Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1875, Page 3

THE PULPIT, Sermon by Dr. Kohler on Amer- ican Judaism and Its ‘Wants. The Reve Jacob Post on the Truth of Frophecys The Duty of the Citizen on Election-Day. Dedioatory Services at the Fifth Pres- byterian Church. 3 gunday Evening Meeting at Xoo- i ley’s Thentre. Conseoration and Invostiture of an Arch- bishop in Boston, Otlier Religious Matiers; . AMERICAN JUDAISM AND ITS WANTS, A DISCOURSE DELIVENED 1Y DA, X. KOULLR DE- FOLE THE BINAI CONGREGATION, When God created Adam, says a Ilabbinical tegend, Ha took dust from ail parta of the globe sod kneaded it togother, formiug it jnto tho shapo of man. Henco man's peculiar capacity of living and gottling at any placs and in aoy climato, whether the patm or ths pino treo, ‘whether tho eamel or tho reindeer offers ita ser- vive nnd companionship to him, Tho same ca- pacity of growing and prospering on any soil snd under sny sky, Judaism clalms a8 its especinl priviloge, Tt is tho Leritage of Abraham, the wandoring patrinrch, whoso diviue enlling 1t was to procinim the namo of God wherover hio pitebied Il tent. “Tho ridicutous 1ale of tho Wandering Jow, mado to ncount for thio marvolous caroer of our peoplo by a curso hurled sgaiuet them, isthe invoution of thelr own oppiosaory to Juatity tho cruelties heaped on them in by-gono ages. Centuriea before the riso of Christianity, the Jewish people,. follas- nez the stream of eivilization, scttlod smong the dliTorcnt nationy, sorving the conutry thoy in- Babited, and clinging to thoir God. Na tnoro could Mothor Zion ombrace all her children, {rom thio day sho #aw them wander into oxile, thore to fnd tholr lleavenly Fathor auow, Though concentrating around Jorusalem aa thoir IHoly City, they mada the wida world their babi- tation and scope. Nor did Judasm merely grow behind secludiog walls, n the closo atmesphiora of Jowjsh Quar- tors, na Orlental plants do with us in bot-liouscs aundet tho protecting earo of (ho gardoner, Look st Aloxandria, whoero Judalsm thrived and flour- felied in tho fresh air of Hollonic culture, bring- iug forth & now phllosophy to revive the Grock mind, and & new rohgion to win tho Loarts of the heathen for tho Jowish God. In faet, Holy Beriptures were searched to givo a ronson for thio Jowish adhesivn to Aloxaudrin, ea if it vwere o second Jerusalom, and to the Groek tongue, us if it, too, wero haly. Took at tho Arabisn culture. Look at Srlul, Yofora it fell o proy unto the claws of s biood® thirsty Chureb, ~ Thersdewish intellects outsi- valod” the Mouammednng 1 statosmnushin, fu puilosopby, io astronomy, and modioie, Whilo they compoted with their fellow-citizons in pa- trigtlem, they by their neing inlluence folt thelr love enlianced for their fa.hein’ inheritance, atd by thelr onlightonmons their ambitivn aroustd to make Judaiww appesr tho veey ireasury of thought and learniug, Indeed, thy diauglt of Arabiun culturo worked upon the Jewish religion Uko tho iresheming breezo of tho sos. It saw & glonous thme of reawakening. 1t exorewed o plilosopbiesl tealnug of tho Jow.sh mind. It introduced new scion- tiflo meinods of wtudsing aud fu.erproting tha Jutlo. It forged and furniabied tha weapuons of {ree jnquiry to haud them over to Prolos:anlism to enablo it 1o sheko off the miglty yoke uf Tomo, aud to modeorn exitics for the | urpouo of emancipating man frum tho shackles of the lot- r. Whopover alr and light are froely admittad, Juda:sm grows straight upwards, Hong shut out from thosa by tho Chir.ut.an Btates, it grow crooked, turnml; all ita strongth inwards. Ite ionor_bonuty, ite rare houschold virtucs, it un- foldod, bu lost its imposing grandour, its fresh- ness and vigor of miud, under tho prossurs of humilistivg laws. DBuat wonderiul mie the ways of Providence, In tho eame year in which Chriatian 1niolerance resched 1ite ‘climax, whon tho Juws wore ali at onca relontlossly driven anay irom thoir beloved Spaiu, Amerioa was discovorod. Ou the 10th day of Aucust Co- Jambue sailed for the Weatorn World, whon the Jows mourned over tholr twice, if not thrico, loat land and freedom, ¢ Lappening to_ba Lho 9h day of Ab, tho day of Jerusalom's destruo- tion. "Thoy did, theu, not dreamn thnt God was opouing anotner loly Land for thelr peiscen- tod and outlswod race, & land whera the milk and honey of unbiosed hiborty and equality wero to flow for all thoRe suflering and sotrowing from tho scourge of fauaticinm, whether religioua or pohacst. “To hundrods and thousanas of Jow- sh familiea, who wero not allowed to grow in numkters and scarcely to broathe In many plincos of the old country, America bocae the land of promiso and of a hundrod-fold hlnunlnsi. American Judaism Is flour.shing nobly to-day, Materially it prospers; its woight and wealth are folt in tho maiket. Boclaliy, 1t is respectod, sinco tho real_character ot tha Jow has boen found to differ greatly from that \drawn by Sbakspesre aud Dickous, and 19 tho Now Tes. tament writows, Pohitieally, it will rise (o fnflu~ enco, 48 6000 a4 the rising qcncrnfilon, on entor- ing any publie carcer will, like the Jowish flfllholunu and journnlists of Turope, fool duced to (brow thelr weight iuto tho scalea of vublio opinion for elevating the standard of bolitics and defonding tho sacrod caugo of trua liberty aud sectarian humanity, About its moat ohaiacteristio fantures, hawevor, about 1ts relig- 1ous nanccts, thero in momethivg curious aud wie eertafu au yot, 1te tondonoies aud prospocts, as aroligion, aro, 88 yet, littlo underacood by Itsonn adherents, far lese by outsiders, 'Thora are 4o many differout views and oplnlons hold aod ex- piendod {n our midst, varyivg from tho moss Atubbora orhodoxy of Pollah and Portuguess congregations to the most unscrupulons radical- lam”of would-be roform-loaders, that & good Iuany sro puzzled, anking thomuclvea: * \\fiwm is American Judaam driftiug to?” Lot ua thoroforo couuldor what ure tho promises and ‘llw‘pl:»,'mo aims and tho wants, of Awmorican Ju. alsu ‘I'here is o striking peoullarity about the virgin noil of Amorica. 1t tonds to trausforming each growth into genulne Amoroan product by chauging its shape or color. The vino, irans- planted here from tho old countcy, asautnos a now flavor, Alan Nkowise changes undor tha influence of thesa fruo fustitntions, and, by the stimulstion and compotition of all " en- eriies aud faoulties, his character s -Imfiuu lnto & new, vigorous manhood, Tnik " cannod fml to Lara its effect upou bis 1dous, and bis veligion, too, Tho per- petual kteito for indopeudouce loosons thoe hold 8 Lhud peliof exerclecy upon the mind. By the tolling foros of common senso authonty Iu frroe tivly swopt away, llence, orthodoxy gradue y chiangau from a toop-rooted faith to & mere oustom, Compare American Catholiclsm with that of the ald countrics, bow liberal, bon mod- out, bow talorant, i {6 heral T baliovo tha Pope hioitelt would foso bis balo of infallibilliy, should he undertake crossing the Atlautic, Ot~ thodoky, waula. It oid fustitutions to draw sucugth from; ou a virgin soil it withois nway, Jewish orthodoxy |g doeaying fu Amoris Tta luouing baokward to the faroff Iast, it Jonging for tho restoration of a past glory, con- trast too much with the Amorigan’s dosire to go ahosd and push his way ouward, Nor does the Obsorysuce of geromonles and laws, made in older times for the purposc of keeplug larasl aloof from the iompiations of I:R:Inry. well agree with the presming - dewands of Ameriosn busluess-ife, Consequontly, the continued dls- rogurd of wll the diotary, the' aauitary, aud Sabe batical luws, could only hiave tho most dlscourag- 1ng intlueuce upon the beliafs and hopos of tho orthodox Jew, yea, 6ven upon his P respect, sud it lually lad many to daspalr of tueir religion, Orthodox Juduism much rosemblen the 1ifo of a1 ogster. within it ehell. On opeuing the shell you wouder how tho little tensnt oatne to build 