Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1875, Page 1

The CThicago CHICAGO, MONDAY: M'. 2, VOLUME 28, GLOVES, B tinnssasened KID GLOVES! ield, Leiter & Co. jSTATE & WASIINGTON-STS, OPEN THIS MORNING AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF TWO-BUTTON “Uenming Kid Glaves,” At $1.00 per Pair. T Tirs Notonl Gl Bank OF BAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNLA. ..82,000,000 (OLD, GEO, T, HOOPRIL. CONMESPONDENTS. ..BARING BROTHERS & CO. CHARTERED MERCANTILR RANE OF INDIA, JONDON, AND GHINA, UBL. fi.\lmuua. 1E8815, NEWMAN & CO, NEW YORK..DUNCAN, STHERMAN & GO, BOSTON .0, BLAUKSTONE NATIONAL BANK, CHIOAGO.....FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Colleations attonded to and prompt returns made at the ™ kel ratos of K1 lowsst mrkol faioe s 2 TONCAN, SHERMAR & 00, BANKERS, NOS. D & 11 NASSAU-ST., NEW YORK, 28 and LETTIRS OF OREDIT Jme AT N TR M TAND K HAST, tha prinelpal oltio Iso for use in the MERC], OHINA, TAPAN, ke 5 i ANA, A A tdof Tinuiee, Jinmkots atd otbora tocoired. MONEY T0 LOAN On Odhlcixlqo Cltvml:r%pnrly';‘ixmmved pro- R o rcont. forred. LAYSAD & JOB, 155 LnSalle-st e SABAD & OOB, 196 LitBallo-sk: TORENT. ______ TO RENT IN THE TRIBUNE_BULLDING. INQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, ROOM 10. TO RENT, AT LOW FIGURES, to good tenanta—tintire Ballding, 171 Lakoat.i Store 3%, Masement 186, and Suites of Rooms centrally located on South Clar) pl he Oliice ot B, MoNKILL, Toom 3. fIn the new Comminsion Market, No. 304 Je -8t 1, ackson-sk. ARRLYyamber of Gommaraa. WANTED, Wanted, Tnmediately, roponitiony from owners of ot t ermot, & twoatory briok [t oEcupkey by Viro tuaurs s 'at ¥ trown ovners of buil dings, dlrcady ecected only hu recuir in ntertained, coiamunioation will i ‘Address Fire Patryl Hunae, No, 113 ARTIYE O DUCKT, i, B GRITGHEKLL, FitkD, 8, JAMES Comruittas Fire as. Patrol Onicago’ Bosrd of Under weitocs. yriing, whon. orenc Srankiluat. HOTELS. _ SHERIAN HOUSE, CHICAGO. NEW PROPRIETORS. This elegant, Antclan leoated dirootly lu the Tael, tre ol Chisage,’ ofinis o tho publio & 'he hharow 2oullent asgurumodations s “Fliosoalo of pricos will b frum ¥8.00 W 8420 por 10 the location of the rogn HISSKLL & HULBKRT, Propristors. "~ MAPLE SUGAR. SEVENTONS BTRICTLY PURE Vermont Maple Sugar YOR BALE BY 8. M. COHE o CO., 154 50UTH_WATER-8T. T T Al o Amkent GO B. Kallogy, * e e b Cas Aluniai lor, th won a4 H 2y o ULis owa sige i REVEGTOIS UF R1eoTION ‘Ambiorst Collons, Ambersi, Mass, Axienst Corixor, May, 1416 BUSINESS OARDS, JOHN G. ASHLEMAN, TEWBLER, 138 8TATE-ST., BA0OND FLOOR. Sale---A Bargain. od batement marble front house No. 3 iy belok baciy At wodeti kpro PR AL I LAUNDRY, MUNGERS LAUNDRY. oroRs i e, l:z D"-‘W':H 1% Micbigeast.| 158 4 s . For THE PULPIT. Prof, Swing on the False Worship of the New Goddess of the Future, The Rev. C. W. Wendte Advo- cates the Adoption of Deco- ration Day as a Church Festival. Sermon by Bishop Wiley on the Kingdom, Showing How Near the Mission Work llas Brought It Discourse by Bishop Haven on Car- rying Abroad the Gospel by Apostleship. Bishop Janes Enforces the Duty of Bowing the Good Seed by Proxy. Rishop Foster’s Views of the Nature and Attributes of God. The Duty and Reward of Right Living Considered by Bishop -Andrews. Bishop Mcrrill on the Pleasing and Heroic Duty of Spreading the Gospel. Calholic Confirmations =~ Something About Dr. Eccieston, lowa's Bishop-Elect. THE FUTURE OVERWORKED, BLOMON BY THE REY, DAVID BWING, The Rev. David Swing, psstor of the Fourth Presbytorian Church, cora+* of Rush aod Bupe- rior sircots, preached the followiog sermon toa 1srRo congrogation yosterday murning : Now ia the accepted Ume,—L1, Curinthtans, ch,, 3. If it bo true, as tho optimiat teaches, that every ovil Lias its good, it is siso truo that every good carries its own ovil, Ono statomont imas true oa the other. Tue mesalog of sil such statements muat bs that life is full of conflicting foreos, physical sud spiritusl, and that to bal- ance these 1n euch a manaer that usefuivoss and Lappiness may result is tho problom sod duty of man, Among the supposed virtnes of the world men Liave axuigned a high placo toits lawof progress. Itian couxolation of ali bourta that wo ate all moving forward to ail that is noble in futollect sud mentiment, The privilego of this forward mavement Is at lesst eupposcd to be offered to all, and there aro many who contend that not cunply the privilego but the destiny of progress resty upon sll. This at leaut is true, that o yraud Iaw of rmu pervades tho unlverse and re- veals ituol€ In the seod of 1o oak, iu the devels opment of aulmal life, and in tho uutoldlug of the buwan intellees, Wo look back, aud all at ouce pity our fathors, fur our buat Las tloated away from thoir barren wintry whoros far dosn to what scewa to us the Iund of spouisueons linrvest sud porpotusl spring. Progrors is roal and beautiful—a great luw of men, full of pres. out Lappiucss aud hoye. OF this mrcat good what now Is the evil sida? 1t 18 fouud in the fact that this coming glory of e (uturo isal. ways drnlnfl the heart away from tho jresent, Inour inability to oe two objeots at once, wo gaze st the future and rit down and wait for it to come. 'Tlun the great oatlook of the soul 18 suffored 2o acutraliie the idea of tho text. 3 ,:"HK with onu's wight what the hand fnds to There 18 no way fcr abatiug the evil o faras all the world i concoruod, but the evllie great enough to merit notice, aud theu there muy be bere and there s’ iudividual hoart that will per- cotve the evil sud fy from i, It would boa great gain to our etore of practical phiiosophy sud religion if we could learn to feul that the future does not oreata nor briug . progross—ii ouly recetves it, It I8 only & storchaouse inta which the presont empiles itsalf. If tho present be barren, tue future rowsins ompty also, and moving 1teolf away wuits for & labor.ous, pationt presout to precodo it. ‘Tho futuro is ouly the sinal estimato—ibe summing up o all the formor dayn. Tuere ia no bowor, or learning, or salva- t1o0 1 it, oxceps 80 1ar aa the present is busy over the ieatning, or bonor, or satvation. Icis tobe ropgreteed thab we mako such bad nse of vhe virtuea of the soul. God implanted bopo and oxpeatstion in the breast to cheor it, to maie 1t sblo 1o boer dark hours, aud as such 1t {8 one of the nobloat virtues of tho soul, Faul places it down among the divinitics of earth, be- tween lalth and oharity, But thie virtue, plant. ed fn the bosom 1o cheer it, la pervorted from ite oiflos, and is trausformed Into the thi Loped for. Iope s mutamorphosed into aotual richew, actoal goodness, actual religion, Instead of toiliug st & now woild, wo thiuk hope 18 busy Daing 16 sl up for un. Yonrs pave by In dresmy 1dieneas, becanss that great thing oalisd progress seems 0 be out in the advance, propariog all