Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIDUNE: MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1875. tnd many, many timea in this city, with no restments but that snowy white wo Al nse,— o extri trimminga. no oxtromo gennflections, 0 inosnse, no erncific, the ouly diffarence L Svor naw bowng twu lights at tho ently G o'clock servico,—becoming, devout, wo frea from Any- thing objoctionable, that_his Bichop the other ay, aftor caofmly obsorving it, gaid that he could not ark for ons thing to bo changod. " Ritunl,” said the Bishop-elect to ma sinco his electiun, 1 wish the whole world kncw how little tho 1utnal question troubled me. anl how littla I cared about the parcoular ritual of suy parivh a8 long ns it ateove to cricbrato tho 1. ({ « Supper with pious gravity and holy edifi- ation,” o ods fhat s Chirel is broad onough to “* give acopo"'—1 quote his 0t wanls —t o services which ahall be frea from all gorts of coromonial—that moa may g0 where they will, sud nso extempore pravers and proach tho word of God wherover 1t is needed, and to per- mit thowe, ou_ the other band. who love a high and Lioly servleo to Lave all lhln glory and tho Leauty which belongs to God's lloly Catholic Church.” No parirh, no matter how bare and Dold the wayis which it choses to ronder our Jiturpy, necd fear frum him one note of com- aulsion, and I shall Lo astonished beyond moasuro t in his Cathiedral Chitreh any rash innovations are mado which sball shock thoe devout feclings of thoso who have been trained in the simple and yet deeply-moving waysof this present hour. Wa come now to tho Eucharist. Now, tho Biebop-olect holds very high and very spirituat viows of the Lucharist. Ho has studied it a good deal, 1Itis his peenling tine of stnds, and lie, like all men in preacnce of that awful mys- tory, stumbles, and halts, and gropes abont for words. bt lis views oro thoro which have often been held in our Charch. Thoy aro ne new views, They aro no Romisl viows. I do not fully” grasp them, fpr 1 do ot live an nedr my Savior s the Disliop-clact docs, and 80 1 will give yon his own words, and you can judgo for yoirscives whether theso Yiows are dangerous and caleulated to lead souls into the abyss of Jtomo and hercsy, 1[0 ways: - Becauso L snid *I bolleve in the preronco in the clements,’ people hold that I most believe in a local, physical, carnnl presence in the ele- monta; lot nio say that it s imposmble for mo to uay in what Beuse I liold to a presonoe iu the clements. Where Clinst hes uot defined, T do_not define. Whero tho Church has ot defined. Ido not define. I merely may negative- 1y. as tho Chureh hLas snid, that 1t is nol Ly tranenbstantiation, that it is not by imposi- tion, $hint it is not by idontity of substauce; and, if you asxk ma liow it is, Tunswer, 1 know of bt ono word to express it without dadning it, and that word i thu couscerated word—sncramental, 1 hold that Christ 19 1 sscramental nnion with thio conseeratod elamnonts, and that prosence is called real, to kl:ow that it is not o niero figura- tive or virtnal prescnce, nud tho presence is called spiritual to show that it is_not a physieal or carnal or corpareal presenco. Cluist has as- conded into the Henveue, aud is ret down on tho right hand of tho thione of God, and L alsa hold that Mo s presout in tho olomenta Ly this way of sacramoutal union. and_how both are there I caunot tell, 1 hold that.Chriat is in isaven locally. I hold that Ho is in the cloments spiritually,” Liut some will say, The Jlishop-clect adares Christ in_tho sacrament. Well, what docy that mean ? Ile haa paid over an | over again thint ho abhors and ropudiates avy idea of adoring the outwara clogieuts. e abbags just as strongly Ay wavring of the substaned of Clrist's body Lidden under tho voils of Lread and wine, Ile asks for no otber gesturo of adoration, and pro- motes no other than tho owne wo all promote. Koeeling upon our knees to reccive the Lord'a body and blood— and, if 1 understand him, ho adorcs his dear Lord and Savior Jesus Clrist with all bis beart aud sonl here, Leeause near to 1lim. Ho gecms to como the nearcst tous, and to call forth more strongly our hearts’ tribute of adora~ tion. *‘He pays his reverent homago to the Bon of Gud, whowmn ho believes to bo presout in His own Sacrament,” Now, beloved, I fail to seoin all this any moro than a lofty, spiritual, and very prund view of the iloly Luchurist, I believe that. it wo all could get wpon that plane, we woukd be holier won and women, and love Jesis Christ moro, It was & gousiblo thing 8 distin- urhiod lawyer of this church said tomo: “1f nny man can seo Jesns Chirist nearer to him in the Snerament than I can, why, God bless him, L wish 1 could do tho same. Now let ua como to the Confessional. T naked & perkon who hadghoon to confenriou to D, Do Koven lutullm(’ actly what it was, and I re- Fmdnuc it Liore o8 neariyas Ican: 1 wont," o saya, “* tnto tho Doctor's oratory and knooled down and asked God for His graco and i en- Tightening wpitit bo enablo mo to speak cioarly what Uhiad to wpenk, 1 then opoued my beari to the Doctor as Lmight to you, I told biw of tho siug which wero Lurdening mo, of tho doubts which oppresved mo. Ho pointed mo to Jesus Chivist, the Gireat Pardoner of bin, e gava tno the Lest ndvice o miunister over gave me, [ kneoled dawn ]Im{cd for God’s forgivenesn, prayed for atrength, and the Doctor sald the Kl nbecintion which s read every Sumday in churely, shich nssured mo it 1 was traly penitent God forgavemo, I did me more good than auy other rehgious act I ever did,” Now, my frionds, if you ree any thing wrong iu this, in the guid- ance of tho kouls uf Lays in & boarding-uzhiool, if you can squeeze out of this wny support of tho monstrons accusations that boys aro tanght Dr. Do Koveu can forgive sins, if you tind any thing here that nubstitutes **a pictare of Christ Himeolf,” you can do more than I ca, aud it {s 10 1se in our talking any more abont it. I do not know that § need diell any louper on the Bishop-clect’s doctrino and practice. Urant- ing, for argrumont’s wake, that his views mro pe- culiar, aro thoy such as a priest of this Cunrch 1y not [rcely and openly hold 2 That point is not denied. 1t 18 kaid, You may hold thase, but yuu shall not be & Bishopif you liotd them. This i3 tho question, thon : I8 this Catholio Clinrch to which we fondly hoped we bolonged a mora lle- tiun as regards bor catholicity # 1a she slinply o Uigh Chureh sect, in which only men of a certaln 8t1ipo can hiave oftice,—unfe mon,—or is she & broad sud wplaudid empire, whero thora is place and power for Low, and Droad, snd High, and Advauced, weeording a8 Divcosos chovzo therr Clief Vastor? Uniess elho bo thix, ler e will oot be yum, Uulors sho bo this, preat gonius and fervid en- thusiasm will all die ot of her, and sho will re- Inpee iuto that clepant roposo from which sho has o splendidly cworged. We, i this Diocore, hiave luid the question belore the Ueneral Church. God grant thal she may punder long befofe she givo a uarrow and a thns-werving nuswor, - 1 wight go iuto the olection, | wight show by nemes aud figures that quito a8 muny spoke vn ono uide an the othor; that thiogs were won- sged as fuirly as they could Lo under that excite- mieut ; that the Chairman Milod s dificult post well; shot nothing was choked off whicl needed veulilation, The disputed votes of the elergy were allowed by the higtiest lernl nuthor- 1ty 1u this Blate, nud by an overwholmiug wa- iumy of thu Convention. T'wo lay votes ouly have beon called in dispute,—the Chancellor of the Cathiodral and the Chisucollor of the Diovesy, 'l_hw forwor #ut us tho Iay ropresentative of the Cathodralunder Canon 1V. Title 4, which gives tho Cathedral u clerical and lay roprosentative, and thore really van bo no discidrion of his right 1o yote. Tho vote af the Chancellor of the Dioceso lias alio bean catled inquestion, No wuoh vote is spokon of in tho Couslitution it 1o said, but siel o volo is cleurly allowed. by canon, aud with us n the "Church, canvn s of auuul fores in the Cunstisution, Both were adoptod ab the sawmo time by the samo Convens tion, sud they know vo coufliet betweon the documents, ‘The Chancollor of the Diovese s Dot & member of the Convention in tho Honso of Iay rupresentative from s parish of whom the Coustitution alone speuks, 1le juw * pecu- liar," with sll the privileges of membership, llo Lias voted for years, aud 1:0 voice has beea raised miainst his nght; and abova sll aud setthng tho wholo question, the Conveation, by a very large