Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1874, Page 2

P H [omieo and polency of every form and quality of ite, Tooking back, hia would not wish to dlagniso Iila convietion In the presonco of mankind, and this sconviction fs, that he discorms in mattor “iho promise and potonoy of overy form aud quality of ifo.” Matter tublo to dovalop iteell forwnrd in any qnnllty of lifo botwoen the worm and the statesman, Lo such an ond it posseesos thio potency. Tor, 1t Delty should Lo essontial to the traucitof matter to lifo, then malior woutd not posreen tho potency claimed for it by thio groat, sclentiat, Henca wo find n theso caro- ful and clorr wotds of Mr, T'yndall an ayowa! of materialisn, pothaps as ho understood it, but whicl wa ahiall uot by anymeany accopt ag neces- sitating Buch a conclusion, Not #o casily con any ono miud, or auy echool of minds, rid tho universo of tho presenco of a God, It g not to bo nssumed that either Alr. Tyndall or mny of lls iliuatrions companionn reslly deglra that a Ileavenly Father sud & fu- turo lifo for man “should be handed over ta tho world of legeud and dronm. ‘Thore seema to bo no reason for oharging upon thom any such wish. 1t 18 ovidont that thero havo been men &0 wicked in nil their dealings with their follows that thoy have hoged or “said in their bearts, there it no Gods"” but, when welook upon todert men, who are honorablo in all thelr relations, and who aro doop students yather than wicked aouls, wo must fiud in their athelam tho elucero couclusion of their minds, And, fur- thermore, it must not bo supposed that auy seientist or comuon thinker has g0 detormincd this matterthnt Lo fa alvays on atheist, for tho samo pasaibility of doubt hich leads the rolig- fous wan or the Christisn through alternato eace and painful dlstiust js present aleo with ho sa-called ntheist, and must bring him many o moment -whou the lenrt fecls the prosence of God. Tho word stlie- fsm," thoroforo, when appliod to this man or that, indicates only tho wost promivent and ot constaut stato of wind, aud does uot imply that auy huwaw honrt has over been ublo wholly {o banish tho idea of tho Influita One; for, a3 the fact thau Christisn evidenco ia not mathe- matical antails upon tho Curistian tome hours of darknesa, so tho poraliol fact that atheism is not Zemausttabla exyposes tho avoned matarinlist 1o the juroada of beantiful times aud sensonn in which tho othoism bocomes wenk indeod. Lo fow sthelsty with whom it bas been my fortuuo {0 convorso lavo confested thut atlong inter- Vale, porliaps otico_a yoar, i sumo suddon man- ner, for causcs perlaps unkuown, the conyiction that _tler is a Ggd has como, and for an instant has filled the heatt with a strange dolight, As no oue cau be wiso at all hours, Ao 10 ono can o8t in tho snme faith or doubt. Bus, aismissing the easontial quality of atho- {srn, ils sincovity &nd occusional distrust, wo ma inqtiire whether the matetinlism of Mr. Lyndall neeessarily oxeludes belief iu u spirit-world, and oven in a God, 1t may well bo doubted whother his thoory has in auy way touched tho question of saul id any of its formas, Liuman, angelie, or divine. Tho question'how sonls come 18 very distinot from the question whether they bave come, aud wheve thoy will go. 16 is only the former of theso idens which is approached by Lo recout addreas of the Lnglish scholar. 1o discorns in matter * tho proniise and potoucy of overy form of life,” 'his assertion does not, therefora, affect the quality of lifo—conscious Tifo—hitherto supposed to cxist u the universe, but simply tolls us that, instead of Luving como de swhilo, it bas 1ollod up out of & material baga. What Mr, Tyndall himself infers from his theory ignot & emall matter of importauce, tho im- portant inquiry boing, What couclusion doos his Ulseory necessitato, even if it were truoto tho jnost extromo degreo? It neoms evident that, if true, Lis hypottosis does not touck: tho fuct or quality of any spirit-life, ut touchos only tho origin of that life, and loaves us & Bupronio Kpitit also, but with wonderful boldness assigna to this Bupremo spirit an origin. Life is bero upon carth a8 o fact, It jan wou- derful phouomenon, 1low it Lus swaried over this footetool for thousauds of Jenre, and through wht foums of grandeur it hns pasacd, under the namo of man! Lok back upon 1ts patls of glocy,—the glawing wille of tho groat glup of poetry, eloquenco, arclitecte, iusic, Tanguago, friondsbip, love, and bosuty |’ If yout will: liston to tho lips of Mones ag he unfolds the carly principles of justico, andto the Romun Iawgivers when they aluo delivercd the law ; if you will, behold tho olegant works mien has wrought from the * knobs and flowers * of Sol- omon's tewspla to tho decorations of Athens aud the ombalmed Pompeii ; if you will, recall the poctry from David und fomer to Danta ; if you will, 8eem to hear ngain the eloguonce from Per- icleh to ossuct ; or if, with tunder heart, yuu think of all the high love sud beau- ty that- hayo morched along in graad procession fiom Rtuth aud Antigono® io' Yeuobin and Beatrice, you will_confess tiuat o Jife of man is a faes that overwhelms by its mag- nitude and bowilders by it beauty, Aud in such a survey of man we havo leth out o thousand ‘wonders,—tho joysnnd kports of his childreu,tho ‘marriogo altar wieathed with flowet, thoaltar of worship vocal with soug and piayer, the homo with yiues above its windows and roses by its path, aud tho tomb wet with tears ; and bave, Trom the paverty of both languege and thought, been compolled to rest in tho conclusion that human life is a wonder, immonse and thrilling. Now. matter, according to 3Ir. Tvndall, pos- sosseu tho power to produco such a form aud quality of Wfe. Let it be so. Hub this dead matter wihicl haa sueh * pronuso «nd_potency " 1snot coutined to our litle star. In the vast Lieavana our globe floats as only ona particlo of dust in & measureless sunbeam, and heuco: if in our littlo star tho promiss sud potency of mat- ter nro wo offective, it must Lo toat othier renlus may pokscss a for and quality of Life oqual to or higher than_this wonderful existenca which wo bobold; and beneo, ns 3. Fyudall'y theory creates man, it pooples ull space, and explamns a hoaven of ungols wt the same inktant that it ex- plawe o world of men, ‘Tho sawe succession of Inntorial causes thut gives us mun gives us othor yationsl beings, sndlouce, botweea tho ma- torisism of ‘yudall and ' the spiritualism of Robert Dals Owen, or of tho DBible, there is no fogeal difforence, M. Owen eimply sayiug, “Tlere the spirits uro,” and Mr, Tyndall simply tolhng him whence they cane, According to the recont sddress, matter haw every * promiso aud potency,” pud hence there i8 no lwit to bo ssigned to the digaity and power of tho Boul that may lave como-up from the doptlis of the past oternity, sud henca ampla room is mado for uny serapbim that auy mwd may drcam of os inbabiting the sifout doptha of spaco. Henco, inslead of upproaching tha quention whetkier there bo somo ono govein- ing apirit, with somo central homo, the philos- ophy of Mr. Tyndall must conteut itaclf with 1elling us how that Chief latolligence way anda, for, by his own admission, Lis system has no roforenco to the quality Of o fums. but to the origin of & fact, lustend of requesting us to givaup the fact of angel or deily, tho uroat student ouly asks us to loarn how tho fact camo, Giveus tho fact of lifo, buman, angelic, and divive, and wo shiall be very charitablo toward any wlio #oek to ind tho machinery by which tho fifa ws slowly or rapidly wrought out, Huving seci now that tins ** thoory of material nateucy © does not affect tho fact of soul, butonly Tn origan, aud does not doaway with a governing goul, but only secks the mochanism that gave riso 'to such a woul, wo may slko veo that this tlieory of lifo docs not affect tho thoory of destiny ; for if matter possessen such a potenocy of lito that 1t has peopled all #pace with mon and epirite, o that thu atwosphero around tho earth is just as probably a homo of tho unscon spirits as the curtli in of the seen, no ono is compotent to dony thut 1t nay carry mau across from the mortal to the immortal,” If the poleney of matier i such that it can produce the plienomenon of huraa life,—can prodico a miud ikot thunks, @ hewrt that loves, & conscionce that hates tho wrong, & and Joves the right,—if it can wrilo our pooin and develop our urts, and if it can peoplo