Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1875, Page 1

Rl o 7 =i adnl VOLUME 20. CARRIAGES. . GARRIAGES. We beg to notify our triendsthat during the uext thirty days wo will sell, nt greatly reduced prices, our entire stdek of FINE CAR- RIAGES, comprising LANDAUS, LANDAULETTES, CLARENCES, COACHES, LOUPES and COU- PELETTES. our GLASS-FRONT Landnus, for benuty of design, simplicity, gnd thoroughness In construction, gronnsurpassed; tho front belng wrt‘uccly Dbalauced by a Patent palance Spring, can with ease be owered and raised with one fin- oF ‘Wc guarantee all our work to be FIRST-CLASS, and to plcase in every particular, H, KILLAM & 0., g0Chestnut-st., New Iaven, Conn, _ PIANOS. PIANOS ON TIME, Wo soll first.olass Instrumsnts at very Prices on tho following terms: S15 month, romaindar ot tho end of ono ysar; por month until tho Piano is vatd” for; 50 cash and 120 por mouth ; $100 anah 4§18 par month, REED'S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, TP Yon Barcussty Chlcugo, "FINANGIAL. 1500,000" @4 srorag wonthly profit eatimated tn ha naid to dars of 05k Drivllogon oy varicas bankers (5 Wall-pt: L3001 Siesars. Alaxmadar Erutbliguen & Go.. 1 i beir st rrk, wha t inta poesnia & world.wldo raputetion i1y, uifer to sead gratni vusly forana (hatr Isancial Woskly ILopost, aud & buak esplalu- how sncws froin ten doliars 1o thowands toay uo fa- “Thowe who fnveat fitlo bavo toe saimo advantags cperatars, Hend fur telr woelly. —1in-tan Fost, B "Address ALEX. FROUTUINGI 3L & o, Dankars and Beokers, 12 Wall-aé., New Yrk, {AZARUS SILVERMAN BEBANIKEIZI. Chambor ot Commerce, C;;luu:u. Unases MONEY on Produce, Real Eetate, City Cer~ Eales, and Roucs, Excbango for aslo oo all purls of OES, 1ot Alr 18 the DEST, aud W warrant . T1ay Absfaction, BANGS BROY,, Btate atd Vin Biren-sts, REAL ESTATE. XFOR SALI? 14000, ACRES VALUAELE LANDS IN KANBAB Brdireciiun of the Hunorablo Seomtary of the Latorir, Benduuzad will recetvo bids for 1ho puechass ¥ty orali of tha nnvold Indn wast of the Neasho Hivor vag th wouthern lino of tha Kiate of Kensas embracu: w"vhul is gonerally kuown as 1o * Cuorokos lands arooffared forsals in complianco with the ot Ov'nrm % Approvod day il 1833, o, veb 331, P38 e b Efghoat biddor for cash, In quag: undred and sty ADi6, Al 266 ehore tor il of skid. Innds Iver, and ane doilat and hiig conis as lla west of eald river. (g tho aads' Lieveby offared for bdividinag, and ladicaiiog tha it i o trhot 14 liald, wil Ua sert il The Ladraes of 3oy porion faaking Appliceti Wkt o the Comamissloner af tba (enerat Lo Ofico, i e @ Jtaceivorof tha lucal odces sl /7 £ a8 rmuny traots raialy made Tourt b for 00s wmora | han uno Mundrcd and cuntorm 1 tho legal subdiriilony in Ist). i wutt ba achompsnisd Ly ten pec cent of tho et bidaas nlnnlgu of thag:1 | 'l!:llfll tuo blddar, ¥lied jum, 10 cavo the land ia h\(tnfi:d aud tho Lalsuco wtpald, will bo forfeited, thould any bid ba rejectod, B4 m 'daposited will be roturned to tio propec par Turite whoss DIy are aacepied whi o roitkod oF Meceplancs a3 0 opeltug of tho bide as pr soou after S snd {'within Toety daa witar such ‘aoi(ca b Wb malled parmant in full be ot mado u Lo als, o nin- {8y e Gonoral Land Uflice nf the amatint Lid 1aa000 wbioh wach bl was mado will bo again subject Theben per cent deporlt requized to sccompany bila b uiited In Pusc-Olice ordo s, caitificates of e. M ertified chicoks 0a #o; Ooverunent dapository itto tho ordar cf ‘the Ovmmisionor of tho benaral Ofep, or In corroncy. T righi o rofior iy aud all bids (s ospreasly ro- e, Midsmast bo gautod and sddrened 1o tha '+ Oom. v of tha General Land Uttlos, Warblugton) D, d todorvod 4 1ld: crokge Ktrip Lands, ! will by recolvad ae ‘invited ‘mtil 13 o'clack =;Mbh;tflmgmn day ol Novambar, 15, sfter which luiy opesed sud ac " P yunneTn 31t aud Uttice. 1), U..daptembe I, 15 O0EAN NAVIGATION TONN AND LIVERPOOL, ALY, 4] tau: Satarday, Doo. 4, at9s. 1, Efif‘ml 5& ;u;%:j’. 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Discourse on Sin's Place in the World by tho Reve No Ae Prentiss, of Aurora. Further Disoussion of the Religious Fducation Question by the Rev, E, F, Williams, Prof, Swing’s Pastorate Qver the Fourth Church Brought to an End. Moody and Sankey Again Excit- log Much Interost at Philadelphia, HENRY WILSON, BERON DY TAL REV, D, J. DURRELI. Tho Rev. D. J. Burrell, pastor of tho Weate minster Presbyterian Churob, preachied yester- day mominz on *IHaory Wilsou: His Life a Lesson for Young men.” The sermon was s Iollows : Ul Lord sajd unto him, Woll dons, thou good and fattutn) servant,— Vattheir, 228, 2 Wuilo the pablic hontt is in tnourning for Vico- Preaideut Wilson, it may not be swies in us to follow tho threng to his new-made zrave and lay our wraath upon it as a tribule due to the mem- ory of & mugabrly pure aud nseful life, On Monday morning last he awoke from a refresh. iug #leop, aud waas thounlit to be convaloscent : in half au Lour be wasdead. e uitered no *last worda," It waanot needful that he shon'd, for in all tho earncst years of Jife be had spokan as oon who atood near to the mysteries of the oternal world, We aro not called upon bere to entor into the details of his ovontful thres-zcoro years. His humblo birth; his four torms of *geliooling™; hiw shosmake:'s beaoh, which ho never waa arhmned of ; his patient wearch after knowlodgo uatil hio was rewarded with the titte of a self-mede man, & kinight of industry; kin publio service in timea that trled men's souls; bofors the War, whou Slavery stood, llke Camsar as the Ruvicou, with one foot on *‘Mason and Dixan's line,” yet liardly dariug to crusy it: dur- 1 ing the War, whon. both on the fleld and in coun- ctls of State, bo proved himseif o lover uf father- land; owd after tho War, wuoa the [utcrests of poaco wera ondangored by hatrads tbat would not lieal over, aud by bitter partianshup ; o all thage the record of Henry Wilson in matter of publio bistory; and tbat record ts his bese ouloginm, Iis works do follow bim. It isnat often that a public wervant drops off io tho midst of his officinl cares, as bo did, nith no dark shadow cuse acrosa bis memory, no fluger pointed at any chapter of xhama in’the etory of hus lito, Buch lives are 1ot so frequent nor puch dea:lis 82 commouplaco that we can al- Inw them to pass out of wighi without o word of what the old-time preachoers used to call “im- provomout.” Let us toen think of him firstin his official or political character. Just bofore bis death, ho called & filcod to his bedsido and romarked, “4 T live $0the close of 1or prosent term: of oftico thare will bo ooly tive ‘meu tn Amorican history whbo bave sarved their conntry so Jon, 28 [,"—=ho might have addod * or so faithfully, bad ho not been kuows ag well for lits modonty an for Wis patviotism. Mo was first brought 1nto Fubhc notico in tho campainn of 1840, avd 1o the vlluwing vear vas clected to_ tho Marrachusotts Trom that Limo nn- ul last Mouday morning he was s prominent etor w norrly all evoats of great natlonal son- coin. Hlo “wpover assumiod tho rank of & statesmon,—~that i, f grest iotellost or culture must bo rognrded na preroquicites 10 statcswanship. Ho was