Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 12, 1875, Page 3

“PULPIT TEACHINGS. The Rev. €. W. Wendte on s Contempt of Court.”” Analysis of the Character of the Mophistopheles of the Pross, Dr, Thomas Discusses Draper’s * Con- filct of Religion and Science.”’ And Points Out What He Conaiders Tts Woaknesses, Criticisms of the English Press on the Clicago Evangetists, ‘Dismarck’s War on tho Oatho- lic Church. CONTEMPT OF COURT, FERMON BY THE REV, G, W. WENDTE. Tha Rov. C. W. Wondte, pastor of the Fourth “Unitarian Church, preached tho following mer- 1mon yosterday morning, taking as his text : Let cvery noul te subject to tho highor powers i for there l.l:nu ywor but of good : the powars that be are oriained of God—Jlomans (i, Lot evary moul be subjoct to tho higher powors,” says Paul, Wa say amen heartlly to that, but who are these higher povors? Wist thoy wers to Paul la ovident from the context. Mo is speaking of the sxisting soctal order, and ‘rofera to the civil anthority of that day,—tho rulor», captains, and maglstracy of the Roman Empire. 1o exhorts hin follow-Uhristians to romaiu loyal anbjects and good citizons of the Blate. Fordld uot Obrist eay: * My Kingdom s not of this world?” andagain: ** Render unto Creaar tho things that aro Cwsar's, and unto God the thinga that aro God'w." The spirit of tho Chtfotian falth and the loyalty of tuoe Rumat citizen were harmonlously blonded in tho grest Apostlo to the Gentiles. To biwm thn * powers that bo " waro ordained of Cod, and ontitled to hia allogianco, And this is tha sense lo whioh tho great masa of maukind applios tho Injunction of Paul, “Lot overy soul be suboct to the higher powera.,” For great ia the vaneration of the old world for establisbed authority, for Ifatoric prozedents and sanctions, It gives » rospectful nttontlon tq the olsims of birth and pedigreo, of titlo nod great placo, 8l tho great mujority of Enghishmen bolievo with the poet, *There i n divioity that doth hodgo a King.” and tbat tho oxisting social distinctions aro In somo sort diviooly ordeined. The Court Journal in cagerly read, and tho Poeraze finds a place on the drhw- ing-raotu tablo. Thoro tano toast ths loyal com- mouer responds to with wuch satisfaction as **God bless Ior Majonty 1" So agnin, on the Continent, that sturdy arsto. crat, King Willism, declares himseir Lmperor by tho grace of God," and the popular sssent and Julilation shows how deep.rooted in the buwman bears is this dogms of the diviue right of Kungs, I'bo Church liararchy applies this word of tho Apostle, ‘*Leb every msoul bo subject to tha powora which are otdained of God,” to Ha own protensicus to infallible suthority, and so strong in man'a epirit is tho powar of traditlon and ereod, Bo accustomed is tho Chusch to sutmit to, obey, and venerate tho sutboritv of Rowo, that, though her decrsos bo never &0 mousirous iu (he light of modern scionca nud clvilization, though thoy violate tho truth of histcry and contradiel the common seuso of the beliover, ‘yet, efier the firat’ shook of surptixe 18 over, tho Catbiolic world meekly bown 1ta neek to tho yoko and submierively rospands: ‘‘Lven 8o, Holy Father, we accopt, wo submit, wo oboy, for the powots that bo aro ordatned of Qod.” Dat thowo precedents and sanctions of the O'd World have littlo foree in 1bo new civilization which ia doveloping itsclf on this American con tivent: A now interpretation of tho Apostolio word s pecded bofore it can become spplicsble to our social democracy, Tho undarlying 1des of our American civiliza. tiou i a Lrotost ssniust ull merely couveutioual and teadiional authority. It is o rovolt alike against twouatchical clauns and tho protensions of the hiorarchy. It implies the abrogation of sl class puvilciges, and tho gradusl disapyear- .auco of thospiut of caste. Wa decliue to bo- liovo in tho cutablishod simply bocausoe it Ia ese tablished. Wo snbject oursclves to no power whick resta on & Listoric fiction, be it aver so POWAUTIC OF AUZUAE 1n ity ausociations, Tho tost ofaniuatitutivn with us fv not its past sancions buat 1ts prevent usefuluoss, Amer.ca opposed to the O1d World a nowsoclsal order, w1 which tho worth of theindividual is muin- inod sgamat tho crosbiog conformity of openu lito, tho moral equality of all lmrn‘wd agniust tho dlunucaonl .{Jf rank nl‘r‘:?l posicion,—~n which right v pitted 'sgainet might, and the frco -plg: of amnt‘h aguiout the lotter of ’mlmcll oreod. Oug of thus prevailing spirit of our soclal lifo bavo flowed the iustitutions which represont it. Tho doctrino of tho diviue right ot Kings re- cewod ftu death-Blow In that opening statowent of ous Deolarution of Independence—** All men aro created oqual” ‘'ho protemmiov of tho prieathood weia ntnn;i}cd in their oradle by that origiunl soparation of Church and Stato which {a 80 charaoteristio & feutura of our political life, We Jealously guard aguinst aby possitle infrac- 1008 of ussmpUURK on tho part of our cules, by vesting sll ‘woveroign powor in the paaplo thomsclves, by froquontly chauging our publlc servants, and subjecting " them (o tho froont (n. spection nad criticlsm, Holding that eternal Yigilauco Is tha prica of Lberty, we baliove to the fulleat extout in frco s ech, w froe prosy, tha Irea voto, and tho largest frasdom of tella and nction. Tiecoguizing wo humen institution 88 abuolatoly perfeot or au an ultimate authority, 1o cucourage all oxporimauts 1o social aud po- litical aclouca which av0 for thair object tho 1n- provemant of tha oxlsting social ordor, Woallow 8 certan liboity even to the = wildest schemes of tho reformer and {ho fanatic,— 8 witness the various communistio gocieties among us sud the Aormon colonies of the far West. Wo only interlare with thom whon they overalep the hounds of social oider, and wheit thoir practical workings throaten the wolfaro of othory thau themneelves, Bo eacred to um nie tha righita of the tndividual that wa give tha fulipst 80opa possible to all personal torce in the Com- monweslth ; we provido a commou-school educa- tlou for every cluld; we put the ballot fnto the banduot the Ignorant and impoverlshed, even Loping it may Lelp thom to a igher quality of 1suliood and o botter citizooship; wa doviug plana for the represoutatiou of minorition ; wa are graduslly emancipating woman into a bighor so- cial snd “political freedom in short, the wholo teudenoy of our {ustitutious is to socure equal H{‘hu sud oppoitumities for all, and to promote & Leulthy, vigarous wdividualivia in our Amori~ can woclety, Notably this s the case fous " lifo of our couury. that tho protensions of the biotarchy :1: & moat daugerous menace to the lihertios of too Poople, we nevertholows parmit the Church 0 Sxorcla tha fulleat froodom in all matiors of 1 %, ritual, sod disciplie. We flud that the lr:g‘cntlmm. the inorsasing oulture, the demo- ceatloupiritof ourmge, wia the beut rostraints upou dagmatism an KITORBUCE, interfere with tho doiugu’ of the whon It attempts to uug an arm o ‘khen only do wo u'g‘cn-.m.-xxmu-l Interoats, ud protect the intondea e Ey?‘er " WAY fulminate tlejr eeolu'lll“l‘i‘tl:d lf:fi:l.u. and close ther pulpity to baretical offendera. volco that m::hln scolamation of went ir lo- .tglernunn. Ihe Pope MaY sppoint .:rA‘u\:::-fclnuu Cardinal. 1t does not ‘diswurb ua. lirg yod Stockingy and shovel bat wyl ibly lend lcturouqueness 10 our atroats, 30d vie with the udisn and the Clunaman in tuistering to the deligut of our Rawine. Let him hide t will appear acarle lorios n imposivg in the noobday in the relig- Recogmzing Bo we uover harch oxcept fesh to ad- ml::: gmlmurlu Blare of Amorican common sense, f, y y uharpening his lpmmil for in:v: 3::‘111‘: i&('nu 1hio powess of the darknesa of this world, &epost says truly, tlo froe, Featless, ire rent apirit of thiange hsa penet; into m:e(lllh 5 fold aleo, and Clln("uctrmn. *The powera that be are ordalued of God," findamuck stubborn rosistance from the goats amung the congregation. And this socrat dinaffection and division in the Protesiavt Episcopal Church of Amarica ronlly has ita roota in tus same rhing,— tho incompat{bulity of a bierarehien) Chureh with tho freo apinit of onr Amerlean mntitations, In vamn do the good Bishops appeal to European procedents and ssucilons. Episcoracy fu Lne pland is oo thing, and quite anohier thing in amorlca, A cerlain Americsn Bishop, who had ationded the Pan-Anghean Synod in Lon- don, gave &+ plajuiive aceount of this differonce fn presiigo between tho Churcl abroad and the Church at homo. 8nid he: “In England, wherover I apnesred, it wan ¢ My I.ors, tho tishap,’ and tho deforenca shown to iny position was truly dehightful. But onmyielurn to Amorics, 1o eooner hadthe steanier touched tho nhiari than ona of my Vos- trymon clambered acrces tho gang-plack, seizing both my hands, pumped them up and down in the most fanulisr and irrevorent way, shouting: * Bialiop, my dear old follow, I'm gikd to reo you.'"’ Bo, too, the wholo genius of our instltutions is opposed to tha artstocratio assumption of su- poitor buth or breeding or rocial position. Liven thetraditional diguity of tha worthics of & former age, ik Washington and the Adamses, hne littlo charm for the pensration of tu-day. The popular Loart loves to picture to itsojf Abrabiam Lincoln poling bis flatboat along over Wostorn rivers; Gyaut, costless and . niout, deiving i load of wood from (ho old form into Be, Lonis: Vanderbilt ruuning e sloop ncross tho East Riser; or lal- ston, now tho bavker lilnco of Califor- nla, eteering hla ox-leam acroes the prairie of tho Iay Wost. 'The American 1deal fs indi- yiduality o charactor, self-rellauce in action. Tty highest exprossion you may find in Charles HSumner's maguliicaut appeal to tho hixhor law in dobu Brown's slugle-hauded challengo to elave ery ; in Cianning's moral grotest, or in Parkor's inteneo radicalism. Woell were it for ua if this individuality found utteranca only in such subliine oxamples of cour- ngo, charantor, and disintorestedness, Dut uu- fortunatoly its common oxproselon is fouud on & far lower moral plano,—in that disregard of tha conventionalitios and {ustitutions which are iu- teuded to ropresout tho geveral good, 1n that free and rocklees criticiam which i offered upon ovorything ** from Adum's fall to Ilulda's Lo uot,” in thnt solfish rovalt sgaiust tho moral i teroats of socioty which has its sourco in a skep- tieal, oynical, and irreverant apiric, For, however we may cougratulate ourselves ou escaping 1n this cuuul?’ tho traditious and turalidoms of the Old World, tho oxemption has Leen denrly bougut. In our de ninl of exicraal muthority, wo bave gone to Lho other oxtroine, and almost devy that thero Is any authority whatover which tho soul of man Is bound to respect. In our re- actlon agalust tho conforming, sorvile type of mankood which tho old social order oucouraged wao linvo produced n typs of character which fs Lardly better,—the selfish, oyuical, skeptical epirit which knowa no highor law than its own ratification, to which nothing is tiuo, or bind. fug. or sacrod, = Ju 18 this provalling tono of American soclsty —this univorsal “coutompt of court,” if I mny mako use of a term which, thiough ialo svents, L become somowbat famous among ua—of which I would morve especlally spoak tlus morn. ing. Qaetho, in his immorial posm of * Fanst," has ombodied thia seltiel aud skoptical spists In the person of Mophistophiolos, **Who art thou?” aska TFauat, *“Iam tho spirlt of davial,” ts the ropig; that ia tho embadinent of unfaith, and lawieesnese, and irrovorence. DBut Moptistoph- olos existod not only in the imugination of the post: bo walke in flesh and blood un ear streots tu-day, the very incsraation of this unbelioving and materinlintic phitosophy, Let us study him 2 littta more closoly, - Bometimes Meplistopheles is a reformer, who, in tho lotercst of his own pot thaory, cavila at and coudomus tho oxisting eocial order. For lium thiero ts no bouest difierence of opinian, nor i8 thera auy merit whatover in the causa ho op- poses, - Not coutent with boariug his own per Bobal testimony to tho truth, ko muat accom. pany it with eavapo attacks on his wdvarsarios, thuw willfully coufounding thoir personal charac- tera with tho causos thoy dofend ; stavbing a reputation for the sake of an oraturical flourish. Thera are many such chrouic sneorors and scolda in tha fleld of roforw,—moral nwsances who in- Juze their own vausa tmore than they Lelp it, d.a- Buae ail sensivla people, any add to the general 1outiend, luwless, ana conlemptuous spiris of tho commuty, Sumounics the Mophistopheles of soclety Is & gossip ana ecandal-munger. e pries fulo fam- Hly secrets, gloats over sad cluonicles of do- mestlo musery, ruus nbout with disguste ing storiea and slanders, which he care- fully oxagperates and ealarges upon, Ho givas low futerpretat.ons to others’ conduat, uaputes baso molives, sinuates his own con- muPt for man'a Lonor aud woman's virtue, and distils Ly loprous powon iato tho earsof ola and young. \Wherover thiw Satan goos Le sawe swong the wheat, aud o ohoxes the good ssod of thy Word. You all kuow this adversary, 1t ncods no great ecandal boforo our courts to ro- veal to you lns hypocrisy and Lascuess, DBut ‘oitener nuwldn‘;s, MopLivtopheles s found In tho Chawber of Cominorce or the Btack Exchaugo. o s n capualist, a sjoculator, a rulvay maguate. Knowing nb power higher than his own solflok, ambitious, covatous udi- viduality, Le construea bis liberty Into a Jicensn to make gain wherever ho ean and Ly auy means ho cau, Power, pleasure, notoriety, theso aro his coutiolling ‘motives. Moncy 1 King, Ho bag vo moial scruples to prevent Lim from en- richivg bmeetf st the sxpenss of otliers, Tho oxisiing order of wociety o respocts when Lo must, Whou it %ill minister to lus persouul ag- frandizement,. or protect hup ta tho onjoy- ment of ks spoila. ‘Luis i a very common lucaruarion of ovil. The iapld deveinpment of our couatry, tho grontnoes and voarness of the prizes of [ifo, tho uslimiced competion, ali foster tbis gelfish revolt aemmst tho common wolfaro, this skeptioal aud materialistio type of Individunlism, Bomutimes, again, tha matanio spirit entera into a politicino, Knowing no law bLigher than Lt owa smbitious impulo, acknowludging 1o’ duty groater than his 0w eurichment, ha sorves for ‘pupularity and pay, is patrotic to gain the Publio favor, aud chisuyes Lus poliicat principlos with each turu 1 the tide of popufar opimious. I11s ideal of statosmanship ls the adrolt wording of » party platform, the manipniaiton of & caucus, the managewontof an olection. Lo hintes his opponenty witn lnom-ummvouJun(— san. Ie lLolds uo means too low to defeat them, Hothinks overy man has hus price, on opision formed from kis intimate knowtedge of Limsalf. ‘The uatioua! honor and digoity sre to hin only convenlout catchwords for Fopular oftect, Unntable, reckless, cunning, iusincero, hub one aim s to advance himself, aud $o make ail oluor men the mivlutors and wicuosscs of his RiOry, But nsually Mophistophelos is an editor, Iis Rreag aim tu {o mell bis paper. ‘I'o mcoomplish Lo must Lo sensatioual,. piy, taolcal. o koopn & wmall Army . of epios and oaveadropporas over on the alort to listen at Loy-holes, thrust thamsclves 1uto piivata circlos, Insluuato themaelves {uto the confidonce of iunocent and unwarpgieople, Tue {amily eocrets are wormed out and Uraggod into public notice, tho favlts or misaries of privato vorsons are blazoned forth, garsishod with avery sonsatiousl dotail whioh fauoy can suggest or malico fuvent. ‘Ihie social slums and sewors of A great city ara explored and tboir foulest sights exnogod to the Yubl(u gaze, Tho baseat vicos and moat hor:lble crimos which ean be discavor- ed in the daily annals of human degradation are engarly eaugnt up and chronicled with diagnsting miunteness, In his Lands the newepaper iu madonot & fair epitomo and chronlcle of the averago life of tho times, but meraly a roflsation of thelower walky,tho bascr pasaions aud thooynl- caluoltisbinous of thodsy. Not content with such services, to wivkedaess and wrong, Meplussoph- sles au ‘oditur attacke private rapulations, aud holas up to ridiowlo the vublest causes sud char- itlew, e orcops iuto the churchos sud with evil oyos {akes motes of any persoual pooulinritios, aud greedily takow iu aby 1dle gossip which can be workod up Into tiavesiy aud detamation of minister or pouplo. Hometimes, indoed, he will espouds good csuses, and fill his columne with moral ezsays and plous exhortations, Lut yon kuow that 8 simply bacause it sorves more durectly somo seltish rurpou‘ And even whon Lo thus *gieals the livery of Ileaven to serve the devil in," you aro mure to tind the cloven foob peerlng oat somewhere, to hear the sar- donlo Iy l‘u\or. ouly half represscd, fo some tensational hesdline or editonal commont, 0f course Lo is a great friond sud patrou of ro- ligiou. o is at wowe paius Lo print abstracts of tho Bunday sermons and fal reporta of all 1o~ ligious moetings. 