Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 8, 1875, Page 2

2 FHE CHICAGS TRIDUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1875. time. An American Catho'ic and an American Proteatant from an elezant Wes'ern town met, not long snce, muaancers (ndeed fourneying slong the Nilo. ‘Tho ties of country and ety maide thom encamp logether and journey tojcther, When uight camo tha tion of relgion aprang np; but the hoarta were eeparated by tha great Romao aud Protest- ant glf. Its co'd wave rolled bo:ween, But nat miany oighta had prased before the ealf had 10lled baek Tike the old Lied Sea, and botl were caniiod to the Canaan vide, They Jorred aftor ward tn & commou worahly, tho Caiholic hotding hi- 1 fix, the Proteatant cluring s oses 80 a¢ fo shut out all thines but God. When, after mouths of 1 ertect friendslup, they rared, tears filled the weven of bLoth. Not tho tears of bumanity alone, hut tears in mowory of & minghne of religion. Each heart lia: anlved 8 erent mystery. Fho homasickneas ot the two trave ora, the o) erpaverng memory of abeloved country, the lenol.weas of the desert, the amusy ot derendenco on God, liad not onlv combined to mako rriest. and Pupe, and Presbytere all ree ecde it lirtlences, but had cownbined to hift un thin sellgion of the soul Jnto rweeler and truer prepoitions., But we aro all afar from homs. The home. wickness of tho roul ought to becoming ero long to our boromw, the lonuliness of the desert 1a aronud ua, for thore 1s no onn near to help us It God, #n ocean cold and dark rolls between nennd paratfiso, In reenos o wonderful the doman_of faith sahould becomo wider and moro spititunl, and, joining hands with all who are fuil of the spirit of praver, we ehould look upward and sey, ** Our Fathor who art in Hoaven.” i THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS, SERMON IY TIIE REV. C. C. MAISTON, OF NOR- WaOD PARK, Tha following is a portion of tha sermon rreached yosterday morning by the Rev, O. C. Marston, pastor of the Baptist Church at Nor- wood Park: About 230 years ago it was enactod by Stato law in Massachusotts that it should not only bs considered & privilege, but & dutv, to bava the Beripturos read in ginnoction with the opening of onchday's sesslon of achoot. From that early day until quitqrecontiy the Bililo tna beoa read io nearly all tho schools of our land. It has beon a matter for tha most part purely optional, but the reveranco for God's word nud tha confldenco Io its teachings hiavo been 8o gon- eral and 8o hearty wizh tho American peoplo, thnt tho Dible biaa been looked upon a8 & com- mon-achool fixtura and its reading both tolerated and expcelod ay & datly exerciso tn tho school- room. But tho timo has como at last for questioning the propriety of this work.g A strong anti-Biblo influouce iu the last fow yedrs hns boen swooping the length and breadih of tho land. ThoBible has boen assaulted in overy conceivablo way by meu of lot.ea and influonce. as well a3 by unprinci- pled and designiug partisans. From oue causo and nuother, a great hostof cucmics to the Seripturca hias been marshalod and equipped for tho war, It is therefore not to bo wondered at that tho simple and unpretending miactico of reading & passaze from tho Diblo each dny in our pubiic schoots shonld bo objectod to and opposed oy acertain classof our citizens. Lut, roally, 1 tho mattor is 80 verv objactionabla A8 somo teem to imagino, It s Btrange it was not discovered sooner. Aloro than 200 yoars the cus- tom was unmoleated aud ussuspected, A fow roars ago Cinoinnat) bocame conactons of tho fact that Bible reading in her schoola was & wn sgaiuat the coneciences of har libotty-loving (?) people, and entered her protest accordingly. A few other places bave pureued o similar conrse, Cbicago, which is uaually first 1 all great movemonts, 1n this enterpriso bas boen tho inst to tako her tand. Sept. 28, 1873, she riened ber name oflicially to tho anti-Biblo plodgo. Bo much has been satd an tho subject, and ko many have taken decided action in’ the mattor, that & public aud national gentiment has been eroated, aud eoon it will bo reon that tha frieuds of tho Bille must stund up for tieir princivies or elas submit to s2e themn trampled under foot, The averwios to the *‘Union of Chur:h and State™ doctrine -with which Amere leans are 8o thoronghly 1moued has bad much to da with the shaplug 3f public opinion on tuis. sutject. Soma have felt very fearful that our achools mixlit bocoma soctsrian or denominational ; and it 1s maid tha t readinie tuo Seruptures as n dacly oxorciso in tha tchool-raom bas this tendency. But whers is tno proof of hiw? Certsinly not in histors. Thin practice, 200 years old 1n our country, has not produced o elrgle instance in which rchools have bocomo sectanan by resding the Bible. I showid think thus was long onoukh to-devolop tue tondeunoy of an entorpilse to its funl result, “*But thero aro Jowa aud iufidels who have konestobjeclions Lo heariog tho Bibler ead, and theiefora wo sk thae it be fnterdicted from our schiools,” rays tho auti-Bibla advocate, It may bao snid in reply with oqual force aurl tiuth that thete in 8 very largo proportion of our paople who lhove bones: convictions that the Dible ought ta bo read aloud in our schools fur the sako of its mcral iustruction aud hallowed infla- ouce, and thoretore it should not be interdicted from the sohools, But this is only a pretext. It is claimed that It is to accommodate tha feelings and p.of.adices of these avd other classes thut tuls war on tha Bibie has been institutod, ‘They sre mixled who credit this chim, Anti-Dible ‘mou wilnat bs satintled with the oxpulsion of tho Biole from the echools. 1iis s war of extermination that has been Inaururated. and nothing shors of that erssult will entisfy 1ta instipators, Next after the achool will coma our Governmont inauitu- biona, The argumont of that period will ho $his: **it isnot fur to expel the Bible from the schools, and allow it to remain with- ot proteat in our halls of lepislation; in tho regular mimy aud navy: snd 1o the hos- pituts and poor-houses of tho land." Aund Ie suems lo'wne 1bnt this arzument after the « Bible shall have been inrerdicted from the schools will be eminently juat and portinont. It is & wige stroxe of policy not 1o extend this war into all these places at once, The cumbined stronath of all tho antl-Biblo forcea his beon cenceniiated upon thin emngle potoc, When thete aba | be victory bere 1t will timo enough to atiasi otber and more formidably sirongholds. Tuls effort, theretore, Lo drive the Bible fiom our schiools way Lo ioterpreted a8 an augury of other and more fwportant thiugs to vome, the reaile zation of which may Le looked for in the near future, if wo y10ld “to the suemy in the protim- Inary oneet, Lot nomsn ba deceived into the idos that this onslaught upon the Iible, Ohiristian eentunent. aud & time-honored custom, is prompted by tho single motive uf subaerving the g00d beiog 0f o mixed and diferiug community opon tho subjectin {ssus, This 1s the merest stbterfuge, The wislies of the cotnmunity will not bo revpected by this courso. And it stands to reason that the feelings of thowo wiio desire the custom continued sre an worthy of consid. oration as tho feelings of those who wish the opposite, Tha followiug aro soma of tho ressona wllx‘y lim Bible sbould not bo expollod from our schiools : First—A great mn'lmlfiy of the rlght-mlnklng sud intelligent peuple of this commuuity are up- poeed to ita expulsion. The Catholics, who can ooly be judged by their pricais in this matter, aro of coulne grealy in favor of rejecting the Biblo from tho sohoul. room. There1s alarge clasa composed of al} grados of skeptica and lufldels who are also greatly interosted in the same direction. Then there is nnother class composad of judifferent snd uninterested Obristinns, who oare but hitle how the mnatior goes, DBut amoug theso classes whero sball we tind the real conservatora of the public good—tho men to whom we look with sure confideuce for the eafsly of our com- mon interests? 