Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO Neconsary to encry in many additional acata to ac- commodate the wholo assamblago. The sermon waa proached by tho Rector, the Nev, CG. IL W. Stocking from the toxt:—* And oa thoy this apako, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of thom, and saith unto thom, Peaco bo unto you. Tho sermon was an npr riata Enstor discourse and was tistened to with edificas tion by tho largo concours, In the evening » shildren's Enater festival wow hold in the church, --_--— TRINITY, Trinity Episcopal Church, tho Rev, Mr, Snill- yan pastor, was not bohitd its sister sociction in the beauty of its floral decorations and momorial tributes. The entire chancol was filled with 5 tioty of offerings, At tho Lack was a yery ‘targa crors, composed of callas and othor beau- Utul flowers, which was constructed by tho ladics of thochurch, Mr. Raymoud presonted a beau- Uifal basket and crown of flowors {a memory of y child. Mrs. Morton sont a very boautifal wown as 8 sign of tho roveronce in which sho itll hold the memory of her fathor. A smaller grog, about a foot and a half high, of lovely flowers,—rare blossoms both white and colored, —wan presentod by Mra. John Dwight ass token of romombrance for her dead child. Mra, Chaunoey Blair gent two beautiful sou- venire, “ite memoriam” to deceased frionda, One comprised a crosa, heart, and anchor, the othor » beautiful Agnns Dei, in white flowors. Aharpin flowers was from Mrs. Grannis, a3 a fond recollection of a babe which wha lind lost, Mra, Grannis sent a floral anchor, niso a momo- rlalof an infant, The beautiful decorations of the baptiamal font, the anchoron the pulpit, and tho stand of {yy, with ita boquets and tlowers, ot the left of the chouesl, word donnted by tho Jaotios of tho church, <A large number of blossoming plants woro sont by Mrs, Warrack as 6 memorial of deceased friends. The whole formed « por- foct combination of bloom and porfumo, delight ing the renscs, and broathiug of hope and joy, Behind the cross and tho altar wero branclies of arate palm imported from Cuba oapecially for thia Esnter decoration, sorving to throw ont most beautifully sna artistically the large floral cross of which they formed tho background. gS. ST, STEPHEN'S. ‘The interior of St. Stephen's presented fea- tures of uousnal attraction. The internal archi- tecturo, though plisin and upornamental, is greatly relieved by tasteful frescoes, and appro- priato placas wore adornod with Scriptual sea- tencea, conspicuous smong which, on the wall, facing the chancel, isthe word ‘*Emmanuel,” iu largo and olaborately gilt lotters, Tho crosa upon tho altar was crowned with threo wroatha, rellevcd by immortelles, while around the body twined s vine of English ivy; the foot resting amidst a profusion of choicest exotics. In front of tho chancel towered a white, Gothic arch of beantiful proportions, surmounted with the eventencs: ‘Christ tho Lord is risen, Alleluia,” white the abatmonuts wero adorned with fragrant goraniams and swoet alyssum. ‘fho congregation was the largest of tho year, end listened with the usual profound attontion to Dr. Cushman, who treated with bin accus- tomed ability the toxt,—from the 118th Psalm, ett yoruo: “This ia the day the Lord hath made.’ Tho Sunday-school bad their celebration in tho afternoon, which ia said to have boon the most iuterosting ever holdin the parish. When the classes had presented thoir offerings they amounted to the sum of $13, and inclusivo of of- {eringa for nive months provious, aggrogated $115, —_.+—. CALVARY, The scrvices yosterday morning at Calvary Church, on Warron ayonno, near Western, wero of « veryimpressivo and touching gharacter, The edifico wan filled with worshiportue con- gregation having rapidly and largely incroased under the preacnt Rector, the Roy. Luthor Par- deo. The floral decorations, the work of tho In- sles of the Bocioty and tho sistors of tho Rector, wero rich and tasteful, and tho walls and altar wore festooned with the earthly blossoms which typify a eplritual sprin; —————— REYIVALISM. REVIVALS AND THEIR EXTRAVAGANCE, BERMON DY THE BEV. ARTHUN @WAZET. Tho Rey. Arthur Swazey proached yesterday morning to tho congregation of the Ashland Avenuo Presbyterian Church on royivals, taking as bis toxt ; And ft shall come to pass afterward that I will pour vut my spirit upon all Hes; aud your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men ahali dream, your young men ehall see visfoug; and also upon tue servants and the handmatds in those days will I pour put my apirit.—Joel, 1£,,24-29, Nothing ia known of the prophet Joel beyond the scant information that he waa the son of ono Pothuel, of whom wo know nothing, Tho time of thin prophecy is uncertain, The prophecy iteolf is a marvel of composi- tion, Whether of allegorical or literal meaning, wholars are not agroed. Itis a moat vivid do- scription 6f; a great drought, and a locust or gragshopper invasion, with tho famine and doso- lation which follow avd, somehow, joined with it, the shadow of su invadiog army from the North; tho conclusion, through the goodness of God, being the roturn of plenty, and the out pouriug of the spirit oa the minds of men, Peter quotes it ss a prophcoy of the scenes of Pentocoat, narratad iu tho sacond chapter of tho Acts of the Apoutles. The Christian ministry hes been jn the habit of quoting it as 4 prophecy of all the great swakenings of Christian history, And I do not doubt the correctness of the common interprotation. Without proposlog a thorough treatmont, I offer a few remarks on the ‘revival" move- ments of our own and of other timos. The sea cannot remain quict, even though all thea winds of Heayen be lulled to uilence, No more can the human mind. Theres syerywhors, as tho world turps round, the “pull” of sun and moon on the great ocean of thought; heres gentle rise as the wes risca on tho coast of Flori- da, and thera a raging flood, as when the sea drives into the Bay of Fundy. And the greatest movementa of allaro tho religious movements, Wo may have one opinion or another, but wa cannot despiso them, au though they were the foam of disordcred minds ; 28 though the eternal Jove, or rathor the great God, were not breath- lng into the souls as well au into the bodies of moo. ‘There are those who doubt the reasonableness of any kind of religions anxiety, as though tho great Power sboye wonld take caro of » mso'a sou! whether he himuelf cares foritor not; a shough solicitude, oarnostness, and concentra- tion of euorgy were conditions of every kind of good, excopt soul-good; as though it were worth the while to aspire and strive In avery departmont of ambition or activ. Ity, except toward tho harmony of the conscience and the heart with God, There are others who object to any religious movement which docs not follow in the grooves already aug for it, or which {8 not attended with all the proprieties, conventional and real, which culture and good taste regard. A Bishop of a certain order of balief would not allow religious wervicee toa forgotten and famished people un- less the ‘‘canooa" were all obscrved. And I read, recently, in a leading Presbytorian paper, a terica of questions which seemed to trouble tho roind of tho writer, one of which was, whether the work of Moody and Sankey was not likely to bring to diabonor tho ministry as 8 divine ap polntment for the conversion of the world. He seemed to forget that God has not farmed out the world to the ministry, as an assurance com- paoy farms out Cook County, or Illinois, to ao agent; that, while the regulars are sout to ght, if red-tape, and book-dnil, or incompetence, or idlences, or anything elve, prevouts vigorous ware fare, the volunteers with furmor-Captaina are called out to whiptheeuemy! If the Church prays for rain, it must not find fault with the way of the wind wheu the rain falis, And amen who has contracted to make lumber will not tind fault if somebody drains large areas of mareh land into his empty mill-pond! If the wnter alluded to will study the New Testament anly es mach ag he studies bis catechism, be will Hud toat the ministry is chiefly valuable, first, as a stimulator, aud, second, Bs & conuervator of a untvernal activity in the Church; he will loara that the spirit ie given to young men aud taldene, old men and children, as well as to pastors and deacons, and that a true Now Testy. nent church fs alive with guftsin all ita mem- bers. in all great movements there are irre; rhe thea, measuring thinge by