tho forms of blosneduess, eaithly and heavenly, We bave porsooiiled hope and progresa unlil they bave beoome actual [aborers, goiug on be- foro us, makipg patba snd bailding howes for us. Aud vo woll sre they doing this worid work that pothirg remaius for us but to droam aud wait, Wonderful and ensentisl as the cloment of sx- pociation isin all the dayy of mau, ves it ssema Gocessary that st times tan whould look into the face of tho presont snd see what weaning there may beiu its quist couutenance. The present 10 the eventful day, ‘I'he tuture is ouly s veom-~ of thiat which tss gouo by, u the discusaion of our theme to-day, all the ea of 1ifa sre sltke intoro.ted. Heohiglow, and educstion, buminess, sud home, aud ths uu. counted dotsils of & busylife, aro ail affected by tlus poteuoy of the fututs. ‘Thoy aro all lisblo tu be chostod by its proper use, or Lliuded by ita decoptiou, All tho passions of the soul nced regulation, Man canuob, like & brute, follow Natur In food, sud drivk, sod work, aud play, and slsep, an aaro not follow the simpls desirs of his physical urimnnlhm. If & man aleopa to the uttermost frou, hia boylood up to mddlo-lifo, Lis mind weskous, and he becowes au idio} from too much sleop. lla 1nay alvo fail aud dio from too hiile. ~ Bo, all througl the catalogus of phyaics! sud wental taatas and tondonoics, mau cannok follow Nature, 1o was deatined to foliow auciher guida called Teason, & bewug appointed of Hesveu to dis- crimiuate, sud impel, aud impede ; to cbeer sud to warn, Thus smbitlon, and the love of knowledge, and the love of mooey, sad ali the appetiies of the body and soul, are 30 come to the bar of rea- son and revvive thelr orders for the day. To oultivate reasou is therofore ons of the IL‘““ dutiss, becsuse her wive orders ace Lasusd the othor tmpulses of tne soul, and the variad world paases from chaos into barmony, I8 thote snything, then, in waich we can hurt Nature alono? Are thorn any hours that are ludopendent of this reawon? It appenrs not, Dut fhero aro houra into which it hne not bieen *ne world's custom to hring roa- 801 to plav, Thevy aro hours in which we all aat ike 80 many |14 childron and know no jaw hut Nature. Amorg thess liours aro those of hops, of fond anticlgstion, Tao-morrow in loxded down with the thinge wo intond to do there and then. Thera 1s no facully of the soul wo over- worked as its faculty of expeciation. 1f all anall vome 1ty the future which we are all pouring in- tait, wo ehsll havo @ marvelous warld bofcre long, Tho tamn ssd fadts of these dasa vill 800n give place to the inlauds of milk sad Loney and 1o palaces of Aladdin, ‘[he fulluenco of the future {4 like tho Jova of ambition or gold—to bn_rogulated. If wo nuiter this Losuty of futurity to run wild in our onn Loarts, it makes b sickly dreamers who will dia st Iast ag an infant, What God gave as a connolation for sotrow,mon tranaforin 1uto & rea- #on of oxlstence, an objoct of life, The morrow thus peutralizes tho proveut. When s young wan livos in the oxpectation of A fortune to coms to hua in iniddle- -?o how, hiow. for the most part, it utterly ruins his yonth. Bookw profession, Industry ambie tion, aelf-culturo, ara all robbod of wortls by this powerful expoctation, ‘The young mau is thus Hloin by his future, Dut by hiaside & companion, who is doomed tu a Iife of foil, finda iu books, and ambition, and culture, and profossion s daily vowor and hapyiness, aud by them La riges in miud and soul. 'To Lho former tho futire was ovorloaded, It was toorosy, too certaiu, It sclipeed the present. In tha early years of life thera {8 pothing but the future before the mind, ‘Fbe youog ave ex- oludud trom tho great flelds of asofalncas, of bar and rulpit, and suthorship, aud trado, Hepco tho firat twenty yeara are years of only oxpoctation, This may boa reasou why in our maturo years wo all till look to tho morrow, Ilaving spent twonty voars in the service of tuis kind of rumaucoe, porhaps it Lecomos a part of our nature diftlenlt to ckcape. Bo the causa Ly or tbat, the fact remalus, und hiere we are to-day .l“" Josding tho motrow down with our inteu- tious. It in not the province of tha pulpit to point out what njury this habit ‘i working in burinoss, aud politics, aud culture, and in tnmb Iife und goueral happmeks, Tho whole flald I8 nt least too large for our hasty survey. Let us Iimit our thoughits to the grest paths of philan. thropy and roliglon. The ovt's which the roay futnie brings to theas departineuts are subjocis of thoughts latgo onough and painful enough for ono bour, It woulid not be beyond the truth wera I to say that thoro are n thousand guraon! in this city who jutend to biess moukind by gifts of bonovolenco. Whan & httlo moro gold Las beou gathered, And & fow mora gray bnirs isve couwe, sud the crond future shali Liavo coms a littlo ‘nearor, they aro_golug to found asviums, and art-gallerics, and librarien, and colloges. 'hero 1atentiony are the most solemn and noble of thelr Lenrts, Noarly every clergyman has convorsed with these good mon aud csu boar witness to their sincerity, But wo como how tothe defect {n thoirssheme, a dofect which bides itself, and, liko Satau, will docorvo the sory eloct, he calamity of theso woll-wh;lllnfi learts and thocalanuty of tie iong- ““imi public is simply this, that there is vo such fituro auywhero as thut pictured fn the drout of thess benevolont men, ‘Tho day whon they whall feol that they have heapod np enough of gold—the dav whon thoy wil be willing to pare with it—ilo day when they will lovo tho puor community and desiro to lsy duwn great offorings at its feet, aud whon the future so long arestaed of will como down in golden colors out of tho sky, will nevor come. ‘The morrow is only to.day carriod forsard. Of tho thousaud porsons who to-day tuily intend to spend their moacy for God and” sucioty, only one or two will tlad” the fatore what they thought, and perhaps that one or two will bo the bumbiust of the tboussud, both as to tha finwnr to give and the saope of the benefaction. The futurs to a man in midale or matute llfe will contain vory little not to bo found uow fn his soul. To-morraw is only s point in the river & little pearer the aes. Tho samo wator flows tuero that flowed o hondred miles above. Jtisa sad thing whon on6 must point to theso passing hours nod mnst remind bis neighbor aud confess for himself $hat they are tho photagrapbs of nil the romsiu- der of life, To-morrow il unly be to-day rolled along, Whilo we are paseing niong throngh tne early yoars 1t is_ laaful for us to load the future, for thon the body aud the miud aro rirengtheniug, aud the school-housa stands batween ut and the rave dutics of the world. Lut, whon maubood 4 1ully corae, this worship of to-morrow should be given up, and tho full significauca of the pres- ent shounld burst upon the brain and the soul. Al the