Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1874, Page 8

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NY SIS GE, No. 2, K. of P.—All the mem- exday nigbt at & o'cloc] palegial b "oy AYETTE CHAPTER, No.2 R.A. M. Tiall, 72 oo avocation Mondsy eveniag, July . a8 0'cl i« fodt By orderof tho B P." LT e By, BUSINESS NOTIC zRSON GOES TO M'CHESNEY'S, COR- i 5 &4 Filling warranted at balf the usual rates. waly 5. — WHY BUY THE e in, vonded. through- Toas, Ground Cotldo RITY 1S PRICEL g o clty mad oo i i jices, wheo pure and unadulterated gouds o oy Inte pricest | Vo twist. and. grind our own o daily; alsy, grind cur oxa Spices, M:‘L;clbhz‘;: :g: i acrst and bost' guodu for this urpmr,;\" nc'm ixthe "1y Sens ‘Suro 1o’ got Cotle and Spicus, st are reul jesalo and rotail grocer, Liad Block, cor. Randolph rk The Chicagy Tribune, Sunday Morning, July 26, 1874. THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER TRAIN. The special newspaper train, which will be run on dhe Northwestern Railroad fo-day and subse-- «jusent Sundays, will start at 4:15 o m., and resch Mil- ~watkee at 6:45 8. m, Tug TRINOXE Wwill be delivered 20 newsmen and newsboys in Milwaukee from tho aitice of the Milwaukes Sentinel. Newsdealers at the entermediato stations must be on band to receive thelr miackages, as the train will mako no stops. The fel- Jowing time-table will bo their guide: Disance from Time, Chicayo. a. m. -, g Depart g TILTOK'S INCORSISTERCY. . Just now the major part of the ‘New York +prees, and most of the channels and avenues 7or the distribution of newsin New York Cily d Brooklyp, are engaged in denouncing and 3idiculing Theodore Tilton, Hundreds of con- adictory eayings are put into his mouth. To- day he is fainting away; tfo-morrow he i3 before the Committee bathed in tesrs; next dey ho is going to retract every ing be hag already 8aid, and attack Beecher in 10 other quarter. The persistency, and varie- 1y, ard diffusivencss of these juggliug feats mndi- Lo fystem and method. On the other hand, an Fu:pariial pullic have not failed to obeerve that ~whenever 3r. Tilton has had soything to say Zor Limself, be has struck with the precision zul force of a steam-hammer, and has ‘sluwn. signs of somo coneiderable ro- ‘werve power. There i8 mo davger of Lis going mad. e has too much self-estcem *10 be upset by tho din and clamor of tho local . 1o reporters, and news-agents ; and if he %ia¥, 03 he sars, more proofs to bring forwud, Lo wan well bido bis time. Iuis urgued that Tilton's ctory must bo false, Jreezuse if it were true he would never have for- e Deecher end his wife, and would not have “ived with tho Intter after tho discovery. Some 'ontend that if the story were trne he would “ave ehot Beecher onthe instant, Others would J:0 content with a cowhiding or a knock-down Auything but exactly what Tilton did wonld be wulidcut to make Lis story credible. In the great jinglo of human nature, even ~hen adorned by the Chrictisa profession, wo wre accustomed to look for auything rather than cor what Christ instructed his follow- fo be. Shall I forgive my broths er seven times? asks o Disciple. Yea, sov— ‘enly times seven, is the Lord’s answer. IMe «Jid not £ay you shall forgive bim for eversthing wreept the scduction of your wife. Vengeanco ‘i wine, saith tho Lord; X will repay. If ibo + Dible i3 goad for anything, it is becauso it esches tho duly of forgiveness for the gravest veil 83 the least offenses. And yet, wheu iltou engs Lo forgave, there is a metropolitan chicrus of denutciation raised 8gainst him in a Chuistian city because ko didn’t do something dilercat from what he 6358 he di —somethiog orent from what Christ explicitly enjoined 1lisi he gkould do. We are not concerned to defend Tilton agaipst the ckargs of incousistency, but e capnot fail 0 remind his aseailants that they have not yot cstablivhed therr main point of accusa- fod, viz: that he was the paramour of Mre. Woodhwll. Mra. %ilton docs mot «harge hum with infidelity o bie marriage vows, slticesh hor statement is cunningly worded, so tiat # hasts reading of it would convey that im- Lression. Nr. Tilton, when interrogated upon tic point, denied tho charge with considerablo Lest. Conscquently it rests upon nothing, so Tas, bt the fact that ho ‘wrote the Woodhall Li gmph:—.n foolich Publication, undoubtediy, a its which Mr. Tilton has probably regreticd, B0 gTaius of foct aro all sifted out of (e udsit vewspaper chall with which the name of Tulton has beea winnowed, there ig & vory riail grist left. Mr. Tilton may boa libertine, # iiar, and oversthing clso vile, bt inconsistent L hias not been, except 80 far as he has, in times 7231, Geforded his wifa agaiust nspersion. Buch wrs ing had when Mre, Tilton “renewed ber marriage vows,” and having been fally set forth, with the aitending circumatances, in Lig BwWorn statement, is not such inconsistency as an im- pertial jury would long stickle over. BEECEER'S RELIGION. There is altogether too much eaid of the harm thie Boecher case is liliely to cause to Christi: ty. Deecler has professed himself o Christian. e has profeseed to teach Christiauity. Whether Curist, however, would rocognize his tcachings in the philosophy of Beccher has sometimes been questioned by the orthodox. Certainly there has sometimes heen more of Deecher than of Chritt in the sermons delivered in Plymouth Cburch, Brooklyn. Most peoplo wont to Ply- mouth Church as they would go to a theatre, not 28 they go to a temple of the Most High. They went oftener to liston to Beechor's oracles, .not 10 the oracles of God. Beocher's downfall may, therefore, be tho downfall of Plymonth Church, just as the death of & great actor may bo tho end of a place of amusement. The unveil- ing of his hypocrisy, if ho is guilty, can hurt no one's Christinnity but the Christianity of thoso whoo religion is Beecherism. To what a sorry condition, iu this nincteenth ceutury, is Chris- tianity reduced if the full of one maa can shake it. Boccher's fall does not arzuo ‘tho weaknees or tho shallowness of Christianity. It proves the depth of Beecher's hypoerisy, and it proves nothing more. If Beecher has been, all this timo, an immoral man; if he has been a eeducer and an edulterer, ho has in fact notbeena Christisn. 