Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1875, Page 1

VOLUME 29. AUCTION SALES “C. HIGHWO00D' BECOND BCMI-ANNUAL ART SALE! OF ORIGINAL EUROPEAN PAINTINGS, TO B SOLD BY AUCTION AT TOE ART-ROOMS, 186 W.ABASEL-AV. ON THE EVENINGS OF Thursday aud Friday, Dec. 16 & 17, Commencing at 7:30 p. m. In conseqiience of Mr. Highwoods tmmeilste de- prture for Eniope, and encournged Ly his friends snd Tany art lovera, ho it concluded to rell, withotit re- sy, hid entire suvech calloctim, Hnuch an opyortn. sty to procurafina worka of st lus never occurred deforo in thin city, ‘The sale will b ‘conducted by T. A. LEONARD, 3. 1. CHAMBENS & CO,,_ Aucttoneers, i AN, o PARTNER WANTED, Pastios fn Qliteage whio liave, at,n hesvy expenditura, cperfected & machine, which is how bLoing msde for B2754 aud sk fur 8350 cazh, Desiwvo a Partnor, (ther active or mrecial) with 815,000, fo take & THIRD INTEREST and LULLY SUPPLY TTE MAR- RET, Oroers have heen veccived for from I'OUR TO 81X MACILINES n advanco of tho supply Auring the sle manthe, The domand for the cntire year is apiform , amt {hy partice, who are responstble, afe will iax toFyiaranics & profit'of 30 per ceut per AnuUm Bt Jegotiatlons are tnvited with principals only, Mdress W. II. WINTER, Oare C. A. COOR & CO., Chieago, ARTISTIC TAILORING, PO oSt A o oot ] 15 PER GT. DISGOUNT Onall Winter Ovorcostings and Ueary Buftlnga for snd until January 1, 1876, Quality, Style, I'it, Durability. " Ouly 80 far o Droes nptlogs from, nnd illustrates eharacter, can It bo udmitted to 1ho realm of art.” ERDWVZARD IRILY, ‘W abash-av. cor, Monroo-st. NOTICH! A CENTENNIAL HOTEL FOR S\LE—~In Phitadolphis, un & 70-foot avenus, ‘it 1 funtes of Now Yyrk danotion, aut 13 minwiss A Pamrongor Kallway of Contounial Grounds, Waosll tha atteut:on of hotol-kacpars aud others tn the aburo “liotel, comprising & row of twonty largo stons Eoasot, waiiig & {10t on tho avonus of 4ix fout, hist K & corrl ¢ raaning througn the outiro Liock, * The LUilding 18 led up with cvery convbnlanco, aad will accammodata bout 1,000 persaus, WL by 8ol on_ oAsy terms, &8 & lurwo asiictint can remain on mnrigags, Any porson or Gmpauy taking hold ol the skovo can realizo a handsome it during tna Cantenuia) cajohration, and afterward HMT lh]lll ) e e et cnat by walling {t out fir privalo dwt i PAGE BRodr, 10 South Fourih: IR TS, (. £ WEBEER, cor, & Water & Dearbor, Asnsual, f8 in the markot, with the first snd always the beat Frufts. 9,000 boz.0s Messina Orangos and Lemons. 200 carsen Valoncin Orangos. 360 bris Loufatans Orangoa. Tersels to the Teade LOW, HOLIDAY GOODS. WH ARD BETAILING AT COST, For the Next Ten Days, $36,000 Worth of DIAMONDS. FRIS RAPPLEYT, BISBIE & B o aiic-at. TO RENT. For Rent, To a reliable firm, for jobbing pur- Toses, second, third, and fourth floors of our storo, Nos. 38 and 40 ‘Madison.st., Bt. Mary’s Block, oach floor 40 by 85. BIDDLE & BOYD. LAZARUS SILVERMAN, Mnnces MONEY ou Produce, Real Eatate, City Cor: Ybosten s Renta, Exchangs for ssle ou all parts of OPERA GLASSES, &o. SPECTACLES, OPERA GLASSES, 1In every conceivablo aiyls. LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, At JL. POLACHEK'S, Optician, s !0 _Btate-at., near Fandolph, —._UCEAN NAVIGATION. National Line of Steamships, ’l!rg& YURK 10 QUEKNSTOWN AND LiVERPOOL. Y L3 Chucday, Dog. & &12.3 p. Hr-uhn turgay, D.a. 1, 8t 3 1. 1. ULAND, 4 Saturday, Déo. 13! at9a. m. oy ed A e, Deasit aL98. im. DON DIRECT. ulay, t1ue. 1, 82 3:30 0. m. ‘N3 bltisgs, §60 aud 870, Gurreter.’ Raturntle ot duced Tatos. Kiesrage ticksts, $36 cusrency. Wopiy s, £1a0d cowardaon Groat Beltala. W N, sna Regdelphata,” (opbusiie now Tin Hou CILAND, 2,807 i octisast vormer Ol sian Lvuse), Cb! ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE. RS Tt tiompany's s, Sismative Con essole ot Llis favatte roate fo . “CostneadBelna mors adutts syt e g iy uaa 7 otiucs, wil sail FAEHADOL, Banglio Saturdar, Deo. 11 ke o e awaraar; Dec: 54 ABS AU GOLD (nctuding winen U 8ad §120, according twscco ..., vaation Teduesd i ' I1J.j\nlrd. W, Heturn Haokaets Fy 80 B, with superior accumuvaations, In< e P e A O A 018 BT G st W E iy, K.Y Greut Wester n Steamship Lane, ow York ¥ o Briatol (Eogland) diroot. Wt ey . 18 ) Dew. 33 Intarusediste, 948 Btoocauo, €%, 2.“Apply atlonl Veuighy Devot b AP EB O ALE At 111 &113 LakeSt., Ohicaga. p )umnu 9, MORSK & GO, Becarelultobuy only the Geaulne, l THE PULPIT. Sermon by the Rev, Dr, Swazey on the Knowledge of God. Jo Vo Farwell on the Alms and Progress of the Young Men’s Christian Association, The Work It Has Done, and What It Proposes to Do in the Wost, Dr. Ryder's Opinion of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment, He Bolioves that No lufhority for tho Dogma Can Be Found in the Goapel, “Be Thou Content ”---Discourse by the Rev. Dr. Messing, THE KNOWLEDGE OF COD, ELRUON BY TAL REV. DR. AWAZEY. Following is tho toxt of yestordsy morning's #ermon by tha Rev. Arthur Swazoy at the Fourth Presbytorian Chutch: Continue n prayer, and wateh In tha samo,—Colos- fana, ic., 2 That§s no trae viewof life which keeps us away rrom friondship with God. We nro, ina senso, nothing toGod, Iho wholo world might bo destroyed and leave no gap. Dut we nced God. The whole world coufosses this need, and at the anmo timo donies it. Whero tho sonre of Geod I8 allowed, men havo two ways of approach to Iim. Bome aro afrald of Him, sud look about for meanato propitiate 1is anger or purchasc Hin good will. Thoy deal incharms, watch- words, or bloody rites. This is suporstition. Othiers look up to Him as the creat jutelligent, peraonal power and goodness. Thoy honor Ilim, and strivo to oboy Him. ‘Whon we would knuw what salvation 18, the Now Tostament tells us,—this 1% slernal life. to know God and Josus Christ, whom Ho has sent. It is clonr, theroforo, from the Now Jostament, that neither schooleraft, nor philosopby, nor & eewmso of right, uor any other thing, can bo sabstituted for God. Those who deny ITim may live for a time, as a willow tree hives aftor you cutaway tho roots. An ewgino will run for s timo aftor you cease tho supply of powor. A camel haviog fillod the groat nalural recervoirs with which hois cndowed will go off bravely whero thero are no wolls or running stroams. B tho world, as a cowmumty full of tho ideas of God derived atmoaplerically or by Inboritance, may ot perish on tho ivstant of depial. But tho ime comes when tho wmllow cracks in the sun, when tho engino stunds dead on tho track, wheo the hot eands hoap up like suowdrifts round tho bodies that bave fallen by the way. If God be necessary to anvibing, Lo isnecossary to tho thonght aud affections of mon. Thero can bo no Jife where men forget God nnd vestrain praver. The supply of lifo to tho tree, tho ox, or the man, 18 by a dilferent law in the timng seale. 