Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1874, Page 2

2 THE PULPIT, Prof. Swing Preaches on’ the Now Gospolof ¢ God Is Love,”? He Is Not Disproved by tho Receut Brooklyn Troubles, The Work of the Recont Epis- copal Convention. Dr. Locke Compares It with the Nicean Assemblage. The Rev. A. B Kittredge Ie- views Prof, Tyndall's Address, Wants of the Baptists in Cook Oounty. THE RELIGION OF LOVE. Its Trath Unnflceted y the Recent Drooklyn Nenndul Prof. Swing preachod yesterdsy morning in tho Fourth Church, taking for bis text: ~ Tor God s love.—1 ok, ft, 8. That tho moral philosoply of Cliistianity e recolving & mow intcrprotation at the hands of tho last two conturies, sooms porfectly ovident. *Tha action of public thought must bo oxprossod in tho form of & presont tonso, bocango tho gon- seruction of this moral phitagophy fa going on, and the buildiug up of the system may, Jiko the buildingup of a St. Poter’s, consume tholives and induatry of mauy genorations. In tius long aud dififoult work groat mistakes will be made liero and there, by single Individuals aud by whole schools of moralists, aud men who aro fully wedded to the old will long be ablo to find in the new something st which to point with robuko or with alarm, and in the namoe of which fo beg munnkind to go back. Whatever path socicty may tako, thera will alwaya bo thoso who wilt plead for a return, as did tho multitido which had started out after Moses toward auideal Jand of milk and hovoy. Do tho presout path of the Christian publio right beyond all formor paths, vet mistakes will be mado, and tho alr must bo expected to resound with tho shouts of thoso who, fearing tho sons of Anuk in front, clamor for u return to tho known and cndurablo brick- yards of yesterdny. No idea, bo it af politics, or of iuventiavs, or of science, has oyer comointo power by a univor- sal consent, and houcs it is to bo expected that, if any rchuol of moral philosophens shall como alongs into any age, briuging somo ney intarpre- tation ot God's law, they will be ntet by o largo aud houorablo opposilion. 1t thelr interpreta- t10n bo true, this opporing multitude will grad. ually diminish under il intluonca of renson, or by tho porpotual action of tho grave, thut groat destroger of usoloss 1dens. Whe groat aud unhappy Drooklyn *afair® Dbaving caueed quito a nuwbor of tho old soldiery of on old Empuo to rsuow thelr attacks upon what they call a rehgion of lovo, it ecems nowr o Dropor ocearion for sp:caking (and us_calily ay ponuihlo{ upon thio valuo of this now *‘morl Philosophy,” into which almost ull tire modern Christiunity is ponting iteclf, 1t is not O1d and Now Prosbyterians along that are inteyosted in this mattor, bu it is also Moth- odish aud Lpiscopalion and Daptist, and all other sects ; Lor ag nll tho streams which, in au- tumn, flow down ont of great mountain Tegions are colored alike by tho Jeaves which havo fallou and been steoped in tholr waters, so all the clinrches moving slong in any oune place aud timo nro influenced for good or il by somo spirit of the ago so general thub pothing cau stand apart trom it, and so poworlul that nothing can escapo its infoction. - Detweon the Now School Treabytorinns (Words used in thoir former do- nomtintional tense), and tha Methodists aud TEpiscopalisus, and tho sistor secls, we nro able to percoive no difference asto noral philosophy 3 but over all alilke hangs this new acinosphereof Love, which thoso yio oppoto it cal] Seatimen- tality, and fonr and donounce a8 such. It is uot probabls that tho morals or religion of love are 1 auy important seuse fuvalved in the publio or private life of any individual in an TEastorn city,~ A philosophy eannot stand or falt by tho standing or falliug of some single name, howaver great; but in the Brooklyn develop- ment must bo found causo adequate for tho now attack upon any relgion that stuonnces love s its largost priveiple. Whethor that Draoklyn revolation belongs to history, or only to fiction, tho world will porhnpa nover kuow; but, 0a & pure novel baving no foundation in fact ofton swaliens o public interost in principles; 08 tho atory of tho " Wandoring Jow " aronsod a now study of tho_Jesuits, slthough thoro was no Princo from India aud no Adrionno; 8o the long cliapters wovon about the great namncs of mon and womeu on the Atlantic const have awalonod a discussion of principles, bo tho chapters thoso of blography or thoss of invention, Wo need not, therefore, sock to seutle quostionn of indi- vidual guilt or innoceace, but may well look at tho theory of action cailed lovo, and nfllimed by this wholo gencration to be tho fundamental law of God and mar, The Jaw of love is nothing olso than tho law of nmost tendor juslico. 1t took mso in tho deep souge of injustico which the wrongs of earth kindled iu tho human Leart as rapidly as it becamo edacated. As soon s tho best of the TRowan philusophors bogan to look at tho amphi- theatres and koo the captives thrown to wild boasts, thoy began to pescefve tho wrong of that whiolo #ystem of pleasiira drawn from pin, and to plead for moscy 3 that is, not a mawkish sen- fimentahty, but for o simplo justice. Lo close the Colisoum, to wot froo tho captives, was a worlc which uo contrasted with ibe forier cruel- ty that it beamed forth na & love, and yat {t was ouly the dawn of a beaulitul justico, When, subsequently, tho same growth of reflection and information enabled tho best men to sco Slavery in its truo light, its fufustico began o weigh up- ou their minds, and ¢60 sontinient of justicg, Lo~ gaa to break the chains of tho galley-slaves of the 0)d World, and overywbero to plead for (ho rights of man, Thus all this relation of educa- tion and rotlection to human boudage uprlngu up, pot from any sentimentality, but from tho better conception of justice. Whion this study of juss tico wont owivard until it hnd sot frco the no- groes of Amerles and tho whites of Russia, it wWas overywhera caliod benovolence, but only bo- cause in n world o crucl and unjust common oquity seemed tho ombodiment of lova itself, Tois "largo and now dosiro that the oxnct right should prevail, not only clused the spectacles at the old Colisoum, not only ok froo elaves all the way from Romo to Amorica, but it car- ried its good work into the foundations of Government, avd mndo Kiugs vacato thoir chronow in many States, and in othors ive up {hoir dospotio power, 1t camo botwaen the com- mon_ people nud theix opprossors, aud wag no- Whers a niorbiisentimontalily, bt a pure and poworful justico. Thiy march of doliverance iy overywhere called the mwich of love, but tho deoper truth will bo found when you eall it the march of fuatico. Lova for man is an impulua of action, but justice is tho cimnnol of the ac- tion—the boundary wich it may not pass, Nowman iso unit. Ho lns only ona soul, only one miud, and hence, whon his politics aud wholo soclal lifo aro full of cruelly and wrong, ‘ho will not bo fonnd bolding to n roligion that in full of the most teuder right. A nation will 334 ‘o monstrous in its gam; Lostitatinua and Do dnet avd basuudil is i tolig Tne injus- tice that roveals itaelf tn #n amphitheatro, whoro wild boasts devour women aud children for tho amusoniont of tho citizons,—injustico that can mave out and extorminnte a race, and bring back tholr spoils in triumph; thot can reduce the woak to slavery, and mako it & vonal offense to whip & slavo to death ; that can hang a child for thafs: that can burn witchos aud lurotics or carry out o maseucro of St. Bartholomo,— will not leave uutouched man's religion, snd make him & tendor Christain, whilo, so & citizon, ha1a racking with innocent blond, A religlon growing up In such an stmosphore of orueley will Lteoll bo a praduct of tho goil, and will con- tain all this wida-spread infnetice, God wili bo concoived of as & awor rather than as a Fathor; or, if 8 & L'ather, [ will bo a8 & fathor of those days,—nuot a telug of reason, but rather of force, ¢’ Los uow been loarned that tho idea of father does not contain tho idos of despotio phynical force, but o large clemont of justice; wuil this Sustico, acting amid the holploes unin- formed years of childhoad, making alf allowsnco for childhood's weakness and impuleo, ecom to ho only # love, only » soutimental state; but it s s muel sn intellectual concention of the right as any that ey over.houored a Suprono