1t will Lo grantod by most far-minded people (hat we must look to 8 difercot cluss from those sbovo mentioned lor ttiese thiugs in the mai, ‘I'ho educators of the country, what are thoy ? Joa vast majonityof cases they are esruost Cbristisu mos aud women. Are not theso to be consulied in the settioment of this question ? Tuo 100,000 teachers of this country represent veiy Iargely its inteiligence aud educstional in- toreste. And doubtles, if they had the question to decide, tha Iible woutd coatinus to bo read Jitnout Juterruption (n our schools tor all time, They have been where thoy have seen the peuefit = of the custom, Many who do uot thumselves profess roiigion are in the Labit of readiug a portion of Seriplure and re« pesting the Lord's I'raver ,at the ooeniug, of each day's work 1o tho achooi-room. "Tuey hive doue It uot because tha lsw required It, but bee cauge they bave realizod & beuefit from it ju tha managoment of the achool. ‘Tha que tion ape poary {0 bo thiv, blall the Bible be juterdicted {rown the schooiw ai the behest of the Catholis and jufidel etement of the commuuity, or shallig bo toleratod wob only for the good' of thaso Who doxiie its coatinuance, but also for the goud of those who apuru it, aud that, 100, in respunse 10 thie demaud of the better aud mote enlighten d part of our people 7 [ BSecond—The scliool system of this country 1a founded ou the Bible aud its privoiples. [t was \be Bibia that gave us free sokools. Biblo moy thought up the mvstew, ihble meu fArst demon- sirsted ite utility aud excellence, Hible men bava sustsined aud defendad ft. Bibla men Lisve mausysd aud controlled it, and have broughs 1§ up to it proseut bigh state of perfection, _ It Is, theratoroe, not tho righiful pierugative of Uv scliool (o bury enviny 1o ke Bible bus eourse wonld ravor mnsh of the heartlers per- fidy of the bov =ho, when tho strength of man- hood comos, thrusta the death dageer hrough tho tieart of the woman swhio bue him and eared 107 i In tho yeata of his helplessuoss and - fancy. Third—Our rchools need ths moral influenca of the Diole. ‘They cane not marylve without it. 8o soon am tha moial principles of Coristisnits, which ato fuund nowhers 1w wich pority asin ¢the Lible, &) not recognizeld by teachor and pupil w the sc'i00l-ro0m, 80 soon will our schools becoms einks of inijuity and places ot vica from which a1l persons of noule asojrations will tura away 88 tiom a deadly powsin. Profanity and ail vicous halits and pract.ces aro ti be pro- possiblo hivited to the greatest extent from our ctildren at achool. DBut such A #tato of thiuga cannot bo enjoyed without & eandid rooznition & 4 accptatico of the Bibio and 1t toacluugs. Either directly or indirectly all the morais of our worid have come from tho Biblo. Fourth—Tho literatura of our rchaols Is full of tho Bible, #a that men canuot shat the Mnle aut of tho rehoolroom if thoy would. You ean't find a roaler. or a geogranhv, or a eram- mar but what 18 a teacher of B.o'e princinios. A large jroportion of mearly every _ecliool- reader o thie land ia written by Chris men on religions suhjocts, from g David down to Dr. Edwards. The man who objecta to baving his boy licar ten veraes readl from tho Bible wiil permit hun to study and ve- cito ag a leagon the Sermon on the Mount or Tis.- vid's Inment at the death of Ataslom. Thia is glarinzly incansistont, to say the least. Dut iy showe tlint tha wants of our schools have beon supplied by Chris'ian men, and that it ia impos- slble to ko, nrato Dibls lhteraturs from the achinols, It ‘tho Wibio i8 fit to Lo read in tho schonl from a roader, it 18 from any buok and in auy form, = P A CHURCH FOR THE PEOPLE, A CONOREGATION WITHOGT A DENOMINATIONAL TAQ, Somo months ago Jobn E. Ownley, liviag in tho southwestern portion of the city, was forcibly improesed with tho fact that many pecpls re- siding in lis locality woro deprived of listening to tho Word of God ou the Sabbath, for the rea- ron that they wero unablo to pay for modern church privileges, and besido to ndorn them- selvos suitably for nssoclation with the avorage church-goer. ** Without money nnd without price," ho conceived to bo the inntruction of Christ to tho preachers of tho Gonpel, and {ree Balvation ono of God'a richest promises, and acting upon this ides bo mot about devisiog a plan wheroby a house of worship could be ea- tablished to oot the demand, and wharoby the saliation of souls might nnt be rotardod by the oxacting rules of deuominationalism. Ho agreed to ercct such a placo at hts own expenan,—to po woat but not ostantations, comforiable but not §nudv. A lot_wan procured on the cornor of inrrison and Paulina streots, In n sectton of tho city sparsely sottied, comparatively, but yot con- tral to a large class who woutd giadly attend the Church ir they could do 8o without boing com- wpelled to ape tho fashions and follies of the day. ‘The plan of tho buildg was nrreed upon speedily, and the work was commencod. Yes- torday tho building was formallv ocoupied, and filed by s Isige and intellizent audicnco, to bear thio dodicatory sermon, which was proachod by the Rov. Georgo O. Barnes, of Keutucky, a gentiomnn who for several years rast has boen Inboring In the pulpit of the country in tho ins terest of & pure Cbhristian religion, unadulter- atod by human creeds, aud unaitoged by secta- rianism, ‘I'ho sorvices wera opened with tho singing of & 1evival by, led by the pranchor, the lines being announced as was tho cuslom 1n Woslovau dnys. Then foltowed & fervont, carnest prayer, to whiely, 1f tho kneos of the congregation had beon bent, tho amens would have added a rov- orautial solomnity akin to tho prinitiva torms of ‘“socioty" worskip. Another hymn was then sung 88 beforo. but with greator fooling, to which, 1f an abjoction could be fonndby a critic, 1ts length was tho must serious, prolouging as it did the n‘toduciory servicos, and yiviuz tho rermon Irss prominence thau its importance would seem to haye desa.vol, Blr. Barves took as lus theme + The Dwelling Placo ol God,” roading from Chrouicles L, 21, 1o contonded that tho dwelfing place of God was in tho hearts of His people, aud that the iden thot some men had soueht to givo promi- nence o, that tho Chnrob wom God's dwelling place, was mythical. God dwelt only in holy pinces, nnd it” was not in tha power of mau to moko o Nolv placo. Paul himuelf might havo ereated 8 bouro of woisbip, adurned ¢ with spircs and towers, but ho EO]‘IL‘ no: bLave mude 1t holy, anv mara than could ‘A mod- orn atchitedt, Tno ‘Lawn'e of Solomon was & boly place, becanse God dwelsdn it. Ilin holy fot- lowora eathered thore, and it was o part of ilis great picture-book. ‘The Bpealor alluded next to tho coustiuction of the temple illustrato tte rictvueors of God's luve, to which ho com- psied tho two i preciousness and giandaur, Ho also used tho temple to dewmunstiato tho large- neas of Leart of ita buitdors, showing thst David, in his poverty, contributed ulone of precious metals more than double fu valiio the amoant of tho national debt, 110 used tho foundation of tho tewmulo to ilus- trato ita maguitude, aud, followiny ur the line of thought, brought out a bemutiful figure in comparing the precious atoues, as they woro Iitied from their rocky beds baneath Jertalom with tho buman e ut rateod from the mire of #1m by becoming the dvelling placo of God. Hoe closed by expresslog gratitude to God at 8eping 8o largo an attendsnce present and by urging wll to become devout Chriatians and follosera of tho neek and lowly Jesua Chrisr, that He migbt dwell in their hearts. The ex- ercieen closed with sigging, prayor, aud bene- dietion, ‘Lho building Ia & one-story brick structure, plain, well lighted and nrnnlgnd. and hag s seat- ing capacity of about 350, Its cout wes 3,590, all of which Mr, Owaley generously donated. Hervices are to be neld theie evory Sabbath, moruing and evening, and the work will bo son- ducted ubon puroly unsestarian principles and ideas, It ia expected that the mov.meut will gatber o congregativa from tho ruins of de- vomiustionalinin of the city at large, as woll a8 from that largo clnss who have refused to identify thomsolvea with church organizations becauso of their want of simplioity and re.igious zesl and earnestnoss, A pastor Lias not yot been selocted. —_— THE DUTY OF THE CITIZEN, SELNMON DY THE REV. L, T, CUAMEERLAIN, The Itev. Mr. Chamberlsin, of the New En- gland Congrogstional CGhurch, spulio to hig people last night on ** the duty of the citizen," taking bis text from tho passago contalned in Ephesiaus, iv,, 13 T4l wo all