1u the treo Nature doos its work without tihought or demre. In the ox lhunger lapels bim to pas- turo and the water-srriuge. Ju man still & now law operates, Ho not only hunzers and tairts, but baa invention to aid fn tho sup- 11y, His mind is & groat workehiop,—and plows, and loows, and rattways saive lym sccordine ta theeneigy and Bagacity with which be rewpondsto tie powers of tus world. Go higher inta tho epitit, and the {ntolligent and moral part of mon must receive from God jargely by knowing Gad, jua: as ho 1ocowves from the world by Lnowing the world. Otberwiso vou uvers thoe sealo ; yoi put toe eaul with a bit af mosa or a mallusk, aunl the animal man on tho top round of existeuce. ‘I'he Prophot praving for rain, the Jailer cryine, “What must [ do to be saved? " Luther praviug threo Loura a day, & nation keepiug n Babbath or a fast,—if_it be kept unto God.—are justifiod bv renson. Logic leaves no miadlo ground be- tween &' holsm and reverential worship, no half- way houss botwoon blank matorisllsm and prayer and uleblnfi. 'he acudy of God is far from being s mark of the weak mind, far from bLoing a tangie in whose intricaciea wa only lose owiaclves at the cost of pain and eorrow. On tho coutrary, the great mind 18 imuellod to soek af- ter God, mad brings Lack faia itsell the wealth of life. What if 1o all this religiousnces men mometimes confouad the human wud tho divine ? What if » groas truth be overlawd with the subtle- en of tho eohools ¥ What if the goodnesa and flory of God ba sometimes fixed in thick clonns ke those which fur tho fortnight paut have con- cosled the face af the sun? What if meu ate uu- wisoly sure as against each other of tho truth of their obrei vations of the goveiomont ond graco of God? Whatif zeal fur God has in voms in- stances bliodly denied the unity of Ilis wotks, or has aven lighted tue fagyot at the foetol mon of whom tho world was nov woithy? What ir the studv of God divides tho worid into sco s oach striving for domiuion over the intellects and conscivacos of men? What 1f it hall be praved hecealter that avou aur best views of God sod his governmeut bave boen antuopomorphics, aud thecefore ata vaat rowmave fram aboluta trwth? It is slmply to say, thas man s only mau, to wnom prejudica of soma satt 1sas nacural a8 color to & bird'a plutnags, that paxsion 1s oue of the couditlons of our mortal oxlasenco, and tlat only by tha tultion of the ages can wa learn $o read tho hiorog!yphs which aro swritten all over the Bible, the soul, and tho world, —thas as yet we are the merost childron from whose por- Tormed tasks, snd even from whose blunders sud celines, shall tlossom & riper knowladgs in tho manbood of the world. It is quite trus that we ses through a glasa darkly, but that is far botter than vot 1o sec at sll. It Is quite tiue thab our ignorauce flila even that glass with pand, and bubtles, and veams, #o that the image trenamitted darkly to the oya is misshapen, It1s quits true that our knowledgo of Uod I8 nover pormanent, but {8 ever glving wuv to soms fresh and bettor ob- wervation of Iiis q\un‘ and power, 8o that, till time ends, there will always bo an old and a pow theulogy, the new becomicg old stter s fow doo- ades Linve gone by. But what of ail this, If in all we have the radical idoa * thiat God 18, and is the rewnsder of those wha ditigeutly sesk Lim," 1f a grest friendabip blessaes our lives, suda freat hope beckons us on, and if the reign of Iaw aud lova is st last sot up in our minds, be- csuse fu this poor way our hves bavo becomo immbedded by faith in the otercal law and sho oternsi love. The grand ides of Jife {8 in religlon,—in that redoguition of (Qod, as ons whom wo mey invois and trusy, sad that yocogni- which, naming the gorm from ite cowplatenesd, wo call the knowledge ot dod. To this knowledga the world hias been iu taintuk, ‘I'ou Bitle 18 the bistory of tbat tralning, ita 1uat fuudamental lesson, which will never be su- porsedea, belog faith {u God's onty Son, Jesus Chunst our Lund, The procees has not been ao slow as it sometimes saems to have beon, Four thousaud years are almost notbing. It will ba 18,000 yesrs vet bofore the earil's pols shall bave mads & single sovolution ssound the poles of “the heavens since Adam kept tho garden, Wo are oven now 1n the veriest fufancy of tho humsn family. Hut, long or sloct, the world hss boen under a tuition, divine as well as humsn, What are calied the ** dispendations "—a {erm wuch in vogue by tho ¢l divines—nere periods cbaractorized by an ides, and aro alnoas ay marked as the goological cras of the varth. The 0Old_‘Testamont 1o & 1ecord of one lemson after asothior, tauglit and ingraied (u the aoild's thouht, leading ou to tha tmanttestation of God , in the purson af His bon, each leszon tanghe in 100 wuiver moyt suited to the tuuee, all lovking 10000 sdea of ackuuwledeivg tiod, Whyearo Sam- won aud Lalisb amoug the goudly nawey of old CHICAGO, Ihicauno Lol MONDAY. DECEMBLR eainta? Bimply becanse tha former, with all bin vices, stood stontly and alane for the namo of Jehovah when I8 namo was denicd), and the lat- {er distinguisbied horself 1n & h-a:haw city in ba- having in the jiving and truo God, This waa the virtue of Noah and of Lot, the idea of God ba. ing the rudimont of tho righteourncss which in dusa Lime would follow, In the estubliabment of the Jawish tem- pin, the ony placo of worshin fur 8 ustion occuptiug n wide ares of counlry, and -in the Iaw “forhidding the offering of sacrifizay =t any other place than at the door of the «nriclUary, 1t was deaignod to define sharp- Iy hn authority, and h.linoss, aud pressncs of (od, unil tha peaple wero juepated for univaraility of worsbip, The multipheation of offeifog was ordered to bring life, at overy inte: cating_potiod, tn coutact with God. ‘Ihere wero nin offerirngs nnd sieapass offoriigs, to keep in mind the nndarlring aisposition to reaist God, or the 5.0 of nature, and aivo to magnily the Lreach of the la-+. Theto wera ulferinzy aftor ricknesa, atter child-bearing, afior barvesta, offermys of wina, o, flonr, ran«incensn, salt. goats, dven, aud nt tiinos hiecatoziby, an when Nolomon offerad thouranys of el:orp and oxen—all smoloyed as kind of symbolio linguago to acknowledee God a8 tho giver of all things, or to ackuowiodge the offenso of life againat Hun, or to declare thas Lho proplo and all the Isnd bolonged to God. That they drifted away into idolat iy, that the symbols ccanod o bo symbola srd became charms, was only scoording to human varare, whieh, with all its yearninga, strove to astiafy iteolf with romothing lesa than Gorl. Tu tho New Tos:ament the complicatad core- mooial gives wav to a aiuple idon. which is en- forcod from & uew atandpoint. It is no longer a0 ox, or a dove, or n bandiul of salt, but the man biself. ‘Tho altar doex not drip with bloud, Therg 18 no oriest to atand betweeo himaelf aud tho Almighty, ‘Therais no ono sauctuary to wihich the uforings musc be brought, Praver, < atching, sud thanksgiving, walking by faith and nat by might, luving (fod 18 s father, boing lojalto Himaen son, dopanding on liim fo* bread nnd raunent, lookiug to [lun for wisdom and ptrongth, and soolitug btmbly sud gladly Hia foillowatup, and waiting for the deliveratca of the Upy.or lKingdom, stand in the plazo of all symbols and all sacritices, A proper knowledgo of God, therefuro, im- plios prayer, and thero in nothing mors reasun- able, Dothing moie profitable. It is the soul's cnlm, the roul's mgony, a8 the coro may b but iu either caso the wmoul's sitrengih. In tho fluctustion of lifo, Is it good, ss tha waves havo been licaving us to and fro, to put our foot ou & rock for a hittle whilo, snd, whon wo aro wenry wnd famished, to reach homo and its luve nnd plonly ¢ Is a great stmuT presenco comiug o us wiih all the wealth of kaowledge aug riondship, o leaniog placo for our perplosed thought and faint hoart, s boon ? Then is prayer tho soul's great wonder worker. Soma think it an exaggerstion whan Josus said, If ve havo faith as a grain of mustard sced yo may #ay to the mountain, ba thou removed nud cast into the sea, it shall bo done unto yon. ‘The thivg 1 done every dsy In tho year. There i4 and nover was anything impotsiole to Lim that bo- hoyeth. It is amazit g to me that boliof is o alocsive, 20 cany iu somo directions, #o d Micult in othore. Lot us mako an obeervation or two, There is nothug vro:ounded in the scientitio world that e0emn to stagger mon's faith, They stumble on the flint verss of tho Bivle. They cay bolieve tunt & comet i a collection of atoms wuich bave force euvugh 1a thomscives to gviato, aud coudense, awd fractify, Gt a woli-furoishod pianet takosits place among the worlda. ‘I'hev can bolieve that tho eyo of n man reerives trillions of concuesions of the undula- to:y ether every sccond of lime, that a thounand #et” of those waves of lizht are diiving on through the same places witoout disturbing each other. iLov caa belicve 1n au atom of dust Liav- ing power in ttrolf to be a wollusk, thon & pan- ther, eod then a man. Bit they esnnot beliovo that tho soul, the mind, woich measurca the height, and oxplores the nreane of Nature and lays baro the socretu of ages pact, und propaocies for sges to come, can go & wtop toward God, or tike 1in o juspiration, or » hope, or 8 supplygol Dyvino power, : It 18 oasv to believe in multitudinous gen- erations. [t 1s bard to believe in the ono waching of rogenestion aud the rouewal of the loly Gbhost, It i easy to bcheve that & spoctrsm of light s a reve elation of the constit1ents of tho a.in or a star, Luis hard to believo that a Dine nutheoticated by luatory and the experionce of mou 1s arovela- tion from God. it iy casy to beliove that heat in motion, and motion hoat. It is bard to boliove that faitls apd iove and paver are currulated, and that the one idea is God. 1t iy casv to beiieva tuit the braln and the Nugers, that Londun mnl New York are in constant ooiro- spondence. It 13 bard to beileve thay CGod anid tho soul can have auy communication with each other. hlake Gud aud man, says un- belief, two islanda with su umraveled sea be- twcon, Itis onsv to beltove that tho mun has ower over mation, growth, color, life ; avd God a8 powerover no.hiog. 1t 1n easy to beliovo in & tuousand forece which defy analysts, But wo must not bolieve In the Holy Qhost becauso wa Lava not eeen bim. 1 predic: at somo fotare time & great reaction, —nutter amazement that mon biave been ubly to be- lisve ovorything but thie thiugs of tha soul sud of God, and smoug other surprises 1he discuvery that prayers the nndu'stoty medium between Qod aud & ciitd's hulo heart. Pl speaksof rayer. Lat lot us not confuse ourselves. Thare n the church prayer, the lecture-room prayer, tho household praver, tho preyer of the closot, These are the accidents of jraver; of groat value, the formal expiession of a hungrv and belinving heart. The real prayer is that which lies behing all former, thoupliftiog of the Lears, the continually outstrotchod bLand, the hourly coufe-nion and coustant trust, tho perpetuul lay- ing hold on God. The