Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1875, Page 1

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Bhip QUEBEO, 1,000 Brla. Now arriving, vis Lake, at my Dock. Ocrders solloited. e e Y R WADSWORTH, Trpe 34 Bouth Markol.at., 4 Tolsh Popllnt Crmen, ue TIDAL WAVH, London to VINEGAR. —— WHITE wine VINGGAR, Cetebrated for 1ty PURITY. NTIRENGTI nnal & BALATABLENKHS, nted o PREAERYE Kies. 4% & 46 Michigan-uv,, Chilcawn, R % PRUSSING'S THE PULPIT. Tribute of Respeet to the Memory of Dr, Osgood by tho Baptist Clergy and Teoplo. Anpiversary Sermon by the Rev. D B, Cheney on the Duty of Abounding in Work for the Lord, The Rev. John Williamson Discourses on Ohristian Behavior Away® from Home, Discorse by the Rev. Floronco MeCarthy on {he Apparcnt Failure of the Gospel to Save tho World, Dedicatory Services at St. Paul’s Re- formed Episcopal Churche-= Sermon by Bishop Chenoy, Elder Jutkina Thinks There Is a Prospect of Healing the Feud in the Ada ftreet Church: FUNERAL OF DR, 0SCOOD, ADDRENSEH BY DAPTIST CLERUYMEN, Tho funeral services conneoted with tho death of tho Rev. Bewall 3. Osgood wera hield yoster- day aftornoon in the Univeraity Place Baptist Church. The coffin was borne into the church shortly aftor 2 o'clock, tho following porsons acting ss pall bearers: Messrs. J. M. Hobart, L. D. toono, F. G. Thearle, A. H. Horey, Bam- uel Bitlver and Saomuol Hoard.” Onastand at the hosd of the cofin was piaced s beautiful crown surmounted by a cross of whito flowers, and a croes and wreath of white flowers wore lald npon the coffin. The church was crowded, tho family and fricnda of the deceased and thie Baptiat clergy of the city occupying nosta fa the frout, The oxer- ciuos syoro oponed by the readiug of the twellth Psalm by the Rev. Dr. Colo. Tho Rov. D, Fross then aonouncod the hymn beglnning : 1 wonld not live alway, I ask not to stay Whiore atoris aftar storta risce dark o'et o way. Dr. Frost thon road a sbort biographical ekotch of tho deceased, rofraining from sxtended re- mark, a3 be 18 soon to deliver a memofful ser- mon. Ilo gave an affocting eketch of tho cir- tumstances attending tho death of Mr. Osgood. For the last four or fivodays he suffered acute bodily angunah, aod could say bue littlo, sa ho ‘was conscious only for brief peiiods. His last w0108 wero a quotation from the 1034 Paalm, whiols was s fuvorite with him: * Llees the Lord, O my soul, aud il that ia withio mo—-" st that point e breath fmled him, and he fin- ished the verso ou the other sida of the river. Dr. Smith, of the Standard, then made a fow somarks, Le said that it had beon thougnt tit- tiug thac be ehould make some reforsuce to the cunpcoiion of tha deceased to home and foreiga missions. 1t was not within his kaowledge tha special influencos that tumed Mr. Usgood's i~ toution to the work of missions, but yet those who liad knowa bim for the last twenty or thirty yearacould herdly imagine him laboring in any other capacity, 80 entire was his consecration to that spocial work. Tho speaker gavo some tom- ivlscences of Jtbe missionmy party in com- pany with which Mr = Osgood urst started to tho foreign floid, He died juut a week aftor the anniversary of that eailing. ‘I'he dute of that was July 2, 1834, sud Mr, Os- good died on Julv 0, 1875," On the voylfi: out the missionary ship became a seamen'’s Letbel, the mibistors devoting themselves to the aalva- tion of the aailors. T'ho Captsin, stoward, tirat wate, and soveral seamen were converted. Bir. Osgood was tho printer of the mission, snd winlo Dr. Judson did the traoslation, he was tuo sgent by wihom the Beriptures wore spread abroad among the heathen. His carcer in Bur- wmah was touched upon, and bis retnin to this country mentioned. i arrivalin the West was & most Importaut event. ''he apesker could Dot remember » more hard-working mau, sspe- clally duriog the tirst years of his agenoy hero. The speaker, in conolusion, quoted the lines on the tomb of the Rev. 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Sa L iroud, nut to But in Mr. Oegood's death they could say the fruit of his Iabors graw thickly around umeven before his death, Dr. Cheney sald ho folt insdequato to express the feelings that rosa within bim on this occasio ‘Whnat he ssid was the spontancous prnmpn-g- of his heat. lle knew of the labors of Dr. Oegood hefore o had met him ly’mmmllly. It was not until October, 1849, that he ‘made bis soquaiatance, fo Columbus, Obio. Ho 2poke in tuo spuskor's church,sud uttercd a plea for miesions that was superior to overytlung that hind ever boon heard thore before. L sweps the chords of thoir Lourts until tuey wore all beating in liveliost sympathy with forsign mission work. Few mon had ever came from the miselon field who could speak on the aubjoot like Alr. Osgood. A uatural ciaracteriatio of tho docensed was his rare good judgmont, When bo reached s con- on it waa alwsys safe to zoly onit, 1o nad A rare measuro of cousecration to the canse of Oorint. 116 was » man of great kindnoss of apirit, He was acoustomed to abide by hia owu convictions, ye: he did it'with wonderful considoration for opposing opilona. ‘Tho speakor scid he recollected s poriod when thers ware serious complications in the Home Mis #ions in tho southeastern district. ‘I'he speaker potitioned tho Home Hecretary to send Mr, Os- Raod to thay digicult and dolicate, yet iwporiant, woik about tho great City of Phlladelpnia. e and his family were members of tho upeak- or's and the frieudsbip between them was warm aud luumste. The speaker gave some romibluceuces of in- cldents In tho bome life of the docsased, Lis solicitade for the spiritual weltars of his ohil- dreu, bia Joy over thuir conversion, and the hap- py Christian gathering st bia. dsughter's mar. riage. He lott bobind as a piecious logaoy the memory of u just, haly, godly mun. The speskur -olosed with an alfecting address of consolatlon to the family of the degesssd. The Rev, Thomas Goodspsed asld thatit he could cenault lus own feelings he would prefor 10 take Lis neat with b boceaved friends aud funily of the deceassd. Ho wished that the uenior pastor of the Becood Church could have boeu preeent to speak of Fatuor Osgood, whom he loved and revered. Dir, ‘Osge seemed o the ppesker to have galbored up in himself all tLose titlen aud gracos of the Chrustian charactor il we find io the Word of God, aud piacuced them In his dmlylife, ‘I'hespesker rovered and loved tho decesdod a8 Lo did no other man, 1o was w wan of great prudens discreet man whoss judgmeut could siways be relied upon. He had. a practical wisdom that ominouily fitted bim to be s counselor and ad. viser, Notwithstsading tho grave and sober 3n-lmu of bis character, ke was a mau of won- lorful kindlineas. tia kiad a playful humor inbis conversation at times that Lad fu it no