Uourt or the clinmber of & philosophor. - fnto the idew of God, il the ald centuriey camo_and omptied their force and eruelty ; aud 1f u King could oxtorminate a tribo, or cast loug- THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1874, e e e e e e e e ——e e canta to wild boaste, or onklave and dogrado mon, g0 conld tho Bupromo Ono doclare tho humnn rrea tobo vila outeaats, And that Hoavon was Posaiblo to ouly s fow, 'Tho awful injustice of onrth waa ropoated {n ITeaven, and what the hu- man King was on the footstool, suoh was thio King on the throns 3 oply aa God anr; B MAN in powar, so did 1lls ompiro surpass that of man in quantity and quality of Injustico, ‘I'hat moutal and moral dnvclormnnt whioli be- Enn to dovelop justico fu politica and in tho omo-circlo, bogan Lo removo nlso tho fujnstico of roligion, and pour into tho Church tho oqulty it wau pouring juto laws and customa, TI'rom bo- ing a simpla flat of an Almighty, Christisnity beaamne thie reasonablo actlon of ‘n Fathor who could not enly punish, but who conld also pity, 1lis childron,” One of tha fivat offorta of justico io break into tha Church may bosoon in thoriso of tho Arminians, whose simplo principlo was that the soul must liavo some kind of a chanco for leaven, and that hell must not procood from n decroo of Qod, but must dopond npon tho actions of minds that hnd como to years of willful sin, Whilo Calvinism liad glvou'its wholo stndy and worship to tho abeoluto will of God, this now philosophy beeamo alarmod abont tho moral cliaractor of tho Deity, and tofled not to build up the Divina absolutisin o much a8 the Divina equity. Theso remonstrants appeaiod at tho s{n of Dort to [vmlcut aguinst tho iron-llke fatalism, ns it soemed o thom, of the Calvinlan theology, and, though thoir ploadings wors lost in tha lowder eloquenco of the synod, yoi thosa wore {ho days whon tho equity of God bogan to appenr hike tho mountain- tops after tho flood ; thon was the hour whon tho dovo firat found an olive-loaf rising abovo tha droary wastos of waters. Ilor this oxaltation of tho Almighty finl, it docs not scem that Calvin is to Lo especislly blamod, slnce hio only ox- resyed shaiply and formnlly what had como lown from Romo aud Qroeco, for it sooms that, outside of the confines of the Ifoly Scriptures ay well as witlin them, all carly philosopby bor- dorad upon fatalisni. ; ‘Phera la & wouderfal resemblance botween Homor, and _Plato, and Cicoro, and Augustine, nnd Cullvin, in this matter of tho absolatism of Gad, aud ltence, inatead of looking upou Calvin a4 the fuvaator of a systam, Wo must rathoer con- fevs him to bo a kind of culmination of o lonj line of human thought sud belief, God's wil wag the explanation of nll phonomenn, and the phicnomena wero not simply unjust, but appall- tng, Tho vast majority of tho buman raco bad been ereated for au oteruity of patn, Iloathow, and {afante, and wminds that could not elieva all thoy wore totd, and minds that Lad nover beon told anything, and that lad struggled to Iearn, wera all alike doowed to etornul patu by o il tuat proceded'all things aud kuew na Iaw, and purm?smd 00 contlngelioy to atiso. he Remonstrants inyaded (i dnrk systom, and denired to turn mankind away from an ex- clusive admiration of God's will to somo regard to Iis chinracter, and out of this upristng, not of sentimontalism, bt of justice,hos coma thio Chrls- tlanity of madorn times, Not tuat the Arminian systein Ling overtrown its oucmy, bish Lhat it e mada tho modern sccts eithor combine o belier in God'a decrees with o botiaf iu [lis 1cnvousblonecss aud aquity, or clse hos mnde thom aimply neg- lect a metaphiysics too deep for the humau wind, and uitorly ~ ompty of all usofulncss. In ono ‘otbor way has tho Armivian theory affecled {hosa who atill feel cortain that all ovents bavo boen ordelued from obernity. ‘Thoy presoryo tha decree, but chaugo tha avent, and foel that the flat has beou indeed passed § ut it i4 tiat of wideeprend moscy rathor than of wrath, and that millions 2ro decreed for ITonven whom fornier azes euppased ordalued to perdition, Thus by Armiumvism, which ate tuches punishment ouly to couscions sins, and by o Calvinism which vastly onlargos the decreo af olection, a roligion of juatico comos luto tho aronn, and will henceforth compoto for {he honor of saving vouls from sorrow, both Lioro aud horeafter. Thoso who love only the old, will for a timo dorivo this crcod of tho eight- centh and nivoteonth, and will call it a sontimontal issue, but it will doubtless work its way info full powor, nud God will bo loved beeause ifo will soom the teuderest, kiud- est friend of the soul. Methodism, which is now & hundred yoars old, aud s rich i experience, isono of the legitimato fruils of this religion, for tho motto of that sect is the kind justico ol God. Ho will save thoso who como. 1o will 10t bo sounjust s todamn tho ignorant secking Tight, uor thio goul whose purent stuncd 5 buk Ha invites all, aud means _all, und loves all, and to this viow of God it adds tho porpotunl study of ITeavon rathor thau of ball, and I8 in all ways o religion of soul and Liope, Yatber than of boud- ogo und gloom. ‘I'hat tho Chyistianity of to-day is a wide do- patture from the Christinnity of tha past is no dication that it is compounded with sin, wnd i Dlotting out tho distinction betwoen virtue aud vice, Such a conclusion can only bo reached by thoso who feel thnt Chuistianity found ity por- feet statement in former conturies. Thon a variation would imply a decline of the Church. Bat the truth ia tho old Church was iot thus perfect. Its porirait of God und of Christ was &0 falso ns to bo barmful to men in tho Church and to thy skeptics without. Tho modern Cliurch is not a compounding with gin, but it 15 & tevolt ngainst & God of poui- tive injustico, Compared with the past, the prosent may scom t sickly sentimontalism; but that comes to pase not hecausoe tho present is go reckless of God's presence, but beeause tho past was go cruel, Tino was, nlso, when jus- {ico monnt only punishient for sin, but in theso dags, when & Ohristian visits a dying pauper, or fréed a slave, or when ho speake kindly to au in- {idel or of lum, he 1s not following &~ weelkocss of nature, bus is in tho path of the most defivite Jjustico. When Chillingworth dicd among ene- nies whom ho had made by his wrlklllfu. tho Chureh zoalota ahowed their zaal for thoLord, no thoy supposed, by making * malignants catry the malignant " to the giave, and _thore, instoad of reading the church-servico, a chorus of abuso and ourses followed tho body down to tho dust. It was kind in death’ that it permitted no such mmlico to ranch the groat goul, Dut such was tho troatment all froe thought roceived in that ora,—u treatmont not indicuting religion, but showing what wrongs man may commit i tho namo of his Deity. The kind method of our goueration with thoae who differ from it in thought is only ono par- ioular lower in that fleld “all covered over with the outgrowth of humau rights. ‘That deforence slhown in theso daya to thio honest thoughts of mon is not the result of a relapso into a religion of postry, but ia tho direct result of n growing dosire that nothing should be moro just than ro- ligion. Instead of working for the oneneas of vico and virtuo; iustead of robbing God of angor, and making tho world one of licenso, tho new Christianity was and is nothing but an uprising _of o ratlonal hatred of wrong of every form under tho sun. Nothing has evor surpassed it in hatrod of ovil doeds, and thoso whoriso up sgainst {¢ to-day as being a roligion of liceneo, upbraided it yestorday bocauso it pretonded to sava men who tried to do right. 1t was tho shamo of this modorn Chrlstinmty thut 1t attachied too much importanco toa right life, Apart from the cllnl'gl;n of ity encmies, it atands forth a religion that bates vieo, and whose God liates vice. Dut now comes mention of its peouliarity. ‘Tho virtuo it loved was resl virtue; tho viee hated and punished was roal vice. It did not #o lovo virtuo us to Lurn a herotio, but did #o love it as to m‘{wmnv).