Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 4, 1875, Page 2

THE- CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, -OCTOBER. 4, 1875. Gng rd of & preacher of whom they are tirod, ond n 1alief to tho preachor in telng carried off by tho mln iuetoad of heing dismiszod and rent away, Tho rnla has its pdvaniagos and diradvantages. Upon the wholy it haa wotked woll, I beliove in au itinotaney, and in an appolnting or chang- wg power, bt eauld [ have wy war [ would re- mova tho limitation clanse aud appointininisters from yent to year A long A8 [t seemed best, of remove them at the end of the firsy year, ‘Tho srentest objection that T hiave to tho absolite limitation in, that it seemin to talo the whote mat- terout of the Bands of Providenca borond s certain point, Wo virtually forestall aud rulo out Peovidenco, only xo far as that Provalencn ean work in A giten timo, 1am convinced that mone changas or moditieation it our econoniy 18 neoded o mept the growing wants of the age, and eapectally our worl in Inrge cities, It takea time for any man to bevome acquaisted and ta acqniro an (nfluence in a large city, and it ia & gieat lows to meritieo mich influsnco when gain- e, Then, ton, thers is and will bo an increns- inge deairo on the part of infellivent and settied fanlirs to have tho poraibility at least of s rettlod pantorate, Jut however thesa tidnpr tuay e, wo are atl agreed in tnin: that wo phoukl render & eheerful obedionea to the law as it is until such time, over, when it shall bo changed, And T think it i proper that L eay hora, that it isonly in thn apirit of loyally that I havo been nnwillingly, in any wonge, to bo s party o tho effort that hing been mada to, in some way, so ehape affgira thae T could remain in chargo of thia ebfreh, | wonld not, by any meanr, intimate that those who have sought this change—and so far as 1 know evoey oue in the congregation would favor it—ara fu iny sonso unloyal, for I knosw they mo not, and that they seok ouly the greateat govd; Lut what 1 monn i this: Lam not, and eannoy be. a party Lo it and would in no case consent to continuo hero unlees it ja by the genern! concur- ronco of the Conferenco” and tho Methodist churchds in tha oity, In that cara I would be wiling ond glad Lo rewsin apd do the best 1 could, 1 am not inecnwible to the love and conlle denco you would show me, 1 ktow: I fully appre- cinto ity aud that to remain bere could not af- tord yon moio happinces thah it wonid mo; but ‘unlors it can bo dono by romn such _genornl consent as I havo mentioned, it bad bolter not be, It 18 Letter that you mive iour whoto stipport to hit who may stantl where have stood, and that I'do the bost I can whot- aver my lot may be cast, In view, then, of the almost cortainty that my work licre ends with this hour, I want tosay a fow words further, snggested by tho text, and I runt sitable to the occaxion. Tho text Augensta two tuingsn: The work of “Dbuilding up " and the final reward,—*an in- horitanco smong tho eanctitied ;" aud 1t points totho means through which thev aro to be renched: **God, and the word of 1lia grace.” Tho thouglht of Cheist end the Apostles in bailding did bot refer ko mich to outward organ- Isations, but rather to building or earryivg up tio wholo strocturo of cheracter and & divine manbood, Juilding up men i God’s idea, If his is done, tho outward forins of goverument and churchos will grow about thom. ~God’s plan of butlling manhoud iy from within, It begivy y makmy the hoart pre. Out of it aro the is- ies of lifo, Thortream will bo like tho fountain, tho fruit like tho tree, Tl inward purity ceoromend you to Tlim in the dayn of gladness, and when the darknors gathors around and tho Tionr of death drawanear. You have ali stood by ma in overy way soit could, and have helped bear overy burden and lighton overy carn. Deep in the love of my heart shall T ever cherish the twemory of tho days wo havo spent together, and all the kinduesa you havo shonn to me and mine. Tho years aro not many nor long on eartl for mo and for xomo of you._ May they bo given to the Master's cause, May they ho multiplied In yeoluluess, and may Wo comwe to- gether In the Lifo above. ———— CHRISTIAN RATIONALISM, REIMON 1Y THE IRV, ARTHUR SWAZEY, The Ashland Avenuo Dreshyterian Churel, which meota for worsuip in the Naw Jornealem ‘femplo on the cornor of Ogden avehno and Weat Warhington streat, yestordass Hatened to the fol lowing thoughtful serminn, by the Rev. Arthur swazey, D. D. Tho text wan @ '.“’l'lm Kingdom of fleaven I8 wilhin you—Tarte, zrif,, “Tho Chureh of the fiving God, the pitar and groundt of the (enth,—2, Timuthy, i, 15 T do not propose to handle, twith any attemnt at completeness, tho themo kugrested by theeo paseages of Holy Writ, but rather to call atten- tion 1o 8 few things which, if they shoull ¢wem dirjointed, Al their unity i thesa declarationg of Jeans and of Vaul, ‘There I8 a * Ringdom of (fod,” or & *‘King- dom of Heaven." for tho terme aro used futor- chiangeably, which i not to bo confounded with any temporal kingdon, or with that vast realn i which (God is supreto, and which we are wont 1o call tho Kingdom of Naturo, There is some- thing different from political powor, ba 1t tho purert and meat righteons, bo it n Conatautive, or a Charlemagne, or o Pope, who is at the bead of it. There in gomothing different from light, Leat, motion, and the everlasting Iaws by which tho grars, and tho brite, and tho lar, fulfill their pattin thegreat ongving, Godrelgna evorywhoso. Yiverything in a part of God'a Kingdom. and yot there 18 another Kingdom of Qod, The world, with all its puwere, including the borly and mind of man, is simply ares, instruments, o for someihing greater and better. Tt 14 donbiloss true thnt God la dishonored, tn tho small appreciation many Clirlstian peoplo liave of His natural stiributes, In their narrow and sorry viows of the worth of those inquiries wrhich touch the origin of things, tho laws of lifo, and the matiquity and permauence of tho presont order of the uviverse. Mauy crude aud foolleh things are said of **dosd matter,” which is anylhing but dead; of human reason, without which there could ba no faith; of natural vir- tues, without which tho world would be a pest- house. Without doubt tho scorn which a certain olass of religious porsous visit on sclonco and thoso groat mon whoso gening unfolds to us mnuy o tong-hidden myetery of erestion and providence, Is coutrary to the widences and enn- comes from being made partakers of the Divino nature,—being branchea iu tho true vino. All outward works or forms aro of no avail unlose they roach tho heart,—unloss our juward natire be turued to tho good. Then thera is tuo buirding up of all the gracos, and affections, and principles that adorn the Chnstian charsoter and ioake up o truo map- houd. God's ideal of manhood is neither o weak eoutimentalism ou the ove side, nor a cold uto- ictsm ou tho otlier, but a propor biending of all tho good quulitios,—sentiment, and gentloness, aud tove, and cousage, and sirength, and hero- wm,—all in owe porfoct being, Thon thero is tho building of the outor life or conduct. All truo pioty must bo rooted in prin- cipto a8 woll a8 fecling, and must come ta tho surfsce in & sound morslity and a good lifo. The fruit i8 the only evidence of tho qual- ity o the tree, and if tho fruit bo bitter the treo i tho eame, If roligion does not roform the lfe it in valn. The Apostles put great emphasis upon thig facl. Let every one that numoth the yamo of Chriyt bo carofut to depart from all ovil, And our Savior: Let your light so shina befuro the world that othcrs may see your good works and glority sour Tatber whois fu 1lcaven, Not an cifort to appear good, or a sceming to Lo rizhteoun, but an actual dcur—runml goodnord of hicart, sbiniug out in overy-dny life. “UGod wants ¢o fill the world with mon'and wonion of charac: ter, ptrepgily, and truo worth, Tho groat need of the Church and the world to-day is better hoarts and trucr living—simplo truth, aud just- ice, and love, In and through sil this is tho building up of Toill, It ono camo it is called the building up tn tho *‘most boly faith,” It is vastly important thnt men think right, that their viows bo in har- mony with trutl. Wo do not ereato truth, or project it npon the world. Wo porceive it. And if wo nustake something elso for trutd, (o 8o fzy Wo way wiss the roality itsclf, 'Thero is this to bo saill, however, in moral and religious truth, thal the desiro to bo right, the iuteutfon of of the licart, goos u great ways. And this far- ther : that it 1x not tuo aimplo} assenting Lo any creed, b it ever o good, that coustitutes a asy- ing faith. Mon aro found to bo vory good with very different beoliefs, sud often very bad with apparently oorroct viows, ‘ho savitg faith is uore than mero assout to any proposition, bo it even this, that ** Jlo is able to ave unto tha ut- tormont all thuso that come nnto God through Hiw,” oz that, * If we oonfess our sing