Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1875, Page 1

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Iy Jullan Hawihiorne, The One Rose, By Kate Catliale, Hoterophemy: Thia World's Blunder. By Richard Grant White Driftwood, Dy Philp Quilibet. Beientific Miacellany. Qurront Lataratui-e, Nebulw. By the Lditor. PRICE, 353 CTS. A NUMBER. Bubsaription Price, 84 por yoar, INOILUDING POSTAGE. SEND F'OR PROBPECTUS, SHELDON & CO., . New York U0ICE- BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR MONEY. e 108 ALE—Much below is tntriosle valoe—A fne Mliing located om the most prominent thoroughtare bty GEO, H. ROZET, - 102 Washington-t, MISCELLANEOUS, A oA s 25 A A A 2 A S AR AR A AN AR iantral Park Drive, Nn"- ill be & mesting of tho members of the Crn- Bk Dilving Aavocistion at Owaley's 1, bor- hhm a2 flote) on Mondsy Evexing, h\l.m:m. Itis earnestly bopsd that sll mem- ¥ill bo pressus and giva direction aa Lo iia friture weat, (d0ODRIOH, Fresidnnt, -~ e — = BASE BALL e uifordy * DISSOLUTION. N Cilngog oy iy Loate we Muriford, Phlsdelphiss | e copartnerabipof John M, Wright & Co, ta thia ooy g7 M Philtadelpbla, duy dussofved by Hinitaton, SOLA 181 and 100" Dearboriat, at11a. 1., JOitN M, WRIGRT, HENLY J, WALLINGFORD, 'EAN NAVIGATIO = Oct.10, 1075, OALEB A DAY, teamships, COPARTNERSHIP. fud s “The undersigued have this day formed a conuection, J0RK 10 QUEENSTOWN AND LIV £8POOL. | unilce (ha firss name of Johin 31, Wright & Gou 1 tha i 471 tons..... baturday, Oct. 33, st 1p.m. | wholosale tew Lrude, at 68 and 80 South Watert.. Clife il b o Bacuedan oty atay: i | Cagor JOMN M. WHIGILT, ULikip, e BAumay; Nov. i, at8 . ck. 7, 1875, GEORGE TAYLOR, Bin Gaion, "ot 0RO ST o a0, : AU Lawi = e, Der, 5):& “:y‘j' "k‘: 'fiOPARTNIuIQSlIIP. 4 or.” Meturndick: | Articles of copartnership having this day beon sgreed s 43 aurreasy. | gyon “betwoen Qoorge. L \ehite and Frod ¥, Adamr, TLARSON, buth of Chicayo, they wili hereater uo & general hard- A hiotiie naw | wood lumber business under tbe firm ta uoof Usorge E. White & Co., 84 tlo old stand, 90 Norih Bsugamone 57 | s, where they will be ploautd to uwa their old ous- tomers and fricuds, sa heretofore, 3 Yarda 142 to 143’ North Sangamonat, ; alao the block, Lounded "Ly Baugumo, Morgan, Carrul, s uziestu, o Cntaand, Ot 3, 1678, GEQ, E, WHIT! Establisbiod 1838, YUED, T, ADANS, UNDERTAKE4S' GOODS, * 3 nse s s e S R Sariions pai fecitittisind | QRNAMENTAL WORK xitiut fusre curks. iokianis ron FRs i unlwa, N. Y. -U- i t ] re'nz Waestern Steamship Line. I.I. er a el‘s, m.:y;;;;-;w e In Silver ond Gold, Largest Vari " Baruda, 3 3 ool o S Gk 3 rely CRANE, BREED & CO., 633-715 West Elahtbeet., Claclanah, 0, .- Peasago, §10: Tiineras 4b: Bloar ™ s a0, $1 SRR T A e hicago Duilp Teibune. CHICAGQO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1875. THE CHURCH. Letter from Dr, Thomas in Defense of His Chi- cago Career. 5 Rationalism and (he Resurrection ---Sermon by the Rev. N. F. Ralin, i{cply to Bishop Haven’s Let- ter on Methodist and Episcopal Union. ‘Wesley's Feelings Toward the Church of England--- His Ordination as Bishop. Necessity for Union and How It Can Be Accom- plished. The New Pastors of First and Centenary Churches. " The Record of Maj, Cole and Family in England. Curious Doctrines Promulgated by the Bishop of Quebec. DR, THOMAS' DEFENSE OF HIS VIEWS, A DEVIEW OF HIS WORK IN OIICAGO. To the Editer of The Chicaco Tribune: Crtcaco. Oct. 16.—Gladly srould T bavo es- caped the unplessant votoriety with which my name Las boon sesociated of late, My health and strength were aliondy taxod to their uumozt endurance with the cara and [abors incident to my position, without having the sdded woight and avxioty of all this new excitoment. All tus past year I quiotly worked on in my appointed place, retusing avertures to go to other Confer- ences, and nos so wuch as lfting my band o . iufluonce my appointmeas st the approsching Confercnco, which has just closed, trusung wholly to the wisdom and fidelity of tho Presiding Elder under whove cars and oversight I bad boen placed. And Iwould not mow in any way bring the matter agsin before tho public, bat for the simple fact that I have just learned from sn nnquestionahle source the roal caueo why Elder Jutliny was oawilling tbat I shontd romain in the city, or go to any responsibla place upon Lis District. Eldor Jutkins tatcd these’ ressons to u woll- known gentlomau whose word is above sus- 1dcion, but whose name need not now be given. Thoy were, firat, that my return to the oity would be au wdoroment of my past record hers, which ho contd not do; sud, secondly, that he was uawitling to yiold to the publie desiro and domacd that I should be returncd. Kunowing these facts, 1 eaunot. with any scuse of bonor or seif-rospect, remasin silent. Aad, tirst, a8 to tho indorsement of my public record in thiscity. Is bes oxtended ovor six yonrs,— throe st Park Avonue and three ab the ‘First Church. During my ttay at Park Avesue the church and parsonage wora repaired, an organ placed in tho church and pald for, the congroga- tion steadily increasod, aud its spiritoal work prospered. 