a calm and true tlandard. Bo in religious movements. Hut they are none the less divine forall that. The spirit of God does not set avide the common lawo of catore, The conyerted acholar, the thorough gentleman converted te God, the ovn- / vortod clown. egotist, or ignoramur, vorted aayago, aro cach, in blood, manner, ai manifestation, what they woro before, Awaken thom top sense of responsiblonocas for tho sal- yation of othora, intlame tholr hearts mth the Goaire to Yo uneful Iu their day and gonoration, and their natural peculiaritios, better and worse, will become almost as prom!nont as their goad hopes and doaires, In the end thoy will perlaps slough off a great deal that offends good tanto and good judgment ; buc nt tho boginning and all along, the human not only, but tho pore eonal pecuitarity, will bo conaplenous, And furthermore the pecullarity will in many in- xtancer bo useful, ‘The diroct aud blunt manner ot Moody reaches thousands of people on whom the polished words of Mchord Storre, for oxam- ple, would fail powerless, ‘Tho superticial but very oarnest words I hoard from a heated aul good exhorter a few days ago, took strong hold, thonght, of the ragamufiin at my side, Whon the strong logic and cloar gospal oshibition of Dr, Ipstselinum would scarcely hold bis atton- tion. hoard one day last week tho wildest sort of raut on the rolation of tho bollovora to Christ. 1t was shocking to Chrietinn science and to modesty, But E could not withhold my admiration from tho spoaker, becanso it was ovl- dont he had a true love for his Master, and with the foarfully erudo things ho pnid, and with power, the ono great thing, namoly: that. Jeaita Christ is tho boliover's hopo sud the bolicyor's suflicioncy. Much can be pardoned, where the speaker, the worker, fg zealous for tho glory of God, whon you know bo would forego gain ot applause to save & gout, and when you ato perausdod that tho law is written ou bigs own heart, Revival workera have often a bold way of put- ting the truth, which is effective because the samic porgous do not hear it tovofien, Mie istors fall into # habit of dealing with thor hoar- era ag though they were hard to catch. They hold, ou it were, the oats before thom, and tho bridto outof mght behind thom, We may appreciate the diplomecy just so far na it succeeds; but I would quite as soon insure the uacfulness and success of Maj. Whittlo, wlion ho, in a way not altogether above criticism, says boldly for Christ, “Take my ‘yoke’ upon you, and learn of me." Falyo sentiment and falso doctrina often at- tand upon religious awakenings, but it will bo obeorved that the falea sentiment sometimes contains the truo sentiment, and tho fnlue doc. trino usually rotires with the retiring waro, whilo tho true doatrine remains, Much is asid about Christ thats young gitl might say to her lover, but in tits vorry seutimentaliam is hid tho truo iden of Christ as friend and Savior. Tho ono evaporates Jie avy otbor sentimontaliem, ‘Tho other takes the ruul out of its lonolinass, and given it the goodly fellowship of God's Ouly 1. ‘Tho doctrine of aanctiflcation, by ths contin- tied operation of tbe Word af God, by disap- poiutment, pain, the overturnings and hard drill of life, and consummated only when the last enc- my ie dostroycd, goats often into snd confusion with Justification, that act of God's free graca whereby Hoe pardons aropenting sinner; anid » cesspool, with a Httle quicklinio thrown in, im- agincs itnelf as pureas a mountain spring, It may be said, indecd, that at auch timos tho tondency to overrato oxperiancos is quite com- mou. Said an aroused ministor a fow daya ago, “I am going on rapidly to porfoct holiness.” And an aroused Iayman, **I havo attained per- fect hotincss.” sald another saintly perion, * There are not more than two converted min- asters in Chicago.” Which statement I would notdeny. Lonly quote it to show how far the man had evidently advanced in holiness, even so far na to road men's hearts. Bue this docs nat last long, thia fume and spiritual froth, thie sanctified egotiom, this semi-insano and sicken- Ing caricature of tho Christian calling. ‘Thoso very goad people willin o few months cbsorve something iu their hoarta and thoir lives which will make {t pleasant for thom to find another interpretation of tho challonge, ‘ Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's olect?™ and of tho dcolnration that wo are ‘complete in Christ.” Moanwhilo, a great undorwavo is lifting the poo- plo into a more vivid appreciation of the grace of God, The intetlectual clearness coines after- words. Tiret ferment, and then good wine! The hymn 20 popular in revival timos a few years ayo, ‘ Thoro’s nothing left for me to do, Nothing great orsmall," lc, waa acrude and partly faluo form of an amazing truth; a form leading and misleading, a gong which almost abolished tha idea of rapentance in its oagerness to show the apen door of Hoaven, It was formed only to aflirm the riches of God's grace toa sinner with whom stonc- ment or merit ia imposeible. But unfortunatoly the words sometimes raug another meantig in the cars of the inquirer. And yet, fortunately, like somo of Luthe: extranygant sayings on tho same groat matter, tha song has been tod to help men ont of despatr and into the sunlight of God's couutensnce. I heard s now hymo the other day which offors itself for rovival use in this community: Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer I cannot be! Aanear to Theo aa Jesua ts, So near, O Lord, ami! I think this outdoes Luthor, and is almost equal to Christian Kobler, of Borne, who pro- posed to ascend into heaven as Christ did. But should this song come iuto use no ona necd bo alarmed, Thiu wild refrain, the almost blas- phemons form of oxpression, finds a hundrod psrailols in the history of the Church, Largo allowance should be made for aman ors people writhing in the grost stroggle batween the dark- neas of nature and the light of sonship with joa, ‘The throes, dreams, imaginings, strange con- coits, and tumult of thought, are simply tho very human way of asaifesting, the unearthly urgency, the ineffable hopa in God. Onty a small por centum of minds are well balancod, or go evenly through a great crisis, or demean themselves with dignity uador tho prossure of a grest thought. For aman to feel in every bono and nerye that ho is condemner by the just lav of God, that he has lived carelessly while tho corso of tho law has been written against him, aud to grope on, pierced with anguish that no. light comes to him, that no word of mercy falls upon his heart; and thon to have the day break on him in all ita fullness and to discovor in the Scriptures the youchor that ho ‘is passed from doath wato lite,” that he fs ** complete in Christ,” and that both the Fatherand the Son have taken up tholr abode with Lim, and in his very human way to forget the romaindor of God's vast faral- ly, aud think of himself aga favorite of the Rimighty, and porhars commissioned to do oat things iu the battle between God and 8a- fine or for an old-line Christian to gota new and moro hyoly hopo, and yet to entertain no vagaries, to be guilty of no extravagant senti- monty, to keep clear of confusion of idens ag to the way of salvation, is hardly to ba ex- pected, except where Christian teaching is cloar and sound, And particularty whore the Church and tho ministry havo been ineffictent, nothing js more natnral than that re- formers should arixe possosued of tha power over the poople which always attonds the idoa of a mission, and ready with all sorta of ingonuitieg to Insugurate a» better atyle of discipleship in the world, Icall to mind 8 man of the saventeenth ceno~ tury—Chriatopber Hochman, He made himeclt tho censor of tho Church and the people's preacher over a large part of Germany, Hoe was atnau of great personal vanity, and aluo great personal gifts, to which was added a piety which was fike a flame of fire. It was his custom to go from place to place, to entor the church, and elther interrupt the preacher's duil discourse with vital suggestions of bis own, or, a8 tho roacher loft, to mount the pulpit and baraugue The peoplo on the great theme of salvation. Ho advanced full complement of unheard-of idoas on government and social life, He once ate tempted to i:nitate Christ in a faut of forty days, Ho auffered much iil-treatment, and evon im- ‘igonment, but tho was always ike fire in tho bones, On one occa- wion, saya}the historian, Hochman ' proach ed on the grest meadow bolow