Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 7, 1874, Page 2

i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1874, tlon of 1ho law of Monos or tho morey of the Mossinh, Blistaking his silont nct for ombar- yassmont, they redoubled thoir domnud for an answor. Thon 1o roso on them ag whena Meoplug o risow, shaking Lin meno, and’ tordfion his tontohzorn with his awfulroar, **Ifothat fu without ein among you, lot lim firsteast & elono” ot herl = 'That Airoko, no unexpeotod, clova opon thelr loarts. “Thoy woro stunnod by tho blow. It wasn woll- Lnown law among thom that the accusers should onst tho first ntonos at the vietim, Ihis wea to provent the guilty from nconising othors of gullt, 1'lifs waa founded on thonuiversaidootrine of com- mon acnho and justico, thnb ono eriniunt bns no zigght 1o condomn and punish anotbor criminal. Uflrlnt ovorwholms thom with tho thought that it is unbocoming in them to bo so_ zealona stoning othors, whilo thay nro at tho kamo mo- mont gullty boforo s Ioly Qod, 1Tly auawor wras o thundorholt thinb trausfixed them on tho It moant this: 1€ there 8 oua of you who hns not at womo timo Loon guilty of similar or somo other groat of- Touso befors God, 1ot hin first cast & dlone at ber.” 1lo who kuow the licarta of all men kuow whoro tho arrow simok, 1t siruck unoxpectodly, and stucl fast, In {lie snmo meray to tho guilty acousors that o lind shown to the guilty prisoners, knowing tholr thundorstruok hearts, 1lo stooped down agnin and wroto, to allow them, self-condomned, ono by eno, to go_oub unembarrngsed by 1liy soproliing gaze, 116 thun dofoated his enomien, and gave a mnch-ueeded losson Lo tho Clirch and world for all time,—a lesson i tho highor philasophy of Chrietinn charity, I waut vour consciontious, honost sttontion and_porsonnl npplication (o far ns it nvolyes you) to my thome: Peltng other pooplo with Btonos, And thero is no ono meant so moh an tho ono who, {(ulng out, will hold up n mornl umbrella Lo shod the showor, snying, “DIt o giveittoomo folks fo- night 7 Thou art the man ! Tlore s n natural inclination in almast all poraons to do it—n kind of inhumnn plonsuro in poliing othors with Atones, Our right hands ncho to throw them. Thoro I8 such wioked enjoymont.in soolng thom dodgo, aud flinch, aud ran, This is human na- tura I tho rougli, ‘Phore aro Bo MAny who novor got ot of the rough, _Thoro aro multitudes of Towpootablo pouplo who ovinco oxquisito ploas~ uro in making othars smart. Lhero it o gront doul of thoIndian—tho unoivilized man—in s all yol. It has not been \lhollf' climinated or oducntod out of us by tho bonstad enlightenment and civ- ilization of the ago, ‘Iio Chiirch hins not wholly Dbeen ennctiffod trom the unchrintinn spirit, to hor_ greator whamo and culpability. A proat denl ~of phanssieal zesl to atono oth- era who naro mno moro gullty thao wo aro stlll oxists, It s often thut the oraity ory * Btop thief 1" to divert attontion front oursolves, A thlof suatolicd o diamond ring from a jowoler's tray, and douged sround tho, cornor nnd into_tho crowded streot, Tho cloric ran outfnto tho strect crying ** Btop thiof " Thio sadenl oluded dotection by taking up tho ery and vooiforating as It of some ono sliond, © Stop thief | Btop thiof I" Smart? Yes. A smurt- noss that was twin brothor of stealing. Groat zeal in stoning othors i usnally o cloalk o covorone's turpitude in Romo othor dirac- tlon. Itin tho sbrewd tnctios of tho Gonoeral who bravely cannoundes the atemy to caver the do- tection of his own rotront, Thiat {8 shanstrengil to dingutso ronl weakness. oo that mun yondar with hands full of stonos to polt a poor wrotob. Bpot. Look out_ for him! Don't give Nim a chanco! Xeop your eyo on ml He will bear walching’ aftor dark 1 ‘Pliero is no man who is ko certain that rascality iu goiny ou somewhero as tho ono who knows how it is himsolf, *‘Bot o roguo to catoh & rogue,” is tho proverb of oxporience. 1t takoy o blopdihirsty wrotel to bo » persecn- tor or inquiritor. The” vulture lovea to disom- bowot his viclim and wob _Lis beak in blood, Who over heard of a dovo rending tho brenat of s rab- in, or a lamb sueking the blood of a kil ? Ilawlks and tigers dolight in this, No! Nature will out. 1f Christionity hes nok cut _off tho olaws, wa inclino to neratoh somebody. If Christ pos- Aesses s wholly, and wo hinvo boon trausformod Dy His spirit, thero will be no dispasition to stono pur neighbor, ovon i ot faulk. 1t is not in tha genius of Chtistianity to do it It is o cancer in the soul thut must bo cut out, or ' bwrned out, or gpurged ont of the blood, or it will Kill us, ¥ Tho fruits of tho svirit aro love, joy, poaco, lang-suifoving, gontloncss, goodnoes, Taith, magkuoss, temperunco,” Find o a placo in that galasy of graces for uukinduess, scver- Wy, unbrothorimess, harsh criticism, fault-hunt- ing, evil-speaking, tnle-bonring, revongo, insinu- Vion, hintimg querios, 1f you oan i Find 16 in tho words aud oxawple of Jesus, if you canl Lind it sanctioned in tho Bible, if you can| If you cannot stop it or oWn _youaro & goun- torfeit] 1 challonge you to find w noble Chyis. tinn inan or womnn whom everybody holieyes in, whose life is purely Christinn, nud deeply pious, who i8 aceustomed Lo stone otliojs; to rehearso the faults and frailtios of olhors; fo paddie and publish thoir wenknosses to belittle nng undormina their roputations. A truo Clristian —may [ go farthor 7—n trus gontioman or lady without tpligion, i1 never s seavenger, & moral gwill-guthororl Thoy nover go from hause to louso, from ear to ear, with rancid garbage. And 1 furtbor challongo you to find tho most noto- rious pest and gossip of a neighborkood or ohureh that will not ingignantly yeseny that ho or sho ever did such o thing ! "Thay meekly laok avound to see who winces | * What doos al] this mean ? What's the matter ? Who is tho minis- tor nftor to-pight#” Nobody in particular, and thoro is nothing that has enliod for this sermon moro than the facts of every-dny life, § hLave knawn of legs oceasion for this sermon in thiy clureh than in any other of my mivistry. [leneo T cun speals without porsonnl feeling or personal allusion, for I took nobody’s messure when I ant the cont, I am pimply preaching tho goepel of human kinduers, 2 For yoars I hava observed and noted {ho words and actiony of men and vomen towurd onch athor, fwliug of bratherly kinduess, wounds g aad orushing scusitive naturos alresdy bepr- ing honyy burdens; causing tho wealk to slum- bio, aud kicking tho fallen whon down; toaring open old wonnduy, and carrying despair to tho despondent; inpring up tho Dind and misguld- ing the fgaorant; withbolding sympatby from them that are rondy to perish, and urivfuu tha exring to dospair and resklozsnees, till my hoart in hot within o, and tho matior ig as firo shut up in my bones. Lwny bo ps faulty oy any, but I must preach tho trath i€ my own cheeks burn with shame. Bo many hearty aro neodlenly blooding; so many sre tirnad out of the way by tho thoughtlosuness or aruc| von- uct of their follows; so many aro wronged and drawn to wrong, thas it is timo to seo the Hush of (tod' gleamiing sword before our gyes, ‘What i one sinner that o should stone his brother ? Whai difforence hotween mo und tho blackess outeast, save what 1 owae to the grace of God? Ifipisall of graco, how eau 1 Lonet, or e novore, or pharitaju? Who mado us le difYer ? I¢Thad beon in bhis place, how do L know [ should hayo done betler? O, Lsm sorry for evory unkind word or act toward my fellows | Have I alwoys showed that eharity I needod, that mercy I wanted towwrd mysell ? I como to plend for @ larger oherity, & kinder purer bhumpnity, @ Lyotholy tove ; I come to beg ‘that tiso stonew may fall from our guillty hands befors thoy wonnd and destroy anether’; 1 como to urge a Ghuatliko spirit, and dig a' gravo for overy un- kind fooling or word, 1¢ome to smite tha ilinty hentts with tho mantle of marey, titl thoy guely in stroxing of tonderness ; I como to iplorposo tho examplo of our Master on bokulf of the woal, the arring, the sinful, the dincouraged, the st mb“"fi tho fallon; Ioome to lift up my voico agninst this stoning business | 1t is hateful in tho sight of Cod, "1t is cruel. It isincipjont murdor, It nhnlluugun tho- sword of justico to leap from its scabbard and clo our guilty houds, 1t muttors in our ears an nwfll‘ roo, 1t unicorks above our dofenceloes bords toniblavinly of wrath, “For with what judgment yo judge, yo ahnll bo Judged, and with what meantise yo mu?fl, it ahall b mesmrod to you agam,” Must I re- coivo back intomy own