Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1874, Page 2

0 ~ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER &, 1874 e e e e e == ——eee THE PULPIT. The Su;ratogu Conference and Its Doings. Sleteh of Its Procoedings and Spirit by tho Rev. Rtobert Collyers Dr, Powers Proaches on the Life and Funoral of Bishop Lee Sermon Preached by Dr. Swazey in Prof. Swing’s Church. The Rev. Mr. Cordley on the Situ= ation in Kansas. First of the Sories of Scrmonson HMod- orn Skepticism by Dr. Thompson, Military Mass at St. Jarlath's, THE SARATOGA CONFERENOE. Sermon by the Rev. Jtobert Collyer, ne Unlty Chrels The Rov. Robert Collyor proachied yesterday worning at Unity Churcl, taking as his toxt: They who eemod to bo somowliat {n conference,— Palafuna, ii., 6. 1 want to any somothing this morning sbout »ur Natlonal Convention,—its form and spirtit; wbat was dono In it, and what was roported of ;ho work dono In the body, with & word at the Jloso, if thera is time, about tha outlook sug- gested by it toward the futura, First-~And first of its form. You have beard Mready, no doubt, that it was tho largest and most impostug gathering of our own pooplo aud those who aro in sympathy with them, which ovor mot in America, or perhaps in tho modern world, We had men thera who preuch the Word of Lifo au far east as Now Drunswick, and a8 far west a8 Portlaud, Oro., north to Montreal, and gouth to Charleston, and al tho way betweon, so ag to dot the map of tho wholo land, and with theso & man who boro to us the groetings and sympathies of our brothren in Great Britafw, and of the venorablo TUnitorian Bishopsand churches of Iuugary,— tho oldest churches of our order in tho'world. Tc way something of 2 problom to those who hing ihe manngoment of the meoting whether Sara- toga was the proper placo for it. ko result Justitlod tho sagacity of our dear friond, Chatlos ZLowe, who suggested this poiut. Tor, in addi- tion 1o tho fact thab it was about as conveniont place s8 wa could have one to from sach wido distances, going thero wo conld find room just then for our whole body of delegatea in one of thio most nuperh Lotels I ever snw in_my lifo, 5o that wo could sco each ather betweon tha meotings in a kindly, social fashion, and talk Ehings over. 4 % " And then such- is tho curious minghing of the motives in our Luman nature, in whut our orthodox fricuds would cull its un- panctifiod cstato, that I euspect sometbing of our grand auccens as to numbors i3 to bo cred- fted to Lhe thrce-fold chord which drow zomo thoro,—first, of tho Convention itsulf ; socond, that it wns Haratoga; and, third, thaiit was Baratogn with all hor attractions at aboub half- prica. 1do not think theso tattor motives woro allowed to appear, ovon to those who had them, The Convention was tho primul thiug all througl, 88 was ovident from thoe constaut attendance snd leon interest in tho mcctings, but, as I pever s such o gathering anywhors of our peaplo, while previons Conventions wero of & far greater promise, it did not seem to mo ooliad to guces hnow thers might bo this minglod resson at the hemt of all, and no blamo to anybody, for whou you roally analyzo the subatanco of what pasuos for re- ligion you will flad that iv somo auch wayas this tho majority of us are allured on towrard Lioavon. Tt was estimatod that 1,500 psoplo cama to our meeting, and, touching bl it form, I do not hesitato to say that it would not Lo easy to flud a body of moit and womon in Christendom of & noblor presencoand oloarer grain, Dologates, ns » rulo, &ro thoeo in nuy church who fake the . decpest interosy in our faith and order, and do tho most admirable work. “'heec 1,500 woro not Al dologates, but thoy were all of our body, and had our causa closo to their earts, and it was_ essentmlly from tho body thoy camo, For, whilo thoro was a very foir eprinkling from both tho consorvativo and raticol wings far out to {hae tip, tho Con- vention was of neither typo. 1t was of that old, stoady Now Ingland sort, which will ueithor gé to tho right hioyoud Channiug, nor to tho lett boyond Parkes, tha sort which sooms to have beard John Robiuson's word to thoe Pilgrims, tlint thoro i still moro truth to appoar from tho Beriptures, and waists on waiting for its ap- pearance before it stopn one stop from tho old ground ; and is vers cautious about putting noy wino into old bottles, ** Who are these folks " T heard of ono colored waiter ut the hotel saying to anather, in great wonder, a8 thoy crowded in- to their menls, **8ir,” was the roply, * they 18 tho brains of raligion " : and you may be sure the word went round. Whetlier the man touched the truth ornot, it is not forus Losay who wore thero, I thonght ihut perhups ho also lad o mingled motive, for ihese deft aud handy fellows Tove a greenbuck like Anglo-Saxons, but in the outward form of 1t I have only scen a finer promise of powor in ona ather body,—tho United Btatos Scuato,—which is the finest L havo ever seen on tho earth, aud I have econ tho best gath- erings of zome of tho foremost countries. in the world, Second—1 said I shanld speak secondly of the spirit of the Convention, aud tius, on tiie whol, wan ag ewoot aud good as you couid wish to touch, That the Convention ehould disagres sbout mattors of great momont was us natural $o such a gatliering as it is for eclectric cwrrents to disagree whon thoy moet in tho eky, wd wako up the thuuders, But I wag_ movor in s Couvontion of (thig Xkind boforo in which the msn on the unpopular ¥ide was heard go kindly, or with “sinch breadth of considoration. It wna the steady ardor of tho dny that there should be no applause, but the order was perpolunily broken, though,the Presi- dont tried to keop it, with (ho wmont wonderful faot aud wisdom, clear to tho end. “Tactand wisdom, the most exquislie Lumor, and tho gravest’ robuko, honey nnd steel aliko, Wero povorloss to stop thut ripplo of good will® from &l gides of almoit all tho quostions whiol oama up, yet tho Chair nover for o moment lost its dignity, and, while it was invosted with gront sand holy momoiNes of the moti ywho bad sat thero in other days, I think wo sll felt that Judgo Tonr, tho ripe, mwoet fruit of a mnoblo Puriton_atock, ' was the_ best Trosident wa over had. Dnly onco, ns I thought, tho Con- vontion did Itaclf injuetice, and thut wasinn voto of amazing solldity sgainst a resolution of sympathy with the aiuis of the Freo Religion- itws, after somo such voto had presed of sym. 'muyulm the aims of the Congrogationalislo, fiyo Couvention was engor to tako the hand of the mother that bore and nursed us, but would have nothing todo with the child of our own spirlt and lifo, I confess I did not liko thus, and #nld #o, an your reprosontative and ministor, bo causo I believe n the ton while 1 honor the mother. And I hoeve no ides that 1, could ot o mojority. of votes in this church o _ndorso ny actlon, while am pura you will ~ beliove I 'did whnt I bolievod to bo right, and wonld Iain hiave soon our wholo body thka thnb ntand. — For [ remem- ber, a quacter of & century ago, how another mothor sat with tears dtresming down hor faco au1 told ier 1 had mado up my mind to loave tho old home, nud como to Amorics, and ored throngh hor tears, 0 m‘{ lad, bow can thou feave thy fathor's gravo an th{ mothor's hearth- stona?" Dut, when sho suw It whd no us, she blossed me as I want, forth, not knowing whithor 1 wont, and ull her lifo, down to this July, when uho wont to ker rest, wont o tendor and holy mesnages of lova ; and ovon whon 1 mado tho one awful change to hor of my lite, and loft the old alturs, how she suid, *I ‘cenuot bolivve in Unitariantem, bus I can bolleve iu my lad.” Bo that, if thers was no other reason, theno things nre & parsblo, or shali I not eay n ludo. atar, o me, af tha way wa slould greet this ohild of ours, 8o full of strange wdventure, who oca out cloaving his wuy Wwhere we Lave never fiouu, aud whore wo do not moan to go, That vouo revealed to wo w certaly zuthlosy quality I hnd wovor moon so clearly befors, we have ‘brought from tho Puritany of Lito alder dny,~the stern und steady roaolution to havoe notbing to do with tho aon who haa rebollod ngainst the ro- straintn of bis homs and utrture, aud taken his own way. Wo would not stone him as Mosos bado thom stono tholr chlldron in Israol; wo wimply wanh