3Ir. Beecher may bave invented & pew literature, and called it Christianity, It was not plilosophy, for it lacked method, and substance, end tangibility, which no real philoso- phy does. It was not science. It enunciated no undoubted truth—no truth which by tho tests of ecicnco could be verifed. It was not religion, for it drow mo man nearer to- God then ho could have been drawn by methods in use beforo Beecher wasborn. His discourses did not have the merit of the old- faghioned ortbodosy. They did mot have the merits, nor embody the results, of the ro- searches of men who have broken loose from orthodoxy. They are not brimful of faith. They do ‘not tend to make men accept the inepiration of tho Scriptures or the doctrino of Justification or of tho Atonement. But neither @o they consist of critical examination. The Christ of Boccher's scrmons is not tho Christ of orthodoxy, neither is Ho the Christ of mod- ern Rationalism. Ho presents us no euch eugust Divine figure as Joha, no such admirable character as that of Xeim or the suthor of Lcce Homo. His Christ 18 the Christ of Beecher, nothing more and mnothing less. If tho cause of such & Christ eulfors from Beecber's downfall, tho world can stand it. But Clristianity cannot be harmed by aoything Beccher mey do. Christianity is & world- movement which no man's action can arrest, any more theu & bulrush csn dam up the waters of the Nile. * If Deecher be what Tilton alleges, his downfall can only benefit Christianity, as any army is stronger and more eficient after itia cleared of taaitors. THE CASE OF ISAACSON, The arrest of tho mau Isaacson, under certain alleged facts, gave n%e to the opinion that an actual ease of incendiarism had boen discovered ; that the origin of the fire of July 14 had Leen sscertained ; and that the law would make such an example of tho guilty as would be a warning toall otliers, The man Isaacson 18 a Polish Israclite, 83 Wwere most of Lis neighbors and the witnesses. Ho had been adealer in rags and iron, but Las more receatly followed fruit-ped- dling. He is rather unprepossessing in ap- pearance, and scems to have been unpopular among his ncighbors. He has a wife and one child. The testimony taken before the examining magistrate for the prosecation was tuat Isaac- son bad expressed s strong desire to gét nd of Lis houses; that he bad said they were nnprofit- able; that he Li2d said he ws insured for $2,400; that he hind refused to whitewash the premises : that he had offered & witness 100 to set fire to the houses; and thata firc had gctually iaken placa there twoweeks proviously, for which Tsaac- son Led been arrested, but discharged. Roso Goldsmidt, & cbild, declared that she had heard Ilrs. Isaacson say to & number of persoue that, “‘unless her nead was mob on her ghoulders, all Fouril avenue would burn, or godown.” Subsequently the child took this story back, saying that certain men had told ber wht to cay, and promied to pay Ler for eaying it. Ths ofiicer who arrested Mrs. Isaacson nsked Ler, on the way to the prison, why she st fire 1o the premises, and sho said * becauso sho wanted to, and that shohad set firo to it with o caudle.” This was considered a confession. All the witnesses for the prosecution located the origm of the fire in Isaacson’s barn,—ono of them declaring that ho saw blue fire, like that produced by kerosene, coming therofrom, end this beforo any other building was on tire. One witness declared that he was about to take rooms in Issacson's house, when the latter advised him not to do 8o, as it would be burned down. For the defenee, it was proved by an over- whelming array of evidence {hat Isaacson was absent from the neighborhood all day, sad that, atthe time of the fire breakinz out, he was peddling fruit on Sherman street ; 8o the prose- cution wwas forced to claim that the actual firing was done by Mrs. Isnacson. A boy whohad been scut to get a horso from the barn adjoining Tesaceon’s declared that ho was thore when the fire broke out, and did not see Mrs, Isaackon come near tho barn, which was locked. A boarder in the house testificd that Mys. lsaacson had been hard at work washing until 2 p. m., aud that from that hoar until the firo broke out bad been sitting in the hall of the Louse, and bLad mever leftit. A Mr. Blumenthal declared that he was in the alley when the fire was burn- ing the barn in rear of No. 272, and Isaacson's, which wasin rear of No. 876, was not then on fire. Otber witnesses tectified that tho fire did no! originale in Isancson's burn at all. Mrs. TIsaacson declared that sle did not understand a word the officer znid when Le arresta Trer, avd made no confession to him. Sho was ret abloto £ave auything from tho Louse. The prisoner Isascsor stated tust Lo owned two large frame dwellings ond ome emall building.” They were worth togetler £4,200, and wero insured for $1,160. From theso buildings he Teceived o moathly rent of £105. Hobad re- cently rencwed Lis Jease for three yoars, and, at 2 cost of £130, put tho houses in repair. Ho was sbeent from home all day, and he denied the various stories as to his being lired of his property and wasting it burned up. Iiis annual rents excecded the whole amount of insurance. “Thig is the whole case. - 1t is evidently n weak one against Tsaaceon. The witnesses generally epeak and understand Eaglish imperfectly; somo