86 thiok » hoose sround teblf. Yor did not bulld it ; the tossige and :oh‘-‘::‘ :’::: of the ochan did 14 whils hirdonlng the siimo tuo “avatr threw out to hide itaslt azainat their pers petual daabiog aod tearing, Dut, takon out of tha over-moving element 19 which it grew, it iaw, Wilhiout its shell, It canuot live any more, and within it it turns {0 stone, too. Orthodoxy han a thick shell hailt over Judalam Lo protoct it against the towsing and worrying floods of hatrod and fanaticism of ° hLesarticas and fguorant muldtude. There it has grawn for nges toxethor with it and will na more_ part. Yot in tho_penaceful harbor of free huanity, In tho suushing of r asan, tho hfs within presens mgainst s dark [oclosuro, but is anabla to with- nland tho fronh air, 'Thus Jewisl orthodoxy is slowly melting awav in America like the anow bofora the approsching summor, having soarcely 1aft any prominont man Lo roflect the uimbus of yonerablounss upon it, as tho snow does which in summer timo stitl cabs high doantain-peaks, Roform haa bocome tho redseming watchword of American Judalsm Roform roflectad new croit upon the Jowish pouple. It rallied the despairing _and lost eons of Israel around ity “elovated standard. Ioplacing a doad lan- usgo by & llvlm{ ono, and Oriental customn rxy modern _oner, it tuned the hoarta to now siroing of dovotion, and filled the bLousea of worship with tho munc of now aspiiations. Whiso it drclared all eeremnoninl faws to be mero forms, changing with the epiric of ages, to aorve a8 ptterancos of the soul's yesrning aftar the Litornal, it lightoued the burdan of "the Moaale ! Inw and reconsiled modern life with religion, It turned tho minda nway from the ratns of the past to 1ift them on tho wings of prophetis hopes Lo tho noticipation of & bright future, whoan, in fulfillmontof the Mesaianic prediciions, tho heayenly kingdom of teath and lova will bo established ‘on esith, and God alone bo on- throuedl in tho hearta of wen. Judaism waw thus kindled with a new fire. Its wondrous ways wera br gatened up with & new from sbove. Iteform intrusted it anow with it mission of leadiog the nations to s vhrer conaaption of the only ony, living, Rnd boly God, and man to scek, without any m.diutorship, for s communion with hia Father in Heavon, Xo- form opened tho wide visia of tha future bofors it to look upon Christlanity aud Islamism as its misalonarios and tributaries, who, consciously or ! unconscionaly, all tond to unite with it" in building the majostic temple of humanity, in which tho idenl of all that 18 true, and goad, and beautiful, will bo adored as Jahovaly the God of histary. Poiuting to this gravd aim, Heform made progroess its battlo cry, reason fts armor, and tue scionces its allies, " It nced not ba nfrald though scientific reaoarch nndermiug all the fortreeres of authoritativoe belief, and compol the iblical miracies and storios, yoa tho entiro macred books, to murrendor. Its God, whoso organ the Dibie is, will nevsr surrendor, ond the straing of inspiraiion, strung by ite lioly bords and seers, will resound with musio as long 88 thore is s Lumaa soul on earth lifting its_wings heavonwatd. QOf courso, this tlight of thought is too kaen, this aim of the future too Ligh, aud the chinugo of front mare too suddenly, ot to confound aud puzzlo tho slow and besitaudng maeses. To s groat many standing ®ithin and outalde of the palo of Judmiawm, Roform weomns to court Unitas riangsm on tho one hand and froe religionsm on theother for alliances, Nor aro the Jowisl ministere waoting, who, for populatity's sake, coquot with both sides, balancing to and fro, and playing sith privciples as with balls. Re~ formedt Juilalsm benrtily weleomen Unitarinnism as & noblo olly jn "tho lioly warfare of truth agnainst creeds, which degtnde both the Aublimo itlesl of Gud wnd the dignity of mah, but it refrains trom troapassing tho boundnry-lios of its neighoor, who still lyru(cu Curist to God_as bis Savior, declaring Illm to bo tus son of God inntead of man. On the oiber side, Jewish Res form mympathizes with Freo Religion in iia keon efforts to blend religion with reason and science, but it declines to leave its intienched pusition on firin tistorical ground in order to huild on drirt- ing eand, Froo roligion in a stopplog-atons to a now religion, but no roligion a8 yet. 1t Lse no lnstory., It dgnorea the past. 1t han in the air; & change (b the mental al- mosphere may st ouco tumble it down, Its idem of ‘Clod 8 an impalpabla notinn, Inoking life nnd reality. 1leformed Judaisin oxtenda its land for fricudship and lelp to Its nolhbots, yot noods not affect and soliclt partnerabips and rotecions. It followa its wav, a8 foreshadowed ny ita history, refusiog to sell it birthright for a’pottagoe of lentils, 'I'ha solid rock of lustory is ity foundation. Its march through the ages linis tho remoteat past with the moat diatant future, and 1a propeetd are ny bright us any of its compotitors. In the old country thers is Reform atill fotter- od. A voncravle orthudory, ltherto protected by thie Government and uphold by the old gen- etation and nacient institutious, weighs oo heavily upm it with the authority of uge. It dares not rafne its lLead, The pulpit doea not onjoy frecdom cnough to ongaze the interest and to win the aympathits of tho lo'go majority of the oaucated, ‘Lhisy are loft in the cold, tne attracted and disregarded. Tho boroio obame pions and vigorous leaders of lloform are dying Away, ouo by oug, to be succoeded by a sickly genoration of a half-brecd roform, educated in sominaries for a luko-warm and tmid Jiberatism, which, for fear of offending nuy, i ever ready tor compromiash, Auwerican Judsism, howaver, is porvaded by a gonuino spirit of reform. Its inetitutions aro free, honco democratic, ta pulpit 18 froe; heuce 1t becomus nttractive aud progrossive. 'This mav load to sbusos, yob it fouters a oatural sud Loalthy growth of religion, Look haw each now ministor comiug from thio old couniry to breatho the eir of liberty soon commonces rolaxing his convictions, and finally surrenders to the reform army. Yos, American Judninm is destinod to be tho commanding lesder of Jewish reform. Une bampered by auy prejudico und any intorferiog power, it will grow a8 graud and au powoiful as any rehgmm seot in this country. It will not ocount a4 many twilllons as its adheronts. It nuwmbors will morelynerease ju propoitiou to the natural growth of ity raco, as it shrinka Loth from intermarcying aud making cotiverts iu ordor to asye the purity of ita faih, in obedience to its priestly miasion. But it will become the ploneer of a roligion whining forth with the brightness of roason and glowing with the flame of holy a8 frations, Yot great as is [ts mission, is' also its rowponalbhiity. American Judalsm s far from having accomplinhed 1ts task, Heform has not doua boif the wotk it is_plodged to. True, it orecta tompleaso grund snd gorgeous s to chaliengo avy charct, ~ But bewars of drawin compativons” betneon the atteudsnca of bath churohes and synagogues, unless you are pro- pared to find tho formor slways éiowded, snd tho Iater empty, Alas for the fourth commandmont | {lusiness provents the Jow from keopiug the Bavbath, By ali meang do oot expeot to moot yonug peopls fo Jowlih honsos of worship, Other engagemouts, more attractiva and prossing, keep thom away from dovotton and [nstruction, I'ray, oan Roformed Jadsism command any respoct as loog as ite Babbathe and holy day are shamofully noglected aud trodden dowo ? Cau it look Lopefully tuto the future while leaving tho rising genoraion uucared for ? 