our hands of him nud lot him go. Thin was to. mo tho ona ozcoption to the aweot and catholio epirit of tha Convontion, and evon this loft no tasto of Ditternoes with thons who wors thoro ; whilo I havo no more doubt thau I have of ty own ox- intence tht tho timo will _cotao whon this I'reo Religsious body will bo mado welcoms to tho beat wo havo if it kcu{m up its high standard, and worka for tho uoblost cnds, Third—8o, fu speaking thirdly of what was dons ju_tho Conventlon, wo must count this for tho flrat and boat thing, that thero was no bittor- nosu or malice or envy among thoso {hat wore thers,—nothing but ‘loving ~kindness, snd a broad, nwreot charity, in the apostolic nonss; nu cownrdico or nnl{-quoklms; no man with an ws o grind, ‘and no bigot who wonld nipays the world to make ono prosolyto. Every ni, in his_good, cloar_sonsc, was n gentloman whoum yon folt you could trust to do that which he bolioved to be rifilt, and hold his own againut tho whole body In what he balieved to bo Wrong. When, theraforo, the fivat roal worlk camo up 10 be done, thirough a papsr sud rosolution in favor of putting down by atern laws every sort of drink that may load i any way (o drunkou- noas, some of tho grandest” and’ truest words wors said on tho subjeot 1 evor heard, cepocinlly in tha addroasea of Mr. Ilaywood and dlary Grow ; while Mr. Woedon, of I'rovidenco, foi- Jowed vwith & wiso and wholesomo papor, which touk tho ground I havo taken boforo you, that a ruthless prohibition of all these boverngas, the mogt hartiul and tho losst hurtful ahiko in voally training up o nation of hypoerites, nu that wo whould’ favor no mensuro wo donut mean to enrry out in the closot aud on tho house- top, leat wo o not aid morsle theroby, whilo wo do burt Iaw and tho sonse of tho sacredness of law in the brenst of tho citizen, Wion all thiy waa dau, it seomed ta ma_to boay wiso and honest n thing as wo couid do to oxpross our sympathy witita resolution to do all o cauld by our influonga und teaching, by volco and pon, to arreat and destroy this mighty foe of civilization, and to ring society up to that high condition in which all our Iaws and_customs should promote purity and sobricty. Thi was nob what many carnest and noble mon avd womon wante put I boliovo it wes o fair and lioneat oxptession of . tho sengs of aur pooplo_on this terrible problem, and every wan of us who might doubt the worth of tha other resolution to moet tho caso was sntisflad that the ono which was favored wan something 1o which hio could try to yrork with all his hoart. Very welcomo slso and valuablo as anything wo eyer had ot any mocting wWere papeis on tho Causos of Crimo, by Mr. Woodbury; on tho Punivhwent of Crimivals, by Mr, Moars; on the Voluutary Syatom, by Mr, Amoes: and on the Belntion botween Reliious and Modern Selontifle Thought, by Ar, Caitlirop. It soems to me, in- deed, thot it would Lave been worth the time and trouble of zoiug into conferance to got theon papers_from theso men; so Wwiso thoy wore and bright, and full’ of suggestion, and of what our colored fiiend ealiod the brains of eliglon. A good deal wam oxpectod from Blr Amos and Mr. Caltlirop, and their work stormod {bo Convenlion with a quick ulgn'Erlso aud pleag- urs it felt in no other thing which way done. I {rual wheu tho roport is printod you will not £a3) to rond these papors, N Muck waa dono_in other ways, too, touching our Sunday-uchools and othor rrma of power in our Christion Iife, Lo recite iv all srould take all my timo, and 5o I can only say that I wish soto of wy pooplo who do not quite believo in Sun- day-tchuoly, snd yot da not kuew why, could Ly baon thoro ta raceive the losson and (ho in- spiration Ehnve 8o eadly neglocted or failed to givo you, I think you would tako bold then "to » men and W womon, awnd go near to troublo Mr. Harvey 03 much in your ergor desiio to do gamething, e8 you do uaw in Jotting bimn bear heavy burdons without tonching thoi with ono of your fingers. Fourth—Tho report of what has beon done sinco the Couvoution met befors was fall of satiufaction ngain to thoso who do rot expeck ‘Unitarianisnt to grow and ripen its fruit alt at anee like the treo of the Chinoss magivinui, Drotber Hale, oo, i, of sl tho mon I ever linow, tho best man to writo and road the report of tho Council, becauso *bo looks up and not down, in and not out, and lends a houd,” o ag o rords you think of the womnu who #aid fo urner: ~ * L canuot see as much sunshine snd besuty o the world sa you get into ~ your pictures;" and tho painter ooswered, “but dou't you wish you could " That exquisite imagination which mado Brothor Hanlo one of the bost slory-writess wo havo amang us in Amorica servos im in his roports. o focls his way to the heart of tho thing hohas to sny, aud gots at the whoat whilo others would bo tyoubled about the chnff. So you hoar him with the same grain of allowanco with which you would hioar oue who seos face to face, whilo you seo still as through o glaws darkly, and ivondor whothor this or that staiement s not too good to bo true, whilo you know tuat it ig tho simplest truth ‘o the cager moul standing thero on the mountain-top, and crying {o you of tho dawn, whils perbaps ‘you are 8till in the shadow, I would rather, thero- fore, henr ono of My, Halo's] reports than any story he over wrote, bocauso thero is always in inem a possibility of that which in {tsclf Iy mere- ly positive,—a grand open acean of God's graco for us somewhoro ronnd tho rugged Northwest Tussago among tho icoborgs through which, as yot, Ii%nm Christianity is Lopctng its way ; aud Jou foel ashamed of yoursclf fof the teich of doubt and fear you have ontertained about our onterprises from Antioch Collego to tho care of tho Uta 1adians, and declaro to yourself you wil never doubt any moro with such & man as tint at the frout, for just that which hio seea iy surelv coming to pass, What Mr. Halo eald, in purticular, you can read for yourselves in tho Regisler or tho Liberal Christian, ong or other of which is taken, or should be taken, in every family in our perigh. But thoro waa another report which went to tho heart of tho Convontjonin a very tender way, and that was not s0 much in the atory of work well dono, for thoy wore vory modost about that, but in the presonco and specch of Blr. Dunthit and Mr. Elliot, the ono, as you know, from Portland, Oro,, and tho other from down uore in Shelby County, in our Stato, Of Mr., Denthit I have ofton spoken, and of his grand ool work, No botter work, it scems to mo, is oings dono to-dny in our body by any ono man, or any work which draws go surely on the last grain “of endurapco a man has in him; noithor bas our Uniterion Association over done o Velter or » wiker thing than i keeping Lis_mis- sion in good hoart through all weathers, I feel sure, tov, that alter tlis there will be no doubl in any mind whothor or no Le ought to bs main- (zined thoro oy Jong as ho is ullo to stay, 1lo won ovory honrt, nna oponod a groat many ayos, and iu iy specch ke told thuw story: That, Leing abont to preach in Xattoon, some time ago, o friend told him that one of our Unity Churels mon woa to be thors, which filiod Lim with joy, for bio folb sure of a grasp of tho huud and a God blens you altor the seryics, but to Lis #rent wonder tho Unity Church man weat away aud urid novor a word. I shull renerva my won- dor until I know thal brother's numo, And Ell- iott, on that far-away frontler of Portland, traveling ning_days to 1esch us, brought us o bloasiug, For thisis tho boy who might have boen clerically clothed jn purplo and fine linen, sud farod humptumlnl‘y evory dey Lad tiiere not been thst bravo sulf-forgouful spizit n him which flamed up in Rliot, tho spostle Lo tho Indians, sud guthored naw power &nd_grncs in Lis own good fathor down thero in 5t. Louis, suepect thnt Tom, as wo love 0 call hiw, forgot Dia npoech, and_ talked right out of his heart to us, but no considored words could have gone wo suroly into the heart of our Convention. It way as when the old Roman said no word they could remomber, but hold up the limb which hid beon shrivon for them in ba'glo, and won thom in the looking. 