'The wministcrs who remember to Lavs read sumethivg mbout mauio fdends of ihe wurightovus mlmlnog loud bim tbeir wanuscripte, but what availe the Mouday'a broaduide of sermons, when tha fssucn of the eutire waek are their flat con- tradictiun; when evory nuinber of the paper Boems 10 g1ve & mew “signiticance to the New Teatsment Possaze, ' And they colild ot gat at Lm for the pross ' ? Iu tho spucres of palitics our editor uvually pridos Licwelf on belng au indopondont Jourual- ist, 1t 18 o uoble to:m, aud is mudo flliwtrions IH some noble editors, Dub wot so witls this eplistoplicles wo are considering, For he has D0 cuuvictons of \Liw ownj Le has saply THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRII, 12, 1875. 3 choles callection of mincellannoun _opinion: ! What it reatly representa in bim i sorving oithar side for hiro, bi agn with b favarite weapons of atune and misrepresent tion, ‘Thun Lo slden to-day with the party he will denoutice to-morrow, and with equal readi~ NORB e8pOUAS AZAIL Lha day after, Dut mometinies Mephiatoplhieles overrenches bimaell atter all, Tha publio patience and con- tempt on which Le roposoa suddenly gives way, aud lo sinkes agsinet a chiv of tho rock of nges {u tha porsou of some plucky citizen, some fuflexible judgo, tome feailess oflicor of the I»ublia Justica, Bruisod and beaton, hie retreais into his” den to hurl column on column of vituperative rage at bin chastisor. But all in v: In 80 doing he only Lotraya his own discomfituro, and pil- loulen Liis own houor. It in truo that such a policy aa I havo de- ecribed—sud my portraiture Ia applicable to a dozen journala tuat could be named—givos the editor and_ hts paper but little woight in thecom- muoity, Noons goes toit for opinion or coun- wol on any social or political subjoot, but it scile the papor, which euntors thousanda of homes to corrupt the imaginations of Lo young, to mis- lead and entrap the ignoiant, to fucroase the provailing tono of uubalief snd 1idiculs, and xo to lower the moral a:andard of the community, ‘The otlier journals In theirrivalry are compolled to lower somowhat their own moral toue, and thur o great wave of social alush aud Immorahty ia rolled over the whole country., But 1t 14 neodlesa to clie furthor {llustrationn tonlow tho diesstrons consequonces to society and to tha individual when this epirit of donmi and ““coutempt of couri” obtains control. The only corrective of thia tendanoy in to newly em- Eulu!zo tho iujunction of Paal, **Let avery soul 0 subjoct to the higher pusars,” and to give it such an juterprotation as the prosent bour de- mands, Tha higher powers in American soclety ars those abuolute and oternal principles which lie at the bottom of our gocial and political life,— humanity, equality, justlce, equity, goodn: lova. Theso aro tho powers ordafied of God, which demaud our moral allegiunco and our obedient rervice, To these, in the worde again of the Apostle, wa must bo *'subject, not from fear, bur for consciende' sake.” IFor the social order {8 built upon thesk, ‘Ihoy are tho forces that creato, organize, and upliold socioty. As auch thoy nro macred and of unimpeach- able autbority, ifo who offonds against theso has - broken tho lugher law, and comuwitted the worat of sinn, But i our chlsfest roveroncs bo pald to thems firo:\( principles on which 1est the welfars and nppitess of woclety, wo shonld extend this rospect and aupport to the institutious which aro intended to urn:n and embody thow, and to socuie to humanity tho pcasession of lifo, libur- ty, and happiness, 'rominout among such in- atitutions aro the Btate, the fwmnily, aud the Cnuscb, Tue Stato is man united for political und gocisl action, The forn of povernmeut which has been selectod as bess fitted to accom- plisk tln ought to receive our most reversnt and lioarty support. Lot us not bo misied Ly that cuntemptuous lhaor‘y, 80 ohaincteristic of our day und generation, that government i a necessary avil. LFor this is oniy balf the truth, ‘Tho objoct of governwont is not merely to curl aud resirain the selfish y.anslonsof men, to maine tain pullio order and secutlty ngaiunt domestic violonco or foreign agzrossion; it is also to umio ita cltizous "in bunds of mutual iniacest aud good will ; to encournge ca-operative, united offorts in all directiunsof waterial and moral im- vrovemont. ThoGovernmeot, tucn, iu its various functious, legislativo, judicisl, aud executive, should rocoive our fullest respect aud sllo- giauce. And thie not becaues 1t is a perfoct or complete slracturo, not bocause it {s the best that can be concelved, but simply becauss [t is iho best we have. Let every lustitution bae constautly submitted to the rectifying processes of (heldeat lut conscisnco and reason bo the higlior lawr to which the final appeal is _mada, Bt tho ivstitution that for tho timo and at tho time Lest erbodios tho idoa for us s encitled to our venarat.on and rogard. ‘Iherefore, Le who inlus privato spesch or through the publo priots systomatically, perslatently ridictules and sbuaes tho State, who tries Lo bring it iuto con- tempt, sud all for bis own saitish gratification— such o man 18 a criminal against “society itaclf, and shiould o more bo altawed to coutinue on bis course unchecked, thao you would aliow mad dog to 1un at largu in our crowdod strests, Lyen our freo criticism of tho acdnunistration wineh may bo in towmporary charge of tho Government should alwa,e bo tempeivd by the thought of tho posmbls hum we may do the iden of tho Stuto itsolf in our stricturca upon thoso who represent 1t. Agnio, $ho family is uot what it ought to bo. Wo a.l sortow over fts detects. We all work for its improvemont, Andyetlc 18 at loast u sugs goetion towsid an attompt to conutruct the fdeal home. = Honeo thas mau or woman whoso spoziel buwinesa it 1 to attack, ridicule, and un- darmine this most ~acred of all rolations com- mits an frroparsblo wrong sgainst tho social order, and i8u woral assassin whone woapon is lovelod agaiust tho purity of youth aud the contidenco aud [ntegrity of tho mur:isge tie. Lautly, tlie Church of to-day Ings far behind its diviue idenl. Wa all lument fs displays of bigotry and superstition, its extravagunco and rivalry. Vo moura to see the pulmt piven over 10 may J caea to roligious charlotans and sen- watloualista, or to pioschors who suoatituio soutlmeutallsm for piety, and_omotional gush for o pure aud rigatesus lite. But, eiitrcise uud condemn aa wa will, tha Cliurch atill has wfinitely more ol guod than ovll la it. Itis of incatculabla service to bumauity, aud tuo best oxprorsion we uavo of gocial wo,slio and common disciplo-, slip. Let us, thon, bowsro of all frieversat und hppant utteratices conceraing it, forin s high and truo svuae it ia & power urlaiued of God, My fiual word, thew, Is this: Boware of the solrit of Mepiustophcles, the douying, snocring, sioptical wpirit, whiok uot only eals vat ths no- Llor mashoud In you, but domoralizee the sociaty aoout about yon. While ncoording the fullest piay to individuality. lot us yes recognizo that thore {s a limit somowhore that, earried too far, it dorenorates iuto welflsh licouso, for eve ybody must in some bunt, conform, humbla wo comfort or desire, i anuot bo overatepped, y that must be reapcoted, claims that cane nut be fgnored. As the Apoutls sags once sgaln, wo mast bo *subject one to another.” Lhis 18 tho groat thought of human brothor~ bood which lies at the basiaof our Christien clvilization. Obudlent, self-coutrollod, disine ‘sumply moaus knowledge, or that which onu terestad, the true disciple aclioves hisindividual om-nclrnuon ouly that be way lovingly sur- render It agaic for the common good, fh' this be our understanding of Christian dutyl Bub- miasive, unseltish, aud roverent, DAY oursolves Le aubject to the l\lqher powors, and mnay wo ro- Jolc uot that mpirits are lu;)}nu unto us, but that our namou ate writton in doaven, — 'RELIGION AND SCIENCE, DR. THOMAY ON DBAPRR'S LAST HOOR, The Rov. Dr. Thomas, of