'Thers have boen apprebisusions of danger from the introduction of & Suniday- seryico expressed. Duy [ contond Amotiesn Judsism ruvs the risk of bolug absorbed by tue surrounding religloua wects mshould [t nfl to uubstitate 'a Habbath for thoso proventad from keoping tho hlstorieal saventh- doy, The fire lteform bas kindled mnew will die away if the aympathiss of the younger Renerations are not won for tho suciout faih aud its wonderful history, American Judaism furthermora wantd , miseion-uchoola to be | eracted fu the qumnh of tha poorer olasgoen to | nuo ita oducating reliclous intluonce upou thsir children iu order to . save (hem from the temptations of eiby-lifo, and from the anares lald o them by soul-buntiug Christlan missionaries ; and "fa gonueotion thorewith chivuiw-piosching might be of good servics, too, Another utgoot noed may be but mentioned to-lay, the fustitution of & Jewish- American Yubiication Boclety, to bo entiroly taken in hand by compotout scholars, whosa earnest care it is to slrnvldn our Ev’ul pits and cur religloun schools with English Bibles, rovised and propared for private use in accordaucs with the domands of our age, snd with Jewlsh hise torios, suitable aud profitable for chuldren aud for our grown people desivous of informa. tlo, A more translating, however, of Gorman worle on Jewish hi ar a mora copying of anoilier Buglish tran lon withous sy Tegard o thoir yalue, their charaoter, aud their useful- noss, nh laintendod by other puvlication o~ cletien of this kiud, will not meet with support snd sympathy of truo represeniatives of Re- formeit Judaism, But thero aru other ssemlugly mors important mattera to which the atterition of Amorican Terae! ling been oalled Intely. 1 rafar to tha pro- posed erection of s Jewish-Amerioan colluge and & union of Jewish-Amelcan conpregations, Ou theso I will dwell the noxt tumo, while £ close with thisr o whom s American Juda- {aa indebted for the rogenerating intlnence of roform ? Not to English-speaking cungreyations, ot Portugueso and Polish descent, who, wilh tholr conservativo tendencles, feol somowhat uneasy 8) the great success of Refurmed Juda. ism. Dut ta tho Qorwen spirlt of reform pere vading the Gerinan Jewlsh congrogations of the East, snd aronsod by tholr poworlul snd fnupic- iug leaders, The German tnind, with its energy and vigor, hes_oukiudied new life in Amertcan Judalsw. In Gerwauy, 1ts birth-plsoe, the old, full-blooded Reform Liss lost part of itastreugth, awalting & rovival. With us it has taken deop roots. 1t strotches forthits branehes of hope inta tle boavon-wide future, prooiising golden fruits, Jusoph, Baviug broughit s two #ous to Jaoob, hly futhor, tn recoive buy bleaslug, ssw with div- THE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY may his Pather's tight nd 1ail on the head of the younger one, whi Lo left band restad on that of the oldor o1 Not ro, father,"” Joseph nald, tesing toremnvo hia fathor's hand. Iut Jacob teptlods I know it, my mon, I know. o also shatl harrenu yot hin yonnger brothor shall ba greator than ho, and hin seed alial] be- como & miultitndo of nenpla.” Thus shall it be with Amarican Jndatsm, it we will hut unders rtand and work ont our vacied mission with the helping graco of God, Amon. Rt ey THE TRUTH OF PROPHECY. KERMON Y TIIE BEY, JACOD POAT. The Nov. Jucab Poat, pastor of ihs Noble Btreet Holland Prosbyterian Churol, pronchied s mormon yosterday ovoning, & traualation of whiol 18 given holow, o tuok s his tox! Denplae not propheaginga—~r. Thes., ., 2. Many wiso and learnod theologisns have ex- pinined Lho aventa of the prosont snd the past n tho light of prophicoy. Homo have gona far bo- yond their apiritual powor and have prophesied what should be in the ruture, Wao do notap- prove of suah things or daroto enter into minute datails of God's Providenca in future sges. Wo only allosw ourselvos to obacrve the signe of tho prosont, aud bring them in anntact witl all that I foretold, and therofors mot in acdordance with tbo tozt, ** Dosples uot prophoayinks.' Tho wmaufald theories of tho present, the gradual sdvancoment of the people of Israel, the convarslon of ths haathen, the extousion of Cliristian principles among tha Cliness and the peoplo of Jagran, tuo ecivilization ana political undermining of the Ottoman Empire and Mo- hammedan religion, the dectine of tus Romish Church in Italy, and especially tha bloody wata and contlictaof the presont age,—all thees things lesd ue to tho tuliiliment of prophecy, **for then will I turn to tho peopie a pure langusge that thoy may all call upon the nae of the Lord, to eorve 1lim with one cousent." Thbroagh bLicod and tears, aawell as through bleasings and revivals, must tho timo appear whon the wnola narth stiall bs flled with God's glory, and ono faith, ene hopo, and oue bupti«m Bholl exist smong il bations. Aud oa it liea becu God's wili that wo should be closa and quiot obsoryora amoug differont naslona of the errth, wo will andoavor with tha oxporiaics we have obtainod, snd with tho bulp of God's grace, to oxplai the evonta of the prosont in the light of ptuphecy, Iu the tirat placs, wo eannot but observe the lending haud of DProvidence in the faot that Ametlea, especinlly during the last fifty yoars, has ndopted thie” customs mnd the mauuets of Westorn Kurope, and, while in this aga tho most Lloody couilicts taok place botwoen Franco nud Lugland, Italy, Austris, Ruesia, oand the combined powers of Europe, ali con- tributed to incroase from yoar to year jmmie gration to theso shares, Cities and villages nrora an by magic power, and, while thousnnds upon thoudanys found rafugo, labor, and waslth | among the Lilts aud dales of thiw Lleawod outine try, God's promises and propliecies wero also fulhited that * the wiidorniess and tho solitary place shall bo glad for thom; and the desers 6hall rojoive and blossom aa ths rose.” Every Christian must sce fu tho sottlement of this country the joyful flourishivg of Chnist's Kingdom, for whore 18 the aity, tho village, or the hamlet in theso United Biates whero no school-house or no Qoepal cau be found ? While all otber Tepublica lave boen s fallure or vacillating, our Amorican Ropublio has bosn strengthened from yoar to vear, and, though & bicody oivil war seomod to desttoy the union of North and South, we aro canvinced that frecdom aud religion have re- esivot a nmew Impulse for fature good, oven thraugh blaod and toars, ‘Cho Awerican people North and South, consisting of 5o mauy charao tors and nationalitios, bad to loarn thruugn this torrible conflict that CGod's wrath must come 1upon 8o natlon when it forpets ta romembot tho manifold blossings of 1ila band, Also n this respeet prophcoy wasto be fuifilled. and, whtlo we are thankful that theso dwtk dave have prased nway, that God fu s wrath romembered mercy, lot us hupe sud pray that our childrou in the days of Armagor may be the Lieroes: Norsh aud South to bauish, wlofatry, suvorstition, faustciam, Lypociiay, and infidelity frons tha faco of the sarth. , ‘We ousorve also, uot only 1n tho unton of these Staten, but in the union of Germany aed the ro- eatablisbiment of the Gorman Erapire, wondo, ful acoomplishment of God's prophoecy and pure poses, _The muet torrible and bloody conmc;pho- twoen France and Prussia wns noadful to check tho sacrot machinationy of Ultiamontaniam, as well a8 tho mbominations of Communism and aocialis ic combinations, After the conquoat of Italy ovec fdolntry aud superstition by Gari- baldl _aod Victor Ewmanuel, tho Tmpire of France becams the headquartors of Popisi bierarchy, whilo 8t ‘ths samo tima tho mostabominable Communietia ideas and nocinlintic dostrines were promulgatod through- out that beautiful countiv, Wo hava weou or road how towas, and cities, and villagea wera dostroyed, how thous mds of men, women, and childran wore slainin baitlo or through eulfor- lug ; now tho most beautifal works of art and acience wore dostroyed by a furious crowd, and bhow the most anclont buildings snd works of architeoturo wers demoblwhed by & doluded nud drunkon popalace, through firo and wantonnoss, We have askod oursolves how a clvilizod nationbocama #o reckloss wnd so crusl, but wo Lad forgotten that [{3 who has the winda and