Losom *mensure for monaure,"—just what 1 gave othors? Hurely this id right, buttorriblo, ** Whateoover yo sow, that aluo shall v raap.” O God! whit & haeyest inviponiog | ‘This sowing of dragows teath will grow » horrible crop of mousters to dovour sur owa souls! This stomng othors in dresdful DLusinoss. Opon yonr right Lunds and soo if thoy ara full of stoned, Boorch your pockets! Al thoy are heavy with hurtful” missiles! Number up the porsons you lave wounded and hurt with the ugly stones you have hurled, Hoo tho blood tricklng! ~Hear the moaus and grosus of tho woundod, ‘hinl of the pain causad, tho nulfm'lufi ondured, and the angulalt wcunf from bruiscd honrts by your con- duot, It is all known and recorded sbove, Wo and tho sulferers of it sl aro to oot in u fear- tul day of reckoning by sud by, ow have we dono this? Unkind worde ara stonoy heavior than grauite. Unldud nets aro stones bardor thau admmnant, Elightd and ancers ato stones sharpar thau dint. Durle buiniations aro stones hurfod by hunds of malico from ba- Jnud concoaled battlemonts, Who bus 1ot felt all thene? Who has not thrawn them? Wo stone peoplo for migtukos, A greab maty ad Usings ave dona that ara not sink, but simply mistakos, Lack of clear approliensfon of Lhio chavaetor or conegquences of uction; lack of pood judgment ; the impulsivenoss of tompera- went ; tho fault of easly training, aud the wik- turtune of hereditory biasos,—oll coma in ta ox- plain and patliato the mBake, It in a maitor of profound sorvow that it ocourred, but why should wo prosa tho viow into o soul alrendy sufforing . oonest regrots ? Evory tme wo montfon the mistake, amd commeiit upon ik we throw n slono, Wo montion it to onch otfher, we keop tha oarpho oxposod . \{"“ o gaze whon wo ought to lnston to bury it ofton Iot the nntfiur kuow o remombee ity and want him to remomber tt. Wo koep pelting him with it, Have wo uovor mado as #nd wmistakos in othor dirootions? Why, thon, stono him ? What good fs done by constantly roforrity to it? Who {8 made bottor or stronger ? Does it leason ormond tho mattor by hupingon {t? T our Tathor ploaged with mioh oty porwsontion and mosgquito-torture by bis childron? Io that iy without mistake amoug you lot hitn enyt tho fleat atono, Wao stono peoplo for thelr faults, A foult {n move than & mistake and loss than s crimo. mistako {8 nn orror of judgmont, n fault an ercor ot coudict, A fault involven more of gulit and accountubility. It Is more porsonal and violative of woral law. 3an ara_ne full of faults ann sieve of holon. Not glaring elus, but painful dofocts, nots aud words that mar the symmotry of gharactor aud dim tha lustro of lovablouess. How wo stono tha faulta of othora ! lot a man Lo ovortaken In n fault, aud what a hailstorm of Atonos polt him | O, tho music of their olnitor ou theraof of hiln reputation ! O the beauty of tho window-panoes in the house of bl soull O tho charity of romark as wo passod l:{ 1 Just what T always ozpactod! I always told vou so | I novor Lind any confidonce in him I'* What if tho dose Lard had treated yor and_me i this way ? Whoro had we beon” to-day? Homo of us n pordition, snd ovary Gna of tho radk bound in chains of deapair for tho pit. 1avo wo 1o faulta ? Do wa love to linvo poople atono us— tallcaf gur faulta? **Wall," L fanay momebody snying, % I don't do such things ns 1 complnin of in'otliors.” Darlinpa youdon't, und then perhnps you do, only thoy are not known | If youdon't do them to-day, perhups you did only & fow yenra ago, Or may tu-warrow. If not tho weame faults, thon othors as poinful. ** Lot him that thinketh o standath taka heed lost ho fall.” It is no mark of emartnoes or godliness to find fault with othors, but 1 am go full of imperfeo- tions 1 dare noz, 1t wore easy to find fanlt with tho brethron aud the ministor. 1o that ix with- out foult oy etous us. ‘ho man who keeps down tho weods In his gardon will hayono time to hioo lnming. A distiuguisied godly laymon onco enid, T bnyo nll I can do to take care of mysolf, without oriticising tho brethron and tho pastor,” 1f wo know all the circumatances that mitigato anotnor's fanlt, wa should have no hoart to cousure. 1T wo were garipulous of' our own wealnesses, wo would nob wagg our tonguos. o vookiewsly, Jiob him without tault stona his brathron, X o stane paopla for thale sing and falls. It is ringal to seo a man or woman dupart griovously rom honusty and integrity, virtue and. pmity. 1t oulld for Lears and prayors, but nat for stanes. No matter if it was an inexcusablo faulb, and fieinows sin, What s our duty to ldm? Most peoplo kiok him! Moy want to make lum feel ho 4 down. Thoy #oem to think It arguos virtuo to stouo lim. I hoar somo ono say, ** e desorves it [" Perlips 60, but not from youl Ton v twonty yoar ago you did tho eamo thing, o ns bad, nud ight to-morrow I you wore in his cirenm- stances, 1t toos not bocama you with the scar of » uancor out out of your right obeok to glono tho man with ono eating hin loft cheol, ‘Thore ara somo faulla in humsn naturo that lend ¢vedenco totho Darwinian theory of the do- volopuiont of man from the lowor animnls. Awong womo specios of animals, if ono of their numgber Iy wounded fnd fulls lio is ot onco torn i "U'racos of thiy bruto vomon to-tlay. virtuo, and mine- touths of hor sistora will tear her to picces, ond tho next day smilo on tixa man who ruined her| ‘Ihe cruolty of woman to fallen woman is porfoctly wollish. O ehamo! TRovemso tho ge- tion, Loathing for tho uuropeninut libartine, and tendorness for thg woundad gister, Tondor- noga, sud pity, and Lalp for both, if {hey repent and veform, Duk novor tiuat him who lias been o batpayer oneo, No kinduess demnnda thiy risk, o smell of blood is tua trong for the tamed tigor ! Tiet o man bo guilty of dishaueaty, deanken- noss, or stealing, and ik vine vasos out of ten ho is outluwed frow the toudorness and woroy of hiy follows, and forover damned ud an unpa donablo roprobolo, Beo tho stones flyl Lo body tella it to ovarybody olse, Uonfidanco is destroyed, not so much” by his fall as by onr everlasling harping on it. When do wo go 10 lim, and try to ielp him op his feot? When do we go to him liko n brother, aud, taking him by tho hand, Gy, ** Comp now, bogin anow. I will help you., You_can bo a man, and recaver the lost ground"'? Roprouches will do uo good, Hiy sell-repranches aro all ho ocan boar. nlk- ing about him will do no good. That is etoning him, Helphim, Piay for him. Call on Liny, o cordial us novor brforo. 1lo s wellnigh an tho briuk of despair, Ono push, ono stone lung at hitm noy, und ha goes oyer aud iy lost, Laura bim back to hauor und uprightness. Kind- woss! Kindnosg! Kindnoss, now! Sympathy, Tolp, encoursgement, ho needs. 0, the tears of ladness that will roll down his hot cheoks ! B 4o grataiudo taut will choko L nttoranco | 'A_fow yoars ogo, ‘pnesiug along tha strock of an Eastorn city, o man met mo whom I had not seon for somo {ima, 1o threw bis avms around mo, and Leld mo fagt ug bo kopt snylufi God biess you! God bless you!” while the big tearg of joy flawed liko yain, apd smiles shone like raintbows through tho falling drops ou his fave. ‘Why guch demonstration? “When ho hing fallen again by intemperanco I fook him to my honsa for three weekas, and my wife and I nursed him, and got bim a pogition fu a large merenntl hougs, aud ho liecamo a man again: Ha we uelther relative nav intitato friend, byt simply & brather man,—a_nobja fellow,—and Lad fijon amoug tuioves. I kuow not what othor fanty cud gins the great duy may dicelosp nq‘\lu!t 80, buti 1 kuaw that I hgve nover staned the hmb:\nto. the uufortunale, tho poor, the fallen mun or waman, 1 lava roniotimos ricked my good naple and tlio criticism of men for le- friauding them, for niving to them in theifneed, rondoring mysell Iighle jo be misulerstopd ; but I am glad I did it at any sk, T would ruth- or faco o frowning world anpporting and loading trembling soyl ap to God and & nobls lifo, tlian tho frown of Josus’ brow ag Ho gaid, * Yo dld it not to tho least of these." Na lost onl i cter- nity sholl eyor_ vay, “When I wan down you stoned me.” I may nol have done all I could, T wish T had dono more for the lame, tho halt, o Llind, theouteast,~but I nevor stoned my Ialteu brothren. Hnid tho pioua John Nawlon: “ Far my own part, it my pockets were full of stanes, I have na night tothrow onaut tha groatest backslider upon eapjh, 1 hayoe oithor dous as bad or worsa than Lo, or I cortplnly ehould if the Lori} had toft mo o littls to mynalf, for I nm mado of just tho samo materialy; if thero bo uny difference, il is wholly of ‘grace," ear what our Cliristianity says: * Drothrom, if o man ba overtaken in a fault, yo which nra spiritual restore such an ono in tho spirit ot nieeinons, considering thysell, fust thou also bo tompted,” Noto who are to foveh tho easey Yo that pro spiritusl.” Al other hauds off] Al other tonguos be damb! . Only tha spitun] have tho right and wisdom to deal with him, nn thoy will not et him. Mark the duty: * Jle- store him!” Not stone him nor wound him, hut restorg bim! Put him back ou his foet, Yhiuis Chrintinn kindness,—charity. . 