Elberfel called the Ox Comb, with so much power an eloquence, that his mauy hundred hearers fully Deheved themsclyes raizod to tho clouds, and they had no other thourht than that the morn- fng’of eternity had roally dawned.” Some of the biasing lights of that perfod mingled thelr forveut mnysticiam with astrology, alchemy, and chlromancy. Ho who haw found the gold of ox- perience has the clew by which he ean find the gold of commerca! Bo they reasoned. Tam not inclined to defend such retiglous phenomena aa are presented by these pious alchemista and fortune-teliers, But I am pre- pared to suggest that, behind even those strange and harmful idcaa and practices, thero was probably a generons and genuine religious movement among the peuple. ‘Ihe eccentric be- conios historical, while the good ts on the com- mon lavel of unrecorded life, ut whatever may bo said of other times, the Teligious movements af our day cannot be ob- jected to seriously on the score of vagaries, Tho absurd things are for the moat part individual, while tho general drift {s aa near the lino of the word of God as the passions and tralowg of the Church will allow. ‘There ate soma strange developments of sentiments, and evan of opinion, But we must judge of them by comparison, If they be harmful, tho: far less so than either dead orthodoxy on the one heud, or semi-ration~ alsin on the other. ‘Iho dead orthodoxy is paralysis, whilo rationalisinis death. Weods are better than mildow; a dauk growth of nettles between the furrows of corn iva lees evil than a drought or a grasahoppor invasion, Indeed, were I to take Joe!'s prophecy in the allegorical ecuse, I think I whould iuterprot the ‘drought’ word TRIBUNE: MONDAY, nd the as the period of o dead orthodox, “Locust army" aan period of seri-akeptical handling of the primo truths of roligion. Foe what {fe more barron than tenth iteelf overlatd by tho great sand-hilla which son and wind baye driven over s once fruitfal Mold? And what will fo ntterly connume ovory car of whoat, avery green leaf, as tho awarm of doubte that nottle down an tha Now Testamont; doubt whethor Christ be the “only Savior,” or amply the bert Aavior; doubt whothor s man ba really ‘Iost,” oronly bewildered; doubt whether *rogonera- tlon Is tho beginning of a truly now life, or tho oxaggerated figure of @ return to common vir- tue; doubt whothar “salvation” be anything moro than the delivoranco of a man from vico, and, beyond that, from bis own groundiesa foars; doubt whethor culture and roligion, after all be not one and tho rama thing; doubt on everything which reams to imply a spiritual and evorlaating Kingdont, of which Chriet is tho Rayal bead? Suppose thoro be no denial of aoy great truth of roligion; she catting of the han-atrings is scarcely better, Sunpose there box feoblo im- plication here and there that possibly tho mis- tion of Josus may banroscne of tho human family; the feeble affirmation is {n its practical effect on the minds of men worso than tho do- nial. A hundred timos bettor the Silesian chifdron marching through the stroota, and turning the villages npsido down; s hundred times botter Dinpel mixin; religion, and medicine, aul fitlenrnstenes, anc slchomy iu s atraugo conglomorate, aud set binging: Ob, Jeans, look, and give me conquering arms } The will T have, but not the power to dot 1 wait, I woup, I leave Thee not til Thou, Though death once rulod, alied'at Ufo'a bright beame t Bettor believe with Petorson, who argued that tho supernatural inspiration of New Tostament times continues to ourday iu poople of rare Chris- tian attainments, and who warmed in the glow of fs own genius and religious fervor the hoarta of thoso with whom he camo {n contact ; botter be as regardless of clorical dignitaries as tho Jeyplte dont but immensoly usofal Hochman—than by Inck of hogrt and inck of bollof, by adroit criti- cism and devestiture of tho words of life, per- puado psoplo againat all peradasions, and leave tho impreasion on their minds, with or githout intention, that there is no “‘atraighs gato” or “narrow way” by whith to onter into the King- dom of Hoayon, Ido not advocate tho uso of frrogular mon, or extravagances of any kind. ‘hero aro mercenary pictists whom one in not called on to approve. Thero aro fanatics who should bo despised, wero jt not more Ohrite tian to pity them, Whoo mon sot themaulvos up fa prophets, lika tho shoomakers and saddlors of Germany 150 yoars ago, or roveal any kin- dred eccoutricitios of thaught,-it will ba tino to tako alarm. ‘Till thoy appear wo oan bonr all manner of good and faithful men, even thous they somotimes make a sirango molaugo of the teachings of Joho, and Paul, and Jesus Christ. And moro, we can rojoico in thelr work as tha werk of God,—s loarned and hoavy ministry, and a consorvative church boing 8 tolorable balance: to meaauros, or words, or doctrinos that aro not in all reapects sound and wiso. But sro the fruits of great revival periods per- manont? In gonural torme,.yes; that is to say, if you regard tho general offect on religion. Muavy may fall away, but many endnre, maintain- {ug a good confexston whilo thoy five, The waste, and oa it may be, in given inatances, for more reasons than I havo time to montion, in, after alt, according to a untversal law. You can- not build s house or make scolump, or sow atid Tepp an acre of wheat, or cngagoin barter, or ac- complish any worl: in life, withous waste, material loat or thrown array, onergies misdirected, and shrinkage In the garner, Whitofield’s work ig not gathered up in a denomination, but tt abides nono tho less. Wesley's great rovival moyvoment shapes Christian thought the world ovor, It was tho incarnation, as it wore of an idea the Synod of Dort could not ntlow, namely: that the Gospel is offered sinceroly to tho whole world. And Moody, second to noo In onergy and eimple devotion to his Mastor, and whom it is vain for any ouo to imitato, is shaking n King- dom, and winning thousands to Christ, many of whom, doubtless, will onduro In tho faith, and ahapo the Christlanity of the next generation, Tho work of the Gospol is modified py tho workman, by the classof peoplo among whom thoy work, by the inhoritauca of tho precoding gonoration, and by now—that is, to-day freshly discovercd—purposos of God. It will always bo open to criticism. Unexceptional wisdom is uoithor with the worker nor with tho observor. ‘The wiacst are not too wise to learn. I remom- ber that wheu Dr, Kirk went to Boston ho was recatyod with colduoss by the ministry, nd be- gan his Jong ond uecful' work thore as ‘tha people's minister." And aos man of mark in tho last century, the German pastor D'Annow. This cluquent and original proacher oponod his louse for weekly prayer-mectings, much to tho scandal of is brethron in tho ministry. And mitch more to thelr acandal ho drew awsy their hearers on Sunday, so thet they wished to put an end to this “gadding and viaiting" whicl zo “disroputablo and hostile to pure Chris. tlanity"'! e Roviyal porioda aco justiied by sovoral con- atdorations which ara not alwaya mentioned, One Is the influence of such periods on doctrinal and eccteaiastical opinions. Prelacy, exclusive. ‘iam like that ofour Baptiut brethren, hyporortho- dory like that of ove wing in our own Oburch, the oxclasive right of ordained miniatera to tho sorvico of proaching tho Gospol, nud alt forma which sssert themgelyos against the romaindor of the world, and which cannot be reasoned down, are inolted down more and more, 1n Bo far as thoy contradict the unity of the great Obris- tian family. Men panoplied io their ism can auawor an argumont, bat they cannot resist the wind and tide sotting towards tho gront asntro, Joens Christ, In till times they can punctuate go article or a prayor against the hope of a hun- gryaoul. But when the spirit of God heayos the masses all truth reada like tha old, pure, Hebrew Bible, which was burdoved by no man's yowels or mooents. ‘Whore the spirit of the Lord 18, there is liberty!" Another consideration fs, the pecullar mental qualities of many in our churches, good poople. God's pooplo, worthy of grost tove fora hundred roasons, activo roliglously, but inacuive Eootitally, to whom any considorablo rango cf thonght is burdensome, who aro theroforo oftan Bony ots ministry, attempting to apply the Gospal to the whole life intorest of man, and to Isy open tha full meautog of the divine history and the divine discipline of the world. The pret idsa—tha forgiveness of sing by the blood of Jesus, and