Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1874, Page 1

e e Tribune, VOLUME "8, CHICAGO, MONDAY, SEP’I_‘EMBER 14, 18 DRY GOODS. EXTRAORDINARY ... . BARGAINS! $50,000 WORTH IRY GOOIS, BOUGHT FROM THE CREDITORS’ SALB or THE PULPIT. the Outlook for a Young Man? Sermon by the Rov, Robert Collyer at Unity Churchs The Rev. H, N. Powers on ' The Bishop Needed for Illinois.” Prof. Swing Preaches on “ Love Invad- ing the World.” Messrs, Paton & Co., Now Yorl, | Mr. Burrell on Prof. Tyndall's CONBSISTING OF 5,000 White Marseilles Bed- gpreads, 1,000 White and Col- ored Bed Quilts at half their cost of importation; 1,000 doz. Nepkins, 5,000 doz. Damask snd Huck Towels, fancy and plain borders; Bleached Loom and Turkey -Damask, and all kinds of HOUSEKEEPING Goods, the best BARGAINS ever offered in this city. Inaddition to the above, we will CONTINUE TO CLOSE the balance of our stock left from THE GREAT FIRE at sweeping REDUCTIONS from former prices. MANDEL BROTHERS, 63 & 65 Washington-st. E————— e EXPOSITION. 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VAAR & HOFFMAN'S BAND (of 60 pioces) will fur. nieh musle, during the Kxpoaition, of tho bost and most oount compositlos. JOHN P.-REYNOLDS, Seorotary. ERN. N 177 1878 NTERATIONAL EXHIBITION U. 8. CENTENNIAL CUMMISSION, PUILADELPHIA, PA. S 10. EXH] Anmce with thouovoral Acts of the Cony e Neater, IrovAiug for tho eclebration CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY . drpendonce, thore will be held tn Farn- e TRl 18 tho your 1670, aa INTEENATIONAL EXHIBITION Of Arts, Manufactures, and Produots of the Sofl and M. fishibitfon will bo opcnod on tho 19th af April and olusbd i tho 1910 of Octabor, of tha APPLICATIONS FOR SPACE. for oxbibits in the Toldiogs o the T rPiieation shonld o mado. Tho hoccssary s fof vpniheation, togsthor with the Rogulatiuns for it S el Tfariialon, il vo furwardad on g ST Gon o suplleation ta tho QUga 0N SN Dircctar-Goneral. "HALL'S SPRINKLERS, - " FIRE! ABSOLUTE PROTECTION Against Fire. itizens and Btrangors aro Jnrited to call at the office of BROWN BROTHERS, Corner Olinton aud Jackson-ste., At any timo, and sco ::r :":JI;RINKLEIIH"IB aotual SEND FOR CIRCULARS. LAKE NAVIGATION. GOODRICE'S STEAMERS. ¥or Racine, Milwaukeo, Bhoborgan, Maaito. Wao, ale., dally(Sundays e500ptod)urisvessers D8, M. F@-Baturday's boat don't leave until 8 p. m. Tor Grand Havon, Muskegon, Traverse City, Mackisse, oto,, dally (Sundsys o3copted).ers 7 p,ma, 1, Jusaph dally (Bunday exceptod aturday's Hoat don't loavo uutil 11:0 For Manliteo snd Ludingion, Tucsday and ‘Thursday,.. areenen For Groon Iay and Talsrmediaie ports, Tuoeday and Fridsy, For Hacanabs an day and Thuradny, FZUltico and Dock > REAL ESTATE, "0 0 TORGAN PARK 4 at home, HMoul bulil o Bt ol Darmaain o iatch, sl i T silias No. 11 Glaiainr of Uonitioris God. B OUTLOOK FOR A YOUNG MAN. sormou by tho “‘"'c'l‘"“z‘ Collyer at Trinity Hurch Yontordny morning tho Rov. Robert Collyor pronchied tho following sosmon at Trinity Church ¢ Rejoice, O young mnn, in thy youth, aud lot thy Dearscheer theo fu tie duya of thy youth, sud walk 1n {ho ways of tiluo heart, nisd In tio aight of thino oyen, But kuow (b thut for all theso things God will Dring theo duto judgment, Keclesiates z, 9, My toxt bolongs no doubt to the next chapter of this gad sermon of Solomon's, a8 wo csn sos at ouce whon we notice the conneclion, and what ho eays about tho ono sure way of iuvesting the wealth of youth to the best advautage. It is clear algo from what he saya further that hois not thinking of youth asn timo 50 much as s qunlity, Tor wilh n fow master strokes ho drawa a picturo of old ago in which senility iy drifuing down to death, contrasting what hio has found, I suppose, with what he still remembers, and then ho crion across the gulf which separates this from that: Ilejoico, U young man, in thy youtb. In tho clear glanco of the oye of 'it, and tho sura tramp ol tho foot ; in the Loalthy sleop of it, and tho chieorful wakig : in tho splendid appotite_ of it, nud sloady nervo, and in tho powor of hopo aud expoctation. Jor the timo 18 com[ufi whon the sight will grow dim in you, and desiro fail; whou you will wake at the twittor of a sparrow to long avd lonely days, and wwhon sorrow will bo no lovger liko o May-day, in which the sunshine chases tho showers, but like the sotting in of wiuter, when tLo clouds return after tho raw, and the old man cries, Vawity of vanitics, all I8 vanity, 8s the silver cord is loosed aud the golden Dowl brokon, and the dust ro- tutns to the carth as it was, and the spiris unto God, who gave it. Thig seoins to me to be the true reading of the passage, with whioh my text stauds iu closo cone nectio. And then tho toxt itsolf taken its pluce as a pervetual admonition aud encourngoment. Tor the old man soes both the Light aud shadow Wiich lies within this joy of youth, and how it may bo turned to wheat or tares, as wo o <108, m, - put it to » nobla or base sccount. o Lias come by a personal experionce to the truth that God koepa track of tho quality and purpose of each mau's faith and manhood, so that tho fall sball bo ia the lino of tho spring and rume mot, bonuty for beauly, dust for dust; and o he ories, Liojoice O yuung mon in thy youth, and Tt tiry hogrt clicer theo 1 tho daya of thy youth, FHours of exhibi- | aud wallc in tho ways of thino Loart, and'in the sight of thino oyes, but kuow thou that for all theso things God wil bring theo iuto Judgment, And I suppose no ay ever lived who could say such words with a more ontire and perfecs iusight of their reality, Ho was n man ins thousand millions 1 genius and fortuno, iy lifo opoued to as fair a prospect, and was filled with powers of emoymont’ as fino and| strong 8 over fell fo tho lot of a yousg man in sny age or country. His father was 6 poet, s saldicr, and a King, who hnd struck the harp to death- less pualns, touched the national banper with o new nobility, and given an enduring lustro to tho throne. His father's eon was the darling of the nation, fu the first prime of his days, with o tressury full of gold, with advisers full of wisdom, with a keen and ardent (aste for what wa havo como to call the true, the besutiful, and tho good, and » deft, quick iusight tto the roots of things manifosted w his judgmont of tho two women which tho shrewdest Greok that evor walked tho streets of Atheus could not have surpnssed ; and with it allin theuo onrly days a simple and humblo trustin God liko that which livs within tho soul of & saint. About forty yoars pass away, if our chironologies aro truc, and ‘then ho writes the soddost sor- mon that evor was writton with a pen. His power of enjoyment has gono, snd his joy, The ecoptro is nllszlping'fl‘om bis pal- sied hiund ; bis knowledge bas oaton tho hoart ont of Lis faith. We hear no moro of the prayers which riso with such an exquisito grace from the nd who would atways wait on Ciod for direction, sud trust Him.for mli;ht. Suporstition bLas set’ up her idols where religion built her altars, and a brooding sadncss bus takeu tho placo of tho old Liopoful joy. "Tho judgmont has gono against Lim, aud ho' knows that botter than any other Jiving man, and so ho makes