motetall. The education of the partics has been very poor, and the sanclity ‘of an oath. seemingly is not uaderstood by | them. The accused wey dislited and sworn TH aguinst accordingly, There seems to be & total abience of motive. The msn is He hnd ac- evidently industrious and thrifty. cumulated enough to purchase the three tene- meuts ; thathe revted them judicionsly is ehown by the heavy rents ho recetved. He put the case strongly when bo showed that his rent for one year oxceeded tho aggregate insurance; that he had just renewed his leaee, and was fully awaro that if the buildings burned he conld only replace them with more costly brick ones. Theso facls geem to exclude the theoryof firing the premises to got the insurance-money; such an operation would Leve been & losing one in a pecuniary way. While it is deeirable that any person guilty of the horriblo crime of aréon shall bo couvicted aud punished, it is equally important that mere neighborhood clamor and dislike shall not be permitted io usurp the fanctions of jus- tico. A conviction for areon, when tho case is clear, will alono justify such a puniehment as will exercise a detorrent influence. THE CITIZERS' ASSOCIATION. A nevw reform organization, which proposes to establish a eemi-millonnium in the shortest pos- siblo time, has been started in this city. It means to securo us better municipal govern- ment, o highor state of general welfare, immu- ity from carcless or corrupt legislation, prompe enforcement of good laws, development of trade, favorable State and National legislation, wide- spread interest in muricipal affairs, the correc- tion of existing abuzos, and their prevention in tho future. This is oo amazing, if some- what tautological, calalogue of benefits. If the tithe is realized, wo canoot be too grateful. The macbinery that is to effect these results consists of, first, all citizens of Chicago who aro legal votors and tax-payers and will eign the Constitution ; sccond, of the usual set of of- ficers ; third, of & Central Committce of five from each ward ; aud, fourth, of an Exccutivo Committee, chosen by the Central Committee. The Constitution contains some admirable pro- visions. Bac. 8 of Art. 1 reads: This Association shall not enguge in furthoring the futerests of any religious sect or denomination, nor of any political party organization, nor of any or- ganization engaged or interested in promoting or go- curing temperance or sumptuary leglslation, Bec. 2 of Art. 8 provides that “no teals of ereed, religious or political opinion, or natiouality, shall be imposed” as condi- tions of membership. The gentlemen who ave 80 far beea prominent in the organization of the Association are, with ecarcely an exception, firat-class men. Tho Association is exposed to one great dan- ger. While it is a new broom it doubtless will not lack guiding hands. Dat when its business of detoction snd warning drops into routine work, will the gentlemen who arenow so earnest, 80 enthusiastic, persovere in the good work they baveplanned? We hope so. Thero is groat need of such a society. Its presence will bo o constaut benefit. It will supply what is so much needed,—a certre of discontent with the bad, of approval of the good. We trust that its members will stand Ly their guns, and that the Citizens' Associstion may be a thing of many days and many years, instead of an eplemeral protest sgainst municipal wrongs, which, like & flash of Lightning, will make the darkness it dispels for an instant close in more densely than ever. Tho immediate work bofore the reformers is the enforcement of the Firo-Limits law. The good of this eusctment depends upon the doings of the next two months. If it is enforced now, it can be enforced forever. Let tho Citizons' Association look to it now. CENTRAL CHURCKES. 1t seems to be as difficult for » section of & city as fora man to serve God and mammon Trade gradually drives ont churches. It is only o few years sinco Court-House squars bad threo or more churches facing it. Only one—the Firet Methodist—is left now. That lurks in the upper story of a business block, end would scarcely boLnoticed by tho casual wayfarer. Our tvo great fires have driven the Second Presbyterian from Wabash and Washing- ton; the First Presbyterion from Wabash and Congrees ; the Bwedenborgian, whence Mr. Seammon was wont to indite prayors for certifl- cates of character to tho General Assembly. from Adams ; Trinity Episcopal from Jackson; Saint Mary’s from Madicon and Wabash; tho TFirst Meuhodist from Wabash and Harrison ; TLaird Collier's Cburch of the Messiah from Wa- bash, neer Hubbard court; tho First Baptist from a neighboring locality; the Synagoguo from Wabash and Peck court; and Plymouth Congregational from Wabash and Eldridge court. The mile which once gavo Wabash avenuo its name of the *“Street of Churches ™ now has not a church upon it. The congregations that heve mot been burnt out havo moved out. The same process has beon going on on tho North Side. Tho churches near the river which wera destroyed in the great firo have been loft in raios. Thus a very largo scction of our city ia destitute of church advantnges. It containg all the Jarge hotols and hundreds of lodging-rooms in the upper stories of business blocks. . Prof. Swing's sorvices in McVicker's Theatro showed that it could furnish very large, if not very charitablo, andiences. Mon who aro interested in church-work could not do better than to rent or build commodious Lall in the heart of tho businees quarter and opon it for service at least once ovory Sunday. A preacher of acknowledged poser could keep it full. If Prof. Swing's fricnds have not given up the “Tabernacle” idea, here is their chance. The field is ripe for tho barvest, but the laborers are few. A NO-POPERY RIOT. Harper's Weekly