Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1874, Page 2

haranat and tho groat American stalesman (Wabnter) bt achoed bis. eontiment when he alllviued £ ¢ Thero I no monarch ou earth whoso thruo fs Hot linble to bo sbaken by tho sonjis 1mout of tho fuet and intollipent part of tho pao- plo.” Aud all this becauso it holds mon o an nccountability tho momont privato opjnion preses out into public apecch and publio action. Ta tho omalpotence of the pross we frequent- Iy owe guy aecapo from all mannor of sacint dis ordars,* Incipient wrong 18 conatantly cheatod of its purpogs by that vigllant custodinn of the pablic wolfare,” public opinion. The meanest Dolitician that ovor soght the hustings, and tho Moot faithleen proncher thal over’ disgraced hio fties, wero obliged to simulnto fonesty and #lrtue, leot what thoy had apoken * fn the ear in ¢lonolu shonld bo proclaimud upon the houca- lops.” Publicity hecotnos & ‘fair ganrantos of bonesty and fidelity, - Tho carcleas tongus will bridio iteell into diecretion if it romembor that overy drop of poisopad malice, or thoughtlesa goBsip, or reckless opinion, in being gathored up 1u somo roporter's \E'ulll, to bo dwlmml out and spread before 10,000 cntfons eyes in the morn- ing's nowepnper. And, abating sll the excossos and inaceurncios of the pross, it fultills n most important mirsion in chastoniug tho spoech and curbing tho impulscs of men avd womon, remind- ing thom, in tho sober words of the toxt, that #Thero is nothing covered that sball not bo ro- venlod, neither hicd that shall not bo known,” Tho Inw of God but stronpthens this sonao of individual nccountabitity, 1t the press has en- terpriso, Ho has omniscionco. Tio former has ingonuity nud persistonco cuough jo reach into Lo penotralin of political, social, nud domostia lifo; tho Jatter ‘‘trioth tho veins avd. the honrt."” “Thoii God soest me,"” is a conviction wrung from the heart, nof only of Hagar by the fountain of Shur, bub of svery roligious mnn in tho vaster wildornoss of tho moral world, - T¢ wonds s out {oto tho vircots and tho ‘market- place, into the private social cirelo and the arena +f public hife, charged with responeibilities that sffect tho well-boing of roligion and bumanity, Tho good mame of tho Holy Catholie Churcli, whose cawso wo proudiy} cham- pion in_ evory recitod creed, is committod to tho keoping ot every ono of her sons nnd _daughters,” and if ordinary morality gots bounds to prudence, how mich mora - doe roligion hedgo us about with moral rostraints, reminding us that wo aro **a spoctaclo uuto the world, end, unto angels, and unto men,”" and that, howaver carafully wo soreen oursolves bo- bind the voil of sccrcov, our foonduct shall ulti- watoly be ** proclaimed from tho Liouyotops,” bo it good or ovil. True rebglon invitea tho closcst inspection, and tho most vigorons handling of ell Eer children and hor pretonsions. 8ho'is im- pationt of scercey, and roalizen that the elnim she lays upon tho world's allogiauca must ho founded in hor own candor and integrity. She ntters truths tho most anshl\'o, and with no slammoring tonguo, and when slie loses this nd- mirable quality eho {s vory near to losing the re- spect of mun, and the favor of God. Trito onongh are such tiraths, yot too often forgotton, Wo epplaud franknoss end openncsa fu the individnal Chriatain; let us bo consiatont, nnd measuro our applauss of the corporato body, o Ohurch, by the samo rule. The ageregation of individuals, aud tho merging of their fdontity into corporato action, da not.aifeot the mors! ro- spunsibilities of thoso individuals, It was the fashion of tho primitiva Churcn to deal with Loresion in tha person of thoir representatives, and individunl members soro mado to feel that their doctrinel and wmoral obhiquities wero roverad by the law of onr text, that ** Whatso~ over was spoken in darknoss should be Leard in tho light.” Curront evonta bavo furnished us with a prac. tical application of our subject. Nearly six weeks since, tha dioceso was eallod to alect o successor to tho lamented Whitchouse, From among tho fow uvnilablo candidatea for tho high position, and whoso nnmes and fiiness wero aponly and thoroughly discussed, two or threo ouly wero finally selected for tho suflrages pf their brothren, and on oo of theso the cholco fell,—tho Rev. Dr. Soymour, of Now York Citr, 2od Doan of the General Thoological Sominary. On motion, tho olection was mado practically unanimons,—but two or threo voting in tha nogative,—and tho testimonials of his olection wero duly sipned, That election was cheerfully concurrad in by many who cast their votes sgaingt ~ tho successful candidate, oo the ound of cubmission to tho evident Ezsno‘ and profereuco of o _respactablo mojority of tho clorgy and laity of - the dicceso, and 08 tonding to concilfation and dio- rcean harmony. L'roylous to that eloction ob- fections wero interposed by members of tho Canvention, on the graund of the candidate's suspected ungoundness in tho faith, and extrav- ezance in ritual, but theso objections wero thought to hava boen met by tho positive diwa- vowel of his frends. They (fne objections) were, bowever, rovived aftor eleotion, aud fortitied by fettors and papers from other dooeses, until they took tangiblo shapo in tho form of & pro- tout to tho Goteral Convention against Dr. Soy- mour's contirmation. That protést nas, fo all intonts and purposes, kept sccret from tho public eyo. Porfeet liberty is con- ceded to iis’ signors to masko wsuch choergos or ropresentations ns their tenso of duty, and tho naturo of their informa- tion euggerted,—~nay, 1t was thoir imperative duty to uso 1l emtablo means of gunrding the Church and the {Epiecopate from false teachors, Bug wo submit thet the withholdiug so im- portant & papor from the clorgy and lnity in gonoral was a severa reflection on the honeaty of purposo aid falrness of action of Dr. Beymour's suoportore. It scomod, to frank men, liko an intimation that thoy.wore thomnolves not sonod ia tho faith,—for it must boramembored shiat tho commarly-understood character of tho protost was dorivod from thechnrgo of alleged unsound- nese iu tho faith on the part of Dr.Soymour. Whon tho protest, with accompanying papors, xcached the Goueral Convontion, ueithor tho Standing Committce of thoe dioceso, nor the Aslegation in nttendance, nor tho filends and {od, Jet not tho aceuoation D n tho ear in ologets. Considor tho offect of this modorn Star Ghambor. All that proceedinga; «in "~ this matlor. - is that & priost and moot important Church inetitution in this country, by tho concurront votes of Bishops, of the soveral diocoacs, nnd who ia still continued inthat responsible, and, for tho Clurch, if ho boe n horetle, most dan. gorous position, in .charged with.somothing, wo. know nat what, condomuod 1n nocrot, and then, withs a bloatod reputation, invited to recolve tho assurances of tho love and cdonfidonco of his broturon! Of ono thing at loast ‘wo aro glad, and that ia that Dr, Sovmonr has beou ascor~ tained uot to bon member of tho troublosomo Confraternity of the Blossed Sacramont. Wa aro no prophot, but we hazard but little in saying that tho day 1 npt for distant when tho roaponeiblo actora in thin seorot Inquisition will rogrot thoir haaty notion. From cortain kaowl. edgo, many of them do now rogrotit. are saving all about us that tho covatod mecrocy was fntonded to . guarantes, not ficodom, but a licongo, of dobate, in whish party animosity, por. sonal motive, and itemperato priosts, and Inity apoech,mlght have ok God ! that not ona of ourown delogates voted for this moat unwise monsure. 1t hing ovolod o shadow which will not dopart at our bidding, and oponied wide 2 door to tho pul- lic tmagtfnation, Mon will likely bo chargod with 0y are nol rasponoivle,. and conjoctura will tako the placo of fact at tho cost of suspicion, heart-burnings, and interruption of fratornal charity. 'Fho one pewspapor thnd awung out to aalch tho brocze of. popnlar oplnivn, and becams a windmill for the grinding of party meal, will count but fow f; that - which Lausty mon now oall they will_noma thno confass to have heen n Tor onough han transpirod of what wag spolicn in the car in the closete ta justify the oxpectation that it would be proclaimed upon tho housatops, 1f the limited information of tho dclogates and tho reporto af tho pressbo i a3 thoy aro holiaved tho chargos against Dr., foil play. Th that for which th Soymour had ro- all which he wns acquittod navo ono, and of that wo have imporfoct infovmnation. As wo onat our vato for bin in tho belie! that o was a esound theologian and loyal churchman, so now wo atand 1n our placo to protest spainst o verdict unnccompavicd by public proof. 