pecutincly wud dis- tinctivoly s pulitician ; butin the lmiger and bet- ter sonso, Lo was a politician o4 olutinguished fiom o demagogue. o wan what tho world han ruroly seen aml what 1t enee moro rarely vow thav ever, an honost po.tician. In u oslhug where Iraid and chicanory ura rogardod as indis- peasibls he ket bia hands us clonn aod bis beart 88 pure na Doalel at tho Court of Babyloo. Ho wais & pariisen ; vet in making ap appoiotment hio nevor asked what parly the applicant belouged to, but ouly whethor ho was honost, acd capable, and vatriolic. At the time of the groat ** Crodit Nonlier ™ ecandal, wlien 6o many of our trustod public functionaries wero fourd (to have been seducoa and shown of their bopor by tho Delilalia of the 1ouby, be, though sxpos:d to its hottest Ilren, camo oltt of the ord>al as gold buven times tried, Lot it o written upon hus tombetono that Le was & poltician, wsud (hat he Jived louestly aud dled poor,—s rara npluflh tor oue whosn years wors passed in tho Nazarollh of Ama:ican pubio ife, ‘I'he strongth snd ouvergy of his earlier man- hood wera «svoled to the abolitlon of alavery. He cotered 1uto tho struggle whon it scened ‘s torlorn hops, and * wve’er thought the v.ctory wou uor 1aid his armor down " till be heard tha belis ringing on the New-Year's dewn ol 1RG3. And yat, eninest as bo was, and singlo-oyed fu hin deaire for tho frecdom of the slave, be was known us the coonervative mombar ot tho (Old Gnard of Abohtionists, His hupe was not iu thy tude pikes that wore drann at Harper's Terry. nor in violanco of whatover sort, bat rather In the peao-ful arus of diplomacy and the batlot. In this eaily crusads ot llberty, wud during the ereater part of his subsoquent life, Le was tho frieud sud colleague of Charles Sum- war; ycb their patus widely diverged, though leadiug to the same dectinatiou. Bumuer wus avor » dreanior, an enthusisst, Ho lived in a world uf toeoiles, knaw litcle of humau pature, but much of buoks, was » despiser of partios, aud vet the mout ununmunmmnfi partisan our couniry eve: bal, hiipaclf borng s parsy, Lal no charity tor wiuds of a mary eacthily mald tnan bLis own, would biedk no oppo- sition, but, baving sot his faco like i, rode duas al before bim ke b mosa-trov; or of tio «ldou time, Now, in respect to ail these, hia culleasuo, Hoory Wilson, Wia of o diffecent sort, He was possessed of vo fiulul whatevey, ouly of plain comumon senss. He had mingles wiil hia fatlon-meu 10 tha bard strueglo of life tilt the sliarp poiuts of ogotism hisd bosy rubbed off, aud o Lad vecome, fn the true meaning of tho word, & dowoasat, & triend of tho peo;ile,—s man of iaige chaiiy und wleration, Whis Sumpuer was spinniug theoties of government, and build- iug cagitos 1 ibe mir, he wua bearing tae Leat and burden of prastical leygislatiun,—alwnyy a ractical man, & man smony men. And thousgh e solaom fuiled to catry hus point, yeo i doivg #0 his yavely nourred the ll-will of ihows who of posed bim, \nen, to the fact that he was su honest poliitclan, we sdd this also, that he was a feneraua pactivau, wa nesd not wouder that the mourng for his death has crossed all party bounaries, and cauts 1ts gloom over every sco- tion, aud throughout the land. Tae tlags in Kichitoond as well #a iu New York sro hangod at usif-mast. Tho people of sue South bLave wpecial remaon for lawmonting his takiog off, for durlug the Wer thoy had uwo ecuemy moro (rank saod hooor. able thau hu-i siuce (hou, uo friepd mors gonesous. It devalved upon Lim, i the dischiarge of b odleralduty, to take w prowmls pens par: in the solution of the troublesome prablem of * reconstruoton,” It was siways & gontle band that he Isd uron the healing soces of the War; and bis words were eves liks those of tue J'striaioh, ** Lot there be no strife be- twoon uw, fur we be bretbron.” Lot us add thea to his atber praisos shat Le was & psacemaker, 1e behieved .n the good impulses of meu ; apove all, b velioved 1 the voice of the pouple, not indeod aa thie voice of Gad, but as thovoice of sn oracle, » trustworthy oracle of government, Ia had uo * polioy,” no favorite rcheme o sdvance tor the vighting of all wrongs. s policy was 10 carry out the wiil of tho people, uud his only bus{vesy wau 10 obay the luatructions of Lus con- stituenoy. Ho was only aud aiways, tn theory aad pradtios, & repressutative. Ho was au ex- poosat of our peouliar form of Goverameah & tuler only by virtas of his willingness to serve: Yol ho wan never a mera sycophtut—nover a subaltery, o folt callod upon to sot forth not meraly the will, but the digoity, of thoso whom bo represented. Seldom nmvR abovs mediocrity 1n hia efforts of uratory and lezisiation, he was Alwayva resnected for his far-mghtel prudenca, for liia earneat sdvocacy of whatcver ho forc- *aw wonld ba best, for his p.reonal une:wm- prowmising independenco. ¢ regarded himsalf a0 u niore Borvant of the peopls, but hiowasea leader amonp his feliow-ssrvauts. Iio Atood aloaf from il unLofy allisnoes, was an advocato of pure measuces fu the councils of lus party, sud wan known amoog his peets asone aho would not crook the pliant hinges of the knos thas thnft might follow fuwniog. Nolhing coatd Bliska his implicit faith in the divine night of the ):0onle to goveru themaolves, or bis Iaith in ths trimaph of repnblicanism over sll other forms of Ruvernment. 1o uoiversal suflrage ho found » paacatnl solutiou of overy problemin legirlation, Al doubtful cases were to bo srbitrated by tho ballot,—a wospon that Comen down a atill An pnow-fiakea (a1l upou the sod, Yet executes o freemon's will An ighining does the wil} of God, For thean roasonn wo may regard him as por- bapa tlhe truest Amoricats that our conntry naw yet produced. W o bave had many more leataed men, a8 Jeffernon, snd Wobster, and Baumer; wo hava bad many a8 patriotio a8 he ; many s wine tu council apd prodent in exccution ; many who wero equally tinsted, and sume—nut many—who have proved thomyolves ejually srotstworiby; but we have bad not ono, aa it 8oom4 to me, who, in the duties and priuciples of a pohiieal lifo, conid #tand by t]zo o of Houry Wilaon au 8 ropresentative of the Amer- ican ides iu government. Wo havo fonnd him an booest potitician, & generoun aod independent partiau (stronge paradaxea those!), aud 8 no- tionsl paacemaker aleo : but, for bis faith in tho, prand destiniea of ropublicaninm, and for hin Just coucaption ot our Governmant sa beiug *' by the pooyle, tor tho peonle," ho will be remem- berad boat an an idesl ropublican ruler, an jacal Amoricau. It is not pretendedihat bis public life was biomnloss. There aro pputs on the sun, No maon con be measured v Lis oflcinl Nife by o atandard of absuinte right. It 1 tind whio mear- ures thus ; we cap eatimate character only Ly comparing 1L with charactor. JTu passiog Jodg- ment on Qneow Victoria we sav not that sbcis what a sovereign aught 1o bo, but thag sin Is far moro roval than tho snvarcigns who bava reigumd before her. Bo we aseoit of Viee-Frerident Witnon pot that be wus a perfect citizen, a per- fect rulor, »perfect legistator, ‘but that among bis peats ho standn as L’aul among the prophots, 1o will Jong bo temenibered &3 8 friend of tho slave, and n champion of ihe rights of tne down. trodden, as a belieser in the adosaructibiity of onr Fodeial Union and its ablo defender 1 coun- eils of poacs aud war, a8 the men 8t the whesl who, perhaps mare then aoy other, Lias helped us to kteer through the rroublod watots, and bosweon tho Saylla xud Chiarybdis of recou« struction,—as o lover nob of Statag or sections, but of s country, and as it rood snd faiibiul setvaut, But now lot ns turn from these thonehts of his publio life, aud look for a moment at his character an & Christian aud & man, or rather as & Christion man ; tor this Lo was. Jtiseald that e died alone, Iu tho desth chambor * thers wan no BN of woman’s haud or of woman's ot- tention.,” No friend wna at his bedeids In tho Iast moment. No friend! Ah yos. thero was n Friend that stickoth closer than a brother, lu Life lio Lsd Leen & follower of Chrlat, and atlife's dultlo ely engiog he conld say, *‘Thongh 1 walk throough tho vallay of the shudow I will foar oo avil for Thou art with mol" Dut a littlo while baforo his doath he ropsated aloud the words of Alico Carey’s hymn : One awoetiy s Comus to me o'er and o'er, Nearer my home to-day am 1 ‘Than ever 1'vo boen befarn? now psrchance my foat allppluig on the Lrink, Aud 1, 10.day, Am nuarer homs,— < Nvaror now thon I think, And after bhin death a volumo eallol tha “Chauged Cross" wsa fouud under s pilow, with ho leaves turned dowa st plecas wharg, like David ot the hill lizer, he had rofrosbod bis sonl it comuunton with God. ‘Sbus uncovaciously o was precar- fne far deall, and he approschied 1t as ute who wrapa the drapery of his couch about hin and lins down so plessant dreama, Haviog served bLis day and geuoiation bo ** tell an sleep,” 1Jis tast hourn were disturbea by no zad mourning over thu past, uo Jdoubt of wovat awadad lnm bolind the vail. It wad s snuset without clondn. 110 died a8 ho had hived, i the procious faith of Clriat. Hobad naver souglt to tathom tho wroat deeps of religiou ; but *asw Little child " be Lind takea hold upon the ono casontiat truch that **The Dlood of Josus Christ cloauseth from all mn.” Relizion v lnm was not o sci- oncoe, a theology. but a simplo trust in the bload, and su all-porvading lovo toward Him who alied it. Nor waa ho evor ashamed fo coufeas this roligion befors men. In thy Senats, in commit~ tou tooms, evorywhore, is was recognized as a Cbrintian, and a2 sucn he was rospactod aven by thoso wha reviled his faith, It is no small meed of enlogy $o say that §u nearly foriy years of political life, of DLife amid the bewildering cares of politics, ne nover ecandalized or betraved or forgot tho principles of the Gospel of Curiat. It might bavo boen said of bhim nax of the Church at Porgamos, I Luow thv works und where thou dwellest, eveu whero Ratan’a ieat in; and thon holdeat fsst, and bast pot donted my faith.” o Io wes an ambitions man, yet his ambhition was aver beld in chocle by tho decrecu of right. Ho was o snccossinl man, yet he reckonsd uo success worth having if it cost tuo sacrifice of mosal prineiple, Ho wag uo more profosdor of tha roligion of Christ. Holovad ity helived it. His pereooal inteznty was beyoul suspicinn. Lio walked bafore rien as one who Liad takeu thy vorts of & boly life. Hs exemclitied the pro- capta ana the traneforming power of the epirit of truth, Ao b religion thero was nothing matows or ropulsive. It was childlike, ve! slto- gothor manly ; it wae orthodox, yet larga-heart- ed and banevolent, He was o Christiau wmitaout & C¢nBOT, B_pArtisan without an enomy, & mau who obeyed the provept, ** Let no man desise ti0e." In view of tho prominaut pazt whioh ho bag taken in the butldiug up of our nat:onal properity, aud 1n view of tho dearth ol truu manbod and cbaractos in our polilioal Lifo, we mourn for him ss one whom our country could ill afford to loro; wo aro moved to orv, *The chariot of lerasl und the borsemen thera- of 1" After haviog torved his country for two #core years it wad meet thist Lo should die iu ftn Capitoly baving hved without reproach, it was right that he should balaid in etate with the faco of Washiogton bending over him; and havitg left none upon whom his inantle may rest, it v.ae but proper that the akijex should be hunj vith a mmgn: pall ou the duv whon they earri-d him 0.t to s burlal, Aund yot we remewmber vt ha bimeell said: * Tho Lord knows better than we do 1.hen our work s over aod the world lias no mor need of us, And pow, fifends, lot us not foryra! tho levsona of this biave, geuerous, manty Jito. s voice wras over estnost in the praiso of wll things pure and Loly and of gaod ropott, and, Leing dod, he vet ypeslteth to us. Let ns be glud that in our high plages of power there was vne who did vot ktus bis hand before tho goldou calves! I.etus thank (fod that when it was popular to derida tha precepts of our faith as * milk for bates " &.1d the Couge! atory as & mnth which civitizas tion lad outerown, thero wea ono, faitbful among ihe faituless, who was not sehamed of tho raligion of Chrisl. DBiave, earnest, geuer- ous, & loadur 14 ull great nutioual reforws, he wag vet a simple-bestted bel{evor in the old tsshioned storv of the Crosa. Tha timoe mav come whao the record of his usefulno.s i tho palitical watld wlll ba little thaugle af, bat tha tima will zever come wuea tha examplo of his Chistlun 1ifs wili cosse o juil16nce tbe mindy of men, \Whereaosvor bls name is wpoken there sl it be told 34 & memorial of bim, that he kept lu: «:nm; that bo wus » good asoldier of Joaus Clitist, —_—— SIN, 118 TLACE IN GOD'S MORAL GOVERNMENT. The following sermon, preached by the Rov. N. \. Prentlss a wesk ago yoatetday in the First Cougregational Church at Aurors, was by request repeated by bim yesterday, Ilo took as bis toxt ewn‘mmo, 4 by one mecnein entered (nto the world, aud death by sli; and so destts passnd upon bl men, Tor that ait ave sluaed. —Komana 8:12, The text upeus up batore ua & sart of thealoal- cal battle-tio'd, which Las onlisted the sblust minds for sges. And vor, it 18 uut sunply tuat. It preseats 10 us the deepest, saddess facts in all human history, ~tha udiversal preseucy and relgn. of rin and death. ‘Tals fact {8 certaiuly patent ; 18 cavnos be questloued. The history of the race 1a avarywhors blendod with the story of sin snd crime snd each succossive genesation, sfter ite briel acting upoo ths theatro of haman lifo, has vielded to the power of tho destroyor. Theee aro factr. Wo caunotignors them ([ wo will; we canuot make them conne to bo facta, can fnvent no theory, wa can find wvone, haither 0 Chontianty vor In any other religion the woild liaw over knowe, oor in any aystem of phis fororhy ever taught, that can for one moment sot ngida themn ntaro facts. ‘I'ne athelst as well a8 tbo Chrtian 18 compeiled to admit the uni- versal prevalence of sin, and the uuiversal reign of deatl. ‘Thie Bible {4 not reaponaible for thess facta; Cbristianity 1 not responsible for twem. The ficts would exiet all the wwmo Lad tho Bible wever bLeon giveu us, had we uesar beard of Christ. It s not a mere avec: uiation ot tho theologing that cauace those facta. Man 18 a failon being, and sibjcet to the domin- ton of deatn.