the First Motha'lst Churel, preachicd yesterday oveniug on * Dra- per's Couflict Botween Religion and Sclence."” Hin toxt was s (Wisdom t tuo 2om; and it slt Procersam, T, There {8 an honest diffatence of opinion among miulaters us to the duty of the pulple in refor- once to cutront events, Sume think it bost lo wholly Iguoro them, aud speak only ou striotly doctrinal and religious subjocta, Othors go to tho opposite oxtreme, and devoto a largo share of their timo to the popular questions of the day. 1Lave all along almod to taks a modium course, endeavoriug to always make one sorvice wholly religlous, and allowing the othor—usually tha ovening discourse—to oo- caslonally take a wider range, and (o discusa tha yarious subjects and phasas of thought that oo~ oupy the publio mind, or scem In somo way roe lated to thegood of the commaunity or of the world. It seema to mo very important that tho wiuiatry should thus soex to mako itecl? part of {ts ago, and to shape, as far os it may, tha popular opinfon and sentiment that goso far in abapiug soclety, Dr. Lraper's late work han attractod Index at- teution, and, frow ik very titls, 1s_calculated to leava sn unfavorable imprassion upon the pablio mind, Our aze Ly almost & mavia _for soience (and I share it and r-‘mm in it), and even & wige gestion that religion {u any seuso stands in the way of our cherished 1dol is sufliciont, If un- suswered, to raise fu many minds & suspicion tuat there lu something i religivn false or wrong, and that it should not be takon to the heatt s Loly coutidenve, but should be approsched withy great caution, lowt it be found %o cuntsin somo deadly error or fatal polson, By tirst objection to Dr, Draper's work I, that 1t ralses & fulse tusue, and thereby crostes mprorsion, in assuming or stating that there ja 8 confhiot betwoan yoligiou aod scicnoa. Bcience principal thing: therafore get wis- by gotting get undorstauding.— kuow, or tha kuowledge of many matliodically mfn-led and arungmfI 80 88 t0 becoma attain- 8ole Ly une, or that which wo kuow by induction or dedaction, as a knowledge of luws, priuely les, avd relations. T'iis knosledgo msy rolate to nutural laws, ang bo cailed 4l science} or it way take'in the rolstions of numbers and | magoitudes, as the scicnce of mathematles, or It may raiats (o tho laws of mind morals, aod & wental aud morsl scieoce. ligations to God, our love, roversncs, and dutien to 1l and each othor.-—our faiths, vows, and worahin by whichtheso ara cxoressed. Mr, Draper, i ono way aud snother, rofern o all theps; bu where, 1 wak, I8 tho contliot ? Iloes mcience in any of its_bearings conflict with tha obligatious that bind man o God or his nolghhor? Dioes iz conllict with love, trust, worshin, Justice, or goodness in any of their forma? Doos 1t conflict with the doctrines vocullarly Chrlstian, as Inspiration, atenoment, regoucration, or & fulure world? What haa Natural Halence, as Geoiogy or Astianomy, to do with thono thiugs? But Dr, Inaper sags tho teachinga of the Cburch on these latter points have beeu In direot conflict with the Iater reve- Iations of sclenca, Eo they hiave, in soms osaen ; but doea bo call tho view of the Church in pant agos an a fow of theao outeide pointa, that do not touch ratlgion In its decpest sonno at all, re- lgion? Doos ho call tho Churchi, oven, religion ? In thero not a differonce between what the Chitreb hold as to tho form of the esrth and re~ ligion aa to ita spiritual doctrinca, and religion 48 & character, & worship, & 11fa? The frauo that 110 rainca in unfair and misleading. Thero ts no conthiet between religlon and mcienrs, Iloth aro yeot tn an imperfect ntats of development ; their faots not {ully ascertained or undarstood; the men of both Flrlluu ot wholly freo from proj- udico, and misconcoptions, and mirstatomonts, ‘1o &ndeol roligion and tho rerfect scionce will Lo at ono. Their seemiug contlicts are ao- cidental, not necessary. Or suppose even that the Liblo gosmogony and scicuce should be shown to be iroconcilablel Hunpose it Lo aliown that thoss early conceptions of tha racred writors were {mperfect? What then? Does it follow that the Bible must go down? Tho ifible docs Lot claim to bo & book of uatural science, and Ita best trionds rogard ita Lleachinga o thora points as only phenomenal. Bupioss jt bo shown that Moses got Liia {mpressions on thoso matters from Egypt, and that thoy arc faulty, ond that wo tind 1t best to saytbat the Bible containg the word of God, inktead of saying that it In in every nentence the ward of Gad, still the foundations of reiiglon remain, 1 object agawm to Dr. Draper's book in that its animus {8 untriondly to tho Churcl, 'Thiy spint of fanitfinding snd complainlng of tho Churclh {8 widerpread in our times, and I fear it js not always born of tne purcst and best feelings. No one a all Informed will clnim that the Clurch Lay boen in soy senso faultless, or that it has not committed grave miatakes and even crimes against humanity, Dut then thero shonld La pity as well aa censure, and tho Church of a-day should not bo hold respoosible for tho errora sud weonga of the Church of the paat, and espacially s it anfair to chaifzo those things to roligion. A Church i smply a campany of beliovers sot aside or organized for worship, having its doctrines, rites, ete, ‘Tha Biblo jteel? grow up along sa s part of the history of such Ubhurel, the teaclinga of its founders and in- spirad men; but the conduct of the Chnrch, its ruut hiatory, has beon simply in the Lunds of ntallinblo human beings tuch os wo, and thoy bavo boem subjoct to tho ignorance ond prejudices of ~their times, When tho ‘ago was. ignorant the Chuich shared of that ignorance. When it was cruol and sapoeratitious the Chureh naturally pattook of this cruclty and superstitn, Why not as well blamé tho goveruwments of fo-dny with all the iguorance and despotiem of the past? Bhalt wo dospiso lberty Lecaueo sbo lias beou loaded aown with chaite and prisous, and coverad with insult aud blood ? Just as well as to blams religion becauso sbe lias Lad to travel over adark aud bloody path to reach tho days of lixht and peaca, iy not Llime sclence for ones teaching that Lhe carth waa flat, 85 well &4 to blunethe Chnrch for agreeing then with scienco? Tueu would 1c not it not Lia fair to give tho Chasch credit for what good it bas dono? Did not tha mouls fu- troducs sgricuitura iuto Europo? Did uot tho pricsts nava loarniug to the world when socioty would have crumbled under (ho strokes of the QGoths and Huns? DId not s church- mun dircover our cantinent, and does at mob Lear the name _of auother churchman—Amoricus Vespucius? Did not ths Church found tha great unlvoislties of Lurope? Whonce came Oxford and Cambridge 7 Whouco our ‘lighest art, music, aud necli- tecture? Who 1ounded hospitals and Invented methods for toaching the doat and dumb? Who wate Chaucor, Spovsor, Bhakspearo, Dryden, aud Yo;6? 1n those things I‘ liave been ro- ferring to what the woild owes to religlon under Romauism. How Las tho I'rutestaut Clurch Lelped to fill she world witl scbolars, achools, and hbiarios? Iawpot the Church the warmest patron of learning to-day? | inelst that it1s uukind 10 cast ceneures upan the Church, and atdl worse to blame rehgion for all tnfscoucoptions aud orrora held by ocoslesiastics the duk past ol our world, Buoch fault-tindiug botiays s poorly-disguired eumity to tho Church, and s caloulated to do harm’ mmong tho untbinking, ‘With all tho {mperfoctions of tha Church, and tue unseomly garments in which religion has been compeiled to appeor unon oarth, she nov- artlioless oeata the most precious hopes and in- teroats of bumanity. The true spirlc looks npon the errors and sbusou of tho past fu guvernwmicut, seicuce, aud religion ns being seeminuty 1une,arablo from the Journoy of our race through tho wilderuens ot ita daikness, ignorauce, and wanderings to tho Canuan of i.8 betier futwie, Tho true spiric 1s ta lot tho dead past Lury its dead, and for the diving preseot to jon tho nuward march of just govoiumens, eulightenod hiboriy, true scicuco, and pazo religion, Dut Dr. Diaper seams to thivk that religion is reatrained from sutorfug upon this new lite, be- causs, ays his, **A religion founded upon aniue fa'liblo rovelation saust nucessarily bo utolorant of refurns” In this way nould ho tio