Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1874, Page 2

fHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1874 Bishop of Iilinols, was born in Park rllwn, Olty: of Now York, August, 1808, sud at the timo .ot bis death hnd nearly complotod his 72d yoar. The vouorablo clorgyman who taught bim his catechism, Dr. Brown, of Nowbw, then a young _dencon, s still lhh\xp fo. gradunted from Columbia College In 1831, and from tho General Sowinary lu .1824, taking aoacon's ordors that . year, but .on account of bls youth hio was obliged to watt nn- 1i1 1837 boforo Lio could take pricut's orders, His firet oliargo was at_Hoading, Pa,, whora Lo min- faterod with the grentost succesy for throp yonrs, 1lo theu acoapted tho Rectorship of Bt. Luke's, Rochoster, whore hio remnined tiftean yoara, tha boloved, vos, almost idolized, Rector, 1ot only of tho wenithy and cultured who gathored sround Lk, but of tho Inrge numbors of poor who bo- longed to lifs flack. In 1844 ho was invited to tho -Rogtorship of 8t. Thomas' Church, New Yorlk, and ho retalned thnt honorable position until 1851, whon ho was olcctod Assistant-Bishop of 1llinols, becoming the Diocesan on tha doatly of Bishop Chaso in 1853, In 1807 ho attended the Lambeth Coufarance, aud was distinguished sbova nll othor Bishops of tha Auglican communion by boing solootod toproach theopon- {ng sormon. ~_Great honors were henped upon Dim in England ; Oxford and Cambridge joined to raco lim with their highuse titles ;: aud whorover o pronctied crowds flocked to_liston, From thonco 1o wont to Russm, and thero recoived from the dignitaries of the Iiastorn Church the somo flattoring reception, the samo tribute of . vepoct. ‘Whon he roturncd to hla diocese in the fol- lowing yoar it was tho signal for o splondid cvation. But fow nro horo who wore prosent ab that econo, Old ‘Lrinity Church was crowded to it fullest capneity, and up tho long nave strenmed & joyous Jino of white-rebod pricsts and ehoristors chanting * Exoudat to Dominus."” ‘The , Bishop toolk: hiu placa in the contro of tho chancel, st for tho first time in my life L saw that usually stern faco convalaed with omotion, That hour, you will bear me witness, was tho boginning of n now spisit and ihe knitting of a now tioin this diccess. 'Iion followed yenrs of active and succesaful guidanco of his ilock, yoars which hiad tholr porrows, but alko their Svoll-desorved rowards, until, on tho 10th of August, in tho busy whiitl of s nutiring life, ho feli’naloop in Josus. Tbhis is tho ekeleton, How valueless the dry record looks to uw who nre are uble to vluthe it with rondy boauty, who cau il up_Lis_outlines, and bring boforo ue tho living, nctive, iuvineible Bishop. Thoro s none. hord who b ot read {ho tribates to bis momory, Ao varied, 80 nu- morotis, from such unexpected sources, Themin- inters of many of tho religious bodies around ns have borne testimony te his many noble quali- tien ; tho press, which ofton in life followed aud mocked at him, poured forth the tmost . oloquent _culogics, and from all par- tios in tho Church has gono up {ho voico of pinise and commendation. I might with justica entor on_the snmo courso. Tho waterinl is amplo and varied. I might dwell in detail on #hat. wonderful loarning whick made him facilo + princops smong tho echolars of the Church; That keon ivsight info oly Heripturo which i not the rownrd of study, but tho rovelation of tho Holy Bpirit to a heart ulwaya lud open breatlung ; that fervid eloquence which, ovou in bis . old ‘age, awakened tho attoution of every tistenor, nud somotimes_boro you away on it rosistlesy wavo, vo that I romotnbor, only o fow years ago, 'a sceno when this very Colivention gavo veot to .n Dburst of tumultu- ous applause which ehoekod our: reverenco in tho momont of restored calinness ; that guick and ready appreciation of & point in argumont, wo that ioyor was his arsenal without n weapon with which to Enrr)’ an attack or strike n blow ; (hat beautiful kumility which over ignorod him- wolf and offaced his personslity in tho %mndnur of his office, for bo man more thay ho folt pacs sonal uuworthiness in contrast with lofty sta- tion ; that untiring Industry, which, Iiko a slavo at tho galley-osr, kuow no reapitound looked-for 10 ceseation—an in\xnm{ which shamed us oll, and made overy man feel almost ns 3f ho wera an idle drono by tha side of this iron onergy _ whioh knew _ smch thing o8 over-straincd nerves and flagging attention: that nstoniehing wealth of words tlowing from Dis lips in conversation, in extemporo addrosy in public and in private, to wo, familinr with it for so mony yoors, hada fresh marvel andn now rovelation ; that dignified courtosy, #ograce- ful, 8o refined, ko polishod, which repolled tho vory. slightest aitempt of fumiliarity, and yob was nover marked by any Duritanjo stiTucks, any overstrained reservo—iho simple, naturnd out- conio of Lis life, Liis character, aud Lis'position ; that wigo counael which grasped all the dificul- {iew of tho situntion, sepurated -tho light from tho darkuess, and wot boforo .tho bowildered mwind the pointa which wero of great iaport; that sclf-sacrifico, which never_congidercd healtl, easo, persoual wigbos, public opprobrinm, If o clenr courso of duty to bo done roso hoforo his sonl; that spote Jous lfo in this sin-stained world, which, to uso similo of his own, was lilko tho%o pUrc wator- liliea.which nro rooled in_slime and, flonting awmid the green nud unbeslthy ofilorcscouce of & marsh, yet up turn to tho sun thoir dises of spolless’ white; that unswerving dovotion to principle which extorted from even hl§ foos & cry of admiration ; aud, ahovo all, tit simplo faith in Chrint Jesus as the Savior of his soul, and thnt perfeet roliance wpon it erucitied, and upon ©o morits of Lig own, might, I repoat, dwoll on all thess things. ‘Lha timo woulil bo well ceeupicd in_ pressing homa Ahoeo traits upon tho clergy and the laity as woll wortby of their imitaticn, That is not the ond I now bnvo in view. ifo had'his faults sud his wonknosses, 1fo clnimed no immunity from the taint.of imperfection whici: clings to tho holiest hands, e foll far below the ideal ko over-hold 1D to his own gazo 3 but I am nov hiere to-parade tlicso fuults and eulargo upon thoso woakuessos. T do not appear o his apolagist, but as bis mo- morialist. Iam not retained for s defenso, Dbut a willing witness to tho groainess and tho boouts of bis work and character, No man could do tha worl tho Bishop did, at- taclk the prejudices ho _attacked, vindicato' tho principles ho vindicatod, without eliciting much opposition, Wa aro too near hum to judzo with entiro dispnsaionatenoss ; tho smolke of:the bat- tlo etill clouds our vision'; e ato ourselyes too dooply involved in all the whirl and din of coni~ bat. When the atmosphers is clearor, and mero 1ocnl differences sbinll have been forgotten in the flight of yoars, the chaacter of tho “dead Bishop L will statd out more clearly cut than now. .of our laco ho i8 to il in tho wallinlla Churel's worthies witl bo no gnenn one, om oven frank to sny ho “will bo inscribed upon the very lighest list of those to whom we will do honor in tho futuroas the mamtuinews of thoso prnciples ou which alono the Catholic Church iw builded. It is not truo that a man's contemporaries alwnys estis mate Lim at his true worth, Larn to your nation- o] history, and rond in the vewspapers and prin- phlets of Washiogton's tito_tho fiercost donun- ciations of, nnd tiio moat slanderous neousntions apainst, thit grand charaotor which appears to us €0 puse sud faultless, ‘Llio porsons whom tho Tishop mny hiave beon obliced to offond pass awny. Their tougites aro_silonced. ‘The prinei plos i offanded in matutuining areimmortul, and Tolleet thair own 1lory upou the mon who rallicd to thoir wpport. Iistory now shows f0 mny voversod judgments that Wo may well pauso be- foro consigning auy man lis meed of praive or Dblame. Woare oxporimenting on a peculinr form of tho cathotic. Chureh i this conutry, In tho irocesses of ihnb oxporiment Bishop White- houso lus been an active workman ; and whon that sxperlment passes fnto somothing fixod aud enduemg--when bis graund thoatlos become, 08 I foul sure thoy will, cubstuutfal roulizations sud auknowlodgod fuets, thon will mon e oble o give lm his truo place, and it will bo o grand sud lofty ouo, Yot w0 mackod was his character, that oven now it i not diflonlt to fix the typo of Bishop to which hio belongs. 