\ tho elavoholder and tho dram- uollor, aed to opposa tha glory of the batilo- tlold,' 1t camo with a Lot indignation, and bo- lioved in an indignant God; but this indignation of man and God was not to bo nimed at men who could not boliovo the protix crecd, but ot Kings who opprorsod natiuus 5 at chieftaing who gloriod in bloodshed; at ownors and dealors in Elavos; ut parouts who woro ortol to ohildron ; at men who dofvauded thoir nelghbor, Thin uew religion did not tako away the indig- untion of God, but ouly dirocted it toward realities, instoad of toward shadows, aud mada it robuko an uvjust judge or dothrono a tyraut, iustond of burn a devout Cntholio or Protestunt, or hunt down Jows as so many dogs of the strect; indeed, this new Christianity comes with & holl, but it isnot for infants nor for thoso who niuaud U,DU()}'cnrfi bafore thoy were possessed of oxcvancy. To thomso fow hving who havo boon racaniomed Lo the idea thot holiness moeant an accoplanco of Lhoir oreed, and that sin mesut s rojuction of it, the now Church must como a8 n wondorful surprize, and as a dopartura from mau's best destiny; but socloty, by its lunfi sgony, has found a now dellnition of virtuo au vico, and will nover go back to such & mersure oF virtuo as thak which existed whon cruolty und sluvory of whita and black, and all publio and privato wrouns, combined with religion. Not In the namo of sentimentalis comon the Church of to-day, and of to-morrow, butin tha nume of 3 Justics whoso glovios woro all ovor- looked in the geuorations gono, Wewell Lknow what volces thoso are which aro Inmenting thoe inronds of this raligion of love, Wao kuow wha attitudo thoy assnmed whon the Abolition ro-t form aross, and when tho temperance wave firat bogau to move across onr country, Thoy opposed botl reforms, and olung to tlie drenm thut tho only sin_ worlh combntuing was that of unboliof m tho dogmas thoy thomselvos loved, 1t iu contonded that thia “modorn Cospal of Tovo 18 oponlug tho gutes of vico, Buttho folsenoss of this chergo 1w suscoptiblo of proaf, and, apposling to fuct, it docs not appoar thab tho lives of tho most liberal Congrogationalists and Mothodiats, and of tho now schools of the Colvinist Churob, are loss rightoous than the Itvos of the most I'uritaule of our futhors, living ordead, Iven if the wstudont of facts paases outsida the orthodox bounderics, and looks upon tho fucos of the Channings, sud Lewroncos, and John Drowns, and Parlors, and Bumnors, and Evorotts, bio will seo 1o indication whatever that the gates of vice oponod noer tha souln of thoso mon, and that_a roligion of lovois & roligion of Inwlogsnoss, It would Do strango Indogd if o form of Christianity which makes (ho most tender fustico toward ane's uelghbior fts enrdinal duty should mako tho grossest injustios toward that nelghbor Its Labitual practice. ‘I'ho offort of tho sdvanced Church of to-dny, undor its many names, i to latorprot Christ ns boing a rulo of lifo na well asa !c&znl mieditation —1Io bolug the first of theso when not both ; and the maxim spoken firat snd last Ly those liberal acts (Prosbytorian, or whatever namo thoy may wonr) Is, * Whatsosvor yo would that m(!ll should do unto ye, do ye'oyon o unto om, ) If tho groat pulpit namo of our Jand bns in- Jured biy follow-1nan jn any way, he has dono o 1wt In harmony with the modern roliglon of love, but {u violation of its most sacred principle ; for {nutivo toward all, tho Golden Hulo Is all mur- dored In evory word in tint Brooklyn oironicle, Do it history or only & Hoarlot Lettor by & now Hawthorno, Lot tho caso which involvon tho great name bo only a hiypothesia, the loason is tho samo over & romance as ovor n history, and thet losson s, thnt tha modern Chriatinnity fa not responsiblo for any such aspect af lifs ; for the roligion that Liae triod to maka tho bomo of the slavo happy, ad that bastriod to blees the drinkard'u sifosnd children, and that bas atood for a gonoration bo- twroen mnnkind and all wrong, caunot in any way lead to & violation of anotbor home not s slave’s, nor in breaking tho heart of e brothor whoso nights were more tendor than those of auy bond- mon that over clauked hopoloss claws, Thbo sorrows of tho Alrlenn fu lis cotton-flold aro pleasures compared with the Lears that fall upon & hionrtls whote eulture gives plao to dishonor, and whoro oducation of wind and spirit redoubla thousaud-fold tho agony of the breaking heart. Wo hope tho story is all'a _droam ; but, should such n story ovor Docomo roal anyshora aud ab any timo, iv will como by n botrayal of tha re- ligion of love, und not by its assisiance,—como by tho path of Lypocrlsy or of pitiablo ' human weakness. Wiien the clergyman Lindloy whippad lils child to donth n fow years axo, it might bave boon at~ tributed to the inthuence of o long injustica bound up in bis torm of religion, and when o sovera Calvinist clorgyman tn Plitsburg was ar- Talgned for bratal treatment of hin wifo, nvd was doposed from bis ollico, ngaiu the Lnaty and the narrow might havo found reasou for tho_ cruelty in somo departmout of his thoology ; bat tho public {8 not £0 foollsh as to road 1a ote man's conduct the wholo cutcome of n philosophy. Yon might ag well go to the grave of Burns or Puryorund doclare that pootry and pafutivg Jead to intomperance, Ok, nol thio rellgion of lova, that is, o justico, doss mnob make mon unjust. 1t auy tongue, oloquent over tho lunan right aud “the divino jzlt, has itaclf trampled upon thoso rights, or shall tramplo, the oxplanation will bo thus tho Chrlstianity was sublime, but_the poor hoart and will wera weak, Tho poor soul, taught a philosophy abovo its own ronch, Baw a Promisod Laud which it waa un- worthy to cuter, and dragied its own garmonts slong through pordition, evon while it urged the wultitudo to hoaven, Such a conflict botioon phtlosphy and action will coms all along the world's Listory In tho future as it Lag conto in tho paat, ‘I'ho viclseitudes of an individual ean aftect littlo the i of & groat principlo in society, religlous or polltical. 'I'hat lovo for man s the primo motive that influcnces tho Creator in iy denlings with 11s creatures, and that should fu- fluence man in his denllusy with bis follow, is o priuciplo 50 yast and so reasounblo that na indi- vidua) calamity of yosterday or of the morrow con cheek its advauco or craso its lotters from thio heart, ‘The world will not go back to a religion of In-~ justico, Undor tho leadorship ~of Jesus Chrigt, tho roliglon of love will go for- ward until not omly will it roupect tho African slave wond scck his - irec- dom, nud respect the ignorsut, and give bim oducation, and hear tho ery of the heathen —hear, and gend him its Jights but it will hear the eacred pleadings of home-life, and will add to its blesseducss rather than seok its desolation, Buch o great principlo of ivfinit love toward man,—love ssuing from God and from man,—is the moral phllunoph{ undor which all our ud- vauced scots are rallyivg, In meoting thera thoy will meet not only ench other, but they will et Jesus Chilst, for that is tho roligion Ho flung out o tho world 1600 years ago, and thore 1lo tianda uow, waiting for man to como to it, throwgh sorrow such thub hio will nover wish to £0 back. s THE DIOOESAN CONVENTION. Hermon by the Rev. Dr. Locke, of Grace Clureh, Dr. Locke, Ttector of Grace Chureh, proached yosterday morning s follows on the rocent Con- vontion : And as thoy went through tho citfos they dolivered thomn the decrees for to keop thnt were ordaued of tho Aposties aud Elders which wero wt Joruzalom,— Actsaviy 4, Ono of tho groatest glorics and one of Lhe deopest shames of the Church of God are her councils. Tho puradox may scem to you atrong, but it is cusily explained. One of the greatest glorios, becauso In those augnat assemblies tho Catholic faith Lias been set forth and establish- ed, tuo discipline of the Clrel hins beeu regu- lated, and thono orgavic]laws, by which ber unity and ler lifa have beon presorved, *have beon wisely discussed aad firmly founded. Oua of the greateat sames, because often in the excitement of debate and tho deep Intereat of the questions, the worst paesiona have been aroused, and there liavo boon tho moat mougnfui exhibitions of hatred aud vindictiveness, I'am not propoeing now ta speali of tho shnwo. Let tho encmies of tho Chureh do that, aud lot us acknowlatige tho wenkueas of human nature, snd the imporfec- tions of tho most oxalted pioty. I proposo Drietly to skoteh tho grandeur and tho glory of somo councils of the snciont days, aud then, loaping ovor tho cenLurics, to show its substan- tlalagreomont with the councils which tho Church still holds, Of necessity thera must bo councils of tho Church that will meet and compare their viewson all subjects inwhicl thoy bave & common intereat abovo alt on such a subjoct as the will of God, In tho Acts of the Holy Apostles, tho out~ iino of tho firat Clristian council is given, com- posed ng ours ias, of Bluliop, Elders, and laymon, Bevipturo showa the Bishop of Jesrasalom aume G\Iug up the decrocs exaclly as would now oo ono, Dut ot us tor o momont Jook at that counch which wo call the first goneral council, summon- ed by the Emporor Constautine in tho your 325, in tho beautiful City of Nicoa, Asia Minor, and mado necessary by the wild thoorics and the over wideniug disputes which wera evorywhoro rifoon tho awful doclrino of the Divinity of Jesus Christ our Savior. Three hundred and eightoon Tisliops, from all parta of the Emplco of Romo, uszomblod to graco it, and they sworo attended by moro than 1,000 Pricsts aud Doacons, On ifn throno, as its Presidont, sat tho Emporor of tho world, reprosonting tho lay elomeut. 