Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1875, Page 2

DI glorious body, i nncn}{llng‘ mnml.lm lamfi!:tl, vork hy o o o yorlang | wherehy Mnto” Imslt” And Paul's furthor oxvlanation of this cliange 18, that which In 1sized in & spiritual ho&,'. rafaed in incorrnption, raisod in glory. ralsed pawar, boaring the wnago of the heayonly,—n houso' not_suado with Lands, oterual In tho heasoue, Thore can bo no donbt cortainly that bollevers arn to keop Lheir firat-born bodids like Clwikt forevar, Hurels, now, it would make all this so explieit testimony vory force- lean, vory moaninkless, to suppose that what in satd 08 10 Christ dilfers in its ecope of meami, from whot issaid a4 to bolievers. For it woult amount to this 1 Chirist's resurrection and glori- fication i8 munde a lasis of ocortaiuty as to tho renurreetion and gloritieation of all who belleve on Him. Thov aro to bear IIia image, or tha imago of tho heavenly, tlis ambodinent of ine corruption, of power, of glory, Dut after all thin Lna beon said, it appoars that the foun- datlon on whichs all stands s atruck awav, "o bodiea of beliavers are to abido etorunily and know tu chango, uuless it e of {uoressing glory, but the body of Chrint, the typo, the hoavonly inan, through whom il thta cortaiuty of onr Ly, permanoncs, and slory, 14 roceved, —thin body disappears, this humanity vauishios, never moto to be sconl And, of conmequonce, a'l that 16 maid, and that is so precioua to n\mxr volloviug hoart, about Jewur, and abiding with Chilut, and rojgning with 3lim aftor (o comon visbly to raire people, and consummats tio trinmph of 11y Kingdom,—all this Loovimes only figurew of spcoch, ‘Iiero shall Lo 1o seeing Him s 1o f8, o boing actually sonkinly pressnt with the Lord, no_ittige dewn with 1han wpon is thronn; only, st most, s wort of momentary vision of 1Hiin bofore the end of the hnmanty comes—thoneotorward the many momories of that bloseest Liour, and the certaluty of an otornally invisibie though au ciernully lovig Got. Driouds, I caunot so tead the blesaed word. As I road it, we shall be like Ilim and abido. Wo aro branehes of o liviug, undying, vine-mombers of o body that never dios, Wo ahalt woar the image of the heavenly, and keon it, because 1lo wears tho roalisy and Loeps it We thall be_immortal beeauro his humanity is jmmortal, Wo shall reigu m glory through all the sgea becauze 1o refgns, and s no more to remgn s glowsfied humunity thaun 1le is tho acoptre of Mis Kingdom. Aud so L read John's recoid of tho final issuo of all things alter the contlicts, plagues, judgients, sro all over,—and ot sweotly, expectautly, thoreln, **Aud thors shall bo no'more curso: but tho throno of God und of the Lomb shalt bo fu it: nnd His eorvants ahall vorvo Him : sud they aball seo Il face, and tiis name shall boin tholr foroheads. .+ . . And thoy shialt reign for over and evor,” 1 note as a rocomt fact whioh the reaurrection involvos, that it loeatizen hoavon tad makesitveal, 1t ls quite & popular way with onr class of Inlter- dny religionisis to speak of Hoaven as conlating chiotly 1 o tight stato of Leart, zud tho enjoy- mout that flows therofrom. It is, however, noceseary to Yeep o cenecienco void of offenso toward God and toward man ; tolove God and cue'’s netghbor; to live beuovolently and tho like. but occsonally sumethlug very liko ridienlo in at- tempted to bo nut upon thoe idea of sooking & city, o botter country, and Chrlatian pooplo v snidl to bo vainly searohing after visions, and Deing dissatinficd with their earthly cstato, in- utend of having Heavan, ws they might, all tno way through their piigrimago. Therols n meanuro of truth in this, Thatis togay, o truo heavonly exporieuce, o faras it gou, ko far as couditions allow, fs poseiblo In tuts prosent time. Lo walk with God fu loving, obediunt fellowship, to kuow aud rest 1 Chrisc as tho soul's comploto ealvation, through fnith, is to renliz8 in romo past what makes Heaven ; is to buve au actusl foretasto and ox- crionca of it. But this ia not baving Heaven Tu the Seriptura sones of the syord, And all at= tomyits Lo trie it out that this cuithly rost, and joy of koul, and fclowship with Gud, and Chrirt, and tho Bpixit, In the real Heavon offered to be- liovera, and all there is of it, suving that somo day ol the minful and troublous ciements witl disnppenr, thia is to sadly misconceive, u0t to ay nauaroly contradict, Seripturo teaching. Chrlst, wo linvo keen, roso with o real body, and retainn it in its glovified stato, ‘Cnat Lody in henco locnlized: 1t is n body #till, whatever tho oxact truth abont its gloritied eharacter, aud not & wpirlt. invieibly suporior to all condizions of place. Bo tho Sciiutuies witucss everyshore. 1t dewcribes Chiriat a3 localtzed, So Stephen eaw 1lim, aud John, and Faul. He s the man Clirist Jekus, who, kiaving offered one sacritice for slu, forover sat down on the right havd of God, Bo Cnrist told Ilis disclples, I go to propare a piace for vou,'"—a place, abuorve, not a state,— an actual focality. ** I mill como again, snd ro- celve you uuto myeell, that whero 1 am thero yo may bonleo.” 8o Abralisin recelved Linzarus, 10 tho representation of Clirist, and thoy dwolt together {n on aciual locality, as actual as tho placo of Dives snd of Judas, the placo of tor- ment. Andall the Seripturc testinonies azreo, striving always with such represontations of Heaven ny * our Father's bouso,” **a city with- oat foundstions,” **a bettor conutry,” *a land afar off,” fo 1also in us_a conceptlon of n defintto Jocality, n fixed nud permauont abode whercln wo sbail dwell with Chriet foraver, Pius {8 tho clear tact of Scripture, neccyritated by Christ’s bodily resurroction and onduriug hu- mianily. Aud I tuink it should have lurger placo 1 our thoughte, 1 suspect, howovor our thoo- rios may Lo, we groally undorestimato tho reality of Heaven, Tho whole mattor with many 18 ono of painful uncortninty and vaguences,” They Lelieve in o heaven, bt it is not a heaven tan- giblu or possible to Lo socn, dwelt in, enjoyed, ay Lundon or V'arig. Thoy hold to the jmmoriality of tho soul, baye somo fuea that thoro way pa rocognitions, hoaveniy: fellowships, servicos, and the like, Dut it does not come to them ng having any counterpert with what is true horo,— thoy do not_think of actually cluamn!z”handu 1 N with a true bounding of heart the whilo, and walking and talking together as now, much lesy of laving what might be ealted divino atudying, or work to do, and enjoying self-oulture and the results of effort, and growing In knowlodze and m capacity for usofulness, us they do hero, Th&m is very littls of thin,—so little that to nafle over such things 88 poasibly trus of Ilcavon is to seom ahnost making hight of sacred things,—only o stop away from belug sacri- leglous, nut to eny irreverant. Aud, perhaps, nothilug ever gave Chrietisu people gonorally & shock, as it all tho propriotics hud been nith- teesly ovorsot, than was givon by Miss Phelps’ “(intos Ajar,” in which tho reality of heavouly things was put with telling emphagis. I do not cndorse all that Miss P. uays in her book, nor all that, very possibly, sho may hold to bo trua cbout the hoavenly atato. But I fbuist that the Beripture authorizen a great Advauco upnn tho curront wauy of talking, nnd thinking, aud living, with reference to Henvon, Wonio to gottle it on the authority of Christ’s loculized huwanity, and expross testimony of Bevipture concurring thegonith, that Heaven iy s pluco, just aa truly £0 as Chicago or Neow York u: thut there are poople there, glorificd persounlition, exactly as thero ara here,—1hose wo siall kuow, fathers, mothors, husbands, wives, children, frisuds— and not only know, but greet, talk to and with, reg them dnil atter day, and oujoy it, as wo da Liere, sud a thouzandfold more; that there Is an setual government,—un organized aud perfoct so- cloty, with shining ranks of principalities and povers, kings, priosts, elders, meraphs, angels, nrcbangels, oud L koow uot what else,—all charged with somue acinal part in deing that which secures the genoral Lappiucsa aud tho glory of God. 1f you nuk e lo defina thers thilngs, to toll sou liow it in to Le und all that, to eay whother thero aro actuul stiects of golid ana o tiver of life, and trees growing upon ity bunks, sud harps, and palms, and crowns, snd all that, [ answor I can tell you nothing about it, 1 do not kuow where to rau the line 1 those dessriptions betweon what symbolimn,and what is 10ality. 