Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1875, Page 1

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Farwoll’s Account of Moo. dy’s Work in London, PULFIT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. ‘TRE DACCALAUREATE #ENMON, Prenident Fowler preachod tho rotlowing sor- mon to the stadontsof the Northwestern Uni- vornity in the Motbodlat Episcopal Church at Evanston yesterday morning : Ho that bellovoth aball not mal xiviil,, 16. Tho gates aro up snd the ses comes into tho dry-dock. Up rises that groat ship and chaffora with tho wayos, Impatlent to try bor strength and her fortune, Everything scoms completo, maata and yards aud spars, acd cords and pul- Joys and saile aro ail according to the pat torn soon in tho mount of oxperionco, The compass conta the ‘polo and tho chart awaits interrogation. A wiso pilot is at the whesl, =» sturdy crow is on board, and a brave Captsin atands on deck, Tho seaward brocze lifts out the loononed sail, and patches the sky with tho flag of froedom. Why doos not the goodly craft go forth to her great achievements? J willtoll you. The Captam is porfocting and adjustingtho ballast, ‘Tho walght ia boing packed and distributed. It may be iron, or eide-vork, or sand, but itis ballast. You aro hore, juat fooling tho ses as it roaches its loving arms in to embrace you, oven in dry-dock. Why are you held back an hour? I willtellyou. I wish if possible to pack and distribute your bal+ ast. You may think it iron, or sido-pork, or saud, but itis ballast. Ihopotossy some words that will steady you in the gale, In tho context the prophet sooms to be look- ing at a haoghty and unscrupulous priesthood who take rofugoin lies, In this condition of the Oburch the eriod foundation stone 1s Inid in Zion. ‘Jndgmont is laid to tho lino and right- cousness to tho plummet.” The “covenant with death" is mado void bofaro the ovorthrow- ing scourge, Into the midst of this dovcription of impending chastening, so severe that ‘it shall bes yoxation only to underatand tho re- port,” the Lord, anxious to choer His servants, interjects tho words of the text, ‘Le that bolior- eth shall not make baste.” The storms may seem about tooverwholm. Tho volco of threat- ening may scom to thunder Into deafness oven tho car of Charity,"aod the lightnings of ven- eanco may soar into blindness even the eve of Pity, and every mortal heart mav cry out for a hiding-place, but even then ‘Ho that believeth aball not make haste.” ‘The thing thatis belloved Is the foundation stone laid in Zion, the Gospel of Josus Christ, the offevne of Hia supornatnral religion, and the reatraint of His righteousncss. Theso great dis- tinctlve doctrines of Christianity, all there is about the Gospol that ia worth contonding for, thesemake up the mattor of {sith that marks a believer. By purpose ia toskow tho relation be- tweon the accoptunce of thie. system in its en- thronsment ovor the life, and stability of char- actor, Tho Establishing Power of Faith.—Allow mo also to indicate tho lino of argumont by whieh I hope to reach tho conclusion, not stupplug to fill in all the middlo terms nocesgary for 5 logical form. but rather poloting out signal stations to indicate tho Jine of thought. Wo begin with tho imporfect, we advance to- watd the goal of greatness tarough procosues of rowth, And faith, giving groatness, saves from aste 1p these procesacs, I postulate first, Tho slow grawth of great- ness. We characterizo it as a slow growth, though this laa relative term doponden: upoo our experiences and moasurements, Linperfoc- tion nieaus pousible improvement. ‘This means eaccorsion and involves timo. Thero js sound philosophy undor the common conviction that kroat forces or great events aro not produced in+ haate,—Teatah, ttantansously, but they grow through weary: processes of preparation. A continaut or a mountaln range may sometimes bo lifted up in anight, But that ia only tho consummation of plang that ruo back through unnumbered ages, The crust of the earth, cooling by couturies under the law by which shrinks oat expanda and shrivols like 8 drying thua tho hardened god makos nature convulue. The crash by which the diminlshod earth finds its now Ilnes aud equilibrium may be the experience of an hour. But the forces have been accumulating in naturo’s laboratory through long geological oyclos. Coming events caui thoir uhadows bo- fore them, I¢ does not become mortals in this dawn of being to bo.too certain ip interpreting Provi- dence. Jia dose write out the order of His pur- poue on the heavens and punctuates it wish comets and sung, but the letters are too largo for our retin, aud the words too long for our apelling. We can but poorly guess at the moan- ing. Like the ancient rovelers, we can sce the armless hand and the myslorlous charactors, and May know that there is some writlog there, though cannot divine its moauing till God's prophet reveals it to ua, Reading thon with Rreat caution “the unread manusoripts of God," patiently watching the or- dor of His Provideoce and devoutly studying the revoalments of His lipa, wo have borne iu upon ‘us with almost reaiaticus power that God follows thie law of growth and slow procegsea jp all do- partmnoute of His activitios. A boing solf-exlut- ent and eternal, without beginolug or ending, must make little sccount of time, an clement that doos not enter into the conditions of Mis To Him perfection must be the fuel ‘This ia tho crown of His own char accer and the mold of all His idoala His government must be administered with roforence to this, regardloss of the time required tosecure it. ‘Sime, by untold sges, can bo thrown inas filling, Tho amount ix nothing, Omnuipotence nocda noivcrements from com- pound interest, Tho naked question reaucos to ‘One of securing perfoction. And thia, in the con- verging rayaot creation, providence, aud reyes Istion, seems to be found only in the wearlsome processes of slow growths. ‘The genesis of the carth iteclf, acon olther jn, the story of Moses or in the story ‘of Geology, iustrates this law, Evolution, the pre-eminent sricntitic ides of our day, ia not all invontion. Oompel ito ackuowlodga the creative flat by which it revelvos its initial impulse, and it falts into the simple order of orthodoxy, ouly reducing the number of divine yolitions that havo evontuated the universes, Turn round aud matorial substances, thought's most rapid wing toward that eetamne in hick. “God? created tho heaveoa and the earth"; msko your way ovor Qhows bundied foseate slong our North AUautie’ the million. CHICAGO, MONDAY, JUNE 21, coasts, one above another, anparated from each other with vast formations of rock, and remem- ber that human history