—and would bo. if there bad never wall to remouber thin, that wa mav not be so been a thoologinn or sreed 1n Christondom. [t is folish as to hold the Biblo and religion or thealogy responeiblo tar Lha world's eiu and ¢ab- Jertion to tho reica of death, It istrue, nowevor, that the Hible not only rooogmizes theso facts, buc tella us how they camo to be, Without enteriug wlo au. of the various flo:ds of Kpeculation upon tha question. or attempting & solution of all the ha‘d puitits coucerning the origin of evil, after tho metnods of the philoropher, it never- theless gives a clear vurline of the way {a which slu cutered our wo:ld and Jeath by ‘sin, Its siatements of tho matter are esseutially the st—That God made man orieinally upright, in Ilis own Jmago and after Him Lkenoss, freo from wis and oot subject to the dowiujon of death., This was tho wmial character, and those the urcumstances of tho first haman nawr, They mera placed 10 an oarthly paradise, and enjosed the communion and puterusl blowstug of the Cieator. Second—-That our first parents, being subjocted to n moral (rial, fell by disuheaience, and thns jected not only themsoives. but all their Ppostarits, to tho law of win and deuth. So that, m8 8 mutter of fact, it mmey trulr bs maid of all the raca who Lavo descenled from them, thut ** death pacsed ugou all men for that all buvu ginned.” ‘These facts aro elated over and over again in tho Sertpturer, and are couattntly assutmied in the Listory of redewpiion, sud sn st the mo- 8, promises, apd appeaie of Ihe Uorpol, 11 0 evident to any one faniliar with the Litle that 1 nesd not stop to furntsh che proof. I do=ire, thin maming, uot kimply to enter unon # Senptural orgument to prove the doctniue of the depravity of ian, wor to ut. ter mere comsvouplace rewarks unon the fact of hie guiit and Beed of Divino saving, hut, if possible, to_ ho!p remove yoms of the didi- cnities that hinder a clear conception of the ¢rath aflicined. In ordes to thik, wo must must give exoreeeion to thewe diflicolues as they really cxist tn somo minds, and occastonally find enirance into vur privato cars. Witluo the past week I have met tleka questious in peivata convereation, and L buve heard thew provourced olien enough to axgire mo that they rifo 1 tho Loarts of maay who wonid be glaa 1o avswer themif thev could, and weuld thankrully teceivo anyibing thet hetps thom towardn 8 satelactory and truthiul notution. ** Why shoald G.d croats o raco of beivgs who Lo koew, 1f ingeed Heo forcknows all thunis, wid conseuts theroio, would fall into min and thus incar the pecaltyol suffciing and death?™ Hometinca mew say tous: ‘It serins to ua thet tha Hilite teactes, and you Clirfstiaus hold to the doctrive, that tlio imlnitely wise, holy, nod good Creator and Ruler of all Las creatod & racs of beings and cndowed thewm with immortauty in ordoi that they way sm sod saifer foever.” Aud loofing st the whole question fu this one glanee, they say, **It does not veem to ua that it eau Lo irue.” Sometitmes, slig, it comes Bpin this way ¢ I whut the Lible teacbos, avd what yuu preach bo true, 1t uaes not seem to us that we Liuve a fair chauce ; for we are couceived lu iniquity and born in sin; or, fu other words, wao intorit s dopraved and corrupt maturo through tho fall of our first parouts.” Now, Tam so fully esruaded that all tho facts fn the caue nro perfectly conmistent with the character of God, aud that the ywl: of man for which ho tncurs peusl suffoting iv perfectly ad- i}uulml 10 L pereoaal respumrabilty, thas 1 feol ound to oltain ell the light jesmblo, and to givo all tho hefp 1 esu, Lo thoss 'wWio in their hearts aro burdoued sth thess qasstions. Wo will then wirhont evaélon come squarely ap to thiene itliculies, and sos what Hght we siinll be ablu to discover. First, then, how could win aud its peual consequences como to bo atallin a untyerso made sud preeided ovor by aa intinitely w180, holy, and gond God ? I nuswer, iy part: 1t could not be so, if the universe consistod only of material worlds aud materisl objects. Sach tight be under law, and iU n soudc oLOF 1hat law, Justaa ull matter vboys tae law of graviiatiou. Dut the idea of sin sud peoaity as upplicd to such exiscences [s absurd. ga:u, L could w0t be truo of beings yornousing organtzed roaterinl forms, sud aulowed only with what we moy cail rentient ifo, such aa wo #eu fu tho vogetble sud avixal wor'd, Take the highest forius of seuticnt lite, minus tho ra- ttooal kpuit, wherrin i8 tho ‘‘imago and lise- ness™ of tiod, and (te very Iden of min si:d pen- aity ia absutd. A horwe may trample upon and Lili o mav,'but be nevor conld Lo arvaigned bu- fo:0 oven 8 human tribunal for murder. Sucl be- fnes canuot wn, thev are invarable of crime. addition 1o bin waterial untute wient lite, hinn been givon s rationsl 1 ia inthis that ha is mado lo the fter th likeuess. This on- dowmens conetilules in man a broad dlrtiug petwarn him anid el muiely suntiont hife » the the natualiet bas nuver briaged over, iuthe most gpecuiaiivo way. Yhe distucuoun romaing, Geep 1 Al huwan oonsciousuess, snd rooted iu .tle foundations of sll huwan Jurispridoner, recogniziog manaa s moral belog, sud bolding bun to & moial aceouutabihity. ‘Whus tue tenpture declaistion cbuceruiug tus copstitution of man tadies porfectly with bumsn varure aud Luwaw - Lustory, ws plainy perceived, And we nro told that man was fnade i *littlo lower tuan the augels,” Wao wmay uafely sesome, then, that theso are ralcos) spinta, in the imngo of God, aod after Lis likone.w. 'Thero are sumo who thiuk, and I am smehy thew, (LAt thiy vast umiverse of worlas, croated by God aud uuder His povern- wont, sy be the sbudes ot rativnsl fimte Leiogs with nethaps diiferent endowweuts fium ours In wowe reapicts, but ke us iy this—thut tuey hase ao the orown aud glory of their being rational natured in tho image of God, zud alter ifle Jigenede, 'Tho question propased 8 vssen- tially this: Iow usuy beings thud endraed could sin wid ita peval consequences ever Huve tnd up uxistonco? Wo must, for avever, look further into the patai ool chat 3d v munt which elut.e readerd s possiblo, A nmite. ratioual st p mural uature,—a Uaturo capavle of r Gianetoa oetween Fight and wrow, oF weighinzmotives, and acting in view of Jlrm: capable ¢t Lhe kouse of obligation, and of re- apunebihity for its 0wy aols, Allttns iy Included du tha ides of nmorsl ca- ture, Call)t Ly whatnume we plosse, it mace' tera pot, tisdo elatdenta exist I our naturcs, aud thoy matk 3 vast diatingion betwoou & wmn aml a Lrco or 0D suituei, Bocaute wo Liavo such untures we are cajub.e of knowing (iod, of obuye g Hum, of donz right, or of duing wrong. 