como o the unity of the faflh and of the knowledgo of the Bon of God, unta & perfect man, unto tho mousuro of the stature of th fuliness of Carlst, The speaker said that porfect manbaod wam tho central purpose of Christianity, Rostoration was the great contral word of tho aystom. Chris. tinuity took tho blamo for pactial purposes, but it would be found thiat nothing was ¥o complete, €0 giaud, no attractive, as this idos of a perfect men, Tho condition of tno human race waa coufensedly dinful, and the aim of Christianity, its main 1dea and it first purpose, were to froo au {rom ln sod to bid an to find bis bope In the oross of Chriwt. Thin was the firat atep which Chnetlanity took, When It bad accom- pisbed that, it workod a groater changa, pro- ducing the cow life of bope and mupiration, Cheistisuity brought all its force and fnspiration %o the secand purpose, that of making the new lite. Wueu the question of sin and hollnews hiad boen sottled, tho Christisn ides took pos- :::;‘::t“t:m Christiau, and {ts mm was to i otfect man, phyaically and wentally. Chy L&uuy mould nopt ymrml{ man 1o 1ive 1t & siate whora lug intallectual powers srere uot to be developed. Btll highor was ita sl {0 the perfection of the #fTeclions, the emo- tious, the &epirations of the buman heart, This developmeut, sald the spesier, would load up to tho ldeal character repiesented in tho toxt. Whea these cliaoges had fsken place, when truth fouud lodgment in w man'y heart, 'ho had slmply gworn allogisnca to & new cauus. Ho could Dot Temaln 1180 1vo, but must Rive o progaion to biu thoughte, " Ho must b tie sup- ‘wrm‘wdlha Advocato of what he bolieved, When & mao did take this Fm«lmn, Whero would he fud bis sphicre of duty 7 Iy kyiug to make men lizo lim. Ous promiveut duty wae to meat Lis towpoomibility gy g citl- zen, It was gledmed that tho Natioua) Goveromens sud the municipal orgavizations wero eutered {uto fur mare pradentisl Tazsony, but the Chriutian man came into the relalop o a citizen with the foeling that the Governmey was perpetuatod by & divino power. Yo fuw was like tho Ark of tua Covenant. Ho waylq work for tha preservation of tho Btate thny through it he might labor for tho cauve of drath. justice, pesce. The relations of civi), religious, aud’ governmental life sproad every. Whero, ‘They were lke tho air that was Lreathed. Lat the influences of the biate Le ovil wnd they would penotrsta everywhero, ‘Lhey could uever be conquerod except by ae- atroying the causo itsolf, Lven the desire to rnurn his waterial prosperity, although not o highest motive, woald lead ‘man to be truo tobls duties sy a citizeu. Nothing laid clowor ralation which a Christian man sus! Btate. (3itizons mus: bo willin ;tadiacharga their por rooal dutles s ctizon.. The bese hnve ungnt bo &t tho foundaior’ of o Gorer»- mout, bub i good mom did mot take A personal interest and sharo n_respontibility in the sdmimairation of addire, tho Qovernmont nas lar fron rarfect. “The fdea of nmveraal snffrago in thin oountry hns oenn descttaced a4 a fatues. Bit s conld not bo aweerced with truth until the ot Litorrnty, of un- haid participa o1 i1 ths al. ment, [ would not bo woll to 1gaore 11,0 Man wao new fun poltitea, Thay mu-t be educated winlo they were watched, lost thoy rose wiih puwer and swept sway tho very rofud itiona of Uovern.nent. "ho verfect man woula not be & part| men would have tis sippo-t, thy muet a policy of tightcotsnoss, Tha tody of conduct. ing Uovernmeutal affaira othorwiss bad beon proved over aud ovor agama. Ono of tho memorable instauces in this dav was tho bistory of the Napoloonic dynasty in France, What did oy earo for rehieousnest? They said, ovon if Fianco wantaken awny from whem, Parin wna the most boautiful city in the worid, and that bread wan ouiy two sous n loaf. And vet tho rosult was n Bedan and tho Franca- Pinssian war in all its horrors and met sl ita atlendant dirasters. Oftcn examples might havo boen ndduced, but the fack was sulliciently pate ent, Tho Christian shonld be {n the caucuses, at tho primaries, and shoutd tako au active interest in the making of platforms, Having dono this consAentiously ; having livod an active Chris- tian lifo in tus daily affairs, ho had not departed from Christ. Tis was tho perfect manhaod, standing in tho midat of oarthly affars amd performing earthly duties, and yol not being dofiled thercby. If peoplo lack inapiration they should do their dnty with fear ana trem- bling, and at last receivo tho reward In tho groct- ing * well dons, thon good and fmthful sere vant" It thoy did this, then would tha earth yiold her mnciense, and God. even our own God, would give thom His blesaing. e THE ORIGIN OF METHODISM. BRLTCHES OF 1TS ¥ TNLEBS, To the Editor of the Chicago I'ribune Curcaao, Nov. 5.—Wa fully agres with your I8t correspondent, that mon now judge prac- tically. They cara little about discussions as to tho werds of tho post-baptismal service, or the particular beliof of how the reciplont Is bone- fited &t the macrament, or whether tho Calviu- fstte or Arminian, the Baptist or the Pedo-Bap- tist, bas tho advaotago in contraversy. They look not to the theories of things, their orthodoxy, thelr barmony with other truths, or their remote logical coneequencos, but to their results, And that religious commupion will, in the long run, most commend ftsolf to Americana wlich dis- plays tho pgrostest eflicievcy In winning souls to Christ aud to downright bouesty, which proves, by s firm grasp of it spiritual conqueats, thoe stability and force of its methods, which makes men * meon,” and not merely bigots or spiritual invalids, which shows mastorly boldness iu grappling with that spocial chiaracteristic of our time, an ever-widoning and over-dooponing knuwlodgo of naturo, and which has vital power and clasiicity enough to adapt iisolf Lo all sorts and couditions of weu, aud to tho ovor-varying nocessities of modorn life, So alyo practical men will facs the whole quostion of divisions, and will 1usist that they shall bo- come much fower, if they do not disappear en- tirely, They mll frown oo all secessious and all multiplicstion of divisions. Thov ace beginning t7 seo the morbid aud abuormasl character of thess divislous in the ultra-individualism, cul mioating in the lupatio asylum of Blanchard Jerruld's Latetia, where each maa ta ked to hini- soll, laugued to himself, and, although sur- rounded by compantons, took no heyd whatever of one of th:m; overy man thoroaghly alouo, Tho veoplo are t.red of conwroversios ab ut triles and sore perplexe! that tho Charch of Curist should romain distractod and broken into slmost numberless accts ond divisious, I'hey aro beginning to insist upon nnity of faith snd vne vigible Cliristian brotherhood. Until this #ball be secured, Ciristisnity cau make but elow prouress. Indiffereace, doubt, and skepticism will impedo the fiumu of vur holy religion in the fut.re an in the past, Toat civeorvatiem of thougnt, which is taa bilance-whecl Lotwaan all ox reiues, and which graws out of tho eduzation and in.elligonco of the people, is uumistukably teuding towards & united Chistendom. Evan- wolical” Alidunces, Old Catholic movements, Bonn Conforences, —all may fall, but they mark Drotress, aud - in the end the 8p.nt of the Luving God will unite all tue one caarch, ono Calst an brotherhaod, How this spirit for oue body crops ont among tho woriung classes and the poor! Kor they abominats these oivisions as the causs of vart trouvles sod aunoyances to them and the.r (4m- thes, Tiis uaion spivit smong tho laborois in wlusirated by a cuiious tehic of the past, discoy- orod whea the o d pulpit of St. Audrew's Church, Puilaselpbia, was removed. A lotior was tound, put thero by the workingmen, in which they 8poke of the hard times, hoped fo- beiter, and **that peoplo may all becuno of ons mind (in roligi n) and worshlp Lord In minceriy aud truch.” * The Evangolical Alltanco, at ics Iate sos- #1a0 at Pittsburs, oxhibited a bagis for unity of faich and ritual in the recitation of tho Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer, Une of your corrospondeiga refarred to the Methodists as originally or in their early history o body witbout and notwithin the Churci. Who wan John Wesley? I'ie cbild or the father of tho Methudist system ? Who, under God, de- norves the credit of