Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 19, 1874, Page 2

+ I nover want to hoar it agam until I'hiear'Chan: 14 of the place, it T could not ses the i.h‘a‘ man preachied, ones,who had ins il Then T should say tiat, bemde this roality about the pulpit, thore ought to b reality In it, And I would carry thip iuto everthing that iy done, 1n the gonoration that is passing away in our own donomiuation, thero was o class of proachiors who took gieat pains to imitate the pulpit tones of Dr. Channing. Now Dr. Chan- ning bad & voice of tho miost marvelous sweot- st that was over Loard, 'fo hear him read o. hymo aud touch tho summmts of his mer- mon was o perfect wondor. There was n vast attraction in wuch an organ of ibsell. I anl(vnmd a ggood many young preachers, and Jed them to fool thnt it they could mako a sonud Jike thnt thoy must bo attractive to thelr pulpit mivistries. 1 hoard tho toue in grent porfection in Saratogn in one of our morning mootings. uipit where m;‘ a divine ning uso it i Ileaven—and thin wus tho gravest, mistaka such mey could mnke lu that direction, | Chauming stood for himsclf. Thoy stoad” far thomsolves, ‘Uhiey could make tho bost of tiielr owa voloon ; thoy could make nothing of thatin.: imitablo wondor. And so § have thonght T cottld lut my eyes and lob eix of the o :flunry ‘!mmf of six_ diferent denomi- tious™ preach, I would know ‘to and | what cliurch they bolonged by thelr touo, bub on tho stract I could not dotoct this difforenco. Thoy would talk with meu liko meu, yet the | moment thoy stand in that place, whese the man | ja Aluo a ministor, somo sore of unrenlity fakes potsession of zho‘r voice, sud you fecl the pres-° onco of the familiar man o longer, and #orrow to sce that 5o far tho priest hasswullovred up the THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1874, — e — slbly do, nud it is justas much the businoss of the poople as the “meachor to ace that this 15 dowe § tor whils thora will slways ho hore and thoro n man {n thoe puipit who ea hold Lis own against Lhe pows, tlie great majority of us soonor or lator tako tho fmagoand snporseription of our acticnlar communton atl work within cortamn nege lnos, And wa need Lo feel that we lavo all about us honeat, oarucsl, fearlens meu and yromen, who will hear onr word and hoed it, will atand by it, and holp us preach it afrush through overy channel of practical godltuess that is opon to oir dally Jife. '[1115 CONIURION SERVIOEH. At tho clous of tho sorvices, Mz, Collyer invit- ad his congregation, sud all oihers who wore prenont, to tako the Communion, 1llis words wore i tha idosl spirit of Christlau brothorhood; he invited thoes who were members of his churel, of any churel, or of 1o church,—nil to whom it would be & prooiona tlme of Horrnoss to God, Tho servicon woro vary aimpls. At tho closo, Mr, Collyor took from tho an plt tivo crowns of whito flowers, and placed them on \tho communion-table, nayiug, a3 he did wo, “I .want to put these flowors myroll on the table, becanse It sooms appropriate to my heart, which has boen o touched that some one whe loved 1m0 horo has romemnbered that this s tho first time wo bavo beon about the communiou tablo since my mogher weut to lieaven,” Thoso crowns were part of the-very:besutifal fl6ral decorations which had been put about the pulpit iu commemmoration of tha deatlh of thoir g;mr'n mother, whe diod en tha 11th of lost uly. 'L trowns which Mr, Collyor took up Iind “ each the word ' Mother”” worked in violets; thore wns aluo o laagae crems aud Lwe proachor, Now I notica that, a3 & rulo, whon Fhildron are in good caruest, tho tonos of thoir voico asaume a stendy and irresistivlo omphasis, and the child goes right Lo its purposo, Dut when they aro miying & task thoy fall into b sort of sing-song, and travelors oy lhlumnf-filmg oan b heard in grest *)er!enuou 1n the old heathon tomples, I ahould trace it to Lthe same reason ; Slioy are all apenking a picce, sud wa all spealt & picco that go ving-ronging through sermons, Ono fubtlo elomont of unreality in the pulpit is tho pulpit tone—and L will ndd to tbis, to complete wy illustration, the puipit mavner, too—and 1 moan by that everything s man puts on fur offect, eomparad with what spiings spontancously out of his naturo, is & puiplt mauner. Dr. Wads- worth, of Philadelphin, was in hiayouth ons of the most awsward and ungsinly men in the pulpic 1 over ssw—every *uction,” as wa call il, went iu the face of the whole scuool of elocutions, and was a8 _unoxpected as it oy extraordinary, Dut the proachor wsa & man of n mighty power. e cought you first Dy that; then Lia voice wus altogethor his own, and he ' held you by that; and thon, by and by, you saw (hat overy movement be ade hada delicato Linsbip to the movemont .of his soul, and then you cared no mors for the contortions, But 1 have often seou men whose movemonts wara governed by the elscutionist with the most exquisite grace that I conld vob bear 1o look aé. Tt waa oo claborate lesson they had leminod, they were really conducting ~an oxhibition, Winle it is always sad to eeo this, it ia suddest of all in tho pulpit. ‘Wo had » mau once on our circuit in Pennsyl- vania who mado thews motions so that taey cae fu very slightly out of tima. It wan as if ho had naid the thing and somoe otlior porson had giveu tho omphasis, I have never hecn able to xee thess pulpit * Fnul\lm-mnkum" oxcept - iu that man's mivror, Thoy do 1t botter, but I da nat. cate any more about it, I waut the hand {o atrke Liome, I want the fiugor to }mius at the truth,—J want alishakings to como from a shak- on Boul,—than I am contont if there be no grace atallin the movement. Lol the man speak touie to-day as hie will to-morrow, aud hold himeelf in the puipit a8 bo would on the sireet. 1 Lis eonl was all on fire thete, thon ko has attained to the fust summit of power in the pulvit, the roal presence of a man. Then Tam couvinced that ‘auother olement of unreatity in the pulpit comes from reading sermona juatead of preaching ox- tompore. 1t isovident that iu the firat Cliis- tisu agos what is now s sermon was just tallk about watters of the dirccteat intorest aud in the dircctoat way. This is true, too, ahout the Reformation. All the sermons then that wont 1o the heart of the people from men like Lati- mer wora full of the plainest posgibla tall, k8 of oue plain man to suather. Aud thera apaindid but follow thoe great wmodels they found in the Gospols and in the prophets, If wo will go thraugh theso hooks fo get nn idea of the an- cieut preaching, I think wo shall be amazed at tho way thiose prosctiera of the old time cou- trivad to bring their trath Lome. Lversthing uatvea Lhoir purpase, aud they vovor beat round the bush to como at 1t. Tut pronching now has got to be a fine art and Tias taken its pluco among thoe rost of the fing arte. A sermon must ba about so long, and eo logical, aud @0 good, and bo writteu down sa that you never have ta wait for a word, or else it won't do : and it iy possiblo sometimes, I foel sura, for o writteu sorwan to bo belter than ona reachied 1ight out of your henrt and mind. R‘hnl‘n isn compnetness and sohdity to be ob- {ained in_that way you cwunot come at other- wise, sud I aupposio men Jike Chalmers nud Dr. Dewoy would proach better right alony from tho ninuseript than from the mind, and James Dartinesu could no more preach without Lis mnuseri;t than a bird could y without wings, while vno sermon like those o proachics woui weigh mare in the solid gold of trath and gonina then a huudred of the pulpit talks of pume otbior men, Yet tha popular beart still reeponds to the pulpit talk. Mr, Spurgaon has 6,000 peoplo to hear him. My, Martinesu per- haps bad seven score, Still I think the 6,000 knuw what thoy are about. Thev do not waut #0 much thae fine gold of truth and gonius as the warm, quick pressuce of s man, aud & man who may not do much for thair thought, but still may do & wreat deal for their life. 1§ deploro excaed- ingly my own boudage to this custein of reading wermons, Thoro would be vastly more raality in a directer mathad. 