has ali been accomplished In the day of the uppor aud oxisting foreat. Drop back into tho shoreloss ara before the dry Inud sopeared, then alnk tnto the vast cycles when through successive formations there was no eun or orb, only diffused light. Then hover on exhaunted pinion over the void of chaos, and it shall novor again bo possible for you to doubt God's order ‘for creation, a law of slow growth, On a world ao pationtly propared we could not stumble upon groatnona unex- pectedl; upon mushrooms in the morning dew, We may know in advance that any auch growth will surivel as euddenly. Jt muat be out. of order with nature, and #0 ovanoncent. All this is eaay in theory, but breaks down tn prac- tres, It may opply to others’ grostness, but each man rogarda limustf au anaxcoption, Ho expects to. broak through roias toone place in tho great law, and reach greatness at once, andl rob oxporicnco of {te value, (ut always when ho thinks bimsely through tho fractures of tho law ho js transfixed by the aplintera and escapes only through tho proof of hla fittioness, in timo to find that his opportunity for groatnoss has passed. ‘The law holds.forovor aud evory where; greatness is a slow growth. Opon History's soiled and crowded volume. The nations emergo foto the light like coral cov- tinents, because millions of unscen butldora lize at them in tho darkness through succeoding ages. Some warrlor, with largor brain aod beav- jer arm than iia follows, fiuds better woapons and better skill; discovers the prejudices and passions of bis times, mareoa these about him- selfand hin sons, His tribe feodd on the fat things of other tribes, grows into domintou, crystalizos, has a surplus, aud Ro storchousen, and so defenses, and so wettlements, and so cities, By and by civilization anda great na- tionality, But it takes not ono atop from the but toward the palaco, or from the stono iatchet toward the monitor that is not a atop foto the darkness to bo illuminated by lator vic- ries. Romulus broke the nkull of Remus with aclub, in 8 good navago fashion, Moro than 700 years Inter Brutus showed the coarse band of murder but little softened or improved. Achilles draw boliud hia chariot, around the walls af ‘Troy, tuo manglod body of Hector, bis royal victim, Noarly a thousand yeara Iater, Aloxander, glee; ing with Hotor nudor his pillow, was but little more humane. It is tno work of conturics to build up a civilizod nation, a work that bas yor tobecomploted. Great Britaiu is undoubtedly tho bont spocimon, and sua what x hard road abe bas ravelod to reach ovon hor faulty develop- men Awayin tho dim antiquities of history tho island was tho shelter of tho old Gacls, a rude people with vigor and ferocity, not tar, if any, above the grado of cannibals. Possibly bofera the founding of Romo these poople wero driven up fnto tho mountains of Scotland and over into green Erin, the gom of the sea, by the etrongor aud moro warlike Cambriane who awarmed in from tho onatern extromities of Europo. Five hundred yeara later, still in uncertain dato, the Logriaua from the southwost coasta of Gaul came into the iwland and drove tho Cambrians into the weet and eottied in the south aud cast. A few gonerations later estno tho Dritona from tho banus of the Scinoand the Loire and mado a. placo for theaieelvea on the islund. By and by camo tho Romans, under Cicsar's eaglos, to ud these Britons improved by the bluod of these races, and, by 1,000 years of war, still too barbarous to be even slavos in honthea Romo. Tuat conquest, liko ull other occupations, uicaot plaughtor, servitude, slow commingling, About 600 veers lator caine tho Saxous, After another 600 years came tho Normans undor William the Couqueror. Thus Britain bas beon Lut up, one nation aftor another contending. for tho soil, rootlng fart into it, to bo only par- tially plucked up by soir succossors, ons tending, struggling, chorishing tho feuds of race and defcut, they Lavo staluad ovory yard of thar soil with tho biood of their heracx, and have noatly paved tho entire island with tho bodios of their watriors. Swoepingacrora it from aes to wea. with knifo and faggot, they Lavo miugled thoir blood in their stroams and ‘in thoir yolus, ult by many blows sud constant oncounter, through most woary couturios, they have produced a raco of mou bora to fortune and traimed to rule, ths finest spucimens of our race. That is the order of Providence in nih up nations. Groat- ness is s slow grow! Let us pause lon] Hough at this polnt to say that thie gross law tinds tte constant appilcation in tho lives of individuals, Writo it dowa ond nover forgot it, groatuess is beyond a long jour uoy. There may scem to he ‘exceptions, But beware of tho fallacy, Carefully studicd, the very excoptions most clearly illustrate tha ruler, Alexander caino to powor {nv early manhvod, but Alexander was the sun of Philip and pupil of Aristotle, Ho had been trained to atms aud to command. lin bad been accustomod to sli tho routine of authority from his sarlost childhood, and he was a moat exact and thorough siudant of his profession. Ifo put moro iuto thoao twenty- five yoars thay men usually put into fifty yoars. This ta pre-ominently trae of Napoteon, “Aa au oflicor of aiulery) la was o moro shadow, be- cause ho gave his days and nights toa moat caretul study of the great commanders, [His fret distinction, at tho siege of Toulon, came from bia boing tho atudont of tho corps, and the only mau able to plaut cortaiu batteries, Hts years of study were tho roots out of which tho iriuk of his Groatnoss grew to such vast proportions, Boro than thiv, cach of theaa men embodied a, great want which sought exprossion through them. Alexandor was tho utterauco of tuo prov- idential order to unito Grocco and propare an cnomy lo Persia, Napolcon embodied the pro- test of Franco against horeditary crimo aud stu- pidity, aud to teack Enropo that tho tools be- Jong to thom that can Landis thom. ‘Ikeda suc- cesses had been ordered for many docades, and must flud a mouthpleco in sone one. Vistory is ofvon « queation of timo, Broth- ers, 1¢ is ono of tho deep oncouraxomonts of our age that ordinary men with extraordt- nary industry reach tho greatest achiovewments. Auy man with solid moral purpose, patient iu- dustry, plain common souyo, aud unwearying courage, can became a usoful and eninont man, uot ja a day, nor in a weok, uot induod In a year, butina lifetime, Aubiovoments that ara ro- mowberad cost some ouo 4 lifo’s work. ‘hore .byno hope out of this groat lend; sit still and dio; press on and wing plan for tho next filty yooru, If you aro carried away you can vom- plete your undortating 1u tho noxt world. I poxgulato vocuudly