Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1875, Page 2

THE CIICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1875, THE PULPIT. The Rev. John Williamson on tho Causes and Consc- quences of Church Quarrcls. The Lessons of the ool Race, Expounded by the Rev. BDr. Locke. Conlinuation of Dr. Fallows’ Discussion of the Relation of Christianity to Human Progress. CHURCH QUARRELS. BENMON BY TP IEV. JOUN WILLIAMBON, The Rev. John Williamson, pastor of tho Wa- bash Avenus Methodist Epiecopal Church, preached yestorday morning, taking as his toxt ¢ Pray for tho peaco of Jernsalem,—Paalms, ersif., O Mora than 1,600 years ago, 8t. Cyprian, though favored with no fullor than the dim onlightens ment of the Latin Church, enid: * Howho Lioaks tho peaco and unity of the Churehis ayaiust Chrint; ho who gathers elsewlero, apart from the Church, seattereth abroad.” David cxhorta us to * Do good unto Ztow" Isaink fmplios, with an artful pathos, an urgent invita- tion to love the Cluirch : * How besutiful tho fear of him that saith unto Zion, Thy God refguoth,” Qod Liag confidenco in tho Churels ¢ for {Ilo added to it such aa shall bo saved." Tho carly Chiristiann, nglow with the fospiration of tha Masfer's presence, ** wers of ono heart, and had all things in common.” This affection- ®Lo unity was porsuneive, na ** believers wore ndded to the Lord.” The Church, too, frosh from God and influential in impreseivo servico, swap popular, sinco, * Saul, himself, essayed to join tho disciples.” Trivato difforences wero not suffored to embarrass clurch-feliowship, for “ I'nnl and Darcabss gathered tho Church to- rethier.” This was tho condition of spiritual vrokperity, as tho enrly ** chnrches ucroased in namberdaily.” Christ’s expression of thovalueof tho Chureh is, ** that 1fe loved the Church, amni gave Ilimnelf for it." Warrantod by theto atate- monts of {nspiration, may we unot agreo with Slelaucihon : * The perpotuity of tho Church, Ile commauds that fis doath should bo ehown forth, * and [y aupper bo admiunistered until Ho camo’ "2 Tho Chrch of Chriat to be at all Influ- entinl must livo in peace, not evon fighting sin, Quareling of ovory description, and occasionod by tho most commondable 6f objects, is ovil, and withont & «hadow of jusdfication. When differ- cuces of opinton arigo they ehonld atonco bo seitled by deforring to iho justice of su tnpar- tinl arbitrament, The Church, a8 well ns the civil govornment, providos for the fair and kind- Iy reconciliation of tho differences it mticinntos without recourss to an uneympathizing publice. Tlio Church, in all of ity rolations, 1 our relig- fous bome. I many respects the most profonud seercoy I8 implied. Oar domestic troubles aro ot relioved Ly narrating with circumstantial do- talls to any disinterested sizanger, or ofllelally uvrclated-acquaintanee, tho full burden of their mournful facta, It 1s cloar that men will not abldo vy tho legal adjustment of disputes unless they ara forced to do so. Thote Is wise aud tharoughls tosted law in overy church, but, not boiz compolled to do 80, the members will not reain at rest uoder ity decision agninst them., Tho churches mako théir own rules, and then decline to roepoct them when thes do not hag- monizo with thoir pregent wills, ‘I'bhere neod bo 0o Church quarrels, The possibility Las been antivipated, and really iutercepted in ndvanco. Throughont the Cuurch profound sud etornal peace ehould reigu, Thero is, Lowosvyer, so miteh ein atill frily-ntrenched in this divine organs- wation that it membership Wil not submit to thieir otn plans for proventing internal dissen- mous, ‘Uho devil 18 just os plaindy the author and insplration of ‘Charch quarrels ns ke I8 of ‘thuso that divide municipnlitios, arraign onco bappy homes el tho relentiesy arpotity of such mutual autagonism, dexolato und stigmatlzo neighborbioods, aud cm- borrass and diagraco University admivistrations. 11 the devi] Is what Lo iy currantly thought to be, uo {8 surcly at the bottom of tho whole busi- nees, I thoro fa any human deportment that is moxt thoroughly consonaut with Satanio taste, T beliovo 1t fs Church dissenslon, The offensa iy not relioved by nlmbuflnfi 1t 10 mutually inllexi- bl consclontiousnoss. Conaclonce never vus- tained o quarrel. It cannot be possible that so diyiue & powor 88 conacionco sbould wandor so widely astray, What in piously known ns con- kcioneo I ynsrroling iy, In roality, soit-will, It i8 60 casy for o man to think hitmself conscien- tious whien b Is only stubborn, Tho men who * caneclontiously ” zunrrul in the sadly frequont ritereations of tho Church, are not of the limit- ed pumber who aro pressed to the bedsido of tho dying ; they are not sought Lo cheor by tho lunpiring presence of an agreenblo manhood Beasons of lunocent convivisl rejorcing. A ' con- wseentious " peraon is un oxceedingly disagreenblo oo, unless with it io 18 ablo to nysociate an af- fhuneo of good venso, Ovo abould Lo vary suro bie 1n intolligently right beforo Lo ussumes to be Mmovably * conscientious.” A Church quatrol 14 the robeltion of one or mora of the wombers againet tho ruling of tho vranization, Dillerences of apinion cannot but brijo. wherever mon atiempt Lo associnto in la- bor, Tho vory puiest of Cliristisn bearts may exist whero “1ho intolioctual intarmony s mwowt decided. Real Christions alwayw submit ther iuovitable difforonces _ ta ke sulen all bavo covonanted to observe, Xt in folly to involgh sgainst all docinions at varianco with onr wishos. * Wo complimont onrs as tho era of individuality, Men now have opiniona ! Who bave auinlots in conlliet witn their dosiros ? In thal het wor opiujou, ususlly, which wo ardontly wish 2 When I speak, then, of Church quarrely, 1 danot yuean to refor to the Chureh remotely historical, nor to tho sumo in meraly a denominationsl konso, but to tho individust o~ ciotlon whowo organized nesociation nnd co-opera- Hve roryico form the tine Church of God. Siica there 1 but one God, it iy clear thoro can bo but ono Choreh of God. Qud eannot, according to s forias of our Lhought, have moro than one tuind about tho ossenco of human worship, 1t i doubtful If it 0an bo truly eajd that Jehovah has oven any deelded tasto in mattors of non-essen - tial human opinion. 1f our heurts arg right 1fe 1k bo profunndly indifforent to our mathody of upprosching Iim, ~ Each man, either slono or in denominationul asdoclation, is notonly porinitted but buund to wotship God h: ways that suow to hita Leet. Thoss ways, thougl important to the wersbiper, are not to the Worshiped, A siucers aud dilizently instructed heart is sl thut God can oxpect 3 and, I suspeet, i6 s the solitary turt of carlh Iarga’ enough to arouse the Lising solicitude, " Church of (od hiaa hiad roma torrible di- solsions in the wad and desolato past. 'Lhess slinmelul struggles aro said to bave baen cousci- eutiounly bogun and desperatoly prolonged towain fur Giod what, if necurcd, would, it was supposcd, aiord Him intouee wotiafaction—a universal quethod o buman servics. Iu wy “judgmont thero quarrely were nover meant for the glory of Gody but always for the personal advancemeut of gressive combatauts, Mo fight for thams not for God, “fhera is no God In n quar- rol. T d lite of Josus platuly 10 veul Uod's will upon tha subject of peacs. To bulfer ig botter thun to smito ; and to bo accused Suiscly i $o win hoavonlydisciuction. As caruest tuilowers of she Lord Jusus Christ, we lhave no tiwo to wauto i mugmifying diferoncon of de« yutionnl eathsbica, o whoso very oxisteuce the wind of God must bo wholly oblivivus, It is sn act of Lho highest courtosy 1o trent with greut cousideration the religlots upinons of otherd, Iu the Yagan uatious, generaily, tho priently diguity belonged to bhe civil bead or wavercigy, ‘Lhero was, therofore, burdly a sstmblauce of eccloulaatioal wrangling, Toulifix Masiua by Juperis) pre-ownence diposed of such vague sud uuappreciuted nghts as thoss of HII“VIIEII‘ consolenice, Tho Jows Lad not risen ta ths ucbly plane of porsiblo occlosiagtical disvont, througlh devout subsorvicncy to the supremo will of Jubovaly, when thoir dwcousolsto naticushity vauishod Ju destructive captivity, Christ and shu Apostles, if they lad differenges, bad no divisious. Dunig hie irss throo couturjes, tho Christinne sufforod st from the vufurcement of wule socicnt laws whick forbade sy Towau citizen tu worslip sny dividiby not' wb (b timo legolly