Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1875, Page 1

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RERMON DY THE REV. FLORENCE M'CARTUY. The Rev. Fioreace McCarthy preached a sor- mon last ovening nt the Amity Daptist Chusch, on Moody and Sankey, their work in England, aod thoir prospects In Chicagy. Tho toxt aud discourse wero nw follows ¢ Bt wo hive this trewnure in earthen vestels, that th oxcelloncy of the pawor may Lo of God, and not of Car., 17, 7. Within tho lant twolve montlis avonts have oc- cuarrad in tbe religious world whick are fully abreast with the most astonlshtng phenomens of Chbristiauity. Two men, of less than ordinary capacity, who had long rosided tn this community without attracting any but somi-comic attontion, and waom wo gave credit for absolutely no gifts oxcopt religlous carnestncss aod encrgy, have gone to tho most religious and enlightened na- tion on tho globe, and literally captured it. Judging from the sccouuts furnished by the press, and from Mr. Farwell's sddross last Sunday -eovoning, it Is doubtful to my mind whether there over has beon auch a power- ful religious awakening sinco the daysof the Apontios. Intho eizo of its congregations, in tho intevsity of its fesling. in it8 long-drawn and well-sustained intorest, in ita grand eweep ovor party linos sud social ranks, in the enterprise and liberality of ita appointments, it is withoat apataiel. ‘Tho labora of Whiteficld, and Wes- loy, and Bpnrgoon, giorions as they are, must absolutoly pala bosido the work of plain Moody and Sankey. Aad, though the tepic of this dis- course, &8 announced, {s slmpls the prospecta of thieso wonderful evangelista ia Clicago, I can- not forbear discussiug the nature of their work atlarge, pot only becaune tho subjfoct 1s & fascl- oatiog ons, but ateo bocauss it iaonlyiu thelight of the goneyal subjeat of their character and Ia- bors thut we can dotermlino the desirablensss and probablo aucceas of their efforta hero. Tho frat questiou that occars to every thoughtful miud in connection with this wonder- ful movemont is, to what is it to be ascribed ? Ana this question can bo answerod In two ways, wcientifically and theologically, Viewiug the mat- ter from & pusely scientitic point of view, I traco those phenomena to a precedent stato of the public mind. T menn not the alighteat diarespect to Moody and Sankey when I compare them to Mrs, O'Leary's ketosene lamp. the one which troated us to the groac conflagration. Thero are lamps turnod over in Chicago barns every day in tho year, bat the other circumstancos of tho great fire aro wauting, If wo ever havo the Lreath of Bahars blow over our wooden dwellinga tor mix weeka sgain, thers will bo no want of keroseno lamps to produce acothier big blazo, Aud 8. it is lu ull the great aftults of tho buniap race, some man in found like tho flv that sat on the cart-wheol a8 it went round and sound, and ctied, *“Beo what »dust Ido ratse.” An Bnakopoaro says, Thero la s tide In the affalrs of men which, taken st the flood, Leadu un to fortune, It were absurd to eay that any great popular movement will make an 1odividual great antiroly irrespective ut hia character and qualifications, It te unduubtedly true that * some nen are boin great, kome achleve greatuess. aud some hiave grontness thiuat upon them.” Buteven in those cases in which the publiowiud in its unaccaunta. ble uphieavals seizes upou sn inferior man sud shirusta upon biw leadersbip and fame, tue re- salt ia dup 1n somo dogreo at loast tothe charac. ter and ability o? that nforior men, For v 1y easy to boe ttat if some other man had beon substituted for hun. the same wonderful rosults would not bave fotlaved. For althougia Mra, O'Lesry's ndiculous httle Jamp, when overturned, was sutliciout to sat the wuole city stlszo whoo there was & drought, sbe might Lisve turued over her milk-pail under the most favoravle circums:auces withont setting fire to soything. Ho it was with Moody and Sankey snd their great work, They wero certainiy admirably saapted to doing what they did do, but thero s an wfimto disproportion between what they did sod what followed, ‘Tho nsmcs of Whitefield and Bpurgeon are synonymous with geoiue and eloquenco, They would have drawn immevse througs of peojfu and achioved gieat results under any clreuals stunces. Buv with our Evangelists thero i & plcuous Iack of genius, learning, OF ora! ical pawer, We ure thetetore driven, in our soarch for tho patural csuses of this gresi awakening, to the.other factor of this product, nemely, tas miude of the psople with whom they bad to do. as (0 wuat the preparation of tho English miud for this gieat excitomusnt conalsted in, it 18 almpst impossible 10 tell, Nowmg in the uni- verse Ju 80 inscrutablo aspopular impnless, Lui thut feelinks and Jmpulees are 80012 ¢iI0s Bpi- dumio 1o too bumsu r or at loast in lurge ortions of it, is t0o obvious to bs questioned, 'ake as su illustracion the revival of lesrning which preceded tho great Reformation, or tady tho Reformation iwolf, Tuous groat bistorical movementa were not simply contagious, but epis demia; thoy broke forth all aver the civilized woild at the eawa tima, Aud, whatts sull more wonderful, the human mind sometimes has an epidemio tendency towaids soma graat discovery ar some cuious invention. 14 wmight almost ba sald that the univerval humao mind discovered Awerics and invented priuting sud the tele. graph, How go many minda could coincide in thoir opinions and desfgus way bo au wufatbom- CHICAGO, MOI DAY, SEPTEMBER abls mystery, bul that they bave done so in nlaio matter'of bListory. But it fair to presuma that groat popular uprisings never occur without & loag period of on, oven though wa canunol discover been. Aud it 1a nothing agsinat this theory Lhat many popular movements have oc- curted when wo auould least havo expected them. For bow do we kuow wt-st wort 0f prep- arstion is uecded to produce a given popular & plowion? And vet most of theso unozectod do- velopmonts, even, m-}' bo explained on the 1.oocipie of resciion, Toia 1 parueniafTy true of roligious excitemonts, Great revivala havo almost alwaya beco born in & Line of pravaihug wickedness, snd often of infidelitv. \When Jouathan Edwards bogan to preach his awiul #crmou on **Hinners in the !aaia of av Anery & serman which drova thosndiencs nearly aanity, and act all New England on fire with