Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1875, Page 2

ormationa havo occirred atcertain opochs on corlain parta of the emth's suriace, in what would aeom an_ incredibly short pertod of timo o comparad with the fornatiou on another part of thoearth’s purfaco ? If uo, at what date 1n 1he chronelogis cosmogony of the earth whouhl tha pretistorie mnu Lo placod who fastionel thn apoar hieads ound At Amiena? Whyv fs not A bolief that theso apear-hends may Liave teen buried by soma internal eruption of thio carth more probabla thau & belif that the “hronotogieal eosmogony of the Bible i4 wiopm, and that tho combined reacarch and knowledgo of suaoutistn coriohorating this cosmoguny haa been for nothing ? Darwin onginates tho theory that man, through & fertea of formationa, grew from somn lower natnals, while *t1¢ is catabbished thot Tuan _has two grand faculilos, of which wo find not traco nmong animala. llo alone han the morsl rentimant of goud snd ovil ' (110 Quatrefages.) Dro Draper beliovos that thore oxiats an alniost irreconcilablo contlictjlietween reitzion and reioace, Wao aleo havo tho rkaptieal thenties of otlier men no lesa noted. **Ha not earried abont with divars and atrange doctrinos, foritas a good thing that tho heart bo estabe Tihad with prace.” Finite beinga shounld be cautiou when ndvane- iny; theotios whosu Ata i to kubyeit n hehief jn God pnd the bavior of maukind, for our truo civilizatinn 1a au outgrowth of our religion, nnd tho mjury which may be dono to thoso nho aio stumbling in the way, recking tight and life in Chrisz, ny be frreparal Nlmluiual humanity whe derire to follow thoeir own pleasures instoad of their consciouces, weigh tho sayings of thoro who tcoff at n beliof 1 God and Christ with favor, aud, like drowning men, eatch at the eiraw of skepticism, thinking thoreby to save to thentnives tha **good things™ of jife without fuenczing tho ponalties of ad eterual judgment. Dr. thaner alro oasorta as & fact of aomo mo- ment, that tho country in which our Bavior hved and died, together mith all tho sacred monu- ments commemorativo of hin Lfo, have peseed out_of the hunds of thoso who profess tho Chrigtian faith, drawing an infersnee froni auch fact that Christianity has lexa vitslity than Mohammedaniam, The statement in pit tiue, Lowever, for while tho countre atseif muy bo undor 1utidel control, each kacred shetue inin tho keepiog of Clristisus, who eclobrato each re- curring date of auv eacred ovent, necording (o tho tensts of thair faith, (£t were & fact, does it controyert tho oscontial truthy of tho Gospel, or molke the fact that Chrisk was cruei- Bed that wo might Lo saved of litilo worth? His arscriion that Mobamwmedanism ia (ho only religion which tias tiad the power to overwhelm and extinguisl all other retigions whero 1t has oxistod, keoms to be fuily controsorted by tho facts in Luropean Turkov, fot ot of & populas tion of 00,000, 12,000,000 are Clirszinns, Tn arraygng tho Chnastiag roligion, he alao aima to burden that religion with the corruptions Incident to thoambitious intrigoes of the Papacy, aud Aho vices of the various monkish orders, nud olleces that tho Iack of progress in Europs for 1,000 vears wan due to religion, Was wich laek of Drograes in consoqrionca of a reveraa inihience of the vital truths as in tho Joord Josus Clrist 1o Protestantism, or did it result from tho corrupt raligiond eystem in which tha trath atseif — wau eubverted to tho nmbitlous enda of man ? * Bewato lest auy man spojl yon thronsh phil- osophy and vain decoit; ~ aftor tho sradition of nien, after tho rudiments of the world, and not after Chrint,” ‘Tha celestial dovotee, lgnorant of tho groat truths of tho Clristian roligion as ravanod to ug, bonds hin trembling knoe, bofora the *Templo of Hoaven,” and viows that grand architectural monumont of the past (erceted to # deity, or au iden, which has nover boen per- somified in bis mind), dusty with tho houry ege of antiquity, and hidden bohind tho veil of an Impenetrablo mystory, with unspoakable awe; snd a8 lie secs, up townrd Hoavon, the tripla azure roof from which iho sunlight radiates with glorius offulgeuce, eturning back toward Heaven, its sapphiro reflections, and conranus tho pure white marblo torracey, highly sculp- turm‘, pud covered with bas-r ~tho work of Lis ancestors who havoe lived generations bofore bim,—with tho grees and rustiing folisgo of tho surrounding foruuts, and viows tho whiteneas of tbe marble, purc as the rmanstions of an etheroal #pirit, and reads, as Lis oyos rost upon tho tallet at tho entrance of tho temple, +'Shangte,” the * slost High Ruler,” he Lears, in tho breezes rustling tho foliagn, whinperinga to in sonl, and with quickened ear, Jquivering pulse, acling hoart, and awakened miud, he litts bis eyes toward 1leaven with the lnvoluntary praver, “I weck for light! Will light ever coine ¥ T.et nkeptica boaat & higher civilization, and thon asrault tho beliol in Clirst which has comn to a soul truly penitent, and of what avail is itz Itcan only recoil npon thoweolves, for those wha hiyo found the Lord have fult within their hoarts something more real than reason or the greamy reveries of won. Yhoy liave been coms lorteu in distrers, and, ithrough pain, have been gently led ta happiness by an invinible power, Our hoarts invo feli the precious realitiea of # now life, and wo Lave Leen fillod with grati- tudo for tho bicesed nssuranco that * God so loved the world that 1o gava Hia only begotten Eou, that whosoover bohievetl in IHim should not perish, but bave everlasting life.” * Upon tho walls of ourwost private apartments, wheora we thivk tho eye of intrusion is uliogether shat out, upd our retirement can nover be profanei, there oxint tho vestizes of all our aclu,—~el- houettos of what wo Lawo done."—Draper! Fome procoss yeb unknown to s is only needed to briug out into bold rellof the record of our inner lives. Who coukl bear to roru- tinize such a record of themuclves. DNr. Blam osvert-—and in subetantinlly corroborated by mauy medieal authoritios—that tho offapring of the father has his individuality smpressed upon their wholo compound nusture ; on their body, woul, and spirit; and that thote careor for good or evil, for intellect or fmbecility,”is marked out belore sheir birth § that the education of the parenty b an equal Influenco over tha caraity of their clildren ; that tboy will in- lierit even the acquired habits of thoir parents ; that tho vices of tho parents will bocomo tho irresintible impulse of the chill, aud that tbrougth the inteinnoranco of parents are our §nils and binatic asylums silled, Tho profound yhymologiat, Durdac, savs *Thal beritage has 10 1eality moro power over our constitution aud character thou all the iu- fluences from without, whethor moral or phiywicel, Woito suoh facts srs appaling to those who havo vices, 1t is cousoling to those who Lave in- toljuct aud pesitivo micral excollenclen: for no wubatavtial progross in civitization conld bo at- tuined without the power of trsusmiiting tho ac- quitomonts and montal capacity of una gouera- tion to the aucceeding ona, What grave reaponsibilities crowd upon ns wholive to-dsy! Wo shonld aim to bo better, aud to mako others bettor ; 1o have a fixed mworal purpose iu 1ifo: to Lave concontrativo Labits of thought, aud constantly srive to attaiu tho high 1doal potsonitied in onr Lotd and Savior, 80 that mankind will Lo bonefited by avd from us, Witk sll our assumption " of iudividual strenpth, wo 8t tioes aro afraid to run the gauntlet of conventional opivion, sud falter n tho porformnuco of our duty, when we soutem- plato tho ingoustant criticlumm of the world,—un- just ns it may be,—and fail to follow our inate conscionsuonsy fn sucl manuer as to publioly hve up to the standard of our professiond. Lcor . 