'Phero are types of Bishop as thoro ato typos of mon, ‘Ilis number s nab el larger in ouc than b tho other. Iuman nature, with all ity Individunl variotios, can Lo clossified in o fow great divisionn or tomporament; uud when We guy norvous, sangte, lytuphntlo, und one or two other words, W oxhaust in gonoral tarmis tho desoriptions of all mon, suvage and civilized, We ean do the sama with teoures of ofiice, and can say wilh tolerablo accuracy to whab standard any ono shall bo agsiguod. ‘A Bishop In this copnery does not sleep upon & hod of roses, Indeod” sucl u florl couch does nat fpll to tho lot of Bishops nuywliore. “T'ho instrument on which St Lawrsnce suflerod isp fur Lotter typo of thoir wituntion, Tho chureh g honvivg in: tho forment of discussion wbout the thres frst principles of the faith. Thank God for thut, 16 in b sign of o uow vital- Jiy which will blossow, aud bourgoon, snd ripen into golden fruit, Bnt the Dishops ato a spcotaclo to God and men, blawed for overy oxaous, hoslegod by all theso differing mlud:d and importuned for thoir moral nupport ; . calle upon to deaido tho mout momontous quealions, jnvolved somotimes fu fsaucs which to the un- lournad nnd tho profaue soeiu miserably trifling ; their sympeilics racked. to » torment Ly ths growing nootls overywharo nround thewm, and tho Toarful inadequaoy of tho romodios pmwdadi thoir powers very illy-defined ; tho lougost and suost vlaborate cknons bolng thoso which provide for their tial; public opinfon decideds Jy everse to thelr exercislng any of Lfm.t consacrated nuthority which Chuiit gave to his Apostles, and which hulongs to their uccessors,—tlio wondor is not that thoy nhould o timorous, and often consult oxpodianey, but The Dint thoy should bo as bold ne thoy are. Thore 14 tempéstion aver boforo them tosny, * Aftdr .mo the yo,” arid o go on Rtooring cloar of Dbreakors which sotno ono somo timo must brave. " Glory to God for.tho numbor who -resiat this tomptatlon, aud stend fiem aud unshinkon, Jike onke of n century, iu the flercost winds of popu- Ine upquafllfluy "0 bo bold, then, is & noblo thing in a Lishop, and bold Bishop Whiteliougo was. I do not think bo can be placed in that loftiost typo composed of mon like Bt. Francis Xavior and 8t, Francis Do 8alos, who to boldnens, lenrn- ing, oloquunce,, holiness, nudl wigdom, wnitel that wonderful glft, of porsonal maguotism anil overpowering fascination which drow aftor thom tho hioart of thousends as tho hoart of snoman § Dut it seoms to ma that bis placo {s immediately aftor thom. Io stands nmong that compauy of prolates who, from Athaonsius down, liave minrobed with shiold aud sword as tho advance- guard of the following Church, not daring, nob presumptuons, not rash, but calm, reoluto, atondy,—no dlnchhlg in thelr facos, no flut- tor at thele hearts,—rondy to dio ot their poats rathor .thaun yleld “omne inch of tho ortross _committad “to their trust,—the worrior Biwhops, defondora of the falth, Not warrlora lke. Jullus, Bisliop of ltome, nnd thoso:old Prince Bishops of Cologuo, who, with lielmot oo hoad and' lanco in hand, lod on thoir Kuights and mon-pt-arma to tho atorming of soma town, or tho sacking of somo cnstlo, bhut wariug ouly with spiritual arms,—yes, panoptied offon only with silent ;pationco and boundloss rosignation. Nou mistake whou thoy think that to not the pure Christiau soldior tuero is ncoded flerco determination, storn'mauners, nnbonding, and intolorant wifl. Wo fight for Chrlst whon we slmply stand firm whoro Lo bas placed us, sirlko 10 biow, parry no thrust, but stand like an auvil when it 18 beatea, and stand like & rock ngalust which the waves dash in vain. Tt this boldnaoss must rost on & princlple, and ns that principlo was tho gniding ono in tho whofo lifo of tho dond Bishop, and a8 tho koy- nota to his whole courso of nctlon, it dosorves fwll montian. £ rafar to tho bollo? in tho diving ordor und_conatitution of the Catholio Church of God,—that it is in tho body of Christ, joined toits Lioad, nnd jmpossiblo to bo soparatod, I do not monn n eontiment on ibat point,—nn opinion that Ontholic principles ara tho boat ox- paition of our Lord's will, or that hidoous ex- podioncy thut the Eplscopal Church is consti- tuted mora in consonanco with our Stato GQov- ornmont than any other. I do mot monn a roasonablo persunsion ; I mean o convictian, fu- raluod 1nto tho vory 1ifo, #o thiat m man morgon s porsounlity. aud ol thio bonor aud opinion of tho world into tho one duty of serving tlie Ghurch in his appointed placo, simply bocauso tho Ohureh is the body of Obrist, ‘simply because it fu the swav Ohvist huy appointed for 1lis meet- ing with tho sons of -men—n conviction ‘which obligos n man to think that bis ctornal enlva- tion will bo periled boyond mdumgl!u_n if he admit any other altornntive than ébedionco to the Catholic Chureh s tho way of obedisnce to Christ. Woll does tho toxt express the feoling I bave in viow. On 8t. Paul's wny to Jorusalom tho weoping olders of tho Epbostan Church moot him for & fow Jnst words of couusol. 1o sponks of tho dark, mystorious future ; nothing.isoloar to him suvo tho whispor of tho Toly Spirit rovealing to bis aoul that in overy city bonds aud afilictions awaib him,—bonds which Lo might ensily bave shaken off if Jto would have renounced Christ;- afilictions which ho might bavo turnod inta Joys 1f ho would have rolaxed his nnfaltoring mes- sago. Dut o snys with grand Lerolent : Nomo of these things mava mas neither connt Imy Jifo dosr unts wsclf, wo that I might fnfsh my courso with Joy, sud o winistry which I bave received from the Loed Jusuy, 1o testify tho Gospel of the grace of ol What to him was Roman amphithoatre or Thaiisnic hatred ? What to him the roar of the Jious or tho tumult and tho outcry iu the ‘Tem- ple Court? s duty was to preach tho Gaspol of thoSon of God, and to porsovare uatil ho Lind finishod his courae, None of theso things move me, Da-not,theso words soom to issuc from the ‘mouth of tho sloopiug Bishop 2 Would thoy not form tho bost legond \to write upon his gravo- alone ? 1 think 1t a bappy inspiration that an Iroad this twenlieth chnpter of Acts fu tho momotial ser~ vico tho Bunday after hin death, thess woids fixed themealvos in my mind, as tho right words with which to lLiead this sermon : Nono of these thinga movo me. And whatono of thouse things over did move him? Did ho evor change his courso bocausc tho nuitod press of a powerful city elamorod to Jiim to doio? DId ho uver falier bocnso for the time thoso whoso good favor was most nogessary o him thought lim teo unyiolling ? Did ko ovor turn back because anothor course prosonted itsolf which wounld ‘have been casior, but whicl would have involvod some sacrifico of principle ? Did auv ncensation,nonatter bow unjitst,how un- charitablo,how false,ever movohim tobreax even tho silonee of calm conviction of right in which Tio lived aud moved ? 110 said to mo onco : ‘I Jnow no such wozd as oxpedioney ; 1 know only the principles of tho Church of Chrigt.” AndL donot believa that oue ackof bis life can bo cited whiol was done becsuso it was expediont to do it, sud not boeause i3 did ot thiuk it tha absolutely right thing to do. g 1o stood amid tho ran of opposition liko that soldior at.the gate of Pompei who found Timself on gunrd whon tho hissing showor of nshes.darkened all the nir around.” He movad not, for his duty was to stand sentinal, e bad no word to go, and there ho stood, whilo highor and lighor tho doadly torront roso; and thora aftor all tho conturics was hig skolaton found stondy at his post, guardiug tho doad city oy it had guarded the jiving. Low truly docs that sontimens of Lacordoire apply to him': Allages have came, ono after the ofhor, to the door of thn Church, ‘Thoy lave knovked thero with —buse TNt 2d boot, nd 1he doetring ks sppeaved wnder the frad #nd wasted forms of 30mo old Bishops—not 2 e ps i als tho world, Taey have safd: “Wh Uo you desire 2’—Cliange, * Wa_nover ‘change.! “7, gvorything fa changod in this world s astronamy At ¢ aanged, choinistry lins changed, philosophy hua chis.ed, government has changod ; ‘wby aro you al- WAL/ the Samo 7" © Because we aro the Ll of Clirlst, and Hols tho sam yesterday, to-ay, and_foraver,’ #huy Jmow that wo ure tho nuslors, Wehavo o milion of men uuder nrms. Wo huyy the printiog- presas we have the eword uuecly —thoss can outpeint on old book and cny off tho heads of o fow old men 77 + Do o ¢ bloo 1 i8'tha arona i whicl wo rocover anr youthfal vigor.” # Well, thei, licro is tho half of my purple, niske w sacrific to poaco, sud fet us sliaro toether,” ' Koopthy purply by Cigsar, and to-morrow they will ury theo in it, aiul o will clinnt over thro Allelita aud thio Do Profundls which never chianges.” ¢ Nono of theso things move mo." Non pos- sumus—n ory ac whiol'tho world Inughs, bit o the stendy nttoranco of which by fow fathful ones we owe, undor God, the contintange of | iny the caroor of Bishop Whitohouso, and you will have mno dillculty 1 deeiphoring its most involved hioroglyphics. 'Lhus wo hoar of Lis ovorweening idea of tho opiscopate, and truly ho did evor Doar upou his shicld ho words nullum sing epia- copo, sud could-never cndure to benrof any works sopatate from the Dishop. Was, this from ey ish for porsonal glarification, in ‘order that ho might hava somothing todo with evorything, nud thevofoto always ba tho firat iu placo everywhoro ? Lie wa# too huwblo a Oristiau to entortain such a thought, It nrose from Lis viow of the opis- copate as_an l\bnu\melfl necessary patt of the Church of Christ, ‘Lo him oll wns confusion, disorder, aud malmed right whon the Dishop was absent, becawso Chvist muda 1y Creh in - this thirea-fold, insoparablo, intertwining. 