Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1875, Page 1

adhe hicovon dailp ribmne. VOLUME 20, . FINANGIAL: TEIR St fechants, Rarmers', & Mechanies Savings Bank, 75 OLARE-ST% CHICAGO. [NVESTMENT CERTIFICATES, Perfeet Sooacity—Liveral Interest, TADLE of Incrense of “Investment Certifie 11 gecured on hmproved real estate. beare tex Intereste payable in quarterly inataile mente, a8 the rato of T 310 per cent perans 'showiux the accomulation of sumn ine T +d o tho bemeit of Chlldron ar atherat Amonat Accumuinted. OLOTHING, Low Prices Will Tell, WE SAY 10 PER GENT DISCOUNT Is Better Than Jobbers' Prices. nteny 000, 4.323.10 > ted upon the basis that fntersst, when das, s K iiad onsatings scoonnt, #ud fnvested in INVKST- NENT ORBTIFICATES whenever $100 {s thus scoumu- The Magnituade of OQOur Sales Prove that an IntéiHfent and Dis- criminating Public KNOW and Appreciate the Faet that in Trad- N::;\ddfl af & Certifieate hias the privilege of examin- g tbaeonditton of the trust at soy ime oo cailing st he Trustos. “m::u forwarded, and (oterest, whea dus, relo- ated, If destrod, or fomitied by draftor exprass foany Jerbol tho United Btates. Addresy X 2 BYDNEY MYERS, ger. | ing at Our Store they Sive ABRT SALE 70- NIGHT! 10- NIGHT! Commences tho ART SALE AT THE Exposition Building At 7:30 O’clock TO-IN ICGET. Open During the Day for Inspoc- tion, Tho Finest Artists Ropre- sonted and 800 PAINTINGS JiY DOCK 0 LEASE For a Term of Years, Bealed #als will be received at the offic of the Caxf (he Board of Edacation, Na, 84 Fifth-av., till Wednraday, Nov. 10, 1875, at 12 m., for leasing the dry dxk {ocated in Block 88, School Bection Addition, on 1be Bouth Brancls of the Obicago River, between Har- tian and Polk-sta,, ofther till Moy 1, 1877, or till May 5% further aformation cen be ablainod on aprlh Tumos Goggin, attoraey of \hie Toard of Ean. fatien, Boom 37 Matropolitan Block, Aiieas propouals to+ Commiites’ on School Fund Ppry - adosed t roposalto Lesse Dry Dock. 4. of Education reserves the right to refect sycaearall of tho proposala submitted, as they shall eem for (30 best tuteeat of tho city, WILLIAM J. ENGLISH, PERRY IL. MITH, CHARLES Ii. REED, RODNEY WELOHL, JOHN P, OLINGER, Gommittes on Behoo! ¥und Property. OCEAN NAVIGATION. National Line of Steamships, ¥XW YORK TO QUEKNSTOWN AND LIVERPOOL. 10 per Cent on Overooats. 10 por Cent on Ulstera, 10 per Cent on Business Suits, 10 per Cent on Dress Suits. 10 per Oent on Boy's and Children's Clothing, 10 per Cent on Shirts, 10 per Oent on Underwear, 10 per Cent on Hosiery and Gloves, EVERY ARTICLE Marked in Plain Figures, And an Honest Discount of 10 per Cent Given to Every Pur- chaser. WILDE, BLUETT & (0, Sta‘pe and Madison-sts. FOR SALE? 308.000 ACRES VALUABLE LAKDS I¥ EANEAS iy, # tarday, Nov. " flut»\‘fim o aarday, Nov. & 4LUa 1 | * By dizootion of the Honorsble Sacretacy of tho Intarior, A thn undoreigned whl receivo sealed bids for the purshuss 'QUERS, SF'ay ar ali o] the Umiold Iands weat of tne Neoabo Mver DINECT, alang the eru line of the Stateof Kansss embracod n§8: ursday, Nov. u,u.'u;,. m a:t;zpn‘ ‘what is gooorally kuown as the * Chervkeo aradaz, Nov.18, 9b: m: | Birip.¥ Cn vl ik | Ttcuelaade ars offorsd for sals In complisneo with tha gt SR e | I St L b e e iamn, | (et he Mok e g, thy o4 5oL 63 and aiity adres, st o oo Olurk and Raadolphata. (oppositedow | 1o oG dollars par acro for ‘all of said landelylng et Ubleago. | o e Dikansks Hivor, and pn doliar and Alty oanis per aore for such lands ua lis wast of raid river. Printed lats, desonblug the laads hoesby affersd fae sale by uolr foper iegal subdivisioas, and Indicatiag the minlmiam price At which each 0 ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE, % Oeners] Transatlsatio Com, any's Mall Steamaliips ‘tract Is held, a Srwa New York and Hapre, ‘The splendid vessela ¥ " on | bymall ddross ol auy perton making application mmuumnu tor tho Continent (belog moro souther. | theretar 0. ‘Comariseloner of tho Gyasral LA Ottice, 240407 othes), will satl from Plar No. G Northllivar, | orta the Registerand Racelver of vcal otices at Yl Wichits sad Tndopendence, Kaness. 2ORIUK, Pogeal raons offering Lo purchate may bid for as maoy trs s odelle, Datard they may dealre. bat sach bid munt, ba toparaialy ma o e seslod, and muit bo for not mare tban one bun FiCE OF PABBAGK "I YOLD (includice wine): | and sixty deren (and conform Lo the legal subdivisions tcabla, §ilu sud 130, sccorring to aoovmn.odation | embraced tut ) to0q eauin, 8744 thled, §10. Retarn tloksta at cedae: 1ds muxt companied by ten per cent of th -mh.."" with superior sooummugations, in+ | amuont bid ey ntoe of thega i falthof the bidd: thdlag 2l pecessatlon wilhout extra clarxo. Bosinars | whioh sum, InGasoiha lsud ls awardcd and the balan: 1Bus * da gut matry ateerayo pastengeri. sot patd, will b forfe! hould aay bid be rejested, . LOUIS DRBEBIAN, Ageut, 8 Brosdway, N.¥. | thn sum dopositad will bs rofurnad to the broper party. a ot Aatth Bt s | U ST whosa bide aro aceented will bauorijed of such reat Western Steamship Line, - ‘soan aftor the oponlag of 1he bids as pracii- ‘such nolice has boen IR et Witk forty du cabie, wc n fort a e A Tuit bo not made 1o the Comeats: Prom New York to Bristol (England) dirost. duly payracat in enors! ARRAGOS, Ky isaleg ‘Wodnosday, Nov, 3 Tand ORi th it bid, ¢! hswail, Bami s redaceda, JZ; A é“,%'é:n. e b e e i} b gL B 0t Eanloa Uckuta, $190; % Frolant 't ¢ deporit_required ta socom: B iR 1%, ‘ffi'{'o‘.‘l‘a’fii':fifii‘fl?"k’-':’rf AT bovoniiied 1 Posrotce oide.s, sertinos — posity ‘aveifiod shecks’n somo Gorarumoat, doposilory WANTED. s 00l sy, o losarel (he Gesaral e . | s Higbi ta 1eject any and sl bids is espresly re- L} AL b t be sealod and sddrewed to the ** Oom- | | phibieempeepe ng ttrzust i o0cp: ©,\" and iadorsed ** Blde ro) Btrip Lands.' ¥ | s millhareeeirad sa,shar inviied utl 3o cleck o (i : t o7 whi be duly opensd and actad 4po8. e Weuted, a set of books to Gogutetonnr of e Gignid 1053 Oée. Pst by a reliable booklkeeper. Terms reasonable. Address D Wismxarox, D. NEW PUBLICATIQNS. Gt L 88, Tribune office, LD BnI;_Ilgi"All%"iN; T BOVELS MACHINERY, THE wn%‘zg:no‘gul;;." ‘:.:omn:u of ¥ashe UNEXCELLED A8 A lonatile Boclety Life. Dy Edmuad Yates.” Paper, 50 nts. AHERO OF THE PEY. Themast brillant novel of ihe sesson, Dy E. Werner, authar of TING. MEDIUM #Good Luck.” Faper, 75 cents; Cloth, $1.60, + | 0UX OF THE DEEP, Anexcitingaow noral, M APPARATUS ADAPED TO By Mys, Heory Wood, author of “Eaat Lynne,” UBLIQ AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. R BN Wit e N L%, ufse ¢ sone BUCOESS QUARANTEED, AT e b Dy Edmund’ Yates. 