1 stood by the church durtag the yoar of the great fire, aud left it united and poaceful, aud in eovery way strooger then I found it "And it con- tinued so until near the cloro of the year after I loft it. That it uas sinco had miefor- tonoa is surely no fault of mive, nor was it in my power to prevent thom, Whon I went to tho First Cburch a fter the firo they were in z littlo board building on Harrisou street; sftor sumoe months we went into the lecture-room of tho block, and doally into tho large audience-room. Daring the three years the church has enjoyed profound pcace, its prayor snd class meotings hnvo beeu well suatsined, thoro has beou a gaod spiritual work, all tbe collections Lase been taken, and the usages of Blethodism conformed 10, and from less than & hundred the congrege- tion has increased to ono of the Jargest In tho city, and all of this without a solitary dwollivg- Liouse within balf a mileof tho church, Bo much for my record in Chuich work, I peed nct refer to the history of somo othor Methodist churches lu the city. But I have been coonected with some public interosts. What of my **record" In thess? I inaued & call, and was associated with a pumber of owi- nent gentlemen in tuo tormation of u FPhilo- pbical Bociety. Whateverhas beon tho history aod the work of thie Boctoty—and thero bavo Leon things about its management that I have desply togtetted—the desigu of ite fauudara was an honest effort -lo bring together the ablest thinkers, and Lo promote tho public i{ood by dis- cusring queatlons of mors), natursl, soclal, and wieoulative philosopby, snd thio eveuts of cur- ront history. I bad nevor dreamed that it could ba the cause of oifense that s Metbodist minis- ter thaula be accounted worthy of even tha humblent plsce among philosophors, st the lLiead of whom stood tho lawented Dr. Haveu, whose works are s'audaids in our bost uni. vewhifoa Atter the doath of that eminent scholar, tho Boziety urged me to take bis pluoe. ‘Phsr only fear wus that, sa thers hud teew wowe diciealon over the wark of the Hoclety, such & relation might possibly wvolye mo in ditticalty witt tha Church. L felt it due to tho honor of my denomination to state that, if such wote thelr foats, tuey wholly wistook tha qaus of Metbodism, I fifled the place as best I could for s year. Itisonly juac toeay thet, although tor & timo the Hodiaty et in the chuich, aud tho whole coutraversy tagad about us, it ia no way disturbed or affected ths peaco ur proaperity of tue chureh, Lagreed with four oth er clergymen, repro- seuting differont Evangelioal cuurches, to Lelp odit tho Adiance for & year, None of us had avy capital in tho paper, sad our work was whiolly geatuitous. Wa hupod that suchi s pub- Neauon might do somotbing towsrdy biriugiug the sovers! Christian churcues ueater tagathec in feeliug, and that its circulaton in the city sud howle would do good, lho Alhiance onca_woll started, we all but ove rotired fioin Ats editurial cuntrol last aprivg, 1 aw Dot awar that soy of my associates lost favor with their churches bocauss of their relatiou ta that work. I preached on the tomperauce cause, and my sermon was publsued. I msy now say, what I pever before d, eltber m puvbho or privato, thst before delivering that discoursa I had a converusiion with Elder Jutkine and that bis views, ax I un- derutaod them, on the logal snd social question of wins aud beer, wera substantially, if ot pro- cinsly, in socotd with my awn, Iu the cantra- vessy tuat followed 1 ‘might bave quoted his natne n wy own support, but I preferred, 1f any ono miust sufor, to sufer ulove, 10 the couveisation referred to above, Elder Jutkins utsled, ws another object:on to tbat I associated 400 touch with men of the world, and went 80 far 2810 -;Pdu that I aasocisted with Mr. Wilkie, of the Timas. Mr. Wilkio waa 1y oeighbar for thies years, and 1 osteem him Yery hflhly ué » frioud, s gentloman, and & acholer, and a very ablo writer, Ihavs heen in bis room posmbly three times—not more—in the Jast year, and thon but for a fow mononts. Dut il objection las, of comme, a wider applica- tion than to this indlvidusl care, and 1 am fren to confasa that for years I Lave fejt an Intense longing to resch the ontside world and hring them to the peaca and hopo in Christ that flled my onn beart. Theso feahngs, and the friendsliips of my naturs, have impslied mu to m0vo out amang the man of the world, And. having known sometving of tho mtrug- plew of doubt, I havo folt duep sympathy with mien whoro probation seema to lio along that poth. Instead of standing off and censuring theao men, T hiave gone to tham in Jovo and con~ fidence, and rome of them havo coms to no and wept in my etudv o tho past year. I feol it to bho my duty, aud itia tha outgotng of mv beart, tomeck Ehose whio aro outside. 1 have gono among rich mnd r, to garrets aud celiars, among the outcast and the fallen. Yor threo montha last winter I dia not spend an ovenin, at homo with my family. and found time to at. tona bt one publio locture. 1 setdom reachod home befors 11 o'clock at night, and theses ven- ingw weto not speut I attending parties, but in some form of religious work. I went to the billisrd-halls and ealoons with my church notices, and they always troated mo with kindness and respect. f believe 1 hava vinited more | cor peopls and alck people, and buried more dead, 1u tho lask five years than any Methodiat minister in Chicago, I have guno Dight snd day, sick or well, in 8)l theso Nelds, not countiog ever my life dear. But I defy any oua to say that I bave gone impropeily swmong thene poople. About eight yearsago, with some frienda visiting Wood's Maosvum, 1 #aw ono littio play,— Tho Ticket-of-Loave-3an, "—aod, asido from that, I never wasin alimy lifo in o theatre or opers o¢_minstrel performaace. I havo beon in Now York and other places whora 1 nught bava gono by tho week withont obsersation, but did not. hora are inauy of these plays that 1 ehould like to see, huc if I cannot go at bome and undisguisod without hurting somo one's conscionca, 1 will not go at all. 1 vevor danced jumy hfo; 1 do not know one cmd froni another, I am accounted liberal. I am. I am in substantial sympathy with Msthodisy theology. and all my heart and judgmont ors with 1t teachings and Iabora for regencration and holiness of leart and life. 1 belleve tho great thing is to