bis great work 7 Was 2 not tho Church founded in the DBritssh Islew, under tna Apostle Paul, which bas been fultilling the mismioa of its hesd, with more or loss etliciencs, to thspresont day? Who wasJobn Wealey 2 Tho 8u of the *learned, laborious, aud godly rector " of Epwo th, whose charchly wife taught Wa oy the Lord's Prayer as soon as he could spoak, ropeating 1t evory moroing and every night,—the #ouof s fatlier whuse thrca sons became clergymen the Church, who was 80 thoioughly imbrued with (ho Catholio system of ‘the pasi threo ceutaries that he sowmitted Wesley to the Communion whoo ho was only B years of age, aud Wealay bimuolfl aavs that, until be waa of the age of 10, ho biad not sinued away that ** washingof tho lloly Ghost" which he received 1n baptism, Whils at Charterbouse Bchool, which he loft at 10, ho read tho Seriptures dallv, said his brayers morning sud evening, sttending rogular- Iy the church aod catechetical inmtuction. Where did Wesley finish his educational coursa ? At a Church University, Christ Church Collogo, Ozford, whete be continued till his ordination, ovor faithtul at prayers, Herohs determined to devoto himself to the sacred mimstry, It was his own father who told him that ho mnst oot onter the minfstry, ‘s Eli's sous, o eat a plece of bread,” but for Qod's glory and man's welfare, and that ho must be thoroughly furulshed in Holy Berlptarea o thelr original languages. It was his churchly moller who wrote bim that sho hopod ¢ proceeded **from the operations of God's Holy Botrit,” who advised Lim tn ** ro- #olve to make 1aligion tho bualooes of your (his) entor upon a eerlous oxamination of (bimeelr) as to bis ** etate of faith and repentance™; who wrote, * Iadylse nothing, God Atwighty direct and bless you.” 1t was under Churoh instruction at Oxford that Wealey sut apart sn bour or two datly for religious “retirement, commanieatiug every week, ' watching against sl mn, whether 1 wnnl"nr dsed,” aud ** prayiog for inward hoti- Dess. 1t waa at 13 years of sge under Chnreh teach- fog exclusively hie recoived the conscinusneas of being eaved through faith in Christ, aud formad snabsotbing purpose 1o merve (ad and his fel- low-men, In'a lottor to his mother (1723) be wroto: ' Ism peisusded we ay kuow if wo are now in astate of salvation.” "It was under Church toaching that Lo bensme so decidedly averse to the doctnue of ** predsstination.” o anked (1725) * Tlowla 1t consistont with elther the Divino justicaor mercy? " Of what collegn was ho o follow for twentv-weven years ? which collego furvished kim oupport alt through bis laborious mimstry of evangeiization titl bie marriage in 17527 ‘Ibe Churel Collega of Lincoln, Oxford, Whera was ke malded to be the inatrament of guod to untold thousanda ? At Oxford, Dy what ageucy was be traied and bit enthuslam kindled which be afierwards used with such murvelous succesa? Hy tha agenoy of tha Church at Oxford. What concen- stated the fow glowing hearta which (lod's BpInIL biad touchied dutn & sociely, or contraternity ? 1t was Oxiord, Did they uttempt to invent new Practives of duvotion, of lutraduce auy? Noj wimply to uo and revive what the Chureh and they already bad. Did they, at first, refuse to Keek counsel and cencourugemeut from (ko Ihuhn“? Did they scek in vuiu? Was it noy “ith tho Bishop's 8xpress covcurrence that they Yeited the jails? Wes it uot with tho Bishop's own mdvice Johu Weuley deciined to I'""{, biruaslf 1o & rursl parsh? Did oot the Archbighop of Cantesbury give ¢ Wosleys the tavaluable advice, to which they sckuowledged ibeir indebtsducus as the sucret of their subse- of quent succasy, Dy not svend your thue iy o thls large Clristinn dovelopment shaa Hho | coutiviviey, Lub b altagking tho slivugluids of vien, and in moting prastical holiness " ? Ifad thes not thn tonudation of 1lornbesk and Lishop Boveridge tn such work ? In 1737 Wos- Iny declared that b vioan of fnstifization, ree renisucn, faith, aud of all tho doctrines techni- cally tormod thow of the tirat Metbolista, ha obtalued from the Articion and ITomilies of tha Canrch. Did not tho Oxford Methndinis quotn them continually in supnort of thew woaition? Weslav. a1 fus fatbor's curaco for theoo yoars, was tho falthfil Church ministor, Charles Weeley, bia brothor, and threa other studontis. attouded the woenly sacramont At Ox- ford. with whom John, when ho retnrned from Linenlnahize, hosrtlly united. This ascramontal tavninnty and conformity to the nsages of Cheiat's early Chuteh, gavo thon the' name of Methodists, Methodiam was bory intho Catholia practico of weekly communion, Wao wars thess Oxford Methodists? Wero they not al the priduct of chnrchly tuition ? Who wny Rohaie Kirkham 2 Tho ron of & Glou- soatershire Church slargyman, Who was Wi liam Morgau ? A comatonor of Chrise Chureh. Rien- ard Morgan 2 A commaner of Lincaln Collego, Oxford. Who was Joho Olavton? An Oxford tutor snd candidito for Pricsts' orders, a High Chutehiman, Who was John Gambold? Tho ron of a I'riest of tho Church of England of Honth Walos, Aod Jamos tervev. the Literary Parish-Priest ? Also the ron of s country cler- gy¥msan of the Charch, And Thomas Broughton, tho faithful Becrotarv? A member of Iixoter College, Oxford, Kinchin? Fellow of Corpas. Christl, Oxford. Hutenins? Tutor of Lincoln, Oxford. Whitlamb, Boyes, Chapman, Atxinson, Hale, and Inzham, the Yorkshita evanvelst? Who also wore Flotclier, of Madelsy ; Grilith Jones, and Howell, Rectors amoog tho Wolsh ? Who were Whitafiold ; ‘Thompson, Rector of 8t, Genls, and Peronet, Vicar of §liocobam? Grim- shinw, Roctor of Hyworth; and Manning, Viear of kHayes: aud DBateman, Rector of 8t.Bartholo- raoyr tho Great ; Piers, Vicar of Bonley ; Meriton aud Boveridgo, Vicara of Everton ; ilicks, Vicar of We.tliogswotth ; Vonn, Curato of Olapham ; and Romamns, Rector of Bt., Andrew's, Ward- robo? Who woro Suirley and his Irish Curato De Coutey, snd Dr. Uoko, of Psiharton? Who was tho firss approver of Mothodism? A priest of the Church, Weslov'a father. Who wan tho second approver and patron of Method- fsm? The Bishup of Oxford, with hia Cusp- Ia, zoslons sons of the Churcl, tonaclous of bor docttinoaaud disciplino, indebted to hor under God fur their faith and their orders and for all that made tlethodiem what she was, and much of wont aho is, who gavo it power smong the people, and oot one of whom would for amo- meut have promoted it as the firstif ho had snppoeed it would lead to soparation fram tho Chareh,—no, not oven John Wesloy himself. ‘fue riso of Methodlam showa that the Church affordod theao men of God all the means of grace and oncouragomont they could dosiro, and that the Holy bjurit, through the Chureh, her hor macraments snd prayers, bad mads thom what thoy wero.—fair typus of what the Church would make all willing disciples. When they st rocorved orders thoy wore the samo self- deoylog, earnest cletgymon as years aftorwards, ‘faught by tho Church, thoy oudeavored to reacuo the yonug from ovil o.mpany, to instruct and roliove lmpoverished fawmilies, to teach chil- dron, aud visit tho workhouse, to_daily read in the chiapel to the prisoncrs, and to bring them to ropontance, prayor, and tho sacraments, 10 pur- chiase for them books, medicines, and othor nec- easarles, and to pay tho dedta of small amonnt of coufined dobtors, to preach to thom on Bun- day, and administer the Bacramaeat manthly, Waodloy was fully as much of a Cliristian st this tinjo ma afternnrds, whoo lLe bocnmo so- uaiuted with the Morayians, Gambold tells us that he uad bocome of childlike almplicitv; that he communod conatantly with God, aud often that he enw bim coming out of his closet of de- votion with a sercmity of oountenauce ihat was next to sbliing, nnd that {bo sweet conrolastons of God soldom left him. Hlaudors nover raf- Had him. 1lis chatity to tho poor was limited oulv by the meaus at his command. and ho would sell his picturos and otber suportluities for thoir bonefit. The Bible was lis Bouk of Booia. Ila consldered *‘religion as an autivo 1nward nd outward couformity to onr Master," oM wan Wonloy in 1724, " Waa lie n batter 4 ey man after his scquaintance with tho di.tastans? Ilow d.d hia friends canduct thomaelves—all churchmen aud brod under tho tuition of the Charen exclumvoly, then called Mstbolists or +The Holy Club"? We ara told by