all spaco with augelic and sven divinolife,~we should dis- likso to sy that it had_no potency to help man's woul from a humble life to a higher oue,—from & coarse body to w finor one, Lnt we have ox- limusted our criticisin of this materialiera whon we Bay that it doos not touch a siuglo faat of tuo whalo #pirit world, but is nothing but an inquiry Thow any fuct ever came. Having found that lifo comes from matter, it gives up the onigma how watter Logau und, liaving burtered uway the mystory ol tha spirit, (nkes back in paymont tho mystery of such *potont” dust, A thoory which (hua makes room for thespiritual world of the most imagiuative Christian, for even tho apocalypro of & Bt. Johu, and which only {olls 18 how thiugy bogau but' not what thoy are, nor where they will carry us,—a theory \hioh daves to eay fothing about tha quulity of God, Dt ouly points out tho place of Iis infancy, is fhicory curiona rather han dostructiva or alam- ing, Instead of voing alarmning it oniy reminds us of tho imprestive value of un urgumens of {hie great fact of what wo call eoul, "l pationt naturalists may toll long and Liard ta bolve tho wholo mystory of the past, but, Do thioir conclnsion this or thit, hero is tho soul {twoll, parfeatly unmoved by its origin, thought- £ on1y about its doxting, Come Ly whit far-off path it niay, Jiore it is with inind, with love, witls Thatity, with hope, with o lova of truth wlich oan mover learn ail things, ond with ® fonging for & blossaduess Whiol this caroor cannot glve, Ifiliore wasa ‘‘potency of mattor” whicli ot all this going, =l we oan say is, that that * potenoy * can muke, nud diaw e, an angolio world, a_divine world ay woll, aud wo shuhl oxpect mankist to bo carried along by thia witd which earried up dust from chaos, aud made the particles turn into angels on tha way. Heler far, however, i the thoory of tho Uiblo, for it doos not ask man to attompt tho loanon how anything evor began to_bo,~a lesson whiol man cannot loarn (for if ho creates spirt ho mvtat agsumo matter, abd it ho croats matier ho ‘must assumo spirit), but which sots him down In A reatnr, sndl communds him to nasume & spirlt, and to begin his study, not over tho orlgin of the world, but oyor the sublimo reatitics around and DLofore him. All \tho havo renchod mlddls 1ifo, unloss lhofl have bean blossod with wouderful powor of faitl and uniformity of lomporament, havo folt In many an_ hour the oy totich of unbolief, and have looked up to the sky and wonderod If any- whora thero woro & God, anywhero thers wero now in homes of bliss those who had walked onco upon this beautitul littla carth. Wo havo found no enro for this and wonderment so offectunl as the firm resolvo always Lo cast our~ solves upon the bighest concoption of hummn 1ifc, and assume s real its bost morals, and best dntics, and best hopes, The years of lifo aro not many, but thero is somothing godike in man {hnt teaches him that Lo shoutd fling his Dieart upon the best ideal, and, even If lifo bo n mystery, liva it out well to the very oxtremo mo- ment of 'the beating heart. - Novw, tho best ideal ia that which assumee tho reat wpiritunl destiny of the woul; it is going orward, oud not downward or baokward; it must nesamo thie roality of its best hopos, nnd Dbest motals, and best roliglon, Anything that Inlls below tho best idea should bo expelled as falses, because it Isnot noblo enongh to be tamo. Noftung in tho ides or wholo religion of immor- tality erould rob this lifo of any caro, and Inbor, and love, and hapniness It neads, for if there is to bo a sweet outcome to this caveer it ehounld bo mado tho best possible, that it might become golden stops leading up to the bottor mansion. Bnt over this being, =8 moling 1t botter hero, should bo cast this hnjo of immorlal lifo to givo impulso {o tho virtuo and reliplon that binds ns to Gad, and to tho charity that biuds uato our fellow men. ‘Phio Christian theory sosma able to produco a Dhighor order of mind than can over hope to como from a world without & God and s futaro Tifo. Athowm m:lnyu tho advantago of nover hoviog beon trind. It bas never formed and wholly constructed a shape of clvilization for it- ¥olt, "It can point only to individuals, aud thoso affected by tho prescnce all around them of the deepest roligious sontimont, 1in ordor to judgo of its morit or demerit as & plan of thedo three- Beoro yenrs, it is necessary to concoive of s no- cloty irom ‘which Glod Lis beon romoved, and from whoso gravo all hopa and foar havo beon token, and from whoso individual hearts all the solomnities and mysteries of religion havo beou witlidrawn forover. 1low, amid such poverty of faith and hope, thisat- mosphers, laden with nmhlui.( but mortality, could over again grow such beiugs as now adorn its history, i8 boyond confeeture, Vory mucl of the world's charity is fonnded upon the divino destiny of man, 1t is becausa ali theae carthly childron aro jmu'noyin[il toward a brotherhood boyond, that good mon kinve hastonod to confess tho brothorhood here; and O, whnt parting henrts which tho grave hes come betweon havo bad thoeir toars dried in the sunshine of a coming heaven. 1, at the Inst, man's thirst for Ligher things BA quenchied In dust—that glver of Lis life— Wiy ress with growing real & hopeless strife, Why, bora for ereoplug, siould Lio dream of wings? Whilo we thns agres and speak against any wro materishism, yet we coufees that of ail orms of thoygbt it is leaat 1o be feared. Tho huamah hoart will never receive it. It is a soil 1o cold and barron that maukind will not oyor hiopo_to_grow great nations or groat minds upon it. Under ita inluouce the Licarts would dio, oloquencs grow earthly, virtuo decline, and in its narrow imprisonment the mind would shrink, Alon will como here aud thero with s suggestion of ntheism and oblivion, but it seams cettain, peyond all doubt, that the heart will rise nl) against thelr supgostions, and contiuuo to look afar off into the unsecn, and to draw greatness and Liopo, and impilse 'from the world as un- vailod in Josus Christ in its two gieat scones of time and eternity, g THE DIOCESAN CONVENTION. Why the Reve Edward Saltivan Slaned That Testimoulal. Tuho Rov. Dr. Sullivan, Reotor of Trinily Cliurel, cornor of Twontg-socond streot and Mnichigan avenue, preachied to n very largo con- gregation yesterdsy morning, o took no text, Dis subjeet beivg tho late Diocesan Convention. By way of prelude, ho said hie desired to call attention to a subject which had occupied tho thoushts of Episcopalians vory largely mithtn ho Inat week or two, with regard to which he liad & doublo purpose: Firet, to add to tho in~ formatiou already possessed ; and second, o cor- reot certain misapprehensions which lnd gono abrond, by which not ouly he himself had been seriously misropresented, but the public opinion ot tho Church had Leen fo a cerlain ox- toot misled. Dany points counected with tho Couveution ho should pass over,—iho oloction of officers, tho sottlement of contested Beats, tho payment of diocesau ssgossments, tho adwission of parishes, the adoption of resolu- tions commemiorative of ihe luto Bishop by n unanimous standing vote, the reading by himsolt of tho Bishop’s diary, containing tho hurtied yecords of his officinl work, showing that tho falion prelatc waa no unfaithful steward,—that the Master, when 1le camo suddenly, found tha watchwan on the walls, Lumly toiling at his post;. and the solomn nicssage from tho now- mede grave, bequeathing tho cathedral frao of all incumbrance to the caro of bLis successor ofiice, on beuulf of aud in trust for tho dioceso ho had governed 50 wisoly and loved go well, Tt was not ncedfull to dwell on theso; ke whould hurry on to some of tho salicut foatures of tho Conventicn, and select fromn the Iarge variety of topics obly thoso which, ¢ the fimo, awul- oned tho most interest, and, in their fuluro operation, woro likely to yield tho most perua~ ment results, The flrst [n fmportance was tho missionary otk of tho djocese, and iu this respeet ho blushed to sy that tho Chiureh was compelled to bang herhend. Tho aggressive missioniry work of tho Church was Lot noblest worl ; its accom- plisbment was hor loftieat aim, The church- 1non in tho West hiadd not yor scomingly Lecome wide awnkets izs importance. Ilow far lad tho Chureh in ¥¥a rison to an appreciation of it? /[ hoy might Judge Low far, nhon ho told them ihat thero way mot an Lplscopal church in every county of tho 105 in the Sists. 