1t is n viola- tion of ono of ‘tha first principlos of justico, which proyides that nona shall bo_condemned without proseutation of charges, public trial in presence of his accusers, and judgment accord- A groater acandal hiss boon g Star-Chambor pro- tban hos been saved it, and we very r thot mischiel may como of it, inas- much s it has ** oocasioned tho cnomtes of the Lord to blaspheme," 1ask, in closing, that of vour patienco, would pormit a fo words of parsonnl exp} tion, You will have learned through ono of tho daily papors of an interview betiweon ono of fts roportora and mysolf, in_ which I frooly ox- rogrot ‘nt tho issuo of this wholo my disgent from tho mothods om- ployed to dofoat Dr. Soymour. 2 that, and in tho necessary explanations incident ta my position, L had nothing to say. Tho arti- clo in yosterday's paper will appeer to n caroful reader to consist of certain fitcts, assortions, in- forences, and rumors. Tho facts I hold myaell reaponsiblo for, and thiey aro simply thoso: Tirst, that the protest sout to, {hoe Gonoral Con- vention was largely duo to the papora and lotlors ront horo from the Enat. Sccond, that it was, to urposes, & secreb protest sont on to ono of the Iillnois delogates in New York, nnd by him mada tho text of x loug & t0 Dr. Seymour's confirmation. New York papors obarged him with donying that ho had bosn n candidato for tho lllinois Episco- pato, which seemad inconsistent with what T had myself beon informed of, at our own Diocesan Fourth, that T was solicited to voto for bim as dolegnto with tio assurance that Lo would act i harmony with thoe diocosan delo- tion, and that he Lad not dono ko ; aud, fifth, at bis opposition to Dr. felt by many unwise, undor the cirenmstances, agninst the roal intoresta of the dioceso, and linblo to mis- construction of motive, statod to tho roportar, Al of tho rost of tho av- tiolo 18 his, und not mine in any senao, tinetly doclined to fndgo of that delegale’s mo- tives, and that hohad a bittor porsonal fecling against Dr. Baymour I neitber know nor suspact- 1 did not assort that ‘he, with two Eaatorn clorgymen, influenced tha Convention to hold n socrot scesion, for the two latier worp’ not delo- gntes, and, to his Lonor bo i said, n was opposod to o Star Chizmber,” Concorning tho rest of tho articlo, I havo nothiog to say further than that my namo is associated with statomonts which, though freoly made in. this and othor commuuities, I am not disposed to Cheorfully ~ conceding ~ overy man'n sight to his own opinfon, I claim as frod o right to my own, and I invite the samo courtconn criticiom of iy life and nctions 23 1 strive to give o others, Andifl ean caution reportors sganst such unintontional errors as mako froquent hav- oc with truth and poreonal friondships, I shall not in vain have mado this explanntion. And now, do you ask mo what is to bo done ? o who makeib the wrath of man to promiso Ilim, can and will bring out of all human affairs {he accomplishment of Ifia own wiso purposes, 'ho miscarringa of our plans 18 not the ruin of our dear Church ; it may sload, If, in tho rojoction of our Bishop-cleot, Talso doetrine has boen smitton to tho dust (but of whicl, a8 yet, we have no evidence), let un welcome the blow, and thaok GQod that the Chureh is not Lo bo given over ton dolusion, a great wrong has beon done to an innocout man aud’a loyal Churchman, lot us hopo that tho smoko of tho sacrifico may propitialo tho ele- menta of strife thnt war against mowmbors of a Thoro aro other good men ing to tho evidence. given the Church in ¢ all ivionts and Seymour was Thesa facts I freely bo her snlvation in- common body. eupporters of the Bishop-eleet, wero pormitisd 1o ueo thom, - Furthermore, the ouss of Clerical and Lay Deputica resolved to go into sacrot sos- sion aver tha confirmation of onr olection,—an action for which the Amoriean Churel has' fur- nisked, wo Voliove, but one precedont, and that long since, and bitterly rogretied by many who asaisted in establishing it.” By o most summary proceodine—and ono which indicatea the tompor of thiat Convantion—eix delegates from tho mis- crozier, aud who will Jead tho Mastor’s shoep in goodly pastures, aod fold themin safe inclos- Apart from principlo, the individual is uotbiog, tho Churchis ovorything, and tho lossor must give way to tho groater, W charged with “added rosponsibilities in dioccso, and I, for ono, lezs of man than of Go. roposc to take counsel in tho next vouture of With malice fowards none, with sionary jurisdictions, who i been given seats, with & right to discusgion, by s canou of 1871, end who had conio o long aud weary distance, at grent porsounl oxpeneo, to sorvo their mothor Cpureh,—by & most summary prozeeding, thoso dalugatos wore turncd out of tho Cenvention, ‘ond among them the Sioux Indian dolegate, who cowld neither speak nor underatand one word of English, In the early politieal listory of England, eceret (ribuncl was uwed to conveno in tha old conncil chamber of tho Palaco of Westminstor, and it tool tho wame of the Court of tho Star Chamber, from tho stars that studded its ceil- ings. ‘From tho timo of Edward III. to Charles L. 1t continucd to oxorcieo its increasing powers, untll, o’ 1661, it was finally aboliched by acz of Parlinment. Ito cxcessivo geverity, tummary proceedings, arbitrary jurisdiction, and gnarded eocrecy, made it one of tha most odions nstraments in overthrowing tho liberties of the people. . And sinca that time, when socret ns- semblies bave been couvened for the trial of sus- poctcd porsons . who lave themselves heon ignorant of the charges to ba profertod against &mm, and o -deprived -of that right of golf- dofenso which Is tho God-given right of every freeman, mon have looked through tho darisest pagzes of hotory to find a fittin;r neme, nud bave ealled fueh nssombliea *Courts of the Star Ohamber.” Consider that tho odium of the name i fonnd in its weorooy, und its_sovonly. Ita jurisdiction is admitled, ity 1ojustico Is roprobated. £ What wonder that, when n largo majority of that Goneral Convenition, reptct{nfi\tluxj nming i 33 delegatos tho woalth pud the culturo, tho digmity and thy nluxr. of Lbis groat Chureh: of o greas couutry, resolved to put upon trial onr mmmy-u!nc'. without & porsonal hearlug, and Loep from an anxious Church and an intelligout publio that wwhich it conceraed ua nll'so much to Lnow, what wonder that men criod out, “Star Chamber ! Tt wau reasoucd (Lot Clristian mon 2ud clergymon had bottor keop from thay whicl could not bear tho light of day, and that the causo ol religfon and” justico ought Lo court tho openest npud hirongout light. If dootslnal unzonnducsn were 'tho only chargo undor discussion, a In alioged, wa would liig woll to inquire who are mwoio terented in that gnostiou than you and Y, aud this whole Chrel 7 “w'hat which catmot bo eaid on the housotops in dafenso of the faith should not ho wnid in the ear In closotn. If any pricut of this Chureh ig caguetting with tho Bearlet Woman, it iu dua t all thut wo kow it, and beston {o such netion yg ahall neud im * to bin owa place.” Wa cannot aTord to triflo with traitors whon found in tho veiy eatnn, - Tho blood of martyis aud the agony ot tho grank company of confessors, Wwho wit- noesed fo-tho truths of o pure Gowpel and puro Chweh with thewr lives, call for honest nod falthfal - doaling conowuek an wonld sell onr Cathalic 1+ Protestant bivthright for a mess of mo- al pottage, ‘The warld is not to bo con- A to Chriet by ecclerissticnl millinory or pasenutry, but by prtiont tillage of nion's s 3 and 1f any are found &t our altars wnder ticr upprehiéennion thau thin, thoy have for- o the ot page of Bieglish hlstory, and nike their abedienco to the Clinir of Tut until mon ure tried, let” thom not be con- charity towards nll, with purily of motivo and fervoney of wueal, with olasticity of hope and holiness of life, leb us labor and pray for tho reab bleosiug of a sound, carncst, heipful, and THINGS NEW AND OLD. Sormon by the Rtev. Robert Collyer at Unity Tho Rev. Nobort Collyer proached yestoriday ing for hio toxt: Things now and old.