ating of sarcasm, He was In every respect a kindly Christlan gentlewan. ‘His nature was love,—love tor his fellow-men, for the souls of wen, Ho wass mau of wonderful devoutness, botli in word and act. lle meemed to Jive as in the pressuce of God, sud &8 one who must rep- reacnt the purily and holinesa of Christ's habit. Al it spasks of his loyalty to bis Divine Master. ‘The natives of Burmab used to call Dr, Judson ‘‘Jesus Christ's man.” Huch a was Mr, Osgood alsc. His conseoration to the cause of Ounas was complets and entire. | itz Ogood y BOreOTSy & charchman, YRR R CHICAGO, MONDAY, JULY 12, 187 Wherever he went he was faithfal to the Chnech which he belopged, He wan a pillar of tha Church whotover he was, Wnenevor his duty called him away "m)m [y ell':mch‘lha loft amid 1 rogret. Ilo was not, perhaps, » popu- o vemtor, wat o could reach aad air the feel- 5 iogs an sudienoo, and thnll their boarts into nctive benelicenco lu the missionary cause, In the character aud lifo of Mr. Osg there woro embodied all the gracea of character which meo a4 well as women admire. Wa ail honored him, \Ve could not speak too highly of Lim. A great man 1 Isrsol had falleu. Al hesrta wore flilod with saduces when they thought that he bad gone from thew, If there was anything bo eut on hin tombatone it would be, is mou lived the Bermon on tho Mouut.” Lov. Dr. Burroughe sud ha felt profonnd- 1y Lius unworthinoss to speak fitingly of the life and character of lnm who had goue, What be slonld say ho would say in bobsil of an interest which, if the docessed himself could sdmonish them, hie would desira to haye done. He would npeak of the fifo of tho decessed & Mlustiating the powor and influcuce of tho grace of Gud. It was the ot of the npeaker in boybood to moet & part of tho com- pany with whom Mr, Osgood went vut o Bur- mat. Ho attendod » farewsll mecting st which Vinton and Comstock delivered addrosscs, Com- stock apoke of the pucposen of ssch of wie baud, and among them of the young printer, Osgood. What Mr. Usgood since amo had beon told, That hifo and cuaractor becamo such under tho silent, mighty influence of the grace of God. s destls left » yreat vacaucy in Zton's garden., Who would fill it? ‘that question should be presonted to the young men of the Uuniversity and Seminary. ~A pillar of the mis- sfonary work bad falicn, Who would put their streogth to the place to bold the fabricup ? Theto waa no sphioio of labor too bumule for bim, none too arduous, Who would come for- ward to fill the placo loft vacant Ly bim? ‘Tho speaker then made an_ earnest appes! Lo the au- semblage to Iay to hesrt the examplo of de- veasod, and lat bis Iast worda come Lu them as wdwouitions and incoutive to do well the great work God Liad sssigned to them. Dr. Froet said bis thoughta had boeh dwelling in Heaven all dav, Mr. Usgood had bogun thst lorious Sabbath that bad no end. Osgood waa D Heaven with Judson, Comstock, Kuowlton, aud the 1ong lino of missionatica who Lad gono to Heaven, and in the bright halls of glory thac day they wero perhiaps talking of the work in Burmali. The hoathon converted through Lis wnstrumentality thronged round bim to wel- como bim. e savg **Dloss tho Lord O my soul ™ on earth ; he uow sang it iu feaven. Dr. Moss, of the Chicago Umveraity, dulivored tho closing prayer, retuining thauks for the Loauty lm‘F powar of & Christian life, At the conclusion of tho prayer the congrega- tion filed aloug the swles, passing iu frout of the coffin o look upon the fuco of the dead, after whicts tho body was remioved to the hoarse to be carriod to losobill Cemetery and doponited ina vault. A tiaiu witl leave the Nortuwestorn Riail- rond Depot, cornar Caual and Kinzie, at 1 p. m. to-doy, for Kosehull, when the burial will take place. —_— THE CHRISTIAN'S WORK, THX BEV, MB, CUENEY'S ANNIVERSARY SERMON. The Rev. D. B. Cheney, pastor ot the Fourth Daptist Church, yosierday proachied, as follows, his first -anniversary scrmou, choosing as hia toxt: Always sbounding in the work of the Lord,—1, Cor., Zr., B8, ‘Lhis chapter cootains Paul's great argument on tho doctriue of the resusrection, As a mmplo composition and the uololding of an usanswor- able arpamont it has loug becn rogarded as & mnsterpieco by literary ciities, It is worthy of esreful stndy for ita litorary morita alono, But to the Christisn and lover of Bivle truth it coutains what is af far greater intorost than its meio literary excellence. It uufolds and estab- liskes beyond all doubt or peradventuro one of the cardinal and most precious doctrines of the Gospel, viz., tho resurrection of tho doad. This doctrine held a very importau. lace in tho min- istry of the Apostics and thoir asaociates. “Jeaus sud the resurrcction” was the compro- hensive summery of tueir minlstry. Thm doc- tnine was the koystone in the arch of their sys- tem of faith, They:knew and confessed that it thero was no resurrection their preaching was vain, and their faith was also vain. Hence their constaut and oarucet efforts to ostablish snd make olear tus dootrine mmong the cliurches, The closing verse of the chaptor is an infer- enco drawn from this doctrine aa a practical ap- plicationof it. **Therefors, my boloved broth- ren, bo yo steadfant, unmovable, slways abouud- ing io the work of the Lord, forsamuch sa yo know that your lsbor is not in vain in the Lord.” In viow of the glories of tho resurrection in dus time to be rovealod, when doath should be wewallowed up in victory,” Paul urged his brethren to Christian stad fastnces and fidelity in tho cause of Curist, Aud the full force of this exhortation can only bo approciated s [t Ia studied in tho £ reshindowed light of the coming resurrection, While his breturen wore looking for aud hastening to such s glorious consumma- tion, it was meet for them, while they remained v tse flesh, to be **always abounding 1o the work of tho Lord.” Let us kesp iu mind the ground or basia of the Apostle’s exliortation, :rhila we procood to study the text a littie winle ny. It {a proposed in this discourns very hriofly to unfold tho lossons of the text, and then to con- sidor some featurcs of tha practical work before us i enterihg upon & new year of churen lifo, Ono year ago_ to-dsy_we met_bore for tho first time as the Fourth™ Baptist Church, and I then formalty onterod upon my dutios as your pastor, It fu euitable that we should take noto of this double souiversary, and should sesk for such lexsons as may be profitabls for us in the future. Followiug the order 1ndicatod, wa will tirst at- tond to tho lesaous of tho text. Its goueral lon- son relatos to Christian work, to which wo should Lo incited shike by the glorious prospect of the resurrection and the fact that trus Chiris- tian work is never in vain. 