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

P THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNK: MONDAY, DIECEMBER a, 1874. SUNDAY LAWS. . Lecture of Edmund Juessen at the Grand Opera- House. Enactments Relative fo Sunday the Growth of Puritan lu- tolerance, They Are in Defiance of the Constitution and Should Be Abolished. 2 They Cannot Be Defended Under the Polico Power or on Any Other Ground, What Foreign Immigration Has Done for Our Popu- Iation and Wealth, Injurious Effcct of Theso Laws in Discouraging Emmigration from Europe. . And Intensifying the Clannish Spirit of " Naturalized Citizens. ‘The parqnette and drees-cirelo of the Grand Opora-House woro comfortably filled yesterday aftornoon, sud there was a scattored audienco in tho galleries, to listen to an address by Col. Eamund Juesson under tho nuspices of the Bunday Lecturo Socioty. e T'bo epoaker was introduced to his audienco with a fow sppropriste vemarks by Mr, A, B, Mason, of Tue Trmuxg, Col. Jucseen an- nounced ns tho subjoct of Lis locturo, *Tho Bunduy Law—Its Religious, Social, and Political Aspects,” and apoko thercon as follows : Pho quostion which I proposo to discuss be- foro this audienco will embrace tho, religious, gocial, and political nspect of tho * Sunday Juw." Although this subject may bo somewhat thread- hareand worn with Incessant fllings of public discugsions and judicial decisions, it is never- theless of paramount interest and importance, and I think I am not Hable to thoe chargo of ox- ngroration when I'contend that it is of the greateat consequence to the wellara of this Re- public, whethor this question i finally decided for or ngainst tho Puritan standpuint. Itis the firat timo that I have bad an opportunily Lo ex- press my viows upon this subject Lofore an American audience, and I am fully awaro of tho Tact thint probably {hio great majority of my Lienr- ers will not be in full sympathy withmy conclus sions, but T aball uovertholess spoak plainly and unresorvedly what I couceive to be tho truth, and if you should differ with mae, if your convie- tions ghould bo diamotrically oppoked to mino, T crust you will at least givo ma crodit for tho samo lionesty and sipeerity of purpose whick you will doubtless cluim for yoursalves, ® If T understand the naturo and purnose of tho Sunday laws in forco in tho several States in this Union, they sron COLLECTION OF PROMIVSTIVE MEASUREY, aimingat tho toslsuppression of oil publicamuse- mene_and ol publie socl intercourse on the first doy of tho weok. I'bo suloon, tho public garden, tho inwpiring bermony of the concert- raom, the theatricel rapresoutation, all are ulike subject to this legalizod anuthomn of the * Puri- tan Chureh,” I aw fully conscious of $ho menn- ing and oxtent of tho siatemont when I soy that.,| the * Puritan Chureh” is tho sonreo, the motive power, Llio juspiring spirit, of all Suuday-law en- Botmonts. Icleim in all'serionsnens that. TH PURITANS ALONE, the men and women whoso relizioua creed teaches them thet Sunday i» too sacrad for any but roligions gatherings, thut the classic melo- dica af the masterain tha realn of barwony are ntolerablodistarmony to a pious our,and that so- cial nmusoments, no lutler how muocent or ro- fining in_ their induence, aro a erying sin in tho right of henven ou tho Holy Sabbath, tra thosols causo aid origin of oll this prokibitive logislu- tion, 1 claim, iu brief, that all SBunday laws aro eesentially religious enactments, an unwarrant- able and unconstitutional oncronchment of the Chureb upon the liberty of the citizen, sn nn- justificblo attempt Lo undermina tho roligious liberty guarauteed by the fundsmoutal law of the land, and the first lamentable begiuning upon tho sol of this lopublic to abolish that grent prineiple permeasing our ropublicay insti- tutiony: a complete svpuration of Churehr and Btate, 1f you clearly and correctly conceive the epirit and wotive of thete cnuctments, you cunnot but liccows convineed that they ure 1o more oy Jeps than an attempt to enforce upon all citizens, without regard o their individual religious per- #navious, what parttouler modo and manner of observing the Sundey, which tho Puritsn Christinus—the Christinns par excollonce—deem tho golo nud only observauce admissible undor whut thoy aro pleased to term o Christian Goy- crnment, Urue, they do unob commmsnd us to visit their churches, or to clows hormotically every door and window of our private dwellings, aud read nothing but Holy Writ on the first day of the weelr, but they take from us all that which enables us to look upon Sunday asa day af yeereation ; they close the concort-roow, whero tho delicious strains of musio clevato our soul and resurrcet tho slumbering enthusiasm of our nature for all that is good, beautiful, and wnabling. They close the public placess of imusement, whora we wore wont to amect our friends in sociul intercourso, wucremany old friendships were comentad suow, and whoro the bost oinotions of owr Learts, the bost ideas of our braine, wero interchanged and tuproved by friondly discussions aud conver- nations, Thoy place TUEIR RELIGIOUS PADLOCK npon tho door of_the theatre, and command us lo reftain from improving either our heart or mind on Sunday by witnessing the representa- bions of the heroie docds, tho reoital of the uoblo thouglits, of the gioat men and womon of tho past. And by thus forcing us to abandon our wmauner of passing tho Sundsy, by com- pelling us to ralhu}ulsh our rationaland lunocont imuseinont, they force us, at tho sameo thme, to submit more or loss Lo Lheir viows on the queus ion at issuo, and to subordinate ull our own con victions to tho demauds of their religious creed, And for thig reason, and basmg my urgument upon theso incoutrovariible fucts, L say #nd contend without fonr of tuccossful conlra- diction that all Sunduy lnws sro AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UNJUSTIFIABLE EN- CROACHATENT unon religious libesty. 1t is not only roliglona toloration which is guarantoed to us by the su- prome faw of the land, but roligions equality, and I do not Lositate to assert that in whatover sounlry tho law may favor, cither diractly or in- directly, tho roligious views of suy ano claes of sitizens, in that "country tho prindiplo ¢ § rolig- fous liberty hns boon laid low by tho nggressive power of tho Church. Judgo Gooloy, & modein ud vory able writer on constitutidual limita- \lons, thmi commonts upon this important ques- biou ¢ . ‘Tho Leglalatures havo not been left at liberly to effect 5 nulon of Church and Stale, or to cutublish proforonces by law in fuvor of any ono relijlona per- Suasion or modo of worahip, oo is_not completo toligious liborty whore ahy one_kect I fuvored by tho $tate, and given o advantaeo by law over ollier sucts, Whatover catablishies u stinction agalust one roct of eluss 16, t0 tho extent to which tho distinction operates unfavorably, a porsccution ; and, if Lasod on rellglous grounds, o roliglous persecution, It 18 not only Toligious toloration which I cstublished fn our syelew, but religious equality, ‘Now I would asl any faic-mindod, unprojudicod, sitizon ov thin Republic whether tho onforos- ment of the Bunduy lvw doos not establish o DISTINGTION 1N FAYON OF PUINTAN VIEWH] whethier this distinetion does not operate wufa- yorably upon all thos cltizens who are not ot the Puritan porsnasion ; whether this distinetion 11 not hased upon religions grounds ; und, lnstly, being pluced upon religious grounds, whotkor i 1y not w rehglons porsecntion, Tho soveral ap- pollato Btals conrty Lo whom the quostion of the constitutionality of theso Bundny ~lnwe Lus hoon submitted, huyo not fuilod to seo tho dinliouly which suvrotdn it in its religlous aspeet, and they havo thorofore udvanced o vory remarkablo thoory, upon which thoy beliovo these laws can elaun thoir Judicial fudorsemont, 'Phis thoory iy, In my hinmble opinion, simply abenrd, and stands In mad contrast with thio ligh culturo and montal ,flpncllywhlch i gonerally supposod o adorn ho bighest jndicinl offices of tho Btate, In thus critieising judicial suthoritics,d do not wish to Lo undorataud that, as & :wnnrn] ulo, I do not appreciato tho bigh valuo of