1f you_only Lknow Liow liard tho fallen strug- glod, and how much they rosisted bofors thoy 101}, you would seo much to awaken kindnogs,— 1itio for consure, It is not the opou rebuke to the faco, it that {s sometimes bost, bug it is the moan, cownrdly attacks behind tho Laek, “ I'ho tonguo s a Jioman ontapult that huyls stones nguinst tho fortress of reputation. Thero are trco thuygs that ovory one ought net to de toward tho sin of anothot, and then iuly pelting Wwith ntones must eease. Hirst—Don't talk about ft! Second—Dou't talk abont it! Third—Don't talkk sbout ! You Lave no husinesy to mention (the unfortuuato things n busineny, in tho family, s the relutions of othors; the mistakes, and faults, and sins of your noighbours; that in this family ono is innuno; [n another one s un idiot; in’ anathor some ono iz abpndoned; the famiily In of low origin ; uhove ali, neyer refor to the sad things af tho past. 0, nover breatbio o 1ot one’ pamo ‘When those who loved that unme are nigh, Tt youre 8 lavs (brotigh tia fruia “hat cholies the brenst und filln the oye} Tt atrafus a cuordl that yields too much OF pterctng unguivh tu fta breatl, Angl bunds of merey ahould yol touch A striugg wod sloiuent by desth, Bury gll tho fike fu obliviou. Iut’ how differ- eutly men do, 1f a brother or ucighbor has some unfortunate aftair, i'muu pai nyuy bub tiat fact fs novor buried. Yive, ton, fiftoen bittor yoard afterward wen voport (&, and pelt his nume with it, Alio ovil done by slundorously or wed- dlesomoly talking ebout “othors i4 more than {lranL u‘I]l gllrmrl m:l:l"uun. Hu‘mnl nucpl? Boom to hink that i what thoy vy e truo 1t l4 vight to tallk ot ot il ¥ 3 8 uppodo womo ono has dane wrong, Why ahouh v supeat (1 Duow if banols Agstods Nol Doou it havin anybody? You! ‘Thon yon havo no sight to do it, Doon it bouotlt you? No, Chen you nro n earrion bivd feoding on putrid things, Doos it bouofit nocluby? - Not at all, Dot it veoluim tho wrong-doer? Nover, Iut al- woys mulien him worso? Doow It ploaro aud glontfy Qod? Absurd! God hatew ovil speakorn nw Bt Uabrick did unakes, ‘Thoy most rosgmble tho cranlmg, elimy, poisououn roplilen that seako vo from s bed of floworo, Buch & porsont {n o nelghborhood or church fo na dan- gorots _an an_nddor among a fumily of - chil- dron, T know I am spoaking strongly : but you cou novor nalnt tha dovil Lo biack, 3Te fa all dovil, and thin stoning businons is all dovilish, witlout ono redeemlug featurs, And {f tho par- takor 18 a bud ns tho thiof, tha ono who willing- Iy lintaus Is aa had as the ono who tatties, Whou- ovor a poraon comos to tell you o Hoorot Of Acan- dl, o nlunder, or Augplolor, Injuring anotlior's rophtation, you will bo justifiablo in showing him tho door or steiking fum with tho Jightning of youroyo, ‘Tho uttoror or Looror of gosslp, bnokbiting, and slander onght both to be lung,~— tha ono by the tongue, and tho other by the onrs, Dut it were nll dono at onco, tho homp market would enaue. #4110 that fs without sin among you, lot him firat enst & stons " at hia brothor or sister. Ou that scoro wo should all bo whist as death, But tlio worat form of throwiug stonos ia by whis- yors, auspicious Insinuations, suggostiva quoa- tlous, and vaguo hints, ‘*Hava you heard tho roport?” " bhon't you think it queer " It mny ba all right, butit looks susplcions,” * Thoy do n)'." Homobody hinted to mo the other day.’ © What do you think about—-—?" *I wouldu't inve Delioved it, but it comos pretty gtralght.,” And 8o on ad nauscam. Stoning peaplo! Stoning people! And T ropeatit, tho onca who do it are nsually an bad a8 thoss thoy stono; if not in tho samo dircction, cortainly In thint denpioablo spirit that Joves to bito and do- vour; to dofamo and to destroy. It is no partof tho Indy o gontloman, much loss of tho Ohris- tian. Cako a ripo thistle-op and sentter tho rolling seeds ono Dby ono in .the air o out fo-morrow, and try to gathor them up, It ia impossblo. ~ They lave takon root, and'tha orop will appear, Stillmore inpoeaiblo is it to gathor up aud destroy the evil raports and dark hints that you hove set afloat. O fora rovival of brothorly Jovel O for a pon- tecost of human kinduess! O for a mautle of charity ss broad ns human [fraillyl O God sanctify our ears that wo may hear only. puro things! Hanctiry our tonguos that we may speak only charitablo thingal Souctily our affcotious thint wo may lavo ouly loveablo thingsl “If any mon offonds notin word, tho samels n porfeot mian, and ablo algo to bridle bLis wlolo Body.” et us herenftor paint cach other, hld- fug tho faults and sosrs, for wo all hava them. ‘Alexandor ind an ugly soor on Lis forohead, racoiverd in battte, Wheu the (\ll‘dl\t artist pajutod Lis poitrait, ho sketohed him loaning on hls olbiow, with ' his finger covoring the scar on his forohead. Lhioro was tho likonets with the sear bidden. 8o lot us study to paiut cach othor with tho (inger of chnrity upon the roar of a brothor, hiding the ugly mark, and revealing ouly tho beauuful, tho true, and the good, In the pucred tabornaclo tho snufers to onuft tiso candies woro mado of puro wold. Wo thut sunff-tho ymoking wicka of othors’ eandles must De suro that our candlos do not umoko aud that wo aro pure. 1o that is without e lob Lim oast tuo firet itone. Then no stones will bo tbrown. Thon no wonk, wonndod soul will suffor. — Lhen no harm wil bo done. "hon no blood will bo upon our garmonts, “Then kinduoss shall olatho ws. Thon chavity will tuno our voicos to hoaveuly strains, — Thon shall wo livo in the unity of the spirit and the bonds of peaco. ‘I'son will brotherly love con- tinue. 'hon will bo in youaluo the mind (hat was in Christ. Think gontly of the erring I Wo kiiow nut of tha power With which the dark temptation came In soms unguarded hour, e nuy 310b know Mow sarnestly Whey atiugglod, ar how well, Until thio liour 6f weaknees came And adly thus they foll, Deat gently with ho exving 0 do not thiou Foriot, Howaver durkly etaiiied by atn, Hy §s thy brothier yot, Hhair of {ho wolf-samo loritago ! Ll of tho nelf-sumo God Tlo Jiath Lut stumbled in tho patls “Lhon hast 4n weakness trod | Bpaak gently to the erriug | Tor 18 it not ououyl gt peaco und Inbiocencs oo gons, Without your eehgure rough 2 It wuro nuat ho a woary lus What piuoupueid hieart (o boar, Aud they who shiaco o happler fate Tholr chifdinga wel auny spare, Bpoak kindly to thoerrivg | Thou yot may’st lead (iom back With holy words sud loues of love Trom misery’s thorny rack, Torgot not thou hoss ofte sinned, And ainfol tay yot b3 Deat gontly with tho orring on, Ay Qoid hath dealt with thico, ikt WHO SHALL BUILD OUR BEPUL. CHRESF Sorman by the Rev, Dy, rtooking en thie Tnto . Binbup Whisclionse, Tho followipg sermon was preached Jast Sun- oy Dby tho Rev, Dr, Stocking, Tegfor of the Chureh of tho Epiphan; Woo unto yo, for yo Lusld fho ropulchren of tho propliely etid’ your fathors Mlled theny,—St, Lulke, . 