'fnls Is Paal's way of putiing the truth. Bul this goneral lesson that is supported by such nowerful argumonts 14 unfolded 1u the text under three partioulars, to which we will givo attention. ‘I'he fltat particular is that Onristiana are called to tho work of the Lord. I understand this to mean the work which God Las given us to do na his le. ‘Uhoreis s great deal of so-called religious work~lope in this world that does wuot belong to the clasa hore deactibed. It is in no true and proper eense (e work of the Lord. All the work of fulse religioniats comea under this head. 'Tho wicked Csin did roligious work ; but not tha work Qod spuinud for him. the prophets of Daal of tho days of tho wicked Ahab were very zealous in their work un- der tho naine of religion, but the more they did the worsa it was for tho world and the cause of truth, The persocuting Saul of Tarsua was not wanung in zoal or davotion in bls religlous wark, and yet bo utterly falled of doing tho work of the Lord. It Is ordinarily true that there are no grestor workers than * those who are eugsgoed in propauating falss nhfilon. The world is full of llustrations of this work, ‘The Jesuits are exsmplos, almoat squals ¢ o tbe Uoutiles, Bpiritualiey Thelr voal in rmpon'.ing erior osl of Paul whon tha Apostle Tho advocates of modein furnish snotber ezample. Tley will com: #oa and land to makea proselyte: sud 80 of avery stylo of roligious error thal from timo to timo appears. Its advocates be- come great workers to win adherents and other advooal It 18 trom this cause, in part at least, | the well-known sdage bhas & basls of truth, that ** a lis will go round the worla whilo u uokliug on its spara,” Qoo reason of this s that the champlons of error sre auch tire- lews workers. We bave, however, a cortain test or ataudard by which to try all retigious work, to dutermiue whether it'is the work of the Lord, aud that is (he Bible. Whatavor {s op- poded to Lhe teachings of the Hiblo by m fair sud Chnetian interpretation, or whatever doos not barmoniza with those teachinge, wo 1nay at ouce Iny aside or turn awsy from, assured that it is nok the wark of the Lurd, Our work ia to propagate truth, aud no orror; righteousuess, aud not sic® As much a5 in us ls, we aro to lead men (0 life and vot o death, And thisis our toat or stadard, Wo are to try all our works by the Word of the Lord, that we m‘(fil bo sure we are doing tho work of the Lord. Whatever will not bear this test, the best we cau uay of it ls ouly ** wood, hay, aud stuble,” and the Bible teils us tbat ali such worke will be ** buined up."” But the Bible ot jolun wurks enough, aud furois scope cnough for wvery Obrisiisn worker. Thi Ls room enoueh nfmn this work for all the va, ties and gradoa of talent that can be brought to i, No one mesd ever to be an idlar in the Master's vineyard under the plea that there I8 no work for him to do, or that no man hath hired bim. " The Master Laa work for each ong and bids bim do It. His call is: * Go work to-da My vineyard;" or, * Uo yo also Into the vine- yard, aod whataver s ‘right I will give you.” Here. theu, ia tha firat lesson of thetext, —Wa are to be sure that we do the work of the Lord, nod we are to learn what that work 1 by Hin Word, guided by Hin apirit and Providence, ‘I'ie work of the Lord in vast enough and varied enough to euit ali our diversifiod talents and en- dowmenta. It in around nn oo everv mide, W9 may find it dasly sod bouriy it wo wil. Wo all oughit to be workers for God aud trutls, that we may do our part to fill the world with rightoous- nona, and to psopla Hoaven with the redeomod, And this lends naturally to the sceond lesson of the toxt: **Abgunding i the work of the Lord.” ‘1 hin Inoguage impiica nut only Chriatisn work, but & gaod deal of it. We can all nea that & Christian might angage in tho work of tha Lord aod do only a hutle, ‘Lhis indena Is Letter than nothiog, bat this 18 not what the text con- tomplates. Paul doubtiess meant to call hia beetron to do sll they could; to work up to the tull measure of (beir ability. Bo e worked. Ho put his whole sonl and s:rehigil into the work of the Lord, He oompared his isbors for Chriwt aud souls 1o the effurts of those who run 1u a race or fight in & warfare, the most satucht and fabori- ous efforts known amoug men. | have ot tuncs seen Christians 1n hoalth and strength who noetuod afraid lost thoy stouid do tuo much ; but | I nover aw a dying Clristiso who thought La bad dono too much. A fow years ago 1 Loard a charge to n young minister at hinordination, and upon the Apostolio charge. **'I'ake heod to thy- melf,” threo things were eaid to the young man : “Don't study too much; dou't preach too much § don't visit too much." The whole spirit of the cliarge scemod to be that the youug mau sliould do just as httle as ho conld and siay In hus place, Away with all such counsel ns tin, 1 say, whether to minaters or urivats Clrintiauk, I would rather give both ministera and churchos Caroy’s motlo: ‘*‘Atfemnpt great things for God; espect great things fiom God.” Where in tho Bible mo wn counsollod to do just a little in the work of God ? We read rather that he that sows bountifully ehall reap also bountifully, while he tuat sows soariugly shall reap also lpu’iughlj. Tho messuro of our ability 18 everywhere muda the measure of our oblivation, I am pereuadod that multi- tudes of Christiaae, in our timos, fall to nuder- s:and how much they would do tor God and souls if vnly they would do wbhat tuoy could. We some Limos see what a lfitte haudful of Curistiaus ean do in some of our woak, struggling chiuzchios, wheto they sco that they must work ordie, Io- 8ults aro attained altogether beyond whatis ofien raunzed v our large churcbies in propoction to tueir relative strongth. I do not belioyo there is s large church in the land that emplovs tithe of ita mirongih in tho work of tue Lord. Our record tho past yoar probably would ot enffer by comparison with the averaue of churches of ita sizo; apd yer I am persualed that wo are fully able to do teu fold thie church-work we havo besu doing, and no one Le burdeaed. Wo lave done rome work for Gad and xouls tho past year. Hut I do not thiok we should be ready to clalm thiat wo biave sbounded in ttat work. And vet this i tho eall, It is not that we ehall do a little work, but an abundauce: thal we shuuld woik sccording to tho ability that God bas given uy, And this call duees not como to the pastor aloun, though it dous come to biw; bor to tue deacous alone, though it comes to them; nor slono to thune who seem to be piliars 1o the church, though it coues to thetn ; bul it comes to all; to the Curistian of largest culture aud ewmallest; to the wealthiest Clrirtian and the j.osrest; to the Clristian of largest oxperionco andof the short- est; to the Olristisn who can do most for tho Master aud lenst; it comes to you. and