the Cumoh and robgion down Lo tho darkuess of the past, aud call upon thom to sbandun tas Lible and take wholly to reason. Now,itbis I3 rather s miscouoipitou of tho natare aud otfice of tho Bible that it recma hard Lo account for ia ouo of 80 cloar & mind as Dr. Draper, orit {s o sophis- wryof whien v {a palntul to thiuk he couid bo capable, It is trus that if we allow tho teachings of the past iu rofercuce to tho past to staud unque-tioned, and interpretations put npon it to bo tinal, he would have gronnd for wuch an assertion,—that in to say, if the Bibla 18 Bivon as maw's final aud ofallble work on scionco, aud {f this Biblo cortainly tesches that the worll wos mads ju elx days of twonty-four lours each, sudif it toach that the sarth is nflat surfaco, then would wa bo bound to accopl tta statoment even in ths face of facts to the contrary, or toyield its olaima to nfallitality, But wo aro by no meaos boaud to eithor of these couclusions. In the beot thouyht of our times 1t 18 not held that tho Biblo 1n & book of sclence st all, but & Look of morala and roligion, Norare we in any senso bound to accept the past interprotation of tha Ihble or questions rolated to wciencs, such as the oreation, The past sges read. that acvoont ia tho gLt of the facts or the bLess knowledge tiey pusiossed, We with greator light as to tfia truilis of Natura aro cusbled to put upon theso rocords & broador and grander Interprotation. Then, agaln, if it {4 claimed that & rovelstion should bo sc plain a8 Dot to be misundorstood, it is suflicient to state thut men have buen oqually st fanlt in their interprelutions of the book of natare itsclf. Dut the Biole is not jutended to bo a finality of statomovt in any such souse as to shut off thought or improvement. It loaves the natural world open {o man's senses, and son, sud inquiry, sud blde him go forth tho nd learn, And even in roiigion it 18 a boos of Rerms, of prinaiples, of spint, atound which aud out of whielia L 0 D@ grown, and & chaiac- tor formed, and & deatiny schieved, rathor than 8 book of exact forms and spocitio acts, 1t 18 truo that in tho old cconomy tho Jowa Lad these «hu:f,'u lald down, but it was bocauxoe of thoir low condition of mind and morats: but, to meot tho bhigher conditions aud the whole comiog lifa of sl future gensrations, Jesus announced Uod as o #pirit, and on this based s worship of thamind and Leart, leaving each to choose tus time and placs of Lis offoring ; or, rather, making the whola oaith llis tomple, and every nund snd hewt bigh priest to offor it own suctilice. Josua (augLit lova to man, the graces of tho Lesrt, na runly, forgivenoss, trucly, sud, iustead of shut- g oif thought and [mprovemeut, lefs theso Fannu or principlos to ba unfolded aud spplhed in all the ottiecs of & higher civilization as cuari- tias, Liborty, iutelligence, and peace. Itis tino thio Bibla utters tinai words, Lut. tha fulity is in this, that thoy aro flrstind last truths that we may not, because wo cannot, go boyond, Itpro- nouncos the name of Goa, sud slowly spella it out in His atiributes and acta. We'aro per- mitted to think upon this. Wo cannot go beyand it. 1t hfts tha votl of oreation and says *God"; aud all science and thinklug must wstop at this word, uot becauso they are forbidden to think or 1o go further, bus becansa they hava reachod causxtion,—they are at the eud of the rosd, Bo, in tho roaln of worals, tho Hiblo uiters fiual words, but they aro final juse as the laws of msthematios are Anal, aud the wiod can go no When . it ls said that straight @ ehortest distance between two poluts, that two aud (wo make four, - tlat You may usa the properties of the line, ugle, or tha ourve, to reach lugher facty, but vou caunot revene them nor improve them, Just 80 ln the world of worals, the laws of love, of truth, of chaatlty, dbere is nothing hlfihu’ to bo stated. XYou wsy thivk soout thew, but you canvot traoscond thew, You can go on and uafold theae laws (a the ap- Fnuuonn toroughout tha whole domain of d What 18 religion 7 The word means to rebind, or 40 bind agaw, and is used o ejpreas our ob- fo, but you cau ueithor chasge thom nor iin- | stop. Anditin just astruo insclenca anitis in religion, and it I8 mora sophintty to charen the Bible with belng * intolorant of ‘any improve. ment.” It 1% to bo accepted upon tho samo tasti. mony that we would accept sy otber Look, and Ita_statementa to bo weighed bv a just reason, and its doctrines to he formulated about the wn- chenging laws of morality, It bida ns “search,” *ntudy,” “t@ink," ‘' judge,” *‘reamou,” for ouruclien, Hteyond what in unfair, and nungenerons, and ropiistical, in Lr. Diaper's work, thers may bs mada Justly the further charge that its general arimus, aa it sooma to mo, is decidedly, though not avowedly, infidel. Its thinly-disguised por. poaa ia to undermiae rathor than to build up faith, to laud 3lohammedaciant and Panthcium at (o oxponre of Clriatinnily? Dearing nil thene things in mind, tha work may be read with loterest and ovon ucnefit, It {ss gencial his- torical compilation, and nat ju all cases accurate. Mr., Draper s & gatuerer and not thinker, & compiler rather than a creator, in the world of thounht, Parsing from theso com; [lations, let ug lnok brielly but directly st tha reul fsun in the con- trovoray betweon religionints and ncientints. It rolates directly to tho bass of knowledge and the existencs of a Divino 8pirit or Personality over and abovo matter, Hcientisia are wont to ofiirm that theirs {s a unowledstn of facts, & poni- tivo knonledge reating on facie 89 & basir, and that religlon 1a cast wbiolly in the realm of faith, and reats sololy on falth, ~ Ecicnco is stead:ly en- Jarging our concoption of tho vastness of tha universe, and 18 constantly preselng ous forther and further the domam of law, untll it hns bocoma all-tclusive, binding all worlda in its fron graap, and from this not & fow 1o hunting at the fact ur possloility that, whilst there Ia such a thing as an impersonal fores or power acting from an {nhierent necensity. thero {1 notblng beyond thiss or, tn other words, there ia no persons! God, and Lencs no persoual liherty in man; that man s world wholly by the nace«rity of tifugs, and that the moat lie can hope for aftor desth i3 o rotnrn or absorption Iuto this universal nacure, Religlon- ists, on thu othier haud, claim that what i callol faith does not atand out in the sir, but rests upon facts as certainly known o consciousuons s aro tho [acts of scioucs ; thev recoguize tho regn of jaw, but place o rersoual God back of toat law, and in the taidst of all caueations claim for man freedow, aud rerpoumbility, and con- nclous immortality, Now, let us look over this field & momont: Tho scientist says he han facta that bhe knows whercol ue aflirme, fiow does he know, —what in the real basis of knowledge ? Ve suy that [t is covsciousuess, ar tha kuowing nubject. or tha mental self. But what fs the mental vaif # Lividauily, none of us know, 5o that wo all began by assuming asa fact somsthing that wa catnot " uoderstand, Wo sl remombor Des- cartes' famous axiom—'Cogito ergo sum "—I thiok, therefora lam. Thas s, bo placed the last ovidenco of his existence in thought, but he could not even guess what, if anytiing, was back of thought. iie simply accoptea a result without knowing the canse, This Is tho first venturo of ail over Loasted knosledgo, We ray wo kwow. But how do wo know? And Liow do we know that we know 7 And low do wo kuow that wo Luow that wo know 7 Wo do not Luow how wo Lnov mor that we know at ol further thon consclourneks magures us, This s the eocond veuture, or sp, in our boastel knowledge, Lut the acientiat says certain things pass Lefore tio tenses, and register tholr 1mpressions ou con- sciousnors, and tina is the way ho knows of the world of matter, aud that he finds tmore things hard or heavy, or soft or ight, or kot or ecld, or red or white, or sour or sweet; thas i, from tho difforont mprossions mido ou cousciouraees, he infers dilferout ropeitien in these different substances. Ho mesumens an outside world, Lecatirs of fuward impressionn, and be assuwes diffcrent proporties becauae of different imuresuicns, T'his i4 the tuird veuture, or gucas, abont what we say we kuow. Now, step out & little furtler, and get down bouneath the bigh-soundiug worda that