tho friondship of Jesna—thoy grasp with giad- nees and with vigor. Doyoud this they cannot go. And whoover gocs beyond thoso casentinl and foundational truths {s ua s suitable miuis- ter forthe:a, But tt ie Jnposelble for any man to preach on those two ideas, yoar after year, without using tha same terme, repoating hid il- lustrations, and otherwise making his themoa threadbare, and thorofore lWfeless. Rovival porioda ara @ great rellof, They bring now speakers to the people, with freak modoa of cov- caption, and exprossion, and illustration, And theee good peorte baye ministered to thom the same alimont warm and now, ‘Choir ono thought is eulivened, becomes dearer and eurer to them, Although a large part of tho meauiog of tha Goupel is lout to thom, thoy take in as much of it os they can, and are atronger for all tho conditions of life, strongor to work, and stronger toendure for Christ'aanke, This iu o great good. Anothor justification {#, that a revivatisa popular movemont, It is apt to reach the masses AS OUr churches do not reach them, Me- Ugion bas its fashion, its caste, as aocioty has, Humble pooplo feol thomsolyes out of placo in moat of our congregations, Aud thoy are not to be blamed for it. Think of a journeyman tinner, tha wifo and daughtors of an engraver, the humble roprosentatives of tho thousand and ono industrios by which city thrives, going np the aisles of ono of our fino churches, or yontur- jog to rockon themselves among thoue who really belong tothe great Church family! Ourchurchos ares satire on Clirlstianity, and yet we havo the impndence to call the Roman Church tho ‘Mothor of Harlots!" The revival takea tho Gospel out of those gilded reception-rboma, and filnga it to tho massos. It gets in halls and by- places, and wounda the trumpet—the Inet place thought of for God's work being ‘God's house,” ‘The plous ulsters and mothors go away and hold fellowship with those they would scarcely know su thoir own Church circles, just ag many a man talky familiarly with an acquainiance on tho etrect, on whom he would frown if that acquaintance should rinj his door-bell for » social hour. Farwell Hall and tho mission schools ara stonements for tho usages of an un-Chriut-Ifko church home, A ro- vival is an stonemout to the masses for their ox- clusion from the common means of grace. It ix woll to make the atonement till such time as there shall bo heart for repentance. ‘Tho freh call of the Goupel iv always an affair of moment. The world is «terrible aptaguulst to faith. Zee pleasures, ite richew and prido, make mspy an ear deaf to the cry of the spirit. Tho words of Ufo slip away, the hone of Chiriat slips away. Love becomes cold, Mauy forgot that thoy Lave souls to save or to lose, A great torpor over and anon settles down on the hearty of mon. They bocome too weary to think of God, and too engroused to take in the moaning of the words mbich thoy hear. Let God come, therefore, whother by the atill, small volce, the blast of the trumpet, or tho earthquake, it mat- tora not, for life Lau only one value, nanicly, as a pathway to God, Iitinols could bear a freshot and m torusdo better than « summer-lon; drought ora grasshopper invasion, The world can beara religious tompest and the folliey of shallow exporimenters better than tho etagnant soundness of opinion or the remorseless blight re Achurch or @ ministry which doos not foe jore, —_-.—— EXCITEMENT REVIVALS, ‘TNE SENSATION IN NEW YORK, The Now York World, spoaking of the won- derfut excitemont created throughout Great Britain by Moody and Sankoy, saya: Simultanconsly with the appearance of tho Amorican revivailets in London, Mr. Varley, an English preacher of tho same class, has begun 5 sarion of meetings in thia city. Tho ingonious Mr. Barnum hae given him the froe use of the Ippodrome on Sunday evenings, and the crowds that flock to near him oshort almoat rival in numbers those attracted to Agricultural and Exeter Halls tn London. Tho burden of the revival preaching of which such as Dr, Talmage, Mr. Wammond, and Messrs. Moody and Sankey are the expononts, {a ‘an appeal to mon's torrors. By vividly depicting and continuauely dwalling upon the prospective writhing in holl of the souls of those who do not walk up to the anxlous-noat, it ia not dificult to creato a panic in an atilionce composod of aver- ago men and women who ara accustomed to do litula of no thinking for themeolves. Undor tha influonce of torror thera may boa vast numbor of what are called conversions. But those aro not in the great majority of inatancos evidences of s conviction of sin and adotormination to live ‘a batter lifo, asthe sequel proves. ‘Those who get roligion through tho sonsou instead of the reason can bo divided, aa regards tho ultimate effect, into threo olassos; fitat, those who boing awak- ened by excitomont to « reniization of their con= dition aro ted by subsoquont rofloction to aban- don the error of thelr ways; second, those whose woak minds aro unablo to rntand the strato, and who thus become fauatical, maniacal, or imbe- cilo; and third, those who whon ¢he panic aub- sides forget their alarmand their conversion and return to their normal condition of indiffer- ence, Dy farthe Iarger clags of eo-called con- vortsin tho last. Is sooms, theo, that in this prodigious expenditure of timo by rovival proach- ors and their hearers, comparatively few are mada bettor. Is it not pane to deviso o plan whoraby tho harvest will be larger? Aprotost will be made by all right-mindod Persons against tho atylo of revivallam which prevails iu Ban ¥rancisco moder the loador- ship of the Roy, Mr. Hammond, Concorning little children, ond playing upon thoir torrors by toll- ing thomof tho yawning holl at thelr fect ready to awallow them if thoy donotexpericacoachanga of heartlseimply diabolical, Childronnre confiding creatures, and beliove implicitly what is told to thom. id the sufforing that those who fall into Mr. Hammond's handa oxperience ts painful to contomplate. Wo tiave before us a roport of one of tuene children’s rovival moctings, and are freo to say that it ia calculated to rouse in tho breast of the reader not altogothor loat to doconcy the desirs to duck Mr. Hammond {n a horse-pond. When babes of band i scara of age are fright enod into spasms by threata of tho coming of the devil, breathing lames from his mouth and nostrils, bocausa they aro unable to recollect what alos they havo committed and confesa ro- pontenco therefor, it {s time to ask whether the secular pross has not been at fault in doclining cit riltentis tho character and tondonciea of ravi- valism, — MISCELLANEOUS, HOW TO ESCAPE HELL, SERMON DY THE NEY, NR. PHELPS, OF LEMONT, ‘Tho Rey. Mr. Phelps proached at the Moth- odlat Episcopal Church, at Lomont, last Sunday, taking os hile toxt: h Mow shall ze eacapo the damnation of hell 7—Mat- thew, xzift, Xd, ‘The word ‘*hell,”"4 tranelation of the Graok word Gohonna, is s torm ussd to designate tho Valley of Hinnom. ‘This yalloy bounds Jernenlom on the north, and ios bolow Mount Zion—a acone of sacrod and imperishable associations. In thia vatloy Molock, the national god of tho Amorites, was worvhiped with the horrid and inhumon rite of sacrificing children in the fire, When ‘Josioh, in hig conquosts, overthrow thie idolatry, ho poured contempt upon tho infernal practica by casting into the vatloy the bones of the do- parted. In tho oatimation of the old Hebrews, dhe bones of the dond caused the greatest of all pollutions. Whatever porsou, place, or things, they touched wero forthwith considered “ un- clean,” Hence this Yalloy of Hinnom, thin Gobenns, thia “ holl,” having’ beon the rcaopta- clo of the human romaine which Jouish throw into it, was considcrod a place the most polluted and scoured, From this circumstauce it bo- came a common receptacte for all tho refuso of tho Gity of Jerusalem, Hera Inege quantities of decomposing vegotable and animal matter wera constantly thrown, This putroscent matter gon- ersted an abundance of worms; the worm hore noyer died, To prevent tho noxlfons effluvin springing from this mass of corruption polson- ing tho atmosphere and breathing disense and doath into the heart of tho city, fires wore kept burning day and night, Tais valloy, thoreforo, wea literallys placo whores “the worm nover died, and whore tho firo was never quenched.” Jeous, aa a tonchor, always seized on.such Inci- dents aud facts aa wero famillar to His hearora, in ordor to Mlustrate His moaulng, Ho uses now this abominsblo worm-ganerating