4 History,” nsys Larmastine, " is tho thought of ages condensod into a few Jonven” Looks arg tho statucs which tho printing-pross hus carved from the gold and tho silyer, tio iron and tho stonaof hmman lifo and character, and plaged in tho niches that overy Intelligont liouse- hold bins ovened in ils walls, Iivery great poet who has sung the loves of the human henrs § overy great thinker who Llag stimulated and thon fed the human intelleo vory nphil- osapher who hns furnishied socicty with aecopte ed coden of othica ; every statesman wha hag formed public opiniop, apd phuped ity lawe; overy philanthropist who has enlightened somo ono of the burdens of humanity,—liyvo been reseued fram obljvion by the pen of the bio- grapher, aud they live thvough all tho agen, encli to impat some ono lossan to (he human fomily, Ambition has froquently found jus horo its grentest stimulant. It haw, as overy- thing aud ovoryono have, ila own pecnliar religion, modificd by the eirenmsances of onr agp, or & poople, * Pootry is tho yallgion of imagination,” and # history 18 tho roliglon of momory,” Tho Jattoy, therefora tindy, more disciples {han tho farmer, for thoye is that ju man which droads oblivian, Tho saddoest roflection of ambition, and the Ditterest tear on tho chaek of humop affcction, aro genorated by tho thought that they will botly Lie Bo oo forgotten by tho vory onea that flatter thair fortuno and pledgoe their hiondsbip, Iow they may best prosorve thoir namo and memory amidat all the wreek and ruin that drift along by the shoras of timo, is s question that men and women may lawlully and bonorably ask, It is n bittar thougut that tho homo wa have built for onr ghildren will bo ocenpiod by strangers who will invest its rooms and plessure-grounds with no syereq| associntions of tho domeptic lifo thab hay bocome but dust nud ashes, I s au un- walentua thought that tho parish church will, in ascora or mord af years, bo fillod With strangers that neitber know, nor caro to inquire, by what labors of parish priost and enrnost parishionors i wall wea built, and thrangh what soelf- denial the altnva have rearod wnder which tho swatlow may build her nest in poace and Iny hor young. And it is one of tha roul componsntions Tar tho worequitad toll, or the unganorous oppo- wition, that hava ombittored tha livow of publie men, thas bistory will ulthnatoly do them jus- tice.' Tor it brings mord moral motives and losgons out of the storiod past than mon are ofton found to pain from passing ovents. In portion to tho distanco which it places bo- tha living nud the dead, ko is its justice, ups around tho lllf,'uru of & cold form of onco gnimated flosh and” hlood the snliont points and focty of his carcer, and between thom nud o ealm judgmeont thero iw nothing {o bing tho consclence, ho purgonal interest ta corpupt, no popularity to furcinato, no porsonnl hntro to ruFul‘ na cloquence to movo, aud no artitico toblind, Tho sifeub court to whioh bumanity enu appeal—tjie court of high lieaven alone ox- copted~Is tha tribunal of posterity, for it the fathors slay us to-dny, *‘to-morrow, with ae- alamptions, tho sons will bhuild our kepulehros,” Marvelously trua wi this in tho cuse of the chanon yeople, Ho yersistent wan thele wolf- will und so obstinnte their robellion apainst Gad, that from Noscn to Malachi & long llun of prophots litted each a cry of wurning agalunt natioual sud individual sin, aud foarlosaly pur- sied tho Jowish comneionco. Prophety aud toschiors thoy ludeed wantod, but such only ns should prophesy swooth things, Whon tha uky of tholr nutional lifo wan bright, anathoma Lo bim who, with prophatic wand, eallod up the vlouds of futuro disnster and ruin, It way like the introdustion of » grluning skololan into a proup of morry dancers. How they punished thono mon lub”sucred, Justory Lell wn. Tuaial thoy placod iu tho trunk of w troo, wud then mm-m, asunder with o rado woodew #nw. Joyo- mialu thoy porsccuted o bittorly that evory day wag a living doath, Ilunted from eily Lo voun- tey, ad from country bick to city, Uko o wild bouut, ho fell into dungeons and prison-pits, aud osenpod tho tyry of ono ol only Lo uvite thot of nnothor. il wholo lfe was bragady and margyrdom, sud begauto ho was ko puroand longat, thoy atoned him to death in tio stroots ot Jerusaloin, Lo committed ono of thu wing Ifonr @ punioin which sociot; itho Church aro both slow to forgtvoy that of living, thinking, and torching in advanco of hia age; and tho discordants of tho wvory blgols that murderod him now bufld hin gepulelira and onroll lim an_ the patron Baint of Judes, Lizokiel was murdered by n Jowinh Princo whom he had convicted of idolatry, and not many yoars had gouo whon Joholaabiin had Lullt the morlyred proplot o tomb on the banky of tho Xuphratos, whoro s burning lght and su nulogrnYh rolt of hin prophocy symbolized the porpetuity ol lus fumo. And 8o, whon Joaus atood up, shortly Lefore 12in Paealon, to robuke Horiba and Phnrison for tholr nacrownoss and thelr pride, 110 road ihom ® loaf from thoir notlonal history, aud from whiah o goloot our text for theday. liead in the light of history, we now kuow what His honrars thon did not knos,—thnt thosa words hnd & futuro, as woll ns » paat, significanco. Jowish hatrod was to caat ont, revilo, and cruclfy the.beat Lifo that ever blossod the world and ‘lumamty, but tho vory noxt genoration would build 1is sopulohire, and succoeding ages and countries fight for tho eacyslon of it. What of the proplicay? Bimply hat Chrlstianity was acarcoly 300 yonrs old whion it had gotton mastery over tlio groat Gonatnutino and his almost univorsal empire, and the proudost achioyoments of mon nand natfons }mvo beon won undor the banuvor of tho COross. What tho Jows of old did, that anch succooding age hos repeatod. Whon tio fathors had put thoe prophets to dentl, tho Hon pllod monumental shafta abova thoir bonoa _and ombalmed their momorios with much eulogiatio mpocch, And yat, strango talo of o strango hn- ‘manlty, the vory lionds that did roveronco to tho nuines of Tanial, Joromiah, Lzoklol, and the othor prophots, \era soon Wagging in dorinion on that firsy Qood Yriday whon tho Bon of God was ulylug. Within fifty yoars svory Apostlo bub one had boon put to death, only booause publie sontimont mado 1t possible. And overy geuora- tion sluce hins produced men whom their own ngo hsa ostracised, but whom a succceding ngo has canonized. Tor consldor thnt, in overy Perlfld of history, tho masses sro conyoryative, {g i8 & bravor man that asunile thoir (raditions thau bo who storms sn onomy's gatos, A mod- orn author says, in substanco, that if ono wallc with tho sun at bis back his shadow wiil go bo- fore him ; and 8o, whon man has the full orb of genlug bohind him, wartod and lightod by Divina inspiration, he will shadow, beostiso Lo cannob help it, something of tho ago to come. CGod #onda to every age some such superior man to rouso it to o highor mission than mors buying and nmmmz1 to pronch somo allering orusado against pul »‘Ia 8in ¢ to oxplodo roma pat absurdi= ty ¢ to fustil an oarnest faith lu tho impossible future, Buch was Bacrates to Athens, Would you immolate a viotim, first strip him of ronpaot. ho time-serving Aristophancs had only to gatirize tho soge in his comedy of tho clouds, and Jo! tho homlook gave forth ita_ polson¢ but the hbody of Bocrates had “not boon resolved bnele into its Mother Earth, whon tho same Athenians placed his marblo group of thel'hreoGraces in the pore tico of tho Parthonon, whor only fho mastor- pleaes of their favoritos wero atlowed place. The blind old burd of Chios wanderad over hin nativa Greaco, enrrying in ono hiand n small bough of & troe, tho usnal symbol of Loggars, nudled by tho other houd by o littls girl with the Lieart of & woman, and whon he died in poveity and obscurity, somo ruda sailors covered him wlth tho saud of tho sounding son, and wo know not if mora than two little cheoks wera ot nt that obsenra funetal of long, long ago. *Btrings that nre not strained can yiold but little sound,” and pootry is usually & ory of pain, Homor's versos reached the hearts of his unbalioving couns trymon beforo tho surge of the sea Lad sounded hiu solomn requiom for many vears, and-Oumar, whiol had turtied lim from ite doors, was ono of the sovan oitios that claimed tho honor of hig birtk, and paid hin divine bemage. Whon Galileo broke throngh tho oritatof Rom- {8l tradltion, and {aught the rovolution of the earth, the Jcsuits drove bim to the Inquisition, whoee govatities hostened his doath ; but to-day ttomo in proud of her rnllemuu matornity, and slo builds his sopulchro, When tha great Gono- esa nayigator Leaought the interest of tho Portu- guose King in his piiuns of discovery, he waa ro- Jolted, and denounesd for holding idéns aontrary to all laws, both of mature mud roligion. But thongh bo'died n pruper in o lonely chamber of Begovis, n lntor aga epuonited Columbua in tha hoarts of all clvilized nations. As in 8tate, soin Ciirch, Brery ago hea brouzlt {ta storme about the dovoted bends of mariyrs and coufogsors, aud the lives men thought ordinary were aftor- ward found to be horole. Populir projudica nevor stiffened to guch s galo that above it could na bo heard ome tew voicas heurlng thalr wite ness to tho catholio faith, and bearivg it well, In our own Amoriean Church, Beabury, nnd White, and Ifobart, each in his own way, stood up beavely againat projudica and passion, inveos tivo aud hatred, Inying tho foundations of our resent catholle lifo aud usage, in one hand the rowel, in tho othor the sword ; aud to-day tho desceyidants of tho vory men and women wha then hated