Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1875, Page 1

o e e VOLUME 29. - —_— FHUE ALLIANOE, TR CHICAGO ALLIANCE” PROE., DAVID SWING, BDITOR, Oontaine hia Bormons, revised by himeolf; his editorials on populnr subjoots, eto., otc. pelivered evory Saturdny for $2.00 a year. Osll or address «t ALLIANOR office, Reaper Block, Corner Clavk and SWEET | SOUR ORANGES, LEMONS, the BL. Jolhn's River, I'lorida, received weekly, Thera I8 00 hueh Fruit onered in Chicago oa that to bu {ound constuat); 7 % AP RAES, 148 East rdadison-st. e e GENERAL NGTIOES. o S IO (S I iy INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1876, UNTID BTATRS OENTENNIAL Cnxxmu.} TIRLADELTRIA, Pu,, NOv. 24, 175, Memra. 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CHICAGO, MONDAY, DECEMB iR ¢ @hicago Bailp Tk 6, 1875. population hava doclined tho invitation, The meeting-house mnst come tn them, where paths audl where the public carriages mect, ! A nocond material argament mav ba found ia ~ i fu <yt tha peculior ahape of our city, 1ta buemneas is First Meetmg of Prof, wang '8 " not sproad out for miles slong woms ono_ sirect. + 1t 18 tnassed int: Iid 7 la, and hence. Independent Congrega- d inta 8 wolid square mils, and hence. 1 i that mqnare mils, there ara thousands of tion in McVicker's & | bukincss young men who are all quite far re- Theatre. movad fron the great family churches, and wen THE GENTRAL CHURCH. would Lo quite near Lo sorus contral churce or churulied. * On nccount of thia pecnliar msasing of bumuess, {bo magnificont Kotels of the city 1 aralocated 1 & most uuusual maunsr, —mstead Material and Rellzlous Reasons for l ol ranchiug along & miles in n etraictt line, they 5 5 ! aroin a circlo, shout 8 dozen stroue, and all the New Departure Given within thres or four squares of thin theatre, by the Pastor, Owing to recent destruction of dwelliug-liounes, Aud tho marvelous besuty, and cowfort, sand +puiet of thesa hotols, they ars the homes uow ol bundreds, almost thonsande, of poraons who once lived along the aveuucs, and who anco at 1 tended tho old churchiew of the furmor city, These statamenta wili give yuu au® outins of tho matonial argument that not alous juatifies (his opening of & now Ceutral Chutch. bt which cutreats us all Lo enter upoa this work with zeal, aud withont delay cr musgiving, To have s chureh to shich 8o many caa cote no easilv, not only from the ceutral portion of the placa, hut troin the threo divisionn of the citz, is rn idea that should Jong ago liavo touebid your henrts and have swopt your Jadgmonts. Let us coma now to the moral aspscts of the caso. Xore our chief task will bs Lo ment ob- Jections, for, in the brief atatemonta airead made, I have absolutely given roason ouong[: for the sxiatence of this now Hociely, Firel—This nced not be called an experiment. It {8 & servico to which most of uacoma back aftor s two years® absence, Iu this very room wo pang onr hymns and eent up our prayers, avd exammnad into the bigh ttutha of lfe. for alwost two years, and thosn two yeara confirmod ali ‘T Lave said ahout baving & clurch accesnible to tbe pablic. Bo great A puccess wore thoso two gyears that tho beat mon of the Fourth Cburch debsted with ‘many of you aa to acic method by which this sorvico bara could ba c: ntiunsd,” They thom- solves went off to their liitle church, and inac- cossible churel, with misgivings as to duty, and for monthn dabatad with you, and with them- sclvos, as to the duty of the future, Thus wo retorn hero cheorod by tioa years of expericnce—an oxporiencs which even a Norih Hida tnterast could wol resdily coneusl or exene, Tho rame gentlemen who statd a8 respousible friends of this movement atood for it tivo years sgu—thus showing that thero is nothing of mero {mpnlse or novelty Iu thoir conduct, but that thoir action is based upon their expori- enes of Li5o veare, and the reflection of two yenrs more. ‘Uhis would seem anflicient anawer to any who may feol that here wo are to make an oxper- iment. It is potso, Horo ne resmmo to-day s reasonablo, most wine, union of licarts, that wan intorruptod by an aceident,—a beautiful and bo- foved hitlo accidont called tho Fourth Charch, And, now that I'rof. Patton has removed that accidont by bia twonty-cight tears, rhed before the 8ynod, 1 awm free, not to cmbark 1tpon an nptriod sea, but to return * Homn apain from a foroign ebore.” Wao sre not upon rtrangs watera day, Wo know all about this chanuol and this The Fresdom and Unity Which Hava Grown Out of Prof. Patton's Twenty-eight Tears, Sermon on Christ as Qur Peace by the Rev. S. H. Adams, of Cente- nary Church, Discourse on Interdonominational Cour- tesy by tho Rov. Dr. Dudley, of Milwaukee. PROF. SWING. TR FIGST SERMON TO THE CENTRAL CHUBCH CON- GREGATION. If yostorday's domoustration at MoVicker's Theatre can be takon as a criterion, Prof, Swin hos evtered upon n work which will convince oven his stiff-necked oppanonts that there iu sowsthing 10 roliglon which soara above secta- rianism and deals with the bioader aspirations sod sympathics of humavity. Nobwithstandizg tho damp, disagreeablo weather, which alwa) s plasn an important part {nidiminishing churcti« attendanco, evory scat in tho large thoatro way occupiad, many porsona had to contoot them- solvos with standing reom, and many fwero twm. ed away. Dut it wan not the numbors of tho audionco slona which seomed to foroshadov tho grand success of the new movomeat. Thora was somatbing of sympathy and esrucstness in tho facos of tho copgregation which had a far greater migniflcance, and which, indeed, conati- tuted tho groat