and porpetu- ally burning valley to symboliza the dark dostiny whioh awalts tho wicked, Se much for oxplana- tory remarks. ‘fhe text is but one of numorous figurative paseages which taach conclusivoly tat, soma- where {n the universe of God, thore is a eceno of tearful rotribution for tha wicked. ‘The New ‘fostamont abounds in imagery no Llosa startling: sud appalling, Wo read.of ‘‘onter darkneas, of a lake of fire,” of a ' bottomless pit,” of “ place of torment,” of the “ blackooss of dar! noss forever." ‘Lhis language, though confessed- Jy highly figurative, is fraught with a tremon- lous meaulng, and well adapted to start in tho mind tho most torrific ideas of agonizing torture. Itis far enough from my sim at presont, and far enough from my Judgment aud taute at any time, to occnpy your attention with any horrific description of the misorles of holt, Nor ia it my intention to spoculate about the preciso nature or scone of future punishment, We wieh simply to call your attontion tothe fact. Were there no record given us by plouary inspiration, there would still be considerations aufiiciently potent to compel our faith iuthe doctrine, Tho man who dauvios it as truly olfors violence to tho phi- lonophy of hie nature as to the testimonies of thia Book, A moral administration 1s a fact as palpable to Our moral roagonu as the ain fs to the bodily eyo, It is vot an arbitrary inatitation ; it is founded in the highest reason; it is necessary to tho good of tho universe, Tho design of all rational and just govoryment is the malntalnancoof gen. eral order and pesco, But if the law be violated aud the penalty not inflictsd, thia end would not be realized, Tho law which requires suffering for sin is not only Just, but niost benorolont. Disconnect suffering from wrong, and the moral oniveres would soon bea scone of anarchy and confusion, If there be sin tn the unlyorse, bo- nevolence requires ® hell in the universac, As tho hoalth of Jerusalem demanded that firo should be kept bhurulug jin the valley of Hinnom day sud night, to prevent the sir from bocoming pestilentin’ and breathing death into tho hears of the popula- tlon, ao the interests of the moral oroation Toe quire that there should bo a hell faming whor- ever there is sin, to prevent the contagion from apreadiog into the holy citles of the good, and blighting with a moral desth the universe of God, jut thore are still other indications that polnt to the fact of future punishment. Whatever may be the theorles propounded in relation to tho human mind, all admit, aga realty, the ex- {atence of a consclonoe, an actual something which connects man with Jaw and God, This conscience, both fa tho savage and tho sage, foroshadows tho scons of coming retribution. Xt bas hoard the trumpot blast, i bas seon the Judge enthroned,{the priaoners arralgnod, the books opened, the witnesses oxarainad; heard the sentonco pronounced, and marked the final delivery of the pulgslt into the evorlasting cus+ tody of juaticel Do not these universal appro- heneions argue the doctrine of future retribu- tion, or have thoy no meaning? Do you nay that these forebodings rise from the influence of priestcraft? If wo, you are mistaken; {n lauds whera na pricut has evor trod, and iu timos when priesthood was unknown, we find them. They aro as uvivorssl as intuition, What the low moaninge aud bowlings of the winds are to the approaching tempeste that shall lash the ocean into fury and shake the globe—propbecles and precursore—co these uuivorsal apprelienuions argue the doctrina of future rotribution, We examine the ovo, aud from its peculiar structure argue the extetonce of light; the forebodings of & guilty conscience proves the esistenoce of » oll, Butsgaiy, The principleof causation, or the relation of cause and effect, (*) developed in all fluite oxivtonces, ‘The present life and state of creatures are the rosulte of past causcs, Tho condition of cach plant aud snimal to-day iu the effect of yesterday, ‘There is noth- ing living on which fed can fx your eyes that is not to-di he effect of all the causes and influences that have boou operating MARCIL 29, 1875. on it from the beginning of itsexiatonce, This in truo of the globo iteclf, Its conditton to-day in the result of all tho foreca that linve been act- iug npon it through the moat distant porlods of geological calculation, The atate of my intallect at thie hour Ja the result of al tho thotghtathat have ever couracd throngh my soul, So tt is with character. Tho character of ovary man this day ig at onco tun axpression and eficct of all tho inflacnces ho haa evor felt, of all the ac- tlons bo hae ever performed, Nothing that man doos evar dios; no act terminates tn itsalf; it sonds ita vibrations along the lines of the ondiosa fatura, Man's Iifa ia vot like a dowdrop falling on the rock, awallowod by the sun; bat itis like arivor,—its present otate is the result of tts past; its mtrongth, and color, and ohiaracter ara tho reault of the soil through which 1t has pass- ed, the contributory atronms that havo flown Into it, and tho winds that havo ripplod its surtaco or stirred itsdoptha. Thusour " works fotlow us)" and, if s wicked man ia to live in the future, his works must follow hin with «crushing aud with- ering Influence, Dut onco again, Look at the offlceof momory. Wo nevor lose otir yeaterdays, ‘I'he wavo of ob- Nivion will roll ovor no part of our poat tifa, Handly a dsy transpires io which somo little aua- gestlyo tnoidont docs not occur to throw us back upon some past portion of our lives. Bomotimes sword, aname, a sound, a flower, will bring back to the mind all the young aud wild days of childhood, Momory has now its reaurrectlons. As oossn prints hor undulations on the aboro, memory printe its actions and evonts on tho soul; “nor is it a tablot mada of ennd, but tke otornal adamant, Aa tho Jowa of old, in the taud of oxile, bohald the Babylonian riyor, and then thought upon the Jordan of their ownland, aud then upon the signal privilozes of their Canann home, and thus got sarclarged with shoso sorrowfal emotluns which {impaled them to hang their harps on tho willows, and be- noath the bending brauchos mingle tholr tears in the bosom of the rolling stroam; a0 the ox- Med sinner in the awful foreyor, as be scos the river of ctornity rolling on, mirroring on its Awelling wave the ovonts of time, will *romom- ber his transgressions and he griovod." Thero sro cortain principles which determines oursoolal olionatton or attraction. Tho carnal and tho spiritual, tho gonorous and tho seliish, the base and the noble, the profans and the plous, mutually ehun onch other, Thelr di- versity conatitutes a principle of mutual ree palsion. This principlo oxista here as tho basis of all wocial connections, Will is not oxiat in the {uture? If wo oxist, mast it not exiat? It fan art of onrsolves, Wills Horod havo the samo homo aga Jolu the Laptist? A Noro s6 a Poul? Can itbe thatthe dobauchoes, the par- soantors, and murdorors will Talngls with tho @roat bovefactors of the raco aud the truo gaints of the Lord? Tom aware that somo of tho bisliant ttorary Produotiona of the day aro ovor goaloua In prop- peating the idoa that the principle of rotribu- tlon is sdequatoly administerad hers; that ev- ory sin o man commits carries with it at once its full punishmont; that the sinnor pays his dobt aa he goes on in life, and that there is no out- Maailigg account to be settlod in the great hera- aftar. am ready to grant that the principle of retribution is developed hero; that aman even horo, consciously or unconsciously, injures him- soll by overy trospass ho commits; but I deny that it is adequately and fully administered. Wo challenge you to slngla out one Individual man whoso conecioncs tells him that he has fully on- dured tho sufforings duo to his sin, [f sinners falt this, would there bo any forebodings of the future? Aud ara thera not such forcbod- ings? Why? Becauso there is an im- monse account to sottle in the horsafter. Tho violation of phvatcal Inw does not always bring immediate and full retribution. A farmor negicata tho laws of agriculture in the apring, Summer will come, and antumn pasa away, bnt in tho droary wiuter ho will fool tho ponalty, Tho violation of organic Inwa doos not alwaye ontall fmmodiate and fall retribution. Tho youth. violates tho laws of hoalth in the spring of tifo, and ofton it is not until old ope comes on that tho penalty is fully folt, and that ho is made to fool that he possesses in his shattered