his monn, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. But thon ho seems to say, No, that is not irue; ruincd ss I am, and buro, L will not lio to my own #oul. Sonie things aro not vnung aftor aoll, nndons of theo is, that youth I haye boen looking at through the glass of imo. Vanity hne como of it, but God guvo It to me for ns lovaly & verity as his hand over mnds, and I alone havo to suswor for turn~ ing the fruit of it to ashes in my old age, I cannot go back on that weet vision, I eannot be such un utter fool as to call whito black. I Imow 1t was bright, and good, and true, and all tho moro I kuow' it in contrdsting what I was with what 1 am, That glamor on tho face of nature which smoto my heart when Iwas o young man was the truo oolor of her life, this gray monotony 18 only hor shroud. ‘I'hat tireloss powor with which I went aud camo, and slopt und woke, ‘and planued and wronght, and lis- toned to grand music, ond saug out of my own heart a4 a bird sings, and Joved one woman for love's sako, and saw inyeelf in the oyes of hor childros, and mndo my home boautiful and clean, and roared tho pillar's bosu- t{ nndmrnng}h, and kept order to tho utmost lino of my Kingdom, and prayed close to the hoart of the Most High,—that waa all real, all trug, snd will be, though I die crying thoro is no Gaod. 1t i8 no proof of the vanity of theso powers that vanity bhas come of them to ono poor old man, aud the youth of the world shall know from ono who ean toll the story with a moro pajuful emphnsis than most tho poasibilities that lio at the Lieart of it,—of glory growiug to glory, or shamo to shame. Thorcfors, rofizlw O young man in thy fuith, and lot thing heary ehioor thea iu the doys of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the wight of thine oyom, Lut know thou tbat for all these things CGod will bring thee into judgmont, But 1f thoe preacher had died boford this word way written about tho Joy there is in unworn and unrustod powers the logs would only havo Inin with hus sormon, aud with thoso who fool Dbound to beliove every word ‘they find in the Bible, whother it 18 crediblo or not, Ior to rojoico in our falth, no mutter what thoso_may sy who sing ead songa abou *tho tondor light of a dny that is doad,” is 8y natural and fuovit- ablo as it is for tho Jand to 10jolco 1 the Juno Sun, tho birds in thoir bullding sud broodiug, and all tho things that creop aud runin tho authresto of thoir imprisonoed iustinets, whon lifo tisos to ‘spring tido, Thoro is an exquisite oapter written botweou the linos of tho Paritan history of Now Ingland sbout the way youth nirugglod for s joy dows thoro Yith tho storn snd sustoro rule of tho older men and women, who lad come to look on all such things ns vanitios quito bo- noath immortsl wouls which wero irying to solva tho prablems of providenco, forolawlatlgo, will, and fato. Vory sud ndood I8 tho troublo tha rulorn have about this joy of yaum] a# 1t broaky outinto s now_ribbon “or vest, o profano Tausio as they call it, and the singing of bullads, futo stolon walky of a tan and maidion Sunday, that they way whispor tholr loye to” oncls othor when they ought to bo hearing the mintster hold- ing forfh'on tho wrach of God. In lunketingy, and even a fiddlo, at somo outlying furm, whero the farmer aud bls wife had hofd on totlo ahieor- ful traditions of the old country, sud thonght 1 no hurm of sunocent amusewents, and so would ritk a good aeal that the. young folka might bo young. 'I'ho masters of Bdlom, ioaton, and other Htrongholda of the old, storn spirit, could nover whalr those outbroaks of tho joy of youtd, any more than thoy could master tho purple and finld on iho bronst of tho doves, the song of tho lrd In the olm, or the rush and clamor of tho spring flaods, Aund for tho asme roason, it was aprlnsg with thoso they would affront, Naturo was bidding thom rojoico in a thousand waya tho Boeloctmon could not or would not undor- staud, and 8o it was like Aghting the rainbow in tho sky, trying to fight thono swoob illusions that appoor and disappoar among _tho joyful in- ntincts of youth, Noithor at & lator day could tho *Frionds™ mastar similar instinots, whethor nm{ took theso lighter torma or turnod to the lottlor oxprossion of poetry or musio, or palnt~ ing, or to tho mncrod ftor_a man or womau sd husband or wilo, by tho graco of heanvon, who a8 not of tholr own porsunsion, and tho refasal to eny they woro sorry for the suprome joy of lifo, Yor when nature gays one thing and ovon ro- lhiglon anotlier, and the lnw of the homs and the clinrch crosses that of *nll out-doors,” {uu need not pondor tho queation 88 to which la bound to win in tho long fight. Tho graco of God lald down by Calvin, Roger Williame, Qaorge oz, and Wesloy in respoct to tho oy of youth, and the forme it may take, or tho graco of God pulsing through the Iresh warm heart of the now goncrationa, Only the immutablo can stand, aud the joy of youth is inmutabloas the light and fire of boaven, and thoso who would fight it in suy Inuocent form itimny clivoso to tuko, havo first to settls the question whother thoy aro Nghting against God. T sy, thon, it Ia of no use asldiig whethor Solo- quout mon wns & wiso man or A fool for vboylag this: inntinct of youth to rojolco m what was within and about lim, Elis joy in booka and wusic, in landscapo gordonlng, and tho collection of tha rarcat trensines of art, in bis wifo and homo, in Dbin tomplo and govoniaent, aud even in the in- creann of his fortuné, and in wit and_ hwmnor and mirth,—those in thomsclves woro not the way- ward {ronks of folly, thoy woro good, truo thiugs in their dogree; then, ns thoy aro now, not vani- tion, but yonies; nol thinps woll used to mako & mnn blase, and Lo wish ho was doad. Thoy wero indeod the very samo thinga dear Syduay Smitl, o wisor mau than Solomon, found smon, the joys of his youth, and good @ truo to him etill, when ho wrolo to a friend : “I am 74 yoars old, and am, upon tho whole, & happy man.. Ihave found this au Interosting world, and am thankful to Providence for my lolin it." A wlsor man than Solomon, £ say again, in spite of tho Cate- obism, for 10 the principle of tho one life yon find dunt and dross whon #ll s over, and in the guxar tuo fino gold of gratitude aud o groas cons o Now, thon, whore shall wo look for the reasons which turncd a faith of _sivcetnoss tu an old ago of gall, and Low cane that which began iu hope to cud in dospair? I answer, especinllyin throo things, and i this first of wll; That, in the 7 of his fnith, and the pushing out ins, ho tried to do too mauy things to do any ono’ supromoly woll, fo that, whilo tho iden of tho way onch ought to bo dono mointained it high standard in his soul, the notual doing foll o far short of i as to leave a sonso of the emptiness of the whole endeavor. In this, 80 far, ho was not to blame, howaver. Tt is the fault, but not the sin, of youtll, to bo Btrickon at fimst with tho restiossncss of untried owars, and to feel as I felt the first timo I was E:r, loosa into s great library, Tiero wore so many books I wanted forend that night came oforo I Lad gead 8 cliapter in any ano of thaw, “You can 800 that somothi ko tiny was the mattor