Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 17, 1874, Page 2

N + woys ngrecd w "3y of popular pressuro rufiled ont Pasuion stirrod 1t not ; projudico & it, onward it moved, ag quick 08 lio wna clear. 110 aw n gap fn the onom; in o daggor moro doeply. ponont,—nlways cool, maeter of the nrt of fenco, thrusta straight at tho seat of word bub fow contesta from W —nono i without viek respect and o wns disting Bunll of of what wo call manly mAnNoEs. 0Ly, tho respect uishod also for b staturo and in 10 Way B typo ‘Denuty, his prosouco wns DBishops- ro- imposing, sud, among o powued for thelr porsonal api atraljgbt to it No one ¥ nlways on puard, ho d crowd © Diavo volected him o ono of the bred, rofined, delicato, hio sbarpest roproof i not know that I over mob any ono compliment moro over uttor those ity nothi society havo eu pay You folt wit rounded by which 1t was u ploasure Dut so far everything perfect graco, goma arrout. on their and yot thore ne of triviality, hovor evon o KA b him_in tbeso matto delieato porfumod atn to breathe. tuat I havo mentionol lighly-cultured _ond. mlfihz characterizo nuy nol ty-giltod mou, but for a Bishop sometng noeded. neeration s 4 Wil y worldly luste, and godly in this prosent world, that you mny show lr\)tlnngu an oxamplo of good worky that tho ndverenry may bo ashamod, against you ?"” Hooanswoerod 170, 10 St, Goorgo's of Dichops and ST will Ko yourself in o) unto others, havingnothing tosay 11eRo Lhroc-and-twenty yoars a o listening crowd nround him: boing iy helper:" aud for o hins sot forth befors Church, priests do, tho ntbored o Lord Wo nult for jonie! throo-and-twenty yeats hi all men tho practico of that his without part many o bonrtsickns trition, but with as fow Tuve over marked tho shi Puro 08 unsun: not tho Croes, tor risen befora us. mur, * Yes, aud na cold. Liave biad aat o too warm s vature rcliof o tuen to this g and rigid virtue. ples. ‘Lboro bas miuch gentloness, from pulpits of lato. thiy stainiees man, Wi iup priest shonld throw aroun ) diguitiod and faulticss redorve, and bo without iho appearanco of evil. 1lis sons aud daugbteis, clorgy who Bin, ful 1oveln inn bigh-placed man. sout pattorn of sustore enlly for such oxam- boon tvo much amiability, too to0 much rose-wator sprinkled Como hore and look at 1o boheveu that tho Clirist- d lnm o mantle of " ‘I'he 430 his confidentinl friouds, gono to him 1 doop troub! cold; that lus henrt sympathy. Wo must Ihow himnot in_any such rolation, were paver unfolded admires zomo noblo statie hopo to posacss, lio, osity, that of tho Mus theme, ho wou lnm up bero oy an exampi of aputlesnoss of character, varsation which becomoth tho servant ot God. . Aud lot me notice liero his It mattercd not to sacriflce, able tho tasls, focling, eheerfully, sons Luow houyo was 3 Low vi comfort ; how small ter, 1 that repression of all o Tiolv conversation, that evor-recurring zeferonco to the things of God, and the servico o which, no mutier what th whethor sucl a thing was sonal udvantago. Oburch. But I must come years nover to considor solf, bu clshnsu:io of Ilfinois aud tho Holy Cutholic not overflowe could over conah gracofully, —nduirablo, fivo soberly, ri 1o, poiut of the Bishop's characier: cneco mpt, verturn it, o8 to ad ‘ng -he blo thing stand by thom, nud 1w th them out. I know, as woll o ¥ {lint tha Inte Bishop behoved Lis course 1o bo right; that ho mado it beforo bis God ; Dreatho. ject of prayer actuated by any mean, low, sel {hat his ono desire wad to glorify in theso days of ehilty “Y 5 hion it seemns os if one could dopend 's gettled couvietions, ifitis to it is a splendid +God. -0l theso days Wl 10 Jittla on anyon’ id undsr arouso o storm of popular fury, figuro nity arrayed aguinst him, uskry, untiring mont+ ained by man vory ot them nro the gontlewan, Ho iy ntrest. Tor 0 MOITy one. misunderstood, tho impowsibility of obtaining the funds to carry out bis earnest wishes, aud ! sorrow m tho loss of all eombined to saddon s outlook nnd chaston Lis spint. It is all over now. Ho walio, I trust, in tho fadeless bowers of Paradiso, sud ocojoys the bentrla vision of tho Redeoner, whom i faithfully tiied to nerve. tho pioielug sword o those dcnrcfi: to hiin, Ho is tiken, and weara left ; way wo fall nt onr work o8 hio did, and ey men writo over us as thoy can aver him, **A wotkman who needotly not to bo aghazod,” Serinon by tho Rev. E. A, Sullivan. Pho following Is the sermon commemorative of the Jato Bighop of Ilinois which was preach- ol yestorday nt Trinity Churehh by the Itoctor, — TRINITZ, {ho Rev. Dr, Sullivans And tho Lord snul, who then is thut fuithtul and wire seward whom his Jord ol ule ruler over his houschold, fo give them their portion of jucas 1n dio seazon ? Dleened f8 that eersant whom hin lord, when ho withont will y the surfaco, cnrcoly touchiorl s end, o waa wooner than w_armor, o plunged To was o torriblo ‘ops Torlock tolivorod his vitality, and thoro Ailch ho rotired ith tho logs of by own £ of his nutagonist. fa porfect pescancn, you would chiof. 3 0 CONTLEONH WoapoUs who could who could ngn which mon of tongies with moro ver wad & traco piclon of lavity, re a8 1f sur- osphore, commuanding ;' moro thay. thoso aro thing moro than this 23 an angwor to the solemn question of his con- ou deny all worldliness and ghteously, nnd g suy that ho was not with teuderest accopt thoir toatimony. I Our hearts to onch other, but as ouno which Lid canuot g0 I ndmire thut rectitude of nger and impetu- 1 ovor and'mnon_recur, lo of jurity of life, of a wallk avd con- gveat spirit of self- im how disagree- how overtaxed hig own eneigies, how bitter tho opposition croated, how groat the cost in time, in expenditure, m persoual if o thought that the intorests of tho Chiurch and the Curistian land domanded that it should bo doue, bo would do it,‘and doit so go enjoynbly apparently. Fow per- how scif-sucrinicing Bishop Winte- ery littlo hio regarded his own o tilug 1t was to him for or against Lis por- nooled himeelf for t to consider tho to the proat Qistinguishing firm, ndhor- ‘1o contieientious conviction of right,—prin- ciplen 100ted so firmly in the soul that no power on catth or in air woull dry them out. Ire- momber his gaying oneo befor in roard to & corlain thing, * aruuder by wild lions before T every man know o.uat it s 30,—thnt 2 wi entury-old onle ¥ ALl ?rmvnplganlx;m: cw(nh your embrace friiils boruw by episcopal opprossion and tyrans movo hitn from his convictions of right. Now, Inm for from saying thot Tal- ith bim in Lis convietions. far from implying that Iwould always have net- i (i given cireumstances § mt I'do menn to say that it Is o grand and no- in auy man to have principles, and to 0 fear of Uod to earry w I Tnow that T o the Convention T will bo pulied doib;” —that you might and at- an ungeasing sub- thut ho nover was sellish motives ; and tho Kimedom of that of n man_who menut to da what ho Mwugixt Tight, nnd_d(d it, with & wholo commu- 1 hovo selecied such pointa in hiy charnctor ag 'r thought full of exnmples to us all,—thorough in& porseverance, great acquire- hard study, ' high-bred and perfectly roflued manners, perfect purity of life, and 5 wall aud convorration aftor the manuer of Chrlst: @isrogard of sell where duty was con- cerned, and & storn and wncompromising adhor- enco to the-convictions of the soul, I commend them to tho mon boforo me os worthy of imitn- * fion. I think tho practice of them will bring o far along the 1oad to Heaven, Somo tenets o littlo old-fuwhioned, rathor Jighily treated in thouo lutter dayas but thoy nra traity which must foumn tho” bnck-bune of o ‘a Christinn, nad, nbove all, & frioud, Al Dis lifo was nob a Lappy Tor long years heavy cates and tho cuiso of & wido and, ns ho thought, o mysterious unpopularity, tho feehug that ho was camell, sholl ind so dolug, Luko xil,, 43, 43, On this very suriaco, in His housohold,— of nient in duo season,” A toxtanl annlysie of this prssage, however, does uvt como witlun tho Ecope of my purpuse intonsaly interestin ns sro tho fhought whict it opony up to aur view, wioh o8 1o cortain revelation it glveis of ‘un ond- recompenses in n future stato, toned to the curthly calling of falthfuluess with which ho hus ful- rand unmistukablo of that, so far from lhtrycunumu Loy, lines of Tony viriety exactly appor! ouah, and tho ful filled 1b; or again, tho clen warrant It lcnds to the b n (ho futictions of ths Chrlstion i) of these words of tho Diviue Teacher aro euscoptiblo of only o limited gpplication. Thoy uie not tho common horitage of ull Christion pooplo (for theso sufiiciont rac- otmponto and encomagemont aro provided iy the parablo