precodents, or that I fall to concoive their tufluenco upon our social and political life, and lio slability of gur Governmcut, but I do mean to bo understood that judicial decisione aro not to bo blindly followed and oboyed, and that tho fundamaontal principles—tho nnate, clementary epint—of our Reptiblican tnstitutions are of im- menscly. greator wolght, imporiance, and mu- thority, ‘lban_‘tho moro ipsi dizil of any Judgo upon the Bonch, and that whenover tho dictutn of the Judgo conticta cloarly and plpably with tho supremo 'l of tho lnnd, it In tho duty of every froemnn to reat not and atay not his word or bis act uptil tho dictum is yeconsidored nnd reversod. % AKD NOW YOI THE APPLICATION of thia eriticism; Tho Supremo Coutt of Ponn- wylysuin in the enso of Specht vi, Common- wenlth, havo decided that tho Bunday Iaw can bo supported on tho grourd that ita solo mission i8 to inculeato & tamporary wookly cossation from Inbor, aud bocndse oxparionce ho domoustrated that ono dny's 'rest {8 needful to rceuperato tho oxhaustod odergios of body and mind, An absurd theory—indeed, n lamo and impotoné apology for an_ubconstitutional lnw, The Su- premio Court of Pennsylvauin digregards the ro- igsous basin of tho Sunday law ; it attomnpts by » forced coustruction to ignoro a flagraut viola- tion of tha groat principlo of roligious liberty, and violates t the enmo bronth the oqually great prineiple of porsonnl tiberty. Well may Judge Cooley “say, {o commnenting upon thitw decision ¢ 1t nppenra to us, that 1f the bonefit 10 the ndividual I nlone to ho conwidered, tho argiunent aguinst tho Jaw which ho may make, who b already observed tho soveuth day of tho week, Is unnuswerable, But you do not go far esough, Judge Cooley, in your-logicat doductions, Does it not nppoarto you thiv not only tho Jow mny complain, if im is commanded _to tako recreation on tho first day of tho wock, whon Lo bps niready rosted on tho 'Boventy, 18 not tho porsonal liberly of evory man, be lho Jev; Christian, or heatlion, who is not of tho Luritanio 1xmnsmmlnn, jeopardized whon bo iy provented from onjoying tbat kind of rocreation which 18 most congenial to his 1asto, habit, and education? Can tho State proscribo tho word aud wmanuer of recroation and restof thoin- dividunl citizen? ¥ it 18 & source of recroation to onoclass of men to shut themsclves up in their houses on tho Sabbath, to pull down the window-shades po o8 to_cxcludo conscioutiously tho fresh airaud joyous light of Henven, nnd tha sintul worll without ; to sull tho laughtor and nierrimont of their childron, and walk about tho life-lung Suuday with n sanctimonious counto- nance,—If this is rcerontion to ono man or class of men, I auis, Docs it fullow thereforo, that this same mode of Sunday observanco is & wovrco of rest and rocreation to others? .13 THE POOR LATORER to bo doprisod of tho only oasis i the desert of hislifo? Aro tho publio parks to Lo closcd to b oo Sunday ? Shall ko bo deprived of tho pleasuro of listening to tho straing of music ng thoy float harmoniownly on tho pura and invig- orating air that (o him is o _blessiug for whicl ho sighs in vain in hig worlishop or fu tho low and dingy apartments of bis bome? Shull tho Stato toil Lim that what ho concoives to be rec- roation, what ke cnlls rewt for bis poor budy and troubled heart, fs an offonso agamat tho Juw, and that thero is but ona modo of rest which'the paternal Commonywealth pormits, and that is the rest of the Calvinist and the I'uritan? Itviho State can proecribo tho timo and kiud of recroa- tion, und this simply as o mousuro aiming ot the health of the publie, why could it not for tho samo romson regulato tho number of courses for oir dinners, coullpeato soda-biscuits and mince piew, asbolish the coreets and high-heolod boots of the Indies, und pass a code of Ilaws which wonld for all time to come provide for us one Dill of faro and the quality and cut of our garmont ? 1t soems to me 1 aw fully justifiod in saying that this Pennsylvania doctrine which attompty to disregard the religious nubstratum of tho Sunday law, aud to defend it on the ground of pubtic liealth, is A TALPADLE EVASION of tho roal gist of tho guestion, and that, when reduced ¢o ity logical consuquencos, it stands there in its naked nusurdity to ba_beld m cous tempt by overy freo and uuprojudiced man who hos courago citongh to disenss and suft o ques- tion of pubiic concern” and to call things Ly thoir true namo. But this Pennsylvanin theory is nob the ouly ono wbich hay been foreed into tho sorvico of Sunday-law udvocates, who arsanxious to ignore tho religious ivsuo involved in at. Thero hus Loen attempt - upon attompt by tho Suprame Courts of the several Btated of this Republic to Suatify the Sunday laws ns a logitimate EXERCISE OF TILE POLICE IOWER of the Btate. ‘Theso authoriies cluim that pub- lic amasoments o Suudey /re tho souree of dis- order aud erime, and that'it is therefore tho duty of the polico power to uu&)pmss them with all means at its command, £ havo no hositalion ia deflunyg thny proposition ko us o mere subter- fugo to evade the real point at issue, I it 1 clanacd that the seiling of intoxieating drink withont the opening of places of pubtie resort on Sunduy, by leading un uncmployod people into all sorts of temptations, is tho cauzo of crimo and divorderly conduct, aud that, in order to protect socioty wiaiust thoso mevitablo ox- cuses, it becowmoes imperatively noccssary to en- force a Punitan observaneo of the Sabbath, and it this iv roully tho only reason why Sunday laws aro passed, wiiy thon, I ul, is not public moral. ity nurred aud sapported iu' tho samo manuer on sccular Loliduys, or holidays which have no con- nection whatover with roligions erceds and con- ditions? Why uro zot slmilar Juws enforced on the 4th of July, on Thanksgiving or Now Yoar's duy, or un the birthduy of Georgo Washigton ? Is'hiquor nok intoxicating ou these days? 1lave theatrieal performances no immoral effect 7 1y there no opportuuity for oxcuses; no tomplation held out to the feasting citizons an theso socular holiduys? Ls it 1enily truo that tho young men of Anierica, though they huve bardly lost sight of tho baitlo front carly morn Lo midnight, wall homa perfecetly tober on tho first duy of tho year, cominit no excesses whatover, whien the tawme quantity of liquor, drunk ou the Subbath, would malko thom tighly daugorous mowbers of so- cioly? Why, the vory proposition is ridiculous, and borrs tho unawer upon its fuco, that Sunday laws, as well as tho police-powor thoory, are en- gondred by religions intoleraneo, and that in truth and in fack ke proceciion of socioty agninut disorder has uulhxn‘,,' to do with tha mativa yhica creates this sort of logislation. As rogarda TIE EXTENT OF TOLICE YOWLR in this direction, I cuntend that iv cunnot reach tho iunocent aud the guilty aliko; that becruse thero may bo & fow moye drunkon or disorderly persons within tho limits of & _city on Sunday, he police power cannot for this renson deprive the ordoer-loving and sober citizen of his gources of recreuation and nmusoment. That tho polico porar Jins no greator anthority on Bundny than any other day of the woek ; this power extends simply to tho supprossion of all offcuses aguiust tho peaco and enfoty of sacloty, and if it gocs any further it becomes an avbitravy and despories al power, which, undor republican mstitutions, ought not to bo tolérated for & single moment. nder & republican form of govornment thora muut bo a lino of demarkation somewhore, boyand which & logithnato essrcisa of polica puwer eannat proceod. 