get the world converted to God, aud to renoh this 1 readily yield any htule point of doubt nrpmlqdlcl #o that the groat aim is compassed. T have s warm fellowship of heurt with those aven from whom 1 differ in theorr, have always folt, and still faal, that there must, sumong thinking mon, be 8 measuro of personal liberty. Wo ro not all con- sutitied ailke ; we cannot sco thinga in just the same light, and itis utterly uasless to try to Lllmn every ono into the ssme groove. Mep ave hold, and do bold, Giforent views ou many pointy, even in Metbodiat theologr, and yet aro doing good work fg_the Church. To mc person- ally, whilat I have nhat scems to mysclf pratty well-defined views on most questions, religiou is moro & Iife than a theory, and I feul thit tho roul may enter iuto this lifo from different standpoibte of beliof. To me thio lite l8 the preat thine. snd whilst I ingist npon what I thiok ls sound doetrine, thore mus: be more than a moro accontanco of his 1o save men. And I have uaually found that nowhere does the puvo faith find 2o ready a home aud 50 Burc » growth a8 in the puro bueart. 1 presched the funeral of Mr. Coon. I etood in the hotel with a hundred or more men whom I bad never seen, and who bad probably not been tn & cburch for years. Istcod beeido the dead comrade, and eald nnd did what I felt was right. 1 would say and dotho ssms thingaagein undor similar circamsiauces. Tho Bavior of the world wan blamed by the sclf-righteous Phari- sees for toveiving sinners. Iam wiling in thia 1o suffor with my God. My appointment to Ada Street ws defeated on tho gronnd that T was 1 some way cogziected with the Brown and Dandy tronble. I had noth- ing at all to_do with tne upposition of the Ada street peoplo to Daudy’s appintmont to that church, nud, sfter his appomiment, I hel not tho ehigbtoat knowledge, or even suspicion, of the chaureh trials that ouxued till I read of them In tho dally papers. 1 never went near tho trial, I never was In the Aaa Stroot pulpit, aud do not koow a dozen of 13 memnbers. The only sdvico I ovar gava was i1 tho Jast trial. I felt that the whole tig was nut only hutiog Meth- odism, but relizion. and 1 sald” to Brown that theto could be no good in Highting this matier longer, and advised bim 1o withdraw from the conteat sud let it take its course. Had ho not dono this it would cortainly have been carried over into this Couforence yoar, aud would have rosulted m still greater haym. Two vaams ago, when I prenchea Mr. Coon's funcral, and was moving 1u the mattor of the Philgsopbical Bocicty, Dr. Dandy, my Elder, ail unkoown to me, took thess matiera iuto the wectecy of tho Cabinet sx Mendota, avd_sought to romove mo from the First Church, and might Liave succoeded but far the uoanimous roquest of mny ofiicial Board that I be rotaived, aod for the timely and irin friendship of Drs. Hitel- cock, Fowler, Wuling. and others. 1t now neems that Eldor Juikius iuberited the susplcions of Dandy, and haa alt the timo bold mo svd my work in'doubt. But ho bas never once in tho Iast two yoars infimuted to mo (uat Lo did pot approve my course, Wiy did he not, ua & man, n brother, und 1oy superior 1 olice, come and admobish mo of My onors, Aud advise nie 28 to the propier courso £ purane? Aa tothse other objection, that ho was unwill- ing to yield to tho public demuud that I should Lo returned to the city, it in pertinent to ask, What was the origin of this doniand ? Tho pul lio neoms to have wsuspecied that the Elder ju- torded to remove me. Ha had rofused his con- sent to wy appointnrant to Censeuary, and had said that, ** with his present convictions, be could not recommend mo to any important work.” lumy innocouce, I was the last to su pect atich a foulivg;on his part, and was loath to bolievo it whea 1t was stated in my own ofiicisl Bontd tho weok before the Conference, I had dechized to givo auny informativu to the pross on tue subject, and had no kuowledgo of i appoarauco 1n print till 1 saw the papors ou tho first morning of the Conference. 1 then atated to a reportor that I supposed It grow out of tho Coun fuveral and the Philosophical Society, 1t 18 0ot strunge that & gonerous public amoug whom 1 havo luborad Lo long should reseu: suy such attempt to vixit npon nio an injustice, and a0 open, though sectetly cantrived, rebuke. The 186u1 18 now fairly betara the ,-nhhm Elder Jut- Lims, actiog for the Methodist Church of Ci cengo, rofusos to lndorka my record here, and a i:w” mo unsafe to take auy responsible wor ut | do not snd cauno: believe t in this El dar Jutkins represents the feelioga sud views of great body of iotelligent Me.hoaists of Chi- I uave labored for eix years, and spokeu in puo- lic vot less thun wix hundred dwes,—aud many of my sermous have bsen pablished,— foel thus, thon it {3 wrong that I bo permitied 10 ko olsewhoro to teach aud labor, Sows are Just a8 precious and truth juss as dear in ‘Aurora as in Chicsgo, Elder Jutiios (s report. ed to huve said that he thoughi ki unsafy to reccommend me to Evanaton to preach to tho etudents of n grest University and Diblical- scool. Dr. Fowler, the Prosident of the Uni- vera.ty, and Dis. Bavister, Raymond, Jowell, snd Davis and Aemcuwav, kuow my life aud ceachipgs, sud I koow that wost. if not ail, of them (avored my appoiutmeut there. lIn tho wame published intervisw, Brother Jutkins Aays ho ‘*Epows of no man that has a finer chanca to muke & good recurd than I have at Aurora.” ‘hat fs wurely very kind, Iut, then, he hms forgotten thai I Lave back of = mo a record of ninoteen yearn in _the Metuodist mlnluu{. Four “yoars 1 Towa the lameuted Dr, Powern was my Fider, aud the lusg thres ye: ! his lite the veneisbdie Dr, Ellict sat aluwost every Habbath uuder niy min- fstry, sud neittior of thess great men over bronthed a Buspicion of iy Joyalty or soundnaus, It rotsined for Lrs, Daudy and Juikins to do thas, 1€ all theso hard yoars' work are to go for uothing, snd 1 must bow be sent out L0 begin unow, or if all tnis past law been wrong, it in vory generoud it Urotor Ju.kiue to give e ono moie chance. 