Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1875, Page 1

The Thicango Dailp Tribune. d CHICAGO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1873. VOLUME 29, y EFLE 4 Terchants’, Farmers', & Mechanies’ Savings Bank, 75 OLARK-ST., OHICAGO, il INVESTHENT CERTIFICATES, Tovtoct Secarity—Liberal Interet, TABLE of Increnso of **Inventment Cortinl enten,?? secared on fmproved real estate bears fug Iuterest, payable in quarterly Install- ments, nt the rate of 7 3-10 per cent perane suw. Khotring the acenmulation of sumne in- yeated for ihe boucfit of Olildren or otherst ,. Amount A b Accumainind. 5 yeara, S 142,01 340,07 s 0 1,740.86 2,101.55 1.420.10 3:400.70 4,323.10 when due, fa «d on savings account, and fovested In INVEST. T GERTIFIOATKS whenever $100 s thus acoutnu- 1 vy holdor of & Certificate hias tho priviloge of exemin. fos tbe coz: Htlon of the trust st any tine on oalling at {hootlce of the Trustee, Cortiliea’es forwardod, and Interest, when due, refn- vasted, 11 destrod, or remitted by deaftor express to any partof the Unltod Biates, Address BYDNEY MYERJ. Manager. . T’ =< o —tR JRusT 95— (cmanTEnED.) Ofse: 121 Dearbora-st, Chicag, I. artiage Losns op Tical Estato, improved and un- ool located b the eity and sibuzbe. of Chiczgo 3nd In the Btato of Iilinols, exclusireiy negotisted, ‘secus Ity sarured {o capital neoking investmenta of isch-pacter by 1o adoption of & eyatem pecullar to s ttutlon, B s apecdily axeouted at the lowast Fates of fater- wi, Expensea moderata, HERBERT & MORSE, Stock Brokers, 04 LaSaliceste, CHI0AGO, v, 11, 3, MORSI WEHERDERT, o tor T, Bioes Exchiange. Bonds, snd Gold Fought and sold on s Ve offes mpecial focliities for transace fiona in securitio dealt in at New Vork Stocik Frxehnnge, cither for cash or o marging, Kefer 1> Ualon National Dapk, Chicago. Enesslr, & Co, o, B Akersand Hrokers, 18 Now-t,, Now York. o Moner, R J. KnupaLi, _A. B, Lovvanzny, Money to Loan In large or small sums, on Chicago Property, st lowest current rates. 7.D. EzfiVEY, Mortgage Loans, 80 Washington-st, i C. WILLIAMS & CO, BANKERS, 1 WALL-ST.,, NEW_YORE, buy snd sell Chicago Ciy, Milwaukto, Bt. Paul, and othor good munfcipal Smds, Investment socurlties constantly on hand, Fanted—atlington, Cedar It and Aling, rat. Wanted—Cicago, Danville & Vincennas firat. Visnted—Norihern Fselfia 7 3-10 first. These and other railway securitios not regularly yaoled made & wpecialty. Ordera for stocks and other socuritien recelvo porsonal attentlon at the New York Sock Exchange. Good deposit accounts receivod. Stock Privileges-—Fall Seasan, 1875, 510 $1,000 Investod, will probably pay during the szt ihirty days, from 100 to 00 por ceat proft. Dir- Iog tho ssmo time laat year, priviicgea paid from 590 to 1,000 per cent profit, and. the year bofore from $1,000 £32,800 was mado 0n_$100 fnvested. Our wookly ro- otk senk fee gives full particulars’ nd prices of a dealt In'st tho Now York Stock Exchango. . FROTH! HAM & CO., Dankers and Drokers, 13 Wall-st., Now York. HOTELS. ARDNER HOUSE CEIICA.GO. Located cornor MICHIGAN-AV. and JACKSON-ST., fronting on Lake Park, with fine view of Leko Miohigan, opposite tho Great Expo- eition Buildings, near all the Rail- road Dopots, and placos of amuse- went; the finest location in Chicago. Prices-~$3.00, §3.50, and $4.00 per dsy. C. H. GAUBERT, Propriotor. HERMANHOUSE OHICAGO. . Prloes Beduoed o $3, $3,60 and §4.50 per Day. The moat Elegant Iotel in the city. 300 Superb maguificently furaished and provided with Ty enlizely firo-proof. Location ono hlock from Ay Beadquartars, BISSELL & LULBERT, NEVADA HOTEL, 148 and 150 Wabash-nv., ¥eur Monros-at., one block from Expoaition Building, $2.00 PER DAY. o leaa ,l;yll and ceremony, but mora rrll wmd- gty oo many places of greater pretonsions s VINEGAR. PRUSSING’S Wi VINEGAR WINE ated for s PURITY, ATIRENG'T o fil‘éuuum-;umlgm Yarraed o rressnva M. 24 & 40 Dlichigan-av., Chicago. ~var. MISOELLANEOUS. ERT HOOKIKEEFING, pBmeiils may B tte o the day'or evening 8 34 cloo seta of books, elihior by siugle ur ki entry, discover aud corrcel errors in books defectivo and carcless Lookkecplng, adjust Sapliated accuunta, welle up baoks g viauce tle same: Privato lossous fn bookkeep- sal Bogiven ot the resiiences of puplle when do- lllwufm""' on lu“ cases re,’un’n:l);le, l:ml b euzranteod. Wil go out of the clty when auret, “Address 3 81, Tribuns office, 3 way —_—— AR PR ... FIRM OHANGES, " DISSOLUTION. frm 1is this di b magay ':l“l'le:l‘l.r_l & Bma!l?“} ‘tu?‘gyh issolved s JERTEBON SROWY: " DISSOLUTION. B , I8 this N‘u’b’y‘mflh‘&}flafif“ » c‘l‘x. l'l.'}:‘l.;m'x’xg:" S A mCOPAIITNERSl—IIP. uad, buads r A e T R, T B e ! own & Floming, Shipplug sud Commislon Uy Office No, 9, 164 Vaabiugloo-s. JEPFERSON DROWN, B, H, FLEMING, OLOAKS AND SUITS. CLOAKCS & SUTTS, Field, Leiter & Co. STATE & WASHINGTON-STS., WILL OFFER TO-DAY A FULL LINE OF HISSES’ AND CHILDREN'S PLAID, PLAIN, BRKIDED WORSTED SUITS, Suitable for All Ages, From two to sixtesn years. Also Full Lines of MISSES’ and CHILDREN’S FALL AND WINTER Cloaks, ¥ GOODS. Underwear The Largest Stock and the Largest Number of Linos ever offered in this oity, consisting of Flannels, Mori. nos, Cashmeros, Scotch Wools, Bilks, &o., from modium to finest qualities tho world produces, at unusually low prices. WILSON BROS., 67 and 69 Washington-st., Chicago. Pike's Opora House, Fourth. st., Cincinnati, TRIAL EXFGSTITON. LAST WEEK N MONDAY, OCT. 4, GRAND SCHOOL DAY Al Adults, 25 ¢ls.; Children, 10 cls, “DON'T FAIL TO SEE IT!” COAL. COAT. Can supply city or country with old brand LACKAWANNACOAL Dy ton, car-load, or cargo, so; o wanted, Bloss- burg, Teisieh, Etion Briat i1ill, and Cannel Ooai on kiand, Oiticen—3s0 Enst Madinon'at,, closa to bridgs: 12 South lmrla&-fl 3 Bam‘{Lrlt)IY“n;).'er‘lh; w'l.