Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1875, Page 1

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ONLY DIRECT LINE TO P 5. ‘LARsoN, 1bbais, (oppunite ew o Loatinaut (be diatisndly Saturday, August Batuiey, Supt 'y urday, ‘so; 2L 1AY0LILO Full, that auy oliur), ul 17 Fales, B Asre gl st Gl e *BHORGRMACKEY Great W ey 1¥, Aganl Brosfl\ny,N: tern Steawmsbip Line, 0k 10 Briatol (Cagland) diroot. Sa uriay ept, 4. TRy e CDONA! e Axeat. THE PULPIT. Memorial Sermon by Prof. Swing on President Fin- ney, the Man of Oberlin, Sketch of the Doctrines and Works of the Great Re- vivalist of Thirty Yoars Ago. Discussion of the Apparent Wasteful- ness of God, by Dr. Murdoch, of New Haven. Discourse on Woman as a Clhiristianizer, by the Rov. N. H. Axtell. Ordination of the Rev, J. D. Burr ot Immanuel Baptist Church. The Qualities a Minister Should Aim At, Set Forth by the Rev. A. 1. Frost, Conseoration of the Synagogue for the Congrezation Chebra Kenesas Lerael. PRESIDENT FINNEY. BEIYNON LY PROF. BWING. Prof. Swing preactiod a eormon yosterday on tho death of President Finveg, taking for Lis text: They that turn many to righteonsnces ahall ahino as the ntars forevor aud over.—uan el xii,, 3. Ho said : The death of such a Christian Inad- cr as President Finnoy, who Lans just goue from this world, may well bo made tho oceasion of ro- marks this wornivg. o represented a theology which waa once apparcutly peculiar to himself, Lut which has since been widoly contensed to bo tho theology of the Lible. Thirty yoars ago, Dr. Fiunoy stood at tho hoad of a great awaken- ing, of o 1evival movement equal to thet which through the past two years has been moving the towns and citiss of Great Britain. In rocalling the history of (his great servant of Christ, I ehull wot woary you with any blographical sketch, but shall deat only in these facts that are of lasting iuterost. ‘The dotails of & life are of little couscquonco compared with thoso nniversal idoss of religion, or morals, or art, which found dove'opmens, or illustration, or impu'se, 1u tho carcer of tho ine dividual, Wbat we should all cull from an emwi- nent life is not itcms that are curious or simply true, but tbe truths of conduct, tho luws of use- fuluess and bappices, It will bo obviouy to any who will cither con~ Bult their own memory or the written'hlstory of tbis Christian hero, that onme of tho wieat olewents I tho charactor of what s called a rovivalist 18 pioty, Datter than learning, better thau genius, betier tuan oloquence of mpeech, is pure plety, or tho couseluus provonce of God. Aster many defim- tious of eloguence bave been given, tho world Lian nlmokt reached the copciusion that nothing torms 80 Inigo w pars of this strange powor ag Ruwaveriug earnostnoss, Out of & full hoart comes all this tremendous power. of words. 1c way naver supposed that kdward Liverntt waw truly elcquout. Tho roul sceied to hold & soc- oud placs i oratious and art che liret, Lit- erature, learsing, tasle, seemed to overshadow the bLeut aud leave 1t cold a8 wine ter. When wo ook back dver the bistory of !l tho wddresses that have moved men, wo shall find thut iu the-o oratory the heart hed come to tho front, and under ity torrent all art secmod lost. Art must be cone cealed that tha eoul may appanr. Lor almost & seore of years Dr. Fiuney kept the Southern and Now England Churcbes alive by tho overflow of hin own soul. iy own piety was a flamo that fod i words with lifo and warmih. The grosc toe of all raligiou is s cold heat, Tho uucer- tainty of religious ideus, the remoteness of tho Loaven and tha hell, even sbiould they bo really awaiting man in tho futare, comnbive with the chartwa and wing of tws Lfe to rondor the heart dull sud heavy as to its owa future eafety, sud tho safety of trienda. Webster and Clay could be olojuont over the destiny of their country, bocauso there stie iuy befure their oyce, in alithe danger ul diainion, and war, and destl, 1t has been esay for all the political laaders from tue most remoto times to the presont tu apeak with a full soul, for they have stood upon the abyas whila they have spokien, liut iu the aifairs of religion mon havo been more ealm, Tho mysiery and unverisinty havoe beon wo groat thut their words Lave Leon decin- wntion rathor thau eloquence. Doubt s the death of cloquouce, Larsestuess is surginglito, Insuch circumstances slony camo Paul and John, and a0 the holy tongues of tha Part, ‘sloquont becausn they boheved. They Liad seou Cbrist, God wus s “visiole to the innor #oul as the ocoan was to therr wiglk. No cloud iotorvenced, They Lad moderate lesraing o aeed, high culinto, great actual powors, but all those counted ks uotling compared with that perfect visiun of Leaveuly thiugs whioh lay ant- #pread before their souls. Biuce that tavored age, 1avored with tho presence of Chrias, thoro lmve now and then came wloug minds that seomed to rival Paul aud John n reachiog a nenuens to God. Gnd, and hosvan, and hell, liave toen perfect roalitios bofuro their wiuds ay Amurics sy betore Washington and the fathers. We havo ull folt ashawed of Luther becauso he yaw vinons of Batan, sud at timos felt that ho was buusolf inspired. But tbat apparent “+lement of superstition la bis chiaructor was not all & weaknews. ''he supo;stitions momonts wero only times when a virtuo becsms a vice, when an oxcolleuce hau found {ts oxtreme. Ths reason Lutber vaw the dovil in his chamber may bo found iu tho fsct that 1u ble mind there” wus no doubt rogardiug the whole spinit world, 1l twith sulfored frow no cloud, In most of bis movements ho eaw God, and at Hls right band Jesus Chiise 1o all the reahity and brilliance of the apocalypee, the eamo consciousncsy of a epiritual world thas broughit bim io other huurs into tho presence of tho Deity, s whole religion in its gluom and in its rapture lay all around him day aud might. Thus it was wmih Mudame Guyon, and thus it has been with all thoso who have revived tho dymghearts of mau- kind, Doubt is deatb. Dr, Finuey possessed this soneitive fuith, ‘Lo him, carth was tho sbiadow, eternity the reality. Mo reversed the world's present custom and saw the spiritual miore plainly thanthe temporsl. This consclous- ners of God wag the live cosl from the altar that touched his lips, aud readered them power- ful of wpeech, Whien Curist eays that if soy one bas faitlk he can remove mountaius, e must mean that whon the mind and 8oul aro fully set upon Qod, then the wholv being rises 10 & bugher lifo, and it has no hours of {fuar, oF BOrrOW, Or weakneuss, but moves along in thw power of & freo, immortsl soul. lelore Lutuor, wountaiue saok 1uto the great deep, It was urged againat Fioney that bis