of last Saturday contains a portrait of Archbishop Mauning (taken from fhe London Graphic without acknowledgment) and two columns of ill-judged donunciation of Dr. Manning from the pen of s (presumebly) young person named Eugene Lawronce, whose function inlife ecems to be to fling mud at everything Cetholic. Low abuse does little harm. Wo have pointed cut, from time to time, some of tho®r- rorsot the Church of Rome. Her reactionary tond- ency, her opposition to progress, her antagonism to frec schools,—theso have often been rebuked 1 THE TareuNe. Mr. Eugens Lawrence, how- ever, i8 apparently incapable of seeing that thero may be something good in this, the most numer- ous of the Christian sects. Catholicism is his redrag. The sight of it drives bim mad, Ho tells us that Dr. Henning kad % no want of pre- ferment ™ in the Ecteblished Church of England, 2nd immeciately insinuates that his “obscurity in that Church was thio real cause of his conyer- elon to Romanism. Because Dr. Manning changed Lis mind, Mr. Lawrence thinks he stultified himsclt! Weo trust that 'tho foolish eritic may specdily change his own mind, and so avoid etultification, Bo- cause the Archbishop calls the British Parlia- ment, which opposcs Papal supremacy, * the | Ereatest of lezinlgfiru bodies,” he 13inconsistent, according to this profound reasouer. Wo learn, with gome surprise, that this able priest bas energy, but little intcllect. His keen writings, though sometimes disfigured by elips in logic, aro enough in themselvos to give any man 2 reputation for intellect. We have mno space o discuss the sweepmg asser- tions sgainst Catholiciem end Catholics which round out this strangely erroncous cesay, Even the declaration that Bismarck was attacked “by s Roman Catholic fanatic and priest” mustgo unanswered. Mr. Eugeno Law- rence is barming the causo be wishes to uphold. The Church of Romo, despite.ita many failings, is a great poser for good ag well as for evil. It contzins many eminent and moblle men. And Arclbishop Manning is, perhaps, the noblest TRoman of them all. The next time Harper's Weekly cribs a portrait from the Graphic, it kal botter crib the accompanying sketch of the sub- Ject too. RELIGIOUS ABSURDITIES. The absurdities perpetrated by some in the name of religion can ouly be explained by the deficiency of such persons in the senso of the Iudicrous. If their scnsitiveness to ridiculo wero equal to their egotism, they might bo made to seo themeelves as others sce them. The rovivalist who offers a chromo to eovery convert may be the creature of a grotesquo fancy, but thero are artifices resorted to for * winoiog souls ” that do not fall far below this in mischiovous absurdity. They cousist of wronched toxts like * Lot bor drive,” or of ec- centric phraseology, such as “Hero is & verso that presents & nauseated Christ,” or of labori- ous attempts at facetious picty, as, for cxamplo, an advertisement of & soap-dealer which con- tams the following puff by o DBrooklyn divine: + I have ueed your soap with pleasure and profit, but best of all T haveheld pleasant converso will you concerning Him who washes all oar sins away." Perhapsboth soap-dealer and soap- headed parson would justify this exchange of pufl for articlo puffed by the axiom * Busincss is business.” Wo recollect secing on & huge bavner at a country fair, *Yo ougbt to turn from these Iy- ing vanities unto the living God.” This is cor- tainly not the application of the test most likely to conciliate an intelligent farmer, who could baxdly be expected to look upon his fat oxen and preminm wheat as Iying vanities and offensivo to God. An ordinary eye for tho fitness of things would bave msde a better seleclion, or, rather, none at all. Tho same beneficent eye might -have prevented tho Y. M. C. A: of this city from following the late corner-stone procession in a cart, carrying s banner with tho inecription, ‘“Jesus Chriss the Corner-Stone.” It might have restrained the injudicious Tory who, during the lato election in Englaud, started tho Lustings cry, ““Beer and the Bible! Stand by & National Church and a National Beverage.” Perhaps the roverend gentleman who pro- nounced an enlogium the other day upon * Jim TFiek," at the dedication of & monument to that illustrious scoundrel, would have deciined the in- vitation if be had realized the incongruity of tho spectacle. Ho did not deliberately design to bring reproach wpon the public virtue; ke is simply deficient in the sense of the incongruons. Perhaps the clergyman who has been arraignod Dy tho Chesapeake Presbytery for trying to im- press tho decalogue upon his wife with his fist would have escaped this unpleasant duty could ho have foreseon what eversbody else secs—bow ridiculous o daty it is. His defense is that on coming down fo breskfast on Sunday mora- ing his Sabbatarian suspicions were aroused by eecing some eggs upon the table. Ho suspected, not tho eggw, but his wife. Mo catechised her, and ehe adwitted that she had borrowed those eqgs that moruing, and, for aught sho' knew (this i3 our suspicion), they might have been laid during the small bours of that sacred day. Her husband *‘told her that ho would teach hor bow to breax the Sabbeth,” aud ho did o by nearly Lreaking her jaw with his own bavd. What isa wife's jaw to s hus- band's Sabbath? We recommend (his sisth scose to thoso missionaries in Rome who appeal for money not £0 much because of the spiritual destitution of the Romans as because thoso who are supplying the destitute aro under the special command of the Almighty to *msko Rome howl” with a Protestant theology. One of them say8 Lo was *pushed and pulled into Rome by the Lord,” implying, by tho way, that the Lord and he,—or rather ho and the Lord,—and all tho thick coming migsionaries in Rome, sre no more concerned