and poraccuted thom riso up in n(:]y diocoses and 3,000 parishes to call thom blosgad. \What batter encouragemeut need Cluistian pass tory and peopla than all this to quioken thom in theix labors of love and faith P Who of us may not bo buildimg Loiter than ho kuows for ater~ nity? Who can eay that tho vory tongues thab are now heavy with consure, or nlmblo with orite foism, shall not, whilo they ipay, pay tributa to uunppreciated worth, and homaga £0 undisgover= ed oxcellency? Wo who do not oare to die out of the memory of our generation, or who Inbor under the Lutden of unroquited lhoussty and pigus offort, may rest cousoled by tho faith, which histary warrauts, that justice will come, thonish with tarlly stops. Manhood asserts ity nabifity at tha graye, it not this side of it; and wo hnve acen enough of its charity on owr fre- quent roturnt from the cities of tha dezd to conyince us thut mon are miora ugt iu their post-mortem estimotes than js commonly belicved. If wo aro ocatled fonates to-duy, thoy will sometimo eay that wa worgonly enthusiants, If thoy now eritiaiso our methoge, they will then comwend our moraly, Phut which they now beliove tola our wosknoss, thoy may get pronounco our glory, As tho grest wheel af time revolves it msy bring to thosa who como after us an expetionce that shoil lirt tho seales of prejudico_nad soatter tho mists of error from theeye of lwmou judgment, and men shall love to stray along the path wa onco trod, and beeauto they find hors and thero flow- cvs of virtue thoy kmow not of, therofore thoy will not sce s thora or a thistle. Aund o wo come to one of tho moat beautiful sides of hu man character, and learn how out of its wonlknouy comon justice alko. Doos tho wifo mourn ovor tho ecomivg indifferenco and unrostrained impas tieuco of the Jusband ? Ie will tend bor with a vigituneo that knows no fatigue, whon sicknosy comes, nud_death wall sterootype on his hoart evory lovellneus and ovary Vituo, even as th darkest night revonls tho brightest sturs of hieaven. Ara childron hoedloes nnd eaptlous, and unmindful of that tonsion af mind, heart, zud body that snaps the chord of a paront's life tomotinios bofore its timo? Tako courago, brave heurt, thy obildren shall P’nt smoothe tho Iast pillow that recoives your sinking head, sin your passing soui to its poscoful ropose, an Tunks faithful and loving pilgrimago to your gravo whon those who courted your smilo and apent your substance have forgotton you forav- er, "Do pastors mourn over averted faces and Tistloss rowponsca ond lukewsrm lives in thelr congrogation? Tho first shadow of dissolution — will bring them to tho door, and ho il bo the happlost who oan do most sorvico. And whon the shephoid hins lnid down his etall forover, fowindasd of the look but will go buck trom the vacant church to toll of whnt o did for tho sheep. Ouo, of ser- mons thnt called, with tho clarton noto of trum- Det, to tho_Chwistisn warfuro, nud anothor, of tho counsel that saved thom from sin ; this ono will remomber her fivst_communion, and whose Land {6 was that _oarried the blessod body and the blood to hor Hps, and that one will miss the gguest at a communion-tablo ; the Bunday-sohool soholar will opon & deawor to drop a tear on & trifle that camo fieightod with a Chrlstian's grooting, and a mothier will opon anothor drawor to drop » largor aud holier tonr ou the tn{ of the Iittin ouo whom tho dead shopherd frat passod througl tho wators of Iloly Daptism, and aftor- wards eradled in tho oarth until the Reaurrootion moining, with the burial-song of loly Churoh, Pastors will bury from the sight of muen, and with words of holy hopo, thu vory oues from \lhiom, i life, thoy wora compolled ta diusent, and in the chinstened ratroypeot to which deathy invites them, they will find potty faults swallow- od up 1n solld virtnas, aud charity golug bheforo, will floctest foot, to caver with & broad mantio andd tonder hand many siphts that onco offondod tho eyo, Leliold how doath cools thohieated utiifo of partinanship, sllays the fovor of nocial compa- tition, opons tho duor of tha heart for long pro- conaions of neglected tovos, and, with muuy & Fogrot, and tonr, and proyer, builds up for tho dond an honored sepulchie. Bucl are tomo of tho wholosome rofeotlons muggostod by that groat pravidontial event wo conimeniorate thig morning. Hearesly ono short montl ngo [ turnod my roluctant slops away from thig boloved housg of prayer u wonceh of that rocrention which uature vxacts of tbo gvor- wrought hody and piind, and this morning I ro- traco thow to dind in_ tho holy " placo tho familinr tokona of bareuvomout, My foob lad nuob monsured a weol's distanco whon tlioy found themsolves In tho funoral irain of my owis deud, and to-duy thoy como back to minglo ita dust with that of another procossion Lhut i eorviod to bin honored roud my othior bo- Joved gud spiritual fathor, tho Disliop of this dloveso, 'Plioro comes to mo, a8 X spoak, alov- ing vislon of hin, to mo, evor-bonignant faco, an, Juiit bofora bla doath, tiosk from tho dutles and glowing with tho holy sstinfaction of anornd worship, ho eame to my home to bloss It for an hour with words of good cheer, and of more gratoful than dosorved comtnondation. - And qs I drew from him his modest account ot tho wondorful sud Joving labois that taxed bis romarkablo onduranco and oxhinustad my own wondering admiration, I prodioted for him an- other hnlf score of yoarn at tho loast, and many maro” ghonvos of 1ipened fullness gathered i from the whitoned flalds for the Mastor's garnet, Whio alnal could have fnid that thnt was tho lasb of our many nssociations, until wo moot agnin in tho bettor world? Whint words ot plous aulo- gy hovo stirrad tho still nir nbout tho doad Bish- op, and how valcos, obaked with tosrs, havo lift e, an bout thoy could, the Inspirlng notos of tho Chutch's burinl soug, and how flowora, with all tho floriet'n att and n poopla's zanorounlovo, hiave ropentod in ohinatost speoch tho blessod Liastor promise,—ni} thin you know bottor than I,—at thnt honr, by QGod’s providenco, more than 1,000 miles away. A socuso of porwonnl loas overwhiolms mo ns X romombor _thut hiw fathorly counkel, nlways so wiso; hi affoctionate inter- ont, alwayn a0 alivoy his unkought commondae tion nlways so finllurmm‘ are mina no longor,— nny, hut they shall aarvive through tho power of thnt donthiless monory that oidlives tho flooting bronth | And, singa L yas not pormittod a sharo in thal docorous display of alfectlon when dust wad committed to dunt, I now claim at lonst this priviloge of mm‘"mmi you alt ol what tho dend shophoid did for the rhoop, 1t in not too much to say that God had mado our departed Bishop of moroe than comwon alay. In him voreatility of gontus, profundity and orlglunlity of thought, clonrnous of porceplion, infloxibilivy of purpose, and an immenso hoard of learming, woro united Lo Biogular modenty, ROt thtfllclly of mannor, unafectod ploty. oloquonce that ofton fashoed fortl with motoorio splandor, cousclontionsness that no porson or cirepmstance could qualify, and & tonderueny that would haye done honor to womaubaod. Mighty in tho Scrl[)l,uru, ho bronght fortl from tholr treasures * thiugs how and old." A brave loador, ho sbaped fu an unususl degres tho counsoly that dotermined the prosperity and tho future of tho Oburch. A fenrlcus chinnplon of what ho considered to bo right, he pursued his ond with daily snerifico of comfort and populnr- ity, and with unwenried pationco. We who linve Nved to witnoss tho unloly contost ol indiyid- unlivm with authority, of rcckless ambition with roliglous principlo, of inordinato vanity with sncrod obligation, of growmng Irreveronco with Y(ouuvounut(u y and of mflunh’t{owuh rovala- ion, may not forgot, nor cease, bo thank God that auch o man and pralnto was Taised up for tho nge, and placed in the very flold whero tho florcost nswamit of tho cnomy was to como.. By somo opposod lmnuall{. by othets mistakenly, by othors ngain scllinhly and maliciously, ho boro tho orozior bravely, par~ tinlly, and nnsollishly, and ofton and ofton lisvo wo henrd him oxproas his oslm and confidont trust in God and posterity for his amplo vindica~ tion, _ Considering that his ofiicial lifo was shaped h{lelrumnummcs such ay have befallon yo other Bishop fu thls age of the Church, aud fromall the couflicting opintons and vrrying asti- mates of his Iipiscopute, we can nlfmlnn(nn unanimous tribnito to bis spotleas Intogrity from all thio falthful in this and othor lands, Ho wos a Bishop and o father to his faithfnl and loyal