1dgnot know ox- astly what the glorstied body will in jis na. tura, its capacity: but I say this, thht all theso descriptions stuud for voritus. ‘Tere js a real dwelling-placa; there aro real archa: 8, roul serapls, resl ranke of celvstisl ouos, rosl sere vices, real worship, real followsbip : but I should not bo surprised if thore were & goéd deal more of reality in what Joln dederibes than many euppose, 31 thore Is 1o be a new hoaven aud a now earth, au most of us hold, an actusl eartl venovated from min,—actusl lieavens, actual suus, plansts, stars, comets, ele,,—I cannot son why thore shonld not bo anactual oily of Uod, witls stroets of gold, walls of procions atoucs, gates of ponrl, & tlowing river, tree of life, and #o to tho eud, Buicly that would be as much in keeping with the plorified body sud its futuro courso s s literal earth aud sky. I do not kuow, If we wand literal food bést, I make no doubt we shall havo it, possibly as Adam did be- fore hiw fall. If we want literal harpe, ur pianos, or organs, suything whereby we can most ef- feotually glorify God aud realize highost devi opment aud joy, I make no doubt we sliall have them; sud something real, literdl, aud of a heavenly sort, carreaponding to such nm:{u s our glorified bodics correspond to those, I am qulte sure we shall have, d here lies the force of thia Beriptars presentation. Too muuy, I fear, gob the im- ruulnu that heaven is 1o be & state of yiztual ndolence, hiappy of course, of cuaseleas con- tinyanca of the nchaaldmlyl dnym, wheu we lay by the Lour on the river bauk, or undey the shado of the oaks, aud had nothing in the world todo tut watch the whifiiug clouds, flights of the wallowa, listen to the nipule of the stream, and droam tho tine away. Wo suspect there is not o few. The anticipation of heaven in largely tho auticipstion of sn eterual do-nottung tlmo, whoswa we 01t about, possibly, as butscrtlies, ur THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1875 £lt and ning ouraclvan away to everinating bifes, This Seriptura shought of the reality of the bady, and of tho roality of tho hoavanly ntate, Droaka up sl this,—it Mnkos us know that lite thora l# a real,as pocilive, s dctivo,asageronsive, a8 it 1a horo. 1t maked ceriain that wo shall think, amt study, and bo eager to approhend without tho stram and worriment shich o ax. aricnco now, and with & blesred and evar-wax- ng fagiity and succens, Tt makes certaln that wo shall bave service to perform, abundant, un- ceaaing, dolipbtiuls that thouuht will expand, knowlodes swaop now tislds, tho life take on now monsures of diving fruitfuliess and benut tho heart swall with naw aud imniaasirablo bifs I'rienids, let na take a doublo lesron hete. On the ono side, let the renlity of Chir:at's onetioss with us, Hig prenent, His ablding lnitnanity, loarl W to be moro {fae with Wim, e wours, and ovar aliall waar, onr nature, 1o tuok our lovel, maot onr templations, foly our wauts, our paiug, nounded all tha dapthm of our ncods, alike of body and of sonl, Any, aa I think, the print of tho nails is in Ilis hands atill, aud wwhen [To sees thom Io looks at you and mo, aml eays with ln- finito tondecnoss, and with all that tromondoun force tn Ihs rememuvranco, ' My brotuer, my siutar, bo of good chror; 1 Lavo overcomo the worll" One with ue. and alwaya to_bo xo, how o ean trust Him, and_how (rocly ask s lolp, and how certainly renlizo it uulo daily victory, dally ponce, ani daily foy Aud, on tho other gide, let tha renl- fty of lheaven bLoth comfurt mud in- Apiro usj—comfort, bevauso these shom wo lovo ara there, and wo ahall kee thom. seo them In loving recognition, fust as wo ehali sco the Lord,—sea thelr faces, Licar their voices, abido fu thelr fellowship.—and the uife witl them thero boas reat and infinitely more Diessed than the lite with them heca. ; Ho shonld this coming reality of heavén in- aphio us for uow and incrensing devetion in our discipleship. ‘e servico tuere belng a roal sor- vico,—resl study of truth, ronl growth innesvenly character, real ongagedness in o divine ministry, —it follows that what we ate tere will condition how wo shall begin there, I'he moro wo kuow of Christ hore, e higher upin tho heavoaly rehicol wro sliall Lo roady to atart. Tho more enrnost our aevotion, the larger the measuro of our toil, eudutingy, safferings for Christ's rnke, the groater the raward Lo bo given us when wo croks tho threshold, and {ho more oxalted and glorious the appointnsent it tho sorvices ol the uges to come. Aud blessed they who bave cvunted sl things but loss that they might win Christ, and who slialt hear the Aastar's * Well dotio® aud » Phon bast beon faithful in few thingss I will make theo ruler over many things, Enter thou into the fulluess of thy Lord!" Frieuds, let us court sumething botter than Leing suved **go as by fivo.” FASHIONABLE SABBATH-BREAKING, Kermon by the ftove I, I, Burrell, Tho oy, D.J, Burroll preached tha follow- Ing eermon at tho Westminator Trosbyterian Chureh, corner of Jackson and Pooris streets, sosterday morning ¢ The Sabibath was made for man—3ark it., 28, T'horo gro mauy portions of tho Yible which, under torture, can b mada to serve au ovil pur- pose. Tho davil know this when he led Christ up to tho pinuacle of tho templo arrd gaid, ** Cast thyselt down; for is it not writlos, ‘1o shall givo his angels charge concerning theo?'” Tho so-called successor of 8t. Pater know it whon he bound the Loys at his girdle and sat down i tho Papal chair muttoriug, **On this rock do I build my Church and not all the gates of hell shal] provail ngaivst it.” So the most startlivg orim ¢s in Listory Liavo been perpetrated in tho namo of God's revealed word. The torture of the Luquisition, tho wars and sloges of Hloody Mary, tho burning of the witches of Salem, ail all fu their day were justitied by numerous texts from Scripture. 'T'he Queen-mothor of Spaiu roso from her knces to sign tho denth-waniant of the LIug ucnote, and ea$ Lending over her col- leets whila the bolls wuore tolling on St, Uar- tholomon’s Day. Thus o Biblical apalogy of a certain sort mag-be fovud for the wost ravolt- Ing crimes ; and not only so but for ovory form of moral looneness and misdemeanor, The free- lovar good to ctha paged of Holy Writ for proof to show that marns tios aro gossamer aud tove's ideal is promiscuity. Tho drankard and hie condjuter, the moderite drinkor, join hands ovor tho fifth chapter of Tirat Timotny, and find & warraut for tipvling in Panl'a prescripiion for nauses, ** Take a hittlo wine for thy storuach’s sake, It ia o truo sayiug that the Hiblo canw he made to mean anything,—i. 6., by those who road 1t with n disposition to forcet to support thoir own ungodly lives, ‘This {8 evidont frow the way our text has boen waulpulgteds *The Habbath was made for soon”" Now, It you are so disposed. you may undommtand this Lo moan that the Sabbath i mun's property, his plaything; that it was uiade tor hiu mere plessure and convonionens that, if ho chioonon to observe 1t »s w holidny rather than a holyday, bo ia ot pesfect liborty to do mo, for it i lud, aud may not & wan do what he will with bisown? This is the doctrine Jately preached by the pastor of & certain promiuent church’in this city. 1 think we shall find no difficulty in showing it to bo an utter pervarsion of the trath, Just bo- fora Christ uttered these words, His diaciples Liad becen ealted to task for plucking sud eating a fuw oars of cor'i as thoy pasaed through the flelds on the 8abbath. This cowing to tho kuowledge of tho Platisoos, was mado tho ground of what sormod to them a vory sarlous complaint; they camo to Jusus and eharged him with allowing Iia followers to desecrato the Sabbath dov, It wau in suwwer to this complaint that ffe naad tho worda: **The Sabbath ‘Was made for man sod no 1uan for the Habbth," Now, in order to arrivo at the true meaning heve, we must undsrstand that our Lord nakes andndirees defense by bringing a coutter-charge against the fault-finding Vharisecs. They were 80 over-scrupulons in their