1wy nature is weak ; and as we stagger In tho way of life, Losct wflh tomptations, i itetrango that wo coustantly waver, and, forgettiog the futtiro, plunge into the dissipations of life, aud, justead of waking our good tlings ratiousl thingw, debauch ourselves with msking sinful things our good thinis, wholly forgetful of i:;;m;cmm‘u loye and that the soul Lias su eternal hfo When filled with remoree for slns commitled, who would vot feol tho present datk and the fu- ture hopeless were it not for the assurance of an 1unaortality bayond the grave, aud su olarnul rosl * when (s weary lifo i o'or” through the pardoning grace of our Divine Lord and Savior, Jesun Christ 2 May angols Iead at the rloan of tha day Ups turoigh the gatw at tho end of 4 L autiful gute of linet Clate st the etid of tho way ! Well wurlli day's toll anil atrife, Lor thiat bour at W close of (he dey ! Wo glory in our progrees, and with wondrnns prae oxalt the Inventive geniug of wen, aps plaud thuir enterpnso, extol their achiayowents, aud rifls the Isugongs (or wonds with which to Tuugnify tho growtl of mantsl activites ; plungo wagerly forwaid tn the pursuit of knowledgo, for it esthetio ploasures, and 1 onr delirimin do- file ourselvos with tho Intemnpersts ueo of Lthe matorial things of Nfo, and Iu their pursuit; ruuning not, deeming thom gobd things, aud almost wholly fmling ta rogerd God as the ouly Hource of onr heiug and the Quver of ull *goud und perfoct things ; and, noor utoms of earti as wo ars,—intoxicate with pelf,—picture finste anteliect as (Jlod We strive for weslth with - rutlably yreed; ennlavo mind and will, burden onterprise, and bridie sclonce for it acquisition, that wo sy * fare sumptuously,” wholly un. nundful of the squalid wretchedness about us. 'luiero was a certain vich man which was clothed i purpte and flue hneo, aud fared sumptuonsly wvery dav; wiel there was & certsin bepgar, named Lszarus, wineh was laid at bia gzate full of norcs, and destring to bo fed with she cramiiy which eell from the vich man's table, More- over, tho dogs came snd licked his woros. And it came to pary Lhet the beggar died, and wua carried by tho angels luto Abruham’s Losom; the rich man” also died and was hurjed; aad in Loall bio diteed up Lild cyes, being it turnfonte, aud TIIE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, STPTEMBTR ‘mesth Abratiam nfar off, and Lazarna fn his boron, ‘I'he part of the context firat read dceanat toach that the acquirition or poaresslon of eufli- clent wealth to procurs tho necesearies of life ia a ein, but that the misnso of wealth s, that dis. sipation shiould be avaided, that moral leprosy, 10 consequence of the extravagant uso of riches for tho purpora of inlulpng in diatorted tastos, wili lead to extornal 1t doos not mike aunt poverty, i isolf, & painport to hoavan, ut HeoiR to enconrao contentall, belloving un- fortunalo onen. It leaves na to chionse whom wo will rorship, Mammon,—and tho ** riotous liv- tng” Ancidont t5 much worslip,—or (tod, who slone can give oternal lifo. “1lo that exalteth himeolf phall bho abaay aud he tuat humbloth himself alinll ha exalte! Tha bosat of heraldrs, the pamp of pewcr, And all that beauty, nll that wealth o Await alfko tho tnevitable liour: The path of glory Ieada It to the grave, “*And ho cried out and asid : Tather Abralnm, hiave merey unon ms, and rond Lazazus that ho way dip tho tip of e dnger n water amd cond my tonguo, for I am tormented in this flamo.” Iut Afimlmm eaud. Son. rememiber that tion in (hy hfo time recewvel thy ad things, And ikowiso Lazarus ovil flunea ; but now ha In comforted and thou are torm ntod, And besldg all this, between na minl von thero i n grent gull fixed, a0 that thoy who who would Pas from hones to vou eantior, nefthor can they 1ass to o that wouid come from thence,” 1t makea 1o difference swhother the placs of tormonta referred to ju the context, to which tho Jo: t kual 14 doomed, bo o hetl of conxctence or o hiteral hieli of sire, * Son_remember," wonld indicate the faer that indiuante lasts, nud that memary du Ingelibly seared with tho record of the past. 1( lcat. when wo know that aven tho gond {hings of easth, for nhich wa thrawy onr *souls' wealth away,” cannot ha onjoged: whon 1nem- cry ndds to the torment, by recalling our waeted opportunities; when onr abuss of onr material and upititual gilts In extubited Lo us, and wao rememter our lack of humdity: wlh o torment, wo behold those whom we had despised on earlh exaited; and when wo sen thoo »hom wo had loved, and hoped to Join in heaven. sepa- rated from us by » great galf which noither can pang, what un«peaknble mirety will bo onrd. and 1o much our torment will bo aggiavated by such contomulation. While the words of the coutext ansort that there 1 preat gult fixed - tween the saved and the lost, they do not indi- cate that o batrior exists which provents an angel epirib from coming to us on earth. Never, whilo memory Iasts, ahall I forgot tho death-bed of my motherl When hifo was ebbing Tast away, aud tho Hips which sho hiad vresaed to my forohead in childbood wera becoming voll with tho chiil of doath, and tho eges which had only looked upon mo with Joving kinduess were tariied from earth toward the **pearly gates” aver the dark guif, it was then sho eaid, I have fuith in_ my bolet: I know that Jesus: died for me.” Mauny years havo been addad to my lifo sinco then, but her volce, laden with such preciona teatimony has echoed in iy ears and-heart uutil this day. Whon 1 stand by ber gravo, a solomn calmuesa steals over wo, and [ seom to feol hor puro soul, through my soul, moving my lips to mvolnntarily murmur * I know that Jesus died for me.” 1 imploroall who hear my voica to pausg, in your headlong carcer, and eall to re- mombratied the dying hours of yoir mother, or loved anes, and the peacefui trust with whieh they wont out throngh the darkuess into eternal Ife, Tuscrutable intluencea tll onr souls, and wo oft timed listen as it entranced, and feel that— Theoro ara hands that arn waved, when tho falry shore 1y the miirge fs Beted in iz, Anit gometimes we hear, through tho turimient rosr, Hwcot yoices we've hrard i ¢ 4 o before, When the wind duwn the s fair, Liston, ponder, and pras! “Liton ho wnid, I pray thoee, thorofore, fathor, that sheu wouldost send bim (Lazarus) to my fathor's houso: For I have tive brothren'; that o mav testify unto thom, lost they slso como mto this piaco of torment.” I'hio etarnal consciousucss that by & hpd ox- amplo others uro lod to mn, uthers are hept from confessivg Chrigt, others will bo lad into tho arnie punishimant, will only ndd. to the con- tinual torment of the lost soul, Abraham gaith anto lit: * Thay hava Mosea ani the propi;ots, Jet thom boar thom," Aund ho said. *Nuy, Fathor Abratsm; but i one went unto them from the dead, they will ro- peut.” v And ho sald unto him: **If ther hear not Moges and tho prophots, neither will thoy bo Pursadad, thoush ono roas from the tnad,” Under such citcnmistances it may seom 1iko fn- Justicn to 1¢lune tho ro Juest made, but whon wo realize that Uod's onlv bogotton Son waa then on eaith, ploading with men, and ** spake to thow as uover man spake,” aud they would not bo. lieve 1 Him,—of what avail wonld st have boen i€ tho requent of the lost suut ehould have beou pranted 7 Man with all lis fucredulity (unless Lio ohioya iy innato conscionsuess) would not ho convincod if ono came from she dead ! 1fe would 1lrat bo similud, then hemiato, aod bo lust. ¥y tho liht given us, we thould bo ensbled to finl God, weru it not for our porverseness. Tl Holy Biblo, tho hulwark of trotih for contnrics, Ling been hnnded down to cy from tims immenmonial, aud though it han boen nesnilod by ekepuies, i has withesood all sseanits mads upon it. and, conqueting its adversaries, it stands to \ A8 1t haw sood for thousands of yoars, dia- tinetive hook of ats kind knotva to men. Tho Hlatonients aud prophccies contained thorein have been corroboratod by Chiristian wei- euco,und the fultiiment of tho propliccies made, It prophiosied that 8 Shilob, or Mesainb, should bo born s dudeal The Christ hos coma: born n a manger, with- ont o luestion, of man; in early youth, about hn Mastor's busiuess; baving full knowledze of the Inw, disputing with tho Llders in tho Tomple of Jorisalomy has hoaled the sisk; made the lame walic; taised the dead to lfe; and without #in biny suffered death upon the craes, 88 an expia- tion for tho nius of men: was burind, and roso trom tho dead ; and had glven testimony to hiy Ihuciples of Lis triumpl ovor tha giave by ap- peanng to them from s rosnrrection. "The ovidenzo of the Dieciplen, that Josus rors from tho dead and nppoarnd Lefore them, in un. impeachod by auy ‘%jtncsses contemuoraty with thoso who bare tostimony in tho New ‘Lastament, sud yol many do not Ltievn, If such_evidonco o8 this does not persiace men to be Chrise tiang, of what avaib would it boif, in dur day, ong shonld come to us from tho doad ? 