1lis con- vention address of 1868 is vory full of that point. ‘Tl tlre dlstiuct ordors of tho Bishop, the clergy, aud tho portion of the laity duly clonon s parochial represoutatives, meot u tlio digilty and privilego of {licir ruspeetivo oflices, ny commissionod by the Lord ; auil notliug should be'dono but by thelr conourreuco ¢ nothing by tho clergy without tho luity, notling by the clergy sud Iaity Without tho jishop, oach nud of Lbmeelf ningnify tho olfico thus tmpartud, Te waa thin that ovor made him so firm &n op- ponout of the protensions of omoe ¢ tho fooling that the eacred order of Bishop wus offaced in tho supromaoy of thio T'apo, who, on hiy own motion as ono Bishop, declded that whioh tho whale Ipiscopal ulergymun slono conld o. It wan this thai nttraoled Lim toward tho Eastern Church—ibo groat digmty und oo-ordinate power of tha Episcopacy, sud the full betlof everywhero in the mothor-hoad of tho Churetr, Tt was this that repolled him from uny hollow schomay of union with the roligionn Dbodiesaround, because thoy heve ignared the groat Tistorio faots, of ordors, croeds, and sacrament. Ho said in that samo addvoss: ? Tt 1 imposalblo that we can abate or abandon any of thiosn fuctw without iu relity soparatiug qurselves from tho Auglican conumunion, aud the whole Calliulls his- fosto Ludy of tho past, 1t was this tha Inspired Lim to Inayguratg the fhist Awmorioan oathodral. QUALrES manus mentum cireumspige, ‘Uho copyietion that tho Bishop must have o church home, sud fho diocoso o coutro from which all ity Igbors could radiste—an absolutoly nocosssry popt of a Bishop's surrounding If bo ¢ to bio anything moro then » ¢ravoling maching forcanferring the cross of couflrmution and oly ordes, It woe (his that moved him in “all the long controversy with whioh the Qhurch js so famillar—the holiof that, from tho vory naturo of his vows, a Oathiolio Dishop conld not suffor suy clorgyman to vary tho Tisurgsy to sult his Individuul “cratohots, aud that a Lishiop would exposs himsolf Lo cousure, both funan and divine, it ho did not prpiaot tho Chureh in hop conatitutod order, 1lo nlso nover failed Lo recognizo that & Divhop, bocauso ho is o Bishop, of ali, should bo a mgn .Chicago; D, 1L Worren, St Marl's, ot wito toloranco, and only Inflexible whern'tho . “falthiwas fuvolyed. 1lia viows of individunlilihor- ty in tho Obureh woro broad, and ho oxpressed his dotormination to many nover to lond his voice or il voto to Lhe ostraclam of any ono who hold pormitted opinfons, nor to the condemnation ot uny roligious practlcea which voula he wsod with- ont violation of thio croeds nnd articlos of the Churel, o thollizht the Church ~ Catholie onough to contnn all who could say tho liturgy and oxamino and snbscribe the standards with a Ialr and honeat interprotution. “Loyalty to tho Catholie Chureh was “tire Alphn and the Omogn of his Nfo; for with bim it way aynonymous with loyalty to Uhrist, ‘Truly a Catho- he Bishop, oh, that™ ho might have boon aparad Junt n littlo longer in theso unquiot-days! Aud yot not our will but God's bo donol o was not darlng or over-sanguine. ITo ovor thought this attituds of tho Amotican Church to bo pnsslvo, waiting for the doyalopmont of ovents, and tho subsidonco -of formontation, Hohopod for but littla aa:-things now scom, In- docd Dis mind ofton dwolt on tho dark and mystorloue prospect boforo'tho'Ohureh, and it was that foeling which Inapired Lis giont love for that hymu which wont to all our hoatts as tho mournful choristors almost sobbed it-out nt Lis fungral hour: *Load, kindly lght, smid the enclrollng gloom, Load Thot mio on, “Tho night Ia dark, sud 1 am far from home, Tead Thou mo on, Keop Thou my faot, T do not ank to ea Tho distsut acene, ono stop enough for me. Tho night wne dark, the distant scono he'did not soo, but that Power lod him on O'or moor and fon, o'er crag and hill 7L the niglt, e gonag And with tho morn thoso angel faces smile, Which ho had loved long wiuco, and lost awhile, Hoty strango’tho scono to-tuy without Lim!l That dignified form, breathing dlstinction fu it vory atiitudo, no lougor sits upon tho-throno ho #0 long graced. But yob he i not away. To thoso Of us who hold in-lts fullness tho eonsol- ing dodtring of tho communfon of saints, he is lioro,—kiore'wharolio loved to bo,—licro to praiso and magnify tho glorions namo of God with us, and tho wholo ocompany of Iloaveu,—lero to watoli with inlousest intorost our on donvors to S1L wp the ‘gop whiere n soldiar ting fillon with nnother warrlor froshly armed, and in bis_prayers, for ho prays now ns 'v-over rayed,—all:bonutiful things pray, save Qud; 1 Tls prayers, his swiftosiowingod potitions I Inow s fool nro thoso whish bear up to the groat white throno hislongings for tho ponco and prospority, the mpiritusl and tomporal ad- yancoment of this bis Dioceso of Itlinols. * ‘Tho sormon was fullowed by thoFoly Com- munlon, the Rov, Dr. Chaso boing tho colobrant. This concluded, the elergy and Iaity returned to-the chnpol and tha congrozation-disporsed. —— ATTERNOON SESSION. The Dioscesan Conventlon met at o quartor aftor 2 o'olock, and wae.callod to arder by Canon Kuowles, who, in ncgordanto with Art, 7 of tho Constitution, roquested the Rev. Bamuel Chinse, D. D., to-take the chair, T ROLL OF THE CLERGY wag:tlien called, and tho following answered to thoir nmnes : Cornoliug 8. Abvott, 8t. Mark's, Tvnuston ; Jozoph Adierly, Carlyla ; Stephen 'Ty Allon, Graco, Galosburg ; Potor Arvedsom, St. Jolw's, Algonquin ond Dundeo; Thomas N. Bonedict ; Johu Bonson, 8t. Jamos, Lowiston ; Jucob Brodberg, Bt. Ansgarlug', Olilengo; Arthur Brooks, St. James, Chicago; Murch Chaso, St Paul's, llion 3 Jomes Cornell, Bt. Jon's, Naper~ villo ; Samucl Cowell, St. John's, Lookport ; Sid- oy Corhatt, St. Johu's, Quinoy.; Josoph Cross, I'rinity, Jaoksouvillo; G, F. Cushman. -Ohurch of tho Rodecmer, Princoton ; Wm. M. Curie, Graco, Rock Tsland County ; Charlos P, Dorset, Chureh of the Asconsion, Ghicago; William W. Do Wolf, 8t. John's, Docatur ; David W, Dressor, St. Paul's, Cmlinvillo; G. I, Downing, ‘Graco, Gnlons ; Snmnol Edson, ‘St. Luke's, Dizon; Samuel J. Fronch ; Churles A, Gilbort, Ohurch of tho tedeomor, Cairo ; William Gill, Spring- floid ; A. W. Glass, Gonova ; Jonus Green, St. Androw's, Marsoilles; . M, Grogg, 8t. Paul's, Spéingfeld; Moury T. Hoistor, St. An- drow’, TFarm Ridge; John Foohuly, Tloly Trinity, Danvillo; Georgo 1N iggine, Maywood; Charlos V. Kelly, St. Stophen's, Chi- cago; Theodoro J. Holcomb, Trinity, - Rock Tsland; Willinm C. Hoplkine, Trinity, Aurora; I, C. Kinnoy, Ohicago; C:W. Lofiingwell, St, John's, Knoxville; Walter I, Lloyd, Grace, Sterling; Clinton Loaoke, Grace, Chicago; Mathow Magill, Peru; Theodors N. Morrison, Bt. Matthow's, Dloomington ; Francis Manstleld, Church of tho Atonemant, Chicngos Theodors N. Mortinon, dr., Teliing liobore 3lcMnrdy, 8t. Paul's, Llyde Patk; Henry G. Porry, All Snint Chicngios 11, N. l'owers, St. John’s, Chicago; Tobert ¥. @ Pago: F.'8, Mincs, St Johu's, Poorin: William 3. Roynoids, Christ, Harlom ; Jtobort Tyall, -St. Mark's, Chostor: William Blool, Cuwist, Rautoul: C. H. W. Stocking, Epiphany, Chicago; Georgo C. Btrook, Ascon- sion, Chicago; Edward Sullivan. Trinity, Chi- engo; G 8. Todd; J. L. Townsond, St Laul's, Peoria; William "Pirnor; C. 1L Vau_Dyno, Christ, Waulezan; Josou F. Walker, Calvar Chicng A, E. Wolls, 8t. Totor's, Mound City. LAY DELEGATES. Tho certifleatos of tho lny delogates were next presonted, and thoy wero roferred to n commit- teo consisting of Judge Otis, of Chicago: E. M. Ciarlcc, of Lowiston ; and the Socrotary, Canon LKuoowles, for examiualion as to their correct~ ness, The raport of the Committee showed that the foltowing pavishes wora ropresontad by the por- sous noned : St, Joh's, Aaonquin—~Willlam Eastorgrew, Jamos ve, St, Pauls, Alton—No ono. Trinity, Aurora—: Olurke, Samuel Hoyle, V. II. Fostor, Caivarn, latavia—S, T. Olarks, Redeomer, Catro—Yeury I, Caudee, Miles F, Gil- bert, ‘st Paul's, Carlmwville—Georro J, Castlo, Aszenaion, Chicauo—S, I, Lnrbexon, Al Swuts', Chicago—~Edward Goodidge, Albert B, Btrovg, Atotiement, Chicagn—tteubon Taylor. ulvary, Chicugo—0, H, Roberts, d. 3f, Danks, 11, G, Thoras, "Eoiplny, Chicago—D, W, Page, Georgo Gardner, 1. D. Oakloy, Gruce, Ghicago—=Tenry Keop, A. A Digelow, L D. Otes, D, Moses Gund, &, T 1 7 eago—12, D, Coxe, 5, Marks, ariué, Clacago—J. T. Applubiiry, 7, Lovon, AT, Tdabl, Huty”Coninion, Ghictgo—3. T Nelly, Ouasicn tho Church Catholic. Doar this in mind in study-.| Catkis s, . St Jumes', ¢hicago—E, 11, Bheldon, D, Goodman, Jr.