theology was dafective or falso, bul this we may now say, thiat & soul woddod to worship and Qod, a8 was Lus soul, can carry without injury maav defects in tnuufugy. Tuo sun can bear on its busom apots Iarger than s earth, but tho spots are rendercd powerless 10 bsrwm, for and them thero rolls upward such & sea of peat snd tlame that the far-uff worlds 1oll on with thelr summers unchanged sud with the day slways springing up in the oaat, 1t may bo k‘lnnomeuod was defective or redundant, the picty,of his soul wo shoae forth *CHICAGO, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1875. that the dofectn of (hs craod couuted for nanght «in the splunaor of lun plety. His epiricualty so blerned thin country that ho catimato need ever Lo madn of hypothetical evils, An & chuld 1y beautiful, not iu its learoing but inits inuocouce, #0 thin man was glorlona iu bl ri o eardinsl idea of Dr. Fiuney the shility of man Lo talie sowe patt 1 hin own walvation. an must struggle daily toward & now Leart, Man st in & peculing sonmo revivo bimaelf. But in this principle wo need not fiad herewy, but rather o reanonable much-nended reaction spainut the *abili- which Lad amountod to sbeofuto fatalivm, tv ‘That attor helplersness of man wiich is found yet o & few minds of tho present, was a wido- Apread article of boliof when Mr. Finney eamo to lun hifa-wark, and hus cornest batble against is s, prshavs, & leading teaturo in Jis bistory, o wos Lo extrament form of tho New-Scliool Prese bylerian theology, and did more than nny other 0o man to pant New Bchoolism i tho heatts of v England and tho West. (tlier mien had aught thy sntne doettinon, but bad wot spoken with suticieut plainness, ond - had not wedded theic docttives to a revival of teligion. Fiuney becamn a loader by attaching hin * Now Moasires™ to av actual swakening, and, what i very race, Lo was at once a theolo- pinu ond o revivalit, [t han beon cusomary 1ir ano kol of en o teach a thealogy, and ai- viber set of men to du the work of evking and eaving tha 1ost, but the custom was violated by this man of Overiin : lio cotsbined in a wonder- fal manner inteiloct sud prety, att bis logic was no greatey than s fervor in praver, and nis so- cailed * Lurden of souls,” o was New Bzuool- i#fn pet into motwn. e khowed that the di trino of ability was Rble to Lo n toundation of wide snd deep rovival of religion, In developivs his idean Dr. Finney mado umo of langusge which tuo extremo Calvimmts wero' ot alow to cito as coutnting ull tho reedx of jufidelivy, an contain- ing il defiance of Gud nod alk hinsn vamty. Au old el man of the Ohio Vailey used to say that * Finney wad 8 10180 enomy of Chrinti- mnity than Tom Pam There™ ouce wera thoussids swho thouzht the Oboriin sehoul wero seeking to detbirono ‘the i{oly Spirit, and set up man in Iis stead. The strange style, tho stroug laugusge of this greab Lvangelist gave somo occamon for the alsrm and tearful ery of tho ultra orthodox, but noy that yenrs have parsed wo can ull weo that the wurds uud wholo style of tho distinguiehod man weio nmusunderstood by a crowd that staod lookiug on from the adjacent fioldu of Oly Schoulismn. If Fimvoey epoke trom 4 hoart too reckless 1 tho uro of words, »o tuo encmy listened with a_beart oqually reckless in anoilier dircetion, ‘Iliere waw no moderstion upon either side, Extremes give birth to ex- tremes. *Fo us, living in & loan dopmatio ago. an aao of charity, it is now evident that Fiunoy's doctrive of abiity was hittlo alwe than the ides tuat Jifo full of power and respousmbility. It was not n Tty up of man in vebellion azainat Giod, but 1 ubediencoto Uod who dealares that labor is the Jaw of thi carth. The words of Chrikt, *tnve taenterin at tho siraivh gate,” * Come to AMe,” ** Whosoover will, nay pariako of the wa- ter'of life,” f4med this New Schoohsmn, and ncre called * Nos Mensuron,” anithough the measires were at least 1800 yeara old boforo Finnoy was born, It often Las bappenad that in looking only at luinao foriulas good mon havo iost wight of somo pait af God's woid. ‘Falung it for yranted that we have gathered all tho riches of the in- spired book into our statements, wo no longer £0 back to the Liiblo fur information, but vbiv for fucthior proof of tlio doctrines’ al- roady collectod, The Iible, mstoad of throwing ouc now light upon onr psth- way, i3 permitted to ponr its light ouly upon & fow idens garnored long ago from its mighty ficld, New Schooliem under Finnay was only & new study of tho Guspel, and n culling from tno Beriptures of the reuponaibility, and Lieneo the abulity of tuo human family. It wasa dovolopment of God's word about freo-wiil, Bat the inquiry, What waa tho cardinal doc- trino of Dr. Fintioy ? is not ro imporsant now an tho inquiry, How dia the aoctrine affect the Chuceb ? When anidea has just beon snnonnced, mon are At liberty to como forward and aarn their follows against its adaption, ‘The idea Liav- ing no experience to point to, it is atthe wneicy of A o, reed disposed o denounco or derido. A *new mathod " in rolivion is like a now method fu industry, a concoption of & sieamboat or a railway, liablo to bo lsughed at by thowo who are Journeying in wagons or upou araft, Dark aro tho ways whon an iduea 18 just struggling into lifo, and has yot uo good works 1o which it can point rociety. “I'ho desth of Dr. Finnoy loaves us now foity. yeais of history to look uron, and thus ielpu us ont of the wilder- ness of confecture. We tee in him New School- immat work, We can perceive now it influonco upon puldic and pnvate hfe. Depouused ba s religion that was to supplant God and entlirono man, no theology of tho centiry nas 80 brought man and Chirist or man and God into a more eacred fullowship, lustend of being the Liolpless creaturs offate, man becume n_co worker with God, and Christ becawo au clder brother naeed, The roforms winch rprang from tho heart of Chrsat in Ualestino wero ro- sumed by tho Christians at Obarlin. Linney sroso oach day mot to wait for God, but to - huln the Lord against the mightv.” Outof il tho philosophy whick clothod the will with wich power and responsibibty came o Jofiy ostimato of lite that made the moul R0 in aud ont in the presonce of Qud. In- atoad of making iutldels wnd ratiinaliuts, dr, Fiuney's thoology mads true sons of God, and led the reu(lemnghiu Tollowers along towsd almost tho divine friendship of & Saint Johu, The jiotlem of the soventsenth century reup- peared at Oberlin. Finuey would, like Madam Guyon aud Iw Harpe, spend hours 1o talking with tho mvisible Savior, “Tho iutinito separa- tion between the roul and its maker that resuliy fiom the doctrine of total Inabibity ail disap- cared, and these children