clergy, and as no sooial etation waa Ligh enough, B0 WAS 1o purso deep enuurh tobuy hisinfluenco «and his patronage. Standlng on the threshold of mighiy movomonts in the raliglous world, wo doplora tho logs of that wisdom that would bave dono o much for the nge to como. Contom- templating tho Eovony and misory tunt Lavo boen Joft by tho bossed Lord as a troublesowo legaoy to His Ohurch, wo who know nothing of his unatinted charity sholl know aa woll whuta friond tha paor hava buried in their hearts. Re- minded by tho records in our family Biblo, the picturea on our walls, tho gablo cnvumq af the tho hoads, and an nv:llhgz vold In the hoart, of tho dead - departed whom tho dend Bheplerd's band committed nnto thia groat Eastor Morning, wo think less of miy- tukes than of motives, aud commend Lis virtuos to grateful mowinors aud his soul to_ tho groat aud oxact rowarder of all who sorve IItm. “And 80 wo oloso our humble tributa, with tho prayer that God may vouchsafe this widowod diocaso as wigo aud nn good a Blehop as was ho who has rone. Bomo future blm{mpbnr will find in the ifo just closad o fortilo themo for his pen, and already gifted tonguos tho yorld over have ut+ terad worthier Apeech than mine. Tho columng of the prens, tho magio Wires of tho tolograph, balls that swing high abovo church altars, tha trombling voleo of prolato and pricst, tho gras cions yleld of tho flowor-bed, mnd tho multiy tudes of tearful faces in which criticism wil] Lava no placo or m&n forover,—oll are charged with oulogy and throjbiug with emotion, and Lieavy with perfume; and stafued with weoping 28 oach acene unfolded in this unexpected pne fiunnt of doath, And among them we take our umblo pluco this morning, proud and thankful to drop a tear to tha merory of departed worth, and to add our voico to that of justice, humani- ty, and religion lu ealling tho world to ‘build up for our departed Bishop an bouored sepuichvo. s e UNIVERSALITY OF THE HQLY RPIRIT Seruen hy the ey, Dry Kohlor, of the Nlnn) Congregntinn. The following is the address deliverad yester. day woruing by Dr. Koblar to the Binai Congre- gotion: i Dut it is the Bpirit In mon and the breath of the ::'x:‘l'uh;y whioh giveth them understanding,—Job, ‘A8, in order to see the glistening stars in the sky, tho humnn oye requires dorkuess to sure round jt, mou over preferred s universe ou- winppod {n mysterios (g tho eloar daylight of rongon and knowlodgo in order to porceive tho workings of tho divine power. During un- told agos mounkind sought after Qod iu the imponetrablo dopths af nature vathor than in tho noblo prowptinga of the heast, Yigtening to tho brokon echioos of the divino voleo, rosounding In overy tros and rivulet with much more awe than o the heavonly melodies of gympathy, juatice, and virtue ringiug thraugh tho soul. Lvan when comiug down on Mouul Blual to dispel the shades of pagan night, God still appoarod bohind tho elouds, shoddmg, forth tho ruys of Hig garmont, wavou not of {ho mato- vials of sonpual patura like thab of tho heathon gods, but of the bright other of tho spiritual world, yot purrounded with o majesty-tnspiriug awo agd fear, thus to romuin Liddon behind the holy curtain of tho tampla unappronched by mon, Nor was tho vell of mystory takon off with the destruction of the templa. Tho prand truth of tho prophotical toachings belng found & pracious boou of life for tho sopttered rom- nanty of Tsrnol, Holy Writ boeama their sacrod sliuo, around which the spirit of God soemoid forover to lovor, Jike on yonder cherubim, The belief in & eupernatural inspiration of tho Tublo arose, taking overy word and lotter boing Qictated by God, aud holding all tho views px- pressed thoroin, oven in rcfimd to historiea) or Physieal sofenco, to bo jufallible truth, in spite of our over-iucronsing knm\'lodfvc, and oyer- wideuing intelloct. "As If + tho Prophots and tho sacred writers woro morely instrumonts, Jayed upon by the band of Gad, ag uncopsojous of tho truth thoy prononneed, as is the haip of the tunes siruck thoraon, tho spirit of God ‘ovor Ao near to mau was baniehed from Its most holy place, to human heart, and fettored to tho doad luucr. 1t was this blind Iottor-worship which built a Chingso wall ! statutes ond rostrictions around tha Jowish people, secluding thom from tho world, to which thoy wero to forward tho Dlessiug of a puror faith, whils for Chbristianity it arocted o throne in Ileaven for threo gods jn- stend of tho ong, and dividod tho earth bobwoen & begullivg Dovll sud & porsccuting God. Of courso, mystery onco concodod fo Lo the assonco of religion, thoro will bo no dootrine over o absurd, aud no rollglous oustom over so guperatitlong, bub it whtbo admitted luto the surrendered fortross of roaou, No, rollglon is uo mystory] It fs nob biaden from tuoo, nor is it far off, ‘It Is wot in Moaven, . . . Noithor lsib boyond thosoa, . . . Dut tho word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in ll|¥ Leart, that thou mayest doft,” Tho lioly gpirit 1 no maglo payor, rolzing aud 1fting man above tho human sphere, " 1havg not spoken inseerot, o« .1, tbe Lord, gpoak righteous~ nosy.” CGod mado no fmrrot or H{mrmw speak: *“T'hou shalt not stead ; thou shalt not Late thy brother in thine leact,™ thongh it bo fur moro miracnlous. Man alone fy tho chosen fu- torprotor of tha dlvine laws he la bldden to fal- low, It istho spirit in man, pays our text. Rovelation ia no arbitrary not of God, solocting a ninglo {mopln or individual to bo saved by truth, and uunmhfi: othors to ctornnl Fnrdmau. Indeed, tiod would be but a partial, yea, no Tathor at nll, waoro ho to bostow ?Ilu meroy only on kome of 1Tin childvon, hringing not tho samp adueating inflwonces to boar upon othors, No, rovolntion must bo eithor for onoor for all. “Tho Holy Spirit must work upon all, or it fails to bo divine, Juntly enys Buddus, the henthon !xroplmtx *As wator pneifios tho noblo and ho lowly, tho xicL aud the poor alike, B0 doos my law, As fe melts enow and - orystal, esnd and gold, 80 doos my Iaw. Astho bluo vault of tha .niany vonorable huroes will ey ombracos tho mighty snd-tho depresncd; the good nud tho wlaked, a0 doos;my Jaw—s lnw of, grace for nll.” Tikowiso ways one of the old 1abbias - Tho heavehs that pour thoir bloss- Inga 1pon tho difforent lands, and the earth that nourishos tho various crentires, both nro wit- nesdon that the 1oly Bpirit dwells a mch upom Womat as upon man, upon a slive as upon o froo maw, upon o hanthon nx upon 2 Jaw, but aiways In aceordanco with tho nobllity of thow endoav- ors aud noltong,” Buroly, (ol In alike nnto all, but not all aro nfTacted liko by 11is prasonce, 'hough tho sun alltnsen ity m{u over tho vast dosorts of tho M)nllnrn.nn wall an upon tho bionsod shorea of the Pacillo Oconn, yoy tho offeats aro not tho #nmo. Tho capacity of tho soil malkaes all tho difforonce. ‘T'ho asmo holdn good in tho spirite nal world, Al tho difforonca” In roliglous truth Jigs 1 mon, not in: God. Lot somo fine artist piny & sonnta of Beothovon 1o n mized audlonco. 1t will afford dolight to ull who are not entiroly doat to the sound of musio, )iko Wilhelm von Humboldt, but how various will bo the impros- sion upon {he einglo individual, Whilo it may Biriko with sympathiotic chorda the hoart of tho ono, it will cnchiant auothior, and geatify n third, Now, musio is a rovolation of the laws of har- mouy in the world of nound, hut nlthough no pooplo, evor g0 rude, will Lo found lacking tho Houso for jts beauty, fow individuals becomo ity chosion intorprotor, ity prophots, and foy np. tions ity _cultivators, bave no_ douby tho nrb of music, shll fu its Infancy, will some Umo ' becomo & powerfnl promotor of univeranl cultnro aud rofinamont of sontitments, when tho Gorman nation may, per- haps, bo eatlod tha ohiosen paoplo of musie, In tho samo light I look upon the Jowlah peoplo as hoing tho acloct pooplo of roligion. 1t It to-duy an acknowledged fact that thoro is no pooplo in oxistonce witliont some rudlmental goncoptions of Uod, of morality, and religlon. God ever wpoake to man, thotgh bis undorstanding be over 8o little, DBut few ouly arrlved ala truo meaning of thoso strange yoices of an ovor- whelming, ever-rusking, changing, solf-dovour- iug, and evor.rosuscitating lifa around, aud of thio corronponding throbbings of tho hoart witlin .him, Fow anly discoverad for, man paths con- neoling hosyori with earth, bridging over the distance botwoon tho sensual and the spiritual, aud theso wera God's propheta, the toachors of morality given to many nations. Cotng ovor tho Biblical ground, you will flnd in Balnam, Job, aud Noah reprosaiilatives of tho Loly Hplrit, working upon hoathens ay woll as upon leracl. 