1 beliove’ that tho Mothodist Church fs the grostest BInGINR, Draying, woiking, wpiritual powor on eart I love s peoplo sud lia work, and sbarl gladly give the reqainder of my lite 1o tho service of God undor it ageacios, if permit- ted to do 80; but, if auytbing, 1 wust be mvol, aud stand with an opai heart and su unfottered tonguo before the poople {u the house of Uud. Cireat houosty and franknecs aro noaded in the pulyit of our times, and strungtl and courage in musting the far-roachivg wsues of thought that sre upon us. [ shall coutioue to do what I ean ta hol l. thoughifal winds and honest dunbters, ud weil a3 wll otliers, to the truth thut aaves tha soul from sin. Aud I sm vasily mors concorued how 1 sball suswer to God, than for the opiulous of weu. Conscious of 1wy lovalty to God, svd the truth, and tho Chaich of my choice, I pro- paue to etay uot ouly in the Methodiet army, but u the Rock River Conference, and ight the battle out on this line. I am going choarfully and Joyslly to my sppoiotment at Aurora. should Lave ~been thers bofore this hour but for the burden — that bas presscd mo down snd rendored me unshla to go. 1expoct to staud befors my now audisoce noxt Sunday. It is not the going that Lag troubled.mo, but the manner of going—tho uopleasnt facts back of the going. Tho oflice of Presiding Elder {a the Melfimlhl. Church 188 very rerponaible ano. Tho Dislups &ro not ex- piected to know much_of the local wants of the chrcin ven the Elilers {row otler districts know but littlo ontaida of thoir own fieids, Aud thus it ia that one man han largoly in his bands tuo destiny and work of menuv others, If Lo rermxt birgkell to be mfluouced by partisan feel- nga or prejudice, Le mas do groat injustice. believa” Drothor Jutkima to be a good mon in bis way, but Lo las wholly misno- doratood my ~ motives and _my work, and hay removed me f1om nhint I hunestly bo- lieva to be tho field of my greatest influence aad usefulness. I have nover mought en appoint. ment. I stood resdy fo taks tho hest or tho ponrest in the city. I am wulng o take thn pooreat circuit in the Couferenco if in honehty and fairness it should be thonght best. LutI am not willing to ho banished through s misun- derstanding or false projudice. And thus, with charity to all, T bave raid what was in my heart, and now leave my life and wori in_tho handa of God. 1. W, Titodnas. e RATIONALISM VS. THE RESURRECTION. WERMON DY THE BEY. N, F. BAVLIK. ‘The Rev, N. F. Ravhin preached a dizconrse on 4bo aubject of “ Rationalivm versus the Resur- rection of Christ” yesterday foraoooa, st the Gospel Temple, corner of Twelfth and Clinton streets, takiug for his toxt thesa words: Tieware, leat any man apoil you theough philosophy, sud vain deceit, after the tradition of e, after the endumenta af e world, sud not atter Clhrbit.—Coliws- oane,if.: 8, Ratlonaiistic philosopby, now, as ever of otd, stterupts to account for everything in the gov- orument of tho universe, in tho bistory of the world, aad iu moral ecienco and theology, upon purely natural priuciples. Tho Ides of the Hu- veruatural, or providential government of Grod [s uttely repudiated in thie school of philoso- phy. Tho Rationalist expatistes at longth upon upon ‘“‘matural, or fixed laws," aod gecond causes, by whick ail the varied phenomens of the universe &re explained, and by which overy- Ahing in governed, 10 the sbsolvie exclusion of Cod, as the evorywhere-present governing and contrulliug Power. That God, whom we sro told is the Creator and Presorver of all things, is baniabed to some remote solituao by tus lnexorable docree of these fixed and unalterablo laws, 8o a8 practically to haveno voice in the government of the upi- verse, no fereonal euporiutendence of its affairs, and 0o relativo, either iu purpose or will, to the wonderful sud otartling pbenomena that have marked the successivo epocus of the world's history. In effect, sccording to the logical con- sequonces of rationslistic philosophy, the Eter- ual wust be supposed to have astdicated His 1brone. and committed the retus of His universal rovernment to the control of these natural 1ams nod socond causes, ws though they wero indopondeut, self-actiog existences, enthroned and deitiod as the pereonal agents of the Creator in the government of s universs. Now it in obvious that thero be no law nnless there be first o Jew-giver: agditia oquclly obvious that # law, unless there be some power to enforce it, i null and void. Henco Jaws considered in the abatract are nothiog. God, aa Cscator of the Lonvens and the esrth, gave a doflnite constitntion to ull tiie varied objocts of Nature, and cotablished certain oatural laws by which thoso objocta should be governed and distin- guisbed from ench other. Ho created light, wator, and carth, and heat, each possessing propesties peculiar to itself ; ke also catablishied & marked distinotiou between the varioud specios of plauts, trecy, anicals, sod flahes, giviog to cach a Iaw of development aud propogstion pe- culiar to its kind. And thess properties given to thene diffeseut objacts of Nature not only dis- tipguish them one from the otnar, but constitute thom what they scverally are, But neitber thoss objects of Nabaro, nor the lawa govorning them, would have cither existenco or force weru it not for tho presence of the Creator and tha Law- giver. We caunot supposo the multiplied forms of Nature to be ncli-existent or self-creating, nor