1t ratiopul spirits bad 1o such natures, the ides of 410 1w thom would ba abnurd,—s8 ausurd as tha 1dea of 8in 1t pust, AuAin, & rationsl upit iseo- duwed with o wall of its own, aud with the puwor ot welf-moyement, This is cortuiuly au ehdow- mont ui all ruch vatros, Tho differeucs bho- theen the Induite aud tnito spirite in this ree 8pect 14 one oi degroe, and uot vl kind, Une s ushimizod. excopt withino isels s the uthor ia hw- ito Liu itself, T'uo luluits Splni can o ail thinga wishout let orhinderance thiat aro conuist ent with it own wisdom snd siuth! Tuere sre waoy tliues consistent with wisdom and truth which the uite buirit canuot do, bacauss of the hua.tation of its powess. ‘Che eudowment 1 the pumu 1 «iod, Man, thereforo, bas » usiure thal enublos hi L Nol” to God, if bo wmill, 1 du not believa God ever created & tiuite rational apisit that was uot sudowed with the power of say- lug *Nol™ to God if he chooses, Now, why should God give to the crenture such an endow Dociusa witho reature would not Lavo the power to w ‘Tleru cond bo po such tuin: voluntaty obedisuce in the oreutiry, If that cresture was not endowed with the poner of voluutary diwsbedivngs. If man had uwo woral ustuty, tlere could uaver liave Boen fo bilo any erch thing aw tural chnrasicr, auy buch thlue 8a Virae, as a peos, volumary, roif-ardering of bis kleps w che path of fgot, ot tho freo offeriugs of hears aud lfe fu tbu way ci bolueds No creaiure ever couaid be boly wituout euch endowmeonts tu Lis nature s gouder 5t podaible for tim ta be sinful, ‘The uviverse could never bave Leen voaal with lutelligeat, free offorings of piawe frum Bprit, image of God, and rational creatures unless thoso ra'ional crane turns Liad Leen cudowed witl Luacrd which make them capable of voluntary nioral a“tion, and such andowinonts imidy the pawer and the pos- eikilty of moral action in the wrong direction, which s #in. Wo niny get s cloarer ineieht of thun by an bifustration of agotler point in our naturss. We arc cansctous of soflity Lo love, Now, if we think droplv evongh wa shall per- ceive that wa Lave an equsl shili'y to Liste, and 1lint o nature that ia wuscentibla of the one ts sueceptibie of tho other. A parc can do neithrr, It Las no such enduwmont, Hentlent, sulmal :;lu is endoved with the power of metinctive ive and Late. A lioners loves ber Molest them, and yoa &oon thern is fury In her nature, “A rational 5 cndawed with the power of lov.ne vire tug, truth. and the Lke. To ths pamo decrag muet it hiate vico, untruth, and ths opposite of whnt it loven, A pure spiltmuet hato ovil, nn it lovea good, God Himsel? 1n nn eveertion, By aa iach ea 116 loves virtna and boliners, by Ao tauch 1is bates vice and impurnty. Any natnre that can love csn alwy late. Now, preci 1y 80 I it, that such n uature 28 makes 1L porsi- Dlo to be hoiy, mwake: £ nossiblo fur us to ba uu- Lele. Given to tho creatare, then such *n en- dowment aa makee porsonat and pusitive heliners poseibla fer bim, and ain is poseinlo to Now lot us o imogustion go k to the hour in which the eternsl *Thres in Oue " is doliberacing upon the cieative plan and seape. and it ia 0o valn imagining to enpooss thn mnt’er as somebow thus. Hiall I call into Doiup thoss whose erd:awmenta shall Lo e the 1mage suu after the likouess of Uod? 1rTdo wot, ‘tiw trae there never will be sny min nor ponsibility of 1, but then tha uriverse will ouly be s uulverme of matarisl_worlda full of hewuty snd crownod with law forms of rentient l:fe. 1t will everywhere bo wanting tn that crowa of creative glory and foy, the reign avd moral Lesuty of fres, jovonw, ratloual knowiedgo and virtus, There ¢an ho Do ubirerse of rattoonl spirits capable of knawing God. and of followship with Dim, making the othermire waste plazen of sl tins mighty ompire vocal nith intalligent prai Suruly we do not hesitate 0 commend the v dom of God iu giring to Ilis ciea'nres auct dowments as rcndor them capable of knowing Him, of fallowship with Lim, of rendering that obedienco which comes as tho free, spoutausons dovotion of it Rel{-conrcious puwers to tho love and praiso of the Cruator. Now, shall we nay, becatne God has given to & man or (o 8n augel & nature which niskes it p2sciblo for himi to pin, in order tizt oat of that ssma paturo may come the fact of positive virtuo and ho'iness, that therefore God created bLiis 00 purposs that he tight sin? Meathinks all cau Aee that. 1R o falee and wicked cliarge. God has endowed Ilis creaturea, all the lughest aond best of them, with Towers such aa we have seep, in crder that the uplyerse may bo filled with intelligences capable of fellowship with Him in knowledwe and truth, and hohiness, That {s tho great end in viow, the }-uxo aud benevo ent mutive, . God's calling to oxigience beiugh who, though Halie, ate it Hia own ymsge aug aftor I11a Lksnoy Honce, Theellate not to allirm that every rationel crea- ture God aver made bas boon endowed witt s nature that made it possible for him to mmn, And further, everv such bemng at the beginnming of hus caresr must have had o Licd of probation ineluging the 1dea of moral trial. Angels lhave doubtless been ro conshitnted, svd hence we read of some ** who koptnot their first estate,” but feil into coodemnation. v Everswhero, therelore, among (God's rational creaturer, whore thore is tho poseibility of fres miaral action, there is & poseibility of wmoral ao- fi0n in & wicng dicection, and that is min, Is it unwiso that thi« 1 50 7 Sursly you and I are ot quahified to sit in judgment upon the win- dorn that Liaa 8o ordnined. Now it keomd to we, 1t i not £0 FAPrIsis fter all that somewhers among all the vast wrriads of rai cuduwed at their creatior, and begitoing their career with powers of self-movement ina moral patoway, somo shonld have perverted these Jovors to thoir own destruction. This, alss! seemn to have been the case with man, When the bhour of trinl came, as come 1t must, he fell by trinszredsion. D Tou wsill) aak, Cou'd not God Lase prevented it? I angwer, looking at the question iu the lizht of mero omnipotence a'ono, Ilecould. Bas is it right to look at it tuus? Aro all things posaiblo to'Umpipotenca? 1 think uot. 1 bave known of wuwe toen who found e very easr to **strotc the truth™; batI read iuthe Word that “'it is impossible for God to Lie,” And yot lis iv omnt.otent. And that means, e can do all thiugs that are consistent with wisdom. and gcodness, aud truth ! Bo upon toe question une der conelderation, we mav be assuted that some- whern there ig alino whick in wisdum must not be orowmed by mero powor, the lino which forms tha boundary between the toveremnty of thio Creator aud tho porsonsl libersy and respon- sibiity witn whith de has endowed the crosture, That ltne soversign power must Tot crovs, tor it would be an unsriso esercise of is. takivg away tho possibility of persoual hali- nuosa and virtus in the creature, Lal us now cousider another part of the diffi- culty, that of our betng involved iu_ the vin and fall vt onr tiat parents, Tho objectst eavs, ** 1 dot s8o how wo are to be held responabla for Adnin's #in; and if bo trno that wo inberit des praved nutures, then it doas not seem to ma that we havo u fairchance.” In refurence to the fras of thess points, I yeply: it is no psrz of the Scripturo teacling or of the’ orthodox faith, as 1 undemstaud i, that God lulds us personslly reeponsmble for any sins but our own. ‘That wo hsd no respousibility in the sin of ous iret pagents is pariectly avidont, but that we sre affected bv that sin to the extent of whenting deprave:dl natures is the teaching both of Heriptare and of sli human expesience, Haow we aro thits affectod by the full of Adam, #0 thut from birth we aro depraved, 18 o quostion apout which wmen differ. It peenus Lo ine, Lows ever, to be inciuded _that lsw of propagation somatities expressed in the worde, * like yro- ducos like,” **evory rced aftor his kind."” [t au unquestionahlo fact that to a certain oxtest purents transmitc qua‘ities to ther children watcls they ihemiclvos posaess. 