aie ueed in pciauce, sud aco just Low much wo actually know sbont metter,” To begin, wo flist nesume the oxietence of matter itsclf 1o secount for wental phicnomens, Theo wo assume the motive and forco, but what thoy ara no ono preioads to know. Afteraseumiog matier, and motion, and force, then whst do we know? To account for hght, we assume a subtle etbar, but what it in, or whetler it exiats at all, we do not know. Chomistry rests on the theory of atoms, Lut hos do wa kuow tlat such s taing exista? Can vou ever conceivo of & Larticla of matter that cannot bo divided, or tnat ia notilscll composad of othor partizles? We tell of gravity, or o foreo drawing sil matter to & comwon centre, Dut Low will yoi fix thiis absolute ceutre without tix. g 8 circumfereace ? Aud if you do this, what becomes cf infiuie epace? We hoar mach sall atour law. Huck of the obseurs order iu naturs, HEciouce aseumes sometaing that it calls Inw, fo account for tius crder. Tut what is Jaw? No one knows, and cvon its oxictenco cannat bo proved. I'nere or) Bolne wora of tho steps, or ventures, what we boast of a3 aur Luowledge, our scienco. Now, Iam not urging theso thinzs to unsat. tlo the foundatious of il kuowledge by ques- tionig the genaral raliability of cousciousuess, fur I am quite willing to t-ist tis testumony, but to show that in all those things which we boast of as knowledga ws Leelu as it wero in tho dark, and go forward manly tu asaumption, and that thers 18 tn oll this Just as much walk- ing by fanh as thoro fs in “religion. Look at the “fucta: 'To nccount for the facts of cousclousnoss, thoro aro prosent other facts,~facta noc 10 be accouuted for by matter, or the lawa of gravity, or lignt, or eloctricity. Thero sro tho Impreéions of tho divine, of moral Tai, of right, of duty, of s, of guiit, of panalty, of reward, of a fuiure lifs, and final accounta- biiaty, Now, wa may assumo that alt these spuitual facts aro not shaply wubjectiva impr »Pmm withou: any correspouding objectiva rc ity, and Lenco wo postilate a God, moral law, and a futweo lifo, with justaa much reason as the scicutist concludes the cxisicuco of a mate- rinl world. Tho tacts of upintual and moral con- weionsness ara just as much facts aa hungor, talrat, lieal, cold, or light, and the basis of knowledgo ia the samo 1 religion 88 in sclence. It s uot e'almed that wo can rully comprehend God, or evan auy of the facts that answer to our spiritual consciousuess, Wo oan porceive thom, kuoow somothing of tuent,—and this 18 all that can bedone in materia) things, And thus, inthe light of tho sams coneciousness that sssuros un of & natural woild aud natural laws, do we discern o spintual world and spinitual laws, In this liglt stands revosled tho whole realm of lduty, of right, nnd of roligion ; and, ilumived by rovolation and touched by tho Divino Spirit, the hoart of man bolieves ard adores. And la tholr presence faith in tho apleitual aud the divine will never die out, but will more aud moro tako their place brado tho great facts of oature. And, mtarting from (ho same couacionsuess, snd journeving outward to squally reat, thoughi diffeient, cbjective worlds, the truo sclonce will ultimately bo fouud at un studving sy they do different sldes of the all- comprehovding'trutb, ‘They dwpll togother in poace, aud none hut bigots aud fanaties on eithor side will soek to sover the honds of thoir hLoly union or to atray them in contlict. —_——— MOODY AND SANKEY, WHAT LONDON PAVEUS HAY OF TIEM, London Tines, March 23 3r. Moody Las undorgone a stage of natura} dovolopment eiuca we last chronicled his saymgs nud doings, At o tima very resarved in speech, there seoms to hiavo boen taken from him “ that roaerve which ho hind," and Lis liss entorod upon & career of cucouraging or reproving, in very round terws, all of us, from Jobn O'Groat's Louse to the Land's Xnd, but ospecialiy in London, Io peoms to bhavo caught the impression somehow that London has not responded to hiw invitatlons; that tho young have not boen as ardeut as thoy ought to bLiave been {n forming bodies of alatrict visitors; and that thoss of mora advauced years havo aot sufliolently bowed their hoada in solf-abassment for their sing, Poople havo beou Leard speak- ing—aud possibly Mr. Moody may bave heard thom wpeakiug—of **not gowg to suy mors meetings,” Wa can quito comprohend the natural horror, in viow of such feelings, of mon who *‘came ocat," not merely to proach tho Goapel, but in its bebalf to conquer patious, Meusre, Mocdy and Sankoy, like Alexander, xto beut upon sabduing a world, If we thought thoy would mucceed, wo might bo inclined to dispute their progresa; but bocause wo have 1alth in oculture, snd tha calinncss that cumes from culturo, we are not in the loast in- chned to bring thess new rovivalists, sny mioro than the oldor ones, Lo any tast other thin their own, 1t thoy cau suvo tLo 1guoiuu oF tho lost, Lot thom do 0. If thoy can coutluno to attract peoplo, cortsiuly thero is nu use iu becoming an. gry atit: sud if. Mr, Moody makoes tierce ro- mi:kd aoout his oritics, why, theie can ve no lous of digaity 1n acceptivg the reproaf of 8 maa who addresses us trom 8o lofty a pedestal of abaoluto cortaluty whore to .many au earneat wan &0 much diw, It Beows wounderful that lishmen, erodited on the Ountinent with & large amount of iv- sutar phlogw, shonld ta s axtout Le unsbio to take demonstrations of this kind with tho prove them. ‘Thers is & fHoal resson of thinge, aud wusa thatis reachiod we wust . ! stolidity curluusly charscteristio of the Awai- caus, lu spate of their revivals, licre is s pars~ praph we extracted the ollier day from the Naw Yoru lerald : Thero was o largn atfendanca at the Falton atrent Traser-meating yeslorday, Mr, Varley, the Livilvh ro- vivalint, reml & fmbar of commuuleitions from per. 8ons living in thts Stsfo and Pennsyivants, requesting 6 prayers of the meeting for varioun Kitujecis, An €elogient disconrns was d livered by Me. Vatloy, atter *Jilt e suncting dinpersed, Whale. thozetoro, Mensra, Mooy and Sankes aro buay convaiting the Unfted Kingdom, Mr, Var- legy t¥ho sooma to boa Bantiat, 14 doiug equal woudein 1o the Grited States. ‘I'a moral tefog- taphy of which we ppoke recently in at work from bath niden, ouly on the Amencan mdo no- budy soems to gy anury or exo.ted about whas I8 baing done, "Tiin Atnotrcans a8 n poopls ara quite unable to understand our horo-worsnip of rovivalists on the une baud, or our nomumro L Auger ngainet rovivalsis and their fodowers on the other, ‘This sccount I':y n friend doos not seem to ftiow that Mr, Natley is causing anything iko the excitemant caased Ly the two- Americans fu England., Tn tho believers in thees rovivala, however, there la but ons entiras of thongit or action. 'Ono triendly jouinat confosses, mdeod, that Mr, Moody's sermons will not ! Lear the ntram of reporting, Wo a: firat madn the at- tempt. but 15 wan soon evidont, in transenbing oua's nolcs, that their special form of appeul is Jess nlapted than almost any other for the rinted " page, and it would bo wotair submit ~ thewn to auy such me- voto test.” A Daplist miniater, who boldly tizns his name to Lie letter in another religious paper, says: * In evangelintic work, Br. Moudy {8 above'all praiso; but bosond that nork he s & mers cipler, as the futuro will in- evitably show, Ifo is zealous nbova most other faen; Lt b has no loxlc in biw nature, and wil uot moke an audiencn.” Another preacher aseritics il the succens of the two mon to the fact that “Their message is nanded ;" ond an- othor wtill, who has known Mr., Moody long, ragh that the whaole socrot lies **iu lus Laug a man of pre-eminent bumility, of inextingnishiablo zeal, av that, in n wicked clty {Chicago] of 490,000 eople, il tho boys know and respect Low; of tirm faith in God's Word ; and of frayer." Itcanuot be Lidden that, as & rule, the clergy oftho Chmrch of Eugland have not attendod tlesp Borvices, Deau Stauloy, indsed, attended ¢ne, and ho hes been [ully deseriveld, even to the putting on of his Apoctaclay, for his trouble, | Lven the clergy of the puriwhen adjuining whero | tho eervices are lield stand aivol, sud thoy have tiv: escaped the censiire whiali **relizious " men, iu the fervid mense, knyw #o well how to apply, Wa have no wikh to treat Mr. Moody MIL‘IMr. Bankoy othorwise thay with