can wo suppose the laws ,governing in the natural world to be self-enforced. For, upen either supposition, the logical consequcnoes of onr rossoning would lead us into Panthofsm oo the one band, which dectarss that evorything i God, or into Atheism upon the otber, which sflirms that thers is no God. You must either mako these lawa living, indopendont existences, which would bo abaurd, or you must recognize s caueo convectad with them, and op- aruting through them, For iustance, in tho Jaws ot motiun. there i3 not ouly tho tule that regu- Iates 1ta movemeut, but also the force or power that propels the hody. Says a learned writer, +*Tho laws of nature ure the rules sccording to which effocts sre produced ; " but there myst bo s cause that operates through and in harmony with those ruies. For instance, thero aro rales of mechanics, or laws of motion and force, as ap- plied to macbines, but they nover coustructed a watch or built & steam-engive. Thero aro rules of nautical ecienco, but they never navigated s ship; thore are rules of architec. 1ure, bnt oy nover built s house; there are rules of agrculture, but thoy never tilled » flold ; 80 thero ure mathemarical rules, but they vever wolved & problem. * A law may b a rule of ac- tiou, but it is not action.” Douy, than, tho ever- liviog, ever-scting presence of God 1 the gov- ernniont of the univorse, and you must prooeed upon the hypothesis that a rule of actiom aod actiou itself are synonymous, that théy are one aud tuseparable; which would bring you back, Dy the irreaistiblo fores of logio upon tha posi- tion provionsly ststed, that lawa are in them- selves independeut poreonsl existonces. When yon admit & cai giving 1o the laws of uatore tweir direction, force, aud power, yon are logic- sliy bound to admit tho piovidentisl government ot Qod: or that Luere aro certain natural laws, rules, and rogulstions exiuting for the government of the universs, and that, ac- cordiugz 10 thooa rules, of by meaus of them. God admlalators His government, just as thero aro muntcipal, Sceto,-and uaticnal laws for tho government of citles, Statss, und uations,—esch exocutive, 10 bia respective department, sdiniu- 1steg the governmont according to and by mesna of fhose lawa, It woald be noaurd to Biubpoks that tho laws of & couniry could govern the country, or thst municipal riles conld sdwinis. tor government to the muunicipality. It were oquslly preposterous to assume thet Uod cannot or dves uot admiulster His providonuial dealings 0 perfect karmony with uatural laws and by menus of wecond csusen; sud it must also bo couroded that the intimte, omoipotent God, be ing tho only Law-giver in tha yatvorae, hus bo! tho right aud the power to s Feun the laws of Naturs whenever 1t may sorvo His purposs wo to do. . You dony Min either the right or the power to suspend, chauge, or ndt asido tho laws of nsture, and you hue the Avnsolnte and tho Inuuite. Nstural Iawa cannot bo violated ; moral obligasions way be, and are. Ye: Mr, Couct, in Lia “*Coustitation of Man," sssumes that *tho Lysical sud organio laws of Nature have tho esmo suthonity, and impows the same obligations, an do the moral laws of couscience and Revels t10on ™ ; uud **that tho breach of tho one is puu- irliable (u the same sonye as tha trausgression of tha othor.” Buav 1t must be obvious to the care- ful observer that where thero can beuo trarie gression of Jaw thero can be no peualty tncwired, and, consequently, no punishment administerod. ‘I'he moral law imposes su 1mverative obiigativu upion hie conneieuce ; bt the phyeical aud or- ganialawe of Nature impose uo obiigation whas- ever upon the couscionce. for thy simplo lesdson that they canuor bo vio- lated, wlilo thu morsl liws may be. Iu the caso of (he threw Hebrow worthios, fur iustaucn, & faw of Naturo was suspouded o ite operatiou, but not violated. It 15 kccordiug to natural law that tite should buro; i thia cass (iod suspended the operatiou uf that law, aud fire did wob burn. Thus the Jaws which beloag 40,108 oD s o 0 036 b w rogulale thelr pstural - other, are very distinguishable from the sules whicls the mind of man deduces for the regula- N NUMBER 5 tion of bis omm conduct? .5 seann of his o, histar: t i nomene of Nabura, A Ly sbmerved, 1t 16 | faws thal regniaied tho suceeesion of re burne, My Jmo to form & Jown condtet iu sure, and tlo Jaw eyents. Hiause says, ‘‘the endlesa cham of causation eannot bo broken, sod heuce a mir- acle 18 40 tmpossibity.” Not nnl{ ara the to 2 knowledge of that law S &° sute for the goveinment s 7S felation to thin elements” & < principal evouts aid phenomens of Rtovelaticn (l)l:’-‘tjnztlll;n‘lfl_olt. g: "!u g “'"rc,n \olkenl]\,mu which ate sbove ihe comprehenwion of m"mn( fis or tnfles, ot } be ot iy Band inta | or which canuot Lo otpislaod 1 barions wih ™y nowtodgn oy o UG ublv, which | atural_priocipion, bicinding the rosond of aii Bantion eeaBe e e, OF 5o | tho miractee, in both tho Ol and No Tawts- munts. set anids, Lot Rovalation iaelf &, by tha Buato process Of reandntg. Kot 3nuls alsy. 1y \f thero hiss over beon a revelstion from Gad to mat at all, 1t must Lava heon by A sttsornatursl § Procens; that is, & rovolntion of tho intuita ta tus fiaita ciiroly ontaido of the damain of nel- ucat Iaws or sccond causes. 1T tho l.blo, or auy potsion of it, is s revalstion from God in auv #onse, it wuch iu & sonse eatirely abova and independons of natural laws, and beyoad the compreliousion or underetanding of Lu- wan jeason. To demy | thbat tha Biblo 18 o rovelstiyn from God is ta as2ums 10 hnow anil fully comprehend tha 1oflnito and the abso.uto; to be in posscrsion of &1 the recrets, jlaus, ud purposes of the Lternal, and (o have peou inmuch possession dufing the various epochinin which tho navaral portiond ¢l thio Ycrijtures ara smd to have beon revented o men by tho Holy Glest: for npon auy other hypothesis thana fud sud coropiete- knowiedge of the Infinito God, buw ohsll it be Gotormined thst Lie did not thas raves! Ltassit? 