observance of the four:h procept of tho decaloguo, that they loaded down tho Sabbath with extra-judicial rites and ceremonies, made it o **woarineas,” snd Lecamo its bond-slayes, To show with what refined = absurdities thes boly doy was incumbered, tot me quota a little from somse of thelr Toarnod rabbiuieal writings: ** A horso may bave a bridlo but uot a saddle, and he that leadoth him must not ket the halter haug loose, lest ho meemn to carry somewhbat of 4t The lams may use a otall, but the blind must not, bo- cunsa he cap go withomt gt It s nat permitied to throw mare corn to the panllr{ than will serve tho day lest it grow by Iying etif, and we be eaid to 80w our grain upou tho Bab- bath. *1tisnot lawful to carry a fan, becatiso touse it would bo labor. If & Jow upon his Journey be overtaken by tho Sabbatl, lie muas tot Lim down, though 1t be fn the midet of the wood or iu the storni, aud there remain.” Thus they added to the law, and mads it of none ef- foct by their traditions, ‘Che Babbath had como to be 110 longer a day of holy rest and pleaauro, —it was & coromonial scourge. Now, says Chrlst, man was not mads to sorva tho Babbath, but the Sabbath was mede for man,—i. e., to servo ljm,—this, of courre, not \mlrlyln that be has the right to prostituto its hallowed hours to any of tho basor nsos of tlmo. ‘I'he Savbath i8 our gervant, but, if it ba abused, it ceases to bo our seivaut, sud becomes our onemy, work- g us ill instend of good, sud, after awhilo, usurping authionty over us. ‘I'his abuse may bo eithor 1 laxity or ovorstriotuess. 'The ancleut Pharisves at tho ono oxtrawo, aud the Germang of our dayat the other, be charged with & violation of Babbath law; and tholr sin coosists, it I m.ay express it so, {uale lowingtie Babbathtoexsercise Jordship over them, Now, tha command, * Lomembor the Babbath day to keep 1t holy," is but anothor way of say- ing, ‘HRewember that tho Babbath was mado for man's moral and eternal good." Thoro- fore lie_keaps tho Babbath Loat who makos it u;x‘vo him beat,~1. ¢.,who gota the most protit out ofit. . Now let us obsorve soms of tho common waya of life which are excluded from the proper ob- sarvanco of Lhis holy day, Aud first, I mention labor. ‘Lho Sabbath, ng'man's servant, was in- touded tu contwribute o his bouily and montal recrowtfon. ‘Tne meauing of the word 13, ‘‘rest dsdy." All ordisary tasks are (o bo suspended, while winews and facultics, worn out with tho straln of six days’ llowed to recover thoir strenutts 2 Thus far the Havbath finds its wai raut in natural law, It was written in the woari- ness of braw and muscle bofure it was over lu- seribed upou the tables of stoue, The mau who thinks it possible to oxact sovon days of contiue uous work out of evory wuok I8 held smonablo, not ouly to” God's edict, but to tho etubborn law of nature, whose *'Chou alalt not,” will mavert itself in pains, oud diseases, aud prematuro,death, A commibies appointed Ly the Uritish Iiouss of Commarn to lnvestigate the political cconomy of SBabbath rost, reported that, after a pationt ex- amiuation of stativties, they were conviuced that wenu who toil bug wsix daya in the wosk are healthier, live lougor, and do more sud better work than those wno labor soven ; and this re- port was uuanimously iudorsed by su associa- ion of lemned physiciau, ‘Thus the fourth sommandweut seoins Lo ba ouly & veritication of Nature's law by Nature's Uod ; and its rativnale in given in_the words, **'Thio Babbatl wus made for man, Tn 1t thou shalt do o work, bocauso it was mado for flee, for thin ovident good, for the resting and rostoring o! thine energies,” Lut Jest this zeasoouble law, by an ovesutsich aust both and equally onforcoment, should subvort the vory onds it wassdgsigned to arcomplhs, and thus tho Habe batly should bocoras the task-msator rather than tho servant of tnay, it (s epeciied in the Divino Word thiat S8abbith rest ia not violatad by worka of neconsity or merev. It fs right to do what miist bo done,—oating, drossing, walking, and ko erranda of neceneity. 1t jaright, awso, to viblt tho sick. to draw “ont & duwb creature that has fallon ftato & pit, fo ford the huugry, and - such other deeds as morey wav require. Theso saide, all labor- fona taxka must ba Busponded sud tha ontira day piven to1ast. Yol thero by danger of putting o wrong meaning upon vost. Obsorys that 1t does nos mean mete luaotion, idicusss. The mght- taue is for elaop: one-thivd of man'a life In syont in the embrace of this twin-brotuer of death, JTe who dozes shiongh thess cannscrated lowrs of the Lord's day, morally, mentally, or phyeically nsfoop, is as gnlty of disobodience to 1lie lawa of Howure and of Clod as thie man who spandy thorm in tho most Iaborlous toil, There aro vaqious kmde of reat, The energios of miud and bady may be recreated by ceastug from offort: thin [a the rost of the night.timo, But tho rest of tho Babbath is fonnd in turning sl olfort tnto a new and, in this case, a spintual groove. o rost mow, not in dessting froin work, but in working for God ; and 1 doing #o we fureo the Sabbath to sarva us in bringing to oitr wouls all raannor of spiritual good. Uiy lends tao to-remark thst tho immediata sud positive doxign of the Babbath is to afford the soul an opportunity for salf-culture in the worship of Qod. The world, with allits work aud worrg, must now be laid sside, and the doors of sho hieart thrawn opou to the dows and punsbine of leaven, Itis, par excelleucs, the roligions dny, \Yhatover task will hielp tho soul in its stefving after nearuoss to God 1a now law- tul and np!:ru])rlulu] bitt whatever is not rolig- fons, wisethor it bo task or pleasury, is sinful and out of place, Iloto, then, is a safe ruio to fol- 1ow : Guo tho Sabbath ot those things be dons, and ouly thoso, which in thelr naturo aud ten- dency aro dovotional. Under this rulo it is evi- dent LLiat comtnon scenlar atusements are oul- lawed ; for, howaver Innocent thoy way be in themselves, thoy do nat lift tho eoul upward townrd God. [ caunot forbear ta say that, for tlus ronson, it is wrong to read what are callad tho ** Sunday nowspapera,” Iam well aware that many good poopls are in the habit of buyiug and resding them ; nevertboloas, bulh buvitg sud remding ero in flagrant violation of the Apirit of thia divino law, — ‘Tlicsa Sunday pspers aro undor the bun; Hist, bocauvo af the best they are only socutar, aml all things socular a probibized mxs out of plsce on tha Lord's day; wnd, second, hecauso they ara uotoriousty indecent aud profano. It ia ndmitted, jndeed, tbat thoir popularity {s due lo tho_rackless abaudon with which thoy pandar to the lowest passions aud moat Bhams- ful appetites, During tha six othor days of tho weels tho dally press is conteut to bi un- clean with o rescrvation, but on the seventh it throws off all constraint, ana roveis it column on column of rapes, sud munlors, and divorce canes, and scsudal-mougering, aud blasphomy agatnst God. I say it is bard to boliove that n Christlan mian would ever read them, barder atill that he would bring them into his home, and unaer the pure eyos of Lis wife and chil- dren, but hardust of alithat Lo #hould do this on God's boly Sabbath day! This sin amovg church nombers Las gono loug encugh unre~ bukod. Tho Sabbath wasmade for man that hio might use 3t for his spritual and ctornnl #ood ; s thero auy one hera who thiuke the filth of the Bunday press can be made a factor fu Lis ganctification? . Phere are other and kindred abuses of the holy day that ueed only be spoken of here to be condomued. Ono of thom 1s the readig of sec- ular books, novels, hintories, sud the like; all well in therr plsce, but out of placo ou the Sabuath. Anotber is tbo writing of letters,—lotters of busincss or wmere friendship. Home peaople are in tho bobit ot soltiag apart o portion of eact Sabbath for writing up their cor- }lrupoudeuca. No sbadow of oxcuse can bo fonnd forit. Itis a flagront sin. Another is the giviog of unusually large dinoers, in the preparation of which more or less unnocessary ]shor isinvolved. Anothor is walking or driving out for mere pioasurs. I do not say it may not be right to walk or drive upim the Babbath,—T speais of doing it for mere pleasure. Bub what neod to go on pointing out these speclal cases; they are all inciuded in the rula thal whatever is potiu itself or tnlta purpose religious, la not lawful (excepting ench woiks of meroy and nccesaity as have alroads boon iodicated), ~ This in & strict rule, but it Is Go's ruto. Whatsoaver 14 dono upon the Lord’s dey must be dono to the Lord's glory. But, loaving now tbis discursive, yot I trust not unprotitable, mode of treating tho subject of Sabbatu sins, let us conmider tlrea devotional duties which tho Babbath impoeses upon the pao- pleof God. Firat, tho sanctuary service, This duty 13 very Sla!nly commanded, and iy gonaraliy cancedod aud recoguizen. . 