2 18 cents; Cloth, o SLSO. WOMAN'S SAKE, A powerful ro- mance, n{ +The Wilkie Colilne of Germany,” Pa- par, 16 cenin; Cloth, 8150, ALAO TUE NEW BUMOROUS SERIXS— THE TREASURE THOVE SERIES. By {is Oarur Avimows, comprisiog \beie cholcest ue3 Vol H, BREED 8 CO. = ULT16 Woat Bightis-st., Clnclasatis 0, WARD. i M el v P Bumor, VoL, I, Burlos 111, Trave A Aok o X7, Gacay one 10 S0, daid | we¥ Vol . SCOry o A powetal Tt oF gy Bty aye] une other or Mg | 8 LY Siatles B0 (he, Dcok brse Seen 1, on 8 months, ba A A i '8 A E Nob Bty Hen B etsor 1 eceiva o ot Touafe by wor | 10F Bpecil aiuiogus o thia (Akbug * oFie, hMt em Lo the ownir, R, QUESE, 203 Fifth-ay, s For gals at the Dookstores, Mailed, post paid, on Texelih of price. W Tk Fa GALL & GO, Pibe fsuhors, No. 300 Washingtousst,, Bose ton, Mnas. = _-ub..h",_';‘“';::?vw sud the uoies are of no FOR SALE. i FOR SATLH. Qs tended < Tho School is & truly daial ], 23 gy it | BOARD OF T ghiny, i o6, Locslon hLiealtby and de- St etk = B Etlacos My b T ins MEMBERSHIP .. SOALEN TS AR Y FAIRBANKS FURNAGES, .. SCALES : OF ALL KINDS, a PAIRBARKS, MOREE & 0O, T 111 & 115 LakeSt., Chicago, ING, WARREN, & CO., Bacarsfultobuy only the Genulne, | 63 Lake-st, Vo have 18 atsca'furnaces and ¢ of grates, [o; THE CHURCH Anniversary and Farewell Ser- mon of the Rev. 0, W. ‘Wendte. e Discourse by Prof. Swing on * The Father of AlL” The Religlous Education Question Discussed by tho Rev. C. C. Marston, The Duty of the Citizen Expounded by the Rev. L. T, Cham- berlain, Dedication of a West Side Undenomina- tional Chareh for the Masses. The Origin of Methodism in the Church of England---A Corresnond- ent's Views. Closing Boenes in the Work of Messra, Whittle and Bliss at 8t. Paul, RESIGNATION OF THE REV. C. W. WENDTE, B PARKWELL SEDNON TO THE FOUBTR UNITARIAN CHURCH. The Rev. 0. W. Wendte, for six years the be- loved pastor of the Fourth Unitarian Church, and ono of tho bost known and most highly es- teemed ministers of the city, yesterday ovening preachied his slxth anniversary sormou, and with it his farowell to the Fourth Church. Follow- ing is the sermon: Thon Samuel took a stono, and set it batween Miz- peh and Kham, and called tho name of {t Ebenezer 1hat is, tho atoue of help), msying, Hitherto hath tha rd helped us,.—1, Samuel, vit.y 13, An Bamuel, the prioatly leader of the Iaraol- ites, set up a stons of memorial to utter his thsnkfulness for the help of tha Most High, so lot me, aa tho leader of your weckly servics at the altar, uttor my gratitude avd praiss to God on this sixth aoobiversary of tho Church wo have builded in Hia name, and to His glory. 8ix yoara! It scoms but a sbort torm of servico compared to the long pastorates which were tus fashion of & former day, and which still survivo in oxcoptional iustancos smong s, But in the canstant ebb snd flow, the many senastions and changes of Western church-lifo, oven 8o short a pastorate 88 mino Is of some significanco, ospe- cially when §t {ocludes as much excitement and activity as {a implied by a resi- dence in Chicsgo during tho past half- dozon years, Robert Coliyer told me recently that ho bad ;i;tlmml and lost three average congregatious in is sixtoen yoars' miaistry over Umty Cnurch. And be {8 now tho oldest Bottiad astor {u Chicsgo, In tho six yoars of my mio- ntey I bavo Been almost equally great changes in the material nod charaoteriaticsof this parmh. Many who were onco present and intorested with 08 bave departed ; Bome from tho city, some from this lifs, Irecall thom all tenderly—their words of oncouragomout, thoir servicea of lovo. This avniveraary would loso bulf its besuty if it did not include them fu its kindly and regrettul memories. Agsin, the founders of this clhurch were matnly of the class known as * Chauniug Unitariens,” born aud resrod among tho liberal churches of Now England. A good stock it s too,~with much character, culture, and catho- ity,—good qualitios lo build a church on. To this eloment wo owo muchof that earnsstnoss, devotlon, and porsistonca which has kapt up our cuurch through mauy discauragomeuts and bardships. 1 csn pay tlis tributo to tho old Unutarian and New Englsud eloment none the less hoattily becauso the complexion of our congroegation has chaoged 80 much during tho past three or four yests, and hse grown mora and more characteristically Westera., Wo have bad o Inrgs addition of men sud womon born an this Western soil, sharing ita enorgetic, robust, aspiring apitit, many ot thom of orthodox ante- cedents, and finding in our moro radical attirma- tions of faith the religigua atmospliora most cangeuisl to them, Thie element Las bean vory active in onr church for a year or two past, and I trust will becomd more sud more so, fors Wentern church must ba conducted i a Western epunt it it ls to ba of permanent usefalness iv the community. I do mot tbink our Western Unitarianism will over fulflil its mission prop- erly until it shakes off the shibboleths, proce- dents, aud mothods of its Eastern orgin. On the 7th of Novomber, 1860, precisely 6 yoara ago to-day, I preached mv firat sermon in Avenus Halt on Twenty-second street, sud be- RAD the movement woich hau resulted, amo: otber things, in the gathoring of tiue acciel nud the building of thia church, Permit me s rapid glance at the condition of liboral religion 1n Chicago a¢ that time, Rouart Collior was then the popular preacber of the city. verkaps of tha Northweat. Hia eplendid church, the old Unity. bad just been dodicated, and he bim- solf was in the zenith of his power and useful~ ness,—unless, {ndaad, ba should eciipsa in tha near future the schievementa of bis past, which neems very probablo to ms now fyom what I learn of hia nable sermons and ministry of Iste, At the Church of the Messiah, Itobert Lisird Colller was drawing large sudioncea to Lis Sun. day eveniog talks oo hts racent Euravesu trip, while the lovely woman at his aide wou all hearts to her gracions and beneficent ministry. Carltou Staples, an eatnoat and expericnced warkor, woa athering @ Isrge and enthueiastio society on tho (Vnnt Bide. On Madison street, near Wabash avenus, wers the Unitarian book rooms, in charge of Bro. Staples, where the Unitarian mipisters sad laymen were wout to cangregate. As for the minfaterial Libarahity outside the Unl- tarian ‘mlplt, it way less goneral snd open than now. Prof. Swiog was giviug some straoge in- terpretations af orthodory fu the old Weatmin. ster Church on the North Side, but his congre- ations wers