1 Jong sometimes to_try my old Methodiat plans and see whether I might not stll do a6 I did thon. 1t 1a hard on =it proachers ta put their beat deliberatoly on paper. ‘The bost conuey flying across the soul when the wholo ma is lighted up, as tho summer Jights and eliadows 1ly ncross the world. I suppose the de- mand for at least one good sormou & weok com= pelled this resort Lo manuacript 3 it will keop the preacher down to manusenpt, but if those cougreantions whoea minister might do botter would say, give us one wiitten wermon a mouth and talk to us tho rest of the time the bost you eon, wo will bear & liltlo until you ot your fac- glty, we will not look_cross, or bold aur honds dovwh, then there would be a roformation; but, gy it iy, threa times out of four there is n film Debween the papor and the thought—it has come thero wince tho sermon was wiitton. It insures that the composition sball Lo read, and nat sex, and 80 *‘of making sermons thevo is no end, and much boaring is weariuers to the Hesh.,” Whila the best sermons of this conutry came pouring out of the living heart of Frederick Rouertson without a serap of paper, ‘The last element of unruultt{ in the pulpit which 1 can woution s the understunding bo- tween the preacher and congregation, that ho shall ouly preach certain things, It i8 nat true of such men that they nro physiciany, callod to the oare of souls, aud compolled sometinas to give very bitter medicines ; they nro_caterors, Whose biuiness 1t iu to novva up such things ns thcir customers like, und not to serve up what thiey dou't Iikv, on painof losing their cwitom, Bany ministecs hold their pulpits during their goud bouavior. Yot whon good bebaviar means fauthtulness to the deepest convictioud in their goule, {iaf may inoure their dismissul, Congre- gotions covanant for what thoy want to hear, while what thoy onyht to hear may be quito an~ other question, Thuy want to hear predostina- tion, fres race, universatism, partinlism, Jiteral- ism, ratiounlism, or whatover else Lhoy chioose, and they don't waut to honr the other wide, ex- copt a religioun tracts are wiitien, iu the form of a dinlogite, in which the other sido it suro to get the worst of it. Thay waut ta hear as much of scienco and the new rovelation ay will accord with their old creeds, Lut not ono word more under pains and penalties. If they Lave some darling siu_or daep-rooted prejudico, they will let you traverse everything but that. There you~ musk "DY' or “they will stop thoir porw-rent, Bo, thore iv un Inquisition iu this Ro- public too, Its agents aro in the vist majority of cliurchos avery Bunday. It does not resort to it old brutal methods of torture, but it ks oth- or methods that drive the thorn howo aud serve its purpose very woll. Al this brings fatal un- renlity inta the pulpit. Outuiders suy 1o such prozohetx: ** You are special pleadors for & foro- gouo conclusion ; you are bound over to your good behkavior." And made for {he universe & tzla‘nm\' ::uurlmhul, nd to party glve up, e nieaut ToF mankind, Fioally, it ig atill s true ag ever that.pronching jaone of 'the divine forcos of the world, We noed it to-duy ay much as the muititudo did that athered about a mountain whon Christ opauned fiu mouth and spake tho beatitudes, To hear the toues thoy hicard, out of the very heart of ro- alitien; to feel that avery movement of the maa s tho unstudied expresiton of o nature ali on fire witl the word of God, and that this aoul of of & man we get up to ba the modium, so far a4 it muy be, by which the truth ahall come Lo us rom heaven shall nevar be coverod by the filmy of our prejudico or selfisbuces, lost it become Jike & nurror which is o clouded that it vannot reflect the Imaga. b 1think 1 toli the slmple truth whon £ say that to preserve the pulpit pure and strong and froe .m oae of the moat woweutous thiugy we can pos- ahenves of vipe-wheat. As Mr. Collyer tallred of his mother, of what ha had been to him, thera was nob au unbowed Liead, or u dry eye in the church, Auch that he #nid wan too sacred to bo repentod, but this Teply to her daughter's quontion about ber feeling for tho futuro as she lay dying may be given “Tnirns,” sho aaid, ' it's all right, I know 'm goiug homo, but '{t’a womething I cannob talk much about. Infinito rest and love are all _sbout mo.” Hor daughtor .asked it she dld not want to sond n spocial mepenge to the sone in Frauca and Awerics, iNo, you ara all oqually near," was the roply. # You bave all been slways the onus to me, and they kuow s wolt as you that Ilove them,"” After singlug the hymn, “ThoShining Shore," the congrogation slowly separated, lingering us though loaving a tendor family feast,—ouse etop. ping to pick a flowoer or & spray of the memorial whent, auotlor to exchaugs an affectionate greeting with the mwuch-loved pnstor, and suotber to thauk Lim for re- maining with Chicago. Lis “poopls iu "Fhe lnst greeting that followed Mr, Collyor as Lo stepped out into his study was in the voice of a young mau, " If you had left us, Mr. Coliyer, I whould havs gons back to the dogs,” and 3Ir. Collyer replied 1n a gravo and futhorly way, ¥ No, for you don't uolong to tha dogs, but to the wous ol Gotl." PURE RELIGION, Seraion by the Rev. Prof. Swing nt the Faurtl Chureli, Prof. Swing proachied yesterday morning at hix chureb, corner of Rueb and Superior sireots, taking as his toxt : Purs rollglon and undefled hefora God pnd the Fathor e thiu: To vieit the fatherless nnd widows fn ihelr_ aifotlon, and Leop snvalt wnapatiod from the world.—James, Ly 37, Phe dofimtion of religion given hiera by 8t James differs from {hose doflnitions found in the moro philosophic, formal of pure metaphy- sicians or theologinus, The variation duos not prove that oither party, tho inapived.or the unin- aplred, haserrod, bit only sbows liow impossible it is to deflne exhaustively any of tho great torms which men use iu any of their departments of thought, No ona Lias ever yet beon able to fash- ton some statement that should toll the world forover whnt faith s, what the word litorature menns, what philosopby includes or re- jecto. It has beon the long effort of the deepest thinkers to furnish their fellow-mon with the dofinition of things, but the effort bas met with ouly imperfect muo- cess. It should not be expected, therefore, that mankind should ba able porfectly to defiue ra- ligion, ‘Lhe difioulty dacs not urise wholly from the veguences of terin®, but from tho, largeness ,—a bulk too great to bo gathered up into nsentotice or peragraph. Such words as God, and faith, aud philosephy, and conutry ara liko the graut planets in their orbitu: not only too poorly noen, but Lao vast for our powers of con- coption, All the encyclopedists and theologiens defing roligion to Lo the sensomau experioucos of o Buprewe Being. Some of the Latin writers thought the term doyconded from ‘‘religo,” to bind, and henos painted to the fact that man feels Dbound 88 with obainy to o Spirit above himsolf. Cicoro thinks the word comes from *relego,” nud meuus the enlmest or deepest study of mav, or rercading, one that goes away fram the surface of things, ax Muller ays that as soon a3 man has become couscious of sclf hao becomes couscious of something above self, and that this 1s roligion. 1t sasms almost & digcord to the harmony of theds voices from ancient and modern lips sthen 8t. Jamos comes inte the group with bLis announcemeut that pure snd ndeliled religion bsfore Gud is this : ‘L' visit the futhorless sud the beroaved, aud to lieop onescif unspoited from (he world. Dut thors ie no dwcord here, Jawea is looking ot the same thung which Cicero, and Max Muller, and all the thoologians, have Jooked at, only he is looking further aloug at the outbrenk of the roligious coneciousness, ‘The former class aro wecking the mos: jundamental expresaion, Ask a chionm- it what winler is, and be will Loll you it is tho rosult of the obstriction of heat by nights that are longer than the day, and by the quarter daclination of the esrth’s axis; but ask the child, the common citizen, and ho will paint to loafidss trces, to snow-covored billy, to frozen streams, to poor, shivering, homeless childron, and say, ** That is wintor.” This leat closs taka up the deflnition further along from the start- ing-polut. ‘Thus St. James renlly comen into confifot with nobody, but perins where ather minds ceaxe, and in 1o doiug Lo lias roudetad tho world sigual gor- vice. Very closely, tao, has ho fallowed hiy Mastor, for Christ gave no fundamental doflui- tions of terms, but placed s statcmonts far sway (rom wmotaphvsics, out in the region of daily mctivity. The Sermou on the JMount can bu nothing more thau & delinition of religion, talien not where tho sentiment rises, but_ whera it widens awt into life, Jawmes, tol- lowing big Master, examinesa shower of rain, not up In the cold whore it forms, but down in tho valloy whoro it falls upon the wheat aud the Tily, the ok nud the daisy, Dofinitions may bo too fundamentsl for the great public, sud mey tius conceal & truth tustoad of unfolding it mnd itis hardly fo be doubted that, wheu tho world wus undor “the in- fiuenco of the philosophers, a it was from Plato to