'I'aking history as your guido, how gruee you, who de- voted thoir lives to the search after truth, fo the noblo task of bottoring tun, and elovating hin nioral standard. Doow it matter whother tlio command, * Lova thy nolghbor sa tbysolf,” is Iwmnmmund In tho macred tongue of tho” IMindons ustend of that of the Hobrows ? Is truth less holy when spokon by ono of its doyotees in Athons than by those of Jorusalom? No, the laws of Mann and Zovoastor. thoe wise teachings of Uonfucina and tho morals of Buddha, ‘fia protound wisdom of Hocrates and the sublimo philosophy of Plato, all _and cach s, sccordiug” to tho ol Jowish teachprs, witnoss to the universality of the Holy 8pirit. Whenaver you moot one -of Lhe worfd’u wieo men, to whowm maukind Is indebtod for the dis- _covery of now ttuthy lu sclence and art, be ho Qraok or Noman, ys tho Walmud, bow your Liond in rovercneo, and give praiue to tho Lord, who trausmils aparks of Ilis wisdom {o mortal man! . Read tho primitive utterauces of tho gront feliglons of Asin, tha sacrod nongs of Lo Yeds and Zond Avosta, thero is undoubredly an unquenchablo longing and socking sttor the In- visible oxprossed, and many an attempt made to s0ar up to heaven on tho wiugs of prayer and hopa, ‘‘Trom the rlsing of tlio snn to lta ot~ tiug my name {8 groat among tho nations, and in avery place inconso is hurnt, even o puro of- lerlnrx, Bays the Lord of Hout."” 8tull thero is in all tho gacred pootry of tho world nothing that can compnre with the book of Panlme, the unsurpassed trossury of inspira- tion, and hopo, eud consolation for suforing, struggling, sorrowing mankind, Nowhero doca tho soul enter into such an intimate contact and commuvion with the Fathor aboyo, pouring out its caros and laying down its burdens beforo tho throne of morav, as m tha IHobrow hymns and _proyers, Nowhero is that unwavering trust and unbonuded confidance ta tho Rock of Agos, that kaon, unremitting aspiration to tho living God, ‘manifostod as by the Biblical modoly, ~ “ Israel,” sayn o Jowish philosophor, “ia tho heart of tho nations, fecling tho knockings of tho divino spirit piirer and cloaror than: any othor poople, henco bettor onubled to seal’ ity Impripts on tho hoarts of men, As with the invention of countorpoint, musio is #nid to haye boon cro- atod anaow, tho laws of harmony belng thonos- forth linown, religion was rovealod ancw to mau- Lind, when tho Jowish prophots found tho con- tral hiearts of tho univorso,—the apirit of the in~ fln)tnxnrvn{lmg tio finite; tha gront intollect rhared and owned by its Imsga on carth—hy tho immaortal spirit of man. Tho Jowish peoplo dotcoted tho countorpart of religion for maukind. Liko Joseph, tho dreamer amoug the nations, it wns deomod best fitted by Proyidonco to intor~ prot tho faneiful drenmsof & goul longing for a world hoyond and above. This was, a3 with Joseph, the workiugs of tho Holy Bplut. Tlus {8 tho gnly {uspiration tha Bible In(s alaim to, We do no beliove the fiva hooks named after Moses to have beon written by him s thousand yenrs bofore his poaple, so_ blind us to fall iuta tho most slocking orrors of idolatry, could ap= Cw_muts, or ayen recoive, thiy truth,” Wo do pot oliove tho Jaws to hiavo Doen writtep ona parohment scroll, bundrads of yeara bofore any man aould raad or copy them ; nor jndead it apy montlon mado of their existence by any ot the older propbets. Neither can wo bolievo fn- stiuctions in geography, history, or cosmology to havo hepp given by God to Makes or any othor prophot a8 ropresonted in the Bible. Thoro is tho tanth chaptor of Gonesis giving us & mpn ol the aid civilized warld, pp Iar ag it waa known to the old Hobrows and Phonicjans, comprising soventy nations, nll dwelling around tho Mediter- Toncan Son. Who drew this map of the old world for Israel 2 Wo caitainly caunof con- sldor Gad Its author, for, besides its ethnologlaal orrors, it dops not represont all tho tribes of mankand #9 it pretonds 1o do. Nejthor could Dosos bave written it, tho goographical knowly ougs of tho Egyptians of whom Lo might have learned ib not reaching so far as that.” Henco wa are compalled to agatune an intimate acyualut anco with the seafaring Pheniciana on the parb of tha lebrew author, and to ascribe_ita origin to tho timo during, if not after, the Emplro of Holomon, when Isracl shared in tha morcautily ontorpriges of Phonicla. But this grand map of the pations, being renlly tho grand substructure of the world-redecming ides uf tho unity af mon, reveslod in tho fhub chapters of the iblo, the wholo beliof in tho foll rovelation of tho law by tho st prophet falls to the ground. Alorcover, the myths aboub Paradigo pnd tho #ix daye’ creation rye, by ro- cont resoarchas, been proven ta bo borrowed from_Porsiay sources, but modifled in conform- ity with the highor concoptions of God and the utnverio, hald by the Iotost prophate pnd wiso men of Judab, I like manner most rocont dis- ooverios hava shown tho legond of tho flogd to Lo of Babylonian arigin, but transformed and romodoled from # orudo and sondeless mytho- logical story into o tale full of sublimoe aud” fm- prossivo truth, Tinding, thon, all the testimony of Jowish na well as general history to spoak for a gradun! avolution sud growth of roligion, o are satisflod to oy God did not, when “ercoting iho grand aodifico of tho Biblieal world, commencae \vlfil the top andend with the bottom, Rovelation did not spring forth, tully equippod, liko the Romun goddesa of wisdom, from tho hecad of any ‘praphiot. It grow slowly, gradually, like the oal troo from tho meorn, surugglivg forth out of p ropugnant soil. o prophiors throw tho secds, fiuuul‘nlloui after gonorations, but alas! did not vo to sco tha growth, Only whon the sufferings and trinls of the Assyrian snd Bubylonian oxilohad softoncd thoir hiearts, tha people becunto wware of their holy miusion, Gonorations of wio mon had in the meantina arison, who, through thoir intercourse with many mhouu, enrighad thoir Inowlodge, gathoring tronsuroy of wikdom from many landa,” Maldung Solomon, tho wiso and art- Joving King, with his cosmopolitan inclinations, thoir prototype and model, they combined tho knowlodgo of mauy pooplo With their own, thus oularging their yiawe, and embraciug not’ onl their own pooplo, but mavkim, within thoir grasp. On the brosd ogoan of futollectual inter~ courso tho narrow viows of the Jordan and the Ell{)lu‘lmu woro lost sight of, L'ho world widoned, and so did roligion. e wisdom of the peoplo of Idumen aud Phnicis, Assyris and Judes, was found, at tho Lottom, ta bo ona awd tha samo, Tho univorsality of huwan in- tollect wae arrived at. ‘ho luman hoart wag struok, Lho Jow bad grown inta mau, Hopeoforth the prophotical toachings found o Wdndor scops. 'I'hio old Monaic law wau to Lo olevatad unto o highor platform, Lho unity of mon was to booome its basls, and the nopo of n XKingdom of iod ovor all natious, as kindled alroady by the groat prophets, its high tower, Woll says s Jowish teachor of tho st contury Wiiho kernel of Judafum {s fonnd not so much In the commandmont, ‘Love thy nelihbor uy thysolf,’ as In b foundation lald ln tho iyt chantors of the Hible, holding oub the doetring of the universni brothorhood of man,* 1t in not light left to itself, buc whon put up on tho high tower roucking far out lnto the ocenn, which ruves ehips from foundoring, And this broad hummuly, this world-on. bracing tendonoy of roliglon, loup- ing over tho burriers of othor roliglons, nnd even of qra«k philosopliy, was & gilk of the Holy Bplrit, of & windom which porvaded Begale loolnnd S.tomon, Danfel and Zerubabel, nnd 8Ll porvadon tho hymns of David, Lhn nougs aud proverbs of Bolomon, the philosophical problonws of Job, aud tho molaneholy rotlections of tha Ecolesinstos, In thoss vory Loogks formnorly uu_l]mlhnu a clagg, the books of windom, wo recogs nizo Llio Lravoy, though we know uot the names, of thosa far-ighted mon who brought (ho gols dug from the Jawish minos into tho mnrkat’ of tho world, puriied und cleanwod from the dross who borrowed windomn from Idumon, tho land n; Job, to pay it, with largo futerost, back to mane kind; wha bought ponrls of logontls from l'orsin, and unpolished proclous stonow from Indla, to liong them, rellued and polished, as an tnstics pnssed neollaco mu..anm..m, the helpmato o Vi io thoso baunora i t i to theso batnor-honrors of universal wlg- dom that Judaism owoy ity grnnlucn‘n :‘v"c‘}' lltlu ‘:l:- torien