“l:h:;:nui[ilgh. i ind No or, near L 0. i s ROBERT LAW, TO LEASE, Dy Dock To Leasc_f_ur_a Term of Years Sealed Propoenin will be recelved at the affice of the Glork. of the Doard of Education, 83, Fifitav., il TIIURSDAY, OUT, 7, 1815, at 13 m,, for Lessing’ for atorm of yoars thie DRY DOOK located i Dlock 83, Hehool Boctlon Addition, on the South Dranch of the Ghicago River, botween Harriean and Polk-ate. Any further thformation cau be obtained on applica- tion fo JAMES GOGGIN, Attorney of tho Board of Edueation, Room 37 Metropolitan Block, ‘Adilress Proposals to tho » Committes on Schoot Fund Property,” indorsod Proposslato Lesso Dry ock.” D ks Cammittco reserves the right to refcct azy ons or sl of 1hs Proposls wiLimitod, s they shall doem for tho bost interssts of the clty, WILLIAM J, ENOLIeN, PERRY I, BMITIL, CHARLES 3, REED, TIODNEY WELOH, 3 IOHN P, OLINGER, Committen on Hehiool ¥und Property. DENTISTRY, . TEETH. WU p&m and $30 when you can get the best full t of t t DR, MCCHESNEY'S for 83, The Oneat ::nluml:: {ll.hwulhln rosort io thoe clty, Corner Clark and Randolph-sts. Ts NT. TO Rl Three now marble.front residences, cast front; on 1ndiana-av,, Just norih of Eighteeotu-at. They are in chiotce lacation, with Tanges, warmed with stesm, and are {u ovory rospoct the best Snished aud most dealr- ablo realdencea offered for reat (u the city, D, W, THOMAS, 133 LaSalle-st, PR . Lot At STOVES AND FURNAGES, CUSHING'S TUBULAR §love, Grate, and Furnace. This discovery gives mora heat from a glven amount of fuel, {n open grates aud Franklin stoves, than closs stoves, Wo bavo_thirteen alzes of furnaces, Can warm tho largest church or amnallest cottage, We especially recommiond them for soft coal, Call ana see, or send for circular, CUBHING, WARREN & CO,, No, 65 Lako-st, WANTED, TO WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS. A young man speaking Englisb, Oerman, and French, who commands s 4ood trada throughout the Btutes of IUinols, Wiscousin, and Indiava, wishss s situation as tnwuni. agent {n s Arst-class Wine and Liquor House. 1laa had msny vears of experience. “I'bu best of refescuces au bo ability and Integrity will Do glven, Address W, care Kauftan & Coliol, city. I0WA LANDS WANTED, Wanled to 14 Northern Missourl, Address AKX, 8, FOLTED, 37 Stateat,, Boston Mass . THE CHURCH. Ministerial Views of the Bible-in-the-Schools Question. e Dr. Fallows Thinks that Church and State Should Be Entirely Sep- arated. The Rev. C. L. Thompson Be- lieves that the Bible Will Take Care of Itself, Dr. H. W. Thomas Bids Fare- well to the First Meth- odist Church. Discourse on Christian Rational- ism by the Rev. Dr. Swazey, Memorial Service and Sermon by the Rev. Robert Collyer. Hudibras Expresses Ilimself on the Religlous-Education Question, The London “Times" on the Re- Establishment of the In- quisition, Forcible Declaration on the Beecher Question by the ¢ Satur. day Review.” THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS. SEHYOX RY TUE REY, DR, FALLOWS. ‘Tho Rov, Samuot Fallows, D. D., preached the following sormon in Bt. Paul's Reformed Episco- pal Church last ovening : And wisdom and knowladge shall be the stability of thy Umes.—Isa:ah, zxz1: The Board of Education of thig city have just decided that horeafter there shall beno roligious nstruction imparted in onr schools, by tho road- ing of tho Iloly Seriptures or by prayer. Thero is a disagreemont oo tha part of thoso who Jove the Bibla, and boliove it to bo tho cor- nor-stono of Amsrican civilization, aa to the wisdom of the act. Bome supposo thst our scliools will becomo irreligious by this romoval of the Ward of God. But let mo lay baro the mistako of theao friends, if Ican. Ono class ssucrty that the schools aro “godless” achoola, bocanse a speeifio raligious faith 18 not taught in them. Another, because portlons of Scriptars ato not read and prayer i not offered ; or beoause the Biblo, an tho visible symbol of tho faith of Protostants, is not allowed to remain ne the ultimate ground of roligious appoal. Dut do these persons mesn to sssert that aritbmotie, grammar, and goography aro in thomsolves godloss? Is there anything m their nature that will corrupt the mind? When wo hold our childron rigidly to learning the mul- tiplication table, or tho declensions of nonns, or the bounding of a Stato, are thoy during that time ongaged in s ‘*'godless” act? Put tho question in this form, and evory- body’s common sense. whatever may be his theological bias, will auswer at once, No. Well, thon, when do tbov become godless? ‘Why, whon the mind, destitute of roligious trath, or negloctful of it, usea thom lo a god- Iesa manner. Not mn themaolves, then, but in the uso tho mind makos of thom lics the godli- nees, But it+Jia ssserted that the miod muat be taught tho foundation principles of re- ligion in order to uso learning aright, Very true. But when must thoy be tsught? Shall instruction in ths cate- chism or the Bible be given just aftor n leason in grsmmar, or beforo a lessun in writing, or be- tween arithmetio and spelling? Bhall it bo givon boforo the studies of tho dsy beginor at tholr close? 1a it a nccensity that it should bo Riven once & day, or onco in two days, or once s woeek? Iuit nocossary that it should be giveu by tho one who teachos theeo so-callod secular studios? Is it essontisd that it must be imparted In tho eamo room whore the maps and blackboards aro? Ithink nono but & bigot would answer, Yes, The lmpartation of dogmatic, religlons truthu is something entirel ‘{umo from the imparta- tion of orthograp A school whero such dogmatio lustruction is not given caunnot becullufi oo that accouut godloss, uucbristian, irrohiglous, suti-roligious, or even non-religlous. Furthor, if tho Bible is not read, sud pray- er s not offered, or if no Hiblo should bo found in tho gohool-room, and tho gonoral truths of religion bo not pre- sented or oxprossed in & formal way, the school does not come within any of the categories just onumerated, 4 godless man may tosch the ocatechlym, and an infidel go through the form ot roading the Lible, .mf thua ao frrollgious ntmosphere be created 1n spite of the rellgious forms used ; while, on the other hand, the sot forms may be ontirely dlspansed with, and & devout religious Bpirit be infused by the presenco, snd manuer, aod tones of tho truly rellgious teacher, Now, the grand principlea of morality can bo taught, and o man can flad fault with the toaching. Justico, purity, generosity, caurage, magnauimity, integrity, patience, truthfuloess, cau be urged diroctly and fndirectly upon tho mind ot tue child, and Jew or Christian, Catho- lic or P'rotestans, thetst or infidal, will rejoice in the struction given. 