the wavos, the thunder nnd the l.ghtning, the famine and the pest, as weil as the torrors of war, in 18 hand, had sald in the Word: + it 1 @ foarful thiug to fall into the auda of the liv- imi God," wailo Christ Iimssl? bas torotold “thut we sliall hear of wara and rumors of war, though the end i not yet," God, who hos eatablished Iiin laws jo the ovents of tho world, in whosohauds all blossluga wnd calamition must serve 1o a wine puroose, ful- filled His propheoy even in tho Iato ~ bloody cone flict botween Franco and Qermany, It waa naedtul to tosch the nutlons of the'earth that God, though long-sufforing and- gracious, must como at last witk Hia discipine to re-establish ordur and }wmprmly. an it is wntton, *Suroly flmn it foar mo, thon wiit recoive instruc. lona,’ £, We observe, furtier, that amid all tus blessed Progrnu and resuits of arta aud scloncos during hio past Qfty voars, trua religion has also pro- E;enm in novler viows, and has baen tho moans eataulish hospitals, somioarios, and asylums for tho poor, 1n mora than 200 differont lan- guages tho Goapel hea beon transinted, and in now sous to all tribos and natious from pole to polo, All this [s done, notwithstauding auper~ atitions snd 1dolatry have fought as bard as svar againet tho pure avd auple Gospel, nud while the ditferent tribea of Gormnuy, as woll aa the eoplo of France, Bwlizerland, Illolland, and nglend, have fntorminglod tho falth of their fatbora with ail kindw of rationalistio doatijne: Poriudicals snd the public press ha alio in nearly every cily snod towne stip fostered the mpirit * of fofidality, while tho egolsm of priosts and Lovites hus beou atronger than tho love of saving 1m- mortal souls. Bishops and prelutca of the Ro- toau Catholic Olurch, rejuieing in the atrife, dl- vision, aud alloustion of the Protestant Church, oama together from sll patts of the warid, sud $hought tha time baa come to rmclnlm an old mun who calls himsci? Pope infaliible. The Chusch of Christ mwoke for & while, and was astouishod 'thas in days such moonstrous absurditios could tako place, while inlidelity rojoived .and found uew rosdon to Isugh aud mook a$ roligion. Bkopticiawmn, secrolly sustalned by Ultramontan~ inm nud German philosoply, has tearly succeed. ed in banishiug tho Blble from our publio schoats, aud we just awako to the truth that we are gov- ernod by thoso who are nudor contral of Jesuits, who wisls to destroy our school-syatom and the roliglous education of our chlldren sod youth. Wiilu & Bigmarck nad undertaken to drive all Blshops and priosta from bis cauntry who do not subimit to law and order, koliaud, "Bwitzer- and, and England, the cradles of Protostantism rouaive thove outlaws with opou arms, aud sen thom, well-tod and wustalned, to those whoros, ‘I'lso reduld of all has beon that coldusss and in- thifforenco have arison iu the hoarts of many, that God's holy Sabbath Las becomo & dey of dossoration, whilo many who enter tuo portals of God's tompie on tho Babbath openly doclare that they ouly ocoume to listen tu tlio soups of mou and “women not soldown hired fo ming the aongs of Zion to the tune of Lacchus or Boolgsbub, VAnll{. lowduoss, snd hypocrls: Liave uprosd st & foarful rate throygh ueady all clasuss of wocloty, whilo drunkeuncss and futom- Pporauco are assoclatod with gambling and decelt, domoralizing even the halls of our Legislature aad Congreay, In view of all thoss foartul facts, let us bo thaukful that & man like Bismarck has arisen, who, fonrlesa and bold, declarea opauly to the world that frsud, dishouesty, aud hypocris; muss bo punished, aud that roligious liborty of tho presont has becoms, in the hands of tho Ultramoutane lMahut- aad priests, whother Catholio or P'rotostant, the libety of oharlataue fsm sud iwposture, It we love our country and our hibertios, lot us observe tha times i whigh wo live iu the light of prophecy, aud lot us take bood of what was rocontly wald inthe Y.ondon Tablel, the recognized organ of the Euglish Ultranoutaniste, that, shouid Eugland beocoms pogaged in war aud the temporal soversignty 0 8t Lisue, aud the Pope should advise or comi- tnand Enghsh sudicrs and salors to deaert (haly flag and fight against thefr country, it would he thoir dnty to do Ko, Miamarck in fighting agalost Aach alominabla doctrines bocause he! Joven his God and his country, and thongh ha is scoused by Roman- in, ‘and even Protestants, of immader. alo’ ambitlon, wa , kuow 'that ko haa nothing but tho welfara and the prosnerity of bis comtry at hoart. Would to God that tho eamn mpint of Loldness and houenty pore yardnd tho Liearts of all our statosmen and legis- lators, Amen, ———e THE DUTY OF THE CITIZEN, SEIMON LY THE REY. MR, WILLIAMBOX, ‘Tho Rav, Mr. Willismaon, pastor of the Wa- bash Avenue Motliodiat Church, carnor of Four- teenth ntrent and Wabash avenue, preached a Bermon yasterday morning at that chimch on the subjoct of *Tha Good Citicen's Duly on Eleos tion-Day." Usfore commoncing hin text, the preacher stated that the subject waa onelu whiols perhapy uot many of bis hearors were dooply intorosted, and which might be consider- ed rather sirange by them, bLut bis apol- ogy for prosenting it to thelr notico would len tha fact that thers wero soma fow in his congiegatiou in whor recent evonts hadcreated an futerast in cloction matters, ané thoir con- uoction with aplritual sffairs. The preacher su- nounced as his taxt tho tauth verse of the saven- teenth chiapter of Luke: Wo have doun that whicls waa eur duty to do, Tue proacher aaid that it was by faithful citi- ensbip on earth that mén bocame fit for heave on, aud tho best avidence that a man could show that ho would be worth something in etormty would be to snow that Le was valaable la time, God would always bo with tho army that fought 1618 Latties, 1t often bapuoned that the army of wan boston, for, thungh God was ita inspirer, Ils was mot its irremisti- blg champlon, 'The preacher alluded to tho 1act that tho Grent Wost had & God-given object before it, and its Church wes doing & very large woik among the simost persuaded; but“at Lind quite forgollen, among othor tutugs, to exalt clecdon-day. Unce lo fonr yoars tho exertious of au activo press succeeded in arousing the masses L0 an lntotest In their public duties aa yoters ; but 1t shauld be rememuorod that it was tho duty of ihe zoxd and loyal citizen o take part tn $ho less 1wpor tant elostious, The preachor aliuded with force to the fact that in the liobrew slection atiuded toin tho Biblo all the nation voted, 4 atale of atfaira which ought to obtain in the Unitea Btates, yot he ehowed that in inost -of tho aucient nazions tha right of election was not known, and that in natious where the right to voto Emvml»d, the dlactioun were frequentiy nothive but s farce, This was tho case iu Bparta, & conntry 10 which Americaus bad oftou looked with pride ax tho ancient champlon of free {nsti- tutions. Tho firac ganoral etcotion-day in his- tory waa tho enforcod concession of King John by his bLarons, In tho signiug of the Mugua Charta, which wan soon looked upon by tho peo- plo as an evidencaof the faot that & King conld o hold accountable for his acta, and was renlly tho caue the formation tha House of Commons and the cleclions to its seats, In our Hopublioan Htate & powerfal class had arisen - whose mombors were moro osrnest ih an attompt to obtain other oopla’s maney than {0 make any of their own. ft wis possiblo that uaiversal suffrago was to blame for this, but whataver tho causo tha re- Bult was that the clodtion of to-day In this State was auything but what & froe aha honest elec. tion wae uupporad to boe. All Lheso evils could bo remaved it only good men would go out on oloction-dny and voto, 1f this class of men met unitedly at the polls thors would be no dangor of iutorference bythe olasses who genoroily eroated ulection disturbsnces, It wvas only by oxalting tuo inatitution of voting to