acknowledgod, ¥ram Copstanting 10 Charlemagno, sud from Clatlsmaguo to the Reformation, the $hureh wewnghs rapidly the varied dissent kuonu w4 depumivationalticw. Vupery wag va- tablished in England by Austin, tha monk ; and Ronerally prevailed theve until its errora wore rofuted by Wickliffa. On both sides thoro was #anguitary contontion, but nono of thn Christ- like apitit, In the farmnr part of his refin, Ttonty tha Fichih was a Papist, bigoted onowgh o burn the great tranulator Lvndal, and to vol- nminousy writy agamat Luther, and in dofonso of thie soven aacraments of the Papal soct; b n the lattor pert, having fallen ont with the Papo, lig arsumad for humanlt the supreme lead- cr<hip of the Church. From firet to Iast, how- aver, I cannot aco any reaf difforonco in Houry's character, 1 boliove in tho doctrines that can- atruot charactor. Ileroin lios tho only wuiticient tont of trath. Waneod good mon, nid we can- not complacoutly tolerate any toachings that fail to produco tham. Mon's tntallecta are fntlailely soundor than thelr hoarts, Tha only doctrinos for which the Church may innoesnily contoml ara thuse upon which the ¢hnatllenesw of ity momborship daponds, Tho Chutel has 1o miy- s1on but to make good mon. It 48 not my purpose, however, to dwe!l upon tho inoxcusablo remiauess of tho historleal Chureh,but upon the eveu more intimate and dostructive ovila that fvado our modorn ecclos slanticlsm, oud us of Lvangalia- the ancecws, Tha old battlo of tho do- nominations hasreopened tn the bitter hoatilition that provail among tha factionn of individual churchos, Of conrso, I aasumo that tho nntag- uniama to which I refor aro not noedad, 1noker wisnly temaris : *Thero can nothing como of contontion Lut the mutual wasto of tho partics contonding 3 i)l 8 commen enowmy danco in the aslion of tisem both,” Clwech quarrels procosd fram the robollwus bumno epirit. Church mont- lLiers. anticipating tho cactaitity of Irrecanctlable Qiapiitos, hinvo legislatod fully in rogard to their dmposition s bub when what they hail coolly lovked tor suddonly bronks upon thom. leual precantions are forgotien in bitior and resontful peronal feeling. 1 havonotoie word of -poloi(y for theso tusoemly formus of strifo, and yet by knowing thoir eauscd possibly somo practiesl cxpediants of curo thay bo ndduco.l. Among tho many causon of Church quarrls, L eoukd nama ay conspicnons a want thronghout tho membership of original denomiuntional sgreement, Coms oontiug on tho Pharisces aud Horodlnne, San- dergon aptly says: ** Lo destrog the happy union that should be ‘among brethren, they that wore suangers and enemics to ono another bofore prow to su unhappy and curisol unity among themeelvay, In sowe such way do our church memberd often unito to ovorthrow tho kingdom deanoil of darkness! 1t has como to bo fashionably, if, indeed, it {8 not & mattor of positiva necoasity, to reerwit onr church-momboraitlp by annual rovivals ol faith, cousecration, and mor- vico. Tha naccessions thus galned lavo not ~ had tha benefts of thorough Bundav-sehool tuteraze, Thoy aro an luzither- ing of all sorts of denomitintional partialities. Duiring tho fotvor of ravival onthusigum, ints- foctual discordanca was forgotton, bit naw that the alarming tranquilbty of almost perfoct spiritualapathiyling superyened, these differences ato magnutied. Great denominational loyalty should bo en- couragod a8 a primo conditlon of peaco, Kno Tug how binrd (¢ in to reconcito contliety of opiu- ion, all good men should combine to prevent them from arising. Whon the nssurng wpirit Uny satistied you of personal acceptance with God, carcfally examino the tondencies of your donominationul taste. llemose ovory probne bility of & dizputo with a fellow chureh ‘mombor. Discutesion, generally, 3 nat in tho tuterost of Lruth. Itisn conilict of at least two intellects for tho masters. Men do uot fool swuot- tempered wheu overcamo in debate, If, how- over, you clianco to find yonracil b momber of & denomination whoro tubology you cannot sj- prove, submit 1 silonca, or kindly withdraw to a cougenlnl fold. Avoid all contravorsy. A con- troversy {8 as sure to end iua quarrel, as igni- tion is to Inflame, or as passion 13 Lo ataltity, you concludo, notsithatanding, to remain, do o by bowing to the dieciplinary standards. You can command your intellost” to do what your tasta can novor ‘cnjoy, thongh the extrems folly of nuch abueration eannot ba too distinatly amphmsized, Lasto 18 moant &3 gaide your choleo, Anotljer mont fruitful canso of Chureh quarrela is n Ingo doebt—largo, of courso, in proportion to the paying power of tho mombership. It may bo true, 83 Flavel romarks: *That you will flud somo Christisus who know not whense their mext bread is to cowme, speaking of tha Lounty of thoir God, whilo otlior sume are re- piniug m the midst of plenty,” This is nota common picture. Al snimaly aro proverbially ill-natursd whou thay ara Lungey, God's plan of providence, not of grace, 1s o rodress tho grievauces of appetite and finance, It would ba t[?.mmew batter if only suck oiditlces weee eroot- od aa Churehics could pay for bofore thor are dodicated. Lot every church wubscription bo uogotinted at o bankas soou as pledged, aud whan a sufliciont numbar of theso have boon so- curod and accopted, lot the wacrod entarpria bogia. CGod's conso doed not noud what His chiidren nre uuablo to pay for. Tha progresy of our goneral clvilization wonld doubtloss bo tacilitated by the rosuluto avoldauco of all dobt, We may inuocently Luild for the futuro ouly what we can now*piy for. It is abviously un- fair to sk otbor gonorations to pay for what wo planned aud thrust upon thom. It id said that tho elogant and expousive churchos aro a proper tributo to Almighty God for all iTis wor- cien ; aud that those cannot bo secured without tho incurrouca of a lsrgo debt. Churches, [ am snd to kuow, ara usuully built to exoel thoss who aro 80 unfortunato as to get thoir houses of worship fivst. ‘Tho glory of Uod iy a factor of porsunsion ot aceustomod to proval with sm- bitious Building Cowmlitees ! sud, thou, 'tis vory doubtfal \v’?\othur, or not, God, who diweliy I Tuilcuoribatle wploudar, can mark auy real dlfferpneo botweon what wo call a common aud au eolegant ohurch. Tho eflect of o largs dobt upon the memberhip of a church i to dis- courage it, and when men geb discouraged thoy grow quarrolsome, When tho tide of prospority I rining thero aro but fow complaints, but when it porsiatontly continues to recedo, the best of ordiuary tempors becomo wnalign. Churchen thatare 1 dager of minking nuder & woight ol dobt, cau readily seo a dozun of other ronsons why thoy sbould siok. 'Tha church aftor CGod’s own heart 18 not in debt. It 1ncor~ porate word 1 as good for auy amiount it can bo porsuaded to ussumo, aw Hoavon's own bond, o frantic dotormiustion of oach chreh to oxcol tho preceding oues in maturinl ombelligh- wont, attractive judpit oratory, sod i classie ologance of musie, Las becoma to many wiiy sud davout Chrintiaus intolerably irksomo, Tho congrogations ury grosniug and accimatiog under the onforced burden. A largo number of worthy people aro deterted frow rhurch oiem- borship by its expomsivaness, They canmot think of boing mombora without coutributiug a fair_proportion toward {ho mulntensnco of the soclety; udeod, thoy canvot rotain thelr owy self-respoct and nob do an equal part. Thoss burdonod churches succoed i frightening mon from thoir folln\vuhlll. Thin is & now ground of discourmgoment uvd mo of quarreling. Our churchios, too, should bs models of businosy prudonco and iucorruptiblointegnty, Church business should bo s Jino of transactions in whopo sagacity and honesty no fwir criticiwin should bo warranted, Youuy wen should bo in- vited to atudy aund to imitite, sud old mon to commend nud pnbiish, Whatever the Church doos skould be’ blsweless in purity und wiso in calealation, It our church-members wora nol mare honeat in privato business than the majority of our churches aro i thair incorporato pledgen, Chirist’s cause would be disgraced, wud tho ey- #autial foundations of commercial credit wonld o hapolossly uusattled. Al of tlus juoxeusable wminfortune should Lo &t onco corrosted. Churchios especinlly should ho fimdud by such gratultous suggestionn as this from Jolinsoy ¢ ** Conoerning the practics of thoss virtuen, it is #afont to wminicde uot appresned with supensticious fearn to detorinine aguinat