3 1 exhort you, by tho knowledue of past genera- tions, which Liss comie to us through the tradi- tiots of men, tho Bible, and the teaclings of Chirivt our Lord, a8 racorded by witnessos who ara unjwpeachod; Ly tho tostimony of thowe who, when dying, have bad glinpsos of the Heavanly Kingdom; by the finger-poats of tho past wineh maumfest Gad's love, by preparing all Heathon- dom to rocetvo fhe truth when itshalt bo brought to them ; by the light of true ecionce: by the swaves of bruth surging against tho honta of mon until all tho religions of the earth will ovent- nally be crawned by the coming to them of the Mediator whom thoy ssoli; by the God-given power of intelloot with which tho racrod secrety of tho univorso are found : and by tho great truth of tho Chrstian religion, which appeals to the henrte of Christondom, shedding iight wherever moral dacknend provolls, Liting the bestial to grace and manhood, through love; to pauen in your career, aud, notsithetanding tho bisudish- ments ot the world, and the pervorted meutal activities of whoptics, to bend the kuee aud_bow the hiead, aud ask God through Clrist onr Lord for falih, nnd that fio Wil pardon yonr sins, Itumanily to-day is hko tho reatlons ovean: tho tido of ‘truth abbe sud flows, and away out wheto tha deep-bluo watera moot the wky can ba Heen n glimmer of light which shall radate un- till nationw who have: strugglad sines the world Legan aching rostiens hienrts for (dod's lova shall fudit; whon the montal activition of suan In pur- wuit ot trathy n\\'ul\ Lo bathed with tho efulgonce of & ltodustor's leve, and all knoew alisll Lend, and all nationw with loud acctain whall_acknowl- «dgo the motehlesd love ot Clirlst tho Lord. God i merey hear tha hicart-cry of mankind far help; ocnlighton thom n thelr darkuesy ; strangthon thuib in their weakuesay giva thom Judgwout to choows Letweou the matorial goul things of hfe and Thoo; awd grant Thy peace to thom when ovorwhelmed witn fear, so that whon they are ohillod by the icy hand of death, and ure about stepping into the darinces, uot kuowe ing the judgmout, thoy shall uug remotwefully mutter: Notting but leaven! ‘Th Over & wasted Hife: 810 eommitted while conscleco slept, Promiss made aud never ey, Iatred, battles, aud stiifo; Nothiug but leaves, soirit grioves. And ahall we meet our Father 5o, earing vur selthured loaves e ookn for fair aud perfect frui e ataua bafore Him, hunibled, nite, Wnting the wordu 1e breath. Nuthug but leaves, — 'l)El!lCA'l'l ONS, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. BRINON BY TUE UEV, DR, EVER The dedicatory worviced of the chspel of the First Baptise Clreh, on the eornor of Louth Yark uvenue und Thirty-lirst street. wers hotd yesterdsy morning 1 the cuapel, aud tho houso waa crowdol Lo 1eplution, tho aixlea ulso buiuyg filled with chairs, Who wais buildivg {s well wuder way, aud 1t ia proposod to push it forward to completwn this fall. LTho ouapol, which iy i rlinated immediately in tho rear, is {wo stori in beight, andsepnrated from tho main edifien by 8 hall which rana the antiro width of the building, communicating on ono sida with the principal audicpea-room, and on the other with the chavel, Tho leeture-roomof the chapel, whera thoe sorvicos wero held yesterday, {8 about 3 by $0 fent, and the effect on entoring |t from the north doar s very pleasing. Two heavy beams supportod by four piliars divido the cail- ing into threa compartmonts, giving & massiva appeacanco auld ‘causing tho room to appear larger oven than it roally {8, Ton windows give all noceseary Itght, and they ara darkenod by brown ehades, wlieh roliovo tho oy, and nro much proferable to tho usual white curtaing, whiclt fatigua (be oyoy neacly as much aa tha gronnd glass thoy cover, Flowars, of coursn, in profusion gecorsted the room. Heasy vases of seladiolas relieved tho dead white of tho walla with their biitliant colors ; fragrant bouguots of porausums, pitks, and iotropo loaded the air with their parfumo, and creopera of & shining wax-liko leal weto drooped from tho bnskets and pulpit, or woro twined gracefully round tho columns, A tablo placed immedintely i front of tho puiplt pistform was coverod with ent flowers taste- fully nrranged ; and tro stands, one b either sido of tho dexk. wero also surmouuted by vasos fitled with bowyuetaandeoyered by trailing vines, Thae soats aro movabla aud arranged tb an ellipti. cal form, facing the platform, and oaci oue i supplied with two racke for books. On tho north of the lecture-ryom and imma- diatoly adjoiniug azo the parlors and tho pastor's udys Tha whelo of tuo upper Moor will be ccupied by tho Sunday- sehool réom, ich wil Lo shout 60 by 100 foet in size, and capablo of senting LOuD chuldven, This will make it one of the laryost Sunday-achivol roomns iu the country. Tho exercires wore commenced by the quar- totto chanting the sentonce, ** Glory bo to the Father, aud Lo the Sun, and to tho Holy Glost.” Tir. Everto then read the pralm beginmmg, ** I was glad when thoy ~enid, Let uws go into the houzo of the Lord," the first verso of which was sppropriately placed oo tho wall immediately Luck of the pulpit, tho lotters buing forined of overgreen. A bymn was thew 8UBY, Commencing, — Muker of Tau L and ralling ses, W dedicate this liv.v £ T 3 And whint our wiillv baods havo done We tlve to Ged aud to e Son, After reading of the Seriptures by Dr. Mitch- cli, and prayer by Prof, Motgag, of the Theo- ogical Svwiinary, followet by apother hym Dr. Lvorts hogau his dieconrso. Tho text was The Lord bias premred Tis theono in the beavens, aud 1lia King ot rulesh over allo—Faafm cif,, 19, How suguat tho pagoant described fu tho toxt,—a-throne liftod abuve the earth, estab- lisbod 1 _the beaveus,—tho immensity of the univorse its limit. Tho passaze scls forth a threofold doetrine: tirst, 3 universal reign of law ; second, tho inveatment of that reign in a porsosal ruler; turd, that univereal ruler & moral gavernor, What sowo had clainod a8 a diecoverty i & primitive divine rovelation, Nature was not a congerios of particles. Everywhoro was shown tho mnipress of luw. It the mundaao wplicre, land, sca and nky existed in au nutnally depeudent rolation ‘Tha s0asony, day and night, came i an unvary- inw rottine. Nature was not thereforo a mero masa of matter, but was an immeuso building witls a vast uumber of dopartmonts sll teomiug with lfe, So thut while thoro wore forces, thoy wero all subsceviont to will. The greatest forco was mind Loasting 1ts freedom, butovon it wasundor law; it had limits bovond whishi it conld uot pasa Al seioneo of mind, of history, had assumed that, Jlora obvisusly in referenco to mmam was b that eil ammal forco was subjoct to luw. Tho mean- st worm, tho tiniest tish, was mora wonderful than tho fluest mechaiism that over man lisd mado, The wing of an insect, whieh man had long tried Lo imitate, hadnever been succonssfutly copiel. Even the lorpede had a more porfact olectrical apparatus than over Lud been devised by tnen. Nor was thoro any forco, animal, cliemical, or physical, winich was oL subject to Jaw, Nutnre Ll them treasured up, aud shoild ono brek iy bozuds tha result might be to crash the world in pieces, ‘1he clomls, whothor massed in storing or ceastored aver tho sky in picturesque lovoli- ness, wore ull moved in duo coufurwity to order, Most of all, pottaps, was tho power aud ovistenen of Juw shows i tho colestial meclaaism af the licavens, whoro cosutless mye- iuds of planels wnd stars rolled on in swful graudour, keopug tima iu their coucentri cir- cles, and connng back arter revolutions of thau- wands of years in longih, Nothing could bo kuown were it not for thisreign of law, Beienco and philusuphy, sy, wore, ol religios, bivged on it, aud would ho blowted out wera law not supreme. Ilow foolish tu supposo that eclenco and relighon wero autaconistio, for ono of tho fundamental priuciples of Scripturo was tho in- cuteativn of the ductrives of subjection to law. Eocond, the reign of law was vested in o su- prawo iotetlect. No man could couceiva of a supremo intelligence who ousht not to bo in- vested with supremo power, sud the conzoption of gupreiny powor favolved tho Idea of iutelli- genee—of planuing, No scientist Lnd given auy satisfactary oxpluuation of the world whicliig« noted this doetrine of o supreme inteligence, ‘Lhe foremost scientiat of the prescnt