1 do not proposo to cntor into its dobates ; suflico It to eay that it got forth that Nicone croad which over sinco, witha faw ndditions mado nt tho Conncll of Constantinoplo, ks been overywhera recited in thio Chureh Catholic aa thie syibol of our faith in a triune God. I wisli to eall your attontion to the sceno. Tho Tuing of tho hail in which that council mot are #iill marked by & fow colmmuva on the shore of tho lake. Along the wulls wore ranged ohairs for tho Bishops and bouches for tho lower or- ders, In tho coutro of tio room, on an aitar, was placod an opon copy of the Holy Beviptures as " the newrest ap- E‘rouul\ to tho presonco af Ohrist Himsalf. ut ovary eve was fixad on tho smull_ gilt chuir of woud at tho upper end, aud suddenly a waving torch announced that ita occupant was coming, Coustantine_cutored. Lis lofey stature, his brond shouldors, his bandsomo features, 'wero woriby of his grand position. Al ablnzo with dismonds und gold emnbroidory, bio passed up tho Ll betwoon tho rauks of Bishops, aud Look his plisco bofore thouo vonorablo mon, There rushed ovor bis mind all that they had dono and suftored for the Chrch,—for thore wore even thors who had beon torn by the vory lons of the awphithen- tre, and resvucd only with their Jives, sud all rathor thau renounice Christ, Tho Lmporor's cheok orimeonod, 1locast down s eyos; his stop futtored, nud whon hio roachied his ciale b #tood motionless till tho Bishops begged lim to bo seuted, flo didso, and all followed his ex- amplo, ‘Thon hoarovo, nud In imperial Latiu, aud with that gontlo and sweot voico peculinr to Jum, he addressod thom, I caunot give his IEEONI boro in full, Tt onded with these memor- ablo words: Do not, thon, dolay, my trioudy— do not delny, mimstors of God and good ser- vants of our commen Lord and Buvior—to yo- move all grounds of diiferonco aud to wind up by laws of poaca every link of controversy, "hun will {aulu\vu done what is most plensing to the God who Is avor ull, andt you will' ronder tha grentest baon Lo mo, your follow-tervant,'" hon followed tho dobates—long, often seri- monions, often hotly-coutostod, atd nt last the ngreemont and the dowmon subscription. ~ Onco wora they stood bofors the Limporor, and’ bo ~besought thom onte more 0 Lo tolorant to thous who diffored from (hiem 5 toallow for human infrmitles, und, abovo all things, to prize concord. 1o askod thoir pray- ers s ho kuolt for thoir bonediction. BMany n boeutiful logond clustors around this councll, I will give but oue, Thora woro J18 Dishops, and ot whonovor thoy rono Lo bo eallod thore wero 810, "whoy novor could malko the puniber como right, aud'it was fondly bolioved (or many con- turies that tho threo “hundred nud ninctoonth was tho Bishop of All Houls, ovon Chirlst Jeaus. Thus did tha Ktate firat_slop into tho councils of tha Clutreh ; nnd now, 1,610 yonrs liave passod away, Nicon i8 n fishing villago, nothing un- chaugel but the biue sky awl the gloaming Inko, uud, in & far-off land, not even drostned of by tho most brilliant fmagfuation of the oulbred mon who gathored in that okl clby of tho Kmnb, in & great and splendid oliy, gathora snother counail of tho same Churali, thia tino tho meat~ ing of bu oua dioceso, Recoall that secne,—a Tonig Iino of whito-roved Pricsts, and Doacons, and distinguislicd citizons from overy pro- feaulon, mavchtug in solomn procession through a erowd of worshipors toward tho holy altar of our Qod, on tho right of which was an_empty ohair, volled in deopest mourning, A glotioun outburst of chantiig arlacs, wloro tho awoot treblo of ohildhood mlug]oll with tho bnass of atdor yonrs, the ssmo crood thoy mot forth at Nioen ittterod by mon with the samo love for the samo Christ, and tho same Catholic hoarts, and tho samo holy asplrations, A von- erablo Priest gavo tho samo Dody and Dlood which was broken to the 818 of the ‘anciont aounell, and thoenme Holy Gonpels spread o{.un Dbators thow, loug before thits now Asyem- blaga. Thoro was no obalr ot for {he Emporor. Thauk God, no imparisl doorae brought us to- gothor ; wo mot aa froo men fu o frao land, and with a froo church, But thoro was now as thon the lay olemoat in all its fullness, Minglod with Llders and with Deacons wose mon 1roin overy profousion, distinguishiod offlors of the Btato, Judgos from the Bench, well-known Pnlluclmxu, omincut physicians; morchants from the lumuor: yard and the counting-room ; hurd-handed farm- ors, some With whito liairy, and somo in the bloom of youth ; n distinguishod mesomblaza, loving God and 1is Chureh, aud mot undor a solomn conviction that thoir Mastor, Otiriut, was looking down on them from tho right haud of God. ‘Lhioro way moro thau tho usual juterost, for that vacant throne by tho #ide of the altar be- tokeued that tho diocoso was without ita head. I nood not tell yon what we had lost aud what wo bad to fill, 1t foll to my lot to sponk his oulogy. Thore was & Bishop to ‘be_elected to tako his laco, aud as rapidly as tho routine businoss could boe transacted wo u[flvrannlmd tho moment of that olootion, Every bioart was Leating fast; ovory chook was flushed with emotion, Moa folt deeply aud couscientiously, bub not & word way spokan that botrayed angty passion_or bittor Tostility. Thero was ouo man whom I and many othors carnestly dosired to bavo sy our spivitual hoad § o man whose maguificont oloquonco hng ofton thrilled mmeun;,gugmon; a mian_ whoko enimly lifo and enutiful chagactor 1y woll ~kunown to every ons lore. I was ot alrad Lo namo hin,—James Do Koven, onc of my donrent friends, tho worthiost mon 1 know in tha wholo world, to tako up the crosier which foll from tho nervoloss band of Dishop Whitohiouso; & mau who has boen more bittorly traduced aud more cruelly maligued than any man I know. His uamo was uot permitted to bo used, aud thorefore wa wora obliged to tske up tho very uoxt man in our hearts to bim, Prof, Soymour, of New York Citg. The hour had come. Wo knelt for silont prayer. Tho grent assomblage was so hushod that you couid hear the ticking of a littlo clock, and onch benrt sent up to God earnast potitions that ho might uot be overruled by prejudice, but might act 1a tho foar of dod aud for tha good of Hia Qhurch, Then one by oue, a8 we wota called, we, clorgy of Iili- nois, gavo our votes. Tho rostlt was aunionncad, hero was no choico. Again the roll-call, and thiy tima I, as tho teller, announced with flushed faco and joyous hicaxt, that Prof, Soymour wan nominated by tho clergy to the laity. Quickly did the purishes cast in their vote, and then camo the aunouncomont, in ite suddonnoss, like tho very voico of God, that Georga F. Soymour was chosen to bo Bishop of 1iuois, With a shont it ywas modo unnnimouy, aud iu a moment outburst tho Glorfa in Excolais, tho wholo assomblago crowding up to the froot, and, with uplifted faces, aud somo with sireaming oyos, chanting from thiolr vory hearts, * Glory bo to'be to God o high, and on carth peace aud good will.” I know Gearge Seymaur well; frionds In youth, aud friends in . advancing yoars, Wo stood togother winelecn years' ngo at ihe altar of little a village ehinrch— Lie to bo made a Pricss and I tobe uiadea Doscon in tho Church of God, Each bas rojoiced in tho othor's prouperity, and I hasteuod to bo tho firat toloyat his fock the assurance of my loynlty and iny affeotion. 