their own inclinations, and to secura thowsulves from dotleloucy by do- lug more thau they belleve wirletly necessiry,” Tubuilding & church there is always monoy onougl uecured to pay for what In reatly needed, the debt incurrad boing compatitiva dinplay sud imposing ornamentation. ‘Fhe iuterent Protoste autistl 18 How paying upon absolutely usoless church-gobts would, tu one brief litetima, legiti- mately compunnded, found a commodions eliap- 1 in” avery unoccupied naighborhood af the i world, awd nustain a diving ministor st . Costly show 18, howaver, proforred to avungelintle succeay, sud bo the world rung oa to eternal douth, Another vory common and very Influential oauso of Chorch dusuntions is the rivalty of as- pirants to loual leadoratnp in the church, Un- fortuuatoly thers are often two or moro mon who ntonsely dosiro the vamo prefermynt, As in political msnipulations, they claim to work wholly through thor frionds, Of coursa Bowe ous or sovoral sro dissproiuted. Now, when mon sro overruled by the tyrauny of auffrage, thoy are diuposod tu rebel ; and in the Chuich, whoro thoro s uo civil suthority Lo romtrsi, nor pelice ta wrrest, they do often ro- bel. When any two mon whu aro prom- ment dna chureh elash yn open rivalry, (he church s, 8¢ once, divided fo sus- toin and urge both, 1lero are two redoubitable der tho ivspicing aud valor- onsluadersliip of thojchampious of thoir own puty atubitioua ! Tho battles Lhat so oftéu oceur be- twaen tho factiond of u dividod church are not productive of very decidod results 3 nob bing able 10 dustruy, thoy ure urterly puable to buitd up, Tha msses of churcl wemberslip are not addicted to quarreling. Buk for tho fow disaf- feoted oues, frum this sourca thora would bd no teoubls, In evury cliurch, i w baif duzen of Edoph can ba kept in Christianpeacd, theea need 0 110 troublo, ‘Cho bien aud Wwomen who st ho dapended upon to do the fighting, In the | event of & deolatation of war, ara not tho par- ties upon whom the blamo reits; nor are thay {lio contestanty who hopo to divide the ady tages. If tho ecrowned heads of Trance, U nany, Anstria, Russia, and Eueland could be in diteed o dwelt in peace, when woult the deeply interested masees of laborors, arisans, and merehants suo thero imperial autocraty for tho precinitation of such hostilitios as have ngain and azam desofatod Enrope and mado monasch« ieal despotiem tha profonudest cutso of tho planet 7 Wara aro not declared in tho Intoroat of the peoplo, but for the peraonal aggrandizo- mont of A fow men whotn tho_inscrntablo provi- donco of God hiay investod with clvil saveroignty. Whon war bogine, if (& inust begin, theso mei Alyented of wrory shred of woarlue apparol, aud turnishied with only the rollance of the puglliat, should bo locked within s strong, amd very limited Qnelosurs to adjust in A porfeetly matural and most” heroie manner the mncoiticont differencos of tho uationallies! Tho parties who make the war whonld also bo tho parties to fight k. This wimplo oyiity would_strangoly abbroviat osist- ing wara, and longthon tho “interval untit the noxt onauto the fullnern of anr apocalyptic millonninw, The authors of all Church wuar- roln ahould alao ho tho sole nntagonists. Ilav- ing plannod tho stnfo, they shonid bo otelnded o adjunt it in thoir own way, aml whern tho malign infoction could not poison the Chureh. If for auy roason & Chureh quurroel comes to thronten, lot 1t never Lo mads & topio of con- versation. Convorsation will always fortilize n differotica. Disputos hava no way of extouding but through the inovitablo misundorstandings of hutaan spoech. A fiu.uml of any kind will vary aoon lo if the peopla who are sustaining it will ho wiso enouxh to rofimn from tatk. Tho buman volco has a remariablo jutluence upon tho human iutolloct. Taik afone will ontabifaf o conviction. You firmly boliove only what you often verbally defoud ;™ and thua ot:ly can you intelligently deny., ‘The pastor, innocontly or othereiso, often bo- comes tho oceanion of @ Church quarrel. Somo oxcellent mon, as they scem to mo, aud good prochors, havo s monrnful fertility of ox- nediouts to alionale tho porsonal sfoction aud divido tho sorvice of & church, Wk vor theao nen go Clurch quareela Tollow thow. Therocan o tig utlier ministerial disqualitieation equal to this great misfortune. Men who bava it in ity rersisiont wnd incurablo form sbould, at onco, ro-oxaming thair call to correct the mistake by winel the pulpit wa chosen. No mtnister iy warcauted to remaln i auy church stter hiy powar to do good hay departed; and luw powae forsakos him, when ho becoues the cause of o chesonsion 10 his chutol. Tho momasrabip ay Lo more to blame than ho, They may bo captious, uniutoltigone and misinformed, novor- thelons, bls opportuuity bes departod. Our Divine Maator was tho *“Princa of Peace," and shall not 1hs ministors, upon whom rosts tho re- wporsibility of contlmuing the work 1le bogan, aypire to somo suck pacific rovalty? Let tho ministor's rexulutions o fow tiet, lot this bo ono: uever to disturl the peaco of Zivn. ‘Tho most fruitful of all tho caunes of Church quurrels fa, of course, a'gonersl want of teal ety sncng oll gocinl classes o tho Chnrel, Thero can Lo noithor tho dishositlon nor tho ability, atmong thoroughilv conseeratad hoarts, to matunily engagoin a Chutch quarrel, According to Tertullian, **anciontly, among the hoathien, professors of Christintity wore ealled, not Clinistinns, but Chrestiant from *chresios,” a word signifyling sweetneen and Leniquity of dis- posidon.” "Lhe pature of areal Christian can- not tind o the common acrimony of Chureh dig- sonsfons anght Lut offeuse aud asversion, If tho worle of eunvorting gince be nn,vu:h-tx. ™Ory i subsiantial than an Riusion of moral soutimont, it mast revait to divest tho beart of nll relish for quarreling. When a man bocumes o Curistisn, unloss holoses his dostructive, malovolent traits of charactor, tlie chango hie hus sxpenionced hias been in reali~ ty valuclead, ‘Tho trie Christian has o submis- Hiva apirit. Tho legal power to ndjnst all diffor- oances must rightfully lio semowbere, Somotimes it 1y vosted i mnjority of tho cotgrogmion, or in aa *ottienl boarl,” or ja a Board of Pristeos, aitlior Chwreh or University, aud. somotimes, it 18 tho will of the pastor alune. 'f'o theso proper- ly constituted authoritios the spirit of Christ, ny imearnatoin tho belisver, submisrively defors, Any othor 5oy of nettling a diftcronce in anarchy, No mau has any mtsslon within n Church whiose governmont hio ik unwiliing to respoct, o curo tho quareisomo tendency, lot more of the Mase to1's mind rost upou tho bolligereuts, ‘Thoro is nabope in tho still further euligutenment of Judgment. Mon are uo nearer uow than ay- clautly to n uniformity of opinions. Tie possi- ble power of Christian discipline to enable a man to aubmy ngainst his inclinations, for Christ's #ako and for the sako of the peaceof tho Charch, 8 our oncouragement, Nowtan suggoests witl practicnl engacity that *itis tho policy of tho nations to hieal interunl dixcords by foraign wary. A Choreh nnking war_upon Satan's Kingdom, will hardly be divided in ity own,” Whon the factions of a Church begin to quartel with each othor, hostilitics agatnat Satau at ouce conso. The prominout consaquonces of Chiuroh quarrels weed not delay us long to \mcll{ raconnt. Whon a Church bogins to quarrel it immodiately censdes to do any geod. Agaln, with Newman, **1a a divided u{mrch w0 rou the onerpy which wan moant to ubduo tho worll preying upon Itsoll.” Tho Chureh wa4 founded to'do n great double work—to socuro tho couversion of ‘men, aud pfterwarts to oducato aud euncble their spintuality. Now, achurcn rent with lnternal dissousions {n powerless to do oither olement of this grost work. Chuistisns are ablo to sfectn- ally plead with sinnors in behall of thoir por- nannrmuuuur.uiun. audd to aid one auather in acquiritg the cunontial gracea of continnad religious oulturo, only by ilustrating i thowme #olvon tuo saving fulinoss of all tho geod com- mended, If tho religion of Jesus Christ will not koop nien from quarroling, iv iwin gonoral 40 wonk aud untelinble ns Lo Le noedlors, VWhon churchios, philantlivoples, or uuiversitios, do- grado honont difforances down to thio low lovol of nerimonlons debate, thelr missions to glorify Uod by benofiting mou terminate. From any religloua interest that peraists ln gfinmmlng‘ e tarually, the