‘ Charles It, Larrabee, 8, K. Tubbnzd, Chieago—3L. W. Fuller, ¥, Dickinson, - Chicago—C, IL, Jordan, Jumes A, Bleepor, 3.1, Willlams, St, Stevhen's, Dhimlma]olm E, Darby, it Chwgqu=W. M. Tildon, Genrga T, Chitten- A . Ttannoy, 3, 11, Loberts, L, Jtnrrows. Juluvs, Decutur. s, Dizon—, X, Edwill, 4, B, Charters, O, B. Dodye, Ciirit, Harlom—3, 1L, 8, Quiok, 1, Hobart, F. T, Kuatt, George Bhap, J, eynolds, utls Comatock, O, D, 3t Slarke Hvansfon: Taul, St Andraw's, Farm Ridge—A, M, Grifith, E. Colos, 0, Baldwin, Grace, Gulena—F, Stahl, T, B, 2artin, W, N. Phil . St Pauls, Hyde Park=Tenry Thurston Ohuko, R. ‘Willinms Fradgo, Ohauncey M, Qady, J. Mills Winulow, Trinity, Jucksonvilie—Lenry Btrykor, Jr. Christ, Joilet—= awill, .34 Déntor, St Ddnls, Konkak: col, ewistun—E, M, M, Clarke, N, T, Bruce, 8. Corning Indd, o Arinity, Lancoin—8, A, Folgy. Holy Conmunion, Alugisuod—J, Q, Fhompson, I, W. Palnor, 5 Zon, Vendo Ln., St. Joluve, Nupertuile—0. W, Richmond, D, G, Waight, W, B, Greet, W. P, Welght, AL, Jolw's, Peoria—S, Wilkignon, Redeemer's, Princetir—1, Norion, ¢, Johw's, Quinoy—1L, A, Willluuson, T, L, Em- Shienherd, Quiney—L., 3, Darkor. riat ftalaivs Nosi—J, Crag, springfletd—E, B, Fowler, G, I, arloyw, ing—L, Tlapgood, J, Meitine, B, Dilar's, Sycomore—Aetir M, Stark, ¥, Lott, Clirinty Waverly—S, @, M, Allla, Christ) Wankequn—W, Boloy, II B, Stode, W, el St Ladko's, Wyoming—Dr, . G, Greono, 0, 11, Btone, ELEGTING A PRIMANEKT CUATIMAN, 3 Tho noxt businoss wiy tho olection of a por- mavont Prosidout, Judgo Otls said unless thore was nomo ob- actlon, or gomo othor nomiuation, in order o disponto with & llot, ho would mova tho alca- tion of tho Rev, Dr. Bamuel Clhato for porma. nent President, Mr, H. 0. Hannoy obicotad, Jndge Otis nominated Dr. Cliase, Me, Bunnoy nomivutod the liov, Edward Sulli- van, Who Chair appolnted, ne Inspootors of oloc- tlon : Lay vate—tho oy, Dr. Louke and Tudgo Otln ; olorloal Yote—tho Loy, Dr. Corbolt and £, 1L Blhieldou. "Dr. Bullivan desirod to majo n fow remarks, o Ohair ()7, Ohaso) was uncortain whethior they would be in order ; ho wonld elaim the sama priviloge. e livan went an to eay (hat ko should bo very soryy to allow his nume to bo placed in op- position or compotition with that of 1r, Chasie, w4 Presidont of the Gonyontlon, Iy (Dr, Clisko's) sge, and (be voneration in whish Lo || the Rov..J, .o clinneo in’open convontion to canvass fully the woa gonerally hold, his oxperlonce and kuowls ‘ollgo of parliamontary vy, roally entitlod him to llxn}mnlflnn, Tho Chrir called the spoaker te ovder, [Lnughter], Dr. Sullivan withdrow Jus namo, Judga Otls did -not tirluk, thoroforo, that n ballot wan neeessary. Mr, Rannoy contonded thpt 1t was nocossary to Jroesd ti tollory Jnving boon announced. . "Lho 'Clinir sustained ‘tho Intter's views, ahd the vote was takon, It resultod aa follows s “Whidlo nunibor of glorical voles Necensary {0 n olioleo, Hulliyan Oline, liole num! Noceanary to o clolco Hullivan *Chinvo, . e esinis Qe Rov, Or. Clinso was accordingly deolared to linve.boon olectod permenont Prasidont. Tho voto 18 o partil indication of tho strongth of the two divislons in tho High-Church party,— tho T,ow-Churclmun 'boing so insigntficant £ to :amount ‘to '‘nothing whntover,” The formor havo s olear majority in both ordors, and Dr. Do Koven, of Racino, apparontly has more frionds thau any other of those spoken of in consectlon with ¢ho'veant Biehoprio, since thoso who voted for I)ri Bulllvan aro sail to bo svowedly lus op- pononty. On motion, tho ballot was disponeod with, and . Knowlos was olectod permanont Sovrotury, Mr. George IL iliggine was_con- firmeil a3 Asslstant Scerotary, and Mr. O, It Lnrrabeo olacted Troasnror, o ‘The Prostdont anmouticed tho following \ BTANDING OOMMITTEL! Tncorporation of Chirelies—1ho Tov, 3, In Town~ sond), Jaings K. Edsall, Samuol Walker; “L'ihance—Thie Tov, ', N, Morrison, Goorga T Obil~ tohtlon, T, 3. Can Privfeni—Tho Ttov, Q. 11 W, Stooking, the Tor, Robort Mc3urdy, E, 11, Bheldon, Tincry Cobb, Lemfation—10o Tev, T, N, Denedlct,” the Rev, G, 2, Quabman, L. B, Olis, B, 0, Judd, Hxtension of the Cliirch—Tlio ltev, V. R, Qobur, o Tev. 0. 8, Avtolt, Mr, Londerbustow, G. I e, Unfnished Bustness—Tho Tey, H, X, Towers, tho Ttev. O, 1 Dorset, J, L. Thompson, Heveral applioations woro mde for seats in tho Convontion, thore being two -or thrao con- tasts, ono of which cnusod & swordy tilt botwoon Dr, Modurdy sod Dr, Edward Sulllven. TIE MAYWOOD DELRGATION, A motion to refor tho npplication of tho parish of Maywooud to the ommittos on Privilogo pro- ‘voltoduousiderable discusaion. I'ho Chuir dooided tho dobdte ont of order, sinco the Secrotary had notread tho names of the doJogation, huving boon wtorruptod by tha motion to refor. AMr, Ranney appoaled from the decision. I'he motion was not scconded, and tho Seere- tary rend the names of the delognates from May-~ wood, and of thoro roprosontiug saveral othor parishos, 1o olso announced that thero wore soyoral parishes ontitlod.to roprosontation whicl liad sout uo dologatos, THE. BEY, MR, HOLCOME, of Rook Island, said tho Convention was tho most important one that had-ever assembled in tho dioceao, and it was oxtremoly important that thore be nn exprossion from avery pariof tho dioceso in regard to tho oloction which was to tnko placo. ITo plended for 'tho parislica which nro tomporarily embarrasscd ; and doniod repre- soutation becauso thoy wero unaolo to pay. thelr asgespmonts, and movod thnt the Committeo on Privilogo take into consideration the parlshos ‘which wera laboring undor temporary disnbility, and report upon Buch ones as thoy thought Dufh!. to be ndmitted and allowed to vote. I'his motion was withdrawn, it meoting with searcoly any recognition. HAYIWOOD AQATH, Tho dobato on tho ndmission of tue dclegates {rom Maywood was rosumed ond _cootinund for ovor-an Tiour, motious belng mado and agrood to and roconsiderod, and things becamo so in- volved that saveral dulegnto arose aud requost- cd that somo ouo competent éxplain tho points ot lsgna, No onio volinteored, and the tall was roenmed, ond tho disputed wattors wera finhlly reforrod 10 tho Committeo on Privilogo for adjustthent,. ‘This:controversy, it is said, grow out of a de- #ira on tho part of somo of tho daleégates to nd- mit porishos not ontitled to ropresontation in ordor that thoy might participato lu tho cloction of Bishop, the anti-Do Kovenites supporting tho meanura. Tho ligt of delinquent parislies was thon read, and on motion tha cnses of threaor four of ‘It manifeatations of ill-tomper or bittornoss, nominations ‘ana disounping the morita of tho vhrious cnndidaten for tho vaosnt Epiacopate. Tho nttondanco was vory largo, and donsisted chiefly of dologntes, Althongh a few Indioa woro pormittod to ocoupy seatsin tho body of tho Ontliedral, Mr. Stakl, of Galons, noted an Ohiale- sman, and Mr, Gobb, of Chifongo, aaBecrotary. Tho proceedings wero fn tho highest degroo harmo- nious sud wall-ordored, and woro toially Incling There wan o {ull and fres expression of views upon tho lmgartnnt topla undor considoration, and althougls difforoness of apinfon weore not wanting, thoro was a genoral dlaposition to treat thom fairly and witl modoration. Arulo wag adoptod limiting romarke to ton g;grl:‘t'onn 'f’a\r c}lnymon n[lul ?vn mluutcnn for tho Y, and on nomiontionn for the Dshopric of Tilinols woro In order. o TITE FOLLOWING NAMES woro submittod, many of thom, it will be mecn, [mruly out of compliment, and with no oxpecta- fon of muccessful candidnoy: Tho Iov. Dr. Lowis, of Washington, D. Ot tho Rov. J. W, Brown, of Dotroit; tho Rov. G. D, Gillesplo, of Michigan ; tho Rov, Dr. Mourao Pottor, of Now York Oity; tho Rov. Dr. Loods, of Daltimoro; tho Rov, Dr. Layton Colomau, of Tolodo: the Rov, Edward BSullivan, of Chlesgo; Disliop Bpaulding, of Oolorado: the oy, Dr, Mulcahoy, Assfatant RRector of Trinity Clurel, Now Yorl: the Rov, M. Washburn ; the Rev. A, Durgoss ; tho Rov. Dr. James Do Xovon, of acino; the Rov. Dr. Ayrault, of Wostorn Now York; the Rov. Dr. Wingfleld, of Virgininj the Rov., Dr. Cady nad the Rov. Dr. Beymour, of Now York ; the Rov, Dr. Grogg, of Springfield, Iil,; tho Ttov. . II. Wasiiburn, of Cloyeland; 'the 'Rov. Dr. Coit,'of Bt. Paul’s Bohiool, Concord, N. IL; the Rov, W. B, Perry, of Genova, N, Y.; tho Rtev. Dr. Buol, of tho'T) oologkl{nnl Bominary; tho Rloy. Dr, Gallager, of Troy, N.Y.; the Rovs. A, Do Cole and L. A, Kempor, of Nnehotali, TIE LEADING ONES. Among_thosdthe montion at length was cons fined to Dr. Colt, Dr. Loeds, Dr, Muleahoy, Dr. Craik, Dr. Gallaghor, Dr. De Koven, and Dr. Coloman. Each of theso gontiemon woro warme 1y oulogized, nud strongly indoracd na podsoss- ing tho qualifications necossary for the oflice of Bishop, but tno chiof intorost contred in tho dia- cussion of Dr, Dol{ovon, whose name was the Iast to bo takon np, Tho Rov. Canon Knowles delivered in_pohalf of Dr. Do Koven the most tolling and ofToctive speach of tho evening, and he was warmly apblandbd, Tho Itev. Mr, Dorsot also made an cloquont anpeil for Dr. Do Kovon, and Mr, Barnoy followed in o similar voin, urg- ings that tho Inlty ind nothlng to foar from the succoss of this candidato. Alr. Parkburst, of Quincy, nnotlsor lnyman, took a different view, end_bolibved the election of Dr. DoKoven would bb injurious to tho country parishos. Tho Tov. Mr. DPhillips, of Knnkakee. plainly deolared thot Dr. Do Koven could not ‘'bo clected. Dr, Bullivan earnestl: oxprossed tho hopo that ho would not bo eleoted, Thoro were various othor speochos for nud against Dr. Do Kovon, and it could be plainly #oen tkat tho -clergy and laity wero the oppos~ ing partion on_this anbjoct, though thero wero oxceptions. No tangible rosult was reached, but The vory