—Matthew xiif; 52, Tt is ono of tho mont pregoant signs of tho times {0 mo that tho heartof tho. world, which longs forover after God, should bo ecoking Him in so many ways which wero of littls or no account to the older Christian time, Yho day indeed liow vory near us in tho past whon those who would bo membera of good ropute in tho great Christian family felt bound to thiulk that the narrowest conclusious abonut this quos- tion of n diviue rovelation wero tho surest, aud that the brand of horesy must of course bo burned on thoso who would inslut on trying torzo that wide and glozious vision of tho presenco of God which is boginning to appear in theso las times throngh tho miats of doubt which aro atilt about and abovo us, The consequenco of this was, ag you know, that Clristian men of tho them lLmuor rovolation of way the world was made In tho first chap- for of Genesly, thav could ba found in the rec. ords of clonustry and geology. ‘T'hoy 2t moro store on thd fractirs of tho luws of the univorao, through wondorn and miracles, than ou thelr order, esteeming tho avachropisms of Honven, if X may say 8o, of a groater worth than tho steady sequences of ¢auso and congsequence; whilo ta frace the path of tho pecdliar peonla from tho Gardon of Edon to ths 11th chapter of Romany, was to koow &l that cen Lo known of thio near presonca.of God in the history and ufo Aud eo thoy woul on Jast thoy found In thoir own precions Dittlo cornor, &8 it could bo nowhero oluo iu their venviotiou, & conviction founded ou prewises oy thoso of your uniraveled Chinamaw, who bo- lievow that hin luapire is the contro of the world, bia clvilization tho perfeat flower of hu- max lte, rnd his refigion the kernol of all that i okt purely gaod and teve, uarrow concoption of the rovelatinn of iftly pessing away, not umoug uly in o Church Tiko this, but ‘mmong those who read nnd_{Binlk for thomuelves a6 woll au In all communition, to hory of our land, 10 with the ‘yending mada «queation, which well contented of the pucieat world, that presoncs ibotal thinkers o 1 ull Ohurehos, the remotest aory eantent any 1ao0) onsy ™ on {hip thelr fathorm; on 1o wlder ‘and” dooper studles, tho touchivg 1lobrew yigion of tion eatlstics of our ngo; it must weareh for Intion in'tho worla's own m) clements out of which at flynt, God, the substines cumo, the yholo seeret from tho & goniine rove- Lasico, nudl in tho by tho touch of uatil it hug fathoimed oldest granite to tho o loaf falling thie momont from its tree, :&I’H«Eum tho firos on our hcnr:\w to the fires in 0. . Thin naw men ngain eannot 1id content to trace ona'amall straam of life through a fow hundred Yonra, of n fow thousands, and say this isall a Christian man nood know of tho most intimate telation of God to our hyman lifa in tho old dasa. Tlo findy the Hobrow stream is only ono of the foodors of a river, tho springg of which aro, as yol, in n romotonoss about which ‘WO ean como to no conclusion. In [farper's IWeekly, o fow mantha gro, I asw some Plnhurnl of man in lis mosi pnmlliv« copdition.. The matorialg for theso pictures, 8o far s wo have anv, ore real things—stch as rude stono ham- mors, flint knivos, tho bonbs of monaters, the ro- maina of eannibal foaste, and othor things I noed not mentlon, in old Arifta and dons, Those Tomniug aro vory curloita and interosting fndead, cnating light, as Lhoy do, on tho diys whon man wan only a thonght above tho boaota ; but thoy cant a light on'some other thingu wo nra sure to think about. Whon -thot hugo decoption thoy callad tho fousil giaut was yucovorad in Contral Neow York, a'simple old “farmer wont to look ab it, nud, aftor staring to his honrt's con- tont, ho mald,” 53 ho ‘turned away, ¥ Now, it that hao trie, where's tho (larden oy Ldon?" It was nol truo, aa thoy know to thoir cost, abont fpracuns, but such studies an thoss I am touch- ing nra true, - no doubt, in. all sasential partion- lorn, and the Harpos aro good, old-fashioned Meflmdlmn, who wonld not thank mo for saying tlint thov ara misaionaries of Jioreay. Yot thoro tlie question tho old farmor askod is asked again with anothor still moro moatphing. ~Tona of thousands of peopla, who might not have thonghs of it othorwise, study sl ploturcs and the toxt that goes with thom, nud then thoy say to thomsolvos : If this bo truo, whore ia tho Gar- - don of Edan, and “tha gnod . old doctrins of tha I8l ? If thid is indecd tho firatglimpso wo have of man, . ond the world in .which he found = himself, . thon: thera -was' mo Gar- don of Lidon:and no full, becaugo. tho man inan low aa.it {8 posmhio for man to bo, and thero is no altitude to fall from. = We muat bo- gin again and got at the real tmth about thoao things, booauso it is oleav the truth’ dooea not lls in the rogular and accspted teaching of tuo Christlan pulple. o Itis avidon: sgaln that asimilar drift js at worlt in mattors of ssill highor momout: Thla uodortow is taking un for ont from our land- lockod basine Into tho grost ocenn . of . truth, touching tho spiritual ‘hifo'of man in all races and all ugos. Jnmes Bainham, who was burnt ot tho stako in 1531, saids - ** Tf o 'Turk, o Jow, or a Baracen do trust in God apd Kkesp Ihn Iaw, ‘ho is n good Christian 'man." It in “tho first word yon - hear omt of Aho thunders nnd fires of tho Roformation of a faith which is graduaily porvading all Prot- ostant communitios of tho mper quality,—that the graco of our Lord Josus Chriat, and tho lovo of God, and tho followship of the lloly Glost, diedain our patty and partionlar idoas about tho aren ovor which their blosesd wower ean ho folt, a6 tho sun, and moon, and stars would disdain any elalm wo would make to a pre-emption of thoir light nnd firog that this wholo world is God's would, and commtuion with Him in soma poor fashion, with such s royolation ps emolt man, or nation, or roce ean rousivo, is the anly worthy conception of ' His inoxhaustible love. So that, instend of tue Biblo, tho singular, soparato, priocloss ravalation, the ono snorad word of God-to man, the 'boak .f books, we avo hoaring and reading of Bibles, and how eonch grand division of the human family has ono of its own, na natural to tho lifo from which it rcomes a4 heathor is to o Scotch moor, or pino treos to our poninsula, My friond Ar. Conway Lina compiled & boolk of =1l thoss Biblos, which ia woll epokon of in tho public journnls. He uses it in his porvices Instoad of the Diblo wo use: - oxpects in timo to ‘seo it usod gonerally in tho mora_liboral placon of worship, and tho only copy I have saon was for #sla in tho bookatoro nre one of the atrictest denominations in this city, So it is with the doctrine of a divino inspira- tion. flen ato thinking far boyoud tho old linea on that great matter, and drawiog to tha Buro = conclugion that this iuforming aud r\nickeninz apirit, out of which tha Panlms of David camo, the proplocies of Tsainh, the Sermon on tho Mount, and tho Epis- tles of Paul, is no more exhausted than tho porver of the earth is oxtinuatod to boar fruit aud corn. Neither can th(:{ balievo wwhen thoy rend Dante, and Milton, aad Wordsworth, that nome- how their, quality of inapiratlon s Inferloe to Solomon's SDHF and tho vinions of tho Apaoa- Ispac, or that theso mI%hly and holy souls wara only favared with faintor visions of tho® divine glory a4 this man wont about Florenco walching for God with his wondetfal Inner eyes, or this aoared ot of his blinuness inte the splendors of tho first hoaven, or this musod by the laken and folls of Westmoraland, catehing glimpsos of Gad through tho sunny avonues of n world and Iife boautifut to s soul a8 o bride adorned for bor husband. Wo havo' pansod, iudeod, from sc- cepted dogmag of inepiration to tha study of its spirit land life, and sre establikhing (his new dogma that inupiration is alone in that which in- Apires, whilo its quality is to bo determined by its ontcome, 80 that to ench man, or each groat body of men, that is a divino inspiration which gives n divino insight, or bonrs uson to a_divina piirposo aud power in what wo_bave to do, and the treo' is known by its fruit horo as overy- whero. It io ontiroly natural, again, that out of such wido thouzts of & dlvine rovolation ns thos ano shonld grow widor still,—the last I need mention in this gtudy of tho drift of our timo, — that £ho wholo world, and the wholo lifo of the warld gnd of tho universe, is in somo way wa cannot aa yat understand an aexpréesion of tho divine maturo; s0 that tho invisiblo things of - God ~ from the ' croation ara cloarly scen belng sct forth by tho things which are ‘made. On this, T have uo timoto dwall, furthor than to say that such a thought mnkea our whola lifo of “eno piece, #o far, cor- taluly, 23 it opens toward iruth, reality, and l\umy. It makes tho wholo world a teniplo of ho living God, and overy genuino Jifo & psalm, shnll T say, and a sacriico, It mokes the tudest work eacred, and tho rudest man ono with the higheat. Secular pursuitarnd rolig- iony, tho ecientist and the singer, ho who has tho curo of badics or ho who has tho curo of souls, tho plowman and the proacher,—it is no matter ; oach mun's business is divine, whon it is dono well, and 18 well worth doing. Thoy bolp overy one his neighbor, nnd evory one saya to his brothor, “u80 of good courage.” And for this tcndoncy of our time wo cannot but bo thankful. 