to gious enihusasm, tho peopls who assembled to listen to it wers not only devout or stlentivo, but were atmolutely frivotous and noisy. A sa- verficial reanonor Inight tegard tho effect as ab- normay, but acareful thiwker could not fail t> obaerva that whon poaplo had gono as far anthey coull go in warlaly-mindednes, that wouid” bo the very timo when they would bo eantly ti: ped over into extremn religious oxcite- ment. [t 8 trus in mentsl sn woll as uatural phitosopby that ** action aud reaction are equal aud In contrary directions,” and that whicu 8 pendulum Liad gone aw far 84 it cab o One way st il most anwuredly siop and go the other way. Whether tue dluody and Sankey oxcitement i Great Bntain wan o reaction fiom ieligioun indiffecence and futideity ) do not kuow. Lae [ shoutd thing it quite Iisely tuat England and Scotland, though th-y aro by all oldsthe mast Christiau countries on tho globe, bave nevertho- less Leen #lumpering for a decade in formality and eKoy Liciens, and bave now reacied into a stato uf wonderifil spliicuat lifo and activity. It accorda wiih the theory, in twy opinfon, that theso countries, in commen with™ the whots of Lntopo snd Amenics, Lave beoa atilictod for ¥ears pant with a great monotary panic aud sl ita attondant distresy and hardship. Thoro fs & mingular conueciion between thowe pauies and revivals of 1cligion, At iirat sigut this may ap- pear au farfetcied 28 tha fact duscoversd by Bucklo, that there wana tixol and invuriable 1a- tio betweon tha number of marnages sud (bo [rico of coru. Dut it i4 & weil-known fuct amony ministefy that all the groat mouoy pavice huve producad great demoralization, similar to tbat produced by extreme weaita and ptospenty, and that the demuisiization bas invarinbly veen suc- ceaded by o profound and univeral ichgious up- licaval, ‘It is my own belict that this u) heaval takes place eitber o the Lrausition Leriod bo- tween flaancinl distroes and fiuaac.sl ricovory, or a hitie_ befora thut poried, Aud that tho Mooy and Skoy rev val i+ a rrastion from the {troliiour etfeat of » finnucial er.vis 1 baveo sota sbacow of & doubt, An to the theological exnlanation of this preat swakening, it is vecy plain. Tue Almighty had clnstoued tho Mritisu people, and when they wero humbled thereby they found God waiting to be graclous. ‘Furougi all tho dark nght of unbelief aud worldly-unudednoss thero wera fawblul souls who nover ceased to piny that God woula return in Hia might, and God angwered thoso prayers. The gitts and ealling cf God aro without repentance, therclora Ha could nut let iy peoplo go any longer witnout a 1efreshing shoser, olse atl tho vines f His osn right band’s pianting would have coms to desolation, Nor f5 1t difliealt to exvlain why God chore such ins{ruments to effect Hia purposes as Moody and Sankey. It 1 truo, as 1 have already maid, that’ God sometuncs Iavs Lold on men of gomus and cloquescs and -en- Lista thomn in tho defonan of the Gospel. It would be do-apatory ro religion thns it oou.d not appreciate nud uaad Gud's Urigiitest aund best «tfes. " Bat, oo tho oihier hand, it woald be fatal to religion if 1t nover couquerrd men w.thout having behind it » sufliciont natnrat cause in tue learning and oratory of the preacher. It 18 God's way, thereore. to choose the weak things ta contound the mighty, and tue foolish thiugs to bring to pangnt the undeistanding of tha prudent, If tbis wonderful rovival had occurred in connection with 8purgoon's ministry, it would Lave been avcribed to Bpurgeon's magic topgue, and 10 one would hore for o sbare in tno bigss. tug uuless ho could get uuder the souud of Spargeon's voice. DBat as it oceurred 1n connoc- tion with the exnortations and sooga of Moodv sud Saukoy, the wholo worid muat admit that the *‘exerilency of the powsr' 18 of God, sud the wholo would will hope for s tharo of the blessing, Aund let no one supposo that thero is any cou- tradictiou 1o mv accounting for {lna rosival on gcientific grounds avd theo oo theological,—in aacribing it firat to reaction, and then to divine grace and the power of prayer. God ia the mas- tor ot Hisown aws, not their tlave. Heor- danod thie Iawa of mind and matter for the par- flase of cartsing out His plans. Whon tuoy do 1is widl it {s uot through a idence, bat through eternal purpose aod dosigu. Hecauss the Almignty adunts us for o momant to louk at 1he mychinery of the universs, wo must got ym- agine that the maclincry cau eflect anything withiout & motor, or question that that motar 18 God. ‘Tho uatural explanation of this rovivel therefore, is barmonions wiih the Seriptural avd epiritnal axplanation, 1 will now present some resscns for hoplog, or at loast deelniug, that Moody sud Ssukey way ronew their labuia 10 Amorica, aud especially io Chicago, and that thoy may bo aa gloriously suc- cesaful hero aa thoy iave boen across the Water. “T'he fitet of theso roavons s that we all bopo that we bave peots tho worat of our flnancial dia- troes. In this, ps in everything clae, it is dark- ost just betore d‘{' and we arc all hoping that wo are in tho dmkeat perfod, if wdeod tho day is not beginning to Lreak. Now, I am just ag sure that we shall have a great rovival - relig- 10n 38 I am thag wo shall avo a rovival of busi- uess, and uosurer. 1f wo havo not gottento tha buttom of our financial troubles, Moody and Bankoy might just as well whistte &8 proich 10 us, Hutif woareon nmng grousd, then will they inaugurate & movoment hers which will ival that 1 Geeat Bricain, It oiay scom trrey- orant to reason In this way, but, as I bave al- teady shows, Gad's laws and God's purposes aro in eternal barmony, sud 1t is noeicher vain nor chiiicult 1o ros0u Trom ona to the oiber, least of all in thts caso. Anotber reason for desiring and hoping for such a sevival 1n Chicago 1 that tho clurcaes d ministers in thid city are iu such a doplora- ble atate of backehding and s 4hat thore should be, and soon must be, & grest reaction in tho dizection of purity and holiness. Thero In no doukt that the coiruption esteuds beyoud Chicago ; but It certainly 18 doeper-seated and more_disastrous bers than elsoabero. I hava sirendy intimated that widespread finsncial troublos have u demorahiziog eftect bath on the Church avd on the world ; and this 1_supposs 0 ba ¢ho cause of the present shaweful aiate of the Church aud the miulairy, God kuows 1 do uot deeire to_be