1o waul{l not spenk ndiscriminately or baetlly, or cast reflcolions on his owa ¢ougregation, for ho might safely and truly gay that they seomed to dovolop a'full undor- sianding of their Chilelian obligations and re- eponsibilitics, they huving given tho lst year mora than double what wag_ coutributed by even thio woalthicst parish within tho limits of the diocese, o would bo nucrl( disheartened by tho voglect of the Church it ho did not temem- ber that Christ took tho loaves and fishes and multiplied them iuto a sufliciency for the physical wants of thoussnds ; tho littlo contrib- uted could be placod #o abundautly aa to muko it tho means of spititual good to thoso yet uu- orn, The distinet progress of tho Church was nob its visiblo growth, Estimuto the Loids minielry by that stacdard, sud il must be pronounced s failwo, Tho {rio question by which to de- tortineits progress wes, not o many churches built, nov how much money rajecd, uot how wany infants bapiized, not how many commi~ cants, but liow inauy einners had beon saved, Liow meny liembling souls Lad been led to tho foet of the Crucifiod, how mauy intelligent souls had beon comlorted aud strengthened, and Low many mon and women b finished tiiew conrse in faith, and wero now in paradise, Lnt ihis, manifestly, no buman pen could rocord, no Buman boing could toll,—only tho Groat Day would reveal it. P'hie poiut which absorbed the largest mean- ure of intorest was the election of & Bishop, 'liis naturally abuorbed to itself a largo amount of public and individual interest,—firat, beeauso tho event was comparativoly arare ono; and sec- ond, beeanso tho ofiico was tho mout oxaliod ono iu tho Clwoh, It had been hnaginad, and soemed to Lo known, that an oxperimont vins to bo mado in this diccoas eimuiar to the ono tried in Wisconein,—tho oxporiment of electing to tho loftiest placo In the Church a nn who was known fo nll as bolding what wora called oxtremo or advancod itualistio Views, ho nowspapors discussod b, it waa tho subject of private conyeisation, aud so much forco was brought to Dbear that, on tho morting of tho electlon, it was felt necessary vov to ullow the numo of James Do Xoven to bo bronght forward in the Conveontion, DBut Immo- dlatoly upon its withdrawal anotbor nume wis presoitod ngainst whloh thoro Iny o ehuilor prejudice in publio’ opinion,~that of tho Rov. Dr,” Boymour, of New York, who, it was said, lheld viowy as extrome and advaveod ns those of thio Wardon of Xacino Collego, 1u consequenco of thix feoling, » Birong and vigorous opposition wanrairod. Dr, Hoymour had heeu wora cau- sious thun tho bold and fearless Da Kovon 3 bo bad not written liko himy, and committed him- wolt to any ulteranco of his theology, and his frionds’in the Convention woro thorolore urgent in prewsing this fact as presumplive proof that the views aitributed Lo Lun wers not Zoally hold, The arguumest was not noceusarily a logical ono ; stlil, in tho oxorelss of Christlan charity, it ought to have beou allowed #omo Juousuro of force. 1t way allowod & large degreo THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1874 | olf woight, and tho ronult was_seon in the fack that, on tho secoud ballot, Dr. Seymour was olectod by a majorlty of tho clorgy, anid pro- sontod by thom to tho laity for their conflrma~ tion and accoptanca. ‘Tho rowult all koow, It 'v;nn & Aurpriso to himsolf and many others. ‘hoy woro unpropared for it, and ho finally hind blcen nblo to account for it oniy on tho grommd that tho fooling of tho lmty was tbie: Tuat In- asmuch as Dr. Do Kovow'd namna was nob pro- sonted, and tho uamo of Dr. Soymour was nok rn prominent beforo tho Church aud world at arga aa the upholder of the exiromest viows, thoroforo it was safo to olect him, Tho noxt morming tho signatrer of tho clorgy and laity were aflixed to ¢ha tostimonal. 'l‘lfll Was not, a8 lind boen interproted by #omo, moraly o declaration on_b(s pack or tha pactof any other of o purposo of loyal allogiatca to Lim who sliould sccent tho Dislioprio ; it was a solomn aud oxplici tosthmony borne by him and othars thnt thoy liolioved him, not moroly to ba freo from viclonsuass of life, but freo from arror in roligion. o said at tho timo ho signad the toati- mouinl that his aeé woull ho misconstrnod. 1lo mlflolpl\(ell tho chargo of iuconsistency, knowing it wonld ba brought. Ifin personal frionds hind mado earnest inquiry 2 to the moanng of bis action, and il hiad not only been discugsad by thom, but from tho pulpit of the Roformed Episcopal Church of thia city, and had thora beon prosont- od a4 & eharso which fuvolvod him in the difli- cully of w diroct ael(-coutradiotion. For this, so {far #s the Roformod Episcopal Church was cone cerned, ho carod not, His sontimonts with ro- gard to itssentimeuts wera fully kuown, aad he thereforo passed the subjoct eutiroly over. 10 tho views of his fiionds snd congregation, it was different, 1o owed tothom au oxplana. tion of this wsceming inconsistency, sud ho would most cheerfully givo it. 1o orposed tho clection of Dr, Boymour on the ground that hio belioved him’ to "be ono who “held unsound views, and Dy upsound ke moant viows comnionly racopnizod as ritualistic. 1ls statod {hat bty projudices were foundod on_belicf, not upon porsonal kuowlodgo, Ile bad never ox- changed s word with Dr. Soymour, or rosd a syllavlo from his pan; still, tho liapression waa on his mind cint ko way & ritualist. Io was challanged to provo it, but was unablo to doso; yet, bocause it was his bonest convietion, he op- Doatd and volod ngainst Lis eloction. His (Sov- mour's) frionds deuted tho chargo on his boliof, aud on’that deninl grounded hin claim and right, it othorwiso qualificd, to bo Bishop of the dio- ceao. It was atronuonsly urgad that hiy church= manahip was closely akin to that of tho late Dishop, and that statoment was distinetly cor- rovorated by the sermou of the Rector of Grico Church (Dr. Locko) last Suuday. Nothe jug was sdduced to snow that Dr. Soymour's views regarding the sacramont era sitnilar to those of Dr. De Koven, who hold thut tho roal prosouco was fntho broad and wine. In viowof the positive asaurauces of clorgymen, whom ho believed to be houest and trie, bow wau ho toact ? Yiold to his own pre- Judices,;end confirm tuelact ho hied already dono, of voting against Dr. Boymour, by withholding Lis pignaturo from the testimonial? ~Certainly not. in tho oxoreiso of that Christain charity which boljovotl all things, ho appended his siguaturo toit, and thero it romaincd, and 8o tho matter rested, His mind was shill undeter- mined ; ona thing and another still camo to his ears : ho beard most contradiotory statoments on the subjoct; and was not yot in a position to finglly determine hia ~metion, If it should Do proved, boyond poasibility of dispute or. contradiction, that Dr. Soymonr, though not himself ofticially councctod with the Confratornity of tho Bicssed Sacramont, w8 in diroct harmoily and sympathy with tho viaws thoy hold,—~or, iu otlior words, hield cxtromo ritualistic views,—whon ho(the speeker) appeared in tho Genoral Conventfon ho should publicly withdiaw his namo from tho testimonlal, and state his reasons for o doing. Anotbor mattar of inliorent importance to tho walfare of tho Chutch was the fntroduction of & canon on tho subjoc of ritual, It Wag uuox pectedly presented at a yery lato stazo of tho proceodings, Nothing had been Eaid about it, 1o conwulintion was held, and he end others wors therefore nurprised to find it brought forward by a very pronnuent lay member of the Church, al- mos &t iho hour of mdjournment. In sub- slauco it wa3 identicat with the canon adopted by tho Houss of Bishops, and seut by thein to tho lower houso in goueral convention Tor their ndoption, but, in conscquence of not oblaining tha recesanry number of claical votes, thiough itobtainedn Inrgemajorityof tho lny votos, it was not coucurred iu, and therofore Inid aside, Tt was a rerolution by which it wag proposed to Instruct the dologates to the Ceneral Conven~ tion to vota for any caron ywhich might bo passed by the Houee of Lishops forbidding the elovation of tho bread end wins in tho admuistration of 1lio Holy Communion in euch & nauner a8 to 0x- poke them Lo the view of the pourle as objects of adoration, or any ach orgesture which wonld imply such adoration, or any prayer or ceromony not authorized by tho Hook of Common Prayer. Immediately onits presentation n motion waw mado ta get rid of it by laying it on tho table, No tino was given for discusuion of tho morita; s wers complled to yote, and I voted, with all tho clergy but two, in tho aftirmative, Dr. Locke liad toted in a recent sermon thol the inheront merits of the canon wers mvolved, and that tho vote to tablo might propatly bo interproted as the expression of the opinion of tha Convon- tion_that no nction ehould be talon < in othior words, that the Dioceso of IHlinoiy, by that large voto, had declared itself to veiu favor of Ilit- walism, or, at lenst, that it Lad declared that it was not in favar of applying auy reprossive or restrictivo policy 1o the curbing of tho extremo cecentricities of Ritualism. This wasnot thecase. The Couvention had alroady exprossed its mind on Ritualin—bnd grounded Dr. Seymour’s claim to the Bishopric of 1linoly on the fact that ho was not a Nitualise. 