of ** new measuios™ ramod upon tho Bavior's breast. A publio man Who lived in the town aud 1u the very lioms of Prosideut Finnoy thirty yemis ago, says that Lie hax nover #oon anywhare Ciristisns that lived any nearer than thev to the prowenco of Christ, That homo was full of faith, aod rightoousness, and happiness, Even the littlo children led at tho altur of family prayer, aud thie whote houso waa full of that glory which filled tho templo in the days of tho prophot. What was tius at the fountain was truo of tho Btream. ‘Lhe history of tha New Kehool sud of tho Congregatiousl "churchos, aflcotad all of thom bv thls dangoroas theology, Las boon the history of an much Chiisthke Living o8 tus earth cau apywhora exhibit m the samo number of yesra. None of the rewults predicted bythe fatalista hsve anywhoro followed the *uow measire! The J}lot!hnclu of evil havo all como to naught, and, of what truo pioty thero 18 remawnlog upon earth, the followers of Mr. Finney possens thoir full rrnpo"iuu. ‘I'hev bold to-day a Christiwnity full of bumamity and of piety well mingled, = The mothod of Finnoy ls pow the mothod of Moody. only the foriwer loader was moio ?um and woro purely argn- mentative In public addross. P'rosident Finnes. indeed, bogen the form of work thut Bow moves Euglaud and Beotlsnd, A most valusblo Jesson mcoms tomo to bo l{)lnuunlblnmuxlu page of life, It ia this: that thers ta no uns form of doctrine upon whi sloue God will doign to send tho blousings of His Bpirlt. Cowplaming souls will declare to their petichbora that *(God cannaver bloss such a sve- tem as you hold, He will not anprove of such ercore, He will bivsa only us, bLecnuso wo hiave the truth In our hauds.” Thus tormerly each sect wrapped Itself up 1u its mantle of soif-con- coit, aud thon waited for somo vindication of themuolves on the part of A discoruing Croator. ‘Thus the Episcupaoy dended tne We.loyan: snd tho Wasloyans tho Catviuists, snd the C: viviate all otoer echools than thoir own, It listory now shows that G Las alwajs ridden over these ill-boding prophie- cles with ~ His charlot of "Wl asod love. The Episcopacy waw campelted to saa th whola crowd of Dissenters woudotfully Llessod of Heaven, and tho Arminians have boon com- pelled to confoss thut Catyinism has drank its 1ull whiate of the showers of graco, Afier de- olariug that ** Calviulym makes’ the cliaracter of God worse than the obaracter of tho Dovil,” those who bave thus spoken hava for genera- tions sven true religion growing in tuxurianco in this flelds sown with thous very idoan. 'Lhua all the deounoistions of Fnuyeism have como to nauglt, and tnatead of fis ioimz visited by the smit indiguation of the Almighty, it bas woved along under the bauner of His love, I think, iv viow of this atrangeZuistary of dif- ferent craeds, that heaven mmilos upon thom all, wo mav well inger that the wolfsre of the soul in 80 preclous that its Autbor will not sutfor walva- tion ta depond upou right aud wrong ideas s0 much as upon a right or & wrong life. Tho Moth- odist cowiLg to the aitaz may come by some in- e1a0t mode, but God 14 t00 inaite, too lufty, fo arceive this. The Metliodiat comos, aud ‘tuat s enougb. And sothe Calviuist way’ err ln bis ideas, but God rofuses thos to imperil His ohll- drea, ‘Lho Calviuist comes soward Obsust, acd, oblivious of il elae, tha angeln rejolce over the comine. Mot for roicliectusl error will Go! Lanth a soul. When n creed il Artuinianiam, or Calviuism, or Eplscopacy, or Finmeyimn places Christ 1n the centro andmaken tho struggle toward §un the miasfon of the heort, it 1 a1l “eaknors and ignorance to call that creed *infldelity * and sav no_goud ety evar come of auch error, The past shows that sueh redi-congratulations aro liablo to meot witls feartul rebuke, for upon ths vory Church you dorpiko tho windows of heaven will open abd pour out an astunikhing twamng. It in undsfo to baae & propheoy upon the details of & croed, for if tho mon whn mect in its name happen to have Chriut 1n tho heart, 1s wiltbresk out of tho wanl like perfumn excaplng from the flower ; and behiold the toan whow tenotn we deapiso wil stand ubarer at last than wo to the great throne. ‘Ihe Liw ory of Chrietinnicy shosn that, much 8 we iy b awt of breaducsk, God 19 bronder than we all, Winle wa are r.red cting wtorms of Hiy wrath €or onr neichbors, saddenly thn heaveus open n merey, and love and grace fafl upon thers who neemed to us afar fiom hope, Tha thenlogy of Finney, which was o provo so - Jurious o (he canio of Christ, fing ot lans boe como fa len with the memuries of procious ad- Tances in soligion, teacking from our fand to Evgland amd back to our iand again, Ther eflortd of laymen, which wera tobnnz #.ach swift injury to tho caueo of pietz, have wmoved the Britirh Inles and have boccms tho graca of God to & sinful world, Thus Godis broader than man, We, {0 our narrow atachiments to prenl.ar terny of thought, say * God 18 liere," ** He inbere” snd behoid He iu theio alro with tha rame Jove. ‘We Liohold at Inat tho outhines of 1lis glorv, ant confens that wo are only atoms in the presence of nuch an infinite lave. Dug the ideas of Proxident Finney need no snch speeind ples, Thoy wera not errors of tho human iutellect shich God firpavo and thon blcrred because of the tatent of the heart. “They appear noy an all the snnhght of Hinla truth, ‘Khoy wern **the teuth s it 1w in Jeays."” “fhey were fow in pumber, Christ-like in ther Jangango aud import, divite in their reanlie, Under Uod, this one man molted hearty, eant and wout, o8 tho jolior shares hin clay, Whon tho poor necdel compaarion, that compassion hos hakteued forth from Oberlis; when tho elave sighed for freedom, ULz wept aod prayed; when caste arose fn ftw iron wight, Obarlin abolsiied it, and declured the white and black equal before God. A long hife passed amid_sach works and auch fdeas as I havo bricfly alluded to in thie die- conree 18 0no of thoso facts that tell us why God wade »uch a world as this earth, When wo noo tho wicked men and the eolfish men cf oarth, the questlon comos with awful power why did tizo All-wins One call 1nto being tbe buman family ? But when tho eve turus away from wiich i painful fandzeape and rors the nobler nouls file along in thoir greatuess of mind, and love, aud bLoliness, Bomo explanation’ of lifo aeeme Lo como to tho onco bewildered sonwe, And 4t e reason ouough for the cxistonca of us humbler unes that wa may look upon tieso followers of Christ and read in their truths and actioun the din anud and rowards of thie pilgrimage.” With nen ns Presidout Finney belors our thoughts. it is essy to realize the truth of Chrin- tianity, and to fr-el that tho eoul of