1 concoive tis powor to 0 ouo which cunnot doal with the romoto cnunes of crite nnd disorder, but anly with thoso proxi- mate canses which are of such a nature thatthey must necessarily and inovitably give rise to of- feases agninst tho law or the peaco and order of the community. Lf it woro truo that publid gardeny, concort-rooms, and thoatres, whot fro- quented by tho poople on Sunday, would wovila- bly bring forth & genoral earnival of crime und disorder, und that tho goutloman, ag well ag tho fowdy, would be irrosistibly drawn Into fhe var- tox of imumorality and riot on Sunday, whilo ho could vimt all these places of amusomant dunug the wook and still romam a gentlentan and an lonorablo citizou ; thon, indeud, thero would bo sowe reason for enlurging the Ynl!un power on tho Sabbath, But wo vl know that ic is only tho rowdy, bo ho dressed in rags or in broadeloth, who ‘gives full rein to Lis beastly appotitos on days of rocreation, and it i PALPABLY UNJUST to punish the gontloman and tho rowdy aliko by abolishing the indireet and remota couss of the oxcesyos of the Intter, the samo canso which s a #ourca of funocont aud rational ploasure to every olass of yoctety excopt tho two oxtromes, Aud; morcovor, 1eontond that tho polico powor i Lt o palliatlve remedy against rawdy 1hat tho only hape of eradicuting this e In tho courss of timo lies in a very diffrent dixcetion from tho club and pistol of the polico- man,—that it liok in the diroution of amoro gon- oral diffusion of Lnowledge, & cousummation 'lj'hlch cun be renchod only by compnlsory educa- jon, Lt mo aswure you, my friondy, that this over-zoalons polico powor s a thing to bo drended " ay mueh ay any other arbilravy exorclse of ho execoitivo power of governmont. In absolute monurchios (b, in ono of the priuclpal suppbts of despotium, and Iu Jtopnblics it may devolop into n most opprosus ivo woapon in the hands of tho ruling lnn)m‘hy. All that is neodod, fs soma judivial precudont, Bomo doclbion by an Intolirant Judgo, whoso mind has hoon porverted by the intonsity of his projudive, und (ho Lborty of tho citizon s coms plotoly at the morcy of tho policoman, But you nay any that the Jidgos of our country aroe men of aulturod 4utelicct, of cloar judgmont, and tho bout and noblest guardinny of our own froe Inetitutions. I froely and gladly admit that this praiat I8 fully deservod as to alinont all quostions which aro presented for adjudieation, WITIF THE SINGLE EXCEPTION, however, of tho Sunday and ‘lemperance Inws, On thass questions many of our Judgea ceano to bo Impartinl espounders of ~fundamental principle, and uuconscionely baecomo zonl ona ndvoeatos of Puritaniem and intoleranco, The books aro full of casos {\mllylng all man- ner of arbitrary oxoreiso of tho pollce powor on Sunday, and I heod not eall your attention to tho face that, in tho Stato of New York, tho courts linve on froquont oceasions sanctioned the antr; of potico into privato houses on Sunday, though the Inmatos of thoso housos woro admitted to bo in tho highest dogroo rospectablo, and wera look- o upon na oriminals anly hecauso thoy wora drinking their own wino undor thoir own roof and fig treo, At this prosent mamont tho polico of tho City of Now York is catrsing on o releut- less war againat theatrical performances on Bun- day, and in this war no distinctiou whatover is diawn botweon a ropresentation of the * Black Crook” and the logitimate drama, T'ho’final de- cision of tho courts ag fo this tyranmesl pro- caeding will doubtiess be in favor of tho polico, if jndiolal precedonts, and not fundamontal principles, avo to bo the basks of the decision. Do vou not think that it ja high timo to look aftor our porsonal liborty whon such can bo our oxperionce during tho ninoteonth contury ? I think it {8 : and, moroover, I boliovo it to bo your duty to attnck at onco tha root of tho ovil, nnd to inform the advoentes of tho Sunday law that thoir argument ks lama and impotent in tho extreme whon thoy put forward this indefi- nito and unlimited polico power in order to maelk and hido tho religious intoleranco which goads them on to an un?uflflflnhln, uncoustitutional, and cosontiolly religious poraceution, TUE LAST NUT NOT TIE LLAST untenabla srgument by which tho advoentes of tho Bunday Juw meck to ignoro tho religloiy imsuo which ltos at the bottoin of this question iy contained In tho proposition that tho positivo obeervauce of tho Sunday is an mnnmui; Amor- ican custom ; that foreign-born citizens havo no right to forco the customs of their native Iand upon_tho peoplo of thin Ropublic ; and that if tuoy do not wish to submit to and ndopt Amer- ican manneis, they had botter go buele whoro thoy cama from. 1:’; ordor_to prove the absurdity and importi- nonco of this proposition, It is only nacessary to inquiro into tho conses of thoe growth snd de- velopment of this nation. 1f this is not u nation of purely American bloo ; if I shali succood in otablisuing the fact that, woro it not for the im- migration of forcignets, this Ropublic would bo s pigmyin power and standing compnred with ity presont influonco nnd greatnesy; if it i8 truo tlnt tho unadultoratéd Amorican no- tivo forms but o smbll fraction of this groat na- tion, overy impartial man will be roady to con- codo that it 8 alightly Importinent for chis frac- tion to proclaim their custont as an cosontially American eustom, and that it is notill greatorim~ pertinenco to dotnnnd the return of the adopted citizon to his uativo land bozauso Lo socks to inttuenco the manuors of the country. LET US #TART WITH THUE YEAR 1790, the second year aftor tho adoption of tho Conatl- tution, and’let us concedo, for tho sulke of the argumont, that all tho inhabitants who thon ro- sidad 1n tho original thirtcon colonica woro citi- zens **to tho manuer born,” “Starting from this point, we cancasily caleulato the exact number of cilizous of puse American origin living ntthis day. Tu 1790 tho popitintion of the Umtod States; ox- Clusive of slaves, was 3,231,930, 'Lho ratio of tho nutural ansnal ingrondo of our population is 188,00 por cont. If, therefore, no immigration had increased tho number of our peoplo, our population would have been : 1810 (exclusive of slaves), 1830 (exclueivo of eluves) 1850 (axcinuiyo of slay y 1810 (oxclusivo of sluves| 0, Wo all knovw, howayer, sctual number of whito paoplo in 1370 was 98,535,153, sliowing boyand ail possibility of contradiction ' thut only about ono-fourtl: of tho porsous composing tho Amorican nution aro the descondants of nntives, und thac about throe-fourths are foroign-hurn citizens and their descoudants, If it had nos been for immigration, Chicago and ils euterptizo, commerce, aud wonlth would bo a vague droam ot the future, ond where mnow thoe busy throng of a civilized peoplo enli- vons our beautiful streots, bordered with tho palaces of tho murchunt princos and the solid structures of public and privato_outorprise, the Indien would still cheso the deer acrods tho bleals praitios, aud his war-song or battle-cry would bo tho ouly human souud breakiug tho stillnoss of u far Waostorn wildornoss. N Bue not only has immigration mada this peo- plo & nation of 41,000,000 of souls, whick, if left to its natural inerease, would,uot have numbered mora than 10,000,000 a-dny, but it bas also CONTMIBUTLD TO ' WEAUTIE OF THIS REPUBLIO it & measuro and Lo an oxzont which is probaily not spprecinted by the Hunday-law advocatos who command the foreign-born citizen to return to the shores of bhis nativo laud. During the Inst tifty yours Gormany alone has contributod by its onugration £500,000,000 in cash and $4,751,- 0U3,500 10 labor eapital to tho United States, and tha wholo of Jurope yiolds daily $1,000,000 to our Ropublic in the shups of omigtants, Td- ward Young, the Chief ol the Statistical Bureau at Washington, estimates LTI LADOR VALUE OF EACI EMIGRANT at 8309, and culenlutes that during the yuar 1870 tho loreignors landing on our shores inereasod tho wealth of oy nation by $235,000,000, and tha during tho Inst ifsy years inmigiation coutribut- od tho onormous sum of £6,243,850,500 to tho coffors of tio untiou in the form of productive Inbor alone, nuido from the jurgo sums in oah, which caunot bo esiimated with avy dogroo of cattainty. ** It is impousiblo,” says 3lr. Young, ‘* Lo estimato the full value of overy Lumngraut, or to caleulato tho yalue of his education, siilled capacity, and inventive gonius, In tho year 1847 thio steamer British Queen bronght an emi- graut vo the shores of this Liopublic, whom we all knaw now as Capt. John Ericksson. Ilow much was ho worth to the country on the 9ih day of Marcly, 1862,—on the day whon the Monitor, the creaturs of his invoutive goniis, dofoated’ aud disabled tho Robol stoamer Merrinae olff Fortress Mouvas 2" In roferring to theeo