1t must bave its special draw- back and dunger, but tho renl grain of it i good bocauso it 18 true, And fiol, uo soonor does a man ery such o word than ho wants to 8oy another; the warning follows - olose at iho hocla of tho encouragement. Because, whilo the claim may and must bo ndmitted for tho vaster worlh of this blesned oone viction; that the word of God is not found, but that Hois reveoling Himsolf aud spealang to ng in many ways which wors nat thouglt of in tho times boforo our own, at least mmong tho mnased of men, tho danger is, that ont of' the very wealth of our rovolations thero may come o poverty of ' fuith aod the fruity of fuith, such as is seldom found among those who dare not and will nob sweop out inta this wider vision, Spoaking with 2 wise old Methodist Bishop the other dny on the ears about theso things, and glorifyug our own Chureh, of courso, for itg Toarless hospitality to the wholo {ruth of God, fio £nid, Thavis all very good it is your calling and election to look out oagorly, and welcomo all tho rovelations of truth thut can como 10 man, no matler wiiora Lhoy come from; butTam at old man now, aud I have heen watching yon with Taudly oyew afl my lifo. Yot this is my Funr, that your faith in God iy weak fu proportion to the Wideuass of your Luowlodgo, whils with it s just tho other iay. Bo, whils love your poopla well, T love my own _hottor, hecauso thoy pmt their whals heart and Jifo into such rovelation ng (hoy no- cent. Findiug ho bad been s vory dear frinad of Starr King, it was not hard Lo show how thia is not alway, ana yob thore wasa truth in it, na thero always is in the other side, nud it applies nat to our peoplo alone, bk to this whole world of men who are loukiug 60 engorly after these now intimations of thedivine prenoncoand power, tinding inspiration in a thowsdinl books instead ol ous, rejecting tho touchlug Hobrow vision of tha croation and what came aftor, for tho roveln. tions of Tyudall, Tylor, and Max Muller, i teachivg iho Loly” presanco of God iy all ages and racos, Thera asre mon down thoro on. onr Jpraitios who are what they call * lend-poor," thoy lisve 80 much land, and men in thig city who feel far poover in tha pos. sassion of 310,000 tnan they folt whon thoy b ouly:100, ‘Thoy showed mo u grand mnuaa'm in Now York, which had cost I kuow not how muel monoy, and told mo tho wmaster lived ju one simplo littlo reom of it, vory much an he lived swhen he was & you i otriggling to koop his head shove wator, 'Fhaye are #lso mon on tho ruities with thousandn of nored, who fro. nop and-poor b ull, becauso, ns wo' say, thoy - eon wwing whal thoy luye oaslly ; and men i this city wich groat fortines, who Jieop whnt thoy lavoalive to tho Jast dollar, and “enrry thojy lite an far owt g thow Tortunua ; and mon haro and = evarywhoro with wplendit mausions, whioh ‘thoy inlabit soun to It them complstely,~mastern, nag of ono hittls corrzor only, but of the house, 130 ib 1 iu s iviue business 1w trying to toucti. Wo mun! ho ablo to poascss our pouyss- pions and (uen them to n uoblo sesount, or olee, liko your: laud-puor farmer, wo moy well doub} THE CHICAGO DALY TRYBUNE; Mdm:;u: whether we might not haroboen richer it we had in soma respoots pooror. All the lines of our now wonlth, 8 of inspiration whers othera iro 1a in that targor s and botter doods. this univorse aro moro ancrod to ustration, they must be more na- ‘Wo must do battor by tho asa for oaking, than thoso do who holiove ho 1o donat bolioyo in tho falt of man, but rpatual endonvor to rise, wo must show our bejtor holief in our rising, 1f wo beliovo that God {s the Universal Fathor, wo must mako our brothorhiood aa wide Ican Imagine no noint in- 0 now faith in tho divine pres- enco riges and shinos over tho old, which does nmo timo ohallongous to o loftier and ** If tho devil will istlans _give Lut have many hook: loftior though us than their fru and bolping athers 18 J1is fatherhood. deod at which th Drothor Moody naod to say, Rivo 82 for a thing whero oo, ho ought to gey what ho paya for; ™ and thors wasa grain’ of truth in t bo applied to this quostion without roferenco to Lig {nfernal majeaty. If thors who anly find Qod through whiat tho men of tho now timo boliovo to Lo nur- diuma nurpass thoso who lorlous ways, in o ovouring bunger to question which fu row and distorted ma find Ilim in mora roal faith in flim, and n sorva 1Tim, thoro can bo no tho hottor viafon for this or that man, thorg bo any quoation how it will 0 do entor into tho porfeot power thesa now rovolations, Bocausa oluslon of tho wholo mattor, that, @ possoss tho old also, not ono of tho Biblo wo love and trust bocauso somo thinga n all tho world uo truth than this, I ahould iohior for that discov- en 1 have had a goldon daway o 85 groouhack As yot I havo found no which sooma to me tho gaod old Dible, and wondorfally do ita art and mnower to its uld com srveoping down @ _mo n book aaught out 11d not bo mor thin i tho con erain of tho gold I could find a boox i to mo richor in_divi copsldor’ mysplt ory a3 whou now and thy 1 liave not tosso Lo mako room for it, book fa tho world, howi 80 full of trnth and power as for so sweatly, tondarly, ngos fill my I at I Gobriol cor through tho azura to gly of tho inner glory, mo tho Word of Gospels and the Paalm, S0 whatovor truth bolonged to the old time bo- out of tha trensury liscovorios of s longs to the now. things now and old, The di tho rovelation of. antiquitios, tho doop tl of philosophy, and tha high th turn whore you wlil, whatavor coma out of the vory hoart of of this uow timo about tho God, gnd tho wayn in which IT to maa—all this blonds aweotly and porfectly soovor things aro trio from the old and 50 makes ono great troanure of truil 0 help and blossiug of mankind, and thon oughts of pootry, you find whicliing tho irath and lifg uear presonce of 0 rovoals Himselr divine _spork Irom thoe holy apirit of God which and has boen in all Christliko s entored into His apirit and tried to live ovor again 1lis 1lifo, while still thoy lived their awn. It was to Him tho truest, decnost, and mout di- n ol things, abd through all In thoe prophats with antiquity fu-sido ; in tho o was talking ; ughs about Hini; g and crushing haploss folk as t doiug good; at_tho wedding nad in tha agony of the garden and on the crogs; no placo waa bara of God,: no ovant, aud no lifo, ouls who huva vine verity that i things, Jlo shoul and psalwists, which wore gras when Yo spake from the mounial lily apringing out to the sun ps in'tho birds twittering In tho Lo in tho tower fallin Ho went about dof And had Ho livod with us to-day, aud epokon to us as Ho suake to the multltudes, this would havo been the burden of 8 germons and psalms, us, walching us, bolp- all His thoughts, of IIn that God is hora tenchi ing us, ivspiring us, au totheold, o would huve welcomed only tho wholo {ruth would havo satl: about tho providencs and and onr Father, His God au And what He would be, wo muat bo, For this Ho camo into our world, (hat Ho might show us b tho weary and beavy laden m and bont rost, Insomoossen- vision of ths woul, all the wisdom of raco of His Fahor tha Father go that might como to 17i; wal way, through some divine o had all the knowladeo aoil intenser rovoronce servicp of His poor brothers and frio: waoh that i8 our oxperience, then wo