with this young tat. Porhaps o might hnye sung pnts eghat tothoso of lis fathar; Lo only eang tho Song of Lvlomon,—or prophosicd ; ho only praached, and collctd proverbs. = lu Bomio ‘ono thing or mors than ono ho might have flamed out into supremo excollouce ; Lo flatied out at lasi 8o far s I can weo into a fow degroos abovo commonpluco. It was with Lim indoed us tho London Times eaid v wn witn DBrougham, who also came to sometng liko the Apirit of Sulomon in bis old uge. o could bavo dono nny ono of ten things botier than uny other mon n_Englnd, but bo insisted on_doiug the ten. Do we wonder ovor Schoffor's Faust ‘and Margaret,—ho wrought thirty youra of bis Jifo into thogo exquisito designs ;~ or over Mozurt's wusie. * If few have cqualod me inmy art,’ o snid, “tower still buve studied it with such untiring zesl,” It was said of Earl Russel in his youth, lie had such fine daring that he would uudortake anything at an hour's notice, from a dolicnto operativn 1 surgery to the commnnd of tho Cbasunol flect. Some such superb conlidence {n whatover camo to hand is at the root of ull this tronble. T'he joy of yonth was in han, snd ricked him on to try this and that, but, King as fe as, Bo tould not semmand the sapreme perfoction his goul ealled for, becsuse he wonld Dot pay tho prico which Carlylo told the young mon i Glasgow bo bad always paid for any worthy work bo bnd ovor done—hard, storn, concontraiod Inbor, which made him positivoly wiek in body, sorathless was the soul of him todo 1t well. No such ruthlessuees appoars about the noblo young King; it iy an amosteur and " dilottanta way ho has at Jast of doivg things, if Dis Song of Hougs I to bo proof his, methods. B0 as wo only get out of any endeavorn worth in proportion to whit we put Into it, wo aro not Lo wonder ho should cry ut last, What Lias 2 mao ot all his Iabor under the sun? For this gradunl selection of sowe one thing to do and £0 be, iB #uro to jond a young man on to tho second point whors Solomon failed, and in tho foiling orifted to the third nud lnst in which the judgment caine ho sponka of ; and that is tho bneredness which invests any worthy work at Iast, 80 that this shali ok bo ono thing, and your religion auother, buv as the old Mothodist Womgsn used to #ay, she nover misged the cor- ners in sweoping o room when sho ropeated that Scripture, “Crento in mo o cloan heart, God," 'you mhall find that your work and your roligion always meot and’ tio. Yor no donbt thore is that inwardners of which I spoke last Bundny, iu whatover wo do well, 1ot for the mero day's wages, but in some dim, dumb way for truth aud nghioousness. X know not what tho man gets & weok who all summor Jong hms kiopt onr hitle park across tho stroet so Deautifully greon and smooth, but I am fain to bonove that the word I drop ito his ear some- timea feols botier to him than o dolinr, and that thoro is still & botter roward in the heartfolt sat- isfaction with which bo Jooks at hia emerald pleasaunco nnd iu the bright faces ho soes all th day long, couglit by tho beanty ho_hus mado. 1 keop up my spirits,” Koplor sil ono grim day, ** with tho thought that L sorvo, not tho Lm- peror, but the wholo hwman race.” T suspest there i some such wholendis in_whnteyer we do in such o spirit as he bad caught, right down to swooping tho strects. Wholoness und ononges, ench and all, the red-sloaked elown aud tho I eror, Bosthoven i tho littla church at Godos- vig touching Lo now orgau to such purposs of o weok-doy wmorning, that the pearant womoen could not serub the ftoor for dolight and wonder, and the bettor serubbing you snw from the line whero they paused to liston to the music. 1t this mnn, thon, had eaught ont of tho joy of his youth aud his uuworn powors some ono thing to do, and had drawn on lis whole man- hood for the power to do it woll, to put heart aud lifo into it, then hoark and lifo would bave coms ous of it, Who work would huve grown ancred g0 that ho conld aiford to look at it from tho uttormost vorga of Jifolu joyand peaco. 1lo wounld bave folt sbout it us Wordsworth folt abious s poons, while 88 yeb ho had won no recoguilion, when a brother poot enid, * If you will iltor your work in such and such » way, you will win Vosh [amo and money, ‘That ia tho truo way to do it." Tho poot roplied, “ ‘Thore i o ollier, and I profor to dio poor and unboard of rather then aiter a word of it Buehwe.: always touches the deeper springs of lifo. Huch labor is _nlways prayer, and piayer which doos not load toward such Inbor novor rises above the roof-tico, Turnor's pletures, while his eye wns clesr aud i haud weady, are wll good enough _for alar pleccs, sud you can sorye. God oven s n City Aldorman, But failiug in this wo fail at the spring, and o tor olu thio vourso that leads from joy to judg- mont. 1t is oloar onough st loast where the rock les on which this mau was wreckoed, It lies i dolng overything for cnjoviment, nothing for joy, that curme, and bauo, and plogue-spot ginco the War of our Amorican lfe, This was whab lod tho wan whoke 1ifo Lam tonching from worship to 1dolstry, from rovoronce to miperstition, from s cloun homo, whors ho lived with ono wonau, to a hurem, from power to palsy, from love to lust, from tho Hrst honven to the st hell, Joy i of a8partan ptock ; nuy, ruthor, lot me say of tho grandest Chrintian, Thera I’ iron in tho blood which pulues through it heart, 1t bolongy to the ~sontinol Keopumg guard® in bittor weather ; to Androw Darvel cating mutton- hesh, aud defylng tho King to buy Lim ‘up for puy dirty politleal purposo; to Wosloy elooping on ‘bare bhourds while the Bishops toss on downs to Lutior turning wood for bread, sud overbneniug kingdoma for right- oousncsd ; to ronders who are’ mesrching for the truth wherever they turd, and hiding it In noble andesvors ; to paliitors wha weap for jo over tholr worls While thoy know not what \\'Lfl comoof it; to steady, storling morchants, and clerks, and mechanics, who wlll. not, shurk, or fawn, or Jio, and will insist on roalitics in whnt thoy do. It was not Holomon’a way ; it 18 not the way, L fosr, of a grost mnny now i tho worid, buf its Huea ran even with tho Il“ to Hoaven. 