consorivus, and much less un. chunitable. DBut fideity to ths truth compely me to adout that mewmberslip i & Chléago church s no more a guarauten of peracual honesty or purity thun membership in a Rre-company. lodeed, bave of lato fre. uantly heard Ludiness-men seriously doclare that they woro compeliod, in élving crodit, to discrimigate agalust prufessed Christians bo- cause they found them 84 a class disknnest. Tha very churches tLoaselves do not heaitate to do- fraud and awindle their vorv pastors in the most unblushing menner. Aud as to the exli- bitions of Liatrea aud contentiva among the dis- clples of Cuiist, svory ono kuo«# thero fa uot & denomiuation af Curistiana in this city which 1s wot torn to shrods with iutestiue sroubles, and among whose nmembers the passions of dovils do not, ¥yoario and yoar out, rage and iucrease. Thelr smnt is finely {Mustrated by the old Bap- st 1ady who came into tha city on a visit from one of the suburban towus, aud was ssked bo the Iapiist Chiurch prospered i her place, *Not very well,"sho 1oplicd ; *you soe we havo three other churcnes tlers lo contend with, snd consequently don't get slong very faat.” That {s what {8 the matter wito tie Chi- cago churcnoa ; they have contend with, snd tuat thoy touse the words of tho Apoatls w1 avother con. uection, no oue will dony. And what makes the churches sa corrupt s 1ho corruption of the ministry, Of course thers alo & (6w mivisters Lore, &8 well a4 elsawheto, who ate sincers and well-deverving mon, But the typical Chlcaco miniater 18 au vccleasstical shark. e follows tus Master solely for the loaves and fisbies, and for (ko weal the right hand of power. Parsous! emolumeut sud pore ronal ambition are tius ouly motives, sud Lo giat- ify those passious ho would chearfully ruin tne reputation sud rend asunder tho tlocks of all his brotber winwtets, Far peoplo to go ta Heaven through auy uther door thau the door of hus churon la & ground of poigning griel. He would rather wes every church but 13 own lev. oied with the ground. aud every seat of loarning averturned sud sbandoned, sud tho whols popue lation turned into hell, than to bave lis salary roduced, or seo & church-steeplo buily bigher than his own. And of coures & class of men who'sia totally abanduoed Lo so'flshnees must bo inpnre 1 other respocte, Aud Kt 19 a nignificant fact that sacy ua of three of thn Iargeat Chriatiang detominations 1n this city bas expelied from 1w mivistey, Wil every mark of hiatred and contempt, almost the only pure fusn In 1ta pulpit, Now, from all thia Satanic hatred and variance, from ali this devilinh prida and ambition, trom 1 th) diehonesty snd imrurity, toere,mill most staurediy be au sirakeniogwud a reacion. Home time of other tho backsnders in beart wil be filted with their cwp ways, Aua the moral pon- dulim which has 80 ‘long asvd disgracefully oncillated towards min anl self, will oscillate towards God snd brotherle lovy, towards boneaty and truth, towards punty aud holinees. Aud my hope 1s thas tue day of tho reaction 18 at hand, My other rensons for hoping for a great Moody and Sankey revival in thia city turnon the character and position of those two beloved brethren, If ever tho Chrirtian Church i res- clied from ita present captivily to seltishnesa, display, hiypociiay, std corruption, it wili be by men of their stamp, Wo might just an werl ap- peal to harlote to abate the social e:il a1 to_rely on profa-nional ministeia for tho rexcus of the falicn Clurc. Mon from the ranks must come to the trant or wo arc rumned. Ona thiug about 3oady and Nankey which on- desrs them to me, sud makes me bopo for their success bere, in t thoy ara not ordamed mine irtors, No fools have ever lad hends on thelr poblo heads spd pretended to impart to them what thoy didu't possess them- welvee, ‘Tne praciico of ordamng & wan to preach {s utterly unknown to ths Word of God., e read in the Now Testament of or- doming men to rufe tho Church, but not to preach the Gespel; that js the welisuavle nght and tho inevitavle duty of every cmid of CGud, Auy msu who Assumes to confer upou another, or iake away from another, tho right to vteach the Goepel of the grace of God, is & PPharizea nud terant, Al hail, Moody, and Sankey, and Whittle. and Biiss! May a thousand wore like yon _como after youl! ‘Bweep away from tha oarth the time-seiving, man-foaning, eelf-seek- ing, ecflemiuate, nud pulated professioual miclstry. 'I'he ouly way to get the cbaff out of the Lushel in to ill'it wiih woeat. Aad that you are puro wheat from the waiucrd of our Ued, God Ilimacit has assured us. Aud one 1esnon nhv Mody and Bankey have power with men sud witn God is that heir Inbora do -t coatemplate personal emolument. T'here Lrstliren hove, 1 suppoee, Lived of ths Guospel, sy LheSerizture certamly allows tl.em L do. But they havo corelully reframed from w. cepting anyihung but o bare” Bubvistencs, Some of thai compecrs Itk Jaculs have, like Paul, proleired not even 1o uka this privilege, but bave earned their living by secular Javor. Tus 14 tho only mothod that God will oser approso or bleas. " Let any one ehow mo 1€ he can wher- ever a geommo 1ovival of teligion aroso uuder the prepchivg of an_avaricious man, Tho pro- fosrional revivalnts, liko Giaves, and Eatle, and Iiammond, 1asy galvamze noaly, but they never briog them to lite. And the roason of this is periectly obyloua, Tho temptations to preach ichigion for money ara o stiong that men cun never trusge tuo dincerity of thore whoare seen 10 Lo teathening tLeir owp vests whilo pretend- ing to bo euprcmely anxious for the spiritual welfare of others, 1 have bope lu these men becauso they aro not pricsta. The Lord bs praised, Moooy aud Sankey du not wear lung-1aii coatw, nor nulitary vesty, nor whits bands srouud their thioats, and do ot gwm:hln gOUNS, 8 1 tlLey Wero not humau beinge, nor sesnme to proncunce abeo- lutivn and benedictions. No, they do prupose Lo carcy tho keys of the Kingdom of licaven at thieir girale, or call (uemselves Roveroud, or Doctors of Divinity, or *divines,” Thoy are men AMONE mon ; tnoy wear their shiri-Lusome in fuil view, aud do vot talk through their uoros. Jamos, aud Petor, and Jobn, fresh from their ng-smacks, could not be more ionoccat of clerical bumbug snd of priesteratt. God bless thom; it is e joy to kuow that thero are a fow such io the world,"and It canuol but be that O;Jd will