Ho iy faithiful and Just to forgive them nud to cloanse s {row all durighteonsncss.” Thero must bo the * coming” the ylolding of onr hearts to God,—thero must be the ** confessing of our wius," thero must bo that trusting of ourselves over iuto tho bands of God,—a trusting, & rust- ing in thim, Without a grounding of onc's "self inthe good, & puttivg of otio's solf wholly aver on the sude of right and truth na a priuciplo, all clse uvaila little. Aud whero wo do this and fat- low tho best light we have, sud trust to the divine leadlug, sud do the best we can, I have faith to believoe (hat out of cwr{ tangled waze nud dark way God will Lring us 1uto the clear light by and by, “hio genoral faith thot needs Lo bo built up now m o comforting and sistaining trust'iu the liv- ing Ged uw Yoiher and Savior, a faith in good- nesd, I right, In trabl, 1o prayer, inimmortall- ty. Many, mony Lesrts wll about us nre break- ing sud Enkivg from the want of this simplo trust, Aud olas thol, instesd of besring to & suflering world theso precions truths, wo thock thein with endloss cotfusiuns of words, God's_ ten of building s et to bulld man- hood from the Leart vutward, und then wut of this, sud oy & means of consorving it, to build the ruml}ly, and the church, aud ociely, snd tho nation. ‘L1 Ideal father siid mother must mako tho ideal Lome, whero love. and mtolligence, and ploty, surround and bless ehildhood, Tha tras rdnplvlou, and charscters, and lives, from the home and from soclety, muxl como wgether to wako up tho Church, and ull those together flow out iuto tbat larger realm of gl iodustrics, and arts, sud lesrning, and roligion, aud sil that makes up tuo largor world of soclety, Yagsing from these moro goneral remarks, 1 foal, beyond what I can cxprosd, o desiro thay all who Lave worshiped with mo iu this templo way in hoart be juwardly truo und. guod, oud i lifo forevor atand by sound princlples, and Lo always found on the side of right, sud, whatover pecullaritics of bellofZyou mny share, that you rest, porsonally and consciously, in the Divine love, And I caunot but frol a deep coucorn for tho future of this church, to which we havo to- gother glven o muoh care aud labor, From jte location it must Lo {u some wousa repreacntativo of Methodism, and in its charactor it ought to bo cosmopolitan in spint aud work, No labor, no talont, or money should bo counted doar to make It a power for good in thia city, and its Worys and sympathies ought to wmeat the thous Hands of strangers who gather horo, aud through them go out all over tho land, lu all this work of building I commend you to God sud to the Word of His graco, He s Fathor. 1e is Bavior. 1le kuows our evory want. 1o is avor near. 1o luable to Lelp. We can- nut do this work alovo. Iu religion, as in other thingn, wo wust bo workere withi God, I com- mond you to Mis meroy, for it {s great: to His love, for it is unchavgeable ; to Ilfl truth, forit cudureth furever ; to Mia }uullcu. for e is no reajecter of persoust to iy Fu!ion and His crozs, for the veil is reot and all way entor luto the most sacred place, oven 40 tho Redeotor's beart. Itgyond the sowing ls tho reaping. Boyond tho labor1s tbe 1est. Doyoud the \iluu lZlhn vietory, Bovond tho grave, tho inheritance. Fomewhore God 1 building His eterual King- wum, Iuto wome bewven $ho pure 1u heart (rowm !l ages have entored, Iu that bleeved fand, thy wueot vorces lost o earth sing the uow wung, In tuat peagefyl bowe the weary rost, Thers tho heast whiatl bo patiefled with love, and the wind clotbed iu (ko garments of truth. There aill Lo wo doath thete, nor wOIYOW, nur Cryig, Lhey ure all loft below, ‘I'o thiw blessed God I commeud you all. Yot tho sged losn on lis stal, ond fuw _youthful dook to Mim for 1 wdunce. Lt the nivk and the puor look unto i who bore upon His owu feeluige our weak- sw.es sud our pain, Aud who bLud not oa earth where to Jay My head. Let the woi aud the nouvy-laden come uate Him aud fiud rest, sud tho wanderor relurn to his Fatbor's love. dor which beloug to a chitdlike mind, Without doubt tho study of tho phyxical Listory of the oarth and of man, whotlier scientiats bo behey- cra or unbeliovers, ia as ronlly o dopartment of thoology as the study of 1lebraw mauncrs, and oxorts A moat humanoe effect on religions opin- iong, aud a thoronghly humanizing inllienco on society, Dut, though wo ehould ray, ns wo might juatly say, a hundred-fold more in tho snmo strain, thers is anotbior side of tho great themo. Thero s in ovorything an upper and an nuder, a eplrit and & fornn. tho primary and the second- ary. Tho tassols on the cor, the liftle clsterna in'the corn-stalk, aro only truly approciated 1n n #hock of corn fully ripe. The moral is higher than tho natural. 1T thers bo a body anywhore, thero is a spirit to inhabit that body,” ‘fo ordera halt in nature, in civilization, and natural vir- tues, isa frlurnuu fallacy. To apesk of tho Kingdom of ot and moean only mollusks and mammals, worlds and suns, or oven tho great veasoning powers of wan, and nothing more, i to nrreet thonght on the threshold to sdmire tho goudly stonos, and yet tall short of tho{deaof n tomplo of Cod, Matorinliem oxliibits n great workshopin which evorything shich comes forth from Inthe, or loom, or forge, is ouly of worth in erccting an- other workshop, auother lathe, or loom, or forge, an everlnsting serics, a littlo bettor por- Liaps, but wover rising to a 8o abovo themaalves, Materfalism knows no Kingdom of God. It takes mon outof an order which s to subdue and use pature, and puts bim back to the level of pature, It stops everywhero short of respon- sibility, and thercforo of spiritual attainment. He ean do nothing but play his part by a law of neceesity between two poriods. 1o is slmply an luch in an overlaud wiro or o enbuarine cable, which eonnects tho poat and the future. No predestinarianism of theology was ever so like romorseless fato na thoso tenuhmrn which, bresking away from tho supernntural, scok rof- uga in what fs called **tho order of tho uni- vereo.” 1o man who standa up to say that Calvin's Qod 1s a God of foree, o romorseless power, whilo bis God is o God of lovo, and at the samo time discredits Inapiration, redemption, and lies Dick on a rationallsm which, ns o matter of fact. forbidy him to beliove In anythivg but nature, if hio havo acuteness enough to perceive it, might with just na much good senso call Juggernaut o god of love. The very last words in the whole range of speech on which o may ring b changes are the words Liberty or Love. But tako nuother order of thought. Conceivo of God, not 88 a mere namo for an oternal cause, not a8 oXyn, not a8 the groat intra-runndano and animating force of pature, but asa Porson who can eny *I" and *Thon,” who nmy love and bo loved, who Leara aund Bnswors prayer, who can be frieudly or unfrienaly to other bo- inga, who may lave a family bound Lo lim by reverence, aul gratitude, and hopo; in othor woude, rise into the supernatural, and thon you muy talk of liberty, of goodness—God's poold- noss, an' goodnens or wickodness, a kingdom of naturo, p kingdown of Batun, and s *“ King- dom of God.” The fow naturallsts who mako the attempt to join rationalism and Christiavity are guilty of a rolocism which tne groat musters, from whom thiey copy many of their high-sontuding phrase- ologies, aro careful to avold, 'The mnastern way ylainly, Christionity waa a step in the progross of thought, and of by moro so now than tho ferry- boat which has takeon us to s farther shore, The Christiang who draw thelr inspiration from them have no such escapa. 'They must hold to, and yet find fault with, the Psuline viow of thingy, Otherwieo thelr ocoupation were gouo. Butb what bord thing can they say of it? They can detail the burning and hanging of somo dark ages atb tho hauds of cortain admirors of Paul's. 'they ean pervert tho Beriptures and set forth tho horrible idea of predestination. They cau bring out s pictave of Calyin, to take Paul's may bo trne, Byroelondern throad hang all tho hopos of man boyond this sorld. By wo eald An anawer does It respond to a moul's hiugering after God. By ro fechlo an utterancs docs it confess tho riame of Jesns, Upon such a crazy platform doea it staud to proach renentanco and the remsalon of slos, Job paid, 1 know that niy Nédoomer liveth,” Potor wald to Jesta: Thow art the Hon of Qod.” Daul gaid, “Tho lifo which [ now live, I live hy tho faitn of tho Hon of Gol.” John aid, “Wo nro parsed from death unto hfe” Btephen eaid, “Lord Joaun, reecivoms spitlt.” Farba it from ma to ray that thoso petsars who honor Chris- tianity nR baviog a ey ratd of ovidonco a8 to tho historieal reality of ita fonndor and ently teachers, who make quite 8 gonerous egertion of faith In belteving that Jesta is no myth but a verstablo person, are not nearer “absolnto teuth”if anvbods knows shiat that torm menng —than Jub aud [aainh and John and Paul, But this only, Hat by ruch convictiond aa atirred (o hearts of prophots and aposttes, 8 a King- dom of God_possile wn this world,.