Luther, aud whon tho truth was all fod out ta the multitude throngh the words of only ,profound inquiry, religion lay concealed among the very tertus that wore meait to roveal it. Acting upon the profound instruction of the sroatest men, willions of souls fele that to stand Qut in the burning saud or upon the summit of a plllar, or to post life in & cavers, or to lguore food, raiment, snd society, and live in poverty aud solitude,—tlis was roligiun, becausa raligion is & cousciousuess of God, 'T'o keep up this por- petual senno of the Deity was the mobiye that wmnde the Hindoo stand out on the dosert sands day nud pight and gaze upward; that made Simoon Stylites pasu his forly yosrs upon a pillar, and led a multitude to Hook after the sacredness of biu examplo; this was the proposition that Foundod mouustorios shd convonts, and inducod mon and women to isolate themselves from n world that only stoad batween them and God, Tha defluition of roligion was too parrow. It wa not anly imporfeot Lecxuse falso, but it wau too varrow for & human life that was to draw ed- weation aud happinsss from tho varioty of it feel- ings, utudics, aud pursuits, he Luman mind can- notlive upon any one thought or emotion. It ean 110 mora gazs upon God foraver thau it oau oat, or sleap, or walk, or ruu forover, or foraver say, “Lom Loappy,” or * Tam sad” ‘Phe soul lu i broud as tho universo, and can 1o moro he held into one thought aud feoling thau the planet Jupiter can be put into acup. ‘Fhe mind und apirit of man were mado fu _ the image of God, und hence, though man is not iulinits as the Creator, yet ho reaches out grandly in all direc- tionw, and would seem to bo intinite if he wera not 8o aclipsed by the presenco of God., Now, niwnifold are the works of tha Lord, and, if nan be in the Divine image, manifold are the works of maw, too, and hence the lifa of his sonl oan never tlow along in religion as defined by the philosophors,—Iu & stralght, nar- row chanuel, with no ebject visible axcn{)i the Divine radiance. Buch aconflneuient hias always, in tha fact of luatory, heen tirst tha death af the woul, and then the decllue of the religion, Our fathers, far back, made thin mistake whon l.llp{ held thole religions servicos from morning il the sunset of the Bundny, and attomptod to hold fhemingd to n centemplation at Delty yathor than to a groat, varicd lite, This made Ohris- tinnity 4o narrow that a church was ofton only a kind of palanquin, such un ply botween zouanns, in Imdiy, in which the poor travolor fludu ouly one little window, sud thrt ou the top, looking only to the aky. Some Luglish writer accounta for tho groat rovival in Beotland, now Dlossing that land, by alluding to the fact that for p contury the poor nmnmmxsunnln linvo acen only a religlon of ono Idon, and bad been wholly unchoerod by love, and by mosical {nstrumont, and by song. Out of such n paralysis the multitude I now awak- encd by (ho love, nnd breadth, and music, and liymns that crossed over to tha old Iaud from the now, blossoming Amorics. If thin Is so (and no theory sooma moro probable), it shows whot need thora'is of a broad definition’ of roligion,—such that undor its lng man may march,—not a8 & pria- onor,with his hands bound, nud with boavy chaluy to Lk foot, but na n_conquerer, with preat om- wives at bis feat. 'I'he aaul is tike the troo which Icany and loses all symmetyry when the light can siriko ouly one side of it. but which wiands stealght and boautiful whon the sun and windy play overy day ail around it. It {8 not Chriati- anity as dofinod 1n our standard hooks that cau pivo un the best men and women and the bost civilization, bul to the fundamontsly of tho baoks, 8o fur as true, oue must add the formula of & Clirist or & St, Jamod, and thus lift the fuind aud heart out of acell too small for it, and muat placs 1L whore the light and atmou- pliora of & wide world ean play upon all sides of it James calla down the Stylitescs from their col- umny, tha Ifindoos away Jrom thesolitudo of dos- ort anuds, Barnard from bis wonastary, tho the- ologian from his library, and aeks them to Jiston for the sigh of soma heavy hearts and fly to shiero tho orphau-chitd weeps, or to where any calamity of soul or body is wanring &ll the l!lrfil of lite,” Christ thus criod bofore James, for He did uot doclara roligion to be & sense of a God, but 1o safd, Dleased are tho merciful,” ** Blosa- ad atg the yiencomakoers,” sud * Lova avon your oncmios,” Inmost of existingoroeds roligion is included only wo far as it ju a thing tosbe ba- lieved, 2nd omittod so far #a it in anything to ba done, At lonst, L know of no cresd that tcor- porafes nay mazim from eithor James or Junis Clirist, and honce thuy seom dofective, seom nurrow channols i which the spliit is cramped, and aro sdequato explanation of Chrlstian world full of a covsciousnoss of a Ged, but owpty of duty and virtue, That sonso of God or Josus Chrlst, that con- wciousness of such a God and Redoemor, is not roligion, so much as tho firsb stop in religion. Trom that grand buge man moves outward, as tho astrononier, from the Laso of the earth's or- Dit, goes forth with a messuring line smong the stars, Bo religion, founded upou God, ntoves out into aoclety, and, engaging in myrinds of duties, lesus upon God for tho whols measure- ment of the dignily and rospousibility of ila deeds, It is o little doubtful why James re- poats tho sord Fathor atter he had usod tho word God,—** pure religion bolore Goa and tho Tather,”—but ~the fact thatt ho orphan and the widow appean in tho close of tho sentonce should throw 1ight back upon tho great word *‘ Fatver " in the openiug clnuse, and hetico it will follaw that the h’el of God & tho Father of man 14 the basis of human duty and bumnan character. The love and care of God, ns nufolded fn Josus Christ, becoms the basia of Luman nobloness. 1t is not easy forus to soe, perhnps, the causal relationship between a consciousness of God, and care for the sufforing oues of errth, but the soulis omothiug o othereal that it is not enny to see how it is molded by tho world or God with- out. Who can seo tho inatitutions and liberty of America shrping tho youug heart that livesin its confinos? Who of you iu the past years Liaye basa conspious of the wliaping, sud dovaloping, and adarnimg which heys bean goiug on it your hoarts whils tha yoars havo passod slowly by over ou in iho lills of the 1zst, and praivies of the WVest? And yet, shouid fate transfor Joutosoma foreign Iand, and compel yon to bulld & home thore, the land of your birth aud love wonld reveal ftsolf in every chamber of your mind and heart(l and, like tbe daughtets of Jeruaalem, you rould hang your barp on tbe willows, aud Weep when you rememberad the land of the [ree. ‘£'inis, with & delicate and invisiblo bend, the soul is molded nlong all its patbs, and thus it comen to pass they the Leart thay dwells in the proseucs of Gad the I'athor becomos fall of a religion which, Ly nome gentlo chaing, binds at onca to the God ‘abovo and Lla buman race bo- Jow, 80 that tesis fall on tho world boneath, winle inceuso aud prayors are rising to the world above, When o roliion or a form of Chvistian- ity appears thot does not go oub towards the wotld'a nged, thore is something the matior with that Clvistianity; it is cithor, like tho sonti- ment of the Bralunin, s simple consciounness of o higior power, or clas 1t is oniy a formula momorized, ns at choul we learn tables of weights and mensures, or rules of syntax, Tho Fathor and Savior, deeply loved, become the im- \mlun of lifo, and ail the carthly Lomes rire to & higher tone, A public mau recoutly wrote to o fricad that the Goldon Ruls had mioditied his treatiment of the bruie world, and that ho coutd not kill the lowast forms of ereawures with the willingness that belonged to davs bofore that law of love uuvoilod the bozuty of his soul. The life or cach soul ko ils owm tonoall through, and, go whote it may,—to ploasure, or work, or worahip,—its own accent, 80ft or shrill, ges with it. Dwelling in the presence of the 'ather, as soen in all His Fatherhood, the lieart isstruug up to a divine pitch, and that pisuo toue nses up averywlers, whether the soul bows at the altar or meets with tho poor aud father- less, If youmake your soul great in one de- pattmont_ it will ba great all through, 'The Sonuish Castelar, who a » fow years agu beamed forth 8o great in the cause of Jiberty, hing since shown that he is broad and great overywhore. When Lie ypeaks of art ho is gieat, when Le de- scribes uatire ha is great, and wheu he talks upon religion the grest lines of & vast. soul lie bufors you Jike the