the position'of a Clirlstian duty hat e Custs- tian could rotain his interessyin this puolic duty. 1t followod that impure votces secured impure men, aud that pure votes could securo purs men, and the 1dex was not 50 much to try to got the impure mon to vote for & puie candidato sw (0 gét the Rma voters to attond to their duty as tho polls. Ail good eitlzona shonld combius to save oach preciuct from the ovil of Irauculsnt voting, It could not be bield that urfair voting was un oven chanco to which all classos wero hable, for it was u timng in which ho Christian man could wdalge, A nan wes not & good cilizen to whom tho sunccess of his candidato was more imgortaut than the purity of the election, It would be woll If an orgsuizalion of good men wera formed ia each ward whose object would bo the secuting of tho vot.ngz oues of each good citizen aud the hlndmlnr bad citizens in voting mote than vnce. While not indorwing pariy feoling, tho preashor agaia emphatically alluded to tho Juty of votiug as one of tho groat dutios of a professing Ohrstinn, Ii was patnrul to nee that the Church of Curlst was 80 pooldy reprosented oo election-dsy., One duty of tho good oitizens was tho provislon, for the benelit the workers for Fnafl governuions. of & solid, substantlal nuch, with » fragrant cup of coffes, as an offot for the woll-known oloction-day Eeuamully of the ebemisn of good order; who baudod round boor aud other stimulants to such of tho yotors s alwaya attended on election-days for the pur- poss of “having s gocd time,” “Another duty ‘was tho chaoglog of the voting=placea from the low resorta to which they are at prosent relo- fi-zud to spotu whare nufy votor could go without iszuat. ‘L'be polling-pfacen should be carafully solectnd, nud, when once sottied, should be kept thero. The proacher olossd with the statoment that good men outnumbered tho bad, aud thst it now belicoved tha former to makea unanimous attompt in favor of tho purity of tho ballot. —_— A NEW CHURCH EDIFICE, , DEDICATION OF THE FIFTI! PRESUYTERIAN. The nety sdifice of tha Fifth Preabyterian So- sioty, at the cornor of Thirtioth etreet and Iudi- ana avonue, was dedicated with {nterssling and appropriato sorvices yostorday morning, A de- scription of tbis pleasant, oomfortable house of worahip has been given already in shose col- umos. A largs sndience waa prosent, a good many strangers from otlher churches baing at- tractod by the occasion. The pulplt presentad & very beautiful aj poarance, being decoratod with & profusion of flowsrs, whose rich aud varl- od colars relioved the somowhat sombre hiues of ‘wooden paaols, earyings, sud pulplt upholster- ng. The pastor, the ttev. Charles L. Thompeon, reached the dodicatory sermon. In the pre- minaty exercisss ho was sseisted by the Itav, Bon L, 8. liy, formerly of Grace Presbyterian Church. Mr, Thompson choso for his text the 17th verus of tho 23th chaptor of Geneals ¢ ‘This ia nonis otlior but the houss of God, and this s the gate of Hsaven, The sormon was interesting and instruotive, and prosentcd many useful and Alsnmprtn(n Tos- sons, The roverend goutluman alluded first to ancient tompl:s of worebip, sud to the attention which bnad beca bestowed upon their architce- ture. Coming down to tho presont time, bo said that the resl Cliurch was it the hoarta of it peo- ple, Iivory hoart hadits altar; every sor mocrot sanctuary, Brlnndm arctteoturo, fr caod walls, lofty ool nr , ornate emnenlu. the harmoolous swall of rel uflouu authemy, the elo- quent words from the pulpit, did not copstitute the solual Church o od. “You eannot,™ said he, ** put more dedioation’ into » church than there ia in the heatts of 1ts paople,” The church might bo dedicatsd by impressive co monled, but it would boe riaeless ublosa the cor rogation dedicated thomaelves to Ch 3 doas muat ba vitalized into chsraoter and pure poses into works to maka the Church a faitbful agont in the rervics of Chriatianity, 'Fho sermon wae also ropleta with broad ralig- fous feeling, mad the sposker diwwvowed tho pressure of any narrow soctarianivm within his churclt, Al who had the loys of Chirist in their bLoarts, or folt the nesd of ilis grace, were fros to come. At tho conolusion of {ho sermon the clorgyman aanouncsd that thera was a dobt upon the bultd- ing of 83,000, and sppealed to the congrogstion for thie moans to moet it. & A colloction was then taken up, which roalized :‘f.‘l‘h- 'mnung of pews will take place this even- —— THEATRE SERVICES. ADNDAY RYENIN® AT HOOLEY'S. The second of the Bunday evaning courea of leoturos e Hooloy's Theatre, under tho auspices of (Lo unitod Unitarian Bocleties of the city, was dolivered last eveouing by the Rov. Brooke Iler- ford, of the Church of the Mesaish. The loo- tures ware sgreed nupon sevoral weeks sgo at & moeting of the Unitarian ministers of the city upon the suggoeiion of the Rev. O, W. Wendte, The fratarnitiod of the churohos were given charge of the lestures, which 80 fer bave froved very successtul,, Laat oveujug the theatro was comfortably flled by a hlgh‘r ntolligont audience. Thoattendance was laigely of won, snd the mlddlo-sged predomi- nated. Ou the atage were seatud the apeaker, the Nev, Robert Collyer, and the cliolr of the Church of she Mossish, A circular containin the hymus for the eveniug waa distsibut through the audiencs, and 18! s oom~ mauoed prompdly sk 8 o'cesk. They were lalre- | , 18756, duced by the annodnoemént of the hymn com~ menciog (omo, at] Josus’ sscrad valce, Cores and ke my path yoir chofos, T will gutds yon to iny homet Weary pilgrim, hither come The aunouncement crested qolte a commotinn In the audience, tha simultancousopening of the wirculars containing the Lymun causing s pecul- {ar rustlo of savarsl moconds’ duration. The sound, o sudden, unueal, and unexpectod, canword mamentary wonderment by even thode who contributed to itn making, which waw dis polled with & amite end drowned by the alugung which followed. Tho next order of oxercinsm was a voluntary by the choir, and & praver by the lecturer of the ovening. Following thia, “ Nearcr, my God, (o Tnoe," was sung with zest by the choir, tho audience Joinine Loartily. Thau came the lacture. Thogresker nofected for s themn, * Common- Bonno Christinnity," which e treatod tn s com- non sonwe, Heriptursl way, ‘The eubjoct was di- vided 1nto fonr heas ¢ God { recond, the Nature of Manjg third, atian foirth, The In the ticatment of the maveral heads tha apeakor relied largely upon Hluatia- tion, and bis_peculiar, compect. aimplo atslo of teasoning. He embolilshed the whole with rich snecdote, the effect of which was not only to lease his nuditors and prooks miith, but lo Plulun Li points upon their memory, lie was llstened to with the closest attention throogh- ont, and his effort has no doubt contributed Iargoly to popularizing tha courua, Tuo oxorcisas closod with taking up a collsce tion to dofray the cxpenses of tho cveung, aud singing tho doxology, The next lac.uro of the courme will bo do- livored Buuday evenivg, at tho rame ‘i!“m by the Rev. F. P, Dowoll, of tho Third Chureh, who will be followed, s weok lence, by tho Rev. C. W. Wandte, of the Fourth Chucch. After tlus ke mauagement of tho couras will be handed over to the Unitarian Conferenco, which as:ombles tn the meantimo. 1t in hunted that folluwiog Mr, Wendta ministors af other Luberal deuommations will bo nvited to lociure, and that grobsbly ministers from abroad w.ll take part tu the course. The futuro annonncements, Liowever, ramsin with the Con- ference, aud can only be dofinitely dotermived upon its assombling. g ARCHIEPISCOPAL CONSECRATION, CATHOLIC POMP AND PANOFLY AT BOSTOX, Dostox, Mass., May 2.