14 not this a wise ordaining? Would you bot rafoica that this is a fact wlen vou tiwnk only of good quaiities ? But do you supposo such a law could exiat without e workiog Loth waya? Ia uot that trae of every law of nature? The fire which warms us, avd mthout which we fresza to death, latne us to death (€ wa tamper with i, Tho law of gravitatiun s 6 wise aod beautiful osdnining fn God’s matertul ynivers?, you it will dash (0 pieces Lhe man who viofatea it. Are wo not mauifestly nojust vheu we complsin of a law of thie kiud ordaived for wise cuda, becaase that law when pervetted works out a penaler, Lliere ta nowheraiu all tha univorse a law of God's vrdmining but will werke out beaunty avd hariony if obeyed, or dustruction if dis- uhaved. Dut I bave something more to ssv fu apgwer to tius questicn of vue Laving & fair chanes, rince woars § ¥ vature coiritt, Tind God dips nothing mere for ua than 1o Lo!d ua to the samo Kind of protation Adsm had Lotore be tell, wa wauld Luve Lud uoctaaca st wll, 1€ b lwd etood tho tess, sudared tha iioral trial of his DYODITIONITT PATION, Ad W LAVS TLaSOL 1u o= ke tha grest twajority of rational soirits havo doue, he wonld bave boen “juetifled by the Iaw'; that is, on the priuoipla of & fise, Torfect otiedieuve ta 8 holy aud perfect Iaw. But, upon such a prmoinle of bLaeis as that, not one of the uaman family since tho full hss ever had his mornl trial, or conld ever bave enjured ruch & e, think, ulko, that hsd not CGud purposed 10 adopt & new system of mdmliristration, and put na ay ouco upon a dufereut grouinlt og grobation, as revealed 0 e way of redviupiion tnrongy ilis incarusie Hon, tho peoaity of Adam's trsnsgression would bave tolloncd ewift upon tho hecls of hisxip, aud thera would have been an end of tho race butoro it was fanly begun. 'Lbors guver would bave boen a postority to fohient a deprsved naturo, and be supjecied to a moral test they conld not endure., What saith the Scriptured ? Essentially this: jmmediately thers cowmenced s kind of probativu uuder s system 0f BOVOMSIRN Rrace, couteriug | Divine Redocmer, which gave even Ada biwsolf, an well us his posterity, & Lew probation, wbich, with its moral teat, ropent wud polio! gives every man vou & beer clisncs batter motal trial, it posmbie, thun before, * Foe tho judg- wwout,” uud r the system ot law, ' was by oue E:nm,.o) unto condemoation ; but the fres gife of many offenses uuty justification.” You and I, my heaters, &4 ratiunal epirite, ato UBVIK OUF FI on in this beginowg of our nsondiug e3isienca, under & Bvsou tuat iway bo expronssd in thesa worde: Whers rin abouad- e, 2raco much wore abuuuds,” and 1t is secrd- 1u 10 bow wo vLdare tho moal trnal of such o vrubation that we shall be judged. For beur wind that the peraunsl respousibility and ao- countability of overy man is sxactly moasured by his power asd opporiurity 0 do what Qud Toquires of bim, togetbor with and lu view of tho provisions which God's grace and maroy affurlhim, Sotbat at the last day, not ona of 8!l who slisll flually ba lost shall thein bs of wrh to whom, Gol cannol truly wey, Ve know your doty, but yo did st not."™ It i upon this principle ‘wo afe told thav in that daz ** ovory myuth abell be aluppad.” It will not no becansn of the overwhalming tarror of impeuds ing wrath, torrifying toem from uttering the TAIn £:Xc1408 that Aze in ther hearta, bat it wiit ba the ppeecn vsuness of relf-coutiction on tie part of thuse wha &uow thay have il a moral trisl so pdjustci by the live aud krace of Gad that tlo iy to them just in His wrath, aud they abwslutely withuut axcawa. Now, on0 or two thunyats nd coilateral to th discussion, and { have done. Iam etrongly in- clived to the uoimion that all the ein that ban ever entored thn moral govimment of God. in ita antire oxtent, has eniered It in conuection with the creation and amtory of onrrace. ‘The tirnt 18 that thin enctl and itd imzediato sicanty cousitinte the thestra in whicha fer falan spinty and the humsn race sre working out the grrat probium of sin in the universs of God. 1 bis.0towtime to discuss tug naatter faily, It tymo. however, that tbe malignity of 14 tonards mon, aad sheir quencaless mpite and enxity towsuds man's medistor avery- whote exlibited in all the ravelationy made coucurning them, aro best tuterpretod through the rupposition that thoiromn dopravity origiuated in ther now aeguaintaace withi au or- doz of hieing- maden Listla lower than thomuelves, &ul yet the object of tho Creator's epoctal tnter~ est. Perhaps theis mora! triat occuried in ho requirement of s0:ae sp=cisl ministey of them fn man's hehall, Agoin. if it Lo trae that onr earthalonn 1s tho theatrs of tin, we sce why it lian Leen made the theatrn of the ublimest won- dery of liedetaption. Bad 8 man to ma the owuor day: “ Why, jnst think of it! According to your Lolle?, we ha7n to supp-se that the ter- nal' God, who made and rules ! three countless worldy, Las, oovertoeless, 1o the poinauality of tno Etorual Son, visited our ltlle moro, wvisible Ep Lers, 6% o man ! Well, mv is1s true. And [ do not woonder tuat avd angels, rational spirits from the most stunt worlds, atn moat dseplyv intrested in the moral histury of cur race, 1o not wonder thes wLou oue Kiner ropents, tha nows Wigs 118 Wy to the utmoyt limits of this univorse, and thews in oy there amwoog sli tue angels of Gou, I do no? nondor that the Aual 1wuue of tho contict here, 10 the ealvation of an junummerablo howt of tbo redecmed sud the etersal oanishment of falieu angels and Jost men to some *“ prison of despair,” will bo auch os tossttie the queation uf the oxcediency uf rovollion nzainst God lornver! Dopend upon it, tho moral offect of Calvary Ba a1 expieseion of God's love of holivess, and Hialove for 1lis creatures, as well sa for His deep and eternal wrath againat sin and the sipver, the moral ellect of it reaches aud over will 1each the ntwost limit of His moral gov- ernment aud the utmest limit of Liis Loutiess ereruity. But,"to conciuds, We ses that sin in its natute sud consequonces 18 & desp and damoiny soivg. 