'I'his being 8o, ha could not holp ngmoing with a writor in_Saturday's TRIDUSE, who said that if tho canon liad boen brouglit for- ward at an oarlier stago of tho proceodings, and sufliciont time had Leen allowed for its discus- sion, & largd_voto would havo been obiniued iu tho Convention iu favor of adopting somoething at tho coming. Genersl Couvoution for tho pu- poso of checking tho_dovolopment of Ritualiom i tho DProtestant Epmcopal Chureh fa this conntry. The question was doubtless o very gravo and dittleult one. ‘I'ho avil was ono that must bo ac- Xknowledgod on all hands, and the only difliculty that romained was to_discovor the policy of checking that would be tho wixcst and most of- fectual, If Mitualism were only what it was mavy years ago,—an oxternal form designed to bring about n mora roversnland orderly worship, —thoy might pass it qulafli by and leave men 0 develop aa they would in that direction, giviog thom fuil liborty to smuee themwolves s chil- dren amuse themselyes with thelr toys. Dub Ritualism had long ago passed this comparative- Iy iunocont standard; it was now overywhoro an oxpression of doctriuo—s Inll-blowa flowor—a sul -mxm.inl‘i visiblo body in which a noxious the- ology Lod eanbrluod iteelf, That which lay at its root was (be bolief in tho _veal prosenco of tho body aud Dblood of Chrict iu tho cloments of broad and wino., Whero must tho romedy be applied ? There, if snywhere, Eleewhoro it was compar- voly usoless, Let tho Church authoritics do- clevo thay the doctriuo of tho real presauce, aq Leld by Do Xoven, was not within tho pala of decwino allowed by tbe Church formulaties, or euthorized by the Word of God, and those who boldly and fearlessly advocnted this doctrine, Ainding their place within ths Protostant Epist copal Church mado utterly uncongouial to them, wonld naturally gravitato to their own sphore. “Then ponco would comie, and With it purity {han would come the full oxpausion and dovelop- ment of the Church in her trao organio ordor ay tho represontativa of tha body of Chiriat upon tho carth; thep, aud _nmot il then, would como the {fulfilinont of tho glotious promisea with which tho pnfufl of prophecy wero full—promires that the Church at last would subduo all the Kingdoms of tho world, and make thiy tho Kingdous of hior Lord and [l Crist, "Thers wap no raom for discouragemunt., ‘Thou- nuds of faithlul hearis wore trembling with fear wt the things coming upon the Church. Thera might bo causo for anxiety, butnono for deapair. "'hos Lord Tetgmeth, bo il peoplo evar so un- wigt., Hbo sittoth bolween tha chorubim, ba am orrth over no impatient. Tha Churoh’s work waut ou steadily, ovou though the workers fell ac {heir post, 'Po-day cumo intelligonco thut Bishop Loo had _peseod wway. Htraogo that ho ‘who uttered the enlogy on Dishop Whitehounsa should have so soon followed him! If a lnrge Dody of mea passed over to the Church of Roma, a9 probably they might, tho defeotion would bo in itself nn ovidonoo of tho fulliliment of the words of Chrigt, The Ohurol's triumpls wag Mivo ¢ 8o was built upon a rook, and that Roole was Christ ; thereforo, #ho coull not fail. The discordant _volces now heard within her would woon bo roduced to harmony. Vo not afraid! Tto strong, fear not ; tho vision is yoi for tho ap- pointod tine.” In tho end it will surely speak * 1t witl not lle, Though it tarry, walt forit, For 1t will surcy come; L will not dle, s THE LORD WILL PROVIDE., Hermon by the Rav, Junies Frevman Clarko ut Unity Cunreh, #Tha Lord will provide"—Ceucals, fitth chap- {er nnd fourteenth verso—was the text of tho Tov, Jumos Trecumu Clavke, at Unity Church, on North Dearborn strost, yestorday morning, o seid that the most admirablo thing ju mochanlem wax that It regulnted itaclf to tho ro- quiremonts placed upon it, Tho nteam-englno adtbinlly oboyed the iaws of mochoenlsm {u por- forming snch work ma the invontlve genius of msn suggested. Tho Inw of naturo was ho uamo In tho human systom, LEvory human ho- ing oboyed that Inw without fecling ia ro- straints, Tho tired body was recuparated by sloop. In that stalo maturo did most for tho framo of morinls. It ropairad cvory organ of tho body, snd romedied in each tho wosr and tosr of tho waling day’s work. It was tho swook reatorer of tho woary, and mado 1ho syatem enduro what, withont il doaragenoy, would prave fatal to existonce, Tho little children, from the moment thoy wore reccivod fn tho matornal arms until puberty waa attained, obsyod tho infalliblelaw without kuowing It. Thoy learned ko know Naturs in tholr play. In all thoir romping, runniug, ehout~ ing, climbing, aud riotousness, thoy wero bug proparing themsolyes for tho great worl of ma- turor yoars. Tho achools taught them Isogusgo, gremmar, sclonco, art, ovorything that man cau moquiro; but God {aught them, in tholr tonder yearn, all tho mystorios of things thal surroundod them. Iu plashing in the brooks, thoy loaruod tho ‘propertios of waier, saiting thelr little boats, sud othorwiso utilizing lhntdlncnb oloment, Thoy learned tho use of solid bodios in whittling niickn, Thelr splrit of adventuro was fostoro: by elimbing troes and wandoriog in tho solitudes of thio country fiolds, Thns Naturo, in thoir pimplo amusomonts, propared thoir minds to wn- doratand what tho Creator had made for their uee, In this way tho Lord provided for thewm kuowtodgo, All lifo was a mysiery. The soul was still a gronter mystory. Poopis lived to suffor and to njoy. ‘lhis was a bonoficant ruls of Naturo, It was nocossary for Lo good of mankind that thore should be some sorrow and suffering in the world, God had s groat purpose in it. ‘Lhoy had read of tho prophiet in the Apocalypso to whom food was sweel at firat and aftorwasd bittor. 'I'bis was often revorsed in ovory-day lifa. ‘Fhat which appested bitterto the tasto at firat, altorward bocame sweet, It was so lu more Luman afiliction. The parouta wha Joat tha child of their hearta—tho pride, audlifo, aud light of thelr housohold—motraed in dospair avar thioir bereavoment, _Thoy exclaimod, “Why did Qod grant us thie blossing 80 soon to bo with- drawn 2" Thoy should remomber thist God gave tnem that child in love. Ho fott it with them for & lttle whils in love, aud o tho same spirit He withdrer it from them, Butbo hed & great oblact {n thus aflicting them, and they should not bo incousalabls. Thoro might hove boon longing among the An- fidn for that sweot child, 1t might ato hoard in its sleep what the good man heard of old,~tho “volco of tho an- gel eryiug ont, “Samuel! Samuoll™ And it obeyed thnt ms'slcrhuu voico, It wascalled to Lieaven to fultill & greater purpose than it ever could baye fultilled in this world, snd when the Toad of clay was cast aside those strickon parents would moct the boloved ono swong the angel Bandg of heavon, It waa thus that God afllictod mortals to toach thom that thore was snother world in which they shiould look for consolation, and that tho things of the earth wore flesting as summer-clouds. 8o Ho, of yoro, aflicted His proplt, Job, whass paticoco had bucome & proverb to the faithful. 