bliod fedglings opening thoir mouths at every rustiing of the leavos aro alwavs in rrayor. Bo of msu. Somotimes words aro needed to sonid out bis cry. Bometimos lip service 18 too forcign Lo the calm or the storm ot his roul, The Quaker prays whilo lie ita listening to tho voice of God in bis own soul. Mau Is somotimes liko a brook murmuring ita monotons in tha ears of G.d; sometimes like the btoad, etill Iake which mirrors the pluncts aud the stars ; sometimeslketho hieavy autgo of the ocean beating up against the grest shore— dostinv and God. Let & man p'ay sa ho will— using manv worda or few, usiog words moch or little, Lut always breathiug oul, s hundred tines & day, his dosiro, hus trust, believiog that God always hears, Watching 18 jolned tn praver. Religions in- sight comes fa part hiko all other insiguts, The greatadvances in buman knowlodge Lisve came 10 the watclers,~wa cheraof (he heavens, watohers in the laboratory, watcheraslong tho muuntains, tho glaciois, and the coal-shafts, watchers out on the sca, Newton epent much of lfe in watching soap-bubbles, and thereby Jad tho fouodations of s knowledga which is giving color to ail the wisiblo nniverse. Noman bscomes wiso who fa not deaf, and blind, aud unconscious of himscif. A man who thinks of himsolf so much as to think, [am thinklog, I am striving, ia Jike ono looking throuxh a telescope with his nama cus 1n the ob- ject-glass, or like an athloto who rofuses to sttip for the gontlict, Curdory reading, imported thought, psesive acceptance of truth droned from s puliit, mers eplintera of time and of mind kiven to God, have, their value, but thoy aronot enough. I'rayer aud watchiug alone bring the heavenly vision, Tho heart is s great iutorproter, s groat prophet, Love i inspiration. Love will wee » thread mtretching down from the throus of God which is otherwise invielble, Love will hear s whisper whou the unioving sou! hesrs mnothiog. desiro tust be i1t God unvells tery to €ho bungry hears. This ja nos rha)sody, nor anytbing hkelt. It is the uimile proso of all kinds of panetration, wisdom, aud solid lesroing. ** It thea ye e vimple. thy whale body shal! be fuliof light.” ‘I'hoss who watch and [ ay ave alone compotent to snswer the quoation, ** What of the night ™ ? g P THE WORK OF THE Y. M. C. A, ADUBEYS BT TUE HON, J, V. FARWELL, A mooting was held at Plymouth Church, corner of Michizsn avenue and Tweaty-sixth strost, last evening in the futoreat of the Young Men's Christian Association, ‘Lhe Hom. John Y. Farwoll delivered an address, taking sa his toxt Matthow avi; 16 1o 18, aud as his subjoct “Young Meu's Christlan Associations, their wvynificance. \What the Chicago Association has dove, aml! what the Ilinois Association pro- posoa to do.” Ho spoko s followa:r | Wo aro hero to-night in tho fotorest of a prin- aiple, and a fact ahoso influcace lies at the basu of every successful affort, good or bad, in A fellow fecling makes us woa- s only » faing ro:ogoition of our Bavior's prayes ‘‘that all way be ove," with | Him and the Father, Wondrous unios! and ouly possib o upan the f1llest rocognitiou of tua fact that God's aniritual faully are traly one. Whan ln Washiogton, & few yeira sinco, I raw on Ponuavivaniy avenue a 1nan Loaring & banuer amid the joething crowds swhich il the highway betwoen tho Caviol and the Woite-Touse, As bo came towards mo I maw, on one side, this fuscription, " Gol hsth made of onn blood sl nations to dwel opon the face of tho earth,” Pansing by tha man, I bo- betd on tLe otlier eide, *“Inaamush s ve did it nato one of ths leant these my brethren, ve dul it noto me. Onels our Fathor, snd alt wa arn brothron," Thers, 10 the Capital of our countiy, mado up of all_nati ns, aod born of religioun persccution, sl 1o an agn when Chris- tianuy risen nbove tho miduight clouds and miata of inwoloranca juto tue clear light of tho a0t ning Atar, thoro motiaes Wore most anpto- priato. ~ The firss tnotto of that banver wa all admit to bo truo. Our scia stamp us as tho linoal doscondants of Adam, the tirst man, wio snnol. Tha lustory of the ras phowa quite divtinetly that to ve mombers of that family does not mako us one, exce; t in one sano —that of sinners, varionsly graled from Alexanlers down to Judases, hetrayiug a world or s sangle brother, aa the vave may b+, Thn second notto on that biuner ropresonts & famnly. born not of the will of tha flesh, nor of man, but of (tod (John L. : 13), which aro cne. aud all ** brefhren " of tho aecond Adam, **who kvow no sin," Thera aro no Alexandors or Judasen 1o this | famiy, carrying only a bag of s2ifi<ineen 50 ox- clieivo thai for thirty piecos of aitver one wonld acll thn woria'w Rodecwer, and the vther for tho luat of power would grind the world undor the iron ool of despotisin. All Listury demubatrates that no unlty per- vades any portion of old Adam's famity that may nat bia broken. antil the uew Adam comea in to soal It with the spirit of truth clothed in gar~ meuts dipnod in (be blood of the Hon of God. who, wheu 116 skall onco fur all eeparste forover the two funulies, the oue born only of tha flesl, the other born a recond tima into God's family by the spint, abail 8sy: “ lugsmuch a8 ye lavo dooo it uuto ons of the least of thcae wmy bretbren, yo have done is unto me;" theref.re, “come, yvo blossed of my Father, inhent’ the Kinedom propated” for von fron tha foundation of the world” In worldiy moters wo il recorvize tho impertance of concontration, as woll as wop- aration, in offacting great onde. England, soy- regated f:om tha rest of the world by & wati of waltor, though physically small in oxten:, far- nished n wafo tuoory for 160 foudal partios, whoea castles covered that island with tho pras- tical demoustration of man's essential depravity; but Gud made that imland fur & different puroose, than to raiso gians to cut each oibier™s throats, lu process of timo, with the Jobn Knoxes and the Cromwells of that islaud, Guod melts all thoso castles