bloss theta here a8 Ho bas done elac- nhete, Fiually, T bopo and beliove in the success of Moody uud Bankoy, Lecsuso they bolieve aud preach the pure, nundulierated Gospel of Josus Ciist. Alf’wlw Lear me preach staiedly must koow that my ovn miud bas beea greatly exer- cimed over sume of the doctrines of the Uoxvel. Dut fur all tbat, 1 do ndmire a proacher who s~ cercly pelioves and faitufully preachies tho doc- Lrines of grace as taugit 1n the Now ‘Lostament. Such preachers are Moody, and Sankey, sud Jacobs, aud Whittle, and Bliss. Thoy preachtha roality and bitternces of siu, the vicarivus dosth of Jesus for s, Jueiticat.on by faith, and tho cross of Corst as tho Dojo of tbo worla. These are tho only doctrin:s that over will nerve meu up o tnorni rotormation ana sot a whole nation oo firo with religious ex- citement avd outhueiasm. Supposo Moody suould bave gono Lefore lis London congroga~ t.0u8 with the humanitarianiem aud bonho.uio of Robeit Collyer, or glistering biographical scrap-book of Prof. Swing ; does any omw sup- Emm that the great beart of humanity would avo responded with such splondid oatburuts of penitonce aud bigh resolution aud holy § iv as it did to the unlettered pres« ntation of tho Gospel? ‘The Gospol of Christ is like His coat, nithout a neam, yei tho Liberal Christisn affects criticium, —tukos a port nnd leaves s part. But hosoon finds thiat ho might just as woll leavo ons link out of & chan, or ope lugredient out of gua- powrder, a8 to leave ono jot or fitio out of what Cbrit bas eaid. Toe Gospel 18 poeitive snd conatructiv: Liberal Curistianity {s wimply negativo snd dealructive. And for ali'that ita race-courso 18 all doan lull, it cannot koep pace with tho purc Goepel of Cbrist, bocaueo God is in it~ Ilong to have Moody and Sanlioy bogin fn Chicago, becauss [ kuow that they will not rend tho soamless coat f Jesus, but give us tho socers mith of the word; becauss thoy will not presc the close- communion abonuuation, and assuma to diive Christ’s sheop out of Christ's pasture; because ther will not make the boliest duty of & Chris- tian beiog baplized ; becauso they will lator for no miserable, coutemptible, bigotod, 1utolsrant, persecuting denomiuation or sect; becauso thoy witl preach their Llessed disater, and not tnem- selves. May they come soon, sudetay long, and may the windows of Ifeaven beoponod aud a geeat blessing rourecd out upon thowm which thets shall not be zoom lo coutaiu ! e EVOLUTION IN CHRISTIANITY. BEBMUN DY THE REV. LAILD COLLIEW. The ltav. Robert Laird Collier preaclied at the Church of {he Dlessish, corner of Michigan avonus and Twenty-third street, yestarday morn- iug toa very large congregation, selectiug (Lo fo'lowing toxt 1 bufl tsga’n tae things which I destroyed.—Gala- tiand, 1f It Ho apako as follow, Tho prophet at despair stretches forth his hauds and calls unto the peoplo al! the day long who psss by only to mock nud deride, for fauh in progress s slmost univeissl fn modern il {zation. Judesd, it ia a tenet of modein philos ophy that progress Is au inatinct of buman uva- ture,—lo other words, progross is natural. Mao- kind bisy » fesling that mankiad is going shoad. Thera ls then au lnstinet of progreas which Liss surveved Lha route and declazed tho way of mankiod from lees to greater and from lower to bigber. This statomant is & eueralization of principlearatber thana noting of detals, for both pootry and bistory meom to confiict with this theory snd aziom of our time. Indeed, thors fa & prehmiuary questlon which canyot bo set ausde, 1l wo propute to ask au indorsement from eithier pootry and history for that gonersl boliet af the race. What {s progress ? Even pbysiologiets have norule, upon which they aro all agreed, which wetsles what avimala aro higher or lower than otuers. ‘Thoo it caanot be strauge that, wheu we outer ypou the complex ppoblemn of human wocioty, no criterion haa been sgresd upon a4 the standard of progress or for deterwining which ago or nation is goremoat io all blstory, Iudeed, much & rule wonld ve (s Judgwueat seat of worals and rehg- 100, sud 4o sucl ruls could bestated upon whbic all isen, includiug Ultramontauiots aud Ked lto- publicans woald agreo. Dui a rule uf prugreas 1uay budLeted woich may comportitaelf with con. seioaness tuat vinetv-uine-Luudredthy of mi kind will pdwiit 18, aud ogaiass which the opposi- tioa would staud no show 88 & creed of tho civ.hized yorld, Hote, theu, is & wido-spread and almost unl- versal oelef which bas rooted 1tseif 1o the mind aud besry of civilization, notwithstanding both tho tradifions and anuals of tho superior nstivos of msukiod migot suRRost s contrary theory. ‘Tho oldest tradit.ons of all nations, aud espec- 6, 187 inlly tho slder group of nations, confirm, in some WAY or another, tho Hebrow story that man began At his best, Tho miodern scientitic theors 18 that @an began al his lowsst, Through™ all the reriod of clsemical antiquity there wad a poetical traduion of Fden, "sud & perfact man. Thein are slojuent facta whicn confhm the spinit and prncizles of ail Lbis poetry. Thera aro who.o nations that have remmned stationary at the rame degree of culture from the very dawn of tueir history, There are others that va tlosly progreased,—ustions that uavo advanced for long mges witbout anv perceivabls ant-back, huch an the Clineso, and, tnereafter, remained nxed, and this patiousl 1m- mobiIty uas become a wicred creed, Wo also 106 thiote nations swhich wers farmetly the most powerful, and endowed with (be most npiendid civiiizations, sich 84 the Egyitians Arsrrisns, Urseks. apd Homans, now it eiate of decay, whilat others have wholly pasded from tho faco of tho earth, 1n modern life, and somotimes, when ip cloro proum.ty to 1t 1s markad advancement, wo wil Iiud s commuuity or Stats wnich has gRove kack. nlowly but certainly, and where thera aro #igLs tnat ‘such eommumity or State will becoms ex. tinet, Tha Austtslso trites, the Indians of both North and Soits America, are being elowly ewept frum their hold op the eatth, just as racey ol men cetore theas succutnbed to ths invasion of mti'l biglee races, The onginsi tribes of Europe weta firat stimulated to cinlization by immigragons from Africa ana Asn, aod no doubt wauy sbuninal races were swept owt ol exience. Somo oue calln civiization “the Llvasom of ths migration of tribes,” and is furtler of opiniun that every great