wmajority, roluded o outortalu Buy ques- tion ad 1o tho legality of bhis weat, lue Convention is wovereign, It how & porfect right 1o o ducide on’ the yuslificatious of ita voters, aud it did decide, and o other budy oan fuult that ‘or go behiud it. iW Yolo seems to bo uded merely ab a peg ou which to liaug s unjustitiable opposition as re- ards tha one divided vote, it counts s & blank y wil purlinmoentary sule aud by o distinob rute ot urier of tho Cuiivoution, But L will uob onlarze on these poinis, Tho publio prees has discnosed them to the full, Let Mo Buswor oue guestion aud theu cluse, It will be wuid ** Why did vou put forward a man sbout whow theio biad beou su muon difference antl ‘WhOsE LU0 Wie w6 (0 Mrouse nuch opposi- tion #" Ay friends, tho suswer in cusy., We looked over this splendid Diocess, filled with the flower of the American peo- le, tho graudest tield GOod ever spread efore & Cbirch. We marked our-Clurch within 1t foeble, discouraged, B,00 commubicants amid nearly 8,000,000 of people, $2,000 us thae coutri- butiot in_one whold year toward Diovessun mis- slona—with ther exceplion of o fuw parishes everylhing mengre and dragging, the whole flold’ a droary waste,—aud our hearts burued withibuy, Wecrled, * Wheroshall we tind o man with the powor to arouse the droopiug Churceh? whete ts the goldeu mwouth, tho vigorous biain, the powerfidl will, the winviug giace, which, placed st tue head of thiy Chiurch, shull mako it & pewer for God aml for guud in this zoble land 1" Walooked around, sud voe pre-viineut figurs rosa befuro uv. Who echo of his matchless eloquence cn which s whole church Lad lately bung breathivas was ringiug iu our aurm. ‘Tholovelueas of his charactor was a very household word in our families, The vigor of his will lina been long shown in the manngement of bis extonsivo chargo, HisLolduoss, his friond- alip, hie genorous manner, the fond love of many hioarts,—glorions presage of a Lappy epia- copate,—all thewo combined to throw aronnd Lim a hight #o brilliant that wo could sea no other. e eried, ©\What if thero bo opponition ?—he will ltve it down, What if men do contend ?—they will find ont tholr wmistaks aud loso Wmm s wo love bim. What if le does hold views but idly understood 7—ara they to keop us from thia unaqualed opportunity 7 1o 18 thoe best man; God sends him to us; wo can- nob rafuse to take him, Thus wo ‘reasonnd, and overy sensible man not looking throuph tho colored lons of party will cry, ** You did right, Already from overy quarter tho socular pross, with its keon appreciation of merit, canfirms oir choico. God grant that the * ohildren of light may ba a3 wiss in their goneration ag ihe “children of this world.” What onr Diocese wanta is work—work for Christ 3 earnest. heacty, untiving work, set on by the flamo of Christinn Jove, fere is & mun ready to givo 1t with power to give ft. In tho nama of (tod, iuatead of ¢alling him names, ot s greet him with enthusisam, thank God for hir, open oar aris to bim, ery alond with one voice, ** Lead on. and we will tollow ! Tiot thoe Church take warning by tho past, A proseriptive policy in tha Inst cantury cost us the whole body of the Mathodists; & simuiar polley now in England 18 rapidiy slionating tho most active and enthusiastic portion of the clergy ; and like rosuita will follow like (action Lere. (iven vour best man, allowed bis caprelty and his rightful liborty of opiuion, thon take him. Stand not an tho differouces of achools. Shrink not back for fear of some disturbance. What if tho lightning does overtnrn some treoa? it piri- tios and freshons au empire, ‘Take him, Auyport him. help him, rejolco with him {u his ower aad in his trinmph, and thank God overy dav for tho gift of a Bishop who, if the past be any token of the future, wili stop at onco to the frantin tae rauks of his brachren, and rule uot onlv by the ‘rgraca of God," but by tho * gift of God." i THE SPECIAL CONVENTION. A Sermon ad Populum. The Rev. Dr. Cashman, of 8t. Btephen's Church, preached yesterday moruing on the ro- cent Special Diocesan Convention, taliing a4 his text: And when I would have known tha canse wherefors thay accused Him, 1 brought Mim forth futo thelr counsel: Whom I perceivad to be accused of quon- tions of (he law, Lt tu have nothing laid to his Shiarge worthy of death orof Loudu—.dcta, £y The Spocial Convention of the Diocese of linois, which satin this city on the 3d day of Fobruary, was an honor to the Church In our 1and, and will work an epoch in ita hiatorr. It had a great misslon to fulfill, and nobly did it do its work. It waa largoly composed of ** men of mark and likolihood,” mauy of them men who were tho ornaments of the various walks of 1ife, and especially of the Bench and Iar, and thoy miot to discuss questions and to make an elcction, which was of ual ivterest and importanco to tho wonl of & Diocese that contained 8,000,000 of soula. For threo davs they deliborated, and tho impartislity and ability with which the venerablo Chnirman administered the laws which govern such assemblies entitled bim to tho highest meed of praiss, Tho general good ordor and courtesy which provailed wero tho snbject of favorablo remari by the press, A gront problem was given to that Council to solve ; ono that concerned not only Hlinais, but every Diocoso in the land, s the Chureh of our Jand o part of tho living body of Christ.—broad, compreheusivo, tolerant, ouo in tho faith, but diverso in mero opinions, bolding fast to tho creod tha form of wound words, bat {n matters mnot of faith adapting hersolf to the variant pecultaritios of the human mind, and giviug & wide rango to her childron 7 1s sho = eatiolic body, afliliated to the universal Church of Chrlst, or is she only one of amyriad of mnarrow, intolerant sects, all whose idens, whether of fsith or opinion, must run in ouo and tho samo groove ? Does she bave but ope shibbolsth snd one bed, to whose dimensions her groat leaders, yoa, all Lor sons, wunt be loppod off or streiched out ? Are her sony, any of them orall of them, who aro in goud and regular atanding, eilgiblo to her hore ors ? Is it tho right of a Dioceso to choso ita own Liskiop ? These really wors tha problems to be solved ; it was a question of principles, not men. But, subordinate to this, It was a coutest of men, %00, The Diocoso was divided into two parties or schools, with porhaps a considerable number who were idontificd wilh nelther, and thd contost was for supremacy fn ita councils, Should Illinois be administered upon tho somo broad platform as for tho last twenty yonrs, sud largely vy the same men, or should wa tako a now doparture, and in- troduce new measures and now mou? 1t wad as we olten seo In the Htate, a coutest Lotweon the vouts " and tho **ins,” the majority sund the mi- nority. ¥rom the rise of the Genoral Convention prop- aration for the contost had gone on oo tho part of tha minority; thoy wete & well otganizo disciplived band, Thoy proposed their candidate inOctober, and tohim determined intloxibly to ad- uere. 'They oversproad the Diocese with campaign papers, havingtwoat sheiraervice, They circulatod in thoir bobaif lettors written Ly mon in high places, Thoy nttempted to atir up strifo between ity and county; they took [:!etlzun of clergy- mon and parishes to stand by them, and, con- tident of succoss, they came ta the Convoution with printed tickets in their hands. Whon ocon- nervalive mon, who Liad no afliuities with Hitual- {sm, and who were opposed to all funovations upon our tine-lionored sorvices, approachad tuem, and offerod, dropping all cavdidates who had beon named, to upite upon sume naw man, conditioned only that he should Lo n saund Churchman, tlushed with Liope, tha minority ro- fused to listen to sny terns, It was ruleor ruin, aud conservative men were obligod to eay, “+'F'g your tonts, O leravl.” Thoy did uot boliova thnt & minority with wuch & spirit were fitted to rule, and they were detormined that, 1f it plenned God, they should not ruin. Meanwlilo the majority of tho Diocese acemod to ba in a paluful state of uncortainty. Dr, Boy- mour, who could hava been esasily elocted, fur- brde thia use of his name, and no ono was dosig- nated to succood Lim a8 tho standard-bearer, The time for holding theConventian appronched, and it seemed n8 if the®lection would go by do- fault, It wus then tuat tho nusma of Dr. De Koven, the Wardeu of Racine Colloge, began to find mention, and_the possibilicy of his clection to be discussed. 