for Naples (which has five times as many peo- ple) than thoy aro for New York, or London, or any other unromantic spiritual harvest-ficld- This missionary tells us also that his mission is ** 80 advantageously placed that psalm-singing may be heard—cspecially if tho singers be in- structed to raise theirvoices a little—in tho very chambers of the Pope”! The object is not so much to convert tho vagabond Italinng, which can easily be done by a Landful of macaroni, but to with the tidings that the slumbers of the Holy TFather are broken by the strains of a Prot- estant hymn. Call it the TFive Points Homo for Americin Arabs, and tho con- tributions drag. Call it the “ Vatican Aiesion,” and promise to sing loud enough to digturb the Popo's rest, and there will bo no end to dona- tions! That is the theory of tho dramatio missionary, but it is not so enchanting as it was. The element of absurdity is beginning to Lell. A youth at a camp-mecting in Nebraska jumped into s well with the remark that ho *guessed Lo would go to glory.” He was res- cued, but his “morbid impulso” is probably too {far gone to admit of the cure we proposs. Heis beyond the reach of his sense of the ridicuious. His fate, howaver, should be a warning to other absurd religious peoplo, who may yet savo their renson by exercising it, and increaso their stock of common senso by cultivaiing it. They ma arouss thomselves in time to seo that retig- don, to be heplthy, ‘must bo at least sano, acd that to keep it mmne it must bo mized with our overy-day work-a-day lifo. As there is nothing in this world o fascinating to the common run of people a3 @ simple and earnest religious life, so there i nothing more traneparent or repugnant to them than the ranting egotism which mistakes itself for religious zeal, or the pious buffoonery which, whilo it may split the ¢ara of the groundlings, must alienate the thoughtfal, coafirm tho skoptical, and mako the judicious gricve. According to awriter in the New York Graphic, itis surmised that Miss Susan B. Anthony and her associates of the Woman's Rights party are responsible for the disclosure of the Beeches- Tilton seandal to the Woodhnil sisters, and to its consequent publication by them. According to this statoment, Miss Authony was & gueat in (he Tilton household, and while there learned that Tilton had knowledgo of improper intimacy move upon tho Protestant pocket in this country | between Mrs. T. and Beecher. It has always been & mystery how the Woodhnll became aware of it. It in supposed now that Miss Anthony told the tory in hor circlo, and that eventually it reached the Woodhall family. ‘They used it then to blackmail Tilton and Beecher, compelling both of those persons to say and do many things that wero humiliating. Tilton, to save his wifo, and Beecher, tosave himself, submitted to connt- less degradations from these women. If Miss Anthony was informed of the facts two ar three yeara ago, it is likely the circle of secrot Leepers i t00 wide o be covered by any blanket which it is possiblo to weave to-day. MISSIONARY RELIGIONS. When it was announced that Max Auller was to lecturs on Sunday in Westminater Abbey, High Churchmen cailed it o desccration. When tho lecturo was published, Churchmen and Dis- senters groaned elike at its doctrine. It classi- fied the great religions as missionary and non- missionary. In the first category the speaker placed * Buddbism, Chrigtiunity, and Makomet- apism. In the second he put Brabmanism, Judaizm, and Zoroastrianism. The former were vital, growing. The latter were dying or dead. The reflex action of missionary effort kept a re- ligion alive. Nothing olse could insure long life. Tbo world was to bo portioned out, thereforo, botweon Buddhism, Christianity, and Mahomot- anism. So said tha Professor. This classi~ fization of Christianity with two other forms of feith guve ita devotess greab disquiet. When tho everready storm of roproaches had somewhat died awsy, Prof. Muller found that he had managed to offend believers in all the misstonary religions. He. was accused of misrepresenting all of them. Duddiista opened fire upon him. Mahometans tried to show how he had underrated the strength of their creed. Now the votaries of the non-mis- sionary religions are upon hiwm. It is said that, though Zoroaster opposed missions, his follow- ers bave broader viows. Tho Parsees are busily proselyting in the far East. Dr. Adler, the Chief Rabbi of London, declares that the Hcbrows ““have been the most proselytizing people in the world.” Tho Rev. Charles Voysey dofends this eaying. A Jewish mission- ary society is now being formed in London. It is probably an indirect vesult of tho lecture. Tho ablest reply is in bolalf of Brahmanism. The Forinightly Revicw for this month publishes an elaborate article by Mr. A. C. Lyall on the condition and prospects of the great Hindu creed. Ho says it proselytes rapidly. “More persons in India become every year Brahamonists than all the converts to all tho other religions in India put together.” It gathers converts in two ways. Whole tribes on the outskirts of Hindostan embraco it en masse. Thix process is o frequent one. Becondly, Brah- mamem absorbs all the new sects which are con- tinuslly appearing. Its ereed is -capacious. Al- most all beliefs can find a resting-piace in it. A ““prophet ™ spesks. Thousands of credulons Hindus flock to him. In a short time, he and his followers are within tho fold of Brabma. Blr. Lyall declares that their faith ®still lives and is propagated in India faster than any other religion™ becauge it is indigenous, the ‘product of circumstznces that stull exist; be- cause it is a sccial syetem,—*a man is not a Hindu becauss ho inhabits India or belongs to any particular race or State, but because bLe is & Brahmin™; and, finally, because