real workors aro rapidly alionated. I'heso onlixt fu tha holy warfare, noither to in- clte nor sunpross civil Lotilities, but to pross into extinction the fureigu foo. Valuable Chrlatinus will not remain where they aro per- potunlly tompted to quarrel themmsolves, nor whero thoir esthotical #ouse {s shocked by wite neasing it iu othery, Tho tmen that cannot bo spared aro thoss who Inmst upon resigning ratior thwu to remain and be 1 tarly assailed, or violently defended, The men who are fit for any place in t‘:? woris of the Church aro always hard to re- in. Capital and_real Curistinos are provorb- ially jeslous, Tho community that would suo- cagslully invite tho first must bo able to guar- nuteo absoluto political security ; aud the church fortunate to ontice aud relnin the wecond oioss dwell sn the bomutiful unity of uubroken 0800 . W Church quarrols, perhaps, maluly arlse from the decision of certaln prominent mom- bers, vach to have oll things Lis way; but rea) Christinus rojoico nover to have thelr awn way, but Chirlt's. "Tho msovistion thus boing uncongenisl Christ's followers are alicuatod iu a dv. Churchon and ehurceh interosts that evon ocen- slonally quarrel stand disgraced beforo tho wholo “community, An organization may bo- como imputent through apathy, without sluking in dingraco ; but when it goos to war within jt- solf the ascendoncy of ita shameless instlucts blots with inofacoablo dotiloment ita past and possible record, Quarroling oburch members ara satirieally polntod out as tho anoiated of tho * Prince of Ponco,” Thoso are the ook to whom aa an inheritance tho carth fs promisod | Uchold hero apocimons of the powerof graco to chanpo! Ifere are marveluus difforonces from tho * patural man,” wrought by tho interfor- enco of (od, Himwel?, in Jowus Cinst! The duty of tho Church {3 to vet men froo from thoir bad tondencios, Not sontiment uninteltigibly exalted, but utility most thoroughly commannlace, {a tho rightoons exaction by human society of the Curutian Church, The world of common nonze jofus fAooker in do- clating thut it i not wuiliciont to carry roligion in our'hoarts, a8 fire it carried 10 lotetono; bus wo aro outwardly, v{sibly, l‘)}ll"flllll)’- 10 Ke1vo aud honur tho Jiving God.” Unfortunate tho day whon this bigh demaud ehall b relaxod, Quarroling churchies aro at longth smitten by Heaven's delayed vongeance. ~Thelr candloe wtick ia finally romoved, and thelr ouws illumin- ated commission is caucelled. Altnost every community has ita Joug or recently ensopule chrod churel whose Iifo was foak fu sauguinary glllm:lmg. God'a just snd searchlog provi- once cannnt always onduro such s shocking travesty of wacred {hings. \Vhoro the vonteutiou iu loug and arduous, victary s almost as dentruce tive as defeat. 'To bo exhaustod by s stroko 18 not much vorso that to bo exhansted in a stroks. ‘The victorious faction in a contentlons chureh, sfter the batties, bus not sufiicleat stronghds Lo #o o, ‘Tho spolls anticipated prove, whon se- cued, fatally incumboring dobrls, From theso detailed rotlectivna lot ue, ny » peaceiul, atfuctionate, and aggressive Clinsilan ordanizatiun, receive uuw tho Master's holy m- wpiration, (iod help ns to hive in eavh other's love, If dilfatencea arise, we wiil abide by the adjustment of tho suthority atl now, fn time of peace, couceds ay competent. 1et the dolights ful vovereignty of Chrigt's spirit wway th chureh: the meruion ou the Mount b ity fivet theolarey, and tho hopo of overlnsting rost ita coascliodsly-inspiting song. e LESSONS OF THE BOAT-RACE, NERMON IY THE DLV, CLINTON 1.0CKF. Dr. Clinton Locko preached at Graco Chureh yestorday morming on *The T.essons of the Boat-Raco.” Following fatho full text of hia disconrvo s And every man that steiveth for (he meatery in temporato i1 all thing, now tiey du it o ol guptible crown, Lub we an inCorruptibl Ihians. f2., Abont the tingiuning of this yoar in variots parta of tho conutry, bodios of young men som- menced a very frregulny course of troatmont. Foe the moat part high-apirited and acoustomed to tho utmost frosdom of acion, they volun- tarily bocamo tho attor slavos of ono of their numbor. They agreed that thoy wonld not oat or driuk, or sicep, or waik, nithont lis express perminsion, Thoy impused on themsnlves tho moss rigid rulen of diot, and lead without & mur- mur the chastest aud most oxomplary lives, went to bed almost with ¢hie sun aod roso with bim, fasted, and exercised, and denied thomsolves all tho luxuries to which all their lives thoy bad beon aecustomed. 'Iime wore on; and a fow weoks Ago from all parts of the Union a sturdy steoant of peoplo sot iu toward a littlo lake in tho Blate of Now York, 'Fhere was to ba a boat- race, aud tho whols country soemed worlod Into afovor hoat about it. No battlo of tho War was more bamdied on mon's lipy, and tho nioat in- fucntial journals devotod pages on bages to spocutations ns to tho training, the probabilities of winuing or losing, and tho wholo Anbe joet for the timo supplantod tho gravest topics. Tho day camo, oud theso pnrtios of young men of whom I have spoken stepped into their httle bonts and tock thelr places tu the lino asyigned. ,llero commenced s magnificont display of animal forco, gnided and dirceted by culturo aud intoltigonco. Thusa splondid erosvy worked with tho precision of maclunes ; those glorious chosty rose and foll liko mizuty boflows, aud the hot Vlvod eame to and from tho heart liko tho sparks trom Aomo terriflc cugine. In a fow nunutes— less than tweuty—it was over. Ouo of Lthe erows bad triumphed. Tho vast crowd dispersed, tho traiuing wive all over, and atter tho tumultuous raar of esultations nud the wave of applauso which rolled over tho victors tho thing was as though it had vot been, and those so oxcited bo- camo as quist ns any other citizons, Mouths of tremonidonu self-sacrifice and great exertion for tiftcen minntes’ work, Long traing of crowded cars, bueiuess for days deserted, thousands on thousands impationt for o sight whieh wan begun and sbdod 11 b quarter of en hour, Yot uo ona constders the disproportion groat; noono finda fault that tho trainiy wis W Jong and the race so aliort. No ono says ho did not get tho worth of uis menoy. I have nsed this illunteation toshow how long o training is neceasary to gin & momontary vietary, buw to win in litcon minatos you must labor for ten times fiftaen days ; that to succeed in the short- est couteat there twust bo proteactad oxerciso ; that practice, long contined und nn- tiring practice, in indinpousabio und nbsolute, Notw, 1 wikli t0 apply this priuciplo to the cous duct ot life, for tho same great clewents of vus cens fio al the bottont of thy winning of a race, sud tho winning of a true ifo hicre and the glortous reward heccaftor. ‘Irue, for the race Yuu requira the cultivation of mere phynsical on- duranco, and for tho uther, endarauco of tho heart aud poul, but both are utiined by tho mame menns, partly murdy persaverance, part nelf-uenial, Tigorous rulo, obedivnco to & pre- scrived law, and uucemuF practico. ‘Tho ondy proposed aro indeed awfully disproportioned, but the moaus employed ron i tho eama chaunel, aud are Ewin brothers, I #poka of tho shorlness of tho struggls, and tho length of the preparation, aud that iy tho tain point 1 wirh to bring Lefora you. ‘I'he shortners aud wwiftnoss of crinos sud” emorgen- cies which conetantly nrise before us men, and have to bo decidud in n moment of timo, and tho way to proparo for thicso crises 83 that wo inay win in them and not boe dofeated by them. ‘I'hiore s this tremendons differonco hevwoen tho boat-race of which I bave #pokeu and the strug- gle of lile, Thoy kuew when their fiftcon minutes of trial was to come. On such a duy aud at yuch a time was it Jid down that thoy should Lo rendy., No man ou oarth kuows when hiw fifteen mivutes of awful battle with some emergency of life i to urige. Liko o clap of ttunder outof o elear aky, it may come, Lika thewo hurricauen to whiclh wo nro subject, tho alr as soft and swoet na if wa wore fu tho tropics, the lako as amooth o somo sea of crystal, and, in 6 mo- ment., the vory marrow of our honen chitled with the rushing wind, and the foamiug waves dasli- i over cho branicwater ft maddeniog violonco. Who herp can toll, ealm snd quietas his lifo may be, whether balore night ho inay not have passed tbrongh somo torriblo crisis which will have plowad hiw heart with a furrow tou deop