over I8 oo querois, It wax by Lhoso mon thint the Biblo was comploted. Comploted ? No. Heareoly bag tho Tloly Spirit consed to move tho wise mon of P’aloatino, whon, In Aloxandrin, an- othor ganoration of #nges arose, who, diving futo thio ocoan of Ifellento Ntoraturo {o detoot not pearls of wisdom, added new hooks ta the canon of MHoly Heriptures, and translutod the iblo into the Greck Inuguage, to rovaal tha Word of God nnow to tho pagan world., I'hen and thero tho universality of reason snd intollect (tho Grook Logos) was doclared to Lo tho orosting Frlnm lo of tha uni- vorao, * tho world-nrchitect ;° and, on the othor hand the nPIrl: uniting man with his Pathor in ITouvon, *!the world-redcoming Son of God.” But alaa | It soon dogoucrnted ivto slupeflying Obristion_dogmatiam with ita world-hsuiting dovils and ghoste.” With Judalsm, however, this vory iden of a universnl yisdom ovor hind, like tho'braozo of thio ocoan, 8 rofresing and quickening offect on roligion, oven in its nlag- nant lifo durlng tho middlo ages. It kept, smndst ondless poracoutions, th ten of humane ity, of & truly commopolitan roligion, slive to rnfle‘:;nmlo l'lio old falth, aver now. our time, with its great undartakings, leondn to bulld humanity on foundations nu‘mm‘}:r, £ ot brolu!nxa than any dreamt of. Manlkind ls alrendy liuked in it matorial {ntorosts with iron tracks oloctiio thronds, but aaly lo of honghi and trein ImllPht with tho blosningy ofgclfi‘llum tmvur:ln‘ all tho lauds, in spite of national and acctional 'Imrrinn,h chooking tho mntch of olyilization which thoy are to fosler, like nursorics. Tho day liaa alrendy come, whon, undoer all tha di- vorsitiea of colors and langungos, rellgious, and customs tho man {8 found; but tha day will como whon thero will bo neithor Ghristian nor Jawlgh, but human virlue, charity and loves srhan all the variousroliglous will, llke the sovons fold colors of tho rainbow, omorge inta she br{;:hb lxsfht of the contral sun of roligion, antiol 1lmuu timo whon_tha old,” vancrablo Bible will bo rovised and transformed iuto a Bibla of humanity, to commouco aléo with mane kind cradled in the fay-oft East, and onding witl its viotorics gainod in tho romotost Weat, in- cluding within these ‘vwo poles the gems of lit- araturo of all nations, and thelr treasuren of art and soiouce, togothor with tho history of thelr struggles and achlovorents, and tho sxored out- pourings of thoir aculs.—n toatimony of the Di- vine spirit hving and working in all. Although accapting gratefully oll tho gifts of selonco, sud listening attontively to all its rovelationn, wo still fool gonfident snd uure that religion will not die out, nor even bo reasoned awav. The sagtionnl wall of tho Church may crumblo and fall, tho Bpirit of oxclusivenoss may dio out, buk roliglon, baing tho spirle of holincss, runnin from tho nt contro of the ynivarse throug) man of all lands and afion, will remsin, ever drawing and Jifting individuals and nations up totheideal over-nigh, but never renched,of s world bonutiful and good, porfoct and holy, to tha throno of tho Heavenly Father, Awen. ——— and OLOSE COMMUNION UNSORIPTURAL, Hermon by the Rev, J. Maivern, of tho Fren Communion Chureh, The Rav. 4, Malvern, pastor of tbe Freo Com- munion Baptist Church, corner of Loomis and Jackson stroots, preached yestarday morning on *“ Olose Communion Unrcegonable and Unserips tural,” taking us his loxt: Wastor, we saw ono casting out devils in {4 name; and wo forbado him, becauso ho followsth not with ua, And Jesus aaid ' unto him: Forbid him :x‘rt’ ) for s that Is not agalus us, 1s for us, Luke iz -50, ‘I'lio firat verso of this chaptor rovesls the fact that the authority to cast out domons was vestod in the twelve disciplos. Whother all the twolve exorcised this prerogativo wo have no means of knowimng, If they wore all commissioned, all had the ability, At thig time Judas was one of thoir yumbor, And we may properly copcluda flat ot this tima ho waa o true dluciple, thaugh afterward the peeuliar temptations to whioh ha 'Wwas oxpoucd overpowered bis profeesion, and ha doyoloped the thief und tho traitor, Tetor said of Judas ; ** 1o was nymbored with ng, and bad obtained part of this minjstry," The Pgalmist puts it into tho lips of Josug: “Yea, mine own famillar friend, in whom I trustod, which did oat of my bread, hath lifted up hia beel sgainst mo.” Whataver mpy have been tho subsequent oharacter of Judas, Jesut had faken him to bo his friend, and, with the other disciples, had endowed him with miracu. Jous powor, Ifis fall only proved his provions oxaltod positipn, Tor Lo could pot have fallon if bo had beon alrondy down, Matthias was not chogen to A1t a traitor's position, but to pcoupy an,apastlo’s place, from which * Judas by transe groasfon fell.” Boripture, n otber instances, proves that mon of exaltod station in the Chris tlon Church may, by sactual transgression, fall, Paul gpeaks of Domas forsaking the asuse from & love for this present world, Judag s uot tha ouly apostate, Olhors have fallon, Domas ouce ptood in tho front ranka of the Christinn host, and fought the hattlo by Paul's mido, sharing in his dangora. Onco o brave soldior, thon & lasa dosorter ; onco o disclple, thon o traitor, Q, how mapy, commissionod, 83 wore Judsy and Domos, to boar tho glad tidings to otliors, bhaye betrsyod thelr trust, end preschicd thoie reatest-sermon of solomn warsing by ticir ovn ?nll. What an_admopition! *Let him that thinkoth ho standoth tako hoed lost ho fall," “I'ho times in which we liyo aro thick with dis. sstor, First one in this donomiuation is aze tuguod boforo his peers, tnon n that oxo, Ditherto above reproach, is accused of the vilest ovime, Apathor, whoso oloquotce hag gatherod Dbundreds to g ministry, inan evil time yieula to tho tomptar's powor, and incurs ecclesinstical oxcommunication. Our own oity has witnasaod the faifuro of thoss onco highly aeemod. From the highost ewinenuo thioy have fallon to tha lowest dopth ; and this gooy to show that, Low- over lofty tha position we muy oooupy, wo ara exposed to danger. Little did Merod knov, when be was minking hiv lust oration, that whila the peaplo flattored o was about to-bo eatan of wormg. A King arrayed in Royal apparel; a fow mawmanta afterward & loathuome corpse, What- ovor bo our position to-duy, if wo dv not konor avd glorify our Qod, to-morroy may find ug lower than ‘tho lowoest of all. We arguo from tio fall of others that they may Lays bad, and doubtloss did havo, all tho eleinants of truo dovotion in their provious char- acter, Endued with peeullar power, tho dis. eiples ind gono forth with earnost hoarts to do thelr work, Littlo il tho suthor of tho flst part of my toxt think thak ono of his own noar frionds would prove untine, or he would lave been moro exrotul in hig complaint concoruing othors, ‘Lho language of the boloved diseipla revouls two or threo points workhy our congidoras tlon, g Firsl—Our own ignorance may botray us inta an improper courso ot conduct. How did John Lnow whothor Chrlst had oom- missionod tho ono Lo saw casting out dovily ot not? Mo wight have arguod that, if o hud thie powar, ho must be a foliowore of Ourist, Batan would not cast_out Hala, for tial would prova that his kingdom wae divided against itsolf, Bul Instend of rorsoning in tlus way ho_concludea thint, ‘becaugo ho was not walking side by side witli doh, ho thoroforo could piot bo followlug Chirlut at ol Littlo did Johu kuow Low many diyoiplos Joaus bad. 1t in certainly ovident that thelr oumbors wora not confined to twolve, 1lo who * spako na novor man spuko " had uot beon proachiug I the citics and villages in_vain. Converts had beony multiplyiug all acound ; novortholesa it was not oxpoajent that all should nccumEnuY Lim in hit Jonenoyings, but that tho blosslngs thoy Imd yecoived should bo carrled to then frionds at homo, for many of thom enmo from far to listen to hla words, John found ono of thoso converts oxorcising tho powor yostod iu him for tho bonoly n’] nilltoted onos; and uatond of oncouraging him in Lis graclaus work, forbsdo. him, bocauso ho was not porsonally scqualnted with him, In the darknoss of thly gelteh world it in nov ot slt sur. orising to find good mon so lgnorant os to injure lhu eaitso they loyo, 'That which thoy estoom 1 usurpation 6f authorlty is as truly n divine eome nussion wy tho ono they themselves mu{ Lold In tho Bstablished Chiireh ot Eungland if is nol unfroquontly tho caso that bor mimstry ongage in opon coptlict with tho minktors of oihel Churchos, and oudeavor to dulufl 89e ¥INL Pago) v