conatitu- tion tho sins of youth.” The violation of Political laws docs not always bring fall and im- mediate ratribution. Unrighteous governments ma; succeed each other for agos, but rotribution comes ot last. Thus wo may reat assured lt ia with tho moral history of individual man. Away with this firpy dream of a flippant phil- osophy. Thorejea “trossuring up: of wrath.” Sin is like the thunder-storm in the sky: far awhile it dwells seronoly in some ginall cloud; oleotricity gradually scoumulates ; the clouds darken snd sproad, until tho wide ex- panse of hoaven is covered with o pisom. under whioh the whole oroation grows atill with bodir, fear at length it bursts, and the affrighte world is beaton with ita fury. ‘ho firat sin is a Ittle cloud—a nuclous which gathers to iteelf evory subsequent sct of iniquity, until st longth it mantles tuo wholo frmamont of tho soul in ‘ono donso storm-cloud. ‘To eacana hell, you must cgoapo a sinful char- acter, Uoll hawalwaya a localtty, because all existences, whether Lappy er misorable, must havea plioce, Lut holtia not locality, Thesame placo which is s holl to one may bo hoayan to another, “I lave had hollin my own homo,” That hell js some miserable rogion, on whose yorge the sinner is standing, aud that salvation in tho ontetrotoblog of the Divine arm to delivor him from falling Into it, is an idca as monatrous and porniclous os it is popniar. Salvation is from one place and lifting him to snotl it is tho taking ofa man from one state of mlod into nnather, from ono olaus of ideas, feelings, purposes, prospects, habits, inte another, Malico, enyy selfishness, remorue,—theae aro the combutiblos whioh will support tho fro that is nover queuchod ; these are the corrupt eloments that will generate the worm which will uever dic. As futuro forests are wrapped in tho scorn, boll fs contained inthe sinful character, A good charactor is tho reaull of right boliefa, Tho characters of men are molded and detor- mined by their bollefe. You adopt s cortsin plan, or purans a certain course of conduct, ba- oause you bolieve it will serya your intercet or promote your plossure, Every rational act is at Onco tho offect and ombodimont of some belief, If you would fet ® man to quonch bis passions, to control his tempor, or te change his mode of lifo, you muat change his faith, Every true ro- former, whather in politica, aclanco, or religion, nots to Work upon tho bollofe of the people. Ho Is assured that no myatio influence, no mechan- ical force, no vital niagnotism, can chango the human character. He knows that man follows ils bellofa as tha tido follows the moon. Ile koows that faith ia thesoul’s ruddor, and, if ho woulda change tho course of the barque,—turo hor into moro szure woas, and towards moro Propitioug shores,—ho must act upon that, The only pousible beliofs necosaary to change acinful character must refer to Ohirist. Falth in Chriat in essential to tho generating of this suprome love Man by tho constitution of his nature cannot love a bolng whom he feols dis- Nkos him, Enmity producos enmity, Aseuro that» men hates us, and something of kindrod fecling wilt rise in our own hoarte; at any rate, thero will ba obstruction to our loving him, Now, it is 8 fact, account for it how you ‘will quod men’s guilty consciences have Invosted the Ltornal with those attributes of yeugence that awaken fear rather than tov: What is wanted, thoroforo, to ganorato this love, is an unmistak- ablo, irresistible proof that{God loves us. Tako ou iltuatration: Supposo that there exists in your heart at this moment » burning and deepty- wottled hatred towards # certain individual. You hayo hated bim for yoars ; the yory mention of bia namo wakes your spirlt” flamo with indignation. You are pained at his successes; you rejoice in his trials; you would exult at the {dings of bis death. In what way could I r move that enmity from your nature, and subal tute in fts place the affoction of love aud gaod- wi? There ia but one way, and it is this; Let me convince you that tho man you hate has no unkind feeling towards you, and nevor had; but, on the contrary, Joven you, lias on soveral occa- sious mado sncrifices fo norve you, and fs pre- pared at the prosont moment to do anything in iis powor ta make you happy. Lot me work this conviction into your soul, and no sooner shalt I have succeoded than your enmity would give way, amidst compunctions for your criminal mistakes, tos reat affection, ‘Thle le just a God has acted in the mission of Christ. ‘He knows that the guilt and danger of mankind arise from ite want of love towards Him. Ho knows, from thowe lawa which ho has impressed upon the hue man mind, that if Hooould but carry hometo tho heart of man tho canyiction that, howover much he may hate hie Maker, bis Maker loyos him, the desire? renovation would be forthwith elfect~ ad. This He hag sought to do by evidence the most ovorwhelming. Tho life of Christ te the textimony to this love. “God ao loved," eto, Thoro is nothing arbitrary in this; ou tho con- trary, there is a profound pbilsopby in the doc- tring of the Apoatlos “ Boliave in tho,” ete, Tn the nature of the case, thero ia no palyation without it, Wo preach Christ, then, as the Baylor. Do you ask how you may escapo tho terrible storm of wrath which seoms brooding in that dark mass of cloud that is rolling up your horizon, threat- ening to scatho you with Kw lightning, and to shiver you with ita thundera? I point you to Christan say; ‘Ho is tho refuge from the storm.” —_.— ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, ITS OKVENTH AwALYRROARE, Bt. Mary's School, Kuoxville, Ill, will cele- brate ite seventh sunivorsary on Wednesday af- for Easter, tho Bist inst. A large delegation from Chicago will leave for Knoxville by the morning-traln, at 10 o'clock ‘Taosday,—tho dele- gation bolug composed of clerry and laity, and esvortlog tho Rov. Dr, Da Koven, of Itacino College, who makos tho anniversary addresu, CATHOLICISM AND THE SCHOOLS, TUE NILE IN THE RCHOOLS, Srectal Correananience of The Chicago Tribune, Tittssuna, March 20.—A question fs looming up which threatens to make considerable com- motion in rofigious and political circles in thin community, It ia that of roading tho Dible daily in our public schools, 1¢ hna hoon discussed and commented on In nearly ovory city of tho East and in some in the Woat, but here has met no opposition, and thore is reading from the Holy Writ daily, both in this city and in Allegheny, Our Catholic citizens are quiotly but surely working. They are making offarta to have membora of their sect elected to Ward- Dircotories 1 and, as these send dolegatos to tha Osntral Board of Education, of course thoy will ondoavor to gota majority there, Already tho Presbyterians, who aro the wealthiest and atrongeat class here, are endeavoring to circumrent the corilnis issue. Tho Catholics want tho Dibls ontiro! expelled from the schools, whilo the Profostante want {t kept thore at all hazarda. It will boa very intercat {og fight whon it comes off, and will’ no doubt dovelop a good deal of feeling; but as yotit in only in iuception, ‘Tho Catholics sdvocato bay- ing their own soliools, and savornl pricata, on various occasions, have taken the palns to urgo tho matter from thelr pulpits, but they havo alwaya spoken calmly, and altogothor from a puroly rollgious polut of viow. M. E, D, TUL NEW YORK GATHOLIO SCHOOLS, Neto York Herald. ‘Tho same raticenco atill continuos in regard to YVienl-Genoral Quinn's communication to tho Board of Education that hae obarsctorized tho subject since it mado ite official appoarance. Aftor so long atime spent {In angry discussion with tho city school officials, tho proffor of an amicable acttlemont coming from leading occlesi- astics and prominent Catholic Inymen might hate vory easily boon presumed to boa matter which would excite a large sharo of public in- torest, and if tho design in tho socrocy waa to heighten tho popular anxiety, the Vicar-Gonornl has succecded boyond a doubt. Both eidos to the coming contravorsy, which promises to bo sharp and keen, still maintain tho attitude at first taken, and the public, who havo some share of right to know what may be impending, must, undor the circumstances, await such devolopments ag may bo made when tho Joint Committeo asked for shalt bogin to consid- ortho points preaonted by the friends of tho parochial schools. Yesterday afternoon Mr, Lawronce D, Kernan, clerk of the Hoard of Ed- ucation, communicated to Vicar-General Quinn the Information that tho Board had appointed its Committos, and was now roady to lear who tho Committees on the othor sido wors, end to ap- polnt such a timo for conferonce ag the gontle- mon acting in bshalf of tho parochial schools might appoint, A CATHOLIC PROTEST AGAINET FATHER WALKER, New Yorn, March 17.