for timo to eface, and bavo changed bim forever- more ? Jaok ouo af ussits in bia littls boat, rowlng on more or leed uteadily. Suddouly thore shoots out of the darkneys a boat, and the spirit within it calls, “Now in tho timo, now 1 challonga you to tha raco.”” Then como vur fifteon minmtes, ‘Then must wo lend ourselves ta tho task; thon commes the tug and strain, and If thero bas Loen behind 1t no hardened nusclo, no trial of sua- tumed breathing, no roheareal of this unexpect- «d bour, can thuro be any viber outeomno for us than ehametnl dafeat ? Lot mo drup the figuro, and rny that to any ona of us 14 likely to come at any moment some trial, somo tompintlo, sotwoe nocossity to decide, caiiug aud £alig 1 o few moments, but for tho mecting of whichi i the fear of God. Long years of proparation will have been necossary.” For examplo: It may be a temptation to grovs sin, Hwiltly It comes, in & moment, Thon the man atandy face to faco with it ; {0 besifato {4 to be lost ; the decivlon Is to bo wndo now. It {s his fifteen minutes of tromendoas import. - If It find him with an imagination allowed to run 1nto for- biddeu ground, with a moral sonso weakonod by n long-coutinued argument as to whether cir- cumstances ™Ay not condono cases, with wo armor on of prayer and renewed vows, no tralo- ing in romsting evil thought, no keening swopt and garuishod tho chambers of his heore, why, Loyond a doubt, he will fall,—fall a8 wwiftly as this raco was run, and the deyil will have dis- tanced Lim, and won the colora of victory. Or agam: It may be s temptation to” dishons enty. Huddonly it comen, in tho midst of a businoss trausaction. Like o flaslh, a man seos thut to give o cortain turn to his words will {u~ sure a large and profitable sale. ‘I'nis s hiy quarter of an howr. IHero Iu the fight, bis soul on_ouo sido, and Mu on the ather, aud siv, & tralned aud exporionced boatman, winner In mavy o race. If tho man has boon dallying with truth fn fus heart, {f Lo hob put off all thought of such n tral, if ho coma to {t with no habits of fight, if ho have novor rowed boforo, think yon he will win? Or, agaln: You aro in soclety, and aro aaked o corlain uostion.” Tlio_anewd¥ must b givon then and thore. ‘Phero uits the persun looklng fixodly at you, your lips wero nlroady for tho reply. IF you cry *yes,” you will gain a jsreat denl of croit; you will win goldon opinions ; bt *+yea” ix not what you ought to say, sud you know it. You aro petfectly aware that *no ™ fs what you ought to sny, altbough tho maylug it will deprociste you in tho estimatlon of oyer; ono there. Which will you way? Which hol{ will win? Now, that aepunds entirely upon tha ttato of your hoart. Toil tho truth, 1o mattor if yon dis tho very mstant you tell it. W'oll it he- causo Jesus Christ, who “In your pattern, ia tho way, tho trutb, and tho life. Tell it because your guardiau angel walts with bated broath to hoar 1t told; tell it now and ever; toll it whon you lio down and when you rise up. Unloss something like that ho the touor, the constant tenor, of your way, you will sco your falsa solf witutng, and atl sround the crowd applayding, and men greeting you with vives |m{ enthusi- aum, and you will soo your real wel? panting, ex- hausted, hioaton, ob, 8o lugloriously beaton, a defoat ouly to be wiped out by long tralulug and bitter repentance, a dofoat which will b welght you for muny a contest yet ta como, 1 havo sald enongh, I think, to illustrate m; point, namely, that ths suddencss of the trial {s uo argument for ylalding to it. Wae are meaut by God to proparo for thess nnexpocted chiallon- kes. ‘Thoy aro part of ordinary lifo. Wo talk about sudaon falls, and think such n one slmost innocent, Bolaved, I doubt whother any man can fall wo suddonly, whethier such a whitlwind of aitack can Lest so Hlorcoly sgaiupt any mad, that bio of nocensity fell. Ho foll becauso ho had beon careloss for vomo time, had relaxed kis vigilanes, iad beeu lukowarm fuhis pravors, had ueglected his evory-day traluing. e fell bo. cauge the strict obediente neccusary 0 Buccres « been ane time forgotten. ‘o come baok to our illustration 3 Why dig thiy crew win 2 The obhier young athleteswore a4 muscular, aa grandly developed; their woight nearly thawamo, (heir tralping as fong, ther boats as well constructed. 'The reston is mmple : beeauso they wero the best prepared for the grest struggle. They had kopt its awful power nore coustantly iu thoir minds, aud neeved them- wolves more fhoroughly to meot it. 'They had Kiven thomuélves % more entirely to the rules of their trainer. oy hiad noy eaid ebout some mattor of doubt, OF mere regulation of exerciso, Ol this fu m Litle thing ; i does pot wattor whother 1 obsersa it or no." Lawfolly, tharoughly,devoledly, thoy hiad workod and Inbor- ed. “Thoy had boon tumporate Inall things,” Thelr whola mysieal naturo waa in pofoct accord, and they had suncradded to all a boldness and o dar- Ing which carried thotn on and o until the goal wan won. Now, oy tho foxt saya. ** Thoy did it o obtain a corruptible crown.” “Chore in o losson {u thiv. Ido not wish to decry alhictic aporta o1 the contrary, I glury in them an ono impor- tant factor i tho elavation of my conntrymon, T'o have good Chrintlaus, vou must have pood men aud worton, Any flaw i tho body Involves a cortn lack of power in tho Leart'and son, Lut {s it nol mournful to think that, simply to sk & wooden Loat 0 feet ahead of anothor woaden boat, mon will underga a Hpartan diser~ phiio, and forego averything that would tend ta fluster their nerves or wonkon their bodies, wil] practico tho inost thorough femperance, aud avo0id ovan tho shadow of oxcess, while in that ronty important raco in atl our rowing, tho race Overy man must row against Sin and I'assion, and oyory ovil biag, snd ovory suparnatural mae lignity, only a fuw can bo lm{uced to practice aven the commoneet rulesof pridence, and 8 con- tinnal unmm;: soeins only the obfoct of a hand. Inl? Why, this very same lifo thaso young tmon ledt, chiaato, tomperats, caln, fuil of heatehiful wxeretue, and fioed from all falso oxcitomont, ia i dtsalf n splendid basin on which to put a ro- ligious hife, a splendid #oil tn which the Chrise tun victies conld take root and flonr. Py, and yob yon conld got hans dteds to onduro e tunt thoy mmaght win n corruptiblo crows, gain an earthly victory, whero you would find one to do it beeanso it woull hiely ine the victory of the roul, and gain & crown fncarruptible and that fadolh not awas, Dul thin is tho point: o win anythiog thers muat bo thorongh teaining. 1t s not the’ offoct of chanco, loes not como {u auy haphazard way, and to swin your soul, to win Go's favor, to win a clear consclenco, Lo win tha love of Jeauy Chirist, to wint the blisa of paradise and the tinal rowatd of Tleavon, you must put vourself in teainlng. This Ia tho training-echaol, thls Chinrch of God, Chrint js tho Master, 1ia holy word ag the Church condenses and rats it forth, incroed, in hturgy, in covenant, in leswon, nro the rules of practice, which, If truly followed, arosura tu lead lo victory, **Temperata in all things,” that i the wotio of this practics, Temporato in ovory passion, in appetite, tomperato in evory uttor- yanca of the lips, temperato in tho inapirations of {le heart, temperato 1 tho vory matter of relig- ion itsolf, and not allowing fanaticsm or fierca bigotry to ovorwhelm the equivgise of the man, bring "all hcl{vu freely auid frunkly, prayemn for strength, holy commtinion, whore tha heart may again pledgo ilsell in that mysterloua présoncs, and tho Master and the pupil may be joined in inefTable union, tho sovioly of Lhe gaad, the holy word of (st and festival, common worsiiip, aoil the steady pructico of nll thoso lioly virtuos which nare sot forth in the Beriptures, and urged from every pulplt in ths land, Adding to all thisa daring and a courage to vons ture all for Christ, and get wisdom i thiy ¢ Write on thy dnar this aaying wixe and old = o Lald | bo bold, and rverywhiere bo bold, 186 nut ton ol ; 'yot better (e excrss "han the defoet, “Totter the mors than less, Liotser, ke Leetor, in the deld 10 dlo, Than, ik & erfuied Larfs, turn ond fiy, And then your model, your traluer, vonr ox- emplar, Jesus Christ, Follow rteadily after Iy pattora 3 doin your weak way Il beautiful work, Ohl theit vou slial] grow stronger avery day, and m the crials ud the contests your hont af " fife will win, for