youg, sud ou, wy Urother, wy sisier, and to me, We should all *“abound ia tho work of the Lord." What, I pray, woull become of tuls chareh if one-half of its corolled mombers, who could bo easily svlected, were doing no more tor 1ta growih, prosperity, snd usofuloess than tho other Lalf are doing \Vb{. wa should bardly live & month, Wo should rather como to s sudden stop, And yot whero Ia it taught that one-bialf of the mombors are to do the work of a whole church? The trouble jo searly all our cnurchen is that (horo aro aigront nu’IP‘ mew- bets who scom to bo only birders. Tney do not tako their place in tho fawily to do ther sharo for family prosperity snd uscfulness. But weo munst pass to ‘the next losson of the toxt, '*Always sbounding in tho work of the Lord." Tho lesson hero ts o the word **al- ways,” ‘Thia does pot look like periodical or intormittont work, but raithor like uniform., steady work, overy day salise, We sometimos soe Christians aud churchos who * absund m tho work of tho Lord " for s hittie while; they ars full of zeal; soom ready for any service; aud they really go noble aud good work., ‘Tho troublo with them i8 thay do not continue. For one causs or another they lay down tbeiwr work ; ratira from it, and really Lecomo 1diers in tho Mastor's vineyard. ‘They do not sy arulo roach thus atato all at onco. They rather rotico from it Little by listle. They lewvo off vno duty to-day aud suothar to-morrow. At first, pers haps, they neieot their closets; thon they are mlont 1o the prayer-mesting; tuon they sttend tho prayer-meotiog ouly iriogularly; then they retire from tho Babbath-school; theu, perbaps, the faunly aitar is peglected ; thou they become inconstaut in tuoir aitendauce at churoh. Buat long before thoy have tskou all thodo sieps thoy have Jott off sl dircct Christian work to lead sinners to Jesas: their voicos aro no louger beard pleading for the cause of tha Mascer: they do littlo or nothing to sond tho Gospel to the perishing. Have any of you ever knownany of this kind of oxperience? L it not an ex- crionce all too common iu our churchos? ut I ored oot toll you that this fa not what the text contemylates, Cortainly this is not *'al- ways abouuding.” And yet thers 18 oot s Chris- tiaia who hoars me who 18 not ready to eay that we should be uniform in our fidelity; that we should be everyday Curistinos,—workers overy day for Him »ho has dono so much for us, This life—the wuola of life—in tho timo to work; the resting-time will come by sud by, It is the dead who ehall rest from their tabore, not the hving, Whiat wo nead in our churches—iu this ehurgh— im steaay, uniform work for Curist sud Ilis canse on the part of sll tho mewmbers. Suall wo bave it in the fulure ? Raving thus looked at the lessons of tho toxt, let us now turu to the work before ug in entering upon & new year of our chuich-iife, Aud fimit, [ thiuk we should aim to brings much larger uamber of people hore under tho direct jutiuence of the meaus of graco. I mean by this that we should lavor greatly to increaso tho stlondauce upon our Sabbath servicus, our praver-meetings, and our Sunday-school, We Liave bud much to encousage us in this re- apect in the paat, and yat wo all kuow that we eutored upon our work & yoar auo eucompassed with manifold bindorances and discoursgoments. ‘fhe formatiou of this church out of the two that presoded it was oot without ita htoderances slike wittin and without. What those hin- derauces were I will not dotain you tu recount. But whils they oxistod 1n all thair foice it was Lardly possible to gather people atound us in large uumbors, und, Lwd it bovn pusaible. it would hardly Lave been desirable, Time and la- bor werenoeded to romove tiese hindsrauces, 80 28 10 prepare the way for a Loalthy increass, 1 will Dot say that these hindersuces are moved, byt thoy are wo fur removed t shoutd now louk and lsbor fus 1ucroose, pusition and prospects ol the church ure won- derfully en;u‘fed for the better, cumpared with & yoar ago, and the tle Lus uow cotne for us to lock for an advance, 1 kuov that mauy socm 0 regard ihis gathering of the poople a8 wolely tho pastor's work, but iLiy |8 & inlatake, Truo, the pastor can do aud ouglht to do mich towards it, but it 1s not best that 1t should be done by b sione. It is not & Lenlthy aud permanent growth whore s dougre- ation 4 built sumply around a pastor, Lo is far ettor to gather poople vue by vue and family by fawmily through the labors and julusuce of thowu already i the church snd congregation, Buch » growh is likely to bo perwanoit aud abiding. Naw, hero {u & work in wbich you can sll enzago,—1000, wo.aen, aud childron,—iu the church and oue of it. You doubiloss alf have now church-going fricads aod acqualutances. Wil you uoi make a simulisneous wifoit to gathier large number of thess to our public sorvices, and prayor-mestiugs ard Fabbsthe schools? Birangors will ue likely to cowe iu the faturo, as lu the past, and more so, uuinvited. B sure to give them such & weloome that they will love 10 cuie sgun. Wheu you see straoger, 4o uot wait for a formal {niroduction, bus kindly approagh bim aud let bim fsel that youaro glad to see*him. No strauger sboulit ever comie to our services and gu out with uo ouo to syeak to him. "1 wish you would con- sider yourssivos & duly organized Commities of the Whole to welcome ana make at homo every strapger wiio shall come t0 any of our services, bbatls ¥srvices, and prayer-meativgs, and Babbath-school. Aad in resiact to thues 0 needs Lo be (uhistll wayiti) a grest reform among many of wembe:s of tue chareh. For some resson, 1 know not what, & Iarga numnber of our paopla neem to hiave little topatd for moy of our mervices boyond thoss of Rabbath morming. Thoy come regularly i the murning, ana aro sa teguiarly sbecut ih tha eventng. Buppuse all the members would do tho wsams, what would be the rexnlt? Why, the pastor would Le_here, and wonld preach to a fow strangers. But what impreseion of the church would tuoso strangers obiain? You caa all neo at once that they wonld not ba hkoly to come aften whore thoru was auch & notable abarnce of the mombors of the church. Now, if {t in best lo have s Habbath evenwg preaching sorvica, it i beat that tho mombers of the church, as & rule, should attend that servico. The Sabbatha Lere are not Ioalnd with sorvices, 88 in many parts of our land. lu my church 1n Boston, for examoln,—aud the ssma was ganer- ally trae in that cite,—wo bogan thn day with prayer-meating at 9530, At 10:30 we had presch- g, with & goud cougregation, At 20 mnutes bufore 2 was our Habbath-school, Atd wass second preachung-sorvice, whnn we liad the grest congregation of the dav; and in the evening there was s prayor-meoting with an average at- tendance aa largo as the mormng preaching- mervice. To attond theso