Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1875, Page 1

The Chicage Dailp Teibur VOLUME 28. CARPETS, Carpets. Will offor thin day a lino of Brussels Garpets At 31, $1.10, $1.16, $1.25, $‘1.50. Also, 8 large line of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PODY BRUSSELS, At $1.05, $1.70, and $2.00, 411 other grades of Carpots at equally low prices, 121 AND 123 STATE-ST. t e & 80, Anotionoers. 0 and 63 Fast Raadolph-at. SHIRTS. SHIRTS! Mo ordor, of tho bost fabrics in uso. Irull lines in stock of our own monufacture. Wo arc prepared to nake Shirts to order in eight hours, whon nocessory. LSON BROS, MEN'S FURNISHERS, 67 & 69 Washington-st.,, Chicago. Pike's Opera Uouse, Cincinnati, ‘SUMMER RETREAT. LAKESIDE, OF PEWAUREE LAKE, One hour by radl from Milraukes. Opon for guesta M e oak Pk i ] Sl Rt rotepat 1 1he Nortny T, And tho most mcderaa charkos. 1attors agdressed s Seoprictor, Hardaud, Wik, prot ysgfi answored, t, Propristor, AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, Grand Union Hotel. Wil opon June 1, for tho recoption of Guests, J. 1L BRISLIN & €O.. Provristars, METROPOLITAN HOTEL, Long Branch, win th of Juno. Accommodations for 500 T o o e e Toet B0 T Soaan v within 200 faot of the Hot Balt Wator Hathbs. Greatinm. piotements fiave been mado. sddlg i Ramborof Foomt, Wi e Sagnolls Motal, Ni. Auga o, s, GLEN ¥HOUSH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Yhis favorite Bammor Resort opon from June If to Oct. 1 1875, W.& 0. R. MILLIKEN, Propristors. [ FINANCIAL. The First National Gold Bark OF BAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 82,000,000 GOLD. 20. F. IIOOPER. AMUEL TIORT, WOOLWORTIL CORNMESPONDENTS, LONDON,.....BARING BIOTIKRS & CO. OIARTERED MERCANTILE PANK OF INDIA, LONDON, ASD GHINA, HOTTINGUER & CO. DUBLIN......PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND, UAMBURG, .. HESSE, NEWAAN & CO, NEW YORK.,DUNOAN, SHERMAN & 00, HOSTON ,.....BLAOKSTONK NATIONAL BANK, CH10AGO..,..FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Colloctions sttended to and prompt returns made at the Jawoat markol rates of Exchause. TO RENT. OFFICHEHS TO RENT IN THE TRIBUNE BUILDING. INQUIRE OF WILLIAM C. DOW, ROOM 10. STORE FOR RENT In the new Commission Market, No. 204 dackson-st, Apply 13 Ohamber of Commerca. FURNITURE. PARLOR, OHAMBER, LIDRARY, &!‘?‘fi’ mll? l’luxhgfl TURKE, new and socond-hiand, a4 on ooy, lihw Drioss, to” Gover sia 'ade NORE & COY, Anationoars. S DINOER A wAritioners: WANTED, Salesmen Wanted. We do I the . AR U e buain il {24 on Addirees, sating Foote aud siparteace, K ribuue uifice. S—— For Sale--A Bargain. The8atory and basement marble front house No. 8 HERRING. SOOTOEIMEIN ¢ Loch Fine Herring A tmallla fust rocelve: kod by L] order, pac oy ; LIUITROR: PG Arblrio MexAn LAUNDRY., MUNGER’S LAUNDRY. fl%g Deasboruset, | 18 Mishigawet. | 109 silm u THE PULPIT. The Rev. Robert éollyer Preaches upon Ilope. And Explains Its Power Over the Life of Man, The Rov, Edward Sullivan on Gov- ernor Hardin's Grasshopper Proclamation, How Prayer May Produce Its Effects. The Rev. Mr. Millerd on the g American Sabbath. A GOOD HOPE, SERMON DY TIE I|ZV. ROBERT COLLTER, The Rev. Robort Coliyer preachod yeatorday morning at Unity Chureh, taking a8 his toxt; We ato savad Ly hope, but hope tiiat {s soen §s not hope, for what & man seeth why doth hio et hope for, Tut {f we hope for that wn ace not, thei do wo with patience wait for it. Likewise tho apirit lioipeth our wfrmities,—Romans viii, 31, 25, 26, I thiuk we may got a glimpso of tho nature and graco of hope from tho scasons, whoa wo notico how josful wo sro in tho spring, snd sd by comparison in tho fall of the year, Tho fall is » fruition, whilo the spriug Is at Leat an expectation. Wa know 1n the fall what we have to depond on. Our trees Lavo borno their fruit or mada their timber; our fields havo yiolded grass or grain in such a measure; and our year's work {s worth about so much. But fu the spring o aro not aure of anylling beyond this,—that thera {8 sure to bo a break somewhero botwoon tho promiko and tho fulfillment. Thoso blosscma that cloud the land with glory may novor set into fruit; tho grasa may wither as it spiings; and tho grain, if it prospers ever so much in the groarth, may be blighted by thio rust or devoured by tho plaguoe ro that wo are not suro of nny. ‘Wo Liave nothing wo can really call our own, and Yot wo aro glad for the epring, wo brighten up when the flowers come, and find the song of the birds and the ripple of tho waters in our own unature, and would none of us think of oxchang- ing the lfl““m. and glory of Juuo for the fund- ed weaith of Octover 7 Now, ju searchiug nfter tho reasons for this curious inconnistency, thia neoins to mo to by tho flrst and bost, that wo Lave como into pos- sewsion of a hope born of the time and the vary naturo of thiugs, while at othor timoes all wo lavo is a certainty, Ina month or six wooks {from now tho husbaudman will know noarly what ko haa to oxpect, and then, though that be wmore than he loped for, o will not be so josfal in Lis real hioart au ho is of the sxpootation which ad yat s pot about with =11 theso uncortainties, 11is blood will tingle no longer through tho subtlo fires of ths boautiful illusfon ; ho will stand on the very spot whero tho rainbow rosted, snd It will not be thore. Tho eobor matisfaction of munching his applo o8 he eita by tho winler iire will not compaca with the fino forcscolng which came over him when tha blossoma transfigored the land ; neither will the full barns nor the fair bank-book bo quite what the fiolds wore whon the touder shoots began to spring i tha furrows, Tho truth is, he hay got at tha last xcerot of his hope; the unseen glory hins beon trausmuted uto tho tangiblo reality, and he would Lo s sad man unow all hin doys it tho winsomo epirlt did not stonl out of his fruition and sppear again among tha clouds, But this is what thoalways doesto s sound and honlthy naturo. The mau gathers his grain and selocta tho finoat for anotlior sowing ; ho ploks his frult and then poers into tho troes and tries {0 gacss what promisa Lies in them for anothor yoar. Ko kuows the winter frost will search them to the coro; that ho will very likely frot and grosu from the 1st of Aprilto the lat of June, and 8ay ho nevor say siuch a spring ; that tho papers, &3 usunl, will Le full of rumors that ‘would deceivo tho veéry eloct 1f the time was ot aborlecd, oud that it will bo ono long fight with Naturo from June o Octaber, and then tho zlud“l'toa again of & tempered satisfation at the s no matler, tho Lope that is mnot mcon tides him over tho wintor, brings him out when the sun roturns, and lifts bim into tho old glory, And 80 from yoar to yoar hops holds himn 1 & nobler and more welcomo thrall than frnition, aud ho is nover quite so hnpfiy as when ho ought, logi- cally, to to be most miserablo, 1f, agam, we should meot a man in this calling who told ud frankly that he had settled down to what he called renlitiea ; to a lifs in which hopo Liad no {;lnco i that his creed at Iast Liad com to be,—** Bleused are those who hops