into ono, after thoy bad mastor- cd tho arts of war, aud makes of those dircord- aut vlements & nation whoso power gurronnds aur globa, Ier preseut Queen was asiod by o hoatliou Princo tho secrot of shat powor. Ho was pointed to an open fibio, Why did God plant ilis Chnreh In hose lant days upon tuat water-bonnd 1sland, anl make 1t tha ¢ niro of tho greatest physical power iu tho world, and then s nd 1o the:e shores her sous to phint auother nation fa tha very midst of tiibes withant vimber, of Adam's doscondants, whose only religion was 10 kil un enomy ? Wiy Lavo sthiess tribes maited awav until from ocean to ocean the Bible and the plow have marked this laud in the coming yoars as Ln. .glaud's myccossor 1n ite molding induence upon the world's destiny ? Is it not Lecause tins land is to be pro-swinently the cantral powor in God s family 7 Hero !l natisas havs como for an asy- lum, Iora we may ‘‘teach all pationn” under onr owa vino and fig-tree, none dariog to mo- “baptizing thew 1 tho vamo of the Fatlior, of the Sou, aud of tho Hoiy Ghost," ore is 1o other placo on the globo whors so many pationalities are sheltered under one tiaw. Then thero should be no other place 1 all the eanth whote tbhe Lord's famiiy #hould bo so carpeat o oblitorate all the fouds which sosp tuom so sonarsted thas the world canuot seo tho necoseity that realls esists, If wo tuin amo- ment to tha 1ith of Johu we find the objective potot of our Lord's praver fur il tawmilv to bo its influencs upon ths world, 1o pra.ed that they all mizhe be aue—swhy? *That the warld may believe tuat thou hast seat die“—and the result of such s faitu ;u obsuaiosons—fur Joun in Lus epistie eavs, ** Waokoover boliovath & 1at Jesus 18 the Chnst. 1s born of God.” Tlon it seome to me that if tbhe Clis- tian Charek of this " laod would muarch under a victorlous banoer in this ali-tmpo:tant work of piace, instesd of soemng tho bilood- stalnod emblowm of tiie cross trailoz in tho duat. of riefoat, the wartd ecofing at it maiguificant influence upon saciety for practical rightosusness, that (s wp.rit of uuiow, that aas turned bo norld uysido dowy 1 Eugland, snd bag returned to us aguw fora hie purposo. abould find an echo in each ono of our Learts. s cordial that $he sound (hereof slall bo like the vaica of manv waters, and 80 distict that the wot(d may have 10 duubt 25 T 1t 8OIrCO, 0L AK L0 i MERaIng for oach membor of old Adam'a family, viz.: * Whesoever will, let hiw tako the water of life freoiy. It 8o Liappens, in the providenzs of God, that our catv ju coutrally locstad, When I cama noro, thirty veurs uv.r, thn oud fort, which kept the Indians 1 check, was sti.l alanitog, and one of our honorod c.tizous of to-day was a resident whon thai fort was seedsd for such & puruose. Cowmercislly, oar city has atool np as one man 1o centralize tne po.yer of com:norce wishin her boraera, until bor name, by aisfortuns sad suc- cess comb,ned, has boen bLeralded thronghout tho worul, 1t alio o Lappens that in thiy city, thus located and built up, was erected ths tirst Y. M. C. A, buildin.t—a practical demonstration of the real unity of the LorJ's people, ‘I'wice teduced tonshesasif toiry the faith of iw little oues, tha Lerd bas givon ite ene- mies abundant caase for rojoiciog, for & little soasun. Lut the lsst fire of noreecution which *scattered abioad™ itu chiof apos.des, Moodv and Bankey, Whittlo and dliss, Qole and bis family, Jaco’s, and others, averywhere preaci- g this ponerrul gospel of the Kingdom, has soitled furever tho power of this unity when ractivally demonstrated, and uat oaly is that Enuuing up agsin, but, what 1 of ten thousand tlaies tore 1portunce, the undetiviug oorner- utono of it s becounng ¢ho hoad of tue corner in every succesoful effort in building cf living ntones the reat tompls of our God. Cbristians of Uhicsgo, do vou really compre- hend what vou did when you lent vour hearts apd your purses to the Youog 3on's Christisn Aesoistion, aud Lonored it with tho firss build- ing dedicstod to Uuion work? To-liav there sre 700 Arsaciations on tha Awmerican Uontinent, aud 2,000,000 {nvesied lu buildiugs for them, You Liavo prepared the way of (e Lord f.r thess home fr.its, siso for the sending of Moody and Bankey to England~—the mother countrv—to unite bor churches for the most important re- vival work of this centnrv, and now they ara with us, evidentiy with the ssme rotults before tbem. Young Men's Cbristan Associations sprang up in all the large towns of Euglsnd sud Beotland, snd magmticent buildiogs for them followod the atops of thoso ovaogelista in that country aleo, Whittlo and Blies, and ifall aud Cree, have gono ull over the Bouth under tho auspiocs of this union spirit where fira aud sword s fow yoars ainos loft sucn foarful marks of disuuvion; and now, everye whore i that region the conviction s geining gronud that the Y. M. O, Associations aro ta_be the channe!s of blessing to their churches. In wlmout every Htsts in the Union theso sa- eociativns heve their misslonaries, wi so work iato uote Christian churches 1 working for souls, and then orgsuizing sesociations from tho fruita of such work, Thoro wan & series of ~neven meatings held in the dilerent sac+ f our Btate st year, and the results wera 80 markod that st the Hiato Convention held in Jackrouville it was resotved to rawe 23,000 to put the beat tnsn we could gt tnto the fleld this year for ooutinuous work, I know of nothing for which the churchos of Cuicago can 80 sinceroly thauk CGod s for tbe privileges of being 80’ largely instrumontal in sesting 1o motion this Union army, which under (gd ls deatined to tae the world for tho Priuce of ace. In this confidence 1 am bold to pro- soat the claima of the Chicago Amsociation upon onr pockets and your hearts, Surely you will ly.ml sond this mother of Evangalists **ovez the Lills to the poor-bouse.