—1The conesoration cera- monies and iuveetitura of Archbinhop Williaws to-day, in the immeuss new Catlolic catbedral of this city, attracted an immense ecrowd, ands thtugh the earscity of tho bullding is but 4,000, thero were fully 10,000 perdons surrounding it by 0 o'clock this morning, The odifice was crowded in every part, and thoueandu were unzblo to obtain even a glimp: of the {uside of tha cathedial, Among the di tinguished gentlemen who oceopied seats fn the mddle aisle near the sanctuary wos Gov. Gas- ton aud members of the Execative Council and both branches of the Legitature; Magor Cobb aleo members of the Common Coun 1l and headu of Departments ; members of the Facultien of Harvard, Yale, ond otber colloges, and the Fronel, Dritlsh, and ower Cousuls at this and otlior ports. THR ECCLESIASTICAL FROCERSION entered in the followiug order: Lburifer, boar: Ing ceuser with bursiug lncense; crons-bearer, #ith processional cross botween two acolytes with lghted eandles; asmstant master of etere- mounies ; chief master of esremonivs; acolytes In rod aud purple cassocks 1 clergymen (n cargocks and whito surplices; Hishop: their chaplaine; the col ubmn[ of ma-s af doacons ; Arclibishop Witlisma, clad it poutifical robus sud bearing his crosior; Cardinal McUios- kev, clad in lus xcarlet robes ; the Papal emb, sy, consising of Mgr. Roncettt; Special Able- ato Pacho Uue! 1i, weaning purple cassock; sud “vunt Maretoschi; thoo cuwme & Jasge uumber of ciergyinen. TNE OENEMOXY, Oardinal McCloskey Laving seated himeelf on biw throne, poutitical bigh mase was bogun, The entirs 1epertoire of muic was uf classical urder, aud renderol with exceliont efféct. At tho con- cluston of fitnt Guapel, Right Rov. Bishop Goes- brand dolh’et{ au oloquant sermon, taking for s text thn reocond verso of tho 834 psalm. Tho vanon of the maes fol- lowad tho sermon, wud at tho close of the commuuion service, tho pallium was laid upon the amtar. Tho Cardinal, in the menutime, lald asido Lis oappa magus aud put on ap alband patriarclinl cloak, vutiing atido his borre:ta and suvstituting therofor amitie. At the conclu- sion of mass the Nev. A, Hcherwood Henloy, pastar of 8. Jsmes' Clurch, rend In Lstn sud Euglish the croden- tinla of tho Ablegato and briefs from home suthorizing the creazion of the new Seo. Mgr, Ronootti then tond tho brief in Latin to tua Archbizhop elcet, whoienlied in tho same languaye, accopting the gieat respousibitty, and atlirming his intention to discharge his dutios to tho best of his ablity, ‘Cho Cardinal then proceeded to the aitar, and, seating bimaelf, 1ead tho formula of conscoration, the Arehblehop knoeling at his feat, Ths customary onth was vexe sdunumstered to him by the Car- diual, sfter which be placed tho palliam oa the Archblsliop's shoulders, Tho Archibishop nest sssumed tus Mitro and {ntoned a portion of the pealm provcribed fur the occasion, which wan taken up by tho choir and waug in alternate volees, Tho ceromouies wore ended with the benediction by tho Archbishop, m was nuug.d-u;l sha vast congregation slowly left the cathiedral, The Cardinal, with the membera of the Em- bansy aud a number of Dishops and prieats, dined with thonew Archibishop at his residonce, TO-DAY, At 1 o'clock, to-morrow, a banquet will be given in the basomant of the catbodral by the resident clergy of this city to tho Archbishop aud Papal smbaesadors, At the banquet sd- dicases will be presented to the Cardinal, to Mgz, Roucaiti, to Archbistiop Willianis, and to DBishop Hewley. A pold croes will also ba pre- sonted to Archiblstiop Willlsms, TO-M101LT, In the evening tho dimiuguirhod personsges will be gucats of the Catholio Union of Bouton. A rocoption will bo given in the Lails of the Boston Culluf;u; tho metnbors of the Union will atend in full dross, also the clergy and iovited §.“°“' to the numbor of e he ‘ostor Cadots of DBoston Colloga will bo o sttondauce, Thore will be chorns of soventy volcea with orchestra, The exarciees will begin withi a chorus of wel- como ; then' will follow an address to the Cardie nal by I, L, Richards, Prosident of the Union 3 a Latin bymu by the chorus; respouse by tho Cardiosl; tho singing of the *Hiar Bpangled Banner™ by tho chorus; ad- dress to Mousiynor Roneetti, ju French, by W. B, Pollotier, Socrolary of tho Uunlon; the “Ilallelujah Chorus,” by liandel ; a rosponse by Mgr. Roncettl. The oxorcisos will closo witl the ainging of the Z'e Deum, After the racep- tion tho party will bo outortsinca by the Hov. President of the colloge, ‘The Cardlual's party will eave the city Tueslay morutag, —— OTHER RELIGIOUS MATTERS. HONSE MURRAY, Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Trbune, BostoN, Maen., May 2.~ Bomotlilug has finally como out coucernlug Mr, Mureay'a tutentions for the future, about which there has been eo much cusioslty, Ilis friouds aud proposed fol- lowers who have beou bLolding mecret mootings of Iate have orgauizod into committees for the foundation of s mnow socioty, BMuslo all haw bas boonh engaged from tho 16t of next October totha following July, aud Bumstead Iall has also been secured for Triday evonings, the rent of both places boing $2,800, Mr, Murray will deliver only & Sunday-moruing service in Musia all. The service ou F'ridayevening will be eld in Bamstead Ilall, aud probably Wosloyan Ifall cau ba obtained for the Buuday-school, The seats in Muuio Hall will bo sold at auction some time datlug Soptomber. Mr, Murray's friouds alloga that they hiave more than sufiicient money now guarantecd for the coming year's cxpenses. Oue Tnldy alono la eald to have contributed ©5,000. - Tnt this fall of 1876, 1t is expocted that e new_church upon Mr. Mutrsy's favorite plan will be comploted. Beeial nu»:z.“if‘;fi:“‘c‘i'.:w Tetbune, Stiwaukes, Wis. May 2.—Tho Fourtls Cone egationa! Boclety of this city, the Rov. M. W. teod, pastor, occnpled the Academy of Musio, mornin| d ovening, as thelr plavo of worship. Tho hall is the Iargest in the city, aud capable of botding 1,400 poople, In the evoning it was not only packed, but mauy went away unable to galn adinittanos. It looks ag it the ‘uow depariure wasa ta be a graud ancceus, mud that a sort of Pontecostal sesson wau in warting. CHURCH DEDICATION, Bvlvial Dispateh ta Jhé Crucacw Trivune, Dreatun, Jud, May 9.—A hsndsows new brick Cathollo church, costing about 30,000, was dedicated hero t0-dsy ' wilh very fmpoeing coremonios, conducted by Rishop Joseph Dwen- gor, of Fort Wayne, From the lattor city a del- uslhon of naarly 1, orsona came hero on & w pérticipate in the solomulties of the od~ IOWA, The Various Candidates for the Governorship. Intended Domocratio Abandonment of the Possum Polioy, Popular Opposition to the Prohibilory Liguor Law, The Trial of Ex-Btate Treasurer Rankin— Probable Line of Defouse, DUBUGUE 008SIP, Foecial Correavondence of The (hteaas Tribune. Dunuqug, In., April 30.—Tur TuisuNe has ale ready announced that the Hepublican State Con- vention to nominate esandidstes for Governor, Lieutonant-Governor, Judga of the Buprema Court, and Buperintondont of Public Instruc tlon, has beon called fo moet at Des Moines on tLe 80tk of June, This, of course, gived plonty of time to discusa the political situstion i all ita boarings, oud compatae tho merits of THE DIFFERLNT CANDIDATES who bavo desigus upon the Gubernatorial seat,— #omo open and avowed in tholr profeesions, whilo olhiars. again, have placed themselves fn tha hands of (beir filends, sud overy ono knows what that racaus, In tbe northorn part of the Histe, wo havo N. C. Doering, William Atherion, tha Rov, Dr. Eddy, and & ncore of other lesser lighits,~not to forget Judge Toman, of the Independ- onco Bullelin—who tlusk and grow contused at tho bara montion of thelr names as prospectivo candidates; but the current of popular opinlon scoms to flow largely toward the Hon, John Runncll. of Jones County, late Auditor of Htate. **Honest Jobn," & he In familarly called, 18 ous of the wheol-loraes of the party, has served & number of years in the Leglature with great accoptalnlity, and hasa record that defles the closest political acrutiny to dotoct & flaw. Tus- acli i popular with the laboring and