dazzte of to-morrow after this ts oaly an ignue-fatuus. ‘fhere aro collegen nbout ‘tuls aity which have beon wuiting twenty yoars for tho pood intentions of jch “men to ripon. There are many form# of pabe lio boneficence which have beon reposug iu nInnnscript for 8 quarter of & century, waiziog for tho futurs to evolvs for them n reality from the genvrous aod promising heart, Iint the ronl truth is that thoro is, 1.othing i tho morrow that wna not iu tho yosteruay, and one vy oue theso designing and promising hends “have fallon asleap without having come up to the polden dava whon Dbenevolenen would be a plan‘nnrn aud moncy could no louger vnelave the soul. Tlie tima for action 18 In-the full noon of life,” na that iy the ime whon ovatois uttered their beet orations, and poota wiote their best pooms, and paintors epread thelr most truthful colors ; the time whion all life vloows, that is tho timo *foratl worka of heusvoleuce and religion, What s to ko of ouc's proparty 1 a question taat demauds the lughest powe:s of the miud, To brng to that problum tho weaknuss of old ago is to inwul rennon and to poril one's own pamo. Alanhood s doubly robbed b‘y the romance of tho future,—robbed in that {t may dio without having romembored mauxind, sud in that many others rawember the world foulishiv, They left sacond clildbood to dinpose of thoir fartunes, T thero 18 oue phrase which should bo graven apon the heart it Is lue Biwlo phrose, » Now la tho day of ealyntion.” tho divine words nmdfv on all sides, Not only fs hewven, bug alsv ail the groat events thiy #ide of Leaven, dopend- ing upon mau's realization of the word * Now.” Blnu bas only beeu successful fu theae circum- stavces whon he ouuld not wais ; when ovents lisve hemwod him it 3 when bis ships have been cnod bebfud brw ;o whon his suatnies have pressed bia closoly upon the fleld of battlo or of tho futeilect, then whon the gasea of the tuturo Liuve beeu clcaed and thoss of the present thrown open mao hiad always besu a bero, Bome of ths most hmu!; apliorisms of the groat writings have beon utiored agaiust » spint of celay_tust broods over the soul. One save, “Wo pass our life m deliboration sud dio o it"{ ¢ Dolays buva dane gorous onds,” says Bhake, cara; *To-mor- tow 18 a sutire on to-day,” mald Young. But Corvantea statos well tue folly of feoding otornally upon hopo. 1le ayw: ** My tho stravt called Dy-und-By you react the houso called Nover," Thus, In’ tho lderatuie of all ages, from the Bivle to tho page of thio Bpaniard, you flud that uankiud emly Joarveld the im ositivn that expoctation was playing, aud sought, with biting words, L0 WarD ud agaluet its soare, ‘Iho great mission of Liope 1s to inapire the present. A dazzliug glory of tho future 1s culy 0 make tha prescut sll hgut around tho fuut. But if mau sits down aud waits uutil he comus to the dszzling morrow, tho morrow at ouce Lecomes daik; it taves back every banuer of light, becauso the gazing eoul bay noi rosd anght its sigmticanve. As tho past throwsits bigut upon tuullm-ont, sellaus what the thinkera aud toilers, sud singers said sud sung, and what the patriots fought for iu their long years, o the future pours its inypuration out upon the prosent, that, aioused by the world past and the world to como, the soul ioay sealizo the grest- noysof life and rive to dveds worthy of tho our, 1t shiould soom that our politics, our sots, our love to our neighibor, vur sceeptance of religion, aie all slaughtocea by this new eusmy called ex- pectation, Wo are all iutendiug tolive, All the vamed good of earth, from kiud- ness 10 tho \poorest mortal, to o pro- found wouubip of the Almightv, Is reposivg in vur jptentions. Lut the scove 1a dolusive, 1i ia a wirsge lu the dewers, When we have moved on woshall ind that no river or lako was before us —it was all burniug sand. ‘The truth {v, we Lave sot up a new divinity. We hava ricbly decorated ber shrius, and our worship ia regulat aud pas- siopste. And this new diviuity {8 uot money. 1t 38 vot pleasure. It is » bosutiful betog oalied ‘The Future, To her care we ara me“f;? litios, ait, home-life, aud religion, This gud- ess is goiug to come to g sfter & fuw yoars with her arms full of all kinds of salvation, We noad ouly worship sud wait. \Was there ever Such & falss worship aloog tha Niger of Ganges? The futurs is not an sctor, 1t s only & romult, It sdds up the trausactions of yester- day. When, after an &baence of Lwenty years, you visit the uld homestead and find the old orchard gone and tho od houso distnantled. it door-slll mons-covered, you say hastily, ** What changos Lime has brotight 1" Bat it was the sgencier acting in time, the daiiy storms,thie froats, the wind, the wurm, that slowly transformed the old house into dust, Thus tho foturo Liss no power, The present is worlung all tho sal chauge, and tho futurs In only the point at which the hoart muet Lreak, When hope cheers the present, and acts as an inepiration to its toil and goodnass, thon hope i » good ungel, but the moment it sota ay an opiata upon the prosent it becomes as & poion of thenoul, Rather than worship Ler, we had better doify the presant, and com: each mornin, Witl new omag, - Now ™ s af idea that thoold be more deonly studiod by thoso capable of use- fuluers. The monsy-aakers alone bave fatlomed fta dopth. They alune never pui off untll to-morrow what can’ te duno to-day. Bui the moralints and relizionlsts, snd the possible banafactors, gaze onls into tho future, All the good idess of ourth are postponed and postponed until their prost hopes deferred mako tho heart aick., The srgumeuts 1o favor of the ** Now " are sbort and slarp, First: The marrow 18 uncertaln, 'Tho only #iro thing of the futare for each one {aa tomb in (he grass, It may come noxt suturn, next wioter, next spring. It may como by a sinkivg ship, or & burniog churen, or a fever that shrouds tho n- tellect, ornvlrll)nlu that atopa the beart. Toe probability that you wil approsch death slowls, and that your good schemen will come up before you in that hour tor A wiss adjustment is only an ono In fitty, Sacond: The soul neeis in these co1s tho education, the noble consciousncss, liat comea from duty alrendy done, Tae futen- tion ta do right things and beautifol things is therr food for the sonl. But when ons in the noon of lifa cau alrondy aco good works back of bim then Lis pressnt is forgver 1rao frotn ompti- ness, and the uobleness of yosterday becomon a part of tha noul's eescotial character. What the mind needs 10 the latter part of life s the consciouances of baving lved tho other parts woll. Dryden eagu: * To-morrow do thy worst, for L lived yo-terday,” Tho heart that 1nteuda to do great deods s In great perit, 1f anything comeys between it snd its deeds iz be- comen atoncoa zoro, liln like tho Porsian Prince who dividea his fifo up into decadon, Che tirst decade