1{ow pleased and Lisat was ‘o near the peopl exy: Come, let 1A so-k our God taday! Yer, with n cheerfal zeal, We hunte 10 Zon's hill, Aud thero our vows and honnrs pay. Yot church-going is s daly which, it wronely done, becowey ' sin, ** Hasting to Zion's hill" with a wroug motive in wogae than not going at all. A strong temptation is offered in these days to visit tho sanctuary out of vain curlosity, to sco soma novel display, or to bear artistic muvio or sensatlonal preaching. This {s not worship, but plessure-sosking. ‘Lhen, too, it ia o un- common thing for Christian people to visit churches where thoy kaow thet somo of the most_pracious doctrinos of thelr faith, such as the Divinity of Josus Christ, will e scoutad and ridiealed, Far botter go to tho ball-room or the theatre, The single ond of public worship iy to lesd the soul uptoa holylife and into uweet communion with God; aud the church whero this is not dons or aimed at s no placo for & Christian, The safe rulo here [s toattoid olur own churctes, aud lot novelty ad sensation alons. The sscond i family worship. God sald, Let the Habbath be su boiy day in allyour dwelllugs. ie commanded tho raanlo of Ierael to patter thelr childron at the family altar, and tell thomn the story of their long bondage aud delirorance ; “Thou shalt teach thess words unto thy sons and doughtors,” In the oldon tima no Chrisian bome was without its altar. Tut thesa arothe dayn of easy life, tho daysof half hoariiness, thie days of excuscs aud subtsrfuges. Pho third is private worship. “Enter futo thy vloeet and shut too tho door, and remiain thore, nlone with God.” The Sabbath in the best of alldaya for socret commnunion, for medita- tion, and self-examination. Do you say thata €abbath speut in the manner indlcated would bo agloomy day? I answer, that dopeuds alto- ather on the tasts and inclivation of the heart, t wonld be o gloomy day, indaeed, a vary Baatile of gloom, to a man who bad uo cars for the fotlowebip of God, no thirst for purity or holis noea, But to God's children & could not be othor than a blessing sud s joy, It must be granted, af caurse, that the Sab- bath may bo, and ofton is, #o shrouded in solew- nity and overmuch righteonsues as to bacome a season of utter pain and wenrinoss. Thia was tho slo af the Pharissos, and in later times of "the Puritaus and Covenanters, We may tat our children in straight-backed chairs and Leop them noring avor **Daxter's Baints' Teat,” not allowing them to raide thelr volcos abave & rovorent whisper, and when fo aftor yeara they esonpe from our Enrouul anthority they will xush Insdlonfilnto the other and more dangoraus extromo. But tuis ovor-strictniess is as much a violation of Babbath law as ovor-lax- ity. Thora is nothing gloomy or morass in true roliglan, ‘To make it 80 s to sbuse it, Religion s Qod's nweatest and gladdest gift to man; and tlio Habbsth that In filled with iv is full of joy,— » day epont with Jim at whose right band are plessures foravormars, The truth iy, shat tho loud ontery agalnst the roliglous Sabbath which wo hoar all around us does not coma from the lips of devoted Christiau people, 1t i wordlinge, in and out of the Chucch, whao clalm the licensa of doing their own will on the Sabbath, ‘I'o them tho very thought of twelve consecativo hours of holy rest in praser aud meditation is absoluts and unmingled misory, ‘I'he maona that'fell from heaven iy dry aud atale to thoir perverted taste: givo them the tosh-pots of Egypt. It is not to be ex- puctod that s rigld obssrvance of tha Hablath should commend itselt to the world, Butin this day when the outery sgainst it Is so Joud, 1t beligoves tha people of God to stand by the old landmarks. ‘The Habbath was made for man Yot it i nouo the loss the Babbath of ths Lord our God, I8 was made for us &3 a mother makes ® garment for her ohild, bot to to ployed with or torn or draggoed imthe mire, but to-be worn aud oujoyed. 1t iv meant for the ligher uses of the soul, wnd o ultimstely for the glory of Uod, Evidoutly, then, it & im- Kolu)blu for sny but God's ‘childron to kecp aly this ballowed day, Tholr ploasuse fs ln the world, and thoy cannot enjoy the Bablath unless the world be dregwed into it. Tut tha soul that lives in God needs uo Sabbath rest but worship nud love. These days of holy puace sre the podly man'a inll-tops of vision from which, like Moscs in Mount Nebo, hia looks sway to tho laud of promiso, ‘Thie Bundays of our lite ‘Thieaded togethier on Time's string 3Mako Lirucelcty tu adoru the wife Of the Elernal King, On Bunday husyous kals sre ops, Licusingy .ru}l:niuul agd rife, More pluntiful than bope | To tho upiritually-minded, who cate more for holy things than for tho pleannren of this world, thara is ho promise moro mweat And pracious thau that which tho Lonl p:ave to His sarvant of old1 "If thou turn away thy foot from the Hab. Dath, front dowg thy plessuro on my holy day, aud call tho Nabbath a dolight, tho lioly of tha Tord, and shall honor Him, not doing tuino own waya uor soeaking thing awn words, nor finding tivue owa ploanure,—then ahait thon dolisht theantf tn the Loril, and I will causo theo to ride upoi the high 1feces of the earth, and foed thos with the hentago of Jacoby for the mouth of the Lord hatuspokoa Ity S g REVIVAL PREACHING, A Dinst en Hensntional Cruanders Agalnst Hlunors, TV AX QLD-FASUIONED CLEAGYMAN, Tolhe Bhlor of TAe Chicago T'ridune Pike Couxry, 1ML, Aprfl 3.—One of tho moat Indigestible features of revival preaching is its assanlt upon the nervons system instead of the resson or the nnderstaudiog. The getter-up of rovivals must know how to work the lachrymal gland,—not only his own, but that of his hearare. Ha must play skillfuliy with a Joud uofus upon thosa fibrous chords called nervos, which rathify through tho systom aud glvaitan molian susceptibility to sloquent wind, It sooma to Lo taken for grantad that tho preaching dono by the rogularly graduated sud accradited proacher, wust sooner or later fail of ity effoot, and produce a lot of what aro called ¢ Qoepol-hardeucd ” Loatora of the word, and & gorge of Ica in the way of church-membors which abstructs the flow of tho watera of life. In other words, tho sppeal to the understanding of pao- ple who sit clothed and o their right mind at the fool of their mpiritual counselor every Sunday, is undarstood to fail aimply bocause it i follow- od by 10 response on the part of the neivous sye- tom, Thoro ia no weoping or wailing, no spasing or jorke, noBbiouts or shrioks, no boundiog iuto tho air and falling dead (spiritually desd) upon thofloor. Tha little children, although naturally the most {mpreesible of human crontures, aeem tobs asimpassivo s the reat of the congrega- tion, Taay " love Jeeus,” and auybudy elsa who talkn as kindly and ratiouslly to iis ** littlo ones " a3 He did. . ‘Tha common people and the uncommon peo- plo, young people and old peoplo, attend with puvotualil 1 and liaten with attention. The preachier doen not appesr to shun “I of tho wholo coungel, but goea tho round o. ||rauu[1t and dootrine, admonition and entreaty, with sbout a3 much fidolity and farvor as conld be oxpectod of & man who biaa to ropoat the samo words ovor 80 frequently, So one would con- cludo that the good work of winniug souls was going on_genulngly, however quistly, and that the taithful were boing bullé np 1" thawr mosat hioly faith as rapidly as tho fluanclal degeneracy of tho age pormits. But this it scoma 18 all wrong; tho good work has stopped. The sinnors aro being hardensd In thow siuvs, the prodigals in thelr waywardness, tho ofllico~ hotders in_ their rocklossuces, and tho eaints in thele torpldity. Tho gorge of frozen salnta must Lo broken up, that the Gospel may have freo course and bo gloritted. In a word, tho ap- ponl to the refectiva faculties having failod, wo muet aasail tho pervous systom. Iam tired of tho grace that droppell as tho gentla dow from flq:l‘wyl'l. Wo muet Lave an ''outpouring of the upiris, !No nooner snid than done, A. professional ontponrer 1 gecured, and tho air is full of the note of preparation. Tho old machinery is brought out, and now added toit. **Anxlows bonches" a-e provided for thoss who are m .