five aurvices (and there weto tuore whodid) made a Iarge day'a work, But we have ouly thies services now, —preaching moruing and eveuing, sud Sabbath-school in the afterooon, 1 ropoat it, we need & raform 1o fo- niect to thesn services, mud the vpening of a new vear in our chitreh-life and n our ralations 84 hastor aud peonlo s & good time to make it More mewbers of the church should be 1o tha Babbatb-schiool. Wo need more workers. Wo bave tho prospoct of & largo iucreaso of acholars to-da; niall they Lavo leachiers ? Our praye: mectin, ould bo at ouca doubled in atteud- ance. ere is 00 good reasou why they shonld oot be, aud it would gruatly angment our power 84 8 church if they wero. Aud tho samo in true of our Sablath-eveuiug eervice, Hhall this ro- form take place? or sball it be bogun to-day? I hardly need say that I do not make this pira for my own sako. I have ouly s cominon intar- ent with my brotbreu in_promoting the wolfaro of this church, It 18 tor me to poiut out before you Low that welfaro may bo secured. It is for you and mo togotoer to determina whetlior wo will undertake to socuro it. Wiat do your hoarts say to this? If I were to call fur & vote, would yon a!l vote that our sorvices, slike on the Rabbath and dating the week, weluding tho Habbath-rchool, shoald nos in the future suffer through your sbsence or neglect ? .We nead also to emplov mara taleata in the work we bave to do. - Wa have a great amonnt of unemployed, or partially nnemployed, talent iuthis church. A swarm of bees in & hive wonld never fill it with honey in the tino ot gatbering it 1f only one 1n ten or twenty hiad part wit. No more will a church do well its work un- less the groat body of ite members can {n vome way bo enlisted "in It is tho workiog that rathers hoooy, and not the drone. Weo neod moure workers iu this chburch, and must have them if wo sill seek large fruporiu‘ Who 18 ready to esy, *'Hero am I, send me"; or, “Speair, Lord, for Thy wervant bearoth ™7 We need more active workersin tho prayer-meel ings, in the Sabbath school, aud in fuco tu face labor, from hoase ta bouse, from wan to maun. A your pastor and iriend. Iinvite und urgn you to seloct vome kind of work upon which you will enter this yenr,—work that, 1 vour judgwent, will yromoto the prosperity of this churcl Wao ought alwo to complets the work this yoar of revimni our cataloguo of thoss who'were in no souse with us or of us only that wo had their vamos. Bomo of thedo liavo boou already cut off. Others should bo st an eatly day. Thero was a Iatgo number of those who, for one caune or another, hu) beon turnod, as we hoped, tom- porarily away from tho church. For theso largo amount of labor haa boon performed tho past yoar, and not without encousaring results, Thin iabor shonld be continued this vear, Atl should be done that Curistian kindness and fidelity can suggest to Letp thoso who bave boou tarued amde or disconraged, and to reatore thom to their placos in the Church, Wo sbould put around them every vocial sod Chris- tianinfluonce wo can; wa should remind them of their covenant obligationa; sbould show thewn how much their brethren and sistors need their co-oporation, aud thiud by all mesns ock to win thom to the nbediance of the truth. DBut, if all thero moans fall (snd we hope thov will not fail), fidolity to Chuwst esnd the hunor of tho Uhurch will' require that their places in the Church shall bu vacated in name a8 well a3 in fact. No Church can liope for a heslthy and wigorons obareh-life and prosperity that allows itself to be losded year after yoar with a largo nofl{ of delinquents. Wo canuot coutinue the load of the past yoar. We are also to remember that wo have entered the centenmal yoar. We sball all want s part in the contonnial work sometime duriug the year. Ahis work will fall beavily upon the pastor. From my relations toour University and Semi nary an zousual amouunt of work will bs expecl ed of me this yonr in the intercsts of bigher and suored learning. It i a year that will occur but once in your lifotimo or mive, and wo can afford to make unusual efforts and eacrifices to meet 1t demands. Wo are not to forget, but are rather to give tha furemont place to, the direct work of evan- golization, A few couverts bave been wou to brist aud baptized tho past year,—just an aver- age of one s mouth, hope and desire that a much larger number sbiall bo gatherod this yoar, Aud wo need not may “Tiocre are ver faur months and then cometh harvest." Godisas able and willing to work it July as in Jauuary. His trath and His Bpint aro a8 mighty now a8 they will bo & buif-your houce, Bouls unssved aro in a8 great danger now as they will be then, Befora tho Lalf-year passes, sowe of us who aught to ba reapers in tho Gospal harvest-field may be in our graves; or some sheaves now roady to be fnthawd may perish on the fiald for the lack of Iaborers to gather them into tho gar- ners of the Lord, In all this work wo must work together ; muet sombine our sirength; must Liolp one another, nod all help the pastor, I newd your co-opera- tion, sympathy, sud pravers. ———— CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR, BERMON BY THE REY. JOHN WILLIAMSOX. Yosterdsy moroiug the Iev. Joha William- son, peetor of the Wabaah Avcuue Clhurch, preached on **Christian Behavior Away from Homo" to a large congrogation, Tho reverond eponkor selooted an his text: **Ahstain from all appoarance of ovil."—I. TAcss,, v.: 22, The fol- lowiug is the sermon ; Thu restraining powor of one'’s acquaintance i & most effective elewont of social police. It in usually much easler to sin among straogers than swoug friends, We feel even tho lotiuence of impure people. They are more api thau tho pure to publicly ieport our conduct, An ac- quaintauce to coustantly accompany any oue iy s good a6 an avarage conecience, Conecienos wav be offeuded 4o long and so incessantly s to becomo mute, but whowe acquamtunve cau be depouded upon fur such convenient accomoua- tlon? e is slnwst certain to divitigo the dark regret wheu we would give worlds to keep him roticent. Wo all wisely try to give no one such an advautage. Uy our pure wud simple lves, abstaiviug fiom all appearance of evil, lot us unpress oach suquasintauce thut upou us hs can have nothiug disagreeabie to tell, Why this universs! propensity to tell what wo know to tho discredit of ono another, I sm uoable toexplalu; but, iuco such fs the fact, may we not behieva it to be God's beunevolent forowaruing sgalust tLo dead which fuauds the tale-bearor’s roport v fact? Bometimes two pursovs get mutuall bound to conceal each otuor's faults. In auc! casen, but littlo nood be toared by tho surprises of mutnal revelatious, Jor, siuce both aie to blsme, eafoty iies tu concealwent, No matter bow gilded tho provocation, never oxpose your- relf