inymedintoly preceding) ; ratlier wero they moant, primarily, for the little band of Apostles, hoaded by L'oter, thely eolf-appointed spakesman and represoutative, and thon, after them, for nl! who would perpotuate their work and ofico in the Church occupying, a8 thoy did hor bighost pincos of trustand roeponeibility. The *houschold " horo is evidontly ** tholiouse- Lold of faith,” that sactod enclosure into which ave gathored all who pratess the Master's sor- vice, nnd boar His snered symbol printed on thely forehonds, ‘The * stoward " horois the Christian minjstor, of whom the great Apostle to tho Gon- tilen declared It to bo n primary requisito * that Lo bo found faithful ;" witlo the rulor again Iy (hat samo steward whom his Lord, huviug o proved” eud fonnd * faithful and wiso™ In (o discharge of his sacred subordimnto func- tlons, calls, through the olocting volce of the Chuireh, to tho still highor powor ofjoverscorshin “to give them their portion profession,—~ on Al ests and many o deep (on=' blots in the cscutcheoh 88 lotds of che wariors of med suow, thnt ehnrac- Ircem to catell tho mur- Woll, bo it so. tion. of the dangers of - Iois o | in thi0 Roaurrootion frum thelr tomporary Ruspons slon, il onter.on o bighcr, noblor flgld “of oporation, to bo atill, as boforo, only, with Inton- sifiod power, tho divinely-nppointett channel fng-of tho body of Christ.” Thoso, howover, and othor kindred fopica which tuo toxt sug- gosta, wo must for tho presont pass by for odhur nd snddor thomen, with whick the gonoral spirit of tho text ia {n deopor harmony, preoccupy our minds, and absorb to themolvos all our powera of tolloction. A dmlk shadow had suddenly en- yoloped us, aud elothod the Clnrcl nk lurgo in this snble drapery of sorrow.. Auother mitred hiend, tho fiftv-sooond sinco the li\?fll\k of 'tho fliat foundation-stono.of tho Amorivai succos: slon, has “beon unoxpectedly brouglit- Tow, and to-duy not this oity mxl{. not the Dfi)‘co‘nn'cr'llll- nois only, but the wholo * housslald of-fatch through atlthe continont of Inropo,and ovon tothalslos of-thosea (forovon thero our Blshop's namo was knowh and honored), s enst dowi - dor n senso of irroparnble lmrq‘wumngh Tho cloquont tongue in mute, = Who stroug innd is rolaxed ond poworless, ‘Tho beatings ofthat great hioart, 1o valinutly loyal to tho truth, so unchangingly truo to all who read ue ‘undor t'nnd it, nro seilled in-the wrave's deop silonce, “Fho, Wivigo and_ futhful stoward” whom his made & ruler iu his housohold” hns roaignod Dis trugt and his lifo togothor, wud tho Church and tho world aliko' nro entlod -to’ take n sobor od dispassionato rotrospect ‘of tont noblest of all spectaclos—n_ lifo richly endowed with the Ditghest moral and intollootual nttninmonts, aud fa:thfully conseerated to thoe noblest ends, This_tho world has already done, and dona woll. Brief but just and discriminating ro- views of our lamonted Bishop's Hifo nud clineac~ for hayo n‘lponrud in all our ity nowspapors, 10- tlocting” tho opinlons not of " their Individual writers only, but of tho community generally, and showing that down deop fu tho publio mind, undor all tho potty susplcions, and narrow jeal- ousios, nud ignorant prejudices, which woro ormitted for a whilo to ntlach to his oflicial Fm!, snd to MHmit hig influenco, oven among churchtnen thoro still Iny o BLrOuf gon- viction, not meroly of his_commnuding nOlity (ovon his enomies, it' Lo Lind nnz, wern coni- pelled to ackuowledgo this much), but atill mora of his perfect sincerity and deop conscioutions- neas, a8 woll as Indomitable moral courage in do- ing, ovon at tho risk of bittorcat obloquy and misroprosentation, what ho know to’ bo right. Dutnot juet vet can his morita bo scon In thoir truo light. ‘Tho picturo, to bo rightly studied, must bo seratinized at a littlo " distanco. — Thon, when the shuck of escitomont attondant on iy unexpocted deat hiag hiad timo to fubside, when Tis bivgraphy—complled by competont hands, ag undmll!letlly it will be, out'or the sbundauco of gathered materinl —hay boen givon to the world, hd tho secrets of Lus lunar Iifo Lavo beon nid baro, a8 far o8 may be, Lo dispnsgionito seritivy, then cansurious jadgments long “eiuce uttored, and oven now tonaciously clung to, will bo will- ingly roversed, and the contossion mado that be- neath that seomingly cold and “impenotrablo es- fexior, beneath nll that hard, outer crust of ap- parent pride aud storn, rigorous ascotivism, thoro }ny & warm, tondar, sympatizing beart, quick to go ont 1 afloctionate responso to overy honest appeal, whother for succor in distrogs or for guidaneo in prospority, bub just ay quick, in its very seusitivoncen, to slriuk bnck at tho Taintest breath of unjust aud ntigoverous sus- picion, nud rotiro withiu itsell into the sanotuary of 1ts bwn conscious intogrity. g 1 do uot now propoa to eutor on vy _critlenl or oxhioustivo aualysis of our lato Bishop's clinrnctor, Neither is thiy thoe place or time, nor i mino tho Liand, for aty such tusk, Other and niore competont observers will render it full and unstinted justice. Just now I must confluc my- golf ton very tew charactoristic features which hiavo struck e during the gix yoars of my renl- denco witlun his apiscopal jurisdiction. Woll do 1 remember, dming tho very lirst months of my Rectorship of this parish, how I was warnod agaiust tho Bishop a8 o tyrant and oppressor ; an implacable foo to all ugelical clergrmen ; ono who would give them uo penco till ho hind driven them from the diocese ; with whom, therefore, I could not expecet to noa'mr‘ vary. iutimnto or ‘harmonious rolations. Well, six years have gono sinco then. Ins also gono; and _ to-day, lookiug back I nuss bim and I “mourn for lim rsone who hng always and uniformly proved Limeelf tomo n wise and willing counselor—a warm personnl friond. Tho tidings of his death rouchiug mo in my distant summer sojourn, foll on my brenst with a shock which oven yeb con- fases and bowildora mo. Lven now I do ot fully realizg it, and, 80 far as I ‘do, thero comes o sénso 'of lows- only less keen than that of a woro domestic bejeayomont. Aro’ thess the’ High~ o 1 do Wo tuvo o hold This so-cullod opprossor nud to ny? Noj the iummuation vas o falschood and uh insult ; oppression thore has been none, nor oven tho remotest kemblance of it, but rather overy possiblo manifcstation of kinduoss and confidenco. Why ?—becpuso I had cerned it ? Assuredly not, Bocauso I had nccommodated my theological viows to his, and ro dianrmed all oppouition ? Nov this oither. Thoologically 1 staud to-day whero I stood then,—on tho brond, opou platform of * evangelic truth nnd apos- tolic_ordar;"—holding with ona hanq by o sim- ple Gaspel of Jesus Christand His all-sulliciency 43 tho sheet auchor of the einner's redemptio, ad witl thio othier by (he cstnblished ordoy, din- eipline, and worship of the Eplscopal Church ns tho best oxisting exporent of that Gospel, mora perfectly adspied than nuv other in its poouline orgaization for tho ecuforcoment of Diving + thio perfecting thoreby of tho body of Clse.” Not, therefors, because of nuy chango of theological soutiment was this Linduosy shown, nor yet becauwo I had rondered “"K BOr= vice constituting u nightful claim,—of gnch Iam \wholly unconscious,—but eimply becauso on both sidos tho intercourso wag fraul snd bonest avd open, without digguise or reseivo or concoul- ment, Lba poor presbyter holding his own in his wenkuear, uud tho noble-hoartod Bisbop, though on some questions differiug widely, yot too mag- nnuimous not to accord within tho limils pro- seribed by the Church iho samo libetty of thought which ho ¢laimed aud excreised for himsell, It will probabls occur to some presont that tho oppression which 1 have thus ropudiated on the Bishop's bebalf oy towards myself did oxi-tin olher directions, ng witness tho ecclosiustical coutroversy which has dragged ou for threo youTs past so woarily and with 4o muels -of pori- odicnl oxcitement in our own city. o this I cau best answor by quoting the Inuguago of ona of our city journals Inits briel but ju- diclous obituary : *‘Thero (it enid) was tho Bishop, and thera was the mau—two distincs naturen” Pho eriticism is not merely corveot, it furnishies tho only key that (it I can ab all iu- terpret It) will unlock for us the mystory of tho Bishop's charactor, lunnriu‘; or forgetting this umportant distinction, men have estimated his personal charncter and eccclenistical ndmins- tration from their own view point, aud con- demned and denouaced as unpardonablo in_him what has failed to conforn to thae staudurd, Thoy in tho Bishop's ylaco would never (thoy hinvo thought oild kaid) have done ns ho did. Porhaps nor, bad they beon called upon to dis- chargo lus functions, still retawing their own fuelings ; but thoy would most cortainly have douno 28 ho did had (hoy stood in Lis plico wilh s nature and peculiar lemperament. 