1t is tho mothor's way with tho obildren she will train to n swect susterity, in whioh tho }u of youth shall crystallize abt last nto a cloan aud uooful primo, whilo thoy take «caro thint no enjoyment 18 loat which bolongs to o tonder ago. It lies in chastity, lndmeity. and olinrity, tonchod with truo lovo to thoso we do not 'like.” Itisin doing for duty what.can novor bo pleasant, but must bo dono, Itiain denying mysolf, whon my solf would betray my manhood, ond 'fn boarlng my oross tlougl havo no liope of & crown. . ., Tinally, that o joy ko this can rise and ripon out of tho enjoymont of our faith without faith in God, in Chirist, in tho world we liva in, in tho sworth of our work, and {n prayer, my fifty yoars deny. How largo I should. malko tho interprota- tion of theso terms I hnvo no tima to tall you, and thoro {8 no noed to toll thoso who are famil- jar with my thoughts. I can only soy that, in somo lnrgo fasblon, which would {nclude Oatholio and Calvinist, Unitatian and Ratlon- alist, of the uttermont - loft wing, and thio Pagan who in truo to such light as shines for him, theao aro the torms on which wo can ox- chaago the enjoyment of youth for the joy of manhood, snd 1 know of no otlor way, Ditns [ bavo scen & apring which Lin cut itz wiy through th vory granito and thon poured on &2 sll. high viaon, gathoring powor and volumo ea 1t mado Lt way to tho rivr aud tho ses, snd then anothor whitch hos only mado s marsh sboue ite mnrgin in which things would rot but nover ripen, so I seo how men, trao to this truth I'toll you, carve a vand swoot manhwod ont of their chauce, or, also to {t. spread thomeolves {nto a babblomon of nothing in particalar, oxcapt proeuring tho meaus of enjoymout, whioh rot in time tho fibre of their muuhood, and muke possible a woary and gud old ago. : ——— THE BISHOP NEEDED FOR ILLINOIS. Sermon by the Iev. H. N, Powers, of St. Jolin®s Olnrch, Tha Rov. B, N. Powers, Rector. of 8t. John's Church, on Ashisnd avenuo, near Madison stroot, pronchod yesiordsy morning on “Tho Bishop Noadod for Illinois." Eis sermon was as followa: & For s Bishop must be blameleas, us the steward of God ; uot seif-willed, ot soon _angry, ‘not given to 0 atriker, uot glven to Althy hiro; But s lover of liospitality, s lovér of good mon, so~ bar, Just, holy, temperate ; : Holdiug fest the falthful Word as ho hatk been taught, tuat ho may bo ubla by sound _doctrine both to oxliorl'and 10 convinco tho galusuyers.—Epistie of Paul to Titus, 1., 7,8, 9. As tho ofiice of Bishop ia the higbest in the Curistiau Church, and as tho Churen ia tho rop- rosontative of Christ's Kingdom on ’enrth, vo specisl argument Js required to show. that tho bost men who can bo found ought to be called to it. And so in thohistory of Chnstlanity it will bo scen, ss might bo oxpected, that of the names which aro most omisent for oxcellenco, moat il- Iustrious for great gifts and splondid sorvice, thoso of tho Dlshops of tho Church are among tho first, T'ho custom ia a good ono, and worthy of continual observance, to select for this ofiico from among tho holiest, aud wisest, and ablost of tho servauts of Christ. Tho.placo the Dishop occupies, the work he is fo do, the influence he is to oxert, the wholo scopo and tonor of his gorvico, meko it important that his qualificationa should Lo of a suporior order, ' The toxt showa that his virtues should not ba merely nogative. It is not enough that ho be froo from disroputable vices,—(rom a worldly and carnal babit of lifo, He must not only be uncontrolled by sellish passions and groody appotlten, but ho mug¥ ‘be strong in tho noblest virtues, ** Ilo muat Vo n tover of hospitality, o Tover of good mon, svber, just, holy, temporato.” ‘Tlie requiroments of his oflice will bring into roquisition overy amiable quality, every bigh attributo of manhood, every gince of mind and beart that portain totho most upright and mag- nanimous character., -+ While ho is not to have an obatinate will in pursuing sny sclfish ond, he must bo firm in tho oxorclso .of tho logitimato functions of tho misistry.”, While ho1s not tobo luzurious in his porsdnal babits, Do is to showa generous hospitality.of hoart aud Lome. . While Lie 18 to practico a wise solf-control, while ho is to cberish a spirit that docs not harbor-unkind- ness or malice, ho must -administor justice with an oven-handed {mpartislity: Whilo ho is freo from a merconnry mind, ho must bo provident and economical,—an nx‘nmglu of prudenco nnd moderation in tho practical businessof Iifo, Witk his aminbility there- must bo indopendence. With _his spirituality ho must have o sagacity for affaira. \With hig zeal for tho Church thero wust bo 4 sincero love forell good mon, His goniality must bo tempered with: sobrioty. His temporanco must bo without ascoticiam. With lis1otegrity thero muat bo n sympathy that en- ables him to undorstand tho ‘operations of di- vorse mindy, and to approoiato tho temntations, noods, and nspirations of human hearts through the wholo range of their: oxporience. Minghing with mon, studiousof - their dispositions and solicttoua of thoir wolfaro, ho muat presorsoa blamolosn epirit,—must keop o Loly tomper, and a Imtnrh alivo to divino jutercsts aud engage- moute. 1t whl bo noted that 8t. Panl mentions smong lotho qualifications of a Bishop that ho must Lo just. This charactoristio is not mercly upright- ness of dealing wmith'men, but a priveipla of Life. It includes the enpacity to judpe correctly in tho varions altitudes sud’ relations of men nmovg themselves ; to appraciato the beaviug and slg- nifleance of jnportaut questions conceruing our human weltave ; tadatect tha vital polnt in what- ever hos a moral teadenor and fnvolves tho subjects of duty aond rospousibility. It is n Dbonutiful balanco of the soul, by which ono bos tho best use of himeolf, and deals most fairly with all that {8 momountous in thonght and life, Holiness, knowledgo, every virtue, and all excellont culture contribute to malio this sense of justice Leen, aud to perfect the just character, Wo noto, too, thaf the text specities that tho affections that showd charagterize tho man of God. But ho canngt bo a * lover of good men " by cireumseribing lig {utereat to any vartioular w0t ; by ignoring the labors aud sacritleos of the selt-dovoted anywhoro; by nttributing alnistor or eolilsh motives to thowo Who illustrate the ho- roio virtnes in avy fletd of entorprie. Ho will do moro than just noknowledgothio doservings of tho spintly, Whothor thoy have his particular badge or not, Iiiy .hoart will go ontto them. Ho will feol idontified with tholr holy ambitions and miagnanimous charitien. 1o will honor and lovo the good mon bacause Chriat is with him. Henco lio will noithor practice nor encourago a narrow oxclunivoncss, a Pharisale pride, an antip~ athy of soct, that igiioros tho Christian virtuos wherover they appoar. 1o will distinguish bo- tweon orrors of opinfon and porvornity of life: betwoon more intalleotual viows (which are po- cullar to montal training) and constitution, and aspiration, affection;-aud dovotion erystnllized in character, ~ No moro mame will bido from ~Dbis recoguition the worth of virtue, nor mnke what is - wroug #nd buso scom commendablo, With ull sinooro L. ‘2 for human meliotation- and enlighten- moni 2. {ll be in sympathy, and 1ho 1opitation and work ui good mou overywhora will bo doar to his hoart, So his charaoter will have the atrengih and vilality of positivo virtue, It will be devout, slncore, humblo, stendfast to all the Christiun integritien—an offering to God. Plety will in- splre it. A deep oxporionco will onrich it, Prineipto will establish'it. . It will bo ennobled, by unsullied afeotiona, It will bo founded in Justico, Holinoss will shina in it and throngh it, Iieghded thiy Lugh ohagacter as o requisito for the oflico of Bihop, Bt. Iaul indioutos tho necoanity of ability to maintain and promoto tho Gospol—* Jolding fast the fajthful word as ho Iiath boen taught, thst be may bo ablo by Home doctrine both'to’ exhort and to convince tho gainsuyers,” L'his includes, ns yon observo, in addition to the qualillcations already mentioned, the knowledga and tatont for suoh ‘& work. In a flokd ko dillioult and responsiblo a that of the Chriatian wlulstey there {s nead tu cultivato It woll, for all powsible resources of intollectual accomphshment, Thoro canno by an uuder- staudivg too vigorous, traming too olsb. orito, skill of -language, awd - argnmonta- tion too great and well practlced. ‘I'ho subjocts to bo handlod, the fssned mvolved, tho obligations assumed, tiao ehargo to bo ud- ministored,make demand for the bost talent, and the most critical aud comprehoensive knowledgo. Oliaraoter gosu & great wuy to promoto and utit ize tha foroe sud scoomplisbments of mind, Tndoad, thoro novor ean bosctualizod tho nobloat noryico unless in _conncctlon with a right splrit ond a boly lifo, 1t fa the wholo porsounol of thg man, whoro his nntursl gitts, his loatning and oulburo aro vitallzed by ploty, and used with a canscoratod purpose, tliat makea him powerful. 