to such a buzard, Let no acquuintsuce live very close to your daily hfe. Tuo fsrgest pum- ber of our ntentions should be kept & profound vocret, Be s krand volume, whoss wtroductory imges, ouly, have been b otliers perused. A {mux cousts to bo eutartainiuy atlor it 14 road. Exbausted tuings me cstcomed rubbish, ‘I'he podsible pawer of an oufatboued acquasintance 14 ever an inceresting uncortainty, Tho best of our souls was moaut for Gud. T'he purposs of all culture should be 10 make wmen thoroughly scceptable to (tud. A thousaud thiogs bappen in every lifo which no oue but God has sny nght to koow, An agquaintencs i oue to whow we lLave committed many of our thoughts, who bas boeu DOAT U4 in OUr WArmONE wino- tious, and who bas persousliy felt tuo 1mpressivo fuct uf our resolution. A Wise persou bas uo con.ddential fizo ul but bls Croator, aud iy so- crot Iife s uurovealed mave to Heaven, The ox- tunt, howover, to which wo aro jutlueuced by vur acquaintsnce can bardly bo exagyarstod. Hote is plaly disclosed Qod's mathod of m.ulslln' mcn by baviog them mapsge one snothier, Mu. tual soquaintauces do tore tuan ail elus to bold eachather fuithlal to practical docency. Where we ¢ versonally woll kuows, andhave scalsl and po- NUMBER 322, cuniaty interenta inval t but walk 'S 3 With spile, uwu;n“a-_:l?f.‘}.,‘,". gf,“,“gnu‘non.mg = -;n;vm;;:mu of tho prosance of mondy mill b newer auit neat: ou famites mil fllan O aro q Cusbled to - display, trate baiter breoding, and in tasto amd wosring- apparel will be more careful; onr bow witl be 1aurs polits in our awn town than wharg we only tarry for 8 dav and never exect to come again. We pann certain hoosos in onr own town without being evan tempted ta enter them, whown mimis Inr attrantiveness whon 500 mules'away proves qyulte irzesistiblo, It 18 well that wa Avarywhore ool that wa ara watched; to feck that evermare wo are being followed by the keou and eritical Wa noon get uaed to the Omniscience of (o, We havn praduaily ceanc to cara mich for Hira, ey of an scquaintance. ( because His fearial threateuinza are 8o fong dos | Isyad. Maybe God would have us rospect His rlmu of providence rather than our opimion «f ia will. Possibly the factof Gad's omuiscienco wan nover {ntonded to be imorednivo overy wo. ment. Yon know tow hiard 1t in to realize that (God's eyn 1 resting upon you every hour, aud that His impartial justics is permancntly record- ing each demerit againat the dread day of witi- mate acconntability., Now the plain fact 18, much an wo may lament its shameful impioty, that tha sverago man of ordinary commercial prudence carns one huodred timen more fur tho adsetnn criticisn of bis buman scquaintancea than for tho frowning disfavor of tho Almighty. After »ll, may it not be God's way of watching mo. to have them watch une suother? To win the ap- proval of acquaintsncos is onn of thewmarked difforencns betweon mavage aud eulightenod o- ciety, Tobo away from home ig to Lo whera your serquamintances sre not. It im to losu ths ‘moat potent of all restraints, Thera many good ressons wliy one may he fouad away from howne. Home ia the best of all \)h:cu tobe moxt of the timo, becausn hero tuthe real contio of Life-work, The bowmeis sutocratic. Its demands upon the man are re- lontiess. To entablish and keop & home will provoke the unwoaried ellort of the most in- dustriouns ond united warried pair. In working for your bome, however, you in reality work fur saciety, siuce socicts 1a Mimply An Basociation of mote or lexa effectivelv trafod homex. What~ ever there is in huaan sociuty of excellenea or unwortliness, pre-oxiste in univorsal domestio Iife. Good bhomos are creationn, not growthw, Tuo1des of bome is doubnicsn divine, but the delailod embodiment of the tdes must be ne- comphished by the exill and assihwity of conjugal ca-labor. To know Low to wixely aid 1 crenting 8 hamo of Four 0w, you mum viett U 8 sugeess- tnl humes of others. " No one should be found anay froin home without good reusots. ‘Lo lenvo home becauo of s fushionaule periodicity gov- eruing suck depactares i all wiong aud to bo condewned. Wo may anuualiy, ur oftsuer, leave our homos fur & recrealive rexpits tnot, returning again, ne may enjoy them with in- crensed ralish. W are so made that we cannot but tire of that with nhich wo cea-eiessly asno- ciate. We noon foast to satiety upon whatever we at fizut greatly oujoy. Wou have no friemds 0 precious, nor any experieace birwod onottgh to maiutaio theirimitial popularityafter tho infu- ential atwactivouens of novelts has worn away. Vacations aro vormal, and are olugnontly ealled for tha soul by itaslf, The noul 1r not vosceless. ‘Tuere wuo cry as thrilliug, uor any ureenzy more inyiting, than tho uttorance ol “the woul's dosire for the rest of change, Wo all grow weary of the seclusion and drudgery of domestia pursnits, From these unavoidavle suxities God would, doubtlens, bave His cinldcon flee nwav. Wo do nos ead to go sway from home because our homew are uppleneant. but becaiso the most thoroushly excollent of all our psswions, 10 timo, becomew, through pervistent mouolony, intoler- sbly irkeome, To know the value of good homo wo must, for a meason, Le deprived of ft. Woaro uot mastors of & plan of Iogic couvincing enongh o sutliciently ussuro us of tha worch of our homes, uor 18 our peravnel expenience of their bouotits & sufficient occasion of appreciation. Wo como to knaw the full valuc of a good thing by losing it. 'This nocosmity may seem malovolent, but such, I om persusded, I8 the order of the All- Wise. Wuat' so swoet as work, and for whaso Lomo would you part with your own after vaca- tion? Thero can Lo no roalrest without loaving home. Noooe can rocreate in the prescuce his minsion. Coucern for auy interest s moro arduous than service. ‘To feel that you ought to work ts Larder than to work. ‘The fact is. noarly all viluablo mou are being nitinod by thoir employments—exhiausted of energy s the least meritorious dircctiood. Excessive industry ina maliguaut form of 1nsanity, Artificial wants have piactically ouslaved our best citizens. They aro prossing aftor fortunvs they du not necd, aud which, when occasioually secured, thoy tind thomselves unfitted $o enjoy. Burely the ex- trome burden of secular indastry is tho cur«s of our timo, Only now and then a man who cau spate the lafeurs to live 1n -be higher regions of manhood. Now, as loug as iudustr.0.18 men are at home thoy will sLidu in boudsgo 1o business, Our peraovality in 1ts nobler estates is boing 1o~ periled, Wo are not able t3 devoto ourselves to God. His wooiug spirit alwnys finds us engaged. Chiristinn men are fou weary for prayer-meetiugs and occasiooal wmssionnry calls. ~Slumber s mora uviing on_ Ssbbath day thau worsiup. Buudsy motning finds the lwge majonty of Curist'a avowed