1le will grace the lofty post to which he Lss been calicd. o iy nob'a man of commanding prosonce; but, as ono speaker well remarked, St. Paul bimself was contempli- Dbl in bodily presenco ; and thero bave been in- foriar-lookiug wnen magnificont giunts in intol- lect sud in forco. 1l8 learning is marvoloun. ‘Thora aro_few finor scholars ia Americn. Ilo las a fervid, burning oloquence, which carries conviction, and, as he invariably #peaks oxtem- pore, coinmands tho closost attention. Ilo was bora aud bred a gentloman, and has all hin lifo movod among the most refined and cultured of our laud. He las graclous, goutlo manners, aud wondorful personal maguotism, His powor of organizing and admivistration is well known, and 1o i ot this moment the powor and the con~ troof the Goveral Sominary of our Church. 1lis churchmanslup is of (he same stamp as that of Bishop Whitohouse, and tho sama bold exponont of thorongh principle that matked tho ous emi- nently warks the otior. Mo will tale up tie shicld aud sword as did tho doparted, and fight with couraga aud coustancy for the Churcl of God. I fool sure that woliavo mado u wiso ohoice, and ono which shows the dignity aud im- yportauce of this grost diaceso. T'his groat ovent over, thon came the olec- tion of tho othor honurs, nud here the noblost epirit of generosity was ovinced, o maxim that to the vietors belong the spolls wng_ignorod ns uuworthy of men who forgivo and forget on principle, and placos on the Standing Commitieo and on the delega- tion to the Gonoral Convention, and all other poiuts of trust, were gracefully accorded oven to ihose who bad opposed Boymour with fierce- noey, snd oven with unfairuoss, founded on ignorance, In that wors of conailiation, I am proud to say, I took su important part. You will sharo with mo the honors with which the Convontion loadod me, your Rector. 'Fhoy ro- flact aredit on you s wall ag on myself, oud you must focl, as 1'do, groat prids in the important soryices the laymen of this parish rgndor in the Couvention. Lhe laymen of draca Cuurch would be sadly missed from that assomblagoe, and the new Bishop will find in thom, as did the lust, his truest fricnds aud his wisest counsolars. Phore are but twoother pomtato which Iwould call your attoution, Oue is the ohauge of tho canon rogarding tho qualifications of vestry- men, Tho restriotion that thoy should bo com- munfeants heg boou found Lo he very burden- somo, and by many of us considered vory un- churehly, baptism alone being the tost of church membership. Wa battled for alacgor liberty that even thot, contendiug that vostrvolon wora merely keopers of the tomporalition; wo wero obliged, howover, to accept s compromise, and tho canon was chauged from communicauts to baptized persons, aud we hopo in that form will bo acceptablo to all. 'ho othor was the attompt on tho part of a dlstinguished layman to bind on tho dologatos to the Genoral Convontion in- structions about ritual, looking pmm{, to committing _this diocase on tho subjoct of ritual logislation of n ropronsivo charnctor. It was mes by tho promptest nud swiftest do- striotion, Nomo moy contend that tho voto takon was not an oxprossion of the foolings of tho house, Lut wowoll Imow thiat it was, aud the vote, Lo clerical and fourlay, {s proof of it,and tho Wholo gront amsomblage axajust It showod plain- Iy what this diocone thinke on tho mubject of toloration. You well know my sontimonts on that pont, 1 fear, somotimos, that I woary you with thom, but the subject ia 8o prossing aud 80 important, wo do need 8o truly the groatest and the brodest liberty. 'I'he eatholicity of our Church neoda so full and free o vindication, that I novor thanked God moro dovoully than when there rolled up that great continuous “Ayel™ on tho motion to lay tho obuoxious rasolutions In that Court o tho Capulots—tho Presidont’s tablo, Thoro was one dark spot in the bright hiato of the worl of tho past year, Thero wore gran records of coufirmutions, and ordinations, and baptisms, and churcl hull«llluiq but oh! whot a wrotehed pittanco given to tho diocosan mis wiona of the Church,—~not $2,000, and thia groat ud wealhy parlsh gavo less than $260. Inothor tings our oftorings were large, but hore so lit- ta, aud the wholo' total o beggarly, ON, may 1hiy diocesy swalon to a true sutiso of hor re- sponeibilitios in this matter, Iundreds of towns, to tiay nothing of largo viilnges, in this Btato, have no Lplscopal churol, and nover have nnly chureh sorvice. Lot us wako up in this thing, and lot us, tho chisf parish, show an ox- amplo to our followors, Lot us rosolve that wo will thls yonr at lonws doubls our of- forings of * lust yonr on this {whi" that the now Bishop may not flud his hands tied for waut of mnore mouna to u‘mml onr holy Churoh, 'I'he junior Wardon of this churoh ina momber _of the Lxoocutivo Committee of tho Minsion Board, sud he Jolns with wo in au earn- eat appeal Lo your gonorosity m this oauwe, whiok, next to your parish, should come olosoat to your bousts. Wo havo & now hoad. Lot us rally around hlw. Lot now lifo conrao through avery voln. Let new blood make new vigor. o can load, but he must bavo alds and captains, aud wtout mon at ntns_and devotod woman, to ministor and to support, Glve them to him,—porsonal Borvico, Drayors, and liborsl offoringe. Givo them to him for tho uso of tha Church of Obrlat, and for the winning of soula by the glory of our dear Savior, Josus Clirlat, — PROF. TYNDALL. Critlelam of tho RRecont Address Ly the Ttov. A, R Kittredgo. The Xov. A, E. Kittredgo pronched to a vory Inrgo congrogation laat ovening at tho Third Presbytorian Church, corner of Waslington and Carpontor streots, from John ik, 13: And 5o man bas_axcended up to Iicavon bnt e thut cama down from Icaven, ovon ths Sou of Man, which i3 In eavon, ° 11e spoke subatavtially ss followa: 'I'hio matorinliats Linve, practioslly, the moat as- touuding faith fn that which canuot be demon- straded, which rests on no sure ovidencs, and s darkened by imponetrablo mystery, So that it faith, ns opposed to reason, i the charactotistio of woak minds, thoy are of nll men the most childish and unronsonablo, Tio latcst manifosto of materialism fa that mattor is tho mother—tho producing canse—ol all things, Of courso, thon, Mr, Tyndall can and does domonatyate thus propasition, cleariug away all mystory, and plauting lus nowly-dis- covered fact upon tho solid vook of ovidenco, convineing to tho resson. By no moennsl Ife sadly confosses that whou bo strives tocom- prehiond the commcotion bLotweon mattor and mind, it 15 ‘“Jiko trying to moar m & vacuum,” Dut, novertholess, o aflims the councetion unsupported by s single proof. 1o mays: *I ecoin this mattor the promiss and potoncy of ovory form and quality of lifo." Wo answor, show us tho proof and wa will belleve It. P'rovo bow dead matter can pro~ duco fifo; provo bow tbls matter firat sprung from notbing into Ms prosont death; prove this mwatter, unintelligent wnd sonse- loss, oan givo birth to thought which, eagle-like, can boer no limitatlons, or giva birth to the con- eclonaness of will, which controls thought and shapao oheymstances, ‘Tho old maxim is, “lhke protucos ke, but hero fu mattor_produclug mind; death giving birth to life, Ho tolls us that when o bone prosses tho brain thero ju on_ apparont suspension of oll faculties, and from this ho argues that the soul censcs to be. Bub evon thoo, wo must 600 the evidenco that matter could give birth to this wonderful powor of thought, evon though it oxists but for adoy. But Mr. Tyndall know very woll that tho suspension of the rolation botweon tho soul nud its dnetrumont is no evideuco that tho soul ccases oven temporarily to bo. You may Insulate tho wire, but tue olectric 1luid existn a8 truly as beforo, He trles to provo o sinflarily betweon tho will of man aud what Lio calls tho will of a dog, but oven then he must provo how doxd mattor could produce freo will in bath men und anlnals, Thore is not ono par- ticlo of proof for this antounding proposition. Iudeed, "bo confessds “we must pass tho boupdary of experimental ovidence in order to roach tho iton that malter sprung from primot- dial forms,” Has Mr. Tyndall or any other skoptic ever witnessed matter doveloplng into animal ifo? lave thoy ever soon o man in the Jrocess of dn\-nlnymum from a monkoy? It so, arnum's wild anlmals may somo day bocomo iy patrone,—if ho keeps tiom long