1t ia his proviico to intluonce men uraclounly‘ to win thom to tho Intelligont aud blessed disciplo- 8bip of Chirist. S0 ho must wnderatand thoiwr diftleultics, must approcinto tholr noads, oxpori= " oucen, bollofs, ambitions, It is ousential that lio tod hnvo the capncity to grasp the acopo and results of nclanco, to fathom tho avatlable rosotircos of the Heriptures, to go n vision whorover carnost thought goos, or high - purposo, or ronl chinrity, or actunl picty, 1lo must know ' what is veal in tho provisions for humau good and what {8 sham ; what i vital .and wbnt ds mon-casential whot bos Obrist in and wint fs simply & frand in M nome, The epiritinl inatinct, therofore, has to be strong in him, and the foundation of his bolier gronnd- ed in tho very reality of thiugs divino. _‘The * falthtul Word " that ho holds fast is the Word of God, and not the * traditions of men;” 1t iy the doctrino of Christ, tho glorious vitality of His gospul and Kingdom, tltho s concernod in premoting, nnd not thoe notions and practicos of 2 medioval thoology. A Bialiop to-day without adequate loarning and tho skill to uso it without futorost in the giont movemonts of education aud philsnthropy: in- capable of desling with the tmportaut problema thist ave asking solution in tho toligious world; hoodlasa of tho drift of public soutimont aug the notivitios that go to shapo our civilization, could not ba an aflicient loader and shopherd fn the Clurch of Chrlat. Iin dogmatism, bix eo~ clesinstical conventionalilics, and oven his gin- coro piaty, would not componante for the lack of sanctified lonening and ncommanding potaonal influence. Without tho ponetration to nppraciato tho domands of the hour ; without tho nngecity to tarn to their advantaze tho spiritual unrost wnd ornvings of men ; withous tho power to horinon- ize_tlio apporout antagonism of the natural and tho supornnuural, ho might bo fnstrumontal in promoting superstition or skoptiosm, rathor than a pure and practical Ohristinnity. 1t is tho Dighest style of n Christian in all tho partioulars that are outlinod by the Apostle, who would mnke the bost overseor in the chureh, where he is to teach and administer for tho gnml of souls, ‘Pho Bishopric of Illinois is now vaeant, aud it fs oxpeeted that {4 will bo (llad at the annunl Coavaution to bo held Juring tho prosont weok, Both os & ministor of tho Episcopal Unurel, and 18 o citizou of this groas Staw, 1 canuot ropioss tho intorost that I feel in tho approaching olec- fion. I am suro thac you, dear frionds,’aud a Inrgo number within the diocose and witk shiara my concorn, and Jook with much o upon tho result of the choice of tho.Convon- ton, Morcover, tho fact i not to bo dinguised thot tho situation of ufiairs in our chureh s somowhnt critical, and tbat great wisdom now onzht to mark our cceloshstical proceedings, With a Dishop qulto vusdited by bis viows nad policy for the dlocoss, our church would bo sndly paralyzed, if mot badly dipintegra- but ‘with wuch & - desirable man ns might bo called, it could win tho confidence of tho masses, provo its Proteatant character, and ita frindliuoss to Democratls fnstitutions, and go forward to ita glorious work in quict, and with succoss. The people, with bue few escoptious, do not cars much for rero ecclesinstical claits, the coremonial routine aud pawaplicrnalia of ioligion, Iho quoation with iho intelligont community s, What 1 consorving bust our human interests? what i doiug most to uxtirpato evil, the most to make good men, tho most that oxtonds and illuswates Christ’s Bpiric and kingdom? ‘The moro nssortion of the divinogess of an metitution sud motnods goos for littlo, if_there aro mo_grecious and godly fruits as ovidouees of it. We havo got to goat Insy in our estimato of values to the good that is dono, ‘Tho way for the Episcopal Church to command the coulldence aud -alieciion of tho pespio gonerally 1 for it to sliow its suporiority 10 all biossod work and infiuenco. A wire Bishop will see that it is n working church iu the lino of Christ’a loadovslip; thas good wenso, actual piety, Loly service, are the utrong olements of its persuusivonces. Such & wman as Dislop Whipple, of Minucaota, tucs thin without tho sacrifico of » wngle principle of o devoted churchmnnship. By bis zenl, and wikdom, and love, and tho cloarness of his wpiritual discora- mont, ho guides to practical wuses tho manifold rouources of his Episcopnl jurisdietion. A good deat is snid, n & quartor where tho minds of some aro settled upon a favorite can~ didato, about the importsuce of securing u Westorn man for the vacaut oflico.” Let uowo be decolved by the cry. Various idoas are assooited with tho term ** Westorn man," a8 porsons have beon educated to thivk of ropresoutative cbnr- acters. Bome think of one rudo in pesch, and of unpolished adaross. Burely our friends do not deniro this stylo of a man to oversge thom. HBomo thiuk of ono who is driven on with a_vast and reckloss outerpriso to sooure worldly advau- tage, -This cortaiuly cannob bo their type of charactor. Somo think of an inaividual of bust- ling - actlyity and unsottled priveiplos. This of courss thoy urktorly ropudiate. But really ail theno characteristics may be found in any parg of tho world. Cnan they moan auything more by a ‘“Westein man " thau ouo who is sutod to tho work rerquired in this dlocese? This s just the mon that we bonrtily desire ourselves, Becauso ovo ling livod in the West fivo, ton, or twenty yoara it it no evidonco that ho ig_ecolemastioally iransformed by his rosidouce. I have noticod that my ritualistic frionds 1n the West are as in- tongely ritushistic os they wore in tho Last, The ofticieut -mon of - tho West wore eo in the Laet. But wo do nob regard Illiuois now 28 * West” lua distivctivo sonse. ‘Ihis grow- ing and populous city Is metropolitan in its ehar- nctor, with the rofinoments and cultivation of old commuunitios, Tho wan_ who is fitied to bo Biskop of Now York or Penusylvanis, i suited to us, . The Bishop we want bshould be as catho- lioin. his manbood and cultdre as tho gront Church that e reproseuts, I caro not whove he was born, or whote he now rosilos, it ho is » man of (Iml. with tho proper qualilications for his high ofico. 