man camo from ‘s gieat God aud 18 destined to return to Hie bosor again. —_— THE WISDOM OF GCD'S APPARENT WASTE, BERNON BY THE BLY. DB, MURDOCH. The pulint of Plymouth Church was resterday morning occupied by the Rev. David durdoch, D.D., of Now Haven, Conn., who preached tha followiug excollent sormon from tho test : o what purpoto 18 this wasto 1—Matther, xxtf,, B, uet thou by searching find out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfec- tion 2" ‘Fhus Zophar, tho friend of Job, asked thousands of years n3o; and thus the intelhipent obsorver of God's works inquires still. Aund jo nothing does the Almighty more hido himsolf and conceal bis intentions than in respact to the ukos and adaptations of Lis crestion and govern- ment. Notwitbstanding the appsrent irrever- cuco of tho aesertion, God seoms tha tnost wasto- ful of beingy, expouding vast smouuts of wis- dom und power to no visible purpose. Thus, to go further back than tho wmaterial creation s now existing, what an unlimited amount of power andd wisdom appears to bo thrown away. ‘What vast treasures of munoml value bave lam deep buried in tho earth for thousands, perlinps millions, of centuries. The yold, silver, aud vrecious atones, tho iron, copver, and coal—all thio immense woalth which men are now digging out of tho bowols of this globe and tranaforming into such manifold usos, whicii ste working such fabulous changes in Luman sfiuirs, was till a comparatively recent period unknown, and lay uoproductive. CUonerations of men lived and died in wickednest snd poverty who nught havo been benofited and ennched o fow coina of this great troasurc-louse! Thero durinyg nn- koowu ages and oras have theso accumulations been lying unused and scemiugly to no purposo. *To what purposo 13 this wasio 7% Asceuding to the esrib's surfaco and jutu the kingdom whero organic cieations bepin to appear, there s to bo seon tho samo caroless pro- funion of wisdom and power. Wo encouster this samwo problem in tho vepetablo world. Wido regious lio wasto aud unmbabited. el soils capablo of supporting wlhiolo naiions ex- pend their strength in the produ-sion ot foreats, which iu turn eniich the ground by their decay. Annually tae grassos sud tlowers of groat prai- ries cowe fortl only to withor and die belore tho icy blasts of winter. ‘I'ske nainglo l=af or llower and sunlyzeit ; study its form and structuro ; with what woudrous “wlall it 1 fashiouod. No Lumso wisdom s adsquato to the crention of such an ovject. Yotitis but ouo of countlesy milllons that come forth yenrly to live thoir brief season and ba swout down into furgotten graves, WWhat avon dues oach austimnal season witnoss iu the wmost exquisite productiovs of the Hngers of tho divine arclutoct | Lvery year what for- exts wavo with foliage ; what valicys teom with lusuriance that no eyo of wan has scen ; whas fruits arop untasied ; what tlowers bloow un« pocu sud owit unoct odors unappracinted, Even swong tho habitatious of mon Low much beauty and uhll nrn‘;ml forils which pasa away unkuows anid unboaded in this der.attment of croativn, ‘f'o take a winglo point here, bow wondiously in tho seed or gerin of each plaut fasbionod, and yeu how fufluito the number of theso which ato crested Loyond tuat of those that tuse root and come to perfection ] Each blossow of the apple- treois itself & aork of bighest art, butdoes one in a willion ever come to fruitage ? And so through the wholo vogatabla kiugdow, Wien, 10 the contompiation of these wondrous doinge of the Alinghty, wo say with tho poot, Full inany » gom of purest ray sercue, ‘The dark unifathouicd caves of voet bear § Full many a Hower 1a boru ta blurh uisecy, Aud waate Ils swostuces ou tho dusert uir, can we refram from asking with astonstimont, *'fo what puipose 18 tuid wuste ¢ Ascending yet higher iuto tho region of snimal life, the wamia problom etill confronts us. In- fimo is the number of liviow creas tuies whiod have their dwelliog on the earih, sud 10 the waters uuder tue carth, Naturalista have only made & beginning lu thu classitication of the eudless varioties, '}ixu wingod tribos that fly tho air, the vy tribos that swim the sean, the creeping tribos that erawl tue ground, the watking tribea that tiead parth's wurfase, whore i1 1ho arithemetio that can number thom, or tho mind thut can reckon them up? ‘fake tho tinjeat that conies under the eve of tho micro- ro.pe, and what wonders of wisdom aro dis- played in its conatruction | Eech drop of water 15 ateell ® tuictocosm—a world of autmated ex- istence. Each particle of watter teews with Nite! Wby do ihey live? Unrold multitudos are born und die each Gour, Millions on ill- tons becowe the foud of othegs, which devour thet 1 ordor t0 preserve their own lifal And yot each vuio is fachioned by a portect hand und diaws upon porfect wisdom in fls construction ! Deanth roignd amony them vs well as lifo! Thoy come forth in all their exquinite orgunizatioos only to Lo dostroyed | And what can wosay sy to tho mumnp‘;luf thair lifo? ¥ ''o what purpose 18 this paste 7 Lot us go up higher yet, up to Man, the head and crown of earthly crostions. 8till ths prob. lew follows un, kooping equsl paco as we sscoud, Plulosophers tell us thut there is a gradation of existences, an ascending scaly from the lower forius of hfo up to the human leing, in which they find their sntitype and fulnbmeut ; that froiu the verv buginuibg of o-gano croatiops thers Las been & lovking forwaid to wan as the Lead and culminatiou of ibese rudiwental fors. Bo that there has been preparstion going uu during long eras and geologlo cioles for tue human creature as tho true Jord sud master for whore ure and service thin lower creation was prepared, In view of thin fact, bow strance that ove-third of tho entire race die in infaucy, and that the ayerage of human hfo is but & Jutlo mora tbau thisty vears. Thin wondrous boimg of auch high facultien, mado in the image of God, for whoso coming such preparstion lsa beeu goitg on i the distant past, who s the fulfiliment of theso prophecics, whose facuities aro of such excollant usture, in such s mulitude of cases but ovons hiseyenon this falr inhetitanco provided for bun o gt them upen it forever, Does it nob neuin & wanlo of windomand power that it should baso? How aro wo to accuunt for ruch sction o tha part of uy Influitely wine Creator who has mado no:bing 1 valu 7 *To woat puruoso s thin wasto 7 Ilero in u cars by no meann Infrogaent, It is that of » vouth of hivh endowients. 