—that tho unbelicl which doew not deny, and the faith which does not hetieve, andthoUhristinnity which in withouk authanticity, ara no elements ‘in that hope which Joln the Daptist heralded, and that great huon which Christ camo to confleat unto nen,—n Kingdom of God i this world, 1¢'1a not. thocefore, o matter of nepriee that men with strong religlons canvictions, mnen who lay holdon the Gospel ag a groat satvation, an anthentic as God humself, drate o slicp lino bos tweon ** nature " and ** grace,” matter and #plrit, the earthly and tho hl‘n\'nllli‘. tho hefra of tuls world and the heirs of tho incorruptiblo ine heritanes, whilo thoso who lay hold of Chriat Decango in the univeisal entangleniont Ulriatanity,stripped of rutue offensive foatures, i8 mora plansiblo than any other religion, dis- itko and avaid all disctimination between decency and plety, civilization and roliglon, nnd oblivions to the whola phitlosophy of mental traunforma- tion, put faith away fntho backzrownd ns among tho weakest instriments of salvation, L'horo is logic in elther conrso. ‘Tha question of tho interprotation of Chris- tlanity does not mako thia wide differenco. Tho Romanist lins ono interpretation, and goes about 1 hin own way to establish a Kingdow of God. piaco, aud, palntiog o great nlack heart undor his ribu, use the picture as a target for inveetivo. And although they might accomplish a populse offect without any prufound kuowlodge of P'aul, Or any perdoual aequaintanca with Calvin's writ- ings, it would offer sowo little show of caudor aud thoughtfulness it from their own stand- poiut they Liad anything bettor to offer to tho woild. What do they giva you inatead ? ‘This: (lod ie au idos, Holigion 18 & soutumont. Man fu a clod which the tirst plowshare sud the first sumwmors turn into wiothor form of duet; ho is au autuwmn Jeaf which tho firek gust drives into tho sawer, or heaps up ovar the roots of the troo that bore it e 18 & log with the ability to Plungo up snd down, and roll over and ovor s though it were a thing of life, aud yet uttorly at tho meroy of wind and sesj tho victim of & Iatatiuin which hears no wail and offers 150 hope. The Chostian rationafist had n hard problem in the yperson of Jesus. Mo Lia for o rosster one who,it inasserted, was born ot 8 virgiu, walked on the soa, ralsed the dead, Limeelf roso {rom the desd, and went up foto thio clouds, and who was sccustomed to say ** lio thot Liath kcen mo Lath secn Lhe Fatber,” . \What can he do with such & master 7 No suoh thiugs sro aflinnod of Lucrotius, or Plato, or Spinoza. ‘Thoy uado no such clabus fur themsatyos, Yo Loar the uamo of one who has uo carthly father but is begotten of the Holy Uhont, who puts on the eur of & sorvaut wluch'one of hix followers hing too raslly ous off with wwword, and whose denth groana ehook the t)nbs about Jernsalem, aud who ussuros s disciplcs that sftor ko had gone away be would came back to tham, und m a word,—oue who suys, “1 cayn down from Heaven," and’ &t (he mame time to deuy ftho mnporuatural pres- cuce, an intellacinal eutertainmont in which it pleases momo mon {0 wrap them. selyon, 1 tlie fond oconceit thas they wry wiger than those who have the montal vigor olther to deny or attiri rely sho Gospel or Gud. ,“v" {dea of a Kingdom of God rests unon the universsl consclousuess LAt LL6ro s wore than can be ween with he natara} eyo, that there aro thiugy true which l1e bayond sha range of reasou- ing, that thoso higher things may lv uade kuown to us, and mey becouia our inbenitauce, Nalionalism, on the contrary, roduces all ro- ligiou trotu to 8 guess, a hupe,—a theory to fill & gup, but not to stand by, or to atand by us. lta ultoranves when pub iuto plain Koglish mosn oxtromoly doubt{u) if any of the ro- ligipug bo true, bué that, uu the whole, liristi~ anity makos the bost oxhibit of them al, and tat i is The Avglican hag s interpretation, and in bis way gocd about to eatnblish o Kingdom of God. Among the _non-prolatical I'rotestant, the Baptst, the Methodist, the Presbyterian, hns each hiz intorprotation, and labora in his own way to patablish a Lingdom of tiod, What now docs the Christiat rationalist do 2 Doen ho endeavor to effect a return from suprer- dtition to n sound New 'Testamont vies of things, visible and invislblo ? ‘Fhat wera a good Chris- tlan work. Does he sock to roform theology to tho Now Testament standard of doctrine, de- nonueing all tradittons of men which sat thom- selves up a8 the Commaudments of God? "That were n good aud s Christian work, Docs le poOK to correct tho undue prominence some- times and injurionsly givou to a certain clasg of tenthw 2 ‘I'bab wero & wood and 8 Christinn wark, Doos Io atm to promote a renl avmypa- 1y among Christians, o thorough good will, and B commuuity of ways sud moeans uf bringing tho world to tha feet of Jesus 2 That were & good und & Christian work, No, Ilis work is not to reconatruct theology, or the Churcl, on the baxis of tha Word of Gol, bt to reconatruct Christinmty itsolf ; to mnkoe it moro ruitablo to human wisdom and human need thow ita own records moke it; to wood out of it tho elomounts which, by some grand orror, a3 he thinks, bavo beon {ts power for 1.800 years, and to throw in:o tho shadow of seionco nod pilosophy tho oue simplo way of rolution by Jesus Christ. Itts occupation is to chill, not to inepice, tho roligions lLife, to ostablisl tho reirm of unisersal doubt ; which, instead of being tho work of 8 wiso disciplo, {s tho work of o ** foollsh virgiu,” and caused our Lord to say to bis dikciples, ** How tong shatl I bear with you, O §0 of littlo faith ? " Bat it will bo raid the rationalist {s putting tho great practien! virtue, tho common-scusa viow, of life in tho placo of u snarl of doctrine. Al my friends, lLoro, na ofton us olsowhere, tho ginin of trath is outwoighed by tho hundred- welghit of orrors, Tho follawor of Mohnmmod, and especially tho followor of Confucius and Buddha, might sy the eamo, 1 wounld not be undorstood as Inveighing agatust o wido, and catholic, aud reformatory Epirit. or agalnst & roturn from the foncod pas- turo-gronnds which a few men now asaumo to own, to the great wide fleld of God's 8on, Jesus Christ. Only lot n man believe in Christianity, by tho guideand iu the epirit of its o®n records, Itis by such a real bellof, along, a conviction reaching bis vory marror, that ho can enter into, and labor for, the Kingdom of God. Our Lord directed tho attention of Disciplas to tho real fonndations when he said : ** The King- dom of Heaveu is within yow.” Neither Bishops, nor priests, nor pronchers ; neither liturgies, nor vestments, nor tueolafy; neither the templo, nor the Churcly enrofiment, nor the Church Court, mako the Kingdom of lloaven, Its ca- sential idea 18 a heart reconciled ta God. It s in Its oxtension mado of men in whose hearts the throne of God g det, Each lifo Is o world in t- weif.” Bohind every pair of oyes and overy pair of hands are wide thoronghfares, vast fields, great rivers sod seas, mountajus, valloys, cavos, forests,all poopled with desires,ambitions, hopes, and foars. Woen God comes iuto that lifo, it be- comes o Kingdom of God. Ana to say to that man, * Lo! hera " or ' Lo! thero,” as thongh under a surplice, or in a presbytery, or in & prayer-moeting, hLe might find the Kingdom, would be on wide of truth ag thoagh you sLould poiut to & plowshare and a kernol of ‘wheat, aud call thom tho great Amerlean Reopublie. Tho inward und persounl first nud most, But as Btates whose populations speak the samo Ianguago and whoze principles of Government wre tho samo, confederato for their mutual yrolle, 8o Christian lifo confoderates with Obris- tion life undor one common Load, Josus Clrist, for mutuul help, and for greater ollicioucy 1 the work of tho dMaster. Christianity is both a life aond a propogandism. And ag an oflicient propo- gandism 1t neods_organization and diseipline, slouce tha Church, or the visible Kingdom of God i tho worid, bonud always to ita divine charter, and at the samo timo subjoct to tha im- parfections of o purely buman gociety. ‘We may roduce our thought on this mattor to a fow propositions First—tur religion includes tho ides of a Qod who I8 o person, abd who reigns as o King, and wlio In uddition to Ilis natural domlulon, is a moral governor who has subjocts allled to Him by will and choice as well as by s croative sot, and #o furm a distinet aud wpiritual Kingdom, 1lere wo antogonizo keiouco aud plulosoply, not in themwelves cousiderod,—for In themsolves they nro liko any other great nationsl good,— but as thoy aro brought forward by unbelief to ustep the place of tho * liviug God.” We an- tagonizo all those ogqulvoes) oxprossions snd labits of thought which attach all worts of meanings to the term * Dolty,” or * God,” but thoso which imply that e is Oreator, Rodeemer, aud Judgo of moti, ‘There sre many thinus in our religion which do uot admit of & sharp