aeciion of histury lias mtarteq from scnie barbaric 1uvasion, &4 alao that the must nubly o1gansized races of men Lave alws s hadl (e gresten: tordency to mizratz, Laraojo bas ecen thres different taces of men. corra- sponding to Lhs turze ectious of Lho stous, brouze, aud iton agea, of »hich the brouzo-nien who camio 1rowm a groat dintauce. furt it oduced tlo anowledeo of metaly and thewr sorling, to- gether with tho venso of art and ko cuatuin of burning the dead ; Shilst the tall, strong, loog- Liendea men of the iron sro reprenent the taste for wnr and conquest, and brousthe the tribes hich brecedad them Into subjection, ) Mr. Herbert Spencer a1y civilizaion 18 an in- creasa of adapiation of mau to biscovironmest, that 1y, of L.g interual poers aud winhes to e external fot and Lfe, in may be well ilus- trated, sain a recont social philoroper, by o vil- Inz6 of English colonicts aad a trLe of Austra- hiah nat.ves whio roam around them, * TLough they mav fail sbort of fudividual Anetralinvg in ceriain featn of petty ekill; though tucy may 0oL throw Luo buomerang aa well, ur iight & fire with ear h-siicks as quickly, vet upon the whols tbo Eo:lrhmen cao beat tusm i war, have more meana of Lanpinese, moio (st ts of enjoyment, have books, utens ls, and macuines. Auj pistory conhrms that, m Al the outisivg and unconiested districts of the world, tho abo- rigiual native lize at the weicy of tho jutruding 1 Tho pessimistic interpretation of tstory which demes progreas, comen to ita thecry uad couciusion by mintaking the form for tho pirit of ietory. Befcro the oldess cisiization had dechined, the neat oldest biad taken up its beet Lfe—indeed, often tho dechine of ouo wat the dircct result of tho progress of the other. Egvit had not lost iis 1wstinct of progrers uutit Greece bad woven into the vesy testuie of her thougit avd Iife whatever was valubls, or felt to be vuluabie, n Egvptian though: aad lite, Grecce may inve lont valuable elements of her civilization, vut tbo intnnsic element, the thing which was best aud Lighest, aho depomted 1 the Romau lifa and thousht, aud £0 tho esenco of the lite of all vations mnkes up tho essonca of our civilization. Itis not true that ouo sge Las preserved sud now holdy all tho vaiuabie constituculs of tho past ages, but thoee qualities have been conmerved aud iatained waich go to make our timo upon the whole tho best century in the bistore of mankiud. I'rogrees is the normal fact iw b an society, Ono biief illuscration of my mes .og munt auflico. Tho progress of the military art 18 tho imost conapicucus n bistory, Napolcou could judputubly bLavo coujuered Alexander, ‘Tho battlo array of mankind, tho fighting force ol the humaorace, has constantly aod 1nvariably grown, and in this 18 seon tho ceseutial aod per- gistout law of civlbzatlon. Tho Nomans ad- mitted barbariann to raux and oflice, and linally tho Toeutonie tribes cstablmbed themwelves 10 (ho Itomsn provincen. Bavagery died out su the fresh strong blood too's up tho mannoers ana culturo of tho Romans, until the toly-zuard of Augustus came to bo laigely mado up of Ger- mous. Forco hsa tended to concentrato iteelf more and moto In certuln groups which ws call ‘civibzed uativns." “llero is an- other faot illustrating progress in the art of war, namely, that miltary vices secm to decline just as mulitary strength sug. menta, Thore is au improvement iu the moinl flore of civilization. In tho arcient time rade aud luxurv impaired the youth, by tuesoihio wodera breed ls improved, &nd gieat citios pour foith woldiers aboanding 1n bravory and vigar, Particulur consoquences of civdizationsmay pass away, but the vital force of civilizations groys. ‘The Homan legionanes or lomeric Greeks were a8 superior to the meo of tho shell-mounds and the gt implements s tha Queen's Guards aro maperior to Grecks and Romana. I bave chosen this ono fact of hstory becauso in war, efpecially among the sucionss, every intellectual gain that one nation bad was made use of sud juvected by suoiher, 80 that avon conquest impraved mankind by the admixture of strougt] S0 the progrees of civ- {lization I the cunulation of these guine ofwn impatted to subjugsted races ur imitated by cutnpeuing races. **And though some of thcse advaotages may be perishablo or inimitable, yet, on tho whole, tho energy of civihizaton growa by either the coalesconce of atrength, or by the competition of strengihs.” 1 bave said this much ou general civilization, and by nay of tlustratiog its laws and its meth- odu, that I may tiod & foundation in history aud philosopliy for what may ve called tho evolution or develovment of Christlavity, Dr. John Henry Nowmau, the most subtio Anglican theulogiau, lias somewhero sald that meu are guided by typs and not by argument,—in other worda it la tae Ite of teachers which la catching, not their tenetn, ‘[he Chrlstian ora was uahered in by the pawer of a life, which life bocame a type aod not a dogma, Faith In this life a4 a type of humnpity Dbecame the wordiug sod couquering powor of the fist ags of Chrstianity, which was {berefore an ago of _faith. s waa the ufe of Chuist whicl conatrained (h.sy sbout Him to bold tv Him, Forins, sayiugs, sn miracles wero not questions of true and false, Taings woie not lovked at through the apinit of exiticien, for theie wad no such thing as craical mo.hod. Christ Himsolf way & won cle, a rovelation of God, and 1o re rus und to roj eat ks saymgs the Evaogehsia ooy whote in th: mosl natwal way use the lauguage of noudor aud auracie. They tell ho story of faith—faib at wiite-boat,” Thero never bad Losn it the anuale of msukind sach authonty as tbis wlich was lodged wholly i peisonatity #No man ever @ &s this Dlan,” It wan beliaved that the hingdom of Cod was at band, that the Measish had coms upoa the earth ; and every bour lu the Lifo of tho Master, an evoty vaying and ovent, were & fultilling of all tho law and tue prophets. Men for tho Hrat timo came o the covaciousness of a Father-Uad, be- cause tboy Lold cowmunion with a 8on—the; san the Futher 1n the Sou. 