'What was tho¥ eal nocrol of Eliot'apow= ey, but hin word to us was also Lo aud strang; only we loved to loolk at him and thnk of him'ous there, the lonely man whoso ous compapion I tlio minittry in Drother Btoobiua, away doww in Ban Francisco, who, as hio {old u# wan'so glad to scohim tho othor Buuday when ho cawo into tho chureh, that ho ealled bim into the puiplt, and thers befora ull the pooplo pat bis arms about him, and blessed him, Fifth—~Yinally, you folt that our outlook to- ward tho futire was full of good ocheor, 'I'hero was not a touch in tho Conforonco of that mor- bid weli-cxawination of whish our May weoling uged to Lo #o palnfully full, It was not o slek man any more, nuting new. symptoma of the shsdow of denth, but n etrong snd healthy man bopoful * aud eager, looking onward aud inward and npward in the full assuranco of faith, That stern, almost sugry voto of the ave erugo men, indood, which rolled through the hall liko a tone of thunder, moant thin, at loast to mo: thut the votors wanted to soarch to the rooty of tho fuith wo have niveady, and sea to It that its full worth should bo domonstratad bofore thoy weve roady Lo mnko ouy change forward, buck« ward, or to either sido, Ikioy voemod to fael n a wisa old man in Vermont fult, au his son told mo ho other svoulng: **I aw an Episcopalisn,” Lo suid, *and whon I wis going to Cambridge my mother wan very anzious sbout she influcive of Unitarinnivm, lost 1 showld bo lod auway; buy y futher enid; ‘My wom, I only you nmot to change unlil you Bk bavo extinusted tho virtue of tho faith you possoss, aud flud it hna no power to holp you fu your i)luhnr lifo.,' " Tthink thin s the in« tenlion of thoso who woro at our Uonforouco, Thoy feol that wo have not yot bogan to moasure tho powor and graco, the holght, aud breadth, aud dupth of tho faith once dotivered to tho enints of Unitarianiym, and until tbot ia dong thoy mean to keep right on working the work of 1lim that wont thom, while othera of o difforcnt miiud will havo to do their own work 1 tholr own way, Ho I wiah that, instond of tho oxcollent dolo- gation you gent with mo, you could all have gono to the Snratoga Convention, to feel its power aud catoh ita epirit. For thon I think this Churel of onra—~which, siuce our grost trouble, Jias neoniad to rae to bo somothing llke & boat lugh and dry i o nocludod bay at low tido, with thoso that whonld man hor and push hor iuto deop wator o littlo earcloss s Lo ior ovar pushi- ing ont ngain to any gront purposo—would bave foit tho tide about hor, lifting ber sud those who lovo lor, nud luapiring us {0’ strongor and mora falthful ondonvors to got out and join the floct, &nd Loop nbroast of tho bost on the deop, wide ocoan of tho overlaating life which stratchen from this momout iuto etornity. el BISHOP LEE, NMemerial Sormon by the Rev. 1. Ni Powors, of $t, Joln's Charch. Tho Rov. 1. N. Powers, of 8t. Joun's Epis- copal Church, youtordny preachied tho following sermon at that church ¢ As I bavo Iately roturnod from tho funeral of Dishop Loo, of Iows, whoso name i so roverod in this parish, which always had a warm place in in hin honrt, it acoms appropriato at this com- munlon sonson to say somothing descriptive of bie burlal, and of his lifo and gervicos in his diocese, On the morning of Saturday, Sopt. 26, at his liome in Davenport, aftor soma hours of uncon- sciousnoss, tho Dishop breathed his Iast. It was Iato in the week boforo his recovery apposrod bopeless, and then but & fow compsratively wora aware of his real conditlon. The Church aé largo, 98 woll'as tho community genorally, woro shocked at what soemod ao sudden a5 it was al- flictivo in his dopatiure. On last Tuorday after- noon tho funoral took placo, in tho Cathedral Chutch, nonr the Blshop's home, Tho carket inclosing his romaius atood in tho study of the Eplscopal residonco, whero, from 11 o'clock in tho morniug till 1, thoy woro visited by tho vast thrang that assomblod &t tho obsoquies. Tho Dishop Iny in the robes of his office, with a oross of whito flowers upon his bresst, and afloral crown by his slde, None, of any aga or deseription, ware donied the sad privilogo of taking thoir last look of the friend sud epiritual fathior, who knd so Iatoly moyed among thom, and whoap noble countenance wis now g0 placid and strong in ite oxprossion in death. Old frianda who wolcomed him to the dioceso when young man wero thero. Clergymen who bad long Iabored under him,—gome on whom he hiad lald Apostolic hauds,—tho poor aud obseure who rovored lim,—littla childron, whose prosence always gave him pleasure,—oitizona of all faiths, andof nono but who reapocted bis Chiristlan manhood, camo and gazed and passed on. T'hero was hardly & tearlons eyo among them, oven of thoso unused to weeping. There wero thoughts, manyand suggestive,of what the Bighop wns, und of what ho had done, memories bright with somo picture of his character, and voiced with tho kopo of what was plauncd te bo ac- complished, had ho only lived. Looking ou that grand form and atill faco, once beaming with a light now oxtinguished, how vividly some re- membored their own dead whom ho had con- signed to the errtly, the times ho had comoe into their overabadowed homes, the days when ho mingled with thom o innocenr festivity, and whan lio stood bofore them with glowing Leart, and broko to them the bread of lifo. 1low thon their spiritual remiesnoss appoared to somo, aud thelr unheeded warnings, and tho word of coun- g0l and life from his dead lips, that they bad ot oboyed. Suroly be never spoke so tondorly and impressively, nor in any singlo day to 50 greas n company, a8 whon motionless aud mute tn bis coftin, sad faces bent ovor bin, and the bistory of vanished years yas rovived in souls that possed in and one of that silent room, whoro he should toil and pray no more. Tmally tho timo for tho {mbllc aeryice arrived, and iho cagkot wag clossd forover. From tho chopol of Griswold College on tho ndjacent equare, & proocusion consistmg of tho Voatries of tho Qifferent parislics roprosented horo, tho divinity ntudents, tho clergy of lowa, tho vialte ing clorgy, the Standing Committes of tho dio- cese, tho delegation appointed by tho Iicelesi- nstical Authority of ilinois, and tho clorical and tbo lay pall-bearors procecded to thio Bpiscopal regidonco, ftom which tho Bishop’s body was borno, preceded by Bishop Vail, of Kansas, and followed by tho bereayed family sud tholr rola- tives to tho churchs eloso st hand, which had long before beon. fliled to its utmost capacity; a great_multimde also standing on tho lawn sur- rounding tho building, Tho Cathedral was honvily drapsd in mourning, and floral offerings wrought in yarious devices docoratod the chan- col. ‘}u front of tho pulpit was tho boantiful oross of white flowora eont by * loving hoarta " from our own parish. 'The procession, eutering tho door of thw ehitreh in roverso order, was met Dby Dishops Whipple aud lobortson, und pro- coeded up tho brond aislo o places assigned in tho chancol and directly in front of it. Immo- diately aftor camo the childron of the Sunday- schools, with their teachory, who pansed forward totho coflin, on which each cnst » littlo clnster of flowors. 'I'his sceno was fonderly touching, andiif tho apirit of tho Bishop was pormitted to witnesa it & new joy was oddod to that of his Paradienical glory. Bishop Robertson, of Mis- sonri, rend the appointed lossun, aud o fooling and appreciativo discourse, commemorative of tho doparted, prolato wus delivered by Bishop who brd boon his inti- mato and life-Jong friend Aftor tho roadiug of tho resolutions of ihe difforent diocossn or- ganizations proyers «rors sad by Dmhnf Whip- plo, the casliet waa temoved, the funoral cortego was formed,—tho longeat tho city ever saw, con- sisting of momn 100 carringe,—and the pro- cosslon moved slowiy to Oakdale, This lovaly spct, 2 miles from Davenport, is a groat swell of the prairio just beyond tho river bluft, covored with osks and evergreens, and commanding a wido prospect of the roglon around. A willow- fringed rivulot murmurs slong Its woealern border. On its green slopes, hero and thero, bright with flowors, and botweon tho nltmleflnfi trees, poured the soft September sun, Over ol glowed the deop biug of the tendor sky. The great conconree gathorod around tho opon grave, tho coflin was lowered, the boautitul burinl-sor- yice was said, all tho Dishops participating, aud then foll tho solomn benodiction. After- words tho clorgy and others