not sufliciently large to make his resy af much socount in the Reueral eatitnata of liberalism st that day. Dr. Rydor was thea, a8 now, & bulwark for the Universaliat doctrine, but one would bardly dare to accuss #0 evangelical & man of any lesuing to lboral- ism in bis powerful ministry. The daily news- papers, to0, which now are such champions for & ratioual, progresaive gospel, and are really doing mors for our cause than our four Churches together—(thaugh, of course, both agoncioa ara noedsd),—the newspapers were at that day moro cauticus, snd mildly orthodux by profeesiou. As for the commuaity, there was then, as now, a latgo unchurched, liberal efement, whose iutlu: enuce was aAlways oast (n favor of the more ra- tions! churches, but its liberalism was nogstive, Tather thaa positive,—{t deuled the old. rather than accepted the new gospel ; 1t way the liberal- {emof indifferoncs, sather than uf conviction, and a0 Ity intlycuce in the religious feld reslly amounted to very hittle. For cleas.cut prinei- ples, convictious, faith must be the foundation of uli zeally useful and asting intlusnce. It was uuder theso conditions that I was called by tbe Unitarians of Chicago to nndertake the formation of » now sud fourth socloby ~on the Houth Bida. The atory of this fourth church movement iy 40 (amuliar to the people I need hardly repest it again. 1 was young, just from the Divinity Behool st Cambtldge, o feeble health, aud had hardly preached more than a dJozon times in my 1ifo before I began thls work, I bad certaia no- tions about a froe church system, eoagmr- tional singlng, the equality of the pexes, ths valuo of the = Sacraments, which were mot likely to bo of assist~ ance 1o gatbering aud buildwg up & society, Above all, I was s **terrible " radical, very much in advance of the wo-called Chsnning Unitarian- ism, and ou this accouns bad fouud the New En- flum pulpita practically closed sganst me be- ore I cams Weat. A 1 look back upon my pbysical conditios, my doctrinal standpoini, sud HICAGO, -claages,—euterpri MONDAY, my utter lack of ministerial experience st that time, I wondor at my nwn temerity and over- has'c 'ulness, I was tolahor side by side with It. Collyer, and Laird Collier, and Staples, nos to spoak of the able and earnest orthodox preach- ern with whom I was to La contrasted, and whoee rival I wan in ths work of minning souls to God and thse religious life. To ba sure, what I have dotia acoma very amall beside the larger work of 80 many other initisters on the Bouth Bide, like tha ministry of that earnset, unselfish worker, Iishop Choney, ur the notsbls results of the Rev, Mr, Bartiott's Iabora. And yet a8 a young man with alight qualifcations. physical or by previous montal training, and especislly as the aavocate of viewa which aro a horror to many, and accepted by but fow, I feol that I Lave avory Touson Lo be thaokful, and to feol devoutly an I st up my memorial atone, ‘' Hitherto hath the Lord belpod us!" As for mysolf, tha only special fitnesa for my tank of which I hinva evor been couscions is sn intenrs faith in the Ubers! gospel and a buming oarucatness to hava men sccenl i, I really ted vou to tasts snd ree how awoot and good soul-satiefying this liberal fath of oursis; Low {t broadena the scope of lite, deepnan tis intereet, ax{:l-!nn ita mystery, and manciifies its rosults. I burned with denire to make men and sromen better, purer, holiers ta awazen their hungoer after that rightsousoecss which slons mcots the swanty of the soul. I wanted to help make botter husbaoda and wives, better fathars and mothers, noighbors and citizens. And so, through many disconrugemonts and fallures, [ porsisted sod ever hcld up to you the Jdeal in which alono is our hove and oar safety, Was 1t hiocauso you felt benenth my poor spsosh and meayre gifts the hoart that beat in Jove for you nd sought to mako you hettor and to bscome better ttself for your sake? I canmottell I ooly kuow that vou joiued me ooa by one, gare me your right band of fstiowehip, helped me bear aloft our church banocoer on which was jn- acribad our only creed: ** Love to God and love to man.” And so from the mugle family who came to me at (ho close of that firat meeting has grown this roodly company of mon and women tutont in foundiag & church that shall be at ouce simple, and roverout, aud fres. Wo have Been other lboral churches on the Honth Bide go down after s gallant struggle; liboral ministers in our own and other churcnes bavo gono to othor flolds of usofuineas, but we lave kopt on our way securely, sud to-day have sbundaut reason o praize God aod take courage. Many uausus! dissdvautages sud diecourage- aonts bavo fallen to our jot. Neod I recall them? Firat and foramost waa that terrible ca- iamity, the great fire, which brought us our full aharo of 118, 'We havo felt it in the reduced cir- cumsatancos of many of our mombers, their in- tenas preaccupation afuce that disastrous day in tho ongrossing cares ol material Jife, moet of all 1n the now burdeus nod duttes it brought your minister. Fora long timo sfter the fire my in+ ternst was dlvided botweon this churct and tho various outside obligationa 1 was called ugun 0 assnme. How could I act otherwiso? In tho graat fira there went doxn not only the stores aud counting-roows, the homes and churches of our peopls, vut -its ideal 1oterssws as woll, Libraries and muscumy, art galioiics and charities, nearly all wero swept awayin that night of destruction. Dut thesa idosl interests were just as necessary to a rightful resurrection of aur city as the businesy blocks, the hotels, and publicbuildmgs that 108e rapidly out of theiraslies into new aplendor, To whom sbould thid work of rescoration aud renowal bo futrusted ¢ ‘Thero wa4 no reagon to fear for the material intorests of oar city. The common and dsily poeds pro- duced workers for them in abundanco. But thoso Aner things of life, tho richost products of the culture and humanity of our time, who abould labor for thess s ‘Flio practical men of affairs? ‘They did noble and wine, but too ofton wore engrossed in rebuilding their homes and re- cs.nblishing their business. What spare time thoy had wes dodicated to fesding and clothing tho Lord's poor. . What noblo servics they rcu- dered bore let the rovords of tho Chicago Ielief bocioty boar wituess. It ia o nover-fading crowu of glory to commemorate the oivic viriues of Chicago. But still tho aacred causes of culturo and tno bumasiticR wero tuprovided for, and Lere it was that o hitle band.of workers —uotably of Christian mivisters—lound congonial sod noceseary work lo do. Aud surely this was s rightcous divirion of Iabor, Who wero bottor flsted to leald® in theso high causcs theu the man whoso previogs training and present vocation wero 60 Imgels o tho di- Toction of those finer things of tho epirit? Surely no nobler service could tho Chruitian miinister ronder at suck & criss in tho moral life of our city than to plead sud toil for tho sacred causes of oulinre and philaminopy, of seienco aud religion amougst us, sud to ralse the public wivd from its denpopdent snd materialistic lavelto a higher plaue of thought and life. Certainly this wasof 1a0ro imporiauce than tho special local lutorosts of achurch ora denomination? 