ago had referred Liazic Lo some olemeutal particles of tho cauys of foree, but thut explanation was logieally uy fucotsequential anltabsurd as tho old fable which ro; resented tho carth as resting on a tor- tutse and lofL tho tortolso potdgd in Bpaco, Na- tuco seottlod it, and tho average reaxos of mau- Lind objected that wuch a reasou wan trifling, No inan could concoive of suca order without tho interpasition of s Divine power, a creative foroo giided by o creative power, and_that was the faith of the Curistinn Churel, Thet way why usukind bad always turnod axay trom ma- terinlism. ~How elso could thy fact bo explalued that Paganism alwayes 1ecognizod u supreme in- telligouco, Tho ~ wisdom of the - ages fad - always taught nund Dbefore mattor. The Lord—tho ~ Lord of all—what agrandideal Thero was no antagonism bu- twoon scienco and religton, Al thot was needed waH & proper explanution., Beience taughs tho cortelacdon of forces that ko tuch laat waa equal to 80 much matlon, but every ano of them went bael at Jagt to ono great force,as thi Chrix- tinni Lelieved, Lut & sullic.ent causd must bo given for o given etfect, and no cauwo was uloquatoe to nccount for the luw af tho wwld but the idea of a Bupromo ruler and intelligonce, Tho other question, that the reign of Jaw must culminate in a Diviuo rular, conld not bo compressod into s fow words, aud wmuat bo left till anovtuer time, Ono upplicauon ;: A man was o noblor repre- #antative of the powor of God than the highest pyramids in Eeyot; soany chapel, too, wiere man cano to worslup (lod, was infinitely lugher than any woudors of the world, any congrers of empires, grand unlversitios ot protésslonal ectioels, The house of Uod Lecama 1ho synonym of tho higher law, just ag tho State Houdo und [louse of Congress ropro- #ented tho eurthly law. Ho justice, mercy, and tiuth were cushiritod iu the houde of Uad, Tt was 8 sphitual houso for mankind, Tho cry of bumanity for religion eould not ho considered & #linm ; it wan a desire for a upiritual bomo, just us they degnod @ temporal humo, In cancluslon, the Doctor kaid Lo had labored with tho church for koventeon years trylug to wako a howe, Ilo had uuwmbered their names oft on bis knecs Iu prayer as 8 dovotco did bty beadn, I'ko chiapel bad been Ll for thosa who neaded o howe, aud ho hoped all would find it thero, Uod wonld not forsako thow, ard thoy might thera enjoy the sawe bappy experiences wligh thoy had had in the old housy of “worship, muomorablo for €0 many A0 ong. —_— JONES STREET REFORMED EPISCOPAL. HERMNON BY DISUOL CHENEY, ‘I'he nowly-eroctod;lloformad Episconal Chureh, on tha corner of Jones sud lloman stroets, uear tho Unjou Rolling-Milla, was dedicated youtorday sfternoou with sppropriats sorvices, The Bociety whicl: brought about tho construction of this wobstantiat odilice Las siruggled aloug for sbout otght months ln tho faco of somonhiat diye conragiug circumstauces, The firulj disastor was the lotsl loss of their churcl, » woodon structure, which sunk through the ice while being Liauled across theriverto its iutonded loca- tion, ‘Lho epi-ode wau related in the nowspapors ot tho time. Bince then the sodfoty has boen worshipiog in tha Baptist Church ou Locke wtreot, under tho loaderuhin of the Hev. Albort Watkitoy. Abogt thres montbs ago it was declded to ervch tha preseut structuro, and wubstautial eu- courpgement was given to the enterpriso by leatingg citizens in the nelghborhuod, Tho Unlon Rollog-Mills contributed €500, Tho Tautding, us completed, is plain but substantial looaling, beiug bugle of red brick, Its vlze f8 15 by 0 fect. It contsing lecture aud Bunda; #clioul ruoms on tho ground tloor, and main au- ditonuw ou tho second floor. The Iutter is 17 feet bigh, aud the oot lssupported by volid iron coluwry, Tho totul cost of tho editico i about . G, 1875. £7,000, £1.000, Yeaterday aftornoon a large number of neop's ratheted to witneas the dedication, After tho n Aorvices, conluetod by Jatp Chieney and De, Coaper, tho Bishop delivered the BEFIION, 1A AY 1IN XL The commn peopla heant EURE A o began by eaving that whon thero is a storm sweoning over tha acoan. and wayes Reom to roll mountain high, thero is quiet and cealn- noss only a few foet bolow tho surface. Thus §b° f8 with the gront nea of humanity, Although there may La religious and pontival commotions, thav do nots Moot the vaal wnltitudo that choke np tho avenues of life, No nmount of excriion can sbir up the deptlis of thin unfathomable sen. Btill it in our duty to apply ourdelves with onr best offorts to awaken thu proplo to tho need of a truo relimion, Thora wasonco o German in Mngdeburg who con- atruated o bigomotor, which, whon sot upon lis louse, dhowed tho fignte of o man, During ploasant woathor tho figre stood arect and immovablo, but n caxo of ptorm it lowored and disappeared out of vight, Soit with many people, mecluding professing Coris- tinng, Thoy have no opinfons of their own, b adopt whae thoy beliave to bo thn goneral drift of mxyuhr iitens, T'no Pratestant churehos arn not doiug their duty. Ihey do not reach tho masgof tho people, or weom to etriva in that diroction, Let us look al tho catses of their fail- ute. Thero usod to bo at tho ontiavco to Lincoin Lark » slen reading, **No valicles but privato carroges silowod tn tho park.” It was probably maant for good, in order to provent injury to tho nicaly-gravelod walks; but, for all that, it lookod like ® diseriminabion fn favorof the woalthy. o idea will illustrate tha position of tho urches, Thoy aro for the rich. Their very ehapo and furviture pravent thom from being used by thoe poor. Wo want to have churchos ndapted to all. Onr minators alionld Lo sinply teachora of tha trath, and our churches should l(’:'; wumply places for hoaring tho Gospol of Josus iriat, ‘I'ho churchies sloutd ba constructed ro as to bring tho pavple_into the closest proximity to tha proacher, Thoy sre roally bt (wico as long us thoy aro wido, and peaplo in the back part aro beyond the magnotism of tho mest clo: «quout mpeakor. Another fanle with our churahon is tho pasalon for Gutlng mchiteoturo, lang aistos, lofty walls, aud huge columus, _ All thoso aro opposed to the simplicity taught by our Havior, as thoy aro dofectiva in regacd to tho hoaring properties, Moo griovoua thau all, however, in that thoy cost ot monoy than their sccommodations warrant. ‘Thare aro thounauds of pooplo in this city who nbsolutety cunuot afford to attoud chitrch, Costly church-buildings outsil hoavy pew-ronts, ‘Fho remoidy to thoso dofacta fa au incrensod folity to Goxpel trath. 1t we winh to gt the wultitudo 1to our churchien, wo must have less orthodoxy aud more Chuistisuity. Lot us din- poure with the Inxuries of tho ssnctuary aud rotnin only tts comforte, In couclusion Iishop Chenoy eaid that this parish is to be congratulated upon its pasienos and persoverance in bringing sbout the eroction of thia comfortabie chirch bomo. Tho building is particnlarly adanted to the wanta of the poo- plo, and is a model iy every respaot. Dr, I'aliowa followed with a few romarks, fn which hoe oxprossed bin heacty beliof in a practi- cal Corstiauity, Tho idoas spoken wore in ace ith hig sontinients, ‘Uhis church waa planted in tho mudst of the people, and woald b quverned by the peoplo. 