orizon, not that lies arouud arouud a cottage, but that cucircles the world. Qa, how full of jinspivation was St James | for pure und undefiled roligion indeed casts the wholo life into its image, and, sotting foith from God, it comoy uFou the huugry and feeds hun, and upon the friendlese and loves hitg, like the light which, wpriuging away from tho suu, folds worlds far off in_its army, and lilils the child at ks play, the studont at has book, the bard in itg bower, the rose iu ita Lloswoming. “I'he ealomity of the past Church haa boen that ita religion wan ouly a definition. It was not that puro avd undotiled soul that xcted like God 1n & supreme Fathorhood, it wns Dot a love of lufe that sounded out the' same mpiritual music everywhere, but it was a dolivition, or & sories of them;and instexd of loving the slave and orplian, 'instead of carrying the whole world upou itk beatig heart, the Church, thuy rich in \abinitious, pointed to its work and snid, Thero 1stand, No oue will dony the value of craods, but we must laok upon all the ideas of the Uhuroh an ouly belps to roligion. Religion was made hefora Chrstiunity. In the hlooming Eden, 1uan, we are intormod, stoad up porfect 1o moral benuty, But ho foll, Christianity—with ity Chuist, ity atonoment, its fzith, its conversion— comos to help mau back to his lost religion, Heuce all thoso doctrines of the booke, so valu- able, are the gatos through which the soul must march in returnivg to ity loss estato, Paul poiuts out the gates; James poiuls ous the soul that bas come through thew. When the soul hag reached that point from which, for God'a suke, it dosires to biess nil oreatures, sud koep itself un- gpotted from the world, it has pnssed through lga gutes and has come inte tha roal City of Ke- Tigion, The promise now seen in Lhe Christinn Church consints greatly in its new enfolding of a sufTor- Tkt world in 1e akma, . In ite hospitals, asylnns, usion schooln, in ith grea: lomperancs waves : in its conveutions where the education, and vistuo, and welfaa of women are thought of as never bofora in history, tho Church in sbowing hoy at last it is drawing from the throne of Go and the divine love of Jesus Christ a grandour of human life. The Church merits prawe, not for haviug done its wholo duty, but for baving started along this new path., It is growing weary of the schoolmen's debate ; after about 1,800 yoais of discussion 1t is about utisfiad s to what the philosophy of Chrigt is, aud it hos all this lust hall contury been looking with re- grets and longiogs toward o oroer of uselul- uend. Tho groat breadth and variety of the intel- lectus! and moral powers of man show that ho was not mado smmply to stend and look up toward his God m hoaven. God asks no such form of piety, e croated msu for a varied and oxtensive eniture, and heuca tho only religion of il th Haat Haab be one. that:shaly varry him into mocioty ruther than away from it. ‘Che Obristinuity of our ancestors was not n life so uch o & paralysis, Mou looked up Wll their oyes beoumo bling to the beanty of the earth abont thoir feet, Neithor did thoy ace hoaven the botter, o thoe who walk among men, and wee thewr wonts und help (hew, and ace their toars and dry thom, heaven comes down with such an atmosphors as never hung avound o aeliool of Joud debate or the cell of un sooleaiat, Men must indeud look to Godl for strength, bup wtraightway they must pour ont this whole strangth upon the waitiug world, ‘Che olonde muat draw their reasures from tha sea, but, hav- {ng utored tholr groat wnite mists stolon from tho ocean, they must at once march away Lo thunder ovee coutinants, snd exbaust thoir Licssings ovor the Uelds thai reach from the pine to tha palm, You romombor the hesutiful scone in tue Book of the Acts. The Disciples wore lookmg toadfastly up in the olouds fu which thale Ghrlut hnd divappeaced, when lo! two boiugs in white apparel stuod by them aud waid, ** Ye wmon of Cislilos, why stand yo gazing up Inta beavon? his watae Jouus which (g taken up from you will come again down fromn the wkiy." "The Disciples felt the finport of the words, and, returning to Jorusalow, thoy bogun that duty of life whioh molda the ninoteentls contury to-day mn all the forms of ILs large and varled boing. Yo men, not of Galllce, but of anyland, onpeoinlly of such & 1and and ers as_ours, why faze Yo up into the hoavons only ? Dehold now also the rido carth around you,” Tha God, now invisiblo, will comodown again out of the ssma aky, and against tho day n‘ that coming, whicl wo Tark with toars, and by enrving o nuie upon & tomb, propare yo !”“""""“ by asling your roligion Lo sprend oub like an atimospbero “and color all thoss moments and yoars, Btand not ologo to the delinitions of Christianity slang, but, a3 Paul eays, loaving the priuciples bohind, go on nuto perfoction. Religion 18 not simple conaciousness of Go but § I8 that consclousnous aftor it has moldo life, aud mado the apirit groat in its impulses, great in s dutios, and great aven in its plons- ures, God or Christ la the Inkial pointofa groat 1if, but from that gatoway the iifs flown out, aud widoos to tbe brondth of tho world, Whon you Lold & creed in your Land, and rond and ro-rond it, you are perhaps up at tho spring of axiver, butyou can flont no ship thero, and can found no nation or oity in that dreary place. Tollow the grand teachings of Jesus and ilis enlot, and atrike religion far away from it first definition. Heok the Amazon, not up_in its ob- soure mountain springs, but toward the non where the ships of all tha warid may movo and rock upon its bosom, aud wharo, not far away, the graat ocean rolls with its music, and mya- tery, aud fnspiration. s AMES, LIVERMORE. Her Bermon =t Ht. Paul’s Yosterday NMorn- ins. Mrs. Mary A, Livermore, of Moelroso, Maes., preaclied yosterday morniog to & very large con- gregation at 8t. Paul's Chiurch, Michigan avenus, botwoen Seventeonth and Eighteenth streots. Bl eelocted hor toxt from Becand Kings, vi., 16, which reads, *‘Thoy that are with us are more than thoy that are with them." ‘The speaker explained the Scriptural story upon which the text was based, snd dwelt a lengthupon the warfare of tho Kiug of Syria upon Elisks, in his eofforta to entrap lim and force him from the right nnd God. While tho story was_uot accepted an an actual fack, It waa not donied o sotual experience. She deplcted life as n journey, su inu whore we stay for a whilo and thon pass on to otoruily, leaving apace for others, Butlife as a bnttle was the toliing figure, coinmencing with the oradle aud ending at the grave. Inths battleno subutitutes were admisnible, but each human bolng had to do for himsolf. All were moldicrs, sud noua could dis- oharge, except God, aud He only in giving s pansport to eternity. The battle-ground of all others was the bumau_goul, of which there wera both etrour and wonk. The struggle was to keep the atrong to the front, and the wesk to the rear. The speaker thon reviewed the batils of lifo at large, covering its various pliases and paint- ing admirable word-pictures.” ‘L'he battle was not coufined to individuals, but extended to countries aud nations, The country must be kopt hoaded to tho right to avold shipwicck. The sepulchres of tho great dead, who triod to live down the right, wero the sirongest argn- mont againat evil doing and the impurities of public men, The sovercat sins of which Individuals wers guilty, she Deflsved, wora thoso committed dgalnet one anothor i the wank of charity, and the fajlure to extend a helping hand to one an- other in time of noed. No one could be & Clria- tian unless the now commanduront, ** ss I have loved you, love cno auother,” was sirictly ob- servad in our hives, Have wo any holp in life 7" was a query of the spesker. She sald, generally speaking, that 20l felt thomsolves alons v life, buy denounced the ides. If she Lisd gained snything from tho fifty-thros years of experionco belund her, it was to roalize that God was the companion of lior soul, snd was In and about, and & present help in timo of trouble, and nearest when most noed- ed. BSho then reviewed her early life and train- ing. Iu hor childhood days family prayor was & practice boneath her roof,—a habil alinost for- goiten in the prosent Lusy nga. ‘Lhe wants of the family wero broathod in ecmimest prayer every morning, and every nocessity and condition was exposed to God. e was trusted implicitly, just as the infant trusts ite motler, ud,after n{rpnallng to Him, she had been taught 1o wit q\l\zl? down zud await the result. Buch was hor earl Ir training, but she feared that from tue nation she bad departed from the