1 1 am obliged to mention in this connoction the ovident purpose of some who will be mom- bors of the Convention, to urge the elestion of » rituanss of tho most advaveed type. The objee- tions to such a choica aro many and weighty, but Ican now ouly indicats & fow of thow, I am not at present discussing the right of private opinions on roligious matters, nor of the lurgest linerty of consclonce, 1 know well onough that rollglous conviotions aro not somcthing which ono can bo leglslnted into oroutof. Nono can hinder the bellefs whicli ave fixed in sineoro ‘minds, whother they bo correct or not. Thoro will inevitably bo wide differences of opinion on mattors thut are mosi procious to tho hoorts of mon, Our Church nllows a wide lstitude of interp tion. Minduof o groat diversity of thoological viows bave roum within bor hospit- abla nfixL You thera is a line somowhers which soporates clearly tho Protestaut Eplscopnl Churob from tle Churen of Rome. ‘I'he pro- nounced Iitualist ropudiatos nlinost sll that is chaructoristic in Protostantivm, Ho untes the 'very namo of Protostant, It'is snid that ono of the younger of the olergy of this comploxion Iatoly declared that ** now 1 the timo to select & ishop who {a nos o Protostant.” ‘I'tioexpros- sion discloses thio real nunimus of the Ritualist. ‘Whatever the subtle distinctions that he maikes ju doflning bl churchmnuship, bio iy, so far ny ihe ordinary undorstandiug cau seo, practically & Romanist, Lot him uso tho liborty o desiron with lus logic, and in o vory shor timo his sys- tem of thoology would ‘not diffor, fu what it fundnmontal, from thnt of Rome. ‘U'hiu system iu sacerdotal, it is mechanical, enmliorsomo, ure Ditraty, without the warrant of Soripture, 'Fho priost wtunds _practically batweon the soul and God. The iudividual's conyciones 18 delivored into the earo of tho priest, Ifis tirat lesson is obodience to the occlesiastical anthority thut clalmy uis entivo consont. Chyist 18 professodly dolivered to him hy the priost in “the waerilles of the ultar,” To tho pricst ho confesso, snd by tho prcst he s abmolved. Ilo gots gruca chiotly through the' aots of tho priosthwad, Ilo must bo subsorvient to pricatly domination, and is exposod to ail tho in- trucious of priostly cuplonage aud wrroganco, Ho who Lolds ong’s consionce is maator, and, if ho chosos, can bavo a sluve, I eannot now uhow tho logical resulty of this saoordotulism upon character,—upon tho socisl, intellectunl, and po~ litcal lifo, Itimory s Kill of i, Nor can I describe horo the superstitions and bur- densomo roligious servicos whivh ure tho logicul outgrowthis and aeccsorics of siich & ByAtom. Yon know something of thom. Dut [ nsk,is this tho ** falthtul tenching " whioh 8t Paul declares should eharacterize o Bishop? lu this tho sound dootrine " thut is to win mon to Chrlit and mala then intelligont diseiples 7 Would a Bishop, conseiontiomn of his Jove and practice ot thin Ribunlism, ben #afe and useful mun jor tho Diocoso of Ulineie # Would ho promots the Dblossod worl of the Protestaut lipiscopal Cimroli hora? Would ho sdvance tho great ntorosta of Christlan civilization and build up the Ktukdom of God? It may bo xeplied by the friouds of NUMBER' 22, suoh & man that howonld bo tolor &5 imd not try to foist on tonawlliug clol = n or par- Ishes Ins poeullnr viowa and ° ade,, But would he not oncourago them twhy whonavor ho found any sympa’ Could he bo consistent’ and Lon unn‘ )nla? hgl’nounn In ‘mlnmut’ syatom courss thiy mi o oxpactod, hdtho ronalt “would bo'tha < allma would ‘()nln ground in somo quarter., 3 lo tho graat ody of sonsible pooplo wi -,,§' 0 gradially aliobated from the Epsoopisy oh. Thon, too, his policy and influoncis & d bo of a kind to hindor the nddition to tL'* coso of clorygy- men of stroug convictions in opposition to his own. A cluss of ministora who, by holr ploty and ability, might bo groatly usofal in this flell would therafore bo oxeluded from 1t i whils, on tho other hand, thosa in sympnthy with him srould bo nttractod bither, It would not bo long, iu tho natural. courso of thiugs undor a Iitunlis= to sdministration, bofore tha wholo chinractor of diouess wonld bo_revolutiomzed, and & rank and oppressive uacerdotalism become prominout, I only prosont what secins to mo would ho inovitablo if tho purpowe of thoso who favor auoh & diocesan should bo anecessful. But wonld sueh o slop bo wiso# Can tho Epicopal Churoh in IIlinofs afford to necopl sitcl an fusa? In onr Cluweh in the Unitod Statos prepared to indonso mueh o proceediug? Oan ik, né tho prosont Juncture, ngroe, by tho oficial confirma- tlon of tho genoral oconutitution, to recolve o well pronounced Iitualiatio Bishop ns repronouting _its standards, ecopo, spirit, and polisy? Will 1t tond to the presont pactfl- cation of our Oburol: to raise such n quostion ? An holding tho position that I do on this snbe Jeet, I maka no asuault on tho freodom of rolig- lous opinion, for I am in favor of the largost liborty af conuclenco. Whoover fs loncstly o Romaniat bas o perfeot rigbt to bono, aud I To- pect that right. Thono who love medioval theology ond ita auporstitions and punlities Lavo & xight to tholr preference. For ono, I ro- spect all _ sincoro “beli:fy, DBut thero g o vost differonco botween n respeotfnl rocognition of n Romanist snd jv baving Lim o4 o Ligh officlal over mo, batweon a duo re- gmd_for his churacter and in suoking to msko him Bisbop in tho Protestant Episcopal Church. Lot us hope that the Conventiun, ‘.:uklud gra- clously to u right judgment and & blessed wna- nimicy, may call to this dlocaso n mon wise aud holy, mighty in_tho Seriptures, and nceeptavla to thie poople, who shall gladly follow bim as ha follown Christ. & *hocould, & Atk bim? ¥ hogid not o I8 favarita ———— LOVE INVADING THE WORLD. Scrmon by Prof. Swing at the Fourth Pres- byterian Chureh. Prof. Swing delivorod tho following sormon on *Love Inveding the World," at thio Fourth Pres- byterian Church yesterday morning : For God ro loved tho world, Yor God sent Ifis Son Iuto the world, John, #tf., 16-17, - Ono of the moat impressive thoughta that moy Ml the rofloctive beart in ita most lonely and most tendor mood mns bo found in tho fact that here ia s atar eeiling like an immouse bal- loon through space, nud eariying upon it a thousand 1willions of such croatures ns man. Astronomy astonishes us by its computations of distaucs and bulk in the. beavous, +nd byits physical geograpby of tho stars, in rado but immonse ouwline of fuct and conjec- tire; but wondorful ag oll tho fucts and fancics o tho sky aro, this globo surpnasos all worlds, unless thero bo other stara that are tho abodos of such souls ag are gathored hore. Tho im- monso bulkof Jupitor, tho uniformity of its climato, its oqual day aud night, tho rings of Sawrn, the glowing color of Mars, tho wondors of tho wholo star dopthe,—all fail of significanco unlesy, Iike 1ia rib, they Linvo upon thctn that boing who thinks, aud smiles, and loves, and waops, and dies, Tn tho lato oveniug, when night has tken L objoats fram the oyo, aud hoa lott tho world ‘to the heart, nnd its meditation . nloue, it has ofton seemed Hiko n droam,—tho thoughs that wa Jve, aud that aullious upon millions of rattonal, souditivo belugs are around us, passing through thag vory serions action which wo