feasure of tho occeasion. XNo choir was presont, the Fourth Church rotaining its hold upon that as upon the other appurta- nances of 1ts edifice. Slips of bymus had boen priuted and woro distributed smong the sudi- [ ghip,” You have heard thewo hymns mang i ence, and the hearty way in which everybody | such chorng, you havo soen theso facon ali iappy jolned in tho einging was very refreshing, and | Liero in other dase, componsated for tho lack of what is gouerally You will pleaso remomber, too, that those conmdored ludiaponble”in *our” modor | ST b0 Yot o vorhi e b cuded clrches, Prof. Bwing'a insugnral nddrces | 1o Jrosbyterian Church, No trial for heroey wag ono of his happica: efforts. Hia referouce { hind ovor showu any rigzus of coming, and bonco to tbo acctdent of the Fourth Chburch, into thoeo mootinga thors entored nosonration- which interrupted the services in McVicker's ta-day. Prof. Bming then procesded with his addross, which is givon 1o full ; 0 1t is not my purposa to-dsy to preach a dis- course, but to atsto somc of tho reasons which lond me to bogin s publio sorvice in this place, sud to beginit with groat pleasure and groat lope. 1n the oponing up of all new entorprisos of either a secular or roligious nature, 1t I8 cus- tomary for some ona to utter insugurs! words that the cuterpriso msy lia botore all in its full scopoe of business, or pleasurs, or duty, It seoms quite necessary that now whoo wo are about to entor upon & sories of servicos, In such wew surroundings, shat some words stiould bo | \{rilisers, Yo llvo esch door to sach otbor sud spokon by way of otroductlon—worda of ex- ( Jive unknowiog and uukuown, Here, wiere plavation and of congratulation. Many of you | you will all bave your rogular seats, aud where attended the roligioua mervizos held for s time | sume of tho stiffucss of the moro for- ta yeata aga in this hoase, Many of you left | mal clurchos will be wanting, you wmil #0un reach an acquaintanco with your heighbor, :]“:‘“’,‘:'h‘}”“ with rogrets, and to-day you come | 4y afinalknowledge of allnos tobo found by you ack with oy, luichen which would sesm to promiss more. That thero may be somo method to my re- Yachuschomwiicls . 3 - Hence, while i some remots dry wo m marks to-day, I shall speak of cortain arguwments 5og, il 4 A haye what s called *Chiurch Life,” wo must not in favor of such a Ceutral Church 88 wo hero | gverrate tho market-valus of that **hto,” and found to-day, and stall classily the argumonts | fecl that the Church's glory lies n that direc- as tnatorisl avd spiritusl, tion. Tue grand churckes of tho soventeenth Tho material arguinent {a quite lsrge. In our { cantury that traneformed Christ into & friend, ago, when all the othoer brauches of lifo mudy | and nade God to bs Lovs, had ho sawini sacisty convenicnco and comfort, religion must imitatd n 8 no chureh festivals ; they had religious men tue otler ways of sciion and being, and will not | in the pulpit aud jo the pewa. Tuls in the aim dare bo dificait and Inconvenient in her atyle, | that should bo bofore us all—religion st the deak while the wicked wouild 1s, In its method, studi- | and down io the ousbioned soats. All slse wilt ous of publiocomfort. ~Itiaall vain to say that | b insigmfcaut if wocan resch at lait sutedi- our fathers in past centuries walked 5 milos to | gence und raligion, church 1o summer’s hoat or winter's storm. 5o “‘Thus bave 1 alluded to the objoctions pro- thoy walked also in journoying over tho world. | posed to you andtomo, I pass now to adva All thivgs wero oqually full of toil and vexation. tages and inteutions, In our Indopeudant or Tho hotels whera they passad the night wero c»nglupuunnl relationy we, from preacler to nl elanlmllt, nuii tl le)‘ldmw‘ lhmr‘ lito llfmmn:.]n AR A5 . parts heat. Honce ihe return of am all to this T o harroich Lad boau Lindly ro- | Lluos Lus ot s 1t tho leans elemnt of 10bule 1o :flvcu ly :gf l:w::;;ul gfl y -Pvln?du:. Prof. I‘nt‘:on. nui'}:l a vindication b%: me. T‘l;m wal also tha eul al e opponeuts to | service began {OT® any War tweon shat barbarians from whom bo and hin frionda had ‘;'m]u:l:;r and m; laell t;n::au;_dnnd 1 bu)}iu\‘u a Cen- encaped to reach the pea of libarty, ‘Thore wiy | brad Chureh will go forward noar whero wo are p now after Prof, I'atton and I sball fiave passed with whom AVO CONVErsc 18 movomen sudionco, At the conclusion of the mervies— | vacins o spring only from & publie moed, aud though thoro wero thoss who felt rogral al lovv- | coutaina v it almost no elemont ¢’ the experi- ing tliir old church—thera was bat ouo opinion, | Mental sud senaatlongl. A city of halt a million that Prof. Patton was & public benefactor in ,!M Dmn now allude fo another objection : driving Prof. Bming to & wider ephere of use- | + You will bave no church aocial lite, nu prayer- fulness, where humanity and love divino will be | meetings, no church socisls, no sowing sociuty, i cread, no followship with each othor.” Boforo entering upon ble disconrse, Prof. thf;"x;d:};,‘;.'gg’;‘: :gge“‘:"fl“wfi'f;;gi‘ :g":‘:‘f 5""’5 #aid : I wish to mako this snuouncoment. two, ifl‘ us \mpe. llE}:\\lfl‘! chures, Indesrndant The committeo of gentlemen who staad, as it | or Congregational, with its own ball for wor- wore, boueath Lhis movemont aa the pillara of it, !