1o mind and heart ho secn fitted 1o roach & command- ing emincoco among hun fellows, 1t way be his 10 gain & place among t40 few immortal namey that were tot hore to die s to push ouward the frontiora of truth, to swas tho winds of human pencrations by fongue, of pen. or pencil. to at- taiu worid-wide famo awd iniluence for goad, s powers are appreciated by foud friends who aro giviny thom tuo most boral iraining. From fofancy nis edneattion has boen their care. No carn or expenxo has Laen apared i bis eulturo. Tie Iy about to como forth in early mauhood from thio linlis of learning laden with peealiar honors nud fall of richest promies. Woen suddenly death antora collego and L 14 the victim! i A i treo green-loaved and fil-blossomnd su: denly Ini'd prostrate by tho destrucuvo biast, ko lied thas youth of golden hopen bulote his weep- ang comiades 83 they hear Lis remains to tho wilont resting plase. And with thowo are buried tao the brighit expoctations of parents and kin- dred with reapect to what ho wan to do amoug Iuw feiloz-men, buried the truita of that long care and training of swhich Lo was the subject— all, all neomingly has goue for naught. e s not to da in this world wuat hio was expected to do, 1t dune ot all uthers miat do it and no: b, Yes! muwtery profound and awtul! What a great deap aro Qod's wayn! When thinking on thie, what a multitude of open graves rise hi- foro our right with dear kindred and friends ding around mourning therr fove'l and gifted o)y knntolied from them iu their catly rpning- Wust wopder of, from their burstivg Liearts, thera encapo tho toquisy, ** To what pur- pose 18 this wasto Wo may mage tha casa stronger yot. From the midst of high snd pre-ominont usefalness fhow ofien aro men taken quickly away! Tho talented and cnltured, awiitly struck down in lile's upring, nns passed iuto the proverd, “ Death Jovea & shintug mark,” Tho missionary of tho cross, after long training 10 Rpeait i A foreign tougn the Cliistisn atory, ariiveil at his tiold aod about to thruat in Lis sicklo to the ripo grain, is arreated in bis pur- pose and not permitted to gather a single sheat. T'io fireacher of woadzuus eloquetice and apos- tolie zcal, how often is ho removed in the vary zomith of s vower! Martyn, Dramerd, Sam- werrield, McCuneyns, Learned, Jtobertson, and many others, at once come to our minds when wo thitk of men of great influence removed n their motuluy or wendian. When most fitted Lo bleas the wotld and glonfy thelr God, their carcor s brooght to a closo and we seo them no more, Wlen thero scoms such roum for tha exercise of their taleuts, such noed for labor which they ara fitted to du: whon soula ate dring for the bread whic it iu thoirs to dispensc, why are they not pormittod 10 reioain end gather komo of tha pre- ciots graiu ? Why aro tho strong reapers not continued in the wide larvest fiold? **'T'o what purjoso is this waste 2" How shall the question he anawored? Are we ablo to arrivo at any satisfactory solution of this «ver-tocursing problem? Full aud complete re- ply we caunot expoct from finite wisdom, and shall not attompt. And yet we inay gather up somo lewsous of profit from ita coutemplation, Xirst—\Vo ars tanght tho influity of the divine naturs, God's attributes of wisdom, power, ustico, and gooduess ure depths too profuund to 6 futhomad vy any humas understanding. Tho tinite eannot, from the verv nature of tho case, moasuro the infiuito, To all creatsd intelligen- cics, Johovsh must ever be tho Great Unknown, dwelltug iu Lis pavilion of thick clonds. Woro thero no awful mvstery clothing 1iis nature, Ilo would be God no longer. 'Fho light in which Ho dwolls is unapproschiable and full of glory, Buch knowledga as His is eo bigh toat we can- not sttan unto it Ho will not have His st- trivutes imitod 10 tho estimation of avy. With infinito case Ho can cieato and destroy that which {ie has crested. Whuat to finite powers +oom #0 exquisits and sdmirable that it were Wroug to cust them aside 88 worthless, Ho dues not edteem to bo s0: sor it coats 1lim nothlug to bring them forth., To create marvels of skill, and grace, and boauty, ig #o little & matter to i taat Ho cav afford to kcatter them ns man doos the dust beneath bis feet. o takoth up the isles as o very little thiug., Ils beholds the inliabitants of tho earth ss grasshoopers. He holdoth the wators Ia the hollos of flis hand, tlo woigheth the mountain in scalea and tho hilla in a balance, &e. - The Louudlers profualon with which the Al- mighty creates aud de:trovs tends to maguify aud greaten His fuflnite wisnom and power, and provonts any from sotting lmits to His divine conduct in tho affaits of tho universe. Man finds lus wisdom at fault fn bis attempt to say what Gud 0an and what 1le cannot do, o goes boyoud all fluito anticipation and asvertion as to whiat 18 tit aud proper in Him to accomplish. An argument for the soul's lwmortahty has boen franied from the {ucompletenoss of man's earthly hfe, It bas boen paid God could vever linve croated man for this lifo alone, and heace thers must bo & heresfter for bim. But i the light of what God has undoultedly done, aud whut Ho In doing continually, tho proof is incon- clusivo. ‘The fuseel and tho lower, {ramed with such intinite skill for 1te briet hour of lifo, fu sutticient to destioy its force. The Omuiscient aud Omulpotent One rebukea all euch presump- tion as would limst Him in His scts and permuz- sions. He will not allow vain man to say that it 14 too great wasto lu Him to creato uuu{lonhiu mortal lifo. Aud we must o clsow hero toatiain the kuowledgo of tho soul's immortal life. Not unti) the ravelation of Iim who has Lrought lifo and nmortality to light comes to our kuowledge, have we solld foundation on which to rest this great truth, Sccondly—What great robuke {a ocontained in our subjoct to & spiritgof low waterialivn aud narrow utilitariauism, Alan 14 croated with a nature to admiro and #oek tho busutiful s well as the useful, Boauty, groco, sud grandeur charncterize sl of God's worls. 1o bath made evorything beautttul in His weason, ‘Lhe Diviue Arcuitoct does bot eutoom 14 n wasto to bostow groat skill iu tho decorativa of His works, When lia buildsa tree to afford shade and sheltor (o J1ia orestures, He dues not merely coustrict a hasty, graceless covering which will koop off tho Loat, barely af- fording protection aud covluess. ‘L'he tall, arch- ing olw, the rounded, symmotrical maple, tho strovg-limbed, gigsutio oak, sre cach models of grace hud strengti, Evory tieo of the forest is tasbioned with artistio skill sud power. Wby suould not man, who iuhorits au osthelio taste 1 roaning his struciures, imitate his Croator, and fullow the pattorn bich Ho has shown bim? 1o framing the tlower of the flold and the bird of the air, and the tish of tho ses, into what forms of grace does the diviue band shapa theso humblo otoatuca. With what oxquisite coluring dos Mo pafnt petal, and wing, und scale, lo all matters portamug to his own lifo aud sur- roundings, 1o s dwelling, raiment, furuiture, should ot tho human being hiuvo a eye to tho i thinga? Are color, aud shape, and due pro- purtion, and symmetry, votbing s the miod of tho greas Creatoc? 