it provides a constant supply of miracles, and the Hindu malkes miracles a prerequisite of faith. It is as strong a8 Buddbism or Mahometanism, says the writer, and will come out in as good condition as they from the great fight that the four faiths will wage on Indian soil ere long. Max Muller bas appended & note to this arti- cle. o defends his views by saying that a re- ligion may be proselslizing and yet not non-mis- sionary. Tho word proselytes means literally “those whocome to us, not those to whom we go.” Dy & missionary religion the lecturer d:d not mean one which euffered con- verts to enter its fold, but one ‘‘in which the spreading of the truth and the converson of un- believers are raised to the rank of a secred duty by tho founder or his immediate successore.” Drabmanism accopts proselytes. It does mot conduct misgions. Therefore Prof. Muller still conaiders it as dying. Ilo qualifies this state- ment, however, by saying: When I spoke of Brahmanism as doad, T meant the vulgar, orthodox Brahmanism wkich s openly patron- ized by the Brabmans, though scorned by them in 6o~ crot. Ididnotmean the wurahip of Brahma as the Supreme Spirit, which bss existed i India from tio timo of the Upanishads to the present day, and has Intely nssumed the Brahmoism,—a worship 5o pure, 8o cxated, 50 deeply human, 8o traly divine, that every man can join in it without spostasy, whether hie bo borus Jew, o Geniile, or & Christian, . . . There 13 o Christianity that is dead, though it may be pro- fessed by miltions of people, but there is also, let us trust, Christianity that is alivc, though it may count but tiweive apostlcs, Itisan able reply, but most readers of Mr. Lyall's articlo will transfer the Hindu creed to the first category,—thot of the missionary ro- ligions. Ee ALCOHOL V8. OPIUM. Tntil 1340, our importation of opium did not exceed the proper medicinal demand for the drug. We used, in that year, about 2,000 pounds of it. In 1870, we imported 154,841 pounds; in 1872, over 230,000. Tho Chineso demand for opium propared for smoking ac- counis for about one-cighth of this. Three- cightlis are sbsorbed n prescriptions,—prescrip- tions which are too ofton wrecklosely written, 88 wo ghall show lereafter. This leaves 30 per cent, or about 125,000 pounds of poison, unaccounled for. The books of wholesnle drug-houscs in the East show heavy gales of opium to tho country- dealers. Tho habit of opium-eating seems to prevail chiely smong women. Tho fact may explain the great percentago.of farmers’ wives in lunatic asylums, The author of “The Opium Habit"” cstimates that thoro are 80,000 or 10,600 babitual opium- eaters in the country. Thero are somewhat pre- cise roturns, however, only from the State of statistics,—Jlaseachusetts. ‘The apothecaries in the smaller towns of the Commonwealth report an alarming etote of thinge. We subjoin a few rotes furmished by different druggista to tha Doard of Health: Those addicted to opinm are a'l females, Several nervous women take optum here, 1 think theuso of opium has slightly increased, mostly among females. There are probably half-a-dczen opfum-eaters hers, all females but oze. Oue opium-eater in town—a woman. The ure of opium has greatly increased, especially amoug women. The causes of this slarming habit of self-poi- soning aro several. Tho taste is often implant- ed in early infancy by the use of tho drugged siraps which foolish mothers give to their restless babies. The Massachusetta Boxnrd of Health indorees the author of ** Opium the alkaloid to an ounce of the sirup ; the dose foran infant, as directed, being four or five timea that usually regarded as safe.” Another case is the rashiness of physicians in prescribing the drug. Out of fifty apothecarics, fourteen mention this as a qreat reason of the growth of the habit. The opiate treatment of neuralgis ig very common and very mischievous. This disesge, by tho way, first led DeQuincey to uso the deadly drug. Tho third great cause is the deuial of the patural craviog for alcobol. Man, balied of one stimulent, takes another. “Itis s significant fact that both in England and in this country the total abstinence movement was ‘almost immediately followed by an incressed _consumption of opium.” The English importation doubled within five years of tho outbrealk of the movement. When teetotalism gained ground in Americs, our importation, although the price of opium had just increased 50 per cent, rose in the proportion of 3.5 to 1. Stille, in his ‘‘Therapeutics and DMatena Medics,” says : “The habitof opium-chewing has become vory provalent in the British Islands, especially sinco thamse of alcobolic drinks has been to 5o great an extent abandoned.” Morehouse, in his * Hia- tory of Inebriating Liguors,” declares that the Mabommedans began to use opinm when wine was forbidden them. In Turkey, increased demand for wine, of late yoars, has been eccompanied by diminished demand for opiam. In hot countries, opium and similar ‘substances are very generally used in place of alcoholic stimulants. These inatances cstablish & proba- bility that opium and alcobol conflict with each other. The use of one is apt to involvo the dis- uso of tho other. A number of Iiassachusetts apothecaries take this view. One Boston drug- gisteays: “Have butono customer, and (hat & noted temperance lecturer.” The prevalence of the habit among women isprobably expiained by the unhappiness of most of thom, the mental stagnction, the liability to nervous depression, and, in the country, the seclusion and the grinding physical work. More- over, women are excluded by public opinion from the beer-hall and the dram-ehop, and they ore very subscrvient to that opinion. Thoir stimulants must be secret. Opium, in its vari- oug forms of laudanum, parogoric, and sulphate ‘ot morphia, can be readily taken in private and without interruption of duty. Tho relation between alcohol and opium is of special importance. If our prohibitory and semi- probibitory Iaws aro not only bringing with them the usual evils of sumptuary legislation, but are driving thousands of peoplo to the use of apoison thatis far wurse than alcohol, we need to know it. Rash legislation may fatally effect morals. The English taste for fiery liquors —ataste that we have inherited—is atiributed by many thivkers to' the heavy tariff imposed upon French light winesin 1703. ‘This practi- cally shut the latter out of the market and drove the Englieh to the use of the heavy wines of Portugal, Tho taste, onco guined, grew upoa them. DOWN OR THE HEATHEN.