aro with Christ iu thoso things that trouble and porplex our ago, and storm it with their evor now wonder . The divinity of Christ, when you touch tho roal heart of it, lies 1 idoatiby with God, with man, Itis thoprize of our bigh colling, us it iy tho crown of His glory, now that the henvens have received Him out of our sight, and it is not to ma of vast momont whoro wa draw tho hmo be- twoen His nntore ond that of the Fathey, if wo can but find tho Fathar through him, and so en- tor into His socrot, aud live lis lifo, THIMBIBLE, aud with tho world, ItForms the Sublect of Prof. Bwing’s Sere Prof. Bwing proached yosterday morning at the Fourth Church, corner of Rush and Su- porlar streets, taking es his text: All Seripturo is given by juspiration of Gq profitable for doztrino, etey—I1, Tonothy No ono boul: has como anywhoro noar exorting upon (ho humau raco the influence that has flow- ed from tho volumo called tho * Biblo,” though thero is no mothod by which wo may tako up thecivilized nations, and find just what part of thoir intellectual aud mozal stores came from art, natural powers, and from the old clag- 8ia world, ond then what tronsures camo sololy from the Holy Scriptures, yot thero is an ap- proxiwate .eatimato of theeo various agoncles, this " estimato, to deny that tho greatest singlo forco ncting upon $3o0 immenso object called soctoty. Tho Caurch of all vivilization is founded upon it. Away from ite predoncy, in India or China, or old Romo and Graoce, man'a roligion waa scarcely worthy of the name, Tho worship which Egypt or In- dia, or the Greok or Romnn Btates offored was almost wholly unworlhy of either = god or a man, for it waa a stronge mingling of a littlo spiritunlity with much grossnoss,—of a littte Tight with deop ghadoyw. o part of the ancient heathon religions, and ofteu tho tomples of tho gods were siwilar Lo the modorn saloons of Bacchus. Who ever would examino tho claims of tho Bible justly, must comparo its separato parts with tho surronudings of that pars. 'Llint is, he must ngt compars the claracler of Abrabam with tho beat men that camo 2,000 years after- ward under romo now era; but must ses him in tho light of is own epocl, and, thus ostimat- ing tho morito of that patrinrch, ho will bo neon groat almont to the point of o miracle, -If you want to seo Abraham svight, behold bis path wildornons of man, ad lond- ing along whore thoro wau no art, uo musie, no ainting, 0o school-houso, 1o forim, no Honnte, ut only n largo world given up to agviculturo, alavery, polygamy, Aud war, 8o far a5 wo know, o great thinkor ke a Tlato or an Arlstotle had graced tho world, much less tho Abrahamio world, bat the rood patrinroh had to rire up nlone, out of himself, as tho oak grows up from ita own littlo secd, and with thw romombranco iy mind, that pathof Abreaem with a Suprome t the ondof it,a (God whom hosthon nations had not discovered,—that path followed by fuith which, in our far-off cantury, in the emotion which still guides,~~that path soon s lopding to a city that had foundations, ahines ns nover shono;ths Lrack ofa metoor, or tho wako of phosphoric sea. 1 Bible, in its neparate yurts, in compared with the yoarn lylug srouud it, iti4 kcon to bo i advance of mavkind at lurfze, ay though suine wors iu it gaiding tho multitude alowly Magen, too, must bo soen ju tho atmosphers of o expeet lum to have ‘apposed “nlavery no dia Phillips, or Garrikon, or Wilbor- forea, woulil be exactly tho rame an tacxpect himy o hayo Lujlt steatubouts or rilways. The world had not como to ouy concaption of tho equality of man, end it was niot- tho plan of God that all that dfoscy should eay or da sk somo futura ora,‘and that, livi Dauoo’ shoulil shoalc 1o though in Lhe God of aapiration is the God wo noo in Naturo, aud honco IHiu inspived mon will advanco by slow stoj over vast ngod, bul walking pat; yoar end hour, Vico and erimo formed s lylug in the vor, Thus when the workl's noou:tide. 39, not. steppin uitly over cacl It was cnough that Moaes way partly in advance of his mullinle, 1w ndvavco on the Ton Cowmaudments, aud ss many mivor laws, aud ib injures Wothing that in respees Lo vlavery, and polygamy, and war, and eruchy, ho utond With botly ool in the g fore himsolf, aud aronud himsolt, You Covumandmonts ho 1eached fornavd nud usterod wordn which will apply to tho world'u Inst gonaration, The divineucus of nleader or of a hool daox pon the perleotion of the inkn or 1 tho i, buyin gomoe preat, o outronchings, woithy of a Gal, y tho startiug-point of porfection is hmplios- Imporfection, Henco tho dofactivo qeruonnl charactor of Abraliam jand Moaes, and David, argucs ‘nothing againat tho idoa that thoss wero divinely ap. proved leaders of roligion, for, as socisty” only moven forward by slow ntops, o tho londers of {t aiways stand partly in tho light, partly in tho shadow. Torfoct human bolngs {n any large numbor would imply an atmost porfect noclaty, and hienco 8 nocloty thint nooded no Biblo, inasmuch s it had alroady reached tho moral summit. That humblo condition of soclaty that mada lendors noaossary would almont mako it certaln that 1\-cu thoso leadors would como forth with somo frallty. Abralism was o divino loador, not bocauno ho was & porfect man, bat simply 'bocause hia faith in ono living and true God ran out boyond tho falth of his age, Our Moraos, and Watts, and Lin~ colus, wero not porfoct fn all particulars, bit worg simply romarkablo in a fow. Honco, Morso oud Watt led mankiud in discoyery, Lincoln in judgmont and m brond humanity, and in honor. 1t iu dobated to this day what dolinito orasd Mr. Lincoln kold fu roliglon ; henos that is not the field of hts leadership,—that was not the path in Which his foct ran. Thero was anothor b gliway of tiborty and equity In which ho was always mnhfly neon, aud hiere la bocamo the loader of a raco. Bo among tho Bible worthles, No ono of them carricd all tho perfections of an ideal man, but ocach ono Lud his epeoial path, thal pointed to tha clvilization of man aud tho glory of God. o find thena grent patha of those Liblo wortlies, and mark whithor thoy point, 10 to find the worth of the buok; to ‘flud slavery, polygamy, and cruity justifiod in the O1d Lestamont, would bo vory much Jiks loving the intomperance of o Webster or n Burns, or the bad tompor and cruolty of Joun Milton. Webster led tho age only along ouc path—judioinl oloquonco; Burna in ‘ano path—gsong;” Milton in ona’ path— pootry; but asy for the intompaocnnco of Wobstor, and tho oruelty of Milton, thoy wero low vicos absorbod from the surround- ing timos,—no part of tholr divinonoss, but only disonges cought from the world's matorial march, Ho of tho Biblo worthiea: their hond. ago, thoir civil institutions, wore onliv' tho dis- onges of {hoir climate, to ho escaped by all who could esenpo, and {ho migslon of tho ‘mem loy along somo vory differont pathe—Lhoxa sbadowod by worship, by penitoneo, by fath, by tho ancnoss of God, by tho sacrifico, and by tho incenso, . Of all books, $he Biblo sooms most honest. Ita mon and women movo befors us in a lifo tho masat real. Lhoartof tho middic-sgo Church painted acoording to an ideal, and whon 1t firoupod tho disciples on tho sesshore fishing, it odocked them in gorgoous robes, na if thoy wero in tho palace of & king, In tho colored froscoes, Paul, tho oretor, is drossed in gaudy raimont, and somo of the ulmost barafoot apos= Yo ride in royal charlots. But the Bibn kiows nothing of suoh ou Idealism, It in o roalist. 