the osablishing power of Toth, What 1 moan is this: ‘bore is eome- thing in the fandaioutal truths of Christianity ond in tho habit of mind roaolving thom that gives a weight and statihty not othorwian pos- wossod, Buon fs tho nature aud constitution of the human wind that it acts most powerfully in tho immediate presence of circumstances do- Mandiug sctiou ; actually standing in the stroet aod kazing up te the window of o Durning bolldiug at whlch acbild apposleforhelp moves os to doody of heroism a# no fancy skotep cau. Onco fairly in tho wavos, with tho broakors thynderiug bofore us and aalety ® good while away, arouses the revolute soul to ite greatest power, Our great ueed isto feel the biroas of motive. Tho inutauces ara very rera wheu the structure of thomind broaks down uudor inducement. [ut the rast mualority of eople drift with poor comprehendion of Ilfe. Even in a coinmunity like this, where we assem- ble so largo ® sbaro of the ambitlous from ao inany communities, there are ouly » fow who stand not ou the order of thoir g° but go. -Now and then wo moet # soul Iu liviny earnost, to whom lifo iv » profound realit: 18 BOt- tled into the great currants of moral cunviction thas flow forever through the world, and every such soul fully bora into the world ts aure to bo felt, Ono trouvle ia this: miany men seem to bavo forgotten to bring “tholr souls when = thoy camo to this world, and so aro never muved by the awfol ruatities that press upon every immortal. Our ougines are woll mado, God made them for eternal wear. Wo may handle them stupidly and blow out the pipes, or evan burst the boiler, But used a8 Gad directs thoro is uo rik of ovor- atrain. They will staud a thousand pounds to the inch. .Alost uf us run on avout Hye pounds tothoimob, Wo uced more ateum, We do litle because we gouorate little power, Now, thin, it is in tho nature of faith co actualize the unsoon, “16 de tho substance of things hoped for, and the evidonce of things not soun.” It thus soizes upou the great curronte of truth flowing on avout us, and utilizes tueir pawer, It riseu into the reatities uf all worlds, aud condenges into a glo bosom all arguinents, It takes the divine thority as supreme, aud actualizes the utmost tomentofrevolation, Ltseoures the first el- euiont of greatness, yonuineuess, Something of thisis mesut when Inspiration speaks of our being ‘rooted and grounded in jove," beiog eo planted that we shall not vver- tary whon touchod by an adver: ds Luawa forest the other day growing on a bed of lime- atone, ‘Time had crumbled tho surface of the rocky alitslo, soams were opeood in different directious, aude masa of pourlahment hes ac-, ouraulated open the surface, Tne trees took up! this nonriahment, but their chief charactarintia was their rooting. ‘Che roots, lize great arms, reached down into the seams of tho rocks, and the rootlets, ke Singers of nteal, took Lold upon. overy litle advantaxo, till the whole troe was aa Orm as tts beat bre, It was rooted and graund- ed. Itcould laugh at the whilwind. Jt had roat stability, God's plan givesus tho rooting into and about the Rock of Ages. The Jona ani the heathen guard made awful rents with their spikes aud spears, When my fath takes hold hore advantagen, I fool all t30 firmness of tual Throne, Clinging, wih ‘Tomas, to tho pierced bauds aod rent sidg I become as immovable as God. This Is pouliar to bo- levers, Certainty can afford to walt. It is the sonse of ubcortainty that begets impations. ‘Tho man whouo argument is final, whose position is sup- ported by the facts, 14 calm oven in the heat of dobate. The routed party is tho one to rave iu angor. It is this aubtie rolation botweon car- tainty and quictoess that gives nuci powor to Topore of character. Wo havo all fdt tho power of mon who can keep rtillin tho etorm. Whon aman tale ho rellevos himself. $1 opons the throttle, ‘Tho whistling may ba uuploasant, but it is not dangerous, Power 13 never pola terous. ‘Tho noises comes ‘ro:a tho friction, Whenever tho good engiscor heard anything rattling about bis engine be opens both eyea, Something ia out of year. ‘Ene rout engines in the City Wator-Works go right on quietly as slocping gisnta. You koar nothing but thelr hoarao broathing. It ia su with power everywhere. ‘ho solar bear that lifts sack vast burdens into tho alr evory day, that -ucpa up all the vital fluids in all tho forosty and in all vegotation, that pushes on the mybty tide of lito, Hitting tho groat bulk of all groving things up above tho earth im stalks aud tlonke,—thia solar boam that breaks tho chains of winter and sota on beating wll the pulse of spring aud makes tho groat heart of Nature throb, Jights.on tho waiting arth as ailontiy an tho shadow of s epirit. Tho groat law of gravity holde all the wattor of the universe in itueternal grip, but the oar hes not been made to hear ita movemunte, Power bus 20 measure in noise, but rathor in silence, Thus {i happened that Jesus, standing aposchices vefore litate, whilo Hie accusers ravod i the fury of their passion, is the ono aulitary picture of powor in all human experience. Cali tn the wid excito- inet of the infuriated mob, oreo in the fiercs ovorilow of infornal inalignity, with the quict- nosa and repose of cteruity in lis beulgnaut face, His very ellouco was tho mont soarching speech that over rell on mortal soul, It crushed. down into the consciouco of the hoatton Judgo. At rang tho atarm-bell tu tho camp of hia foard, It Aled tho field of his vision with all-monac- ing terrors. Lt transformed the proud Noman Governor into a cringing convict, He saw what all tho genoratious since havo soon: that this quiot Man, who touk up no defense, who moas- urod allthe wrath of Mis easmios aud undor- stood thoir worst woapoous, had a fouvdation fn troths that noue other could roash. Ho seemed lixo ope in tho midet of eternal realities, eur- royuded by itmmortal and invisibie suivants, ovo who now that ull poor was given uvto iim, that Ie nooded only to “pants sud ail the forces of tha universe would rush to Hin defeaso. ‘This assurance of omulpotonco made Him calm, and ls quietnose declated His power. ‘Ibe beliover has this omuipotent oawurance. He is at ono with God. Ho is in leaguo with events. Tho Almighty arm is abou’ hin, Ils trustis not in horses, ‘nor au Piimcos, nor in human wisdom, but in the powor of tho Most High, He rides od ths rolling oarth through the moral arena of tho universe, locling aa ho passes tho wondering worlds, “Tho Almizhty God drives alt these syetams, and Ho is my Father, and nothing shall by any ‘means harm mo,” ‘hhis repose cp.nos feum tho assurauco of faith, ‘This is the victory that ovorcometh tho world, vou our