followers thoroughly exbausted, ixascible, and forlarn. The ternblo wa=k has worn them out. Ihis may bo all wroug ond needless, but it caonot. I fear be corrected. Ia behslf of God and our own cnsluved spirituahty, I would pload “for at lesst an aroust® vacstion away from bhotmo. We must make the care of our sovuls a part of our duily emuloyment, and accopt 88 our roward congcious soul-growth, To be twico the man, aud only oue-half as wesltly, should immodiato- Iy provail s our growing awbition. Our wesry upirits now fmploro our choteo for futolligent lawnre, 3en will not take tho time toquired 10 hocome good. Christian excellonce in not s gift, in & woment, from ileaven Dby the favor of Uuod's munificent groco, but an attaimment of bumsa Jabor under tho inspiration of the Holy (Gbost, You can no more acquire s Chrmtiau cousience without timoand elvart, thau you can chemistry or Latin, Even the limited leisurs wo do try to'dovote to our souls i owbarrussed by burdensome procccupations, Wo must got out of sight, and, it possible, out of hearug of ail of our accustomed plave for gaining lvelihood aod propertv. A great number of Chostian peoplo are now abuut to fndulge in au annual vacatiou away from home, They are weary ana meau to rout. 'The rosson of tho year is moat propitious. ‘Iho pressing wants of the mnlti- tude bave beou wet by the suporior businass ap- licatton of thespring aud eariy summer ; Naturo # robed in 6 wealth of verdant solendor ; tho children are awhilu roleased from tbe exactiig toatine of the primary school ; sumwmer lanu- tudo haaalroady quits overcome our enfecbled nerves, wid the conventionalZintercuauge of the amonied of wocinl lifo in, il the wuuiny, aus- pended. Now we have Nature's pormismon o go. Home will ook oceaa-surf aud broszes ; others Wil riso to Alpine sira and toward frosts unyiclding ; the charms of simplo rural soclu- siou will eifectually beguile the ore discern- 1R ; the pure sky of tus Pacitic will canopy many & hardy waudorer, sad tho traly magnii- ceot reaches of our iniaud-seas will prove an area alysian to countloss througs of tho ovou loss protentious. lu at loast two rospects thedo surging Losts aro altko—thoy are all nway fiom botwe, sud they sio all sooking eutertuin- ing recreation, ‘fhis bright and choerfal timn, upon whose satisfactions many lave mlready eutersd, aud toward whono early beginuing o tmany mora ara iinuationtly turuing, 14 & season fraught with ponls, It is dangotous to romain at bume aud 1t is poculiarly dangerous to go away from boma, 1€ the Curistiau wul bear his Divine Ssvior with bim, ne nocd not foar. I would urge tlns com- panionsbip, if for no nobler rensou, for the sake of emiuently prudential considorations. Away from bowme sod Jargelv defensule: 0l CannuL como to bs too well protected, wince thy Lord Jesus Christ is available, ordinary cow- wercial prudence would dioiate an immohate choicoof 1im, Qo whero yon pleans wud in ways belitting your stuiion in suei a fwl not to ** take the nawa of Jesus with you,” Yo are * to avoid all appesrance of ovil," il to di 0 you must be alive sud cousecrared. Ponibly ot will Tecroate alono, or agsocistud with s v imited nuwbor. At loast, you wull uot teel the restrainiug niorcy of your fawiiar neighborhood acquaivtancod, Wo Il need Chirist within tu re- atrain our tendency to evil, and to dircot L | moment's choice. Mauy behave whon thoy are away from bowe with such & ead prodigality of wiotivy 84 10 tnako thom ugres tha whole trip at its counlusion. Muat pouplo walsge to gel nid of money quite profusuly wheu they aro away frown howe, ‘Ihis is ufien luuocent and uuavoidsble, but sowesimes it is done to yn- prous vld or transient ac:usiutauces with a cow- plimentary uotice of our wealth aud liberatity, whoily ficutious. however, and utterly unwar- rauted by tho roslity of our privste forcuue, To heve s pleaty of mouey {4 very desirable, indeed, and to savmn to Lave when they du net, all mou more oF lovd zonlously attewpt. Away from hows, too, mon are respuoted acvordivg to tbe wmoney they distribute sad the subetan- ous can afford to expend a amount of ‘money for personal gratilleation, A s that the Lody really noeds, and the mild indal-| f;unccu it can, without injury, bear, are excaed- ugly tnoxpousive. At homa'oar acquaintancen 82HUMO 10 cara Lo know oxncily wiist wa do with: our meana, and we acknolodgo the legitimscy of the liborty they take by the simplicity of oup: requirements atel tha lunocence of our disaipa= tiona. Away from homoour insunct of econo- Iy recoived no stich wholosome ancotiragement, | anud yet thero is ho intlueuce so domorsizing to u ivcrllaneond company, such as associats in Mg, or luger at tho choson resart, as even of the number wuo livishly scatters his monay, Undor protest, all bow to lus loador- #hip, 4o an ho does, or leave the charmed circlo, Away frum homo' learn how to Lebave with mouey it yon clianca to have any worth men- fiantog, The winin inflnenco you will exart will z;:.::l::om‘l; lh:: ‘v;mxlnv you exprut. When a 1 uds & dof ot nr ali the byscunders turn and 1t tho attention of n farge mass of mon be 3«4:«(1, no ueLter dr.:v\cn <an bo planned than to: 18056 of a faw duliamin thefr proseuce, Ihera 18 8 wacical charm in’ luvesting & dollar roga:d- lees of huw to whom it may belong. 1f sny of you detira to do gieat goueral gnod, snd to &lonty God whet you ato awny from homo, in) o way can yuu b6 more moralis impressive than » by eareluils’ toniogg down your cxponos. | To be Yery dreo in uging money i the prosonce of. strangars 1a & proetty pood sign that your aupply in very hmited, while thasa who bave abundance can aiford to bo called impecanioun. The man who than gots nd of i mones, at the samo time gets rid of his character. Iu tino, behavior auay from home khould aiways be excesdingly economicsl, since the only thiug that eyer causod us tu regret our Juuruey is 1.4 cxpeure. When it in all over, Low often wo regrotfully*winh we bad remsived at home, As Chrustians away from butne we shall almoet. cortainly meat old Triendn and acquaintauces wio ura not aware of our great chaoge, To bo trus to Christ and our pureat convictions, undor thesa circumstances. wilf be profoundly trying. Some ten are converted lato in life, ani long sfter ! they havo formed many unfortunato acquaiut ances. T'o teil, with hiauls decision, your old and_sinful shnociates of your nw purposen, Lopes, atd knowledge, will donbtioss bo embare rasriog, but it must bo done, Such & coutension In tho prico of continued inuocence aud spntual power. 