1t plcks up its mortals just an'thoy stood; and it Jacob put goatsliug ‘on his wrinty, and {f Abra- bam told & falsohood; it Moses slow an Lgyptian ond bid his body in the sand ; if David sout Urioh £o Lho front of tho battlo that tho **beauteous wifo " might bo made o widow,—all thego facts of tho oanc nppenr in tho nacrod pago in their renl deformity, ~Au tha photographic art witl not make the homely boautitul, nor catoh o Iandscapo without catohing the shadow of de- formity as readily as tho shadow of bpauty, Bo tho historic gonius of the . Biblo gathers all up, = virtuo and vico, and transfors it to tho rocord. ‘I'ho bistory in_the Scriptures is not o composi- tion picture, but n photogiaph, withi Abraham, not ouly a man with a large faith, but of human intirmity ; o photograph, Witk David, nos only ad o poot and king, but & man capablo of great dighonor. Thos it comon to pass that wodo notsen a Tobrew nation that was adorned in tho gay robes of o modern fresco ; bok o nation that had only & worshiv of & living and truo God, but also of n nation that sold slaves, and stole land, and in many ways revenled the frailties of mankind in thnt period,” Qut of that piciure tho Liblo-reader i bo would bo juat, mnng eolect thoso features which Gud loves, thoss which belong to per- potual roligion, Whon the paintors of the jast contury painted Franklin snd Washington, they throw upou them the costumes of that day, and now, when tho days havoe como in which that costumo is all opposed to our tasto and oxcito & swile, wo riso at onco above und sco tho faco, 1ha ove, the forehead, and mouth of the Franklin aud Wushington, and bless tho artist thut thoy loft for us such glorious Ines of manhood. So, all the worthics from Adam to David otead in tne Diblo in tho costuao of a far off orz, and wo must go away from Abiaham's cloak of decoit, aud Davld’s romance and uin, and Jook upon all that waa hoyoud thoir sgo, and that poinied to a glorious futuro. The Lible i3 a vast embalmment of raligions fact; an owbalmmont that resches over a poriod ©OF 4,000 years, aud for thut reason it merits tho study of ‘alt thoughitful beings. It is tho most spoctul history of roligion tuat tho world pos- seasoa, and nob anly the mout tpacial Listory of religion, but of tha most valuwblo rohigion” the world hus kuown. Compare the gods of the Vedus, or of Nome and Ureoco, wilh tho one God_of tho Biblo; compare tho chnractars of Jehovah oud Jupiter, and it will at onco appear that the Bible i tho his- tory of tha best form of roligion knawn to man, It in not sumply an embalmmcnt of [aciy, but of tho beat fucts yeb gathored up regardig tho ond, Booweon tho seligions cliaractor of Adam and that of Joaus Christ, shat awide soa rolls, and yot that wido distanco in fully filladd up by chinraotera which grado from tno firet bnblo condition of morals up to thas perfoction portrayed w Christ. How untaught, Low unrofiecting, Low frail, was tho religious naturo of tho first namo in the long eatalogus. Tlo is reproacnted s dwobeying s Creator for tho roward of somo sweot fruit, 1lic ostimato of vin nud virtue, his couception of the character of God, his consciousnoss of the worth of buman = chaactor, weio all 8o feeblo that ot the invilation of & friond lho defied tho wholo moral universe. But tho Biblo sots forth with such a humble otigin of roligion, and follows slong uutil it comea to a day whon n Chuist, having boeu shown all tho ompiros of the world, and baving been promiscd thom if ho would forget Gad, stands sa unmoved by tho tomptation a8 though only a wind _had whispored, and no voico had spokon. What wore all tho Empres of ths univarso to a Christ whoso goul hiad beon ompticd of honor 7 Ba- tvoon ‘the Adant who fall 6o easily in tho gardon and tho Josus who stood upon tho high moun- tain insach grandour, & loug way intorvenes, and yot tho Old and Now Testoment pass along choir way, and point out all tho qualities of soul that lio” betweon tho Adam and tho Josus, Thero is a porpotual ascont all_tho way, until, in_Daniol ond Isaiah, and thon 8t. John and St. Paul, wo ace tho traces of that porfact nature which camo to carth in tho Redeomer, ‘Fho eavliest picturo of man which tho Bible givo us was painted 6,000 yoara-ago ; thera stauds its concoption of woman, too, in that boing who know sa littlo, nnd tho great world destined in_all ages and conti- nonta tacall her ' Mother,” aud who knew so little of the outcomo of siu or rightoous- ness. ‘The Romnu mother pointed to hior sons and emd: ‘“Thoso aro my jowols,” aud all along loving mothers have pointed to somo littlo group with love and pride na being the budu and branchies of ber own lifs, DBut of tho Dible, conld have surpassed all, for sho might havo'looked at all the uncounted millions of oarth, and havo waved hor hand toward the Fast and West, and have enid: All your multi- tudos, and all your arls and loarning and happi- noss, will look back to my bosom for their origtn, for tho lovo that kissed in life's first Jight, This womau tho Biblo holda iu its old ombaimmont. Whon our miners snka shaft i thoso prairies to striko tho coal-formation far down, thoy find tho imagos of benutifal planth lying liko Iace-work spread out wpon tho tablos of elony, imngan of ferns, and leavos, and flowors, which milliona of years ago, porhaps, coased, from somna change of climuto, to open in the cold apriugtime, and_honeo to fall in the autumu, There, howover, thess pietures lio, tolling us of o world whore porpatual sume mer-timo reignod, and that, where, wo uhall soon eco duifting nnows aud flolds of ice in our Do cember, onco troplenl birdd sang, and flowers fillet tho whole dey aud night with porfumo, But if tho God of Nature thus has writton down & brief but grand account of tha troen and bl woma that preceded us, why may wo not g in tho Bible a8 belng & vack npon whicl the oar- Iy shndow of tho hmen fumily foll, and whoera windor thone imagos God with T own fluger wroto down the luws of life und of spiritual sate vation ? = Onoof the mosk sbriking fdcts of the Korip- turos in tho unity of roligious doctrine that runn through it. 1t {8 nob important that wo wmako ony romarks now, nor have wo time for any ro- marks now, rotumlmg tho goological, or potiti- cal, or gootal idony of tho Great Dook, 1I'ho world i yot dlobating ovor the monting of ihs Bool In thouo rogardu, Baving Lima and esoan« ing aontrovarsy, wa speak only of tha path of satvation that winda through thoua saorad pagon, and say tbatitfs all one path from Gonosis to the Apocalypao, Noi that {ho way s oxaelly, to tho least dslail, the snmo ull tha wholo dintanee, for wa know thoro 8 1 groving hunul{ and light Lownrd the olone, aud & grand Tnllolujah and wrowing of palui Trruchen at Jast, which grasted not the oar of Abrabna o Eiifal, bub, in groat soasral docteines that slono ero woltly uf beliyr tho bt oF a valy af (o wholo pleza porfec: i { 1tton by wo nany comporors Lobw and 8t, Paul. 'Lho'idos of wwsaorifiea appoars in the offoring whioli Abraham 1nade w4 [ty ud in o or tho, nolf-surrander of Jenns Christ; the Re- doomor that Tob hopad for In tho daya far away, the atonement which ench altar wit. becamo Jiedoomor monk for all; tho onenoss of God, the moro remarkablo an iden beeaune olf tho rurronndinga hand wero fullof tho formin of n thousand deltien, from n Lncrod alophaut or wor- pout to an Olympian Jove, pervaden the hook hout any compromiae or hositation 3 and then T humun practico aro all ona in onte T'hg hourt was to raham's day and John's day ; th theao widsly-goparated snitln and tho clement of trust was one, ournay, not know- od tho lnttor to of twelva gates, from tho prison Jacob, inlin dioam of faith and 7 to the sky justay Apocalypsa 3,000 yours refashioned by divinn {Tobraw purificntions, thy 08 {1 tho intorviow informed that ho munt Ad for_charity, it wan h tho Mosalo nge, and Whoro I8 thy brothor 2 moved along until' i found o mafernal homo in the Golden Itulo. Repontonco Is the gata. from tho toars of the Ve absorbed in Al by such & falth bof d the former to ing whither ho went, or anw the angela goln, they flew about in the porer, is an visiblo in the and In'tho prayers of Davi of Nicodemun,whoro lio {8 bo born of tho Spirit. foreshndowed all throw from tho early voice, ** way of malvation, ponitential Pealms_to tho woopli; aud Magdolon; nnd, as for u ki Lngeh, who walked with God, to Him who smd: **Blossed aro tho pure fu hoart,” thora is no shadow of turning anywhoro, ‘Thus thero aro cardinal ideas that nro in- woven into tho Biblo, and of gold in ail parts of tho octrinos will: roposo_forever tho worth of tho book to mankind, hine forth as throads toxt or & chaplor, it has been pomorlens to inquiro, bocauso, forth camo ngainat scionco truths of tho Lord and God, Christ stands, 100, nu tho culimination of all thoso grand ideas, tho mediation, tho ac- 0, and charity, the porfect and morag, and justico of God; tho resurrcction to & now caroor, the union of man and God; arp all 8o gathorad into ona on this human-divino being, that in Him the Holy Seripsures closed and suid : ** 1t is finished, With such a voluma beforo it, tho'mind that roods it ghould bo expandod by its broadth. Compared with thoso gront doctrlngs which bo- -gin to risa