respect, even while wa feét buund to Bay that wo have n stroug cou- viction “that the suterest of their meetings in rapidly failing off, and that we ecein rovoral now forms ofappeal somotbing like av indication that the revivalists peiceive the fact and nro codenvoring to counternct it. Appeals of tho same claxg aro evidently becuming too frequent; ono is reminded of wiat Dr. Johnsou sald with referenco to Wesley + that ho wrote and spoko moro thau he read,~—a re- mark which applics with mach grester forco hore, Moroover, it {s not diflicult to Beo thut Mr. Moody works tvo many hours in 8 day, and that even Mr, Sankoy's ainging |s becoming a Ltilo wanrisoma by reitoration.” Of conrro, thin 14 wercly u ** worldly " view of tho sorvices, and w6 are not affecting to take any cther. Wo hiave bieard at thesa meetings somo very fervid, aud in many cases, we have no doubt, very enarnoat, praying, apart from the tworovivalsta, It must be added that Mr. Mooads i not to ro- main bere long. About 250 ministers met him sume dave sgo to nsist in devising means tor contimuing tho *mgvement™ after ho left En- piaud, and an undesstanding ts enid to havo bron como to tuat, though tha question of iy suc- cesyor wan o be loft i Mr. Moody's'own hanas, Lo should telegiaph to Americs and Australia ** for tho most popular proachers and rovivalists to contmuso bhis work.” Iasit, then, come to this? Ilave wo no clergymen and minmsteis even alilo tu keep the fire liehtol whou once tho spark has beon apphed? Suroly this, moto than ansthing ol=o in relation to ihese meatings, indis cates a ragical flaw and vice in rovivalisni, A FIERCE BLAST, Tandon Cosmorolitan, . Acouple of {lliterate Yaukees, withlungs of iron, nnd chocks of brass, aro doing o rosring business at tho Horse-Shos 1al), in London, in the teligious trade, The whole affair emacks of Barnum, and wo shonld not be surprised to Lear that the Princo of Humbugs was at tho bottom of the Moody and Sankey sbow. Our readens will infer from thia * opouing " that we have no falih iu scosational preaching, I bysterical re- ligion ; at the same time, we ato reversut be- liovora in the sentiment of religlon, and regard 18 intelligent development and cultivation au tho moat imortant part of rducation, and woat ca- scutia} to Luman happiness, Wa have Infinito reapect for practical rehgiom,—the retigion of ey Etnde, for example, who saves buth budies sud souls ~ of tho ‘““lokt sheep”™ that are dying of sisrvaticn In the nirecis of Loadon. DBat this saving of mouis afler death is something wa do not undorstand, aud thoss who j rofess to understand it gro piob= ubly quito &8 Iguosaut on tho subject of the “fulure stato" ss we are, ouly thoy hava pot the honesty to confeds it. Iu the tirst place, no man hiviog, or who ever did hve, hias tho least ray of oxact knowledye of any state of existence atter the ymlvo consen to throb, the hoait to bost, —in otler words, after ihis animal orgunisu ceases to breatho, and bocoes a culd and sonso- Icas clod. Beyond the grave, all is ungnown, n more guoes, & gieat perbane; and yeb the cowmon instinet of mau hopes and trios to bo- ftevo in tho eoterunl oustence of tho woul, for “better or worws,"in the Laud of the Here- after. Tluw v the ciude taith of tho savago, who Thinks, admiited to thot equsl sky, swfrithful dogg shal bear nira company § while civihized, eultivated ; enlighitencd manjpro- fesues Lo bolieve i the ductrine of tho *ijm- mortality of the soul and the Lifa cverlaating,” With this belief mora or lees sincorely chorlahed, tho question of preparation for tho future, for tho 11!5 aftor this, is certalnly & sorious ono ; Lut no more so than tho question of prcsoul dutics. Our fdoa ix, that the man who conrcion- tlonnly does his duty hero is always prepared to meat any possiblo huroafter, oiskaron this or tho othier sido of tho doath-lunic; whilo ho whois #0 morbidly absorbed in futuro evontoalities a8 to weglect his daly work and houtly duty, ia naither it for ttns lifo nor that whicli(s to como. ‘I'beso mulutudes of old women, of both sexos, who tlock to Aguicultural and Exotor MHally, to hear Moody aud Haukoy shout bugaboo non- seneo bout the *worni that never dies,’ aud tha * lake that burneth with fire and brimstonoe, aud mistate tho violant jalting of their slug. gish wousibilities for roligiovs omotians, had much buttor Lo ot home attending to their do. mestic duies, or I their workshopa saming tho hread of lifo for thoir families, Those sovsa~ tivna 1 publie crowds, liko epidemics, aro catch- ing; aod ome old woman suivels becauso sho Heos anotlier, * under concern of mind,” wiping hor oyes aud blowlng hor nose, Bometimes, “hkio gulity creatures sittiug ot s play,” the consclonces’ of hardoned sinners, cheating iradosmon, ewindling monoy-lendery, anfaitli- ful wives and husbonds, prick 80 had thoy ery sloud st tho **torments” held up ws thow fature “portlon.” But, liks a man neelug hig foco in & glaes, thoy 'fio awa; of and soon forget tho **manner of men are,” What strikes us as the great enormity of tlicso rmwcumgu, and of all others of asimilarnature, 4 tho blaspnomous assumption of men to speak i tho nae of Goil, and to talk about the *will of God," s if thiey wero in possonsion of the so- croty of tho Almighty ! Worso yet, thoy some- timea spoals in the chasacter of ininisters aud advisors of the Defty! 1o a scrious, (Lought- tul, dovout, philosoptical mind, such arropanos of ignotance is not ooly shocking, but disgust. ing. And yet thess uneducated Chicago camp-- meeting brawlars camo hero to toll us what God Iu goiug to do with us, [ndividuaily and collect~ ivaly, it the “vext world!" Whal thess rant- ora quote 80 freoly of as eaven and Hell, aro conditious of tho wind, nol places of future roui- dence, When we are buppy, wo are fu Heaven § whoun tue reverso, in tho other stuts, . —_— GERMANY AND THE NEXT POPE, DIAMARUK PIGUTING A GUOBT—)OTHING TO HIT. Landon Spectator, March 27, Prince Blsmarck 18 fighting a ghost, and the IRt bothers bim dresdfully, ile knows how to hit, and to Dbit hard, with a bludgoou ; how to inflict dreaaful cuts with o sabre, aud how to giva effective polnt with a rapier: but all thoso methods of fighting domand titat the advorsary shall prosent a skull to bo brokeu, a body o bo elaghed, or & bresst to ba piercad through; and tho Popo Lias none of thoso thingy. o fa oulva voleo; and Krupp, who esn kUl avy mortal bo- ing, has not yot provided the eholl which will biast awsy the nymph Lchio. If the Popo pos- wessod an estato, a4 he ignoraully wishes ho did; if ho usd his biv of Ialy for his own, with its aocest capital and g countles admnistored by Cardiuals, and jtu worm-eaten old poit, bo would be lost, for the QGerman Chancellor could effectually attack all thosa plousantly usoléss sigus of dowlalon, ‘Ihero can hardly bo a doubt that, if the Pope hiad preserved hus tampors! power till 1875, aad Liad publishod the Enoyclical of lsst mouth, and had irritated Garmany as o has rocently dons; and if Catholio Enropo had been as powerless as itis, and F'rotestant Europo s divided or indit foront aa it [s, Piluce Dismarck wonld haye landed 10,000 men {in Clvita Vocchis, have en- tored Romo Phifip IT. did, snd have com- volled tha King of tho Dapal Statea to have chowen Lotwoon subminslon or flight. Dat, ey without s Kiugdom, the Fope ls na Falo” from litary intorfefatico as the ed- ator of the Times, The Home-rulers might a8 wall try to silenca the groat Journai by briok- hats, 2 the Chancollor of Germai y to_sllanco the Popo with broooh-loadiog guns. There 1a nothing lo Ait, and the apeed of the firing conse- quontly does nov matter, The Chuncollor scos that cloarly cuough, and it irntates bim, aod, uaturally, ho thinkn over means of bringing physicsl prossnro to Lwar, If ho could only tmake somelady reaponsible who could bo got nt with cannon ! "Bupposs the Pope were o sub- Joct, or wore bound overn it to Interfere with sny seontar Btatas tho, if o cantinued abusiva, Lits eountry could ba atnckod, aud, as & counts: A could ba' invaded, and conquered, aud mado to pay indemnities for l’l\e erimo of not winning its bastiea ; Dechin, which can {nsura all thons things, would bo masicr of the mitua- tion. That result would so perfectly suit Princo Liamarck, that it in dificult to believe ho hns not sttaven to attain it ; thatho hoa aot asked Lnropo whother the next Pope stioutd ba 8 Hovereign ; that Lo bas not proesed Italy to Prowiee that during tha next olec.fon the Guar- antes Law saould be repeslsd, and the vomines of tho Conclavo informed that unlesn ho could come 1o terma with civilization Lia would bo con- ridered o Dishop, and not an independant Hoveretmi, Tho denials of this Blory are nnmerous and bold, bLut it will ba observed tuat - they il apply (o the preseot l‘urc, and not o tho next claction; that thoy aro all incousiatout with the doouments which camo ont during ud_bafora the Arnim trial, and that thoy ara alt denied in ststemonta shicn imply that the real threat held out is ane of *non-rscogaition.” 