statistics, and in ondoay- oring to prove to vou that foroign blood runs in tho veins of the grent majority of this people, 1 do not by auy means wish to bo understeod thil I beliove this ovidonco of iwelf justifics tho introduction of forcign customs in {hiv RKopubli All £ clnim 1, that overy olement of this great nation, whether to the ‘manuer born or guided Dithor'from u foreign shors, Lus un equal right to oxpreas its opinion and exert Ity influence lu* shaping the manners and laws of this countty, I'he foreign-born citizons do nob 1neist upon thoir modoe of Sunduy recreation simply becauso it lu the foreign modo, but becauso thioy consoi- outiously boliove i% to bo most ratiounl and re- fining 1 gll its nfluencos aud sutroundings, And thoy insist further, that, baving contributed to the wealth, power, aud progross of this groat nation in a very respactablo degreo, and.having dono their full duty in the bour of danger upo muany o hurd fought flold, they huya o right to ho Leard in tho councils of " the mnation, and that it soems like unmitgated ingiatitudo and impertinence to command them to roturn to the shores of thor natiye land if they decline to submit to tho dictates of Puritanical logislation, And tlioy draw from ull thia tho logieal conelus sion that tho argument by which Puritanical luws ure defonded as s doglaration of Amoricau custums, wit which the forelgn-born citizons havo no business to interforc, is as weak und untenable sn argument as the thoory of tha polico power, and the concluslons of the Suprome Court of Penusylvania, = llaving disposod of nll theso sophistrios, which soek to evade tho real issuo involved in the quostion, I now roburu to tho charge, and L rogrot that it is . TIIE RELIGIOUA BMOTIVE ALONE whicl Jien at tho bottom of uil Buuday Jaws, T repeat, that it s tho futolerant spuit of fauatics alono which dictatos and sooks to cuforco tuese odious and unconstitutionnl laws, That snme funationl spirlv. which Do Tuequovillo so sptly dedcribos when ho seys: *Horo and there in tho midut of American woclaly you meob with men full of fanatical and slmost wild onthusinsm, which bnrdly exists in Europe, and from timo to tima slrango wocts rise which ondeayor Lo strika out oxtraordinary paths to olornul happinuves," I s tho spivitof au aggrossive religlous suct, which seoks to ramovo onw of the main nupports of our froo inatitutions; the sumoe spivit which, in its blossed ignoranes a8 to the unavoidablo and disastrous political conserquoncoy, attempty {0 embody a recognition of the divimty of Chrise inthe Couttitution of the country, #nd which but o fow short months ago crented tho praying erusadors, and oxposed many of tho mothors, wiven, and deughtors of ths Itopublio to tha rid- icula of tho clvilized world, "The men who stand nb tho head of this movement aro donbtloss nonorable wmen, thoroughly convinced of the righteousness of their eaiwo; but, in spite of their rocogunized respoctability, I do not hesitara to suy Lunt’ those uro uot tho bost of citizons who mike theso dangoraus inronds wpon relitons liborty, and, by tho” onuctmont of Bunday laws, smooth the path for o umon of Church and Srato, Ono of tho greatost blossings of the Republic In the COMPLERE GEPARATION OF CHURUI AND BTATE Took ucrows tho Atlantie ab tho bitter, terrible strugzlo which Is raging on tho sl of the Uer- men mplro, You e s groatund wighty pooplo, 251,143 1,756 5,4 1,827 12 but 3 fow aliort yonrs ngo unltad in ono salld phalanx agningt tho logions of Irance, a nation whieh achiovad victorios unsurpassed in madarn or anclent history, now torn and distracted by intornal strifo and disaonslons. And what 4 the causo of this ntorusl steifo? Why is it that tha German Empire eaunot peacenbly rost upon its lnurels, and proceed unmolosted on tho road t0 progresy and o groater national dovelopment ? Nood I'tell you tho causo 7 Doos not tho eleairio wiro almoay daily Nagh tho news across tho watera ‘hoyy the Churelr of Romo will not submit to tho potitical power of the Govornment ; how thoapirit of Josuiism still inalats on intermeddling with tho alfairs of tho State ; how tho word still goos Torth from overy pulpit that Is adorned with the Catholio Cross, thnt o man must st bo s Cutho- 1le boforo ho can ho n citizon, and that whenovor tho Iawe of tho Stato como in conilict with tho dooreos of the infallibla Popo tho civil law must bow to tho exclesinstical command 2 It la the attompt of an aggroesive privstoraft to placo na cunning hand_upon tho holm of Stato which g tho onuso of all this atrifo that now distracty tho peoplo of Germany, and that may some duy lond to n_torriblo and bloody fratricidal” war, And all thoso ills, nll this disgonaion of tho pres- ont, nud all tho dangor that threatons Gorumny for the futuroe, are the direol and logical conse- quenco of a unity of Church and Stalo. Do~ waro, 1 conjuro you, of imitating tho cxsmplo! Como back wiik mo nerosy tho broad Atlantio to tho lospitabloe shoros of this groat Ropublic. Look around you, nnd tell me whether, asido from tho fanatical attowpts of tho Puritan seots, yon can discover any other machinntions of pricateraft to encronch upon tho political power of tho country, or to earry its aims without ro- gord to tho fundamontal lows of the land. *You nood not look far, my friends. From every sane- twn of the Roman Churoh thero iusucs TIE ANATHEMA AGAINST OUR PGBLIC SCHOOLS: overy Catholic paront is threatenod with all the ‘torsors of oxcommiunication should he dave to xond bis ehiid to thut samo identical school-housa of which every Amnerican ha bocu o praud ever sinco his boyish fect crowsed ite throshold, and, uioro than that, the Princos of the Church of Rome, tlio Bishops of this country, who have wworn allogiane 1o an infalhible Popo, aro ununi- mous in demanding, definitoly aud emphatienlly, that, in spito of all coustitutional proviions, a portion of our public sehool tunds shall bo deliv- ored up to thsem for tho purposo of cutablishing their inslitutions of learning. You arc up sudiu armaal such o proposition, You do not belisve that roligious fanaticigm ean so fur forget iteelf o4 to violate the fundumental priuciples of pur institutions in o flagrant aminner, You will bo roudy to meot thoso men with your vote, nnd, it noed bo, with all tho united powor of the Stete, if thoy slioukl over altempt to carry ot their threuts ; if thoy slionld ever bo bold enough to underimine your publie schiool system. I glory in your patriotic detormination, " 1 sx your stoadfaév rosolutions to stuy thls tide of Rtonush ossion ; bul,let mo sk you,—you who may indorse thy Sunday faws aud’ the principlo upon which thoy are based,— WIHAT CONSISTENCY 18 TIHERR in your conduet, that you should condemn tho aggronsion of :the pricst of tomo, aud utiil bo i Iull sympathy with the aims and purposes of your own DPavitan leadors; that you bhould dofend tho pubile echooly with tho lnee drop of your blood ; that your indiguation is aroused when you con- tompinte tho oncronchments of tho Rouun Chureh, whilo you huve not o word to gay when Puritan Taws uidermine tho vory foundation of religious liberty ? I toll_you, my friends, tuero is no othor alter- nativo for cho friend of progress and of the do- velopment of liberul 1dous than 10 opposs and condomn all nggressions on the partof all 1o~ ligious seots, no mattor whether thoso veets dato thoir origin back to tho hills of ancient Itome or to tho Plymouth Rock, and atrus Kepublican will bottlo with tho sawo vigor and dotormi- nation agninst the wruuu{‘uf DLuritaniem with whieh bo 1 roady to throw himself in tho bronch ogaingt tho cunning leaders of the modern Chureh of Rtone, Anc now permit mo, in conclusion, to diecuys briefly TRE G © CONSTQUENCEN and the icul erreet flowmg from prohibitivo logislaion and Sunday laws, ~Aad, fivst of ull, I eait assure you thnt Bitnday and temperance lnwa hove contributed o mueh” a8 almost wny othor’ cauyo to the fuct that of lato immigration to this country bng deeroased in a very considerablo do- greo. Trao, the unsettied condition of our finan- cinl policy had tended to diminish the confidenco of forcigners 1 tho slability nud succeen of onr govorumontal experimens; tho