for uothing, thiey aball not bo dleaj J:olnmu." Lad 8o schaolod himeelf that he conld walk over his farm this apring timo and, as the blossoins showered down on his hoad and Hlled his oyos with thoir bosuty, could say, * You are ot good for mora than 10 per cent of your promise with all your brave sooming ;" and, as Lo saw the mpringing grain and grass, could disaount the produce within 80 muany bushols, allowing no margin at all for tho play of this blossed spirit, but reduciug ovory- :w to a Gradgrind reality that was aver Bo & in its own way, wo ehould say to that man, ** My friend, I am very sorry for you, wiso asyou think you aro, bocause i'ou ore ot whit you would calt a fool. You areleaving out the color, aund aroms, and musle, and pootry, snd graco, of your calling, You havo placed your troasure ‘whers tho woth and rust can corrupt it, and the thioves broak through aud sloal; you are sowiso a8 to bo ablo to turn your jowsl {ntom bitof charcoal; and if I was iu your placo I would hold on to my hopos it 1 loes my crop somtimes “rather than lave my crop stesdlly ovary year, sud lose my hovo, for there {8 no compensation in what you can valuo in dollass and cents for that vision of what the eye hath not seen, nor the ear heard, nor tho hoart conculved,—that ifuner spring which is forover touching you when the time oomes to new ondeavors, aud keeping tho wheols of life nteady ms tho stars. uly those who bave this hops whick is not ason got at tho real socrot evon of the hard aud earthy ife on a farm ; the rout is tho bread whicks perislics, this is the broad whichh comoth down from houven, on which ho_that foedeth can nover Lunger, though, like Ilorace Greeley, Lis finda ouly hopo left whou his year's -work is dons, and & vory bandsome tale of lossos; or, as poor Mr. Mcoker reports from Colorado, our 5,000 scros of whoas this yoar will ba baten down to 600, Uui—and thou ‘tha old practical idealiat plamea bis wings, and sings of what mill_bo when the evil days aro over, and tho stoadfaat I'rovidence gives thom a fair chauco, It wa Lope for that we geo not, then do we with patience waiy for it, no matter what may be the disaster, for through hope, Thomas Carlylo says, thero la & Enh from the lowest doxm to tha loftleat beight, nd 1 bavo touclied thie place this power Lolds awong tho most homely and tangiblo realitios a man can deal with, that wo may soo what worth aud beauty thore i# In it, whon wo seize and hold it, for still ligher thiugs. Iow poor wa are in any wealth with this elemont loft out, and ‘so with what a maored care we ought to feed tho fires of & good hups In our Loarts. Boecause 1 take it to be trus beyond all x]uluuon that his is one of the Ligh sacrots of Mo, the malnapring of our purest joy, theglam- our ordained of God to ba bottor than suy reali~ by this side tha vel!, the fulfilling of the betior Lialf of the Vsl oarpiug, **O that T had wings liko & dovi It la » power mo holy aud true that when wo follow 1t for truth add holi- neus, aud gtill fiud that we fall stort of the vis- ian, it contradicts the axiom that hove dotorred makotl the heart alck, ‘lhat i8'what & falso hope will do always, but & true hope doferrod maketh the hiesrt whole, and insures the upward look, **Look there, my friends,” said one last Bunday, 88 we roda through the park, Il was & i of the Bntci"n shore cast agaivet o ourtsin of v We know it was wot the ur{ shore, with the tress and sho houses, but If there had boen uo shore with bonios sot sbout with tuat tender greon of spring thérs would bLave been no wicture, ** Look there,” the pligriua cries as s CIITCAGO, MONDAY, JUNE crosses the desert, and they hiaaton on for thoy soa the palm tres standing in the sun, and know they sliall find a apring within the shadows. Thore 18 no palm treo and no spring whou -thoy reach tho apot ¢ it lon furthor on; aud wo thoy ush forwacd, Ifope doferred makelh the atout oart ktrongor until at last thoy do find tho well and the wiadows, and drink and rcat. Tho Aponties, you will remember, caught & hope that the heavent wanld open aud bloown out for them into tha peifoct glory of God, and wo all thoir lite, nn thoy uay, they are looklug for aud hasting to ‘the comiug of the Lord. ln never camo In tho lino of their looking, A grons aud carthly clemout lad - crept into their vision, but tho hbpe within the hopa was g0 truo that they were never o suro of its fruition as when they wont out quictly to tha wild beasts or tho block, and, ld’»llgll;lln“ npwfllrll ’lfl‘l;)l ufltz = oy praged—snd from » lis co o' pioey anioto thium o5 the Tace. —and they wern chianged into the samo image from glory to glory. Wa all pitied thome poor creaturea who stood shivoring in av upper room in onr city Iately, oxpacting tho fnatant appearing of the Celeetinl City. 'Thoy wera to be pitied for thoir grossness of vision, not for the hopo nhich lay withinit, T wan one of thoso peoplo,” o lady eaid to me tho athor day, *‘one of the old compauy that waitedl and watched for the Lord in 42, T had 1y white roves rondy and put them on. It was A terriblo blow to_ find ouo there mistaken, and winca then I liavo taken natock in the reckonings, hut tho hope has never loft mo that I shall ono day Lo matisfled, and I would not oxchango l¢ to-day for tho world,” That poor_lady saw tha titago as the Apostion saw it, and she may sco another and another, Lut the hopo is trie, the Ileavana will opan to tha reality, and sho has Rlobaerl Browning's song in hior happy hoart— T stoop Into a dark tremendous aca of eloud ; 1t dn bt for & time: 1 preaw God'n lamp | Close to my breast, Itw splendurs sovn or late Will pierca the gloom, 1 shall merge sowe day, Ioro, then, fa the necrot of & trus hops which wocan touch somoliow through eil tho lights and shadows of lifo. It 13 a tropheey fultiilod in part: God'n earnest-money naid ‘into our liaud that Ho wiil be ready wiih tha whale when wo aro ready for ib; the sunluht on tho hill-top whon the valloy is dark as death ; the spirit touching na all through our pilgrim- age, and then when we know that the end is near taking uson its wingsand soariug away into the bloesed life wher we may oxpees elthcr that tho fruition will bo entirely equal to the liope, or, what [ should like botter etill, that tho old glamour will cumo over us again, and beckon us on forover a4 tho choleeat blosking loavon lina to give. And L know of no condition in auy lifo which is trying to bo real and true in which this power wili not do for us very much what we havae seen it doing for tho man who has to walt on the gonyons for his daily broad. Tlopo i the winged spirst which In alwaya sing- ing to ug ot of lieavon of a porsiblo which is better than any positive, the stand- ing contradiction’ o tho provorb all tho ogew cry shame om, that a bitd iu the hand is worth two in the bush. Thero 14 no heart-wholo nian or woman on this oarth to-day who can truld say that a hope come o Buch frultion as ensth and timo allows, over Dbogan to bo 8o gond an the kby. kwcet glow of a hopanowly risan. ‘Luis, at least, has certainly been myown oxperionce. 