faith, ‘I'bo beliover, liko his Master, musticontend agaivst mighty foes, The battle for rightoous cliarac. tor ia no nook drill for the amusemont of cira- tion, It is the ono atruggle that is fraught with doom. ‘The-srch enomy never wleops., Le swarins in along overy bightwav and by-patiy, and drops outof the darkness and rivos up out of tho oarth armed wich all subtloty, aud towering in skength .almoat to the throne of od. = Over him the botiover must triawph, and this be doos by faith, Hie trast isin God, Hoe knows that, all things work together for good. fio is in the nand of God, wno crosted all things, who spake and it stood fast, who com.nauded and all forces oboyod, who sitteth upon the circle of the earth and tho inhabitants thereof ara as grass- hoppers, that strotcheth out the heavens ag a curcain and .aproadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,” who croated all things and by whom all things consist. Thies sesurauce maxes lila Pationt aod powerful. He cannot cotuprehond his relations without boing a grand being achiay- ing a migiaty destiny. Somatimes we grow weary. Tho sro 82 long and tho nights ure no short. ‘The work is 89 fast aud the workers so fow, Tho good causo lage. Foes within rise up to harsas. Foss without puraue to plague. Friends desert, calam{ty comes, sorrow onsrvates, the way iv hedged up, work soema vain and our bearts falter,, ond wo cry out to God forhelp. Wo grow impationt. ‘Tho work dsviudles. Sinners resiat, and wo cry out, ‘Hasteu, O, Lord! Como quickly, O,° Lord Josus! Save, or wo dial” Tho godly mau nerisheth from tho earth.” Then thore comes down to us from tho oternal summit the vorco of God saying, “Why sayest thou, O, Jacob, and spenkest, 0, mel. My way is bid from tho Lord and my {8gamont fg passed over fiom my God? Had they vot known? Hastethon uot hoard that the everlasting Gud, tho Lord, tho Creator of tho ends of the oarth talnzalh not velthor is he weary?" ‘Thin is the great trath, God tho overlssting God never faitetn. Moro than this, Ho give: power to the faint. “Bo uot discouraged, poor soul, Tho evar- Anating God faluteth not. Mois the Croator of the ends of tho oarth. Ho giveth powor to the falnt and to thom that have no might, Heine croazeth etrougth. Hvew the youths shall faint and bo woary, and tho young man whatl utterly fall. But thoy that wait upon tho Lord shall tenow their strongth ; (lev stall mount up with wings as oaglea ; thoy shalt run uud not ba weary; ond they shall walk and not faint.” ‘Thaw aa we are to be liko him, we are to realizo what was meabt by the kingdom and patiouce of Jesus Christ. Goii's Kinzdom is put in connection with His patience, ‘That moans: something. -Would you wound its depth ? Go study theproblem of su. Boo whats hideous doformity it 18 in tho moral governmont, Low It is at irrocancilable war with righteousness and purity and peace, How it alles the indignant wrath of God, bow all the mighty soa of fis suger poura like an etornal tide of tlro and vongeaoce against un foraver. itis Ifsovly onomy. Fault of mallguity, it has broken into flrs empire, and ravages with sword and faggot all tho worlds it captures, It burns His temples, overthrowa His alters, ra to the ‘ground cities, tramples out Ifis provinces, weizow, miutilatos, tortures His children, unfuria the bleck ilsg of treason, ringa out the ory of battle, everywhere, and by dark conspiracy and universal and open war moves againat His throne. Thero is no peace for His Court, no quietness for His govornment, no cor- tain foatty for Hin subjects; and no safety for His ctildron anywhoro while su roams at fargo in tho universe, Goud must corral aud coniue it in some prison pen, and then treat tt for safety, for correction, aud possibly for cure, Iu the trostinent Hvis estopped from the use of His omnipotence by the divino patent of freedom that each rebel halds ju bis will, estupped from withdrawing by the dutios of govarnment that roquire Is ubiquity, aud estopped from ro- mitting Mis curative oxporimoot by the ox- “hauatiess love of His Matherhood, that called them into being, Thus tin is His ono enemy and its cure the ono problem that bewilders His omnissionce and taxee His power, This ono campaiga and sloge agaiout win is committed to tho Unly Hogotten Son, tho Becoud Person in the Adorable ‘frinity, aud is to bo waged as Jong es mortals pray aud auners suffer, This is for tho establishwons of the Kingdom of the Redoomer, Suralvis must be sue singdom and patience of Jeyus Christ. Nothing leas then this patiouce ouuld be of any sorvice to us, ‘This i sulted to our dullness aut porversity, Io waite for us to #ickeo of our ‘own ways, waite for the fovor uf ain to cool, waite for the Hood of pasyion to ebb, waite wish in- Anite patisoce for usto return, puttivg up no bar of petutanco, ataudisg on uo form of authority, uaggling at no claim of sienity 3 all theso shifts aud pretenses aro finite aud huoian, aye, too bu- uuu, but obedient to the infinite love of a Patu- or tuat like a malghty tide rocks the shoreloss sea, of His being. Io auka only the forsaking of our aiug, the loyalty of our wills, aud the incouso of oul affections; thon He embraces us in the rap- tures of long-delayed reconciliation, ‘Thia ia what tha Kingdom and patiouce of Jesus Christ moans fopus, Itisthe Spptication tous of the Suprema, Power that is lucavable of wo: aud of the Supreme Wisdom that le inca! 19 mistake, and of the Bupreme Love that 1s inca- pable of impatience, As it behoored the 1875. deemer to become tke unto His brethren and be perfected, through suffering, eo it infor us to 6 transformed into Hin likeness and be charac terized by Ilis spirit who cate not to be min- intered unto hut to minister, Thus the bollever is to rivo tuto the patience and powor of his manter, who came in the Ieng campaign of ro- denption to wait for tho futlnena of time, and who haa stood by the ceotury in the current where the millions are carried by to death ; to warn and be mocked, to invite aud be spurued, to Dione aud be mmitten, to fulfill that wondrous pictttra of Isalab, who sald, ‘' ie ehall not cry, nor lift up nor cause bis voice to be heard in the atreot, a bruised rovd aball He not break aod tho amokine tlaz shai! He not quonct. Le eball not fail nor ba discouraged, till He have sot jadg- ment in the earth aud tho tslea shal! wait for Mis law.” Ibis ia this pationt waiting based opon tho perfections of Mia character that wo find tho ponrel of tho mability of those who bolieve in im, ‘This convection of faith and unhasting pa- {lence is found in all greatnosa, Noman ever roso to great achiavemonts who did not rise on the wings of faith, uot always faith in God, but. always