'Thia 4as a grouud- awall of fecling which ymined volumo aud forco turoush the entire apostolic age. Coid intellect e:suds ditub before these secorda with the eriti- cal spint sud modern method. Wha suall say what s twe aod what s falso iu thla domain of fechug? Who il say wobat feelng A and eard? It has bLeen feshng and fanh which havo always susn visiou: rushiog wind or the still, swait voic of thess dave aud deeds coulif only be told in tho language of sentimont and poetry, The - agery of wiraculous birth: & voice from Leaven at the baptism ; the gloritication on the moun- tain apart; the comiog uf Moses aud Llas; tho darkeuing of the Leavens; the upheaviug of tuo earth at the Crucifiziou; the revivi- ticstion _ and yesurrectivn from death: the saeetly-sulemu ascension from tho Vale ot Bothany-=is & atraiu of puetry frow beinmug (o ouding, whataver the objective facts wmay Liave been. [ tue Humeric poomua ara valusbie only for tbeir nctual truth, theu are thoy wholly val- voloss, Thsy are no recond of facts, but of in- agination, [ere vegnd Lha lustery of ireece; it beginy 10 Doutey; 10 otLsr viigin, of accouut of 1ta origin, could it have Lud. \\houce comes thoaun¢ Poeirysnsaers, It comes up lrom e darknass. The sun’s s ihief, and with his great attraction lious the vasi sss, The sun had Joog alace {a the lap Of Thotis take out his Dap. Naturo as woll as blstory gives ao acoouot of horsol! in tho langusge of pootry, Chris~ ailp @ribune. NUMBER 13. & {94 tianity falls in with Uoth. The sto = her origit 1a told 1n the faneuags of postrr < 10 a8 the old Hebrew tolls tue etory of er ~ 3 snd man. Buc becaue: it 4 yoetryat is X false, ‘Tuore ts a substance of truih aud th T3 stance intrus. Chrinis true, Hisqunty 57 ul and lottiness of purpoee, His healing pe 35 wver the fouls of meu, His inspiring facultf & supacts courage which led Him to sav the t, 7 and din for It, there aro tiua, What lan,. . eXcopt toat of apinitus] feanng, couid give an adeqnata orirayal of the e end A epoch? Nothing like thin touch and flow of feeliug bLas been recovercd in the Clristiau nonaln, save n} -Inxmu wnd passing way 10 tue Weeleyan ro- vival, Such an ara has neither time nor inclination for criticism. Cbrist was not a dogms, uor from Cunst &id 8 dogis ever procesd, Can the fiazrauce of n rore bo formulaled? Canthe poetry of an infant's lite be couched in phrases of ecienco? bat the fragrauce af the roso vapishes, wo think too moun; the poetry of infant lise, that, too, passes away, even vefore wo sre ready forit; and tho sge of poetry itself, bowever we may lung for iv snd invoko its comthy, han fadad, sy tho age of nuaginaiion, of which 1t was the creation sud the svmbol, can bave uo returt. " But for Chriatiagity, T repeat, this was ao age nf couquest, But whon feeliug Lnd worn itzell away, then, (o mmotain this ers of conuest, Force was suostituted for th, Faith was & reslity, foelng was kotuine. Authority camo in &8 & mockery and Yrau:um. Tu= Chirch was an outward thing, it iad Lean the gaiment, the luminons spparel of faith and feelwy, and when too life bad gone out o 1t it woa ouly e loatasome corpse. Tho machinery of thin aruficial hfo cousisted of atustolic muceersion, & reigu of scholasticiom, councily, cronds.—crusados pot to tho life, but to the tomb of Chr.at. Fiom the time of Con- stantine to_the tume of Justinian, Christianity was dieplayed umpon tho slielis of tle soldicrs aud tho Lanuers of the ariny, And religion taa beou eituer an orthodoxy or a ber- env from the himo it vecamo eetablixhed ib the Loman Empie notil now when agsin in twin this actificisl form lias worn itkelf awav, And we have entered au Ago uf thought or pir tual remson. At it was attempted tu pro- laok the conquests of fecling wheu the feoling itsell ~ bad warted mway, ro now, when this era of ccclesiastiviem, of the autbority of Pojes and Churches, of 1 roparterons creeds nud frightiul anatbemas, bas lust ite power over the courci ! wen, thiese 18 & stuggle, a3 uuto to de; itn wiway, Luts, inbasl roanon dusl wween the pootry aud the facts, Criticism han dawued aud appiosches & wid-dag glors. The lizhit baa come, and the darkoess disa; poars, No Ecumenical Couunil, £0 Evaugeiicnl Allisuce, can elay ita Progiees, or prolou tho reizn ol nu- perttition. Not for leas, bue for woro light, s the cry of our timo. Aud the Wholo volumo®™ of light; all the rosulis of eccenco; all tho tendoucies of mod- oin lile, are arratzncd sgeiomt this iyraunical et of ecclesinstictem, iteligion must go nit reason or ceaso to go atall. If plywical mira- cles, if hierarchical priosteraft, if verbal mspira- twns, i dogmas of suustitational atopeweuts aud ubending tortures for tho moula of mon can bo upelled out 1n_tho torms of the upiritusl roa- +on, thiew, aud then only, Liase they # chauce of survival. Certainly Reasou and Soienco, pro- vailing iotllience, common eouse, aud modern Literature have invontel Do euitable language 80 far for tho expressiun of these traditions. There hax boen 110 1etrogicesion 1u tuo pathof Chrisitatuty, as chere hua been only progress in the inarch of mankind. Asous civilization bas retained tho aggresaio force of the precoding civilization ouly in another aud more useiul and adequate form, so Chrisliauity han lost potbing in the ovolution from faith, through authority, to spiricasl reawon, 1ad Chriwtismty remmmed only a feeling. it could bave bal vo claim upon tius cthucel aualiwis wnd criticism., Feehog is awift; tho dictites of roaron nre slow; tus oue vanishes, the uther mustendure forever. There js ane lsw of proziers in all things—that whicls i« best cannos bo loat or lorgotten, 1t 18 the fehicity of tho metaury that it rotains tho best. Indecd, progress is at omce lowwg snd loatning tho past. Faitls beld tho liing Christ. Force, iy woav- ine & garment, liter smotherod tha lifo and buried 1t fiom Lumau VisiD iy tawdry babili- meunts. Bpiritusl reasou s recovering the life, aod refitting toe spparel. Tho Church must not Le au obstruction but a mediation tor the souls of men, O:hsrwiso this Chr.ar, tao Son of the Liviog God, is B0 preciouy, 8o cssoutial to the I'fe and progress of the raco. For this etornal Clrist ib tho sweet gift of Go:l's final luve. T cannot think but G4 must know Abont the thivg 1 long for #0 ; 1 knaw Le ta Ao gnod, 8o kind, 1 canot thnk but re wiil Gud Brme way 10 Lelp, s0mp way 10 show e to the thiug I long for #0, © Tstreleh my hsnd—{t lea so nmar s 1t looks s0 sweet, it lovks 8> dear, “Doar Lord,” I jray, “On, let we know If it 18 wrong to walt 1t 60 " He oply smiles—Ii. doea Dol speak ¢ 3ty Leart grows weskir 804 moro weak, With looking at the thiog so dear, Which Liea 8 far and yet a0 near, Now, Lord, I leava st Thy loved oot This tuing which Jooks so near, soswest; 1 w.li not seek, 1 will not loug’ I almost fear I have Leen wrong. T4l go, anul work the Larder, Lurd, Aud walt till by some Joud, clear word Thou cal est me 4o Tuy loved feet, To &now this Christ, 80 dear, 50 sweet | ———— CIVILIZATION AN QUTGROWTH OF RE- LIGION, - DISCOTRSE DY NOLMAN T. GASELTTE, ESQ. Mr. Norman T. Gaswetto delivered a discourse fn the Michigen Avenuo Daptist Church, of which ho Ia & prominent member, yesterday morninz. 