as thoy passod boeide the gravo, cast oach a handful'of dust upon the cofiin, and went sorrowing away. Dut none will forgot the hour of that momorable as- somblage on the Waatern slopo of Oakdale, How soltly fell the light tliere swoet and golden, liko the radiance around angolls brows. Ilow sad tha words * dust to dust,” yot how inspiring tho meusnge, “I hosrd a voico from Heaven saylng unto me, Write, From honceforth blessed ure tho dead who dis in the Lord; oven 0 aith tho apirit, for thoy roat from their labors,” Stunding thero with tho graves of my own doad but & few paces away, and all around the frlends and ncquaintances that I had committed to the earth through a paatorato of nearly twelvo years, tho tima hiad a ruro sactodnoss and signifi- canco, and was full of precious memories and hopea. Yot it was hard to realize thnt Bishop Loa waa lying thero lilko tho reat, and that wo should geo his fuco no moro, 'Fho diocesa mourns; svd upon & wido circlo of personal friouds (he afiliction falla with a pecnllur sorrow, His enduring monument Is the work that ho wrought in Jows. Yor nineteen yoars he admin- istered the affairs of the Bpiscopal Chureh thore with unromitting diligonce, and devotod, consoi~ ontious care. Au intimate friend of the saintod Bishop Ciriswold, who ordnined him, be accoptod the thoologieal views and imltated the policy of that omincut prelato, following bim ns ha fol- lowed Christ, * Ilo camo to Iowa a young man, loss than 40 years old, full of bigh hope an: forvid zoal, and his long minfstry in tho Episco- gato was unfaltoring in loyaity to thie prinoiples and dootrives ho early osponsed, and for whoso promulgation ho congeerated hia life, Tow can appreciate the hinderances that ombarrass o Bishop's efforts iu laying tho fouudation of = prosporons and powerful diocese ; and Dishop Loo bravoly met thom as thoy aross, and ovoreune them by his industry, Christian pru- donce, wnd porseveranco. To provide for the support of the Lpiscopat i ouo of the ole- monts of digeosan prospority, and st the bo. aituing of hiw Jabors o seoured funds whioh, Hulug investod in wild Innds, have lately been a source of ravonne to tho diocose, ‘Lho lauds, once in immediste jeopardy of lois to tho Chureh, were saved, ahd have boen wisely man- agod through the goneraus offorts of the Xon, Goorge 1. F'rench, of Davenport, IFrom thoir Brnuun«h anew und bosutiful EYluna(ml resls lonco hiag been built on the college grounds, noar tho eathodral, snd a fund started which will in timo becomo s valuable endowment. Laly, also, in his adwinistration, Dishop Loo oduoational in- thouloglenl pur- of felt tho importanco for atitutions, oypeaially poses, and = through hin atforts the proporty of - what was thon known ne oma Collego, an inatitution of tho Congrega- tional Church, tas purcharod in Davenport and tho name chrngod to that of Griswold Collogo, A largs indobtedness was by this moans in- curred, but tho paymentn wera duly mado, and tho valunble property, comprising tivo squarcs, with tho Collego chapel, Prosident’s residonco, and & boarding-houso, iy unincumbered, Tho {rionda of the Lishop and of evaugolical roligions East contributed liborally and willingly to Urla. wold Collogo, and mapy thousands of dollara woro goourod by tho Rov, 0. B. Stout, tha_puc- cesalul financlal agont of tho inatitution, Lator indsto tho foundatian was aid for a homo for sick nnd indigent womon, and for this purpono a considerablo fund has alrordy accumulatad, Bome sevon Janrn ago the DBlshop lad with much rojolelng tho cornor-stono of hix own chureh, the nuclous of whoso con- gregation was my own In formoer times, and nmun? whom I am always at homo. Tho edifico, ono of rare boauty and claboratoe tinish, designed by B. T, Pottor, of Now York, was finiahed, with the oxcoption of the apiro, a yoar ago. It standa soparated by a narrow Inwa from the Eplscopal rasldouco in tho contrs of tho east square of the Cnllnqo grounds, and is sn oruamont to tho boautlful elty. The chiof cost of thin admirable cathodral was defrayed by tho warm frionds of the Bishop in Now York and Now England. But whilo theso works woro important suxiliarios of hia l(plncnimto‘ and furnishod the jnatrumonta for promoting every diocosan in- torost, wo must uot forget the spirit which ho carriod Into hls administration, tho flavor of his porsonal fofluenco, his stondfast dovotion to Seriptural principles, and his lovo of tho apostolio ordor avd sorvicos of onr noblo Church, Inthe new coloulos of tho Wost thoro aro & freedom and cordiality of man- ners that do not provail in older commuuitics. The ;{ungla are u!uull{.mnu domonstrativo, and thoy look for a warmth of intorost in those who come invested with high prerogative among them. As Bishop Lo trayeled Lora and thore through his dioceno, he did not sock fo'maln- tain » proud ofilcial lsolation. Ho loved o get noar tho hearts of mon. [t was a ploasuro to him to mingle with tho peoplo in thoir social athorfugs, to Liavo childron notice him, to bo vited to fhio homes of the poor, aud to miniater to obscurs distross. No man oyer appreoiated gonuine human sympathy more than he. Hls own house was a sanciuary of love and peace, and tho iutorviows of clnrqy and laity thors wara alwass dolightful, No Bishop was over more ap- proachablo” than ho, 1o alwsys wolcomed tho advances of shose who “mought hia coungel and sympathy, sod was novor happlox than fn doing one a real eorvico, In porson ho was dignified and cummundlug. with 8 noble cartlago, sud a faco and form that everywhoro sttrnoted attontion. Ho had a volce of great power and volume, and there were occaslons, rhen, lifted by his subject to profound emotion, it rang out liko s trumpot, vibrating toono’s dcopest soul, Ho loved preaching above all things, and whoro it was nocessary, a1 while ad- drossing soldiors, to speak n tho “opon alr, with flency and improseiyonaas, During the war hig patriotle sympathles had coustont exhibition, but towards tho rebol pris- ovor Lo showod tho kindest and most helplul In- torest. His sermons wero emiuently Scriplural, and ho took most dolight " in thoso doctrines that prosonted Jesus Curist and His redooming graco. U'ho Bishop carnestly eought to bring mon to Christ, not by manng of s dead ccclosinsticsl mechanism, but by porsonal.ropoutanco and faith. lio did not preach the Church, but tho Bavior. 1o bad no nfimpnlhy ith that thuolnfiy which makos man the chanuel of graco to tho soul. While all imrlnntly claims were offensive to him, and ho ut- orly ropudiated tho sacordotal system, ho prized the Epizcopal office, dearly loyed hin own Churcty, its services, order, and boautiful appointmonts, and Iabored diligently to have it accomplish what ha gincorely belfoved it was suitod to do for tho ood of men. ‘Towards other Christian bodles Eo nover acted or spoke with 1ptolorauce or arrogance, but rogardod thom as Lronches of the great Church of Clriat, though destituto of some advantages and Dlessings peculiar to our own, He liad intimato frionda amongst them all, who mingled thoir toars with thoss of his own communion arouud his bier, Iu Lis lator yoars, instead of growiug dogmatic and bigoted u}mn cortein mooted points of theology and philosophy, ho was loss positive, and his nature sovmed to softon, and Dis boart to grow broador and tenderer towards all sincere inquirera after truth. Ilis own bo- liofs as to what was fundamental did not chaugo, bue ho had more and mora charity for tho be- liofs and opiuions of othors on the groat topics of duty and roligion. Peruonal pioty—tbo lifo of love and ohodionce in the kuowledgo of Christ— was what ho sougbt Lo gnin himeell and promota inothars. And ho did uot regard any Christian- 1ty gonuine unless jt appenred in tho improvos ment of the character and 1ifd Though not noted for oxtensive scholarship, Bishop Loe was & man of good attaiuments, snd @ discriminating theologian. His judgmont of mon and measures wag excellunt. His business Dhabits wero industrious ond methodical. As a proacher, ho was plain, earnest, and edifying, nomotinmes rising to strong and forvid clonuonce. While e was nat gifted with a croative imagina- tion, nor trafued in_sciontific studios, ho had achioved a commendablo culturo, and was maa- tor of a style diguilied, clear, and montentioun. Ihs executive ability was