5o I felt and thoughbt, and sccordingly throw mysell hoartily into this work, sad joined with othrw in this beautiful snd biesusd servics, It aight have been bettor for this church, possibly, 1t I had kept on 1o tho rut of atrictly parish activily; it would have boon better for wmy awn physical aell-botog, but would 1t not have been rank dis- loyalty to tho hlgahe; ;Iulna and & poorer quumi o ol servico unlo It there 18 anytuiug have to thank this ohurch for imore thau auother, it that thoy aporeciated this faot, sud never tried to mouopolize its minister for their o#n private good, wheu a Jargor pubiie duty called him away temporanits from his post. And if we bad nolbiog elus to bo bappv over to-day, the memory of that long wivter's relief work, tho Christmas gifts that made glad 8,000 burnt out childron, the Holiy~ Tree lun movement, tho Papny-Leadings in lospitals and the homes of the poor, and notably the organization of the late Christisu Union, thirteon of whose original seventeen members woro atiendants at this church, aud which has now culminsted in that ooblor un- gactarian fnstittition, **'I'ne Chicago Atheneum,"” with fts 1,100 membors and 600 students in ita s in all of which mombera of thia church wers_conspicuous, sud of which it may justly be sald that they could not have besn but for this church,—atl thia re:ord of useful- pess and good-mit should make nd feol gratetul wnd glad over our little church ay, For it was tho church which was our ipspirer lu this good work, It furnished many of oyr best work- ers, aod gave us the lavm§e for sccomplishing thess vorious results. For s frue church 18 pot merely 8 hive of busy workers, who go outinto adjacent fields of Isbor to re- turn Iaden with rifled awaols to eurich the com- mon stook, 1cis rather a mount of tranefigura- tion where #e got glimpaos of the higher vision, hear angelio voices, consost with heavanly pres- ences, audea gain the inapiration, the moral purpose, thst fiis us for more earnest, unsollish work in life. But permit me ta aay it frackly—the most seri- ous drawback to the fncrosse and editication of tuis Church has bean the poor quallty of servico which your minister has repdared during tho ast four years. 'I'he outsida duties and rospoomi- Bume- which e mo & divided allegiance and & double care have gflnu on increasiug from day ta day, antil their burden haa becowme at timea well-nigh unbearablo, The toil and rush of the waek'a work bas told very much oo my Bunday services, Ihave too ofteu come into my pulpit, which ought to have my freshest, best Eowars. with & tired body and ndod wind, and with & sermon superficial and saty, suowing how hittlo study it bad roceived at wy hauds, My pastoral duties, too, have been poorly performed-~no one is wmore painful- Iy conscioua of it than I myself, BSoon after tho x{m we bogan the eroction of this presont church odinco, and I was constantly occupled in cotlecs- ing moneys, dovising ways aod means, and su- perintending the atructure iteelf, IFrom such overwork and exposture camo the throat dificul. ty which s 80 serious a drawback s0 my usoful- uess amoug you. Your sffectionste care went tmo away to Europe for a six months' rest and recuperation. Valuable as wey this journsy to ma, intellectnally and mworully, I do not fiod that. 1t haw restored wy health, as had baon hoped. Ou my return to the nigors of a Chicago cltm 1 1ind my old throat trouble resppsaring mgsiv, Meanwhile the break with my outslda eagsge- mouts proves oulv tewporary, and they are at present uiore vumerona and burdensows than over. Itis casy to advise moderation and a tirm ucgative to all appeals for auch sdditional actlvity. Dnt when you reflect how much work there is to bLe dome in high causes in so growing, energetlo, ambitious, aud tiro-atricken a citv as Chicago, how faw laborors. thete aro in shis flela, and pasticularly how weak in numbers s the Unitarian ninistry at the West, wailo yot tha Unitarian seatiment is leaveviog the wuolo community, you will more readily understand the diticulty of withdrawing {rom thess various intereats, sud concentrating one's offorts in a singla fleld of labor. The presens financial biringency has only aggravated this neceasity for earnest. unseltish scrvice, that tho various causeés of liberal roligion, oulture, and charity msy not go down. [r. Woodto here digressed tor A moment to NOVEMBER 8, 1875. apeak of the encourszements ahich his desonsi- oation, acid mora especiaily hls Courch, bad to chiesr and inspire thow ; instancing their nobin rocord of unefulness in the past, their new and attiactive church edifics, increasing congrega- tivm, the fortunate location of thelr tempis tn s dietrict rapidly filling np with an excellent clas of citizaun and s dosirable contitusucy for tbeliboral Cliiesh, Ita manounced that while the funded debt of ihe psociety bed nob been raduced from its normal Amonnt of $10,000, the fluating indebledness had meanwhile beon eotirelv paid off within a few moatha and thas sociaty had 21,000 balance 10 1ty treasury. To nghtly uao thess material and mors! advantages tho church noesled, how- nver, a reblish of zoal. A revival was nocdod, not in the aceopted tochnical nenve of that term, hut a reviva) of church intarest. of moral pur- poes, of teligions sympatty and faith. Tuia church, likanil othern, diriog the pravalling hard times waalothful andinnifferent. Butapatby wan onoe of the seveu dend!ly mns, and bio urgod thow tn leave thair egotism. aud lsbor for ths good of the church and the community. Thus ounly could ther austain their repatanon as sn oarnest, Lsrmontous, and herd-working soctety. Mr. Wondto coucluded his sermon with the following announcemant and faratwoll, | And if this church needs fiest of all & revival #uch as I havo indicated it needs, secoudly aud y, & now minister, 11 you only kuew n fur mo to_eny that! It would bo harder stil T 1 bad pot foresoen tbo nrod of sry- 1ae it for moro tLan o yaar past, aod o graduslly accustomed myael! to the thought of maptration from vou. 5o peenliarly viove bag hesn my lation with tine cburch sad this peoplo for th Dast wix years, vo near and dear to me aro tha individual members of our psrish, tnot I bave nhut my oyes perestontly, and refusod to recog- nizo 1y physicai disability, unti pow thr sim of overwork and the approaching rigors of our wintry climats warn me that I must iy down the work avd for s timn at lesst become a vojnntary emle from Chicago. For your nake, llowever, as well as my vwo, this word of parting neods to bo xald, My friendy, you need a new faco and a new forcoin your pulpit. 