished In tho beat nossihio aty10, Al T anld by POcssnk Hho Are Hhalting Do the mostasutliul apminbe rosurt i ¢ UnitedfStatos, Tinoat of faliing and hoatiik (o bo foun answliore, AllLinds of amusomonts knowiat watoring= placts nro, found thora, BIILO BILAUNS, & nopulse Bitywlota Trom Ghicnio, will bo (@ &ttoadsncs ding e Fitont, by the dse. 55, ;‘"i’u':filf’ 0 dhx‘éfi . lont, by th dav, 35,60, Tioat by tho Goods of stoamsty, o by Siok: Cent. Tt > | oocdrieliline Wiz ndnngco. wnora and Pro . B. 1. CRITTENDEY, Managor. DR, THE THOUSAND-ISLAND ‘HOUSE, B'I.‘:s “E’Z?WON .fREnB RIE‘OE, ] At ALEXANDRIA DAY, JEFFERS \ Pt ARFIARD finocis 4 wietatty of tos tae camod Thog: entid Ialands, will bo opuuod for tho racontion b o b 181, s Boiso. WAS. Orbeted et wouson nd outatte all the madorn. impevomonis, 1o on suite, with bath<roo 1d closets attuol ©ra will find thia biscn as hosliiuful 88 it i boautital, :manm\;‘?l\\l{ oes or ohills Mll\u' foerorhllo 3 Sonat world aro adiod. Ty AtiaGHbus g, run;nfi,“uummu. ‘wad Bt o8 ol an Bollivnin: Bowllag-Allay, Croquut Grounds, ¢lo..,Culsino secon 1o wome. Accommodations for 700 g1 9. Partios taking roams for the season will find liborul uctions from reg- ular rates, Soad for pamphii fi‘fi‘i“k"l"]"l“‘;’k“&’o’rx‘ ALLERANDRIA BaT, N. ¥, " “Propriofors. Rotogaaca: WV, 1. Wicolor, 0, Durand, B, W, Trioy PR s LARESIDE HALL,; EVANSTON; - Tiris honno ta situnted i tho' midst of an entira blook, coverod with doliightful oaks and oihor shado trges, in. tho gentro of Iivauston. It Iv conveniont to Chirchos, r, Dopot, and Storos, and fa but & o Stiorg. 16 1s 30 minutes' dila Earo ua, 10rido tickols (shut 1f 0 Stonmor mnkes throo daily tripa to an from 'tho oity: tho ymosts_aro Chisago hus rtwealk from the La) fram Wells-st. Dapot. cents. A Lak NEW PUBLIOATIONS, D. APPLETON & 09, 540 & 661 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. PUBLISHED TS DAY 5 PHYSIOLOGY, FOR PRACTICAL USE. Rdited by JAMES THiNTON, author of **Tho Msatery of Pain,"ote, 1vol,, 1Bmo. Mlustratod. Olott. Prioo, 82,26, “*Tho presont work i booh propard onticoly with the /1 purgoto of makiog it, n the grontest powsible dogres, praotical aud nyofnl, It contalns n groat doal of acourato nnd trustwortby Information, in thomost famillst audun. teohnical atylo; but sl this is subordinato to, the usoful lussona and conoluslonn that, ara enforoed In rogard to what iy, bo called physfological ‘eonduct and practico, Buch a work hins hoon loig'and birgontly nooded, aud the proent yolumo may_bo, rocominended to, familios and achools, as meating thiy wasit, It 1a" bellovod, moro per. footly thian miy work bithorlo 6ifdfed to tha public,"—£z- tract from Freface, 3 19 o - HEALTH and- EDUCATION. I\ L. 8, Canon of By tho Rov, CHAnLER KINGSLEY, Wostminstor, 1vol., b, Prico, 8176, **'fli0s6 who #os tho importanca of transiating tho pro- conta of physlology from a sclontlfio “tonguo not undor- staridod of tho pooplo? 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THE ROMANOJ OF BEAUSEINCOURT.. ‘A Narel, By the author of “‘Mirlam Monfort,” 1 vol., 12mo.’ Price, 82.00, PRINOIPLES OF MENTAL PRYSIOLOGY, with tholr, Applications to tho Tratping aud Disclpline ot tho Mind, , and tho Ntudy of'Ita Morbld Conditfons,’ By Wir. B, CANSENTER, M. D, LL. Di 1vol,, 2mo, 707 pages. Prico, 83,00, o THR EXPANSE OF HEAVEN: a Sorios'or' Eesayion tho Wondars of the Firmamant. By R, A, ‘PRoczof; B.A. Lvol, Bmo, Clath. Prico, $3.00, to the Ani 8B, 1 vo I Tha Opposltton undor Fithor of tha'above, whon not {6 1o had In Book-atoros, soiit post-paid by mail to any partof tho Unitod Stator onrocetvt of tho price. RAILROAD TIME TABLE, ARRIVAL'AND DEPARTURE - OF: TRAINS; The Buday 8t 800 o & Dallg, oo Pxeopied. 1Ae MICHIGAN CENTRAL & GREAT. WESTERN RAILROADS and b Caniabate comer o adigone " ¥ Aandolohs Mot (yln'matn and af¢ Htnd) Jaknon Aedoinioanilo e itxuross, Night Expross., GHAND BAPIDS Morging Expross, Night Lizpross., WENTWORTH, eral Passcagor Ayoat. . 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[*4:18 p. m. , Croon Hiag, St 2 ‘airio | du ~Ohlon, Notthorn Towa, Mail Millaukes, §t, Baul olls, Nigiit Expros &| #5100 p, o * 7:50p, m! it 9:30p.n. 13 6:45 k. mi ILLINGIS CENTRAL nAILROAD. ner tho now opou Tuue .1, 1874, 'Tha i pitustéd near tlio wter; voom lnces and niry, ea nd sluglo,and all command a viow of thotsan fito, wing, boating, buthing, and riding, Tho hotol 13 first. elnwstiiroughout. Coachios always in ationdsnce at the dopntin 800 10’ tako Pansongars 1 o Nouun, Toris modvato, J. H. MOULTON, Managor. VY ASEAUMKEAQ HOTKL, FORT POINT, PENO] a0t Jiny, Mo, dust complotoits cverything news Intio, airy roorus, ih suita ar sinulo, spcclally duslkiod fof thia gomfurt and Convonionoo of {amiilies, helng pravided’ willeas, wtoamn fieat, salt nod [rush bt DUlAre, Ca Ra eul Aonting. Gronnd, will bowling, Iulbm?h. nows ataud, lvary stable, nte. Open’”| Junol nt vopulue pricou, 4 wonoral lavuaiou ta tho iravolihg pmbile 13 horoby " extendud, M) sonmors bes oy toatan, Portland, bad 1aager land ieen, Send for olroular; Post-olko uddeus, Staokton, M W.RANLH Proprivtor GATSXIEL IOUNTAIN - HOUSE, Twelva milea fram tho Villags of Catakill, N, Y. Accessibilo by tho Lest mountain-road fu the country. Elovatlon, 3,00 feot. ~View, oxtouding ovor abuut 10,600 square milos of (ho -Valloy.of the Hulson, unsurpasspd’ ::‘)'(anf;:n U\\:L‘wm;\\. fi\)‘l'hf{llo,% &n\‘ s vll(ur' flnunll; oxPhocs. " Tamporajara 1 to 8 doigreoa’ 2 Mo ek G5 Ao buon duas 1 o Oot. 1. oard, B1.50 por day, or 23 por twoo) s L. BRAOIL Propriotor. O TEHHE SHASEIORE! 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