was for travel, tho asecind for Gav- orament, the third for friendship, tho fourth for God, It was s magulficont appointment, but, ovatthrown by au incident, hodied in the first ton years. But supposo life torun nlong and deathh to be far away, what man most neads i that the largert part of life shonla come first. that all the enbasquent years may be litted up by tho strong arma of 1ha poat. It s melancholy t have the eoul roalize the grostness of carth when it Is about to leave earth for over, Dut tine {aiis us, Lot mo remind you Lhat the great onteida world ueeds sour bensvulence, your religion, now, In twenty yearsthe countlas children, and tho countiess poor of tho ln.d, wil have passed bLeyond the rench of your hlessing, ‘Ibero {8 s maultitude winch no one can bless oxcept you, and you can novor do that mervico except pow. 1ho good that shall comie & scoro of yeara henco will come to s ditfer- ent throng. I'hoso that now swarm around you will havo paased away uuednoated, uucheored, unloved, Bome pootess, sittiug In a lanely room anl roading about tho tears of pity that had Iaflen upon Kome peison’s grave, Writd & touch- ing 'mbuxo in the poem, * Love Me Bufors I Die.” With such a land as wo porscas, full of liberty and wealth, with such multitudes around that need sll things for mind and soul ; with such » leader ns Jesus Christ, with the morrow all wrapt in uncertainty, and with tho grave not far off nt beet. the bust inscription any one can write ipon his banner is the words : ** Now is the accopted timo." —_— THE NATION'S DEAD. BERMNON BY THE REV. C, W. WENDTE, The Rev. C. W. Wondto preached byfora a large nudience last evening at the Churcl of the Messiab (Unitarian), corner of Michigan avenue sud Twenty-third strect, on *The Nation's Dead." Following ia the sermon: & Hero men that die recelve tithiea,—1lebres vit,, 8. 1tis somsumos auserted that the virtuo of patriotism belongs to 4 crnda form of socioty, snd is destinod to amappoar with the onward march of civilization. Tho advocates of.vucha thoory pride thomsolves on their cosmopolitan wpirit; tbey call themsolves citizons of ths worid; they speak of a uivorsal brotharhood, snd vefuso to cramp their swrmpathics sithin tho varrow lmits of tho city, tuo Stato, or the natlon in which thelr lot Is cast. Lut such conception of the patriotic sontiment is both ir- ratioual and wunwortby. Wa have no right to shape our present conduct sccordiug t3 what aro imagined will bo the prevailing social stanl- ard tweuty or fifty centuries bouce. As humau lifo ia constitutod to-day, it is evidont that patriotlsm ia & natursl auvd & neceseary virtue. The safety, porpetuity, sud progrees of socioty depend upou ft. Ve may ovon aflirm that tle proseut distinctions of geograplical location, of ciimate, race, traditious, custatne, nud especially of Iungusgo, mil always oxist, and reudor necess sary wowne such division Into 1amilics, tribes, Bistes, and bations, s we flad among mankiud to-day, 1f potriotism, then, is o Mted virtie, as voina asWort, 1t in ouly as Linw naturs is hine ited ; as hownn soclety ia limited, Lut we may 0 farther than this. Patriotism, {ustead of un. tti o man for his duties o8 o cit:zen of tho woshd v the best possivlo preparation for thoxs duties, and uaturally, for pitiiopism takes & man out of his o2id egotisw, bis narrow range of vision, and brings him tothe world ; makes him couecious 0f the larger tife of his time; kiudlos his nobler ambition to serve lus fotlows ; aud tries aud disciphnes his powers. ‘Thus tho must unselfish patriot 18 aldo tha tracst cosmopolitan, For it » ‘man doss not love and cherish tha home ho bas fouuded, or iu which ho lLay Leon rosted, how can Le rightly arrve the larger tellowstup of maufinl ju gensral? Depznd upon i, Lie bust serves tho genutal intarests cf wan who is fuithful in the more llmited sphot of citizonship to winel Providonce has asdlgnod bim. The uisn who scatters his sympatines sll ovur creation is nat Rxoly to briug aa'muceh par- goval fervar} to bear as bu who concon. trates thow upon the ono Arsicular intorest Lufore bun. Work unselfishiy for your Lome, for your aity, your State, or your nation, and you will ronder (ho higbest wossible service to the common ijuterzets of umsnity. An_eolightened love of couatry 14 the bost poasible guarautea of an inciuxive, unsoltlsls love of maukivld. But what {s love of one's country? Is it siwply to love one’s tathorland ? iis rocks aud nils, Its woods and tewpiid bile T Huraly 1t {a much more thou this, It s Jave of ona's futhier-3tato : 1t is reverance and affecuon for the traditions, mud insticutivan— for that groat body of thousbt and experionco, of procupt, examplo, and ror- vico which our fathers have bequeathed to us an & sacrod tiust, and wiich we th luru are to ad- minisier and chierish for the bonatit of posterty, Faithfuluoss to tins trust s patriotism, & virua which ca l¢ out the noblest qualitioa of hunan nuture and inspires msn (o tho most disinteresod wud berolo aotlvity. History 18 ons long reond of this civio virtue whoie iliustrious x. amplos _fmpresslvely teach us that lor courage, devation, aud self-sacrifica, patriolum s ouly escoeded by relizlon, ludeod, ove of conutry, carriod far enough, becomes a roligun, and the only kind of religion which sowme perscus aroable 1o -u{‘nmahu. Alany a wan who hasan interest in thealogical speculation, who ia in- prossed by pru{or aud hymuo, who is uot Gue serous of 1deal Jougiugs or hupes, is Yot mightly stirrod by sppeals to nje love of couintry, sudin dafonss of her sacrod causos displays a couraze and a disinleresiodusas that stopa aé 1o sncrite aud counts na cost. Now, the free Church of & freo country ougit to rocoguize how nearly axin to religioa is pi- triotiwm, Herwsrvicvsunouldcbarien and sancti’y this exaltod sentiment, Lot the cotmmenoratig duys ot tha uation become alao festivals of tlo Church, Then our chburchus would uot ouly le tabornuolos of worship, but temples freodom ms_ well. The truth {8, oo Protostant Shurchos in thelr reactw from ibe excessive maint-worship sal boly-dsy obsarvanca of the Catbolio calendas, Lisve gooe too fsr [nto the opposito extrewe, aud presont but s muagre lat of fostival days Wo ueed mors saiut and Loly d-ly at, i stoad of Teaurrecting tho ecoleslastical fessta of the past, which Lave long minca joss their m nifioance, aud are only vonsrable bucausa dewed and mossgrown with sge, let us haw festivala that have -pmnb spontaueouay ouy of the hemt acd lfe “of to-d, RV fentivals that wutter our present thought and aspiration, and ro are of Living interest to Amorican men aud women fo tho minetecnth century. Certainly no church aud no body of churchicn can claim to be repressntative and national which do not thns rocognize the areat epochs, mosaments, aod moen of American biatory. The time will come, I trust, whon the