producing classes: hio iu & won of toil Lirsolf but tho im- preseion prevails that ho is lardly politician onough to suit some of tho leading wire- pullors, and {t is belleved that tho Iat- ter will go for Kirkwood In prefor- ence, and thus remove a troublesome spirant for thie Honatorial neat to be vaoated by Wright. It 1s also roported that, within the past fox days, tho namo a! THE TOX, JAMES Y. WILSON has been Lrought forward ss & candidate for Gaveruor, in the southern part of the State. Mr. Wilson has been keeping very quist since bis vol- untary tetivonent from Congtess, taking but lits tle vublic part i politics,—boing engaged, it iv understood, 1n arraugiog bhis fiancial affairs; and it would not ba surprisiug if ho should ¢on- cluds Lie had Leen resting and rusting politiesily sbout long onotgh, and thut it is about time he Lould show friend and fos that ho is not dead, ut hes ouly been taking & refreshing wlecp. Should Lo conclude ta be candidate, he will bo Apt to broak mome slates which tho littie follows have been fixing up. Whatevor else may be eaid of James K. Wilson, Lo lhax bralns nnd nerva, nud with tho exception, nerbaps, of the late Sonator Grimes, is the sirongest man the Republicans of tlis State over soul to Wash- ington, AS FOR THE DEMOCTACY, they have {ssued no call as yet for a Btate Con- vention, bat profer to lis low and wateh the | mavomente of their aniagonists. It 18 under- atood, bowever, that a eall wiil be isued at an oarly dar. and that the possum policy will bo abatdoned ; in otlier woras, that they proposo to make Ao open fold-Nght against the Republicans an & Damocratic platform. Tué old Democrats are inclined to balieys that thote Las been fool- g cnougl; that thoy fiava danced to ** Lib- aral” eud Antl-3ouopoly music as long aait will pas ; and that the time bas come to throw off all disguises, and march to the field under thelr anctent ntaudard, Aganst this policy a feoble protest is wurged by & faw raw reorusts, who are uot yoi muiliciently clear of the Republican sheil to abandon the patne, and who fear they will not bo wiliing 10 act with the Democracy in 1876, Tho Ottumwa Democrat snd Burhincton Gazetle— both tecognized exponents of the Democratic faith—daaldre that the sigus of the times are fa- vorable for, and unmistakably poiut to, s Demo- cratic restoration ; and toat it is not wisdom to scok strange allisuces, and aplit the growlng powor of the party by the introduction of quos- tions that canwot bur divide sud destroy it, Iovwa is 80 overwholmingly Republican, howover, and has sdtniiatered so many drubbings to the DBoorbons, that thoy seom to bave lost confle deuce, and are not inclined to enter upon the canvass with much gpirit, but count rather upon worrying and teasitig the enemy by gaiting up loonl disseumions and causing s split, when they biopo o lip [n and secuto some of the spolls. Ona of tho most potent of theso ageucies, aud one which is destiued to bocome an impore taut faotor in the approaching campaign, is THE DHOMILITORY LIQUOD LAW, Like all ofher Btates which havo sttempted the oxporiment, Probibition in lowa (s praciically s failurs; and it iu entiraly enfo Lo say that, with a law upon the etatute-books which owlracises tho salooo-keeper, and drives tho whiky-boitls to drug-stores and oollars, there s more drukeue ness and guzzling in Iows than was over before kunown in ber history, The poople, #o far as an oxoreusion of oplnion can be obiained, aro largo- ly in favor of rouudiating the iaw; sud, aa the Ropublioan rarty aro understood to be responsi- bla for its cuactmont, thot are cndeavoring to gnl 7id of 1%, and the leadiug jourusls are now usily engagod in discuwslog tio best method to piteh it overboard, preparatory to deolaring fora stringent licenss Jaw,—a move in which thoy will bo Iu full mecord with ihe Demoorats, as tho latter have alwags favorsd, and mado » pro- teswlon of faith on, the Licenus system. Ono of tho strongost and most fervid tomporaaca advo- cates, Judgo O, C. Cole, of the Bupreme Oourt, who, but ono short year ago, msde & 6 L in this city in which he strongly adhored to the Prolibitory law as the most efilolent remedy for intemperance, has lately chauged front, sud ls now wriling & serica of articles in which he recommends that LOOAL OFTION be substituted for Probibition. Thin is very sig- nificavt, as demonstrating that public sentimout Is growing closrer upon this question of Pro- bibitory liwa, If the Ropublicaus are wise, thoy will trito their sails accordingly; for a stralght- out Protbition tack, if porsisted in longer, can ounly be attended with disaster, R. THE RANKIN CASE, Svectal Correwpondenceaf T'he Chicago Tridune. Des Moinks, April 80.—The trial of 8, E. Bankln, ex-Stato Tronsurer, and ex-Treasurer of tha Hiats Agricuitural Qolloge, bogan yesterday aftornoon. The charge Is, that ha' embozzled $7,000 of funds of the College. When the dofalcation was discovored, be turnod ovor to tha Colloge all his property, so that the lous to the Collcgo will not be more thana few thousand dollars, Durlug the exam(uation of the ITon, C. Close, one of the Trustecs of the Collegs, Judge Nourso, counsol for the dofendant, developed THE PROBANLE LINE OF DEFENSE: {bat the dofalcstion waw in the Btato Treasurys thiat other pardics, to save themselyos, formed & conspiracy, and mado Haukin the victim, by wuich Collego funds wero trausforred to the State funds; and that Raukin, who I8 not vory remarkablo for accutenoss, but ssemingly sn unsuspocting, honost man, was made to bollevo that the dofalcation was roally in the ftate fundd. An appropriation waa made by the Log- ialature for J’.. Collego of 38,000, Wheno call was mado for the mouey, Raukin seid thero wsaa 00 mouey, was subssquently discovered that " the warrant liad even then boen caucelod, It i claimea this monoy nover camo into the bands of Iaukin, and that Le rocetved no beuefit from it. Correc or falso ss this theory mliulle, cortain it is_that Judge Nourso will make the wost of it, and it 1s not unllkely somoe startling developments msy bo mado in'this e A et zeview 2147, RANKIN'S CARTER isthing Ya wad good cltizou of Washington Uounty, noted for his iutegnty, honor, aud plety. Ho way su active and worthy member of w churck, When tho War broke out, ho joiued the craud army of tho Union, and sorved whils t lasted, aud was honorably disohsrged with n Msjor's commission, 1o “was olevied by thoe Republlican party Treasurer of Btato, ou tho commendation of thosa who knew him best s8 one worthy of the trust. Mo waa twice re- elected, During hie term ho was eleotod ‘Lyess- urer of tho Agricultural Uullnfio. Durivg the fall of 1873 ,tha dufslcation it the Cotlego tunda was dlscaverod, whioh was fouud ta be 8%, AX. | The Msjor turued over all hls property, wot 3 oven raving for tha henoft of hia family and children what tha law ezemptod. An investigae tion of the whiolo affair waa ordered by the Leg- talatare, which reanited {n the discovary of the facts as pteted. 