0 Lazarus, tho enrtli-scourged, wae cherished in the bosom of Abrahem, and Dives, the pame ored, was tormonted by tho thirst of the con- lomned, This was the lesgon aveor taught mor- tals by this Creator, Were thoy to ba autiraly of {his world, nothing but joy might ba given them; but the sorrow occasionally ssut upow them was, jn 1taelf, ono of tho strougest proofs of tho hereattor, Tl gardener, walking through hisorchard, has obsorved a fruit-treo 1o luxuniant blossom. o tros apponrod sound aud pesfect, sud gave promise of being woighted with fruit. Bat he cut off many of tho limbs aud left it almost tronk., Awd the tres wournod its stripped coudition for & year ar twos but thou it coased to mourn, for it bore more luxuriant frait thanaover. it had its connolation. So God ordered it for the human heart afllicted hora: it should be consoled in beaven, aud in this fnith all of God'screaturen should !i Nothing was moro sublime than faith, Such & thing as despair _could not ba found in the Testameut. Mortals nhoul(};hcn their souls 1a the hands of God ; go forward with their good works : Le brave, Lon- est, goneraus, wnd sincero ; and havo groat trust in 'His glorious providenco. Ho remomborer biaving hoard & story which louchiogly illustrat- ed this beautiful faith: A soldier iu one of our regimanty was mortally wounded in & great "bat- tle. The Chaplsin oxhorted him to come to Jeaus, The soldier said: **Chaplain, whon I wad lusty of life I did not heed the voico of God; any repentauce I might now mato would bo thirough foar, God could uot raspoct such a motive as that, No, I will dio as I have lived, and trusl all {0 Him.” "I'hav soldier died, and the good chinplain mourued s for » lost sonl, But the spoaker did not be- liove that soul was lout, Tue soldier died hou- estly, aud an hovest man cannot be unaoceptnblo iu Heaven, o died, not defiant, but trusting in this tnerey of the Maater, Death had been cailed the * Ring of Torrors,” But was hoso? Ilo did not belteve it. God wade it universal ta ol!, aud what God made unl- versal could not bo ovil. Therofore, death should not bo vogarded with boriar, (or ta all, what- avor their groatnoss or sttainmants, it waa to como, nud God had willed it so, “Again, poople were afraid of old ago; which was nbiited, for it brought 1o its train many caln dolighta, It was londed with fond memorics. Experienco faught the old that, afier all, thero ‘i moro of good than of ovilon tho earth, Tho Taw of naturo was no tyrant law, wud, in wil its operations, it went fusther aad fuither te prove the benoficence of that splondia assuranco— e Lord will provide.” ———— SUNDAYS IN LONDON. Address by the Rev. C. W. Weadte, of tho Fourthh Uniturian rele. The Rev. C. W. Wendte, who has but recently roturncd from nn European trip, yesterday morning oceupied the pulpit of the Fourth Uni- tarian Church, Prairie aveoue, near Thirtieth streat, ITe announced na his thewmo bis * Sun- daya in London,” which liad boen suggested by numerous mombers of the congrogation. Iio #noko substantially as followa: Thero wes no_pulpit voico the speakor do- nired to hear while aproad moro than that of Jumes Martinoay, the groat Unitarian thinker and writer, but bo had given up preachig be- foro he arrived in lLugland, and taken {o litersry pumsuits. Tho Bundsy morn- ing after smiving dn Londom, in company with Dr, Cellior, howoser, lis wout 10 hoar bis Amorican_brother, tho Tov. Al D. Conway, st Flugbury Circus, a chapal which Jias quite # history, Tho speakar describod tho chapel and congregation, and then entesed intoa detail of the discouree, which was an ** Willism Blako and Mysticism," andfull of ** acute analy- eis pnd aparkling sontences.” o paid that not- witbstandiug thore was much in tho sormon that was vaguo and unsatisfactory ho went away feeling proud of America’s ropresontative in Loti- don, Tho speaker next visitcd Bpurgoon's tabor- naclo, After describing its arehitecturs, whoso Deputy $iad been pacrifioad to ubiiity, Dr. Wondts roforsed Lo tho appoarance of Spuigeon, and bia \rant of & ploasani porsonality. When tho ser- vicas wero deseribed, and_espeelally tto prompt, business-liko manner of the ominont divine, antl tus sonl-stirring, earnost ainging by the congre- gation. o asid ie prayars abounded in “stook phirases and Horiptural torms,” aud that bis Bivlo roading was filled with {llustration, making the assagus Appoar as frosh and nowes tho duy {’huy were written, When hoe came to Jobn b, 7, + For thero aro throsthat bear record in Hoaven, thio Fatber, the Word, and tho Holy Ghost ; aud fhioo throa are ono,” he paused aud said: * This vovonth vorso 1a spurious,” aud throw it out, which the speaker thoupht s fair iliustration of Bpurgoon's’ manuor, Tho sevmon followed on tiie throo oarthly witnessos, ‘* tho Bplrit, tho ‘Wator, and tho fllnnd,“ which tho speaker Brid was & good Orthodox troatment of » Now-Testa~ mout Bymbol,—a succession of word- pictures and allegorien drawn from tho Borip- turen and appiied in homoly, practical {llustea- tions to tho lifo of the hoarers, But lie thought Spurgoon displayed his gretost pawer when Lo camo to speaic of tho dark and hard places of 1ifo, In which tho spirit of tho Fathor came and 1elped mon with comfort and hope from sbove. ‘All 'ovor tho Liouso the people wore crying. Tho first two-thirds of the wermon he rogarded ag odifying and profitsble, but the latter third, in ‘which ho upo}m of the' * witness of tho blood, ho obaractorized as repulalvo, exlm\'uknua. and uunatural, ‘Ahe spealior then swmnwed up Bpurgoon’s sourceu of powor. Lirst, bis falth ancoud, his romurkable endowmeot a4 & fproachor snd wosker; tuird, bLis wmau-fashion of oratory, which is warm end farvid. Ono thing struck tho spesker with pocullar foroe at tho olove of tho sermon, sud that wad fipurgaon'a invitation to membats of ey and all Chrlstian Churehes to join in the counmunion gorvico, 1locould nob help thinking what o shudder wonld_hayo passed through Dr. Tivorl 1 ho biad hoard thut broad and eacrilogious iu- vitationl : "Tho spoaker next gavo an scoount of hin at- tondauco upon one of Charlea Bradlaugh's lec tures. 1To was of opinfon tbat Dradlaugh's in- fluencane n roformor wns ovoroatimated, and tint lis thoology was ‘roprosontod in tho Weat- orn Iay-preachoi’s exproasion that, **An honest God 18 tho noblest work of mau."” Thus far, Mr, Wondio sald, ko had drawn hin illustrations of tho London puli)‘lh from tho Dis- sontora from tho Church of England, While thore was moro originality and pulpit eloqnoucs outside the Eatablishment thau within it, still lob it not bo supposed thab tho Chiurch Liad nob its groat nposties who maintained tho traditious of tho pnst. And pomsibly thelr exeellonco would seom nll_the mors worthy of note whon tho stupolying, deadening influonco of a Nation- al Chuireh was conaldorod. o thought the gront Iatiude altowod iu tho ostablishing of pointa end opinlons, and in tho exerciso of frea speoch, wore really wmoro hopeful signs of roligious Fmgnmn than tho hundreds of disont~ ng clopols springing up @l ovor Ln. Fluud, whouo vitality soems oxhisuslod n forming s mora clastic and domocratic Church govornment, and who In nattors of thought and falth ottled down into a blind and bigoted ac- coptanco of the old theolopy. 1t wan at tho sor- vices of the Ntav. Btalford Brooko that tho speak~ or Dust felt the pulda of the new life in tbo old Btate Church of Great Dritain, Tho speakor confossed his dlsappointment at seeing tho sor- vico openod ULy white-robed chorlstors, It noomod A muminery unworthy the man, but it way ordored, ho loarned, from n highor authiority, and not his choico, 1iig discourso was on *‘Iiie Roligion of the Poote,” boing ouo of a sorien Which tlo divinohad beon'dolivating, to tho graat scandal of good orthodox peoplo. ‘Lhio apeaker characterizod the sormon a8 a "carefully prepatod, eloguent, and deeply-religions utter- anco.” 1fosaid it was rumprod abrond that Mr, Brooke would have to quit his Charch, and that hae was alrondy 10ceiving ovortutes trotn tho Ro- formod Lpiscopal Cliurch of this country, wbiol hio hoped to #eo accopted. Horo he would ab onco atep Into the front rank of tho nobio army who labor for the coming of the Kingdom of_God on tho earth, Mr, Wendto noxt spoko of hinvisit o Wost« miustor Abboy, aud of lutouiug to Doan Stan- loy. No placa in s}t Buropo so deoply impressod him as Westminstor Abboy, for no vpot is sa sacred to an Americau as_ fhat whoro for cen- turlos tho generations of England's best and Lighest placed iavo como to worsbip, aud finally to sleop in death's cmbrace,—whoro tha Roman Catholiomass wan colobrated with more than Orioutal aplondor,—whero the Puritan met for his_nustoror sorvico,—whoro the lrst Buglisn Bible waa issucd from tho press, and whoto thd great divines of the Church of Lugland utterod thelr vobleat thoughta to iuspira and redeom thoir fellow-men | A simplo visit to such a placo fitled bis soul with & profound sentimont of oronco and swel Tho samo inarticulato cries and sighs that the primitive mau shaped into language have thore muldod thoe very stones of tho quarry into grace and grandour! "Aud asyou wander thirougli thosa lofty gray-grown aiules and £az0 at tho mouuwontal glortes Ly which Britain porpotuates the memory of hor gentle and hioroio dead,—ns you stand in tho poeb’s corner, and bo- hiold this sacred anthology of gonius, yonr soul is fillod with % 6onse of the grandour & woll as tho frailty, the inlinile destiny os woll as tho porishe abloe presont, of man's balng, TDean Stanloy aunonnced a8 bis thems, upon tho oceaslon of tho spenkor's visic, tho familiar account of tho tho two mon that wont up into tho Templ to pray, tho one a Pharisee, aud the othor a P'ublican. "Tho sermon was n closely roa~ soued, brond, and beautitul appeal for moro charity and toleranco within tho Chureh and out of it, aud nothing, in the opinlon of the apeaker, oould be finer than his earnest denunciation of spiritunl arroganco and bigotry. 