1t roms0n 18 to sit in judgment aud arbitranly decido the qaestion of Terela.ion or Bo ravate- tiom, the logical consequences of its decisions must be foliowed to tho end. whatever the re- ault. It may not be conveuientto proceed be- ond the polut whoro reveiation is sel aside by the philosouby of the echool of ratiouallsm, Fiolsto uo law of Nature, 1 may bs sald to get in the way of that Iaw, and to feel the effenty of it, for tho simplo reason that I bave Lo power ¢ suspend its operations. We must not confui moral obligations with nataral lawe, bor mero buman rales of conduct fn relation to the hienomens of Nature, with tho moral statutes of tevalation. Dut, continuing my srgument, T would obserso that too phlosophy of rationalism not only doi- fl2g patural laws and second csusos by it8 dge- nial of tbe providentlsl governmont of (iod, but it slao virtusily excludes God from the crestion of the universe, God is sllowed to liava nopart abovo or beyoud the croation of mere ncbulots matter. Intho * Vestiges of the Nstural His- tor; of Creation" tho author assumes ibis Lypotlesie, that ** from tho uebulous matter of riace, which munt have been s tmveres! firo mist, the wholo syatom of worlds wss evoived o0 'the principie of pure pbyeical law.” It anawer 1o 1o quostion, whenco came this unitvei=al firo mist, and this vaat nebulous mat- ter of space. who crestod 1t? ‘Ihe suthor of o "\'ouufu" might anawer, God. Dat Lo~ sond that [fis power or control is not recog- nized. The Influite One in allowed to hava no pert 10 fsehioning this nobulous mstter into tho beautiful wo:lda apd syatomu with which the illizatablo_bLeavens aro wpaugled. ‘These vast | y, Y 3 ut the 200 magDificaut Aytomn of worlds oit WOrdS | bewpyo "y UEiCEL cousaqucnces of such € wpumersble, with the matchless grandeur of o sou relish it or not, io nan nabroken chan, through overy phase of infidelity, until Reason itscif {n hope'cusiv ensnarod by an iron networs of 1ts own meaniag. The gradation in natursl aud oasy from Rs- ther appointments, the parfect order of their Ariangoments, and the sbioluia and unvarsing barmony of thetr evolutious, ate iwmply tho architecture of natural laws and sncond causes. ‘LLore 15 no pound resson why God atiould o Tocopnized an tho Creatar of be pebuiois mov. | HOBslian to. Paothewa, from Paatholsm ter, aud tho umseisal fire must. and not | L0 Atbeism, ud from Atheism to Prrehon. be' recogpizod as . fambioning that matier | 12m, tho deep, dack prinon of Apccnlative daubt o™ e order: dpatorn Tand- lanmony | M logical ' dilemmas, from which neithor Wit which the " umivorse s e | Psrrbo nor bis follomers could extricato thom- selves, and for which be usod to unlertske any phidosophical justitication. Me clung with won- , | dertul tenaeity to the skoptical idsa, but which Lo wan able to develop into no svatem, and to whicn he cou:d im; ari no dofinite form. Always neckiog aiter truth, but never discovenngits slwayn couridericy, eXamivibg, and CADYARSIDR, Lus iever knowine it ; wanderiog ronod sod round u tho choerless dungoon ol spec- ulative doubt wud uucertalnty,” utterly go- sbio to pondirate the (Do | or seale the ~prodikious walls of logical ancnlties that cubfrout him at every tura. Here 8 tho barisl-placo of ul] rehyzion and re- higous idean confined within the limits of bsre 1e8.00, When you trace theim to their logical snd inevitable consequencee. Speculative donbt is, 80 t upeak. the Learso that convoya she dead body of reveled relizion ta i'6 gloomy 8epul- chre, with Reason, ownciated and onfcebled, a3 tho sohitary mouruer, Iguore Bevolation, deny the supornatursl, and bersus rationalism to ita logical results, and Lero in s nudefined, liapeless void, tais clinotic realm of unbroken night, when eveu Reanou's flickering tapor goes out, 18 whers you must land. No Uod, no Christ, no Revelation, no Holy Spirit, no_imwortslity; all gons; one. and only ong, dim licht et as yousit_down 1n thia cometers of buried roligions and systers of philosophical speculstions. Tarving your back upon the shiniog sun of & revealod God. son have followsd Reason's feoble ray down into this deop chiastn of cheerloss gloom and spocu- 1ative doubt only to find that Roason herself, with bhor feeblo touch, Is poworless to scatter tho outer datkoess with which yau Had youiselt oavelopad, or to conduct you whenco you came. When you futer God and Chrisisnity, Reason cannot “long wutvive. Verv likoly my Hational- istic friend will be loth to follow the logioal con- woquauces of lus reasuniug to such extreme lim- 1n undertakiug Lo account lor the phrnometa of tho untverse npon tho hypothen of pu nutural Isws and second ‘caures, thers la escave in tho logieal consequences of Kational- ism Irom the horiidle vortes of Ateolute Athe- ism. 1 Liad ratber.” uaid Bacon, ** believe all the fables 10 tho Legend. sod the Talmua, aud the Alcorpu, than that this noiversal frams in without a Slind.” Sound and philosopbical aro the following liuea from Thomson bLearing os the same point : But wandesing oft, with brute, tncanscious gaze, Man m3rks not Thiee, marka not tho miguty kand, That, ever busy, wheels the slicot upheres; Works (n the secrot denp ; aboots, streaming, thencs ‘Tue falr profusion that o'erapresds the spring : Flings from the sun direct tie faming diy Feuds every creature; Lurls the tempeat forth , ‘And, as ou eurth this grateful change resolve With transport touches all tho springs of life, The suthor of the ““Vestiges™ assumes that law