3ly ono imperinl blessing all my life haa_been n cortain oagor, tremulons on- :. Fow men have had a bappier fortuna than tion fallen to my lot, but if that could ba which God hassaved us from in Hisinflivite love 5 1f on angoel from Uenven could say, * You ean come {nto frution at ouce,~bogin ngain at 15, and have every ulightest winh iustantly fultitlod, —no waiting for a placo until you aro 36,—no ‘woary warch toward Lho ousis yoar after year, but fruition at ouvce and forover, which will loavo 1o rooin for auticipation, and o noed,"—I would Deg of hoaven Lo save ma from such n fate s that, and givo ma still tho old, blosud, buoysut hopo that’ io ot soen, And 80 I sayto you, soung mon and womon who biave still to fight Yonr way snd wonder many a tino what will come of the fight, 1 know no moro than you do how to nnswor that ?\wnuun.-—no more than I koow liow (o ausser it -for mysoll: know: that, il you cau hold ou to a real, pure hope, and follow ita leadlug, that is a treasuro tho fruition can nover oqual botweon this aud the foct of tho great white throno, But it {8 cloar to me that tins blossed Lolong- ing of ito muat reat again on thoso suro foun- dationss First, a truo faith in God, and socond, & trus ondouvor in onrsalves, For, as wy farmer would e & fool indeed if o bogan to plant his corn and oxpoct bis blosvoma in Novombor, or if, iu theso eurly summor days, ho sot on tho stoop and #aid, **Iora in summor sgain; Na- ture s utirring ; fho knowa whatto do ; I'noed uot care; thiugs will como all right without my tryiug; Lahall bave all T want aud hopo for ; and a4 he ls only wise when i weizos on tho right instant, and, with that on his side, which means to tho farmor that hoavon 18 on bia aide, beutirs himself und puts hia whole man- hood to the task of mokivg lis hope come truo, B0 {n our whole life this truth holds good snd can nover lio noglected, or our hopo will bo falso and vain, Thero aro bosts of men aud nomen who induigo in tho most winsome dreams of s fair und good tuture, und beglu at laet to try for it wheu there i4 no mora sonse Iu their trylug, for tuis world at loaut, than thoro would be ‘in plantivg corn the Just of July, and trying fora crop, Ifope thon in God, tho P'ralinist eries, but a hope in Uod that 18 not truo to tho rovelation Iie Las mude of His law I8 & lo. 1 hope to win the love of a good woman and keap it to mako w homo and 1uies a fanuly that will bo tho joy ot iy old ago,” the youug wan waysan bo drifts on to widdls ago, whilo the blossed spriug timo closos belud biim, and evory year tho firut person singular s write top with a bigger leiter, and eolf-indus- geuce eats bim up closo to the margin. That man has no right to hops for thoso Liessed gifts of heaven; hois all out of true with bimgol? aud with God. * o Lopo to raiso those children to be o blessing to the world,” tho fathor and motler say a8 tho littlo flook comes about thom, aud then be goos about his busiuess, aud she crowds her lifo into ier card: caso, 'Thoy hope the children will come out ail right ; thoy have ua business to Lope for sny such thing ; they are no more justified in snch & surmiso than tho shopheid would oo in hoping tho Iambs would be ssfo ou thoe plain while the wolves wers howling 1 the distauce as ho turned ovor and went to sloep. L hiave no business to hope to be a healthy man again while 1 am eating things and doiug things that must wako mo wick, if there {s sucy » thiog as right and wroug touching these or- #auio jaws ; or to bo a sober wan if my willdoes uot forover mount guard over my aupetits ; or a cloan man whilo my oyos ars an (nsult to svary pure woman I inect § of & truo man aud a trusty, wils I dare, ever su doftly, as a miniator, A mier- chaut, or ju any othor calling, to **soll the truth to servo tho bour, and palter with Kteraal Qod for power,” ‘Theso groat sud holy powersof » proper maunhood como no moro by dream- g than the veats do, and the graud Murillos aud Turners o the Kalleries, or than Bafety comes to a alip ut wea whon you drive her through a fog, as they drove tho hapless Schiller, aud take no sound- ings. Those oflicors, no Juubl. boped abo was going along all righty they had no right to hope 8o, and, whorover they are to-day, the blood of those haplosy passsogors {s ou thour souls, But 1w quite sure again that, when we are true to this double truth of Heaveu's opportuni- ty and our own manful endoavor, what is lost falliug to cherish a groat, pura Lopo cannot be rocovered in the grace and the joy of life, and allowing, as wu must, for that diforonca In the Liuman nature by which one man's hove 1 as flve talonts, sud auothor's two, aud another's ono,— allowiug for this diffurouce, wo aro tu blawe tor our forebodings, and vot Hoavon. ‘Wo can cliorish a suro Lope about our futare, aud the futyre of thoxe that boloug to us, o sun- "f" eagor ou-looking toward the fultillmeut of all'of tae promives God hus writton on our na- ture. Wo may boall wmuigI tho special form in which our blessiugs will come; we nover cau ba wrong about tho Lloss- g, ‘It imay be like the mirago shifting from horizon to horizou sy wo plud woatily along, but the soul fs Louud to Gud st last tho resting-placo sad the sprivg. There is muufi fathor ju tho world to-day trsing bard to got Lis load above wator who will siuk, but Lis boya will wwim snd resch the firm land, aud (hink of Lim th infinito tunderuess, wiite ho, porhaps, i ching them from sbove, aud thoir sucdo may be oue of the elomuuty of his joy fu flesv~ en.” When I read that jmhem tory tho other day sbout our good frisud, Br, Alcott, aud how ho used to try to make Lid way as a tescher and {frieud of tho children, aud failed in & wanuor, snd then eat down suuny and bright as ever, waiting in bopo; and thou how, by-and-by, Lis dauguter did it,—got tho grestest sohool and ihe most lovess awouy clildren of auy woman in_our thoughts of no mota’ but this I in America,—Tnatd: * That in the way, old friend ; you had to wait like Bimeou for tha child that wonld do what yon ouly Loped for, and no donbt it is & dearar blessing to ace Lior do 1t thanif you had daone it yoursolt,” Ho our love may Lo cus OIf fu ita prime, ovd one may may s L shall go mourning all my dayw.” Not if you wili let hopio whisner, * Theso aze not all your daya; thero isanother 1lfe of which this i but'the poor, thin sliadow, good aud strouy a8 it koems, of jts beat ;" and liopo will bear you on out of this into that,' aud thou you shnli ses that God nover wmnkes & promiso 116 does not koep, and that holy unfulthod louging which takos yonr heart cho 1o lutolorably 18 God's promine Lo you that you will bo gatiafled when you awakoin I likenerr, Wo cannot hide that eome have sirtven Achisviog calu, to whom was riven A Joy that nifxes man with Loaven, Who, rowing hard sgalust tha siream, Baw diatant yntes of Eden gieamn, And did not dream (4 was » dreatn, Thoy are those always and everswhora who, with & wure faith fu God, in that fatherhood Chriat openad to us so perfestly, found ther faith for over bloowing Into & hope that ia not necn, and becanss thoy boped far thac thoy Haw uot, they with patience wait