Church will ensbirine within uer walla’the busts of groat men like Wanskington, Lincoln, snd Bumner ; when thoe lixensusos of Weslar and Chmnlnz. of Emorson and J'arker, ot ucretis Mott and Witham Lloyd Garrison, will adorn the Honae of Gad, aud lend their henediction to the sorvice of the mannctusrv. Why should not the portraita of these wrest guardisns of the idesl iutercats of hu- manity lave as sacred and saving au office an tho statacs and painiuga of old-timo eants in the Cathoito chiurchios of our land ¢ For they are our saluts of to-dsv—tho weers snd saviors of humenity. Religion will never do ber porfect work among this paople nutil tho altar fiames of devotion becomo also tho watch-Qdren of hibarty, Huch are somo of the thoughtn sugwested Ly that commeniorativo rorvice of yostenlsy, when s grateful people want forth to the rasting places of the nation's dead, to lay their floral tnbats upoo the graves that should be forever macrod to w4 by the record of herofsw and dimn- terentodnons of winch they aro the fitting cous summation, For that servico of lovo aod praise to thielr gracious momories was & Ligl and holy one: it was religonn in tho truest senso of that werd, Decuration.Iayshould be tnscrbed iu golden lettars upon the calondar of tbe Chnreh, for it {8 a festival that unites all the conditions whizsh oukht to maxe its observance s raligious duty, as well as s blossed privilege. Hee baw beautiful and natural waa its origin, At the closo of tho great War, a faw kimple-Learted and dovont negioes went forth on av appointed day aud, with iymos aod prayers, lad tragrant tlowers upon thie graves uf the dead heroes of the War, who Lnd been to toom tne Mes- pishs of light sud hberty. The patriotic hoart of the nation, recoguizing the heaven born tospiration aod the wsuggestive beauty of that action, respouded to it with grateful emo- tion, aud crystallized 1t into s permaucat sorvics of commomorative lave. Again, it is a ralizions service becauas ite mis- slon in onn of peaca sud reconcihation. 1t i calculated to heal all woinds. to barwunize all conticting passions, and w0 help ou tha good work of pacitication aud national umey. For, wherever our svmpathies mav have been in thas mighty etrugglo, whateier may have beon the fruits, guod or evil, it brought tous, who ia there among un so cold, 80 calious, an to refuge this tribute of affeciton and gratitude to the nation's dzad. For this is no festival of miiitary pomp, or prowess, or glory,—it s tot designed to keep up the nunals of triunph or defeat. It1s simly & servico of affocsion and grnm..ldn to the metnory of men wau trove, and sudored, and bled, and died beholf of their country ; who were willing mar- tyia to & csusa whiCh to them wed B0 bukh aud buly that thoy wers raaly to give up ull, evon life itsalf, for its vindication and tiumph. Bare'y this I8 of iteelf & sullicieat warraut for our services. To find in this materisl sge euch 15yalty (0 idoas, such cuntnge and self-sacrifice, such endurance to the bitter end,—and all tor the salio of their fellow-taea and God,~—it 1 this waico entitlos them farever to the gratoiul admiration of posierity, po matter uuder what banner thoy fonght, no matter what rallyiug cnes they anewered, or what their ~ rank and’ stauon. Tho Caonfederato gray, a8 weli ax tivo Tinonblue, sbel- terod carnest, manly, noreldsh beatts. Denth has rendered void all distinctions, all strifes, il antagomsms. Wo lay our comuaon trivute on tho common motler-earth that has received thom sll joviugly sud without distinction into hor bosom, and as we do eo we rocatl the weighty worl of the Kenpture, ' Greuter fove can no man fhow thau this, that he lay down s lite for avother.” 'Ybis wus thor measuro of dovo- tion to uw, and this it is which makes them our great Amorican atonemoat. Notin thousual thaolopizal senss, but in that broed, more de- vout reading of Yravidenca by which wo so- knowledize that these men suffeicd sod died to atono for the sius of thoir forofathers,—io ex- pisto the criminal indilferenco of their own genaration for the rizhts of man and the Jaws of Divive justice. Bo tholr sacriice paid the pen- ulty of anation's misdoiug, Wewero radeemod by 'their most precioua blood, healed by their stripes, eaved by thair niartyrdom. TReir sul- ferivy on battlatiolds, in esnp, aud bospitst, and prinon, reounciled our uation with Ged's unal- torablo and juat deereos, and gavo it o uew birth into freedom, aud riglitcousuess, and poace. Nor liglely did llmy iuvoka the dread ardoal of uatt.e, * Maosber," sald Col. Wilder Dwight, 1t 45 an eary thing to give lifo ; au awiul thing totakoit.” Do: fu them was the grim deter- mivation of mon in deadly oarnest, & couviction of the justice of their cause, which no tisl or towptstion could Buake; a sieady, parsntept courage, that saccessive divasteis, incompetent leadarstip, the infamous traticiing of politi- clans sod coptractors, might weaken for tue mpment but contd noever sutizely overcuwme. ‘Lus tloy went forth, mero bLors, many of them, 8o _thut we wondersd how thewr frail bod- ies conid withstand the rigoid of single cam- Puigg, but BO sustaived by tho mgnty epiri witiitg tbom that, when spared by the fa.al bul- let or Lo yet moro fata! walatia, they retained hiome brunzed heroes, whose teughened siuo s and resokisto speech did ot ravos) tho terror sud tho Larducss of that painful experionca. But what of thuss who did bot retatu,—sho wero' lod itto battles that wore wiwply butcleries, who suffercd _ unspeakably biorrors in tho prison pous of Andorsouy.lis and Bello fele, who with blanched cheeks but uofal- tauing hoarts faced & wall Of fireat Vicksbutg, or, 8a one of thow said: *1saw God at Chaia~ noogn,"—and yet went throngh ft a1l with auch steady courage, Buch unquestioutng bhedience, such cloory bumor, and such genetous self-tor retfulness! Never, nover can wo forges the roce o1d of such noblenaes ; uever cau it 1ail {0 ki dle us to manlier offort for tho rights of man, to & mora oomplete cousecration of our furttues, our lives, aud all that neLold dear, to the sacred oause of our country, Taen wo shatl not bave -catied up o valn ths memories of tho great struggle which #o lately convaleed tho mation with s varving 834 1utensd emotious, but oy already recedod 1wto the thinze that were; then tLor6 Was & meatiug it our service uf yestendav a4 Wo nltovod wwest losers upou the graves of lhe naticu™ doad,—Howers whoss perfame was echipsed by tho fragraot wemur.e8 ey rerpatuatod, Nobt wonis, nor cereinoniea, nor shuws, are tho titbute weot for such » gestival of commemorstion. Tuo worvice is a life that la dedicated to high the purity ot Liowe, the integnty of tuo Staty to huwan nights sud needs, Leopa sn no. coaslag vigil over tho causss for which our brotuers sulfoced and died, aud 50 maked true tue words of the spastlo, * Here meh thac