deti- nition, whoso bouudary-line, ko that of o nebula, doponds on the fustrumont used and the bour of observation. But tho idea of God, a4 a persanal and epiritual Lead of the universe, sud who bas purposes to which all uature is wec- ondary, is not among the number, ‘I'bo phrase- ology whish may miean elther that God is a primordial atom or a Maker; which may bo in- terprotad eithor in the Emersonian or tho Wea- loyan seuso, whioh may dofine with equal acour- aoy the {ntidol's denial or tho Christisn's faith, in” usterly foreign to the ldes wa have of lovalty to the Now T'ostament. Wa antagonlze also all those adwissions and declarations commendatory of Jesus Christ snd the New Testameut, which, however, do not riso toa conception of tho solitary grandeur and author- ity of Chriat, and of the New ‘Tostamont as the authontio thought standard, snd as tho last, and ouly, aud perfeot, revelation of the way of mal- vatlon, Keconid—-Our religlon includes what 4 com- monly callod experimeutal piaty. It} nothing it there Lo not in it B sensa of personal ao- countability, not merely to_an abstract standard, but also to God Himself, It includes love, grat- itude, and trust fowards God. 1 includes what is vnr{ Justly called commuuion with Qod, ¢ fel- lowshlp with God," hopo lu God, sorrow 1 God, Joy intiod, as though God weres (riand, w holper, and s judgo. Woe antsgonize all ntusls, an all uuy;umu of othles, not in thewselves, for fu them- volvoa thoy buve their valus, but s they sso brought forward {o takethe plsco of & porsous) recoucilintion wilh (od through Jesus Ohrist, a persanal faith by the Redesmer aud tha futer- l,lny of lifo currents which are sot in motion by Uo percelved faets of umtural gor- ruption, redemption by gracs, and the dally gudause of God. Wo do mob uu- doratand that morality, or culture, or civilization, conatitute religlon in tho Ohristian sonso of that word. Lhird—Our velfylon includes tho Idoa of tho truth. Tho *Churoh ts tho pillar nud ground of tha truth,” (ustead of negation aud dobist) thore Is somsthing which {4 ontled * the truth,” luatead of w suries of uu\mmum which may be hold or surroudorod at will, ustesd of chapter after chapter of Loly mmbiguities which msy most much or litkle, sowetuiug or uothuugg, th Now ‘Festament !:mwnu a syatom oalled distinciivoly Ohristiauity, —which i ueibor Paganivm uor trauscendontalivw, nor eclecticiain, WLtk is ta bo builb up smong the opinlous of wou, aud (o bo diserimiuated from, sud de- foruled ugatuss, 4ho wigduin of this world, which l‘lul declarcs * know uot Gol” And the Church s to promote the extension of {(his systom of lruth,—by jts musions, by is4 preachs iug, by its eywbols and discipliue, aud, aboveal, by bearing witnesa to the pawor ot tha Croes of m.fluv.,—mu postar of God iu justitying the wn- godls. Lourth—Aa lwmmnnl Christinnity [neludes por- rounl rosponeibility to tiod, and as It inclides n groat gelt-world of vast dimensions (nto which neithor o friend or priest cau entor ouly as rnosts, and into which can cono hy Tright nono hut God — and ourdelves, it mist nalo nelddo liberty,—ilborty in thonght, betief, and life. Jiat "tia liborty in suhjeet to baw, aid becomes roliglous libertinism sehen Ik undertakes to bo 4 law usto Isolf, A Christian han s Lord and. Master, Jesus Clicint. Othorwieo, o may bo a Jow, n pagan, a philoso- phier, and an amlablo and excailont citizen, but ho i ot o Christinn. A Clhiristisn, then, haw Livo things to regard, —Chrint'a words and Christ's househioll. ‘The worda he into ho subject to in hin opnions, the hourchold hois to_serve, ne- corditig to tha lmw of his Master. Duarlug bis Master's name, lio 8 guilts of bad faith in ninin- tnining viers and opinions conttary to tho teach~ fig of his Maxter. A metaber of Chrinl's great hounehiold, ho is aleo aubject to the Ifmitationn withiont which no Uheel ean estat. Bippo<o the Chureh to bo ministored by yery lniperfoct on —which §4n fact—tho limtationd, ba they do- fined moro or less righily, remnin, tho Clinreh bave 8o moch worth in hig eyea that ho clafing ita fellonslip, then, by the ramo meaanurs that ho claima st hs yvield obedience. If, on tho othier il its Fellowshilp ba storth so littte that be does not elaini it, then bo s in part fres, and at the pamo timo forfelts any conslderation ho might otherivian ¢lann from the organlzed housohold of faith, rscentlon iun ctime, And tho rigld comstrnction of artieles or rules s both an intellectnal and & mordl blun- dar. Less crindunl, bub not o grain woro son- wible, B tho pomfion of thowe who deny all responmbillity, and ctaun all privilega: who ara .rnuk to atriko, and who became snartyrs b tho tiess blow Dback, though 1t bo with “only tho 1lat of tho sword; who sneor at & Chureh, its creod, its minmatry, and wake awd sleep with a wense of injury, becanso tho Cluech which they nujura will wot give them tho preatigo thoy need in deatroving Its credit iu tho opinlons of thelr fellow-men, Fifth—0on's Kingdom 18 a wido Kingdom. The oleet aro not knows by ribbous or shibbo- letly, but by tho place Qod és King, and Saviar, atd friond, tiolds in the heart, 'I'ha thousands who, kop:t out of tho Cliurch, navertholoss pray, and trust, sud lope, and whoss Dhbio atabds to tuom for Dialinp, and Chureh, and tomple. mnke up the preat throng which no man ean snmbor. ‘Their lives miensure tho area of tho trne King- dum ol God, —— MEMORIAL SERVICE AT UNITY CHURCH. SEMION DY THE REY, NOBERT COLLYEN AL Unity Church yesterday morning the Rov. Rovert Coltyer proachod s memorial sermon, baving roference to the recent deceaso of threo fomalw patishionars, to whoss virtuce and Chtls- tinn ebaractor ho pald a fitting and cloquent trib- ute. Tho toxt was a8 follows: ‘Hlu calloth to mo out of Selr, Watchman, what of the B entetimad safd, The morulng comoth, aud also :x;;umm.;m; if yo will luquize, inquro yu; return, In opening, Mr. Collver said that life and denth wight be compared to day aud night, the passngo from lifa to death being in effoct tha transition from day to the night of human ex- jstonce. As peoplo pass throngh the day until darkness approaches, by shich all things aro obacured, so do thoy go through Nifo unti! tho nbadow of death falls upon (hem, whoso miystory no human thought can penetrate. Thoy are as helpless, as far a8 n koowledgo of death is concerned, os are the creatures that fly from sun to sun and know no moro of yesterday than they do cf to-morrow. Yet it is woll to 100k into this mystory aud And out alt that it is pouniblo to dlscoyer, becanso all peoplo kuow that the night must bo theire also at some time, 'Tlo dear [ttspds, the Lone of their bona and the Hlesh of their flesl, who gladdened thom with their cheory presence aud thoir ald loviug amilo, g0 forth ono oy ono 88 did s friend of the spua! ord, who bada bim good-day ona pleanant worn- ing, and tho next day wan nod scon, and only ngain whon tho breath of lifo had possed nway and tho Iamiliar form was borna to ita 1ast reat- = ivg plage. Thoro {a no oscape from tho finnl loave-taking of this world, snd o thinking upon tuin subjook oo in lost i tuo mystories which sarround tho tomb. Dutas s child sorrows for it abseut mother, 8o thoy nor- row for thoso who aro gono, 'Tuore romaina forever n sense of incomplotonews, oven aftor the first busst of griel is aver, Little wander tuat, whero there ty no flight which can save from tho all-roaching arm of death, cven tho greatest minds have shnddorod at tho thouglt of ity approach, Htout-heartod William lo- garth, whon once asked what would Lo tho nu- turo of s noxt picture, replied, **'Cho end of all things,” and lus promise was (ulflled in ane of the moat vivid and tuirible of his paintings. And how strangs is tho picture of Johuson wnfiv fug down Floct strast aud whispering I don't want to die}” It is a8 natural to cling tolife ay it is to livo, Though one savs nothing to anybody else on the subject, nud though one la_ appatntly the most earoless and indifferont of en, yot tharo aro timen when he would stap the irresistible whool of oxistouce, and sacrifica overything for life. 1t is of 1o use while ouo is in this mood to call doath dobt of naturo, forit I8 somothing that Be don't want to pay, and would avold it by ov- ery means in his powor. Yot all atrifo is in vain, and the best that can be done, nlter all, ls to submit quiotly to tho inavitablo, and to trust to s brighyor lifo in tho world to come. Aconrding to Cgu goneral ides, tho woul will nevor dio. Catching at this bope, things may be lofz to take their coursa. Surmiso is of 1o uke, boing but o ropetition of tho old symbol of o sorpont in which tho beginning torments the ond. Reofornng to thie fsct that as peoplo approach death they lose their former drond, the spoaker #aid that during the past sumwmer be was Atand ing on thesca-shioro ono day towards oveoing, aud juquirad of 8 friond why thorn was no light from o noighboring lighthouss; to which was voplied, Wait till the sun goes down.” Ho thoy