1t was' founded on tho only trie foundation,—tho Lord Josus Christ. ‘Chia pastor, the Loy, Mr. Walkioy, and tha ltev. Mr. Postluthwatte participated *in’ tho closing worvices. . — LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. SERSIUN BY FATIHRA KIONDAN, Tha ceromony of laying tha corner-stons of All 8ainta' Cathotic Church, ltocated at tho corner of Kossuth aud Wullaco strcety, wan fixed totake place yesterday aftornoon at b o'clock, At thio bour sppointed tho Roman Cothnlic 8o~ cloties of tho eity mustored on the various thorouglitares In the viclnity, and, forming in lino, marchod past tho uow odifico. Iy this timo an itnmense erowd from Bridgoport's pupn- Tho lot on whieh it stauds is valued at N gladly,~Mark, lous precincts hal assomblad, making a - grand total of somo 10000 mouls, who witnessod the cercmony. ‘Cho celebrant was the ight Rev. Dr. MeMullen, who way nasisted by Fatliers Grogan, Edwarde, P. W, Riordan, P, Riordan, Corbatt. Dorney, MeGuiro, Fischer, P Butler, Loydan, Chokke, O'Connor, und Dr. Butler. Tho Improssiva ceromany of the Catholic Churcl was oponed with prayer by tho celebrant, and immodiately foliowed by tho Litany of Baints, The stone was then laid, and Father Riordon, of St. Jamea' Church, proceed- oed to deliver tho coromonial sermon. o con- finod nlnsalf to a few and pithy romarks commonding the new church to the parish and oxtolling tho Catholie religlon. Very sonst- Dbiv., the reverend fatlior made his remnarky in o loud tone, apd curtailed themn in length vory arreeably,—something ont ol tho usual" lino with corior-stone eormona, Tho Tri=h societien, oach Liraded by n band of musle, marched around the building, and took up position on tho ‘enst ride in the forlowing order: 8t Drideet's Tomporancs and Benevolént ; Emerall Bocioty, Vranchea 2, 8, and 63 Bt Jobn's Young Mow's Hodality, §f. Jonn's Mutusl Heneflt, St. Pate rick's, and 8t. Plus Total Abstinence Socleties. Ab the closs of tho coromoney thoy again marched around the building, sna dinpersod, All-Saints' P'arigh la formed out of 450" fapulies taken from Fathor Grogan, 8t Bridget's Chnreli; 150 families from Fathor Riordan, Bt. Jamos® Church ; and smallor nim- bers from othor neighboning churchos, Tha parish was firat conceivel of about flye months ago, and alroady is woll nnder way to becomo aa ug a4 any of the ldjolmn%z parlshes, 'Tho odiflco, witich s of brick, 18 estimated to cout about 20,000 ; tho eite 1 150x225, and cost #7000, The firal 22,000 payment was collectod chielly by Commissioner Mark Stiertdan, Fathora Qrogan and Dunue, and Measrs, Kreigh, Kingsi- a, Hobin, 0'Shoa, nud othern. ‘The firat floor will ho dovoted to vssas & Achool-room, snd tha sccond to the chapoel or chiarch proper, The pastor appofuto! ia Fathor Duuno, formerly of 8t, Mary's. Ile fs younz, enthuslastic, woll educated, and, better than all posscraes o moat kindly disposition, 1o was ap. pointed July 9, st which timo nothing had beon dono towarde organizing tho parish. In the conursp of a fow weeks bo lostitutod serviceain o vtoro balonging to Mr. Sharldan, aud bos reg- ularly kort thom up until the presont day. In the cornor-stono was deposited o scroll contaning tho names of all the principal o aud church ofliclals of the pressnt day, and names of all the contributors towardy tho new chureh, copies of all the dally psbers, cofng of Lngland, Frauce, and thn Unitad States, and sevoral othor trinkuts contribuled for the pur- paso, ! It is proposed to have the edifice completed and ready for dsdieation by the ilpet weok of November. 1f chis can ha'done 1t will ba the quickost timo on rocord for tho bull church snd the organization of & p this Fathor Dunno morits all praise, leaves ANl Bamnts’ ho will be aura to moris as much more. iy new charize will be but one of bin ntepping-atoves to incroased populanity m this city, OTHER RELIGIOUS MATTERS, REVIVAL MEETING AT FARWELL HALL. SERVICES 5Y JOMN DENNEIT ANDEUSON, Tho regular Bunday mecting under the ous- picen of thie Youny Meu's Christian Assoolation st Farwell Hall, last night, was addroased by MMr, Joba Bounett Audordon, tho yonng English ivangslist, wlo Las just completod soven wooka' effoctivo labory in tho groat revival at Bt. Louls, Db, Andersun was announced Lo discopre on tho grout revival work of Messrs. Moody and Bankey in (lreat Dntaw, which ho hustily tkatehed, but tid wholo labor lagt avesing wad for tho fnauguation of o rovival Loro, 1n fhis work unfortunately last ovening ho lacked the swslstance of tho muoro prominent membars of tho Y. ML C. A, who, for somo rosson, wete absent, and whose absence must have boen folt by Br. Anderson, who was left to himself to open tho meeting and gonguct the excrcises boforo & utranyge congregation without a word of jotro- ductlon from any ono, aud with nono to assing him lu tho sorvicos, Prowptly at a quarler before 8 o'clock Mr. Anderson mado hig appearauce on tho platforus, aud aftor the oponing bymn offered up » forvent prayor, in - which ho pe- titioned God, the laght, tbe truth, and the way, to teach us how flo pray, thagrovery heart might be tilled with sympathy for tho movemont, and that overy soul night bo touchied, Ho prayod that thore- might be an opuning of every hieart tu receive Josuw, and $hat that night the bella might sing out for \he mar- riage of thoso who were out of Christ with Him; and that thore mizht bo o' thirsting thora that night after tho waters of righteouencss and » buogering fur easlvation, aud @ tasting of rodomption thore theng that winnors might bo deawn toward Josus &4 tho ono among ton thousand allggetinr lovaly, ‘Ihare wero those who had shad many tears that hadt been 1oconded on hight fathors =ho i thelr RKray haira woto golng to their graves in portow, aind wothors whoso prayors hiad aseendeid for A0 wio had gono aslray, might thme prayers bao avasored this night. Mignt tho work b be- #un than, and continued nntit evory prodigal should be reclaimmad, At tho conelusion of the praver, tho familiac By, ** Ninety and bloo,™ was witig. At tho canclusion Mr. Anderson niid tholiymn had Leon veev well sung, but as it had boou al- tored somowbat in tho edition unsod heto, ho would klug 1t an Mr, Sankey (who bad fuund tho iyuit In &t obagire Scotel Taper and bad ket it to musle) sang it in Grent Britalu, This Mr. Anderson procuedad Lo do, betweon the slsuzas glyving sowe peraonal oxhortations, v, Andorgon then réad as tho losson for the cvoning the thirty-tourth I'salm, which ha mado tho subject of oxhioitation to sinnoera to scok tho cross and bo lightourd of their burden, an tha Lord lind promised (hoso who soaght Him. 1lo then procoeded to ramdly wheteh the G ospel worl of Masars, Moody and_Sankey, with which our roadera aro alroady fawiliar, and added that tho work hnd not stopped whot Mosars, M. anl 8, qmitted Bngland. ~ ‘Fho secd had fallen in good growwd; Mr. ooy had given thom eolid food for thought the work was belug coutinued, nm] would bo parmanent, 'There wero no evidencas yot of backsluhing, Mr, Andorson didn’t boliove that backsilding uften followed actual eunvor- sion, _What was termod backsliding was ratbor the efforyescenco of moro religious excitoment, which was not conversion, 'L'uo_ inlerost mani- featod in tho preachivg of Mr. Moody had not Loen of that sort—thorn waa very little oxcito- ment about it. Ho Lad dealt with tho great truthy, b talkied to the peoplo soundly, and bad jnsistod that they shoull follow hun with their Biblew, and in thin way ho bad rolerrad them to many texts that hiad not been forgoteon, 'Iliv work, too, iad nat boen confined tothe lilitorate, 'L'io meotiugs of Mousra, Moody and Sankey had been attonded Ly Glalslono, tho Princess of Wales, aud_others of tho wobility, Tuly, Mr. Anderson aaid, ha mentionod not be- eaung ho held tho nnblmx botter than other men, Dut beeause of the proof it afforded that the Gospel work of Mosets. Moody and Saukay liad not been s mero rehiglous axcitomont that would subrido as soun a3 they quitted England, Mr. Auderaon thon annouuced tho hymn, T love to tell the story, which was sung with oarnestuess by the congre- gation, At tha conclusion of the singing, ho stappod forward and, eeleciing Romany, x., 9, 83 » toxt, procasded to address tho audience. Ho said: Tuore were Lwa things necossary to now lifo,— confesrion from tho heart and valief, or faith, in Jesus. A manhad to bo fitst couvioted, but convictlon was not conversion, a mistake too ofton iuade, o lioped thoye befors hun wonld nt Jeast bocomo convicted, which was the stapping-stone to conversion and tho opeu- ing of the way to Heaven, Confession lod to cunversion—conlosalon (rom the montly spoak- ing the fullnees of tho Leart, It would not do tu confoea trom the miud, ar betiove in tho head, but it was nocessury that the confession aud bo- lief Bhould come trom tho depiis of tho beart. Tutellicont hoads woro abundant, but touder and voutrito liearts wura the nceesaity in tho salva- tion of eouls. It wad mot the dend, but tho liviny Christ. tho coming Jesus, who was to bo rolied upon. Wa all know a great deal about man and things, 1o kuow of Abraham_liucoln, Grant, Queon Victoria, and the notables of tho woild, had scen many of hom, but lio did not actually kuow uny of them. Ho b was with Lumanity. All knew about Clirivt, but tho proportion who know Iim 1n thelr hienrts wan a wad reffcction, Those who think they know Him wero thoso who sot uo morality in placo of epirutuslity. No one bad over son the wind, but 118 offucts woro overy- whero noticeablo. So it was with Jesus, Ha wag invinblo to tho naked ove, bt Iia power was noticeablo throughout the lengthand breadth of the land 1n tho convorsion of souls. orcino of faith lo Him, In 1ks promises, in His procions woid, was sl that was nccosssry to conversion. 