‘l;m. Sod i il oouton -"wli;u?i t:_f chuiml: o, 'There are no reasons whatever againsi sohIane pight st pdtorred Al the - materal o tho formation and success of & church where all financial part of this movemont to s Commitos | (o highways moot. It con eaally come, sud of Nino, That Committco of Nino will deviso a | will roon come. plau for the renting of chairs, will suporintend But let us mako s second snawer to tho objoce the highting and heating of the hall, wall attena | tion. Itislv themo \vurdu:l:l‘ba value of adcnlu- to the music, and all the worldly part of thia ser- l’_‘i"’h"“;‘g‘i’;‘""éfl’o“,"t’u ] e "{“;“B‘f“;’:; s 5;“1‘3 vice, ‘Lhespiritual part of tho church will be look- ufy morning mmfi, Pwm“ out of 1,000 or ed atter a8 rapldly as we can attend to that | 1,600 peoplo in & congregation soms Boventy part, and os rapidly as the nced may appear. 1 | or 100 gather ac & ‘‘cburch aocial,” you muat thinks tho Comumitton of Kino will ba roady to | BOt poit me to 1"’“ ““’-‘:h‘"d‘ call '““;' "’"““;h from to-morrow. Tho regular mervice in thia | that, in etimating tho moral worth of_schurch, room w i bogin tho laat Bundsy of this month. | wo should rether look to them of a Sunday in ‘Lhey have given mo two Sundays of vacation in | lusir poxs: tl‘;_m t?“!hnga hm; pisylng, leuf}r{g which to gob this matter all ready. 1 beliove | BTOUDS, langhing the bappy homs away, =—Tho paoplo who asasmble Buaday morning determine sheso are the anly sonauncoments T nood mako | 1R 100 o Y e (e g00d, rlfi;mnmn citizens, then that 2,000 are a noble eliurch, And whono, out of & thousand persons, twenty Jadies moct to sow for the orpliaus, you muet oot point us to that scens, and call it * church lifs,” Our thought will st run after the thonaand peraons uot thers, with a foellng that in that lhouund los the worth of the Rociely., Tho service that blescos the most is tho chiel ser- vico. Aud oot much should ba said of the fellow- ship and friondship that sprung up in the regu- lar houss of God. We know all about this, We kuow that tho cobgrogations ou tho avenuos meet ovly for tho wursnlp of God, and do not stand heart to hoart aud hand in band away from tho nltars. Easoh oty s full of only barns, tho beds 1 which they | peaple, expact to onjoy freedom of thought, L slept wore lard as the road on which | desire, nud fully intend, to presch the religion of thoy had walked sll day, snd the food on the | Christ, but in tho libertv of thought not accord- tabie way sa full of toil aud vexation as was the | ed me in iny former relations, Congregationalisn duily jouruey and the muserablo tavern., Men | will allow you sad mo sll tho liborty wo desite, walked 5 miles to altend church bocausa they { With un:g svct thero is a concentration upon knew of no such thing as conveuiouce or com- | Chriat aw a suficient Bavior, sud upon tho fort, Meu exbsustod in that dayuponroads | ides of rowards aud punishments, that and bille, and agaiust yaln aud storn, strepgth | leayos Chrlstianity pure 1o its privosplos of body snd mind which suould Lave been | and power, uud leaves the Christian mind frou, turned aloug moro useful paths, ‘Thie cougregasion that can welcoma Btorrs, and Wheo the gate was opened to lot ju tho now | Budingtou, and Alvin Bartlett, and Helwor, is idoa of convenlenco and comfort, It bad to bo | liboral'enough for sil Christian purposcs. Wo opened for religion an well, for whet tman has | do uot ssk for a church broad euough to permit learned that he need not bo mitorable as (o his | us to be Atheists, Ia Congregatiooalivm, if at table, a4 to his botul, a4 to bis bed, aud as to bis | last it should receive us, we sball flud liborty homo, lie will no louger ho misorable asto his | enough, As Orthodox Indepsndents, or Con- worship. Wheu a bAd idoa has bocome exposed | gregationalla in either case thore lies before it is_routed everywhere. When Cbampollion | ue a beautiful j:rospecs of lotellectusl fruedo: found tho clow “to ihe Egyptian stopes, | Aa whoun Neuophon and Lis compauions, after ho soon read evorytling in rapid ic- | long wanderiug in tho mouatains of Armuu cosslon. Thua when mau discovered that bo | Jost, starved, homesick, and barrassed by bar- need not ba wiserable in somo ono thiug, ko at | barians, at Jast from s mountsin guham once spravg to the concluslon thac bo neod not | tho sea, they wept for joy, sud shouted * the make any part of lifs more” burdeusome tban | ses! the soa!” for it was to carry them houo {ate itgolt should demand. —80, you and I, coming out of the wilderuess ‘Thoro i8 a tandonoy 1o the world to utilize ita | whera wo werelost, andstarved, aud sore prassod forcos. The modert age will surpass all furmor | by barbarisus, may well Jook out toward the tunes in the quantity of labor 1t will, in s given | wido expausa of liberty, and cry ous, **‘fho time, briug to bear upon a usoful resk, but ft | moal thosoa!l it will now carry us all howme." will nut waate time and powor, It will not walk | The oceau of froedots is broad aud deep snd all day 1o a church ond hume sgalu, not if it can | Leautifal. It waalies all civilized shores. All the go to church 1o & fow minutes, snd 10 comfort | balmy aud fragrant breezes vume from ite depths. a3 it goos. - 'The ligut of heaven winiles ou {ta facs. This Now, when all the placea of worship that 8t00d | vcest 0f liborty s the true cousolstiou aud iue near the centro of this great city woro torn down | spiration vi wi thoss who writo or wpeak., I and removed, tho uo:xm{uu of theso tomples | who wpeaksa ovuly by role—or to & Lue ook worship away trom ihe placs whore ail tho ! marked down Ly anothor, cau ooly bo elave, carriago-ways mioot, and sgain asked a largo [ 1fis heart can never bu the howe of any love or coutral popalation to do ss our Sootch sud Puri- | sonsitiveneas. 