™ 1 kuow that tke churchea of Chicago bave beavy burdens to carry, but I know also tit thoy canvot afford to let this Associstion waot for a siugle dollar iu carrying ou the vork (o which we bave refurred, but inore esxpeciaily her local work, went forth in the printed sistoments sout fo tha churches oca-operativg with it. In ecylug thly, lot mno ono gather the idoa that thoes sasuciations—ropressoting au they do, the crystalized, wpint of anion—ars suytbing more thau agents and suxiliaries of the oue Cburch lu wany members, having Christ for ita hoad. Whaocover and whenover hoy sasumo o be ~—> 13, 1876, more than that, or less than that, they are bas. tardn, and not zona, 16 18 the glore and nosor of the churchos to indoiae anv ageucy whicn tha with 118 mznet of succens in win ninz sl a8 bo Las union sorvices undor Maoudy and - KBankey, and all othsrs who are 1n- arired by the vsme anint. 1 rve Just rotarned {from s Natiooal Conference of Y. 2, Angoci tioue, beld in Baltimors, via Phl. phia. co-operation of tin churches fo the wors of last yoar 1eparted in that conterence, aud a3 anoa in tho wonderful gatheriogsin ¥ dolpbis, arein- dices to my7 mivd of & most wonderful blesming tn our conniry in ihe neit taeive mouthe. Tho Phiadeiphia builtine s Iarger than sby used in Englaod, excenting Ageleultas. al Iiall'in London, with evers convemenca thay could be demred, Tho ncon praver most:ng4 held in It ave the largart ever hald in ths worul, and, on Tuucrdsy eveuing of this waeel. 11,000 peopla llad e utmost capacity to bosr the Gonpel. ‘Tickots already given out on Thuredav for thres eervicea on Hundsy indicated chat 33,000 dhJerent permons wouid Liear Mr. Moods ta-day, 11,000 Cbristians at # in toe morning, 11,000 un- convorted women at 3 p. m., and 31,000 unzou- verted men in the evening.—and the probatiity wan that 25,000 moro would sak for tickets be- foro Sunday who could uot Lave them, Onn reporter, #ent from New York to rigicule the meetinay, threw down his tencil, savinz, *Tlis bwof God: I will writn nhntlubg again«t it." Aunother, of tho Philsdelphis reporters, was con- veried. and in now reporting. with a clear viaton, the wouderful rorks of God. Qoo of the wealth- ient newapaper men, while I waa in Mr, Stuart's ofien. rout for twents-five ticketa for llwmncif and friond, fuclud.ng some of tho moat promineut meu in Philadeijlis, raving, “Wo are ali_coming to_hear your and tho world's friouds.” Jtis & chaering and hopeful sign, in tho mont, that onr Axsocisti ny aro i receiyt of Isrge numbers of letters from pastors and oth- ere, to acud them some one to lead uniwn ser- vices, Tus arises 1rota the fact thut a major.ty of the Btate Esccutive Commuiteo and ila Secre- tary aro members of onr Awsociation. Thin Committeo in tanir work In mimilir t0 uno which Iiaw been doing Lvangelistic_work in Eoglaod for maveral fears with most bl-sas | resula, It aa propusod in o i Boatd to have an wivisory commutico of mimsters to co-uperats, but it wan overruled, on the grouud tha: i would bo addiug ap urpecessary taak to thn pastors” work, and might 1mply (with samo minds) thet 5t was dono to 1nEure their co opora- tion ; of which wo_have no acrions Apprensns gione, " What God bay clennred, Lhev cor- tainly will not call coinmon, or unciean,” When tha Master leads tho way. thay will sutoty follow, though the instrumeut bo sn oz~ goad, o sling, or suvibiug elna, Wo expre: afier tho 1nt of January to have ono of the beat mew in ths councry for thw work at our command, Tho speaker furthor cotertained s hearer« by the relation of bis experivoce 1 the wording of tho Ansociation 1u tho city aud St 2. 3 ro- ferrey, in thecouras of i experisnce, to ha i met n theatie mavager at Ma-on Citv, who, betnk in aitendance unon n unlen morting. came forward and denounced b professon aud prased Gold mud b cauee, and submo- quontly brought {n s namber of swoon man. who were induced to give up ther waful lifa and rust fu thy promises of God. His next ref- eroucs wad to the expetienca of Maj. Cule. ol this eity, now lab ming in Europe, He bad left. Cliicazo, bus Liomo, and family, with the asowed putpone ot dyiug & drunkard. Tho speaker ze- farded the saving of Mr. Cole a% oo less than a. muaclo, and 88 he do:ailed the varous stages of hug reformation, avd ured :ho wreat suc- coen tlot hw was pow mesitug with 1u th- fool- stopa of Maody and Snnko? across the water, mauy in tho audienco wore move? to tears, 1A same d-gtiea of uccesd, Lo weid, had attenleq Mr. Cole's Iabor in ihis cosutry, and. bevides being insrumentsl in snving rouls, hud done & reat work in stunalabing ubion meetiugs, No ad scted for the Lorl and Ihe blessinzs bad besn shoverod unot him. o bad Jabored nt the instauce of the Young Mew's Christlan Association of the cits. and lis pathway was bestrean with suceess wherover he had gone, “Tho epeaker clozed by making an a~pa) to his honrars to como tu the support of tue Youup Men's Chinstinn An-ociation of rhiys iy, halding 1u bis band at the tine & cireuia~ mutiing fort 1t work, which be declined ta read for tho want of time. 1ha following ls extiacted fiowm the crealar: DranBm: Our objact Iy the apiritusl, Intelie tusl, and sucial wemsnt of all withir its § #pe tivaafu e ees, ar condition, To carry oit this ouject there ure yravided fu thin clty: T xu pealing- roome, Bupplicd with uicr 200 DEWRap rlodicals, € ratsued with & vicw 10 e ive placo of resort for youus men, why mue. agrecable ompuniuns, aad wacee the [nfi1 meas are for goal. Average dally astenlauce. M personn 0 Ler-ous vinited the rooms dis 1ng tho past year, and 31,3 2 fupers and inagaziues wers alsd in the roome, A MUriry of 2,700 volumes tor cir-ub.tln rence, freo 1o ali; 670 fo-eons uow drawing 5,840 voiaures wers drawn from thoe libra- ry during the past gear: Bibie clues, devotion sl aud. other mectings for relifious purposes, We sustuin twenty religions services woeily, with s combined at- {endance of 200 persons. Tutee Binle clintes, two Bunday-scuoals, one mesing 0 & de,ut, auother in & cheap lodzng-tioase, suotler in