word which looks onr speacls to powor and Pirposo’ dnaista on going down with all tho roat, and doath hina 0o dominicn over anything which hns won the right to live, Lut, as it in Lettor to cntoblo 1ifa than L trausmit it, to ift 3t up o meroly to it on, wwo Liavo to'aco, aecondly, whiat worth may 1o In our itercattor as nn infuonce and {uapiration, n Euy‘al, now and then, they find o tomb i which a moharch wan lald thotsands of yeara ago, togothor yith lis namo and titles, Then somo nan, fiko Dun- nen, will tenco for you fho tondencles of thut mai'a lifo, from thio Mere, when ha woro a crown and lickl o ncoiro, to tho Heroafier, when what 18 loft of tho mora mortal presonco b perhiaps abonit {0 Locome ono of Mr. Baraums proportion to bo hawkeil raund yith a circus, o will tonoh the nfinenco of that Tifo down through the millenniums, and show you_hore g light, wnd thers tho mhiadow, not in Egypt ouly, bub in_ Talgsling, ' Grocco, ' Rome, Bpait, ingland, and over hora fo America; so that g gloom of glory, somo Lurt oe healing, flowiug out of thot mawa lite, 1ay bodiddon i tho Bibls from whicl 1 read 1y lonson, and (n tio home from which T enmo {o apenk to you to-night, This In Horeafter om nn ine fleancs aud inspitation,—my yreacics in the world in whicl: thore may be no peraon left of my own fiesh and Dlood, I donot know whother Jennor hus ouy chils dren of bis own Lody in (ho wotld to~day s b, if yor could atrike tlio differenco betweon the numbers tint dicd of amati-pox bofora Sonmar's time, and tho nume Dern that dio now, yott would find that Jenner had ono of tho Inrgest fantifies ever hoard of aincs tho warld stood 3 nt born of bin loins, but of his mpirics not Drougiit into the world by hit, but_ provented by him From laving it boforo thoy weto roxdy 1 ok aogoin by Drovet of death, but Ly right of birth, the frult of Jonw nor's Herzarter, 1t apponts, agatn, that ol Howard hiad only ono won, 1o was of the aort that tako {o o prison when thoy got thielr own way, as natnrally the fals tukes to water, It was tho wos bf the good maw's lifa to have auch nson; it was his glory to tury 1if# prison from tho powor of ' Batan unito God, not for tho luckless man alono who was flesh of his flsh, but for ncounted mililons nfier Howard loft tio world, 3t Blophouson's fomily ind endured, again, the dny might "have como when his lue h{ gruealojy would ' i lvo trundied a wlealiarzow, snd lrudged o fool, Degatino {hoy coukd not pay'tho prico of x ride on the ralirosd, Dt that caunot alter tho fact thnt, {n Rlophennon's Harunfter, thoso who are icirs,’ na 1t wre, of Lis geuins, aro specding ronnd the world {n Tullfnan corn ond grumbling at, (wasty miles o hour, Or, if Morso han foft » family, oné of his lino may, by and by, e wading aver tho prairia to say to tho friend in another soction, Rojolco With me, for o mon-child a borng but ot altor tho verity that ton thousand lappy fathors uso thio Yghtufog to toll theic fofks o thousand miles away, #4711 ono of tho most aplendid follows over heard of, and the mother Is 6 woll n can Lo oxpeciod,” Nefitior can the peoplo iuk Into despale, and dic, o3 thoy did in tho 0ld days, when tho nugol, tanding with ono foot In the sea ud anothor on the land, crics o tho fam- fuhing multitudes, The stesmers xro racing over the oceatt with a million bushels of grain, 1 ssw some- where, Intely, that Luthiers ohildren aftor tho fieals had gono over to'tho Chiureh of Rome. ‘Tion tioy aro nok Luther's children ; but hofs your fathor and mino, aud of millions of our atanp, who don't- know how to Join the Oliurch of Itome if" wo wanted to. Clarles Wesley's children went tho same way ; bub what is that {0 those who sing his mighty pssims, and bee coms tho penlms thoy sing? Johu Wesloy had 1o clifldren,—no home, snd N0 Wife, o8 T under- pland what & wifs should bo: bt John Wenley lves in myriady o homes, nnd the wives aro aot Lo be num. Dered who would bo hindermests instoad of Lelpmoals Dindl ho not begolten thom of his apirit, He tried, poor man, to boa good husband, I doubt’ whether hio Auc- ceadud, or whothor ho had any right to expect to suc. cead; for it scoms to mo thnt, When a mun sponds ninoor fen moutha {n tho yeir away from Lfs wifc, ovom o preacling, 1o sy be 3 sant, but ho fa ot & good husband, ut, 1f you kuow Motbodism na wall a8 T do, you know {hiat tho Aanacbonds sre past all tell- tis docs & tho indications scomed to point to tho eloction of Dr. Do Koveu itu tho Convention to-day. ———— + OTHER CONVENTIONS, THE UNITARIANS. . Bauaroaa, N. Y., Sopt, 15.—The sixth blennial Conforetics of the Unitarinns began its sessions here to-day. About 1,000 dologatos arrived last night and this morning, among thom many of tha distingulshed lights of tha organization. A prolimioary business meoting wag Lold at thie United States Ilotol this morning. Among thoso presont aro the Jon. E. Rock- wootl_Hoary Prestdent of tho Conferonce; tho Rov. Edward Everatt ITale, Loston, Prosldentof tho Council of Ten; tho Iion. C. A, Btevens, of Waro; tho Roy, J. 11, Heywood, Louiavillo, Ky.; ex-Gov, Soth Padelford, "Providonce, 1t 1. P, Kiddor, Baq., and the Rev. Rush R. Sippor, of Boston’; tho Rov. George Datcholor of Salem, Mass,;. and tho Hon, D. L. Bhoroy, of Chicago, Committeoa on Organizations, Ways and Means, oto., wore nppniuml. and tho prelimina~ 1y business of the Conventiou arranged. Tho aftornoon session of the Conference mob at 8 o'clook in the ‘Wown 1all, Judgo Iloar oc- cupying tho Chinir, and calling tha Convontion them wero roforred to tho Committeo on Bquall- zation. TNE ELECTION OF BISHOP. Dr, MoMurdy said ho was not committed to any ouo for Bishop, but Lo desived Lo introduco o resolution fixing a timo for tho clection, Ifo presented the following : Reesolted, That tho clectlon for n Dlsliop shall tako placa s Oo spocial order of to-marrow (Worucaduy) b o'clock in sho ovening, aftor a foly minutes of els Jent prayer for flio guidanco of tho lioly Spirit, Dr, Btocliing moved as an amondmont that 2 be substituod for'8 o'clock. Mr, Gintko, of Lowlston, moved ns an amond- meut that the olaction bo doforred until tho last day of the Conveution. Mo hed heard a great cry among the delegates for an opportunity Tor consultation, and ho did not like tho idea of be- ing doprived of it. IIo bad been told that n number of tho delogates, both clerical and lay, mot Monday oveniug, and by some that they had takon nction, and by otlior that they had not. It was tho right of thoso dolegates who had not come with their minds mado up— M. Yroderick Stabl roso to correct a stnte- ment of thoe gontlomau ; dofinite action had not beon takon. _It was clearly understood that tho ‘mecting was for discussion and sn interchanga of viows, and it adjourned uutil Lucsday evon~ ingin ortor'that all the dologates might havoe n nevpurlm\\ty toshars in the dlseussion, and particinato in o full, frec interchange of opinion. Mr. Faller untloratood that tho resolution eut off dobate when tha election was to be held. Dr, MeMurdy replied that it contemplated |- nothing of tho'kind. DMr, Ranuoy otfored tho following ns & subs stituto ¢ Resalned, That tho clection for Dishop shall come up to-morrow (Wednesday) immiediatoly after the roports of the Special Commitice, aud boforo thoeloction of tho diforent Btanding Gommlttecs of the diocesd, A -protracted dobate cusued, and a dozon mo- tions wore mado and amendmgnts proposed, Mr. Fuller insistod thas tho offaot of tho orig- {nal rosolution was.to cut'ofl dobate. * Dr. Medurdy contended that it moant nothing of the sort. W ‘Judgo Otis -#ald if tho eloction ‘was deforred until Chursday thore wus #o much to do that tho Couvention would bo délnyed until Saturday. In Dis opinion tho elostion of a Bishop was p: monnt, and no other business .could bo trans- acted nntil it was.ont.of tho way,—not oven tho mattor of the division of tho diocege. Dr, Powors hoped tho olection wouldmot he put oft untll tho last moment. There should bio clafms of tho candidates who might be prosoutod. a {t way nrgou“ )y m;lvuml“;hac m&my of fibu Iny” dologates wonld’go'home Wednesday night, and by olhors ik they womlimel, fl’ R ho Rov, Mr. Grogg, ol ringflold, bolleved | there wonld bo o full nltuudugce Thursday, and, thereforo, moved ad o substitute that ** an oloc~ tion for Bishop tnko placo st 11 o'clock Thura- dey morning.” To thought the question con- corning n afviston of tho diocose shonld bo first sotled, sinco If it woro divided ho might not bo imtorostod in tho oloction of a Bislop for tho northorn part of tho Stata, i Mr, Roborts suggosted, as 1t bnd beon sintod that thoro wns tobon caucusin the evening, thut it would bo n{\pmnrlnto for the Convantion to discuss tho matter as o counvention, nugl not 8 2 CONCUS. "Fiso Roy, Mr, Grogg withdrow bis substitute, 31r, Gorduor dosired to add a proviso to tlie originnl resolution : *Thnt-the rosolation should ot ho rogarded-as cutting off debnta nt tha timo of_tha claction.” Dr, MoAurdy remarked that ho intonded to mubmit anothor resolution with reforonco to do- buto; he wished ono thing disposed .of ot time. " IIio Presidout docldod the proviso out of ardor. Alr. Gorduor #ald if Dr. MeMurdy would say that his_other rosolution contomplated dobate, Lo would not pross-tho proviso as a substituto, Dr, MoMurdy would not say 8o ; he intonded 1o offer a rosolution eutting off dobate, as ho was opposod-to it. Ir, Gordnor thon progented Lho following as s substituto: Resalved, That tho. election for Bishop lake place at 2 olelocck Wadlnesday 3 pravided, however, that th Tosolntion shall not bo regurdod wa entting off disous slon or debato at tho thme of the clection. Ppo substitno was adoptod by & dooided -mi- Jority. [Applanse.) QUERIES, | Dr. MeMurdy askoil tho Eresldont to anawer tho anbjoinod guestions 1. To it your rullng that nomfuations by fndividusl moinbera would be in ordor ? 