1 donot mposk of the vista of tan fsthors had doue, face tho storm avd ex- ) liberty os myowan account slone. Not ouly Laust the day for the kirk, And shis ceotral | must tho speaker bo froe, but tLo audience also munt fecl tbat they are freo mivds, and are sit- LR ins eanctuars ahers the ag of hberty wares over them, ‘Tho rivid details of the more tron-like erucdn do not oppreas the clary only, bat the chuseh membereLip also, For the mem- berabip of tha madern ehurcli han risen in intel- ligenca and in ths porwer of ita logical facuity, aud, au doeply as the elerygy,it fasls oppreased by the dognas to swhich it open subseril aud from which 1t knows ot jnat how to escape. Muzh of tho time of tha clergy, and of the higher ordec ot laymon, is now apant 1n declar- g huw they do not beliave il thoir own creed, ~apeut in apologien over 12 or iu denoanciug an rhowing with whac Jov they would h wpintusl frasdom wera iy ouly placel witlun thor gaen. Ju that theolonicsl war which was waged in this city two yenrs ago liveral clergy- men did not eqnal the taity 1o the quantity of ndiguation sronsed by such au inquisition over words and thoughts.” Ciergymon often, from thelr theological Auilies, anduro or fargive, or oven enjoy. u certaia amount af theviozical skirmistung aud conflict, Thoy 1ok sometimen u.0G Buch trials A3 matters of courss. Ibut tho Invinen trained to bo usefal in roligion, snd thinking riors ot Christ thnn thay do of theo- logians, oflen funl very deeply tue privats sod ubisc wrong done by suct arraignments for ineeay, ‘Tho churches burn with slame that minislorn ehould no degrade their ealling, and that, 1n v kkopiical age, Christisaity should ba a0 exposed to now criticiem and new contempt, Not sloae, then, am I 1n the powor to appre- ciate o church whuro the discord of » **trial ™ caunol come. but you all equally rejoic:that. hero, freedom of opinion poura around yon 118 health-giving and joy-bringing etmosphere. We all desire to oacale a repetition of certain foolish processes by hasty men. Qur sge 10 1ts Christian departwent isnttem it~ ing to find broarder grounde in doctrines, upon whioh a larger multitudo may atend {u a sweeter poace. That thore are a hundrad mecta aud Luat thewo war with oach other must result from sows defect in the mind or in tLo sentiments of the heart, Sach discord cannol but come from eitber iguorance or sclfisbness, There mus: bo sumo ons religion o which men might most,—for God 18 one, and virtue is oue, and vice ls one. Our ago is attvmptiog to find the ideas that aeparate men, and tho other ideas that bring them together, It wishes to destroy tho former and crush tho lattar, It is seeking & lnghet unity of thougbt that thers may bn a dasper unity of covtiment and of love, Tho Calviulst and the Aruwinian, the Hautist aod the Episcopaliau, and eveu the Catholic under tho Joad of Hyzcintho aud Dollinger, aro sevking this wider ground of faith and love. As rapidly as tlue noble truthis found, the idens tha: Liavo scparated hearts and have tomthe churel to ka“ will be cast outand despised, and torard the bettor ceniral truth tho public will turn with o new affection. In sssembling bero to-day wo come only in the spinit of the Chrisuan age. scoxing tho highar truths that will hind more learts togather and biing mors, of penco and _govdness 1o pocicty, We all camo not to contradict and complain, but toadirm sl the procious tiuths of the Gospel, and to love thew thy more because of our por- ouemy do s of foct freedom, Not an we mppear oun the borizow. bat the fast and firm friends of ali the cburches, whatever name I know tho spirit of thia ac: crca, T'ea years bave miog od ns much togeth- er u public aud [rivate, and 1 feel fros te ray that I kuow your Loatte, aud, knowing them, confeas with joy that our combined dewire is to Iiold not an unbappy, negative religion, but ono fall of positive duvotion to Jesus Chrise, aud to all the precioun 1utorosts of humanity. Wo como not ag iconoclants, but 84 Jovers. ~We do not desire to be a rudo force, tixe lpghtning or a stonn, but a grentor iutlueace, like suvehine and dow, under which the gentiest plant may grow and reach 1ts own peculiar blossoming. “If we shall wielt to deny cortain doctrines onea be- lioved, it will be that Clrist may not bo injured by avevtionnof men; if wushall sgnore, or & :i;m, other idoas, 1t will be that thov may not bide from wa that Way, Truth, and_Life, lu whose prerence i noonda¥, in whose sbuence is night. Befting forth gach day frm Christ asiha radiating polnt of our avstem, we desire to apyly in l1fo to huwan hfe, Hispardon_to humanwin, lis bhopo to buman hearts. nallnrinE that Curistianity nnderlies not only a heaven beyond the gravo, but all goad Lomes and citivs and om- piros hors, we sil wish, from Sandav to Sunday, to scek out theas adaptations with our jutellect. that wo may oboy them with our roul, And besides the words of Christianity thers romaina it apirit sometling abave delwcation inlsopaage. Thosn who assomblo Lers dostre to dosl not only in ta0 morals and theologv of Clrist, but to live In the 1mnidst of that epirit that ‘euveloped the Lord in all hours. Toward even Pilato and all the adversn throng. Christ way full of teodorness. Frum Chrst comas tho lesaon that il will, anger, eelf-wor- nabip, are ouly punful bLlemikhes upon the son!, and that untll man can deal in perfocs lindness with thoae who differ from him, he is yet far down in the denths of barbatism, One 'of our public ten, who bad fived s long and serous public life, confessed lately that frum early man- hood hie had fole shat Lo could noe affurd to got augry at au oppoucnt bacauca aungsr sosmod auch s disgrace 10 the