in the Movaic ngo,. and which roach thoir zenith iu Obriat, the soctarian idens of yos- torday, to-day, and to-morrow bocome anly sec- ondary ; the garments worn by an ago, but no cat part of tho ngo'asoul, or oy, or usefulnosy. renbylerinnism or Mothodiom 15 . ¢ thoso fundnmontal trutba which bind Novw Tantaments togother, which sonnd forth thoir mueic in the Paalms of David and Gosnol of John, that transformed mon in tho old con- riflce, tho faith, hoj ho long opon record, forms of religion disapponr, and aro lost ag tho Ionf that falls away from thio groat forest in tho autumnn night; ald no man hns evor sat down over a nectarian idon without toaching his soul tho Swall of tho Biblo or of roligion at tho ox- In claspug to hin bosom his_epocial articles, ho s oxpclied tho greab Godand tho gron Savior. oyus to closo to his churc] with it eclipsod n univere by coming closo to man's humo, may oelipso o sun into which fifty milliona of herael? coul ponso of tho Groat. Ho hes placod hua book that ho lina usi 88 our ‘moau, It is tho Biblo in its broadest significanco that will fight tho hattlo againsz all the foes of tho ‘noro i3 & porfeetion of things oven in this finperfect worid, No ona will ovor diacover any sounds of musio not in our No ono will discover a newsbearor id wing than tho lightsing. No gor forin of opons In religion Lhoro is a lino which no progress can pass. In tho Diblo, in- cluding tho Jif and work and words of Christ, o lino is socn that lics, at tho limit of advance, Who can cscaps ropoatanco nud faith, and charlty and mediation, and n “now lifo #'" Go “to this pook, my friends, #s to n placo whero God has paintod tho futuro of the human ¥aco upon ity great religious sido. Iu tho eaut uf our country large rocka have been excavated upon which aro the plain foot- rivly of largo birds which ran alon oy when that rock wes on the surface, nu: Upon lnoking nyora closely, myriads v showing in o moment tunt were liurrying hefoto a storm of rain or hiul, ooking some overhanging ruckn or entanglod vinos that might como botween tliom and the tomnpost, Opening o Biblo, son sas nothing clso but {ho path the humaa racs has taken in its terrible but “wisest hours to f aud wruth that uoems jong ago to have burst upon this family of mortals. penitonoe, theso words of Jesuw, thess lettars, tiesa Gonpels, aro foutpriuts of & mighty thoory whichi hnvo fla for refugo to a great lovk, dimly ho Ol "Tentameut—plainly scen in tha th sorrow,and sin, and the tumb pressing rd bueir spirits. - Hero is tho record of thoir With tho camo sorrow und nin around you, and the samo tomb boforo ; hero i tho rifted Jtoek that waits for you with ita welcomo till all stocms bo over past. prosent and futuro, ovor filid a atron, ing than the aroh, from the storm of sin Theso tonrn of flight and ocacapo. DENOMINATIONAL DIFFERENGCES. Sermon_hy the 1tev. f Tiffny ne Trinity Tho Rov. br. Tilfany, at vresont of Washing- in that church yestorday morning and evoning to very largo congregntions. In the evening tho toxt wna the twonticlh and twonty-fivst veraos of tha saventeonth chapter of St. Johu's gospel: ** Noithor pray I for theso alono; but for thom algo that shall beliovoon mo through thom, and: That they may bo all ono ; 88 Thou Fatler avt in mo, and I in Theo, that they also may bo ona in us; that tho world may believo thot 'Chon hast sent mo.” Tho eermoun was an_oloquent diaqui- sition upon denominational differonces in re~ ligion, 'and showaed that thoy ware not in reality o drawback to the growth of truth in tho world, The proncher ahowed how great must have been tho love of God for His people when, as an oxhibitlon of it, Io allowed His Son to dio on Tho denth of his bolovad Son was not as if wo wero to dio for our son, o uvity of motive and ection betweon God tho Fether aud God thoSon, and 5o thero should bo unanimity smong God's disciples of to-day, As solfishoecss was the meinspring of all sin, there was no unsnimity among sioners, If it were possiblo that God could move n man from was hope of Curiatian unity. Tho great requiromont was thot wo ehould go to God through tho Holy Ghost, go that their lves nhould bo hived in Olrist through God. Tho proat need of tha the groat want of humurily, was porfect unity Thiy unity had beon at- Tho assumption among Gotl's disciplas, tonptad in o grent mony way way held by mauy thet thero was one hioad of the veliglous world who was tho roprosoutative on carth of Christ Himself, Tha iden of this Church wns o logical rnd dinsonslons ‘Thoro had also Lean various organizationn of mou endeavoring to build up ehurches on thoe poculiar ideas, Tlus hod arisen tho different weous af tho presont day, ‘Thoro was such nbe tagonism among these sectn that many eamo lo boliova that the anthor of theso roligions coutd not have Lioon of divi to inquiro whethier the appavent di ronl autogonism, and whother thera wi ufter ull, much unity in raality belind it. Walke g alongs the *sticots of tho eily in which o preacher Bnw & would bo wotl color of these men were differont, thero wan o menhood which ident as diffuront from auy other croatiro, In tho stundurds and atesinmonts of morahty, mon wuid tribes of men woro nadivarnifled pg thoro wnn throughaut ali tho fami o humanuess, which soparated U lowor auimaly, 83 it was with the followors, sccordig Lo the diffarent forma, of Christ Jesus, Thoy woetmod different, but thoy wevo In reality yet all through iflod cael ouo 4 pousible, but Iy o manhood, hom from the “Lhio sponkor roforred to tha theory of natursl nolactlon, otating that it way _morely o lower form af tho graster fuok af npivituat dolection, Undornaath tho diiforentinls of orasd awi form # priveiplo of lito way found, nomothing thal brought ol Lthose who lul tonchsd Chriag to- gether and wado them akin, ‘Tho diffotonsos, Tind oon so thewet forward that many wis voully ol Foulam, aud 5 pathy, muong Chrlst's ;! 1a; I work Tneiplos whish mady llll:‘.su haliovo; i . and oxitiorud g0 horshly bl done syach fo promotion of the trnth, Thoy had dono much 10 euit=o n dnonnr atudy of the Boriptnras, and a Itacnov innight nto the hidden rncosscs of the Kingdom of God, Fvon thaso antagonisms wera it tho [flayln(; with folla in the gymunsium, seitteh filtout thu contentants for tho renl atrug- glo‘ 1n thoe futug Lho proacher comparod tho division of tho Ise raulitish nation lito tirclva trilien to tho divislon of Christixng into necta, T tribon wora cront- e for nntional organtzation, but tho nation was for God. It was & delizhtrnl thougne that there would koon como n day when Christinn nnity would bo made apparent, Tho day of antagon- Iams Liad gono by, -and mon wers looking for- ward to & timo whon s brothorly feoling wonld nriso, auil join ali secty togothar, T'ha Young Mon's Oliristinn Asssociation slawed (hat it was possible to find » basin wnon which membors of tho most antagonlatic creeds coutd Joiu togetnor for tho patformanco of good:docds, The Fean- elienl Allianco was.an exbilbition of 5 form of unfon for thought Iust. as the Younn Mon's Chriotian Associationd wore the vamp thing for work, &t Paul upaks of Lho Ghurolyay a build. ing with Olrivt as tho covner-rtons, Thin fact hiad not yot haen roalizod. Tho pillass of the building hnd arisen, and 1t wag o dolighttal tlmuflln that tho Young Mon's Cliristian Asnocin. tion had thrown o girdle of worlts eroung thom, that the Iivangolioal Alliznco lind hound thom With a vim of thought, and_that many could live 10 600 the domo of Chriatian uuity ariso upon the beautsful structuro, * i BEECHER ON PRAYER. Raw s Fnthor and Mothor Prayed =Whot Prayer Shonld Be n the fil";l:uy Circlo and in tho Congrogae York World, Oct, 24, The npacions clutc-room ' of Plymonth enuruh ey crowded lams ovoning, A singla ‘nuqqul of flawera adorned tho dosit of the pag- or. 