a1 auttiori- tion thint thoy ** did nothlug withont & provious poicoption thatit was the wil of Uod," every nigbt and moruing spending an hour in privato praver, slwayd pnvm%ou roing o and out of churah, thres davs in tho woolt praving [n con- cort, habitualiyoffored up short payers for hu- militv, fail hope, and Tove ; usod to collect avery day at 9, 12, and 3 o'clock ; ombraced evory possiblo opportunity of doing good aud of pro- vouting or reinoving evil. ‘Thev spent an hour daity induec toligious conversation with the people. ‘fhoy persuaded all thov 02uld tonttent public prayers, sermons. and ascraments, aud to oboy tho laws of tho Chu ch Catholic and tho Cuurcb of Eugland, They rofralued from spoak- ing uvnkindly of suy one. Theycommunicated evory week, They had only ous rulo of judg- meut as to tempers, words, and actions—the oracies of God, ‘Ihov wero Biblo Christiana, The Book of Iomihes thoy highly eatsomed, Wanlov savs: **'Lliey ware in the strongest senso High Churchmen." Hora Iot me fuquiro I tue foregoiog deacription of properties constl- tute High Charchmen, if it wera not well tho whole world were such? And, also, kindly to nsk if thers ia really any improvement upon the condition aml usofaluiss of thoso Methodist High Chuichmen by avy roligious Lody of the prasent day ? 1n 1484, when tho tirst publlo attack was mads upon the Oxford band, it was for austerity and nigid fusting and tho sicknuds and doeath of Mor- gan, ‘Thelr defenso states that thoy havo *‘an ex- coltout direotor,” the Rector of Epworth, sbo v- g vow much Methodism is indebied to him, aud that hoadvisd that there ars Lhres poiats to which thay muast adbare : (1) Visiting and re- lieving the prisoners and the sick, giving sway Biblos, Pravor-books, sud * Tho Whols Duty of Man ™ (2) weskly commuuion j (3) observing atric.ly the fnts of the Charch, Tyorman statea (174:) that *« it is & grossmis- takes to 1magine that shis (the wbsolute need of the intluence of tho Holv Ghost), with its cog- nate (rutha, was not discovered and emoraged by Wosley uutil hls meeting with Petar Bohler iu 1738." ° Wesloy himeelf eays, ‘In 1765, that the sermon preached in Bt. Mary's, Oxford, in 1734, coutaned all that bo theo (1785) tanght s to *‘Hulvation from !l sia, and loving dod with an undivided heart.” From the principies of 1733, befora be saw the Dloraviaus, he teils us ho ‘*nover varied," 1783, Wesley {ssued ** A'Collection of Forms of Prayer for Evory Day in the Woek," originally in- tended for his colloge puptle. 1734, before tie saw tho Aloravians, wo find him preferring Oxford to endeavoring to be hla fuiher's successor at Epworth, with olner rea. soun, bocauss ho bad the ** privilege of public prayer twico a day sud of weekly communlon,” and that ** thers wan room for charity in all it forms, poor families o ba relloved, cluldren to be educated, work-houses and prisons to be vislt- od,” and **the good mdvlco of . . tho goud Bishop and Vics-Chancoltor.” Iu the last loiter Lis fatber ever wrote, ho Baya: apirit of Christsanity, beyond what I Lavo hithorto kuown, seems to bo raised among toera ’lha peopla of Lpworth); ona proof of which is iu the greator irequency of tho sacra- menta.” During 1734, Weslsy walked 1,000 miles on foot, coustantly preaching and already acting tho parcof a chureh ftimerant. This was beforo he was any thing but & mimple clergyman of the Chutch, and befors he saw tho Morav| . When Wesley clung 8o tensciously to Oxford, it was his brother, the Rev. Bamueél Wesloy, a true prieat of the Church, who told bim, ** It is not a college, it 18 not & univereity ; it s the order of the Church. aceording to which yon ara called ;" thus insisting be should tako s parish, that Lo bad mworn to bs ‘‘nota tator, but a wipister of Christ." 1745, Dr. Unrton wished & minstonary for Qeorgia, and fastened upon Wesloy, \Westoy, full of that spiric the Charch bad “wiven him, wan ready to go. but he mus: cousult his frionda, When bis widowed mother hesrd of it, she re. lied : ** Had [ twenty sou should rejoice it B.my were sll#o employed. bis was before he saw the Moraviaus, aud while he was simply rieat of the Charch. When Wealey embarked, ho book with Lim 510 coples of n troatins ou the Lord’s Bupper, Cliarles Wesley, another pricst of the Cuureh, and Benjsmin fugham, fired by zeal for souls, went to ‘o their Master's will, No mislonarnies ever went forth in whoso liearts throoled o truer zeal than fa theso pricsta of tho Church, Beforo Wealey wan [nfluanced by the Moravi- ana (1736), whet was bis courso a¥ s taissionary of the Church ot 1 nd 2 Hin fi-56 seimon was ou two death-bod scauci—that uf Lus father at Epworth, and the other at Savaunal, Ho of- ficiated at U in the morniug, ut 12, snd agein tho afternoon, aud administerod the Lord's Bup- por every Buuday aud holiday. He visited hie paristioners 1 ‘ordar, from housu to houwo, spending threo bours each day, Whitetield, who succeedsd Wesley ag tbo Cburch of England missicnary in Georgis, do- clared that #*the good Ar.John Wesioy has douo in America 18 iuexprensible.'” It1s suserted that Mr. Weslsy deolared that wheu he went to Amerlca tocouvert the Tudiaus, Lo was not himself convertad. It is truo that he was much depressed at thu soroyances ho ex- bencuged 1 Gugrgle, aud Wiy, a4 Lo aduits, affected by the mystic: - pouded {n'after years in which hy sava: * Lam not fure of this," & e, that ha hot convarie before lie 1w the Moraviana, taen cacth hes over been convocled, Il conacien- tiona_soverity in Judging himaelf by the stand- n'd of naperfect Chiisttan, and his views, modi- fled br the mystics, made him unoasy, Inan- other 1 Iaco ho nay * Alionated as 1' am from tha lifo of God, 1'am a chuld of wrath, an hoir of hel!™ Mat yoars afterwari ho muached the notar “Theiteve uot.” Weslor was simply Insty nud incautious in condemning nimsolf, on Ity returu trom Georgin, and o felt it fifty yoars nftonwardy. In o sermon written fifty vears aftor his ale loged convareion, ho declaral that previoun to tilis ha wam a3 a socvant” of (tod acceptad, and was safe, hut what ho at the tuns callad bin con- version way boing hanpy In knowing it. Dut the day aftor Lis rosuted conversion, Wesloy da- clared that bis chango was not great enoih, end liis faith not real. The noxt day hs waa *fn heavinex,” and the day thereaftor thora was n +‘wantof joy." ‘Threo days thereafter “ God lud ilis face.” flow was Wesloy thus embarransod ? o saiil from his beink_watned feom early lifa ngaivat Inving too much stress wpon works, and from Calvinietic authors whoso indigeeted oxposi- tioua magnitied faith so us to hide all tho rest of the commandmonts. But how was ho roally dohvored? 1o eaid by reading churenly writora lika Doveridge, "Nolwon, and Taylor, and by intorproting the Bib'le by the gouoral Lonchiugs of tho anclent Chureh, But ho wad again confused by the mvystics, anl Bohler, as somathing of n myatia himaell, holped bun at first, hut afrerwards true and pormanent roliof came from the Churoh, as his dofenss of himselr a5 a good Churchman shown in hia tract publishod afior his ropnted convorsion, snd styled * Tha Dactrine of Satvation, Faith, and (ood Works : Extracted from the Homilies of tha Church of England,” Law very propecly naidto w"h{a: * Lot mo adviso you not to bo too haaly in olieving that becauso you have changoed your Ilanguage you have chauged vour faith. ' Thahoad can as easily amuso isolf with o liviug and justitsing faith in tho blood of Josus o8 with any other notion ; and the heart which you supposo to be s placo of sacurity, a3 being tho seat of eolf-love, is more deceitfil than the head." Mr. Hutton roplied to Mr. Weslay, whon ha eaid that flve days ago ho was not & Cliristian ; “Invo n care, Mr, Wesley, iow you despise tho boneflts roccivad by the two sacramonts ; if you have not boen s Cristian cver sivco I knaw you, you have boon a great bypocrite, for you miada us all betisva that you were one,” Tho ltov. Samnol Wesloy, his brother, said: ‘*What Jack mcans by bis not baln;lv o Christlan Ll kast mouth, I undoratand not, fad ho nover Leen in covonant with God ? ‘Then baptism was nothing. lad ho totally apostatized from it? I dare sav not ; and yot ho must oither be nubnY tizod or an apootats, to make lls words truo, 1f renouncing overything but fajth means rojocting all morit of