soul. There is & sping of Jeaus Chinnt moro godlike than even 11.8 words, ~a sping which all taay feel, but which uous can expruss, just a3 one mav foel 1 bis bosom the boauty of a day io June, but can_never embody that beart-boat in lauguage. Dut such & pitit there s, It will sit down und talk with theo- logical acieuca uva Jesua talked with the woman at tho well, or with the ruler by mght. The wider the difference of opinion, tho more eazac tho spirit ta show its banuvo- lvnco. It inaves tus ninoty sud uioo 1a the fold of truth, and goes forth tovard the ono iufidel, or otheist, or skeptic, who msy sesm to be wan- doring in the wildornass of ontaugzivd thought. Ta thia dactrine and smrlt of Curist we, th.s Contral Church, would subacribe anow this day —re would renew the vowsof fo'mor vears. We ank the groat cirela of churcles sround us to ox- tond to us their good mill—we amit not oven the Jow or tuo Catholic. Wo shall love to offor tham all the hals of our right taud and ocar hearts’ boat wishes and best sifoction. — HE IS OUR PEACE. BERMON BY TUE REV. MR. ADAXS, OF CENTENARY CHURCH, Tho Rev, 8. N, Adsms, the psator of Cen- tenary M. E. Church, preached yosterday morn- ipg aa follows, taking as his text: For He {s our peace.—~Liphesians, iy, 2. The word poace is suggestivo. Firat, it cer- rins us back to a time of hostilits, sharponod by bitter antagonismes, and ripened into conflict. ‘Then it brings us up to the coavation of hostili~ tles, & trnco, & cowpact, an alliance. Whether its otymology be derived from " puco,” to ap- peaso, of ‘*pauo,” to ceasy, It mgaltics the fact that partfes onoe hoslile have become reconcilad. Poaco 18 bomn of tho sbarp conlicts of life. 1ts veculiar aweetnesa can be lasted only by lipa embiltared with the gall of ain, 1t ia not known to the unfallen mngels, for they have naver beon aliens. It {s nuknown to the lost spirits of woe, for though atienatod they aro not reconciled. Although in tho piciure of human hife the augel of peaco stands beforo us batbed in heavenly light, with s conntenanco expressive of raposs and affeceion, yot just bebiud hor is s dark back- ground. Thero iy oppropristoucss tbat Mo who Is our peaco should omerge from the dark con- tlicts of our bumau experiences, scatrsd, yuos victorious ; that the Dible route to Calvary should be along the rugged steops of Binai; that the standard of this placo should bo planted on Qolgotus smong shuils aud bones. Tho word peace suggests at ouce two jmpor- tant facts. First, war botween Mau and Gol. It disclosos tho Listory of thila world'a discord, the bitter warfaro betweon (lod's uncomprouaing claims, aud the eumity of the carnal Lsart. It gives 1D & bird's-oya view ths world rebelling, wmustoring 1tu forcos, boisting ita black iag, aud @ ity canuou. Au the Coufederats troops Cuarjeston openod fire upon Fort Bumter. was built to proloct that port from u 0 we opeu fire upon that port at which foreign onomy, of Divino Iaw, which, rising out of the depihs of God's lnvs{, Was reared coursa after courso of Tequirsment for our defenuo sgainst the luyssion of vril. Tbls war finds God witn the problem boforo Him of preserviug the union of the divine aud buwan, liabugle notesaru sounded, calliug upon our wills, purposes, enmities, and lusts for voluuteora, and thon conscripting from our enslaved paasivnd sad habity, ‘Thou this word pesce untolds that oihor fact, God conguering our cumity with tha woapous of Huw love—tho cruss, thu svabil of weakuess, beoowing the {nstrument of His powor,—Curiat by His duath slayiug tho eowity, sud winniug us wto & voluutary suriender to God,—Chinst the compact of poace ; taith in Hun (he termu; Ho the mediator betweon God acd man, for, hsving fougbt tho God 1o nature, and dod {u law, we Il ' & { & ] & il < S ara now reconciled to Gesd_fo Chries €S he law | peon principio being vindicato ] by His ¢S €npt tha olter of Blood. The word peaco rugeests anot® tha atonement an & tntite 1o e S wa ac. paidoi on the basxy atosing %= & & honalit— h: 1reaLnsn, War imphies nome degrs o of equal stween tha contonding purtien. “Inert mat.. boiaw tho poasibility of war wmith <iod. Mere animad Lio moves along ita treseritod path of nacessmtatal ovediance. Only a fron immartal spirit, created in God's image, Wowering np 1o tha hoyghis of its boing toward tha Infrnite, can war with Deity, Gad's method of reecuiciiiag man Jlustrates thin thougit still more forcibly. Pence is not wubjugation, Threenin o propriety in saving tliere 13 peace betviesn an ahwdiuts monatehy aud & crushed provinee, for prara imvliom thy connent and lovalty of poth partias. Tha:o may b decoram ig & family whore ona ono tron wiil exeyuisca jord-bip. and the uthera Mavishis oboy it, tut pesce relgna 1o the family only wisu tha mdivhinalivy of each member is’ act, yot all united io a vacrad rogard for unity. ‘I'nero i tha bond of noaca, but nevor the tvianuy, Heo what 2 flood of heht this one word praco cants avon mary importans guostions. Somo wonder that God'has permizted sn, and espoaially aro thov offondsd st thows circuitoun rontes which Ho takos ¢o win ua to obedience. To them, the ex- ercipn of that awful rovuroignty which ahonld compel seems fore godlie, But such compul- sion, while it might eas:ily subjugaie us, could not bring peace, Many treat the atonetaent ar a satisfaction to Justice, where, 1 tho charestur of Shylocs, Deity demauds the poand of tles, sud then those who aro includod i the coveuans of graco aro frregtibly eompolled to yiell by the wight of (ot wpinit. o then irrceitibly fads to per- severa: and thin thoy el peaco! " Posco with a n sutomaton, s handcuffed vlaso! [t in fuch views uttordy fait to Aes thay in- fluite tendorness, that marvelons patience, that sacrod regard for wan's dinnity and frerdom, which God employs. 