tua' Washing oulsn Iure, four otiers 11 Loeyitals 3 tww coftizo prayer- meetinign, o dafly prayer-aie and several oth~ o moeibuga for y0uuT Mo, we.n hiel.! duriig the pavt year ; twenty-cight seriuons wete pre cusd (2 youny mau ; 343, 00 priutyd invitations were distribuda ! for the meeiings. O tha ewud eheht handrad aud forty young meti wero furnisbel wrilag materbal free, ani We luve diatributed 2.0 Iibles duriug the voir to de- serving casps, Eight Lindred snd forsy Luousand feligloiin p.pers and tracts have Lecu subiered they my n e raliway depols, hompitals, Jila, bride wells, aod poor-hosee, Lactures on pipalse, use. ful, and interasting subjec twenty wore dedvered duriag the past year. Lyceum fur de stes, ro. itations, etc., now Dum-sering elguty m meeting overy week. Young Men's Towpora ciety ; 310 nigaed the pledgo duriug (ho past sear. Freo boardiug hiouse Hat: 314 young tueu, siringers, di- rected during the past yoar to Curiatiin homes, Freo emyloyment Lursau, fnilug work for nesdy youna men, Fellaviog te poor from w.nt with work ; 3,800 -u¥phu‘ with work during the psat year, 'hin antire work fa _supporied cutitely by the diay of the mensbars, and donatlons of theso tnlerestel lu the work, Wa feveiva §3,500 per ye.F from moew! er- slip foen, We expended [sot yoarover $14,00), Less thab W per cent of thle amv.nt wus spent {or sale Wa stil need $3,000 for our work this wiater, After tho nddress n collection was taken up, sud quite s bandsomo sum was realized. ceeitis DO THE GOSP&LS TEACH ENDLESS PUNISHMENT 2 SERMON BY TUB REV. DR. RYUFL, OF BT, PAUL'S eucnen, ‘The Rev, Dr. Ryder preachod s week ago yos- teniay on the quostion waether the four Gos- pele teach the doctriue of oudloss punishment, s sermon was aa fallows: § And these shall go sway inte evetlating punieh. meat, but (he izateous fuio e elemal.—ustues Far., The four sermons of tho curront serlea of ro- vival sermoua already delivered have fnclnded the following topics: **New Birth," * Ninety and Nine,” *On, Takiug Soundings,” * For ‘What and for Whom Did Christ Die.”” The firut cousidered the uaturo and necossity of conver~ sion; the secoud, tho eloment of forgiveneas in the Goapela; the third, the unporiance of pere sonal watchfulness; and tho fonrth, tho signifl- canca of tho death of Christ and ita rolation to man's salvation. ‘This eveniog we addreas our- sclves to this inquiry, Do the four floepoly toach the doctrine of endleas punishment? 1o other words, is the punisnment which God proncunces upon ein clearly shown in tho words of Curiat to be eudivas ? The hearer il obsorva the limitations of our subjoct. Our in?uxrv doos not relata &3 future unishment, but to vndless punishment. Do the our Gospe 8 tescl the soteruity of punishment for ain,—nterminavle misery aud sorrow fur the misdeeds of this life? Anyihivg legs than an oternity of punishmaut i Universalism. In that case, *in tho dispensation of tho fullness of time," alt souls may bocoma obediont to God. Futare punishinont, no matter hov long con- tioued, it it over terminato, 1s intinitely short of oudless. Does Christ teach the endleasness f ubishment? Are we cowpelled tu sccopt this soemna. however repuguant it msy be to our feoligs, 1f wa striotly follow His toachinge? You will obeorve, furthermore, that our sub- oct ias mnother limitation, Wh the teach- ng of Clrist upon thl 4 Our inquity {u restricted o His words, sud thus to the four Gospals, Wae may say, in passing, that the Oid Tosta- ment 18 wholly pilent aa Lo tho duration of future puuishwmont, unless Danisl 2iL., ¥, may b6 regerd- od by aome a3 an excaption ; wnid sinos the Epis- tles which sapplemeut the Gospels ara but com- nientariss on_the words of the Lord, ic seoms £air to infer that they teach £ importaut doc- trtno whiok the text does uot juatily; cestainly we Insy assuma taat Lhey teack no doctrine ea- santially unlike that which the Master lhimaselt aonouuced, W eator upon this investigation with ths con- viction that the =ords of Chriat ara v They ara to us sathoritz, Our oulv to gt at the words Ha actnn Iy em the meaning of them, In wume'inst difticnlt. It 18 ainar that wo ) nu tho Gospels in sowa co<ea s full re our Lord savl. Importent partica! been omitled. e T'urthermore. in no instance, in 3 the Iilie, do wn hare th procise S da which Hautterad. What we have 2 0 &S )lation of u:‘em Th win, no douut, very € A& o & trus. ~ Ity sn ,:h-ml = tawm s S 10um in £ f what (=3 % ag tiave rsion of A e, rosard- awhole: nnd for nll praotd & urposesis entireiy trustworhy. Iat it X *istancas whero (L 18 ensen t. f g XAct words employed b thi sSa uce 1eh hingne npon kpowing pre: what e did say, tho Inct that warz.th do not staud hofare us i the onginal auns i wineh He ntiere! thonis a #n.1us hindera nes toeritioal stu 1y, and a * fraits ful sourcn of tho diversisy of oar Jrtlzmonts stout tho rest ronso of the Word of Gol" Of this 58 have s promin«nt Hluscration in the eona 0V 6Txs 0n Bran, ' taatintion, thn whala qiae ton intawae beng the preciss meaning of a Gronk niirana of five wards, But it thua difficulty in certain carer ba jm- porsant, thire 1y another much morn xarious with tho srrent hoty of balievers. Words, and assgciatinn, come to have sn w, moaning. Ths Enzush Isagnage thousaixd Inatances of this kind, This i4 the common fortuto of human speceh, Lut 1t 1 ApparantaLnd wWhen wo atienyd to find ot tha exact tnnort of o pattienlu wor! or phrase, ms orugimsliy ased. wo tmay sliolly lail of our puz- pose, it wa assupe that the wori or phrass alusyy corried Aith 1t the Baale meening that ic does at present. Porhs;u thers is no morw fruitful rource of theolsgieal wvor than this, People give tn pacticalar wairds and torms of atatomient a rpecitic meaning, and 1uen nustina that they always La] that meemiug. that they ean- unt postiby signify ancthing elee,” ang thut anybody who doos not £ nter. prat tham virtually diebelieven 1n tho Divle. Henen no: & 1ttin of tus chureh litaraciro