1o loft the church foeling now hiops for a peoplo thmt would nurture such wen within their bosoms, and even opun to them tho avenuesol clorical preformout, and felt that all honor was due to Quaon_Victo- rin, whoso catholic mind bnd made free thought and #pecch possible in Bogland's Chiurch to-day, ‘Plio speaker closod by roferonco to Doan Staue loy's precatious position, #nd mhat ho was daily oucountering in the lnterest of freothoughv. 1b wan siad that ho had to look to America for & trug spprociation of his labors, but Mr. Wandto bs- liovad that ko would bo tinally rewarded. —_— THE NEW BISHOP. Scrmon by tho Rev. Canon Knowles at tho Catlicdral of 58, Peter and Panl, Cauon Kuowles proacled yosterdny morning inthe Cathodral toa vory largo congregation, on tho subjoct of *‘The Roecent Diocesan Con- veution; 1fs Acts, and Their Relation to tho Cathedral” T'ho toxt was this portionof tho fourth chapter of the Epistla to the Epheajans : —Walk wartliy of tho vocation wherswith yoaro called, with all lowliness and imeckness, with long- suffering, forbeating one another i lovo 3 endeavor. ing tokudp tho unity of the Spirit in ins bond of peace. Hosald that the Church was o struggliog ‘body, endeavoring to overcome 18 inhorent im- porfections; engaged io o porpotual strife for poaco, 1t waa the Cburch mititant against tho forees of sin without, but aleo siruggling against forces within, 'The lato Diocessn Couvention ras tho most momeutous gathering in the lis- " tory of tho Church in Illinols. Clergy and laity ceamo from all parts of tho State, all feeling the gravily of their responsbility, all conscious that tho vital intercsts of the Church woro involved in tho procecdings of tho Convention, adl feeling how fatal a mistake must prove at that juncturo. Rememboring bim who had so recontly died, loaving his powerful jmpression upon the Church anuals, ull felt_that tho groas Stato of llinois could not aford to choso a secoud-rato wan as his successor, Thero wers wido differoncos of opinion among the dolegatos, Dbu} they wero differeucons of expresgion of tho nao love for the Church. They stood, as it ware, in o cirelo surrounding obo common contro —tho Church aud its bost good, Alter an unusually freo and complete interchange of viows, » conclusion was reached, tho many regarding tho wishes, it might be the weakuess, of the few in making the choice of a Bishop., So overpowering was tuo dosiro to moot and adjust ull differenced that tuo may whom all loved and admired was not even named Lor tho high offico. Wheu the clergy bad expressed thoir choico for the tev. Ceosge F. Seymour, aod the laity had confirmod that clioice, the econe scemed to ro- call somo of tho groat Listorzenl ovents of the past. 'Lho deepest emotion was doplsted o ov- ery faco, and found vont iu tho spontancous outburst of oyery volce in tho Gloria in Ixceluis, Through all thetr differences nud woakneades, thoy had kept tho " unity of tho Spirit in tho boud of pouce.” Tho busiucss of the Convention was nobly dono, No unseemly strifo marred the work ; no bitter epeech was pokon, Iiinois could b proud ot her Convention. No doubt thore was s feeling thronghout il the Btate that the Church lad teken o hrmer, mfim atand than ever be- fore, 'Tho choico of Doputics to tho Gouoral Convention could uof but be in the highest de- greo satisfactory, as all the vayied intevests aud ghades wero consulted and ropresented. A notable oveut in tbo rmnnndlngl of the Couveuntion was tho formal tender of tho late Lishop's ree gift of the Catbedral toiho Diocoso of Iltiucia. Auothor signiticant fact was tho bigh enjoyment aud interest manifested in the snt:mn Toligious services cach mornlng. The appreciation of tho delegates found exprossion in a hiearty volo of thanks to those who lad plan- nod and provided the service. It showed that the boauty and reality of the Cothedral sorvice wwore hocoming more and more approciated; it moant tbat the Church should bo a living reality in tho world; thut there should be more froquont servico, moro dovoted inbor, more faithful em- ployment of talents, Tho cacice of the dlacess follupon ono who was weil up fu such work; ono who hiad boon a trainor of men for tha worl, —himsolf o consolens workor. 1o would comoas s Tearued, acuto, resolute, earness man, and would soceiye & wurm and loving welcome. Ilo waa no mere noutimontuliut, but a real worker, who bad achieyed the most marked success ag ‘mibsionary, priest, snd tenchier. 1o was in sym- pathy with the numorous ordors of tho Church which were belug eatsblishod throughout the Tand, bolng Chavlain of the Sisters of Bt, Mary in Now York, an order establiehod by Bislop Yotter. What & prospect the coming of such a onn seomed to open out! But yet what had wo to offer him? 1Io camo whero moans woro lim- ited and forces woro ecattored ; bub thers wasa brightor eldo to tha picture. 1la would cowma to this Cathedral and take up tho worls which he whao lad goue bad been proparing all Lis lifo Jong ; hie would como to hearts ready to welcoo im; come to onter into all pur plan, and hopes, snd énterprisos, and works, Happy forus! Tho Losd would prosper Lis Church, —— TBE PAULISTS. Oponing of a Misslon ni St, Javinth’s Church, ‘Threo membors of the Ordor of Paulists—n Lody of the Catholio Church, hiaviug ita contre in New York Oity, aud whoso main object is tho conduoting of misslons in differeut parts of Amotica—are at presout in this city, and yostor- day morning thoy bogan & mission in St. Jar- 1ath's parish, at the parish chureh, on the cornor of Jackson streot aud ormitage avenuo. Tho mombors of the Ordor moutioned are tho Rov. Tathors Elliott, Brady, snd Dwyer. A mission uuch a8 that startod by the Paullsteia to the Roman Cathollo Church what tho rovival ts to some of tho scots of tho Protentant Churoh, Tha oh{m of both is tho samo,~tbo inardaso of Iaith, tho gathoring to the fold of tho Church thoss who Liavo novor joined it, and tho rocall- ing of such a8 havo strayed,—but the maunor Ia of course differont. At tho morning sorvico at Bt, Jarlath's Church yosterday the unusually interestiug nature of tho occasion was indicated by the prosouco ab the caalorn front of tho altar of a high black cross draped with whito cloth—tho migslonnr; #lgn of tho Church, Tho sorvico waa tho ordi- nary me, mnsg, which was conducted by Uho Rov. Tathior Yonturl, Colebrant, with tho Rov. Father Dywor, of tho Paulist Socioty, s Doacon, and thio Rov. I'athor Casbman, pastor of . Jarlath's, as Sub-Doacon, Datlng the sorvico tho Rov. Tathor Walter Elliott, 8, . announced that dutlug tho next two wooke wpocial mission gervicon would be Liold onch day st the church an follows: Evory moraing at Lalf-past & an In- struction, to bo followad at 6 with auothor mass, Mass will slso bo colobrated overy aveuing at Lalf-vast 7 o'clock, to Do followed with au in- "o Bon aaa 0 thon addrossod tho congragation o Tongth 1pon tho NALTKG And Chjets of tho e sion sorvicos, Mo sald that uo doubt ali of the congrogation a thoy ontored the bullding liad obrervad tho largo, black cross on Lho altar, and liad #aid to thomselves, -* The pricsts of tho mis~ #lon lnyo como,” Thoy wero right. Tho mis- sfon hiad bogun. Tho black cross moant pon- unco, aud thioy woro there {o preach ponauco, Ag tho uamo implied, tho mission was & spscial souding forth of God's graco. Mauy nges ago, tho first Christian misslon on thin” earth was proached by tho first tussionary, Jeaus Christ. God bad looked down upon the sinful world, and in 1lis pity had sent 11is only bogotton Son fodio for men, " lo firat sout John the Baptst to pro- paro tho way for Him, and John eried to tho world: Do ponanae, for the Kingdom of God is at lond,” Jesus Christ also oreclod & cross a3 tho algn of Mis worke. It wastho Crons of Calvary., On tho cross beforo tho cougrogation hung & white cloth, but on tho Cross of Calvary a8 tho body of tho Great Missionary Ilimsolf. ‘Whon 1o _arose again from tho dead Ilo be- quoathed lls groat work to is disciplos, nod thiu was tho work thoy Lad como hera to earry out. It waa truo, doubtloss, that thora wero many among tho prriahionors'who are living in mortal sin. Tho Clitrel waa wido opon for thom, and yot they ontered not its doors. God saw that the pariah priost waa not adequale to tho work of bringing all auch back to Hia fold, snd appoiuted others to assist him. 