31y mesaure of strenglh is not equal Lo youriocress- ipg demand. 118 never well to postpons or by protract an iayuo whicii is seen 1o bo 1nevitable. Hcnce, my regignation s pastor of this churd xoos iuto the hands of your Trueteen to-day, and 1 anx for its spredy and kindly secoptauce. My memberabip in this society I wish to rolain ay loog an I hvo. 1 shall also seop my misiog here, wo that wheu I ravisit Lhis acar, familiar place, in which I bave spant so many of tho bost houre of my later hfe—aud | Liope often to revisit i1, —I ebisl} find my place prepsted for me as of old. 1 know this decimion of mino mil Lning pain to many of this conmegatton, however tueir judg- Toent may approvo of it. I shouid thiwk veory poorly of my miniatry it the tender regard you bave shown for me dor- ing my six yaars' ftay wers not merged into ten- der regros &b partinz, But my own griel must raturally be greacer thaw yours, for mwyloas iy so much greator, 1 love the priviiege of being your minister,—n relation [ hayo valued above alt clae on carth. Let me thauk thus publi a8 1 have 60 ofienin the privacy of my own heart, for the largo sud honorsvlo way 10 which you have concaived your {mfl of i relation between pastor and poopls. You bavo alwarx secorded me & froc pulpit, where 1 could speak iy mos suidl advanced thonght without binderuuce. Our wviews did not nbwars concide. It has not been thoughs neceasnry that they always should., Yua havo lisieoed patiently, wilingly, to many rad- ical nilirmstions, many wovel sentiments, from tLis pulpit, becanso you belioved thoy wore dic- tated by tho spirit of truth, and you beld that to Do higher than any set form of truth ftaell. Yeb thero bas been athstantial unity of scutimen: betwosn us, aud the atsolite harmony of ocr relation haw nevor once been broken dunng our whoie mlitual acjuaintance, Bsliove me, 1 have valued thia freedom above sl oise, aud pnzed the opportunities i1t govo me to scok the truth aud utter it. I havonotaiways been equal to tho responsjbility thus put u?ou. mo, DBatlhavo sought the Ligher vision loviveiy, tongingly, and tried 10 give you my most houeat any ear- nest thought. This pulpit Liaa become to me tho deatest, moat macred place in the world, I unever enter it without foeling the command to rinecri- ty and reveronce: *'Fago thy hoe from off thy foet, for tho epot whereon thou siandest 1t is holy ground ! 1% is my gratelul conviction that tho oltice of tho liberal Chiietian minister i3 the wost glorious vacatien thig world can afford. Fottered :fnn crecd, bound by no tiaditioy, it eincern les or I8 hs pricefess privilegoe to utter tho revelations of the prestut hour tu willing beatts and minds. Basing bimeolf on what s known conceruing tho cousfitusion of 1ho universs and the character of wan, ho beeks 10 harmonize the intuitions of the buman spinit_with the now aud scieatific truth of to-dzy. Whers ho fails to fully accomplish this, he may still anticipawe the coming revelu- tiona by tho powor of a Iaith that is reasoonbie ay well as farvout. Aod whon men's liearts are fail- ing tbem Tor fear he renssured them, not by ap- pesling £0 worn-out dogmal and superstitions, ut by rekindling their faith 1n tho native, iu- eradicuble, alone-trustirorthy instincts of their spizitual paturo, sud so keeps them truo to duty apd the night. Chsrgo mo with magnifying mv office, if you will. But out of gequaintauce with other voca~ tionn as woll as i} pressut one, Ican eaofiden 1y, gratofully say, no profession is so ligh and holy, none offers such rich 1ewards, ks that which desls with the eternal ool spiritual inter- ost4 of non, enablos the preachor Lo speak with lofty cheer and hope of Lrath and dusy,of beaven and God, and #o }ifts man from the dull lovel of ordinary and material {1fa to the higher plane of tho ideal. Aud again let mo thank you for that versonal confidence and nfiecuion which has borne with my oft-time woakuesses, and for- given my miytakes and occasional slackness in your servico. I thauk you for permitting me to ‘enter your homes and to come closer {0 youos & friend, sud sometites sa s counsellor and lolper. Frow thia constaut coutact with you as men and women, a8 fathers and mothers, as neighbors and citizens, I bave gained & vew in- right into humao character and motive. Ii has not made me akeptical, but on'y decpened my faith o tbe essential goodness of the human heart. Believe e, there 18 much more goodness, hLooor, aud affection in mankind than ts creeds or tho cominon opinios will allow. And this firmlvfmunded conviction i3 not the loast of my obligatioss to you. Let mo ask that ths friendships thus forined may not be dropped whep my pastorsl relation cosses among you, but when I roturn from time to time to this city, may it be with Ehd snticipations of & weicame at your liospitable handa. : As wortiors in tha common cause of liberal Chrnistianity, I rejolcs with you ia the notable progross our cause hiss wade in this community during the ru: fow years. Not unly 1u.our onvu midat, but in many so-called orthodox pulpits, the Liberal Gospel is presched with power, asd by the poople received with joy. Lverywhers the congregations are leavened by tho nowor and fresher thought of to-day, and the people are usualiy far ahoad of she teachera fo this re- spoct. Tha daily press bas bscome & mighty en. ging in this oause, and scatiers far and wide the guod seed of the liberal woard. t claiming toa much to say that we Unitarisus Lave largely made posaibls aud popuifsr the pew interprewa- tions of tha present hour? It1s hord to eay good-bye to Chicsgo. All around the evidences of her Iata dusauter aro rapidly disapposning. A splendid city bas rison, A8 if by magic, out of her dust and ashes. Her fuce 1s suffused with the Jight of noblo aima and awpirations. any{ are you who hiave shared iu har sadneas and ruin, that you can now share also fu ber glorious rosurrection, Buch I8 not to bs my pnvilege. But I leave the city of my adoption with tender memorios aud rograts, ‘The causes for which I strove aa s young 1wan In this young wity have goue ou to glory; aud it othera sbould reap over wo little from what I bave sown I ought to bo bappy aud content. 