faith in God or some substitute, Faith is tho cobosive nowor in tho mind. Without it tho diverging and dinintegrated faculties would be ny bottor than a mob of instincts and impul- sea. Thin gives the faculties unity and repose, id spreads out beforo the enkindled thought tho whole map of timo, and enables the mind to draw confidently from tho resources of the paat, and to plan boldly for tho campaigns of tho future, Thora has been a ward of prophecy, a favoring oracle, good omens in tha #tars above or in tho sacriticos beneath, or the profound conviction of adivine call, or of an election of fato, that hag holped thetyreat mork- era on to victory, It may bo a voics hike Abrabam‘s, or a vision lito Jacob's, or a blazing bush like that of Mores, ora test like Jophthah’s, or s rovyelation like Paul's, or a trance hke Mobammed’s, or a cross like Cousta: call liko that of Joan of Are, or a cony Cromvell’s, or a star like Napoleon's. Whatovor bo its form it {6 centered in the sublime faith of its subject, o {uth that Iaughe at imposaibilities and waite for the inovitable, Napoleou, in the Italian campaign, spread out his future before Lis uncle. His aneto shook his host and said " droane,” Napoleon siepped quickly to tho window, and, pointing up iuto the midday shy, said: “ Do yor see thatstar?” No," was tho reply, ‘I do.” ‘That star tod him to tho summit of Luman power, Faith in aomo l’rovidouce or fate is a condition of greatness, aud no man oror yet held tho faith of ia fellows, and so the moans of success, who did not have faith in God, or in his destiny, or in both, Down yonder at the Frith or Raco of Dunbar, old Cromwell ia peuned in by Scotch alos on three sides, and by Scotch plaids ou the other. Tucso Scotch luda under Earl Les'ic, tho ablest cummander of hls time, taken oven mau for inan, wore rough customers to meet on the moor. Horo ther ware ovorwhulming in numbors ond imprognablo in their intrench- ments on tho hill, Cromweil ant wtill and wait- ed. Lesiio completed hin worgs aud waited. Cromwell's otlicors wera terror-atiicken and al- most ready to mutioy, Lu: Cromwell, with tho decreed of God tn bis heart.'and the destiny of civil and rel.gious liborty ou hia sboaidora, satd, The Lord will doliver the Imnhwtines into our hands," sod waited. Oa the morning of the third day at dawn scouts told Cromwelt that the Scotch wero in motion, Ho took o look at thou liao, sprang 10to his caddie sboutiog, “Tae Lord bath delivered the Paibatines toto our hands,” snd in an hour Sostlaud's pride was humbled, her clans woro slanghtered or disarmod, and Cromwell woll on the way to the Protecorate, Ha belioved and therefore did not make haste, What sturdy work fo.lowed tha sturdy faith of tho Puritsus! It was no mean enterprise to whip i tho Alayilower for an autumo and miter sea- voyage. It required no ordinary couraga to clamber uv the rocku ina New England Decem- ber, into an unbroken wilderness, to grapple with a now contsuent ruil of now focs, aud uow digeawos, and now famines. But it was only boys? work for those’ old believora. Soo thoir forlorn bono reconnoiteriug tho coast, In a ‘httle boat diinping with sp.ay, coated with ico, tho men clad iu ico-ttke mail, driven ou au wiand in the darkness, without shelter from storm Or savages, under pressure for food and for a fooring; the winter unon them: their friend’ away on sbipboard, in anslety for infor- mation, with story motive for haste aud action, plley semamiber thefe covenant and abservo the Sabbath in rest and prayor knee deep iu enow, in the of storm,, and wintor savage, All that dreary December Sabbath, whilo it snowed “and lected aud rrozo_ and blew, thoy prayed and sang aod waited, They had the word of God and belicved it, So it way nothing for them to wait. Thev were tu oovenant with Him. Ho had charge of them. ‘hore wos nothing for thom todo but obey and wait for the morrow. God must care for the covsequ-nees, They aro His. Tho ttars of Hie throne cou'd crumnle easier than aria could como to them. What if the sea warted about them! Their oye was fixed on the son of ginss mingled with tiro, What if the blasts howled sround their un- covered leads? They wero the children of tha Eternal King, and were gcinz home to His auciont palace at if met: mocked at their creed and ridiculed their orutidsace. God had given both to them. What if eavages skulkod in tho storm and waited for thelr ecalpe, God, who huld oven tho arch fiend in chucu, would bring them off more than conqueror, Grand old men were thoze, guod aced with which to saved donoanow world. I never think of these heroes waitloy on thia stormy igland in the snow and sleet of that wintor sab- bath but 1 feel moved as in tao Prosonco of tho bravest men of aur race, and bless God that the impress of the Puritan 1s ave eryahero. I would ts God we cou'd revurn to His sacred Sabbath aud lis Lerolo faith, ‘Cuero ie nodauger in thie direction, No craft ovor stranded on Plymouth Rock. If we godowo it will be iu a waiter soa, in the mactstrom of our passion and our pride, and sn our own forgotful- nova of God aud His ordinanoss, Theso mon, in tho pressuro of all motives, wara acolo to abide thoie timo, They believed, aud 20 thoy tasted not, ‘Tharo sro some simple applications of tho subject which I wih to emphusize. Tho poriie of tals timo come from our haxta, We sacrilica everything for apecd. Speed is a good thing, but it can be purchased at too high a price, It pays to wait for good foundations. A tow weoks of time, and @ few scores of pilos, and tho ap plication of a little scientific knomtodge in tho single transaction of building one Government building fo thie county, would have saved to tho. Government enough to have founded = groat university and educated a thousand engineers every year for all time to come, Wo aro in too’ great haste for reaults, Musiroome May mature in ®& night; but the cedare of Lebanon grow for fiftesn ocantunes. Tt Is too trite to say that wo live too faut. Wo doubt tho day after to-morrow, Lifo's work must bo done up soon, Wo forgot the groat foot that thie life le only foundation-layiug. It is not purpoaed ana harvest, It is only the seod-time, ‘This is work, not reward, We are to bo dovel- oned, not dandied. This is carth, not beaven, We are mou, not angels, Our work whould be planned and porformed with refereuco to the noxt tun thousand years, Sumatines { look along tho live of coming ages, and thiuk of mysolf with proseryou identity, with maturing faculitos, with exalted berojsin, with prolouged experience tn the service of Ged, with gifts and capacitios far up in the seule uf bomg. I picturo mysolf bearing up by the century in some far-viT outpost of