Chriet will bo jn i, and iy word of chicer will ond power, and the boat that carries Him carries Cesar, wud vever can sink nor fuiter 1 the raco. g CHRISTIANITY AND PROCRESS, BEIOION NY THE 1RV, DH. VALLOWS, Tho llov. Dr. Fallows resumed his considern- tion of “'I'Le Relatton of Chilstianity to Human Progress ™ at §t. Pauls Neformed Episcopal Chnreh, corner of Wasbington and Anu vireots, Jasu night. Ho upoko an follows: “ho entranco of Thy worls glveth lghto—Paatis, cxity, 100, Intoliectual enlightenment s made the grand element of humau progress, and religlon Is ity conkoquent, not its causo, Dut I ask, What is mennt by intollectual onlightonment? Mr. Bucklo Las thrown into the background moral and roligions causes, and has endenvored to provo that thoy oxert no percoptiblo influeaca upou tho civilization of our coutury, Dut, when this word intellectual (s used, it is quietly put for tho whole mau; and, when o usod, it ju truo that intellectual enltgltenment 35 tho con- dition of all eociul, civll, scieutifie, and roligious olovation, It thon fucludes mau's mornl, omo- ional, roligious, and exocutive natura, Iz wa havo Just oa niuch eight to aay that all progross depends upon moraloulightenmont, for ovory nction of an intalligent agont is the out- camo of intelligont obsorvation controllod by pereonal detormination for a defluite’ end, A moral action Jucluden motive, act, and ond, 1l might, thorefore, with rome uf the oarlior nhi- tosophors, cover the sphoro of intollectual phi- losophy with shat of moral, Eut to get at true roason of fact, wo ust keop tho two dlstinet, Whon that s done it wll be secn that mioral and religloun Influencos aro perpotual and powerful factors in clvilization, But wo aro told by tuy courteous anud accomplish- ed reviewer that the great error of those who draw deductions ke mywelf {s ** in considoring roligion the causo aud not tho offect of intotec- tual development.”" Aud wo are further told that * nuch an uuphilorophical {dea would not provail 04 it does among educated men oxcept through the poreivtont omphaels of It by tho clergy, to whoso great Interost it iy that it b genoally sc. cepted, It fn simply putting the cart bofore tho horse. It Ia on & par with the argument of the counlry parson, who referrad ns a proof of a kind, superintending Providence to tho fact that God liad causod thoir great 1ivors to flow right to the wharves of groat citfen.” Lot mo, 1n justico to my clorical brethren, say thnt the illustration aboud tho great rivers and tho groat cities was not; If my memory serves we correctly, nsod vy a country preacher, but waa used by somo ono long before country par- sony wore presching tho Curistlen religion, 1t belng a logical bluuder aboul as old as Aristot lo. Now, in reassorting that the Clristian religion is ono of the clief causes of our high clviliza- tion, ono of tho most potont powerain ourin- tellectual oullghtenment, aud In aesorting a truth which lics back of that, viz.: that roligion itaolf ia & causo of {utelicetunl devolopmeus, I will not bring on thio witnoss-stand a einglo clorgywman, but men who, as philologists, philoa- optiors, sud histor{ans, have commandod the contiderco and esteem of all classos of mon, My firat position I that reluziou itsolf, frre- urcclivu now of what raligion may bo, 14 ono of tho most controlling forces In tholifo of su in- dividuat or o nation, and that tho intoflcotual duvolopent of theso lnrroly dependn upon it Mox Mutler says: * Itis nngm(.;n and roligion that mako & people, but roligiun e oven o mioro powertul agont than langnage.” It was faithin Jehoval thst ehavged tho wandenog trbes of Inrnol into a pation. ** A people,” n{u Schell. ing, ** oxists ouly wheu it Lias deternilued itsolt with rogard fo it wythology.” Ilegel, the preat rival of Beliollivg, 8ays 1 * The idon of God conrtitutes tho Emm"l foundation of a pooplo, Whatever ia tho fortu of a religiun, the vawo id the form of o Biato aud its Con- stitution : it wpriogs frow roligion, so much so that tho Atheuian aud the Tloman ftates wore potsible only with tha pecul- far heathendom of those pooples; and even now a Homan Catholic Stato lns a differont geniua and o difforent coustitution frew a Pro- tostaut Btato, Diodorus Blculus, the well-kuown anclant hla. torlan, psys: **Tho Egyptiaus beliovod their laws {0 havo beou communicated to Muovis b Hormes; the Crotans beld that Minon receivo his laws @om Zeus; the Lacedwmonians thab Lycurgue received bid Inws frow Apoilan, Ac- cordliug to the Aryaus, their law-giver, Zathran- gtos, had roceived s Iaws from tho Good Splril accordivg to the Qetw, Zamolxis rocei his Jaws from the godder Houl sud, nrcanlm(i to the Jows, Blowes received hiw Jaws from the god Jao, To i well-known fact that Aloxandor claimod to bo Hoaven-born, and by his allisuce with the shied waa aldod In guiniug bls victories on earih. Auclont mythology tolls us that Zous wan the father of Cllo, the Muso of Mistory, whose mother was Slnemasyne, or Memary ; and thus his-oty iteolf hiad both a colestial and terreutrial nstivity, UHerbart Bpoucer has saserto with wondorful aflusuce of illimtration, that wanners, fashion, law, governmeony, bouol ary titles, phrases of honor, cerewonlal al tudes, arclitecturs, paluting, statuary, music, pootry, sud davciug, il have a religious origiu. A disiinguishod historian writos that a super- uatural presidenoy is supposed to consecrato and keop togetber © all ibe cerdinal juali- tutions of thoso early timos, tho Kiato, the race, and tho fawily. 'Yhe elementary group is the family ; the uggregation of familios forms the gonusor the bouse ; tbe syyrogstion of houses mulice the tribe § tho ajgroyation of tribos coustitutos tho commonwealih; aud stranirers could only bo sdmitted to thyse brother hooda by being admitted to their sacred tltes sud coromonies, Tho hoarth was the iir<t altar, tho father wan tho fiest priest or eldor, hos wite and ebilidren and alaves tho fimt ooupregation shnt ;inlhurml round tha sacead fire. 'Tho flostin was tho goddeen of the houso, snd In the eud tho Rodleas of tho pesple. To the Yrcmm day, warringo, the most fmportant of clvil ncta, the voig fonndati6n of civilized lifo, Ting rowaiucd tho roligious charnetor which It had from tho vory beginning of hintory, roml, o our homos, the faot of marriage, of fathorhood, otherhood, and childiood ; * the 20l of thas factin lova. 1 read ta our nmvorsi- tios, crowdod witli studsuts, itting: at tho foot of mumrlm.au and devoted piofoasocs, the fact of cnlturs ; tho noul of that fct iu truth, T our busy wackaliops, in the steamehivy that Dlow theso innor soas, fu tho sails that whiton Our barbord, in tho rush and roarof our tige ging, sereaming locomatlven, I read tho fuct of Indaatry snd commercs 3 thio soul of that fnct in haneaty, In the beaatiful, statoly piles wo Lnvo renred for 4Lo orphans, the waify, and the unfortunata onea of earth, thore is tho {act of chanty; tho soul of that fact ju bonova tenco, In our Court-FHouwe nnd Capital is tho fact of law; aud tho soul of that fact {4 fuse tico. And i this beautitul and solomn tample in which wo aro gathored to proach, nud prawmg, and pray, thoro 48 the fact of factw, ralivion ; aud tho soul of that fact ln worshin, Worslip, tho topmost aud bottommoet truth of butnsmty § worship. the brondest and most compiolion- #ive trath; woralip, sending down its roots through intolloct, Shrongh affection, into tho doop miystarious receeses of beiug jtuelt, nourialied by tho very substance of the roul, and sonding up nlo tho abywsos of noaven ils boughs and branchos laden tiko tho orauge tron with nagcant buds and fall-blowsn blossos nd riponod frut. On five continents, and for sixty contnrios, worslip_hos beou reariug its tomples and its altars, It hins been the ove porsistent, univor. sal fact of humanity. Yorverted, distorted, it has maintained its ewag,—uow an ths mountaiu and now on that han its shirine boon erectad. Uho amscrod flame lhes burned on Moant Zion, and tho smoko of inconso gona up from Mount_Garvzius, on tho bauks of the Indya ard tho Thames, of the 1o-aug-Ho sud tho Jordan, of tho Nilo and tho Sississippi ; on tho shioras of tho Moditerrauenu and the North Amorican lakes. At tho baso of Alpino ridgoes, and tho foot of tho auov-clal wummMa of tropi- cal mountaing, tho eaciificos of worshlp lave asconded from earth to heaven, Thero aro the mouuments of worship to bo found, thoia ara tho ruins