10 nature was esgentially uniquo, aund ‘must bo . judged by o standaxd peculiarly its own, Next aiter bis personal rolation to God a8 o respongiblo being, and to Josus Chreitt us hiy Savior (in the sulicieney of *whowe bload ho wae, Iny add, as humblo though a finm_o Leliover as oven tho extremest advoento of Evangelical viows conld desiro), ono idea ~posscascd his wholo baing—tho thought, viz, of“the Chureh of Christ as o creature of , God, now in- uoed dinfigured, like -Christ's humun body, by tho proxenco of nbounding infirmity, but here- uftor £0 bo tansfgured nud mnnifosted” in hor groatest glory, as o fafr, pure_brido adornod for ler husbaud. 'Lhis, the idenl Church of Toly Writ, wag, noxt to his own porsonnl nanimilitnda to thie imuge of Christ, tho desivo of ‘his ligart, the one atrorbing objoct of his enrnest, longiug uspivation, ‘Ahan this, that ho migut in somo feoule measira bo insiramental fu its ronhization, ho had no higher or holier ambition, Amid the tumult and turmoil, the foverish rostiowsncss and wenry Hluotuations of earth, it wis to thiy fair vision he ovor turned for rest and refresh- ment. The Church to him way tho living im- personation of nll highest oxcollonce, tho fnntru- ment through which its divine Founder mesut to eure tho torments and Hls under which humunity fios grouning, yearning for deliverance, I'o hor well-bomg, therefore, overy inferior intorost mumi, i neods be, “ho glully snerifieod. or ornelos, divioly inephed; bor muuisty, divivoly commissioned § hor nuarmnonlu. divinely iumtituced ; her xitngd, divinely scknowlgdged and npproved,— for thesw, us fundumental sloments in her human orgauization, sud sulordinato moenns auxilisry to the groat destined ond of hor oxistonce, ho lived, and Iabored, and died, Honee Liy oxalted viows of the oflice of u Bishop, i Loid hud mado him * a xulor in his household,” wud could Lo ghtly allow dispuragement to bo cast on n trust so purely divine? "~ Conld ho rest contont with only & nomival or goneral jurisdiction ? Were wor all iho interests of tho Uhnreh gom- mittod to his keoning nlilco, grout and Jittle? Nuy, coitld nuythitg indéad bo Iittlo shat in sny way affeeted tho Churel's wolfaro? Did it not loso ity seonung hitlonoss, nud clotho itrelf with nn impottunen mmpmxknhfu‘ Ly belug lifted up into w0 lofiy, 6o oxuited nu usociation#' Lyen the I am ooy, yurled o b oL hat | witlful'breaking of o vubrio, ortho habitus! muti- rl’::h n::'lllldemr:{mfir m:ur‘\"ll‘vnt} Pl‘l.:‘:xum'\\'rét:ll:- Jatioti of an seensionnl vorvjeo,—might not even tm’rx of the grave, and, rising agaw this open a'door o mtorual robelliownud disorder for tho porfecting of the Bnluts, for. ‘tho odlly- . ‘ehiof Tuler in tho Lord's household Ho exdroiudd 188 CHICAGO DAILY TRIB IONDAY, AUGURT 17, 1874 iv the Chureh, ns tho trickling of & fow drops of, wator.might prové tho unobsorved but siaro nid fatnl forerunnor.of n dosuluting ' inundation ? Haued tub, vory -boginnings ot ovili must_bo ohocked. Cousldotationd of personal oaso ‘and comfort might whispar tho oxpedioney-of & non= lutmferlu[;’ vonulyatico, but 1t was “tho. Zord'a household bo hiad boon made ruler of,-and, in admindstering its spiritual nud semporal economy, must -he not;-at-all hazards, oboy,: with most vigorony oxuctitudo tho diotatos of thy -wiadom givan to him ? e . Waa this opproasion 7 Was this tycanny ? I it Do, thon Bt Iaul, was Loth tyrant aiid oppressor, for by virtuo' of_tiin voby sdino nuthority asn ntoward, whom bils Tiord ahall makw rulor ovor hin ligusohold, to give ‘tyom their pottion of. medt’ in dus soason? Bleussd Is that sorvank whom his Lord, whon Ilo comoth, shall find so dolug. Of m truth Isay unto_yon that_ Ho will | malta hini'1ulor ovor all thit 11a hath,” For lim, thorofaro, * It fs well,” Tor him tho bnttlo s foughty the vietory won, Itost, warrior, work- maa, pilgrim, ro«t1” * Blossed nre tho dend who dlo In tho Liord, for thoy rot from tholr Inbor, and thoir woric do follow -thom,” - And for ns, who nro lofl horo yet littlo ldugor, what is tlio ot gront Iesson to ho gathered from tho life wo bave scon w0 unexpectediy tormiunted? Lhis chiofly © That, inosmuch ni'tho tenure by which aven' the ‘ntrongost and honithicst “among ua holds to tho gift of aarthly existenco i nwfully uncortain_and’ procarions; and *tho Lord and Giver of Life may at any momont disposscys ug therefore tho quostion which first, Inst, an oftencst of- all shiotld_ocenpy cach in, Mow mny I bost do my appointed work and fill my destined pluco in this honeshold ? Vor, ‘brethron, you nre, ench of yon, by caltini and privilogo, mem- bors of 1t, and of tho ‘obligations and rosponsl- bilities attaching to that membership you can diselpline, cutting some off ‘Trom tho commun-, jon of the faitbral; nid oh ofhera pronouncing hls welghtlest anathema:” To all this I know niany; will roply, **more upocinl ploading—it way uot tho porformnucn of o conacicutuoun dnly, bt ouly tho gratiflontion of an, old loujz-standiug firud aP—ivoll, bo it w0, ‘Bomo men must simply o lott to thielr ‘own_olioriahed. opiulons, " ‘This, however, is worthy of note; tliat thoso who nro foudost in donying to wnr doparlbd Bishop n T intogrity of - purposo nud honest couviction of | nover- divest yoursolvos. You may: ignore, or duly nco loudost also in trumpoting Swir own | forgols or noglock thom; nav, you may oven consciontiousness, T drag; thom dowy atid tramplo thom iindor foot tn o tho mifo of vicious and debasivp oxcosscs, but “Closoly allicd with this oxa'ted conception of b % g thomaria abd faaction of o Chareh, nid oF for Alltlintey c“" remnin “perishnblo, Inni- tho modesty of Liar Contitution au v sngred and | fucenblo, silont hub soouslug witneusos, toatity- fnviolablo thing, and- of lils own olllco"as ndi- | Mug'to vour unfaithfuluows, e, soir place in tiio houseliold may'ho of tho poorest and ‘low- liest, bringing no appardnt honor, and offering no stimulus of prmmnnncnorpuhllu obsorvation, but it fa still o place “which tho Lord has nssign- ed you, and which, thorofore, if ocenpied - with fldelity, brings bonodiction and approval, but {€ botrayod” or dishonored Lringa inevitabla fiunl vondeinnation. 5 reotly divine investituro aud ondowmont, in close olliauco with this, and yot in marked and striking contrast could oaslly "bu discovered in Bishon Whitchouse, by any careful obsorvor, a wvery lotoly ‘eslimale "of Nimself und his own allain~ ments, whether religioua or inlellectual. Of tho brendth ond varloty.of 'thoso attnimtinits I nodds| not now spenk.’ ‘Ihoy seomed to 'be literally ou- eyelopredio.: ' Not o doprrimont of human thought ena bo namod,—not o solitary topie, whotheér in art, tolouco, o liloraturo,—with wizlel Jio conld not, if hieel b, prova himsolf thotaughly con- versnut, Asik, nuy question, and it ootained rondy aud untisfactory anawor, Beart any ub- Jogz, howover ‘remots or:'unfamiilinty and in thioson, *woll-balnnced sontoncus,’ Lo zave, you froely of the abindanco that lay stored up in Lia ampla tredsuro-house, Lot but tho floodgutos bo openod, nud the ciirrent lowed, Ita volumd hrond, and deop, mud strong, filling tho- listenor’y, mind to ovorflowing, Especia'ly wag this truo'of his kiowleuga of Mol Seripturos, Thoro’ ho waa, lixo Apostles, “mighty:"-ublo not ouly to pro- dvico its very words abwill and ‘to reconeils its seoming discropnticles, but by o sort of spiritual insight, o rare faculty of ‘soul-vision, to discorn its doapost, most Lidden menning, to discover the sweot harmony and intor-depoendenco of its varions I)qngts. ‘nud thus by o spoeies of tostimony out of tho” ordinary’ track, and jufivitoly more convincing than any found in tho popular works on Chistian ovidences, domoustrato tho pervad- ing presenco in every nago of Seripture’of otio suporintonding and lulorming éphit. Now flolds of thought, Lithorto untrodden, sedmed to opou up ns o Apolko, and epraud ‘out bofore tho mind ; into upaco 1Mlimitable. ~ Casual hints and sugges- tions wers thrown out by Lho way, politing to' yet other (houghts, equally " valuablo, lying _yet bovond, but which, from tho very abuudauco of them, it swas imposiblo to cateh and note, much less to follow p. ‘Connactions, Dotoro unsuspected, wore "discovered liiio soiled gold underlying the very surfaca’of tha. secred toxt—passazon, populary, even' by’ cloraymon, misungerstood, wero rescucd from tho false'in- i gtoins ST, JOHN'S, Sernton by the Rev. IT. N. Powers. St. John’s’ Chureh, on Aslland’ avctiue noar Mndison stroot, wos heavily' draped aund also docorated with flowers. 