corruption per- 1meating tho political ntmosphiowo of tho country hay kout thonseuds upon thousands away from our shored; but the Tanaticism with which Sun- day and tomperanco laws have been enforced throughoutthis vast topublic,and especiatly in the Noriiwestorn stnies, 1he natucal Lome of the Europenu iumigrunt, has also induced uncounted numbors to abandon their loug-chorished pln, of choosing a 1ow homo in our inigst, and 1o ac- commodato themuolves wsteud Lo the mouarch- ical rylo of Buropo, with all its attendaut ills of. standing urmy, avistocracy, aud impetlect vapre-. soatation, rather than submit to tho intolerance. of Amcrican Purilans, Who, n short timo age,, Ivisitad Germany, after o residence of moio than twouty-liyo years in this Ilepunlic, was nmaurally tomptod on many oce casions . to boast of our Xepublican liborties, 1o comparo our froo institutions with tho monarehical form of Buropean Govern- suenls; our Sunate, olectod by tha poopie's ropro. #ontatives, with tho louso of Prussian Feors, ap- poinzed by the King ; aud whenever I yiolded to. 1his temptation to boast, the tomperance and Sunday laws wero invariably thrown in my face 28 an ncontrovertiblo proof fn tho eyes of my oppuneuty in the discussion that the liboerties of this Union wero, after nlt, notbingto bo proud of, Theto is hardly e Puritanical enactment passed. by uny of_our Stato Legintaturca but what it is speodily Yu\muhud, with thio nocesuary commen- tazy, in tho novspipors of Germeny, and, sinca tho Government of the Empire has thought it advisalo to disconraye emigration, it has systo- matically urged tho fuct of Paritan syranny s ono of tho MAIN OIJECTIONS TO A TRANIATLANTIO IIONE. "heeo facts will, of course, creats no impres- sion upou thoso Bunduy-law dofonders who he- liovo in sending the foteigu-horn citizon Lauck to his nativo laud, but to overy fiiend of this Io- public who hopes for tho eayly dovelopment of tho immenso resources of the West, who would spoed the d:‘.f‘ shen tho vast and fertilo woods and pratios lying botwoon tho Mississippi and the Pacilio ghoro shell teom with thu busy throngeof an mdustrious and happy peopla ; to all thoso who really care moro for the fulure groatuoss, huppincss, and Tonown of this con- foderation of States than for a roulization of their own fanatical hubby, this simple recital ol an iudikputablo truth will bo n powarful argument in favor of an energotio agitation for tha repoal of all qxohhnlivo enaclments. To a truo friond of this country it is distross- ing and painful to contomplate tho evil that this 1nnaticism has wrought. Therois no otherissuo which-could have &o effectunlly endangored the vory purpovo for whick this Government was founded. It hias beon tho dream of my youth and of my manhood, that here, upon this bosutiful spotof earth, tho wisdom of t\_lol-‘mhen: of this lte- l)ubliu had foundod ihe Empire of Froodom iore thoy had established nu nsvlum and for tho oppressed und liborty-lovingw: eltelimes und of all nationalities ; thut hore, un- dor tho bonoficout inflienco of Ireo institutions, these men aud thoir descondants would grade ually devolop and unito into ono gront and mighty nation, recogmzing no accidents of * birth or descent, aming at & final and comploto mornl and political amalgamation of all the hetorogoncous eloments of tho nation, Lol around you now, and oo how this dream, whieh I believo ovory trua friend of tho Roeublic han shared with me, has been ed. . ‘'hero nover was a time in Amerieun politics whou tho forolgn-born citizens wore 5O CLANNISILY UNITED as thoy aro to-day ; thoro nover was o time when thoy combined togother with eueh rosolute do- tacinination ugafust a portlon of the nuvive born olomiont of the country ; thore nover wus n day (and this Is tho #addest of all truthy conncoted swith this unfortnnate question) whon tho !uch‘ur of cstrangement betwoen the nativo nnd naturals {zod citizen wan 80 strong and Intouso ag it hos been oyer sineo this lydra-loaded intoloranco Feno d‘ its atlack upou tho liborty of - tho 1t ecems that, lke a porlodical illnoss, this issuo returns again and again to impedo the heulthy growth of the country. Ouly at timen, | when n grent wmoral question ia at stake, tho little prejudices of Hitlo minds are unceramo- niounly pushed nuido, Dt in ul)itu of tho exporionco of tho past, in spito of the froquent rocurronce of this trouble- some question, I havo faith enough in tho sound vonmon sense of this greut and practicul peoplo to bollove thnt tbo duy iy not far dlutant when il religions intoleranco will bu buyled bo- youd vesurrection, I have faith enough in the ultimeto and complote wuceaus of ropublicanivm to bollovo that ub lust: tho golden ora Wil dawn upouw this Ropublie, whon sll the differcut nutiounlltios of whiol its peoplo in will bo cum\mnud 4 barmonously united and blonded in ono greal Awmerlenn uution, wWhen wo shall hoar uo moro of Jiativo priviieies o oustoms, no more ol Iriuh, Eronuh, Seandinavien, and Clerman-Amorican uitizons, but whon wo whall all, onjoying oquul vigghitw wid privilegon as American oltizons, stiive to uttain tho finul [mrxmuu of this Hopublio: ‘*tho grontest pornible duvalopmont of tho so- olaly political, nud religious liborty of suen, I whon THE FPULPIT. The. Controversy 10 ctween Mr, Glad- stone and the Popo. Dr. Sullivan Shows -the Results’ of Papal Pretensions. Dedicatory Services of the First Swed- ish Methodist Church. The Rev. Mr. A:w:tell on the Judgment-Day. GCLADSTONE AND 7 HE POPE. Sormon Dby the Rov. Edwewd Sullivan, of Triulty Chuveln, Tho Rov, Dr. Edward Sulllvav, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Ohurch, proachied a very nble rormon yostorday on tho the discuesiton botweon Mr, Gladstono and tho Popo. Tho sormon was di- vided into two parts, tho firut of which was delivored at the morning servico end tho second part nt Lho ovoning sorvice, M a. Sullivan's text was ¢ In it lawful to give tribule unto Cusar or not2— Matthere xxily 17-81, s Ilo eaid : Wo discover in this ¢uostion of tho wily Pharisccs ono of tho omiicst gorms of tho perplexing problom of * Church and Hiate, snd of tho long and weary controversy which lhis problem has on- gondered, which, moro than any other, lay disturkod tho peace of Christondom, and ovon now, nfter tho countless eftorls of both priests and I'rinces to harmonizo its conflicting olements, has ny yob failed of sucoocssful solu- tion, ; ‘I'ho Tharisecs spoko horo in their ccolostas- tical character ne members of tho old and bou- ored JowisH theooracy, now for tho first timo brought into vassalago to imporial 1lome, and enxious appnrontly Lo know the prower limits of obedienco; how far and within what terri- tory tho Stata hid claims on them, aud at what point tho rights of counecience and of loynily to God might bo coneldored aa ontitlod o coma in and nesert thoir indls{xulnblu aupremacy. True, thelr anxioty for guidance] on these questions wag altogethier feigned, What they derired above all things was to outrap the Savior in Mis own words, and lhotray. Iim in gomo ungusrded reply which would furnish material for gravely acensing Ilim, cithur befora tho civil court, or the Higlh Pricst, a6 the su- prome ccclontastical authority,—a diaboical plog which only failod of success becauso Clirist, tlhio incarnato ~wisdom of CGod, penetrated tho thin disgulso they had assumed, and acut thom awry convinced and asbamed of the meanuess of their own hypocrisy. Nor this only,—tholr troachery fallod indeed, ‘but even by lts defent Christ emunciated i maxim of frr renching import which, bad it guided the policy nlike of courts and churclien ot Various periods during tho lust cightoen contu- ries, would have materinlly nliered and eJovated tho ixiulory of our yace,aud left it fren from somo of tho darkest end deepest stains that now dis- fignro dts pagey. ** Ronder thereforo unto Ciesur tho things which avo Cusar’s, and unfo Gud tho things that are God's.” According to Christ, then, the only infallible Duman autliority that bus ever spoken upon Lurth, God snd Cresar hiave pach their rospoctive arca of jurisdiction, and within Lhoir respoctive limits ench esercisey o supramo and indisputa- Dlo