'Tho subject on which 3fr. Boecher spolo, nlfml'dlhn prgli’mln:.ry oxercises had been cone cluded, was “ Drayor," and ng tho discourso was Inrgoly intorwovon with Dersonal rominisconcos Do wag listanod to with most affeotionato atton- tion, intorruptad occaglonslly by the light rippla of ‘Inughtor which rewar ¥ oty gtor u tded ‘somo humorcus Trom my oarly childhnod 1 bayo threo kiuda of prayer, First camo 1oy 'rf&‘;’“?,?r"-'}c‘:-' wiieh was moatly offersd by my father; thon thers e agther's hrayer: and thiedly camo tho long pragerin tho church, ° Although 1€ might not para itrirck u3 fu tiono daya, fathier tras alwayn shors 1o bl Treyer And indeod it s s dligrac to bitmanis te Jut little children on thole kicen to pray by the Latts hour unll tho apiris and ha fesh ars weakoned, - Wo {flen biad stranger visitorn, howover, tnd whos fathee Bad read o ehapier of tho Sariptures 1o would aok noh uf thora to olfac prayer. Thess good mon used to givg us 3 timo of {t, It was Iike prayer nftor loug drought, Tiithernn proor alvays oulminatud in an apostropt 5 tho Millonnium, tho kreat triumph of th fiturar ‘Fur, Ways wajtod sttentively to loar that part of s 2y mothior Drayed o good £oug cATactor by NALura ; strougar yor by grocs: necond. mothor Tovked b overytaing frome s corad und giringent poiut of viow, Siio would hava begs ¢ nartyr ovary day and refoliad n'it, Ier prayor wan all supplication, an fuceisant noan. Tho rio and fut] of Liox voleo wao n s3d 63 tho surgo of o sea, I have been takten with her to whoro sho prayed with othior grown-up people, and nlways folt as’if thers ‘woro about 400,000 fathoms of distance betwesu na, . 1 dun’t remember u zligla ray of wiulight n any of her prayors, Youull linow tn'what an oxtont. tha oxtome Horaneous prayer In chureles s ofton lengthened ont, Dr. Bonuctt, who was our pastor, usod to o on sny: lug, * Lord, thou kuowesl,” and bring in thinga thal ora nover limown. 11l prayer was too long aad big formne, Iwas likon amali boy latd to sleop under cnormously long bed-tlothes, On the wholo, 08 I wax Drought up, there was vury Tittlo (0 win 1o towsrd prayer; very ifflo o make it attrsclive: 3y’ impresion to-day s that proger g w far from being doveloped | according to the splrit of tho Now Teutamont a3 an* ozorclso performed by Christians, Ir you supposn” prayer Lo conslst only of confeosion and wuppilcation, Itbacomas a vory narrow and droiry oxerclad fudesd’ I understand the New Testament to say wo must ulwass pray—that I+, must alwaya bo iti o proying rpltit, “Tho Old Jowish orvices wero loaded down with lnu?, formal prayer. Tho Lord's DPrayor was apparontly dcvanu\ for simplo hicario, but the prayers ot the Liastor hmself consisted ouly ‘of fho shotrst and ohutpeat inturjections, Prayer is nought clo but tho wonl ronversation with a_ conncions fricnd-g friond to whow wo may open oz hcarls, aur LhQUELLR our wishen, and onr ‘conduct, Yct 8éo how wo are {aught topray, Vo begin by ‘calling our friond hy mouy groat " Latin tamos—such an omuipotsn omniseiont, and 60 forth—and tlicn wo go o tolling Him bow groat s kingdom Is. Then wo praceet iu food Fot phraso (o confees oursolves unworthy, Bo Wwa ara uaworthy; Lot haif the time I had xathor alle of bolng iratefnl and hapny. Supposo you wera tulking lo o loving felond, end had to ses through a conversation-bool for evory phiraso yan de- strod to oxchiange with hun. Ou the othier hund, how clinrming it is whew yon talc o sich 4 frioud without formallly, a3 tho hieart dictator, Your prayer shouid Yio hopetul, Joyful, o suppliant, ust as yntt fico ot the lime yonreelf, 1t ‘should rango over tho tofality of your oxinlonco. Sometimes I havo nothing to ask; 1 havo no aneclal favor in view : Tonly want en intore ohangs of lave, Prayor may just o3 welt bo carriod on 1u elauple hounchold sords. You can pray. by inten Joctlous, or pray ns nromantouely 28 yousing, Move tug abont the world, In shadow or in shine, in Joy ar In sorrosy, in hopa ot tu daspalr, wo can litk up. onp minds to God, and our shmplo ofaculation will make s seel better alllay, Iu fouily prayor two things ure required—brovity and sioploity. It should bo s groupiug of family wate, hopos, tnd exporicnces. . 1t ubould bo braughi down fo tho lovel of ovasy ohild's intollect who {ofna in #, for the prayors that childron hesr may affcet thelr whole Imowledzo of truth, Ag for Trayer in comgregations, it may bo eaid thuk tho congregation is oaly a largs famlly. Howho praya in a church or weoling should genorally pray as for tlio wants of o wholo congeegation. 1t i3 pan. ful o hiear such porsons fall Iato manaerioms of votcs or subject. 8ouio mon aro very nico falkors, and yel they can_only proy in o stllted falselto, Ay hrother George, when Lo becaing couverted, usell to pray ter. ribly, 100 vian & zealob by matuvo, Ifo vient inle overything with » vush, o kept & Jjourast, and woull pray oven timea 3 Juy by the book. 1o bad much iuflicnco over mo, aud joined mo with bim, but thia mechuuieul regularity would havo killod 1o dead., Yuu mnight an well bo » soldier undor tho command of 3 martinut, and biave to turn out for 6o many drills Jrhiotlcr you lked or vot, You might as well havo ta Kiua your children punctually to muy tines a day, pa atter shat your tompor or preoconpations, Nos' wa want llberty, parsonalicy, brezdth, varlety in prayer ;. © littlo when you neau ‘s littlo s nono when you want uono, Youaronotslives of tho Lord. Ina froo ex pression of your feelings i3 tho resl pleasura. Just iray wlion ¥an want to, and kcop God ever bofore you, Thit §s prayer,; that it fa to “ vroy always,” Mr. Bacohor baving closed lus address, s brothor inquired if thoy should pray for special objects, and whether pooplo goiniy o prayor- mootivg shonld make proparetion for tho prager thoy might be called on to ofor? Mr. Beochor—Shall wo bring up our childron ta o to God with supplications o5 they did to thelr mothors? o toach them o pray that thelr oyos might now be onenod in a- great mige take? You might as woll pray for tho prompt cure of n cancer or tho colie. Wo aro vot to asl God to do for ua what we should do for our- selves, It o truo that wo aslkt him for daily - brand, but then wo sow the corn and ronp it. and make flonr of i and make tho brond oursolves. With rogand to prayer-meoeting, wo should cortainly go pro- pared, nob with sontonces committod to momory, but with warm hearts and quickened imaginae tions, A wman of warm hoatt seldom offers longy prayors, Thoso who pray very lengthily are maliing up o quantity what thoy Iack in quatity. Aaothor brothor aslked: If ‘s man gota up cross in the morning shonld Lo lead the [amily prayor, or steal ont without praying atall 2 Ar, Beecher—Lhat man is just in tho mind to pray. Whon a man kicks over tho stool and acolds hia nifo ha can prav liko St. Paul, Mo should bo vory briof, though, aud the childron will nuderatand tho differanco, . Atter a further riof discussion of tho subjoct Mr, Boecher said, ** I guees wo have had enough talk,” aud gave out tho olosing hymn, ayer, cal, Slio wasa wnmag of g —_— Imprint of 3 Bear on o, Rocik, Lrans the Denver (Col) News, At AIr. Guernsoy's photogeaph gullory, in Col- orado Bprings, thore is a photoy raph of the ligira of a bor on a roolt, ‘Phis ourious fm- preesion intorestad the membors of tho Iayden Survev, and the subject came to tho attontion of tho 1'rofessor. Below wa. Yoproduce & copy of tho noto of oxplanation in My, Guorneoy's pos- soasfon, Tho lizuio, a8 shown on the rack, is eallod ¥ A groat natubal cuviosity ;" ? In tho Connty of Bont, on tho Furgatoire River, 18 mlles rrom Lay Animas, Cal., on_tho #mooth faco of n saudstono ohilf, ovorhuug by o wull of rock a bandrod or moro feet Ligh, thera w tho lfi,l‘(‘:—nh'.n photograph, us it wero,of agrizzly bear, The pioturo is not an aceidontal ro- semblanco to w boar, bub i pleture moro perfeet and lifolika thau auy human art can supply, Tho short tail standing ntraight out, the eara viniblo, tha eyus and iceth plainly to bo soon, tha nsbural attitudo, all domonstrato boyond {he nl;:dpwfl::r ‘n dutulig %‘m(' the pieturo in o photg araph atrolio of lightning during JUIY “[D" utflrm." ghtuing during the progross t. Heydon, fudging from the photograph, in of tho opiniow” that 1t 18 tho work ] our Indidas, el —_—— e i Joan of Arce Tho Mald of Orleansiv to Lo cananized, brivgs abaut thin rosnlt way, it 1 fanid, nn:?xf fl:’;‘: prinoieal objects of the recont visit of tho Bishop of Orloann {o Roma, o fulill the necosunry condilions of eanonization, o spealal tribunal baiy bean institutod a5 Oticann to rouolyo tho eyle touco relntivo to *f the touohing utory of thiy Amirablu horoine,” Among tha poluty Lo Lo suhmittod to thin sourt aro tho facty coneorning aor Wisth avd Infusor, conducs taward pod vaanty, ploty 1o th Yivgin, Lwliillment of fyer tnzianaws o Cotholle, hor il or proplicey, hop : clatiows, wad b \ ot e 5 And, uumlly, T ey sl aar-