wav. She Dad etrayed so far as to trust in no small degree to her own might. Dut from prayer she atill nined & hoyt-eatisfaction, and sho wished for [iguago o dopict the' wealth thoraof to Lier horrers, She wau atill fighting for the right, bonenth which were oternsl principles, aud he helieved sucoosa wae inavitablo, for God did nov crunte the world as an experiment, and fix cer- tain laws, and thon take a back seat to watch tho rosult of His work, After the groat fire 1n Chi- cago came & demonatration which she could hest enjoy from the summit of the ruins of the old Court-Houss, from which she concluded that, to boat onjoy God's love, it waa nocessary to climb higher. To the dopairivg and thosa alriving for the right she recommonded hor text: **They that are with us are wore than thoy that are Wwith them." Sbe reoognized God as the brooding-mother of the world. Sho herselt was a mother, aud a3 ebe anawered appeals of har loved ones, sv God, in His motherhood, auswored tho appels of the Luman family, directed by the ame motherly inatinots, and controlled by tha samo filin) akcotion. As mothers gathered their little ones into their arms to somfort them, so God gathered her croatures to a brooding hemit. If e think of all that is good and and cheering, and then multiply the same by finity, but a slight édnn ia gnined of tho gooduess ana glory of God. Human naturs, which was God-given, snd filled with God-hood, sho held in tuo greatest asteem. You could not judge of the power and junate worth of the acorn Irom the cup coutain- ing it, bus tho mighty oak told the tale, Nor conld'you judge of human naturo by a casual glauce. ‘This was but a vagta Lint of the glory of God. She could not deepiso bumanity ns zome did, but chorished and uplitted it, 'if for no othier reason, in respact to God, the suthor and propaga tor of right. Sho believed that tho world contained a spirlt for good predominating over the apirit for wrong, “Thio First Napoloon was made w0 great and good by bhistorians that his life was a drug, and road, when at all, 28 & fable story. No'ona carod for him outside of France, and bo_was allowed to dio aftor the fashion of & chained wolf at St. Helana. The world had for- gotten him, because his motivea in life were for might rather thau right. Abrsham Lincoln was not_a great mian, unless morally considered. Ite did not feol in his caroer at the head of the oation the need of the statosmnn’s power. Hia luquiry was, “ What is right?"* The grentest ack of his life was his emancipation praclama- tion, in the issning of whick he had uo higher ambition than to bo right, Though opposed ai the 1ime by a majority of tho peopls, ho iseued his glorious odiol nevertbeloss, o did it becauco he tnought it right, Tha world has since recog- nized $he glory of tue nct, and its fruits are ap- parent througliout the longth and breadth of the country, To disbatiovo in™ the yight was to dis. boliave in God. “I'ho speakor procseded to conaidor the human family ws one sud iuseparable, in which she drew many affectiug pictures, and_often grow oxceedingly sloquent, elting the immense au-~ dienco to toars. = She closad with the considoration of the inquiry, “What fa the end of the battle of lifo? She thougnt it impousible for a child of God to ba Joat, It it wore one evon, sud that ons the most abject of the human_family, she belioved God would act tho Good Shopherd and go for the rescue of the last one, leaving the niuety-niue saved bebind, sud that e wonld continue ihe woarel uncil all had beou taken within the fold, She was in Chicago at the cloge of the War, and wall remombercd the paing, expense, and soliel- tude expended to welcome the return of the uation's heroes, Music could not bo ob- tained sweat enough, nor vould tha rocoption be made 10 assume the wanted zrandour. Thiswas but a faint symbol of the reooption in stors for thio heroes [n the right in that groat doy whon otl shonld unite around the throue of God. As wo hiad welcomed baok our soldiers, 1o wonld God welcome us ta His prenence and Kingdom withi *Well doue, good eud faithful servanto; come up ligher.” e THZ REV. MR. WILLIAMSON, Tastor of Trinity M, First Sermon nfllll Er . Church, ‘The Ray, John Williameon began his pastorato at the Wabash Mathodist Ipiscopal Church, cornor of Fourteonth streot, vesterday, BAr. Willinmson ie a tall, well-proportioned mun, searing a full, brown beard around & counto- uauce at once intollectusl and plossing. Ilis dollvery is ut times rather nurrled, and is not compontated for by the musical voice and di- tluot ntterauce which be possesses, The mere mon was givon much as & reading leyson, in tho sawae monotonons tons from beginniug to end, aud without any emphasis except an ovoasional loudnesan iu tho voice, and without any goutlou- Iation excopt ihab of drawlug the hnuid- korohief from the ocoat's ekirt pocket, bolding it (n the usnd for a fow moments, and then roturning it to itw place, T'his monningless action way porformed by Mr, Willintwwon nt lenst twenty tinies during his din- couiso, and was varied only by locking the hands in the kmnll of the back., Thus many excollent points of Lis able sarnion wors lost to the audi- onco, Prenfdent Grant was presont, in conipany with Mr. Potter Palwer. 'The Presidont looked as xudd{ 84 8 ripo cherry, and demeaned hinwelf in arriving ot the church, during his stny, and in dopaiting with that modesty which is so noticoa- Do a tralt in the Irosident's charucter. 1o Iistoned with weemlugly great attentivn to the sormion, The oy, 3r, Willlamson took as his toxt the thirty-sixth vorso of the eighth chapter of the 0;1;[ml lé.‘cnlil.l.lngrlo Bk‘.‘ J';xlm L 0 Bon, therefore, shull maky oo on, U 3 e you frce,ye ahall Ho said : The bistory of the human yace jsn record of usurpation on ile one bund, and of herolo atruggles for lberly on Lhe othor, I'ride of power hus in il tho ages been a dominant buman paesion. To so manage the mnasscs of mon au to make thom goutributa Lo the power of the individual, bas always been the erowning embition of a fortunata . Tho ounes effort of a voliticat lifo s, and always Lag hoen, to Fine to & position of ruling aupreniecy, It 1s hardly for the good of the nation that Kings and Prosi- denty so much dosie Lo rule, as foi the peruonal uatisfaction of belng sirong, luxuriously rich, and consulted as o kind of oracle. It ia historically wndopiable "that, after the battle of Saismié had crowned with glory thy uartiot yalor of Athous, Aristides, the succoss- ful General, looked mauny tunes mistfully toward at lenst the crown of & subdued Porsian Priuce. Tt for the desortion of Jumes 1L, Marlborough would have capturcd Daris, nnd for lin. glaud glorlousty tormivated tho rivalries of four conturios by grantiug this unsur- possed chieftain au imperial atar. Men bave not fought or bled for their country- meu but mith the expeetation of tho reward of govorument and erapire couceded, The way Kinge enslave their subjocts is not by turning them into & nation of literal bondsmen, but vy creating & Court 5o exponsive and Emuisuo a8 to waste the people’s subutance by enormous and unpitying lovies of taxos, There i8 no shadow of reason in justice or oconomy why every drop of trasusmittod royal blood sbould be granted a life-time aud munifi- cont peusion out of tho burd earnings of su in- duatrious untion, ‘To be entirely sct free from thso tyranny of political rulers in this world nood not be confidently anticipated; the enduring and vastly more-pooded eufranchivemont of tha soul wo are taught of God to secure, Against the tyranny of political powsr there ean_bo no safeguards provided, Cromwell was undor the intlnonca of immenss religious omotlon, and yet he ferociously ineisted that overy Irish patriot who™ resisted Lia murderous couquest of the Istand should in- slantly die, ‘The Lord Drolector was very gluus, Dbut the limit of bis Lumility was au am- ition to command both a Parlisment aud an arpy, 'The Indopendents say Cromwoll wag in- spired of (leaven for his foarless life, while the TPresbyterians inulst with NEm ardor that hiy fuspitation came from benoath, and that by sub- lime protestations of unaltering confidence in God weo m yonlity arvful polity te subduo the consclenco of a realm, (Governmenta are not oxpocted to deal justly with their most illustrious bouefactors, A men i valuable to an Adminigiration as long ne Le ean Lo usod to strengthon it, and thon ha iy de- oapitated, and hin_gory oxtrewitios aro thrown 1mto tearless oblivion’s gloomy vault. The Gov- ernment of Gad kindly regards [t individuals, When they have faithiully sorved its Adminiotra- tion 1n this