1o bad long boou the favarite choice of same of our wisest and most judicious Iaymon aa the right man for tho place: there wora mauny of the clergy who, from iutimato kuowledge, woro roady, asuured of his souuduesy in the faith, to make him the standard-bearer and to coucontrato theirvotla upon hiw,aud thors were others who needod still to tuquire, ‘They did fn- quirg, aud fouud in Dr, De Koveh amsu of saintly lifs, of romarkablo sloquonceaud streugth of nund, of Srunt administrative abilities al- roady tried and proven, of wonderful magnetism and power to intluence men, a profound sohohr, » zoulous missionary and educator, 8 mau in the vory vigar of lifo and health, & Wouteru man who kaew our ways nud wauts, » mon who atood i the forofront among meu, just the man above all others lllinois was thought to used. The tinger of Providonos ecemod as it were to point to hitm, aud to bay, ** lliou ars the mau," What wad tho impodiinent 7 Was it moraly a quention of theology, or way ho rually worthy of death or of bonds £ [t wan allegod tuat o wis a Bitualist, a lousa word that moaus ln{lhm;{ or nothing, » chargo lovsely brought, and nover in tho way of formul accusation, It could bo no “errous- ous and stravgo doctrine, contrary to tud's ‘Word,"” for lie was a clur‘;ymnu atill in good and rogular staudiog 1 tho Chureh, aud st such doc- trine evorv Bishop aud I'ileat was under solomn vow o uke all ulligouce to bauish and driveawuy, It I8 absurd to suppoise that tho Church would leave u man of unsound faith or doubtrul loyalty at the head of ouo of her institutions of learu- iug, to truin hor youth iu his ways. Besides, in the lnst (enaral Convention, Dr. De Koven ba rhile doubting tho constitutionatity and the wiu- dowm of the cnactiment, fraukly “sccupled onr cauon of Hitual, and declared that the I'reyer- Bouk, without anvy chauge, satisfled hla unders gtanding aud hls hourt; tho [Irayer-Uook with jta laws 18 his ritual of woiship, {l thay ly Ritualisin, we are all Iitualists, wnd, without kuowing it, hava boen all our hves. Tho prac- tice of Dr, Do Koven squures with hls theory, sud in his volloge, whoro Lie might ba thought to Davo full liberty, his servico is procisely the vice which vae Iato Bishop sanctioned snd enjoy- ed in his own Cathedral, snd which had slways been furhished to tho English Church in the ai vice of bier collogos sud cathodrals. It i sim- ply the Church sorvice, avd, bolug uo * novelty,” should pot disturb the puaco of the most timid, But then, apalu, It was suid that Dr. Do Koven approschied the boundaries of errur upou tho gtoat doctrins of the Eucharistio presence, aud yot at the General Convontion hisseatlments up~ on that subject ss gives iu bis musterly spesch upon Ihitualism, met with & wida approval, They cleared away clowls of miungprfllmnslnu aud'doubt; they were recognized by opposite nchools as' far within that latitado of opinion which tha Clinroh _allows, and aa tinding their ample warrant in Giol’s writien word, tu the for- mulariag of tho Clintich, aml 1 the sritings of her doetors of every age. o denies expheitly any belief i a loeal, plysical, oarnal pressnco. Itis not, he allegow, & presence by transubstans tiation or by impanation or by tdentity of sub- stanco : it i4 simply & encramental pravouce. 1o gavn: o Whero Chriat haa nos defined, I do not define, Where tho Church does not defino, Ldo not dofine.” It 18 an meablo mystory. As such ho racoivos it, as such he leavos it. “Thrae hundred years ago Queen Elzabetl, whan asked to dofine the great mystery of the presepco by thoee who would fatn ontrap ber, answered Chirist wan the word that apakeit; 11e took the bread and braka it, And what that woril doth make it “That 1 belleve and take it An answor whose wisdom the Church would comniend and which iu some sort Dr. De Koven would accopt. Were_ tiiess the impodimonts to the eloction of Dr. Do Koven, the msa wo needl of all others, it waa neked ? Bhall we be deprived of ilo ser- vicos of such 8 man by theso thoological subtio- tioa, thess nice distiuctions of schoolmen? Has he practical scuss, administrative capacity; is hie the man for the place, doss ho hold to the creads? If mo, give him to us, and never mind tho color of L ideas, We judgo tus treo by ita frwts; bis life and charactor, bis past Wucsoss, aro our guaranty. It was with such feelings thut the majority entored upou the Convoution, and questions of dootrina had litsle intluence upoun them. It was the man, und especially the Western man, thoy wanted,—oue who Lad goue t snd out nmong them for n scoro of years,—sud, 80 Lo was not worthy of doath or of bonds, thoy cared littlo for tho miut, anise, aud cumiu of tho law, At the apening of tho Convention 1t was scen that the winority had detormined on & dewpe- rate fight, ‘Thoy were veteran troops, for many of thom for twenty years bad besn in antago- uiam to the late Bistop, thorna in his flosh, 1t was said that in & caucuy tho night beforo it had Loen determined to contest every point, inch by inch, even if it took two days to organize tho Couvention, ‘Ihat may not have passed (n formal resolution, but it was aoted wupon in wpirit. They interposed dilatory motions, called fur a voto by ordors, not only to test the souss of tho Iiouss, ag would bo peoper, but upon slight ques- tions, and after the Houwso had decided agnin and Agan aganst them by a vuts of about two to one, thus proviny that they wore not ouly a Lops- less but n factious minority. They challengsd votes which had never beoa ohallanged before, in whoso favor stood both law and precedeut,— voles that hiad been cast tinquestioned in & pre- eeding clection for & Bishop, and for a series of years undor Lishop Whitehouse, who kuew what our Constitution and canons mean, and, when the Conveution decided against them, nud their own friends rofused to vots with them, thoy wtill porsisted. Loy bad able parltamentary londers, some of them astuto ond expericnced politivians; they resorted to every species of tacties, aud introduced tho filibustering of Con- fircun upou the floor of & religions Conveutiot, hey bad zeal, energy, aad eodurance, and theso wanted but votes zud a good causs Lo nesuro them the victory, The Chair gave them a wido tleld, toey occupicd the floor largely 1 excess of the wmajority, thers was tho fullost, freest dis- cussion.” At the very last moment, iu violation of their pledges, they still intorpusod delay, nnd came 10 with protest and challenges, unknown to our custom aud our laws, ‘The Canvention of llinois, liks that ot nverIv’ otuer Diceeso, i8 a sovereign body, and is the solo and supreme Judge of its membership aud of tho quali- tlations of lte votors, From that judsmont thero can bo no appeal, ¥avo to the Convuntion isell. With Lbat judgment no human tyibunal Las uny right to iuterfare. It is fiual and con- clusive upon thy Staading Comanttoes, upon tho Bishopy, sud upon the Cuurch itaelf; thero can bo, conrwstently with the independence of the Diocesos, no golng betind the record, Lvery Diocedo clioosey its awn Lishop by its own Jaws, and not by what a faclions minority within or any oficial or individual body without think should bo its lase. Uy an overshelming voto tho Convention decided that the votes' in din- pute were now, a3 thoy had beon for vears, lezal and proper votes, and we think the fur- ther diecussion of the question, aud tho ap- peal to the Standing Conmmitiees on the park uf tho minority, is fastious and disordor- ly, and woworthy of then as Obristlan men, and Ioyal churchmon, We think ko tho more, becaase, aven If tho votes dispnted wors thrown out, Dr, Do Koven would still be the Bistiop-elect by clear majority. We lLear talk atout pettifogging, and fair piay, and improper votes, Wo truat 1t is tho talk of thoxo con- venient capegoats, tho roporters, and not of & wminority uf Wwhom ouo ut lenst had the resigna- tion which would digqualify him from votwg, in the pockot of his mind—a resiguation whoss im- wiuenco has been the current topic of romark for woeks 1 the city, and which aow the mi- nority, with ineiTabla meanness, is using to tho piejudico of Dr, Do Koven, ns though his elec- tion wan & superinducing canso; a mweanussy wo do not impute to tho brothor wha has rosigned, for wa bolieve Lim to bo a Cliristian gentleman, who would not uso such wespons, and such s moda of attack. Lut dospite all dolays ths u- ovitablo hour eamo, and, aftor nearly two dave wastod, the Convention reachied a vots upon the election of a Bishop, Threo times tha clergy nominated, aud by ®n iucreasiug majority, Dr. De Koveu, sud fuslly by & mnjotity of tivelve. Upon the third baiot tho Inity confirmed ths nomination by a majorily of three, and the ven- erablo Chairman, who for forty yoars Laa toiled aud prayod for tho Churoh bond of porfestness, announced the result ; and yet, befure the weels eude, the minority thrust tpon the Churcha moworal, 38 yet anouymous, full of misstato- ments and fallacies, and wmake tho mou- atrous sppeal to tho Htanding Committoes wnd Disuops of tho Cbhurch to re- visa the action of the Couvention of 1llinols, a revision we arosure tbey will have as Little will a3 they liave power to mako, Df, De I{oveu was falrly, honestly elected. 