'Fhou why dues he beatow Buch care on these thiugs? Why is the hly so gracetul, tho rose so sweet, tho mountsin so graud, the weadow 80 groen, the brook sv musi- cul, the ky 80 blue, the suoset so magmifleent? Aud shall he who is fanhioned iu tho same divine likones s moasure by the basa scala of profit what it will briog fu to bim, 1 the shape of what he can eat, ai drink, and wear,—the purposes which he stiall fulnll and (he aots which he will accomplish, sud call everytinug else but a use- luss westo? Ho may do $his,—he somotimes doss do thw, —but be ouly to lilt L eyss to wco the thousaud re- bukes written in God's works surroundiug hiw. Al naturo Is vocal with remonstrance agaiustsuch hoedlossnusg of her teacning, wan who cannol look upon the sports aud gawm- bols of children snd youth without thinking of the pennios they might oarn by work iustead of plsy; who suos nothing 1 the fit sitire of beauty, but the monoy which it bas ocost ; who frowns und scolds at everything in his childron aud pelehbors which does” not go directly into the wanufacture ot bread sud moat; whoso gon- staw rulisuds, whetsvor ha goes, **To what pur- Poss iv thiv waste 7 is tu wy esllwation, to say ihe loust, strougly out nllrlm iu_ this besutitul world aud marvelousty Lliud to what hin Maker s toacliug him by His owo divine oxstple. +For let us bear in miud the circumatauces and by whom tldw question of our ezt wam asked. Jeaus was about o olose Liy earthly taak. et ey nann Nvpy; NUMBER 364, ~ romeno and Calvary wera noarat hand, Io fa in Beshany with the fatily which he was wont to’ FoJourn w frarpiently ou iy return from woary Jouruoyings. ilo mi et At in tho honse of Himon the leper. Maryaud Mar:ha nod Lazarus wero with Him —that, Dazarans whiels o ha § but recontly rared from the desd, Mary, wh loves hum vory mueh, bas a hox of a'ahasdar coptain- inz n very contly oiptment. With this sintmont nha anuointed the feet of Jesus, a4 L seclinnd at tablo, and miped lus feet swith e bar, aud the houso was filled with thn wweot nfor, It nuy o tokeu of ber deep affestion for bor Lord, sho had donn 85 much for her, It may have also been intendod by bor oy an anointing for the Lutial thut swaited Him. Whether Mary 9 ine tended it or not. our Lord bumset( afterward ro- forred to 1t as wuch. 'Lhoso that were by, ens peeislly Judad, nu wo gasner by comparing ne- counts by the different cvangelists, mate come plaint, aud saked, To what purposs 18 this waste Wity was pot this omtiuent sold 1or 30 pence ana Riven to the poor# ‘I'his he suid, not thnt ho carad for tho poor, but becauss Lo waw a thief, and had the bag aud Lore what wan ynt thereiu., Then snid Jrsuy Lot hor alone ; againit the day of mwy burying histh s keps this.” For the paor always ve havo with you ; bu: ina not alanym. Bhe bath dang what sho canld. Tho Lastern custom was to anvint tho budy at burial. Is st oot cepecially noteworiny that Chrint took occasion to bostow s, great cume mendation upon thin giacoful act of Mary and to inlict Ruch rebuka upon those who found fauly Witit it ou the gronnd that it wan 8 violation of tho laws of utility # 10 one Aeosc it was 8 nko- ful ceremony. It might have been gold and its price bave gono to purchass food dud ruin for the puor.” On tho Jow ground of utilitar fen it was a culpatlo waste, But thoio a9 a propriety and fituess in the act compared with whict gald was not to be mostioncd. 1t wus B kracetul token of profound love and veneration, which in Jesus’ eatimation was euflicient to give Mary's tao & parpetual frazrance 1 the henrts of bolievers. Huar what llo duelares of at: “Verily [ say unto yon, whoresnever this Gow- pol_sliall bo preaciied’ throwghons tho wholo world, this aleo tuat phe bath dove shall bo #poken of for a memorini of ber," Ad wwaot 1ucenno that alabaster box of Fpikenatd haw Leen ouwitding its odu during sl v ages that bave intersened ! Its fisgraueo ehull nover cendu Lo bo feit ! Can we conceive of any higher suthbority in condomnatiun of s low sfint of profit and atili- Lty us compargd with cost expeadod upon whast is 1 itael! Leaubiful and touchin Thirdly~TLho vel of ouscurity throsn over the divito purjusos and pruvidencois with s view toafiud ta the mind & healibiul stuuius and over-fiesls delight i tho dicovers of truth, Luts i tho source of Lealth aud Joy to the inte lect nt it bo ever advancivg to uew ticldy of iuquiry aod conquest. Iv caunot live and srow alone upan thiugs known and digested, It mnst Liave freed fond. Indeed thisae the chiel valne of knowled;o—not the satisfaction which jts nc- quirement br.ugs, but the mental dovelopment which tho exertion in its attsinment sccures, "I ho sonl must be progressive to be Lapps. I Fosture is to bu ever aggreseive uud onlookiug, New fields and rich pastures are to bo sought, or iz winks to dulluess aud sati Higher, bigher yet it must ascend or it loses the suengih aud olanticity of its step. Aud bouce theso vast fields of hidden tMlugs sproa out by the Almighty for onr study and re- search, Theso ineihaustible views uf the un- Luown are provided for the mind to dig and tou iu a8 for bnd treasures. ‘Tho inlloite Godis tobs Torever boyoodour reach, tnat wo may ever ba at- tamnig fiosh joy in Hisrovelations, Tho bliss of tho soul 18 to ba avor nearing, yet novor aulniu- ing uuto, tho fullness of Lho divine kuowledge— @ver spproacling the veiled turone of Lho invis- ible king. yoi nover reaching the oxsveding Urightuoss of tho immodiate presence. Ny without deep philosophic reanon doas our grast- cet sacred poct dercribs as ono chivt cmployment of heavonly minds to wit and moditate the pro- found mystenies of the divine providencs and decrecs.” Reasomng of fate, free-will, fure- koowledge absoius But, tinally, ysteries of God's crea- tion, God's providence, aro for the develop- ment of our trust i lim, A sublossin aud loving fuith lies at the fouudation ol a truly ve- ligious character, and 1t is ol last iwporiauco that soch a charseter ve fouud in ua. Bat faita in anothior 18 dovelopod, nas by completa kuawl- odgo of lus gcts, buz i the absence of such knowledge. When the cluld coutes to mature years aud 18 ablo ta comproliond fully tha gruunds of ita parents’ roquremonts. and ke their reasonablonces, cowpliance on his partis vo Tonger the trustful obedience ba was wout to ronder, when ha could give uw better coason for his actd