romarkable, but his cluof influonco was n bis resolute ovangolical spirit, bis steadfast dovotion fo tho prin- cthm ot tha English reformation, hia obedionco to Scripturo Tather thau tradition, aud his #trong Chrlstian character. Oftou tha groxt burden of his ofico wearied him, yet ho Dravely endurad 1ty weight till ha was called to overlasting rost. ‘Uudar the care of this warm-hearted, cour- ageous, aud pious Dishop tho Diocaso of Tows ypraspered and atood o witness of tho splritual and Scriptural charactor of out beloved Church. Thero waa never any bitter wrangling or conthict in the Episcopal Church in that State. What- over tho cased of alerical aborration or misda~ mennor, thers was never tho scandal of an ec- closiastleal _ trial, n{ private confercnce and fathorly adminiatration tho Bishop adjusted whatever in this particular needed correction. o has lald broad and woll the foundations for a prosperous and powerful dioceso, With its edu- cational and charitable inatitutions and its ou- dowmant it in rondy, under & wiso and holy Epis- copal administration, to go forward to blessed triumph for the Gaspel, ) 8hinll the policy of Bishop Loo continue, or @hall ane in opposition to it herontor provail ? Sball tho large propersty which ho socured thore for tho Epiacopal Cliurch bo used ns its donors desired and dosigned, or shall it bo cmployed to promate p:innipkm and usagos which thoy did not accopt or approvo? It cannot bo donied that the responaibility of tho next Diocesan Convontion will be [very great, and great, tao, geided in widom, will bo tho position of our Church thoro for uso: fulness, and a8 s kooper andwinoss of what is most procious to tho hLuman soul. Many tar away, who loved and trusted tho dead Bisbop, and contributed liberally to the works in which ke wnu engaged, will look with deap satisfaction and aaruast prayora to tho proceediugs of the diccese n filling the vacant chir now shrouded with the embloms of doath. My tho Leat hopes of thosa who lave a spiritusl and primitiya Church be realized. Aud so, though the people in Jowa bolold no moro that etatoly presonce smong them, nor hear that voigs of cheor calliug to faith and Loly work and aelf-gonseoration, nor rejoice in tho noble works of his enorgy sad self-vuarifico, they may yot teo tho Church thore undor a wonh{ loador %o Corward to victorios of tho oross, shedding abroad the illuminations of tho Spirit, and doing the Lord’s will on earth ad it {s dono in hoaven: —— THE HARD SAYINGS. 0 Hormon of the Mev. Arthur Swazey nt the Fourth Churoh. The Rev. Dr, Bwazoy proachod the following sormnon in Prof. Bwing's chutch yestordsy mora- fong: Thon Hlmon Poter answered him, Tord, to whom shiall we go7 Thou bast the wordvof otornal lifo, Aud we believo and are aure that thou ast that Cbriat, i 8on of God,—Jah vi.: 08, Somo of tho followera of Christ woro atnggered by his assortion that o was the broad of God which cnme dowu fram hoaves, that whoavar would havo etornal life must foed on Him, Mauy wont back and waiked 1o more with Tim, Thoir mental disturbance scoma to have affectod oven the Lelve, Jesus porceived tho porturba- tion of their minds, and saya, ** WII yo alav go away?" Totor replios, o whom, Lord, shall wo go?* When tho wind blowa amay tho ohafl tho whoat in often irrad a little, When suporfclal heliavers, baving found that Ohristianity propeunds soma things tothom which task the undorstanding, are #wept from tholr moorings, tho wmoxo solid Lolfover i sometimoy shakou, porplexed, aud droge aochor o littlo. Whathor the mau goos adiift dopends largely on the yalue lio pats on otornal lite, on * the words of oterual life," I tho gront quostion hus gono dooply futo his soul, ho doos not go away with no forocast as Lo whoro hie is going, Qatting into doubt on the oneside, he raitos o quoation of tho alternative on tho othor side, %o whom sball we zo?" The twolyo, Jooking for a momont sway from Chrlat, saw only biank desolation. Obrist had uttorod :,Imr;l aying | suppose thoy forsake 1im, what hon Christiatity doos not como to men froo from npoculative difiicultica, We only jucreasa thotn whon, in tho warmth of.our zoal, of iu thostoad- fastnoss of our couviotions, we afirm to our follow mon that thoro aro nomo, —that overything ia plain, and cany to undoratond, "1t ia for botter to sllow what musk ha trito (fonn) if we aro of s thoughtful turn of mind ; what Pator aftorwards acknowlodgod, that thore 'aro momo things hiard to be understood, things spokon mot only by Paul, but by tho Lord Limsolf, and by all tho Aposties. Joaun anys (to take tho nearest passago to our toxt, the vorss precocding), ' No man can como tomo oxcopt it wera glvon hin of my Fathor.” "Tho great insoluablo problom—tho point of con- tact of God avd the human mind In its neoking aftor lita moots us horo, o may aa well bow bofore tho myatery, and go on, ‘Tho doctrine of otorhal retribution, taught first plainly by our Lord Himself, and tsught by nono of tho Apontlos with lnFlhlng Itko tho cloarnens_and omphasis which charactorize tho words of Joaus on this pajnful thoms. o can oxplain away nieh which lhau beon curront fu the Christian world,—tho literal eternal firo aad brimestono which Edwards proached, Wo can flud that tho torms n which it s most plainly sot forth do not, in themsolves alone, indicato tho literal the- ologleal ntnrnllg that [a to say that punishment is immoasurably long. Wo can slso rob tha doctrino of much of the Ehymcnl tonor with which wo contomplata it, by an obsorvation of the 1lot of lost gouls on carth, men lofg to thomoolves, and being reduced, au lorccd moro and more with tho Anguln‘{x that always ~ Accompanies moral docay and tho oxpondituro of soul powor, But, aftor all, this groat solemn mystery, o reiated to the worth of bolng, snd na rolated to the justice and goodnoss of God, romnins, 1t ia 8till ' & home-enying.” One of our theo- Jogjans, whose stylo of thonght has its merita ag well anits dofacts, and who bos spoken much as I hiava on this mattor, romarks with pertinonce on the lognlty to Jeaua on tho part of Univer- salists, notwithstanding tho mcvers terms in which our Lord spesks of tho damnation of tho ungodly: *'Buppose now that I sprivkle my writiuga and my sormons (bo boing tho first to utter the doctr{ne) all through, ns the four Gos- pols ara nprinkled, with these flery denuciations of punishmont, how many Jiving mon of tho whole world, if I woro to lead off in such a doc- trine, would hear me for & moment with pa- tionce? They would not stop to find whetber by somo claborate and caroful practice on my words thoy could slft the offensive doctrino oul of them. Nothing bub contempt, they would Bay, is the due of such s prosobor, . . And ot what roverence thero is 1o Jesus In thoe pro- mulgation of tho doctrino!” 1f auybody might stumblo at the teaching of Josus, it might be one to whoso mind the salvation of all mou is tho debt of ithe justice of God. 'Lhinking that way, a8 ‘I do not, those to whom I bave reforred aro wise in holding still to the Lord Jesus, hoping for a solution. John TFostor's memorable lotter, in which, with most tender rovorouce, ba doubta the doctrino, but will not allow himselt to deny tho record, illus- trates thie atrugglo of faith, what hag somotimos boon called **thio agony of faith.” So in msny othor dircctions, It isnot nccessary to go ovor the wholo ground, or oven any coneldorablo part of it. herover wo turn wo stumblo on esomo- thing which is deopor thon we aro,—svmothing wo must aocopt without knowing much about it, only thiat it is from the good God, who will break tho universo into atoms ratlior than wrong, or hurt, or without nis own fault suffer tobo wroogod or burt boyoud roparation ovea tho meanest and mogt ill-deserviug of men. Dut I wish to call your attoution to tho fact, so onsily forgotten, that difficulties aro not all on the sido of Christiamty. If wo turn away from Chrigt, it 18 not to fiud even tolerably well-justi- flad thoories, the difiicultics of " which™ are ony (ower in Duwbor, or any oasier of solutiou, Consider tho more quastion of difficulty alono, and from my standpoint tho diflienltioa multiply it is not enough to say thoy aress great)— thoy multiply aa you lose this goldon clow—tho lova ot God in Chrit Jesus, God in Christ roc- onciling tho world to Hiwsalf ; they multiply until ono is utterly lost, kuowiog neither sun nor pole-atar, and having no path for biis foat, Indeed, this is not telling the wholo truth. The diflicultios of Ohristianity aro, for tha most part, tho dificultios of Naturo, of all thought, and bolong to Christianity bocauso Christinuity comes into nature sad into all thought with ita proffor of o solution, For cxample, tho.opora- tion of God and man in tho mmnd and hoart of man is o dificulty of avery thoory bus Atheism, and s parallal difiulty 38 found oven thora. Rejoct Clristianity, snd you aro o wieor, no noaror tho solution. Tho doctrino of retribution, viewed apart from tho Biblo, or anything Christ has said, deter- minod by what wa seq of sbipwreck and perdition wil about us, dotormingd by the holl-firo which burns in overy city, aud in avery huanan lifo that is swung loosa from righteousnoss, whother you consider the ovil inhoritance and jmmoasurable oxposures of mau, or the weight of onlamity en- suing, is no moro ‘within tho scope of humai un- dorstanding. Christianity, Isay, did not origi- nato any of thess difficultios ; no, notono of them, 1t takes thomas it flnds thom in the world, explaing therm more or loss eatisfactorily, gota thom fn thoir place in the Divino govern- mont, and offers, on simplo terms, aresting placo for tho heart, and tho strevgth of God to attlo with all dificultios, and wisdom to find and koop in the way of life, Lot ua take our Presbyterinn aystom, which the world sooma Lo think is the originator of all tho difilcultios of thaological opinivn. I am not about to ailirm its pesfection, or to disclaim any fault which may attach to it, a8 woll as to olhor systoms of faith, It is an attompt to realizo in teries of articles tho Pauline view of tho world, and of tho redomption by Josus Christ. Btrip our craad form of it vorbiage, and considor its ansontial foatures, and you find that thoy sro eithor derived from, or are in close nnn\afiy with, Nature, You touch tho ribs of tho oarth; you find yoursolf in’tho quarry of tho groat buildors of all timo, Paul was one of thone builders. In the theological world Lo is no dreamer, no wosd-maker, but an cxplorer into tho Divine goveromsnt. e i not such a man as Swedonborg, or Theodore Parker, or tho novelist Auerbach, but such a man as La Place, Nawton, Bacon, Darwin, of Agassiz,—a pondor- ous miud, not even doiug the good work of wonving Howers &bout thio porch and columus of the groat templo, a1 Issiah, and Johp, snd Obrysostom, sud Bourdalone, but oarching for iho foundatious, for tho great ideas, and for tho laws by which tlug temple has rison in tho world, Presbylotiauinm is o tondoncy to strong though liko the: of Paul, an attompt to clasp tho pillrs that uphold God's throno, Paul 18 the father of Prosbyterinnism. Augustive and Calyin, fallible moa, to whoso doctiiue we tako exception in some particulars, are tho fol- lowors of this groat master, only a little loss agtute and comprohonuivo, and only = littlo less under the inspiration of a holy eslling. Wo sometlmes objoct to coryain of “their forms of Curistinn daotrino, but it, In listening to theso instances of dissent, wou infor that we put small estimnfe on ihiese great names, you misapprohiend our sneaving and purposo. You can no moro deepise them than —you can the tomple-founaors of tho ancients, or tho cathedral-builders of the older world, You can only lny them nway as a purt of the debris of sho agos that have orumnblod, ax you deal in the eame mauner with Mozos, or _.Lyctrgus, or the com- pilors of tho Justinian Codo, or Coko, or Black- stono, or tha great Chiof Justices of England and Amarlca, Thoy were buildors without whom tho warld bad done poorly. Now, tato out_of this syatom, and ouj of the Coufogsions of Faith, all redundancios, all pre- suwmption of scquaintanco with the sscrot will of Gou, sl hersh stutements (and, marveions to any, the storn_aualysis of two or’ three hundred yots of unexampled cnergy of thought, has dis- coverod ab most but two or throo of the Iattor), and tho., ip'oat fosturcs of Proabytorianism, around” ‘which the storm of controversy haw oumtored ~ for o nany yoars prosont diffenltica which lmlonf,' mainly to naturo and tohumn.a thought ; difticul- ten not 8o much distinctively roligious, as tu- woven n tho structuro of the world and of the human mind, What aro theea featurcs? Do- pravity, Prodestination, Togumoration by tho Splrit of dod, Justilication by Tujth, aud the Porsoveranco of the llogeneratod. Our systom conforms to tho Now Tostainent in afirming thesa dootrines ns bolonging to Christianity. 1t moay be tbat thoy aro luss cousplcuous, aud more justly stuled in tho Now Tos- tament than wo aro aceustomod to stato thom. It may Lo that tlhey axo ialands in & gront sos from whicl, ps the ngas pasa on to0 & Dbottor undoratauding of the iuspired Word of dod, thought migratos to vast "continouty of Biblo knowlodga boyoud, Do it s, or bo it not s0, 'Choy bolong among tho teswbings of tho Word of God. Supposs yon glve up the New A'estament to got rhral sny puch [des of God or _of man, do you aucoood ? Do you got rid of siry, of & uni- yorgully broken ordor, of a wolterityg mnss of daformed and ovil-luctinod souls in tho world 2 vitl thio abolition of a erood abolish tho groat waatos In svoiety, and tho deadly passious of mou, and oharmy nwn{_ ths norponts that hisy in avary groon path of lifo? Da yob got rid of prodestination mé which o mauy stumbl? Ato not socioty and tho natursl world just as full of preordering? a\xouos tho Inwyer, the plyvsician, tho mercharit, just ss muath bout on predetormining the duv.(sion of the Qourt, the rocovery of the siok, and the safo ar. rival of lhorlchlrlndun argosy? Will you tako from God what, if any man sucgoods in onco in a hundred trint, wo bogin to call him & god ? 2nd, a8 to *olection,” do yon.not fiud in Naiture tho great law of **soleation,” ' tho survival of “tho fittest,” sud o groat undorlylng Iaw which no man can fathom, by whivhi somo aroand somo aro not the littost ? Init anything 5o very difforont from what wo noo fin flold, and Aen, and air, whora overything, atartizig out in right conditions, how ninisterod wo know not, keopa on to tho fulflllmont of 1ts destiiry, that souls yorn of God in the now birth shonld live on in faith ? Ihom aro some nocdless diffienltlos, growing ont of the ovormuch wisdom of mon, apd par- tleulaty whero inforonce im taken for faob. Thers ure those who distort the facts of human history_and tho divine power, msinly by attrib- uting I&ons and motlves to God whioh aro ont- slde tho facts. If God mado all men, and fore- know all destiny, and somo men becomo wrecked and loat, it is & short 1nmp of Togic to sy that Gtod mad o them to bolost, which s gruflonlly untrue, and s false ropresoutation of Gad, I afliin, therafors, that tho hard sayings of Christinuity are not charactorlatic of Christianity, but bolong to nature and tho world and Christianity 15 the introduction of a dim Liopo, of & roganerating powor, of & now 1w in foiro, all kiudly, inspiring, full of God’s love, and promieing of n better and grand fu- turo, on carth .and boyoud, for souls, Jesus Chriat stands in tho midat-of tho ditiicultios of thought and of life, aoquainted with sil hoights, all dopths, o1l broadths, all powers, and superior toall, to {rald a mew and botter Kingdom, In which overy sulering soul may Lave full sharo. Fho fasaionable naturalism of tho day is, most of it, .Pautheism only thiuly disguised, It offers, I kn e, something “more gonial, at loast claiming to bo more human, thau Christlanity. I shonld ex;pircsn amazemont, ouly that it ia no now thing unidor the sun that evor and anon it hoo proponod to take tho place of rovosled religion, always at first enthralling nenti- mental ‘natuiwes, but raroly resching tho solld thinkora of a2ly age, and aftor o little is aban~ doned by the 10asxcE, a8 a toy worn out, for tho old, solid, dofiuite, practioal doctringa of tho Now Tostamon t. Dissolvo its onticing drapery, and you find oothing undorneath, (no pardon for sin, no hopa of immortal lifo, no roal fathorhiood in God,—notwing but tho flowery ond icy ongoing of Nature, and after a time s)ipping off its dlsguiso, auicl confessing that in tho brosd unlverse thero i1 no room for God! It will not onduro in_tho