dia receivo tithes.” Thls wo mett do, and one tning more. No houar paid to the un jou's dead can huve any werig ubless wo exiond that luving sywpathy ta that greater army of sufforersand wartyns woum t.auy left balind thoot a4 & sacred tegavy ww their countrymea, Tnourh dead. yet from their graves thuy spouk o us with solemn appeal, and tell us pos 63 forget the noods ur overlvok the encritices uf the soldier's widow and orphanod chudren, May we be true totuas truet ; true as wdividusl men aud wumen, true People ; sud taay the biessing of Aldighty Qod rest upou the griel-stricken aud bereaveq bearts of the women uf vur country, upon thoso motbers and widows, thoss suters and daughe ters, whusa sufferiug is uot yot ended, whows anunifices bave gona up to Hesven, tonder wite uesses’ of (loir loyslity, their devotion, tbeir ouselfish love for tnoir couutry. Can we ever sutficlently appreciate thelr paintil contiributio 1o the cause of Awerican freadom ? For the woldiers there was somo compansaiion, ‘Lheir burdens wers lghteuod, their paws sul. aced by tho excitemout 0f aotive duty, the prou:t canwciousuvss of daniug, the ambitivus Lhopes of proferment. But for the women who rematsed Wt home, wearily keepiug up the dull routiue of houschold duty, watening Lie course of evuuts with rostless, sorrowful auxiety, shudder- fug with esch report of ULattles, scauning tho lists of the dead uud wounded wizh throbbing Lourc, soaking their beloved iu fever Lospitals, in prisou,—aye, on the vory teld of wur,—{ier- haps fighting the gsuut wolf, waut, from the doar, aud 1eceiviug the.r doar ones at last utark in doat, or maiwod sud sbatiered iu health for life—alil wh L speak in Hilng words the suguish of the woldler's widow or comfort the beroaved hoart of his wotber? ‘Truly, the sub. limost bierolam of that Biruggle was not showu o tho battle-ucld, but ic tha quiet homes, whore r‘am:ojy boasty watched sud waited for thow be- ovad, But In a larger seni my {risnds, our com- memorstion of the uation's dead iucludse nug ouly the heroes of ous Iste Wsr, bus sli thosa true snd faithful sarvants whom the Hepublic delights to honor, who have sssured bor inatitu- tlons, sod sre thomsclves the nObluat tast. moaivs to her greataces. Bripf sa ia tha oo 4 3 of onr country's national llfe, whiat an rib st great namon alie presents for tho sdmy: ot ot the world and tho enconragomont of pns&(.fiv- Burely no olher wuation on the face of tho " oarth can presont within less than & coutury two_such ilustrions exaroples of lcivio wirtua as Washington aud Lincola Washington and Lincoln! “iho founder wnd tho proacrver of our Amorican libertien| Two names entwined in our memorien with the dars- ent and alno the Lrightest pazes of our natiun's litstory. Bome yeai# ago,’in tho State of Nova- I was shown & picturo by & homa artiat, rap- fesanting the auotheosis uf Abtabam Lisicoln, Washlngton, enveloped i & timbus of clouds,was claspiog our martyred Promdant té his broaat aud crowniog him with thio laurat wroath. ‘Tho picture has littla artiatlc merit, it was intengely realisiiciu itaconcoption, and yet benoathitlas tho trus and ynet {dea, however crudely expressod, that linked thane two great numon together: and this ualtod shall tney wo down to & mrateful poaterity. Very uulike ju thelr autecedents aud dispositions, thoy yot meor on the common ground of patriotic duty, Wasliogton, iu Whose character we iun. t admiro & happv bale suce of il bis facultion,—~dignified, paro- minded, babituaily cantioun, but dispiaying remarkable bolunces and dawli at critical timex’ never dazzling, vet slwarn leading Lie follow- man. A man of whora it has been eald that hio preforrod avolalug great mistaken to performing grreat exploits, Homothing Rowau about him, The descendant of woll-boin agd wall-brod aristocratic Houthern plantors—a noblo raproe sontative of that clara which for 8o many yesra controiled the destinies of thin nation, but which nan been supplantcd of late by a new type of character dovelored on thess Wastern praines, and of whom Abraham Liacoln wea an adwmir- able apecimen. Abraliam Lincoln, & son of thn noopla—the representative not of cultiara or socint casts, but of the Amoricsn workinzman ; hi caroer a noble tribute to the diguity of labor. A welf- mads man, with all the advantages and with all the dirsdvantages of a self-made man save one ~—ap utter lack of ogatism sad self-concoit. A lisad tiow sober, a Lieart how spacious, A mauner equal with bigh oz fow; Tough, bt gentlé; uncouth, but grazious, Aud 'still mchnng 3 1ips of W0, Patt-nt when eaddest, calm whoi sternest, Urieved when righl for jusiice's saxe, Given t Jeut,—but ever 1 entuont I8 wuglit of rglt or \ruth were at stake, Buch were these two mon, But one trait they bad 1 common, and it waa this which mde them tiue nervants for the oation’s nosk 1iith were notabie for thewr pasaivo strength, razher thaa for thelr ngerossive force. Their power was dis- pisyed in onduisuce rather than fu antagouisnu. Aund yot even inn this hienois theie Was an un- Iikouees. Washinatun was likaa licht-house, that, firmiy plauted on tho rock, sonds forth its calm, agauring raya o'er tho wasta of tho watets, chiseriug tho “heait of tho wmariver, yet noever yielding an inch to the fury of tho storm. Line colu, like a flezible cablo of wire, swaved to aud 10 with the varping intlusnces of the bour, and yot elingiu with remaikablo tenacity to the oad in view. Hafolv, though slowly, oragred the “ne tional ship through the troubled waters of eivic cusaster, As I vislted tho prave of Abraham Lincoln st Sprinaileld, and gazed npward =t the whito rhaft of ma:blo, who<a monumental klories Litly utter a nation's gratitade for one of her noblast desd, the thouglt carme to me what au eventful, whai 8 graud [ifo s bets commomorated, and what 8 serien of impressive invidents 1t affords to the future bistorian and nainter. Tha boy Abe st tho age of 7.sent out, ax in hand, to help clear & farm in tho primeval forost, At 17, poling o fist-boat our Wostern rivers or studring X dim light of a cabw fire, "Alier many yoars of bard aud faitbful wervice, chosen President of tho nation—soe the homels, mumnle, aud quaint old man ae he stands ou tha platform nt Spting- tield, and saia tho pravers of bis fellowstowai- me to foliow him Lo hia new responsible post of duty. Boboll im in Wasbiogton! fmthtal, patient, uutiring, uneelfish, tirough all tuat period of ansiety and toil. With a etroke of his peu estting frce milllona of ' his fellow-crea- tures, lifting thom out of bondsge aud Jogreda- tion into Lizhit and liberty, Never botoro in tha anuals of manhood 4 #uch sn opportumiti given to an earthly rule?, aud never wus it wore wisely and fatibiuily ma uso uf. Aialn, seo hias tanding on the battle-fleld of Gettswburg to utter that brief but impresalve oratiou over the natiou's dead, wiuch