1o was brought before thie Uounci!, aud, though accused by the minority of some queation of thoology, vothing was [aid to big churge wortby of death or of bonds. o ia the reprosentative ol cueol the schools of opivion iuto which the Church s divided. As such he goea Lefora the Bishop and the Btanding Cominittees, and we cannot fear the rosult. With him, in the good providonce of God, goes anothar distinguished man, thoe represoutative of tho opposito school, snd thus a noble opportunity Is given to the Church to 1liustrate ~ her tolerant, comyrebonsiva chiaracter, sud to show thut, stsnding ooly upon the croads, sbo, within thom, admite of a wide lati- sude, It is her glorious prorogative, sym- patiaing neither with Rome nor Geneva, to be catholic to sll truth, and protostant to all error, actiug ever npun_tho formuls of one ol the most distinguished of Ler sons: ** In csaentials unity, in non-sacntials liborty, an sl thingw clarity.” —_—— CANON KNOWLES. ¥lfa Opinton of tho lecent Oonventlon. Tue Rev, Canon Knowles proschod & ssrmon at tho Cathedral of BS. Peter and Paul, yestor- day moruing, apropos of tho election of Dr, Ds Koven as Bisliop of the Episcopal Dioceso of Ilnoois, The speaker took for hik toxt the an- naexed verso from Matthew fv.,, 01 **All these things I will give thee, if thon wilt fall dosn and worship me,” Ife began by iudicating tuat the sttainment of sil that was good wos mecured through long and patient sullaring, and depicted jn well-defined snd pointed terms tho trials and temptations of the Bavlor and the conflict botween tyo Church and tho world. Io also veferred eloquently to tho unceasing aud eminent Christlan afforts of the late Biahop ‘Whitchoure iu the face of what he termed tho world's opposition, aud cloged with the follow- ing refercuco to tho action of tho rocent Epis- copal Couvention s Lvery avouue of approach is tried to make worry and trouble. Olouds of suspicion are raised against tho validity of eloction, against the meauiug of time-houored rulos, agalust the righta of those who havo spsut all cholr lives witlin the borders of tha diocese. But iguorance alono cau bo influsnced by such cries; for a kuowlodge of the men who couduct the affaira of the dlocese, who hava grown old in the service of the Church, can but inspire confldence in thom, Andthe facts of the election sponk for thew- solvey whersyor known. "Fliors wore woventy-two clergymen entitled to vota fur Bishop, Of those four wero shwens from Uouvoution, throo of wlom, if pressut, would have voted for the chioios of tho muajority, and ono with tho minority. ‘Thew ware sixty~ oight presont iu Conventiop eotitlel to voto, but ¢ the tirss ballot one of this numter was agaln sbueut, thus loaving the suffrago Lo sixty-suven clorky. O thoso the Warden of “Sadine gob tlurty-nine votea; all other candidasis txeuty- eight, & olear clorical msjority of elwen, nos counting the sulfrages of thoss abasnt. At tho closeof the elaction, in addition to tha thirtys nine who forined the isjority, teu of tha muuority also siguea the tuatimoniols, uaking forty-nine clorical signaturos to thas dodunent. Aud’ o with the lay volo; that was equuly as decisive. Afthe tiwe tho lust ballot was cast, thoro wera fifty-sovon votea givon from parighos, ouo voto from the Cathodral, aud one vote from the Chancollor of tha Diocese, in all nfty-nine. Oue pariah was dividod, according to & nu\mlms rulo of order of tho diocese, whicli has provaile witliout Intorruption sinne the daysel Tialiop Chiaso : 8 half “yes,” and 8 lalf ** no," counting for uothing in tho ballot, for, a8 tho rule equit- ably ways. tho vote thus divided is neatralized, being neithor an affirmative nor a negativa. Of tho 1ifty.hine votea oat by the laity tha Wardon of Tacine recsivod thirty-one, & majority of threo; but If, agmust the cxpress authorily of tho Ilaws of our Church, tho voto from tho Cathedral and the vote of tha Chan- collor of tho Diocese should be counted ont, there wonld atill be a clear and decinivae majori- ty of ono, And 1t 1a not tho first tune in.tho history of the Church and tho Stato whon ono trun man socured victory Lo the right, As soon, Jwaever, as the choica was made, half the parml which voted ' No " immediatoly cama formard and signad the testumouials, Thors wera in opou Convention attached to that dooument wigustures from forty-threo pacishios, represont- ing numetically more than two-thirds of the lay membership of the Convention, Thus, by a cloar and decisive united majority of fourteen, wasg the election consummated. Out of the on- tire unitod vote, clorical and Iay, 126 in all, the ‘Wardon of Racine recoived sovonty ; sl othets, fifty-six. Out of tha 120 factors of the election, uinoty-two oxprossed their approval by signn- turos to the lottars tostimanial, leaving a minor- fuy of merely twenty-oight in appareut opposi tion. So much for the eloction. . Tho hoart and soul of the diocese ara praying for pusco, the truo children of the Church ore wonry of controversy ; thoy want their Dishop to come among thom and tesch them Low to work for the Master, They aro eick of tho bitternoss of man ; thoy long for the Church to put forth lior atrengthiand energyin this wealthy place, ‘I'hoy want moro oarneat work and leas theolog- jcalstrife. Lor this we wait—for this we pray. Cau it bo possible that men can so far forgot themselves ; can bo within tbe Church and work againat its best interasta; can ald tho world in its warfaro against tho Church, and ongago in bittor controversy againit their Dretbron! May God forbid such fearful dis. cords as this, aud give us graco to lny to heart the dangers wo o0 In throngh our unhappy divisions. May e give us all peacs sud pros- perity, mppiness snd wmity ; and if it bo His will, the Dishop of our choice Lias an Kaster joy. "ALL KINDS OF MUSIC/" Sermon by RRobort Collyer, The Rev. Robert Collyer yestorday morning treated his congrogation to s discourss upon * All Kinds of Masic,” those boing tho words of his text, takon from tho fifth vorse of tho third ohaptor of Daniol. The sorm on was as followe: It sy boen truly said that “musio s tho un- falien spirit of our humau life," Bho i not pure to tho puro alono; sbals pure to all alike, ns frosh air is, and sunshino aud cloan wator, and wa cau only drag hor down from her high place when wo add spsech to sound, for sha alono en- Joya the blessed disability of oxpressinga singlo vicious iden, or inspiring one corrupt thought; 80 thal it secms a8 if music had taken possessicn of the Iniman heart bofore it came to bo despor- stely wicked, and had ever since kept ona placo in it freo from the curse, sud made it Lor sole busitegs to teach us only that which is pure and good. Addison says, theroforo, that musio s tho only gratifieation in which mankind may in- dulgo to oxceas without Injury either to their morals or their religion, and Luthor says it is the ouly art that ean caln tho agitations of tho soul ; while Thomns Carlyle ealls it that tnnr- ticulate, unfathomable epoeoh which leads uy for 8 momaent to the adge of tha infinite, and lets us gaze into its doeps. And wo lave to notico bow thoroughly true our Bible is to this estimato of tho noblo art and epirt of music from first to last. {t intrested with tho most exquisite consideration in its own eeparate Kingdomn ad an influcuce which still holds itsown for good whou tho wholo upirit and life in which it bas a part becomes corrupted and deflled. Music of iteelf, 8o far ag I know, novor comos iuto condemuation in connection with the public lits and worship of the Iobrows, and whon, in tho private life it 1s forced.into a conuection with avil words and impuredeods ngaiast Its own nature, it eimply coares to bo when the curso falla, and is caught back again to its native heaven, Yot thero w torsibla condemuation of the way in which ssorifices are mado and Hab- baths kopt, in which prayers are eaid and the Inw defiled, in which alng are givon and ordinancos observad ; while Josus sbows how the fauh of thoso who pratondod to hold tho secrat of tho Lord {u Ifis time had dnftod into tormalism how thoir hope was a delusivn aud thair:love tho grossoxt nolflahness mon can practico, In all theya ratations, to what I may call the negative side of tho nluumnn, munte I8 froe from con- domnation. 