1lis Stato Treasuty acooniht was fannd to ba cotract to a cent. The Orand Jury of thin cotinty Investigated the matter, and falled to prosent an indictment. The noxt Grand Jury found anindictment. Rane kin pleaded not guiliy, and the postponed from term fo torm untll now. Maj. Rankiu shows pisinly the matks of min which thts matter has wrought upon him. Forty- six yoarn ol Inat week, Lis halt s white aa the snow, his step unatalle, and Lia mien dejoeted, e, in promatuiely au old man, HAWREYE. s o THE WASHINGTONIAN HOME, The Last Meeting In the O1d Buitd- ang, The closing exorcises of thoold Washingtonian Home, gorner of Ogden avonus nnd Madison stroet, were hiold 1ast evening, boing tho farowell display of ofticers, Inmatcs, and graduates, pro« vious to the demolition ot the ancient structurs, Thoro was a very full attendance of ladies and kentlemen, all of whom appeared to be deoply intorested In tho oxerciaes, which consisted of oratory and sacred vocalism, Hnpt. Wilkios ocenpied the clialr, and the Sec. rolary, Mr..ll, O, Morey, occupled his wsual place. . D, TAN COURT made the opening sddrees, which was very briel Lut offective. Ils dwolt upon the holy memo- rice purrounding tho iostliution., Tnat parlor bad becomo to most of them a sanctuary, It had been, by teachings thererecaived, the meang of salvation to souls that hiad Loan lod into dark ways by lncbriety, ifo hoped that the now lamlxum; shich wouid rine from the raine, sa i wera, of the old would bs oqually productive of good tu their erring brethren in the futara. He coucluded 1‘7 thavking s ofticers for tho bene- fits reccived, < AR, MOREY . waa the noxt apeal o did not spenk At any Iength, but thoaght that tho Homa would eves bo dnar to the memoriea of thoss who had fonnd therewn tho bealing waters, - The Washingionian liome—the old place—wonid over remain § groen ppot in all their memorics. : 3Mr. Mullin said that the Homa wan tndonbted: Iy one of tha beet imatitutions of tho kind in the United States. Ie could say from sveet oxe rioncd that it had been most benedlctal tc in. Ha had forover exorclsed tho demon of drukenvers, and the Home had boen Lis good sugol in that work, fr. Jolin McQuade then eang '*Almoat Por- suaded,” to an organ sccompaniment, aud wa wmoch spplauded. Mr. Drake made & ehort speoch, in which lu exhurted his hearors to stand by their geod reso lutious, ow only by sobriety cotild they be hone ored, proaperous, and, consequently, happy. MRA, WARREN was loudly ealled for, and cxpressed hor grati: tude for thie mark of recognition, whith was nol at all expected, Tho Chairmaan had done he Lover of calling Ler the Motherof the fHoma, slic way rather estoniehed at havingeg & family. Whatover sho ud done had not to win thelr pialse or thelr * larg bosn done applause, but bad aprung from her hoart for the ad of suffering numanity. [Applause,] theeo romarks she begged to bo excuscd. MR CLARKE wae next introduced. With Heven yeara and meven mouthn before, he Led cowe to tho {fome wreck,—in tutters, searcely fit to be recogmized a4 balonging to the human family. Ono woman ooly had fmth fu hiim, That was his swife, {Ap- plause.] Sbe said that if ho could be porsuadod to msko & bromisa to give up liquor ho would keep hia word. Ile Lad been ou & dravk for over four montha whon he cams to the Ilome, iother Drake had doue much for Inm, sud o hud 11.C, Moroy. ile made a promiue that be would nover more touch iptoxiesting drinks. aithough he had boen témpted and tor- mentod a8 by dowovy, His owa brother bad gomo to seo lum and offered him whisky, because Lo appeared to bo completoly brogen down from the reaction of dobrioty, Mo refusod the liquor. MHig brother sald: **If yoa dou't drink you will die.” Ho replieds e lot mo dle” [Appiauso,] He did noc dis, howovor, but war redeemed. In tiat room ho hoad sted lears of repeutance, Iie wus ot anhamod of thom thon, and howas not ashamed of thom now. [Applaues.] Thay wers tears from his Leart, snd lad enabled bim to keep his pledwe, redeem his honor, and won for lum & place in reepcetablo society. His wife, with bLim, blessed the llome and ita patrons. [Aplause.] Alr, Nichols mada s fow romarks In a some- what similar strain. He had kept Lis pledga for nearly five years, and felt that he wonld remain stoadfesr, [Applauso.] A * MR, TILDEN msads a very eloquent spoech, in whick ho eaid tho Homo had lifted him out of a terrible guif, Ho felt a mnew man, and with (ho benofit of past butt-r expe- rienco could now aspire {o what he never bofore dreamed of, Addresses were also delivared by Monsrs. Greon, Rankin, Brashior, Winkins, Taylor, Joze: 0O'Counor, Pettiway, COoliler, Welghman, an others; and with tho hymo, *“Weep for the Fallen, the oxoroises closod. BERPENT AND SQUIRREL. A Zoological Jtomance. Cineianals Enquirer, May 1, . The recent ignomintous dofest of & ferociont young lioness by sn Lumble aud ugly donkey in our Zoological Garden haa & curions parallel in the result of n deadly combat Wodnesdny ovonlng between a large dismond rottlesvake and a little squirrel during the snake-exhibition ovor the Iibine, at 622 Vine atrect. The enske was ono of tho Iargest of its apecios, six feet and » bell in length, and having besn wishoue food for morehs wan fuclined to act ou the oifousive ; the syairrel was lnexpericuced in serpent- warfare, but wonderfully plucky, On tho wholo, we ara inclined to consider the poor litile squir+ rel a8 having distinguishod himeell svon moro than the brava donkey whoso prowees lina boen ably memorinlized in marble by s Oinclunati sculptar, The donkey parely saved Lis life by a despiorate stinggle, without Iuflicting wnch burt upoo his torrible antagonist; the squirrel was loft alone to contend with the most droaded aud doadly enemy of human or animal life, and acte ually slew his antagonist, We oried in nouuciug tho feathory yosterday, Ie utill lives, and Ly caretul tieat- mel:l', might recovor, Dut bls lideous cnemy ia dead. It was not known that tho enake nnd explred until & late bour Wednesday mght. Wheu the squirrel hed beoou placed In fbo cago, tho llhnr shining monster immediatoly sprang his rattle and corled to atriko ; while the squirrel, having taken & good look all round the cage, and found escupe to be impossible, rwx;tmd nimself for the wotst, watching his g'l teriug-oyod enemy with florco reaolution. ‘The epectadle became highly Interosting 1o the spectators, for thadeadly ophid- {an was coutoudiug with atarhigher form of Life, afinerorganism,a mure intelligent being, than the hnlfilen crestures which ordiuarly supplied bim with food. Boake anda squirrel” aliio polsed thomselvon for the lprluE, tho tail of the formes wibrating so rapldly sa to becoma almost invisibla, and emuitivg & gound Jike the buzz of brazen clook-work : thatallof !heltttnnrembludlllsh!- ly, very alightly, with the tansion of tho squirrel's muscles. HBuddenly s sickly gloam of livid white shot norosa the cage, aud struck the squirrel be- low the neck, ouce, twice, with the 1apidity of aa electrio flaatr, ‘T'ho spoctators ceased to laugh and whisper; the slght was too horrible. But the brave little squirrel did nos shrink, or drop, 11e sprang Iorwn:] to meut his torrible foe, and nmth the writhing tall between his keon testh. ‘I'ucre was a crackling sound like the orushing o clioken-bones, # ndoonsly shrill biss, an_ago- nized wrigglo through the lumi specklod bml{. sud tho noxt Instant tho ¢l was wrapped [n tho aoils of thi peul o the fragmenta of the Louy rattles foll on the floor of the cafo erushiod into tiny elivers. Lut tho aquirrel stitl showed 1o fear, although the many-colored foldy tightened about him, and the awfal triangular Lead approachiod with wide-open {aws aud needlo- sliarp fangs, and eyes in which the yollow irls- clrolo meemed transformed to flamo. Thers was soother siokly tlash of white, a4 the livid serpeut-bolly turned upward with the effort of the last vonomoun stroke. The faugs nover reached the ln“.\lunl, He canght the speckied neck between iy kean teoth, au inch below the deadly head with ite borriblo oyes; and the hotrible oyos started out under Lho pressure. Thero was another orackling souud, suother series of ghustly convulsions, snd the horrivla fanged mouth opened for ke last time, The wquirrel shook tho roptile betweou his stron, jawa until tho ol-mm{ colls dropped from sboul jm ; and then flung the whole squirniog meza from him. ]lt ;mnm‘lj u::]ne or twioe, Lalf-coiled i1l Is wew dead. “’flhl:ynfinlml Immediatoly sfjor became very siok, and dropped iuto a elato of apparent coma ; thusgiviug tho jmpression that ‘it waa dead, But it rovived s Jittlo yesterdsy, and may,possi- Lly recover. Certsinly every care should be u{cu of ity for a braver fight has naver been 1nads by €0 belplcss nn auimal agalust 5o desdly autcuomy, Abo suske will be siuled. =,