~To the Editor of the Herald: Lcare not how much what you call “tho noblest work of civilization "—tho common schoole—may bo criticised or abused by clergy- mon of tho Cathotlo Church, to which I have tha honor to belong. Much of what such men as Fathor Walker say of them is undonbtedly true, Tam no advocato of our school system, but I hold that rollgious and secular knowledges should go band in hand fn order to train up a child proporly, Many of the best thinkers of tho ago have reluctantiy come to the samo conclusion among Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, and other sects. Ergo, the Catholic Church ia nat alone in its opposition to “our nobis school system,” as by Ja established. But whon I am told by a priost of the Church—- by ameombor of thatorder, too, which is conceded to be the moat loarned as woll as tho most zealous champion of the Churoh—that ho ‘would as soon administer the lioly sacrament to a dog” as to a Catholic paront who would sond his children to one of tho public schools, I am shockod be- ond oxprosaion. It ombodies a doxtrine no ab- Lorront to the merciful teachings of my youth— so contradictory of what I have slways con- sidered to bo the tenchings of the Church—that Ifindit bord to boliove Father Walker could hove uttored it. I hayo looked in vain fora contradiction of your roport by Fathor Walkoror some one authorized to speak for hua, end I am theroforo forced unwillingly to the conclusion that tho words—torribl uncharitable, un- ehristinn, uncatholic—which you nscrite to him wero really utterod by him from tho altar of hia church. If your report were wrong, I feel certain the reverend gontlomsa would long sluca havo branded them an fa)se. Asa Catholic, I bantoen to put on record mv solemn protest against such bigoted and intolor- ant denunciation, I wish to proclaim that Father Walker doos not spaak the sentiments of Catholio priests nor of Catholic Isymon, nor does bo reflect tho tenchings of tho Church whon he likons # Catholic favorable to the com- mon schools to ‘ta dog” and ‘a potchouss politician,” Ho speaks ovly tho viows of him- solf, a narrow-minded, hot-headed, mischiof- brecding fanatic, It ia such as ho who aro always bringlog scandal and trouble upou tho Church; such ashe who have covored Catholic- {em with odium in Bouth America, Afexico, and somo of the Catholic countrios of the Old World. Whilo I do not complain at the aevority of your editorial comments about Father Wale ec himaclf, I muat protest against tho outery that has been raised in cortain quarters against the entire Catholic priesthood in consoquence of this singlo, unfortunate instance of bad judgmont, uncharita- blonesa, and mistaken zeal. I know you will an- swor by tho inquiry, '* Dut why {a Fatuer Walkor uot ropudiated b bis brothor prients? Why doca not Cardinal McCloskey mate an oxample of hin: that will prove to Amoricana that this bizoted Josultia notatrio exponent of Catholic theology, or Catholic feeling?” I grant you there is some. forcein the question, Butlot me answer by uay- ing that [ havo not tho slightest doubt both theso things will be dono at the propor moment and in the propor mannor. Tho Church is nat governed Ike ® cuatam-honee, Ita machinery moyoa slowly, deliborately, and with dignified precision, But that it will soon bo—if it has not already been—sot in motion to compase Father Walker's Saux fg an cortain as that tho son rises and sots daily. Walt and seo; but in tho meantimo lot me begof you not to allow this ene blundor or crime to be the occasion of a general ouslaught upon Catuoniciry, XO UNION OF CATUOLJO BCNOOLS WITH FuBLIO SCHOOLS, Maw York Freeman's Journal—Catholie, The devil is a great fool, or he never wontd have damned himself an ho has dono; but ho is not such a slocpy fool aa to lot Catholics outwit his sorvanta by getling any advantage out of the publio sobools, Catholics, on tholir part, are taught by tho Apoatle “not to bear the yoke with infidels; for what fellowsbip has juatico with iniquity, or what company for light with darkness, or what bargain (conventio) can Obriat make with Dollal, or what part hag tho faithful with tho in- fide} 7" ‘The proposition to do up rotigion before 9 o'clock in the morning, and after 3 o'clock intho afternoon, and to banish it during tho six school hours, will nover be accepted by the anti-Catha- No publio, noloss thoy become shrewd onough to aoe that this promise, if honestly kept, is a do nial of the Cathollo faith! Roference is made, in Vicar-Goneral Qutn's memorial, to a compromiso of thia kind as work ing ssliatactnrlly fn aomo places. Ono of these laces, an excolient priest informa us, presents the ead sight, in « eoliool-houne built by a former doyoted pastor, of a statue of the ever Bloased Mother of God being *Loxed up" at o'clook in the morniog—unvozed after $ o'clook, If it is not forgotten to do it! What an act todo, in presonce of Catholic children! Some one should be there to say: “Turn, now, our loving advocate, thine eyox of moroy from tts !"” And, the Y o'clock belt being saunded, tho Cathallo pupils—to oa honest with tho gantle- man in black,” who is bead of the party of the other part—ought to be trained to say; ‘*Go, Holy Ghout, loave the hearts of Thy faithful, that, upblasod, they may follow tho ‘aflaities’ of their natures,” —-—— THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, ,. AN IMPORTANT DECLARATION, The following important aud futeresting doo- laration, signed by two Archbishops and twonty- four Bishops of the Eatablished Church, has just boen isined in England. It refers to tho Alscussions which havo provailod of Isto among the clorgy, (ho disnemination of new and strange doctrines, the relations existing betwoon the olergy aud laity, and other Important topica, and muet be accepted as an indication af the grate Spprehonsiona excited by the prone of the Church among Ita londern: Lasnern Vatacr, March t.—We Aroliiabope and Bishops of the Cone Radersloneg tinder a deep renee of duty that resis upon Leland, lesvo. ny b> qulde thono commited to oan BOF 6 charae, dosteo to addrens noma words of conte exhortation to th cleray and lalty of ane dior the uravo circumstances of tise present tin, nt conditicn 1 ral a loceeria We acknowladge, humbly and fanutule len Souchaafat Gy Almighty: Col ty the cths iin, Enghud, By tin blessings on tho labors of url et anc lalty our Church bas of Inte beon euabiet (Ey marvolona manner, to promote ills glory enc vance Is Kingdom, both at howe ad brent, *2 Judgo by external slgns—the chiurchoa Lutits roy’ ™ and oadowsd during tho tah forty yeara ¢ three, fahex formed in that time, eapoctally in oY 13 towne and citioas the vast aura of mle eeu untarily contributed for the promotion ef eft education} the extension of the Ohurcly in (i 2s nica and in forelyn countries, tucluding the foe lion of mora than fifty now soon; tha great’ jou” in tho number of peraone of all'ctaeneewing .aetease ora aud labor asniat in the work of converting sft) Christal! boar witness to the zealand entre et a to clorey and laity of the Eugttal Cuiurehy eentteet of oan anit zeal which we rejoice to kuow in by newer confiuad to any nection or party. Wa nay het trust that the Inward work of the Holy ag esse Jn the earia of meu—e work ‘wich de aheyood ineauuro—hus bean great iu proportia: ‘J wart ori a . portion to thesn gt fe, loweyer, we thankfully reco; abundant merelea’ and blessings, wa eatined yt knowledge with sorrow that reriote evlie diate i peace of the Church and hindor ita work, ro tla One of these avils tn the interruntion of the «, thy and mutual conidence whlch ought to eyes tween the elermy and laity, Changes iu the (it perforniing divine servioe, in themselves someting, fmall Soportance, introduced without anno yeett often without due regard to the fecllngs of nanghttt era, have exclied apprehensions that eroster ee aro'to follow; «lintrunt. nw boon engetieres, eee edification whlch ought to resnit from united’ wa. hbaa been impeded. ‘Tho suspicions thus arouse ee? no doubt, unrexsonable, hava fit some cases gra fye rorlous allenation, nee ‘Tho refural to obey logittmato authority 4 cril in the Church at the presont tlie, Nato notte ny hy it froquently