of encient roligivu, thero is altar dust, the oldent dust this osrth holds from tho deeny of man's materinl workmnsiship. Bloody kands hava often lifted ttp the colamny which wora the vutward and vivibla sigus of res Ngious nepiration, Pyramids of luuann akults have gleamed in tho sunlicht as a ghastly offor- ing to somo sanguinary disinity. Infant chit- dron hayo boon brought by weeping mothors and thrown into tho flery” emprace of a torriblo Mo~ foch. **'PLo frnit of the body has been ‘offored for tho stu of tho woul." Gads many and less many havo baen adored, Blind powoers, bruta forcos, the atoful, tustful, selflsh projections ol a hatelul, lustlul, solflal solf havo boen wor- shipod, Orgies havo hoen held bofors their nltars, the very thought of which would st the hardensd cheok of wickeduoss atlama, But tha very grentuers of the perversion aud the magni- 1o of tha wickaduess only provo the ma}ml_\u tho grandeur, and the power of the religious prinesple, 1£ roligfon oxerted such an fuflienco in evory part of the alobe in the prehisteric and earliont historio timos, why shoutd it censs to otert an mflyoneo now? [ man's nature changed ? Ilaw nuy 00 of ita esrontial attributes been ro- moved 7 No, my fearned roviewer witl not avsert it 1o clnims thae * it would be easier now Lo raise S1,000100 for somo eeclesiagtical interest thnt vou can £10,000 for n werentitle enter- pise.” I have no question,” ho furthor k “*tlint yout conld get more wamen from the City ot Ohicago to devato their time to squip o 1ms- slonary to preach Chrietiomty to tho Leathon of Africa than would bo willing to do tho enme to keonra_and support n fhat claea Drofessor of tho Natural Belonices fu tho University or Itigit Schaol of oe eity.” Hehg- ion, then, to-lay pln{u a _dominant ‘part in oar oivilization, and, without discusstuy tha queston whethor a Profesacr of the Natural Beiences is mokt hoedod in Clicago, or o missionary ju Con- tral Africa to Lioip forward the progross of tho race, one thinse {a certain, thers wonld be no an- tagonism to tho prevailing Christian religion it Loth things wero dona, 1 alluded s my last Hunday evoning'a kormon ta tho computat{on mado, that, if all the clich- ok built by tho difforent denominatinny lant yoar in the Unitod Btatos nlond were placed sido by #ilo, they wonld reach 40 miles, and * Out of faith's inforior spheres,” those structures rowo toupper alr, Wo know that many of those wore ostravagantly eostly siructufed, tinilt bo- youd tho monts of those who otécted thewm. Debt and ity consequent rdiatrom will Lo unwol- come guosts to sit It tho pews and confront the prenchor, Bowoe havo bean built, wud the Lords poor have been of delibierato purpose ignored in the builling, Maguificout cathairals liave gono up, and immenvs” sues havo been * wruug (rom the hard hunds of poasants **to build thom. 1t would hive beeu far buttcr 1f nomo of the iisovey bad Leen applied to tha cause of dcience, to school of practical learning, which should nol ooty ba nbreast of tho ngo, bit In ad- vance ot it, preparing men and womon tn txer- clso that proviston which the fruitful prinoiplos of selonco toaol, to anticipato the noods of com- iug gunorations. Far hotter would it Lhave buen if sotuo of tho money thus taken from tho liard- workiug laborer living with his farge oud in- oreasing family in some minorablo shanty, upon soine undrained Jot of doubtful titlo, Auriounded witli missma arising from fotid the mays of garb- agoandthe greon foulness of stagnant water, bud been expounded In fitting up and beauufyivg a Uumbla home, and eduoating his progeny and saving them from the etrest, tho alinshonso, tho nil, the gallows, Bus if all this hsd beon dowo, it , woull have beon i hinrmony fwith the teachings of Clirlitisnity. Christiauity did ot cteato civilization, It camo in coutact with tho highest civilizations of tho anclent world,~civilizations, romember, whioli woro the outgrowth mainly of tho teligions principio, aud aimed to make thom Chyictian clvitlzationn, Ono of fho chiof moana fo accomplish this wan intelloctunl enlightetiment, Christianity cinims, fn the person of its founder, to be the light of the world, He 18 tho Bun of Righteous- ness. Pha truth which makes freo must Lo raspod by the intellectual powers. The Apostlo Paul praye that tho oyes of your undersinndiog may beerfightened. "o thocultivatod Athonfans Lo declarbe of tho ** unknown God.” Him whom yo fguoraptly worship declars I unto_von, T'he groat idons of God, of Immortality, of Duty, and Hlosponslbility, with all tho pracieal sont soqutonces Howing from thotn, havo ani intelfco- tual as woll*aaa moral alde. Thoy wors tho idoss which sharpunod tha acutsst Iniollect of the Qld World; thoy ara still the stimulators of fim DLighost intolledtual offurty of the prosent mo, Tho #pirit of that sublimoe and dovout utter- anco of Keplor's, 1 think Thy thoughts attes Thoe, O God!" i tha spirit of all lutollectual rogress. ‘The glorious “'e Denm ho sang out of iia God-burdened heart may roll out full and free from tho hips and hearts of thoss who follow bim 1o the pathway (now widoned into & wmagoificont highway), wlioh ha blazed for thom amid tho bursng stars of night. Yo Hoavonn wiug Hiw prafss! Bun, moon, and plancty, glorlfy Him in yolir inoffablo labguage. Praiso Him, colostial barmohios, and all yo who ean comprehond them, And thou, my noul, pralse thy Crobtor ! It 18 by Him, and in Him, that all cxists ! What we kiiow not i con. tatued fn Him, as well as ln our yalo science, To Him Yo praluo, honor, and glory for ever and ever." £ the Qloria fn Extolais of & Nowtau, whon, aftor fitleen montba of hard Jabor, bo Liad verlfied tho law which repulates the mo- tion of the hoavens, Glory ta dod, who bhoa permitted us fo_ cateh n plimpse of tho skirts of i ways] My calculations have sucountered tho march of the staré ™ or tho venite of a Biunwns, tho father of the science of Hotany: + Etorual God, all wise pud almighty; 1havo soon Mim asii ‘werb passed before ma and | remaln confoundod, 1 havs discovorad sowo traces of His footsteps Iuthe work of creation; audin those \\'mfu ovot ih the least, evon in those whieh acom most insignificaut, what might! what wisdom! what inexplicablo perfection! ™ Have theso thoughts of @od, tha basal thoyghts of Christiamty, played no part in the intelloctual history of theso glants of science? Have lhoy proved an hiudrance in the yrogress of “tho race? 1 will summon & vory Nestor among scientiflo inen whoss chosen epilaph ls * Louls Agnasiz, dopartment of vature,” he B, it s mmply tho creative plan of God axpressed in_ organio forme, Tho resuits of scioucs aro gradually ine- terprating the purposed of l)mlr 10 crestion. ** Havo wo not in geotogical history tho mani. foatations of tnind a8 powerful ss prolisio? The scta of su intelligence as sublims as provident ? ‘Pue marks of goodacss ax dofluite as wise ? flave we not the mast palpablo demonsiration of the existence af a persoual God, suthor of all thinge, ltulor of the universe, and_disposer of aligood ? This at least ls what Iread in the works of croatlo: ut a3 ha read that truth of truthe, taught fn tho onoculuy wentoncs of the Chiutlaw's Lible, thousauds of years ago, sud tiered with added powor sud siguificance by :‘miu' of Nazaroth, *@cd msnifoat in the Heeh,” wore Ly oyes blurrod, or kis hands bark: I5zed, an ha tried (o woo atd handlo the fac's of uatnro? Was that mighty bram of lis confuue ] or mlled as he viewed with tho Inner evo tiy Iawa or principfos of thone facte in tho light of that superior soving? Mr, Darwin, n may ro much misunderstood, and calumuinted #o mveh personnlly, on aeconnt of tho sy nosed logleal and athiclutical sontences of his fo. MoK Writiga, 8880rLA his tiwavor fug bolint in an vanirciant, umnindtent, and omniptesant Gug, A taid of providentinl torealpht, aud maintaing that the greatest intelicetn of the Uhristian nyey linvo malutaiued tho aamo trith. Must not every candid pcfontiat’conflesn that thers fa no anta ouism hotwoen Ohritianity and progrean? Jop Christinnity along taachea fn {tA tulluoss {iy truth of God which haw raled suptetho in 1y thonght of theso rulors of tha norld. Must |y not fusther confons that thin idon of God, lymy, 84 [t doga at tha yory foundation of tho tholphy of the rmlrmophurn snd the pooplea of Christisn Iands, lies also at tho foundation of that civllizs. tion, which destiny wishes them from il other