'Tho sormon, proaciod by the Rector, tho Rev. 1. N, Powers, was a8 follows : * Dlensed aro thoso gervants whom the Lord when 1T cometls shall find watehlug,—St Lukd, 2., 37, Tho past weolt {8 o monorabla ono in the his- tory of tho Episcopal’ Church in Illinols, Our venorsblo and distinguished . Bishop, Ienry John Whitehouse, entered into his rest ou Mon- dny last. The' fuveral obsequics aro over, aud hisi body now eleeps’ in . Greouwood, whero his kindied repose. ‘Tho dioceso i8 in mourning. Fow who attonded tho funoral on Lhursday will soon forget the imptossive charfacter of tho oc- cagion : the imposivg pracesion of (ko clorgy and lalty who accompanied tha romains from tho Eplucopnl residenco ; tho long. airay of silent spectators thnt lined tho stroot aud crowded around the doors of ‘tlio Cathedral ; the noblo sorvico of {bo Church for (ho burinl of tho dond, 80 solemmnly performed; tho warm tributes to {bo Dichop's momory; tho touching music § tho exauisito and sumptuous flornl offoringa ; tho sacied edifico” draped -in morirning, nod the vast congregation snd their broathloss _intorost. The sceno ‘was' indood solemn’ and affocting. Many ‘were thoro with foolings nkin to thoue of ehildron who wished to torprelationy putupon thom, and thoir rightful | tako'n: lnst look of u beloved father. But tho menniuis restoyed, and all this, ad much fore, | coflin-lid was not removed, Ouly thowo who with o quiot, unaifectod stmplicity, as thiough Wo | called at tho late residonco of the doparted saw wora Lhe toachor @ud ‘he tho ‘disciple’ sitting ot | him in tha sleep of death. . our feot. 2 Antho Dishop's remaminn Iny in the library Lisp cinu{ was this characteristio ot humility | sacred by his studious Irbors, fhero was not one n obsarvavlo in tho Bishop's estimata of his own retiglous growth and experionop, Of his oflice, us 1 havo ulroady snid, he chorfaliod o most ox- alted conception, sympathizing fully with St, Daal, when in .tho presenco of tho adver- aried who nould disparago Ins orders, and im- pugn thow validity, be stood boldly forward, and erted: ** I maguify nuno oflice, for I received it, not of man, nor by men, but by Josus Christ " yot sido bflmdu with this, and hero aluo, i’ perfoct parallol with tho hisfory of tho frcm. Apustio, thoro ever dwelt a spiric of bwliest humility aud ecli-renuuciation, ~ Beforo tho ouomios of tho truth, when vindiealing bis Apostolio function, Paul was bold and coufident, Birong in tho conscious pightoousness of lus cnuse, but nlono, with -no cye to observe lum gave that of tho & oat Heart-Soarchor, ho stood publican-like and abashed, coufessing: himsoll * not worthy to bo calied ou apostiy "—' less than tho least of nil samts,” vey ovon ** of sin- news the chiof” And so too was it with our de- pacted Bisliop. Prond and honghty and exclu- sive and sristocratic, pnd other termnar intondaed reproach I have heard noclf' u?nliod to him, but nover oneo by any who really know him or ou- foyed tho privilege of an Intimate, confidentinl tercourso; to them his mauner, always cour- teousnud dignified, vus yet merkied by o depth of hunulity whieligave Lo 8 eharnoter alrondy ricily eudowed by Nature tho enbancing beauty of o highly-caltivated fChrintian grace. Iow often huve I soen, omotimes evon in his public ad- dyensos, but mora fréquently in'the freodom and informahty of our Jittio clerieal gatheriugsnthis honsa, his oya kindlo, and hia whola form oxpand, and - tho ' {lusy -of o momentary cuthusinsm athorin Lis sually paliid countenance, ay ho dilated ou tho dostined gloties of the Cliureh, and the diguity of: his own oxulled office, and tho beiuty of ‘the crown glready woven for tho wise und” faithful steward, and” thou, in o mo- mout (Jiko Piul falling from the grandour of tho revolations given bim in tho third hoavons into tho dopths of his tleshly humilintion), dropping inte o sttaiu of lamontation over tho frailty of tho ‘poor, weak, cartlien ‘vesael to ‘which tho treasuro was committed, bowailing his ' own simplences and inlikmity, whilo tho trombling lip and tho starting” toar oviuced his deep. bin- cority, nttesting that if ‘ho hnd 'soared far up- watd into tho comprokiension of tho mystery of ho knowlougo of Chrivt ho had also gone down deop into the undetstanding of that other twin wystery, the knowledge of'solf. i ‘And ‘thoso two, brothren, for you and me, ns for him, nro tho measurs of ond another, In of the largo company gathored thers who was not tenderly tonclied nt tho eight of the breath lews furin, He ecemed vleoping o peaceful and happy sleop. ‘The face was' miore than séreno. A smilo as of Dleased trimiph and sweet repoto was upon it. It was such n look ns comes when {ho heatt is holding a Lioly oy, nud all tho fature igfolt of light. Iam suro that all whosaw that Ioolc will cherigh tho memory of 'it. - Ho lay in tlio vobes of his oftice, -fn his thin hand upon 1us broast, was tho crimoon cover for the mauu- seript of his sormons ; at bis head s mitre of spotless flowers, with floral star and cross upon tho cofiin-hid, and the purplo pall falling from his fedt, Surrounded by {lioan beautiful symbols of cflice and of affection, wag tho' pule, still form, the benignant restlul Bmile, L What could one think of, then, but thio long Dbadtlo of life euded and tho victory won? What should como’ trooping up, thou, to the gazor’s mind but pictutos of tho past io that oventful career,—thio hiopeful years of his carly mmlutx?- {ho anccesses of his pastorato, his honscliold ties aud endoatuouts, hls oratorical famo, his Eplacopal labors and trinls? One could not Lielp but think of tho cloguence ot those mute lips, tho tiveloes activities of that teoming brain, tho steadfast purposs’ of that iron will, tho ton- dernces of that strong Lieart. How many deep questions had ho grappled nnd songht to " solve. Iow mauy memorablo oceastons had Lo dignified by hig upeech and presonce, With how many il- Iastrions personuges had he communed. -Whint Jands traveled; what langunges mastered ; what eniticism provoled ; what bereavementy sufar- od’; what burdons borno,” How friutful was his oxperionce. How largo his gbservation, Ilow fine his culturo, ~Ilow dear to family und Tow tireless his industry. Tow wido onds. his famo, 1Towstrong his faith in'God. And vow, as on aclor and sulferor on earth, he is simply dust. Ithas como to this b last. Low solomn thio lenson! Death does not spare for any ic- complishments, for ony dignities, however signifleant among men, At the grave the Church providos the samo servico for hor most obscuro child as for tho mowr illustrious’ monurch. Thero greatness {8 poworlens—tlio restrictions of birth, and ofice, and honor uro disroperded, All puths, howover sepuralo or contraryy cons vorgo at Inst to the tomb, It 1 appoiuted uuto mau ouce to die, . The individuals whoso placo it was to givo ox- prosslon ut the funoral to cstimates of tho Inte Bisnop's character pud services reproronted threo Ly[:cu or schools of churchmanship, and gauging the progross of our spuitusl growth, | yotin cir views af tho doparted prolato's tho mirength aud cloarness of tho light that niuty, learning, talonts, aud necomplishmonts— shines muet often bo cstimated by our ubitity to | hiu roal lifo—thera wis substantinl acgrecmont. Coming to seo through au atmosphero of Cliris- tian sympathy, aud lovo. there is » samouesy of vision in all thnt is vital nnd oharacteristic, Denth disarms projudico. It heals resontmanty, Tt woftons thoe asporities of party opposition, It Dbids men to look forgivingly on buman in- firinity, and reveals the better aspeots of choracter that for various rensons —woio obscared. Somo of the unkindest things that aro suid and dono grow out of prasiounto proju- dices, provoked, may. be, by misconcoptious ; out of an unwiting estravagauco of party or porsonal auscrtion, and outof s Loliof of wrongs intended or apparont. Some charactors by na- turo and habit aro peculinrly liablo to be'mis- judged, and to bo tho oceasion of controyorsy and agitatlon, Thoy are strong of will, of deop convictions, impationt of opposilion, strenuous in tho requiroments of what thoy rogard ns duti- ful and necessary. Of such was our late Dio- cosan, Uho gifte of intollet, tho resourcas of scholnrsbip, the graces of picly, aro no perfeat insurunco ngainst tho errors of opinion aud ad- ministration. In commou wilh o groat number in the Church, 1 do not think about a good muny things as tho Bishop thought, do uot sympathizo with mueh that ovllsted his iuterest: do not