1 know not yer where my lov will be cast, 1 have half-a.duzen propoxals for ssitly- wmunt, and shuil choosa accordiug o tho neads of wmy hoalth and strength. Bue it will to 100 etraugore and in a strango place, where ! sbiall bave firat to make good my faotbold, aud caunot, as bere, roly on the assistauce of frieud ship aad tho results of cumulstive taruon t'ardon mo for thus llogoring over thess balf- 2ad, half-glsd contemplations. [ feel like & doomed mau,—s4 if eacn word mignt be wy lask ta you. Ouo parting request I make toyou, 1t il but test the deptl of your loyslty to tha greas principlos for which we ' staud, your devoliut to this church, and your sffaction for mo. 1t is that vou stand by this church, earnostly, persistent- 1y, unseltishly, and never lat 1s suffer or go down through your neglect, It ia still o young, weak growth, and needs your loving care. You owe this to the cause of liberal Chrstianity, to tbe Unitarisns at home sud abroad who Lavs contributed #0 nobly to your wmeans in build- iug this church, wud you owe it fo me, A pumber of earnest “sud sble meu bav boen sooured to occupy this puipit as candl- Z -k NUMBER 75, — 5 dates, aud I trust you will apeedily sefoot you 3 e, and sudden; ham pastor from among them, give Lim t 1 = enly the a0 garments all l‘m,lln‘;n mvcn‘ me #o al:sundaul;!;, b-v:“au‘gggrl -i.:l:e.rl;’d‘ man aried .ou, *'Our. Father | One 2 loa '] ton, SV halead T;:c m: r:ri:lcdlun And now It onlw. ~" Thus all the grest truths of soclely movs un. an affectionate farewell. "May the blessings>~° Alialghty God rest upon ali your spirits. Amvs 4 B o gt o3 P THE FATHER OF ALL, BZRMOX BY PROF. BWING AT THP. FOURTE CHURue.. Prof. Hwing presched yasterday morning ut‘ the Fourth Presbytariss Church, taking as his toxt Our Father whoart in flesvan, Bafors a great truth oofolds [tsell fully, soci- oty satistios itaelf with plinipsns, and 1nistakon & part for & whole, snd mlsconstrues aven the part, Thero are great gousralizations whicli atand like Leyatonos of archos, holding np and giving unity and Losuty, snd uscfalgess to many frag- wonts of rock. Without s kovatono sl «would 1all into ruin. Defore tho great general~ fi:ation of Galileo camo, tho hoavens and the eurth were only 8 pilo of chaotic rubbish. The woild conld gazo at little Ieaves of trath, but comid havo no concoption of tho tree upoo whici ths leat grow. Tho atars could bo seen to tiinkle. sud the moon to wax and waoe, and wmueors to fail toward tho boavons, and the sun to fracel northward in wumwmer, aod io winter rovdiward. Dut no ono saw tho Jaw that bar- moizzod the varicd celential scene. To gome the eartb scomed to rest uhon the back of & turtle. Hepadatns said that the wun was blown north- wand each rummer by & stealy upper wind, Plu- taroli thought the moon a banchof bright gas a fow tihousand miles avay, Tho Persisns shol, arrons at the eciipyes 10 frighton away tha mor.- ster that wa3eating tho sun, Thus each fmct wan taken up by itself aud studiel in isclatian, and tho resuls was o chaoe of cauees and effects renchiiag frow Moses to tho Pojo who silenced tbe ltalisn astronomer. Soou after tho death of Galileo slong cnmo ths wreat zenoral laws of Keolorand Nowton, and tho universs began to f8il into shape. Up 5o this day the phenomena of the aky had besn lifie ** bells jangiod, out of tune.” or like s regiment of panic-strickon troops. Whan the grest generalization came the aweet bella of Heaveu mado melody, the panic-suricken troops wers e marcuiog, step to step. under a vie- torioud (eneral. Thus many of tho scattered facts of ran are fragnicuts of eOWb 0BG great trath, and will all coma tozetlier whon by some geniug ths clew to the mywstery ehail be found. The old stouesof Egypt lay fer thoussudy of vours coverod with mtrange marke, but the wwrks were a4 weaningiass as the goa ing of tho sca-worms, until Champollion fannd 1he Ley to the hierogiyplic and then up sprang the history ol the race, and dead stones after s denth of 5.600 yoars became elojquent. Thusall tho pecner spove aud beneath s ave waitiog tor the kev of tho aceretsto be found. Woea tie hand foldieg that key sball come, wards will eane from o1d rockn, snd dead bearts will speak to.us in tiviiz and loviey worde. What scez 7 in all histors has been 50 discord- ant as tho religious ontiook of tho jong past ? Tho asteauor.y of tbo ancients thot maan littie lamps of the wau sud mwoou, tud that cariied tbn world by man-power—and one man, Atlaa,—was a3 far-eccing; a3 thele the- ology. which pilaced upon tue throne ruch deitios a8 Jupiter, or Usirts, or Viauna. Amid the great tratha of relygion the old suman raco stood na little children tronld stand in the Louvre ortha Dadleian Li.zary, conscious of romething strauge and .urge, but utterly iucapable of meamiing Lo Yesity or groatness of the sure roundinis: as abiidreu would look st the Apnlin Belvidere or thyx Venus de 3lilo and call it a rock, or would wake e play-house of the clatic books wi though o beok were ouiy s block. Ho may bas long ktood trop his carthly shore, aod tritlod @ith st faage ol (God, cal wwono a Deity, and sayioy his nrayess to o stich or & river. But as at laat 2 prest gesers] truth camo to astronomy, nnd h-ansforwed all thw econos of thio sky into one yras picture, full of oty and aubliity, 80 6t lrat 8 generalization hes coma to the acenos of roll i, and tho great diveord ie rapudly dissolving into havamooy on tus words, #Our Father wao urt in He . Bince Christ ca'ug, recuneiling tho world to God, the nureadalie lucroglyplics of rolizion Lave braken forth into Japguage distioct and nwoot. The dikcorcuut notes aro hieing arranged wnto o gong. With thin Clinistran genoraiizatioa 1t our hands, we cav. now go back sud interpret the remote past, and can find 1o the bhyaus of the Vedas atd of tho Grooss the frst dim ont- Jives of our own Ged, Instead of mocking ut the Hmdods «! old that they wers to eadly mistakon, the Christion may now entor into cld dead words, and breath inty them tha branth of lite, We can_all pass into the old bestben detinition of God, and fitd there the spleudor of religion. *1am the ssc- rifica; L aw tue wonddnnp: [ am the spices, the victim, and the fire. T