1¢ it in asuerted thast thore can be no substan- tinl baaid of morality unless religion underlies it, T most hiearily subscride to it. But it iv uot es- sontial, in dwelling upon the human sido of morslity, slways to predont the divino sids. Lut ['would never sutfer tho ludiguity of hav- iug sho Biblo removed from the school-room as & book of morality, No Hchool Board has the authority to do thal. ‘T'he Bible has tho right to lie ou the teachor’s desk; the right to bu opened, and road, and referrsd to by teacher or scholar, Just as Shakwpears may lio thore, or Bacon's Es- says, or Worcestor's or Webster's Dictionary. Hut wo do not rest our ples for non-religions instruction by the reading of the Bible upon the uosubstantial busls that this nstiou is noi & Chilatiau uation, aod therefuro Christian pre- copts shiould not bo taught from the Christisn Bnglg 1 the common schools, You must cat out tho very leart of Amorioau bistory before you oau make such a claim, lu a dogtatio or secta- rian eenus It 18 not & Christiso nation. It is not s Coogregatiol nor s Preabyterisn, oor w Baptist, nor a Moethodist, nor sn Epls- copalian, nor s Roman Catholic, Chrig- tiau pation. God forbid 1t ever shonld bo! sad, helping us, it never shall be. No denomi- nation iu to be trusted with supreme power, Nothing will more quickly convert lambs into scoundrals and mako thom— Bulld their falth npon Tho Loly text of pika and gun, Decide nll controversiea Ly Infallible artiilery : And prove the!r doctrine nrthodbz, By Agostolic blows and knocks, It in jdlo to ssy that wo aro not a Cbristisn nation, tn contradintinction tn a dohsmmedan or & Psgau nation. We are not I'agans, nor Mo- bammedans, nor Mormons. Tho exiles for copscience, for froedom to worship God, came firat to plant tha treo of hiberty on these shoros. Not to worship Jove, or Thor, or Odin, but tho God of tha Oid Testament and the New. The Doclaration of Indepondoncoe sppoaled to tho eame God, Speor am wo, “the apoilod clildren of liberty,' may, at tho listory or tho influcnce of Puritan Connocticut and Mansnclsusosts, wo never eball outgrow the obligations wo aro under to bhe God-fraring men of thoko rogged Htates, sud those tmoro ruiged du{;wblcll triod men's souls, In fasts and foants, both Htato and National, havo wo presorved thicir supramio recognition of God. May wopreserve it to the end, Ttoman Catholie daryland, and Quaker Penneylvanis, and DBaptist Rhode Ieland, bowed bofore the same God, Christian States formed tha Union of Htates. Christian brains plaoned, and Cbriatian hands penned and fought for the Constitution, undor whoso brosd aud protecting wgis wo dwoll, DBlackstono says : ** Christisnity is & part of the common law of Eogland." Contrast tho Christian England of to.day with the England of tho Angles and the anciont Britons. The common law of England ls the common law of lllinots. Qur first common schools ware Cbristian_schools. Tloir foundation was Inid oven before America was dikcovered. The Parlismont of Beotland onactod that all Barons snd eubstantial freeholders ehould send their children to ¢chool from the ago of 6 to ¥ years, and then to other sominaries to bo instructed in tho lawa ; that the country might be porsossod of pernons Smnnly qualiffed to dischargo the duties of Bherifls and to fil other oflicet In 1560 Johin Knox put forth in tho ** Firat Book of Disciphne,” prosented to the nobility, the fol- lowing language : ** By nccassity wo judio that ovory weveral kirk have owe schoolmaster ap- pointed. . . . In every nolabis town thero ehould bo erected a collego. Tho children of tho poor shall ba nnpvmcd aud anstained at the ex- penso of the kirk.” The law was inoporative untll 1646, when tho Iaw waa passed laying & fax for tho support of s &chool-house and tho payment of tho schoolmaster's salary npon every porigh iu the Ringdom. This law was re- paaled by Charles L. in 1636, Tho Pilgnum fathers bad scarcely found timo for putting up a shelter for thowsolves, and & houso for tha worship of God, before they pro- vided a placo and a teachor forall the young. With secnjar thev alsa gave roligious ine struction. The New Tostaweot wasa toxt- book. Tho Catechifm was indispensable. The rude allisoco between Chorch and State nocossarily caunod this gataration of sccular with religions teaching. Dut in the course of timo Htato was scparated from Church. Tho fuoctions of & siatcsman, a magistrato, o teachor, was gradually removed from the minieter. A division of labor took place. Bunday 8chooln wero established ; to them tho direct ro- ligioun teaching of the children was confined, The Now Testament was no longor used a4 A toxt-book. Tho Bivle founa iis place ro- stricted to the openiog of the nchool. And now, with tho advent of different populations and different faiths, tho domand is made that all re- lgions toaching sball cease In thean publio | schools. Aud thia is tho logical a4 well as the chronplogical outcome of the lirst divergence of thie Church from tho State. W cannot help it ; we ought not to help it. 1t is inevitable iu tho nature of things, Tt ia owing to the progrees of ovents that the completo soparation of secular and religious in- structlon is required, Ho onnnot agaiust thelr will justly force King Jawnes’ vorsion of the Scriptures upon nnwilliug Romaa Catholics. Should they ever be in a ma- inmy thoy would have no right to force the tomauist Douay vorsion npon Protostants, Our excellont fiiends the Baptists, who are gaverally immersed in the bost of good works, have put forth (or ot loast a part of tho donomina- tion have done 60) a translation spocially fa- vorlng thelr viows of baptism. Should they ovor be In the majority, tnoy would hava no tight to imposo their vernton, ‘Wa must not bo blinded, however, to tha real ntato of tho case f 1 on: OWn City, Uno party do- sirous of having tuo Bible removed is aiming a fatal blow at onr whola common schoul systom, Tho Weatern Catholic, g’:ubhnhl‘d in this city, in its 1sauie of Juty G, 1875, contalns the follow- ing statemont: * One of tho most etriking #igns of the infidelity of tho sgo in which we Iivo I the ignoring by the Governmont of relig- ion m education. Yet, secretly, clamorously, poraistently have they beon sooking to romovo the last vestige of roligious instruction from our public