seo human and alvino things in junt the light that thioy appeared to him. And vet, I respected his manhood. I admired bis talonts, T beliovod iu bis pioty, "That Lo erred In samo grave mattors of ndminietration will donbtleos Lo tho verdict of tho Church at large. Yot, who iu without in- appreeiato’ the dupih of tho still remuinin durkness, Unconsciousness of indwelling 'ovfi iis tho fufalliblo symptom of nzgravatod diseado. Bpiritual weaknesd, discoverad aud deeply real~ ized, If not i itsclf, a8 in ateelf it cannot be, our mightiest sustaiving force, is yot- tho cortain patinway to it; for it creates a platform for tho cxhibition of & divino grace, an opeiing througl which, *'the power of "Christ™ may como in’ and rest upon us in‘our multipliod inlirmitis, Yot other features of 'this great ‘prelate’s lifo ,and his timo crowd round me, of which, though ‘onch dosoiving of its own speciel and distinctive tributo, I can. make only brief pasing marntion, such s the commending influonco "hio ivielded in tho conneils not meroly of tbo American Chaeb, bub of hier venarablo motlior, the Bs- tabti-bed Chureh of England,—an influence of which no doubtful testimony wus afforded in Lis appoiutment as the proacher of tho oponing sormon at_tho great Lun-anglican Conference of 1847 Who, aguin, that has listonod to Lin, will ever farget tho wagtorly elogioncee of his pulpit uttorauces, lnden, oy thoy woro, with ouch n profusion of thought thab tho nttention of the listener, arroatad by tho very tlrat sontouce, wis held enchuuted to tho vory ond. Thouzht, too, not locsely or carelossly thrown together, snd us carolessly exprossed, but wrought out with consummato skill and sovore mental labor, and olothed in phraseology most olegautly finishod ; delivered, too, even when not reduced to \\‘riliug, with » most mar- volons fiuoney nud command of sposeh, which | emity? 1o - did not claim porfoction 1o some sonnded liko neadloss mdundnx{cv. but | or mellmllly. Dut bo did stiivo t'o to others, nud I think move corrcctly, was' enly | live up to” his exalted viows of a Liubop's tho uatural avertlow of & mind ciowded with | duty and prorogative. 1o nover yioldod & jot of thoughty und luboring to give to s many as | what ho deomeodit Lis plightod faith to main- possible their just nud adequate expression, tain. 1 thunk, too, of tho enormoun sum of the Inbor that ho accomylished, nud that never ange, while otrength remained to do iy, knew pause or wenrinesa until it ouded with bis_lile—involving the pronching of secnous, somotimos, as imme- dintoly before his denth, fonttoen o weel; tho delivery of addrosses to confirmation candidatos, at the consocration of cuurchoa, and the laying of ocorner-stoncs; tho contluctiug, and always with his own hand, without the assistauco of o seorotary, of o voluminous correspondonce, both ])rlvuto, dioceean, snd foreign, to say nothing of iin corvieless travoling, avoraging, a8 ho onco told ma, from 10,000 to 12,000 miles o yoar, il this, from year to year, without rest or rolaxa- tion, nlike In tho summer's hent and wintor's cold, Verily, brothren, ns 1 contemplate tho wlght, T blugh for mysolf, and far my poor littio work ns comparatively tho veriont idloncss. During tho torm of my peatorate here, which {6 now nourly Bix yents, our relations woro jn- yarishly friendly,—latterly T hnvoseon mord sud more of bis' hoart; -In fact, thoso years aro dmong tho plonsantost of my life, Aboub somo mnattors of rubrical regnlntio, it is known thut I-do not suaro the foclings of some honored Trionds with whom I genorulty ngroo, But, what- ovor tho lirmuess witl which'Dishop Whitohouso insisted ujpon uniformlty in the ue of the snoras mental ordinunces, ho never, uo far as I ovey honrd, songht fo abridge the liberly “of the pulpil. Freodom horo is ono of the glories of ‘our comprohousivo Church ;- und this s oue thing in which I greatly rejoieo, und which com- uends hor ¥o strongly to wy alieotions, A mind cast in such o mold ws his, sud o life dedieatod o the oflice whoro -ho served, woull nnturally bocome puttial to vory positivemethody And now all (his oarthly work has onded, and tho hionored Bishop—tho” falthiul’ and devoted Inboror, who as ou Inlellectunl " glant towored far above the heads ot most of “his wirviviy, brothron, yet “*kmelt with a child’s simplo ‘fafth at tho feet of tho Cruelfiod to bo wished in flls clennsing blood"—hus passed from ourths toils and contlicts, to tho'peacefal fellowship of the witing, blossed doad, I'or him doubtloss nll tywell, Doath fo him way suddon, in” comiug almost nimanounced, but nob suddon fu the souso of unpropuiod for. Tifo to him hus “heen a long, unbroken 1coord of * consoeruted lubor, # falehful mivistry of loyo (o tho clildron of (lad's household, Whioh viover consed or faliored, aven undortho henvy bhrdon ‘of thultiplyin fufirmitics, till the Master cunte and oalled” b, Phovefore, death to him was' disnrmed ‘of ‘all iy toxvord, and transformed nto o messonger of blokslng, for ¥ who 18 thut wise snd falthful of thinking aud ‘neting,—methods *that appear sovero to tho ordinary “obgervers Iad he Doon & military commander, or the hond of u great commorcial houso, or the Prosidont of a power- ful corporation, or the Sponker of the Iouse of Reuresentatives, ho would havo onrried lns ox- noting rulew aud principlos with bim, and nale od npon absolutecontormity, Anho wah s ‘ohuroh~ man, lio bosamo & _rigid ecolosiastic; and honca s his duty netording to his intorprotation of tho wholo systom of organlzed Ohnetinuity, An b pastor, lo was ominontly palnstaking nud sympathotio. ‘T'ho gonoral publio have' no idon of his high estoem of tho padtoral relatlons, or how deaply-ho enjoyed tho aoty of private i istry smong tho sick und poor, In convotsing with mo on this subjoct ho sald, with the stran- et fooling, and with s kind of pathos thub will ahyays Huger, thut ono of the pocullor. beuetlts tho Cathedral aiordod him wag an oppostunity to ‘exorclro somqllmgn. uu‘ paator #noh & service kopt s minlsiry, swhioh wnn‘vnrfi: ddur to'lilm, tendorly aud “graciounly linkod with, thio ivork bf tho Eblscopato,—that tho christeh- ing of childran, and. visitntions to, the slolc nud aMeted-* wors, mources of-gaciad’ ploasure an Emm' and that by theeo nots bo ‘was cnabled ettor to'keop aglow tho apiritunl fire which, in tho routino of n Bisliop's work, was lisblo to burn somethnos with an unstoxdy -and *dimins Ishod flamo, 'Thoro aro mnfl‘{ in" this city, in obuetiro places, who can testily to tho Dis ul} ' huwlity and Jove in his lowly” Iabors, whero his hoort dictated tha mintstration. “Moivdver ' sustero” hé might soom to tho dimtant ohsorver,” his " *'natute’ ' wo4 opon to tho gontlor influoucos. o loved, tho greou of ‘tho tloldi, tho giatd swoeop "of tho' hills, tho motions of birds, the fall of wators,— all tho pagonntry of - October Inndscapes - nod cloud-draped skigd. In his family ho was the moyt dovotod of husbauds und tho most nffec- tionato of fathers. Tho voneration of his chil- dien for him, and his placo among thein, was womothing vory beautiful,” Buch n relation can- not oxist without o. strong Lasis of oxcolledco: Ifowover Lis fared a3 p public ‘man and servaut, of tho Churéh, kis homo wns,ou ork of rest, 1T tho homo-hourt could hlways have'direoted g administration; “1f in ‘the bogiuning’ all coutd hava seen him with oyos a8 clonr ns whon they Tookad at Lis triumplinnt face inhis cofjn, how much bitternoss would havo beou avolded, how much strifo would ‘havo “boen uuknown. that men might got noarer cach othor fu the sympnthlos of o gront spiritual - cordiality and awplration| Rubries and ‘canons eaunot mako souls neo oyoto oyo. In tho sympathios of Chirist nro thoy only truly drawn togethor,—nund thero ‘ln liont, rather than in lead, aro they united, A "Thio Bishop wasnlways industrious, for natures liko his canuot be idle. Bt in thoso later yoars it neomed thnt bo way stimulated to moro continu- ous effort, 1o gave lilinsolf no actual recreation, Thore {8 uo subject on woich I havo conversod with him moro frequontly thun on his oxtraor- disiary notivity, anpd tho probnblo offucts of it. . It was & conatnnt wonder to mo that b his ngo ona conld undergo tho travol, the mental oxar~ tion, tho incossant toil of his. ofice, without painfol nud’ injurlous exheustion. “But his answor 1n roply £ cautions against such prodig- fous Inbor waus * X feol no lassitudo, Lam feos overy morniug for duty, notwithstandi: g my ox- ortions, I 1nust go on in thisway. Itis o pocu- Jianity of o tentperamont aud constitution like ine. Whon tho ond comos, it will cono sud: denly. "Uhera will bo probabiy no