formed the masses of space iuto guodly theatios of existence for plants avd suimals. But whst 19 laww the absence of & Law-giver or Govornor 7 i bave alreadv shown tho illogical conso- quences of supposing that laws are investod with aoy foros or power iolerent in themselvos, a8 though tboy were enshroned sa personal, con- scious, sod judependent deities, 1t has beon woll gaid that **tbe existence of law not moro truly presupposos tho law-giver, thau does tho Larmonious aud uniform operation of Jaw iadi- cate the presence snud control of tho Governor, It 14 & perversion of lunguage to assign auy lay a8 the ofiicient operativo cause of anv thing. A law presupposes oo agent ; for it is only tho mode necording to whica an ageot procoeds : it implics & power, for it 18 the urder according to which that powor acts. ~Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinctirom itsalf, the law ducs nothing. ia notbing," Prof. Okeu, ono of tue chief plulorophers of this school of Ratiovsblinm, declarca that | itd; and yet, the sawe law that wouid Justify him “uo orgsoism %, or over has been | in following reason to the oxclueion of tho su- creatod, whick i8 not microecopic,” | prruatural and the iofinite, wili compel him to Whatover is larger bus not boen creatod but. de- | travel tho whote lengta of tho road, whetber ba vely) Mao uas not beon crostea but dovel X According to tho Dible, * God ssid let ‘us aka maD iu onr imago, aiter our likeness ; #0 God crested man o his own image ; in the image of God created Ilo Lim." Iiationalism doutes this record, aud iowists that God created nothing but micrcecopic mouady, from whict 110 Wholo system of avimated DARULC, LY & pro- cess of matural developmeut rusning shrough mulions of sgos, has arisen. But not ouly 1y this theory opposcd to the Bible record, but to plan aud undeniabla facts iu scioncy aa well, tlugh Miiler, tho ominent goologist and autbor, waye: *Uploucertaln point i tho geologic scale we tind that the ganoids arovot; and when at lengty they make their reappearance relinhes tho journes or not, or whether he s dr- lightod with the clicerless courtry into which 1t leady him, or otiurwse. The recent asasult of Judze Baoth, the learnedt Latiouslist, of thin city, on the most stapencous event recorded in the bistorv of the Christian religion, is in perfect keeping with the phi ply of Rationaliam, sod in barmony with ita’ funjamental sxiom. that mirecios aru impossibie. All the cveuts sod phenomeus of revelation, which eaauot ba oxplained upon pitroly natural principles,—of which of courso tbe rosurroction of Christ i3 ono,—~must ba denied sud ket usido altogetuor a8 uever having oceurred. Tho mat drift of his argument, ad shown o tho aurfaco, is Lthe discropsucy or waut npun the stage thev entor, large in | of agreement on tho part of the witnesses their stature and ligh u thelr organi- | their testunony, not uvon the main event in sation.™ with tho fusal lora: | question, but upon the attendaut circumstancos “* At the base of the ald red sandstone, where, secording to this mousd theory, nathwng higher thav a lichen, or s moss, could bave been ox- pected. the ship-csrpenter might have Lopo- juliy taken ax ia and to oxplore the wooda for #ome such slately pino a3 the oue destribea by Milton.” Tbud I onght cite fact after fsc: from usological science that. whiln they shoutd sab- stantiate tho SBeriptural record, would anathilate the theory of ratioualistic’ plilukoply, tnat wocks to exclude (151 from BAVIGR auy provi- dential control over the world Ho mado, and peapied with the countiess ordors of animated existences. =R Ta moral philosophy rationalism finds itsel? at war with botls truth and fact, as illustrates m the history and experieuce of mankind., It seoks by n specis of philoscphy aud vaiu_ docoit to oxpunge the Beriptasal doctrine of the fall of wan, the extent of tho consoquonces of that fall, und the means of Lis restorsuon from it. It is neadlesa to say that it aska no sud from (iod, and places nu reliavce upou Clrist. 1t puys supremo deferonce to ex- tetnal eircumetances as intluenciug nuuman con- duct. Iis motto 18, ** Siady yourself, aod mind | by unimpeachsblo testimony, and by s larger external circumstances.” A" rational education | array of it than was ever produced to settle any is its anudoto for all moral itls. Humso nstuso Eum of legal conttovarsy amoug men in all tho is the voil and external circumstances the sun. | hirtory of civil or criminai jnsisprudonce. and the combined juflusnce of the two dovelop But'rationalistio philosopby has nothing to do the man aad decide his quality, Ita lessons of | with tho evideuces of a miracalous event. It philosophy, external circumstances the messos- | would make no difference if thore was not a siu- gors of fate, fook well 1o tnem. Euucate man ( glo disctopanoy i the Gospel narratives, aud if 1ight, and he wiil be right. Demoralization and | tue resurrection of Christ was confimed by an otime of overy grado aud spacies it sitribuses to | additionsl srray of ten thousand eye-witnssses, » faulty education, rather than to inbred or oat- | aud if, 1 addition to these, Pontius Pilste, ursl depravity. Circamstances have only (0 ho aphas, tho High DPriest, Horod, tho J, aud, as & natural capsequency, moa will be | Saubedtin of the Jews, and all the Beribes, good also. Pharisoes, and Eiders o! Jetusalem, had ap- No one will deny the force of circumstaocos, | pended their s#orn tostimony that they saw Him nor the existence Of very manv evils in the ar- | whom they had cruciled, toreo dsys aliorwarde, rangonieuta of kaclety, aud tbat there wonld ba | and duning the space of forty dave,in the streets much to mitigate present ills in a wore ganeral | of Jeorusalom, and