8 Would specohes aud remarks on eandidates and {hoir qualifications bo or not be In order 7 Thoro r{uoallnnu inyolved a décislon upon the construction of cortaln artlolos.of tho constitu- tipt, td.tho Chair galil nothing, probably dosir- ingto givo tho auostions wome [thought bafore making an answor. I'ho Convantion thon adjournod until half-past 9 o'claeis this morulng, Sl DISOUSSING THE SITUATION. Aun informal moating of tho Couvontlon, || uaturea and _qualitice’ tranamil | tho nature of a oaucun, woy hold {u the Catha. eal laut evenlog, fortha purposo of rocelvlog footh 1 They toorder. Prayer was offored by Dr, Morrigon, of Milton, Mass., after which & briof nddress was doliverad by the Prosident, stating that tius was a proliminary mooting. A Commwittoo on Credontinls was appointed, consisting of Judgo Warron, of Boston ; the Rev. ing whom Jolin Wesiey has iurned from ropes of aand to thireo-fold cords, which cannot bo Lrokeu, boldin in thefr lovng clnsp wifa, children, home, 6trth, and heavon, Milton’s dougliters after the flesh flouted Iim._3tilon’s daugbters after the spirit worship Bim, Robort Burna nftor the flosh has ot a man or woman left to sivg the song to Mary in heaven, Roert Burme afier tho syirit gatliers lis ehildron o his orn- tenary, n bundred thousand strong, Washioglon hus 210 groat~grandehild to look out &t ua from under tha amatk; but 1, for one, take no stock in the covert hue mor oveli somo Amnricans think thoy And when thoy heor tho elder gencration all Woshington the Fathor of luls onntry, You soo, thien, what X mtan by this Hereatler, as an fnflucnco ond {spiration. Thero i a noblor father- liood and motherhood tlian this we fouch in outward forms, Jfereaficr on thiss planct 8 mino and ours, no mattor whnt we may say or do. I may cry, {6 somd T pireas of tho sol, 1 wiah T wore dead s Dot T 00 not dio in dying, uny more than the plante dlo that wither in this latter sumter, and sbinkio out {heir aceds, and send thom flying on the wind, o light and spring agai, ana blosom far aud wido over the world. In (o eathedral, the priest holds up the wafer be- foro the kneoling mullitudy, and, becauso Josus gald, TThis {8 my bods, atd {his my biood, It 18 vory God, thioy say, 0 thoy bow and amito thelr broasts, Shall wo answer thot smiting with » ancer? Iathorono geatn'of truth in this most venerablo and heartfelt cry of tho greater hnlf of Chrlstendon? ~ Surely, svo alsd may ageeo o this, whetlier wo wall y rosson or by fulth, that the real presonce of the Son ¢f God, whom thoy mistako for very God, 18 thero as tusg oray. 1o hiss touched that bread and that multfu, and all bread and all mullftudes, within the wholo wido ring of Ohristenaom ; for when Lie said to his fricads, % Lo, T amn with you always, even unto tho end of tho world, 1o told no mera local truth of man to man, or ghost fo host, Mo told this grand, divine tewth of his forenttor, of tlnt 'porvadiug and enduring pesoual ‘prescncs Aw an jnfluonca and lnmpic mtion “which recogulzo a8 G. L. Stone, of Providence; and thie Rev. W. B, Ioywood, of Uudson, N, ¥, The rulos of tho last Conforenca wore adoptod for this. It was also decided Lhat tho mootings of tho Conforonce bo from 10 a. m. to 4 p, m., with a ¥eocss of ono hour at half-post 1, ‘The following Businoss Committeo wns ap- ofuted: J. I\ Moore, Grocnfleld, Mass. ; tho tov, Mr, Babcocl, Groton, MMass.; J. Mason Everott, Canton, N. Y. ; the Hon. F. A, Doyle, Providence, It. I.; and G. R, Yale, Clovoland, O, On motiou, the Chair was dirccted to ngpuini & committeo Of Heven on nominations, to bs au- vounced Wednesday morning. Tho Convontion sont cougratulations to tho Uuniveranlist Goneral Convéntion now in session in Now York, as liboral Christizng working in o common fleld for common good. This evening an eloquont sormon waa delivored by'the Rev. Robert Collyor, beforo an audionce of 1,500 peoplo. 1lis subjeck was THE WORTH OF HEREAFTER. Hiereaftor ye ehall ses licaven open.—John, i,, 61, Ttueems cloar tomo that wo aro mistukén iu tho meaning we attach to this word oreafter, Wo havo shiftod tho application from hither to sondor, aud ncan by Heraafler P'ers-after; so tha, when you hoar o rru:u:lmr speak of tho great, or tho glorjous, or thoawfal Hereaflor, you know Lo is speakiug of the ateranl warld, and not of this wo live in naw. Tor, i you will take a concordance, and examino tho dozen or o of pagasges in which the word oceurs, you welil wee that even thoso who aro bonnd by tha lettor of the Bibie ao not Justified in this interpretation of the ferm, Tho empliasiy lios with Time. Whatover tho promise or tho thront muy b, the Impending roward or doom, it I8 fiereafter you are to look for it, * \hen Jesue and tho Aposties speak of another world, or lifo, their meaning, as & rule, {8 not to bo mistaken ; bat, |, when they speakt of tils lcrcafter, their. thoughts aro ay ovidently on the carth ‘a8 thelr foct | are, and thoy, no doubt, of all ‘men wa ey think of, wanld wonder inost to ses how far Toliilows toachere Lave departed from tho elmple fne tontlon of thelr speachi, Yot it fs not hard to ind n reason fo this tranafer af tho things which belong to this life over to snothor and better—or worse, 1t 18 a purt of tio syatem of ro. Tiglous teaching which has etoadily hold that tho life wo nuw live 18 of 10 groat moment oxcept as a yrefaca to that woehall )vo when tho fashion of this world pansen awsy; B0 that o ebould bo taught to feal to— Waed thls world a8 I romember Ifelt {oward tho misorable eraft'in whick we bad boen kmocklng shout for & month on the Atlautic, whou I saw tho sliores of T.oug Tsland standing in the sun aud clad §n tho tendor froen of mid-May, Our Great Teachor gived uo conne Tenance to a thought like this, Whoen ko takes th obildron n_his arms and bicasea thom, he does not speak of whit thoy will bo in_nnother world, but of what they nro in fhts. 1io §snot ihinking of dizom. hodied salnts, but of embodiced angels, When, again, he stands ot the gravo of his friend, Lo doca uot epeak fo thoss about Lim of 'the over- lastiug Ufo 28 an expeclation, but ow & pos scssion ; nnd, when Lo mukes 8 personal thing of hia thought, it 18 i cxact accordanico yith his toach~ ing, lo cilngs to lifa 38 oll bLoalthy and unworn natitres da now ; this world was us dear Lo bia Lesrt us it I to yours and mine, Whon fhoy would tako his 1ifo from him befora he knows it {a timo for him to dic, Lo hidea bizauolf away snd wil uot give It up. And o you will sea tho trath I wont to touch. Hercafler, ot merely a8 5 Lope, but as n reality; and 10t & quality of tho doul alone, but of tho wholo mau and manhood, That Hereafter which gathers to its Doast Wil tlat hoa beon, aud fs, snd will boj thie cd-limo, and summer, and harvent: the hirth, and life, and’ death, und what comes aftér deatlt, in fils world, of all wo huve said aud dono;_the Way of God with ne here, which gives such worth to thia | world and He thut 1t §5 as foulish and vain tocry down Tiio prosent oxlitouco in tho interest of suothery m it would bo, by comparisoy, for that man in Westorn Now Yark gvhoso land I saw plavted thick with roscs, Lo donplzo Lo pionts which bring him 1his sunimar & woaltli of {0 cssonees, becauso thoy aro rooted in compost nnd eet sbout with tharas, “For wa can aco, ot of oll, how Naturo Lints to na hils truth of the Hereafter in tho fenorations of men, 7oy havo published a_book just now in London af {6 Norman familica n Englaud, together vith tholr kinsfolk of tho eamo luo in Amorica: and I hear it ia quite @ notablo Look ns a rovelation of thix foct of for-reaching lues of Mfo. But thore ate families jn Lngland which reach back awsy beyond tho Conquest, awelling iu tho old localjtlcs and liold~ ing onto tba okl life; so that, from futher fo som, it themsolves, and yo can 08 0 nen plowing a tlold iu tho reign of Victorls, Who, but for ik costuing and a cortain gonoral better- Juent, s hardly to be known from the an who W lowing tho same flald in the xegin of tlo Gufessor, X have a friend who possessos n‘{\lc(um of Lils grand- falior, _Altor tho faco o littlo, and tho drose, atd you can haug thiat ploturo i o gallery as thp portralf of my frlond, And T wied o notico, {n talking with K, | {hat, whou ho gat oxcited, ho would use s very citriou aud uncomnan word, which soomed Lo clinali his | spoech. One doy ho lent mie a sposch his mnndulm mado” ou