the Iest- minsler Review prouounced the grand- o-t that ever fell from lumsn lips. Aud an_even more mmpretsive wpaciacle is nf- forded by his entry into Jtichmaud, the cltadel of the Liebeltion, st tho head of lis victorious liverty-biiugag troops, amid the hooming of canuon sod the wild jubiloe of hie colored bate talious, ** Dabylou bas fallou!” * Babslon hna fullen!" The bappy uegroes throny about hin tokiss his bands sud stirraved fect, woile he looks down upon them with s ten- der, fatherly emile fightiog up b worn and patient face, and telling his inward joy and thankfuluess. Finally, ean- dest acene of all that yet titly qnds tins strange ovoutfal history, botiold that tiitle daskoned cuamber where, emitten by an Astasin’a bullet, he lav unconwcions ab bus life furces sbbod away, the nation's haart boating ie trembiing suspenaa until the worst was told, and chen barstue forth in snch & passionate oxbibition of giief as 1 auppose the worid never wi 1 bfare. ALy frionds, wo are ssid to livo i a covetous and watorial azo, Never crtainly bave a peo.da been more rickly blessed than wo with inuteriul oscerity, and rarcly m tho bistory of natious 48 thera been ruch aevotion to the pursiita aud pleastres of this woill. ‘The prizes of lirg AT8 Very near, our opportunitien for persoual sggrandizemeut and watenial satinfaction sre VETY grout. Liut 1o recalling thece flustrioua examples from our Amecicnn pust. Jet us remambar that tho true nches of a nation do not consist in the abundunco of the things which it posdceses,— veither io barvests of grain nor hoards of gold, —but in the lofty tvpes of manhood sod womaa- hi0od, the noble charactora 1ts institations cau prodace, and who sdoru aud sssure ite bistory. Thia way the Irsson that camo to me im- preezivoly as I doated nlong the lagoons of that Civ of tuo Hea, Vowmce. Her crumbilng paiaces, bier monuments, imposing aven in their_decay, tell tho stary ot ber anctent greatness, Thev spoak of & time when alio way the Queen of tho Adifatle, b mistfess of the sons, the richest, most puweriul, and most Iuxurious city in Enrops, Toe Orient poured is treadures tuta Lar Jap, her citizens wors priuces, and lier wishen laws for balf the worid, But she neglocted cho moral, thie ideal, ioterests of » State, Ebe prodiced ouly & suneuous besuty end s material civilization, which wrought her own {osvitablo decay. ‘*She pever numed o saint jo hor busom, nor bore & ssze, nor ch ora- tor, hor & bard,” But poor snd rugged Bcotland, with ber 1nlios)itaole climate and barren soil, bas baen tae prokflc mother uf poety, urator, phrlosaphars. philsuthropists, and leaders of the race. d sle still survives to inepira the fotaro as Lss epuobled tha past of humanity. And, when the 10!l of tho ua- tioos is caled, with ono acord the gra‘e. ful heart of mankini teepouds, * Biessed be thoo, Caledonia, amonget tho nations!” From' such tmpressive axauples lov us leary that the ooly ealvativn for communitiss, 4 for {udividuals,” Is consecration to the wmoial and wleal jutiusis of the uasion, the State, and tha city. And &8 we call up the memoary of the groat and trus who lived. and toiled, aud disd that these hifih and boly cau wmight be porpetuated awonst “us, Wy we salemly dedicats oureslves auew to tho rights of ~man, the urification sud welfare of tho States, tho sacred laterasis of culture, snd coaractor, aud piecy. Our futhers Inid ta foundatiov of our tiovernmant in jus- tice and equal righte ; 6t Usseo 101t thatthe auperstructute wo rear stands true o ths plutabe lizie of truth and righteousness, is cemeuted by utter and oxact fustice, sud ‘*from turiel to foundation stoua” appesrs the wywmatnical, beautiful templs of humun brotheraoud. Then shiait we wahe that service of yosterdsy trulv foaat of religious consecration, vindicate the memory of the uatiou's , anl justity these worids whiot vur martyred fresident spolie at Gettysbug ¢ Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forih upon this contiasut 8 bew vatiuu, Couciivel lu Tiverty, snd dedicuted 10 (he propueition thst all 1 are croated equal, Nuw we arv sugaged il & greati.vil War, teating whethier that uation, OF &0y HALOD &0 cUn~ colvod or dudicated, csu long vudure, * We are et v & yreat battle-neld f thal war, We &ro tact 0 dedle Cafo's portion of {{ as the finxl resting-place of thor Who bere gavetielr lives that baat vation might b TLde wliogetlicr tung and projer that we sbould do 10t 10 & Large seuse we cantiot cousecrats, we cauuok Batlow this ground, Tus brave wuon byiug and deut w0 atrugaied Ler’, bave cousectated it for abave our powet toadd or detract, The wurid will Litlo note Bor 15ug romewmbe what we 83y Licse, but it can never forge: what thor did biere, 1t 1 for us, the livink, pathior to be dodicated 1o 120 upiniahed work that thay bave thus far uobly carried o 18 e retlicr fos us 10 e Lere dedimted 1o thv groat taak efore ur—thet from thess bunored dead we take fucresssd darytion 40 Lus ceuse fur which ey Lisry gave tha lash toxt from Bt Mattbew xni,, 34, NUMBER 280, fall meawurs of devotion—that wa onniv that the dlesd aball not Lisve died iy g g aonle, a people, and {0z 1he Leople, aialh not pot iuh fromn the eatihe " b ety THE TRUE APOSTLESHIP, FERMON DY MISHOP RAVEN, Dishop Maven pronchied at ths Michigan Ava. nue 3. K. Church sesterday mornng lo » large audience, e took tor na toxt: Paul, a wervant of Joaus Chrin e, soparated uito ths Ubegey af ot 0 0° 42 Avoe- Bishop Haven said that the distinctive idea of n apostioanlp was that of bearing m message. The buman race was.caught in eurronss whoso cautouding forces bore thom in a baxe diraction, Tuere was un instinet of Aeii-hielp in bumamts, wbich impelled to exortion, Mon #aia thoy could get out of this state themeolves; thoy needed no one to delver them. But wliou they struggled to dehver them- selves from the slongh of {niquity, they only sank thu deeper, Thero was no roliglon of, hu- man oiglu but what eauk Lomanity deeper in the mire. Greoco wauk 1nto mensuslism under its wydiology. Esatern races Lad religious ayse tema that presentod grand characterstion, but tho nationa that accepted tha wera bemirad, opproxsed, aud degraded. Wheu ten wero siok- iny in quicksands, every offort thoy made only ontaugled them deoper. They musi wait for somoono Lo come to belp thew out, Lvery wmovement sunk thom mors desply and_ fatally, Frou tho hour that the firat wan committed tng first it thoro was nol & sinzle iuniance when all thieno offusts put forth by man 1o eava lwselt were cffectual, and, mora than tbal, wero nob effactual in minking bim deeper into iniquity. Ono might study the {u‘rccupm of Confucius, tha sacted bookn of the Hinduos, and overy uttior buman Jomme of ralvation, and yet not bo #aved. Tnere must be an apustlo~oie seni—to uvsve man, ‘Thore must ba somothing Irom out- sidoal ourxelvesto extend