heard Him peesch lo the diffusion of knowlsdge, Ut are we to suppass | Tomple, Iationahsw would be bound to rejoct LLiat there §s uo depravity iu the hearts ol men | the evidence by the stern and ivexarable logio that a proper education wonid not eadicato ? | of its fundamyotal axiom, ‘*That miracles are Do uufayorable circumatauows vimply lead astray | jmpossible,” 'Tus matier 0f evidenco ld not the wqure racoof bugs? Isscoriection of tho | question at all iu this argumauc of Hationalism ovils of sociaty all tuat 18 vecessary b0 redaco | versusthe Resurrection of Jesus Curiet trom tae warthy's scenes of confurion to thoas of order aud | dead. If His resurrootion canuot bo made to ap- Larmony7 Can-plilosopns. and vain decett, and | pear fu_harwouy with usturai principles and surroundiug thar ovear, Thors is a perfeot wuruimity among them all a8 to the factof tne resurrection of Christ: thiu the Judgo does not succenstully ovade. But ke seoks to impsach the tesumoay of the wituessss, becauso in the record of eircnmstances counected with the event, a4 recorded in the four Gospels, and as eivon by the Anostle Paul, there is an apparant discrepancy. Tucro is rveally no viial disagroe- weut. Whether 1t was quite dark or snvrise when the women wisiked the Bopuichre, aod_ whether thero wero two or & dozen in company, and whethor thers were two angels or one that informed thom of the Havior's resurrection, sod whether there wero ecleven or twelve Apostles, as etated by l'anl, to wbom Ho appeared at ous time, docs not ffect the truth or faleity of the event under considoratiou ono foia; neither doen it vitate the testimony of the wilnesses who have testi. fiod conceruing that oveut. That Josus Christ &id oot riew f1om tho doad is by no mesns sub- stantisted by tho argument now undor examina- tion, 'That He did rise from the dead, and that Ho was soen ahvo aftor His passlon, in proven oppoaitions of selence, awaly w0 called, anblhl- | phvaical laws, Ratlonsiso must eler Ias6 earth’s vicos, and dry up-the mighty rivers | deny the event, regardlusy of aevidence, of her blood, sid tho ever bubbling tountaius | or recedo from its buld position, aud of her teary? ls this wil that in oesded | acknowledge before tho world of mankind to canes that dav to dawn when | the uuplnlosophical nicire of ils system, the fa~ “awords, now reekiug With fratornal blood, | tahistio cendeucies of it« lojic, a8 well as tho cor- shail be beuten into plowsbares and | ruptsud vicions results of its ujcoulative theo- spears into pruuing-hoves 2” " Universal expe- nes. ‘There 1s bo ovuiouce of ROy superoatusal rienoe repudiates sho ides, An eminent wrlior ovent, however couvincing and overwhetming, Lias toicibly s3id, ** Such a svstem i au outrage | (uat Nativnalism wili vot hode:take to iguore tu the sober reason of inielligent beugy. aud it | and set . Tho wiost stupendous events in 18 88 unpuilosoplicat ud 1t 18 uugodly.™ Thoro is | the istory aro mado 1o fade away and » pauaiply withio that gives us puwer over ex- ternal circumd.ances, ~Oommuities sod judi- viduals, undar the most favorable circumstances, bave becoso corrupt, aud under tho moat uufa- voruble surrounditige men have rweu o the lughest posaible distlnotions of ennuence end virte, $uls nystom, taking up one ides simply, an winch tLore 18 miych truth, to the exclusion of muvy more ideus . 6qually: Lnpreguated with truth, ruos ite head agwlast & Bolid, adanntins vanish lize she wist before tho impioun assump- tions of its faise philusaphy. Star atier atar fados from the glorious galazy of Scriptura trath : o ater gew. sud pearl after pear), 18 tianpled undorfoor; the Godbead of Jesus Curint is severed from tis humanity ; ills wal theone 14 demolisbiod ; His righteous ucepter tuat sways the worids He mado 1slls poweriess fro.n hid grasp ; aud ile whom millious on mille ioos on mithoua bave worstiped for two thou- wall of stubborn facts, exteoniog tbrough sli { sand yoars aa tne living Christ snd pious, over the aansls of the worla’d Lustory, sud corrubora- | lastiug Kiog, 18 by this svatem remanaod to the tod by the nuvaiyng teaumony of ths Besipsures | dack confiues ot Jossph's ‘rocky xeave, snd of Livioe Tiuth, all the hopes thas have " besn buils Tuus far we have contemplated the philosd- | upon im are consigned to tuas same oheerless phy of ratloy; as manfesiwd ia phvaical | touch. Buch 1s Rauonslism, and suck the logical aud moral science. We coma now to noula e | couseiuences of ile specalative philosophy. appearsiice in the theology of the Bible. Barely there is nothing i all tha wido worl Bpiuoea, the great D'anibsisiio pinjosophor of | more irruional than Ravionalisa fiself. In its Germany, save, all that is recordod i tho | douial of the intiaite aud the supernatural Ra- books of Revelation tcos place in conlvimity | tioualisw contiunally leass ita votaries iuto 10~ with tho tha establistiod lans of tho universe. | exiricable didticulties, aud compels them to up- Therefors tbe Liole nidet Lu vxplaiued on purely | gartatie tho bopelsss task of wolving insolvable natural principles, end all zuporastural iuter- | probloma. A mere deulal of the indnite and tbo vositlons must be 1guored ; beuce sho axiomw lald | absolate of rovelstion, snd the usuperosiural down In the very Brat printipies of rativnalistio | phenoniona of the nistory of Christianisy, fatis Philosopby in i(8 interprewtion of Buiblical truth, | altogether in delivering from the logical dilem- % lhna?n a7e impoasible.” Toe fret misscle in | mas of the tion. Thass phsuomens remsin Christisnity was the advent or incaraation of the | spill nuexplained, and inexplicablo, by the phi- Monsiab. According (o Tationslam, tho Gospsl | loeophy of Batiodaham. Thioy strsich sl sloog