- The editor of the Inferior In a late fssue as- sured his readers that he had never read of cne virtuous heathen. - Socrates had been named to bim 88 8 specimen; but Socrates, the learned odifor says, was only & *sentimental loafer!” Socrates was the most virtuons of the heathen, but 8o shiftless was he that Xantippe was fully justified in pitching slop-wator on his philo- sophic head and beard. So very bad washe that, according to our editor, there is not a woman in the country but would promptly apply for a divorce from a husband who was no better than Socrates. If, bya virtuous man, the editor of the Inferior means only one who belioves in tit® fivo points of Calvinism, in total depravity, justification by" faith alono, and infant damnation, he is Tight. There never was & heathen who held that mere belief made n man holy, or that little children werd condemned to eternal pain forno fault of theira. There never was a heathen who conld tell whatthe five points of Calvinism were, or who know anything of the Larger and Shorter Cate- ¢higm. If, thorefore, a belief in tho five points or an scquaintance with the Westminster Catechism 18 8 sine qua non of & good life, then there never was & heathen who wes & good mag, and the In- terior is perfectly justified in its comments on the lifo of Socrates. But wo Lardly think thatthis is what the gentleman meant to ssy. He nsed, wo presumo, the word * virtuous” in its usual signification; and, if he did, tho fact that he never read of & virtuous heathen is a very lam- entablo commentary on his intelligonce, and proves only the narrowness of his intellectual horizon. There have been virtuous heathen. There have been, always, as. tho Rev. F. W. Farrar—author of that sdmirable little work ““ Beekers After God”—says, men who, “amid infinite difficulties, and eurrounded by a corrupt society, devoted themsclves' to the earnest search after those truths which might best make their lives ‘beautifal before God.’” The Rov. Ar. Farrar and the editor of the Tnferior evi- dently do not agree, and no wonder; for the former has read of, studied, and written on heathen whose lives havo been virtaous, while tho latter confesses that ho nover 5o much a3 heard of ome. Io has heard of Socrates, but will not beliavo that ho was virtuoua. Apperently he mnever heard of Beneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus, or Marcus Aurelius. Seneca may not have been a perfect man, but neither is the editor of the Inferior. But then Seneca sought the trath. So nesrly did he approach to Christianity that it has been & matter of wonder lid not learn his wisdom from tho lips of Christ, bis contemporary, The carliest Christian writers, who were certainly as orthodox as the editor of the Inferior, and as zealous of God's glory, cite him constantly with approbation. He is quoted a5 an authority by Tertullion, Luctantiug, and St. Augustine, Jo- Tome calls him our Seneca. The Council of Trent quoto Lim as if he wero ono of the fathers of the Church. And no wonder. As bLis life was tells ue it is ““a ming reformed imitator of God, raising iueuib:v:amlm'“" man, confining all desires withiy 4o had never read the Scripturea, yet Bo kuggy, om0 man s without sin, for g thst “n0 man i3 without fat gy 0 man can acquit himself cutire) e Eecience. 4 hd’mm% Farrar1s not the first man i enlightened the Tnterior as to ;20.1?:”"“ Pagaas who Led vistuous ives. Iy pyge” also consulted such unsmspecteq lflm:“ Fleury, Aubetin, and Troplong, Eygpys, Aquinas says thet many of the hmm“" implicit faith. Bt it is 10t noceseary 4y u 80 far down in history. Saint Pay gy them in these words: “ Not having wore a law unto themselves, and ghgpeyy’ work of ‘the law written in their hegrien Seueca is not the only virtuous Besthen might chow that Pythagoras, Somtes py. Epictetus, and Marcas Aurelius led jig ¥ might well make Clristigs of this gy, Epictetus was & Roman slavo, o pig gy - eablime morality. He taught that noyg, ' meaner than the Ieve of pleasure and u,: Iom of gain, nothing nobler than doing gy, et men should not think of doing wrong; ty d should remember that God is imp e them 89 & Witaess. And Marcus Ay g Freatest of tho Pagans—vliers cuy g for's nobler charactx? S gy p bis fist travslator, s Codil of g, Boman Chusch, thivk of bim, g g dedicated the work to his om Sy, uygy might blush redder than his scarld. in copeg, plating the virtucs of this heathen Of yyrg, Aurelius Farrar says: So blameless w8 hiz egg. duct that neither tho maligoity of conegyy, raries nor the spirit of posthumous scandal by succeeded in diecovering any flaw in thaer. tromo integrity of his lifo and principles g this is high praise. Of fow-Christians cg gy much be said. We have introdzced theediurg the Interior to & few of the virtnons heutsey —men who, keeping Christ's injunction i knowing Christ, askod and received, sought 1y found, knocked and it was opened to them, ¢ tho editorial rooms of the Inferior be gt open to these heathen: Jet tho editor hald fm. quent converse with them; and he may find by Christianity