thanthat such was his father’s word to bim. True filial faitl walkn by faith and not by sighz. "Lhie country of its birth and vurture 14 nos tho cleut, cloudiers land where all is Livht and glad- vess, but the land of shade, and storm, and contlict,—the land of darkuess aud peril, whero we need succor and direction, Indeod, of what uwo 18 Lrust i AnOther tu 0no Who cluatly soes for bimse!f z Aud if tho Almighty wero to make plain alt His dwpensations, where would be tho need of Faith putting ber hand Iu iy and askiog bimn to load her? Tho conditions roquisite to taith's exerciso would be wautiug wote there nothing hidden 1m the divive conduct toward us, ‘Lhey who would bo taught to rest submssivoly 1o the Lord mwust bu content to be shut away from the novu-diy briguiness iu wluch all thingy are seen clearly. Where would bave boon Abraham’s faish hal God revealed m advauca the deliverane which e liad proparcd for Iinae? Josoph's faith had tho bonor to which be was 10 ho raisud Lean forotald? Where that great Lost of ho:oic unos, whove doeds giva snlondor and renown to L Listory, who through fuih subdued kingdoms, wiought rightoousuoss, obtamed prowiies, wtopnod the woushs of lions, quenched tho vio- lenco of tire, escapod the edgo of thio Byord, out of weakuess wers mady stroug, wased valisut 1 i uua ara wa to learn that God's glory lios in couceslment 8y wull 84 in mauitesiations of Himwelf. Wo areto thank 1 for what le wakes known to uy, and trust lim for all the Tunt, Iknow not the way I am going, Hat well do T kunw 1oy Unidey With & chli dllke trus: L give ray hand Tu tha smiguty frivad vy y ide, ‘The only thing that I eay 1o llim As Ho takea it 1s, * Halb st fast 3 BUflor tne wot to loao Iy Way, Aud bring 106 hoae at laat iy WOMAN AS A CHRISTIANIZER. SEBMON BY THE KEV, No I AXTELL. Tho Rtev. N. II. Axtell preachud at tho Park Avenue Mothodist Church lagt evening from the following texts : This womin was fall of good worke. o . . o Aud wany velleved ou the Lord,—Aetn, iz 50—i2, y of thy Samaritaus belvvul for the saying Of tho WOILBL —JVhiky {04, 2. ot hesrt audt hiead, buth active, botl complete, And both in eargest, Mea and wozien wake Tue world, s hoad and Uirt mako biumau Life, Work mau | work watan | sitce there's work to do Tu this beleaguered sartls 3 for Lead and huar ‘A thought can nover do tho work of Lave. The one work of Cbristizos 84 such {s Chris- tisniziug. ‘Tuis *onthusissm for uumanity,” ay Prot, Soaloy calls it, is not limited to a clauns of priests, but recoguizes the priesthood of be- liovora—nor to gifted men, for tha single talent i to bo brougut with its product—nor to mon, for we come into Christ, sud eo into his work, a3 thoy wout suto 1he Ark, **two of every sort, male and fewsle " ; or, mora exactly, the middle wall i brokeu down, there is neither male nor towalo, but all aro ove in Christ Jesus, That which now determines place fd not sex, but adaptation to tho requiremonts. The law of mothiod roquires that all elisll Lo done decontly, orderly, successfully. Auy differonces of rola- tion $o the progrees of Christisnity muet depend upon facts, uot prejudices, Buch questions ought, thereforo, to pe auswored as: Whervin sre women not different? aud, Wueroln aro thoy diffsreut 1 capabilitios from mou? Thon, bave fug her peculisrities set out, wo should sk, What in 1t that Christianity proposed to u_u? esvecially, What fusturos of Christisnizing work claim our attention at tho present? Weo can theu ace Low wuch peculiatities oI women etand adjusted 1o such peealianitics of tha wark to be dono, and also talk uudorstaudingly of upheres of toil aud prospoctd of Buccess. Firsi—Wherein i woman not different from man? Certaiuly not in ber rolatious ay & sianer—no: ay a siuner eaved. Certalnly not in the applicatious of woral codes or wpleitual hfe. Calted out of the vawe cursy, she receives tho same heavenly callivg to go and do her best. Grantipg ail varlaty thet msy exisn nothiog of inequality can be afirmed of tho plane which loraveragod powers giva bor, . mao, belongs the superiorities of the iotallect, “thie aapirations of the Iloly Ghost, the sublimi- tios of faith, or of genius, the openings into realms of ecutntic prayer and divine communlon, Dutall thero demand the human mctisitios as their occastons. lienco 1t must bo that now, aa anco, Jesus is beat pleased with Marys whose nctlvities tako lugher regiona and alm at tho Letter part. than with Marthas who loss all in the woatviog rounds of petly carod or fitful fashions, There is not that diiference that says magculinity shall sit and learn at Jeans' feot, Lut fomininity sball Yo cumbored with much Hpirisual sorvies boing a requiremont of Krowtl, aud women having au_ope 80a to theas “lesations nphn the one condition of totl, Apir- taal 0 13 hior bigh privilege. You do tako 2437 hier el bigher 1ifa when you do take the work on which it stands, ** The gos- vl of matedi | prosperity,” saya Emevson, * 18 :Iri\‘m.lxn.;. er than no gospel at all.”” Man, ul woman Lave uu o T, 1ual right to somsthing oo eond—Whereln Joes woman'differ from man ? hiero is a1 umiiiclicosn raical nud ossential, lio plainm of Texas vou canuot approscn & herd of eutlo withaat fiuting s euard of bulls turued o the front. on cidicr side, aod at the rear, Ua spppronslinga herd of borses you 1C0 tho protective inatinet ou the ya:t of vhe malew sl furthor, (o7 tho berd s made up of #Ioups of threo gonerauons in o family, acd ofticered with males a8 to hard and eroup, ' The lion presents an imbsuetrablo shazey nock, though the lioners bus greater conrage. ‘Tho weara tha broad, brauehiug lorus 1 the dos 18, bowover, more prudent and fleet, ‘Tuo samo placont tho “head of the army ™ Keozs to ho iven to man, 1o oxcolsin outorners, Man is bigzer thuu a woman, but not grester, As boe pumivg ut the brute ade, ho is phymcally strouger. Ho heat wwings tho word from bis shragging xnowider, anl move mately turns bis shagsy 1aco to the bristhig Lsyonets, i iy HLPONGUT persisieutly, uot in a'wpasm ; in the excitcmout ol abnrning home a woman cancarry ont & hoavior stovs or bureau thau & man, Man's power gocs out secordmy to the nght hne thaorv, & womau's by the wave thoory. As tho fineat striug of tho mumcal instrument 18 wus- ceptible of tho greatesl variatious, ko womau's beart, the most senmitive 1 ita nature, reaches thp groatost extromnd of nasston, Whiln man 18 moral, womau 13 emotional ; tho ouo_ ratiounl, the otler affectiosnts i the ono intelluctitul, * the other renninental ; the ouo o fibre, flax, or tow, tho othor silkan, ‘Chie one, in mechod, decirive, thn other jucise fve. Tho ono takes & hieavy bectle aud luss ou mora sirengzh, the other carefully sclocks