'Fho pricst, suffering with pain ot tho indifferenco of bLiy parishioners, called for help, The anewer camo from ths Bishop, who acnt special beip in the shapo of tho ‘mission. ‘The preacher dwelt upon tuo roquirements of a mombor of tho Socloty, and the peouliar work thoy wore callod upon ‘to perform. W'ney bad, sinco tho begiuning of thew work, somo cight yoara ngo, 5I-ivan upwards of 200 missions in all parts of America, from Caoada down to the Gult of Moxico, Tho sorvicos wero not only boneficial to thoso who wera living in sin and in indilTerence to the Clutreh, but thoe afiict- ed wonld also And relio? theroat, “Tho chief worl, howevor, was tho briuging back of loo mouls to God, This was tho grenlest of Iruity and tho greatest of Joys of tho mission, Tho praachor, with intenso cloquenco aud osruoats noss, urged tho congrogation to attend each and ovory ono of the mission sorvices, and asked for thoir prayers, ns well as thoir proseuco, to fu- suro its success. — BT. MARY'S, Conaceration of the New Altars Yeaterdny. Dariog ¢tho past fow woeky 8t, Alary's Church Das bean undorgoing somo matorial changes,and, those having boon comploted Baturdny ovening, o servico of moro than ordinary improssivoncss waa held yoatordny morning in honor of tho fact, and togive it duo religions significance. Tho cangregation of oldPlymouth Churcli—wlioh, it Wil bo romembered, was purchasod by the Cath- olic authoritios for St. Mary’s parish—would not racoguizo their former place of worabip in ita preseut interior form. Whore tho Rov. William Al- vin Bartlottstood at bia plain dolk in formor days, threco now sud , magnificont altars have been erocted, which, togethier with tho other improve- monta that havo boen mado, such os frescoing aud a general touching up of waodwark, ota,, cost tho parish over $20,000. The altars wera descrabed with somo minutoness in yosterday's ‘papers, buk thoy will boar s furthor description, even though it be a shortor ane. Tho bigh or contre altar—the one used at tho Sunday gorvices and on other importart occeasiona—is & magnificent picco of woodworl, end the losser altars st tho sides of ib aro in keoplug. Tha maln altar is 87 foob high by 22 wide, and ig conatructed of-differont kinds of oak and walnut, The carving on it is donoe in black walnut, with gilt ornamontation, the blending of tho gold and wood colors being harmonious in tho oxtrome and oxceedingly rich in effcct. Tho tabarnaclo—all Catholics ‘will understand the Fultlan of the altar to which tho tern applics— s an architectursl ‘gem b its design, and is & Aittiug coutro-picca for thot which surrounds it. The side altara aro models of tho mein one, and 2ro dodicated to tho Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. “Ihoso oliarg, ns well as tho principal one, ero profusely oruamented with statucttes, which, it is said, wero bronght from tha ol country. Takon alfogetaer, tho church is ons of tho noatost in the city, and by far tho ncatost of any of the Catholic churches, and it is entircly duo to tho Rov. Father Noonan, tho faithful aud energotic pastor of tho parish, it tho Aimprove- ments wore made. Yosterday's sorvioes were witnessed by a vast contourse of people, maay of whom eutored tho church an parly as 9 o'clock for tho purpous of sccuring oligibls :positions from which to view tho ccromovicd. Tho latter con- sisted of & Pontifical High Maes, in which tho Rt. Rav. Bisbop Foloy was Celebrant, sod the Rov, Fathers Virdon, Putten, and Noon- un, Doacons, whilo tho Rev. Father ltiordan, tho Becrotury of tho dioceso, was master of coromo- pies ; tho bleesing of the now altars, whioh wag aocompuaied with prayers appropriato to tho oc- casion ; 2ud a brief addross irom tho Rt Tov, Bishop Beclor, of Dolawaro. Hoydn's First Masa was excellontly sung by tha choir, Bislop secker's addross way rather moro of porsonal ndvice to his hearora conceraing thoir church relations than a pulpit lesson, and from its na- taro woulil ardly Toquiro a roport. A largs col loction wos takeu up, aud after the Papul bone- diction was pronounced tho audienco disporsed. —_— obftxary~Jenn Elio de Banmont. A Paris telogram says that M. Elio de Biumount the notod Fronch geologmst, is doad. This omi. nent nclontist was born in France in 1792, and Tocoivod his education at tha grest mining' nnd tochuical schools of Paris. In 1832 he becamo ove of the Professors at the Collega of Franos, and _subaoquontly actained in the enginecring sotvice the rank o Inepcotor-General of the firat- clasa. Flo nucceedod Claudo Loliovre as mombor of the Acadomyof Belences, and bacume perma~- nont. Sucrotary thoreof at tho doath of Fraucois Arago in 1835, Napoleon III, mado him a Senator and Commandor of tho Legion of Xonor. Tho lato aciontist was noarly all his litotime engaged in tho geological survoy of Frauce, which was bogun and carriod out at the national expenso. Associatod with M. Dufronoy he bogan his groat. /projoct) in 1895, aud, after carcful re- onrches and oxploralions, he succceded in mak- ing » map of I'rauco, on which the geological chiaracter of tho country was cloarly dotined. ‘While thus nnfiugadfisl. Llio do Laumonk was au industrious investigator of the cnusos which have lod to the changos on the earth's surfaco, and gavo apecial attention to the laws governing the formation of mountains, Ho flnally taught that mountain chaing aro to o classed according to tho dirgotion of their rauge, all thoso lving paraliol with the samo great_circle_of the carth, whorover they may bo found, having been itp- lifted suddenly during tho semo geological epoch, o doscribed in the last edition of his work on this subject the featuraa of no legs than ninaty-fiyo systeins of mouuntaing, and tho facts ho collected nddod largely to the geographical knowledgo of the day. Al Elie do Baumont's sciontifio works wero numerous, and prove him to havo been a man of great attainmonts and di- vorsitiod iwformation, ‘Che PansPresbytorian Council, Dr. MoCoab, of Princoton Colloge, who #i ae thor of tho project for a grand couucll of all tho Presbyterian bodies in fi:fl worid, writos to tl o Observer as follows, coucorning i recont visit to Xurape in connection with this plan ¢ * My lato visit to Groat Britain was mmply for tho purposo of gccing wy frionds, but, Letu thero, 1 put mysolf iu conngction, in an unollicial way, With vorsons intorestod in the schomo, [ was happy to find that all the Drosbyierian chiurchos of the threo Kingdoms, including tho Lstablished Churcly of Beollund, tho Froo. Clinrch of Beotlaud, tho Unitod Pres byterlan Church of Bootland, tho Covenanting Clurch of Beotland, tho Prosbyterian Chureh of Troland, avd tho Covonauntors of Irsland, the Wolsh Calvinistio Church, and the Prosbyterian Ohurch of Englaud, bavo passod strong and des cided rosolutions in its bohalf, snd appointed committoes with full power to carry aut tho siand dosign, 1 wss ablo to hold quict mot~ uga in Loudon, in Bolfast, and in” Ediuburg, aud I put to queation in cach placo, What step A0 we to teko noxt? Aud in wuswer Igoet valus abls mllsgusuunn, ol pointing In the samo direg. ton, Twill lny Cliaag, at 200, nt on carly dato, befo LIJ: cn‘flmluws of the Amminrmy ohurchos, “; :‘l’lo’;fi d that T have had communications from dha 1 rulxllrah churchios, the Bolgian, tho Bwisa firfll)"u' ean chiurelios, the Waldonafans; from + Dotaer, of Borlin, and Prof. William_ Kraft, ‘of Bomm, nnd from distant Australin—nlt favor. ablo. W neod only thg b) BCCUKO guocokn, aud lot :‘n 1‘?