watched, while the shadows of the cli longthouad soa- ward, until tho laat ray of suushine disappoared, when immodiately a bright light flashod from the tower, aud illuminated land avd sea. Ho it in tlat Just nu tho ray of life is expiring thora ploamy & wood ligght of Liopo snd poacs upon the feartul soul. Unity Church bad lost out of ita membeyship, during the pastor's absonco, throo bighly- extoomed ladiod, tio of thewn belng mothors of Iittlo childron, and the third & veritable mothor in Tsrael, ‘Lhe tarmor were fu the bloomof life, and tho Inttor bad soen more than throo-score and ton years, Mrs. Aunie Thomna, whon gho cawo ioto tho chiurch, waa a woman of dolicate cunstitution, who might, on that ground, bove excusod hor- solt from sotive eorvicp, Hut her dosire to Lo dolng something for others was ber pro-emivent characteristio. Sho was alwoys a zealons workor. Desidon that, sho posscssed o rarely-educated mind, and her wit and readinoss to sgo luto difficult quostious was romarkablo. Bho was radical, without knowing it, Locauso shie aliyays thought that tho trush could eare for itsolf. Bho lod 8 lifo of poace, and fu her fast days of sicknosd was over t\mmul( bow to spara her frionds and attendanta any {roublo on her account, Aund whou doath avertook hor at last, ahe dopartod peacefully, and was Jaid to rest bo- sido her child, Mre. Waod was known and loved of sil, Dur- foy tho War sho was esrnost inhor efforts to provide for tha soldiers, aud all will romopmbor with what a wide molhor\y fovling slo took in wholo rogimonts snd oared for them uncoasiugly. A widow of 40 yoars, she exbibited all tho vor- fect and puro’ grace uf American womaunhood. Hhe liked to oall kersalt an old-schiool Unitarian; ‘bus, in reality, sho belonged to tho heart of the deuomiustion, ‘Tho lsst timo the spoaker kaw ler hie noted a mist Injhor eyes, whickiscomed to him to deuotoa dissolution of the tabarnaclo. Bho pusned away obeorfully, like a noble Chris- tian womau, Mary Bitovendon, tho laat to come to the churohy, was thu luwt ouo that bad loft 16, Bhe was an oxawplo of quivtocss sud rost, 'Thoso who know her trusted ner as thov did the utars, Cowiug from apother order ubie sat_down at tho Cowmiinion table with uo trace of diusatisfao- tion or regrat, Ilor views were wido aud oatho- Jie. Bhe diud fu the fuith, trustiug in God, and wiowing uo tromor or failing iu wpielt, Whon slbo know thero was uo hope of - iug, whe did not dospalr. In her last moments she kissod ker cluldren uud wept over them and blewsod thom, Kho alvo sunt affoctionaty remombranced and kind f(are- wolls to ber youug frieuds lu the city, and then hier light wont down, The spoaker lud lhouqht £t to talk of thig questlon of lifo and death, having in mind theso stancod of departed (riouds. Bhould not their Lope u tho Lour of deuth Lo exmmnples to all listenors that Bunday morning, sud whou it camo thelr turn to eutor the dark archway thoy might o0 with happy vision tho bright world beyond, et ety THE NEW RECTOR OF ST. JAMES. TUE. NEY. B, 6, HARRL, "Tho Ttov. 8. 8. Harris, tho uewly-chouen Heotor of tho Church of Hi, Jumes, Eplecopal. proachod for the #iret timo lu thbe leoture-room of tho oditico, coruer of Huron and Cass wiroots, yeu- tosday wo rolng, - Mr, Harrls s quite » young man, with hoavy dnrk hair and monstacho of tha rama color, And of dragoon-like llerconess, His faco in rathor handsome, and bis flgure decidedly cotmmand. g, ‘the pgentlemnn iw also girted with a vory Nno voice, althongh aa n pulpit apenker ho doea not use it with good iudgmnnk, a fact to o mucls regrottod. Mr. Tarrin apponre o bo rathor frouh na an arator, and bis chiof drawback wonld appear to o not lack of talont, but lack of practico. When animated hin stylo iw monolononsy and when ealm it in rather pathotio, 1o by evidontly in it tho germ of an orator—his talent running in the direction of verbal rodundancy, whilo o overspreads lis disconrio with o many flowera that the pith of the moral {8 come plotely hiddon. Mr. Harein Ia poatieal in his idean, nnd his oxpression of theso idons smacis not a littla of the fclool hvperholionl. - Notwish- standing, the audience appeard to relish tho young pastor, who showed enthusiasm, ani had the moral courago to cschew that now almost universal custow,—a manuseript sormot, I w really refresbiig to feo n miniator of tho Goapel el np to his work in the good, old oxtemporo Tashton, Mr. Iarris chorn_for his text. the 3d versosot the firat chapter of Paul to tho Cotlnthians, 1o epoko long upon the aubjeet, and declared hin Intention of Inbortng hard 1o tho flold to whizh ho has Dheon ealled, ” Dindng the progrees of his diseonteo, Mr, Harris made some gracetul allu- #ioun to lin predecessors, and prodicied grent thines for 8t James’ Churel in the Hituro, anunonuead that the eliureh proper wouid b for tho tirnt memorinl sorvico Mondny ovenitgg, SCRIPTURE EXERCISES IN SCHOOL, LUnInmAs " Gty nd IR VIEWS, To the Lilitor of The Chieagn 1 ribune : Cuteano, Oct. 2,—Tho articlo in Tur Tninoxe of to-day, alguod ** T, Q,," protesting nzainst the netion of tho Board of Education fn discontint- ing Herintute exercisoa tu tho public kehools, fs 20 full of crroncoun statoments that I eannot forbear callfug attontion to thom. Seldom is tho apectacla presentod of ro many orrors strang on o hort a string an his screod displays. It dom- onstrates what profound ignoranca a man may display who has licen educated undor religlons nuypiros, or rather unddr o systdin of education which oxcludes from the subject thoreof all light or knowledge at varianco with the relilous thourios of biy educatora, 1am willing to concodo great worth to largo portions of tho Dibio, but when o writer layn such oxalted claima to 1t na this ono does I ean- not refrain from challenging thom na unfounded in fact. 1Hiy ssrertions that I cnticiso aro as followu: First="Christlans of ovory namo claim tho Biblo A thelr book.” Mistaken, for tho Catholle Cbristisns do not claim the Dible whieh is rerd in tho echools ne theit book nor acknowledgo it at all an eacred. Second—"Tho 200 Protestant Churches bu this city rogard it as tho only konrca of morals.” Homo may. but £ know of many that lold to no xuch thing. Third—* It is tha book from which the found- crs of this Ropublle obtalucd their idea of frea institutions," Lalks in toto. Such meon as Thomas Jeflor- ron, Tom T'aino, and Beujamin Franklin wero prominent a8 toundors of this Goverument, and tho Biblo wns one of the Inst places whats thoy Ioaked for thelr idens. Tho idea of freo iustitu- tious, too, {8 not contained in tho Bible. The Iible teaches obedionco to Kinga. i l~'1r,urlln—“1t lios at the foundation of common . Another stapendons mistake. It has no more realiy to do with tho common Inw, 8o far as foundatlon I8 concorned, than it has with the Baenco o1 geometry. In fact, it has nothiug to do with it in any way. Fifth—»Wo aro indobted to it for all correct notions of statuto law." Wuk anytbing over moro absurd ? There ia Lardly an'idea of statute Jusv, in eithor the Old or New Tostnmont, that conld bo utilized In our modern titnos in application to existiug soclety. From the O!d Testomont the idens would bo oo barbarous and cruel, and frum the Now Testament too mild and impracticable, Sixth—*"1t is _from the Diblo alono that we bave loarned the Goldon Ruls, to do uuro oth- era na wo wonld that thoy sbould do to ua." Not so, by any mavner of moans. ‘That prin- ciplo is alnoat 08 old ae tho race, It wan known thousands of years boforo the New Tostamont was written, It 1 not now In the Bible. Seventh—** Tt iy tho book of all others most noodod in guarding na from crime.” For that mlrgmm 1 prefor thio ponal statuton of tho Stote, and I guoss **'I', G." would, too, aftor ho had mado an experimental trinl of the power of each separatoly, If tho Bible can guard ua from crimo, it is n pity that our legialatons have not loug ago found it out. Eiylith—" Drunkennoss, adnltory, Habbath- bronking, lying, stealing, wurder, and all othor crimes run riot whero the Biblo {a not lonored.” 'I'ho facts will not support this assortion. Mo~ hanimednn nations are treo from drunkenness, oud bear a botter record than most Christian na-~ tions iu rogerd to tho other vices and critnos ouumernted. In fact, in tuis very uation, distinguished a8 L 18 for mon and women of lofty 'virtus, there &rc prob- ably more lion, thelts, burglarios, ncia of sdultory, and diabolical tmnrdors perpetratod in o singlo month than could ba hoard of in any civilized Malommodan or Buddbist nation of tho somo population in an entiro yoar, Ninth—*No uation ever made sny attainmont in public morals without it.” don't kuow wbat ho moans by * public moral.” No uation, perhaps, has mado any very exalted attatnmont i woraly with or without it, No Christisn nation bins over yot produccd, how- over, & goneration where its public men ne & clasa wonuld boar ony comparison in their honesly, patriotism, and porsonal purity, with tho pulic mon of Rome in ber best estata,” Thore s hardly » heathon natlon, Bufi or prosent, whose public men have not been, or are. lesn izivun to robbing tho pooplo, than aro tho pub- io men of this Dible-reading Unitod Hiates of Amorica, Tenth— It dovelaps Intollect as woll as moral aetivitiea,” I dony ft. It binds uwa to tho past, and quonches thonsbit and inquity, Eleventh—* 1t 18 the friend of the common peoplo, nnd formidable only to tyrants,” On tho contrary, it always was thoe bulwark of monarchy, from ‘which its dofenders drow ** tho divine right of Kinga.” 