schools. Yirst the cry was that our ecbools wero soctsl no, beenuso the Bible was read. Now, when tho Bible s removed, or all bui removed, comes the wall by the samo writer, ** Wo ven- ture to assort that our commuon achools are noth- ing but tho nursories and lotheds of iatdelity. Moroover, thov turn ont bad citizena,” From tho atatistics compiled by tho United Statos Commusaloner of Edacatios, based ob tho cenaus and other reports of 1870, fully four- fiftus of all the children attending school in our county wera to be found in the common schools. This has been tho proportion for over hall a century. bid we take tho jubilant fignrea given by Roman Catho- Yea thomsolves, and so eloquent)y awphiied by Mr. James Parton, coutaintng tho numerical progresn of tuat Church In our midat, ospocially taking into tho account tho fact that the mom- bora of that Cburch bave gonerally their ** quiv- er full™ aud running ovor with olildren, these friends havo certainly no fault to Dud with the common schools on tho rcoro of infidolity, Aud am tho Yrotestant Churches have besn largo gainors during thac period, tho Mothodiat Church alone Laviug gained far more bona fide commanicants and s larger religious coustitusncy than the Ro- mau Catholics, no fanlt can bo tound by them with tho common sclioola. An_to the statemons that tho schools *‘turn out bad citizenw.” Wo admit that they do tmn out some bad citizous, as all tho chiirchos do somo bad ealuts. But, a8 an aouwor to tho sweoping nllogation made, wo mav refor to the fact tbat of the 50,000 graduates of Amor- ican colleges, duning the tirst ninety years of the nation's hfo—graduates embracing over 32,000 mintsters, nearly 200 Presidents of colleges, over 00 Protosnors in colleges and theological remi- varies,nearly 1,000 Repressntatives in Congress, over 200 Booators, nearly 300 Govornors and Lieatonant-Gavernors, and nearly 500 Judges of Hupreme Conrts—nino-tentha of the whole num- ber were from the common chools. These men have been amobg the most distinguishod and influential names In Amerioan history., And what suall I wayof the scores of millions ot children who bava recefved their sole edu in the same schools during thoso nine decades ? ‘The same pspor further pay: * The denomi- al sysiem of education 18 tbe ooty sound and further, ' Thelnjustico of Proiestant- ingulssly exemplifiod by s permitting iem is the Catholica to pay for two systoms as they are oompolled to do uwuder tho present order of tbinga. They aro taxed for the com- mon-achoole which they canuob use, snd they havo to -n{; b in addition tnelr own educa- tional establishmente.” ‘That 18 the end of the whols movoment &o far as the loman Catholica aro concerned—tho ut ter destruction of our whols common-school syetems. 'I'ho war begun upon that svstem in New York, and carried on in Ohio, will bo upon us In Chicaga before Ion%. Proceaing that war m the State of New York for the division of tha echool fund for sectarian puspoacs, tho ley. Thomaa Preston, one of thoe ablest and most ocourteous Homan Catbalic clergymen of New York, had given uniterance to tho almost united voico of the Eastern clorzy of bis faith in veforence to the subject : ** We do- mand that we shall recolve our proportion lu re- pard 1o the number of ohildren instructed of the sehiool fund raised,” Mr. McMasters’ oditor of the Freeman's d, abont tha same time, in his paper, public schools go whers thoy came from—the devil,” Al 0. 0'Bnien wrota to the New York Trib- '© don't want to mix up with Frotest- i school matters, £0 grow up in the holy Roman faith, like their fathers, aud nos im- bibe the looss irreligious {ndopendence of tue age,” All who love our common schools, snd beliove in thewm s+ the Lope of the Republic, will rally to their rescue. Lot not our Romasnist friends delude them. selves. In acknowledging the righteousness of the complate sevesauce of religious from escular teaching 1o our publjo schools, we have only iald bare the foundations whisk caanos be removed. A dislalon of sentiment wlll provall among Protest~ ants and non-Tomaa Catholios 8a to tha right or oxpedioncy of thesctof the Board of Education, & anited front will bo prosentod when tho next domand i mada for tho eatabliabment of acc- tarian achnolu, Through tho preas, the pulpit, and tho ballot-bux thoy will be mot. We can- not and wo will not, at the beck of any roligious aact, abandon our fundamental American idea. Wo will wot split up into misorable frag- ments our school ystom. Wa will not ko bock to the dark agey for our thouglitZand practico. ‘The denomination- al syatem ling boen tried for centuries i the Old World. We do not want its Doa Soa fruit to bo pressed by our teeth. That svatem has beon tried in Bpsin, and out of 15.000,004 of people wo aro told thst 12,000,000 are unablo to road. In Tuscany, out of ‘every 1.0 malen only 354 could read, and of every 1.000 females ouly 250 could read, In Naples and Sfily, out of overy 1,000 males but 165 could’ read, and but 62 femalos ont of 10K, Of the malen betwoen tho ages of 5 and 18 years but 134 conid read, Qut of every 1,000 of the entire pupula- tion B70 did not kuow their letters, And this near the fonatain-head of priestly power—this a4 the direct result of dencminationsl teaching, Protostant England, sud my cheeka roadened with shamo ae I read it, toid uw less than twenty yoars ago. through her Parliamontary statistics, that ont of & population of 22,000,000 over 700000 could not read or write, To her glory bo it aaid that wheo theao factd took hold of British atatesmen—Cobden frat, Bright next —abo abandoned the denominationsl eystem, which bad produced sucls terrible roaults, and adopied a national system closely akin to our own public-school ayatern. The consus of 1K30 tells un that, 1o our own country, cutaf tho 1,443,000 adult males, who, a8 a rule, aro voters, 1,619,147, or more than moventeon in a bundred, canoot write, =od in effect cannot read thoir ballots: and of the 9,092,109 femalo adults, 2.006,049, or over 23 in every 100, aro illitorate. Leaving ont tho colored popula- tion, the vast majority of theeoa illiterates sre thore who Lave Jivad in other lands, whera the denominational ssatom prevailed, An opporer of the public achools, an editor of -gromim-m