1'exce meane man sareen- doring of his own free wili, covepanting witly God. all our manbood eolisting for Christ, nat a powsr broken; and the dour of ratum to lis fornmer rebollion left open, far peace imylicy tiae possibiity of cppositenesa though it may nover bo used. Meuco the ward unfo.ds to na those tender mothoda of Gol's apirtt, inviting, be- weoching, wouing. winuing, but never compatl- iog. Inthis pencs compaat we seo Gol, thunsh & Sovereigu, treating: with us, reasoniug, propos- 1o, alwaya recognizing two Lartics. Then how catefuily God, though dealing witl tbe world, ssves the individuality” of each soul, tieating vor with the lump ot humauity, bt with ** whosoover will." Vhtls this articlo af agieoment with & rebellionn race is priated w its couditions. promises, sud benofits, alwayd after ono precise forw, babroen Jew and Gen- tile, Greok and Barbanan, wbero being no differ- nce. tho same now as in tho firat century, aud the sam3 a8 will Do for thy euds of time, vet to each soul Giod Lands a copy wilh that particular namo fhiled 1o, and rizhit under the mguature of the Father, written with tho bicod of Calsary, yon, in the integnty of your individual manhood. 8:g0 your owan nsme, and whon thus signed, that docamceot ¢ yours oxclusively, not efen ssmgn- ablo to vour nearest fricud. The wmiguatute of tho Father renders 1our roul walvable ; paunco ie possible. Your alfitiunal siznaturo renders it saved,—peaco 18 renhied, Mavy bavo attembted 10 pev int>all the mys- teries of tho compact made between Gad and 1lis Sou Josus Chirist, to oadastand how and why the death of Chtist was a matisfaction to Godl, or a substituted vuileriog for man ; but thin question ties hidden tebind jusurmountable dif- fieulties, Wo mccept It 83 & fact becau<c the Biblo teaches it, and taers wo leavo it. The hu- man eido of the stonement we can understand : aud thera 14 80 muct to it thas tuls alons iy a theme for tho ages. Liven tua angols. rich as ato tho loasts of heaven, leave thew bung Lia‘tz, and, loaning os heaven, gazo cariiward 4 into " cutring to look this worlt of redemnlion—a themu 60 great that thraughout eteratty {t sbalt bo the sony of the redeomed ' unta Ui thag loved ns ant washed siu4 in s own bloud. und Lath azs and poicads nate Godaud Him v i Ls gory aud dominon forewcr sod ovor.” 'Yhe deepest want of onr buman nature is not happiuess, but pea Tho n 1idea of God which is revoaled shrough tho t.oun to all muds 18 a power, ‘Luougbis of the witlnite awa us, Tho mysterv that eushroulds the Doity, “ making dwrknoss Ilis mecret habitation," fills us wita susponse aud (ear, This avful infimte holy presence follows ug. e caunat escapo 1. Wkan wo bocomo conscions of guilt this pres. ence becomes a torwentar, this God seemiogly au cupmy, Aud wha ia thero that Las not felt guilt 7 {f we consull our owt consciences they condomn us. When wo retrospoct, s hundred apecires of past wisdocds surround us, cach with su upbrawding iook, ss they punt ther skinoy tingers at onr guilty souls, If we con- sult tho voice of Naturs, she powts to thoe bard snd thorny way of tne Lransgresvor, aad 10 tha retiibutive monuments of Divino wrath which bavo been rearod over tho romatna of Mo onco committed, and rs we readthemourntul opitsrhs of fallen mon and rstivns, wo romonber onr sins sad aie trogbled, It we cousult tho Diblo we tind » sull greater condomaaiou, soarchinz wore minutely our inoer fives, bolding us to a bigher standard of eacellezce, thundering from its law m0'umn dutics aud fearful ponaliios, load-~ 10g un along becstoinbn of slmin” bullocks, unnl at last wa stand under the very shadow of the croan and bLoar the voice of tho promisoed Bpirit, DButwhat do we hear* #in! Sin! Bin! bocause you believs nat on Chriel. Guilt, preatast guils, for you havo grestest hight. Qur base, unwor- thy hives, contrasted with the sublimo example of the Son of Mau, seem drrser than ever Le- foro, We look ou the bleedipg victim whom our rins bave gicrced, and wo mourn. We turn away from tho sight, and go on 1n our mad cateor, drageivg meu to the prisous of min, Hglting with jotousest batred wheu wo ars _aro awrested by & volve, maying, “1 am Josus whom thou parsecutest.” "I that voico any peculiar power to reciaim ns to God? It would ssem that Jesus by His dosth only convicted the woild moro deeply of sin, widenod thio chesin betwaco ua aud (iod, and that a guilty humanity, lise the demons, wight well cry out, **Art thou 0uino to tarment ux de- foro our time i But tha voicoe of the Crucifio.l Las & magiocharn to sodthio our warring pas- niovs, sud a mighty owor to couquor our re. bellious uatusos. Along thess human lines of {nfluenco, somn- bow this holy Son of God. tlis sgouizing deash on Calvary, which a8 nothing oxa eonvicts of 810, doen also a8 nothiug olse briug peuce to thy wmuner, Wa need uat ga out uto the wornd to prociaim the fact of sin; everybodv knowa it Wo noed but look beaveuward aod betuld tho black pall that hsugs over the un- verso; we neod but read tho world's bhistory of crimes and suffering, or listen to tho reproschas of our gwn cousciences, to discover that sin is & tormible rveality, From the dave of Eden tho wrath of God against ail unrighteous- neaa has boen tevaated in o thausaud ways, each wpeaking with a thousand tungues, During all thosa canturioa a siu-stricken bumanity lins boeu trying to solve, by sa-ritico and torture, this ons problom : ** How sbiall wan bo just with God?