oall life. ‘Whon tho fossil studios toll 118 what au anjmal kingdom the earth kuow witlions of yeurs ago, and whon wo porceiva how laigo and’ powerfal wers ome of those bruto occupants of that far. ol timo; they bava told us nothivg that will compare with the Inugh of singlo ohild, or the thought of a thinker, or tho tear of & monrner. Nothing is 80 wouderful ns tho fact of u soul, iFhat o being is horo upon earth that reasons nud commubicates with s lauguage, thnt sings, that prays, that rises in joy and sinks in sorrow, that dics at last, und 1§ with toars of friendsliup placed by kind hands away in a tomb, iy n phe- uomenon that surpassos all other reelitios of thought thoro be immortal epirits bave nover kuown denth, to thom, drawing nenr ouc worla for the firs time 1 their jouruoyings m 1mmonsity, nothing can be 80 struuge as the funoral train which cat- ries s angolio form to a tomb, and leaves iv to moldor thore. To thom, accustomed only to hap- pinces, and to a triendsiup thnt never hns been vrokon, aud to oyes novor red with weeping, tho divge——lho miscrere of our manctuarios whore tho dend are brought fortho Iagt rites—must rise with & strange mystory, Ouo would think such immortals would haston back to their bright world with thostrange story that thoy hiad fonnd a stur whioto thora was & tomb nt last 1or cich ono, and that in o hundrod yesrs all wus silent in hearts whera all had beon lifo, Wae kuow Jittlo nout the deen epace above but it sooms hardly concoivable that nuy wf thint twinkles in tho canony cun um‘[mas in touch- ing interest & world where intolligent beings como and go, to-dny young aud beuntiful, to- morrow 1o the lust resting-placo. Lhe ein of oarth may Lo great, but gicny also its pathos; grout way bo 1ty ignoranco, but zroat also uro it #orrowa; and the contempt which the formor might scom £o awalen in tho thonghtless mind is forgivou over the gravo whero tbe Jeurned aod unlearued moct. Burvoy this scone, my friends, which so vast and wonderful is Iying around you in such varied colorw of boppiness tnd . paiis, Iguoranco and learuing, youth and old_age, meating aud part- g, life and death : nnd tho first thought that fills your bosom will be, ** Oh thrt I conld ban- ish its ignorance, wipo away its toars, and awaken o Lopo boyond its pallof death. Tho Touglug Liny not boen always s droam, In thon- snuds of heurls in the past it hus werghod upon tho bumnn sontmonts nucll it. Dbas brokon forth in action, and all tho chirms of homoe bavo been counted as naught to restrain these novle ‘divino souls Irom sl to plucos whero darknoss was deep- ast, and death the most empty of hopo. Llie firat thing we shall do if we youd bistory nright will bo to confoss that great, noble spirits kavo divine-liko attributes. Womsy complain muol at tho muducss for fame, nudgold, and ploasiro which ka3 divgraced man iu al liis cureer, bub wa must alwo mnke room for an army of highor natwcos, which have in the morhing gouo forth for the lelp of ' their {fetlow~ mon, and each ovoning have prayed like Moses hetweon tho hosts and tho influito (od. Asiho bittor son often touses pearls aud sich ambor out pon its bleak shorcs, so bumau lifo in all jts avarico and sonsuality hing alwayy cast forth hore and thoro froi s great undot- dupth o gow, all glittoring with a lovo froo from Holtlehnexs, and Wido s the sorrow of humavity. Threo handdrad yeurn ago ono of those lunes from tho sltar of divine love wroto: ** Horo the natives loaded nu with blossinga that wo had brought suok tidisgs to ther isinnd of rocic in tho niid-sen,’” A dintinguished Fronclmwy, wilting nearly o Bundrai yoars agro, snys: ** OO moruing, us wo wore slowly pursming ourceonrse through the Torasts, wo porcoived & vouirablo old i with o wintg board upproachivg s, Ho walkod witl tho atd of u stwl, al the zumo e wis reading in A book. 1lo accompunled us thon lor days on our Journoy, und however'ently wo nroso on each morning, wo found the aged traveler lind aison boforo uw, und wns walising in thio forcst with his religious book in Lis Lawd,” Whero, now,was tho eoone, and who this vanorable man, soskotohod in tho Fronel sunnls of the Jast cou- tury? Tho man wes u missionnry from tho Dokt attraotive land in Lurope, and’ the forcst in which ho thus journeyod I bl old agw was along our own Missiusippi, in yoara whon ity waods were the abnde of tho ssvayo und iko somi-savago, snd of loncllncsy, Yot horo had comu that wan, with lips thub Lhad road Iomur and Viegll, and with n haart that lad lived in timnog, to oxchange all Tor the work of teaching tho HIL\II'II(:M tricky to tho chililron of tho wildor- uess, 1lo was soeklng tho land of the Iliuow, and wo who gathor in sorship i snoh a cily and in such & Biate should bo willing to Lokold tho ploty ud herolumn that came loug ogo & lay the Toundationof all that makes dearour homod and onr Commonwoalth, W Iiva now seon that it hus boen the flist fmpulsa of nobls wiudy, xoading the mystery and tendor wanis of man, fo sall and jonrnoy, ofton garying lignt to thoir dnrkwoss, hopo fo heir wrotehiednoss., Boforo man tnd renched iy prosont grentuoss, this noblo {mpulss i Hald to {ly from henven thnt ho might bring the forge and anvil toman, and Ihosphor to come, bm)p,mg tho raya of light for mun's path-and work, hus sich a noploness is concelved to Ito in this flying to earth's rolief, that fable hne Leon wvoked to fill up the cup of such gooduoss Tor tho nges past. ‘. Dut whoneo comes this instinct which stands bnck of {ho old whito-baired minsionery Lo tho Iliinols, thin instinet which invonted tho fablg Lint 016 angol camo to oarth hm.;vng fire, nnd anothor angel came bringing night 7 May we not feod thnt back of this fnot’ and this fablo re« poses s erontor who shaped the hmnnn heart so that it doos puch dewds of bouovolance and dvoams such fights of angeln of mercy, The firontuolontlst Tyudall o just declarad Ui, lool= tig back ovor tho connilons aios, ho can 500 only motler teausmutmg itself into lifo, aud, to ono looking only at nnclent organism, such & fonr, if nob such n boliof, might Aend fta shadow, but,turning sway from animal functicos in thoir lowont form, and oponing tho heart of mau, whoneo ng Jong fssued a god-liko noble- pou, and from thoss dopths tonry of love and griof linve follen ovor the outsprend world, wo caunot but soo o grent spiritual oconn of which man is & efnglo wovoor ndrop. What montal telories wyo holiold in the finito shape, wo behold Ju tho infinite, VPassing from thut humasn ex- collonce which hat sout the best of men nexons all rean and all continents to carry blessings to Lis brotlier, wo como to the prosenco of God, ond oo prepared for tho words that 1o Ho loved tho world that Ife sent s Hon into it Lhis fu w form of .action which hau lwaya wroathed {he human forebead with honor. Whore God is, that 1o eont into this world such abeing 3 from whae other real in the starry Kingdom the messengor cama; by what mystio galo, o liuow not 5 but this wo know ; that Clirist 1uyaded Lhis etar cightoen centuries ago, ubd ¢n- camped in the very midst of its philosophy new moraly, and gladnces, aud grief. o stationed Rlmwell nour that wouder of wondery, tho tomb of