for it. And ro it Is, dear fricads, that, ae your minieter, I cowmend to you {his gloriond gift of God, whntever comen a3 in fteolf & wotid bicaring and n power to help yon win all bleasing. Make sure that you aro trus to the laws out of which a truo hopo must spring ; that 1t tests in_Gol s that of tho hukbandman reats in tho Jand and 1ho soasons, and then that yon are sieadily work- 18 out your part of the divine business in no petty, ealiel way, but with a large und ganorous | purpose, and thoi thore will bo in you n xecret piing of gladness nothing can deatroy. Thero Wil not bo n day when you will nat ho aware that this holy apiritis hfting you out of mero reali- tins, a5 wo call them, into this sunny heaven, a day when thero will not bo a bloom and fra. pravce of tho hoart born of a hopo that cau nover die, 80 nirango, 80 sure, and so fuil, that only aftor those blossod words of the decpest and divinest inspiration that gem our Scripturen with light and glory, enu the full worth of this treannio ho told by our poet as he sings— Literual hope ere fonder spheres mublitio Tealed thelr it noten to 4uno thy tasch of time, Ths Juyous routh began, and ehall not fado Whieis il tho aister plancta havo decayed 3 hen wrzpped fu fate the realins of ethior glos, And Heaven's lart thunder shiaken the worid below, ‘Inou, undisuayed, shall a'er tly: ruins rriie, And light Thy turch at Nature's funeral piie, ki i PRAYER AND GRASSHOPPEZRS. BELMUN DY TIE REV, EDWARD BULLIVAX, The Rov, Dr. Ldward Suliivan preached Jaet ovouing ot Trinity Episcopal Churcl, corner of Michigan avenue and Twooty-ixih slreet, tak- ing ns his theme, atthe roguost of many, the rocent proclamation of Gov. ilardin, of Minson- 11, appointivg a duy for praver to Almizhty Gud for tho romoyal of tho grasaliopper plaguo from that State. 1l toxt way : Blaw the trumpet n_Zlon, anetify n fant, emn assembly : Uit 1 will fumove far off you tin northern aroiy, aud will drive bim into s lawt barzwa aud dexolate, Withs Ll faco 10w.rd tho ciet ss, linder part foward tho utmoat roa ; Amt Lix atink shail como up, niad lis 1l-savor abisll come up, bo:aiso by Luth donie greattangr, And Twhil reitoro fo you the Yyears tliat tlio locust liat caten, the caiker=worin, atd thie caterplliur, undd tho palmer-worm, miy a1t army which I sient among 5ot —Joch 16, 15, 20, 2, 110 spoka ao follows ¢ A fow weels ago, Qov. ITardin, of Missouri, irstod a proclamation summoning the peopls of that State to tho obsorvauzo of a day of speeinl humiliation aud prayer to Almighty God for the removal of tho grasslioppor plague, Whilo many wers found rondy to indorss such ao sct, and rosponded to ita de- vout and earnest summobs, many morv woro disposed to find in it aubject for seem- Ingly well-deserved ridioulo, aa though the invo- cation of Divino aid for such s purpose wero o mockery, worthier of a religious fanatio or senti- montal plotist than of avy practical, seneible mnn, #ich as tho Governor of ono or our Weat- o Btates ought to be. That Gov. lardin hud ample precodont for i proclamation was, to those mockers, no justificarion of tho act. Iix- splen can bo quoted In abundance, bothi fn and ont of Heripture, such oy Phoraoh’s re- eatod prayers by Blosca for the ceesa- ion of moveral of the plagues of Lpypt, and thelr actusl romoval in auawor to thoso pravers, Or, again, this proclamation 1 have read from Jool,—how Jebovab Himself sum- nioned all Lerack to one groat national fast for tho romoval of tho palmer-worm, and tho cat- erplllar, oud_tho canker-worm,—God's gronz ariy whicls nd fuvaded the land, finding 16 o Garden of Eden, aad leaving it a very wilderneus, —and bow, in recognition of tho depth of Irael's humilistion’ wud repontance, tho seourge was romoved. But all tms counts for nothing in the estimation of tho Iatter- day skeptic. To bLim the idn of asking God to interfero is simply proposterouy, It would be sacrilogions writos one of our city Journals, * to nddross tho Lord, and implore roversal of any natural laws for the benutls of any particutar class, locality, or population, 1t bins been discovered that the locusts provail in any’ section thiey infust two nansons: thoy ily over tho first season, and drop their oggs, which dovolop into *'boppera’ the uext sonson, whici {ly of to another section, If this is tho natural Inw that govurus thoir oxistonce, we caunot be- Hovathat the Lord will roverse it on account of applieations,” Agaln, ** Wearoincliued to beliove that moro can bo accomplished in fightiug tho giasshoppor by enliating the active cn<oernliun of scioutitio and practical mon than by davoling tho same atmouut of timo to specule praser for tho Interfercuco in natural lawe, which the Lord i not likely to underiako.” 1In theus extracts, truth and error are Atrango- ly jumbled togathor, Be it oura to-uight to sift the wheat out from the chaff, and assign o onch its proper piaco. With some af the proporitions sdvanced in this nowspaper editorial, 1 am in no way diaposed to quarrel,—euch, for oxamplo, as the statsment that tho movements of the destructive little iunoct, which has caused this wido-aproad dovautation, proceed nocording to & fixod and uniforni law., Whether or not the law in au etatod hero I cannot say, not Laving made it a subjcct of special study,—but ucoord~ ing to soma law—this wa gladly concode. Nav, wo will conceds far more than this, snd admit that it is true, not morely of a grasshopper, but of our globo : uay, of the countlesa globes that wro scattorod throughout the universe, alike tho4o that nre visible to sho human eve, nud of millions 1oora that are juvisiblo; that their movemonts in spaco, sud squally the movements of the living creatures that fuhabit them (if they be iuliabited), sro all of thom, without excop- tion, aubjoct to law—in ‘other words, that the “wxoign of law,” ns it I technically termod, in commousurato with the bounds of the uuiverso ; tnat whether it bo the juurneyiugs of a plaut through apaco, or the uprising of & biade of graas ; whothier it be the mighty, mujostio proge rous of the tides of ocoan, or the trickling of a fow drops of wator (rom o cup in a chilld’s Land ; whother it bo the Llazing of tho sun in mid- heavon, or the flickering of a fira-lly s the summer twilight—all alike procoods sub- Joct to the steady, uniform oparation of lsw, cautrollivg all that has boen subjected to its control, aud everywhore executing Gud's sover- eign will, Al this wo graut most (roely, Ko far from dislionoriug law, or denying its existence, wo rather exalt it to a very lofly throno, and place m scoptre in ite hand, in tokeu of ita world- wide jurisdiction. Obsorvo, Liowevar, whilo faw roigns the wida world ovor, it is not suvremaly sovoreusu, It 1s not au autocrat, exercising s fres und independ- eut This, fudeed, 18 what is claimed for law, we refuss aud rejoot it na an ine wsolont usurpation, ‘The throgo of law is a lefty ouo, but Johoval's ihrone i loftior sull, and sho reigos aa Iis vioe-gorent oniy, by 1hs permisalon, Law is a croation of God, and must therefore be subjoct to Hin, like ovory othor wieuted thing, Ifo ouly is