gradudl decay, Tt wiil be like tho ‘snapping of o pieco of stool:” “wAnd you will - pronch my funeral sormon,”. ho onco aided, iu n vein of blensantey. How. woll Lis prophocy nd to bis deoth wos flulfilled. Ho worked with tireless enorzy to the last; aud thon, amitton suddenty, foll asleoo, Tutalleotunlly, Bishop Whiteliousie ranks among tho fyst prolates of tna American Chutch, As- & preachier ho had o fluent and improssive - ord- tory, thongh not a condensod and impnssioned: oloquenca, - s conversational powers ware wonderful. Iloliad o great aptitude for busi- negs, and ns o presidiog ofiicor was without a suporior. With the lignity of his mnuner there was a. rotlvemont and gruce of carringe that always boro witnoss of tho polistied gentloman. His plety had ripon- od through long years of Christian culturo,-and &0 death did not coma upon him uonwares. - The dloceso and the Episcopnl Church throughout the world lament a distinguished diviae, and an ominont and zenlous Bishop. : The time is nigh at+hand when his succossor in to bo olected. Tao Standing Commitico, now tho ceolesiastieal nuthority of the diocese, have already issued tho ordor for puch clection ut tho noxt Annual Convention, -which will moet the 15th of Soptembor. In this great Stato of Ihi- noin the functions of the Episcopal Church aro fairly Iaid.~ Wo ean hardly oxpect that it witl be what is called o populir Chutéh; yot 1t hins nn im- portant placo to fill, aud aygreat worlk to nc- complish. Much of its success bore in the fu- turo will dopond upon him who takes tho Epise pal chair—who bocomes our diocesan head. 18 not enongh to say that wo want & good man, n devoted man, o man whoso past life bears wit- noss to tho fidolity of his work and his unchal- longed pioty. We waut all this, but’ wo want more. Wit Blcty, and zeal, sud n pure record, wo want o Biskop strong in a' noble man- hood, culturted and- ripo in useful loara- inp. Wo''have, wo :coufess, eomo honcst pride in- this mattor.~ Wo wish Illinols to be well and wisely ropresented, botli for our own snko und for tho sake of “tho ‘Olwrch Universal, Whonover Bishiop Whitchouso went forth wo folt_ sure that tho ignity of the’ Episcopato would bo maiutained. W wero cortain that tho reputation of tie Church for sound lcm'nm?' and au ublé mmistry would not suffor. “We kuow that the kRowledgo, the mauners, tho elognenco, tho bumility 6f onr Bishop would command ro- speet. -Bo wo ahall nob now Le content with an inferior man, Illinois requives s rigorous Prot- éstant chutehman,—a man who' appreciates tho times in which'wa live, who is in quick sympathy with the Chrfstian henrt uud Christlan “idecy everywhere, who ig no scctary, no bigot, no more literalist or ritunlist, but who sees truth in the Inrga interprotation of tho spirit, and is true’ to tho great lilstoric Chureli thub ho is’ pledged to gorve. Huch o man might be secured, and could Do, if thoso to whosa suffrago tho. call i com- mittod would look at what is vital sud commuid- ing, inotend of what 'is ‘non-essential, porsonul, and tlio onlecomo of o useless and impeactical ec- closinsticism, 5 ; Ttis duo to tho canse of Christ and tho bless- ed euds of His Kingdom that this forthcoming clection be mado in the most unsolfish, undis- sombllug, God-fearing, and charitablo pltt. ‘I¢ wo do not promoto, by our choice, Chrlstian character aud holy living ou carth, Lhon ‘our worleis vain, Moy God graciously grant such wisdom, such o right {ud;;mouz in the solomn duty beforo tho Church in this dioceso, that's Iisiop shall bo chosen who sball Lo traly a Tather to his flock, and o guido and Shoperd to this spiritunl lousoliold. ——— ST, JAMES. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Do ILoven. The Rev, Jumos Do Koveu, D, D,, of Racino Colloge, preached a sormon in &t. Jamos Eplaco- pal Church yesterdsy, on “Tho Victory of Taith.," 1o chose his text from I, John, v., 44— s is tho victory which ovorcometh the world, evon our faith,” and spoko substuutinily a8 follows ¢ \ ‘ho Vietory of Faith. This is my subject to~ day—that trimpliant strain which 5t. Jobn pro- claimed in tho text, ‘which Ignatius of Antloch, In tho presonco of the Romai Emperor, rovasled when ho said that his namo was Thoophoriis, ono who boro ‘God within him; whicli martyrs aud saints, confossors nud dootors, from nge to nge; have carried on; winoh in our day is louder than thie busy noises of earth, and which stull go 6n until thol ingdom of this world shall become the Tingdom of the Lord;" this is the victory whick oversometh the world—oven our fmth, ‘e obyious menuing of the text - iy, that tho faith of Christ nud In Christ, tho faith that bo- lioves that Jesus is tho $an of God, the faith of the Chureh, overcomos thie world. "Wha world is ngainst it.” If it hes seomod to accopt it, it lins only beon that {t might corrupt whera it conld not destroy, ‘I'lus tho bistory of tho Church g over beei o history of contenta, Whenover there hnve been defunts, it hns been beenuso the faith Lias boon forsaken ; whenevor there have buen victorios that ondured, it hay beon bocauso this contral truth lng been vindi- cated und uphold, Now ono and now anothor Tt boou ealled to benr tho “bannor of Christ into the midst of tho' foo, 1o has stood alono ; aronnd bim the swrging lhosts have gath- ored; Lo has seemod to fuil,” Tho encmy hins proclaimed” tho - vistory. DBut when tuo night is over and the moruing lizht Las brokon, atill with folds unspotied nud unstained tho baunor of faith has fluttered-in the morning braezo, nnd hands nl cold in death havo grasped avon, 8o, by God's command, they will succor and dnruud ua wupon earth, b’ '8, 1t will acknowlodge, with gratoful love and witiy an ovor-increnbing scboptandp, that tlioro ik an qve!rrnllns proseut Provi oo that grujdag his prtly ond loads him by the, pnflug‘lu“\vhluh Lo Dlll;ht to walk, h ) / + 1t wilt love tho Clirch of God, it houdo o! prayor, ity consccrated ministers, 1ts holy sor- Vicos, it bleased aacramonts, its mighty spirituat powora ; and, 5. Abovo all, it will find hiddou bohind tho un- drawn veil Josus, tho Mediator of tho new cov- onnut, It.will own o porsonsl allogiauco to, Him ag o porsonal Mastor,” 77 ¥ i 1t bins bgon ours during the wopk just gong to witnoss the closo of o lifo which, tu the'polnts that mado it mont, wns pre-omiueutly ono of faith. I Jo not mean 6 rofer t0'it na the lifo of a ncholar of famed attnluments, n cultured and refoly-piftod mati—of one sho moro ‘thin most mon had soen tho world in its grontnoss and its littlonony, of o rules Atid a govornor whose namo will ever stand high'on tho pagea'of the Cliurch's history; I domnotmonn oven to rofor to thoso Noeriptural Inbors of which tho world iakes so 1ittla account, tho quiat visitation, tho long jour-, 1oyw -from parish to Y‘arlnh’, the snmmor hont and the winter cold, the cry of unrequioted la- bor which aonics from ko many a clericat lome, and which ho ~needs ‘must “hive borno upon his honrt; I do not menn tho or- dipntions whicli sent forth mnow oune, now another, to proclaim tho everlasting Gospel, tho confirmations whora into living honrts tho Etorun Spitit descondod to comfort aud to bloss; I will 1ot dpottk of ‘that ono p&rant ondoavor of hia lifo in whichjlio wns tho first,whero now many Bisliops follow, to build » cathedral chivah arouad which dioceann lifo was to contro. Noj tho ono polnt which, as ho passes awny, scoms to arrost tho attontion, is that for which ho was mose I quontly faulted, S Brothiren, th common fanlt of onr Amerloan 1ife is that o aro tho slaves of publio .oninion. Wo do_ notdare to do whatthe mijority con- domn, In emalloy or in larger spheres, the popu- Inr tone, ths curroit 'view, thié genoral averigo thatgonaibio peoplo ““Kn '“&,’ somotimes tho III?]IO Lo s ‘ér)?ut tho.duy—those nre’ what wo follow. L Mora thau this, it is trno that-they who do nob goom to do this sometimes only differ from thelr fellows in haviig s’ piosclent forccast of tho quartor to which the wind is souu to shitt, Ob, tioloved, in Buch o timo' to #co & mansin tho cnuso of tho Clurch, uttorly hoedloss of what muy bo said or thought of “himaelf, with his eyo g0 fixod on the otorual truth tunt none of those things movo bim—this,altogether independautly of our judgmont rof tiip' quoulions themselves, is n leseou and exnmplo to thio cnd of Lino. 