onr own good works, what Protestant does not do that? Even Bollarmine ou hls death-boa in said to have renonnced all msrits but those of Chriat. Butif this renouncing ro- gards good works {n any other monse na bein; unnccossary, [t ia wrotchadly wicked, . . Qo doliver us from visions that'shall make tho law of God vain." Samucl asked bis brother what he meant by being mado a Christian, Jobn raplied: * By a Chriscian I mosu one who o beltevos in Christ ag that sio hoth no mors dominion over lim; and, In thig obvioua Bonso of tho word. I was not o Christian Jll tho 2ith of May last past. Tho witness of tha 8pirit I have oot, but I walt pa- tiontiy for it.” Of course Mr. Wesloy was uot a Christian in this senso, ueltbor before nor after the 24th of May, for ho was exceedingly unjust in spirit and tempor to Mr. Law aftor that. And after what ho called hin converalon ho had not you ““the witnoss of tho Spirlt,” Ho evidently was nudor mystic and that Moravian spirit which he afterwards rejoo'ed. Mr. Tyerman, emuhat- lrnu?' tho accredited Methodlse listorian of tho o; 2 It Wesley wam not converted no man on Wosioys and Molhodiam, mavs: * The roader will observe hers n etrango confession, whicl has seldom, it evor, boen noticed. Tho lctter from which tue above is takon was written Oot. 23, 1738, five months afier Waslay's convesio, ud yob Lio hero distingtly stated Inat, as vet, ha was not poasessed of the witnoss of the Spirit, but was waiting forit, This 18 contrary to the common- Iy received notion, snrl vot it lain porfect accord- ance with a remarkablo ontty iu bis journal, uo- der the dato of Oct. 14: “ I’ cannot find in - molf the fovo of God or of Christ. Hence mv dendocss aud wandorinesin public pravor ; hence it 18 that, oven in the boly communion, I have frequ eutly no more tuan cold attention. Agmn, I bave not that jov in the IHoly Ghost; no set- tled, Insting joy. Nor have I such peaco as ex- clades the possibility citber of fear or doubt. When holv men hava told mo I had no faith, I bava often doubted whothor I bad or no, [Yheso holy men who told Lim so, Wesley aftorwards acknowledges to bave been deceivors,] I biave uo: yet that Joy in the Hloly Ghost, nor the full urgncances of faith, Muolilese am I, 1 the full senso of the words, *in Cluist a new creature.’ " Aunother entry in Lis journal similar to this gccus under dato of Deo. 16, Bo Jun, 4, 1739, as followa ** My friends afiirm I am mad, becauns I sald T svas not n Cutistian & year ago. 1 afirm, I am not a Christiau now.” Indeod, what 1 might have bean I koow not bad I boeon faithful to tho yrace then given, . . Butthat Isam not'a Christing a% this day, I a8 assuredly know, ap that Josuais tho Christ. . . , . Thouga I have power, and do yive sll my goods (o feed the poor, I am uot a Christlsn. ~ Though I have eudared hardships, though I bave io all things deniod mysuif and takon up my cross, I am not 8 Christian, My works aro nothing, my sutfer- Ingn ata nothiog; I have not the fruits of the soirit of Cbrist. Though I have constantly used tho means of grace for twenty years. [ nm not n Chrgnah,” Mr. Tyerman says: * This {8 ox- tromolv pazzling.” d Samuol Wesley, Nov, 15, 1738, aaked his'brother *Whether be will own or disown, in terms, the nocosaity of a sensinle information from God af patdon?"—information received through the #onwsy, visiou, and voices, and the rampant fol- lios of the London Moravian: John rophod: *I bolievo avery Christlan . . . alionld pray for the witnessof (lod's Bpiric that hetsacbild of God. This witnces, I-belleve, is uocessary for mv salvation, . . ., Does it fol- low Lual visions and dreams in gonoral are bad branolies of s bad root ?" Bamuel, March 26, 1739, arguod that the wit- oows of the Bpirlt is uot necessary to salvation, referriog to tho caso of baptized infants and to por=ons of a gioomy constitution, Wesloy replied that bo knew of this great chango ‘being wrought in slesp, or by ropre. nontations of Christ oo the cross, and persons slmost mad being brought in a moment into lasting peace, that it has been grantsd 1n dreams, May 24, 1738, he received the senss of the forgivenoed of aivs, and montha sftermards ho deolarod that ho was not a Christian. Had ho lost the sense of forgivoness, or waa ho oxtravagant in hia ideas of the witness? If ho waa without it at the boginning of 1739, when did ho obtaje it slfterwaide? Whon was ho really convarted, 1f ever, in his sonse ? Tho Mothodist historian very naturally nsserta: “The simpla truth meems to bs thas, whilo Wealoy heard much among the Moravians that was Horiptural,-he also heard much that was othorwine ; '“"'K"" more attention to these experiences, boih in Kugland and Germaoy, tuag was Jnlnbla. or for his good. His Ligh opioion of the peoplo’s piety mado it easy to believe oven many of their fool- ioh’ statoments, He got {nto s Iabyrinth and coutd hardly tell whera ho was, Months before, he had believed in Christ to the saving of his soul; snd yet now ho bitterly exolaima that ho in nat s Christian, Ho was for e scason bowil- dored with the brightuess of great truths burst- ing forih for tho first time on his vielon. and with the distracting glare of roligious teatimo- nios—naw, but yet earmest and eincaro—of importance, and vet mized with mnok that atical and faolisb, Out of such a maze neat man bod to fiod - his way as bie bost Wi thus e could. It ln still farther seon what complate posses- sion the fanatica hiad of Mr. Wesler by referenco to hia vislt to the Cantinental Moraviaus, where they refused him tho eacrament, as ¢ Lis Lead had gained ascendenoy ovor his besrt.” Zinzen- dort ordored Wesloy # to dig in the garden; and after Wealov bad beon (liers for some time, working in hls shict, and whou ho was {n a bigh state of perspiration, the lordly Count ordered to entor a carrisge that was waiting, to pay 8it to & neighiboring noble, Wesloy naturally wished towash his handa sod pnt on bis coat, but s pracoptor furbade him, saylng, * You tuat be eimylo, my brothor.' Wosley was simple ouough to obey the maudate of a man profeasing great bumility, yet allowing (Lo pretenatons of his foudal prids to rot aside tho mcokuess of his professed piaty.” Aftor Wesley's return from Horrubuth he cawmonced organfzing hauds, wivh their un. guarded confesviouals, and 1 1% to Le wonderod & that, with tho projudicos previously engea- dered, and this puperadded fostute of “the uaw movenvat, 8o fraught with objections, that bhe eays that Lo was pot permitted to preach in London 2 Tu it not » matter of surprise that, ss 1.0 uaya, ** thera are othors left wherein we bavo liberty ta speak tho truth sw it 1a o Jesus " ? Iliseyes wero graduslly openlng aato the cluim of porfection on the pate of tho H:rru- Luthers.s fle wroto to tbem: ** Do you not usy guile and disgimulation o mauy cases? Aro younot of s cloze, dark, reserved tewrs: and bobavior?" o was doliverad from his fanati- cism by tesuming his church temching, ae not Mothodinm theu cradled in the Chnich ot England 7 Fod by hor sacraments ? Method- i7ed by hor orderly roligioun lifo, Wid down in her prayer-book ? ~ Not_ onlv enconraged, but durectad, by her Dishopa 7 Afforded a homn and 8 atarting-place tn her beantiful religionn housea for stady at Oxford, built and enduwed by Christinun of olden timo for snch purtoses ? Givon by tho Clhirch horsolf tho very meot. of mubairtones oy which they could do their wark ¢ !an tho fact aver bs oblifarated that Methodism aroso and was foetered withinithe Church of Ene giand, and that not until it Jeadors went sstray into foreizn pastures wors bulldingn of their own Chureb closed ngainat thom and tho !