1t wuas tho great de- fondor of slavery in this land. Ilad it vot boon for its uso, by tho ehurchoy, in upholding tuat funtitution s publioc opinion would bave buen’ crented that would have overthrown Amerlcan lavery n quarter of o century beforo It did, And that, too, probably, withoue bloodshod, T'reelfTh—** It Is the conservator of poeaco and fiond-\vlll, and has done mora to inatruot and nnmle"mnukmu than all other books put to- gothor.! Whilo the facta aro that almost sll tho wars of Europs up to tho eightconth century havo grown out of divorso views of the teachings of tha Bible, The most bittcr porsecutions, the mont criel masvacred. the most flondiels troat- ment of innocout human boings that tho world has evor witnessod, oxtonding over many cen- turles of history, liavo sprung directly from faith fu ity dicts aa inspired and infalliblo, At this proscut moment thore (s more estrango- maent among wen fa this land who would natural- ly bo friends, moro hatrod and bitternews of lioart oxtaut among poople wuscoptible of the kindest omotions, sll owing to tho way they uudorstand thls book, than thero Is from all other sourcos whatover, If it fs a book that promotes poaco and good will, pray show us one that nroduces thucard. Htil), 1 like the Ihble for the good that isin jt, and I belieyo that thore is virluo enough 1n tho human heart, when oultivated, to sppropriate that good and rojeot tho evil. T'hat sehaol- childron can do it T very much doubt, Huch kiud of talk, howaver, as this of 4T, Q." msy do for Bunday-schools, bit not fur tho columoi of such a paper as 'fire Tuisune, which ars perused by thoe futslligenco of the West. Hupiunas, iy A PLEA FOR PERSECUTION. HOW IT 18 MLOPUSED TO TREAT HPANISH FROT- ESTANTS, ‘Tus London Times of Hopt. 18 has the follow- ing vditorial digcussing the recond protost of tho Papal Nuncio agatust that clause in the draught of tho unew Hpanish Consiitution whioch extouda o mild degres of toloration to non-Catholles : Deliglous toleration bes bocama so, miich of » com- monplice {n Lhese days Lind it fa retreshing fo resd & dowuright plea for persocution Lk ihat which was glven lnoue Larla corrcepondeiice of yorterday, aud on which tue Badrid Cebluet will dullbersta fo-day, The Vapal Nuuclo of thad ity 4 detortined to shuw Aust biv Church 1 not 1bo rueex suffores which fs sud 10 bo Ly bor prolatcs lu thiv country; that ske acoray ta bo content withi the fals feld ald o favor which fortus the whola krouud of Gardiual Manningy wod. cut doiagud, Bbo, claliog sugremacy and Wo suppriss slon of all olbor cres | R shu A e the aud {498 ready ss over wity Jead to the worst practices of tho Iuguisition, draughit of & now Coustitution for Hpain thero i & clauss which would give Protestauts aud olbier ro- lgiuun bodive vutelde the Hotaan Catbulls Oturch » satld toluretion, Thoy would ot Lo lnterfercd wiik ou hecount of thele ecliglous oplulgns, bupin the sure clee of Iialr worahlp, unless they should wlock 2 hristian piorality.l ‘Tola phrase s sq very clalley Ape u Bpaly, b mepu b5 iile tndea Lr' the Court: Rappenod " Lo bo Vehos wently Ulizanontane, and 16 Is furthior stteuusted by the prohibition ot all eetemontes and pubife manlfertations other than thoen of ihia Btats religlou, Thoa the EProtestanta — of Msdrit might bn forbidden t0 opch 8 chiureh fu any publio mmntier, ot evan, peelinps, to i chuteh i1 any peculiardy prominent Im-mnu, amit they would certatnly not bo allawea tr il In’ the Jvie £y of atroct-pronching, Religioun foleration ¢ wild Rarchts T tnfidar, bl it b riuaed the fra of 1l Pa- pat Nunelo, and hn miakes 3 protost 14 tho name of tie law, The Coneordat of 1431, i points pnl, distinetly wliten that e Loman Catholie reiglon whilf, - to lio excling Of ceops other crond,” be © thn fls raliglih of the Bpaninh nation, " and ahiall bemainbaitied 4 with all tho rightn and prerogativos which & onght {0 pos. neta pecutdiing to the Taw of God il tho claucn of tho Moly Canonn™ Hnchi a pledga tuight hinvo satiefiend Forqueniaida imnclf, Anobier clauise of tho Concordnt atates that “all Inslruction i publie or prdvata kehuols Ahall Lo fu conformity with e Cathio- lie faith,"" A tLird n all-tmportant, for 1t arma the Churel with the powes of tio civil arm by providing thiat tho Dixopa whall have * tha help of thio secular Dower overy tima (hat thioy ehall lisve elther 10 op tha mallignity of meh who try b pervort. 1ho rouls af corrnpt tho morals of the Ladthlul or to afop 1o priht. iy Tutsoutusfon, i tireulatin of bad and portrt= e ookn,™ Whaf moro coulid (o foreost of Inquivi- tora bavo wanted In the worst timea of horeey 7 I & misgiided Eoglish Protestant senl about enrrupling tho peoplo by the disteibittion of Priteatant 1iblen, 3 0 newspap £ apread calioiles sgatint. the cuurch, ar 3t n Wokeeder exposed for fale any vole smen of Voltaire or Ttewu, the Bshop of tio fnfertod aistriet coulil ¢all npon the nearest muglstrato ta fend him tho afid of & potlcemn s, and (e peatliouco woulit amped ol fortlwits, " Tho theory vian perfect, and thero ean be 10 doutit it If Bpali sliond grant evens tho minnlieat measurn of foleration shio will Lavo broken her pledge to tho Papacy, 11 wa look b tie matter frun the Nuncle's point of vlew, his arqumenta nro wunavorable, Hin Churelt and ilie Pupo nro aliko fnfadibio 1t L+'an certaln that tho least 10ta of ligr doctring in abmolutely tewo as that theft and mutder ore Dresches f tha moral daw. TC fiiess oficuses aro heinote, nuieh more 80 i the win of bereny, beeanre it blighte tho lmmortnl prospects of milkona, and houes € theft oF mirder should o pnt down with fira and_awari, sutieh mora ought Peoteatantinm, Thern ta ot flaw it remoule f wo grant tho prowaca, and it ol atlow as atnplo & conunation of o maswacra of St. iartholotiow ok of tho Xidnapping of a single by Mortata, Of cauran, 1 naked loklo of sh infalithio theology fa kopt out of aight by tho Ioman Cathollo prelated of one own country, i thoy proseh_ingtead beautiful prafses of rellgous toleration, Cardinal Man. ning reems to Lold that it wan Invented bya member of hiv own Communion, Lord Bultimore, Clever men, lfko the Englind_Blshops of tho Catolic Canreh, catl, of course, easlly yrovida exiisen for tho apparent In- con fsloncy of tho Papal Nnuuclo at Madrid, They oy nay thal, since Spninis eecntialiy o Catholio conutey, rofestunlinm must bo kout away from ita eliores, hocating it distutbs tho publie peaco, bt that tha miho_rigor waitld bo out of tho questlon i En- glatd, whero the pulilo. peae Lian already beon o nantch'distnebed by hereay that it fs past praying for at present, Tus mesnlug of thin tuoury lu thot Roman Catholiolam preaches toloration whore {t s woak and practices permecution whoro it fa strong, Tho frank, bohd, ferocfous Jutoleranco of Mon- welyenr fimeoni [aa_confesslon of thls fact, Noria it ditficult 10 mnke allowano3 for the Indignation with which o Nutelo scos tho Catholis Miulsters of o Catholic King attempting to_push tho most Catliolic of coutrion julo tho paths of 3 rollglons fmpartiality which wanlil lond straight to tlie land. Hpain lad 8. wl 10 bo lant stronghold of the l’npncfi. When France aud Austris were na good a4 Inat to the Vatican, Spain Lad still much of tho he ologleal fervor which nerved the orm of the Inquinl- tion,* Tier country peaplo wero stfil ns plous na thoy wero ignorant, and frrovcrenco Waa con- fined to e towue. ' ller universities wers morte like thosa of tho Midalo Ages f{n spirit than any ofhor in Europo, and’ iho Conrt had the hotor of helug at oucotho least decorous and tha most devout In the wholo world, Whon sich waa the Ktato of Bpain only a few years ago, tlio Papacy munt bo profoundly maved Ly the work of ‘the last fow yenrs, which Lave grestly helped to sliaks the remain- ing powur uf the Church, and which now ihreatens to destroy ta puproinacy, it 1 pocullarly bitler for tho Itector of sn_Englinh parish to ado an Independent chapel set up within a atone’s throw of hin own cliurcl, sud b often dircots very atrong langusgo in- deod agaiust tho futrudars ; but a hundrea Umes more Intensa tust be the anger with whick the Cathollo authorltfea of Spain view tha proposal to legalize Protostant mesting-houses and Proestant sermona in cities whicls thy Bovrbon Kings had kept {reo from tho pestllence of beresy, The Papal party have beon ustng all their mighe to pull tho poor young King over to their side. Tho Vat- Ican has tuken eare to keep on good terms with him na awell b wits Do Corlos; and & Jeautt journal, which 18 beliovod to apeak in ity name, has givon him'a hint of the price which niut ba pald for o support of ihe Yope, When §b boyged Don Carlos to Iay down his pru now that Ring Alfonso was no loas Cathollc than himaelf, 1t intimafed that the young monsrch might fafu the support of the Carlints themselves if o wouldl ouly act I tho apirit of his orthodox mothor. Tho offer must bo mm“ungw 4 youth who ia told by puwerful advisors that ho could glve rest to tho country by calming the fears of Lis Catholis sub- Jects, “The duty and the policy of intolerance will, no doubt, be nlso advocated st the Cablnet Cotncil to- day, Neverthelcss, tho Ministers will commit a grave, perhiaps a fatal, orror {f they atiould nllow themuclves to b0 cowod by ‘tL.e throats of the Nunclo. They Lave a right to dismisa_ the plea that Bpain mado a speciilo compact of {ntolorance with the Vatican in 1881, for it in preposterou to_snppose that Spaln muat still deny ber Protestaut cltizeus religious toleration merely Decouso it was withheld from them more than n goneration ago by a Guverument which Laa sinco that thme Leon overthrown. 