am the father and wother of the world, 1 aoithe Lholy one worthy to bo known. I am tho Aoul that standeth ou the bod- jea of 8!l beings, [ am the bewinuing, the mid- dle, and the enl of ali thinga, I nwn among wor- ships the silout worship. I am never-lailing sno, whoso face is turned toward ali sides.” With the Lord's I'rayer of Chuistianity 1n our bearts, wo may enter into theso words aud re- elotho them with cloquence. Not reciothe, but pour, for tho first titue ijoto thoen cups of sound 1he golden wine of tiuth, After our ora cama, saviag, “lam the Alpta and the Omoga, the begiuning avd the end.” camo with Christ a8 our teacher,—we can all 0 back and vee what it was India and Arabia wore trying to tiod ou ther wacred words, The words wera too lofty for the agas that fitst spoke them, The lips that re- peated them failed to fathom their depth, but the religious souls of the pinsleouth centurs can retuin to thezo end swell them out fuil witl tha light aud Jove thet doscend from the Goee Iy, NAmr the esmo manner take tho Purana's thapsody about fnmortality, aud our century can shed over tbom such tears of hups aud appreciation as ware unkuown to ths epint that first wroto down the lofty eloquence. Wroto the old sage, ** As a man throweth awaf old gumants sod deossath aaew, #o the soul having quittsd its morta' frame, cnterstiianothors which no sword can divide, sud no fire consum-, and no water corrupt, nor wind dry awar. ¢ will bs indivisible, unconsumable, incorraptible, unalierable.” Lo tuego words, that fell froma pegan life, ono may well now go with the im. pulso and cmotions ‘drawn from Hin who kaid, “Iasm the Resurrection and the Life, sl way tutenaify the import of each old word, and may thank the doad Iindoo thac be left behind him sach holy vorses to be tilled with tho bleam and tho perfumas of subsoquent cen- luries. No rude Jaugh, no oontemcs, uno ooldnoas veod anso over ibe ’nn\iy words of the human bearl. ~They wero the buds of the tree whoso ripened fruit wo pluck, Men always bogio b{uuug woBls culy partially understood. As the dng::ovuar used the nord ‘sl or *'tolegraph” befare ho kpow what & grand wizoincinso subssqueat times would add o tho terms, as, uuder the Pprogresa of society, tue invealions thomselvep would rsa to marvelous proportions, so the first worsbipers pronounco a language into, which snbssquent iaen come and infuse un- dreamed of riches of import. As in tho shelly of tho seatish a vilo worin lives, aud thon anter- ward, the worm buviog dled, the sea itaolf roars and tho sun paigts iniwitable tinta; ¥o in the religion of Arabis or Grooce first creeps tho you all, my friend {< <” or n clond, at ite. waiting for shé human intels ect to gather strengih, aud the hesit to yirtue. \When mon first bogan to use \hs‘:g:; liberte it monnt ew the lberty of melf and ong neighbor, Whon Mowes lrel\ug of ‘“right, ™ hs mennt the rights of tho Iebrews. Tua Puilistines and Amonites bad no claime upon the love of man or God. When tbe Greeks used the charming word, shey meant the fracdom of Atheua. Wnen { ftomo uaed tha word, {v meant the oquality ot luh-boro Romans, but the word admisted the Groaas of wmillious of alaves, the blood of cap- tives, the prayor inr the destrnation of Cartuage. Lba woud very slowly camo to moan the irosdom of woman snd the teoder rights of iba fufnt child. Lhus the tdes hegan from thousnd yoara iu outline, and nil tha suocessive generatioins cams and paintad 1o the detais of lremenss picture. As inta che palaces of the laouvre snd futo tho great templea of Rome everv 826 camo with ity new wores of sy, wutil ot Iast tho qund stands wnazed at the gathered glories of tue rich antiqulty and tho richer presont, 80 inta tlhe open word liverty have all she geuoratious cwptled thotr new studies and 1doas, until now what was once a drop of wawre has becaino an ocean vast aud dasp and cternai. ., Out of this fact that tho 148 of tha iloavenly Fatlier bau como slowly towssd itk prosent bosu- ?. thero should spring up aeversl delighttul re- ectione, Uue caunot but leai tpoa tie hoathen world with moie of admtation, and of Loy, when lio rerasmbera tuat all ths deeply religioun of the ola desd omyires were worsbiping st tha eamo sltars that oid wur ficenta tosday. Bome of the Chrstian Fathors—Ciemeat of Alezaudris aod Jusun Mrtyr—leave ua same touching thaughts as to this oneuess of rohg.on deacending from the oueneas of God, Clemsuk is aupposed to huve boen u compsuion of Bk Yaul, nnd Justin came from Pagauiam to be. corno & mattyr for the uame of Curiat Bath of thom, standing in the higher light of Christlan- ity, lefs bebind ttemn tendor worda for thoss wiio ware praying outsido of the now templs ol tho Gospels. **1t iy cloar,” says this com- panion of Paul, ¢ that tha God to wonm we owe the Qld aud tue New Testamont gave the Gresis tuoir pbilosophy. by which God 1a glorified among the Groof' Jusun Martyr, i b apalogy for Christ, numbors Hesakleitos aud ;ioc:st‘eg -mnuuh;ha Cgm;:i;:m.;) Lecauso ther oV o vory g0s whicl . Jobo perceive: aftorward to be the Chriat. Exreclysa 1y what plulosophv auy modern Christian can shut the gates of hicaven agujuat tho pious of tho heatben world, I know wuot It csunot bs acuioved by the doctnmue of Calvinlam, or of all orthudoxs ; for if Jao was nnable to distingaish +n s God th Souehip of Chrive, and if Abrabam inew notmog of & Lility, aad yot thoso two marchod toward a city Laving foundations, there retsing no dimcrimination that can work desth to @ Socrates nod wo Aureiius, If Job and Abiabum roached bliss without & porsonal conscioaencas of Christ, it would bo too rash in s t0 kupposu that Socrates found porattion by iho gawe pait, It oughtto bo a candiual 1doa of Chiriatanity that God will not damn & soul mithe out very groat cause. To bo eteinally held 1nutierable tormends {s not a smiall matter in the mind of mind. It csvuot bo s small mattce in tho tenderer juatice of God. To bs bornin & wordl of iguoraues and ein, to sees daily for light, to p.ay torning, noon, and cvenlog,ss did Aurcliue, and then to de and mak jutu cterusl tusnet are reaults that sheald be astended by 80 oxplanation groater than that offerad by tho dilference betwacu the God of Job and the God of Aurchue. If ultra-orthodoxy should eay that the God of Abraliam and David fucluded within tue idou the udditional 1dea of wp atonoment, no sscape from the tiffi ruley would thus be found; tor the atonpmeut of orthodoxy proceads whotly from Uod, and doea not wait for any hu- man apprecistion oy conscionsoess, After tho orthodos would