= first stage of tho revival fever, or thoss who lave reacbed that stago aro roqnestod to riso and be counted and prayod for. A man witha ailver trumpot is sometimos employed to lead tho singing, Somo evormous auditorinm {a ongaged for tho vast multitudes which ~ aro thua created by being expocted! The crowd goos to soo—the crowd! Peoplo_go-whero they caunot got in, nn the Erlnclp]o that overybody should bo whoo evory- ody in said to bo, Givo it out tust the church could not contain the poople last ovening, and it will not contain thom this ovening. Barnum advortlsed his hippodromo by opening it o the revival, which i turn waa advortised by making ueo of it 1fa church is secured, thie pulpit desk in romoved, to indioate perbapa that the decks aro now for tho flrat time oleared for action, nod to {utimate, porchauce, that, while the under- stiepberd ef ‘that fold fe dopoudent upon o manuscript and buman wisdom, and that sort of thing, the ovorshepherd ¢ providevtially witiy ua " dorives lu inspiration from s nigher source, The gettep-up of rovivals does not ican upen an arm of fitsl, or depond upon s salary, le {8 not an hirellog, Tho ravens will faod him, vr, ,it they do nat, there i3 & norvous systom or two that mll aco to that, Tho stepplng down and aside of the regular watchman on that particulsr spot of tho walls of Zion, adds to tho offect, 1t Liasan awakening effect upou the drowsy, nery- oua systom of both penitent and impsuitont. ‘I'lia rovival is timed with evon more accuracy than Old Probabilitios slgnals the hurricano or snow-stoin, It je heralded by piacarde, mn. nouoced from the pulpits, prayed for by preachor aud deacen, aud puffod by both the pro- fane aud pioue press. . Bo that it will be Boen that tho dovicos and contrivances for * awakeuing” purposes ro- sorted to by those who look exclustvely tothe Lord of tho harvest for the inoroase are varied, numerous, sbd adroit, By the timo the ory goes forih, *'L'hey are cominy," thoreisas greatn atir of expectation as whon the frst equeatrian of the traveling clrcus appears in sight of the villago popniace. ITo comes,—the getter-up of ravivals comes, be sees, and ha conquors, Lo must bo & dull fellow uot to conquer, whers the arraugemonts for eurrendering to bim are so complete, And what i lacking in the basioged oity ia amply made up in the expert Captain of tho bosioging forces.. Ho s _not a dull, but = clover follow, Mo knows how. Ilo s endowea by natore and reputation for his work. Ife bas tho requisite iguorsuce, Whoro {gmoranco is wisdom ¢ is fully to bo enlightaned. Whist would be offensiva irrovorence in a clorgy- man of culiure in in bim a powerful msans of grace, s famillarity with tho Almigly s counted unto him for a high attaioment in plons moeknoss, 1is very vioos in rhetorlc, taste, and maaneraara put ta tha credit of his advanced odlinoes, Mr. Varley refused to givo out tho 1;mu, + Neator my God to Thes,” st tho roquust of alady, becauso tho ** Lelievera " of his school conld not get any nearer to God thau they woro, The lady wilted, 8he will probably have to bo gm:vfixted all over sgain by tho *converted utcher,” * . This reminds us of another auxiliary to e Retter-up of revivals—his npome, or nom de plume, Mo is a **lay proacher,” or boy preacher,” or & *' rogéncrated comedlian,” or & “ convartedJew,” or & "reformed drunkard.” Or aho is an ‘* escn) nun,”" or Drigham's first or twonty-firat wifo, Io repcaty at evory rovival the numbor of his faats aud proyors, and elaborates with gushing ef- frontery all the exxufloncuol his closest com- mnnm§- snd midnight vigila, The report, {u pamphlet or book form, of what the gotter-up of ravivals bas wronght, requires twelve blmes the number of words that sre uocessary to put i type all that thelr Lord and Maater did while upon earth, Your modern rovivalist rovels in publioity and notoriety, and his work cometh with observation. ~ He rojolcoth In ad- vertising, e distributeth hus photographe. Somo of them are full-lenglh,~htat is, the faco is! Bomo represeut him (n tho attitude of humble aupplication—thua giving pablicity to his bumility, Soma present bim 1o the vary act of moving upon tho nervous system with up- litied arm and rolling eyo, We have secn one photograph which caught the groat rovivaliat as bie bauds, @ rather elbows, waro belug uphold by the Asroirand Hur of the movemens, ‘The pieachlng of the professional getter-up of rovivals is in koeping with the rest of the eccentrlc ailuroments which mark the movoment. A Yorushire exhortor ‘' takes a pair of scalos into tho palpit to weigh in the balances the charaoters Lo describes.”” Another evangelist exclaimeds ‘Youn mcem (o think salvation an easy mattor! Yeos, just a8 essyas it la for mo to catch, that fnsect.” Whereupon he grabbed, paused, opencd bia hand amid broathloss atten- ion, aud waid, * 0, 1 have missedit}” Theelloct was, howdver, damaged aftormard to somo extent by the remark of ous of the ** breathloss™ hesrern: * If ho had oaly tried to entch tho in- seat, lustead of miseing it on lmrpou!“ Another noted preachier (‘Foplady, 1 think) cried out: ;‘ 'l‘t:la: ay I|I‘D. nny |hey'n’uAI: l&l‘ lnln Mmh--l or, In preserving 1lis poo| old only & parcol of 'eulu{y thelr nu:l"p Bl:ohhar Talumags “could bardly excel that, although in his onuncine tiou of the comedisus he ocowpeics with thom to ths oxtent of lus undisci- lined abllity, Brother Hammond plays 15 cards (**covensnt cards®) well, and wiih & feld for oultivation as productive as the cor- vous systein of *a litke girt 8 years old oni of ‘hrsat,” snd the * buy of 4 who wrote a book iu ¢favor of Jesus ;" it v, perbiaps, no wonder that he bas ocousiderable of an ingatboring. But there ssoma {0 be no lack of success suywhere unloss it be in Chucago, where Moody tolled uo long unkuown to fame. This 1y Chicago's great roproach, Elsewhere as & Eenon) thing no sooner does the machluory begin to move thau the nervous system begiva to movealso, No cider-mill could yield its st trickle of sweel Juice with more slacrity thaa the lachrymal glandsa aliow [u sucoumbing to the goarcive pron- auro of the ‘‘revival measurea.” Blunors sace oumb; raints swaken. Indeod, the ravival of tuo faithitul at theas Pm‘lndlm| soatona of re- troshing remind un of uothing so muoh aa tho resunoitation of tho frogs from their dormancy In the rpring. Tuo frogs, hoviever, are thawol out by the beams of the Apnlauni while the noiuts aro **waakenad” by tho thundor aud light- ning of tha ravivalist's exhortatlon. It ia a question of thenervous rystem 1n both instances. o maints, as well an froge, hava thoir winter tima af dormancy and thoir spring-time af v re- vival" 7 Wo_rand of nothing lifia thin in tho toachings of Jesus, 1t then **they didn't kuow evorylhing down fn Judes " | CLEntcya, e ARTHUR BROOKS. IMix Farewoll Hermon, The Nov. Asthur Brooks proaclied his farowel] sormon in the lecture-room of Bt. James' Epla- capal Ghureh, eorner of Cass and Huron atreots, yeatorday morning, Tho first partof the dis. courao was dovoled to a statistical account of the progress of tha church—the work accomplishod in & floancinl aud roliglous mounse—during ‘the pantorate of the. proacher, which had extendod ovor Whireo yeare, Aftor the Fire, tho Bi. Jamen community was burdoned with debt, having lost all the property of the church, except tho gronnd on which the bulliting sfood. Alao, toadd to the othier drawbacks, the con- grogation way broken up among other alnrches, very many of the Episcopalisn residenta of tho North 8ldo having moved to the other soctions of the city. The first great undertalung was to rabmild tha ehuroh aditice. whick, wnder such do- pregeing olrcuinutances, was an Immenne undor- takivg, It was now faivly finivhed, tbhe in- torior svork of the mudiiorium being the principal thing left undone. During thoe thice yoars thero had Leen spent on an_aversage 95,000 mx‘;lyenr for public chnrition. -Tlhoy liad coutributed very largoly to St, Luke's Ilospital, and al4o to the missionary work, 'Thoy had col- lectod, within & very shorb time, 20,000 for church robuflding—all’ boing exclualve of the usnat collectiun mado at gach servico for the genaral exponsos of tho church. He could antnly eny that 8¢, Jamos’ had done wmore thau thio othier Eptacopal churches of Chicago inthe way of col- locting money and sproadiug thé good work, The acoouvts ahawed that thoy hiud raised inote funds dnriuf tho lagt throo yoars than had ever bacn rased, during tho same porivd, in that churoh jbefore. ‘This was, hLe oonosidored, sufioient angwer to some who bod, without giviug the mattor suilicient thought, spoken sbout a cortaln deadnoss fn tho church work. 