1o thou sang ** Gathering ITome," by tho re- queat of gomo of the members of tho Young Mon's Ctuistian Association, 1n o eloay, eatnoss voleo, oxcusing himsslf, hawover, by calling at- lfiud‘ou to Lis ard yous labory Just closed in St oitis, o Tho audionce was thon dismissod, but at onco intorruptod by a renquest to utay and joiu in sing- fng “Gates Ajoar,” This Huwhed, the sudieuco wos formally dismlssed. A fow romained, howevar, to join u a short soagon of luzing nud praver. Duriug tho altor meoting Mr. Anderaon road & letter ho uad recoived whils at work ln 56, Louis {fruw a reporter, who was tired of the ways of tho world and dosired to communo with (od, 1o smid be proyed for him, and had tho satisfao- tiva of soclug him covverted, and left i at tho hoad of a mission band doing effective work in a city destitute of a Youny Men's Chris- tian Association, and where the churchos were deyerted for tbo theatres and otter paatimes, Thoe young man, hoadded, was anxious to ha- como " an evangeliat, and was maditating tho abandontnent of his profession, so groat was tho hold of Christ upon his heart, Another hymu was suue,*and with ropewed energy and ovidences of religlous de- votion, This conoluded, an Invitstion was oxtonded o such oy wishiod an intarost in Chrrist atukto floo from tho wrath to come,to man- ifefe tho enmo by rising to theiwr fock. At firat no ono arosy, but upon the invitation beln, prosmed & young msn_in the rear of the bal arose, Othory 1ollowed until slxteon stood up, tho most of whom wera youug mion, Among them, howover, was an el derly 1ady in the gallory, who asked that hor childrou in Californis mighs bo remembored, aod o middle-agod gontlonian, who oxprossed a desiro to becoms a whole-hearted Cbriatian, Tho weoting was then dismivsed, after singlng “We'll gathor at the river,” and prayorand the doxology. Anotticr rovival meoting will- be hold this ovening in Lower Farwoll Hall, to bo lod by Mr. Auderson, —_— ANOTHER CHICAGO EVANGELIST, AAJ JAMEY Il COLE IN LIVERPOOL, Luverponl Proleatant standard, Ata, 1, It haviug been aunounced, by ao advertise- mont in tho papors, that Maj, Colo, of Chicago, would preacls In Nowsome's Circus last Sunday evoning, an tmmense crowd directed tholr steps thitherward, so groat that it was doomed ad- vizable not to open the doors, as the place would not have contained anything like the numbor of those presont. Fortunately, through the kind- noes of tho Vietoria Hall Comimittes, Victoria 1ali was thrown open ta meoc the emergency, whithor the crowd tuat bad gathored around tho cirous doors immediataly repaired on boing in- foraed of the fact. As wo viewed tho vast con- gregation, which nearly filled tho entlre body of Victatla Iall on the oceaslon, wo felt con pletoly at » loss to diecover the wisdom of the policy whith would keep tho building closed until Ootobor, whon thousands of souls are ready and willing to attend there cvery Sunday ovenlug, tobo fod with the good thingu of tho Twgdum of Cod; howover, wo weoro glad to Loar Ms{. Cols snnounce that, noxt Bundsy ovening, the hall will be opoued for the npecial sorvicew which o 18 at pregont conducting; and v would gnuggost that from thenceforward the doors of Vietoria Iall be kept opun every Mitura Hundayv ovoniug foc gospel sorvices, until dod Himselr eond down an angel from beayon to closo them—which wo feel contldout will never ocenr, 80 loag a4 Lhera {8 a poor, porwsbing, soeking Ainuer, io the town of Livarpool, anx- jona to Hud THE QIEAT BALVATION WHICH 15 1¥ JEsua, Last Bunday, the congregation at Victorls Hall ied their” faces lightod up with beams of pmllln%hflahmasu: thoy were aviilently wade so happy by being onco agaln fu possession of their own, own hall, which Liad been the birthiplaca of many of theas, and whore they had tirst recelved tho titlo deeds to thoir eavenly inloritance, ‘Iho uumber present wo wouid estiato at about 4,000 but we have not tho slightost doubt but thut tho place would have beeu full, had o genoru! public beon made aware that tho baliding “would have beou opouod. Pro- vions (o the ecomwoncoment of the sorvice, the vusl gungregation I)ruauulnnnlx sevoral of (hoir favority Jiymns, with much beartiness and swoet- ness of melody. — Maj. Colo, in opeuing the mooting, ssked all preseut to bow thelr heads for a few womonts lu mlent prayer: this baving Lren dovo, Cule thon engaged iu audible peayors which, whou finished, was followod by tha winging of tho 11tk hiymu, *Foll me theold, old story, of Jesus wnd T8 love” This by is & great favorite, snd we marvel not at ity tho story of Jesus' Jove will boar ropeuting (lmmfihu\ll tho aged of elernity; wo doubt nof that tho angols of God are costiuuously seklug thy PRSI ARRIVALY OF RANSOMED ONEY in hoaven to tetlthem about it Iviasa Im- monsurably long stocy ; it Ia highee than tho hoighty, and deopor than the doptha—and we ot only hear of it lu purts ; for evory Olristisy hiay bis'or ber portion to tell about it—aud when it Is whispered xnu‘{}y into & sfunor's ears, if he but Learkens to thon doth {& calm bLis troubled woul; aud bring into his heart the rest, aud joy, sud peaca which pasaeth all un- doratanding. 'Tell it on, dear friends; sna, an you toil it, wo wilt rrcord it on the pages of {hun paper aa tha mweotent #ubjoct with which we cottd proaent our readers, -~ Aftor the singing of tha hymn Lo which ne have already roforred, prayor was engaged in by Mr. Cropper, aslung Go1's bloaaing on tho sorvices ul the evonlug. .\In!. Cole abrorved thint romn eaid thev woro afrail of wiarting on tho Christian lifo, in easo thoy mieht fall naway seam from it ¢ but thore in no foar of thoir falling awar ; if thov trust in Jesua 1lo'll oarty thom shrough. Mre, Mea, and Misa Colo thon sange very wweetly s littlo hymn hoarlnie on tha subjeot of ** Fempiation,™ of whici tha following aiv tho four firet linoa: ¥1e1 not ta tanptation, For yiokling in win, Lok r 10 Jeans, Nelt carry you wrough, “That's juat what Jeans came to do.” temariced A, Colo, ““to earry thom who trust m 1fin n:llu through, and v duliver them from overy ovile THE ADDRESS, Maf, Coto then gave lus addreas, which was full of bloswod Gospol truth. In tho conrso of hin obsnrvations, which wera foundod on soveral passagos of Beopture ¢ viz.t L. Linothy, fieat chapter, fifteonth verao; John, flrst chaptor, firat vorao ; Honrows, first ochapter,’tirst and second verses, and othor portions of the Word: and in speakiug of thowo wha are born of (od, who cannot como into condemuation, Lo said: ‘*Thero aro & number lers who stand in that position. Thoy have no condomnation, but_aro aw snotlosa na if thoy wero in hoaven. You, blensod onos, aro Juat as suro of your salvation ay {on aro of bolng slunors: aml why—Locause wo tava Cod's word far {5 and, U warodt upaa that, this buildiog may go; Liverpool, the wholo ixland, the world ‘itaoif, may poriah and pasa avay; bat, 1if you reat wpon CGod's word, yau hava olernal lifo. Al holl cannot koop it from you. Ohl to kuow that we havo beon radeemod by tho blood of Chrlat fills !l my soal with joy 10 know that—when I atumbled through Lhis world, day nftor day, month after month, yoar afier year, trying to make myself botter, but on- 1y to fall lawar and lonar—Qad, {n Iia fuflaite morey, teached down and Jifted e up. Little did 1 dieam that I should bo talklog of tho glorious things of malvation. I wsnd to thumk, once, that it was Impos- alo to La waved ; but tho Ioly Spirlt re- venled to e, in this blcssed Word, that, by bo- lloving on Jesua Christ, I conld havo otocnat life, May Io show 1t to you to-night! Whon tlie buriding was golog up lens of thousauds in America woro praving that the peonlo of Livor- nool might bo blessed. Little didl I think that T #hauld meat you face to face, and hoac tho glad nows of thoasands coming to Chrint. It was glorions nows, and I thought God was going (o redoawm st Liverpoal. #lut a poor brother cama to mo to-dav and asked prayer for hia brother, who had fallen 8o low la sin that hocould hardly rocognizo his frionds, bocauso of boing 8o stoeped in liquor hour aftor