duty, or circling about the throue wating in wonder on the ineffable face, then the toils of this mormng hour of belug seo too slight to be montioued, How tho distinctions of rank dwindle irom that standpoint, How poor the petty authorities and brief dignities of tune how hollow the ttle shat bitolings chisel ou our tombs eon from the tenth century io heaven, Hrothers, we must live for eturuity, Plan, study, toil, avpire, prune, acquire, dovolop for hoaven, What shall wo need there? What will sorve us miost yonder? How can we best achiove overlasting grestuesa? With the door of eternity open ae nood not hasten, We aro too fast ju our work of education. Wo sro too impatient to give time onougl to our mau chance, 1b ise burned aud imperfect swattoring of a fuw of tho clements of knowl. edge, then wodauh down Into life to bury our noble naturce in dolug, regretfully all our liver, & work below our wish bocauso we are too weak todo our own work. ft requiros years to de- volop a strong woul, Youneed uot hasten. Is cannot be cruwaed much, You cauuot hasten the fruit by picking open the ib your orchard, Nature must have her way; warmth and nutrimente may quickeu the sap a hitie, but tho {impulse comes through the old patural channels. Bo much work 10r 60 much strength is tke old law. If young mea ovly bi le, much of the sham io of sea and famine and midat perils and oc Fs $bi education would be sbendoued. ‘To ask for hurriod work fo edaeation is like r airing » contractor to putin bad foundations. ‘Iho drift foward speciaitios, so powerful in the fant fifteen yoara, ia begotten of this hante, Weneed reorgavizing on tho fundamontal convictions eoncarning education. I rejuico that the public mind Is sitting back toward thorouzhooss, We may yet find somo rcholara in this contiry. All wo want is time and resolute capacity, Brothor, iteoome tika wtong voyaze, Tho hat bor jaa long way of. But itin only madneas to leap overboard. Tho vesuct is teaming sight down upon the lending; stay on board, You cannotawin far in tho boiling sea of modern competition. I wish I could ery this into tho ear of every student. Time, for maturing habita, fs an element in all disciplino and culture, History boxra onc Loxti- mony: ' The world is governed by tho 2i-inch skulis,” and thease cao be grown by no patont procera, This baste works tte chicfewt harm in our theologies, Crudo notions hore aro chicily duo to harto, Men take up these now systems OF faitl. on ap hour's notice. Someone sucgerta sdoubt or they ace x ensor in momo book or paper ; ins moment the orror {4 embraced. Na- poleon III. distinguished error from trath, esying: ‘Pisco both at the door, open tho dour, aod error wili go In frat. It is quick to enter, and slow to go out." Thus mon co over to some new theology or philosophy, ‘nus Peuny-n-ling thoology iv put up in auch haato that it should flnd no market this side of pordi- tion. I bave s hugo suspicion that study and reflection would modify and tone up our thool- ogles all round. Ail tho aysteme that lave actn- ally found tho millions and been the word of God to them havo boon coined ont of tho boroie and agonizing struggle of some graud old npiritual warrior, Quod theologies aro nut apawned in the public sewer. ‘Choy coma up from the cav- otns of tho deop sea, and I throw the mantic of charity over thewo systema on account of tho haste ia which thoy havo been adopted, Remember my word, ‘Cho roligiou of the Litlo that takes man a sinner, gives ulm Savior, an‘! washos him into righteounoss, in not gong to be superaunuated in ourday. Timo is a vatuablo gloment with theologies a4 well an with bouse. ‘The gromth of sixty centaries will nut withor in subour. The ndvent of poculiarities spring from. haste, and fail by underestimating the element of timo, Itis hard to neo bow such falae issue can be raised and « great body of xound doctrine aud holy living disparazod by so thin a film of ficlion, I know what riches of surprieo may bo waiting us inthe Divine administration. Bat it dvos not soem probavie that God will undo His work era it is fairly bognn. Our arth was only fitted up yesterday. It fb a new world just finished and we have only moved in, Unters ite owner is bankrupt, Ho will not gell us gut Ho soon, In all the ages of history, the earth, aud un, and ona uuiverso have bee journeying through space. Thwy have not yet gone far cnoueh round their far-off centre to measure the angle they hava Fessed. Surely, if 6.0U0 yoars mousnras do small 8 fraction of tho ciclo, wo seod uot look for tie end in our day, No buman watch-simth would pana. weary yoars in perfecting a complicated. clock, and theo whon at last etarted, ero the pendulum bad returned once, cro it had ticked once, atrike it into atoms. No human workman is so insane, Surely God will not smite the earth in worse folly. ‘These errors come from our own foolish hearts, ‘To project s tinug and maintain tt are two things. What revolutious have boen wronght aud nn- Wrought in tho lase decade! ‘Tho Ligh tide is passed, Spencer, aud Darwin, and tueir schools sro being loft fer inland. “be com:mon-aouss of meo turus towards the old channels: A few pationt thinkers exhibit tho fatal fallucies in theso preteutious avsteins, and like ships rcut- ted in mid-ocean they go down nevor to ba acon agnin, ‘Lhe triub of God will abide, The Leaveus aod tho earth shall pads away, but not one jot or tittle shall pasa from tue law till all be fultilled.” ‘hia word has stood the stock af many areaulte. Itiu charred and scatred with tho firesof persecution. {thas been picreed apd stabbed with criticium, But here it is jast as clear and bleaved as over. It has stood tho tout of many experiments; nuilioun have believed its promises and found rest. Our fathers found this Book like the sbaduw of @ great rock ina dry acd atid laud. Our mothers went down into tae cold tide on thedo promises, Lot us not hasten from theso old truthe. Ido uot know what may come to the Reoublic. Tcannot tell how soon tho blood? tides of coni- mnpism and despotisin may follow each ather over thin land. know not what swarmn of de- stroyci@ may usher in famine to be our guest, or what finavcial convule nx aay change all valuon, But thisoue thing Edo know: the Churck of God snail thrive. The gates of hell eball not provail sgainst hor, Tue eaving work will ba carried ou, cod oll who bellavo sball neither ba asasmed nor confounded, neither shall they make haste, Tho pent Inw of slow gromths bolda over syn- tems of theology, and over their reatization im character. Meu sometimes scem to ascond the inount of God by traneiation, But wo bave yet to fud a better than the old way of eromuy lu grace amid the activitics