ahock sud storms of human life. Like the Villo (a Hayre, which wont down soma mouths ago, it has ologant upholstery, and trace- work of marble and gold, and sumptuous ap- Eamlmuuts, and_ rides bravely in still wators; ut it has no hul of Iron snd onk to outride tho porila of the bointerous dnng. It is not new evon, It has not the moritof advanced thought. It is that endlens circlo fu which sages havo traveled and found nothtng. It is tho bringing into market, nmm“ixn raw and inoxperiouced poaple, goods which woro shiop-worn whon the Maji carried thoir gifts to tho Infant Jesus, Lucretius, who, aczcording to Tyndall, roached the ultimato of thought, lived, and sung, an committed suicide & hundrod years boforo Paul umid: “Whoro 4 tho scribe, whors iy tha wise, whora s tho disputcx of this world ? Christiapity may liwve hard saylogs. It may be thoroughly true Yor all that, "It docs not fol- low that tho bard saylngs commend roligion, or that it is o mook-of Virtuo, of ubusual grace, sithor; to multiply or exsggerato them. Indeod, quite tho contrary; it is incumbont on all who adirm tho faith of Jusus to bo careful not to afdrm ln{t\nug ontsids of the record, either in mattorj of fact or infurences from fact contrary to tho common consentt of good, willing souls. Insido the record, what God hins said will endurs till tho Lieavons pass away, Chulstianity, a8 popularly noderstood, han made a groat gain by the froor thought of our times. Tvhias found bottor prinsiplos {of interprotation } it has como noater fio tho Bible viow of tho denth of Jesus 88 a sin-offering; it has found out that faithin the vicarious sacrifico justifies becauso it i tho seed-principlo end tarting-point of all fod!.mnau and truo right- cousness; it has leveled mauy of tho fouces the Obirigtians bave built to ahat thomselves in and toshuy others out ; it has reducod tho sect froma Jure divino idos to convonience, tasto, and opin- ion, inberilance abd usclulaess, What now all boliovers should seo to 1w, that it does not flat out into nothing digtinctive, notbivg powerful to eava & world of sinners—s mora tropical mareh, full of beauty and perfume, but no place to build cilice and” carry on tho traflic of tho world. Sentiments aro fod by idens. Opiuions, clear cut and incisive, if thoy.bo only just, are the grandoat powers of the hinman mind, 1If wo leavo Jesus Ohrist, to wisom shall wo go? Which way for rest, for satvation? Whero, O sinners, bruised, and weary, and lelpicss? Where, O sad heart, whoso wealth or whoso lovo is taken away? Whoro, O soul, tossed, and driven, and buffeted, full of weunds, and Zfaint- ness, and night? Whore, O footsora trayeler, wenrymfx thino eyes at the fork of tho roxd, cry- ing out ko » beggar for tho bread of life, pant- ing on tho billsido, tha great sombro forosts Liding the path, whoro? . Nouo scom to know where, and yet soma scom quito ready to wallk no moro with Him. Teason and conscienca bid n man to ask ‘‘Whoro?" heart and bope bid him ask “ Whero?" thoal- most impossibility of coming back whon the soul has become Weary of Jasus, and Hig words havo onco bocomo an offonao to him, bid bhim agk * Whoro?” that great future, whoso vaut distancos may bo tho bage of an acgle which, ab the point of blending, is 8o fino that both sides seem like one etraight line, bid him ask— Whore? Isthere any knowledgo like Christ's knowledge, any power lile 1lis peswer, any love iiko His love, noy fellowabip like 11i fallowslip ? any inspiration to hlfil[ and noble deeds like that which comes from Mim? n}xly roposo of mind lik that which is found in Him? any triumph, and assurance, and great joy, aud vislon-soving, Jika that of the martyrs and comfessors, and bumble soula who, like Potor, have said: *Wo koow aud arp suro ibat Thou art that Christ, the Son of God;" or, like Paul: * Neither lifo, nor death, por things preaont, nar things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any otber croa- ture, shall bo ablo to anpuntn us from tho love of God in Christ Jesus.” —_—— THE SITUATION IN KANSAS, Sermon of the Rov. Richnrd Cosilor; xt Lawrence, Jnn. ‘The following is an extract from a sermon ro- contly presched by tha Rov. Richard Cordley, of Plymouth Church, Lawronce, Kan. His text e His truth shall ho thy shicld and bucklor—Ps, zely 1. ¥ The prosent year is ono of almoat unparalleled calamity to our Stato, Disasters have come in groups. One calamity kas followed on tho heols of another, and ono has addod to the severity of the other. On tho hools of the groat financisl diuaster, of which we bore our full sharo, camo fivst drought, then locuats. Tho financial oxplo- slon prostrated all busmess and unsettled all values, ILvorything was at a stondstill, and our only hope was that a plentifal harvest would countoract the influonce of disasters, Dut a plontiful barvest has boon denied us when wo looked to it an one sourco of roliof. Thore is no disguising tho fact that it fu » gore disappolntmont. To many it is an almont irroparablo loss. Noither cau wo disgnise tho fact that the newer portions of our Stato are cut off evon fram supplios of bread, and must dopond upon tho generosity of thoso moro highly fa- vored, But—in the language of one whose courage wo can imitato, If uot bis charactor—* All is not lost," Eyen tho immedinto outlook Iy not wo dark as it seomod,—not 8o dark ay the black- winged prophets of avil wonld havo us beliove. Tho financinl storm has about speut its force, and iho eloments will scon quies down to thelr normal state. T'he losd of our Larveats s great, but it is not as comploto as wo feared it would ba, ‘Who situation v bad, but not so bad but that It might have beon worso, and 1 ¢hink wo all expected it would bo worse, ~ Wo have saved a whost orop of unusual broadth and oxcellenco, Tho fruits of tho acason have been roducod in silzo and quantity, but thore Las beon, sud will bo, an abundance. ‘Tho vogotably products aro seant, but thoro will scarcely bo alack. The corn crop Las beon soorvhod by dvought and de- vowred by locutts, but it bhows w wondor- ful touncity of lfe., In spito of all draw- baoks in ‘the eastorn part of tho Siato, whore tho hoaviost population ia fonnd, thora will be n fair crop of even this produci, which wo supposod would o entlrely dostroyed. In this snne oastorn portion L really beHeve there will Do woro realizod from the soll this yoar than last, and I doubt if, on the whote, it will bs 8o bard a yoar, All will sutfor losw iu sheshiinkngo of thoir orops, und somo in their tolal failuro, Dbut thevo {s muoks loft to bo thankful for, God has Dblossed tho poopls with unusual health ; 8umo portions o hns blessod with hoalth an ])luuty; most all parts with somothing ; and He iag put & gevorous apirit into tho leurts of tho peaple to gfllp tho neotdy, Ihose aro bright fuatires ju the prosent out- look, 'I'his muoh for sofloning tho prosent dlstrony, 'Iioaoare the stara that shius fn our night (he sunny do; ugm‘(m y deys tn the winter of our digs ut, looking boyond tha pronent, what are pronpbctu for tho” fatura? o disasters o‘i“: year or twg Aro not to guldo our Judgment of o country, Thero is & nermanent truth on which sro can rout and waft In tho houru of calawlly, Iho oxporionco of one sonton does not wmeasuts :Inz u\m{rxh]a{ & country any mors than the bleak. 088 of wintor measuren the frul w)hol? y]mm tfulboss of tho ul thoro aro many who would thus juds condowmn our Stato, Many would m&‘nugron ml‘tfi future prospocts by what the past seaton hay been, Muny 800 only gloom ‘in the outlook, Thoy aro prophots of ovil,—ravons cronking aver tho desolato fiolds, making thew more dcuog. Jatostill. Dooauso thers has been adronghth oncq in fourteon yonrs, and an invasion of grassliops pery onco {u olght years, thoy would have wy think that this can nover bs o farming countr, aud that it had bottor be remanded o the Groa| Amprican Dogort of 1ho old geographics, "Ihia country lina beon sottlod but o fow yonra Tis cultivation has boon of tho most destitory kind, Tho least that haa Locn done bas beoy applying tho mothods of othor State. to this, aud in“mout onsos Lhoro has boon uo wethod af ayl, There bias boon no study of tho olimato and sail— no adapting of mothods to their pocularitios, ‘Thore hag hoon no earaful study of the mogi fittiug and profitable crops, yot the rosuits huyg oftow been nstonishing—~unch gonerous violds, such onormoua growths, and such superie; qualition. Who indolent husbandry of ma of our poaple, that baw it "ty samo crop yonr aftor year on the sam¢ Iand, shows ‘tho oxhaustfossnoss of ouc Taenty years in succrssion, and yot it falls :Io"&& though growing faiut sud woary. No country can show a groator varioty of graing and fruity a1t in ‘é)ul;fl;{lu r.