otiougl, But graut all theso nssnmptious, and you hava only rcached s moro remoto wocond causo, and tho question remains, What powar or forco was that which croated matter 8o rich in posal- bilitics, and which moved upon snatter, causing It to givo birth to a }ife and a power £o incon- coivably grander than itself ? Tho spoakoer il- lustratod his orgument by tho egg, whieb, con- tainipg all the matorial ‘necesbory Lo form tho chicken, yeb must bo ncted upon from withoub by the foreo called kicat, Roferring to tho siatemont of Wyndall, that roligion is meroly ewmotional, and” God an im- nginnry being, changing from age to ajo, he euid Lhat such o religion, if this wera true, wonld bo a shaw, and all omational lifo buitt upon ita do- lusion.” Only an idiot or a madman could’ love an imaginary God! Tho ultimate consequenco of all such teaching, if accopted, would bo tho downfallof all religion for, AT thought is avolved fram mattor, then thought 18 without responsi- Dility, aud honeo sin 18 nnpossible, and all wor- ohip is & farco, 'Lhio speaker then contrastod Christian faith with thoso bold assumptions of Athelsm. His argument wag, first: There aro limits to human thonght in all investigations. Second, faith in tho testimony of a reliable witnoss is alwaya ac- copted and reliod on a8 reasonable. W'his head was illustrated at sonio length, Third, Caristisn faith is not o fuith in & dogma of nuy chureh, creeds of human manufacture. but o faith in Jouns Chnist, the rovaintion of God toman. 8o far from being o blind faith, ftisag cloar and uumistakablo as a demonstration in algobra. ‘I'he province of reason is to examine the cro- dontials of Christ, and whon ahe declnres that e came down from Ilcavon, faith in ILis teach~ inga ls not cmotlonal but reasonnble. What are the proofs that 1o came dosn from Ieaven ? “Lhio #ncaker gava thew, os follows: Fieat, His urity; second, 1iis divin olaime; third, His lovo: fourth, His miracles: #fth, Mis teachiugs; mxth, s denth; eovonth, Iils roswrrection; oigbth, Iia salvation mcot- ing tho wanls of tho doul; ninth, tho experienco of tho Christian world for ninotoen conturies, which thoe wpeaker termod the fifth gospel, writton in tho Lonria of bolisy- crs, Clhrist Is thus proved to be Divine in Ilis origin ; 1o is tho guida, tho safe guide, of evory goul. ‘We may pot undorstaud tho mystories of tho suporantiiral, but tho Christian kilow whom ho hos belioved, ‘I'he spoaker illustrated this faith fu Chirist by his own oxperionce on the dosert, whero falth in his DBedouin guide was his ooly wuy of accomplishing the jour- noy—a ~faith which was reasonablo, * he- caieo based upon tha knowledge of tho fuido, The speakor closed by urging all to ac- copt tho Lord Jesus Ohrist ng thelr !ix ndo throngh Iifo, s their rod aud staft in death, tuat all ab Tast might awako jn Hiu likonces, aud sco 1iim fuco to faco, 1o hoped Tyndall wonld bo thora pitting as a liitle child at the feet of bis Savior and Redoomer. 1o would thers Jearn how littlo hie kuew by tho flickoring light of finite rosson of the possibilitlos of an immortal soul. et ) BAPTIST REQUIREMENTS, Sormon by the Rev. T, W. Goodapeed, of tho Secomd Church, The following sermon, preached yestorday morniug by the Rov. T. W. Goodspeed, of tho Socond Daptist Church, corner of Morgan and Mouroe streets, will bo of Intorest, sotting forth a8 [t docs the wants of his denomination in this city. 1tis ne followas And thoword of the Lord was spread nbroad throngh- out ol the seglon.—dcs, aiit., 40, Tho time of our third quasterly collegtion has como. In March we gave about 3700 for foreign missfons, In Juno, Mr. Vau Motor came, und youeeut hun awuy hufly with $700, for his worl in Italy, To-day wo aro asked for $1,600 for missionary in Chicago and viclnity, Of tho 86,000 nooded, it isthought by tho brothron that, considering our numbers and more than averago prosperity, $1,000 ia fair proportion for us to give, Itherofors ntk you to asmstmo in pro- viding it. 1t 18 barely poesible that some one may sug- gest that wo ara not avlo to contribute so large an amonut. Far be it from me to iay upon the cturch any burdon it i4 not ablo to carry, Dr. Northrup said to mo tho vthor day, * This church is able to do anything it undertakes,” and I did not vouturo (o contradiet him. This church canstitutes ono-sixtieth of all the Daptiets of this_great Stato. It onght to bo abloto give M,Gflg for homo missions, Blx thous- and dollara scems u small eum for all tho DBaptist churches of Chieago and vicinity to coutribnte for giving the Gospol to this great community ; but wo ropresout more than ong-fllth of all the membors iu thess thirty and niore churches, 1t onght to bo casy thion for us to givo somothing moro than one-iifth of the amount noeded, If wo should give §2 each, the whola would bo raised. If tho cards dis- tributed should como back, ouch boaring a sub- weription of niot less than 25, wo should have tho 1,000 pubneribod, I concludo, thorefora, that wo aro well ablo {o give the amount asked for, It is porfeotly ensy to socuro it, if every ono presens will do necording to his abillty, Iaving wettled this wmatior of vur ability so sntisfuctorlly, wa nood to know for whut'the monoy is roquired, aud whethor thore is any nocouslty that it shall bo sosured. In & sormon {\rmwhed & year ago last March on denomina- iounl eutorprise, I waid, among othor things: “Nefors nuothor winter there ought to bo a chureh and moeting-houso at Lawndalo, at Englo. wood: If wo go alittlo outsido, at 1lyde l'urlr‘ aud 8180 noar the sito of tha North™ Churoh,” 1 paid thero ought to bo throe uew churohes, I fourod to oy thoro would o, lost I should be proved a faluo propliot, Dut thera wero sono Wwho u.ou,f).n tho suggestion of that sermou tho onthualastio dreams of youth and {noxporienco. But I muat confoss to you that I have never in wy droams evon imsgined tho raplditv ne tho ohnroh-extonslon work of the paes ofghtoon montha in thia oty and viclnity. Within that time soma NMtoen Snwclmrnhun havo boen organizod i and sbout Chieago,—perhaps & lnrger numbor, but I am ablo to name Englo- nood, Lawndalo, Twenty-fifth_styoot, Onk Park, Maywood, Highland Dark, Highwood, Btocke Yards, Danish, Bwodo on Twonty-fifth etecot AVmnotka, 1ivde Park, Evangol ab Rock Islaud Car-Works, Immanuol on tho North Side, nnd ‘Thirty-novonth strect. 1t may bo that one or two of theso are not yot fully orgganized, but thoy aro #0 nontly independont :xTunrcheu 08 to bo self-supporting, and noll-govorning, aud ara m procoss of organiziug. II thero hing beon any nuch record of church oxtonslon in tlls country or any othier rinco tho days of tho Apostlos, I hnve navor hostd of it Aud this oxtonsion hus not cannisted {u tho moro multiplioation of ohurch organizations. Moro remarlable still have boew tho resultn in ohnrols building, lero hava boen adozen now oburalios built—Jinglowood, Lawndals, Morgan Tarl, Rook lsland Car-Works, Bwedo Church on the North 8ide, ITighland Park, Norwood Park, Aus- tin, Thirty-rovonth stroct, Providence, and North Star. At Wilmette a fino bulldivg Las boon Youglt, and i now hold for s in anticipation of the orgnnization of »now church, Havoral now churches are nowr bnlhllnq—thn Tirst, Ohvet, Evanston, snd Hydo Park. Tho cost of theso now edifices will not fall bolow $300,000. ‘To ma this is an excoodingly interesting page of Clriutian higtory. Whore I8 the city, whore the donomination, that can -show rcnul:s liko theso? At the Jate Epiaoopat Qonyention 1t was roported that oro now church hnd beon organ- izod during the yoar in {ho entiro Btate. In 1851, the Baptist churches of Nowark, N. J., or- ganized a Clty Mission Booloty, in which they alt co-oporated with great intorost for twenty years, whon they mada s roport of their worl. ~Nino now churches had boon organized, aud tho resnltys wero thought romarkable. Nothing like it bad boen known in tho country. Iut in o yoar and abalf in our midst nearly twice nine churches hava sprung into oxistenco, and a8 many moro mooting-houscs beon built, Wo neod to onon our oyod o the great futuro God opons boforo us tn this city, and nwaka Lo now Christian anterprisa and” denominationnl publio spirit, Tho results of theso oighteen montha are only an Iudication of tho progross of o futuro. 'hoy are ltko the firat grasscs and dlowora and leaves of spring. 