of hie. Haste 1 charactor, a8 overviwhoro else, coms from uucer- tainty, not from believing, but from doubting. itis a question of av much oxperiouce, of matuis ing ao rmuch Christian virsue and faith sud wta- bility. Itty not merely a matter of time, but it tnvolvea timo, Born babee, not men, is God's ontcr, Milk-meat mauhood 1 the thought of revelation, a blade, tue ear, the full comm in the ear,” says the great Master. ‘Staud still, and aeo tho salvation of the Lord” is the word of relief of many strageling souls, All the systems tuat reach Calvary without passing wader tho brow of Sival, tliat have a konpel without a law, that offer strength with- out the outlay of eacrifico, that outer houveu without tha Crosa—ai) these are spairued froin tho lisste of uncertainty, and must go duwndu the flore tempeut that surronnds ‘the woad, hay, aod etubble,” aud loaves only “the gold, uilver, and precious s:oues.” Brothers, you can- not afford to have or culzivato anything that is not absolutely gouniwe, You must bo true all the way through. ‘Khon even the falling boay- ons cannot harm you. You go down into tho ttruyglo of life for atrength. It will take time ond many blows, and rutch wrestling with od- verearics, But that is what you ure in tho world for, You must not be like tho lnt-houso plant, spoltered and pampored, 90 dolicate that the first cvol breath will withor and blast it, But in the old familiar figure, you must be rather like the mountain oak, rough avd guarlod it may bo, but able to st: in tho teeth of the winter 6 blast. ‘Loughoned in the storms of a bundred years, clivging to ite rock-fouudation, Wahages ite detent lookw in the face of the storm. Intteleafy top je tho lightning's flory ath, down its rough sides aro the scars of the bunderbolt, and against ita stout trunk tho wild boar hath whetted bis tusky, Its every fibre is tough an a coll of utesl. In the path of the whirlwind it may bow to the carth like » penitent ia prayer, but it leaps up agaiu like a saint in triumph, takiug witn equal foy the gladgomo sunliightand the worrying tompext, gathering verduro and boauty from ove aud froin tho other oxtorting power aad dimension, MEANING AND MINISTRY OF TEARS, @ERMON BY THR BEY. Dit. It, N. POWEIS, The Roy, Dr. Powora proachodt yeatordsy motning at St. Jobo’s Church, Avbisnd avenue, on ©The Meanin id Aliniatry of Tears,” trom tho following words; ‘Ana Josuph made haste, for bis towels did yearn upon bie brotler: and be sought where to weep? and be entered {nto bia chamber aud wept there,—Ueneate zhits Ae spoke as followe: 7 A history of human tears would bo a histor: of mankind, In it wouldappear all that is deep- out aud mowt dignitcant iu heart and life, There woutd bo told all the pathotio woos of tine, all tho strango romances of fovo; and pain, and death; all tho secrate, despairing sorrow, and ecutatio joy; allthat tas convalsod the heart from the hour whon TEden closed upon the ox- ilod pair to the Inst eigh that tells to-day (ta distresa, What visious rive boforo wo as [ think of tho tears that toll the exporionce of the geu- erations; what mournful procession what scence of rujo aod wrong: what jouoly agony ; what compaulonships of torror and distress; what unrecorded tragodios; what pletures of life cromued aud duhonosed, jubilant and over- thrown ; what desolations aud what discovories ; what abyscuof violence and doom; snd what regions of beauty, and tslumpb, and biles! ‘The whole humanity in its suprome houry of woo aud joy advances and passos on. IT see tho 19 it, waituon dvath, 1 wea the facos that Fook back shou allix sbandoned that iy dear iu homo and couuiry, aud the sacred graves of aucestors. seo captives that wball novor ro- tum to she beloved fiom thoy sro tom | away, 808 the " glare of buruing cltles the helpless ones who yield to crucl couquorors, sud’ amid NUMBER 301, the shocks of battle and the massacres of the in- boceot bebold she eyes from whence hope hag fled, Ince whero.the plague bas atnitten, and tho earthyuake Jeanlated, shera crime has’ lefe its plocty ttai¢ 25 aacoful aboiles, wheretyran- ny baa filled p/ & with lamoncation, and Inet hns defiled thi nation of pure, ewoat life. Thero appoar, £1 martyis of humanity bear- dug c1rosscs ¢ oues who har who perishe¢ hoarta,—tha no word @ deserted an = hiniog in flames, tho devoted = mphed in death, the boaat{tul +3 : the dow of vouth was In their it, hoiy gufferora,who received S aolation on carth, and tho itn, who, uncared for sad uve known, wolf _ c-itho rest of tho grave. Lae those whic = ) roturning oxiles attor long Sanrs of vi S73 f love, thosa who tanto the joy of thar d! 5° after penary and wrong, thos who stan G7 piant iu to peace that has come to thom enitonce anu prayer, thosa who, lifted ouys. . cir eins and eliame, soem already crowded @nith: tho anadome of heavon,—the 6rievod and the oxulting,—old men and matrons Whoro pilgrimage bag been long, maiden in their unsuilied blooms, conquerora and mighty cap. tains, scholars rich inj all tho loro of time, aud the poor ciuldten of want sud ignorance and crime. Low vant the epoctacto, hor strange and varied and pathotio tho view a8 the scone of teara un- folds! Thoy aro falling beneath the scourya of war, tho postilouce, and the task- master; they aro wandering in dreary baniuh- ment; they sre sittiug by the ashes of their dead hopes; they ato watching in cham- bers whero ts falling tho hush of death: they aro bowing around graven that will not yield back their joy; they aro abut away in loaely rooms where human eye does not see the sorrow or the joy that makes life so awfully sincere, Tougue canovt doxcribe it all, And yot how trno tho reality. ‘Tears tell the darkost and tha brightest story of human fifo. Tuo sweotest and saddest that hus # voice in pootrs ia in them, All that is tare and wonderful iu music is bal tuo broath of thoir sonmbility, W: wor ark has wrought to utter most powerfally the yearn: ing of the son! gives tuom but partial, importect interpretations, Whew language becomes inado- quate, tears tell tho rest. Io their silent elo- quence is more than all the moanings of the muss, ‘Thoy sro therofore oa rign of # alncere oxperi- once, Wile itis trae that in soto superticisl vatares they flow with bus alight emotion, it is alo true htresthat they oxpreas the sensibility of profound sould. ‘avy spring out at the conscl- ourness of suffering or of foy that fille tho heart, Where thero is thia experience eomothing baa moved in the deep placos of being, ‘Chere bas boen tho discovery of s loss, ortho bense uf pain, of wrong, of foar, of nhame, of solicitudo, or the coming of « rure delight, blessed relief, slorions possession, cquisite