salvativn, This digtines tion inatautly soparated ho Gospol schems from everytbing oiee. Ay mankind wassinkivg, thero cafe vein -ight—one appi onchiog with means of delivernuco in baud, und ex:endelit. OQus could by iy, 1 owe tiis deliverance to no ona ; IlLave wiougat ous my own eatvation. ‘The buman race was Miugng in the oure of doath, win, wnd Lell, and coula” fiud no doliveranyy in itwult, All Bt ouce the neavens giew bright, The sun shoue out upan the: enstern ridges, and the Messub—the seaf of God—appoared for the salvation of mavkind. The very name “ Meesinh™ told that our ealvation came not from ourseivey, but was ¥aut, Liaborating thosu ideay, the Bishop said that, if the deivoranco was weut from Gud, tau proe cessen of the ralvation alho wore eent. Nut ouly was the Giver of tue Gospel sent, vut the Gospel stwelf. Every pracess of a teua Malvation was & revelation, ot & development. Bishop Havon then ridiaul:d the plilosophy of evolution, ‘Thiere wera eome brigh: geniises who convoived that, by acertuta process cal ed evolution. tad~ tole might be develolied into an oracle, n nottio mty & beawiful lsdy, & jump of wasts matier ioto 8 powortul intellct, 21 aps inta a Nowton, “Lhere are some peraous who, with a degree of ingenuity and ability, would apply this #-called puulasophy to reitgion. Bur tho religion of Josus Clirist nns no dovelopmont, but a revelation. Somo of the breturen of the schools ¥puke sometimes of comparative theol- oey. Tuers was po such thing s a comparativo theology. Lvory other syetam bnt the divise and Christiou system was human and poworiess. “Lhe Chnistun systom waa 8 roimon eent for tho saivation of mavkind. It was not develoyed but rovealed. A8 the now Jeruealem i3 dosetibed in tho Itevelation dercending fruw Heaven, evenso God's ealvasion cawe dawn, ‘Thets was uo room for reform in the Christian Avetem, It was jtself that which reformed other thinys. It transmutes, but was not trausmuted. If 1t vhonld bo subject to change, ihen it would - losd'its sliicacy, 'I'is Gosnel wuy a porfect Gos- pel, complote Trom the atart, aud all that humin Louds eould do witi it was to doclare it, Men suletimen imagined that thev could rotine and {toprova upon it, and (bey dolighted many au ear, tickled iy o fancy, aud perhaps suduced many A heart. but in ‘the end thaic et+ {foris camo to notbinguess. Lhis rovealod Gos- ol uglt ot be modited or changed. The ord ad said: * Heaven and eaith shall pass away, but my word sball not pass away," Not one jot cr tittie shall faif ; not the dotof an **4," or tue crossiug of a “t" The least talngof revelation should remain, Biebop Heven suld that they should scceps this malvation with faith. Dut one migut ray, Do you not deny mn tho U0 of ressy whin you foroid me to didmisa this schemo 2" L woull aoawer “No!” VWhen foud was sct be~ fure & hungry men wad he felt 1t was ntted to the nounshatont of ovecy part of his eystem, could discueelon improve it? God eect thy Gorpol ; it titted pertectly to us, It frced our appetite and needs sad gl ¢oo relstiony of life, ‘The whote of cur beings was touched at every ortion by tho Guspel. 'There wai no uced of 1:Cut#s10. hungry man would not devaie over his food, Ho would eat, aod &3 shuuld 1hey feed on the Gospel of lite with faith baliev- we. The Gospul must bo carried forward by apostle-hip. Lt did uut grow or davelop, but it Wae K »aed along—~trausmitied, St Panl didd vot Coutrive biis salvatiou § Lie simply acespt- ed it whon the tesveuly vison unfoided itsel? ad bocato a closen vossol 1o carry the Gospel among tho (lantiles. Carist's salvation was nat o be aovrebacied by nature ; it was to bo recoived Ly faith, Nor was 1t to be reveived for ihswaelve nlune, A well-snowu publishiug bouss Lnd for a trade-mark tho ewbiem of & haud vxtundiog & biazing tareh to another ban'l 1t waa au emblew of tranawiseton, and should be th0 moteo of all Chiristians, 1t wua no nore aredit to build & fivo Louse to st isoue day of the woek than it aas go build tlue bouses t be in the vtner aix days, ‘Tuero Wad 10 moro generosity iu buildlug tne charcler for thomsaives tusn itus resdens. A churoh bad just beeu bulit 1o New York costiug over a meiticn dotlaty, but thst Nave i o clalm for Lbermuy, U to send the Goepel abroad was liberals The church that slmply aupported its own Sunday woisuip had oo elsim o eall {tself bbosal. 10 was duuply takiug cars of i own, Woile the riclies of tha Nurtlwest bad fucreased 5J) per cent duriug the last ten years, contributions 10 tus mis.jonsiy ¢ause Lad only inuiossed 10 por cout. Did_ ey wow 1os sea why God had sent that psnic? - Did shiey not s6e why trade was etaguanc and they couwd uos gee their gouds oif their haoda? It waa ot for inek of mUsy, fus WUlley DOVer wad o0 pleucful. God could put a wirisiure around thoir doano.al opuratious wheu they were thiokiog oll was wull with thém., How oould Vehey escspa {rom these distresaes ? Sinply Ly more zeal {u tan misstonary cause. Tuudo visliations vamy on thew t0 muke thom know that i the world 3- nich swong mou, tavy suvutd ba ricy tosandy dol, Dz, Haven thon went oo to spesl of tha mis~ clouary wutk of the Charch, aud the portace of liversl azsivtanve iu thu way ot rubsciiptivns, ‘Tlo wiere pitiance of 250 wed ali 1143 Wwas aakod of that chureh, and bo noped Lhat woutd ba beartily given. Tho imissivb. ou until the wholy chinius to the beart workx akiould go orid was buuud by goiden t Jesud Cllat, —— THE FIELD IS THE WORLD, MISSIONARY L{SCOURSE LY BISHOP JaNEA. The Firet Matbodist Cburch, cornur of Washe fugton sud Ciark suzcets, wag filled yeutotusy moruing *th » large wud highly futalligeut su- dieuve, who had Lren drawn thithor by tho fact that the Ie.-Rev. Bishop Jauey waa to preacha sermop ou the missiouary work of the Clusch. Tne veuersble sud elwuout Bishop took bla Bd; Tues Jeus scat the multiude sway, ard went iato the bodve, Aug hils disciplod ‘alne Watv Biiu, saring Deciare unto us tue paratlo of thy o wpewered aud e ard e Bdd, ULt taous 3 £lo s sua uad weed 1 the son of man, Tae 841 i (30 wonld the guod weed are the children of the Kilgdut, LUk ths tares wiv (b chuldicn of tuy wicked vie, ‘The above pacal a3 well as the preceding one, coutsined sowme of the most jwporiaut doe- triuea of the Gospel. 1t showed, tirst, tact tho Kingdom of Jesus Christ 13 evtablished in the heart of mau; sud, sccond, that tho Kingdow wesiuthe world. The primary objaciof ths Ppassage was to fudicate the mauver {u which tus Gioapel was ta bo propaxated iu the workd Lo was compated with the busbandman, for be who sowed the good seed 13 the sou of wau. A Chuia- tian was nut ouly the wou of man, but also tho Qodbood apd mauhood, The L:‘ril..;u ) Fo= od world and overcame versitios, ‘:‘:fln:m:x:rum dowy the promised gift of the Holy Glost, was catryiog forward, through e fuvtrusousality of Hiv'duciples, the dootsivas Ha