\xpfl:orlol tho Luglish Bislopa withdcawn ? . K, e WHITTLE AND BLISS, CLOSE OF TIEI LANORA IN BI. PAUL. The work of thoss CGiospol mesrengors in 8t, Paul jasted dunng five weaks, and the rosults wero eminontly satisfactory and far groater than aniletrated, Ou tho last Bunday of thetr Aty Prof. Blies began hLig Iabors at an early hour and thoy wero contintied almo«t unremittingly all dav. At 10 o'clock o sang tor tho hoys at tho roform school, delighting - their oara with such songans ** Daro to Baa rmflsl." ' Oaly an At- mor-Tlearer,” *1 Loyo to Teil the Btory,” ant * The Trundin-bed Song." 1o also gave them 8 word of advice, applying each hymn as it wag sung, The boys keeined espocially ploasod with ** Tho Ninety and Nino " aud *'I'he 'Trundlo-bad Song,"” many using their handkerchiols froely whilat its tones foll upon thoir ears. Ono soorot of Prof. Biiss' power with thls ciaea s the sxpo- rience of both bis boyish and manhood life, in their having been and bning passed away from Lomo. As ho snoke to the boys and told them Low he biad Jots his fattinr's houso whon quite 8 1ad to earn his own living, and bow he could understaud their foclings oven now, because his itfo-work took bim wo much away from homo, the ayipathy which Lo showed with the circum- stances of (hose tb ‘whom ke spoke evidently improssed them with greater force, bocanse they saw that he could enter complotely iuto their feaifngs. In the aftornoon, at 8 o'clock, he went into the County Jall, and thore held a like servico. ‘Che men gatliored from their colls to ono end of Lo cotridor,'and listened to the music of these grandly simple, littlo ** Old, ola story" mongs, evidently with tho greatest ploasure, Bomo of thom could join a littio in somo of tho chorusos, and it muat be a comforting thought to Mr. Dlies that ho Las baou onabled, during his visit to 8t, Paul, not only to sing tho Gospel to so many bouses, but that those uafotunate enough to bo sick and in prison, or from whatevor {nflu. once uuable to o and hear theso swoot straing in tho more publio placos, hiave had tus music coma to them, noverthotoss, snd havo boon en- tertained nnd blessod thoraby, ‘1he men's praise meeting, on Tnosday after~ tioon, at tho Opera Iougo, waa very fully atteud. ed, avery sbat exoent thoso 1 the upper gallery, belng filled, nod many standiog in difforont parts of_the boneo, Mr. Bliss oponea tho mesting with prayer, after which ** Lull for tho Shoro * was sung, Ar. Croen lod fu prayor, and_Mr, Whittle then rend and commouted on the 116th Psalm, Ho said sherae in & * bocauso " in every man's pratso, Here tho psalmist put on rocord his **becausa " *ho bhath heard my supplication.” And we could pralsa God even for * trouble and sorrow,” a3 in the 3d and Ith verses, if {t brings us noaror to Cntist, or leads us **to call on tfin name of tho Lord,” 'Then, from the Gth vorse wo leam tuac holp {8 conditioned on humibty. “1 wns bronzht low." ote. Notico how tho 12lh and 18th versos teach of the _duty and nannerof gratitude, **\Vhat sball I fonder unto the Locd for atl Hiy bonsfits toward me 7" tho ques iou ; *'I will take the cup of ealvation and call upon the namo of the Lord,” the nn- sner. Aftor tho singing of **All bail tho power of Jeaus' name " the congregation, and ** My Fathor'a Bible," by Prof, Biiss. Maf, Whittlo ro- queatod that the t.mo be spent in short tosti- monies tothe goruness of God. He eaid tnat some of his must ploarant hours (e 8. Paul Liad been spent in:the Habbath aftorncon men's wooting, and ho desirod to boar 1w this closing sarvice tho voicos of many who should prales God for 1lin great Balvation, Ouo hundred and five jose in anawer to this request, Men of all agas, from tha vory youug wan £ the venorable fa:ler, testifying of tho eulvation of Godin Christ Jesus, Those who wors coming to the ovening Gios- pel mesting, began to gather almost immedinto. ly atcor the aftorncon meoting dispscsad. Thero wore persons in the hou:a st 0 o'slock, aud as 7 tue housa was fuil, every-seat excopy thone re- aerved for the convorts, bewg occupied, and nuodieds alieady standiog up. The olbor meetings in the prayor-meoting room, aud in the Musio iall, wero also spoedily fill led, and thon hundreds, sud doubtless, aven thousands, Wous away, unable, not only n)t to find standing room, bui to tind entrance, the crowd beforo the daoe extonding a long way into tho strost. ‘Those who have aconptad Chrlst duriug thoso epectal mootings wero admitiod by tiokets, and seats reserved for them uutil twenty minutes past 7, ‘Three hundred seats wore thus kopt, and neatly all silied, tho number of tickets issuod belng 236, After praver by bimsolf upon the word af God as It was to bo preachied, MaJ. Whitcle announced his toxt trom the lat chapter of Revelation, Gth and Gth veraess * Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from onr sins {o Hia own blood, and Lath made u4 Kinga and pricats usto God and His Fathor ; to Him bo glory and dominion for. ever aud aver," He said this 18 the ssorlption with which John opens tho Dook of Rovelation. The figure Is taken from the Oid Toatsment, aud wo must look back thero to understaud Ic. 1t {8 found in the 8th chapter of Leviticus where tho account s given of the washing, anointing, aud sacrificing in the consaciation of tho bigh priess, Nntice bow, afior the sacrifico Lad bgou offered, $no blood was put upon the hands, the feet, and tho ear of the urleats to bo convecraiod, This was to show that hencefor. ward their fest wero to he swift lo run on er- rands in God's work ; thoir hands cver ready to do His bidding ; thofr oars ever intent to hoar His messago. ~ Aud afterwards they entered into the boly place and oat of tho holy bread and of the sacriflces. All thouo thiugs wore intended to teach un of Christ; all typea and flgures to polut to Him. Ok, dear frionds, can't you seo -God wants our Learts, and Ho gives tho salvation to win our hoarta? Ilo'll keap those that come to Him. Don't try and keop yourselves, Don’t be in tho attitudo of the man who Is trying for dasr life to cling witls both Loods to a rope by which he is eing drawn into tho lifoboat, but bo like one on the deck of a stroog ship. You're resting in thie mighty lovo of the Son of God. Hold on to God's word ; every word is brue, Yo may not understand muah " that you flad thore, but God il open 1t to you, When a boy atschool mmly- Ing anthmetio, I remembor nvor{ little whi whon puzzied over a sum, I lhought I had caught tho man who madé the arithmetiojna mistake, but when I got ‘a littla further along [ fonnd that the bluodor waa in me. Bo is it with » like childish foolishoess, mon think tbat, be- ©cause they cannot understand all of God's word, thoy have discoversd s mlutake in God's srith- molic, but #Hon thoy got a littlo further alon, thoy will discgyer their torrible mlstako. May God kéop you all anchored in His blessed word. * And'nover mind about tho messengor which brioge you the message. I shank my God that I have baen the measengor in this city mith tidioga of peace and joy, but I've only been like tho E::mmn, who comsa to s house and rings the ball, and handa in a lotter from a loved ons with somo plece of good news, e ELSEWHERE. A MORMON KVANGELIST. 8pecial Dispatch (o The Chieapo Triduna, Broomxaton, 1L, Nov. 7.—J. Morgan, sn ovangelist of the Mormon Church of Utsh, lec- tured at Durley Hull fo-night on the Mormon faith, He is sent out by Brigham to convert the people of {llinols, Kentuoky,| sud Tennesses to the new light. Helsa pleasant speaker, Hin mieslonary work begins hore, and will be kept up Indefinitely, 1Ie is & guest of his father, ngo liven 1o Normal. DEDICATION, Specral Diavaleh tu The Chiago Tyidune, Quincy, IIl,, Nov. 7.—The buildiug fuss com- pleted in this city for the 8t Boniface Catholic school was dedleated to-day with appropriate ceremonted, ‘Tho building snd grounds bave coat about 75,000, Bishop Baltes, who was ex- pucted hero to conduct tho dedication ceremo- uics, was dotalned st home by sicknead. MICHICAN UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB. Srecral Lunateh to The Chicaga Trivund. ANN Anuos, Mich., Nov, 6.—I'he miudents] of Michigan University organized a boat club to-day with sisty members, Boatiug {s & now feature at this wwetitution, Huron iver, the ouly water in thls vicinity, not having been -npxuled here- tofore -dnmnd to this sport ; but the city alub Intely organized baa discovered that the facilitios for rowing aro ae good hers sy at Coruoll or Princeton, @reat ootbusiadts pravails smong tue students over this prospective outlet fur their good feetings. Bhells will ba purchased and proctice at once bogun, The President of tho Associution is Ban T. Cuble, ol Rock Inland, Ik ; Becrotary, Yrauk . Ferauson, Buftslo, N. Y. 1 Captaln, f W, Corwin, ‘LLis last geatlviuan 13 a6 capesionced boatsman, THE DEVIL, His Blography ns Sketehed by Moncure D, Conway, Ho Scems to Have Originated in a Por. sian Fablo, " Notes of HIs Traits...Jio Appears tp py Always Lean and Hungry, Mr. Moncurs D. Conway loctured Iargo mndlence in McCormiok IIan ortr‘“ The Darvil." 