sovereignty, Esch must respect, and nef- ther may trespaen or eucrouch upon tho rights of the otlicr. Pho purely temporal wny not inter- fore with thodomain of the putely spiritug], nor thoe splittual with the temporal. In thoory this division of torritory must com- mend itkolf to every reasonsble and imparual mind, Thoe difficulty is, that whiloin the ab- stract gound tho actual working of it has boan found impracticable, simply because tho dutien which men owo to Church rml Slato reopectively cross ono another, and to ecparato between {hem 1 sctual hifw would bo vg impossible as to separato clearly he- tveen tho inteloctual uud spirituad of man's com - posite nature, What Uladstono's motives may have boon in writing tius paiphlet wo cannot positively pra- nounco, uspicion hat been cast on his lon- esty. Homay be, firuk, tho retoined advocato of tho Rituslistic echool, diverting publio nttontion, howover, by drawing it away from their eccens tricities towards tho claims and attitudoe of tho Church of Rome ; or, sccondly, he way bo a do- fentod nohiticien, taking his_ rovengo for the op- position of the Homiub parry in_ counection with unisersity education in Lieland, by exposing them to public view in (heir iruo churacter. O possibly ho may bo in secret leaguo with Arclis bishop Manning, aiming at 3 return to power to comploto in England what ho lws alrcady bogun in lreland. But tho animus of the pamphlct is not material to tho wain question, which s, Whetber n Joyal momber of the'Church of Rome cun also and always bo o loyal mewber of the Stute? in answering this question, bo it remembered, tho issno of fact is not betwoen_individuals, but Dbetweon systews of faith, and their naturo and tendoncics, Of Romanists individually God for- bid that ono direspoctfal “word should Lo £poken. Even of tho system, 1 am bold to say, there are elemoms in it I would to-duy gladly seo impartod juto our Drotegtant Church., Its burning zeal; its in- tonso devotion to the intcromts of tho Church ; ity lieral provision for God's pourin God's bouse; its cnro for the religious cuducation of tho young; its sistorhoods ministering so lon- derly to the sick ; noblo self-sacritieo of ovenits Bnmenl membors, whose daily toil brings them ut litkla more than their daily bread, in con~ tributing to tho promotion of her causo, on- ubling hor to cover tho sand with mognificont ro- ligious, benevolent, aud educational institutions, —all theso uro leaves which we might well tuke out of her book. Sull, belind nll theso lios the unniterablo fact, abundantly prov- ablo from hor own testimony, that her croed, in 1ts laat dovelopment, comesinto violont collision with thet fundamental moxim of po- Jitical govornment, that the State is tho suprema arbitor of all civil rights, ang demands from all who claim her protection an undivided allo- ginnce, In support of this position, Dr. Sullivan quotod & lnrgo nuwber of * oxtracts’ from Dapnl Bulls jssuod by Grogory VIL. better known o Inildebrands by luwocent 1IL, who discovered tho rofation between tho sacred aud tho civil power to bo aualegons to that Lotween the sun and moon ; by Bouifaco VIIL, Leo X., Paul 4V, and Ping ¥, who in 1670 depored Queon Itiza- Liath, and relossed her subjeets from all vows of alleginnco. § Nor, said he, does Ping IX. abato anything from ‘tho lofty claitw of his predecessors, an shown by tho languago ured by him nol threo months ago to the ltomau Socioty of Catholic Young Mun, i whichi Lo substaotinlly regretted that tho power of lifo and death 18 not grven to Dutor's succorsors, und thut in ats abeonco tom- porul povwer is n necossity of tho Papacy for tho froo goverument of the Churoh of ol ‘o article of tho Dapsl decreo of 1870, in which Papal infallibility is enuncisted, was thon vocitod by Dr. Suflivan, “Wo tench," sayn Piny IX., “ond deolwro it th bo o dogma di- vaoly rovonled, that tho Nomun ~Poutlm, whon ho sposks ox-cuthedra, that iy disehnvging tho funotion of pastor and tencher of ail Christiang, lo dofines by virtue of his supremo Apostolio nuthorily, the doctrino to ba hold by the univerual Chureh con- cerning fuith and morals,—daes, through tho divino pesistanco proviscd to him In St. T'oter, posties thal infallibility by which the Divine Redeewer wished Hiy Church to bo instructed i dotining dockrine coucoruing fuith and moruls, and thot therofore the definitions of the Rowan Tontill' are unchungeablo of thomuolvon, und not frowm nuy consont of tho Chureh,” After oxplaining tho meaning of falth in tho oxprevsion ‘¢ faith und worals,” Dr, Sullivan lield that tho relution of a vitizen to his country s cincluded in tho word morals It is, Lo wiid, tho most momentous deparimont of morals, Iging at tho very foundation of all woll-ordored “sovioly. And of this the deerop munifestly and srrogantly usurps to itself full and uncoutrolled authority, Lot a contlict nriso hetwoon tho ccelesinalient and civil powor, ren- during obedionco to botli an Impassibility, und compolling mon to chooss to which of tha two thoy will show themsolves loyal, sl this dueros makion 1t manifest whore that allogisneo is ex- pectud, yen, ovon domunded, and thut undor thy Tenviest penaltion. .ot us sew, now, whothor the aosb prominent Rooan Catholis authoritien ad- mit that fssues so grave wro involved in this duerco. . Jfora Dr. Sullivan_quoted from Archbishop Murray nind Lishop Doylo, who testitlad hasore Conmission appointed by the British Goyern- sment, whon the net of Cutholio Emuncipation was undor considorntion, to detormine the exact position of Nomanist b to thelr alloginuco to # foreign eclesluutical potontate, The substauco of thoir teatimony was that tho Pope's authority wae confined eltoothor to epiritunl Lhingss thnt tho ohediencs due to him inno way do- tracted from tho ohodicnce duo from ovory Uath- ol to tho Stata fn which he livod that thio Popo had no right whatovor to.interfero with tempor- l noveroigntios of Princes s that iu cnso of any Intorinoddling by thio Popo with the aliegianco of subjocts {o tholr King, tho Catholio clorgy Would rango themselves on tho sldo of alvil att- thority, and resist tho Papal encroachmonts to tho uttormont of their powaor, 1o then panked to tho sintemonts recontly mado by Arelibluhop Mauning, of Wey tminster, in 10~ ply to M. Gladstonc's: paraphist, end. slaimod thint thioro was palpablo contradition bhetwoon them and tho utterances of tho Irish Catholic Dighopu quoted. Tho avowals of Lords Acton and Camoys, that nwan canmot now Lo a good Ttoman Cathollo without violating his duty to tho Htuto,—n‘\'nwnln mado in ronrolwu to Archblshop Manning's rejoiuder to Mr.Glndstons,—wore cliod s additional proofs of tho [)umlclouu tendency ag ko elvil government of tho Valican decreos, Tho contest hetween tho Civil Govornmont and the Catholic Churchi in Gormany was then 10ferred Lo originating, aa it did, in tho refusal of a number of Roman Catholic Profassors to necept the now dogma, vwhich was followed Ly o summony for thair expulsion from tho univetni- ties, with which sumnions tho Stato refuued complinnce, Here s involved tho wholo ques- tion, “whether the Papney 1a to ho permilted to work its soverelgn will in tho Stato independ- outly of the Stnto, or whother tho Stato 18 Lo bo nupremo in s own domain, rofusing all forelgn acclestastical dlctation, yot Dreserving to avery occlesinstienl body within its limits its just and and cqual lbortios. 'owards its rettlemen much has boou dono by tho adoption of tho Fall laws which now appear on the public statule- baol ot Germany, nud which, whilo leaving n touched tho innor lifo of the Chureh, yot, at the samo timo, guard tho hest interests of Lho civil authority, by declaring that that authority shall be maater int its own houko. Anotlior illustration of tho irroconcilonblenesy of tho claims of tho Romsn Clureb, under cor- tnin cnyon, with mon's civil rights was given ay having recontly ceeurrad In Canadn, A Frouch Canadinn, Jdoseph Guibord, died in_ Montreal fu 1809, For woveral *years Lo hnd been & member of a lilcrary fostitulo which the Romon ~Catholle Dishop consured for baving in Its library cortnin so-called licratic- al books, * The Biskop demaudod thofr removal 5 tho instituto rofused complinuco, and appesle 10 tho Pope. Aftor four yoacs a decreo srrived from Romo, forbidding niy Catholic, under tho heaviest ponnlties, to bo n momber of tho insti- tuta while tho books wore on ita rholves, Moun- whilo, Guilord diod suddenly. 