hour, 1 do now ask you to pray for im OIT 00D, AV, THE POOR DRUNAARD | and savonll tho loel tn Livorpool. Now, T will tell youn story by way of illustrating what tho desitia dolng, ‘A King once mado up hismind to give o graud banquet in honor of his Cabinot. No monoy waa spared in docorating the buildieg in grand stvla; altpostaining to it wna porfely comploto; tho flneat arclutect of the world, at that time, wascngaged {n {ts design ; and overy- thing was done to make it ono of tho finest ban- qneting halls In tho world. Invilalions were thon pent out, far and near, for friends to como and join in tho festivitles, Tho gueats arrived ; thoy came in thoir prandest beauty, and looked thoir boat. The fiucat flowers that could bo procurod shod thoir lustre and fra. franco : wines of the_cholcost vintage spaikled on tho bonrd. By-and-by,the King camo forth ; tho inusio plased ; n ehout went up, Long live our King,—and tha foast bacan, Toasts were drunk, frst tasted of, the musio played on ; and choer.aftor chioor rung throagh tho banquoting Lajl, LoLg live our King ; was thoro over such & King that did o much for us ? Look at thoso lovely tlowers, bewding o graceful fos- toous; soe lbo deliious wines ho has provided for us; low much has he dono for our plensura and gratiflcation —long hiva our noble Kingl Bo thoy eat, hour after hour; and, lfi'-lmhhy. tho tablos wore ro- moved, sud tho dancing began. The music scomed to bo wweoter than ever; and am tho musio Btnick up, and thy intoxicated piests whirled throngh tho maze of the giddv danco, the shuut weut un, Long live our Kingj waw tliore ovor puch a King ? ~ At last, flowers wero shaworod down In rogal profusion, till all tho Rueste wara supplad with boautitul bouquatu; and 80 Invishly, that tho lovoliest flowora | woro trodden nuudor fuat. Flowera "wero etlll ehowered upon _tho favored banquotars, ¢fll thoir arms wers full ; aud, as tie beantiful arama provatled thoatmos- phere, thov ahouted out, '* Long livo onr noble King " Uncessingly wero tlso lowors showarad down, tlll the bewildered, rovelers rought to mnko their way trom tho banqueting hall,” With difficulty they reachod the doors—to find thom boited nud barred on the ontade, Ob, to bo butied amnid such fastivitien! aud thov cry, *Oh, wheto I8 our Kiug! " A tlendsh laugh answors thom—La! ba! “Llhoy bogiu to look -upon oue another, whilo tho lowots still foll upon thom ; AND THEY PEUSS—DUTIED RENEATH FLOWENS. It anvthing was over trun of tho devil, that is, o js ovor loading on fresh deluded victims, till hie bas thom in Lis grasp and can afford to laugh at them. Will you not accopt the living Savior ? ‘Thera may bo momo whose mothers are fu honven, Naw, during the War {n Americs, & littlo girl in Philadelplna thougut thut sho would do something for the poor woidiers. Bho hai suvod a little moaoy (rom her garatugs 3 aud tuls {8 tho lotter sho wroto from Phllldn]phln: My doar soldtors, 1 gend you a fittle Tosta- ment, [ am alitilo gitl 7 years of age, I want tu do something for ilim who has done so muoh farus; ua L have saved auough monoy to wend you thisTestament: though I huvonoversaen you, 1 knoel down avery night aud pray that Got will swtle upon yout. I hope that you will co to that MSW laud when you die.”” 8ho inclosed addrous, at Niuth stroot, Phlladeiphia. Now—to show you how God suawers the praysts of = dying” mother, ‘That little ‘Fostameat from Philadolphin wont_into tho far West and tho Bouthern Stases, It camointo the bands of a goldler for whom & dying mothor had prayed, It touched Lia heart with the memory of that mother in heaven. And it waas through the pray- ors of that mothor that tho follawing letter renchod Philadelphis it o fow days after. ** Dear 1ittte sister Lizzio: I racelved a kind Jetter from Mr, ——, & Obristian wotkor; and with it a beantital present, indeod 5 aud I trast it wiil ba tho mosns of naviog many, as 1t haa tho roceiver, Continuo to pray, my dear little friond, God will suswer vou—llo'says so in the hitlo book yau gave me. My dear mother now in hier grave —IL Iy otovon years sinco sho diod—died happy ; snd I trust T shall meot hor in Leaven, For thia 1 will pray. I lLave boen in tho bhospmital for four monthy, sud am noarly woll, L abali soon bom tho fiold agaw. Ir I fall, I shall have tho os- suranco of moetiug my Savior in pesce, sy wo meed thota, It willba & bappy mooting, May (od blosa you, my denr little friond, Write, and wibilross to your friend, 8tanloy Nicoll," At tho close of Maj. Cole’s addross, ho asked thoss who desired to bo prayed for 1o stand up or “‘any that wishod tholr frionds to Lo nnyoll for; let them meution their roquost.” Several then stood up, and others asked prayor for rola- tives, Bomo requesis wore excoodingly affocte ing. Ono young man said: * Pray for my fath- er ;" another, ** For my dear wife and fawunlv ;" anathior, ©* For mysell;” anatlier, For an ine fidel ;" indeod, wo may say that wo never rocuifect belug ot & mecting whera thoro Wwas moro carnoatnoss evinced by mnumbera nrogent that Lholr relatlves might find Jesus. Mr., Mry., and Aliss Calo thon nu? & Lymn, tho congrogation joining iy tho refralu, ' Ile that bolioveth Lath everlasting lif A beauliful prager wed engagad ja by s momber of the oung Men's Christlan Asaociation, in which ho bes wght the Lord that o would show anxious ongs prosent that Jeaus bias fluisbed tho work,— has done it Jong ago,—tbat thero is notbing now 10 do but accopt Josus, for Josua hud porchayod thom by 11is procious bload, At the coucluslon of tho sorvico, tha young men prosont wero askod (o attend a Youug Men's mosting at the Circus, whore Ma), Colo subsoquently ad- dressed them, As rogerds Maj. Cols as & preachior, Lo has & wouderlully improssive aud osrnest maunor about bio, and posacsses a rsro faculty of iuteresting hlq audionce, The singin) of Mr., M d Miss Calo au & trio of vaicen, {4 an oxceedingly great trast to iston to, and tholr swoot bymus aro the very' embodiment apd quiutoscauco of Gosnel truthw, Wo fully sntici- pato Victorla Hall will be filled {o overflowing noxt Bundsy oveumng; theiofors we atrongly recommend our fricuds who wish to be thare to take possosalon of tho ground st an early hour. —— VATICANISM, THE UNTTED BTATEA A SPLENDID YIELD FOR IT8 PROPAGATION, Qol, Frod Ilackor 18 writing a sories of articlos for Elw 8t Louls Westliche Post, In which he diucusson a very juteresting Lopic. Col, llecker Iw of apinion that tue United btatea furuish s very favorable fleld for the development and the powertul iuftuonce ot “Yatleanism® (Ultramon. tanism), aod Lo seaks to provo his conviction in those articlua. ‘Thero will be fouad anuexed & {rausiation of the secoud of theso articles, which wea published ia the Wstiiche Post oo dhe 20th of Auguat last : 1t wo ovasidor $he namber of cegaalmationy the order of Jesutts, with all ita afiliated ocintions and fraterntifos, alrenly nvidting In (e Union, wo can sy that thiss orler 1y alteady more pawerful hore than in noy other part of the wor.d; that t dovelops an activity and stirring resliatenoss which hava their only parailel in tha timo when that ordes fuitiatod ity connteraction agninst tho Rolormation (Sce Ma- canlov and Range). Ao avorything hieio m prae parad to give tho Jesuita the victory. They wil triumph over our own political fabrio: for they have umty of organizallon, lead tho enlirg hiotarchy, finve an army of shrawd, wiry, in oll.