improved by their acquaintance, Heeltr ENGLISH WOXEN, Some time since wo commented on the fazt that the Convocation of the Univc.ngity of Loz don had voted in favor of granting degreeats women. This decision has now been overrale by the Benato of the University. The Benvs voto was 17 to 10. It was uncxpected Ths University prescribes. studies to women and er amines women. Itis scarcely consistent to deny them degrees. They have been singularly gue- cessfal in the fields hutherto open fo them. Tha first prize in Political Economy has’ been taken by a young lady this year for the second time. The first prize in' Jurisprudence was also carried off by'alady, whoso knowlédge of thie subject wag pronounced to bo “marvelous.” Yet, in the face of these facts, the degrees, the cut- ward signs of what thess’ women base done, aro denied them. It is mot vanity that lesds to the Tequest for them. Jtis common senso. Tho degrees arn worth money. They are certificates of mezi which make employment easy to get.- Neverthe- less, the Senate said no. The Hon. Rober Lovwe, Earl Kimberly, Mr. Goschen, and s dis- tinguished physician, Dr. Billing, pleajed ths cauge of woman. The weight of ‘mediesl authority was, howerver, on the other side. Sit James Paget, Dr. Quain, and Sir William Guly argued against tho proposal. The two former took the position Dr. Clarke defends o sblyin his “ Sex and Education.” Itis a curions fact, by the way, that Dr: Clarke's seusible arguments have been carried by a whirlwind of feminice abuse into every part of the United Bistesand the British Isles. The author has becoms famous in a few days. A letter from an elderly lady of some renown as a sof- fruge-sceker was rend bofors the Semate. In it she opposed the granting of dogrees to women, but asked for incressed facili- ties of education. This i gaid to bave turned the ecale. The Scnate, glad to compromiss, edopted her proposal. 1t is utterly inconsistent with the position taken by the opposing dectors. They 8aid that constant hard siudy was anfit for women, and thercupon the Serate decided ta grant increased opportunitica for such study, and refuso the nlicep-skin signs of the fact! 1t is prophesied that anothor yoer will seo this decision revoled: English women, disappointed in the upisersi- ties, have redoubled their political efforts. Mon- curo D. Conway describes, in the Cincinnsti Commercial, a woman-suffrago meeting which be sttended July 6. It sparkled with eense— and diamonds. Ladics of the highest raak bave joined the movement. It bos becoms faghionable. Mr. Forsrth, a ConservativelL P, who manages to believo in woman-gufrage aod in unfettered saloons at the same time, though tho former involves tho overthrow of the latfer, presided. He explained the 2ot for woman-guf- frago which he is now pushing in Parliament. Tho Hon. James Stansfield, one of the late Lib- eral Ministry, eat by Jir. Forsytn,—* no doubt” writea Mr. Conway, “ Ly the desiro of Mr. Glsd- stono, who does not desire that the Tories sksl win all the glory of thoadmission of women tothe franchice which be sees to be inovitable.” Tte phrase sccmsa bit too strong. Porlaps the writer's wish is father to thethought. Yeteight of the present Ministry have already voted faf the innovation, and Disracli supportsit. I it could be made a Miristerial measnre, its saccee? ‘might be hoped for with gome eolid reason. Tbe moeeting closed with a sharp speccn by 2 Frances Power Coble against Goldsin Smit recent essiy on woman-sullrage. ilizs Cos is Irish. Hor speech was therfed witty and vitaperative. Bhostyled Goldwin Szith in 8 great measure tho life of a Chris- tian, 80 his writings bear s striking resemblanco to the ssered writings. Thus he writes to his friend Lucilius in Lis forty-firat letter: ** God is near you, is with you, i3 with- inyou. A sscred spirit dwells within us, tho obscrver and guardian of all our evil azd onr good; . . . . . there is no good man without God.” In anotherplace he says: Do you wonder that man goes to the gods? God comes to men; nay, what is yet nearer, He comes intomon. No good mind is holy without God.” How liko St. Paul, I Cor., iii, 16, ** Enow yo not that ye are the temple of God and that the epirit of God dwelleth in yon3" Again, be ea3s, in his his eightr-third lelter : ‘¢ What advantage is it that anything is hidden from man? Nothing is closed to God: He is present {0 our minds, and enters nto onr cen- and the Opium Appetite " in his statement that ‘'the basis of what is known as Winslow's Soothing Sirup is morphia ; & recant analysis of & eample of this medicine gave one grain of tral thoughts,"—which is but & paraphrase of Hob. iv., 18 ** ANl things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we haveto do.” He knew, t0o, the mature of goodness. He ““The Knight of the Rasfal Countensnze,” ¥bo ad been throwingmud ot women. On ozsmid- ing the mud, shebed found a few stoncs. I¥ was well to look at theso hoavicr wissiles. Ther were two of them. First, women shocld 5ot vote bocause thoy are too etrong; second!f they should not vote becauso {hey ara too wesk Theso were aptly characterized as * Killievni- cat arguments,” which devoured each cther. ¢ Tho sncers at tho woman-safirage FAHY B Euogland havo dono it good. Its members bate been shemed out of much of their folly. Now danys they talke mcderato measarea to compsd moderate ends. They bavemedo no attempt, hi8 their Amencan sisters, to sneal: in by the back door by taking advantage of a law that was ever intended to cover their case. They Lave u}m no vociforons Woodhmll into their comparic™ ebip. Their promicent leaders havo not, Lke Mre. Cady Stanton and 5fiss Anthony with Lsur Fair, visited = convicted female criminal 224 praised ber for killing 8 man becsuso be bsd Zone pack to the wife whom he once d