Protustaut Epscopal paper, says *Our common-tcinol syatem 8 no wrowth uf our republicaniam.” No, it 18 not, and for the yerv beat of reasons, viz, : a consequent cannut be 1ts omn au'ccedent. The common schools of New Epgland were amovg the most sctive agen- cias in recuring and catablishing the republican inatitutionn of otur country. Liberty of conscience is no outgrowth of re- publicantrm for the eamo rearon, The mainton- suco of thua liberiy and of our glorious cotnmon- achool system belong to the vory life of the Ropublic. We can mako no sacrifices too great to wecura thom: in porpotuity to our children and our cbildren's children. Tho giand:st echool of Democracy is the pub- licachoul. Itis the great loveler, hut it levols up, not_down. Tho orinciples of eqnality and {raternity are practically taught and exomplified. Bharp sngles are kuocked off, differences are rubbed down, class distiuctions nre prevented, casto 16 abolished. Tho rich man's son avd the poor man's Hon meset togother. Brains, not mouey, weigh in thoscale of acholarship. Merit, and not tho father's eocial position, senda tho boy to the head of by clusn. Roligious aulmosity, finds no fuel to faed it. ~ Natiomality 1nda no barrier raised ngainst it, Tho young “know-notliogs” speedily becomo know-some- things, and are not apt to forget tho fact in fu- ture political ife. Boll-relianco is taught. snd yet protound one- dlence to law, Eight miilions of children gatuer vearly in our public echools. Un the play- round they are like a Lord of colts let loose. o tap of a bell vrings them 1o order, and, liko Napoleon's veteran sroops at tho roll of the drum, they fall at once into their placo. A sublimer sight tho continent doea not wir- noay. The common school requires & reason for the hope that is witbln the scholar, arithmetical, goographical, or grammatical. His whole lifo afterwards is s sorios of interrogation points. e carrics the habit of msking a reason, in his doalings with all subjects, all measuros, and all men, ‘The would-bo "keeper of his consclence finda 1t & very inconvenient habit. Profano and old wives' fablea fall from such a questiooer. Loading-strings ase soapped ssusder aa tow in {ho flames. Rosgon takes the place of blind tradition, roligion the place of superstitoin, & cosmopoli- tan catholicity the placo of an iutensely bigoted narownens. ——— EDUCATION AND CHRISTIANITY, BERMON BY THE LEY. C. L. THOMIWON, The Rev. C. L. Thotnpson, of tho Fifth Pree- byterian Choreh, yestorday preached upon the subjfect of the recent sction of the Board of Educasion o abolishing the reading of the Bible in tho public schools. Following is a synopsia of Lis sermon: Il;'ll‘lhn ‘Word of God s not bound.—1Z, Timothy, 16,y 9. ‘I'his wan tho comfort of tho imprisoned Apos- tlo and defender of the truth. Though be was bound, the Word of God was free. No shackles could be thrown over it, no prison-bars could coufine it, mno tyrant conld bhush its voice. Very sublime 14 the picture the Apostle presonts in thia passage. The persecu- tiops of the Church were casting their shadows bofore. Perhaps in prophetio vision ho saw the bloody days that were coming,—Christiaus hunt- ed like beasts, their books thrown to the flumes, nnd tholr souls by elow torture liberated from their bodies. But amid all the darkoesa onepath of light broks through the ages. **The Word of God is not bonnd.” Bind, sileaco, slay the living preacher,—this, ohmen! iuin your power; but to arrest the flight, to shacklo tho embodied movement of his oternal thought, whose impulee 13 gath- crod from all past ages, and which with that impulse is spioping down the ring- ing grooves of humau kistory—for this, tyrmot, vou have no bonds. No Valean of de potism can forge chaius that are strong enough to chaln this word, or provent its triumpb, How sigually heathonism failed in ils efforts to bind tho Dible ; how every atlempt only scate tered further the flaming tongues that spoko it tnesgnge ; how the blood of the martyrs wua the soed of the Chureh, this vou slready know, The awakentng 18 also a familiar chaptor, when the chain that bound tle altar to tno Bible melted its hoks aaif the lightniog of God had fallen upoo thom. Martin Luther had found s Latin ible. With ic came gradually the right of pri- vate judgmont, and witt: thase tho Reformation. ‘There i, iv my opinlon, no causo for alarm in viow of the recont action of the Hoard of Edu- cation in atrikiog out from thoe publio school rules tho olauso tbat makes the reading of tho Bible and tho repeatiug of the Lord's Prayor a purt of the opening oxerclsos of tho pclool. Tho Bible aud Chinstisulty have slwsys bad to mako progress against the Goverunments of earth. Thoir progross has boou frecat and most rapid whea wholly separated from the Stato. ‘Thoy ask no patronage from civil rnwen, Tho Thvle fs T‘M ablo to win it trinmphs wholly independent of the attitude which this world ‘may assume toward {t. It is uble to walk ersct and alone, and cares for no supporting crucch or State suthonty. It laon this idea our fathora crossod the ses. It is to this idoa wo are steadily sdvancing., indorse from the heart tho words of President Grant, uttered a fow days ago at the Army Itouniou at Dos Molues Let us labor (o add all needful guarantacs for the grealer socurity of free thought, free speech, & free Dress, puro morals, unfottered 'religious soutiments, and equal rights and privileges to sll men, frrespective of nationulity, color, or rellgion. Encourays frea schools, aud Tesolve that not ooe dollar of woney sp- propriated to theirsupport shisll bo appropriated to the aupport of uy sectarian achool ; resvlve that neither ibe _slate, hior tho Natiou, nor otk combined, aupport institutions of learning other than' thow sultizient to afford every child growiug up fu the laud the opportunity of a Rood common school cducation, unmized with ssctarian, pagan, or athewtical fustruc- 1on. Leavo the matter of religion to the family altar, tho church, aud the privaty schuol, supported entirely Ly private’ contributiuns, aad keop the Church and 1ae Btate forever separate, Thoss, I venlure to eay, are wise and timely words, snd 'hflhu“muuh ly accord at ouco with the nighest liborty of the Htste sud with the genius and Listory