'The porsons who made such charges were doad in their own apirits, which accounted for their niuake, .‘{h apologizod for having alluded at mnoh longth to the twork accomplished undor his stowardship., Ils bad never spoken of {& pro- viously, nor woild ho thon, only for the poculiar ciroumatances aurroundiog & farowoll occasion, But, after all, mera matvinal work was not the only object of cliurch exiatonce, 'Thera wero souls to bo looked aftor, and to bo saved from tha wrock ang ruin of a siuful world. Voices of follen Emop\o in the strosts appealed to them to iocresse their missionary zeal,—uot to slacken in tholr efforts, but to besr tho cross {nto tho raiaat of the sinfnl, and eo attract tham to the salvatlon promised by the Maator of all repontant sjoners, No noblor mission could be laced befors thom. The day of tho triumph of od's Cburch oyer nil nntions and races, for their good, would surclv como, and whea It did como, bo Lelioved that St, Jamos' Church would shoy s craditable record in the future asin the pask & SEWHERE. o T ALTON. Sreerat eBn ta Taa Cnicaze Tridune, Avzow, lit.,, Aniil 4 —Tho sunual meoting of the Alton and viclnity Dible Soclaty was hold this avening at the Presbyterian Church. After the roading of roports of the Hocioly's agents for the past year, tho follow- ing officors woro elcctod for the ensuing yoar: Joln L. Blaly, Presidont; J. I, Perrin, Bocrotary; M. J, Leo, Tronsurer ; Bamuel Wado, J. L. Watkins, and I, Appel, Dircotora, Tha widross was dolivorod by the lloy, Dr. Kindricke, President of Sburiloff College, ‘There woro no Borviced at tho other churchos in tho city, sud tho attendance was vory large. AT WASUINGTON. Wasmwaray, D, C., April 4.—The frionds of the Amorican ‘Lract Sosioty oolobratod its fitioth yoar {n the Naw York Avonuo Preabytorian Church this gvening. Judge Strong, of tha Bupromo Court, prosided. Tho Rev, Lyman Abbolt, editor of the Christian Weekiy, tho Itev, Dr. Bush, of the Anierican Board, and others, rondo address- os. The total rocelpts oxceod $12,700,000, of which one-third ars from donstious avd logacica. Tho oxpenditurea for grants, colportage, sod the forelgn misuion pross, oxcood the enlire begavo- lent “receipts, The President has refurmed to Washington. RAILROAD NEWS DANVILLE & VINGENNES. Judgo Drummond gave his opinion Satarday in the case of Qugood va. Tha Chicago, Danville & Vincounos Railroad Company, on tho motion to dismies for want of jurisdiction. Steplion Oagood filed & bill agatnet the Com- pany in the Wil County Circult Court, asking for a Rocelvar, and atber ralief. Aun injunction was jsaned and Reveivara .appointod without notico. Bubeoquontly & motion was mado to removo tho causo to tho Fedoral Oourt, and rofused, Under tho lato act of Congress enlarging tho Junsdiction of tho Federal Courts, anothor moys was made by filiug a potition in tho State Court, though in vacatlon, and a transcript_of the record was then taken to tho Federal Courton the 24th of March. A fow days ngo amotion was mnte o diamiss, on the ground’ that the Fodoral Court hadno jurisdlc- tion, and argued for two days, Judgo Drummond, in glving his oplolon yes- torday, aaid that tho iutention of Congress soam- ed to havo been to consolidate in the iate act all the previous acts, and at the same timo extend somewhat tho jurisdiction, Tue Court had ju- rindiction in muits betwaeen the citizens of diffor- ont Btates, without regard ta tha fact whether or not ono of tho parties was a citizen of the Biato where tha suit was brought. “Thiis s the first timo that Congreas has over authorized » defoudant, & citizen of tho Btate whore the sult fs brought, ta romove the case from the Stata to the Fedoral Court, Aa this s 3 cage whoro thero aro several defendante, soma of whom have pat Joined In the petition for ro- moval, thuéuuaunn s whother tho controversy hwhuu{ betweou tho plaintiff and those who dave pehitioned for a yemoval, and can bo fully ¢oterminoa as betwoen thom, *Tho coutroversy in this case is, ae botween thoas parties, whother tha bonds reforred to in tao bilt aro valid dobts sgainat the Company, and the mortgagoes can bo foroclosed and the claim oaforced lt]llu!l tho Company, and whetlior tho oficora of tho Compsny have beon guilty of: any of the braachos of trust alleged agaivat thom, ‘I ofticera named s defendants, and the Nail- rad Company, would ssera to bo partiea whose rizhts, a8 botwoen them aud thoplatntiff, could e fuily determined as boing & cou:mvnnfi wholly bibweon them. The other partles who have i putition for removat are more frus- contraversy wholly between cltizens ofdiffarent Statea, +The fact that thers aro various judgmont oreditors, wWhose xl{;hu are subjsot to the prior rigpte ond Yuny of the bondholders, or that a craa-bill haa beon filed, cannot affect the power of the removal.—thelr righta remaining un- chinged, 'Tho diflgulty arising from (ho porsod- pio1 of tho res by the Blate Courd je more ap~ pannt than real,” ‘I objection that the petition for remaval wag not Dled at the torm at which the cause coutl be first trled was not validy it could bo Hled bofore the torm, and it ofton was dopfrable to remove s ocause immedistely ita comwmencement. ‘Thio statute did Dok reqairo tho Judgs to GPPW“ the bond, aud & waa cloarly the abject fo allow s removal withyut the aid of the 8tate Cour, Nor did the 1aw direct tho Federsl Court to remand the causo becawe of soma irrogularity ln any of the stepu token to procure tho yomoval, The purpose of the ax obyiously uu‘ if the record was flled in tho Fvderal Coutt under the law, and the Court could see that I§ had jurisdiction of the case, that & should retain {t, notwithstandiog thero might bo defecta in the manner of romeoral. The x:qunn to dismiss would therefors be ro- moved. il- MORTUARY. 3 Special Disvateh to The Chteagn Tribuns, Jorwt, LU, April &, ~The fuveral services of tha lte Col, Laronzo P. Haoger wore held in Christ Episcopal Church at 4 p, m. to-day. The romains were recelved yestorday aftornoon from Califomis, sud wera (aken in charge by the Jollat Commandery of Kuights Templar, snd couvoyid to tho residonce of the IHon, W, A. Btevl, tis son-{u-law, ‘The procession was one of tho Jargeat evor seon in Joliet, The cere- woules wore conducted by the Kalgbts ‘Tomplar, of which be waa an lhonoied mmember, ‘The Masonis [rateraity of tha city were in attendance in a body. — THE ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE. :l::mod,whonnparlmrorn stosr dleq Remarks Concerning That Uninter- esting Body of Law-Tinkers, Tho Ingrodients of the Compound * (Qalled tho Lowor Houso, The Benury of Intellcet anmd Prodigality of Lond Talk, Somo Attompts to Oatch the Manners Living as They Riso, The Fallure in the Senato to OQust Marshall, of Pooria, Report of the Committce Con- cerning the Spurious Rail. rond Sults. Toxt of Kchoe's Bill for the Lovy and Collection of Taxes. ILLINOIS, THE BTYLE OF TUA PRESENT NOUAZ, Special Duapateh to T'he Chicago Trioune, SrrvoreLp, April 3.