n great ovcason, and ore 1 found ihls word in infonss pasanges, | just s tho mrundson twould wse it, “liave you real bat ®peoch,” I sald? ¢ NoM ho suswered, Whor any apecch 'tho old man_ ever made, 8o faras 1 | remombor,” Now I knaw tho fathor of my frioud, ‘Wo tweil to diapute about theology, und got very warm somotimes, You muy bosure thut I nover heard bim wgo that word dn my Hfo, Horo, thon, in & wimply, natural wouso, 34 o hint of this wanderful and bowuts: ul law of the Harcaftar, Out of {ho wytory tho vhil- ‘dredt coma to us, bringiiyg With them Thoso tronsurvs stored by goncratlons past A Wil GUALU of TOSaNIING UG, Qlorlouely tho world opons to thym; beautiful aud ' fresht thfs lifa_ appears; strong and sure ‘v theie ug{ ani dosp Wio wators &b Which thoy driuk, vo what wo had, Thelr Hexe Lo our Hexeafter, | heart; for, indoal, thore b an apost the most, potent pawer for good that over tonchod tho world tirough the human form and Apirit, And so it ¥, in our own degreo, with us all. My resl proseuco albo_poinons or ssuctifies tho bread and winc, and touchies mon to prayors or o biasphamics whon Here Durgoons ond blossoms nto Iereatter, Thoy show you, among {ho old archives, curfous deeds of tho mid- Qla iges, ou which a mon hss set his mark whilo tho wax was scotbing, and tero it is in a tms that Las forgotton tlio man, the seal-mark gives worth to tho deod_and fastons {ifles in a court of law, 8o death merely ects tho mar¥ on tho phstio substancs of 1ife and then for ever it hardons with tho yes, o3, an sy, noy, from whioh there {1 no appeal, Tt sosmse to o to be of all things true, once more, that thin Heresftor for you and sne ds not 'left fo drift on a tido of chance, #o that sy scod of worthi thero may bo in us wil com to somo auch hapless end as tho fruit of a palm- treo drifting down tho Qulf Stream to cranny in an feehorg, Once roally aliva with this ifo of God which uickenod the great men I Liave mentionod fur illustra~ tlun fu ull theso ways, then we aro &8 sure {o give that 1ifo to othors as firo Kiudlea fire, 1t is hiero {udeed that wra touch the most {uvaluablo socrob of our Hereafter, Thio grace and glory of thoworld to come on this planet depend not only on the mighty souls which challengo tho revorenco and 10va of thy ages,but ol Liosts of Lum- bloand obscurs people whio will never be heard of any more fifty. yeara aficr they ara dvad, a8 wo say, aud gone, 1w Just now in Qolorado hiow thie Jand by tho Rroat streams managod o koop itsclf fresh and fruit- . £ul, while out on tho plain it was gray dust. But they havo got s pian of dykes omd afiehos by which they traln theso Water-floods away out over the dnst et na that “overy plant and hiil of corn shull havo s tiny Tunnel; and now, for many miles from ihe great sireas, tlle land §x' boantiful with shade- trocs and corn, atid the little runnols hold tho scoret of tho blessing s surely a3 llo reat stzcatus, 5o 1t i3 with theso watcrs of life ch channels s wao can make from Yiero to Yereaftor, It istho merest inOdelity to- imagiuo that suy worthy thing T am doing for God a0 my kind will bo loat out of Lty when e brain that plauned and tho haud that Wrought it I8 a plach of dnet,. I can ordor my pamo cut on a ton-thioussnd-dollar monument of Quincy geanite, 1n lottora two inches decp, nnd in & fow years Then may say, Who was_that man? and thore will bo no snawer, Or Ican miss dear Chorles Lawmb's ox- uisito hestilude of doiug good by atealtli, sud e betng fouud ont; but neithor is that tho'fues- tion, 1T, in my nature, §n_any form or by any namo, I hotd o truth and life of God, fottored or free, then tho Hoventop paves that salvage from tho wrock of matter ; and tha crown of. Mount Mansfleld does ot moro surcly ineist ou being decked with tho bluo hilla than (he Hereaftar fusists on Loldlng tho boauty and frageanca of my life, though the world can no Mors riiess its genuals than X can guosy how ho Bt flower came thoro {0 glass (ko 8zuro and toss itscle {u tho wind all summer long, 1huvo s pictuto {3 niy study of the noblest churel in England. It nosseasea o splendid. history through ‘mony ceuturics, nd at tho hoad of this history stand the Archbishops, with a fow nobles who pave grent trensitros to roor the glorious pilo. But within a fow Yoars 8 eurlous book Lios been printed from tho xeo- ords of the church, in whiclt you can find tho namcs of huwmblo folk, Who gave their penoo or marks, who cut n capital, cr carved a atall, or Arst’ Inid Blono on ptouo; for tho love of - God, aud did; whilo thoussnds moro have loff no rocord at all of work o4 xioblo and beautiful os over was done, Bt tnoro stands ths pile, ltting ite pinna- cles und flasbing back iho sun from its golden win- down neross tha great country, aud seen in tendor vis- {on of home by the men of Yorkahiro whorver they wander about the world, with somo such sirain of the hicart a6 was falt du tho old time whon_ Israol remom Dbered Zlon by tho rivors of Dabylon. Now, what man who carved a tono or luld ono for that churel has ot boan cauglt by what ho did and lifted by it oto tho Toreafter? s fros-mason wark ison his work fve centuries aflor hodono & all, and binds him fast to Tils gbors of tho glory and tho prafue, Aud is nob this the truth, T uak,about tho church buil without tho sound of ax or Bammer,—abaut your poor littlo bit and mino? It is Hera now with us, and wo aro iy and shatd; but tho timo musl como when 1t will bo Hersafter, And an to-dsy w 820 Liow the great troasuro of tho oldar Hwe hus boen galliored and transmitted by greak souls whoso hames ail mon know, and by humblo and obscuro folk who wore contont fo work iu s dim little caruer Lo et 0o great stors ou what thoy did, but trust t ail to God sud go thole woy with (bele iltle bundie,—crylug, parhape, oy they carried it In: Full woll T knjow I havo uoso tar raitblos and flowerm, dry stalk: Whorsforo 1 blush anit wiok oy ol down revarontly, au autor, Loliold wy shoavos! T an stroke out of a clean Ho 14 muat bo with avery cloan stroke e not Aliat abont which (hiey mako such ada {1 tho cathio- drate and_eonucils of what (hoy call the churcli, rosull as T aw In July on tho 8, Vrai, Tio got nomothing which could ,.u.nr“aé"»fi?,‘m“'w’ifi [[;.Ia lu;n\n, hocauro the whelo Hereaftor was plodged 808 aflar thn I-mcc ing of thio poor Liunky sibatsncs of worth, and that work could ‘nover fail any mors than the sin can fall ont of Bo tho question Tles notdu tho porfection, Lut {n the Licart of Roonoss, —In tho [ndomitable endeavor, on my part sid yours, to aco to tho realty nnd huneaty of worth Iying within all our lwporfocijons, awd then teunting to that sure Inw of tho Iereafter which sots tha whole wortly worll to worl brliglng tho whott o fal Terfodtion, and figtiug tho Caunds tintlo with njes] and fir, " When I woa in Isuwronae, once, T went through n factory, snd thoro I maw how they.got tho scurf and thruma from tho aurface of thelr wobw, ‘L'ho; malo & line of fire tho wholo breadth of the cloth, en tie; passod the surlace of o wel ‘switily oyor thia g, snd il burnt away whaterer wis oxtrinflo Kt worth: ean, ond loft the hoart of gooduess clon And s, Aud wiint would bappen, I5ald ta s triend who woe withs o, 1£ tio maohino'which holds your cloth dhogld ntop? Then, ho unsworod, tie wob would bo ruinod 3 hut thoso wheoluro mada td 20, you sas, Juintas fast and =n louy as we neod them, aud do-thelr work cloay sud truo; 80 there Is no dangor ot all of Lugning what want'to save, Aud 80, Iald 1 my hoart, 1 ypeat 1o with the aubstance of worth {u our buman life, Th' mills of God tnova on, and tho flres ot Gad iy 1 tho porfect adjustmont of thnat providonce which cloa : away tho *dcum and dross,” aud lcaves the w:b w ithed, and on nelthor hints nor losen, at last, 0 thosmoll of fire. 16'4a PatiVa Word, T see, tomo trie 4n o cotton-mill ¢ Lyory man's work shall be made manilest, for tho day shall doslars it, becanss ft shall Le revealed by fire, and the firo shall tey overy man's ‘wark, of what sort it 1a," it our endeavor to makg this wob of llfosound and whole in tho warp and woof 7 Then, as I soo (his law of tho Horcalier, this fnwhat o Thay ospeot i, ouly whon £ in Tolten and sorihloss, and wo know it mid mean i, in Hopo exaojt as wo waich wth tho meex, ey hnza, on the glimmaring lhmit, Rt nammariog ot (4 rithdramn, nd 8o, hecauso sll this is truo, not only of the sonal ife, but of that vaster lifo in wh{uh mnllp::: tuado ous ot somo great i sacrod purpose, wo ara Justified in tha pomltlon we lave boen compolled to tako for truth aud fraodom in tho Oburch of God. Wo‘ hada graud slu"lw.ln Cliicago, bofore tho Fiy entitled Italy aud Anerica,~two ' marble ‘Ggures ‘Wwomon of colirss ; for,whion your man of gonius wants to idealizo o natlon, hoe Always pafnts o woinan, Ital; ‘was looking back With sad, dark oyes Juto. tho pust s Amorica, with cloar, gray syea—woman's gray tonchiod ‘with sapphire—into the fiture, Ttuly saw & sunsot 3 Amorioa, the dawn. Ttaly, s laud sérewn with thy wreeks of old glorica; America, the mornin, peatied with dow uni olean, Ttaly scomed tired as sl slood thoreleaning on an Etruscun