* She Las awung on hooks, ma lo loug sud weary pligricages, offared the costliost sacrifices, filled templos with theskalls of victiws, and then diod without poace. Despaning of wuccesa along this line of doings, sle bus ukou suothier, that of doubts, Bhe has esul thers ls no God, uo e, wo hereatter; thin seuss of guilt (s the child of snpeistition ; let a wisor age And o truer philosophy escapa this thralllom: eoul, bo of good com- fore: thioro is uo God: thou art not a sinuer; louk ot to 8 Judgmout to come. But this moth- od of securiug posce is au utter failure, bovause humanity doos not aud cannot baligve it. Our {ututive conviclious of Uod, right, and duty protest snd cry oul, **Mieerablo comforiers are yoall.” Begooel ‘There is a God, an heresfisr, duty; Ibave sinned aud come short ; 1do to bo saved 7 Poaco being the profoundest want of our na- taro, another plan _has been triud —disaipativn. Wo kuow thore fu a God, but we will forgot 1im, Weo kuow we are sinnor, but we will plungo into the doptha of worlllinees; we will arown our woes 1n the waves of passion; we will fro- quent places of amuvewment, take to our cups, sud forget it ell; but in our sober ivter- vals wo suffer the mwisory of a duwsinte- grated and solf-despiug lfe. At our Toasls of murth the glosts of murdersd dutios hiauus us, sud will not dewa at our bidding, To- wtond of findibg posce wo sre furtbor and furthor from jt; sud the paius of boll get holid of us oach day with firmer grip. I stand, ere to-pight 10 tell you, frionds, that thess do- vicos aro utter farlurcs, that there 1s vnly ouo way of peace, and that 1w o the fuut of tho cross, Jestts ia our peaco. I'his 18 a facs, w glorious 1act, attostod by thousands of Living, competeut wituessey who havo passad throuelh these struyg- gles, consulted all these exvodicnts, and as a last resort biave touched the hem of tho Bavior's gar- wont, and bave beon lealed. Their peace bas e, NUMBER 102, H 88 8 river—psace with God through our i Tord J.aua Chrst. [ wisl L) toll you 1ot only, thin fact, bat bo'w and way it I3, sotbat whay von €000 o Christ you may ‘coms inwiligently snd with confidence. ‘Tho fivet thing dona by Christ 1 Hiw doath 51 to ravesl tho amazing. nfluita love oi God. I ueed to think that the lova of God was tha firet thing we s ln tho Gudliead, and ouly as wa ssarched did wo find His power, justico, and holiness : bt I have becomo satisticd that waita Yove la God's ceutral aturibute, it 18 aleo ilia moat obecuro ano. Why, oven to this day. in Uhristian lands, wo are but slowly nakiog ap to tho Fatkerhood of (iod, sod recelving tue hope, sttength, and lovo this most blossed teuth im- pattn, Hxfore we koo 1t we are goiting back i Irom gospel tuts Liw, and then throagl scisnze aud@-staplisnics mto nature. God's outaide at- ribi§ s is poner, This, anys Paul, 14 rovoaled to the isuntiles, * Evon Hiu oternal pawer and God- L 0 bavago Leholds and feara this awlul paaor whore prewsnea ho cannut escaps, and Wwiio8o might Ly canuot rowist, naw with seoming catrice thwariing his plans, sud then with avger erusbing hiu, ‘Inrongn thess kloomy caverns of darkaeas humauity bas besu groping 118 way, Awal by myatery and conacicnec-sirickon by guult, it has belioval Lhis groat infinito powor to bs an eue- my. Later Goa's ho.iness and justico avpearod ; eaprico settled ik ordor: tao world was found Lo be goveruel 1o the interests of virtue. Grade waliy loomnd up the razged and awhitl peaks of Sinnd, tpon whoke suait was a purs, boly, and Just Gos, who, amid ciowss of darknesa’ and Hamos of voogeauve, issued His law Iab s sibnor hod tostinctively folt that even thin God ¥ae hin enewy. You can readily understand gwiLy soul ey wpprove Goid's taw, and ovon admirs Iis inhinlto holmoss, sud yet shun Hin ; aod the fur:ver Hu parsuey us on this lino the further wo will run avay from Him, and tha more izterly wo will hate Iim. It is alaw of our humin natuco that if [ injura amau, I3 hts onewy far mors than i ba ine Jursd mo. The ono to ba roconeiled iu the offender, and this 1s the insurmonutable berrier. that ho whoso business it g o make coufeasion i3 alienatod; he regards you o4 lus enemy, sbuws you, loarns to bate you. While vou way be ready to forgive lim upon a frani confeasion, hie will ot come ; twhilo 1t i4 Lis business to go ail tho way Lo you, yel if o reconcihation it offected you mnse go all the way to hua. Yon mnnt revenl not your wrath but your love. Withe- out coumprowisiog principlo or excasion the s you must recouclls him. Christ fa our peace, recauciiing us to God, removiug our e pubics, wud drasing unto Iim becanse Ha un- foids thy intinite love of the Godhosd,—God camingall tho wav tu 1 4 thon gatung down 8t our feat, ** besecelune g o bo roconeiled to Hia,” ilcrs was the wealooss of the Jaw, aod hiero tho poweref tuu crosa, ior ** what the aw coullnot do i watit way weak through this trait of tuo tosiz God did by sending His Sou,” for in thm Ho ** commeozled 1fis lova toward us i thnt while wo' wers yer muners Chinst died for us.” What cartal¥ monarch would have Riveu Lis ovly won Lo die 1o save b guilty subjects from merited pummuinent ? Whue Judge on the bouch viould love u mmiderer to much 0 to o o b pisee? Oa: othe luve of the closs! It was @ lesson ta tho angels unfulang — miore richly tha iory ul the diniue natare ss thoy baneld it *in tus fuce of Josus Corisi,” Well unght thoy tiil the Judoau shy aud Rog to the shepberd'a **Glory t Uud in the Lient,” for thim tras taa hughest glory, tuy richest mauifosis.ion of tha divino essence