« gont, and persovorlug tnen 3 know hiow Lo tala advautage of avary madent, aud to win tha mnseos through en accommadating éotln of mor. alg, calonlnted for ntd convemontly adapled ta cvery clugs of community 3 and know bow to educato 1 thoir wohools o bust of trustworthy adhernnts, Whotover _in Tarops it was undortaken to crush D'rotontantiam, either by sluw procers or violence, sud Wherovor this mic~ coeded, It wam wrougnt by that ordor. In thin offort thay procusie: with s wonderful p: severauco aod almost subluno cunning, In the uartor of the mixteonth contury the Pro- tostaut Roformation was vestly praponderaling in Germany, and even in tho Auatrian provinces thoreof. Noar threo-lifthe of ihe holy, of a avea In tho lattor, wero Protustants, In ono gensration mearly lho whole ¢f Auatrla was subjected szain to Romo. Iso now doctring wan first extirpated fu the Italan and Spanish peninsulas ; thon tho samo prucess of destrucdon was eimultancously ear- riad into F'rance, the Low Countries, Poland, aud Anatria, ‘Fhia roaotion waa attompted to ba car- ried oven inlo Bweden in tho reign of John, Uy #on of Qustayo Wana. It ia knorn what slforts wore mado to destroy Protestantiem in Eoglaud at tho thne of Llizabols, aud Mary, bor prode- cosrar, With the Roman and Celtfo racon the soctes was surprisingly 1apid, and who csn deny tha, hiero in our Union also tho pure or mixea Coitic elemont, witls its intluencea and ramifications, I tho man support of Ultramontanism, for whick olament, oniy receatly, Ben Buile elaimod tho futare empire of the Union, To ex. plain thiz ethnologicsl and psycholugical pho nomanon, we find uo room u & newspsper asi clo. DBut the faciis wotl established. Intho sudcavor lo couutoract the Roforma tion, whother by forco or otherwiss, orgamza tion of Inatruction, pitblic and private, yas re sortod toas the most ndispensablo and essen tial of o'l meaus, When tho roaction hne strongtheued itsolf Bo far as to Lo able to use foree, It was usad unhoeitatingly, ruthlossty. Iu tho war sgainsc tha Protestants la Franos, Popo Pius V. gent auxiliary troops, and issitod ( command to Count Santafioro which reads liter ally ag follows: * Not to mako any lluguena rrmunnr; overy ono taken to bo cut down Ieretics bad to b oxterminatad.” 'hers was nt order oxacily alike given tha othor day by tin priests at Ban Balvador, Coatral Aworica, Liven Princes of tho Chareh mos with no ine dulgouce, if evon tho shadow of suspicion foll u}ou tinm, and tho Roverend Diskop Kendriclk, of 8t. Lowuis, ison the black Jis2 in Roma beeansy of his wotk entitied, ** Concio 1 Concilio Vaty can, babouda at not habita," whicl opposes In fullibility, Under the Pontificato of I'tus V., th Archbighop of Toledo was coudemned by tl Topo on account of sixtosn theses in his worky which were suspectod of having a tendeucy to wards thn Protostant doctrine of justiication b faith, although tho Arcbishop had alloged I lis dofense, **ihat ho had vover futended seye thing obso than war to heross ; that bo bad con verted the ormmng from fuith; that ho had or derad tho bodies of prominoent lieraties to Lo ex bumed nnd burned; aund that Cacholica an Protestanta bad culled Lim tho best chawm plon of the faith. 1lo may coucludo from this condcmnation ¢ tho Prunato of tho Spamsh Church how tho res of the pooplo Wero doalt with in order to extix pato Protostantism. Hut tho other day Alfong (tho young King of Bpaiu), who e¢an woll ox claim, o8 Tolomachus docs okl Momor, “N ouo knowys bis fathor,” bLauished from th Madrid Univarsity all Professors whoao Vatican igm was nuspeotad, Ot what klud this Instruction, ordir, dle ciplino of tho taswes wero at tho timo of th countar-Reformation fs manifeat from the fad that no one was suro of his lifo or praparty, Tho City of Rome overilowed baudita; ona of them, a cclobrated Chiof by tho uame of Moriays baviug beon offorad an amnosty b tho Pops 3t Iia wonld qait lus tralo, literally wont him tho following raply: * Che il viver fuoriacito, I tomi, piz a couto o di maggior mcurts,” which woeavs, in short, that ho tuought Lls prenant profasion was the safost, Tuo now &0 much vaunted education of the pos- pla by tio pricats lins resnited up to this dav ‘Sm Ttaly and Spaiu) in tho ulmast everydiy doproda- tiona of rovberd nud bandits, who aro nevortlio- Tows very rogular in hesring mass, who bear on their pocsons cousecrated amulets, rolics, and modais of tho Virzin, »y ihair * Ave Moria," and aro not brougirt up iv freo nchools, ‘Lho Jesuits of attiiated orders tovks every moana of futroducing theieolves Into ovon tno moat Drotestaut aountrios, aud, as ous of thom atutel himsolf, * they envakod 1n l:ko lambs, and then pelinved like wolves,” At firal they cnly do- manded pormissivn to establivh schools, vem- inaries, etc., ele. Thoo thoy preachied, coufessod people, lutioduced processions of clerical pomp, and fiually suceooded fu goiting tho moembors of their Chiurch {uto thy oliicoa (which will bo tha caso hers after & whilo), nud tinally to exclude otlior religionists from even bacomidg eitizens, Lvery teto entical Listory, which trents of tus counter-reformation, will' prove this. Hore in our Union they do hiot yeod any per- miasion to establish kchools and universitiss, By roating Badler’s Uatholia irectorv for 1875, ouo can erivinco binsolf what vast school-povor the Votican already dominates over in this country, ord what s mass ot persous it oducates to s purposes, an immonss propagandal! Upea fomalen its inflitonce s parncufnr ly exorcined in coufoumity with a Jottor of ivstruction of Grugory X1IL, of tho year 1674, Ilut evon this piiviloge of eutablishing all surts of sational instita- tions of their own, which thoy only ob- talued In tho Old World (very recomily in Franco) aftor tremoudoys alruge gles, is by the Ultramoutnnos uot consid ered engugh hiero, but their otject id to crush evory othor school systent, and, above all, our frac-sotiovl system. It we Jook at tho prosont omigration we find not only a largo imporiation of oxitad or dlasat: istled momuvors of mouastio orders, saloul- brothors, aod aecular clergymon, but of o large mass of their faithful tlociis, It is only a few doys ago that an immigeation of 8,000 -linlinne was aunounced as coming over. The Drotostant immigratioa Iy conutancly diminise g, Iu this wise, sven without ropoeating and ballot.azunlog, by mero force of numbors, Protestantism must go to the wall. Unforta nately, the Anglo-Amoricaus,not swel: posted up i mnttera and tunga beyoud the United States, #sg 1o dangor, do not believe in auy dangor, aud w.l' doserve the rod, which they sufer o bo bound up aud In which binding up thoy evon sanist, The European Governients look on witk pleasuro, 1In former timos thoy got vid of theh eriminals by emigrating, now thoy rojoico to sea themuelves dchivorad of their troublesomi nlurg¥ sud thoir adhiersuts, Fathor Muallor not long ago, Alated the Catholio popula< tion in tho United Blatos at 14,000,000, whch it twenty youars might almost double itself, And liow ean this voto, closoly woldsd tagether and operating lika an fron wmlro, be succosfully el by au anti-Vatican opuosition, brokon au it it {nto Innumorable socty, fighting ono anotuor, and torn (o raga by prayer-witches, Sabbath a Tetnperanco fanatics, Good Lomnplary, and othel irrational one-ldos orgunigationsy | L'hioro aro, as wo will ondeavor to show fo’ our articles, fn our nociat orgauization, as well as iy our form of govornmopt, elements which with out doubt nocousarily drivo towards tho Vaticau ully to beliove, as many do, that tlv Iloman (religious) aystem was more fa vorablo to one form of Governmant, to-wis, the monarchieal, and that it would flourish best i i monarchy, Romsniam puta up with any poliucal system, {»mv:dod it allows ta it tho expansion and satiloment of ita pawors, Un this conditton ivhkoa tho repnblio 8 ranch as a nonarchy, nay, it likoa tho flrat perbaps botter, ou sccondb of its larger liborty, snd the absouce of control, ltomanism has fought both mouarchies and re- publics, whan aud ‘na ofton aa thoy crossed ite iath, Of what & Popo cau do in republics, Voulco and Bwitzerlaud can tall a mourntul tala. Profonnd soholsra aud eorious nvestigators hiave of late callod upou Rome to spoak out on tho queation of recogntion or uog-recagoi- tion of constitutionsl wouarchy, ‘This ia a vain demand,—bosides that, (he q‘unlllau is already decided In the late syliabus. lome will tolerata oven s constitutional mouarchy, which, Jike that of Belgium, gives it amplo elbow-room, as upon he same condition it has allied itaelf with abso- lute manarchies, with sristocracics and ropub. lics. 'Tlioy are all subjoct to Rutne, sccordiug to tho cauop law, (Thiy !Ill{ oxplain why in » recent important Yaw suit tho 1taliay legal trie bitualy took special pains to declare in their de- cision that the canon taw was uo longer i force in lh]a Kingdom of 1taly,~Nozg oF 71k TuaNsrA~ T ‘The Vatican at (ho prosent moment has far groater sympathies with our Norlh American Re= mblio than with tho Qerman _Empire, Luq ase our Union furnislios tutter aud less ra- atricied posture grouuds. No restiictiye laws are o be feared Lioro, and that is a great alirac- tion, Uuder the relgn of Kioga Willlam III, and "-l of D'russin, Roulo was for abuolute wmonaroby. . Under tho Ewporor Willism It bas nothivg bus”