bliss. They say that thero is in tho soul tho capacity to enjoy and snffer, a fecling of nolf-respect, recognition of life's realities, an appreciation of the ingrodiouts of at least o present good, & desiro to possess what ehall bo a conrolation and cure forever, Whero undor a romarksble exverience of what is suited to afllict thore aro 110 tears, thoro ia tho indication eithor of on unnatural hardness, or of an. anguish that has dried up their fountain, A fevity of manuer in the timo of a great calamity may sometimes be asaumed by a proud natare conceal deep foeting, but this can hardly consis. with n aoneo of the awful and yolemn things of being. Tho serious soul alwass appreciates the wtnceritles of life, Those who in great crises of trial and amid sceuey of woe betray lightnoss and indifference whow s spirit that is very in- durated or very superficial. Nothing disclosos more clearly au unmanly aud offensive disposi- tion then that which niocks at the tokens of deop omotion, and thatin the midat of dauger aud suffering 14 stolid or conterptnons, Thora may be, however, “a griof too deep for teara." ‘That ts, indoed. a pathetio sight where the soul is so smitten a8 to bo unable to weep. ‘Lhe in- dications of thia state arc always alarming, for they gay that the mind has snffored terrible shock, aud that uulors thoro is speedy relief it may be overthrown. ‘Tear aftor sucha paraly- als of omotion-after the sirocco of a awift and terrible grief—are always the sign of a blessed recovery, are always welcome. ‘They show that overtasked Nature 1s finding its lost balaaco, ‘They toll of a roturn of the currenta of fecling tothoir natural channels, They esy what tho beart would utter iu its senso of anguish, and they holp to etanch the sorrow thatin them pleads for consolation. And this loads mo to speak bore briofly of the blossing of tears, For teara have a miniatry ayen to tho sufferer. Wheu emotion rises tos cortain height there ia inevitable distress, ‘Tbe sense of ead lone, tha coming back of old memories with all thoir af- fecting sssoctations, the consciousness of a wrong that Lights houor and reputation, the dreary desolaticn of friondicssnoss and loneli~ nose, the convictior, of inner unworthincas and shame, tho solicitude that takes all the sunshine fiom Jifo,—somothing hiko this bas filled the heart to the brim with pato. It would fain find 8 vent to that which tosses and achos and burns a within, Tears then are tho streams through which tho sorrow for the time flows away, The: reduce the weight of the burden under which one bows. Thoy drown the bitter thought. They aro wine and oi] ou tha sore of the blistering ag- ony. What the lips conld not speak, what re~ flection onty mado mora grievous, finds utter- ance and belp in tears. ‘They draw away, little by litile, tho virus that ranklon in the invisible wound, You have losrued that they have s balm in the ponco that haa tottowed their flowing in times when you farbomed the decps of human oxperience, ‘But teare havo two springs: ono Isacrrow, and the other juy. So p cnlariy ara we mado, and so wonderfully are our sonsibuities aua mei oporations linked together, that it 16 imnosmble to toucy one chord of our nature without reache ing the rest. Pleasure and pain, though the an- tip odes of each other, so.m marvelously allied. they soem aver tide by tide, and into ect other their currants often strangely min- gio, In our [ntensost moments. tn times when our experience is deepent, they both are presont. Waen you havo been must everbrimmed with joy, in tho keonest ecstasy, you hayo been con- Kelous of o myetical teasing pan. For you felt your iucapacity to enjoy all that seemed filling your life; you longed for a larger brosdth of ex- fstence; or some shadow, some suggestion of evil, 2omo aeuse of what was ond or inopportune, marred the perfection of your bilas, Away in tho core of your happiness was the dsjoro that was not quite appeased 5 or that yery happincad was #0 intone that its experience yie ded o little pang. dome kpock a: least was on the royal truit, sone bitter at the heart of ca, deligh| some Little tlaw upon the splendid tloxor, An 80, too, in that Rorrow, though i¢ burnt like fite, thero was a touch of comfort, 4 faint futtor of pleasuie.—a suggestion that not all was woe in tie exporionce that bowed you down. You had, may be, 0 wtrango pleasure in tho conscious ness that you—your Self—was what palo could oh cunquen,r=it & sense of victory even in your trial, Indeed, in tho practical experience of life wa aro wellawaro that our pleagant and painful things ate vory much mingled. Wo are con- Stantly passing from one ettremo to another, and during tho same day may have tasted all va~ rieucs of discomfort and delight. Of course, there ia such & thing aw tho provalliny atate be~ fing one of wretchoduesa or enjoyment, white it will have on ft both the sunshine and the oloud., Even 1 tho midet of plessaut scenes acd with ite all bright before us, there are iotuencea that asdden and dopress, This must be ao ay long as thore is a heart to feet aud to remember. Some of us can understand the meaning of Ten: nyson When he ways "Years, {dle tears, 1 know not what they mean, ‘Tears from the doy tu of mowe divine deapalr, Iie {u the heart und gather ta the eyes In looalng on tho happy harvest fields, ‘Aud thinking of the days that are uu more, Whatever tho prosperity of the presout, when all that gilded and aweetened tho morning of Iifo cunes back with the faces and volces thes cau uover ba to us aa thoy wore, tha evelide moiston—there is a pleasure aud a pain, tender, and pleading, aod holy with roverouce, and sub- inivsion, aud luye, . But iu the larger portion of human experience that in memorable tbo sources of tears are well defined. Of course it iy suffering whh whieh, toare aro usually ausociatud. So there are teary, that are wrung out by excruciating pains; tears that como from mortitiod pride and from the shame of evil discloaures ; tears that are hot with the agony of wounded and {naulted love, of base and pitter wrongs, of dark alienatiogs, of bereayemouts that blast the last Hower of joy. Therearo remorseful tears, aud pouitons tears, and bopeless tvars,—teara where frend. ship bas proved traitorous, where home Les been desecrated, whore cruelty is roloutiess, add vir- tue uo protection, aud fidelity unavailing ; where health, and peace, and affection, and junocouos areall goue, and the serpout of reworee is in every path. These are such as those eogaged in the revolting aud awful trial in Brooklya may well shed. How much they tell of ail ‘thet is patbetio and wooful in the world! What grievo} changes, what angusbing dusappolutuasn! x