1 xympathize with the timidity tha fears. to emphanize s now relicions expericuce, lowt loly alarm Le troatod with derision and pirest } abriezation bo rstncally condoled. The maw of position and influence, converted lato in lifo, hay A Lieavy burden of theso embarrassmonts to bear, | Ta etcon influouce Batan exerts upbou men 1 b8 what ho causow then to exert upon tucir com- pumons. Goxs provideuce, howaever, sarely cares forthe dear cuildren of Ilis graco, Tho pereecutions You nuticipate from old acquainte ances, God will practicatly disarm, Awav from home, it 18 unpoitant to know how to form your traument seiuaintances, You will como to kuow n fow neopie, and. gonerally, withe out the convenieut formality of au iutroductivn. Cirsnmstances will thruss sowe one upon vour notico. or, with simlar pracipitancy. you wilf ar- Test tho attontion of anolber. Uut from tho mutual accident you will iswue acquainted. Noth- iug can bo waid to euide your choice, becauso your chuico will uut bo largely coosulted, You will not intoutionally solect maby neqnaintances, You will ot uood wany ; for, if you are thought. ful, yon wiil always have at least oo thoroughly congouial fricnd with vou. In planningtospend evou u Yory brief vacation away from home, waya includo, a4 tho essential eloment of health- ful recreation. a good, Christian sompanion, We caunot mako our owa reflections, wiso, varied, and eutertaining a8 thev may be, our suflicient compaoy. Lotier never leave home at ail tham to o unattondod by u genial associate, Wo cans not fully appreciato avy worth or beauty withe out tho aid of an mtimate kindred mind. Now you aro at liverty to =ocially confide ln any atrangur whom you kuow to be a person of sscret prayer, A man who Lkueels at his bedside to pray when, as ho believes, no humsu sve ob- serves tha sct, may be implicitly trunted, Bel- dom, bowever, bocowe endesred to stiangers. Inexperionced travelers, wmith some movey, ate very apt to be followed by shirawd aod wolldis- guised scoundrols, without romisaion. and en- coursgod by froquout successes. Away from bomo, the vory bhest class of acquaintances to form 18 coildren, 1f you are at all adroit, yon will bavo no troublo to win thewr confidence, aud, because of their iunoceuce of ngo and free- dom from purses, nons will suspect pour mo- tives wor intercept your plaus of enjoyment, "I'he best of mdult acquaintaucos, teo, are formed turongh tho childien, Whoen s mwan s awsy from Lome, tn & variety of uasulicipated ways, be will be thrown into brief acqumntance with Indies, People are usunfly safest i 1eputation, 8y weil an in real character, if, wheu they aro away from bome, they restrict thoir scqusiut- auce to the sex to which esch may belong. Notbing 1u this world is more uvcertaiu than character, and nuthing 1s easier to concea! than & bad one. 1hors is uo maral injury sustalned by passiug & good chatacter withou revognizing it, but iucaleulublo uuschief may result irom knowing su impurs oue, oven 10r & short time. Not to know the good people we meet msy bo to us a personal loss, but not to know the bad coes whom our uifort to fiud the good would reveal 18 o grout blosmng. 1 would not, however, ad- vocate absolute noo-iulerconrss between men sod womon when all are away from home and mutually unacquainted. It is vot sinful, uor ia 1t even imprudent, to extruwporize at acquatnt~ auce with un agroeable lady whom you never saw beforo wnd nover expoct to sce aguin, It 1 immoral to teacn, nnd it is grossly Licontious to believe, tha: tue only mutual sdumiration cien and women foel in buxual, 'To the puio and cul- tivotad, such association is moral aud estbotical. Away from homo lot us behavo as though we expocted to moct again, and permanently, sll whom we then soe for the first time. T'o meot & rson once is & good rouson why wo will meet in agmu. No watter huw rewoto from our prosent rosidonce tho Urst meeting may have oc- ourred, tho chauces aro equally goud to ropest it. ‘The circumstances, t0o, undor which we 1weet the socund timo are usually more interest- iug than at tirat, ‘These ofion develop a touch of mutuat dopendence, ‘Ihe vory ono whow ad a #tranger wo dirdainfully sligbted may now have bocome, thruugh tho equity of futtuns's caprico, the almonor of our toacfully-bosuught bouuty. It fs wise, uven away from hows, to courteously rospect tho poswibility of rommion dopondeucs. Our broad so-tay may bo sssured, but whenco our supply to-morros ? Kiuduess and courtosy will atways by exiromelr secvice- able giaces away trom bows, If you dosire to lourn bow (o treat strangers, enter 80y outer- prisng dry-goods storo and kuow. Tho mer- chunt underutatds oxactly How (o trost 8 man to ot his mouoy and good will; should oot we, too, answer vur rosponsibility to Curistisn politoness and for the iutrinsio nobility of our personal plonsuro? Away from homo Luth s pecoliar otiquoits. ‘Tho woueral tomlenoy Ls as real as 1t 14 nbonnuable to usurp the bust Shauces wad to indulge 1 Loorisl masuery. J'oliteness s palitic, sud 8o at bome it 1 carvout. It is not, how- ovor, &u jushinct of naturo, but & laborious as- comphsument of culture. Blen wre liko the lower auumals o ther uaiversal rush for the vavory chupces, Selthhness 18 the law of our uecessities, Qur piscticos, if not our cou- seienced, profoundly accopt the *law of tho vur~ vival of tho fiitest” in the race for bread. ‘{ hiaro aro tho aditirable placus to see men ilus- truto 8 cloar Darwinlan gouesls: tho cabun of & stewmer when dinner is sunounced, aud the twouty oubutes' tespite allowed s train for ro- fredmetits. llaw&ou 480 Low mauy people bo- hava as tbuy should not whon away from nome, Contisaied With our tubles at homs, therestraine g puwer of acquaintence Ju plaiuly soeu. \\"m at home, or st the revidence of an foti- wate friend, would think of esung with bis bat on, sud all unwashied and yocombed ¢ Is nos roal cOUTtouy at ubnoiete grace with American unvolord? Away frora hotme you will bo tempte od 1o couceal your twith iu God, sud your uc- customed romombrance of His sppoinied ordi- tunced. What Cliristian 1nan ever 5poke £o you ol bis suprema coacorn whon you Were 165 awusy from howe; and wuon did you over surpilse by mmilar rovelation ? ‘I hwological coutroversy cowmon euough vverywubre, bt how rare a; frost and sweel tostimontes of childlike ruligious trust, Away frow Lote to co tauly kuow ‘wio childron of Sntay aru is perfectly easy; but es- aotly who Christ's children are 18 not sa clo: ‘T'o bo sctuully colebraied for faithitul chureh sud prayur-meeting sttcodune when we are asay froi koo, bow fow are ambitious, The Lest of neople strungely r their vigilauoe on the Sab- hath in vaeatiou. Thew 16 fu Varw in almosy On tho Sabbath mea now, every- 1 ".'fl’e'.’g."c’f,',.u to wo.k that |huil way do th plonmog, To each of us all other peopie ither scjuaintauces or non-aojuslotances. f flun -: knlmv were onoe thosa we did wod ow, aud thuse we do not know msy to-niafrpw be kuown. ‘The poseiblo should siways be trai- od au kindly sy the sctual. Al Lossibis thiagh