'Oh ! “watrlor Bishop, nround whbao silent form still sounds the far-off din of “war, blended with tdard ; oby, miniled knight, whos) siill, cold handd no Jonger bear the sward, but tha olvo brangh and palm; ob, father, and shepherd of the flocl whoso fnal lool on earth horo tho tranqull stile of one nt Jaat at rest, sleaping i tha sloen of peaco, with the cternal Iight ' dawning' upon Iim at the feot of the elect, far boyond theso voicos, ho is at reat with thom— - “Thnt on tho mountain grots of Lden lie, Aud bear tho fourfold river s & murmured by, Whila the battle rages round us, I call you this morning, not so much {o n contest, bitt thit i the'miaey of ‘it' yod forfeb’ not’ tho Diviué mothod of gerning tha vietos ‘To “sitrondor tho wil, fo humbie tho pride, to become. like n littlo chitld, to beliovo tho unsoen, to know that thore s auother world than that nbout us, to outer it by baptism, to live in 1t by the holy com- munion, £o bo guarded by tho voiee and tinnd of tlie Mastor, to bo drawn neater and nearar thab Dbleased home, of which death is ouly tho portal; Lo koo tho solomn pagoant of tho woild's groab activitfos go mirching by, and yot to® bo fur dbova it; to dou‘)lsu none of iis beauty nior good- noss, and yot £o havo tho Difa hid with Chrlst in Ctod—tiuy is .the victory thut overcomoth tho world, oven our faitl, . ke P HOLY o (_:OMMUNIQN. Sermon by the Rev. W, IT, Smythe. The Rev. W. II. Bmytho proiched & sormon commernorativo of tho Juto Bishop ‘Whiteliouso, at tho Oliurch of tho IMoly Communion, yeators day morning. Ho tools his toxt from Zachariah, i, 3¢ Howl, fir-troe, forthe cedaria fallon,” +Tn tho Serijiturcs, snid lio, ‘tho codar was fho emblem of beauty, and’ incorruptibility, and Lience it hecaro the typo of good and great men, such oy tho late vonerablo Bishop, Tho fir-tree was tho type oOf 'fecblonoss and brevity of lifo; houce jt wod tho emblem of sibordinate persony, dopendout mpou’ their su- periors for ollice nud suppoxt. This naturally ilustrated thoir sorrow at tho Toss of their bolovod Bishop. - God hid endowed him with more thau an ordinary sbare of tal glfts, which, ddded to his encrgy, would liave comunnnded omipence for him in any walk of it, still a stef and a stay for avermoro, * "Iho toxt moans that the faith'of ewch individ- ual Ohristinn ovorcomes the world, What i tho world? -Tlow hmd It sooms to distinguish, Into whut wasto of time and ‘argument i he drawn who tries to ‘prove fn this or that umusoment, this or that form of’ enjoymeunt,” this or thut ex- cos in what may bo allowable, the marks of the wicked world," 1t hems us in on every side. It {9'about onr path mid onr boad. 16 is in-our news. papors and onr books, It is in our pews, and chirohios, and vestrios, It is honrd in many an oluguont sormon, aud many s minptor i, ooy, its mout molancholy: illustration, Niy, who shall dare diaw his sword aud fMghh Dis fight in - thut - contost, lost ho find whon the foo is slain-ho s been gulity of pareicide or wuicldo. Viowed iu this light; thoro 14 uw marvelons power in the words of tho text, 1t'does not sny that falth is the moans by which the world {5 oveicome. Ti says that faith s tho victory itsclf. Itdoos not require ws to array on'the ono side faith nnd on tha uthér the world, and that whon the heavy fight is dono tho latter shusll overcome It draivs us to a highor plane. 1t leaves tho world far below. It places Lofore us_tho- otornul realitics—Heaven nnd lell, sin and carth, the influence of prayer, wid minstra- tious of ungelw, tho watehiful love of aw’ overrul- ing Lrovidonco, and” above’ all the imcarnato Savior, Prophet, Pricst, dud King, uulting man und human haturo to the etornal God, ' * - ‘Tho fuith that overvomes will b Ton, five Works by which it muy bo 1, Tt will pray.” It wiil bolieva the Divine prom- isos ** Auk and you shall vegeive.” ' o 2, It will holiovo in tho minlstrations of the nugu_lu, and kuow that ae'thoy do thielr sorvieo in lifo o8 bappily as 1t did iu tho Chyrch. Iis churchmunship was of tho bent defined typo. 1o .began life a8 o Low-Churchman,. but tha Church oducated him to' her own divino platform of ~ ovangalical {ruth and npostolig ordor. o dovelopad & grand high, ritunl, but wisoly 'kopt withum tho limits of sho Church’s proseribed tonching, and was strong and nucompromislng, By a‘paculinr logleal ncu- mon, and a keen. fustructivo’songo, ho could do- tect with unorriug cortainty any variation from tho troth os it iv inJosus.” And ib wns against this Dattery-that tho Cumming aud Chensy fac- tion ran ‘their tilt to thewr own confusion. ‘Iheso mon mistook the popular senti- ment _for tho ‘dogmas and . orecds 'of tho’ Chureh,” which thoy wero bound' to maintaln, and . which® Bishop Whitohouse was bound to enforce. ‘They panderod to sontimoent, T'ho seaty ulso mude the same mistako, although on different grounds. % Thoso who 8aid that tho lamonted Bishop was cold and diplomatic did not know him. 'The proachor would “spoak for himeolf, - When ho 1irst camo to this country ho Liad tho pleasuro of meoting the Bishop. Years aftor, ho was driven from tho South by the War, and came fo this city. The Bishop mot him ud oftered a’ homo with him. = T'ho * prencher was compara- tively destitute,, and partisan © projudico praciuded © tho ” hope of his ‘gottiug & chargo heré, ‘'ho Dishop adypnced him nionoy to go to Cauada, whero ho s ‘to labor n'tho backwoods s’ the ngont of the Propaga- tion Socioty of Loudon. Up to his doath ho was to"tho spenker ‘s watm, consistontfriond, and froquently Klm:ud him undor obligations to him: iy [riondshlp was ' from tho inner lLicart—deep, warm, sud lasting,” In friendship ‘he copicd Chriut, Ll = iy “1lig eolf-Qenying lahora wero no leys romevka- blo thigit ‘his othor 'grént qualities. 1o dovotod himsolf, body and_soul, to" the. sorvico df* Il who hind ‘accotinted him iorthy itd mmlatr(. A8 an instanco of his ‘sccustomed ° toll, . tho weels baforo he diod hie prea¢hied” fonrtoon sor- mons, and traveled §00 miless and that-at the ago of Tt thus littérally dying In nliharcss, and that horooss worn “out. His lubor was o labor of Jove, ‘Y'wolvo yeats ngo ho® told - the spenker thut his Eplscopal incoluo liad “nat ai- oraged $600 por annum, - Like 5t Puul, he'went forth; takiug nothing of thd clinrches. #» 1n mauy respects ho was'a ¢ mn)l)!m without honor in his own countfy.” Now Lo had gono to s vowward ho was appreciated, but not highor thun his just merits, In Rtussin, Dehmark, Ger- mauy, aud especially Mother England, ho was honored more than in this country. Io was tho cliosen prenchor for ‘that august ‘body, the Pan- Anglicau Couneil, That “tho lutiblo Bishop from tho lowest prairies of 1llinois- sliould hava beou solocted for such sn'imposiug occaston way conforring o dignity’ the proachor "was proud to nck“?lwul'xd n:m Vd d . o= Aud whilo thoy dropped tho sorrowing tear for their dear dopaited, thoy must join in |Frnyor for a'worthy successor. It waw' now a softled fact that thoirdioceso wag Lo chooso a Didcgann, This wag *tho ' noxt - mocosulty. Thoy neoded to malce this city a strong and fudopondent contro of Episcopal action, I'hoy needod ‘s strong in- fuslon of Liplscopal life, and u faithful, consgry= ative, four-squaro churchmen. ‘Thoy wanted ono iho wonld'not harnss und humpor his clorzy, Thoy "uocded ‘o Bishop who would stand the orden! of publio criticism,—who would notshrinl from it, nor copipromiso himsolf, * ‘They wanted 8 man of good adminfsteative abilily, nnswory- Ing conscientionancss, and of fervent pioty and devation, In the true and aceepted souso, thoy needed o Fathor in God, who was ablo to il tha vacant Episcopal chalr with ability, dignlty, und BUCCOHE. £ ? d ——— ASCENSION, Hevmon by the Rev, Cs P Dovaot. Tho Ttov, 0. L', Doract, of the 'Cliurch of tho Asdonslon, yestorday mqroing preachod n sormon on tho late Bishop Whitchouso, 'Lho text was o purtion of the 88th versm af tho third chuptor of tho Socond Rook of Barkvol : T Koy yo not that mmfl’ #Princo anda great man gallen il day 1 Yarnod? - Tu theso words tho yopal Panimist paid p trib- uto to tho valiant Ahnoy, lendér’ of the hosts of Tsracl. -Ifow truly tlo words spring into ome minds at v ovont whids has ntilled tho honrts of men and has iled tho Phurch with suddon sove row, It is tho matijotivo and universal ubter- anco of tho starcled bejrt of tho Churehof God,— s utteranca In whih 60,000,600 of Anglican chirchmen avo n acprd, Lodny the sonw of —_— England tho world ovor are bendlng with us over a'now.made grave, ovor all that {a mortal of the I]l;lnhop of inols, 1t may woll Lo to, for truly t_n?'ru ia n Prince, and o groat man fallon this dny._ A mun hos fallon; o man mado nfler God's own imagay o man who had a mind and Intellect, nnd used it; whoso Lioact wns purified by tho Divine Splirit ¢ who earod not for tolf, But in justico, gonorosity, ‘and’ magh gront onatgh to mioot D e gronk onough to moot all’ omorgencios; groat oidiigh'to NIfab malia s ocenaloii; wnd Llich prove. oqual toit; o mnn to'dafe And to Lear; & man who colld bo eithor o thandorbolt or n drap'of dow. 