1is widow ap. Ellc_d to the prieat for tho customary ritos of urinl, which, under tho Bishop's ndvice, wera retusod, oxcept iu tho unconseorated portion of ‘tho cometery, nnd without any roligious rites Whatnoovor, The widow applied to the Suporior Court for & writ of _man- damus, which was granted, Tho Church nppealed tho caso - to tho Court of Jovision, which roversed the judgment of the lower court, which judgment “of roverssl was confirmed by the Court of Queen's Bonch at Quebee, Tho widow then carried tho caso to tho Judicial Commitico of the Privy Council of En- winnd, who reaflirmod tho flest Judgment in tho widow's favor, and ordered interment in conso- crated ground, The mattor huws not ended hero, ‘tho ofiiciul order rorched the pricat, but he prompely refusad complianco, declaring that ho woul fi:fl to_§nil rathor than violato ouo of ~tho Church’s ordinances. Com. mont hero i uuuccessery, Dolier proof could not bo desirod that the warning of tho Iinglish ox-Ministor bns not been uncalled for,—that the authorized toaching of tho Church of Romo, setting tho Church, ag 1t does, abovy tho Stato in all quostions, not euly of faith, but of moralas, is ropleto with imminent peril in any Blate whero circumstances may give it full play and unlimited devolopment. Dr. Sullivan closed his ablo Formon with some geueral roflections of tho valno of pure Reforme- ation principles; the noceasity of kooping thom uondulterated hi' Romish or TRitushistic admix- ture, nnd tho valuo of thelr practical illustra- tions In men'a Jives and charactors, —— FIRST SWEDISH METHODIST CHURCH. Dedicatory Scrimon by Bishop Horrls, The iusugural dedicatory servicos of tho First (8wodisk) Mothodist Eplcopal Chureh, located ou tho uorthwest corner of Oak and Market streots, woro held yesterday mornmng in the lecture-room, tho auditorium boing still in an incompleto coudition. Thero was s vary large congrogution. Tho services woro condueted by tho Presidiug Eldor. Mr. Shogrien, who wag aesisted by tho Rtev, NIr. Andercon, of Chicago; the Rev, Mr, Hadstrum, of Brooklyn, and tho 1it, Rev. Bishop Harrio, Aftor tho usnal roligious coremonies had beon obgorved, tho Bishop proceeded to upenk, saying, by way of profaco, that it afforded him unfoigued utisfaction to meoct #o Jarge aud intolligont a congregation of Swedigh Methodists, more enpecinlly s ho hied béon roconily n sojournor in tho Seandinavian Kingdoms, where ho” had seen &he light of God made mavifest by tho progress of tho Church. Mo Lgd been very deeply im- Peasod by hiu eatisfactory religions exparicncos in tho Scandinaviau mission.. Thoro was, - ded, a wonderful work of (lod in tho Kingdom of Swedon; nar wero Norway and Donmark bo- hind in tho glorious work. Ifaving had this wratifying oxperioncs, thoy eould, not wondor ihat ho folt more than ovdinary prido in sponk- ing to them on go sacred an occasion—tho open- ing of b uow temple of the faith for the glory of adi, & 110 would tako hin tost from tho prophecles of Jora; , Cbap. xxxi, 84: “Aund thoy shall teacih,” ote. This was the languago of prophecy and of prowiso. It mnfolded n mora benutifi] Pago in the history of the worll, and gava prom- o of amora genoral knowledgo of Giod, ~ Yen, alt men, even from tho highest to tho humblest among them, should leara the glory of Ilis nama. ‘Lhe coming of that splondid era was lookexl forward to with hopo and joy by millions, "'housands of tho prondest spirits known to Cuurch history hud {oiled, fought, prayed, and died t'or that noblo ndvent. In all pust ages, the Church could show o long lino of loly men prost-ute before God, with extended hands, prayingg for tho glory of universsl ualvation, Who cmong thons all, having sympa- thy with Cbrist, and baving bowols of compas- eion fol* sinful man, would pot prostrato them- solves biefore heaven for that blessing 7 Peopls wero fond of questionng whather God would not bring some powar, morc eflicient than any thws Lad yot beon tried on tho bearts of mien, into the work of religion, to mnko sinners como to Josus, This way owing to tho skeptical fooling of the times, and was not tho fault of zeligion. Nover was thoro an opportunity for o moro Elunons rovival, and ko would aesurs them thnt theao was no way to bring buman souls to rnco exeopt to teach thom u knowledge of Uod, Vithout that kinowledgemon had nopilot, Ifthoy Linow Jewus not, how conld thoy love lim? If thoy ind novor hoazd of God, Gxcopt, As aty_nb- slruct idoa, ow coulll thoy adoro him? Thet prophcey of Joremial, uttored 750 yeain beforo tho birth of Cbrist, reproved unbeliof and gavo Christinty assuranco of botler timo comg— ** They shall all know Me, from tho lowest oven unto tho greateat,” o "Uhis gerént ond could only bo necomplished by preuching tho Word of God. They had niways to raturn to the ron) remedy for sin, Lecauys it Liad tho Divino mspiration and_ sanction, which wmade it potont. Ib was tho best fnutru- ment for {ho conversion of man, bo- caues it taught him s Lnowledge of God. Tho wietlon of Christ on enrth was cousurzmated In Calvary, but the nocosmty for ovangeliziug did not thero torminnte, Ilis diseiples clang to tho fuith which Lo hud taught, ‘They woro not ufraid to aseert it. Thoy did not skull in aut-ol-the-way places to proclaim tho iruth. Thoy went into the midst of tho Jews,— sight Tnto Jcrusnlom, whero stood Dilate's ha in’ which Cllrist bnd’ boon tulzoly scensed and basely given over to an ignowinious death,—and thera preacized that the Man who had died upon the cross wia, indeed, tho Sou of God, "Troy poivted to the stono rolled back from tho eopitlchro, and said, *You slew Mim, but Jlo has nariend' Thoy pointed to Mount Olivet, ~ within sight “of Jerusalom, and showed tho uscred peak from_ which ila had wounted above the clouds and ascondod into :xlun\'nn. Thioir words gwriod with them convies ion. soeds of tho falth were planted, and from that timo unlil now, nearly 2,000 yeus, the work ot salvation hnd been going forward, Lhe na- tlons wero, evory hour, growing ont of tho datk- nesy of hieathondom and coming into full view ol that light which wns otornul for tho souls of won. “Thereforo, the preaching of tho Gospel wan thio only true way i which to bring the peo- plo to Christ., Yrm in - this belof, the winority should bind up thoir loinw, and go forth upon thair misejons with puro hearts and o sublime “consclousness that tho truthd whiclh thoy spoko wors solemnly atiosted from onligh, Tho Nov, Ar. Iludsirum, of Brool mado n fow encournging remurke, i w statod that ho was 72 yenrs old 3 that ho firnt Seandinnvien micsionary whto over preached in that lguago in tho United Btates, wnd the e Mothadist winistor who over listed up hig voleo fox tho glory of Qod in Iinois, T'he Promding Eldor vaid that ho had a statls- tienl eintomout to read o the congio- gution, 1t empracod the followig points: e L S Dslont of chureh Tot, cornor of Osk and Market atrocts, 81x100 feot ; fmprovoments on Markot stroet and constriiction of chapel, 12,200 ; buildlng of chureh _propor, ny far ad fnighed, $11,900 ; total, £24,00; of thls sum 16,000 cash hy boott ndrondy paid, loaving laico of romawlit over 98,000 Lo bo' coltoct "tho irst Methodiat Churcli, cornor of ed, Clark ‘and Washiglon ptreots, hns denotod £5,000 towara clearitg of the dobt, which will Dba avullablo early noxt summer, lenving about 83,100 10 bo raiked by tho congrogation. Thiy had, sinco Inst yont, raired &4,000—tho Sociely of Dorens contriutlng? Lale the pam, and. the Christion olpors 8206, God bleza thom all, Hn(ldl lu:.x : i a ‘I'ho church ownad proporty on the West Sido to tho amount of 617\72!3.41.ynll prid {gr. This, tnlken iu conjunction with the church nd” lat, gnvo thom a totnl property valuntion of 211,- 981 Aftor tho big fira thoy had only 83,200 worth of proporty, ehowing n wonderful tuer epedt Afier somo very good singing by tho cholr, the congropntion wan invited to contributo ta the Chnreh Fund,—u yoquest