‘fi' fume bocs. Tho olfianty d_ fruita of North an PN outh in & meayure Buch & soil, of courno, has boen the prod vnr{mg conditfons—of extremes of plxen?cfx:é cold, wot aud dry, years of growth and years of rost. Damo Nafw'e farma botter than wo do, nnd onriches bor soils by altornating sensons and growtbs, 'The tropics have thetr Aliom motion of wob and dry; tho North, of summoer's heat and winter's cold, Our Stawd Tics batweou tho (mo and partakes somowbat of tho conditions of both, snd of courso will hava moro poculiar couditions of her own, It ia nol surprising that thoso who kuow only te cwlture of somo othor reglou shiould nob bo'able to draw tho richent and most rogular reenits from hin Whon we Lave & raco of farmors who know the cauditions of their own soil, and hiave the ontor fififi“d pnu;uafio fulfill thom, theso prairiox 000mo what Loy 2ro 40 oft |t Sagdon'o fi world Ssallnlc A G at theso fruits will not fall of thom: into tholap of indolence, nor will thoy c:x:](:i'( tho call of ignorance. They must bo earnod by industry and won by pationtsum)l, ‘Theao sowery of fartility,~wivter frosta and summer honto, dronching rains and parching drouglts,—which i agon and oyclos goue by have beon packiug thiy soll with richukss, will momatimes 8o conspire ag to blight the Larvests thoy naturally tond tq foster, Aland go profusc ‘and abundaut in ite produots will bo profuge and abundant in othes thinga too. Weeds will grow raule whoro corn growa rauk, and o laud of abundant ruits will also bo alive with tho consnmers and destroyora of fruil. All landd have thair drawbacks,—usu. ally in proportion to thoir ndvantages, Swarmu of dentructiva insccta wiil infost s land like this, which aro novor hoard of among the fogs and sand-banks of Capo Cod, If you would cucape ths iunoeta go to somo barren inland where no imsects, will posimple anough to follow you. Tha bouutiful harvest han a thousand foes whichara nover attracted to tho atuntea grains of & barren eoil, Tho farmer must leain to suntch bis har- vest from thoir teoth. A thouseud insscia aro woitlig for the uwootuces of our ripening fruts wlich mnever diaturd tho lacd, sour fruits of less gonial climes. Agaivst thom the skill and indusiry of tha hus. bandman must contond, and from thom ho munt lenrn to win the prize. Man, who han subdued sea and land,and made the foroes of Natura serve him, will not bo overcomo by thoss pests of the oil and air, ‘Theao sra the truths on which wo rost. These aro the truths of Qod,~wrought into the Cone stitution of the land. This ia the shicld by which wo broaks the blow pf temporary calamity end roat quiot in hiope of batter I'Elyfl. Our hope of & prosporoy future is uot based on Wi cone Jocturo, but on the known rosources with which God has endowed our State, Through theso, God hes given us an indication of what may ba ond what will be, snd from {his truth or God, thu reveal, wo n prophosy & prosporous futur and aa surely axpact it to coms as though Gor had spolkon by au audible voice, Nothing cax bhindor such goil and clinate and such resoursof from bolug tho foundation of & rich State buf tho indolanes, izuoranae, or dishouesty of ity pooplo. 'Choro nro drawbacks aud hind-rancos, Thore nre sessons of digastoraud gloowm. Du} thero is undor all these a permanent basis of progperity on which wise men will roly, and which is” suro to roward pationt fidelity with vrosnerity. Tho question comon to us now, How ean we soonost roach tha prosperity that most cortainly awais this region 2 1ow shall wo bese haston the_“ good time coming™ ? First—DBy pationt and pkillful industry. The industrial principles of tho catfish-nriatocracy which scratches up & few acres of land and then $Lrows momo corn over it must bs abandoned, Tho theory and practico of mongro tillage, #q popuiar and common, must be denounced ag criminal 04 well as slovonly. Tho majority of our formers holf till thoir soil, and thon =~ trust to it vichnosg ta coms peneate th wn leziness, When Nature, Woary of Lsing triflod with, chaatisos them with fuilure, they biame tho country instoad of thei own indolence. Last yoar was ealled & poor year, —and most of our farmers wero poor enough,— yet I know farmors who mado more monoy las{ than any other yearthay havo heen here, and thay wara only plafn, stoady, hard-working men, wnd did ouly what any ono olse might do. Thore was 00 unusnal xkill or Inck., Supposo this year, instoad of the unbrokon stratches of corn wadzg, every farmer bad fiold of wheat, 10 or 20 acres, our calamity would bo great then, but its edze would be turued. Tho country would be full of whent, nnd wheat i always nioney, and 2ionay sacms to bo our one groat lack. Instoad v of 8,000,000 bunhots of wheat there would bo al Joaat 10,000,000—gxain to sparo justead of grain o buy. Thus a wiser and more divorsifiod industry would give us larger and loss finctuating roturnd, The fullness of one erop would componazto fo1 tho scantiness of amother. lnaustry is the foundution of wealth, and labor tho sourca and moasuro of valuo, Cunyiug may transfcr woalth from one mou's pocket to ainother, but onl lubor of musclo of brain can creata wealt or enlrgo its valnmo. Wo must orento mord voalth, and depoud Jess upon drawiug it from abrond, ‘T'he groat dopendenca of tho past hog Dboon immigration—new pooplo comiug with money 10 spond. This lhas beon our principal crop~our main dopondeuce. 1laving o flogky of their own, many of ourpeoplo have dependod ou flaceing tha lembs that come ‘from gontler climes, "hosupplyof these boging to fail, for oven lamby soon learn tho tread of tho wolf, We tust dpond,In tbe futura on producing something tho word wauty, and not depend on otting romething which tho world lias Rot. ‘Second—Thlu Jorda me to auother way in which tho return of prospority may bo hastened, amoly, by storn ivtogrity and riitid honesty, o oscapo tho payaiont of our dobts, which geews to bo the abjeck of 1ifo with & greal many, wmay bring temporary roltof, bub it will bring & curse after it, Tho way to prosporty is not through that door, If We would probpor und have our prosperity do us any good, thot doo- irino of thio dovil's which always takes adyantaga af & tlmo liko this—the doctrine of ropudiation~ must b harled baok with the lndlguumu which only honest men can foel, The only ro- pudiation which must bo tolorated” for & moment s tho prowpt aud uttor ropudiation of overy ~mau that daroa reatho tho poesibility of ropudiating our debts in any shape or form. Tho very suggestion is an insult 10 tho pogple, for tho rwan who makes to you adishonorablo propoaition evidently thinks you ara suscaptible to such a proposition. And thers must bo privatons woll ns publioin~ tegrity,—honenty botweon may_and wan,—the rigid mua(inq‘o( obligations, IIa iy no friond of yours, sud hins no high opinion of your intog- Tity, who comes to tell you how you ean os0upo paying your dobts, A debt is npna tho less a debt bocauso its payment can ba-evadod. It is uona tho less n dobt bocauso ybu havo roe pented the bargain Dby which you ias carred i, You may Have your monoy, but you sre only koupiug whit bolougs fo anostier. A difforont mode of doing this wonld Dutw man in the ponitantiary. We nood s xo- vived and vigorous sonuo of tho honor of ablig tions, Tho whole fabrio of comniorce rosts on thioso, sud b i unssttiing tho foundations of vomnieroial infercourdo who impalia tholr vacrad- nest, A'hird—Another way in which we cau hrsten tho coming of prosperity is by a manly inde- pondence nud ohostful courage. Wo ate fot oing to biaston 1t by whinlug or oxaggeraling Lo ovila _wo Enffor, Wo are not oing to lasten this coming day by fianoulmlug our Blato and giving her w Dbad naio, Sho dues not deserve such a namo, aud the futura will inske suye hor vindie cation it wo slander hor. Bab wo may hinder her vindloation and retard her progress, Wo Liad boster cat coarse braad and lfess of it then