absolutely aml st vmmclv Alnnghty, His eoveraiguty is so esso nodness, aud love. Creation catuo into beiug at 1iy tlat, and sho continues in belug only for iliy ploasurc. Nature's whole order, usiug tho word u tho most compreliensive sonse, procucds ace cordiug to His willt—and is is so dopendont on it, that, did He chioose to revorse or disorganizo 1t, uay, oven (o reduce i to the uothinguews {frow “which it originaily canio, it could mo more seost thot will than a littlo otnld could ariost tho flow of the torrout of Nisgars. Llere, thon, is our socond fact. The Iswa of Light, heat, growth, eloctricity, gravitation, ete., are lmflhly oparat ing cayses in Nature, but thoir power is delogated, not asoll-derived. Thoy act, or coase to aot, no- cording to the bidding of God's sbeolute, sov- ualnn control, $ The estavllshment of thls almple sad 1876. self-avidont principls of God'n unlim- ited movoreigoty over all Natura ought o motilo decinively oue next ques- tion, viz.: Tho possibility of any intorforence with Natures Inwa, heeanro, from: snch: & prinei- Ple, onco eatablikhed, it is areasonable inforenca that Ha nlio madn the Iaxa munt be no superior $0 them ap 1o bs abla to alter or revoke, tn arrest o roverse their modo ot oparation, if necosmars, but thin conclusion we can alno roach by anothier procoms, which porhaps will meke the point stand out wtill moroe clearly bofure your intolli- gont apprehenaion. Con Naturo's laws bn interforred with? A shallow and lznorant rkepticiem snawers, No, not with impunity, Thev ara immutatle, inflexi- ble, luoxorabla, And thoy refuso to yield thom- ralves to tho will of avery bold intruger on their domain, without at loakt fullicting n pealty, And thia auswer is true, though not all the truth, Iire burns, and water drowns, under certain condilinns, sud bo »lio i foolhardy enough to placo himaolf within tho power of thosn condi- tona must tsko the consaquences. Natnro's Iave, therofore, cavnot Lo eapriviously moddloed with, but suraly this docs not action cannot be altered, or relax or in any way interferced with,—i. e, always prewupposing s canso baving power enonzh to lulerfore. Intorforence in various forms must be a posrible thing. fn tho firet place, thess Iaws modif; L era with one anothor. ‘lhe vaiy o of Naturo is iteelf maintained through this vory principlo of intor- ferouce, Just us s mezn L'ves notin bin own inolation, earrying out his otwn will only. but ratlier in contact with other men, and fouced in by limitations imporod by that contact, wo ex- actly these luns of Nature, #0 far from scting out encih ity own proper tendency to itw own . or modified, uatural results, by na own immutable force, rather met in A limited pplers, cach ' modificd aud bLeld in check by tio prasonce of other laws, acting within_ tho mame jimite. A familiar lllustration of this fact i fur- nishisd by tho complox molious of uar own catth, as it traveln srouud tho sun. Independently of 1t @otion 0n its own axis, Lo other forces opers uto B jv—~the contrifugal, creating u tentdency to fis away from tho wuu, 1ts centro, forvard into a 3 tpaco: the other, centripetal, by it iy at- tracted towardn tho sun. Now let aither of thoue forens oxercino it own uuhinderod mway, snd disorder, uoy, rmin, must ineviiably ousuo. Let the centripotal sluna opornte, and our carth must necersarily o - precipitated into thosun, Lettho centnifugsl pre and alie wont luovitably Lo carried out of her npe poitted orbit, aud'dashed spainst wome other plavet, to the destrustion of botn. Iut wach s diraster s forever readered imposwible ; and how¢ By this much abused principlo of inter- ference, ~ Neither forcs 1 allowed to esercivo tlio full menaure of ita puwer. Each acty 8w & check on tho other, aud 80 acumpremies is ofected, by whicia Natury's equilibrium y care- Illy yreserved, and mot only ono cartl, but the countloss worlds that with it throng the illmitablo fields of wpuco, aro held, kafely aud_poscefully, each in ity own appoiutod orbit, Naturo's laws ure, thereforo, susceptiblo of interferauce, ot us mouut a minglo step, and witnees another example of interferones, mcro easy of verifieation, and, therefors, perbaps, more con- vincing, I mesn men's futurference with Na- tiro. “And thiese aro uncensing aud nmveraal, Go where you will. where nun's faot hay trod, aud even ationg tho lowest types of buman ex- 1stence, you will fiud that mind is perpetually in- terfering with wmatter, proving itn saperiority to it, amd bending and eubduing it to ite own uses. Lverywhere we #eo man making Nawuro big “mivister, sud by the eorvice which Lo oxtracts from " her, proving tbut sho was medo for men's ueo,—as he in turn was mndo for lum Creator's, 'Tho steam that propels i locomotives, and spoeds his ships, sud keeps ju perpetual motion tho ma- chinery of his million factories : the slecirio epark “that carries his mcssagen to sud fro, au- nibiflating both time and distauce, an it were, in the rapidity of ite tlight ; tho vant treasuries of golden gram that il hor gizantic storshouses, and furnish tbo basis of o uotion's solvency— what aro =ll those but evideucen of man's power t0 subdue nature and her lams to his owu uses. and compel thom to do his bidding 7 Thu there iw room for tha superior power of ian's willin tho order of Nature, 1t must bo so, Ex- irtence would be impossiblo for man wore it not so. True, man caunot do anything againgg Nature without suffering for it. To work suce cenafully bo must wark acconling to her lawe ; but the laws of Naturo will do uothing for bin of themselves despite the murvelows power, tho absolute and uncontrollod sovorignty, with which some wen credit thew, llo noeds food, bnt Nature will not farmsli it ready for his use. So needs clotinz to cover Lini, sud @ houso to dwell in, but Natuge will not be cithor his archi- tect or tailor, She will provido tho materiats rendy to his lhand, but his hand, and will, and intollizones it in that must utilizo thut material, and, 1 need be, modily, crsusyend, or toverss her laws in order thal tho result contemplated moy serve his ueo nud minlster to his necosrities. We aro now prepatoct for the question to which I Linve sought Lo lead you up graduaily, 1f man can thus outer withbin tno realm of tho laws of Nature, and, Ly virtue of tho known superionty of mind over wntter, #0 control and subjugate Nature as to ke her gindly dorvo as Lis hsndmnid, is it ronson, ia it logie, is 1t commion sense, to hold that God, the Supremo Sovereign, canuot do for man in and with Noture what man canzdo with Nature for himself 7 Or furthor, that thero 1 ony anto- cedent absurdity or fmpropriuty in man's’ anking CGiod by prayor thun Lo interfere in hin bohall 7 Or furthers that if Goa shoukl interfore, o usion or datonge must fnovitubly ensua? Suroly uot. No, If thoro bo coufusion anywuero, it i wholly in tho objector's own mund.' 1o, in his shollownees and shortsightods nees, cannot £oo how it is possible to touch Nature's order or syetom at any point witliout disturbiug her evorywhero else, and be- eauso be, forsoatls, cannot koo how it 18 10 bo dane, therofare, he