of Protestant Chnstisuity, 1 propose to examine now the action of tho Board of Education in the light of theso funda. mentsl principlos, In the first place, lot us ox- o the ground or grounds on which the mmarv action of thy lloard way bo pposed rost, At this pomt the action iu question ls open to muost HOROUY Criti- civm. A ssep 80 important and s0 revolutionary of our national custom called for difforent treat- ¢ the hands of tho poupla’s servauts. The passage of the osder of lsat Tuesdsy night waa sa sotion 80 closely wouad in with the seligious conviotlons of & very large majority of our popu- lation that s praner Tupecl Tor those convictions would have A wvery difforent course on thepartoft) > d. Ininy judgwent one of two comr " wan opsn to the Dored, "1 &~ fest place they might very pron X havo taken this pomition 1 *“Tho Iii = 1long been associated with our | systemof 3 don. It ls the book which, whetherr ™= or wrongly, haa largaiy mold, sllourin 2 ons, It hold by o vast major: ty of the. = oto La tha Word af God, and . portant = - ctorin_ all right educstion. Wo | donot 1375 s «hould Lo rond a4 8 part of tho | openinr$ tisos of the Beecols, but before wo take 1< = upos a question which involvos no msny %yt of conscienca and roligion, wo willa the question to thosa whoas secvants o are.” Qr, if the Baard was anxious to assums the ontire rosponsibility in tho matter, and sum- marily to efect tho Ihblo without giving any op- portunity for the expreraion of public_opinion, | thou at tho very least » decent regard for the opinionn of their conulituonts should bave com- pelied them 1o ive & reason for their action. We are not now saving their action was inde- feusibla. Bug by & bold vate to rescind the rule tequring the Bibla to be read—to touch thus n"question which, if that Board has % urain of common intelhgenco, it muat know, enters profoundly into vital politico. religionm provloma of tho day—without ao much as pretending o give tho grounds on which they mako the change, in sither an inelt to the intalligenco of the commuuity or & vesy sovera refleetion on their o3, Lu tho abeenco of any reanons wo are at liberty for ourselvea Lo woek thin rearons which it may be presuined determined their conrse. Thus it mey have been hosiality to the Mible and ta the epirit of Chrstauity. It may bays bsen decigned a8 the cuteming wedpe to now and more inadmi~aiblo exactions which would eeeulanzo our eourse of oduestion by taking all ecknowledgemont of God | from our text-hooks, together with , all confossions of the inflarnce of Christian litaraturo and the power of Chrb-uan mmals, 1t may be conetrued as the beminning of an at- tempt to maka our public schooln atneistic, not only newatively, hut pomtively, substituting by tho thoroush ravinion of all text-hooks the ro- Ligron of Cotte for the religion of God. If this w88 3t animas, the Poard of Ldncation have counted wiongly if tley dieam of pojular sup- port for their action, It nfidelity in the mApirit of the action we criticise, it swiftly repudisted action may bo begiunin; thoeo who beliove nothiug to eut sll our national history loose from it+ glorions | past, In which it ackoowledped wa n | prime patriotic duty the instruction in religion i aud morality, and to conkign us to & thoroughly | Rodless fuitce. To do this by first taking the i Dible from the schools, then God from tha | coutea of education, and all mention iu the text- bookw, and then tha nsme of God from ail public documents, the osth in Ihw namo from our statuto-books, tha Habbath from our civil code, and genersily to inausurats on American roil the wrocking experiment of Froach encyclopiedists,—this is a jomibio ox- planation of the animus of the Board of Educa- tion in throning tho Bibla from the schoals witnout notice and without reason. Church and 8tato should wdeed bo forever kent apart in this country, Mectarianism sbould receivo no favar from Government. No form of worsbtp should be prescnibed or supported by the State, Freedom of convience should foravar bu guat- snteed. DBut tho history of tnis land as it stands rolated to religion csu never be diwewned, The principles of 1eligion have permeated il our insti- tutions, and they can nover bo taken away. Their light in ecatterod through all our systemas of education, nud they can never be obscured. It is goid that tho Catbolics objoct to reading of tho Bible in the schoola, and that this actoa in to conciliato their suoport, Lot us exanune thigreason, 18 this siucero and bonest ground ? ‘i Is thio Romlsh objection to the public schools the fact that thn Dible i read, and will tho avandoning of tho opening oxercites conciliate W ho wierniy and sl taror. . Their | dosigned a3 tho | uf 8 sot purpose oo the part of ® bt which, their hoarty support? A few years ago & very savere battlo was fonght ovor this question in the City of Cinclnnatis fought first 1o the Board of Education and tu the press sud the com- munity, and aftor was 1n the courts, A Lriof abetract was then given of the prog- ressof the movement in Cincinnati, the publi- cation, on the subject in Catholic journals and by €atholid writors, and of tha mors recont do- mands of tha Papsl Nuncio upon the Spanist Goveroment. Tha speaker continued : Navw, puttiog those statoments all togetber, will anybody say that the reading of the Bible in the #choola is reslly tho Catholie oblection to those wchools? Or that tho attack on tho Bible in the wchools I their ultunato abject ? Qua the con- trary, 8o far 88 Romuuists objeet, this objection only covers a movement on an uiterior point, It is only marking the battery which is aimed at thio lita of the public schiool ayatem. The ground of the Catholic opposition fo the public achools 14 deeper, and will remain aftor the Bible is taken ozt. The hopo that the action of the Doard will heartily unito Catholics with Protestanta in the wuvjort of the echools is thoreforo utterly baseless, and, if for such a reason tho action wag token, the Board hns walk- ed into & soaro, 1 come pow to comsider tbe action of tho Board iu the only light in which, to i3y mind, it ks & ehadow of vahdity, 1t is claitned by thosc apnosed to the reading of tho Biblo in the schools that It interferes with the right of couscience in two