—Though by juint res- olutlon the 18th Inat.is fized as the data of adjournment elue die, practicaliy thore remain but four working-days in which to finish up tho busiuess of tho Twonty-nlnth Genoral Assombly. On Mondny, as always happeos on Monday, nogh- ing of any moment In tha way of actual business will bo sccomplishiod § Tuosday belng election day, numbora of the membora will stay at home on that protoxt ;{ Wednesday, Thureday, aud Fri- day, will be good working dnys; Suturday a number of tho membors will roturn to thele homoa to Btay, and tho indications aro that dur- Ing the next woek both Ilouses will bo laft with- ont working msjorities until tho last day (Thurs- day),when posaibly, fn hopoot saving local moas- ures, there will bo n quornm in both louses. Thia shortening up of tho soestow has virtually disposcd of jthe political buncombo busiucss. There i3 now uo probabllity of furthor offort to paes tho bl ropcaling ko Roglstry =act; tho Liquor v will Lo left Intact without any attempt belng mado to sccnre ita modification j and there will bo no moro fustian resolutions or bootless iuvontiga- tions to oxpose tho fact thab there ave no stoals to be exposad in'the Itopublican State Adminis- tration, and that, wherover thero Lias beon paliry pitfering, tho Opposition partnerain the businoss 1:av0 pooketed most of the njokels, And now comos the flutter among mombers to rush throngh tholr little local billa; and thorois furthor timo to ba consumed in whittling down appropriation bills, aa to which thora will hava to be joint confarence committoss appointed, whon thio chancos aro that whatevor tho latter recom- monded will be concurred In without dobats, Thus far, at least, the fixing of the day of ad journmont bas transformoed the Housointo s worse boar-gardon than ovon those of us who Lave witnesacd that extraordinary show from tho boginning had belisved possiblo. The heavy polltical business balug ont of tho way now, the motta that Hlustrious body acoms to have adopted 18, ** Evory man for himsolf afd tho de'lt tako tho hindmost.” The scrabble for tho floor {8 worse than evor, Hinco the passago of tho sdjournment resolution, thore haa scarce beon a time whan logs than half-a-dozon mem- Lors clatmad tho floor at obce § and scarcs an in- torval In whioh loay than throe bonorabls mom- bere, with nplifted volces, and arms beating the alr, wore not simultancously addressing tho Chalr, At intorvals of about thirty minutes, Hpeakor Iaipen adds to the confusion by ham. moring with his gavel til at loaat twoof the three orators upon tho floor suspend their re- marks, Theroupon hie announces that a motion to adjourn will bo in ordor, aud appeals to the reporter, who hias hnd so much to doin tho way of disoiplining tho Spoaker m print for bis porformauces, to awslst the Bpoaker in rebuking the disorderly Houso. Tho trio of orators resumo at full blast; halfea. dozon mombers bursting with orstory spring to their feot and shout ‘'Mr, Sposker!" aud go it goos till Cullom or Herrington, or some othor of the older members, makes a point of ordor to ths effect that the Speaker must deolds who and what I8 in ordor. Thon onsues bickering ns to who and what is inordor. Hainea triea to ox- plalu; overybody elso goca on oxplaining, till somobody gets off & joke, or till thore is s ex- plosion of M-tempor. Tho upshot of it is that soma bill is taken up,—whnt it may bo deponda wholly on tha eaprice of tbe Houaa; it ia read, the hubbub oa the floor tho whilo drowaing the Clork's voice; the voll ia called; only abouta fourth the membors voto, and bofors tha call is ended the Bpeaker ordors the Clerk to astop. Theroupon Bpeaker Hainoa: * Govtlomen, wo oan't procesd in thls wayy tho Chair can't run this Houso if mombora can't attond to businoss to run it, the Chair will bave to declaro tho House adjourned.” Boforo Hainos haa thus safd his say, helsin- terrupted by points of ordér; queries from membora stho want to know what is boing done, and whotber it {8 inorder; and,if he don't di- grosa (an ho usually does) to discuzs a point of parliamentary law with Claflin, or Oummings, or Merzitt, he winds up with #Well, i¢ yor will come to order, we will try over again; Atr, Qlork,proceed with the roil-call.” Whoreupén the vote, aftor further delays; is taken—the rosult, half the time, boing to diacloae that thero lan't & quozam voting, whena oall of tho House g ordered. In vague outline, auch is the way in whioh the logislating is done hore now, bus it 18 uttesly impoealble to desoribo thae uproarioua mob by which it is'done, sad the fantastic ‘Yrmh of the political jumplng-jack who preaides over it. THE PABT WEEK, The political evont of tho week ocourred not in the Housa, but in the Beuate, T'o tho Opposi- tion it wan the sigoal dafost of the scusion alao | to-wit: the defeat of the Opposition scheme to unseat Bonator Marabalt (!\uYub!mln). of the Jollo} District, arid to award the geat {0 Bahxlnfi sl)plmsmon). tha soleobjeat of whioh was to ad 10 the Opposition vote for United Statos Sen ator in 1877, ‘Fhere never was any bona fide claim that Marshall did not receivo a inajority of the vates of lnguuy-?‘nnul!ud vatera voiln at the election.. Tho Yoluminous toati. mony ftaken by the Bpocial Commlites dlscloseq that ke ryoceived but & aingls vots cast by & menn who was not » legal. 1y-qualified votor, Whileit also disclosed that obriog recelved tbico. The contest was mado not on the ground that & majority of legal voters yoted for tho conteatast, but -that in the Foyrth Wsrd of Jollst, non-tegistered votors, legally qusilfied, voted for Marshall without aweariug 1o thelr votes as presoribed by tuo Iegistry act. The defeat of this plan for gaining two voies additionat for the Uuited Biates Benatorial con- teat wes due to tho masterly argument of Thompeon, of Cook, who, in thorough Iswyer- llke ntylo, analyzed tha entire teatimony, snd with loglea!, procision exponed the utter iliegal. ity of tho proposed uuseating of tho choice of the logal yoters on an abstract teolnicalitv, No epoech made 1u eithior House at thie vession Las compared with it iu logical force, precivion of statement, clear analyses of premises, aud un- answerablo deduction from the facta. HTOOK-FARDS LYGISLATION, ‘The Iatest exhnbitlon of the supposed-to-be- exploded ides of regulating evorytbing aud ev- erybody b( Iaw wad that of to-day in the Houss on the b placing the Btock-Yazds of the Buato under nigld rogulstion b{ law—all to provent wextortion” and uvjust discrimlustion, It providen nKomlty of $100 for any unreasonable chiarge for handling live-stock, or in the way of hotel-bills for drovera; and for sccond and sub- soquent offénacs of §500, Besiden, it la simed st the doad-atock ** monopoly,” under which it {s I by . 1t can_only bo disnouad of by ts Hont Yarda, by whons it is {ucontinent]. witl, hnd pAtd for ot & womlast pride, od il Inli haw nover booa falely discussod ; :;nbu" thoroughly wdorstands ik it trovides o0 nobody sscms to carn to kuow, T the in Committeo until thera ‘n;n"‘lmlld:x‘w:::; for tho euspiclon that the Committag snothor ik, as porliaps thoy i, Tt way ai s at monevad corporabiona. That was epcd Tho ** apli-monopoly** ey wan mot iy fu jtg f“‘ half, and, after wanting tho ontire seanion m.dm on it blll wau ordarod (0. thitd reyqiny Thoio ls no prospoct, howaver, of ity aver Paes, ing the Senato, should It pob By far, g u.,!;' i3 nlroady thoroughly katisfled of the bagje. nees of solting tho Itmlroad wnd Warehgys Commirsion to” regulating ansthing, siney u:' experiences W havo bad of tho rewnlty of lhu: ogulatiun of the railways sud elovatory, Diia sl R EHLBALIOAD AT, A Brlont Qommilteo appointod by to imveatigato tho chargos mado in rxml‘x“-.f,'fl.‘" of tho 16ih ui, rolativa to Aham mity tuled by that Commisslon, haw complote) g, lu‘\;e?\lm;:)m:. nlnd on |Muudny whl repant, .nf: mittlng the teatimony o suppore of thei ull{l(;i;‘n,‘whlnh ‘llrlnxly tieh i el cop . That the aflidavits taken fully sn atiogations in Tite Le1oyng articla, 0t B8 2. That enita have loon instituled py Railroad and Warotiouss Commissioncrs, i gy, naue of the pevnle, wherein largo damigey u‘ cialmed for the ostensible purpuso of umn(m.: tho griovances of citizons, when In fact i, same citizens have dtn!mw’ on oalh thay m" HAVE NO QIMEVANCES OF WHICI TO GOMPrary that thov hiave never askod for or caused fo ) Institnted any sults, nor made auv comulnlny ,' tho Raiload Commissioners for any ovoreiuy. oxtortion, or unlust dixcrimination’in tho {ryqy. portation of frefghis or passougern, aud hay g, cauye for complaiut, . CANFIELD'A DILL, Introduced {n the Benatw, for the general gy, levy (exclugivo of tho 21,000,000 bchiool ) provides for rataing 1,800,000 for geners) Biaig purposes for the yanr 1875, and $1,600,0)0 1o Atbroquont yoars,” Tha £00,000 additions! 