conguden, God cannot do it, Now, Iask, For wuat cud did God constinet this systom of thingy, which wo call nature? Well, vrimartly and ultimatels, I believe, for His glory, to refloct tho boauty and the brighiness of His attributes, but sccondarily and wodistely for man, for Lis comfert and well-being, foz his enjoymont ana use, much as any father among you would mumnge tho e ternal appointments of sour. bousa for the comturt of the membors of your Louso- bolds, Supposo now that any different atrungo- mont conld bo made that would insroaso thowr comfort, would you take your stand upon the origial ordor aud say, *Aly chiliron must ac- copt thinga os they are. 1 havo oraered that so aud #0; i¢ must be, and #o it shall bo, Tharo- fore, lat mo hear no further entrenties tn tho matter™? Ponnibly a tather mizhit be fouad who, in vory perverscuess, would tulio that stand, Ilut you aud 1 would agreo to pronounco him heartless and unnatura!, Lecauro caring leds for his childion's comrort than for b own arbitrary will, and its Indulgence i tho mnintenanco of i particular order in the furnituro of his house, Yet this is what tho seientitio intldolity of to. day would hava us believe God does 1 suswor to the earuest, prompt supplications of 1l childeon, It [+ utterly nud absolutely folde, (od navoer did it, and nevor will do it. Not Herlptura only, but'rosson aud common senve, combing to condomn 1t re & wicked miszoprosene tation of (iod,—a blasphemous lio, an all but unnardonable slander ou Hin living Naturo, Carrying ali this with us, et us got still near~ or fo the very coro of our nubjoct, aud apply the priuciples already eatablisied Lo tho plague ot grasnhoppors. \What ts chargod s, that to ask Tiod in prayor to remove them would be asking & rovorssl of those Iawa tint govern therr exist- enco and movemsnty, sud thac such rovorsal 18 impoasiblo. Now, if this moaus that Uov. Hardin meaunt i his proclamation that peoplo should ask (ivd to romovo the sconrge by work= fog a muracle, the pooplo of dlissourt moau- while atanding by and dojug nothng, I think that wo muay confidently assort, ou tho Uoyve einor's bohalf, that such a statement would Do a total uisiepresontation of his meaming, As for the miraclo, overy act of God i, In strict- nees, a miraclo, but iv the popular sense of tho teri—that is, s & viuible wonder, riling men Dy ita instentanoousuess, such s miraclo, for oxample, a8 would bo wrought if tho countless millions of grasshoppors that invest tho laud woro suddenly, whilo one was looking at thew, to bocome invisible—in that senso of tha word & miracle wos pot expected or piayed for, aimply bocmuso the un who bas bhad the “moral ocaursge to issue such & proclamation in tho faco of tho shallow, encering fofidelity of the day well kuow that the Almighty I uot tied up Lo avy ouo method of ausweriny prayer. 1114 resources sro intluito, and aw & genoral rulo, judging at leaat by th nlng{ of iy ways, God chos somo_ very simplo iustrumentality, such as would not aclect, were he chuosing some spo methiod for the nccomolishment of his purposes. thiv scourge Prayor for tho gemoval of n:rfil.ul o more of God, aund lmposes no less of duty on wan, thag prayer for Sty i D oy Yreurntlon or recovery from the eholera, n both cages alike every romody that human #kill or science ean devien must bo employed. Without thiv, tha mets offering of prayer doss niot diucharya tha ovligation itposed, hut, sven with this, we do_not stand selicved of our re- aponsibility until we have al«o invoked Jiis help without whom tho dovicos of & mero earthly wisdom muit prove tho utterest foolishnesn. Pragor, without offort, would bo folly and presumption, but atill greatsr pre- sunption would it be to = uso offors without prayer, 88 though tho means wera thembolves God, and could accomplisn the d end, apart from Him by whom alone they can bo mado effoctive, liut the queation still remsins, In what form can wo conceive of Uod ansmoring pirayer in this #pecial caro of the grasshopper plazue? Not by miracle,—that wo have,scenito be unsOCoERATY. Dot does no other micthod lio open to Thun? It 44 inconceivabla that God sliould take tho ordinary agmncies which nro ready to kiy hand und o control or intenkify them 8n to remove the mcourge, and that withont in nuy wny disturbing tho 3 sequences eatablished iy tho groat law of caine an offect? Subpows, 83 in one region has actu- v occurred, auotbor turect should mystori- ously como upon tho weene, harmlors to tho crop, but hostile to the zrasshonper, und insueh numbers au to offect their desiruction § or sup- Dose, sgain, thet human e womehappy ration should sudden, aver mowme dos at wonld effcet- ualiy chicek thoir ravages ; or, thudly, that sowe wind ehonkl blow Lefera whoso breath thene Uy, all-devouriug tyrants ehould diwappear, would 8 not ba Tperlectly legitimeta to us to regard ony or Al of theso ns varled forms in which God's lelp had exprossed itwolf,’ and @4 mu many proofs that Jlocan heur aud nuswer His chiliren's praver: infidelity would, of courne, v 10 dircover othor soiutious of thy enlgma. and ept any of them, oven the mast ubsurd, er thun adimit the soundne it butnono i~ lews true woul getber outsido of mraculous iotarpo vhicls ara not askicd for), thers are possibiidtics to bo fonud withiu the ofder of Nature, of which keienca ean know noting, and which God holde in 1lis own power, wan rectet storehouse from which to supply help and healivg ae i people miy require, Will sclence pussibilition do uot exist? axsert - that such Will sho bo bold enough to comniitt hersolt to tho watement that, supposing ruch poasibili- ties do exit, even God cannoc avail bisolf of thoir exmtence, for this or any othor spovitic purposa, without therebr causiiigz an inovitablo diniarlubes of Seture's equpuise? Cannot God be trusted to tako e¢atn of thut? Nay, does lle not tako cars of it even now ? T« it not & possi- ug for a tornrda t razo with unexamyled fury in tho sdjomiug county,—uay, even a few milva off,—cariymy death aud~ dovastation with it, and yet nob bo felt In this city wven movt remotely # Yew, brethren, God ean take care of Hie own, and wo need not fear fail- ura or migtake on 1is part. These fears of ourn do Him great dishonor. They spring from an evil heart of unbeliof, and if we would not have them chioke and overtop the growih of all guod things 1 us, we must crueh themn under fuot. Yield to them, and they will drag yon down into practical atueistn—thoy wifl lenve you * without God 1w the world," becanso without 3 God thut you can truet, or love, or roverence, or from whom you cau look tor Lelp in weakneks, deliv- eranca” in danger, or support and sympathy in sorrow. If Lmny not pray to God, and pray with tho cortain confidouce that Ity car is open'to my cry, and Iis Land uphfted to belp, aud His heart ruuning over with 2 love which longs to express itwelf, then why bas Io given ma this deop-im- planted wetinct which draws o toward Lim i overy hour of need ? Has le given it in cruelty, only to mock, and cheat, and disappoint 1lig creatures ¥ Iteverence forbids the thought, No breturen, o dous