1. e,, non-recoguition of tho Fopn sa s Sovereizn Prince. Ha i1 to ba Bomebiods’s dubject, and, therofore, amonable ta & law which cau ba eafoiced by n threat agatnst Ris civil buperior of an appoal to arms, Buch threats have beforo mow boen imsued againal botb Frauco and Austria, on account of uttacka in the press, and when tho Continsutal systemn of n:}:xuaing the press is consideral, it cuunot bo donied that wias or foolish, appres- sivo or liberal, thoy are, at Jeast, recoguizad by interuational law.” A Btate which holds the power to coutrol its press by cxecutivo decres suist, (m some mersure, becomo respounible for 118 utterances, and tho Fopo, if a subject, would for practical purjonea b just a fournalist, naing nuing paper of sute sort 1o dissemwinato bis viows tbroughout the Catholio world, IT ho sent his knefd tu lottera to formgn Bistops, ho would all the satno bo rasgoneillo for the matter containod iu them. What hns tho Pope done, to begin with? o has, to put itin the plainest, avd, thercfure, ns Gerwans will say, in themost (Jerman form, deliv- ered a sermon, “saving that anybody who oboys the Falck fuws will, uniors b ropents and makes reparation. woto hell. Weil, sod what thon? Burely, if the Popo is right in saying that hia duty 18 to say iz, if ho {8 buined alive the next minute, and to punish him 1€ a3 oppressivo as it woild bo for & pictist Government to punlsh Drof. Strauss for sayme that Lell does not oxist. Let us tnrn to the mothod, ‘Tho objecs of any #eheme for oontrolling the eloctio of u Popa by refusing Lo recoznize the person /.octed must Lo of neceagity to reduce him to Zhe position of a rubject, aud wnat would bo o result of that ? Cleirly that unless beld 7o physical durance, h would produce ~angerous distulbances, bie woutd ehnoss the residenco where he wonld Lo least fottased,—ihat in, either soma Casholia Btate wheio his opinioss had full ascendaucy, whero for other reasons bo wouid olone. In neither would tho exd 61 .hi—tiho supprossion of bia dangerous Oiinteny as ta the rolation belween eartnly law rnd heavonly Jaw--bo secured for ona hour. Kuppone Lo Hlod o Belgium, Germany wonld hava Lo couquer Bolzium to etop him, only to ueo Lim fiy, eny, to Iliyiia ; or, 1f Austria wero conquered, to Maltay or, if England weie snb- cied, to Milwaukeo; or, if America could not sesist ber German 'settlers’ vols, to Quito, ro- iug in cach place exactly as ta'kuiive, ns riees, and oy dangerous as boforo, Aa a fagitive, he conld **bau™ sod **bless ™ just as eatily o8 bo can pow, aud with just as much offect, while na n fugitivo the chance of a com- bination fu_his fayer would bo indefinitely ine creared. Hunting a witl-ol-the-wisp with fiold- preces woulil be renniblo to guch & conuwe, which, aven if as succeesful ws wo hava supposed, would bo pure waito of CGormun treasute and lifo, ‘That i, of courzo, partly seen, and 1t {s now eaid that the gusrantees sought are to Lo taken from tho new Fopo tutugell, bt that alteration 1s only ouo of ming. ‘Tho Popo will give no guarantoes wliatever, and thon if Uermany doos not *‘recognizo” Lim, L must cither go oa na bofore, or tho conntiy ju which he lives must bo held respanaible for his ntterances, with all the uitimaic conaquences wo have ottempted to state. Itall comea back to this, that if pysi- cal power is to be reliod on, armics must move iu order thnt a particular teackor of Christianity mav not have leavo to apeak bis mind, We have o8 littlo symzathy with bis mind aa we bave with Lrof, Tyndall's mind, but be bas Just as much right to oxprors it, wnd the offort “to forbid its cxpression will, as we belleve, provo equally futde, Youcas't blow o thought awsy from & Kruppgun. ——— RITUALISM, TROUBLE IN A DLTSOIT CRUBCH, Special Liscateh to Toe Catcago Trioune, Drrrorr, Miel., April 11,—St. Peter's Eplaco- pal Chureh, In this city, hos been for some time noted for the ritunlistio tendencles of its roctor, Jr. Tillingbost, Tho vestry last year usked him to remgn on sccount af his Rowsh proctivities, but, on Eastor Monday, » uew vestry wod clected, composed of his friouds. A protest has been publisted in to-day's papora by quice a numbor of pew-hold- ers chargiug that tho roctor, by giving a notice iutonded 10 deceive, sacu:ed the prosance ouly of Lis foonds at the church meeting, aod thns got himself sustained. Their langrage s vory bitter, and tho saccusations of bad fai:h aro #noupIng, e SOLDIENS' AND SAILORS' REUNICN, Spectat Inapateh to The Chicaon Tribune, Guaxp Rawps, Mich, April 10.—Lxtonsive proparations are wmakivg for tho graud reunion “of the Soldiers’ and Suflors' Association of Michi- gon to bu liold in this clty nost Wodneatay, It 18 oxpocted that thirty regimeuts of infantry, ten of cavalry, besides the artillery snd megnane ics and enginoers, will be reprosoutod by fult dolegations, 18 all the railronds in the Stato furnish tickets ut half furo, Lo Laoquet will cost but €1 per potson, and the vetoraus lnve been wanting lung ‘such & rounion. Tho bauqueting hall witl comforiably seat 1,600 persons, ‘The work of adornivg 18 woll advanced. About fifteen of our flrst young Iadies will serve the foaat. Gov, Bagley and statl will arrive on ‘Tuesday aftornoon, and will be piven & furnsl roception. Other dignitsrios of tho Blato anddistinguished otlicots of the aruues with which the Michigau troops served will be bere, Tho Local Comumiities haa IH‘IHFNJ the following rendozvous fur the diffurent toimaents, which will also Lold_their 1ogumont unious hoie on that day : Tho Tirat, Seoond, Tuud, Fifth, Bixth, Soventh, Eigath, and Tenth Cavairy, au Firet Iufautty, at the Mortan ; the Becoud, old ‘Ihird, now Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eiguth, Four toenth, aud Twenty-fourth Infantry, and Nintl Cavalry, at Sovert's Iotel; thn Light teenth, Ninoteonth, Twentioth, Twenty-tirat Twonty-gocoud, Twentysthitd, and Twenty-tifth Infontry at Luco's [lull; tho Twonty-uevonth, ‘L'wenty-oighth, Twenty-niuth, and Thirtieth In- tautry” ut Powers' Upsrn-llnuuf tho Ninth, Teuth, Eloventh, Twaiftn, aud Thirteonth In- Iautry at the Rathbun Houso; the Fiffecnth and Hixtoenth Infantry, sad engineors and me- chanics, at tho Commorcial Lotol; the Bixthand Soveuth Infautry st Iasch's Iotel; the Neven- teenth aud Dwonty-sixth Infattry at the Drida Huroos House; thenrtillery at Lode's Hull. All tho soldiers and sailors roadlog this will know wheio to meet their comrades, ‘The banquet will be began at 8 o'alock in the eyouing. —_— Copyright Wanteds Jushinaton Correspondence Cinelnnati Gazette, Suck a ludicroun affair hapnenedat the Patent= Odlice tho other day, Mr. Morgan, the father of tho fawmoua Baltintore quartel, which crested o much comment and interout this winter, mado his sppoarauca ona dnfl this weck before tho clerk in obiage, hat In Land, ‘Iwaut e copy- right," vald pator familias, & wan o the Wipu- tian ordor of puysique, Lut withall the impor. tenos aud pompcuity of manuer for which little men are peuelully distinguisbed, * For what?® sekod the clusk’ 1u liw most arbane manver + For my four children,” replled the fatlior de- terminedly, “Throe of the litlla nuea have died, but the fourth iu sl alive, a1d & photog- raplor in Daltimcre is sollug plcturos of the eutyro grou, and makiug movey by the opera- tiou, snd 1f thera Iv woy money to "bo mude by salling pictures of my own childres, I want to v tho gaiuer, S0 I would like to Lave & capyright to soll thoeo photograps myselt]” Tha poor littlowan was very much discomtited upou learns iug thee ‘oopyright .woouzed " could not em~ m;x;:n,.;hu photographio casdi of his paloved quarte! 5