Kindreds, and nations, and tongues ? Whon Patrick Honry was noar thocloso of by Hifo, anud {u feoblo Lenlth, he fafd his hand on thy Biblo and said to a prioat who was oear him, **1fero {4 A book worth more thnn all othery printad ; yot it 1 my misfortnno nevor to hase rend ft' ‘with proper attention until latoly About tho wamo tima lio wrote to hfs daughter; “1 hinvo Lioard It aatd that tho Dotats have claimed meo, Tho thought han painod me more thau thy appollation of . Tory ; for I conmider re iiion of inlinitoly hightr tmportance than polities, and T find meh cauno to roprones myself that I har livod wo Tong andgiven no- decided publio proot of my being a Christian," Let ono of tho great mastors of Lnplish pootry tell Lild own story, in tha bumbers tha onca charmed hin oyo, and throw & giazo over vico. 1emr him in his okl nge rpenk of i valuo of tho beliof in this bleraed Book of Go 4 teach me fo beliove Thso thin couvealed, And reaccli no fucther than Thyself rovealod, Lat her nlone for my diructor fake, Wit Thott hwst promfned never to franite, 3y thoughtican youtlt was winged with vain'desires, My manliond, long Tushied by wandering firea, Followed fulso lighta s and, whcn thelr glhinpas va one, My prbi iruck out new sperkien of or own, Buclt wan T, atich by natura a1l T am, e Fhtno tho glory, and be mine the suame, tvod Jifo b now my Lusk, my doulta are d ' et g OURRENT OPINION, Tux Cirrcaao Tian iu it financlal colman, qnotes the price of greenhactis in gold, justesd of tha price of gold in greonbazks, ah hns bee thocuatom * ever Ainco tho War broke the conn. try up." Tt is o plan whieh mskes one realize tho oxact valuo of o greonback doilar with nch mare pafnrul distincthess than tho old plan ever did, and goos far to convineo tho gonaral reader that bis measurzment of valia bins lerotofors Leen very decoptive.—~.1llon Telogruph. The Ohlo Democrats, and the Demoeraty evarswherg, aro trying to wake it nppear that the Republicans are responyiblo for the inflstion madnoss. Tho Now York World is tho suthor of tlis dodigo. Tialogio 1s, that tho Republicars | erentod tho groenback curronoy aml tho National. Baultlug esstem; houco tho Republican party i# responsiblo for every erazy repudiationshum. big edopted by Demoseats, This dooga will not nuewer. Itis not original, either, It Tescmbles the doilge invented by the old tellow who wag arrosted, vears ago, and trled in ono of the Xay York courts, upon chargze of bastardy, for fiay. inst seduced o eorvaut-girl, Tho east iyan prove) nizninet bim, and hs vian compolled to wivo bonds to support the ohill, Gonny home 1vom conrs, lie cogitarad paistully bio s Lo brenk the noasto Lis wife. Uneu roachiung heto, o mot the ool woman with a sickly smilo, and explalued: :I‘w?'.l, Murin, thoy wwore it on Lo ue " —etvol 0l It fs o puty, on tho whole, that the provatent love of Conventions canuol Lo turved to Lotier account. Lvely snmmer sond o groator mimber of them; but one reads tlin reports of their do- Lates, with, to nay the loast, au unsatisflod reck ingy and wonders whothior the Ltime and maney of #0 many bosy mof coutd uot hava been turned to botter ncconnt. Members of mnch bodier onght to ear in mind Lhat it'js their dnty, sposs all thlnge, to avoid bringlng the ancient sod bonored eustom ot public doliberstion into con tempt or disroputs. Noibmg bat dono wora to found st foster tho great Amstiean institution of “rings,”" who breed tho troublesnmo raco ol ‘‘managers,V than the unwicldinees, and focas paclty, and gultinility, of conventlonn, enusnses, and othior 1argo ansomblios. Auviody wha goet into oue ought, thoreforo, to bo filly satisfiod in his uwn mud that thoro s sowethiig ho greaty degires to sny, and somcbocy ho greatly dewres to hear, aud that ho s not Jikely to fornish s wwhionce to busyboldios und Lores,—Neta York Naiivn, TP it bo triie, na somotoll um, Lt tho eplritsof tho departed rovisit thelr old haunty on earth, nnd pursuo thoir old voestions unscen of men, there v a grinuing wpeetro in the Domocratio party of Olio Just naw, full of the pleasure ofs #weet roevouge at the intornal disturbunco ersated by the rovalt of Thurman sguinst the dictatss of the platform, it Is thatof C. L. Valiandighum,~ tho man who lived for foue ybara in tho cond: eutions botof that ho had bon swindind ont of tho Ohio Benatorabip by Thurmaun. 1o used 1o sliow his teuth when ho sjioke of the malter, sl 83y it was u picco of trenchery aud cowaurdict which tho Domocrots of Ubio would in tus end rogret, 1fu more thun ouco prediclod 3 Thurman lind yiolated o porsonal promins to hia (anlnldl%lmln) iu order 1o get tho Bolmtorship, Bo would betray (he Beuntonship iu pursuitof the Lrosidensy, '*Thoy enfl -mo pold ant soltlab,” kaid Val,oxeitodly, one day; *but they'll thluk o & conl of fire by compariron, when they puk Thurmay Lo tho tost,” It weas raflier n mesy thing to chieat Val, as thoy d¢id in 18685 Lnt by wae i wan who believed in gotting avon, nud it Eatlstaction whichh was donied to hlin in the {lesh ho has now abnndant opportunity to 00y in tho eplrit,—St. Louis Qlobe-Lemoerdl. bt ssiasel saci b A Now Vaolenuo, Friend nf Lndis, In the eonrse of hier voyago fnthe Clina esut tho Chatisuger vistted an extraordinary selcsny on the swall faland of Camigum, near tho cost of Miudapao, A chwv of bigh voleaule posks somowhas (rrogdiar i form, citlnibatos noar the renire of tho islond 1w & mountain, the befgltol witlcls 4 givon an 6,998 foot; and a littlo way inlaud, jiat bolind the volesuo, there in wiiother poak 4,700 foot high, The setive volcano form autrrogular vono 1,650 fust 1 height, Lt niscs up from the aua, with a slopy at wost pointsol upwards of 00 deg. The goneral eolor of I cone I a rich chiocalato brawn, aud the contrss batweon it and eplondid green of w nioyntaiuy, wnuearly of the matne form, riviog immediatoly belind, is vory strkiog ‘Ahero ia bn irrogylar erator “mear G0 top, and from fhis denso masson of stess nseapo; more prominoutly it appears at night ond in the morning, when the air s coolor &o! thero is moro tupid condansstion, and huro eof tiere pale bluo suoke arises {rom pymerou clolts and fuworales on the Hauks of the mose tain, At night all tho lexures round tho cralet and pear tho top show out rod from fncandotcenl atter within, 'I'io cone consists aluwat emirely of a palo groy trachvte, Much of tho mass bat beou emitlad in tho form of mud sud aftwwart cousolldated, hut thore aro likewiso beds of whi! sppears to be trus Inta. Oue lava bed is vet) distinet noar tho odgo of the water, Wharo theit isalow seaclif, This youngest of mouutast was born on tho lat of May, 187(, For somt monthy belore thera ware violent enrthquakel extending through the nelghboriug 1etauds % folt trongly e fir ay Zobu. After thes st erup tlon tho carthnuskos at ouco coasod. Tha secd mulation of tha wouniain hos boen poing @ fiuduullv and spparently with but litils violouc ¢ the oud of tho firay four montha it wag sbol # third of & nule In dismeter and 400 foor bigk It 18 clows on 2,010 foit high, aud ita haso D4t gradually extonded untll [t bas entlrely coversd tho Town of Catarman, formefly the largest ¢ the feland, mith a nopolution of” 14,000 juhabi suta. Only & fow ruined walls romain. Camige din was Jatoly one of the wost farlilo and prox iarous of tha smnsllor islanda of the Arclupelssd: t had s population of 25,000, and prodursd hewp, uugar, aud lobacco of the very flrst qual sby, ~Bloce tho eruptlon the {wland la desolslt w huudred iuhsbitants rnnlllnj re i1 ruins, and the paddy flelds st rroves of Muaa feztihs nra deserted snd oser prown with u second jungle. For miles ou ¢ thor bido of the volcano i the paths of the tit 1opBOONE tho trecy aro blighited aud tho verol: tion daatroyed by tho aulphurous wxbalutionss ucident, Meagenger rocords i following snguior {noideut 3 WA valuablo €0 belovging 1o Mr. Jowell at the Bay, died o8 the offects of a blte roceived from s veuomost suake last Saturday, Phecow wandersd off frod thio pasturo, and wont to kome marsby land e8! tho lake, sud, while cating the graus, thy sosdt ot into her mouth, In s fow minuies the poo! cast bocatae fretzied and ran juto tho Jaks bl was chasod out of tho wator by several peopk who witnessed Lier autics, bbe ran Lo the bst yand, and, alter belug thero fow winutes, bt fell desd.’ Boon after dyiug a striped snskel feat in lunfitl\ crawiod out of hier mwully ¥ vioved to hiayy cuused Lor death.”