of love even they had reen. 1 gtsow thiet thors me parsons who will teh you tiat the croes 1 Lot tcoded 48 8 revelation amazing Jove : tho way Notgra teacles nuly.” Wa adunt chat aisluo lovo 1 10, yeb sbo teby obout as much of As Nature prosisima a Cause, We go vu i the linnts of buwaw thought and find sy aosiractivn, 8 Lrst cause, but God PUNDIY 38 8 coueo bever loved anybody., ‘Thon we coma back ot eanse ), —to Natirs, —und tind sbo tut Litle as:oiioa to us. if wo_got under ler wivels suo erusics ey il @ caiamity fa cn us abe dues not oven stop 1o lvok. T'rus, :hs fevds ua i W, Utk bhio £30ds tha Jowest forms of hifs Just w3 goud irs suw wends pan cod sausbine, but is 100 hauglny sl todilesent 1O Brupeition it to UNr prayers Or 0 r pioly. Doce sitch a power luve youz Asu tuat wan puched with poverty and CH8ing Lid LAN eXielenew, 83 he sa Givd Lus fougbs we at overy inch ; Ho b fuvoritod whom He Le,ps at iy ex; tust wan whoeo only ton bas fallan uador Lo wtupid boufs of twis nature puwer and boen trodden to death, and peraa,s w his birernons bo will curse God, saying, ** Ho is not oven Juzt Mo took my buy," I rearcely wouder that 8 waoy who throw sway tho Livle havo landed m 1o obomioss cier} of athemm., Az every other placo thun at tho foot of tho cross man his quaureled with God, nuver doubting His power, but bitterly quos- toung His fove, Nou thatall have thus quar- reled, not that Naturo gives no .ideico of love, Lut that as an all-convinciug demonstrution, busLiug all mormusiog, bursing all objections, more thav olfsetiiug all she hard thinges ot Life, tho cross and ouly the cruss s our pouce, recon- ciling aud wintiug us to God. Adter this roveikon has boen couquered, and our heorts won 8o that we nro dramu right to God, we uewd somellng more in ordsr 12 bava iseaco, aud that s coundeuce. Yo make peacs nouo of our intmitivis must bo violsted. 1lose puliosoj/hies whica excase vio, calliug evil good and darkuces light, or which repredent God ay quite inaiffercut tu onr winy, can oover bring peaco, for it is never leathily believed, A wessage which prociaims gauply a humag Chriat, » dea.h ou the croed which is siwply wartyrdom, no divine abhiorrence uf &, vo Lai- rier (o pardow, o ueeded vindication of Gud's law, war ¢y peace, peace, bt Lhere Is no poace, Conncionco cau bo pucitiod oniy an wa fosl that God in pacitied, the honor aud authority of His law vindicated, and shat thers in a onsis whoroby Giod cas be just and 1ba justitier, While wo miay ot solve tha dilticulties, wo voed to be as. suted of tho fact that this offer of pardou has 3 subsiuntial bavis iv &l tho astrioutes of the Ui- viuo usiu.s, dercy mudt not be at the oxpento of raths sud justice Sianding at the fodl of thie cross, our rebellion eonquered, but nut our fears, we a8k, ‘'lins this doeath merit that resclies up to God 7' aud we usy “Yos," for read- myg the Bignd wo day, *Uruly, this ia tbe Son of Uod, God is hors, overy sttridate nailed 1o tho Cross, for oven in Christ's death thero *dwolt 1o Him ali the fullgess of the Godhoad bodily.”” Thon wo aak, Lias thus doath o morit that roaches down to mau, not oaly ta respociable mauhvod, but to the wiless and lowess, to the foulest, blackest rins you have ever committed or tuougut of 7 Just hors, #Lrango a8 it may sosw, the convicting powor of the Cross, revenling to ua our sins und guilt as nothing elvo has ever doue, coutributas to our peace ; for we fuel thut this groat Physiclan ows fully the magnitude of our case. He lets us sy tho Lardest thinge sgaiet oursvives, and then He says barder things. _Ho tinds us under a weight of guilt, cryivg "I Lave sinned and come ahort,” and, lustead of removing 1t at ouce, Ho muokes it & grest doesl hoavier. He ROed with us down in:o the durm of our boing, and points out tous our sius, thon ls goes down deeper than wo bave ever gone, sud roveals to len 1o uncovers our inmost being, sud we st to our nostrils from this cesspool of depravity. ‘Then Mo #ayn to you, *1know thomind of God, and I kuow your hoart. 1cansave you. Ican closuse you, 1 am authorized to ut vou, on coudition of Isith, au immediate and full pardon for sll your &, nud a titlo to glory.” ner, that 15 what Clirist i3 saying to you to-bight. »‘Though ¥our pius ba aa scarlet they shall bo as white as saow, tkough they bo red like crimson they suall be as woul" Are you a groat siouer, 11e1s & groat Savior, *abls to save to tho utter- most all tbat como unlo God by Him.” | sea you comiug, knoeling at the foot of the oross,— tho load grows hicavier, the darkneas thickens, T hear you ery, Depths of mercy, can thero ba Mercy stilf resarvud for mo? ‘I'here is & Belabin Heaven, Angels aro watche Ing. tears stand tilck around you, but you von- tute. Ferbaps Ho will admit my plea, Yerhape will hoar my pruyer, But {s Mo ablo? And s voico ocowes, Al mom: is given unio M in Haveo sud ou earth.” ut {8 He willing? Aud tho same voice upeaks, ** Hitm shat cometh uoto Mo I will in uo wiss cast out.' You say, **I will believs," but that voise ways, ** Now Ls the accepted time.” With & dae- perase strugglo you venture, * L will believe," #od that voico spoaks agin, **Thy faith haih saved tlhoe. (Jo iu poaco.” What & trsus- formation ! The burden Is gouo, thko darkness dispelled as tho ephit brluga a sran of light from the heavouly wlory, ou its errand to toll you '* you aro Luinof God." You rise and tall the story, ** therofure, buing justitied by faith, I have peaco with God through our Lord JosusChrist.” ~Buch & souluo looger complaios with (lod. If pinchod with povurty, 1 Lias & pocubiar fellowehip with Hum