1 ho leclorer, who 18 & gentloman o ngo, {all, sparo, full-bearded, and m.mn;;.'f[ifg & plossant mannor and casy delivory, was gresh ed hoartily when he camo forward to the dest, Ho did not kuow of any rosson why childre, should not bowtheir hoads vespectiully whan th: namo of tho dovil was montioned, Probing b; noath the surface ot Plitology, thoey woylg dis covor that demon and delty wera origlna)) synonymons, ‘fhe Latin word Deqas way corrnpty : in the English dcnice, and the Egyptian desi) wy regarded ag 8 God, In rome copiea of the Biiblo thoy fouud the curfans injnaction, 'vnm t not ba afraid of auy biugs by night » 'xf"" nlmrly A contraction of the ‘war I;Ih‘(lh oy with which ail childron wore familiar, Dealzebay nl';tud to Boal, aud, in short, alt such wordy -33 :filn‘ill“.n“' when fuventigated, showaa B rogulsy m{:‘ niy\elunrly ‘“ntna ;‘hu |nllegml fall heaven was faagioaren s on in a iteral sy befors 5 Featerdsy, of angoly took nin daya in. taliing," P wan, naturally, rather hurt by the fall, mfy‘pmd Soming ddown, foll upon hia foot, ‘whish oo as tho Vi o causo of his cloveu hoot, [Langh. . rimitive man fonnd himself enconnf Naturo a will aotagonietic to hiaown, ufli'&ffi himeelf surroundad by strango inflnoncos, unlfch ho clasnod na aplrits.” Man had lived to Jor bottor, Tho crowd of goda and Roddengos of the Pagan AZo8 ware now rogarded the mythology of Nataro, They had outlived thefy udt 8 histos Bive mind of man, 7 of the progres In nono of tho earlier aacrod books fud & dovil—s being apecially and " solol mulignant—a creaturo of unalloyed wickadness Evorvthing then {n roligion ‘was figurative, Clouds wora dencribed as flocks of BWADS, ané tho lightning was clasaod a8 a fiery morpant Those 'suspes wora concelved of simply a r:uwg:: n‘xj ufl:lrlcus. Each waa halr 002, and or bal 0 reverso, —somoti nnq somotimes henomin:’ man. o8 ABligthng T'o rorson why thero waas no devil in the early books was hocauva nono was noded thea, Thy fml:n ;onalduufl lhlahm:ulvruhu being quite equa 0 emergoney that might ariso in wifikutrlns;l. [{;znngl:mr.]z L ut when the bappy famlly of gods oddesses was broken up, mavy snlll‘lnlu t.:g aolions—tho deities and tho domons—boyh belng thon rogarded s forcos of altornate good and ovil, It was bold that tho demons—~fallen sugols—wero not wicked in their natures, but wero impolled to do ovil from a1 unappeasablo “hunger, oven aas tha shark follows Its pray to satisfy what unturalists cal a0 insatiabia appotito, not from any natural cruoity of disposition, Aoy harm douo by the domona was considered as incidental upon theis appotite. The suporstitions, to sprenss them, oifercd gifts, whioh led to the oarly sacrifiecs, such as whofs burnt offorluge and’ matiers o that description. To tho sucients the delties o1 presged all that was ploasant, tho domony ali that was unplessaut. The = former frepro- wonted munshioe, the Intter munstroke. The first mentioned roprossnted soreno ekics, the demons reprosentod ghe thundor and the hght~ iug, tho 5irooco and she toruado. Primitive man tound bimself bcin't by the obataclas of Naturs, and it was only when his oiind became moie do- veloped, and when ho Arum}, bimaelf to oot with enoh difficntties, that his mind becamy alearer on tho sabject of thio saporoatural. Fi. nally, aftor mauy ages, ha succeedod 1n reducing a1l thosa obatacios which crowded on his Infancy iuto one grand whole of nupleasantness, name. Iy, tho dovil, ‘Thia waa tho s1m and substaucs of mau's enrly idoa of natural obstaclos, For gonorations man won a_precarious livell hoad from the hard bosom of Nature. He looksd aronnd and saw all eroation about him hungry, Tlere seemed to be a apirit of hungor abrosd, I'ho birds and fiahes appearod to be 8o eanty, nan camo to the conclusion that thers wers ins %usible and voracious bolnga abroad, who waoted overything for themeolves, and devoured overy thing witio bis reach, Thuathe dragon and the ghoul—~tha earliost nainted forme of the dsmong —had both Immensely-developed moatbs, showiog the ides ol intenso vorulk{. Tuo vampiro was chiefly s Slavonio superstis tion, bat it extonded into’ Germany, and to soms diatricts of Prussia a corpse {a nover buried wish out plenty of food in tho cofiin so that it may uot ariso to proy upon the living, This idea bad oyen roachod the eulightened shores of America, Not long ago, & Mr. William Rose, living In Rhode [slaud, had the bady of his daughter dug conld they uP and hor heart ocut ont, eo (thai elio might drink the blood of the living membors . the familyl This was considered epocific {n family consumption. In fact, the bomely name hobgodlin—of Dritish origin—aimply signitied a ghoss that gobdled. lLlnghter. ‘When the Britiun officors went to ndia to view tho solar cclipae, the natives kin- dled fmmensa firea for the putpose of blotiing out the eun, no that tho forelgners might not atoal it. Tho ofiloers, however, trampled out the fire and revowed their work, 8o might enlightonment over trample upon orror and superstiion In am; land, 80 that sclence might prospor. [Loud applaues.} The nativos also threw out Into the strest every articts of food In thelr housos, In order to bribs o devil not to stes! thoir mun! [Lavghuwr.) A utrange thing sbout the wholo master was that dovils woro alwaya described as lesn. WWho- over hoard of a fat dovil? Bhakapeare putioto thie mouth of Cresar his comment on * lean Cas. elus,” and added, **8uch men sre dangerous. Maro Autony attempted to defond Casaius, but tho great conquerorreplied : ** Would he were {at- tor!" flrufi?&\lghwr. Argan fables made devila out as beiog fair to look at in the frout, but hol« low in tho' back. Some of them wers so thin snd 80 hollow that they cast no shadow. ‘T lscturer weut ou to onumorate the diverss suparstitions of many countrics, acd enid tbat, in the Enst, the plaguo waa voneidorod & domon. Bo ternible was the fear orested by it that the natives lay down to dio in “abject cow- srdico. An rastorn fable tells Low 8 travelor met s woman on tho way- eldo, en ronta to Damascus, I o aakod hior whonce sho came, and ehe replied, et o, G S thousand people lia dead in the & lmu&, lththfll\: 1 have slain 1,000, and fear killod all the rest.” Tho ides of tho prosont dovil first originated in Persin, where tho philogophers consider htnu" the uoiverso wuhmvu{led :ntn ostile camps a great wall, beld by a npodbyud tho other by s dew! Once invented, the devil mado rapid o'ad [ll;lu Litor.] Iieocould notbe lald It nludvu i n!}nityo all that was bad in nature, o e favosian l; dxsiis for t‘nh‘ m;dm?. | l;-:: b ter, the Iatter ot of y mig lhbu conside ma"‘l romarkablo Buccess. Lnuphter. L In the B‘])ok of Job thero was not ound-:ir!i of vl againat the moral claracter of the 'm (Laugh Ho s slwsys mentioned will & reapect, and if aoy lawyerd “":z ‘;"ih . present woutd excuse him, he might say ‘I“ ‘d b devil figured in the Old Testament as a kin prosscuing atior Ttoars of lsughtor.) - Tbo lecturor, st this point, showed l!:m ekotches of {ho devil, which wera very 6L ooting, Ho desoribed all about the ‘nl: poss babita of those demouns, £ created great morrimeut. Mephistoph ] bad been made to say, in l‘l\:au, when tho people were culinf‘ for mon"l'ntl.n y not unfamilar at this day, ** L'll get my 5 ”‘; [:iuu mg glv; l:m]phnly of papor moues. augliter and choecs, ‘1'!.5 residue of the lecture went to. oonvSy ..‘.':'. iden that thera was no persons! devil, sn: e alt good men, who Iabored faithtally wmnm thelr kind, would meet thoir rewsrd, n: iz bow many demons stood betwoon the oternity, [Long-continued applsuso.} D ————————— CONDUCTORS' BROTHERHO0D. Attaxes, Ga., Nov. 6.—The con?lwé\m Brotherhood adfourns to-night. Onn'u e Conductor Oruzen, cf Crestiine, 0. b4 lled, sud W. L. Collios, of Horoellyvi a.a ;Y v.’. elected 1n bLis place. ““"‘fi,‘,‘}' i hiet 5 + Long, e Troasu- . M. Dradley, of Allsuts, Grau :‘-':7-' C",.Kn”,’f W heston, of 'Elunr;‘. ltg;’z;‘ Grand Condustor of Cefemonies ; W, I, B of Omabia, Graud [uside Seatinsl { Lu;fl: g Ter, of Catawisas, Ps., Grand uu}aldy o0 e M.'L, Buith, of Pittsburg, Vast Grsu e e osting willtsko place ca tha Tuesdsy of Novaber, 1879, st dTh‘ohm“wlll [ was s bapnuet lnss Dight, o two cam) _graad excuraion $o Flozida aa