1t nothiag to bosstof, I can sssure you, when o bave to 8oy of ourselves. we are snery. It 1a uob as somo will tell you, merely s littio pimple an the face, but & morai leprosy tbrough and througn, deep, dark, loaibsoma, dredly! Detter, far betier, that this material uuviverss saould ba utterly wrecked, that world ehonld clash mianst world, and the whoie hoavens be huag iu black, than that s:n shon!d reizo in tho bizher universs of ratlonal eniril Ah, braturon, what grund yot fearful trutbs are revealed to us this Word! Tho tdey of God, how lofty, how anblima! How llis works doclaro His plory! Tlio 1den of fluite bemfis. in God'a own imogo aud hiteness, with all the possibuities of persoual charscter and goodness, low worthy of God! How fearful the fact ad consequences of sin | How hopsless of reccvery from ita feartal pow- or! Yet hero, in the midat of u:ter despair, so far a9 fluite pswer snd wisdom are sullicient. opsn up ths sublimo wondsrs and tho Diviue sutlicievey of redemption, A naw probatioo for » fslleu race, uudor tho provisions of ginco, how worthy of an incarnate God. It Burpriving that s plaa for the moral probation uod trisl of man, which ¢28t the namilietion of the Etornal Wozd to oar astatw and to tha Crors, in order that where min Abounded graca might muck more abound, shonld indecd be she ntmonr stretch of soversign mercy? ‘That’ to thowe thus favored, who pavertieless spurn tho of- fesed tife and trawpls nuder fnot the blood of the covenant, thoio should remsin at last uoth. ing Lut o ** foarfut lookiug-for of Judgmont and fiery 1ndignstios nhich slall dovour the sdver- sarien " ol God? Uretbroo, [ bave dove. God koows I havo tried to tetl you the truth aud toliit in love. Gud keop yon 1rom being deceivad ta your etoc- paf ruin ! * God save us all from thoe deceitfal anaren of thoss who BIUR Miren Rongn of Booth- iug and of peics, whero o hsa not spoken poace! There is a glorius goapel of poacs and 200d-nlll 1o men, but not to those wha ahur thelr eves to the vatur: sad conscquences of #in ; nor is it to those who luil thewsolves to sleap, that they mey continue in win, Gad s Iy oarnest in averr ing, in ovory entreaty, in every motiva He gives u4 : and the sum of iz all 18 that wo must repent of All our sios and floe to Curist for rofuge an L for fu. —_———— THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS, FRUMON DY THE DLV, ENWARD ¥, WILLIAMYA, Tho Dov. Ldwsrd I. Williams, pastor of tho Farty-seventh titreot Cougragational Churcl preachod the folluwing soruon vestorday on the religioun eduzation quostion, takiug for his toxt: The entronse of Thy words giveth Ught,~laulmr, eziz., VR 1v speaking this morning on {he quem:m of ““Lne Bilio in thu Schools," I trust I shall havs grace o treat 8 very dificult and porploxinz sub- ject with caudor sud rrecisiou, aud in tho hiboral apinit of Christ and Hiw disciples. Proteatant Christisna bave beon deeply grieved by the ac- tion of the chool Board of our city, as well a~ by their rocest refural to reonnsider tlsir action, and rostore the Ward of Glod to its former placo in our system of public ivstruction. ‘Tnero s little prospect that auy preasure we can briug upon tho gentlemen who compose this Board will be of avail. Furthermoro, it is evident thst amajority of tue citizeny aro elther indiffereut to the wlter or concur with the Board iu their dectaton. Ia viow of this fact, whila continued agitation and & thorongh cauvasa of the clty will, 1n lny judgment, ouly make wwvie apparent, whavard we a8 foliowers of Chrst to do? Wocannit permit tho Bible to be afshonored. But belero 8aviug too much abuut ** tho uneailol bur coirea of the behool Board," we may well wawre whuther ft is desirable that the Bible should by read m our schools a8 a religious oOXCreifv; Wwhehor its reading bus been with pro®i; whstlier, in » Republic Lke onrw, it i3 wiso and junt to fusist upon the reteution of & custom, which however deur through past sssociativns and the mogyory of the Fatliors, hias Yot bo necos- eary placo 1n & sytom of puroly secular uduca. tigu? 1 confess to extrems reluctanie {0 touch tho queetion at all. 1t iy & quastion whoso exet bearings are not esslly diszermblo in heatod ar- gutaeut. 1t is oasy for & 10an Lo #ay 00 much or too listle, aud thus injure the cause ho hay st Deart, Liut the quesaon is not going lo be put Jdown. 4t lacoming up on sl sldes, snd wiil continuse to do wu titl sutborilatively sottled iu thig vouria of Iaw. a8 the queation i intimatoly connected with the futsis prosperity of the ocommen-schovl system, with the work of our churcbes and ¥abbath-schools, with socisl aud faunly hfe, s minister can bardly escuse his silonce on so important a topic, ‘Tlo wikdom of most of our publio won s be- fore us. They Lave stripped thu sublest of much of its rubbish and verbisge. The wlmplo question vow {8 ; * Bhall we ocontinne to read the Suriptuses fn ous public schools sa oo i, —a died ~—anid lived and 1t cannot bo truel™ R NUMBER 96, £ el wger tovng, and {n poitions of the conntry 0 the population is mixed, this mater of 3 reacing, simple e9 It sooms, bas bocoma a = A for tho moss #erious cousideration, * Aud bere T moy aa well asy, once for all, that, a{ter peven or eight yasra’ sxpenionce aa a teach~ ar, and & careful raading of ail the arzumsata on o eun & both wides of the queation, snd o Lone okt effort tn ftost it op ita ments, L bhave relnctantly como to tho conchision that neither noi' expodie.cy, uor jusio, vor Cliratian wintom, normita u to jusist that tho Bible e tasd in our public achoals as a rolizions excrewn. With & great many others, [ was ehicied at tus Cincionaty decision, and at {ts ruchort b tuo Suprems Conrt ot Obfo. I was surprised that our omn Hehool Board shou'd have becn tn anch a hurry to oxolude tho Bible from our echosts. 1 could ses no resson for thoir action. It socmued (o me uncalled far and premature. The peaple of Chicago nould have been eautent ta Lava loft things ua they ware for years. Iut the ouveition of the HNoard has aprnng tho quastion npon us, and we mny se weill acitly it no v, Bo fac na wacan, an ‘o put it Off to tho future. Forooe, I Lolieve that the faw will ruatain the Boasd in thoir setion, Of couria [ look uvon the Bible as the Word of God, Thera 18 no other book lke & io_the norld, It outbe to ba read evarywhere, and by ove;ybody, It is the foundation of modern nud, medioval iiterature, Iiis tuo wtandard of pure moraly, It containa the only ressonable philos- opby of buman pature and bumaa life. It ro- venls tha religion which fs to cunquer the world. It 14 thn on'y Look that briogs *“*1ife and immor= taliey 0 light.," s tha disciples of Christ, we are bound to carry tho Biblo to every part of the eorth, ond to prese its acceptanco, its teachings, upon 'l mon. Hat in doing tuie we have no right to ovesride law, or Clrislisn courtesy. hiere in a wiso way of procedure, which, thoagh it involvn patience aad dolay, witl surely be mast succosnful in ilie ond, Jows, lomaniste, with nct s faw whn sre nel- thor the ons nor the other, but Protestant in sontiment and sctlon. who lova the Republiy and it ipatitusions, esrnestly dosiro that the Bible snould nut have aplace iv our aystem of com- mon-schoal education. A great many Christian prople lave sericus doubts as to the real valuo of its presance thore. Somo of tnem confeay that the way in which thay road tha New Testas went, whilo in school, was an injory to tbem, 1 weakening tholr roverence for the “Book, and (eaviug a0 imptorsion on their winds which they bava peier been able wholly to of- taca, Thor wonder i€ the mama etcrciso doss nol have the samo effect pow. Tho tncat, then, that can be said 10 ita favor, is thns 1t I8 & reco-nition of God and His Word, ! and rhat some goxd, thoaih it be amall, will suraly coma from hooorinz our Crestor. Bub bLere it 18 portinens