&;‘?&: fhn:.‘.“"ww # ————— AMUSEMENTS, “oturiio" At noorey's, The second of Lhs series of wnul;‘l; ropresenta. tions of Bhakspenrean tragody at Tlooley's Tho- atra wan givan Baturdey nlght 1o an ovortlowing house, the tragedy bolng “ Othello," There was o doublo reason for anticipating such a houso, Tho leading rolo I8 ono In which Me, 0'oll. Loy alroady plnyod with marled auccess, whito tho cast included tho now favorites, Mr. Murdoch and Alr. Jraus, in the parta respctively of Tago and Roderigo, wlilo Miss iawthorno played Desdemona. Tho cast wag an unusually strong ono thers. fore, for fow stnr nctors can play Othello bottor than Mr. O'Neil, whbilo the other parts worg hottor roprosented than is usually the eoso. Tho nudicnco wan ospecially tofined nnd goncrons and hung upon the lines with aun Mlenuvenm:: only too rara in Chicago. Thoy wera rendy witlhy applovuse of the honrtiest deseription, ang showored it with such Iavish gonorosity s to warm the actors up to their very bost, The countquonoa was & vory spitited and enjoyablo porformnnc, ‘W have spoken batore of Mr.0"Neil's Glhello, It wonld bo aesuming s groat doalta onllit n strictly original coucoption, bucit Is an imitas tion of nobody in particular, whilo it embodien the traditioual usnges of & 'grost may artists, It is romackable for a very delicalo houdling of ligit and shado, for & wido range of cxprossion, siid for the docpeit offect {n tho tonder ta w 2y tho stormior moods. It 1s nog froo from lme porfootions, nud Lheas ara mainly exaggorations of manner andnction taken from othior actors who bavo Loen great in the part, Thora is loss of that perpetusl siraining fo too much whichk pomotmicy mars the artivts reading of them in any other part Lo plys, and consioquontly it i more free l'mm that apparont affeotation Which s tho outgeowth of wo oxe tromo and misdirectod offort. His Olhello in very zood and intelligent pioos of activg, With groator oxporieuce and dosper study, which will round and polish it, thoro is ronson to. holiove it e Fordoch playod v, Murdoch played Zago with that pe; caro and _sul{-cnutuiunwn',ywh!nh aro ghx &%g charactoristica of uil bis cxeations. His Iago is not tho crpontine, cold, crafty domon waich Mr. Booth 8o oxquisitely portrays. Hae iufuses 8 warméh duto his botred, nnd o jolity inta his misohiof whick, whils thoy rob tho part of ite intonsity of evil, biing il uoarer to tho other charactors in tho picco, end, therofore, into moro percoptiblo accord. s reading wan atwirablo, s italways is. It is not often that wo find an Jago who can sing a4 Mr. Murdoch doos, snd it ia not to b woudered ot that tha audience dosired Swlumut obtaining) an cucora of tho stanzs, **Thon lot tho caunikin clink.” Ar. Gason cut o vory sorry Higuro as Cas- sio. Tho park was 30t w beavy ono, but Mr. Gastou was ovidontly uufamiliar’ with its” leading points, ~ Ar. Baulsbury shonld havo been cast for ib. It is too impor~ taut an clomont of tho tuquay 0 bo rolegatod to wn inferior arzist whilo it 1s possible to assign it toonoof calibro nud claractor. Mr. Crano fought very Lard not to bo funuy as Koderigo, but whilo there was positively notbing to mmilo at and much o approvo in his acting, the audie ence could not follow him without o yory strory inclination to laugh as nsual. Miss Hawthorno played tho part of Degdemo oasily. 1t is not & ditticuit part for #o thorougu' au artist, and she mastored it easily. She naz yery happy in her appearauce avd dressing, an- imparted more individonl character (o tho put than wo usually sce, for the roason that shois s Dottor loading ady, Miss Galo playod Zmilia with satisfactory cara &nd distinctness, aod justified the Dbelief that whon called upon to do any acting sho was ready to respoud. A $ 'I'ho minor Fam wworo uot s ofliciently played a8 wo shonld liko to seo them. Itis true that they roquire a very large and stroug company, bub _this = mateer sbould be attonded to. Hooloy's Theatro s now recognized by Chicago peoplo us possossing the bost stock company west of Now “York, aud ig bortily aupported. There can ho no oxouse, therefore, for marked inferiority among tho loss ‘prominont artists. To-pight ** Blow for Blow” will ba given ag announced yestorday. Tho cast is a vory strong one. TIE OTHER THEATRES, Joo Jeftorson cutors to-night upon MR Jast weok at McVickor's Thieatro, ;dn iug * Rip Van Winkle,” Olive Lognu gives * The Woman Who Talks ™ at the Academy of Music. Tho minatrely hiave an oxcollent bill at the Girand Opera Houso. There will be & varioty porformanca st Myers® Opera-House, if the luw alloms, : PERSONAL, It seema Wwo havo doalt unfairly with a stranger, and haston {o correct any false sod disnatrous impression such carelossness may bave made. Our victim was Mr, Horrmann, who is billed to appear atfMyors’ Opora-louso to- night., Ho was sliuded to 23 *tho now Iferrmann,” Now bho insists this is a boso diserinuoation. , Ho is the son of his fatuor, the old Hermaun, and thereforo cannot in the nature of things be a new Merrmann, Thia ia not clear to us, but it may striko somebody a8 logical, and aa that somebody in the peraon misled by our previous statomont, it is right that wo make & correction. DBuf this Js not sll, Mr. Horrmann—nwho is not the now Iorrmann—was agolmu of disrespectfully as & conjurer and jug- gler, Ho is not & conjurer or juggler. He'ls & postidigitatour, We ondeavorod to spare tbo ;nwn of the reador and tho romorso of the proof- roadel by choosing somo othor word. DBut Alr. Herrmann will nogo of it. o is tho old Horr- maon, and * old birds are not to bo caught with chafl’ ———— A Joke on Ben. Butlers From the Hoston Transcrivt, Sepl. 3 Tho General spokoe his pieco for the second timo in tho Essox campaign on Eaturday oven- ing, to an andienco of about 400 citizens of tho fisliing and sbip-buildlog town of Essor. The Geueral proceeded to discuss tho financisl prob- lom, and, while ho was holdiug all mou to pay their honest debis, a spoon was luwored by moans of a string through tho scuttlo of iho roo!, and hung likoa spectrs 1o mid-air. A gigglo was heard from tho nudionco, and it soon 8- sumod tho proportions of & roar. Tho Genoral triod to continue, bui was sovoral times inter. rupted. e failod at first to obseryo the objoo. tionablo article of table use, Gen. Butler flually placod bis cye upon 3t aud gazed from right to left, without a word to szy. 1oagain attempted to proceed, but only aghin to bo interruptod, Finally, bio shaok hia handkerchiof and straight- oned himself, ond romarked, ** Well, I should think that {s about as good au argument a8 I can bo opposed to," Tho spoon wigkled in the sir, and the Genoral continued, “Thero must bs somo opposition 1n this town." applauac.) [Laughtor and ——— Lynchiug Negroes in ‘Tennessces ‘While Gov. Brown, of Tonnessee, is endoavor- ing to briug lynchors to pinishment, Republionn candidatos and Ropublican nowspapers in that State doclare thomsolvos in favor of the lynching of_nogroes who attompt or comwit ocertain dia~ bolical crimes, Nowton Macker, Attoruoy-Gen- oral of tho Firsy Judicial Circuit, a Craut man, ropudiatos in o published card tho statomont that L bad oxpressed s dotormination to proscouto partics connootod with the snmuary exocution of & nogro nnmed Wooloy, and adds : **As tho case now stands, the law Tequires no actlon io tho mattor at my hands, and I trust nevor will" Tho _Eeho, n Grant organ, saya: ' Lynch law must 1o ueod Lo protocs our familics against the sooun- drels who soom to infest ovory community. ‘tho courts, with tholr delayiug Tormalitics, canaob roach tho exigencios of tho cas eyttt Piono Bargains. Two superb seven-octavo Bteluway planos, carvod legy, but very lttlo used, and aimost equal to nev, wil bo dlsposcd of at very low pricoa for socount of privats partics, who must roalizo upon them. Alay be 3cen at T.yon & Healy's, Btato and Monroo strects, ———————— Hanines Bros’, Planos, Prices excoodiugly reasonablo, Warrauted firut-class i quality, Tornn, §30 custt ; balasicy, $26 monthly, 3ood's'Teuplu of Musle, 93 Van Buren stret, skl £ Bcold as You Will, Ladiey, you esw't dobar tho mon from tobaceo, but yon can fnduce them Lo brush tholr feeth with Sozodaut, which rewoves tho unpleassut odor of the woed,” aud whitcus the dental surfaco, ———— Watchos and Jowelry, ‘Wo would advise every one fu scarch of watches and Jowelry to call on J, G, Askleman, No, 102 Bisto strcet, o0 advortisomont on Arst pags,