14e spoke as follows: You wilt find my text in the sixteenth chapter of Luke, a part of the twouty-filth verso, **Son, remember." How poar, how rich, haw abject, how sugust, How camplicate, Low wonderful (s man How varmng wonder Ho who mada bim auch! Who centercd in ur make suchi straugo sxtremes ] From diff'rent natures marvelously mist, Connectian exquisite of distant workda ! Distivguishied link in belug's audless clialn | Midway from notbiug to the deity | An beir of glory 1 & {rail chlid of dust ! Holpicas inmortal ! fnsect infnit: Wasre living io a practical sge, and men aro Ja pursuit of such knowledge as rhall Jead to the most gubstautial resalts in the shortest space of time, We are so placed in ifo hist a vast mul- tiphicity of objects eolicit our sttention, and to overcome obstacles, if any gan can bo had thoroby, scems to Ls our principal aim ! Lifo stretchos out info the future with (ta many avonues for promoting intellectual activi- ties. Nothing is beljeved unless proven, sod domorsirated projects are tho only ones enter- tained, or sougbt to produce & result. The miud grasps at what is donominated progress with the dariog activity of a meotal Hercules, and from the dizzy heights of its lofti- est conceptions scans the very hoavens and makes the clements themaulvos motors for the gain of men, Scieuca chaing the forces of nature and sub- jects them to our uses, sud, to promote tho fue torests of trade, luformation of tuo markots is sont, with the flash of clectrical hight, to all tue marts of the world, Tho substantial enterprise of tho times awakeun an equally entorpiising prose to give us universal news, w (ho briefest possiblo wauner, Beiouce aud Trade, haud iu baud, exploro tho earth, one for the beneds of the otber, and the result fs for tho beuotit of mankind. 1o this tho miuetesnth contury no undertaking sevms too stupendous for 1man to cotcaive, aid U0 obetacla toa gigautia for hun to overcoma, il 3t will benefit Lum in bis pursuitd. Cables resch from one continent to anvibor, resting upon the bod of tho rustless ocoan, lrou s aro lald from the Atisutic to the Pacitic, sud peneirate into evary coraer of the civilized globe. Bail aud uteaws Yesals plow tho waved in the juterest of trafic, hailig from every navigable pot in the world. . From tho explorations of Livingstons, Bchweinturth, Stauley, and others, fu Aties, it haviug been sullicioutly demonstrated that that reat contiusnt, with aii area equsl (0 ouu quars Fnr of tho glube, i3 mich iv Yogstavle, sulmal, and minsral woalth, snd capabie of produciig tho comwodities of tradv to & greater dexroo than now, when touchad by the waud of Euio- ean civilizatiou, Rigsnticeuterprisesof engineel o aLill aro as ouce coucelved 1o cut mway & barner of saud bezween thy Atlantic Ocean aud tho Ssahars Desert, at point opposite the C Islaudes, and, a8 the greatest expanse of n‘:fl“IYu botween Tums nn!v the rl&‘ludu—- centre of Ceniral Africa, Tunbuctoo, return tho ocoan to its original converting & dieary waste of !gml m'?,'“". navigablo ocean 4,000 milea broad, lhi far come merce between Northwestern Contral Africa snd the civihzed waurld. Beience, for the educaiion and enricllog ot mankiod, deiven into the of ia furmation, and the utili ed wineral weaith : searchea thrangh the im- mensity of Lhe boavens, and daringly soeks for cognizance of the scerets of Ommipotence. fixlog tune iu the revoiution of the plancts, aud by me= te rological observations grognoeticitiog the com ny; of wlotma iu ho laterests of agricultuca and nasigation, While wo 1 let u= bo my the *tuood glory in our national progress, ful that material progross 18 only went of selfiahnens, that i {a without 45 fur, coid and calculatitg, 16 searcucs tha hidden caverus of the earth and plows the bayv- igsble waters only for convamence or gain. Btanding in thehis.o of the prosent ceutury is the figure uf Reug.ous Progress, wislding thie scepe treof art, revresonting tivs hiopes of mankind, the trutus of society, aud tue polity of the na- tions. ‘The idea of vropress i ippuimost in the miuds of the Christian world, 1n it strauge that is elould bo no in this the nineteenth contury, with the truthia of antiquity, the realities of tpa piesent, and our coucentious of che glotous hopes of tho future crowding upon ua ; and do wo a4 & whole people, oulightend by oir scien- titic 1esemicy, full of witellectual grawtly, yuylia entorprine, and sccumulited wafim, rapresunt tho i oRredn of mankind 7 Wust igcivitization 7 When and where did {6 originate? Does the Christian woild en))y Liguer degreo of civilization than the somsiynos depomnated pagan wollz By tha lght of trath we can trace unr counectod movoment to- wnards inletiectual develupment, the beginomg ot which dates back of sny known tradition aven. From the dim and sisdowy dusk aof tha post, tho mind ol mau Las reachod forwand from ono geucration to the noxt. until the chan of many hnka circles the globo; and the result of all tutelleciual rosearch luco ltme Logat in 10 tho posscssion of man to-day, Mavkind i working (a8 if all who bad existe), and who now exint, were but a sinwio man) for material wealth and material progress, chicerod Ly tue tarcbiighe of ¢rutls, which Las Lurned winco tho murta was croatod.