bave saved iufants by an atobe- ment of which they ate uncouscious, it 18 too late to doom relizious heathen to hsil for not being versed iu tho viearious dogmas. Tue lives of Abraham, Enoch, Daniel, Job, sad thoro 01 Testamont worthies, teach: us the xrand lesson that whatever the dogmas of mod. orn chiurches may teach shout *maving™ wurs ablp, Giod Iiimuell accepted the hoacts that Drouglt Him & worslup cucompaseed by tute! icotant clouds, only tiue hugic was warm towaid tho **Tavisible Oue,™ If there bs a God in #iich ax there I8 datined tn the modern intinite in jestico, goodness. and trutu, a1l assunio tuat ou His Lroad empira of etarnity uo soal will baud 1 hopelesy agony becsuss of the eror 1t las made 1 not meeiny in tho Father tue com- ing Scuslup of Cbrist, Mupishment for such an error would dpoms to perditton alike Noal and Enoch, Job aud Daniot, Socrates and Aurelius. aud indsal all the Loly oues that ever lived in the old twilizht, not of party, butof tratih, Of couraw I do uot believe in & religion that makes heaven and hell depsnd on a narrow range of idows on tho one haud, snd upou the olicr upon a disgraced God, Bat tho trouvles of an uitra-ralieion of worda do not end bera, It is 1lie central thought ot arrhadoxy that Cbrist s God. 1t loves to 1denti- fy Huwm with tho Father. It will admit of go ainbigitous words here. ‘They muat be plalo add unequivocal. ‘This beluy so, thls streauous or- thoduxy 16 shut up to the confestou dbat when thie pioas_bhesthen worshived tho Father, thev warshiped tho Son, fur Christ la the Migbty Maker by whom sud through whom are Al tuugs. If & true Curshian dare mot ako s distinction between Christ and God, it would be dreadful to punish the Lieathon for not dmcovering thedifferonce, Justin Alariyr con- fersed this dilemms, snd bence he saye that $hio4d WO Bay ** the grest Lopos," before Christ caue, were 1eally a8 much Christians aw thoso whio kuew tha incarnato Logos of 8t. John, “Tis reilection does not offor man somo akher wav of salvaion thau throagh the Medistor— Cbrist. Far from it. 'The only deductioa from thess thoughts is thus : thot b Mediator moves over the world, and hae moved over it with a lave wider thao the Romau Cathollc Charch,— which saves ooly ite) own limited shapo of hu- mauity,—wider thav the old Protestans Cburch, wiich asved oply those siilled 1o s set of doo- trines ; wider than misn hsa ever been; wider than all escept God. The sublims onenses-of roliglon soen under tho varying phonomepns of uuwman wotship may lead the modern retlect- ing lioast to feal that (God haa also bsen One alway over His worshipiog child, and that the Alediator, who appeared 1o Bethlehew, Lsa sl- ways bean present to pour out His atoning toars over the hearis that truly loved and ssrved God. That mediation becams invisible at 1asi In Palas- tine, but bafore thoactual crosa wau reared upon earih, It waa seared ino tho unchauging love of Uod, and tho tears that foll for man iu the oliva garden must have been falliog in all ages spon the forolieads of tha S«mlau!. 1t were dreadtul if Wiliions af souls have been lost aimply becauss thoy hived befcre the Modia- tor cama in the foah. Tlua would sspsrats re- wards and puniehmentairom sivtuo avd vice, and miake tuem depeod upon the sccideat of birth. Honce we wmust place the Mediator back of msn's origin, and bebold Him attending the humau race tu all its carser, oderiog pardon sad bappiness to all who 1 earib'a mornlog or woon came v sincerity to the sitars of God, T Know not what may ba the telativa happiness of this or that quality of soul upon tha dismsl soore ; but this I xuow, that when the pigan, in deap ewcerity and in harmouy with s life, unys, Teacher and gulde of high snd low, Tue lustog ‘fx‘un of all things that breaths, 1 bow myscit fu lowest reverence aud peay, and that when Abrabam walks along on & pan jufaut miod and then along comes the miglty | allal light, tho vane Redoemer is ju the spirté prayer, or bymu, or creed, of tho testament, sud | world above both, not condemnlng thoee sou's Hlla up with iotvito truth aud besuty the wlson whoro tho humble, mistukon heatt once dwelt. Al the groat traths of wankiod Lsve mado their first appearauce hu eome disguise, The great general privciplo that explaive a thos sand phenumcua is the lant thing to appear, 18w only developed inteliect that cau grasp great priuciplos; und, heuco, vast 1desd come ouly when the lhumau taind bocomes great enough to bold them, Aw tho outer moriogrons only as rapidly as grows the juner sense, so the ssutha of wan become broador only sa rapidly his l‘xuuorm petceive aud enjoy broadoeds ox- lands. ¢ The canception of a Heaveuly Fathor is a God bursting_the pillars of a clond, For loug, losz poriods God moved alcuy, seeing all. but timsell unssen, As i the sy of Virgll, the Deity ran through the woods as a huutress, was addredavd a3 such, and was admirod as only mortsl, and then fu the last momouts threw bacauss they were nob liviog in the nlnstesnth century, mombers of some nsiTow ¢l h. but pouriug over them tears of love becsusos they were sons of & righteous Ood gropiog thel? way bomeward in the starless night. Hutenoygh hias boan sald, 1 trust, npoo thiy point nna;{nuw lst us pass to s sccond in- feronas. 1618 the worshiptul spirit, the life o thn soul LLAL can compare in msn with the grandour uf tha Intinite Yail Uaderthe blue eanopy of & Deity, who has beeu av broad as pass by the varlations of thought thet bave como sutweoa the world's firsk year and ite lsat, sud look juto the states of the soal, daro nob coms, Oh my friends! with yoar logloal littla shadiogs of words, but come in the piety and love of your spirits, snd say with the bymn: + Tho dearest idol I have known, Lol e b5 et 4 roms Toy aro sl g - T worablp valy Thee. Ll back to them the voico sbove miortal, sud | Yo suoh an . prislog of the heart to meel & disappoared 1 the gloawms of heaveu's light, so | spinitual Gov, 1 the differeaces of earthly secta iu tha whole world's religioud posm the God hay movod slopg for o tune. 1w woital Liucawmonta, He bas mado war, lo bas hated ohamies sud saught man to do s0. Ho wss a lille strooger than mao, a little r, bat while tho eurly gen- eratloas woro taikipj; 40 chis divine boing iu the wildozuses, the wni. beormse aud, instead of standing alone ecial banner, all the worshiping earth will woomn to be only one tompla and all that bend av the allars will ssem o have come from {he same cradle with Thee, and io bave walksd wose sad mase | wish thee through all tho sacred sasocistions of