1875 {8 providod [n snticipation of Jows of 33)), 000 heratoforo auscescd upon capital Atook wlish in viow of tho deciwion of the Ublled By Coutt, it 1a now guuunl\s concoded, Was [jleny), and caunot be collectod, Tho lovy 1s .flm million below the estimates. LE\‘! AND COLLECTION OF TAXES, Honator Kolioo's bill in_regard to tho ayesry, ment of properey and tho'lovy uf Lax0a by fpeo. porated citiesin thiy Btito, and which in'amenj, story of tho act of April, 1B73, was broughy u 'in tho Houso this furonoon by Mr. Mg of Cook, and placed upon Ita passage, g ‘Tho bill failed to %nz tho two-thirds Tnceasyry to carry it through, by reason of tho omergency clauso, and it was declared Jost. Howarer, fj was reconsidered, amended by having the ener. goncy clauso stricien out, and thon pht upeity paseazo again and pnosed, It goos back tatyy nlnnll‘o nir nmlmul:mnco. Followlug lu tho amondmont a8 it pags House to-day: Titsed thy 8eCTI0N 16, When mald general officer shal i FoDObL GF Totzo, ROHAGL. (oF T thniveery section, bo sball procoed o obtalu Judgment agsion #tald lote, parcels of land, and property for niy geuerul tazes, apeclil taxos, and speclal asonmeny remaluing duo and unpald, {n tho mamo mipyy as by Iaw provided for oblatuing feig. men(s ‘againat Tandn for taxes duo and unpail by count; lata: and shall, 3 the rama manoey, proceed to soll tho ssmo for the sald generd nyt e, spocinl taxcs, and special asrcasments remiia. g duoand upaid : Provided, that it slall not Lo quired of ald general oflicer to altach to sl ki of delinquent lots or lands any aflilavit whaterer f3 relativn thereto § nor shall {t” be neceesary {hap by return to tho Coltney Court, in relation to lots, lnds or real eatate, for such purpore, shall confain thg valuation of such property ; but it' abull be sufidens tuat Lo muke an ofticlal rotirn, statingy In substaace, ihat tholistin this vegard, by him presented, is § carrect Unt of the aude nnd lots deinguent for tam, special taxos, and mpocial assossmeuts for ey plirponos, with tho awount dus on rcach irc respectively, for much purposss, sccording la tie raturn of (o Clty Colloctor of such city, duly mads ta such oflicer nocording to law, In obtalning rald {udgment and meking said nale, 1ho ssid oifeer sl e governed by the general Tavetue laws of thi Hlato, cxcapt when othorwise provided hereln. And tha City Qouncll nay, by ordlusnce or resolution, fx and determing tho orm of thio County Court at which tio sald general officer shall apply for judgment aqainat sald Jole, pavcels of land, and property : ro vided, thoro shall be but one general eats o anyocd year for any genoral {azes, spacial tazes, or wpecis} zenessments, lovied Ly autliority of such city, which salo aliall be'sat tha satne or a differeut time from tht sale of Stata aud county {axcs, as tho Cily Council miy, by ordinanca or resolution, provide. Upon ny eud appilcation for fudgmout, tha Couty Court shall b 11ko Suriadiction and powcrs, and 1iko prazcedings sl Da biad, sa noar ss may bo, ‘a8 upon application for 8tate ond county tazea: and upon an appeal from ti¢ Jjudgmont of tho County Court, the lika procedizy shall o kad, and thelika furisdletion and ke poren 11 ba oxercited by coutta and officers, aa dn cuecl appeals from he Uoum‘rcmm upon applications fey Judgmenta for State aud county taxess I'rovided, lo> eoer, thot no appeal aball be ailowed from iy Judgment - of the County Court =agsinst iy ‘p;Dlp('.l':]h retulmm !‘l1 dv:‘lmru.lau:h \I‘n%fl' thfs .m \nlees the party nppealing from suoh Judgment irat doposl, with such general oflicor'an amoant of money equal 10 the amount of the Judgment apped ed from, embraciugaozrued coats, aud shall also gin bond, with security, o ba approved by the Cousyy Qaurt, i an amownt to be fixed by the Qourt, withiny time to be limited by the Court, _conditioned that bt will prosecuto his appeal with effect, aud, In_case ¢l failure, will pay to said city all damagea, interesty, sud costa thoclly may have anstainod by' such appal Ugou the aiirmatice of said Judgment in the Supisat Court, by dlsmissal of such “appeal ibr by dismissld a writ of error mades supcrsodess), or othersiv Judgment shall be rendercd fn the Supremt Caurt sguluat satd appollant (lor the ue o city) for the costs in the Suprems Court, and for fa- terent on the originat amount of such judgment, inl for 20 per cent upon mald Judgment a8 dainag:s, sul no writ of error shall b ‘allowed fo operate as & v recdoss wntllthe party spplying tharolorah tnl avo compliod, I substance, with-tho eonditians, u above required in appealn, to be prescribed by th Judge or t allowing such auperscdeas, If wucd Judgment, so stayed by appesl or superscicas be £ Versed and not romandod, tLon sald offio:r holisp such dopoait ahall restore the sume to ths party ing such deposlt, "If auch juidgment be wholly st firmed, or atfiviued in part, aud 1ovorsed in pari, sad uot remamind, then such officer holding such depeelt shall drat pay aut of such doposit the umount petk nary to satiafy sich Judgment, ns afirmed or modifsd Dy the Suprome Godrt, togethier with all costs, and lo- tereat and damagos, for which sald depogltor s lshiet7 the sald afiirmed or modified judgment, and shall Pt the Lalance, if auy, ta such depositor, and, if notio® cient, exevtion may issua for the balance from bt Qlark of the Bupreme Gourl, or of the County Court, the cass may yequire, If such judgment be reve ani remanded, then sitch depoaft aball awalt the 8o iudgmlnl of ths County Qout, sud Le disposd of by he order of sa{d Connty Court, on justica may rejulfts And it Is furihor provided that if, for apy cause b appeal or othermiee, (ha fual Judgment {a the Coun'y Gourt aball not be rendored uitil it is too late to sl on the day deniguated for salo |a ihe gonsral rereast Iaws, then, and fu snch cas, the Conrt alall, on red doring Anal jndgment agrinat such delinquent ot of parcels of 1add, by order, fix the time and o nalo under auch Judgment, and make such onler i shall affoct the proper colledtion of such dolluqusat 12308 OF 23004RID AUROPHODIA. AT YANKTOM, Yawxtow, D. T., April 4.—Great excllemeo! provalls here to-day, caused bythe arrival of two roen namod Owons, diract from the Bl Hills, They are of a party who went out from Spring0eld on about the 1st of February. The? romsiugd in the Hilla but s short time, a8 10t 1nd no mining tools to prospect with, The! brought back with them sovoral nupgels a2 pattioles of gold which thoy fook oul with 20 az. Bocoming antiefied that gold existed 1 paying quantities, thoy loft four of their pud ber. and returned for provisions and tools. Thfill will leave 8000 for the gald-flelds udu,‘lnd w)u be accompanied by many from here, 'Thoy ; ga by tha Niobrara route, and estjate the dit tance st abont 250 miles from hore, They X two psrtien of Iudians, who, they say, Wore pare {\:ctly friendly, and thoy Tiave no fears . AT SIOUX CITY. Soeeial Dispatoh o ‘T'he Chicano Tribunes Bioux Crry, In,, Apnil 4.—Thoro s grosied cltement throughout Bouthora Dakots cnn”; quent upon the Owens brothers rotuen from o Diack Hills, Expeditions are forming ! towns on the frontier to start immdm: N Gordon's traln will leaye hers to-morfow b oA oross tha river, ‘There i wo much oo "‘» ning that it s doubttul about the forrr-bost ool g able to run, Tho Owens Dbrothers arr! nmil.- klon to-dsy, and fthat bosg 18 ¥ Wi —_—————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEW? Puravsuruid, Pa., Apnl d—Arived, Oblo, from Liverpool. Bay Fuunoisco, Osl, Aprl d.—~The 1;.;1:: BMall ntglmlhip Great Ropublle, fr'mnl it Koug Via Yokohama, amved at1 ool o mo\rn:‘n g b‘ua Iu{:& l&luuull(ol;‘xulla-:clli xll'u urs $ Y umin bhe Uth, and saifod t 2 x::’w”Y,umr. Avnl d.-Ariived, sieamer Coltla from Livorpool, \ steamet —_—— FIREBIANOS. ¢ — Ps., epecld New Yorg, April .—A Dottaville, sx'nq % says it Las beon arrsuged that John t companies John Wolsb, l’rfa:iunfim;“'” Sobiuylkill County Rranchos ol 8 soclstion, to Curbon aud Luzorno Countiea 4 induco & strlko these.