—dun at ficat—~ovar burning, until we have tho glorious offulgeuco of the present day, Cluns, witl its population of 50tk 0J0.000 yuls—oue full Lialf of tue populstion of the glube—pagann though thoy aro mometimes call hove a civilization of 1o mean order winch is native to ther woll. Iiom tuo date of their Lret kuowa lustory, dating back to 5,000 14 820, WD Lo the prosent day, theie civilizae 1, soc.ally, puiitically, agriculturally, sud od- urationshv, tins Lad a etendy growth; nod not- witkatanciig the sutnquity of gheir pa‘ion thora i3 Bo decriase o thewr enlerpiise as a yeovle, uor loss ju thesr vitality, ‘Thoss who are teuor- ant of this people’ would not thuwk of waling a compar.soh batween the Chiness nation aud what are commonly donominated civilized uations any more thau they would be williug to clatw for tho LLuduus & civilization oqual with our own, To-day, however, both sclioiars and those who Liave & Luowiedgs of the Clinosa, gawed by residouco with them or from exterded tercouine, do hot hiewitate to compare thisic civs ilization with tbat of auy nation. Lhair zenarat pubhc tmprosements will compare favorably with any in the world, Laching tho steam eus giuo an tho electric telegiaph,” all tho iuvene tions of moderu times, with but fow oxcontione, Uave beeu in uso for ceuturies by the Chbiuvss. Ilhiey are the luventors of porcelan, gunpawder, gapur. pristing, and the marinor's compurs, aud ad usea these wort impoitant inventions coatus 1igg earliot than they were used in modern Europe. Education [s genera!, aud the social struciuie ia us well sestled an 1 any other country, Dublis wiiices are filled Ly cavdidaled who have baon tound quaitied afier o 1gid compotitivo oxamine ation. Tbe Cliueso nation, uotwithstandig theso facty, however, ato commonly devommated a5 8 heatucn nation, abd we 8re recognized as & avihized uation, ‘Their material enterprise is an groat, their ac- camulation of capital ae rapid, their Wgeutty of intellect o8 vorsanlo, their couception of mojali- v a8 gruud, and their boliofl 1w their God, which 18 au emboduneunt of anwdes, ac of a princple in patuce, as uoshaiken ad is that of say other people on the face cf the globs, From waeuce bavo they a concurtion of any God ? By what aoepration did Contucius originate and compilo a religious code, 10 which 500,000,000 of people, withous excoution, dsvoutly belicve 2 \Was it the brosthinas of the spirit of God ? fa 1t wau's laww or Guu's Iaw, imperfeet thougl it may bo? From whence didit como? * Whera- fore the law was our schoolmaxter to bring ua unto Curist that wa migut bo jusutizd by taih. But aftor that fuilh 19 come we are uo’ louger uuder a schoolnaster.” In wha: doss our truo clvilization consist, wiuch should distinguish 1t above othsr than Chuigtian tations, and why shiould wo av & peo- ple bo awarded & bigher Losition amnng nations thian tho Chitese, if it 18 aut tbtou:h thysiblime ivtluence of our Lolief in the Losd Jesus Curist, aud through bup a more perfect realizatioun of the deity, us tno author ol things gud, w & Lope of & biessed immortality, aud s conlideut faitl tha the miud of msn was given bios that hio mught follow every avenus of acicnce for rations! knoslodwe sud p.omote the graudest interents of humal . Instiuct aid reasun are possessed by all mon! Instinct for self-preservaiion under the samo crcumatineed is tha same in all wew, becauss it 1% pbysical. Heasun Iy trom the dawn of cous eciousuens, and not alike in all wen. in ouwe~ yuence of wvatural caunca, avd bscause tho wmouve for ity exerciso 1s variod by circume ntances which cither retard vr promote ita developmeat. It oue nation shonld occupy & bigher social, moral, oc inteliectual positivd than auother, 1t hould be the ovo whose peopla Lave Lsd tho enugtling intluenco of & revesled religivu, an es.urauco of a bleased inmortality, sud such progress as Ia consojuont to a kuuwledge of divine cience and a aivine mediatar, Josn 'sul Richiter gives the Tolluwing acconnt of the birth of his solf-countiousuoss : ** Nevor aball 1 luxfut tho phienomenou 1u inyself, when (in youth) 1 stood by tho birth of my own solf- couscioueness, the placo aud time of which are dutiuct 1 my memory ; 1u &u iustatt the tuner revolation ‘1am L' hike hglitving from Heaven flanuod snd stood brightly Lufure tuey in that mument bad [ goen mydell as *L' fur the et time aud foruvar.” * Man bas & will to rocoive and bo affeoted by divine law, and au uudersisuding to roceive and bo enhightoved by the diviie wisdom," (8wedenborg.) "Tue Chiuewe, Japaness, dobammadans, Narth American suy Lavo, aud, judy Pproponderauce of authorities, thivre 18 Lo 3gKkres gation of meu axiativg on the earth Whudo nop Liave, soto beliet of an invisible Gud, or au wdea} robrowentation of flim, oither from an unre-. vealed law, or witbout uthioc ruvelatiun than from iouate consciousnoss, Euligbtened Christen< dom ghould take bLeart, thou, snd ou account of msuliud, (€ 1mpelled by na *diviue attlatus ™ ta da o, should kovp stosdfast w thoir bousl in the Havior, who ** was vuo with the Faih ir thay desira to msiutat their proud sssumption of superiority o religious civilization over beathoudom when coupared with them, Tuatead of scientisty gonoraily keapug hand in hand with divioe revelation, all weeking to substantiate divioe +uth, thote ara those who, for thie uovelty of making & sirange discovery, or tar tha (rsueivut roputation uf a s iod origiuator, uncover sume 1solated fact of ure whaict they do not fwly understand, and at onca adysnce suwo startling theory tending ta die approye ruvealed roligion and the coswogouy of Geues z Tho resson of the wide divoreity of epinlona fn the wnds of geologists respecting the earth's formation ‘iwm outof the tact, [usesums, that tho vsierual wud ioterual structure of it have nuver yeb beeu thoroughly explured, 8ir Charlos Lyoli, from & discovery ol udtie speat buwis near Amions, Fraoco, uudor sume peat bogs sud worassed io the quateruary period, suppossd s hisve boeu {ashionod by numun haude, imme. distely Tushea to tue couclusiou that the cuss mogony of the Bible is wrong (in at least a8 much as its chrouology = fixea tho tine of tho crestion of msn), sud that the cumulstiye opiuion of the great majority of geologiets aud scientists who bave from their iuvestigatious aud reasarch vertind thie cosmogony in feilacious. His opimion bas ?mo“d e tugutry of all, and b rocoived with avor by wany. Why spouid the isoisted fact of the discuvery of & fow spoar beads st Amious overihrow or uuseltle tho l|llhvllllul{ of the conmoRouy of Ueuusis, the truth of which bas been corroboratod by the results of laborious re- search 1 boblf of truth on the pact of ecieutiste sud goologists for ceuturies ol time ; who s with il theiz erudition thoy bave failed to determios the leugtd of tims fu an epoch? An epoch may be 20,000 or 10,000,000 years for sugit that s koown, Why i it pot more reasonsble to suppose that eologlo opocns wmay vary iu lengih of time, or 4t from some udkaown CAUse YAXOUN LALWR £