'There must be sorua end o tho reign of criminal folly, Nor would King Alfouno gain_as much as ho would loso Dy the refusul to tolerate any ottier religlon than tho Xoman Cathollo falth. A" vousideruble number of adherenta, 1o doubt, would flock to_him imniediately after nuch a_doclaratinn, and among_them would bo most of tho clorgy, Diut & general election i at hand aud then tho King muat reckon with Lo Liberals and the moderato Consorvatives 28 wel) s with the Clerical party. T adviscra might reasonably toll him that the bigotry of Spain fa a lonsening force, and that the intorferonce of the priests In- political muattera is regarded with growing jealonsy. Evon an the coun- try districts thero 18 @ disponltion to jeavo hercsy nlone, instesd of koeping ¢ down in the vld orthu- dox fashilon, Most of the towns have fung off the sovereiguty of tho Church, and regard Protostant- {sm with undiaguised paticnoe, 1f mot™ good will, It thioy alone were to bo conanlled, they would grant o much lees Jimited toloration thas that which has frightonod tho Papal Nunclo, Moreover, the tendoucy of tho whola country is towards ruligions freedom, atl that beut will beconio moro marked overy year, Kinj Alfonso would thus bind himself to a vanishing past § liv were to ho aa intolerunt as his mother. 1t is very doubtful whether any fairly-electod Parllsment woulil nceopt even for & timo auch a Couatitutlon as would ratfefy tho Papal Nuuclo, and ifit wore o ho passed a would vnly give new force to the rovolutionary agita« o, ——— ST, BEECHER AND THE NONCON- FORMISTS." THY, ' BATUNDAY NEVIEW " DECLARES ITSELF. Tho last numbor of the Saturday Hevivwe hos the following articls rolativo Lo tho recont action of cortnin Nonconformist membora concorning Atr, Boechor : Tho rocent dadication of the City Templsto the worship of that strango ldol Mr, Besclier bas supplicid a siguificant_eommentary on the {uaidions invitation §ust bufore sdreased 10 clorgymon of tho Ohtrcl of Eugland to fuentify themsolves with the institution, 1t 14 unpleanant to djucover that thero is in any patt of our communily & aympatlietlo weakneea for thoo pe- culinr tanets which havo borne their untural frutt. in tho scaudal ut Drooklyn, It fs sumo comfort, howovor, to observe that reapartiblo Nonconformists ate, a8 8 body, Dby 1o moans disposed to ‘submit quictly to the humiliating {mputation which bas bects cust upon them by Dr, Porker and Lis frionds, For the irap which was cunningly lakd for the unsuspecting cougregation of the City Templo, whon a vote of confidonce in Mr, Heecher was sud- dunly lot fly {n their nuno, Dr, Parker maay bavo beon alonu responeible, Bt the meoting next day, ab which il more aickly and fulsomo rorclution wus put a8 if on belialf of Nonconformist miniatére gaue crally, naturally tnvolved mors werious consequencos to the character of the whols budy; nud it fs not ur- prhml( that this audacious assumption of suthority should bave produced a commotion whiich has not yet subsided. Thero was at onca an iniignant vepudia- tion from all parts of ihe country, and (hia hss been folluwod up by continued proterts fu the denom- inationsl organs, and o serios of denunclatory pam- yihlets, soma of which have reached. ik, Tho llno of dofonse which haa boen takon by soms of the chief ollenders {a certainly rathor an extraordinary ono for, apart from the maln cherge agalnst B, Boocher, on which thoy sro, of course, ke other peoplo, en- titlad to thelt owil oplnton, they esgerly seck (G ex- tentiato and Justify tho peotliar ~practices which fond to confirm thio wnspicions agsinst Lim, and which, in sny case, ihaw Liow litle Lin- parsonl conduc and 3 ts wore 1 Accordatica with (o mobriety and do- corumn demandea in his fon, Dr, laleigh, for Instance, sdmitting that tl lave boen ** peculiari- tioa "—=ho * will even add impropriotiea "—in Alr. Ticecher's behayior, does not seo why on thia account o whould niob be approacked with aympatliy by thoso who bellove (hat he has, *with completo Suczoes, sbown bimuelf inpocont of tise heavier clsrgs.” Thig assumption, which also pervados the rosolutlon pasxod by Dr, ftalbigh and his assoclates, that iho oherye agatnst br, Boccliur Lins boen sonipletely dispraved, s of course s tlagrant parversion of tho notorlous fact that the jury could mot sgres on & verdict of ace quittal; and not ® word of censure or ad- monition i biuted s o the daugorous cone sequencos to otbers of bo examplo of Mr. Loocher's * peculiaritiea. 1t L cxtrencly unfortun tliat sny controyersy ou (his tusavopy wubisct buve spread to our ahoros 3 but, s this has happen- e, {t s mocesstry Lt suf wisteprosoulation of s Pasitive facis of tha cave should be exposed, Tha theory of the defeuso ab the Lrial wae that Mr, oockior was led by his sccusers inlo & serics of discus- slons or megotiations which he imagined to havo no Teloreuca Lo abylhing more serious than sn Imputation of undue luterferouce un hi parl 1u the aifaire of tho “Tjtau family, wbich was supposed $0 hava had the offect of producing an estrangement betweou (be Liusbund sud wifes and (Lat the graver chary upon Lim afterwards as s compiete surpri glear, owsver, | Lk 6F must t avo known 'the gravily of the charge after tho 20tk Decetbor, 1870, when THion.® foiow iug up ba formal demund on the %ith fo bi pastor Lo reslgu his oftice aud quit Brookiyu, showe icochier bis wife's wriiten coufosaion, which Doocher perstiaded Mrw, ‘Tutou uest day to retract out of conpsaion, as sbo saud, for bis misery, *Yeb from that dhuy down 30 the middlo of lasb year we find Beaclier in close aud obsequious sitendance on Tillon sud Moultou. IHe hus plunty of herd words for himaei, grosus wnd tears, and’ plasdiugs fur meroy, but nok @ word sgaiust Lfs scouvors, e does nol'siempt to deny suytling, inskes uo proparation for & defendo or tor ihe punlalimont of his culminstors, but trics to coax aud wheodle, auil touch tholr hearts by hin woeplug snd despair, The dsy sfter coumand at Moultou's houss 10 weet Tillon, thol l it fs s prayor-mieeting nlfln& and he bas in bul“o rangeusats for & aulstitule, e expresscs no cundition of En. | Lo gets Mes, Tilton's retraction, ke busbly sttends b; 1 Indignation at (he naturn of the xeenaatinng o Bitn, bt merely complaiin—this ta his own ey ~that #an unfalr ndvantage han been faken of I pretting Sra, Vit ‘weanfoexdon 3 il when fens wan ot i eda (o vt Un New Years day (Surday) lho ottier of eonteition ® in written, in w +hnmblen Iimeelt 1 futo Theadara Tilton na 1, Qo™ snd boys forgisenesa; or, he adnite, ey wordafo Ihat eifect. On Fob,' 7 o sends n whin, fng lotter to Mouiton beaging ot & reennciliation with ‘Tilton, whono ‘' niobloneas * e extolks sl by serdten to M, Tilton begaing lier o trust fmplicriy fo Monlta, * wuoso hatnl ted up the storm that sy Feady to bueat upon our heada.” On tho 2th May 1 ghes to Tliton's house, and tiey fall oo ©an taey anid unbniainess. itke vhat,” Brechrr slting on Tiiton'y knea #to make Hha appeal closer,? and, when Slee, CTiltah comes n, the theee kisalug ang fondiing ol round,” Farly In 1872t cliee repeats A0 OCE BN had beforo mads fo sy down and aut " if his * destroction ™ would ratisgy Tilton s but feats it woutd mako a * elonded futiirg % for Tilton's familys At tho Leginning of the next yeur is * pulloring tho tormoata of the damned,n i on 4 Lo atiarl and rapged edge of anory, o, toar, amd despade,” And mo 1L gocs on friy tho Lirt (lay of 18:0 dows fo well on {0 N4, Doveley 1% continually ng, eringing, ami wup ro Moutton aul Tillon, and besserblng meery aw o piveness, tn October, 1878, a privale Cominitten of VPiymouth Chnteh rimminhed Tilton A chiargo of slandering e pastor. M, Bradebiaw had §u 1970 heard Tilton accitno Becaher of adullery, and, as the report aproid, in the antumn of 1R whia felt