man, If tho lotter of tho text bo truo, and thoro is, indeod, no other fair internretation, thon It shows that earth is wot tho only region of intol Tigzout life, but that it is only ono taland in an in- finito oxpanbe, and thet fomo other realm un- barrod gitos to us fuvisible and ordered sn ine vasion of theso whores, No ouo may know whother this other lifo s far away, ali gathered up and fmprisoned on other stars ng the thoueand milliony aro fmprisoned, or whathor thoro are duily * foolfalls on tho boundaries" of onr ylanet ; all wo may know isthat our renlm stands invaded ta-day by Jesus Chnst 3 all our thoughts, and l‘oclmf;fl, and duties, and hopes aro troddon by this foroigu foot, which comns uot to condeinn, but to set freo, It in not the rhout of the Vandal, not tne rudo {ramnling of tho bloody conquerors wa_wituoss, but an invasion of lovo ag spring invades America in May, or as tho missionary entered our old wildervess with tho Book of Lifo in his hands, When readara of Liatory shall have rison abovae tho passions that Jovo tho lnurels of goverals and tho pomp aud circumstanco of war, thoy will coufess that no et of armies into ltome or into Carthage in the prondest trinmph can compara with tha luucby and obseura eutrunco of Cirist juto tho world, 1 Now, the great practical truth which rises up out of this invasion of eurth by tho Son of God is, thut the Church which besis the Christian name 8 nothing olse than a_furthor advanco of the invading army. If God sent Iis son into this world upon na orraud of mercy, thon what wo call tho Church s nothing olso than that Son moving s tho niucs teonth contury, instoad of in tho st century, and moving ont toward the prniries of America ond tho plaing of India, instead of walking by tho Sca of Tiberias or in the Garden of Olives. Mo can give the Church nathing , it can talio nothing away. As loarning came to tua world’s ignorutice, £8 law and polities cands to its digcord, as the arts cumo to ity gonfas aud Laste, the Ulristina Church came to its morals, its wpirituality, its accountnbility, its highest joy, and deopest glaom,—even ite donth. Llora in thig chanuel, bounded strictly, Lub very brond and vory deop, moves the Chure i Just as thougsh Chiist cumo to oarth ench day anew from tho outer sy, * Into tho world,” aro the words upon tho baunar of the Church, and time may not add nor tnke away., When the Catho- Tics gent their best mon into couvents, whero thoy pont their long years and groat gonius in sulitudo, thoy reversed tho ordors of march, und went away from _what thoy word commanded to approach, and henco came near their trust,—notn_tho tears of the nuns of St. Clare, but 'in the wide wanderings of a Fontonuy or a Xavier. Aud ko whon Lrotestauts, avoiding mouasteries indeed, foll into the alnost equal imprisonment of ' motaphysical philosophy, and thus hid tho worid's blossing bohind clouds of thy ivtelloet, thoy too moved away from tbo world mstead of grandly ivto it, and millions delivered {row Romanism, sod do~ nied the flood of reason atill, rell into infidelity a5 into tho arms of peaco. Tho Chureh, not bo- ing a thought, but a work, not being a motu- l)hyslc, but n roform, its snfety always lay in its ‘achiovements among henmtls, and mot in ita {m\vnr or ingenuily of dcbata, Ono of tho English thinkors, writing 800 yoars ugo, says: *Wo left Romo beenuso she had added her glosrea s Lewng as binding ns Beripture, aud now wo havo dono nothmg elso than pull down hier Baal aud set up our opbod, and bave como to Ttome around at the poiut whors we lett bor.” Our progress sy a Church, thak is, as 6 Christi- anity, must como from & bold furniug nway frony tho dogmatism tlat has wbsorbod tho timo and bianin of mavy centurics, and must moyo out upon ity moral wants ns botrayed by tho Words viee, povorty, intemperance, Atheisin, and gon- erul 'wpiitual'desolation, with millions'of foliow= citizous Jiving lives of vieo, with no oue to sch Letora them tho rewanrd of vivtuo, with no ono to care for thair souls, with the land covored all over with political aud social dishonor to such o degree thut the oxperiment nol only of A ropub= Jio but of u church is trembling bolweoen life und death as & tree in sandy goil which would love to put forth the new lesves, but wheso folinga enticed forward by the impulse of epring, fades and falls, yellow in midsummer,—with such an agony of humun want around it, the Church 1must moya out into tho trilling seeno 8o Joving the world that she would forget oll elso for He giuke, and bow day and night over its prostratod form. Waon o forw yoors ag0 o large steamor was wreckod ab midaight wpon our stormy lako, and its hundreds ot passengors wera suddeuly cast upon the meroy of tha waves, tho dwellers upon the shore adyanced far outinio tho waves as sereamn or floating abject gnidod, and thus bore in their mms to the wshore loved oucs from Southorn homos, paronts aud childron whose oycs woro ubout to closo in death, But to moro than n bundred the invasion of love from tho shoro commo too Iato, Death bad renched the Dbosom an liomr or o moment in advance. Christlanity {8 an invasion of tho storm-tossed Jifo f1om the peaco- ful shore, Whoro n fouting but dyiug body ap- onrs, whoro & sorosm dwects, thilhor tho fo- Fu\\'or of Chrint runs, and only wishos ho could fly. Trom this udvanociug into the wavetho Ciureh has too long and oo oruclly turned axide, and bas stood deluing tho Lrinity swid atl the sorrows of men, What s theologlun snid 1o 1628, that ** Diety plus gonoraton in the Father, Plun filiption s the Bon, and plus pro. coodingg I tho Splrat,” has wichin o fow weels_ bicen tnught again by sowe ono who has stolen the statoment supposing it to bo yalunble, Dut when we ook around and sco what our country noods in il sociul wnd political wnd rehgions ro Intions, sucl & ronowal of theologival ruvings is nob o form of numan wosknesy 80 wuch 88 torm of vrime wguinst the wulfare of society. All witch discissmon produces secie, bul 1od Cliristiunicy. Onco thoy mnde olmrches, Lut thoy neyer madu rolgion, Fhero is only Lo more path that will over Lo honorablo again, now that mankiud is_oseaplug from _tho Immicuso dogmatism of old Roni, and old Protestantism, sud that path fonds straight out iuto o sutfeling World, to' whoto tho intemporato, and fumuse, aud own-troddon aro nintring {o the durh watere, Tormany the hulp comea too luto, Lho tond Lns deawn down_ita mitliops, whom no uo ovor loved ue Chivist Joved tho world when o foll liko mun|l||g‘.n\;nrth;lt{‘5‘(f l:!:;llll:l-o iAol Buk ik Lyon t0o 19 L6 3 and licieo Fonct. Tho part was hob ourd ?flx""‘f\m nn! calls us to auswor fux jls apathy, but thero aro & low ving round yon and Lefore you which n.ay F D ves with woblo ndtion, After & fow moro autumng shall havo come, thero yunty will be vatlad buek to Ll who guve tiew, sod thoy witl go Indon with sool works, or empty of overything oxeopt the fudcloustians of w wisted Jifo.”'To you, living fu tha vory noouday af [06,m— Tor tow oF you are oM, Hone uf you ure ehildean ; to yon, slofhed with wtalloctual power, aud pesy- ing yonr duyswhiore tho vory olimnte and tho buny wirovts Tod thoir vitality to the worship of