occurred that eloraymen. fail to d,eM oplacopal authority that nulimssion ‘wile fe nate tn the ea of oblacopaay, ut obeitionce avoweily refuved to the fifguest fudicial tnt ons of the law of this Church ond realm, 1; authority which our Qhurch elaima, as tober avery particular or natioasl Church, to one change tiles and ceramontea hee Deou qtteatioad St! eye alta obs sth 1 r x Ve also observe w! nereasiog anxiety a: the dissemination of doctrines nnd cheoutagenne practices ropuguant to the teachings of Hoiy Seritty. anid ta tha principles of the Chitzch,, as derived tr Apontollo Umea and as authoritatively net forth at ie Reformation, |More especially wo call merlows this tion to the multiplication and the asaiduons ctret); ton among the young ant sueceplibte of thane} docirine and private dovotion, of witch it te nat ft muuch to say that many of the dootrines and prici, they lnculeate are. wholly Sucompatibte with theese fogs and principles of our Reforiney Church, Further, wo feel it our duty to call atteniton toy growing tonency to nesociate docirinal sizuiaas, with rites and ceremonfes which do not necessanigat yolveit, For ozamplo, the j:osttion to be occty leat tho minister during tha Prayer of Consocratton {ty Moly Communton, though ft baa varted iu dient ages and different countries, ant has never formaily declared by the Oburch to haye any do:tren significance, ts now regarded by many persons very opposite opinions as a aymibol of iltstinciise ast trino, aud, as auch, hxe bacome tho subject of ems tered controversy, i ea zg Yo would serlonsly romind our brotizen f elorgy of tho solemn obligation which Inuis tat he ready to yiold a wilting obedianca to tha law of ty Church of England, of which wo ara ordalnrImise tors, and to recognize the necesally of snlanstiiny se, own interpretations of any pointa tn that lave wate may be considered doubtful to the Judtelal dectssscact lawiully constituted courts, We, the cleryty, are bose] Ww ‘evory connideration to obey tho law when they clearly interpreted; and to decline to obey when ale ed upon by lawful authority tw to Ket an exampie tht canuvt failto be mont dnfurioun in ite influence ast offecta, We aro convinced that tho nutnuber of thea who wonkd roftie such reenonable oboitence ie 1 and that the vast majority of tho eiorry and lity the Ohurch of Eugiand’ aro thorouyuly loyal ile dotting and discipting, Wa fully nyc tho difforenco between unity and an ayerstralaslige formity, aud are well awara that our church ta rip tolernnit of diversity, within certain | th 12 opinions ani practices, We would not nm me Jeaut this wise comprehionsivencss¢ Lut Wherly tad uot degenerate {nto Heense ant welf-wilis a8 foudy mental trutha must not Le oxplained away, so nett must those clear lines he obliterated which sepany tho doctrines and praolicea of oue Iofornmet Chuck from the noveltles and corruptions of the Cauntd fone. We livo in an age which prides ttself on fr thought aud emancipation from thecoutrolof were ty, In every portion of Christendom mien are ws inposed than ever to rai uta oxlrames of oft and: practice, Wille, ou the ono hand, fundamesta (ruth are iucroasingly neglected or duted, y2iate tempts, on the other, aramady in many qiactiny meet tis infidelity by the revival of auyeratition, Under thers grave clrenstances, wa solemnly chiry you all, brethron beloved fu the Lord, ta culinws aplrit of charity and mutual forbearanee, laylog its alstensions snd disputes which must tentie not inthe Victory of one party ovar anuther, but in the trigass of tha enemies of the Oliurch, and. tniteed, of tv who ate enemies to the faith of Ubrtit, We extort te clergy not to disquiet their congregations by ath practices aud unauthorized coremontos, and to de countenance those who auck to introluco them, ¥6 entroat the laity not to give way tosunuicions io repzd to honost offorts to promote the moro reverent weulig of Alinighty God in loyal contoriulty with the riled the Book of Common Prayer. Huraly this s pot st for estrangomont, but rather for drawing clotet fethor the bondelctween the clergy and thete rats jonera, when vice, ignorance, infidelity, and totemze anes are calling for united prayer and wtulted effart ot the part of all who hold the faith of Christ eruciie, and love aud servo lint aw their Common Lard, Lot ts all then, both clergy and inity, be fal:bfall the doctrine and discipline of our lurch, founded thoy are on Holy Scripture, and in nccord:uce wit lexching sad practice of the Primitive Uburch, Wt cntreatall whom our words may reach to strive gethor with ua in prayer to Almighty God, thatastten {a but one body aud ono apirit, and one. Lope of oc calling, one Lord, one Futher, ‘ono Baptism, oxeGol snd Father of us ‘all, so we may houccforth baalid one beart aud of ond eonl, united in one holy boat truth and peace, of faith ‘and certs, aut nay rt one miud aud ona mouth glorify God, (hroogh Joa Christ our Lord, Amen, aS PRUSSIA, CONFLICT WITH THY RosuaH CHDRCH, +The Borlin correspondont of tho Loudon Dai) News writes to that journal, under data Marca 6: The prosontation of the bill to abolish S:at support of tha Catholic Ohurcl: was « splendid coup do thentre. It bad not been hinted to le publio through tha proaa, aud few of the Dopx B ties on oither sido of the House, muck lth tha Centre, wero oxpecting it, An ovenings & por, which bas official conneotions, inlinst that tha bill had been for somo time inthebast) of the MMinixtry ; beon suspended vyer tho Int: oncitables who administer tho Roman Cathols Church in Prugsis; but when the President of tho Lowor Hauso, after somo tluilling & Rouncements sbout tha canals of Biles and the hereditary rights of deat scl damb grandobildron, carelossly —meatloasd tho exfatonce of ao bill to revolutlonize Catholia Church in Prnagis, thore waa sect" tion and a gonoral amazemont, Tho Left chet od and the Contre did tho opposite thing, 204. was roferred to the printor, Nov, shat ite nioasure han beon introduced, the Liberal pret ia ovorwhelned with obvious arguments for i Introduction, and a only surprivad thet i poars so lato, Most af Eom call it the reply 4 the Stato to tho late Enoyolical, In cere gonso this 18, of caurso, corvect, ‘Tho Encycl-s Was the immediate provocation to the mesits alnco it hold out a direct challenga to Cattow aubjocta to choose betwoon jloyaity to the i and daly to the Church, “Phe State cov! no mora than accept the challenge, Fach tagoniat has ite meang of compulsion. Tul ¢ gays to tho clergy: Ii’ you rocogalzo the 4 ; oushall be excommunicated. ‘I'he Btato #8 " f hie do not recoxnize tho May laws your seit willbe wtonpod, Thug tho ono is aroply af other; aud it remains to bo seen which Bt , moro formidablo—tho spiritual peneinest L Guareh, or tho pocuniary punisiiaout oO x ‘Tho present atrangomont botieen Prowia , the Church of Itomo datos from the yoar va tho reign of Lrederic Wilhelin III. Tt happert tubo an orthodox year with the Kin, bat E rathor moderate apitit provuilod at ome, cordingly, both parties shuwed rather sow ma § and, a it oppeats, the King a mistaken, d°¢) By of conciliation, No Concordat was sera Tho Pope issued a Mull dy Salute Antni a the King accopted it, and it forme unaltets basis of tho rights of the Church io hea! it if one profera, it is tho onumeration 9 4 priviloges which tho Church choovos to xt Thig roservation is but just to both Hae For over the intorprotation of tla ooeree very grevo difforouco of opinion hss * orth n {uted, and it pntein deeply” into the coat ot Ae between the Church aud the Governacn’ ti, ‘The torm compact iy, {0 fact, a DORKINE Ty quostion. ‘Iho Catholics pretend Sa ie ‘ol 8 rongement tnade in 1821 Ia iu the De 0 PF Concordat, that the acceptance of be. font pal Bull by tho stato gavo it ane © of a treaty between two indepen of ie erm, and that, alnce thore is uO Fs for terminating it at the diycrotion cf te ‘ats! it can be tarmiuated only by thelt Wiis consent, ‘Tho opposite view maintnnse ont anti-clorial party will suggest itwolf. on OF to that view no Concordat or compe pestsh form oxlate, There was ab most ® Hil y, toan arraugemont which the Popo ot his own clorgy, aud which the Buaie,§ alanioos dorser, tubsciguently coutirmed by He orf but nothing ke a formal and porpetnn por sion from the State to tho Church, of ta be order sccompanying the promulgerits ibe Bull, the King oxpresaly o a waver pores (hu ihe Chureh {sdoucribed es the “ Catholle @ prvilersa in tho fullneus 0! of srusada,"—a cisguoutauco om W! 8 pte Fenty