Boutid 10 ank Teechor whetlick thn % awfy) atory » was truo, Flo ndvised hee not to luterfere, ag Do had snude 1t 8l up with Tillon, E¥en wlien dy, fronod with "Lliton before tho fribunial, It said o liag 1o charge ngaluat bim e eversthing hod boen # amiey. bly ailjasted, nud, as far on Lo wan cohgetied, hutlud.2 Tn 187, lhowever, Toechor began o climgo hig tone of n whippéd hound, and became st fng_ and dofants but this Al not buppen witt T, ton'a peeret Lnd becomo publie projierty through the newsiabers, Down 0 about thia timn ther Ll breh throughout the wholo of the correapomdenca ang 1alln n taclt nesimption that Deccher was a grent enlprit, sl tho Tiituns bis victhan, and yeb it wax ey il after thres years had rnnml on 1his footiug thag o veutured to turn pon hia accuscrs, 1t fa Aificult to Aee ow puch a_ suceosslon of facty cnn bear any bt one Interpretation 3 but, even apir from tho actual charge, thoru 14 sumethisig singnlarly Gtragoa 11 asrertmg hnt. thte exBIDIIAN of Brocks. i 1 or's pastoral # poctituition "—=lls lovee froedom in kindng and olher endearments{ hin foail on plilandering with & weak woman: g slimy eycoplnucy nud abject crouching to peopile wio accuerd him of u shocking crimo; Lig bypocritical mubservioncy aven to sich & ouo s ol Mew, Morae, Mrs, Tilton's mothier, who wrote: “ Do you know, when T ear of youe cracking yont jokey from Bitndsy to Bunday, and (hink of the misery yoq hove brought upoh s, I thiuk with the Pralmist *Thers is 1o God ' 77§ and his hiatriona efruntery i the witncss-box, agaith cracking Jokes oven on sacred snbjects, a8 §n the deacription of Alts, Monlton as 4 alica of tib day of Judgment "—thiat ail this s o en. tiroly favorablo {o tho Chriatlan character of our Louored brother” Even if Mr. Boocher aij not ellp himeelf, ko gavo 8vil encourage. nient by hts ozamplo to ftry n slippery iescent, Tl terms on which, before the scandal broks out, he lived {n Tilton's louss as Lis *second lome” a anco tho confessor and ciclaveo of kis wife, Tartufe altriost to tho lotter :—' AL I pour etes devot, e n'ot suis pua moins homme ™ though perhaps the “feu dincret ¥ hordly applies, Hore is mome of D, Parker’s fngehioua argument on (hin point from 4 Ietter {n tho Chrfrtian lorld, 36 arguce that sllow. ance munt bo made for “ groat giite,'* which # would séem to provoke great temptations,? ¥ When thers s high mensitivences of maturs, when eversihiog I8 looked, st fthrough & moral tather thay a logleal medium, ‘wheft sympathy jg and unsuspecting, the probability Intgo ek thero will be many temytatons unfelt by men of anothor mold." 1t ia, thorefore, tnfalr, in bis opia. fon, to sot ono man sgainst another when 80 much do. petida upon ciroumatsnces which are rather o bo felt tinn axplained, This lsst tonch ia au exquisito ona, Dr, Parkor goea on to argue (hat breachers who make “ the pulses tinglo with a 1ife mysterious and mighty 88 etaruity " ars ot to be fudged by ordlusry men it they indulgo in any © pectliaritles 3 and bo wiids up by the astounding sancrtion thal * every Engliah min- ister with whom he i acquaintod 18 o decp sympsthy witu Mr, Doecher,—n noble man,— aud when he domes fo Englana they wil tell him somothiog of thelr great love.” It in ot ve Hkoly tht Mr. Doceher will oy us s honot, bk, De docs, we fancy he will discover from lis recopifon that thie sort of “large and unauspecting sympsthy * which ho typifies, and which Dr, Parker apparently wialica to sce widely cultivated in’ domestic cirelcs fn England, 1 not oxactly to the taste of s race vid farh. ioned cuough to prefer ordinary decency snd a morsle ity that lnrmdmt in keeping cloar of wanton temptas tions, Tt (s \me that tho Congregational Union tonk rome definito ‘Enlm atop to exanerate itzcll from any connaction with this poisonous propagauza, —_— A Tond and Mousec Fighte Richmond Dispatch Letter, 1t in my oustom during tho summor months ta visit the Muguenot sulphur spring evory aven. ing and morning. Having arrived at tho befors nsmed place about 6 o'clock p. m, on the 2d of Soptember., I drank and took my seat on tho ms- #oury thst incloses tho spring. ~ In the two most southwestorn corners of this {nclosuro, which is an octagon, aro two holes, esoh about 8 inchea in clrcumforence. Aftor eitting » short timo a shrew-mouss mado la appearanco in front of tho holo nean st to mo, sooming to bo oarnoutly in search of somothing. After encircling 1ts throshold fora short timo it proceeded around tho wall. Prese ently, to my great surpriso, I hoard a scroam, and on laoking up porceived that it had ane counterad a larga toad. At firat tho shrew soemed unwilling to wmeke an attsck, and re wurned n short distanco ; but at this time, sa it its coursge was ronowed, it rotracod iis ulops, and leaping ovor tho tond soized it by oue of its thind logs. Tho toad msdo no show of fight, but. striving to ee- cape, put forth those pltiful woroams that would have moved tho lioart of any ona to lfa rea cue but of ane whose curioalty was uot yot sat- isfled. Whon the shrew liad wearled its prey tho former uudertoolk to carry tho latter into tho noarest holo; but this was lmpossible, o8 tho shrow bad cut the eavity in the wall to fit itself aud not the toad, which wat larger sround by ¢wo inchios. Whon goy- eral unsuccesstul attompts had boen made to carry the tond into this dining-room, tho lst- tor succoeded in getting freo, but Wes soon zocapturad and taken baok to uodergo tha samo trostmout, {ho shrew no doubt thinking it au (nflationist, and that it had awollon itscl to provent belu;f carriad through the throshold cutranco; but tho poor toad was nccused wrongs fully; it no doubt needad all tha air it could draw in, but unfortunstely for the ehrow the topd's framo was too large. I'inding it impos eiblo to ncoomplish its purpose at this corger, tbe ahrow draggod itw préy (which by this time soomed to have givon up sli Liopes of edoape) to the pest holo, sud laying it near the en- tranco ron qalekly ta sud fro soven! timow, a4 if senking = placo to pub it, 'fho sbrow now commenced again the task to tako a toad that mcnsurcd G inches around Into a Liolo that was only 3 inches in cirs camforence ; but this being of 1o avail it seomed 88 it to say, © To take aupper ia mr dining-room this ovening {s impossible, 8o I will anjovit the best I can ont {u 1ho cool poret.’ An for It gnawed off and deveured ono of the hind logn o?lhn living toad, whon I st tho latter froa to speud tho romainder of it lifo with only throo logs, During the wholo of tuls ecuflls whioh lasted about half an hour, tho toad soreamed mont pitifully. Cntohiug Frogs. A corresnondont of tho Troy Press wriles from Castleton, Itenwsclacr County, thus: “I was out driviug on Saturday, aud a fow miles from here fouud two mon in & swamp by the side of tho road, who seomed to bo crazy, to judse from their movomenta, I watched then (rom the carrioge somo time, and finally made up 0y mind thoy wore lishing, but hovw thoy could fid water enough to fish in [eould not imagibe. Fiustly I callad out to thom, *\What ase you do- ing there?' ‘Oomo nud peo,' oue of iheod shouted back, T iteliod my borso, and picked my way ovor the hogs to them. ‘Lhey were catehing frogs. Thoy would atriko them with cluba whore they could roach thom, bub the most of thom thoy caught with a wire ‘gnaro.’ Thoy had b large baskotful,—more han 100 pounds, they astd, &ud 1 guess they to! the truth. Oue of them emd Lo mndufi o doal of money catohlng fruge for the New ior markot, o ald that, in one mouth last seaso L cnnfihl 1,600 pounds of drensod frogs, fat which kie gat 80 conts a pound, makiug $130 fo his month'a work, vof the tima Lie bad $%0 Loys to holp bim, Last woek, near Hudson, I:l &aid Lo caught upwards of d o 500 pounds, an thom for 3160, or an average of 83 ccuts 8 pound. Thoso staries seemod to mo hmomm; and yot ho assured mo it was truth Hecl closr” 43 conts s pound, ho says, easily. : seomed to me an honest man, and from the n‘fic with which they caught tho trogs 1 we te 1 beliove that ho bad uob stretched tho b much, if at all.” —_———— EBabyta Weight. A doctor of France hiao luventod s machios by mesns of which aa over-aunxious mothier _m-‘{’ assure Lersslf from dl{} tu day, or even ln'l hour to hour, that the baby is doing tau sllnv_' torily as regarda iin increase of weight, l: r:t" sints of an ordinary crsdlo, to suit lhu__l Wil fittod with & balance underneatu which will lm tho exact welght of the oradle aud it mulnlu . withiout any necd of disturblug tho chitl. ‘:’;‘ eaid that aflor two comylota days of lifo 8 cbi s woigha 4 ouncea less than at bicih. \Vhrnm- weolk qld, 1§ will be the samo welght b bir b From seven dsyw to five mouths the AVeTHS incroaso should be throe-quartors of sn mn;)\l° dally. At 5 wonths tho weight should be doul that at bigth. At 16 mouths tho wnl‘(M_flh{Wu Lo double that at 8 moaths, course, 1o I‘: i vary from time to time, and cach individus arale of ita own} tt' great point is that grow ouglt to be conatan!