'Thoy forotoll the verduro ‘and bloom snd fruit of " tho summer, And thoy slso summon the husbaudnmen to toil. The season of fruit is the timo of lnbor. And it 18 not othorwiso in God' spirit- unlkingdom. ‘Ihis mulliplicalion of churches, all this erection of church edificos, hay Drought grost burdens upon mmny of our brathron. ~In all theso now Intorests they have ‘been compolled to give as probably they never did botoro. I was in tho very mldat of this gon- oral advance that the panio cimo upon u¢, and pacelyzed tho countey wids torear and amito i with disaster. As o hurricane ewoeping over o country prostratos aliko structuros yot unfinish- cd, thoso pooily bullt, and those onkoned ‘by ngo, and loaves only destructlon to mark its uth, go this financial whirlwind swept over the and, brivging now enterprises fo mit untimely ond, a3 well as destroying thoss of long-gland- ing, deranging the busiucss of tho wholo coun- try, punlyziuq indusiry, and making almost overy man pooror than bofore. Now it ia o ro- mavkable thing that this dark and terriblo finan- cial storm has neithor blown dowa ono of theso now churches vor caused the builders to give ovor tloir olfoits in any new cntarpriss, In all leo{ have hold bravoly on their way, Eunhlng their orgaulzations to completion, and building thoir houges of worship and winhing now con- vorts by the puwer of the Gospel. ost of them Lave boon greetly prosperous, and, after asking our help in dedicating their bouses of worship, are ablo to takecare of thom- eclves and givo nud to others. Ibis not strangoe that = few need fhe assistauco of ~their Drothren. Our brothren a$ tho Stock-Yardsneed encouragoment, aud ought to bo sidad for tho yoar to como, 'Tho South Church, formerly a mission of this churoh, in conscquence of the puuie and chango in tho population, hns lost ils numbers, boen compolled to give up its pastor, and is in soro need of encouragement and nid, I'ho Baptist Union o fow months ago reuled a chureh on the North Side, took chargo of tho Sunday-achool which wao being sustained iu it, 8ot n.studont to pronchivg oud visiting, and now the Immanucl Baptist Chiurch {8 organized with forty membars, and I don't doubt a noblafuture. But whito thoy'aro gotting oo thir feot, thoy necd for & fow months to como tho aid we prom- ined at tho begiing, No church in the city Las beon moro wondor- fully bleased of God in spiritunl things than tho Twonty-fifth siroet, 1t bas one of the largest Bunday-schools in the allil. It has enjoyed an almost continuous revival sinca its Ol’gxlflllfl‘lflfl Foportiug to the Association 121 additions, and 171 wembers altogothier, Unfortunatoly, it has & dobt of $10,000 ou its houso of worship. Tho houss waa built by the Yirst Church. Tho Into dostruction of their own chureh houso, and tho necossity of building for themsolves, hns mado the Iirst Church foel too poor tonid the Twenty- fifth Btreot farther. It jg a church of tho poor. Its pooplo oro slmost univorsally without ~meaus, and feol utlerly uuable, in addition to meoting ourrent expensos, to cary their debt with its 1,000 of interest, Thoy ought to be, thoy must bo, nlded. T thoy can bo hiolped for o yeur or two, with & contintie suco of anything approaching their previous progperity and-tho coming of bolter times, they will catry thoir own burdchs, Out of this Church hus grown onothoer noed- ing help. A Scaudinwvian student found thoro two or throo conyortod Swedes, o bogan to hold meetings with them ; others came fn; are- vival followod ; a fSwedlsti branch was organizod, and now bas aboub forty membors, Their pns- tor, though » stadent, i a marriod oan, and naeds mora ta support bim than i their pavetty— many of them boing torvant gleli—thoy can at preont pay bim. I think hia snlary Ia abont €600 & year. His work is so fruitful that we can well aiford to Lielp them far tho first yoar. ‘I'ho Baptist Uuion hus incurred liabilitles for tho now church edifica at Morgan Iark, and asks ouraid to dischsrgs thom, Quo of the autorprikes in which wo ara more intorested thon any other is tho church at Hydo Dhvk, At won Uin Enibns of Hrathur Dayiies that called thet church into existenes, It was, perhiaps, an oncoursgoment that inducad bim to aceopt its poatorate. Wo are intorested in bis careor. Having introduced bim into tho denom- fuation, we are concortied for lia success. Alact- ing unexpected difliculty in securing a placo of worship, hig l‘moplo have determiued to build, ~ In thelr doublo burdon thoy nood and must haye assistance,—assistouco in giving Brothor Buyliss anough to live on th fiyst yoar, and in building their house of worshi, T must nsk your attontiou to one caso mor Tho Swedih Chureh on thoe North Sido; in re~ building aftor the fire, incurred o dobt, No peo- lo bave strugglod woro heroically than they. ut, baving notes in tho bauk to maot, and being throatened with tho logs of their property, thioy camo to tho Daptist Union. Wo told them ¢ they would rafso #500 thomselvos we would fry to holp them to $500 more. Thoy thought it | impossibto, but, undor tho spur of ecesity, did it, and are now depending on us to suve thelr {vrué)urfiy, tho banker heving estended tho timo 0 Octover. 25 Thia is the ostremity in which soms of theso fniorosts find thomsolves. 1n this oxtromity they have como to the Laptist Unlon, and tho Bapiist Union comes to tho churehies, I have prosonted this siatomont of the condition, tho oxtromity, the wants, of gomo of our churchos, that you may give, if ot all, intelligently, I havo told you the amount that ia nukc&: ; I hava told you for what it i needed, nud I am confi- dont that 1 could bardly prosent to you s causo worthier of your benovoleuce, L lavo been accustomed at this soason of tho year to look oub with you upon the destitute fiolds, and the noedy nud struggling churches throughout our grout State, andask your coutributions for miysion work in tho Stuio nt large. Altora year of groatrevivals aud unusual ohurch prospeity, bocauso of thoso rovivald aud this prosperity, aud the consequent orgauization of new and fecble churchos, therois us much noed of our contributions ay over, and earnost outroatics Lavo como to mo for holp. Bu you cauhot lasve your own fumily to sutfor whila you go to roliovs thio wants of somo one in tho next biook. If charity bogins at homo, the time soems to bnvo come for us to extend it to our bretbron just sround us, ~Yor gnnn we have contributed tominsion work in tho Lato, the country, the world. Iut it sooms fm- possiblo now to turn away from the groat winty of struggling churchos In Chicago, (od as Jaid upon us the work of evangelizing this city. If e noglect it, who will undortako it ? If we are wiso aud liboral, we shall not forfoltthat Divino Dlosslug which lias givon 1 tho foromost placo among tho Christian denominutions of this city, and mny hopa to give direotion bo tho roliglois life of this motropolis, 1 wo would mako our Pprinoiples—whioh wo bolleve ta bo the punciplos of tho Now Lestnment—domiuant in Ghiesgo, wo must bolp forward to slability and an assured prosperity our churchos which ara now strug- gling far lito, Wo munzoncnnmfo- wise system of ohurch extonon, and muliiply our chinrchos au rapidly ws it ean bo duno successtully. Everything deponds upon us having many and good” churohes ; upou putting thom wherevor thoy are mbduh, wherover thoy can ronch tho masgon of people, and thus making thow strong, T'ho churohies 5ave tho commumiy 3 thoe olurehos convyort men to Chriat tho olnirohos sustuin our fustitutions of learning; tho ohurchos sond the Qospol to tho world ; and the churches of tho cltlondo all thoso ¢ b m‘:\"’m 2 il thasn étilngu. a8 thoao of tho country o can {lll this city with Daptist churchies, and ke thom ntrong nd icnatods, o, oan 1l tho Biate with thom nlaa, 1f we can mako onr privciplos domfuant in Chlcay 0, Wocan mako {hom dominant thrauglout the Sinte, 1{wocan take pussosafon of tlin clties, and make thom aontres of donominational power, wo can tako nossoaslon of tha wholg conntry for the glory of our Lord and the salvation of nian, Whon, thorafore, I plead tha cating of our now and uow fooblo churches, I am ploading the cause of Now Tostmuent rallgion ; of the donominntion itgelty of all our denom{uatiouat institutionu and agonoles. I am Pleading not for to-day only, bt for the fature; not far Ohicago, but forall the gront Westorn Bmplro of whiey. Chle eago Is the