tha thin edzo of the wedgo. What one would do by furce, the other would acccomiplish by congriv- auce amd tsci. The oue dominates by force, the ius by grice. Tho one iy a fillar of stenath, tho other of beauiy 3 both blend in pillar of windom. Oun is alwags tho other's Lotter half uniil tho other ia gained aud both srenupit. Thomauisa hand, the woman a bLeart, togethor fitted for the world's barde.t sud beat work, Oun vellows tho baed, tho other trills tho truble, but togeter they make the har- Mmoutous munie for the maeh of hfe. If one thundars the law, and the other thinos forth the Gonpel. botu make the complrted hitman revelas tion, Ung in Lansou, etrang, exactiog, definito; the othor ia lutuitiod, leaping to iy conelus sioug, viving DU procoss. but corlaiv, nkinuat- ing. and wineowe ; combiued, Learon lesms that faith bas a higtier aud holier pathway, snd Intuition lesor upen Renson's staff when Iame iu ecitatic leaping. Oue, by theso qualictes of foice, outhority, soli-roltance, rushes forward ta compel victory; tho oiber, by graco, Lesuty, devated eympaths, brings wtility, charm, aud ornawent to the vonquest. flow foolish to sl which 13 most necessary 1 Chiastian work Which 18 most necessary, tho Leart or lunge 3 Let death's fiuger touch cither, and lifo ia gone! Tho luga may blow more, uud o moro di- rectly connectod with tho ouser air, bus within the eyutota tha Leat takew threo mops to his eue. Iue lungy teying 1o do the heart's work would pull and blo~” iteell out. and n_heatt tiy- 1ug to be b Licart and lungs botl would go iuto tarriblest palpitation. Bat hesrt sud’ tungs #ido by wido will do the work well, One will grow Vigorous on tho atmosphero of the outer wotd, tho other will soud heaith turonghoat the kyatem, and both will furnish tho complate vi- tality. | From man, a» from lome, we deduca principlos and bring lawa: from woman, aa from tirceco, wa deriva tico adaptations sud gracess 8o from hoth, bleuding their contributions to tha Rodeemor's causc, we look for a mony-sided ovangelism, as from Itome and (ireoco me have the marvelaus legal aud uritul Constitution of our country. Dilfercuco is the Inw of lifo. Now, quite iudepondent of cthess priuciplos, lui us tuia Lo Lo work to bo dous aod ask our- selves, Third—What idealy of charncter doea What s tlus i <8 indeud fall apon tho body, but theso are iucidental to it, oy to the collore. It seeks to roorgau #piity, — to bring into Luman charucter fuith, liberty, nenrt-purity, loart-power. To bring i & recoustruction ou tho Lasis of love, ‘For Ged bsth not given un tho spirit of foar, but of power, aud of love, nnd of a gound mind." It ie then & spintual forcu, and mimd to make men bravo, mighty, loving, aud mtoll Cliristisnity wonld not rarts by mare force, The Unuamed may touch the thigh of Pride, but it i8 unly to luad tho wrestler to forsake hus welf- reliance, and to call forth the clingiuy trust that receives tho now naturo and tased a Prince. Nor has e madte thio force of Army the streagth of His workors, ** Wo sro stroug in God and 1in the pawer of Llis might, and wrestle uot againes flesl and Llood, but axaiust * priucipalities and powers, agaluet tho rulers of tiio darknoss of this world, sgainst epintoal wickodnoss,” ‘I'so Spaniards thought they Christianized Amer- ica by Hottlug up crosscs.” Boiting up enough would have improved tho soil, but it is hard to #ee how it conld bave brokon the fallow-ground. boarts of its ‘muplu‘ But tho yoarniug love that seokoth not her own, but, Nile-like, averllows its bounds, bearmg and froctifsing bread upon ity wators, cun biing colestial lower and frai- ge. (o solf could nat coutain the fullueay of Lislovo; honco Christ. 1eavon could wot coutain it : houce, throngh the glory-rife, the Advent, Clrist could not ploase Himself; hence tho Cross and tho twolve ; and tho tweive be- came throo thoursud : and tho sovonty, the Chnreh ¢ and tho Chureh muet go out to regioun boyond, bionco s worldconvorted, and bence, t00, taeoutbunits of heavon's prajses. Togivethisim. meterial woalth of ove this charncter s tho aim of Christianity, and it canuot avoid doing this and bo ituolf, Fourth—What bas Christianity done already ? Tt haw done a Jubu-the-Baptist part of the work. 1ia ruimont, hair-cloth and gicdle; its moar, wild sud course; it object, proparation ; Its cry, ro- pentance. It has titled swampn that, like Bane yan's, soomod ta have no bottom : loveled moun« talus granite hard, using tha ax to cloar the way, until the voice nas gone out throuzh the wilder- vesr. Aw tho fivst gun plauted on Brood's Hill in tho ltovolution was christened “The Peaces wzher,” ko in this revolution the tirac pesco- makers were often guug, It bad been dolng an Old ‘Sestwmnent work, Tho Amalokites haye somotimes had to be extormunated,—cattle, wives, aud cildron, Tho law of love has beea from the beginaig, bit, bocauso of the hard- woamof beart, the bill of divoscement hise sosmed tashow Chirtstisnity with tho Obristout, ‘Lrumy et must be madv bofore the musio; hard shells aro oukido tho kerools; fieat that which [s nat~ ural, thew that which 18 spiritusl. 'The work dono 8o far has beou pacallaly masonline, Aet tirst by sies of pursecution, thon by scholassio warfare, thea the traditions which the Reforma- tion only cut through to the rock, theu the ppirit of propagation by wtolerauce, then by po- hitieal vutavglement; “there havo beun crced- forwing word-ward,—long porlodu of logic, of soale yaums of subtloties, Thore Las boen war-making, wull-brcaking. sudtreaty-making. Forests|fallod, wavages subdued, Bibles priuted, concres of highie havo been established in lsuda of darkness and gnarded from the wild boasts, which would have trawpled thew iuto the snaky fen, until uow they ride to tho skivs thaiy owo protectors and clear the polwons frinu tho'air. These wore {mln beglovings, wud the wasculive predom- uates, Fifth—What ls tho character of the work that s now to be douo 7 After Siuat has thuudered, ' Because thore is sin, die," then Clvary muss plead. ** Fathor, forgive them, hivo, e fire Em ¥, aud (God was not a it, save 1 tho l8zo of powor ; the hurricave, and (iod was not init, eave lu tho tread uf justice, Now we ara waltlug, & voice small aud atill, ** persussive voioe,"” yet powerMl, sending mou to staud on the mouaut of Giod. After war sud its what ¢ Feace, onder, gunhtleuess, and coucuiss tion, Atter batulus the Bistors of Chaznity to tread wmong tho wounded with Lealing. After Kiugs, govoromeuts, trados, thouglits are cap- tives to Chiciet ; tuon hotwes sud wuoial lifs, snd the schuols and the cradlos sre 40 be his higler tropbies. 5 To her, an to |, After the winter, spring ; _sud aftar Vuloan