world, its Ditvina Sovevalpu will ro- ward them with an unfading immortality of Dling in the next. Humsu socicty comes into its Jargost _franchiscs of liborty in_ harmony with the taw of my fext. What wo ate to-day a8 u_Republican civilization, 1 pre- cisely what all Curistendom was 1,500 yeara ago, in the time of Constantine, play the’ intluenco upon us of Josus Christ sinco thab time. Christ is at worle with tho world for the conquest of upivereal ompire. What Ileia sure to do with His overlasting Lospel many military leaders have failed to @0, 'I'ho conguost of the world Las been in overy ago the droam of mertial chiets. When by the battie of Phntsalia the fate of tho Ttoman Lmpiro wes fixod agaiuat Pompoy, Crosar rejorced thaut bis dream was so woer its fulill- ment, but the couspirator’s cruel knifo garnored its royal trophy just bofore the impatient dawn, Aloxander's chosen imperial capital — meant to bo tho centre of oune Kiugdom — was fixod at Dabylon. ~All the world bad failen but Arabia, and thiy the boundless am- Dition of Alexander proposed to subdue, when carly sin and excoss touched this . iuyincible cougqueror mith swift foyor, and the victor of Tasuts was 1aid an low ny Lis Peruian oncmios, by Diis valor, at Pereopoliy. Haunibal, the famous Carthagenian Qoneral, diocamod am oxnkunt vision, and curing Lis working howa contirmed it by a bittor onth, that ho would becomo the world’s monarch by accomplishiug the over~ throw of proud and bloody Roms, Hs almost roalized bis sanguinarvy threat, He failed. and this sable hieroe wouid hiava becoms o Roman trophy, but for the Lenign rolief of poisoa, Chailemague ran a cayeer of unoxzmpled genius, 1o came to lua imperial chance awid the shattor- od fragments of aucient Roman glory. He turn- od confusion aud vies iuto ordor avd purity, Mo croated & wolid State. Helifted to lus reticont brow the iron crown of the Lombards, and then Lo alept and dreomed of greater than Romsn power. He attomyted, reattempted, strugeled, and than fell. His giand ambition was never realized, God, oaly, rules over a un ited earthly ompire. Ho scema 10 mean to grant to. Cluistian faith tha dowinton of this entire world. Lighteen hundred years ago He set out for such & pur- pote; to free the race by faith in the lifo of - His Hon. The greas uulitary caplais I have named clnely erred in thiw,—that they continually songht to gain now empire without first makiog cenduring and solid what thoy already possezeed. i result was by many forsscen. oo many dlverse oloments wore brougiit by force into po- litical association to longz continue in peace and ropperity. Romans and Asistics could not ba induced to agree in the Limpire of Cuesar; Ital- jana nud Afvicans conld nob social loace, oven when urged by the ble 'yongeance of Mionibal, Just and gonorous . Charlomagno moaicly sought to afilliate in enduring upity races “as unlike oy the Fronch and Spaniards and Germaus, Alex- auder eonld lold fledia as o conquered proviuce, Dut he could not compound & nation with Mace: donians and Inoians aa its leadiug coustituents, Napoleon’s great mistake wus in trying to unito the most warlik tions in lluroye under the ever eccentric civilization of trauco, Tho Lord Jesus Chrise is uning the vast enorgy of 1l Church to uvite and consolidate the naturally inbarmonious factions of the groat Gospel Em- ire. The Church of God Las a groeator work to So than simply to subdue and annex new terri- tory, Mo conquor it not o diticult as to koop, I'o ‘make solid a throne is jnfinitoly wiser thanto try to doubls ils territorial jurisdiction. If tho Uhited States shonld not add to her already am- plo aroa another foot of #oil aho s alil before Ter o vast problom of wterusl developmont and civilizution to solve. To sel mon freo in Josua Chrst is handior {hun Lo keep them free, Now the Lord Jesus Christ invites all tho races aud civilizations and complexions of hu. winn kind Lo joiu the citizenship of the ctornal Goupel Empite, How such marked dissimilarity in to be umtod under the banner of tho cross is an unparalleled question. A supernatural intor- position is required to umfy ull nationalities under the singla lendorsliip of Jowus Christ, ‘I'he antichesly of the froedom spokien of in tho toxt is tho bondage enslaying any soul that hay not obtained theliborty of a Chrisi-hike lifo, Do- ing mads fre by the Divine Sou I8 comlvg iuto 116 itoage of Josus Chrinl, To koow the full meaniug of spiritual freadom in Jesun Chriut we wmay thiuk of our bonduga to the tiesh. ‘Whiensvor are mon eutlaved aud how are thoy to be mado freemon? Our misfortune and fault aro uos of relution, but of charactor, Ir anything 13 wrong with us, it u in those respecta wherem wo differ from our blegsod Chriat, “Ihis difforeuce is our soul-bondegu, aud to remova it i the misnton ofithe glorious Udspel. Christianity in au attalnmont of charaster to reach, and nob morely & dolightful emotion to enjoy. To be waved'id to bo muade Christlike in towper, and zeal, and kindnoys, and truet, Al that Lunpu mau to-dey from Adamic purity is thig wauk of Cbrist-likéness, CGod helps willing peopls to bacome Clivistlike in the hues of thoir patural charucter or beut, aud, cousequently, hardly avy two aro alded in precinoly tho xamo way, Un- less wo all live in the lifo of Christ, wo sro all in the privou-house of tho flesh, The Lord Jesun Clrint bud a pura hoart, and, would you be & {roo man, yon, too, must have one—by which is meaut ut overwhulining dispo- sition to ploase God, No mau iy a free man ir he be possessed of an uucoutrollabla tompor, Huch #n one may bo pitied or condemmed, bt ho cannot be congrutulated aa u soul in tue full- ness of bis liberty, "o bollove in the I'rinity of the Godhead, to accopt the doctrine of eanclili- cation, fs very oxvellont, hut to relrain vholly from “ill?‘k’ aud filthy lagor beor iw luiutoly Lotter lite, We may have no donbt of the divinity of Jesua Curist, but we have vorfous doubts reapecting the Chrintlike character of our Nutional Cougroess wod the Mumeipal Legwslatures of most of our largo citiov, Yo obsurye thie Subbath is benut- ul and pluin duty, but less uonded than beaut- ful aud Olristlike houesty and honor in busineus lite. In hecouung more A=<l niore Christ-like, o beoome mote and wore truthiul, and so mors and more truly roligioun. This fa Christ'a plan to mako mon froo. To hecome good wen 13 not, after all, so difioult o thing. Sudmcmnno ia the greatoat hindorance to 1t, ~A great many poople do nol caro to hocomo like Jesus Cluist, They somohosw feol that Ohrist-likencss would 1ot bo & manly prace, Webster and Worcester have given um thair nottons of the meanings of love, kindnoss, foy, snorifice, forgivencss, purl- by, and faith, “How loug ehall it be bofore the world {e abla to realizo these definitious fu their lives? Wnen mon put on tho Lord Jesus, the mulenulal day will bogin its long- delayed dawn, Yo may put on Jeaun Christ an roally as you are able to put on an rtiols of your wardrobo ; first, by doing your Dest, aud then submitting to heaven for tho re- quired ald. God will, In’ somo way, uelp evory soul to dress in Jesus who may prayorfully aspiro fo wear tho clotbing. A nation of Chrlst-like Bunplul Who would " not welcome it coming ? ara we donbt tho coming time? What fs tho tondenoy of our clvilization? Aro not all men growing purer and purer, and, it so, Is this not aignificant of the first perfeat conquest of the world to Ohrist-likenesn? 'Tha Gonpel lover, n uplifcing the race, elevates tho ndividual. ~Y'ho farvant pioty, lniost the ascetic myticlam, of Thomus a'Kempis was an oxceptlonal dovolion- al spirit for his remote day, . Sin {a a morsl uarbatisn into which tho hu man race has beon led by the erlmo of choco, Tha Gospol of Jesus Christ shallin time rucceod in rotracing thoss wayward and mistaken otops, and the fulinoss of Eden's fragnanco shall agnin force upon our redeamed sensos aud its choicest garlands shall presa the brow of Barih's moral victors, If (iod waa over intercated inua llo must bo now, nud thus Ho must forover contiune, If He cared to oroats us, as we should now Yo, Ha will not conse Ilis offorts to redeem un to what we once were, Dut tho morsl frecdom known as Chriat-liteneso caunot be obtained by any ono unless ho wants it, and will work for it, and evorybody who doca dosire to senk tho Graco will not strive or acok long in vain. 1t is possi- le to bepin to love God how justae doarly ng youmay bo able, and that is havingy faith in 1him, and that saves, Cod docs not demnnd ab- solute conformity to fis image, but o docs in- sist that men muat try to woar the completo out- fit, Pray for desire and courago to begin to dres in the rediant vostures of Christ's atoving lifo. Clothed in Jesus Christ we must all long to appear as God's final bar, —_— TIIE GOSPEL LEAVEN. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. delphila, Tho Rev. Dr. Eglinton Barr preached the fol- lowing sormon in the Church of the Epiphany, last Buuday, taking ab his text: Another parable apaka lie unto {hem—the Kingdom of heuven fu Jiko unto leaven which a woman tonk and hid {n three measu [ mesl 3l the wholo was leavencd,—~Matthew zuit: 33, Theo spirlt of Ohristionity is cssentially pro- gressive, nod tho tendenoy to advancs is cbyious in almost evory viow which we can take of its vnturs and history. It i8 progressivo in its in- fluence on the individual boljover, on families, commuuitics, and natlons. Its introduction In- to the world was accompaniod by supernatural aid aud agency, and its eproad was as tho light- ning, from mind to mind snd from shore to shoro, till its sound wont forth to all the ized carth, The latent, but uudestroyed, power of truth burat luto active operation wheneverand wheravor the human mind was in n state to ro- ceivo its divine impulse. Throughout all history, accommodating itaclt to and koeping pace with tho general improvemont of mankind; not less sultablo and becessary to an culightoned pos- leority than to a rude ancestry ; not too much for one genstation, and too littls for anothor, 1t dis- plays itsolf to cach, a8 If for that genoiation it was,originally and peonliarly snd exclusively de~ elgned ; sud vet it gocs boyond each, and impele each forward, aud avother, and another aga sio- coeds, with nouearer approach toward the sonud- Ing of its doptbs, the exhaustion of its utores, or the attainment of its elevations. Itaccom- modatos iwelf toths degree of human intetli- gonco through all ils diversitica. Tako millxhl ita feoblost condition; tale tho more ebild; ho muy Lnow ju & measure all that 16 casontial of Christizn truth, snd beautiful iy tho form of the Gaspel considored a4 the religion of achild. "o him Christiauity Is the history of one who was onco n ohild himself, who way nuc- tured on a mothat's lsp, who had brethion atter the flesh, as woll og in the #pirit, the kindred ol blood ru woll a8 of Lonovolence, who lived in o cottage home, ard was taken to worshipn o motropolitsn femple, who grewin knowledge and favor both with Ged and man ; of ono who in maturity never despisad childiood, but hed ever ready for it bis emile, his blessivg, and his henre; who told his disciples to bo like littls children in their slmplicity and iunocence and docility ; who was thelr protector, teacher, and friend’s who wrought wouders which the child has oxporicnos envuigl to kuow gre wonder- ful; who took the little gil by tie hand when she lay doad upon the couch, and smd: * Avise, and sho did artee;"” whose miracles caunol but lay hold of ths youthful imegiuation, while thore it that in thom which must ulnis into the youth- tul hentt ; » bistory of Oue who was sont by the Great Bowg whom wo cannot see, but who mada ug all, to tall maukind of 1 love and care and kinduess to =it Hia croatures; who showed that Bewg in the beauty of the Howers and tho Inightuoss of tho sun, and the affection of a father; who told lold those touching patables ovar which young minds nsy wesp, Iwonder who mada that praver to our Father in heavon, and whioh the ohild loarns to pray whom wickvd men killed, but who lives toreyer; whom tho good £hall be made alivo to meot, aud be hnp‘[:y with hum forevor, - This1s tho busis and nubstance of rovealod theology, and it is the ohild's gospol, the world of divind knowlodgs, Just s it lookw when the firat besme of intollcob dwwn upon it, with thelr new and faiut, but in- croasing light, We come to the next gradation of iutoliigence, that of tao ohild grown up to manhood. Is wauts moro in religion than the chitd, He findsit. There is not uno bouk sot epert for the cbild and another for the man, like a sucoodsion of lessons at #chool, Me Hndy what bo wants in the same book, the sume o rative, tho kn) pasages as those which fur- mshod the roligion of tha ehild. e snme leavan oporates ou both, e hes become more conscious of sin, He wants nenr- ance of pardow, and therait is in that very fale of the fathor, aud his waudering son over which, in ehildhood, he wept in innocsnt sympathy wnd 1llial feehng, snd over which Lo weeps now tears from » penitont heart in the recoption of God's morey to a returving wiuner. Ho is more ng- quainted with that which 14 the most important of ail knowlodge, tho kuowledze of welt. lla ‘wanty move euorgy of sclf-rentraint ; he wants motivo ; and thoraitis for him, directing him to waich his hoart, telliog him of death, of judg- meut, of recomnense, of puulshment.” His lob in this world is labor, sorrow ku fre- quent acoomprniment. It i nos 5o bright a8 1t was to his youug eyes, and all that relates to another world grow on him in importance. The very woid “ rest,” meauing o littlo to tho child, hus become to him a precious promise. 'F'ho sad changed of huniun hfe, its ba- louvements and_anxietics and cares, with wiwne ournostuesy do they aporats ou his hoart, point- iug him to that blassed heaven of rost where sin and sorrow and death ean never eutor. Yet all thiy js _the sell-same roliglon, wcreascd, earriod out into experisuce, adapting itself to the wants sud the enlarged na&)uclglus of the humun soul. Lot us advance to a loftior condition of human- ity ; the mun whosa mind hay been doyeloped by Burr, of Pliln- all the most Invoruble circumstances of education; such 8 ono has not n min- glo pros a singlo indication of haviug ot beyoud or above Chrintianity, Ho requires wore rativnality, more cohercuce; hs requires © theolugy which shall ba philosophical ; ha re- quires mote rofinemont in motive, and Lo hay it atl. Awwithithoolhiers, the Gonpel has anticivated wvorytbing for film, and thore itis wuiting his reception, 1s he astudont in history? Whera are its proofs m the long array of wrilera whoso uubroken ebain ot tostimony linky the vresout with the apostotic sge, 'Those beautiful simili- tudes af the lily's glory and ths spariow’s tligit, which delight the eye of tho ciuli and touch the henrt of ull, prosent to him the tasteful decora- tlous of protonud and universal truth, » notion fir divine governument, clenr, philosophical, sub- me. All bia dincoyeries of dlvina truth nre mado by nsneotion of the solf-swme record, Aako mind, evon at it higheat, endow it with tho noblokt ifts that Teavon Lias over Invished on humnuni- LY, agstimo intolleot the most inajeatic, imagina- ton that uits like » Gud creating yiorlds aud poo- pling them wlith living souls, learniug, resplen- dent tu tho spolls of o huudred veslms and & huudred gencrations; fooling; whose wighty fervency would bear nway u foobler mind with the fury of a whiclwind,. “Choss muster-spirita of the aga tu which thoy live are no nearer belng aboye Cluluutaulty or the leachings of Josus than the Hitlo child that loves bim while it Hups his history sud repoats his prayer to Our ~ Lather, The Bphit of ° Chrst in (bom iy n ppitit of vastor power of {ntensor loye, aud of mora capaciony mind, but it iy the same spirit; the eamae leaven oporates, and la equally ndapled, 'hoy rejuico n the samo shaplo navrative, which is tho cluld's Funy‘ol; rud oven then, wheu the tordly lutolieot ius subduod Jarga religiony of (vuth, i yot shall ueror weep that thera are nob wore worlds 10 ‘ciroumforcuco. gonquor, Thers Intelleot, fn {ts progrestiva march throughout distiuct ages to the ond of time, uh:\,llv ovor grow aud lean at tha feet af Josun, ‘Ihera maall nangination over suand cntiancod among sconns of beauty, faollng itn own nantings, poor ag tha atained eanvan to the clouds of roigzcous sunect, ‘Thore sball philans :2::7’7 c:v:; ;anu ;.m l.‘hu uronf. that contly eelte , 410 geniug from a thousand sprig: dolightad, sauctiried, awd blensod. i Another peculinviiy of this leaven (s that it Iy a central influgnes, “working cutward to tho alre cumferouce. In this reapect it Is a porfect cone trast to all the preseriptions of the apo, It nok sehemno for nanatacturing or weaving haps pinces, such a8 most national revolntions and roe forma ara; but n principle dwinely impiautod, siloutly peuotratng oubwardly, sud shaping evoryibing (o itsclf, Maw's schomes act frorg without; God's relizlon from within, Iluman achiemos rely on n rovouution fu tho Stute ; Chrln. tlaulty In & rovolulionin tho heatt, ‘T'he firat Legin at tho cuoumferonco, sad try to work inward to the centro: tho secoud beging ot the contro, and worke outward to tba The ~Kivgdom of gGod s not moat ond Idrink—something from without, but rightoousnoss, posse, and oy plantod within, and devoloning itsolf withour. 