hear and answer prayerr, Proyer is power; nay, tho wmigltiest of all pow- er, for it moven Lo atm that Gways Lhn eeoptro of the univorse, ., Without it a inn i3 & mero thing of dust, uo bettor han the beast that per- ieheth; with i, ho soars abova the clouds of Teaven, pear to tha lufiest of the angel hust that sing bofore the ‘Tlron ——— THE AMERICAN SABBATH. FERMON DY THE REV. NOUNAN A, MILLERD, The Nev. Norman A. Millerd preached at the Wicker Park Congrogational Church yesterday moruing, choostug a8 bis themo ** The American Sabbath.,” e epoke ss follows, from theso worda: *In eix days tho Lord created the heaveus and the earth, and restod the seventh day™: According to the maturest discoveries of scionce, the account piven in Geoewis of the ordor of time of the creation is absolutely perfect. Geol- ogy teaches, in bamuouy withs' tho Uible, that, in tho begivping, tho carth was u mnss of unformed, chaotic matter, or, as tho Uible eays, was without form wud void; and in this peried, tho wmter of Qene ovis ropresonts, ms if ho lad Leen mazde to seo the prozess of croation in a vivion, hght dawns wpoa the eceue. Wililo the earth wan without form and vold, darkness waB upon tho faco of the deep ; but that thers may be woen the process of the fermatiou of a world, God said, * Let thero bo light,” aud thore wan light. In the mext period thore was the ecparation of tho tufinito nebulous maes, the concentration of s gascs, tho erystallization around its appoiuted centro of tho gorm of a future world. Ia the third perfod tho waters of the earth wero gathoted together into oceans, and dry laud ap- peared, and the eaith was mado to Lring forth gross aud flowors, trees snd frtd, In the fourth period, asif tathe oye of the upectator bebolding the process of croation, tho eun, moon, aud slars appear shining m_ tho heavens whero the Croator has susponded thein ; uoxt, tho wators aro wnds ‘to swarm with fikhee, and birds tly through tho air; and m the wxth period, land Buimals—man's nearest companionsand rervams on carth—nra croated. Amd finally, when tha louse ia comploted, furulshied, aud prepared for 1ts tenant, tho God-nko creature s formed who is o bo the Lurd of this now world. ‘T'hine you oo Moses koew the ordor of tho creatiun ages bofura it was discovered by the Reologint, 1u the ible acconnt of the creation the sevoral goologio perfods uro cailed dnys, 1€ you wwh %o asvertain tho longth of thews groat creativo days, theso grand days of tod Almighty, we may bo able to duroif we can discover the longth of Il day of rost which followed tho days of creation, Iu ix daye tho Lord created tho heavens and the oorth amd rosted on the seventh day, If, now, we turn over from Goneus to tho sixth chapter of John's Gospel, the Bon of God will toll us something ahout tho Creator's long day of ront, There we Joarn that the Jows porseciitod Jesu and xought to kil Him beosuro ho bad surted a mmnot blindoess on the Sablath Day, And to show that Ins worke of marcy woro nat fnconsittent with the proper obuorvance of tho day of sacred of the Baboath said, worketh hitherto, and now God had been enjolning thie Babbath rest from tha finistiung of thu crea. tion up to the momaent when Chiist eaid this, whilo 1o was &t the sama time uuconsingly not ivo lu the work of Providence aud giaco, s Babbath yet continues whilo o govorns tho nmvorss and suporiutenas the establishment of Christ's Kingdom in tho werld, and does not for un jostant withbold Ilis caro from ono of all the myriads of s childran, (lod's days ot ereation, thoun, wust Lave been periods of fwe mouso duration, B Qurtext s found in connoction with the Fourth commandment, which requires mon to keep the Subbatl-Day loly,—it 1 the resson given for the commandmont, 1 have choson this toxe, Decause, 1 connection with it, 1 can appropnate- ly #ay something to you about what the Sablath has Doou to our Amories, aud how we vught to regard and obsorve it, Our fathiors regarded the commandment to koep the,Sabbath Day holy as of univorsal obli- gation. Some Cliristiane have supposed that it was o part of tho_cervionial law, aud woy in- tended ouly for the Jews, but the Suvior said thint the Sabbath was wade for uisn, aid not wan for the Sabbath, implyig that 1t 18 good not fur this Jows ouly, but for man universully, und was appointed for the bouctlt of wan s all syos and countrios, 'I'ho Babuath was not firat inatituted in the giving of tho Juwish law, but, =8 the text declares, 16 1s w4 old a8 - crestion, aud with ths sgroes the statowont which wa flnd in cannection with the sceouut fu CGouesis of tho creation of tho world. ‘Theroit is smd, * Thus tlio boavens aud tho eartis wero' fluishod and all the bost of them, und on the soveuth day Cod onded His work which 16 bad made, and rosted on the waventh day frow all Hls work which lle had sod God blessed tho seventh day aud sanctled ¢, because thas in 14 He had yested S NUMBER 287, {rom all his work which God arestod and mado,” God created thoworld, Uod mado man to dwell tipon ln. lln‘x“lhonnnma P"f} appointed the Sab- or tho bonefit of all mon {ros - ma% to the end of leu. ey hare wera cortain lawa designed only for the regulation ofjtho Jewish sum,x;:ul nol¥0r other Elucs and Limos. it tha commaud to keop tho abbath Doy holy 1 not one of them, It 1s a part of tho wmoral law found among the Ton Commandments writton by the finger of (od upon tho tables of wtone, to bo a law for nll men, aud not for Jaws ouly, It im found in the same tank with the law agninet murder, Idolatry, and profanity. It in au truly an immoral act to violate tha Sabbath na it {s to bear faluo witness or to ateal. . Why not, theu, keep tho sovonth day of tha woek "holy instead of the firat,—Haturday jn- stead of Sunday,—ninca the meventh ia” thnt upon whicl (Ood rested, that which Iio sanctl fied and bLallownd, and of swhich la naid ** tho goventh iy tho Sabbath of the Lord thy God." T nnswor becauso tha soventh part oftimo in all that ia roquired by tho apirit and intent of tho command : * Six days shalt thon fabor and do all thy work," tha sevonth is tho sabbath—six working dags followod by a holy day, and it makes no practinal differcnca whetlior w0 begin tocount tho kix working days at Mone day or at Sunday, Inmediatoly after tha rosure rection of our Lord Jurna Christ from the dead we finid His Disciples avsnrving ne & sacred day not tho neventh day_of tho waas, It tho first, tho ~ day upon ~which the Tord srosc. On the sovonth day, tha Jowish Sabbath, the grave hald tho | hodv of " tho Lord. = Tho Chrintian Cunrel had no fentival to commemorato that day, It was o day of gloom and grief, o8 {f the mun had heen blotted from the heavens, DBut when Josus rose from the dend n naw wun had risen upon our carth, Tho marnivg of o naw day bogon,—Ib wah tho tinishing of n now eroation,—and Chrigs tinus, celobrating the flst day of tho weel sy their Hablath, commemorate tho wonderful worie of God in both tho redemption and crea- tou of our wotld, Tho Babbath is the Lord'a day. Inthe New Testament it is said that at tha namo of Jesuu overy knse snould bow, and ovory tongrue confees " that Jesus Chriat i1 Lord to the glory of God the Fatler. Tho Babbath i4 & day appointed and wot apart from other dayw for tha worehip 2ad sexvico of tiod, God hiallawod tho Sabbathe day—ranctified it, distinguishod it a8 holy duy, and s2t 1iis blesnitg upunit, becanus the Creatof of worlds, the Boing Lo whom wo owa our oxist. euce, is worthy of our reverenca, honor, and obedience. The Lord of tho heavons and the earth has a rigiit to s day, and not to keep the Habbath day Lioly 18 to dishonor God, i3 & great immorahity. 