to agk whather God is hon- orad by an exercisa in which tonder scholsrs bive oftan not tho lesat interest; whethier s turried. carclos, indiforeus readmz of the Scriptures, ** without note or commeunt," fol- lo ved Ly a final repeating of the Lord'a Peaver, 18 10t on the wholo productive of mora injury thon good, T helieve it in: but would leave the settiament of the question so far as possibla to tho towna, and to tsschors, Homo teschers will naturally desire to begin the work of the day with & teligious exorcisa, ‘They will make itimpressive and valuablo, while othera wiil look upou thiv exercise aa the moat disagracable doty thov are eslled upoa to porform, Cuming last nox to our gueation, whioh in nod A question of readiog the Biblo aa a fonntain of Litorature, o standard of morsls and wisdom, but a8 a form of worablp, wo shs!l flud, I think, that cha Iaws aro spaiost it, Theto ia no reasan for donbting the correct. noga of the decwsion of the Bupreme Court of Obio in this mattor, The meauviog of tho clavsa i the ordinauce of 1787, for the organization of tho Northwestera Territory, waich resd thus: * Religion, morality, and knowledgo being noces.ary ta godd governmentand ths hapniness of mankind, scbools and tae means of fnatruc- tlon ehall be forover encanraged,” was showa to ‘ba not that * rolizion, moralicy, and kaowleage ' should bs taught In every achool, or - o sho same achools, tmt” that toachera of ench shoull b protected and enconraged in their proper pisca. When the qnestion s argued in the Suproma Court of the uation, as some day it probably will bo, it will most likely bo decided a8 in Ohlo. At soy rate, it is wall to taka it for grantod that, if we carry the question to tbe couris, tho decision” will be against ns. If we aesiro o retain tho Bib'e in the schools, as most Protentant Cliristiaus do, it is best not to make (00 great an quiery over ita exalusion from the #cnonta of thia or that city. Tims will sattle the auostion far more wisoly than wa can, and per- hupa vot quite aftec qur present conviotiona of what i3 richt. QOar fathers had dificulties of this sort to con- tead with as well as wo. A4 the Coloniva grew thev found it impracticablo to carry out the orizinal plan of their settlement. ‘Lhey had to wive up one cherished theory after auother, till they taougut evervthing waa lost. For example, n tho Massacbusasta Colony, pnor to 3884, wsbody but membors of Conerogational churches cnuld vota or hold ofize, The death of Oliver Cromwell, and ths restoration of Charles 1L, made the colopista fosr for their charter, A -ommisgion wes sent to England to sue for its continusace. The request wasgrauted, but on coudition that Epacojaiians snd members of athior churchies be alissod to vote, Loa« than half & ceutury sgo, the Asssmbly Catechigm was tau:zht in many, it not in all, tha district selioald of Massachusotts, Tho mruister nsed 1o mako perindics] viita 9 the schools and asnmine the pupils in their proticiensy in the aystern of theological doctrines, Inave heard a Zreat Many Perona rezrat tho giving up of this sood obf cuetom, But for ous I am beartily giad that it bas gonu inky disuse. Tha truth {s, our commouew:hoot iystem i atrongor without the catechian thaa it could ba with {t. Fifty years nozce mon ssill_provably sav the same of the abscnze of the Scripturcs, 'Theds lessons fram lustory are lustructive aod shootd be carefully pondered. But howeyor much wo may approve tha read- ing of tho Lible 1 our schools, it is not wisa if wo wish tn strengthen the common-school eys- tem in the aiTectinog of the wholo people to in-* it upou 1t8 reading as a religiona oxerciso, Wo sy elthor dispenro with it altogather. or leave 1 tothe npzius of tue tesobors, or the Bchool Boards of tha diflerant towns. It 1s oot expo- dimt touss foree in she mattor {o compel the ubservance of acustom distasteful to even hut fav, Force ia thin weapau of wajonties, of big- atry and euporatition, not of that enlightooed wd hiberal Vrotestantisin which ls at once our Jarv and booat, ‘I'io Inrgar Wo Rrow as & nation, the more com- plex vur civilizatlon, the fowor will D tha opin- 1ona which all ean hold fa commoa. To pre- servo and atrongtlivn our presen! asstem of unirer-al edncation, to axkd to ia efcloncy, wo aual, 1 think, sooner or later csnsent to di- ponsa with all relizions_oxercisos in conuection withh it, Why not? What aro the commou wchoole for ? "T'c furnish certain elementary in- “#tructiou to the cildren of our citizens, Thoss achooly do unt exist to tusch Matommedanism, or Duddtinm, or Contucinism, or Judaiem, or Homantsin, of {nfiselity, Nur in (¢ their purpose 0 teach Protestant Chrisiianits. If I8 18, they haye wigna'ly fullea, 1domno" kunw tbat | have aeard of A porsou being convested in ona of thenw They oxise for un sactarian PUIPose whatuver § tor o purposn which, even i tuo opinion of a wunlt minonity, can ba deomed sectarian, but to givo instruckipn in certain brauchea of study ¥aich averybo iy deems cosential to an ordinary aducation, ~ We have cuoseu this method of edu- eation Lecause of 1ts cheapus=a, bocause it brngs an educstion witnin reach of the poor, because 10 & limited exteut 1t ensbles the Biate to com, the eaueazion of Jts children, because a republio ounnot exist 1f it subjects sre ignorant, bacaune knowiodgo 13 nsarntial to our institutions, Hois * morality. And the ¢numop school tesches mo- rality so far &g It can bo tauglit¥py the removal ol iguorsnco. ‘Thav higher morality, which haa i poot o religion, the - only ival worahiy, c¢aonot be taugbt in sencols which overvbody's children atiend, €or tho amplo teasan that'to do 4o would be une Just aud ing ngistons with our profossed repub- ican principles. 1618 unjust to compel a Ro- wmaust, #Jev. oran athest to sond his ohild to a #ehonl whers opinions sre taugal which be conscientivusly belleves to be erroncuus. Coas soleuce wust be resposted even though it be the openlug rel:gicus exercise 7 It i not 8 quod- | eouscionce of a Rumanlss or & Jew, tion whether (he Dible shall bo read iu quoe tstions {n the ordinary toxt-books wor whother it sball be studied. as ihe oldust, giaudes!, noblest spocimen of literaturo. Av the hight of the world, the Bivle will surely hold its vwn, whether Bobool 13oarls voiw For ur uguings it The question is ousof law, jurtice, expedicuoy, Sl wo snd Curistiau wisdow, [t id this: ter of oouree. No otuer order uf thinku Las besn thougut of, of wowld be And this, for the sake of cousistonoy, suite onr repuslican principies, make lond mioclswation of “the liburty we allow to ounucience, of the fravdom of thought wnd sxe prossion whivh wo grant to everybody. ‘To thoss whia anudunge their purposs t¢ adaps our Gove enwent a8 their own wo speedily give the prive ilogus of oiticenshiv, We pormit them to vote anl bold odica, The sawe chanuels of enier. priss, tho sawe facilitics for acquiring wealth and #o2al swnding, are open to the foceiquer as tw tbe vative-born citizen. o timo of war we expeot theao forvign-bora citizeas to bis loyal ko our flag. They bave been. It wo expect toreiknets 4o love our Republis Buab tn | aud fight forit, we musy not shock their sulis