Motropolls, and'on whielr {t will tus Ita hand for good or il in all tho to sono. T o can holp #ho fooblo chiutrchies on t thelr foot luv:llétln ;ng fl:‘ny Mflmm stroug, und holp ud to bear the burdens wi L WO A 2 e oepectad it sl S 4 expectod that all, or moat, of oy will mado & contribition f0r thin. ity bt wotk on some ono Sunday in_Octobor. Tl af- Tort will Lo mado ta raise 4,000 or $7,000, Tho Univorsity Plugo Church makos its contribution this morning, It han fallon to us, with thaw, to #ob an oxmnplo for all tho rest, Brothrou, slial it bo & worthiy ona or not? Bhallit bo nn csamplo which thoy ean be urged to emulate, or oua nue worthy to bo followad ? It will bo tho slandnrd ot appoal. O] that wa could meko an offorung far ns cauao that ball bo an inspiration to ovory othor chureh, aud insuro the succoss of onr wi. Qertaking, We aro told in the Now Testamont that Tesug stond ou day in thio templo, and fora long timg. watehed the peoplo au_they hrought their ofore ings for God's cauno. Tiek aud poor togothor camo and loft tholr gifts, And 1t is ospocially vocorded that He commended ono poor widow bo- cauno slie guva Der lust poig, | Mo in horw por dny, and, 18 wo malio our ullerings for his causo, He in looking on, Muy every oncof us destto 5o to givo that wo may have tho commendation of onr Lord. —_—— NOTES AND OPINION. Tho easualtics among Congroasmen MAY NOW begiu to ba countedup, viz.: {wo, defealod by tha peoplo; forty-tlve, dofeated or druppod by thewr porsy frionds; thirty-nino, voluutarily out of th way. And novoral distriots to hosr frois, —~The St. Louls Democrat counts up nevonty- six newspapers supporting tho People's tlokot (Gontry for Governor) in Missourl. [t says: “Thera ronuain of Republican papors kuown to us only soven which still advocato a straight ticket, and ton as yot uncommitted.” ~When the Illfuois Probibitionists sclect o novw caudidato for Stato Superintondont of Pub- lic Iustruotion (vice 3ra, Jennio I, Willing, do- clined), porhaps thoy may Lt the fancy of core {ain Tudopoudent Meform oditors to whom Mr, Litter ia distasiefal. —Tho Tuscola Guzelle ceases to bo Indopend- ont Roform, and supports tbo whole Itepubliean ticket. The Sutem Industrial Advocale drops out tho word * Induslrial" fromita namo, and with it tho Independent Toform tickot, and hoiata tho Democratio flag. The Fafrilold Democrat also changos back from Indopendont Reform to Domocratic, ~-Congressman Darrero's defoat, in the Ro- publican Convention at Pooris, last weok, s not wall reacived by his hovolunen in Fulton Caunty, ‘Lhe Lowistown paper calis it o * brutal insult,” tobo *‘cloquently redented” at tho polls ; and tho Canton papor (James K. Magic) exolaims ¢ e searcely kuow what is our duty.” —Arkaneas oleots Governor, Legislaturo, ctc, under tho now Coustitution, Oct, 13, sud Gon- gresemon on tho old olection-day, Nov. 8, The Logitlaburo will moot Nov, 10, The DBrooks- Clayton partisaus, Ignoriog the Octoboer clection, will assume to elect a Legislature of tuoir awn iu Noverber, . —Tho Reformors in South Carolina, at thoir Conveution, called for Oct, 8, will probably noms inato Judge Jobn ‘L', Green, of Bumter, for Gova cruor. 'Who Washington Chronicle anys 1 The nomination of hamborlaln for Governor of Houth Carvliun does ot Tueet witha heatty indorsos ment of the eutira Ropublican party of that Hlate, and thoso favorluy u completo political reform refude ta gccepl him a3 n earuest of reformatory fntent, Bhould the Loltera dovclop auy contldorublo strength, call o convention, and Honinate au hoest, straightiors ward Republican, who las beretofore not ‘been filentl dled with uny schieues of plunder in the Htate, It i3 Los loved thut Ohiamborizin can bo defeated, —In the Cherleston (8. C.) Distiict the rega. Inr. Ropublicans have nominated Maj. C. . Duttz, now Holicitor of the Civcuit, for Congrees, vico Itapsier, color.d, defeatod. And this 18 the sort of man o is: Tho Orangeburg Netcs sfatex autlorilatively that Bos Heitor Tuttz will uol-pros, the Mdictment sgatust dov, Doses at tho Jutiusty toriu of the Orangoburg Court, ~Col. Willinm H. Dotts is the Nopublican nominco for Congrass in the Third Alabama Dis- trict, vico Pelham, beaten in tho convention. —Tho Ropublicans of the Sisth Penvsylvania Diatriet unve nominated William Ward, of Cliea- tor, vico Washington Townsend. Gon. Lang. borne Wister, of Philadolphis, is tho Iopublican nominooin (ho Eighteontls Pennsylvanin District, by virtto of lils summer-rosidonco at Dunoannon, —Clement 11, Sinnickson, of Salom, N. J., is the Ropublieau nemineo for Congrossin the First District of that State, io the displacement of John W. Hazelton, present member, Samuel A, Dobbins is ronominated in the Sccond New Jor sey District. In the First District Convention the notorjous Jim Scoyol, nftor rouch noiso and -fuss In tho cauvass, doyeloped s atrougth of va votes! —~Thoe Washington correspondents wore very suro that Montgomory Blair would bo nominated for Congrons, some wocks ago, in tho Bixth Maryland District, but William Walsh was noms inated. ‘Thon thoy fell back on Raverdy John- sou for the Fiftl District,—no mistake this time, "fho Fifth District Convention, last weel, nom- inated Dr. Lli J. Henkle, and it doos not appoar that Johuson was o much os nmmed. ‘The Washington correspondents should stick to their " busivess, which is not iu the live of makiug Con- gressmon. —Tho nomigation of Horace Maynard for Goveraor of Touncesoe, aud the canvads ko pro~ “poses to make on s Civil Rights platform, is very histastoful to Ropublicans {n East Tennesscs, who rosisted it all bioy conld, and who doclsrg (hat evon tho last stroughold of tho party (liod Dutler's distriot) is no good ag Jost alrcady, —~Colorado nawapapera and Louigiaua newa, of curront dates, go well togothior. Tho Denver Ny, o woll-cutablished Ropublican paper, eaya of tho Colorado olection just held : “They fFederal ofiice-hiolders] ridiculo tho ides that the rébuke given o tho Lrosident und tho Governor il be of any adsantag 1o tho peopl of tho Tarrito. Ty, becauss Grantant McCook hue the nower to punish thénsjur at, Accoriing to (hin logic, it i3 waloidal for Amerlean citizens 10 proteat_nnd foy Lo potition, sud 10 people of n ‘Crrritory havo no Tights that the Bresle dent aud il8 sceldental Governor are bound (o reapagt; T other words, the Colorodv victims of Torsitorial aesalugo bl bettor look out, or Grant. snd MeCook will bit thot ngaf, "Lhis {8 Just whut, tho News hoa Charged ; that Grant and McCook proposed to rula thils poople ugaiust thicir wall, sud, i they restst, to smake thew feel bo rod, —Wa Lhilnk tho masscs of tho poople care vory Jittlo for polilical parties, und aro daily growiug to caro lezs, No one esn full to sco an oarnost desiro for % change of somo sort becauso thors is ueod of it, and thoy do not care whathor thab change be oifected thirough a rovolution of tho Xtopubliean party or through its defeat, As a Ttopublican, wo have hopod to 60o a reformation witlidn tho parky.—Danvilie (2.) News. —_— A Dispuio in Latin, From the Londom Athenmum, The following from o nowspapor, dated March 18, 1780, hau & modern roferonce: Frlday, Mavel 12,—Tologna, March 3, Tho day be- foro yeaturduy, Mudemolasile Toure By, o prtu- ato of this Unitvuralty, ngod 23, disputed with tha Pro— Tewsor {1 ths Latiss tolsgite, (he Question was, Whether the bonea of the human body bad their aceretion by tie tineana of certamn flisees 2 The Anatomint malutufoed tho Aflirmativo aud the Lady tho contrary, Sli apoke with great eloquence for an hour and & Buif ; ond cone Buuontly wze _exivouiely apploudod by tho aseonbis. “Whw young Femals Doctor {5 liers in great conshiorae tlou: wlen she took hor degreo ubout 3 or 4 years 230, tho ceromony was perforined With a good doal of sulemuity { tho Cardinal Legato and Archibishop, aud tho Gardlual do Loliguac, wero present 3 and tho last mado her a present of & gold suULWLOX, =7 Daily Journul, The vender will racognizo in the givor of tho snull-box u fnmous Yroneh diplomust aud writor, Ministor Plonipotoutiary for France at tho signe ing of tho Troaty of Utracht, Odd nw such & gt scomy to w, It e not neadful to rupposo it wad intonded othorwiss thuu ns n compliment to tho lonrned l:td)"L 8tlll Joes aro wo raquired to lmagiuo this part of the story to be due to the wiokod nvention of tho corrospondont of the Loglisk jourwy Sl