'I'ritly o gront man'has fallen in Ierno), Aman to bo groat mbist firat bo & maw, Biskop Whitohouso.was uot meroly paaulyoly groat ; Lo was gront’ In dood “‘and” dttion ¥ truly s Uofonder of ‘tho fath; calin aud self-congulous but muevor onco Roriously incorroct, As o tenchier of his clerdy Tn tio quistude” of his™ “study, ho ad - simply *wondorfuj all the groutor throngh 1is forbdaranca ‘with out littlenass, ' But whon his was called ‘upon to deal with wiliful doflauco of authority lio was mihty i hid oldqioncd. ' TTo was' in fhyok OF Hio Targe ost dogroo of tolorntion. High Ohurch and Low Olutreh fared alfke undor hissvonls-adminkstored nd onch rocolvod Iils patornal sanction. too Inrgo in naturo to bo » partisan, In tho Qonvoution of 1871, when an-overpoworing mojority stood randy to yaga rosolutions consur- ing: ritualisin, Disliop Whitchouso .becama ‘tho champlon of tho mimority, nnd raised b power- ful voice.in behalf uf thoyo “who wore endenyor. iug to réistore tho nuclont beatty and holineds of tu;:lchm'ch survic(o. e sy PR e 0 waa_pgroat in that phago of his office which maltes o I!Eh‘np o trig 'ptnthdr'-ln Gdd." - We*all Know bow apondod witl ns idons of whiad it should b, ‘14 wos - bub . boginming,” n “foundation laid for hin guccessor. May God mond us one to build as ho bogan, ITo roso to Lk oxalted place aud powor by, hls inheront virtuo,"ovon attain- ing bis vast lorning by o toil aud enorgy that. wero natural/to lum, In tho exorciso of -his high functions Lo was & Priuco; a Prince in quiot dignity, calm, indomitablo repolntion, i’ uttor disrogard of 'couscquences . to Limsolt! \Vho' does not fool and own that "a Prince »vud a great man hae fallen this dav"'?_ ‘Ho is gono;and wo are loft ; loft with our duties nmong tnon, our rosponsibility to God, our’invaluuble trust na cliurchmon,as Catholics, a8 men who /hold and mitat keep tho faith oice dolivered to'tho saints. Tiids {5 no placd for fuaiss or muro'cnldyy, Wo do not flatter. Wo toll what graco was wrought in him as wo toll over tho lives of tho wnints of Gad, nuld from thom draw oxampla and fustine~ tion. If lio could epeak at this moment ho would toll us to coase from Lim, aud turn to the trusts and duties which ho lived aud died serving, and which still lic upon us, for o | o Inxgo ,sbare of. the burden which wo now must * bour: Hitmavly speakingy tho death of Biskiop Whitohousd* was® to thé Divcesoof T 1mole an ‘incilentabld losa. ” 118 seomisd ‘6" man for the time, aman to stand in the gap, nod moot tho crisie,” Not that Lio lind any foar‘of a ovisiy ;. lio rogorded it as a'small thing in ehureh- munghip, Tt cannot, however, be donied, that wo_ Lnvo fallon upoh anage'of uphoaval sud' change, amd wo ncod n strong, good' man to gujdo us safoly nmong tho shonls and breakers § wnizit whom no popularery canalnrm orchange; nman of great integrity and indomitablo fivme ness, Buch n man*was Bishop Wintohouso. Tho olements were 80 imperishablo “in *lim that all nature’ might stand-' up and ‘say, This was ‘o mau,’ We sholl: nob agaiu “sco him as Lo stood every whit & Bishop in our ohancels aud ut our altars, sternly robuking vin, but full of - condolation ' and encourngoment to tho faithful, """ " E e All that ia- loft i big godly examplo and tho graco of bis apostolic benediotion, * It becomea us to bow in ali hutwility to this dstounding stroko, Wo have been too proud and exalted, and God has réproved us from Ilis lofty throno, Ded as the world is,'it I8 still truo that sorrow ia nsacred gift. Lot us accopt and actupon tlie lcunon that'ns our sympathy makesus.one bo- side the giavo, 8o may wo be ono in the Church, ‘We must fgel ‘that in the denth of the Bishop™ death bas come very near to us alll” g como nearor still, -and we should bo réady to go forth sud meet him. . I shonld ill bocowo ?lmsn did X not bid you all make your peace vmi od, ' Remarko by the Senlor Wardén, M. W, Flfllcl', HIT During tho abseuceof tho 108 bodi condiieted By afel Seator Warden of the Church, Tho sermon &elecied for reading was upon the “Doath of Josepl." At its claso tho following ologuout. x\'puuloq waa made to the lg}c Bishop of Hlinglg: = " Y RGN Thero {8 » special application to be made of this "subjoct to our hanty. It 8 nob oftoi that {lio pulpit'can bo used for o fuheral oulogium, Whero Olrist is to exalted in golitary pro-emin— enco, it is'but raroly tlint the praise of mau may Lo hoard. But theranre cases in ‘'which to dignity of station is ndded dignity of character, and where o wilimg tribute may well bo paid to doparted greatiiess, - Cherd is ono to whom Four thoughts must have r od ofton during tho hich we havo been goiug ' thyough, al- .though tho.parallol is nob perhaps particulsrly strilking. -And yet our departed dlocosan cima to Illinois twonty-threo venrs ajo; lilko’ Jogoph, o dwoller from'audther'State; =+ - = Like Josepl, Lo hiad " "iila:"share. of * calumay, though in'n differont “form, T hid efort' fo' bring tho Chuucliinto obedis B rogulation, ke 1 populerity, unpopularity was meb with Chbristinn forgive- - noss, with quict dignity, with that composura whichis the highest” roanit and” evidenco of strength, " Tiko Joseph; tho domestloand social rolntionships wore snutained with beautiful idel- ity ; like Josoph, ho lived down opposition and ontlived onliumuy, Like Josoph, whon tho clouds of- carlior difilcultios hed clearcd awsy, the rain- bow slgn of peaos spnnoed the calmuess of hia eyoningyoars; lilko Jossph, Lo hns gous to tho gravo nmidst tho mourning of tho pooplo amoug whom he found o howie.” - P2 RL I'ho_hbwage whioh is given to him is not tha homiago.yiolded to rank or weaith or genius, ‘I'so tears and regiots of all our jarnng religious seets~iu tho - Church and ont ot it'spring from ihat unfejgned ‘reverenco which oxalled char- adlor always iuspiros: ' Vg o It is o Christinn who has pnssed from thig earth nway, to take hig place in tho genoral assewbly eud church of. (ho fifst-born; “nnd to stand bofoyo Qod, tho Judwo of all, nmoung the splrits of tho just made porfect, ' . “But, " though' 4 -Christian, ‘this grent prelata was nono the less o warrior. In the Master's causo tno nght Jerusalom “blado ho'oairied he Jmow: hiow to wield, and; with Valiant-for-Tru in ' % Pilgrim's Progress,” to fight- until sword clonved to' his nand. Aud the affecting agro which Bunyan puts into the mouth of fiant at tho lust séoms applicablo hero : Wy nword T give to Lfm {hat shall suceced me tn my pigeinaige, and my courzge and skill to him thut can g My marks and scars I earry with me, o ba s witness for mo that T have fought 1is battles who now will ba my rowarder, 7 Ho bie pased over, and all the trumpoets sounded for Nl on the other slde, | ' ° AT Tarewoll, gallant zoldior of the crosal Wa may well boliofo © et b That, taving oll thirgs done, And all his contileta puet, Now ho heliokls Lis victory won And'stands completo at lasg, -~ pigiaenniiie) THE CATHEDRAL, servl ath, tho Sormon by tho Rev. Mr, Townsond of Peorla, Ab tho Unthedral yostorday morning thoro wue & very lurge congrogation, tho body of the edifice and part of tho chapol bowg filied. It was aue ticipated by many that tho wermon would bear soma relation to the doad Bishop, but sucn’ did not provo tho cuso, ‘At the conclusion of tha £orvicos mnny of tho congrogation remiined .to view tho monrning decorations which will remain undisturbed until after the cloction of the unew Blshop, it the middlo of Boptémber, "I'ho following prayer, sot forth by tho Ecclosis artical authority to bo read in all churches in the Dioceso of Ilhnols until the meeting of tha sinnal Convontion, ‘was includedjin the rogulay seivieos % ) arant, wo beseoch Thee, Almighty God, to Thy Obureh In this dioceso n Bikhaop aceeptable to Thee in omwdriess of faith unl hollncws of hto, anid. profitable 1o Thy socyunts in watchfulness and wiedom, fulthfule sess und zeal, throtigh Jesuis Cbelet, our Lord, Awen, T'ho Rov, J, L., Loonard, of Peoria, preached tho sormon, which had for its subjeot, ** The {mlmum\b." Thia toxt was Itomanu, iv., part of hio tonth vorso: * Wa kholl nil stand honoatl {ho Judgmont-soat of Chrlst ;¥ and Iabrows, is., twonty-soventh versor “Ib is appointed unte mon oneo to dio, but aftor this the judgment.” In openlng his sormon the prencher .asko whothar his honrors had not folt ot tines a very carnest longing to koo Jesus; ‘whather, whea thoy hind rond of 11is miracies, they b nal folt 2 wish thut thoy could lave seon Him, 8o ibat (hoy “could lnow exactly how S berctoniat PRl (Huo Hoventl Puge.)