wavs. First—It compels the childreu of Romanisty to hear the reading of King James' versiop, and tlhie Jews to hoar the reading of tho New Testa- ment, which they do not boliove to be the Ward of God. Thst is. it compels the ctildren of Romaniets and Jews to engazo In a form of waorshiup 1o which they do not believe. Second—Thoy aro taxed for the support of & form of worship in which thoy do ot boliove, and to which they are conscientiously oppoeed. Theso are grave matters. It is tuo giory of this land that 1t rospects the righta of eousciénco, I¢ is the glory of I'rotostantism that the conscience of the meanocst is as vacred aa tho couscience of the hghost, 3 The spoakor referred briefly to tho differont light in which Biblo-reading was cousidercd by Catholics aud Protestants, the ouo thinking it a soctarian book, ana the other claiming it na the fonudstion of sl roral law. Ha then proceedod 10 ask : Itwillbo raid: *“DBut we Protestauts are conscientious 100, and wo are as aix tooue in tho m-]nm{. Which conscionce aro vou_going to respect, the majority or the minority 7" Must tho rixlita of winaritios alous” be con- sulted 2 We roply in the tirst place, not to read tho Iible to tho children of thosu who love tho Bivlo (s uot s violation of copscience ju the sepre that tuxation for the support of a form of worship that in not believod is o violation of comscience. Protestauts have 8 right NUMBER 41, that a throns might be bullt for the right of confclenco, which nd majority, howaver groat, should sver touch, This s s Protestant land, As to the intluence of Government ana tho genins of our lawa, 1t is o Proteatant. Chils- tian nation, It in s Protestant natlon becauss it wili absolutely refuen to lay a strawin the wAy of anothor man'a relizion, But better a thousand fold that we shonld waive our custom of reading the DBible fn the Behools, evon to & dishonest demsad, tnan thas wo sliould in the loast trample the fuadsmental Princinlo of Protesiant faith, And now supposs this concesston to the ds. Mauds of Jlomanists, it coucession it bo desmod, ho granted, What interests will Ic affect ? Thore 10 threa,—tho public-achool system, the inflae ouco of Rome, thio Biblo {teelf.” Lot us consider hieso separately and bijelly, Firat—It s watd 1t will ix’um the sahonl tem, by teking wholosome morat inetruction away from them. Wo yentura to 8y that the moral iufitence of the schoola s to bo found not in tho reading of a fow voracs st the opaning of actiool, but fn the couran of sy which in pervaded by the princitlea of Christisnity, aud which always wil) be. Iu this Iand you cabnat meculnrizo ednos~ tion. The [nfluenco of the religion of* Chrint ane through all oar text-books, rud, like an st mouphere, tlowa around every achool. . m&; far l:lnm m)lulringhlha echools we think IL ny 8avo them. This brings s to thy m\&gu‘thf will be nflnclflj. $90 na Secorvl—It mav be urgod_that sequiessonoe in tho withdrawal of the Dible w‘hl cmb:rdm Catholics to make further oxactions. If the courso be right ln itsel! wa can afford to risk that peril. But, in fact, there 18 no peril in it, Third—Once more, it ia thought by many that not to read thn Bible in the public achools fowers 1t in tho minda of the people. On tho aontrary, does it not rather exalt it? ‘fhe Dlh{l will suffer far mora 10 being brought into the arens of party politics and bandied about tn courts and caucnses than it can possibly suffoe by Imm‘;iv withdrawn from tho schools, Would ft not be a grand attitude for the Prot. estant Cuurch of tnis ammtr{ to say: e will aee to it that God's word 18 brought into contact with overy Licort in this Jand, not by" civil preforence, but by the force of Christian miusstonn, Wo will fostor schools whoro it shall bo taught., Wo will open Babbath-schools in every diutrict and stroot whero ita light may be & centre of nttraction. Tnorefore, summing up fnto a sentenco the words 1nto which I have thrown the deepest convictions of my mind. It doon not beboove us 10 Inwist in hin religious matier on & majority if in any place the majority should be teversed, wonld give a precedent that might encliain our conscicnces and wreck our liborties. It doon not behnove us to sacrfics on mny altar of mupposed advantage the princi ples for whioh our fatners counted life choap. 1t doca not veinove us to throw tho Biblo inte the mire betweon contending political factions, but rathor reposing in it a trust which will ionor | 1t and its Author, and, girding up our lotas in ihe spint of missionaries, lot ua carry It with tho persuasive power of besting bonrts, and the | huprorting argument of Godly livas, to every ta bomlat, to every soul, to the end that, by il Lftiog power, glorv may dwell in our jand, hor gates be fair with praiso, and hor walls strong with salvaticn, — THE WORK OF BUILBING UP. FARETWELL SERMON DY TUE REY, DR. THOXAL The Lev, . W. Thomas, for three years pas- tor of the Firat Methodist Church, preached hit farewoll sormon Inst eventng, taking forhis text s And now, brethren, T commend you to God and to the Word of Tiia grace, which 15 Al fo bt yon ap, nd to give you su inhieritanco among them which atd manctifiod.—d cts, 2., &, Ho spoke as follows : My labors in Chicago have now axtanded ovar a period of gix yoars,—thres at Park Ays. nue aod throe in tlis church. Theso years bave ‘been full of hard work, and not free from care and responsibility, But ln #ll this I have found aupport aud & rich compensation in the conciona~ nesa of trying to help forward the csuss of Christ and humapity, aud in the more than cordial sympathy and co-operation of tho con- gregations of these churchos, and the favor and encouragement of a generous public sentiment. Bix yesrs ago I laft the gathered friendships of carlter days aud camo smong a vaat city fall of strangors. I know but two familica. Now I ro- Joice in the valued soquaintance and friendship of thousands. I have seen our city burnod down and rebuilt again, Lave tested in some messura ita sorzow and Its Joy, and bavo beon permitted totako what part I could {n Ita moral and relig- fous struggles and coutroversies, and have coms to fecl that it is my homo. I conld not hope to bavo wholly escaped criticism or ovan couenrs, for wa have passed through periods of intense | publiv excitemont, and there Liave arison ques- tions on which the wisest have not been ablo to agreo. The temporaace cruasde, tho Swing trial, and the Philosuphieal Bootety, all atiracted wide publie attontlon, aod thoir dis~ cuestons raged fiorcely about us here. Ican ouly say now that in all thess things I took such part as, undor the oircumatauces, I thought praper, and conecientiously stood for what I be- lieved then, and Leliove now, to have been trua sud right, and with a conscionsncss of weakness and liability to err, more present to myself than they can ba to others, I leava tho resuits with the public and with God, Axids fram thess woro public matters, we havs had our own main but more qniet worl of irsing to build up and carry forward our epecial religious and church iutorests in thia yact of the ey, Thrao yoars ngo we bogan our services 1n a hittlo woadon chape! on Harrison street, with an an sudienco of lesa than a buudred. Theu aftor a time we got iuto the tecture-room of this ballding, and finally {otothe present andionce-room. There are a numbor of things that I take plessnre in mentioning, and for whioh 1 trust wo are all dovoutly grateful to God. Tho first ia that we have been blossed with un- broken peacs and good will Among ourselves, Thero has not in the three years been one Jar or dircordant fecling between pastor and people, or botweon any of the members of the church. We have dwalt togother n love. Whan we remem- ber how many churchos about us have boen torn asundor with attifes and dissensions and have kuown ouly bitterness and wrangling, we cannob bo too gratoful that wa havaescaped such catame ity, and been permitted to spond our days in dimng good, in building up instoad of teaclug lowa. Another thing that hes sfforded me gresv plessure has beon the steady and rapld to read and study the Uible sa thov pleate, To deny that would be to violats conscionce, Bup it cannot be justly clatmod a wrons: to conscience that the Stats does not give Protestauts any privilegos or proforences in that regard, In tho second place, this cannot be made a questlon of wajoritics or minorittes. ‘That kind of argumont wonld justidy the Spanish [nqutai- tion. The richts “of ‘conscivnce, if they mesn anytbing, aro mado to proteot ths wmiuority, howover [usigoiticant snd fecble, Indeod, to inmet on the logic of this dangerous argument wonld be abao- Intely fatal to the public-ichool system. 1f Pratoscsuts can protect their demand for a reading of tho Biblo iu schicols behind cou- sctouco by saying their cobsciences demand it, then on the same ground Catholics cau demand the Dousy Bible, Jows tho loskons of the Syua- gogue, and 80 on through all possible divisions of ereed or no creed. Then how can these cou- scientious d2wmands be met? There is just ono way. Divido tho echool fund, and so bresk up theschools. ‘Thoonse of Australia was meu- tionod, whore this plan was triod and proved # falure. Tho spesker then procanded : The argumont frum couscieuco Acoma to bo trengthoned by the attitudo of our laws, Judgo Loulvy, of the Michigan Suprems Ieuch, i a work on Coustitutional Limitations, quoted by Jucgo Mathows befora the Suporior Caurt of Cinie cinuati, sava: * Ho who will examiue with caro tho American cousuitutions, will find nothing more fully or plainly oxpressod thau tho deasire of their framers to presorvo aud perpetuste re« ligious liberty, and to guard n‘num the slight- est approach” towards inequality of civil or po- {}i;ifin} righty pased upou diference of roligious af.” ‘Tlers 18 ons ground on which the reading of tha Bible in the faco of conscientivus objections of & minority way bo logically innisted upon, It is thin: ‘Ihis Is & Protestant nation. Distinet- ively by laws mud lustory this s ita character. Thid clinracter we moan to mantain. If you do uot like to be taxed for the civil maintenance of Protestaut Christisnity, thou go where you came from, szl’;'y. this is & pouition I sm unwnmns %o take. This Goveroment was founds growth of our young people in Intelligence, and matf. and general well-doing. 1 do not re- call 8 volitaty oxception to this statomeut; all aro maving in the right dirootion, and not » fow will in timo raach places of oxalted usafulness. By tho sido of thuso, I have witnessed with lvl'ennura and proflt the quiot, steady march of ho faw aged onos who bavo long walked in this bettor way, and whowse poscetal pressnce stull lisgers to counsel pnd bicss the church, uother matter of mutual rejoicing haa been tha eteady growth and wereasing {uterest in our publio servicea, T'ho actual membership of this chutch i swmall, uot over 150, and these ars seattored from Evanston to Eoglowood, and there is uat, eiuce tho fitg, & dwelling-house in tlis part of thy city. But with all this, the con. grogation bas fruwu to bio one af the best in thy city, aud possiblv no one of our churches hag tind fu its xerviced wara strangers than have been here, It is probably & low cstimato to say thay 200 strangers sttend worship Liore vach Babbath. That would 1ako 10,000 iu the past year. It is certamly no smsll work to b able 1o reach sg many poreons from every city aud part of our cauntry, seide from regular worshipars. Wherever 1 liave goue out of the oity, east or weut, it bes sasmed hiloa pustoral vistation, for at almost ever: station sud town 1 hisve met those who have n! tendod this ministry. Undor our paculiar sod chwmf‘ conditions we bave not at any tima been able to haye any extendod revival, but thore bias been a good epiritual work going on in tha regular servi nd fn the class sud prayer- meatingt auy bave fouud the new life, sud we shall look in the isst day to see rivened shesves gathared home from il this ecattared #oed. God grant that it may be vo, Under the uction of a church taw, lmiting the pustorats to turee years, wy Isbors here draw to 8 close. Tho vccasion canuot pass without many quastionlug tho wisdom of such & positive ol tation. Tuere are argumeutd on both sides of the question. Often tuo rule scems to work » hardship, to remove a mau i the widst of hia Rroatest usefuluosa ; and often, as experience shows, such removals are attended by s loss 1o the churches, ‘Thon cgaln the rule somstimes wozks a rellef (0 bots pastor and people in ges