1t sooms s if by some divino instinot, these doap, trae souls that spako an thoy wero moved by tho Iloly Glhost could no moro think of saying Liltor words about Music than thoy conld about green grova or the leults of wummer, or pura love, or duty. 'Ihets she atood to thewm cloan and truo, no” matinr what boosmo mean and vile. On tha othor hand, again, whon she comes with bher trao i{ingdom, aho stoacily bolds s glorious pleco, Bhe smitos the heart of lIstnel with her barps and oymbals, through Miriamm, whon the arm of the op- pressor it broken at tho Red Sea, and mukes a miglcy noise unto Uod when the natlon is de- livered again throtigh tho courago of & woman. David touchen his harp to quoll tho evil apirit in poor balf-mad Saul, sud Musio touches his awn natura o truly that ho must fuseribo some of his nobless psalma to tha Chicf Dusician, Sho hunhed bor strains when those who love her waop by the rivers of Dabylon, and will only moan 10 their moanings na tho wind wanders through the harp-strings on the willows, but sho breaks out again in s mighty volumo of melody whon tho walls of Zwu riss again, when the temple ia compioted and the ba- ton s restored to its old homo, Thaoy hear hor 1n tho enrly days of tho new roy- elation broskig out of Heavon with tho angels ta sound the sdvent, aud tho young mochor and the otd priest are equaily under her spell, as they thank Ged for Hiy goodness in the uow hope of tho world, Tutho atern, hard flght of tho enrly Churel, agaiu shs holds her pure and peorlesy sway, touching tha lips of those who tneot in upper rooms and try t0 sing unaor thelr broath for fear of tho hoathen. Ylmy hears thom somehow in some second-haud way, and sends & report to us full of o tendor pathos. And, while 1n this early Church they bresk Paui's hoart almost with their jdeftuces at turning hioly things to ovil uses, and bring down bis stern conuemnation, ho never brings musio within the aweep of his rebuke. Aund Jesus makes it one of the primo elontents in the joy of tho grandest parable which fell from Ilis lips, and sabg » hymn with His friouds before Yh wont out to die, as il 1fo wonld have tha power of the puro spirit wn Him with all tho other blessod intluences to lift Him to the lovol of the cross and passion) and when tho books sre almost writton that boll (his wondertul treasuro from the truth and lifo of tho old agos, tho writer of tho lust book, an exile on a lonely rock out at ses, hasa wision uf new honveus and anew earth, and in the heavens o wees Low Muaio stilt holds her higli place and enters Into the servica of those who atand pear the throne, Wo may well believe agnin that thero was soma auch resson for this fecling of tho potriots and seors aud saints of tho old days as might be Riven now. Musio is of all things T know of tho moat purely spiritual, You have to search for it as for tha hidden troasuro of an aroms and oolor In & handful of gardon soeds by raising them to lowors, Whon Iandel has the gorins of the musio of ths Measiah iv his soul the world hna 1ot heard a note of it, When bo has areanged it all perfout!y it fs still as & ubild born dumb, and something olae is wautiug., Ho calls togother the orohestrs, traius it as & Captain traing his company, the men singers and the women alngors lift their voioes, the organ peals in tune aud timo with all kinds of muslo, thon it 4 a moagnilleons rovelstion of divino wmelodies, tho groat spirit plumes hor wings aud soars aod sings out hor wecret, but whon nho Geal it is & memory and an omotlon, Hho has always, e it were, fo_put on mortality afrosh, the writer aays I quoted » mo- ment Ko ; she 14 forover and ever Lorn agaia to dio away aud loave only dead notoa and iustru- ments bebind Lier. Music is 1o 10torwaveu with the soul, vo inward and divive, that it seems to ba like & splrit from another worid, which has to wait for s spiritusl condition in those who would welcoms hor bofore sho can mako hersel! hoard iu ber full perfection, 1u evary step wa tako in nor direction wa find we are only touching o law writton iu our bourts, re-collectiug what is thore slready, The law which roquires that, aftor thres wholo notes & half note must succeed, 14 condidored to be a neceasity of our belug, ono of 4he sigus which strike the fine Loetweown the man and the_ bruto, and which we can uever sccouut for uutil we are able to ascouut for ourselves. 1t has boen wull mald aguia that the counoo- tiou bovwoen soniud and numbors (s a truth which investa musio with the bighest diguity, It ia like adding to & swaes and delicate flower the rools of au oak trea. Tho aimple instinot of & correct oar snd the clossst caloulatious of & mathematical hiead, give thosame, vordiot, Solonce proves what tha car detects, and tha ear ratilles what science asarr Ho tho pathn whioh have eonducted & Qalileo or a Keplor, to tin doepint nbstractions of whioh the human mind is capable, start from tho samo purtals, us the mont poricct musical sonnds, tme, t00, 18 & wondorful quality in musio, It has boon deseribed as a conmoionce which 1o othiar att poksexsos it Lo AamO MoAK- uro, ad tho order which is Music's firat law, as the puise which regutates tho hoalth of lor im- paluable bady, o4 & natnral rogularity which wo can only bear to hear tisusgiessod for tho ploasant suspenve in which the mud is kept for ity return for tho Auspensions in the munical world az0 unhke thosoin tho moral, musicisns say, in the blossed property of nover bringiug disappointment In thoir train. And Bo it i4 that wharover we turn wo tind gualities in puro musio that are primal, it I may ray 5o, and imwortal, and which must bo thero, or shie 18 abssut, Thoy belong to tho inatincts wo hays tho least power to pervort, Shecan give ua pleasires wo canuot account for, und raiso feolings wo cannot reason on. Sho can hift us up to A plane whoero ecliisliness ard worldliness bave no purt, There is ounly one order of beings, Lutver eays, who hnte musie, and they aro the doyila, Andeol presunto that, as wa ean bo touched by & noble picture without knowing anytbing of the science of form, or color, or psrapeciivo, and by & poem without undoratsuding tho art and law of rhymo ani rhyilim, 8o they woro touched fn the old Biblo days by tho trangcondaut purlty and beautiful spirit of muaie, nndd gave hor fhe great macred place ahe holds in their world throvgh the sure stinet, that liors at least they wers welcoming a spirit that hnd kopt 1ts (st ostate, exnhting lior in this reapect above Habbaths, sacritloss, ordinancos,—the saying and singing of words abovo what men wore calling theic faitlh, and hiope, and lovo, and the gift of tho very lifa they could givo gladly somatimes for whue was not worth a siugle breath of ik, We can realize all this still morse truly, I think, when we sco how muelo enmos to us and what shie doos for us. Itisarule uearly with- out an exception that those who have done moat to Lring the glorious spirit bomo to us 1 these latter days, and to reveal hor moat yor- fectly wore bora as it wore closo to_her henrt. Handlel, Haydu, Dacl, Mozart, and Mendelssohn woro liatening to her voico almust beloro they bogan to learn the ums of “I” amd g, Mozart iy hing tho strings at i vears old, and then laughing for joy when ho discovers tiho barmoby of the thirds, nnd nll theso groat mastora I have namel, o lit- tla chuldren, show ths same wouderfui lova fur that which in tho coarso of timo wea to maka thew gons a woudor aud o joy to the wrld, aud unliks other early appearances of genius, in musio thora acems Lo have Foon uo danger of disaster and plught. Those men and thuse of thoir nobla fanuly wers not wonders ai b years old, and dead or in their dotaze at 253 their girt grow with their growth, and becume perfoct in the perfection of thoir maunhood. ‘Tho fair rose of tholr gouitts was withuus a onuker, and its fruit had no worm of decay for thoso that brought 1y forthin its hears, Poor Mozart fell into evil nayu ont of his hard and bitter fortune, but the mighty spink_beld Lor owa,—tho diink could not drag her_dowa as it draggad down tha 4oaius of Robort DBurne, I supposo sho never touched him moro purely or beautifully than in tha roquiem e somposad ot his death-bed, whon lio had his old