'Fliero are mon who livo morat Jives in other respects. They regard thoir obligations to their feltow-mien, and scem to thiok thom- relven almost withont a fanls; but thoy do not houor God, and 1 withholding from tho Creatoz tho reverence which iy His due thoy tawt with ovil all tho goodnera of their liven, ‘Who mado the moral luw? Who reqaires hone esty, truth, punity, aud lovo among men 2 Who i tho rightful Italer aud Judga of the univerao but the treat eing who madet, and who ini~ planted o moral kenso m tho mind of wan ta regninto his condnct ? How is it porsiblo, then, to livo A moral and uptizht life while refusing tho groat Croator and liuler all the teveronco and honor which are His due ? 'There ara thoso who think thewuselves pretty gowd who huve never oxercised & nght feeling toward God, and when the heart {3 not right toward God it ia left open to il ovil inflnences. Ho easly falla futo sin who divregards bisobligations to God. For gain or for plossuro, or for euvy or rovenge, mon will et neido the law of right, unless they nro loval to God and regnrd ll‘lair abtigations to Him au of parsmount importanco, God therofora hinllowed the Sabbatheday that onco i n wook mou might turn their thonghts to Him and obsorve ilia plorious works aud providonces, and study His Woid, and worship 1un, and wpeal to 1im in prayer, and thuw, by thinking ubons Him, by commumny with Mim, they might hocomo acquainted with His Loy character, and leamn to love flim, aud fecl Hin Aacred presonca in all their conduct, A person gota aright Leart whon ho gets right with God, avd ho will love n right Iifo. One can no ora De 2 guod man aud yot neglect the worship and wervice of Giod thud ho can bo kind in his family aml yet never speak an affectionste word to bis wife and clildren, Thoe great and holy God has & right to one-sevonth of onr time, anil wisa grear wrong, s grest immorslity, not to give God Iis day. God blessed thu Sabbath- duy. ilo canfers blorsings upon communition and mdividauls who rightlyobsorvo it. He has said by the prophet lrniati, **if thou turn away thy foot from tho Savhatli, from doing thy pleasure on Ay holy day, sud ebalt call tho Sabe haiti & " delizht, tho holy of tho Lor lonozable, and sbalt houor Iiw, not doi thine vwn ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor epeaking thine own_words, then shalt thou delight thyselt.in the Loid, aud L will cauro theo to (iia upon the bigh places of the antth, and feed theo with the boutago of Jacob thy futher. . A Sabbatl Lept hiolz and esteomed a dalight fn made ® blesriniz tonazioas and o ivdivideala, 11 was 80 maids o the st scttlers of this con- tinent, and to thore who lsid tho foundations of our fren institutiony, Some of the Naformers espocinlly thoso i Switzerland, Frauce, aml Germany, did not recognizo the identity of tha Tord's Day with tho engmal Babbath, nor re- sard ita obnesvanco e Disinely commanded, but ept fu for tho convenienco of worship, Tho consequonco waw, that the inluence of spiritual aud vital velygion was felt 1 a less degreo, and thero has been a grenter prevalonco of vice and lmmcrahity on the Coutinent of Europo thau iu_ Eugland, Scotlaud, = ana Ameries. King James L of Lnglnd, in 1816, published ho declaration for u&mrt! ou the Lord's day," encouraging danelog, leap ing, saulting, prehery, and gamen after the houry of worship, and ran!riug that tho declaration bo rewt m thochurches throushout the King:lom. Mauy minintars rofused to 1031 thin declaration, some preached against it, wid, in covregionce, mauy of thom weto uuprisoncd and susponded from the uacred ofiice, locauso of this and sim- ilar tyssnnios, many Chrirtian peopla about this time feft shoir native tand and roulded in exilo; that they wight onjoy freedom of worship, 'The The Pilgrim Ouurch, with its pastor, notther al- Jowed t remain peacofully i England, nor sut- fered quistly to depart, eecaped to Holluud, sud, after residing thero for ahoul twelvd yonrs, emigrated to Ameriea, leaving Hollnud for this - rozson chietly, bocause of the provalont Sabbatl desecration, ‘and beeause their youth wero liablo 10 bo votrupted by the Habbulhebreakiuge prac- ticos of thoso around thom. ‘They orossol the stormy Atlantle, roaching tho nborca of Ameriwa 1y the scvaro winter, the famous I'lym- onth Coluny, the nuclous around whicn finthured tho chiurches sud Htatos of Now Englaud, What sought they thus efar ? Lrfght Jewels from thy mine The wealth Of seav, thy spily of wiy “Ihioy soughit u faith's pure ehriue, Ayo, call it boly ground,— ho a0i whoro feat thiry teor, ‘They left unstalved whit'there they found,— Freadout to worabip Gods “ Not oven,” savs tho lustorian, “could thoe prosiiiyg necessities for foud s protection, nor tho ery of tho lndisu eavages who threatenwl tham, fm.lum thosn pilgring to brosk the tirss Babhath in thelr future bome. Thoy wore without the shielter of arvof, [t wad n tho sharp Now Lngland wintor, and thore was but u seruen of loaftess brauchus botwoen thom and tho Llast, but it was tho Lord's hallowed timo, and tho work of building st wait.” Tho foundatious of our fico Governmant wera fafd by men who Lonored God and who rovar- euced His Eablath, Ono of the eliof cares of tho Ilzrim Fathers, sud of thoso who precedod and followed thom from Englind, sud who, liko themselves, wero exiles frow ecclas siagtlcal tyrspuy, was to socure the propor ob- survuico Of tho duy of rost. In tho carliost rocordd of thio Dutch colonies iu New York, thera are decroos designod to puard 1o infant comuunity ngaingt Babbatl descoration, Whon tho Awcrican colonies cut looss from the mothe er couutry {n the War of tho RRevolution, and cs- tablisked” & Qovernment froe from tho ruls of Kinge and degpots, our futhers bed learned tho priuciples of republicanisu, not sa much from Iulhle France ss from the Now Tostamens sud from the teachings of tho l]ll;.’l.hlll Comtnons woalth in the tune of Cromwell, 1o tho Babbath in no swall degree did England owe tho Govern- meut of that period, vo puwertul and bouuticlal, of which Bir Waltor Beott ways: * Porhans no Qovernment wus ever moro respectod abroal,” sud ity influsuco st homo was fu a high degreo promotive of morality sud good order, Mon who kusp tho Babbath-Day boiy, lovo tho Bible, and are tanght by it to 1espect the nights of mau, The lflbfi‘u teachos that tod bath mado of oue blood all wations of men to dwall on the face of the earth; that all men are equal beforo QGudj that every ono wust glve account of him- wolf unto God, and therefora no wun has s right to tywsnulzo over mucibier, but all men are