tomb, with antique broldorod zobes about hr; Amorica food fu stasry Tobes, poinod for » Sourncy, Aud yetthoy touchey eadh-olberns sisters will ; only you could soo how th dawn beckoned the ane nivay, whilo nunsct und tau ol memorlcs held thio ollicr back, and that eaci nfipe in the ond would' v sura to lold iis owy g often wont.to look at that plctiro, becauss I llmm;ht I could ‘read yrithin its lghts and shadows s 1exso; thie pantor, xmrum, nover wusmocted, 1 was n e bloto moof the worti of Theto to. {Tors, And diee to-Horeallor, in the Teliulons thought i 1irs, and ot our truo pisce. For wo alao aro looking at tho duswi in & morhiug ‘lund, :frosh anu clean with tho dow on Lt The lightin our’ .oycs s thie gray of Trophecy rather {han the-Lrown of retrospection, and, if wo are trug to our election, wa -only reat on God.and thnt lnward life wiilch holds tho seerot of the great duy's march, Yot wo touch thoso who havo the backward ook, tene derly. The tombs arc ne sscrud to us, in their own ‘meastred mesnlng, ax-ths oeadlog | only %o kuow thap thy tombs nover can bo what 46 cradlos orog dock thiom aa wo will with flowers, Yater them With fears, g‘xll.;y l‘.u‘ll\lrun:y :\"‘lm;rgfixrhw;ll 1 -but what will be lflul:; at un from tho cradled whon wo x v "'iflfl nll‘a from wo return. h iho Hving Finally, wo must not doubt that this Horeafter bo ot a4 woll ticktw wiio oup frouL ote aowing e thnt what wo knuw not now wo ghell know Hereafter in somo quick, clno way, whioh lies os yet fn tho heart of tha myalers, but 13 walting Ll our” enange vomes, to ptand all radlant 1 the sui of hosvon, Foe 1 like not the thought thatT have dono withilife down Leca when T hove lono with carth and time. This New ‘World to which I cama 8o long ago could never hivo been thoblessed placo At s been to o had Inot bevn mble to'keop 1olose wutch of those I lovo u the O World,.and still to bo .illentified with their livea and fortunes ; 10 ‘keo, slso, how the fear Old World ts ‘grodually shaking lorself froo :Stom hor hurts and lindrauces, and dn - paralels with us toward o duy, Neither can I flud ‘auy reason for ‘this ToouMon eh forgotting In tho Now Testiment. In the deli. cato lints Jeaun feols {roo to give thoso about Lim vf the life of tho world'to como, there is always 4 straln loaven, of personal interest and concern in them after ho Do away, even whllols WEiste. 0B ths oo atlvantago of leaviug them moro and more to Got, And when, alter his departuro, they have fairly canghi Juls thought, it 1a closo Lo the o of this porsonal con- corn.; it ia s spicltnal presence to Tanl,—utill it is roqonon full of & deah concern 1n WhAX 18 ofuy on § t s not a porvailing osseuce, but o living sanl, Chls, again, lns beon tho Bteadfust falth of thoss who bovo caught s Apirit through all thoso agos, Overiald with orror, clothed upon with jmpoesibiiltics, this hag atill beon tho steady fatth of tho Chriatian Church, froi the catacombe to tlie nooh-iey prayer-mecting} that bo koops track of: Lis "Ilureafter, aud that of #he fur reaohing Influonce of his Saviorship, i)l rosch upward o his | heart, Andl 5o it seems, agoin, of sll things truo to me, thay the way In which the original truth has been snarled and twisted, God ‘belp us, fu ita way through time, should not Mind ua Lo tho simplo intoution whicl Lies in the originul thouglt, nelther shonld wo give thia Boriptura s ‘privata duterpratation, but rathier under. stand, that, £8 be keops track of this world and lfota which ho Las given auch a divine worth, so shall we cach in lits owll way, Sa_that Han@el's heaven, whila th world étands, il not lio iu scorlng now Mdrainhs of a grauder Ewcop and wmiora oxquisite harmony for tho angels; butin witnessing the traustiguration of tho muititudes u(m-!rlh as thoy are lifted up on tho wings -of {4 gonius and msko melody in thuir hoarts unto God, Luther's heaven will not bo in_ctornal vislons of tho mecw roacho of the doetrino of Justificstion by falth, but fu kaoping closo to tho over-opemug snd growing worth of the Laryosta whloli are atill springing trom tho wild days In which he want forth woeping, beating pro- clous seed, Aud Durus, poor feliow, waiting to be cleansed from tho scurf and thrume, will find at lasi his Lipavon 4n hearing from tho lips of men sud women such poems a8 tho Cofter’s Saturday Night, and the Iyrlos and (dyls that Lft the souls that aing 'them to & Toftir and sweoter humanity than ho Limself could ovar uilain, o aliall wo 1], I trust, and {n my best momente fairly boliove, keop, in the Detter world, o keon and constant interest in’ whatover worth hae' soms {0 it through .our llvmf, ‘whon Hero bocomes Hereafter § touch ta meaning -1 & nesrer woy,-and watch how i fall nto lino wil s lull armonles of providence snd gruve, In' Amiterdam, old Evelsn says, “I went to hoar tho belld, but, boing closo to fhem na thioy wara strutk by’ the ‘mastor, I could only hear a babel of sounds, whilo dll over tho city thoy wwaro Lstoulug to chimes -siruck fo Aine harmionies, ! It I8 our troublo to-dux: turn wharo wo will, tho clash and clong of tho world Bmites us, We are o toar th Dells, But discord to-us Is harmony (o tho master who plauds with us; and, as Evolyn-know by falth that over ‘the city every stcoko fall fnko 1ta place aud bloudad into music, 8o by faith wa kuow {lut, when Here bocomes ‘Hereaftor, wo sliall bo satiafied ; "for Suraly tho day 1 on our side And Aua exorud ann,— : Insarttablo aLeht: ek esbocaisa of o ighi= It i this tranmnisslon from ~heart to heay nnd soul to mowl, dhrough mpmemul; ages af Lo averlanting life,’ Tho Lovo mey havo 1, and {ha Archbishiops, sud all the Bishops down 10 Liralliur Ghonwy, Atd'T hope thoy have but T know thoso Liava ft—mt, “women, und children, grest and smll— Wi ean tako hold of Lurunn souls fithip fashion, aud Kindto thiom, by thio oty spdrit of Gud and tho humn | apirt of 1Hiu Bon, 0 » noblor aud awcater life, d "I 44 cloar to me, ouca moro, thak $his aucstion of! tlo wortl af my Jopuafiar doca ot tien ol o aao- ke portaction, ontwari and fuward, of What T o, B e nalo and radionl worlh at tho coro, T¢ my lifoand lfwswark ba xatton, thon, though I'ho-, Hovo in the ingathering of all athersouls, and the Womonetcation somehiow of thelr worth o tio worlgd 2 Riv up hupe for toyeclf. Mt i€, ot (o hraet of | | it onudnosa and_warth,' thero may o & cliat about ma i fost anit the bt vy ntivred fam uu!u& alerts lila cabip, | t) Lo gobno sugh 1 o0 Duoks o T 2 Whan the izt Yaon e e wiiwl i e and 90 wual could ke dono wi Jsnodackngss at all, but Liooms as 2 bowor-side Whon thowintar 13 aror aud ———— UNIVERSALISTS, MEETING OF TUR (ESEBSL CONVENTION IN KEW YORR. New Yonx, Sept, 16,—Delegates to the Uni- versalist Gonoral Convention sssombled this morning in Dr. Chapin's Church. The procesd- ings were oponed with » prayer-meeting. The Rov. H. R. Nye implored Divino grace upon tha pr ocoodings abaut to tako place, and roturnod than ks for past bouofits, liymns wero sung, after which delegates mado [aaresecs. P'he Convoution was called to order by the Tov. J, AL Fuliman, tho Gonoral Socratary, in o absonco of tho Presidont and Vico-Presfdant of last yoar. 4 Trayor was offerod by the Rev, Gilea Bailay, of Teading, Pa., attor whiol $ho elaction of oficers df tuo Uounvontion took pince, resulting aa fol- lowa: Gon, Olnoy Lawronce, of Ithada Island, Prosident; Solowon D. Willard, of Buffalo, Yico-Prosiqonts tho Rov. ‘Washington Hoopor aud the Rov, Charlcs Fluliror, Aesistant Socra- tarios, "o lov. E. J, Drooks, D. D,, of Philadolphis, Oliairman of tho Committoo of Arrangemont, on bolinlf of tho Board of Trusteos, xeported sn .ordor of services, whioh was approved. T&e I&llq\vlng comumittoos wero thou gppointod Dy the Ohair: y()n Lloctions—The Rev. Mr, Orogaly, Indiana; D. 0. Tomllnson, Ohio; Afra. J. D.Midoe, Michi- an, . On Religions Sorvicos—E. J, Drooks, Ponn- sylvanis; If, R, Nye, Now York; E. Q. Bacber, Now York; Almon Guunnison, New York. Ou Unfliishod Business—Tte Rov. J. 1T, Pull: man, New York; tho Rav, O. II, Fay, District of Oolumbin; J. A. Handloy, continued. .On Nominations—Chatlgs I, Carpontor, Mode “Iutand; 3. Murray Bailey, SHiiuois, and 1. Fishor, D, D,, Now York. After tho odoption of iho minutes of the proviows maeting, thqveporta of tho Baard ot 'rustoos aud tho” Tronsurar wore Is{d over.until the nltoraaon sossion, o Sovretary stated that an .amendmont had boon offored at the Iast mecting of .tho Conven. tion_to alter the dato .of holding it from the third Tuosday In Soptembor to .the Waodnesday resadiug the fourth Sundsy in Octobor. 1t way aid on the tulile. Georgo W, Quiyby, 7. W. Haneon, and E. Hathaway wore appoiuted a cominitteo ta Urat suifablo resolutions exprossing the sense of the Canvention on tho docroase of clorical ‘mombers during the past yoars, U'he fifth aunual report of -the Lreagyror, D, JN. Holdon, \vmlamm‘lllllwm\\i of wl l(i‘:!h tho follow: g s nsyudpalss he Murray Contonary fund mflv nmnu;\% 10 $120,401,10, as toltows: v Trustecs note, 1670, Inyeotmont; ils recetvable, Caely fu bapk, Tolal,. G geaseeas & of tho 910, 46L,53 billa. veosivaplo, 83, T (Bow Elabih FRs