swhich was liborally yo- sponded to, e THE JUDGMENT DAY, Sermon by tho Ttev. N. IL. Axtelly of tho Park Avenue Chureh, The Rov, N. IL Axtell proachod at tho Park Avonuo Mothodist Church, cornor of Park av- onue and Robey streots, Inst evoning, taking aa big thomo “!ho Judgmont Day,” IL Potor, iil,, 10-11. ‘ho Apcalor commoncad by snying thab the Seripturo afirmod that God had appelnterd o day jn which ilo would judge tho world in righteousnees, by that man whom o bud or- dnined, and that all must appear bofore e Judgment scaby that overy ono may recoive $ho (bings dono in tha body nccording to that domo whollior good or bud, Tho Scripturcs that provo and in- form tho peoplo of this great evont wore minuto aud multiplied, eienes vory fully corrovorated theso tenchings. Astronomy, tho oldost born, pointed to tho sun a8 & globo in intenso ignition ; to the moon na having beon o globe of firs, now coolod and covered with oxtinet voleanoos ; nnd out into spaco filled with burning suns, Goology verlfied tho language procoding the text, Potor appealod to geologieal fact; Lo pointed to tho world that thon was ns having beon overflowed with wator and baving poriehed, | Geology rofitad to eloveu, paselbly o tcoro, of world o, newnls. ‘Tho epenkor then proceedod to nrguo thnt tho clomonts of tho Judgment wero in tho eurth, o barth \ras ot Lixad In sbana of bisse. £ lnst long enough tho polos nad equalors will chnngo places, s they had onuco dono rlready. Alaskn, with it ugoless jonbrgd, would then bo our Cuba; tho plnco where Napoleon mado cannons of ico biard cnough to beur a disohargo, would swolter nuder intendest hieat. A chaugs liko tnis bud renewed tho faco of tho ecarlh. A dopresslon of o 1ow feet naar tho Baltic may bhave produced the flood. Wlalo fus shores rike o .number of feot in o contury, Switzerland sinks, Oxygen, the great oub of life, firo, wag one-fifth of our aumosphors,—cight- ninths of tho water anl ouo-third of tho eolid globo, Thego imd been kopt in storo in tho eamo combinations until (hig tima, Grent heat wns fho rosult of chang- ing theso combinations, and if the combinations wero chenzed, the eaxtll, son, unid air woro highe 1y combustible. ‘Iho nitrogen of the air would not bo combustible, but disorganized, and wonld pass off in grent nolgo. In the year 63 remnrkablo cruptions of Vesuvius acourrad, burying tho cit- ios of Merculaneumw, Pompeli, and Stabino, Numborloss wero tho examples of thesn forcen hlxdmu enrth, Such operations had happened of old, * In May, 1866, & star in tho northern erown burat forth in éxtraordinary brilliancy. . In two weol it declined from tho socond magnitudo to the oighth—ib was tho sun of somo planctary system \vrupfm!l in o burningatmouphore, Hav- ing sccomplished its destiny, it disappeared. The epeaker then quoted from Wlnohu?l and Lycll to show what a procarious bridge tha world was traveling over to eternity, corroborating tho ‘toxt tma to tho fato of tho earth boforo tho judg- mout, s ‘tha mind, 08 well o5 the _earth, contained tho elements of judgment. Whnt was called memos xy was composed of two faoulties: ratention, which i8 cominon to sl mon, and roproduction, which diffors according to the health and habit, All men rotained al), but could genorally only reproduco a part at given moment. The soul otton arose abovo theso physical disabilitios, Webster dolivering tho reply to Hayne, or men drowning, whon nll facts wora roproduced. ‘When all tho materinl globo and the dull bodies of man wore dissolved in tho gront day, nothing gonlrll bo left to cover up the thoughts of o life- mo Coneoionce, or God In fha sou!, wng anothor power by which communion was had with tho divino, It supplicd no kuowledgo, but decided, always condembing or sanctioning every human not, * Solomon ealled it tho candle of the Lord ; though somotimen for & moment 1t scemed ox- tinguished, 1t was fiually tho full, clear oye of tha Godhend. ' Where no Gospal law couid come, this Inw writton in the heart ovon of a heathen, would bear witnoss, accusing or excusing in tho day whon God shall judgo the secrels of men by Jeaus Christ. While retention Lept every thought, word, nnd act roserved, conscionca . 1teelf way a court thnt rondered sen- touce upon cnchi, But this was not all, for othor powers were not Joss nctive. Nono were temporary, but etornal, Thoy mude characior, and charactor in the rosutrection Lody was Visible, Tho tendenoy ta manifest itself “was soen even in our present bodies. Ao conld not bo canconled, nor happis deas, nor sin. acl sin made its own peeuliar mark, and would porfectly succeed horeafter. The crafty soul wounld show the vory degreo of craftiuess it ossegsed tho wrotch would look wretched : the vicioue would phow vice; tho murder wonid bear ity via. ible sign ¢ the oporations of tho spitit would be £0 many sentonces of judgment, Thero was ancloment of judgment In the charactor of Christ. o did not suffor in thit world to talance the justice of God. Iis mis- sion was one of pura’love, IL was not jusico, taking this world alone, It wag tho exempllfi cation of Divino lovo. Ono part of God's char« ncler alone wug ebown ; the justivo must ba shown hereafter. ~ Tor ‘this purposo Qod had comupitted gl judgmont to tho Bon, That God night bo soon {o bo just tho judgment must bo public. Had thero been no trausgrossion, fhera would have Leen no neod of expintion, But tho universe should seo the mixed condition of humnmty, in which sin had gone on withaut mark of dishonor, and righteousiees often withaut roward, pro: nounced upon befora they could jushify tho waye of God to man, T'he speaker thon turned from tho considera. tion of the forcos reserved in tho oatth, iu tho soul. and in Christ, to kome of tho delincations of inspiration, and®aid tho judgment would como cortmnly, auddenly, nnd with cor- toin slgny in tho earfh beneatn. Tho oarth-would reel to and fra liko n druukard, and would bo romoved like n cotfage. Earthqualkes, romothing liko thoxe convulasions that had left their atary In tho loaves of geoloxy, would come ; every izlaud woutd tleo away, ond tho mountaing would not o found ; thero would ba tho soa and waves joaring s when the fountuine of tho groat deop wore brokon up, rud the ourth stood out of the waterand i the water ; theair would Do full of starm sud tempest, darlt vapors, and = pillars of smole, Tho voico of thunder and the glara of tho lightning would osly sorve o muke tho scenn more feruiblel The sun vrould bo turnod into derknous, and in the glaro tho moou 1nto blood ; tho atars would withdraw their shining in tho gloom and then light it up au thoy fell from heaven, Thon would be heard tha voico of tho archangol horalding the coming of tho Son_ of Man, and tho trumpot would sound, and tho doad would honr 1lis voica and como forth! ‘'bo enrth and tho sen would givo up their doud § nnluuhs would gather with angels and: Christ would st upon 1ls throno, purromdod by il watlons, te judged according to their works] As Ilo had Laen Huvior, g0 was o now judgo— juage becauno Ho lud been Savior. luving bowed 1o tho Lwmblest condition to ransom souls from deserved penalty, Mo was now highe cut in tho nunivorso to adminlater justico, With Ilis ommsclont cyo 1lo_sinw every sin for which 1lis own atonmment had not Loen obtained. T'he merey offercd persistontly and denled s now Jjustico dofied, Slunots should vot stand in that any. 'Thoir own characters would bo witneascs Ly which they would Do Jjustified or condemued, 1o would Dring to light overy soerol thing. ‘Thongh Conselonco wis o thoueund witueures, Christ would bo a thousand conreioncon | In view of this ploturo the spoakor euneludod with nusclemu admonition to the people, gathe Merod feam tho test, to bo boly in ull convares- : tion nud edliness, and constantly looking for .unid Lastouing unta tho comlug of tho day of tho ‘Lord, A young man who, from tho securo rotrent of a third-story hack room fn n Brooklyn bonrd- oneo, hnd loveled iy upy-gluss ut o noigl- olothes-lino, and boen Atartied by thi ex- hibition of fashionablo undorwear, immediatoly wroto to lls uwootheurt that civenmstanuces too g T numerous to montion had inducod Lim to abane don nll tboughty of matsimony,