fricnds come m aud sing tho uow rovelation with htmaod to lum, his own voien, touchod already with the cinll of duath, king the mlto, whilo he bLroke duwn into toars in that paesaga whoro all weep whio cau reallv ronch tho burdou of its oxquisito soirow, and theu that night Lo died, aud they fouud the roqnioms on his bed. A poor, lost man, the music 10 bim noyer failed of her per~ feet power and purity, ‘Thoy cannot toll you whers to Jook for bis dust. T hour, but that is no tor ; lus wpirit oars and sings in his music, and is heard this Sabbock-day beating and puls- ing round the world, That spirit which was so nuble through tho royal soul of music that was iu Lim, thai, whon ihe Kwperor, haggling for florins, but courting tho glory of having such a man about bim, erid, *Moznit, wiy don't you mary & rich wifo? ™ He promptly ropliod, * Sits, I trust that my genius will_always ohable mo to support tho woman I love,"—un answor nuch as wa dauld baidly expoct even & poor, struggling miuistor of the Gospel to give toan Emperor who wauted chosp normons of a pricoless worth, and etood ready to point out the xich wifo and como to the wouding. And, 23 sho sits by the orndlo of thoss whoara to givo us hor puresi revelations, and nover fails them, thopgh thie wholo warld tutns its back,so she agoms to hisve a mi¥sion of hor own to the poor- est and must forlorn, who oun never Lope sven to bo children. I sent a paper last summor to ou Eugliash juurnal, 1 wiich I mentioued tho wonderful gift & peor follow had,—a yort of idiot like Blind Tom,—who usod to wander about the country and sing old ballads to a retrain of his own for bread, It was nlmost forly years since I hoard him, but Ieaid the marvel of the poor tool's musio had haunted e oll my days, ‘After tho papor waw vriuted. T got s lettor from s gou- tleman, who also know tho siugor, and Lo said that wo wero cherishing ozacilv tho samoe mem- ory; ho bad never boen sulo to frec hlmselt rrom that most pathetic and wonderiul possos- sion, which touched tim at the time au it touched me. I woticed again, in Dr. Wilbur’s asylum iu Hyracnso, how tho poor children 1 meutivned the other Sunday answar ta musie whon every otior Influence yooms to fail, and one cnild thoro 1 knaw, especislly through all her poor imyerfect childhond, if she could only hear muric, aud ea- pacially if sha could touch tho ehords for heranif, was trunafigured. Tho dumb spivit ssemed to 1envo bier, and shie could rise through this gospol, the only ono wineh could really touch her, into » haupy idesl world of Lor own, and livo thore, while the spelt was over her, in porfoot ponco and joy. And 1bave ecen lately a veport of an asylum for idiots in Loudon, the I'ark llodso foundation, in which the mastor snys thiat vory fow cases over come to bim that caunot be touched by musio. ‘Those hio suys who mope in corners, insensiblo to every other outwoid im- pression, will coma oub st the bidding of this strong and tendor apirit, will sway themselvon to her time, murmur ont the welody in thoir lame, dumb way, aud appoar full of content after tho music has ceased snd thoy sre alous again with thelr tormontars. 1la says the color comesiylothoir baggard chools,aud the light nto theiroyen; that thomost hupeless onsamong them in poverty of brain can catch and siug almost any air ho hoars, whitle another, who is paralyzed on ono sido aud dumb from his birth, who used to moan all night loug like an suiwal in pain, when thoy tried music for him, eaught the straing, and coassd his woful cry; bia nature seemed to tako in & now quality, aud all night long ho saug as the anmb sing, w0 that they had to move lim to s part of the building whero ho could not keop tho rost of the inmates awake with his untimely strokes of tine; so ke rooms with anotbor who has esught tho same consoloss forvor of songs in the uikht, and thore they lie, making melody in their bearls unto God, whilo the world about thom sleeps, And who has not read that most wonderful pasaago ‘Thackerny avor wrote, tn which ho pictures to us the poor old Loglish King. iusane, doaf, blind, aud brokien down with unspoaksbla sor- row, touching tho organall to bimself in his dark chamber, going aver old melodies ho could ouly hicar in his heart, and then Luneoling down Lo pray for his Kiugdow, and then breaking down to tonrs, Aud Mliton, old aod biind, touobing the organ with tho mighty bucdon of ¢ Paradive Lost" in his héart, s poem which, as & fino thinker anys, is only tv_be road porfectly to tho usic of the organ. Toucling tho organ, ho found whnt bo had lost, porclinnce, as the hioly spurit of music caught Lim and bors him u»\'n{‘ to whero thiera is na night; for Dr. Bull, the blind pl:lvalohm of the last ago, tolls us low uman blind from his birth eaid to !m otices *\hon I Liear Huydu's * Chiorus of thetHpring’ fool as if I was in o field all radlant with fiowers, the music paluts alaudacaps for me' liko atsclf, Iwco what she mosus as I histen to bier soug,” Aund not tothose anly is this great, purospirit of such wonderful worth, Not to spoak just now of her worth in tho sanctuary, it is not powsible for us to measure her influohoa for good in tha cammon life of tho world. 'That curiuus genius Ralph Keeler, 1n his vagabond recollections, teils ua bow when ho waa o winstrel he would got on 10 & rool wlth two or thiree of his fellows, when they would touch their Instruments, aud then watcl hot tho crowd on tho strosi bolow them would unoonsciously step out guicker to their quick time, aud linger to tho elower stroke, fall. jug into tho moasura without s thought of what thoy weio doine, though it mught be onthe stroka of § and thoy were golng to the bauk to yneet & note, sud old Lusser, I yemamboer, in his book ubout husbaudry, tolls ue i@ riyme bow ‘Thoss nurvanlas sre slwiys most useful and good Who wing at thelr work Iike tirds in the woud, I havo road of & contractor who had got be- hind with somo work which must ba done on m certain day, 'When the men eaid it was no uso trying 1o dugt at any price, ho struck the iden of getting n baud to give them quick and cheerful musie, and thon they weut through the job like firo, Itis observed agzain that when despotiam comes to a head, and the peuplo groan under ita cruel yoks, more than any oiher thing your despot feats is the 1nusio of s reacs- tion that wust Lo beaton out, stamped out, crurhiod out, at any rate, sod when thero is good stufl inthe peaple so that they cau make s cordou of unblenching hearts about ibeir ju- spirer, and umfi iu spits of the ax and gallows, soou or late that despotism cowes Lo an eud, This was the secret of tho Puritan revolt ; it set mighty paalms to & musio desp aa the thuuder of cannon, snd steru aa trumpets sounding nlmrr & music wo cannot realiza though we had It on tho score, except na woe can roalize Maraton, Moora, and Nnweby, and thaon tho pikes wore & wall of steel, and o gallant gontiemasn of liufilnml. who sould maks 6o such musio, to #Ave their rouls, wont down to defoal and death, And. in our own tine, wo Know what music liay dono—how in the earliost days of our great, sad stiugglo for the national life the uation was dumb, and then wo know mnt how it " was, 1no man soems able quite to tell Lhat socrot, but somokow thoro roso out of the cowmon hoart o straiu of music to some words our poots would haye any ono of them bean thoronghly ashamed fifteon yoars ago to gather. But tho musie, tho music had lu it somo morret of armol mon tramplog on to battle and vistory, ‘I'lien the heart of tho_army and tha nation was full, awd 10,000 men and 1,000 canugns caunot weigh in the scaie agaiust that weird, wohdorful, unaccountablo, heart-ory of tho North, John Brown's ody, while if it had bein possible In the naturo of things for tho Ruuth to toneh springu of 8o equal tone and vol- umo, inatead of Dixfe and My Maryland, no man can puexs to-day whiat a secrot of persistent valor evon over that of which wo shall be very proud somo dsy she woukl have shown ua before tho strugglo was over. The prandest man sbo bad to her nanio—Stoucwall Jackson—could sing ks a Roundhead, and 8o ho fought liko a Roundbead, and if ho could have sl his side singing to his measuro aud inspired 1t with hiy Apirit, all wrong A8 it was, poor follow, it i3 a very desp problen imleod, one that no man, clain, can molve, whother Gon. Grant would ever havo boen P'rosi- dent of the Uniled States, T'hose are hints, then, and only hints, of tho worth of mnusic, and of the resson for tho high Bl.lcu she holds in the Bible and out of it fur the lessing