1t in noticed, aithough it doos not proclair itaelf, nnd folt by the 108t of mavkind, and it strilen 3 permanaut and contagiona intlusace all around. Henco, 8 cougtegation of real Christiwng fa the noblest city mision. Baaovoleuca withiu is sure to writo ifself in honoliconce withous, aud por. trayn itself logibly in evory effors to promote thy Diogross of truth, aud to lovk to its permanent establichmont, Taus may the laiven of Scrip- tural trath, throngh the mont faithinl mivtia- tions of the Church amougst you, spread in itg Dboneficont sim evon to distant genorations who shall rlse up aud call you blossed, until s trug, Seriptural, mactical kiionledge of the Lord &lall cover the eaith as the waters cover tho soa. ‘Tho only uafoty for tho bulwarks of socioty fg tho Ieaven of o true and Seriptursl {aith, Al lustory attestn that tho moral shipwrook of fndie yiduala or natious s the natural result of cast. ing-overboard the chart and comvaes in mercy givon for our direction, We ars not surprised when 8 city built of the most \m(\nmmabL ma. terial is oslly consumed and reduced to aul:es, We are not surprised whou the tompost-tossed ship. without chattor comrasm, dashes againg| tlio rocks, or molts fulo tha veast of waves, yawniug fo devour it, aud we nded uover be sars puised whon a man, to whom 18 given tha chart and compass for a divine and noble life, bt ro. vudintos them, and follows Lis otn {uvontlons and olovates himaw, fallible reason abore yayolas tion, and & warpod "aud selllsh, misgaldod nnd slaved ooneciouce above Gad's'writton and nne changeabio law, we need not be sarprincd at 1l most appalliug disasters and tha moral wreoks of Man in tue dublous waya of error tossed— is ship bialf foundered and hin compns lost. The leaven of a trus and Scriptuial faith is the only saleguard. Who practienl application of the text, and of parawmount impartance to sny who may be of doubting mind or impenitont heart, ig the quoz- tion that, sinco this teaven i8 ao oxactiv sulted o ovory coudition and uationality, is it not suited to you? What pindows iv from baing exactly adapted to you? Our whole naturo wants tho leayen of Clrlstianity. We waut It in solituds and socletv, Prosperity wants it: adversity wants it, We want it 1n boalth and in sicsness, Aliiction wants it; bereavement wentsit; life wants 1t: doath wantsit. ‘Phoss all exclalm; * Come, Lord Josus,” and Hs zeplics, * Hehold, I.como quickly.”” All heaita bavo thoir burdonn; all spirits gometimo fains; and swoet to all iz the voico from Ieaven that says, “Coms uata me, all ye that labor und ave heavy ladan, aud I witl give you rest. —_— A RERARKABLE CASE, Cerrespondeice ) ¢ Chicaan Tribune. LaPorre, Ind., Oct. 16.—1t does scem, in the caso of Mr. Edward Juduon, the arohitect, that tho vital spark lingored long, and was alow to quit its mortal tenomont, Ae anoounced in the tispatch to yesterday’s TrmuNE, Mr. Judson died—or seemed to die—last Tuesday evoning ab 9 o'clock, 'Che body was buried at the Village of Ltolling Yraivio, Thursday, at 3 p. m. It was ob- sorved thot the face retaiued a romarkably life« lika appeatanuce, aud many wora the comnients of tiie good panpls on thia faot. Isdeed, so ueh was said that the fanly of the decensed decided to haya thio body taken from the ground ; end, in accordeuce With” thoir wish, a small body of men repaired to the village-comotory on Thurs. duy night at nbout 10 o'clock, and toox up the coftin containing the body. In due timeit waa conveyed to the Masonic Hall, when the lid of the coflin was romoved. Not o muec's of the man within had boon changed; tha hands wore finflcolully foldod; and evorything wont ta show that the figure had lain oy silently as the clods aboveit; but, as it secmed to' your corrospondont, and others who koew Mr. Judson well, there was a singulur absonco of tho genotal features of death. ‘Tho thumbs of tie hands wers not turned toward benoath tho fingors, s is nearly always tha case in doath ; ho faos retained the exuot expreacion and color of lifo; and a prominent voin in the forehead, when pressed upon, would immediatoly 8l with blood. Thore was At this time nospecial rigidity of the limbs, nor glusaluess Lo tha eyes, which were partly open. But the doctors of the millage mado ug oXamination, and pranounced that life wad entirely extinct. A fire was kiudlod in tho room, and & guard lofl to it up with the body; Dut no offort tuwards reanimation was mada, On lfil\'lufi tho villago this (Friday) af{eraocon, I called at tho Lull, and found that the cofiin wag ngain about to o olosed, and thub preparations had boun made to take It back to ite now final resung-place. Thoro was atill the same abacuca of the donth-pallor on tho face; tue lips wera lightly closed, wud yod: and the expression of tha face wus that of a peaceful slccpor. At timos, watoling the faco, ono would fancy tast a breath of life still lingered thero, and I pro- sume somo such fancy ag this guvo ciso 1u the firat placs to the tomible idda that v, Judson had been butied alive, Alr. Judson was o promincnt man in La Porte, and za architect of mora thun moderae sbility, Muny of tho finost wanstons ou tbo Hudson are his handiwork ; sud, sinca coming Woat, he Das boen conatantly employod in tiis and other cition, at his profossion. 1o nas left a number of unfiaiahed bulldings, A troublasome atiack- of tho ohills rasulted, two weois ago, Iit what wus at first pronounced intermittend bitious fever, but which proved to ba a csa of typhald, from which he diod ay has beon statad, ° Was ho ot first renlly desd? Did thore linger for Lioura, after he way firat prononuced doad, soaie Intent principle of kfo? Thuso are ques- tions which, foolish ar not, Will uever be satis- fuctarily andwered. " Mr. Judson leave o wife aud four small chil- dron, Forty years of noblo and useful lifg wore hiy, lulflun sterling sorth will long ba ro. menbared, aloag with tia gloomy episoda of i waterial resurreotion sud second burial, Raocholort on French Solls Paria Currespodoncs of the Now York Iines. Houty Rochafort recently mada a visit to Trancs, and, after & short etaw, returned to Swiezerland, This was tho wey of it: Laking o ecarrioge at Qonova for tho purposo of visiting the Villa Rothsehild, the Jehu took n shor: ouy ta the placo of dvstiuation, Sceing that lus fare was & Frenchman, the diver thought he could giva pleasurs by giving a lttle communication. Rochotort was Lalf-drosming when tho Johu eaid, ** Now, sir, you aro in your own country " 'ho first impulso of Roskofart wus to look ubout for gondarme, and, secing nono, 1o asked how fur thoy wore from tho Swiss boundary lino. On hoarfug that it was about as fur ono way ua the other, i{w:hurm'l told Liim to go nherd, and toba spry about i, too, A great muvy visions of Noumen must huyo floated through™ tho braiv of the Comts Da Lucsy whilo crogsing thoge few pundrod yards of Fronch torritory, and be drew o long Lreath of rolief g3 the carrluge ouce mora passed over the Bwisy lus, DBy great good luck thora wero mo guurds out that dey, but thoy gunovally lie in lndioy abont that place in tho Lope of plaking up sowms men who ase very such wuntad in Fianca, Vel taira usod to £ay that ho eanld not shake his wig without sesttering dust upon French eoil from wher ho lived, and tho prosent osiica think they cannot take » walk withont runuing the risk of mupplu:{’uvur tha lino, wud iuto the armi of the Frouch brigadiers. Que of tnaw wea fhing not long nigo whon he saw & Lronoh gendorme cowing utraight toward him. The ides steuck lim tbat homight havastrayed over the boundayline, aud ha was condemned ta death by & court-par- tinl, in contimaciam, e did nat Waly to argus the quostion with tho gendamo, 118 ran to Bwitzertand ns fast as hia fegs would curry biw, axpacting o ball in the back at every stop.” Whan ho looked back the finndarme, standing at tia frontlor, smiled maliciousty and made a mulitery salute, L'he !rlf;hr. he gat thay day has destroyod hiy taste for fishiaz upon tho Fronch side” of Ganeva. 1 nood acnrcely sey that, on his rolurn, Rochotort took thu advice of Muvray'a Handbouk wad “avoided shovl-cula,"” whe Bniliing Wrade in Glnazow. £ho biilding trade tn Glasgow In oxceptionally goud Rb presunt; groat 8KMLLALY fwproyemonit ura bolng offectod, soveral imporiane pubdio buitdings aro In haud, aud wrivato enterprise in rapudly oxtouding the eity, Gueat suarvity of mon oxist, nod good workuien are caraing fiow 85 ghillings to 20 eilllings por wovke