of man, 8ho is the mother of noblo emotions, thie ango! striving for heallng the So- thendas of life. Bhe mnot a teachor of morals or raligion, but a moral and religiona influenco. Sho cannot, o far as I know, impart a giuglo sreat idea {0 s, but sho cau quicken ua to ro- coceive thoso that are possible to our nature. Hho does ot enliguton, Lut she does quicken, Sbe {9 not of the thought, but of the life. 1 tlunk it was Taseo who sald, *'1do not como to Lato to learn 8o much as 1 como to be stircod up toward lenrning ; ho does for e what tho grindstono does for the ax.” Ho musie Is not the teschior in the sehiool, but the mother vather jn tlie ome, and ber love, nod purity, aud truo spirit avo proparation nud inspitation for what is coming and what comes, 8o it has been weil wuid lately, by & man on tho othor wido of the water, that 1 the midst of our confusion of tongues wnsic remaing s the ono univorssl languago, and ‘evcry attompt that s made to briog the vagy, strugghng, woary multitudes of men aud women within bov in- 1lusnce is n frosh belp to the ccuvietion that ha- manity is oit 1ts way to betlor thiugs, It is tho influenco with which we are most in aympathy, tha most tritly democtatic spitit of modern times, and iy tho only arl, if wo se aside poetry, which can to-day glvo inteuse dolight to thoso who have but a wlight artistic odnoation, or that proparation for onjoyment which vomes from tho study of nature aud noble books. But hore we strike a curious question, ssd onough in yome of its aspeots, bus metter for laughter alnost In othors, aud that is tho way in which we aro all trymg to yoke our wagzon to thia atar. Wo reco:;nlzn the mighty and holy influonco of musla iu our humen life, and then W6 try to giva to her trio and sfcrod scripturcs our own private Iyterprotation, We would mako bor a beast of burdeu, a charm to draw peoplo to hear another voice boside her own, which thoy might not care to Loar but for lier prexouce. Peoplo flock to hoar ber through the Lumbardy and the Great Western Bawlu the electiou year, aud for her eako will pationtly liston to the speeches. They run to tho “Josuils' Chuteh on the Wast Slds on lastor mammf for lier galio, and run their chanca of bewg lured futo the tolls of what somo call the soarlob womah who mittoth on seven hills. Brigham Young has enchained her within his great organ at Salt Lake City to gild over, .if Le can, tao raalt st of polyzamy. if thoy alill sg in ortho- dox Sunday-schoold what Lhoy sang 1n my tine they drag lier down out of hor native Lieaveu to malke hiaploss littla childron shout: - "heso ia o droadtul bolly . And vverlasting pains, Witte sinners muat with dovils dwell Iu durknesy, Ore, aud chalns., In ons church sha is made the syron to bring Pocpls to Lioar the fivo paiuts of Calvaniam, who would not be drawn thero with curt-ropus, if elia vas not thera fixst, .In.anothor, she is the main stay of Ritualism. Ilors who merves Unitariao- jem, or will when we got our growt oruan aund thore Unlversulism, Methodism bas got woll over her objectlon to musle in cootrast to the mighty noise of humnn voices, and in the vory beginniug of har great snd glotioua oaroor Wes- lay waw into hor heart, and did vory much what tho wmalut did In the early days whon he stood on tho bridge, aud ssoy in the moas- ure of tha'old balluda to got 8 crowd to heay him, and got tho crowd, and now oven tho Sovioty of Yriends, aftor tueir long silance, finding them- salves nuabla to hold thoir own without muslo of apmo sort battor than thelr halt uuut: sermons, hiave broken out into hor biessed world, und find no surer way of bringing thoir zhung}xc to the cotunon hoart than wuslo and singing.” Bo that it would bo very hard now to find tho mateh of tho notable ol la:dy who wont to hear au organ in tho faco of Licr projudies and said an she cante away, * It Is vary bonnie, but itis au awful way of sponding tho Saboath.” Now, Just o far ns this bright, puro splrit 16 dragged down out of hor proper sphero, aud made to do this drudgery, wo must 60 far de plore tho fact, but it i prouable we nhall deplore it fu tho measurs In which we aro blind to tho tratly, that, in spito of all our trying to maks her norya our moator onds, sho {8 still dolng and will do hor own peerless work, and holpiug moro than ono can binder. Just a3 wo mako up our mluds mgain the way to & bottor lite 18 our way and no other, we shall denonune the wuse of muslo for this admizture of meaner things. I caunot beliove, for instance, in tho doctrinoa of the Church of 1totne, or in the Lollow stiell of Ritualism ss I look ab Ik, or i tho dreadful cootlusions of Calvinism, or Ia tha dootrine of Ihie T'rinity, or in what I considor to be tho boodage to the letter of sume phases of Univeisalism, or {o a4 much of dlethodirm as will_shp a sgntiment iuto the place of & primal truth of God, aud submitute shouting for think- Ing i noither can I belleve nith the Haptist that the ona true way to honven lies in plunging over- Load no tank, In sl these ociwrches I bave dear, truo, cherished friends that I lovo, I thiuk, as woll as I love thoso of my awn hottschold of fuith, but I do not bolleve {u their beliofy, and then I may rozret that musia shoald bo used to tare mon toward hay of them, as thoy regrot that muslo shonld be used ae it is, notably fu somo ot our_churches, to luro men toward Um- turianlsm, That, howovet, 1 moan aud tarrow in mo, on two nocounts : Tirst, becauso L onght to undorstand that (lod has many ather wuya thau mine of helping His clitidren, and revoaling i teuth to their hoartay and, secoud, becaiso I look on muslé as & pure, [ree, woparate upirit, after all, and, as good ol ilerbert sayn, after hearing & poor sermon, **‘Chank Gol I gob tho beusdictiun, and that was,worth going for,"” So [ sy of muslo that is tho benedietion, though fhe sorinon ahd the pravers are all out of tune, Ho you will bear mo witnevs that, when you have said We wont last Bunday to sucha church to bear the musip, you Lavo yol to lear me say tho first timo, Why did you not leave wheu 1t was ovor 7 Why did you stay to hear tho tulk\n‘yi 7 Iuever suid it bocause Ifult sura you wanted just what you went for, that you got it and took uo barm, sud Ido vot fear for & mo- ment that you can take aoy harm whon you go on such an srrand. Now, when 1 said a thing this winter which has mado some Little nofee throush a brother who lins folt callod on to robuke e about the very fiueat music, ss I believe, which is o bo hoard In our city, I gave you my word a8 o man that [ had nover thought of it In bouncetion wiuh other and baser thingd, 1 liave nover boon to Turnor Iall on aBunday, though [ moau o go one of theso doys ; but friouds who bave bean—souio of my owt family amooy tho rost—tell we thut a quict- cr compuny of a botter buhmvior, a8 & rulo, iv not to ba found. Here, lowever, is the fact to ba dnylm‘ud in lbe way wo look at isaa Awericaas, that beer 18 drunk and ¢lsars smoked While this noble and beautiful nfm-u is braoding Qver tho graat couapaty, 1 doplorait, Whila | have mado no scoret 0f my conviction that the great mavs of our fellow-citizens, as they are naw situated, will drink sumethivg, and smoka, perhap, sither for a good or bad reason, whlul, #a n rulo, 2 nutice is genorally good to Lhs smok- or, &u T would give the boxt chiauco to that which 18 tuost Liarmloes, and by all moans do away with ying about ity still 1 deplore the faot that the-o should be any evil mixed with the good uf noble mueic, thers or anywhcre, But with the ewil, and farnbove it iu my convictlon, is the good. It these poople, who ars not of our nation, as yot, {n their opinluns aod habits, were not thero, the probability is that thoy would bo duiug without bis high, pure spire ‘mm"i.u"m what thoy do there with if, 8o thet thera Ia the clear gaiu to them of thal good thing ; sud they will tell you, if youinmst oo it that thoy wre wrong, Low Luther, comiug iu from bis great nnswor, lluding o draught of boer wrovidod for lim by the Elgctor, called down the blossing of Leaven on tho man who hoad bsen so thoughtful for Lina, so tuat they do not tuink uf this as wo do wisg have bad na Luther, 1 doplors tho fact all the wame thwt {ben sud thore this sbould ba done. BusasI could never sey, *‘du uot at your peril go ko the Jesalt's Chutch to hesr the lausic, boosuse you will hear, aud by your prosonco countonance, something t| opinlon, {n inflmtely moro parlmu‘u‘ tb.:imh:nml to your life, and to tho Tife of onr untion, ot sy ovil that ean ovor luvk fn & glass of Lapr, e velioving, a2 I do alno, that & man can talg sy af lumwelf It 1o Is & maw, and got the gang st goea for without the 2vile,—s0, onco mars, ] for tho last time, L nxy that £o g0 1o pucnt 1iall for the music and the music alone, ay 4 wauld go, a8 good and noblo thing In' iy winlo to gic there in & quiot Boparation fro, theno basor things, ne an_ American gontlemer: i to sel au exatipio otbor wil bo lod to 1 who havo (o them the elomeuts of dignity n,.K tho sonso of what is becoming to the timg gy, plnce, I stiould love to 800 & thousand cley, truo Americans thera bont on this errand ang : this alone, to bear the noblo rmusla tho g mans have glvan to the world as no u(hn; peopla havo begun to ivo it ta the world, mo fy) it is even t0 my poor mind of beauty and oy of good, to show h{‘ their presonco that the sio alona, aud not the bassr things that haye tangled into it, in what thoy aro thers for n{ whas tho wholo company should bo there f,r am to touch theso somi-htratigors, who aro of yj that came to us moat valuable, by a kindy naighborly fatlowship, instend of saying in ever? way opon to ns, * Stand off, I Am bettor nnr; thou,"” or, * God, T thank Thoa I am uot as thiy publican.” That was my thought at first, i} fy my thaught now, I res Lho timo coming ‘whey we nhall nead not merely an Lvangelical AJj. anco, but allianoe close and compact of all thy lovors and friends of froedom, and a manly lify, and, right, or wrong, I will not bo ona ta wijey tho breach which 1s wide enough alreads in thiy city, botween this peoplo nud ourselyes, but wj do'what Toan in my poor wav to show they how traly tha Baxon hoart, whether it beats yg. dor American broadrloth or Gorman, beats to thy same wmusic of freedom and humanity, no my. tor what tho sectarios may sy, ST. PATRICK’S DAY, ®relimiunry Mecting of the Variog Irish Societhos. A Convention of delegates from the varigy Irislisocicticsof tho city waa hield yesterday after, uoon at Fother Mathew Hall, Harrison sirest, tg arrange for the proper celobration of L. Patricly Day. “The Convention wan called to order at 3 o'clock by David Walsl,'who was nubuequuu!ly made temporary President, On motiou, tho followlng were appotnied Committes on Crodontlsls: Maurico 0'Brign, dohn Douln, Timothy Hayes, Daniel O'Rne, and R, P, Coliios, BUCIETIES REPRESENTLD, ‘The Commiliee reported that. the followlny societien were representsd, and that thoir dels. rates, five from esoh, wero ontitled to seats jy the Convention ¢ Ilibermian Bonevolent, Romyg Catholio Donevolent, Fathor Mathaw Tofy Abatinenco, Unitod Sona of Erin, Laborery Union, St. Patrick Donovolent, Holy Family, Abstingnco- and Benovolent, 8t. John's Toty| Mutual and Bonevolent, 8t Bridgot's Total Ay stinouco uud Benevolent, 8t. Patrick’s Total At stivence and Denevolent, Bt. Patrick's Hiberiyg Benovolont of 8t, James' Parish, Young Meny Hodality of Bt. James' I'atish, branches frey No.1to No. 10 of Emerald's Roman Catholy ‘T'atal Abstinenca and Benovolont, Anctent Order of Hibornisny, Divislons One, Two, snd Thuy of St. Pius Total Abstinonce and Uonevoles, - 8t James' ‘Uotol Absiivonce and Benevoluy, Church of tho Nativity Total Abstioeuce, Iril Rittes, Mulllgan Zouaves, Aontgomory Lighy Guards, Alpiud Hunters, Clan-ua-Ciacl Guary and St. Columblall's Blutunl and Beuovalent, ‘I'ig repbrt was unanimously adopted, ) Tho Convertn wad pormanoutly orgasiz | by the elosion of tue following _odicam | President, Johu ¥, Finerty; Vice-Pronida § John UoCaffroy ; Secrotary, James J. O'Biis; | Tteagurer, 1. P, Colling. i i : 4 mg. ok T'he rotiring Treasuter aubmitted his repot for tho past year, showing that hunda a balsooe s $30.60, ‘L'he u}mrt was adopted, and the fuuds tums over tu the Treasnror-clect, - Who. minutes of tho Iast meeting were {ba rond nnd spproved. - ' GUIBP-MARATAL. ‘ Tha olsction of & ©hiel-Marshal for thape posad colebraion was declared to be theout | ordor of business, - Mr. Daloy moved the appolutment of s ot | mittea of ono from each suoioty to nowinsly | Marshal, i Tho motion lod to considorble disoussion, | 4 Lo bad by which soveral smendmonty were offored, The confuston was finally ended by calling fa the reading of the minutes of tho meetiugd Jast year at which the Marshal was sioctad. 3r, O'Brien offored an amendment to themo tion of Mr. Daloy, to instruct tha Comuittes seloct & Matshial upon the seniority plau adoptel & year ago. b Tho amendment waa subscquentls biedbrs Iurgn voto, when tho origlual motion was pud und provalled, Mr., Walsh moved that the rerclution sdoplet a yoar ago, providing for the up{mmzmont ol Manushol from a sociaty mosordlug to its soniorisy, bo roecindad. TLo wation was seconded and disoussed, e finglly adopted. [ ‘ha Commitias $6 woloct & Marshal wastbs | appointed and retired, whon thé Conventin, took a recoss for ton minutes, Upuon the reassembliug of the Conventiod the Committae wau ready with' its report, Tl Chairman, Mr, Colliuy, reportod that the G- mitt4o wero unanimaous 1 recommonding Join F. Finorty aa Marshnl, “Cho raport was rogeived with applauss sd adopted withiout n dlenenting voleo, AIDS. The following gentlomen woto then appolnist plda to tho Chief-Marshal: D. Diustersonll Lvans, O, Howard, J. 1I. Donlln, John Grifa Johu Tobis, Thomaa Walal, AL J, 0'Couact Joba MeNally, M. Flemming, J. Kiueald, & Riyan, P Hoaly, M. C, Camploll, Willima Moy Joun Cassady, I’ B, Loau, Maurloe Qaty, Jizd O'Neil, J. 1L O'Bullivan, P, C, Arthury, C, 5 our, P L, Fogaity, Jamos Ilealy, J. L. Mo ray, ¥ J, Kearuy, aud L, 0’Conueil. On motlon, a connittoo composed of ad atu from each nocloly was appolnted to difit “onstitution-and by-lawa for tha sxu\'em_mm.t futazo Conveutions, Tho Comtnitteo will o Bunday to completo Its work, ‘ Tho Chiof-Marshal and aids will meat st it stmo place Butdny mlternoon to emnplml!E lino ot matel, and make other arrangaments o tha proper colabration of St Patriok's Day. b —— A Thoe Memory of Louis XV I The I'aria currespoudent of the Loudon S ard writea to tint Joutnsl Jan, 211 To-def be g tho eiglity-sacond unniveteary of s dath of Louls XVI,, solemin tnavees were celebm! a8 usual ot the Kxpiatory Chapel oo W | Doulevard laussmavn. — ‘Chey bogan s and foishod at 1 o'olook, Thers wa ! lariger_attendanco than 1 have ween B many years pist, sud the Journal do Pt vetimalos the whala number who wanl to i difTorons masnca at 20,000, ‘The principsl s was oclobrated At 10 o'clock, wiien the A Culnbot, alnioucr of the chapel, presched soi* propriato sug tonching sormyn, taking fors4 texé tho woll-kuown Diblion] maxim sbot? g Louso belhg divided againas iteolf, whiod ™ siguitleantly romaried by both brauches of [ Bourbou family preschi, Neediess to u!"[:: cougrepation oomprised the raik and iifo of Legitimut and Orleanist partien, Maral Mahot and the Couns do Purls wrote to e1cchf thomyelves on account of *‘urgent lfl“’;' ' bat Mme, MaoMahon attended, sd d)d_l“ Queon lsabells. Awmoug the Urleans l‘nflfi' wnd Driuoosnss I remarked the Duke do 1 1nours, the Duke sud Duobdss ds Chattred, 'r':v the Priucess Dlanch, d'Orls ‘fuo aoi:'“ ment waa represshted by Uen, de Clesoy b Munlstor ; Aumiral de Montalghao, Mubitt Marine, and M. Tailhaud, Miuister of Jnshm A gresat numbor of Deputios also attouded b‘:l & going dowh to Veisnidles. Owtsids the c;a thiore was » good deal of gosaip going on A% tho Ktrange comcidenae of the birth uf .c:\:"m’ ihe Count do Pails, whioh happy event ol curly this morning. ‘Fus Countess us L' i chuld ro dolig woll, ‘Lo Count had slred! son, buru &t York Hotwo i 1609, and who bt Slio titlo of the Duko d'Utlesus. 3 e The Irince Imperial e Prince Louis Napoleon Lias nearly NF“:.‘ + Liis studios nt tho Roysl Miltary Acndeimts wich, aud w now undergolug his fusl "“:Wl tion iu common with the whoto of tbs B9 *commission " clasy to which e belovgd. Ty torus will close thus month, snd the 1'rocety then quit the Acadomy, instead of gml)frv with hus clasy for & comutissivu in tho HoFé it gineais or Artillery, i cxammation 8000, amivers are the esmo as (Lowo of ""’,.lu oadetn, bus a ditinction which was ohmn P the carw of Princo Arthur will be tase procedetit iu tho present lmt‘_m!!a 14 much as bo will bo examincd Ty vately, sad not competo for pis .l bhis fellow-students. During His luqumnlw‘ ness’ stay sb the Acudemy ho han boo sl earness and asaiduous i Lis siudies, nD‘:I o 1 the seionces of urtillery sud lurunc.mud.w“ the geuorul opunion of the Lrofossors 8u¢ oy ters is that by oxamination, if it3 mulbl“ prd be knowu, would be ay satis(aotocy 8 pre] liioary tests through which ke bas peseed,’