e taaz—samo of it by way of distinetion called ave gument—is made up of texta welected ndime cr.miuately from cbe first chapier of Genopis to thn clomng words of Rovelation, without regard 10 tunes and circumstances: ag 1f, by oach ro- cens, the Bibie—aud an to that aimont any othor book—conld not Le inade to prove aboat anv- thing. I venture to state, hovover, that tharo is no book 8» imj.ro eily uerd in this particular oA tha: = nich we profess to troat with the most roverance. ‘Tbat 1 this discussion tho wepeaker is freo from mectaran b or fiam the ilucnco of proconeptions, ho dara not claim. We cau onlv nay that, 1 prepaciog this eermoa, wo have wighed oot to permit prida of sect Lo warp our judgment: aod that woat wo give you i« tho ro- wult of a deliberaia so:l frosh utudy of the four Gorpels. Wo atand now ot the threshiold of our suhjact, Bae befoe we apen the daor of diving trath to ascertain Lho meanng of cortan passages whicl relato to the nani-ment of the wicked, let s 1nguico s8 to the general tmpiession which the four Gosnelw mate upon the mind of the reader. Tuese dosuments profess to bo tha sub- miance of wint Chruy actually taushit concrrnitiz the characior of God, His ovn mission. tho fu- ture Lite, iman's dutv to God and ty s follow- wen, and the panishmenst due for & Theva'e lour cecords of 0ie hife. Aol tne question wvu put to vou and ¢ oursel! 1s this: What is the gone: al imyrc s on whish thesn Goaels mve un of the nature of God. af tha qualit+ of His mo:al goveruwaot, and of His dispusiion toward man- kind 2 Huch facts a1 thy fol'owiag mav Al us in da- terminiug whas shou'd ba our auswer to these questiond First—The paternal character of God {8 a ecitic doatrinm of tho teaching of Christ. Wik simular clearuess and forca is 14 tatigut nowhare cise. The paternity of God stands uut 1p n the pates of tho Guspols as ous of ita essaatial doz- tney. Seeond-~Roveratul acta inhuman deeds, are, by general couseat, cuaraslouzed 44 unslrian, Prinon dinciplino, aud ail tre etneas of th rse who suffer tha pensliz 01 human s v, aud oveu uf besats of burden. prbtic wautimant domands shall uot ve nevdle mly craol, but tempered with mercy. Those sugestions of kinduass ars uat instigcts ive, and thov are by no means cenoral. 8 fur a8 they aro tho prodiict of tha Gospel, they show 18 towcinnis Lo be wercful sud fongva Thirilo-0n the vther han 1, we cart hardly think of the Bibla with it assocssting with 1t tho di- viine 35liuriooco of s, Clirst vamo to remave it—He died that wany mizhi be reconcilad to God. Lat is uot this ablio.rence of sin cons bt~ eat with Gol's regard fur the enuer ¢ Was it ot Llis love of Giud that caaiot Christ to live and dio for wioful msn ? Tho Lible omplati -ally doclares thiat ** God m love." This 1+ watd of tho suostaucs of Ilis patu.e. Dut justice 1s au at- tributa of Goul, 1uotuing more. Juatice i+ therefure clud u the geuneral description ot the naturo of Gol, jusi as much as worcy, of these two—and of a:l ather attribut divine wind~i: 1s Je:larod ** God ia love,” Incommencinyg the stuly of tho Guspels ara we not theu fustii-d ia assuwmise that, whatover may bo tue veuslty of ain whieh it 10veals, that paualty is consisient wirh tha fatheriy uatirs of Gud, aud w.th izd own plesdusg lor Ehs ox -reise af forgivenss toward 10sa wao o:Ten | suainst us? Aay other viow wa'td seti to mike the teachiug of tuo Guspo) contra hictory. Crrtainly W6 mav commence to® stuly w.th tho presimp- tion Lhat the voualty for win Iy ot fnco.s utsnt wiih tue futtiedy nacurs of Gol. At the levat 1% cannot Le irreconcilably opprsadto i, With theso weneial concentiona ot what the Gaspel, a4 & whole, 18, wo open the pages of tue Nev Tosamons and comwenns Qur exsmivation of tho words of Chiis:. 1. Our firat lmjiwession ia this : Tho teaching of Chnst reluces chietly tu tiis life, and butu wma | portion of . rocarded saviags direc.ly Lear upon tho imwatortal state. Ve loara alw tlat the Jnnguage emp.vyed by the Bavior, whother sddisasiug the pevple or 11is immedisto followorn, is not such as lingumts and cridcs would have Him uso. Ilis 8, 0ech is in the form of metapbor, patsvle, and proverb, and sd- dreunes the intchest rather than the ove, andzie woul ratoer thau tuo ear. The most ordinary dutiea and exp-risuces of mau's duly hife are prom voat tbewes i s toachlng, which is it #elf oxpressed in tuagory drawn trom familiay aad common things, Lhose, tuorufure, who ax- pect, iv the study of the four Gos oy, to meot upon almost every page some referouce to tno great provlsm of humiu destiny, and to tud thees referencos stated in exact and logical teris, will ex) eriance great disap olniment, Huch ia ot the motnnd of tho Gaspel of Carist, Thecon tonty of the G.sjals, so [ar au they rolat to Liu- mau dostiny, we snall dividento tares varty, Uu- der the tirst Load we group those portious which seem to ludicate to us tho Divine pucpose in re- gmd Lo man's future condition, aud form tho basis of hopo fur tho final recovory of sll soun. Under she wecond Lead we fuclude thowe pas- sages whiol appear to lmply future pavishioens, or whicls, at loasy, spoak of »in iu terms of sad import, but are not thouglt to teach that pun- ishment 14 audloss. The third class will include those passazos which ars gencrally sdpposed by thowe who noid to the doctrine to lavolve tue eteruity of punishwment. With the contents of tho Gounel thus divided, we place under the first head tho Surinon on tho Mouant. ‘Tbae spirit of this most memorable nf all the occurrouces of the Lord i parental aud Kindiy. It this woro the only fragment tuat has reachied us frum tha bistury of Christ. who woutd evur suppose that tho friious Father, of whom Ha heto spoaks 1y such teras of Joiglveness audl love, would ever avert I faco from auy portion of ilis children, or ceass tu bs maved witl caw- passion toward them? v tho side of this wo place tiie osher sumowhat lengihy address of o8us Lo [11+ disciples, juade jusi bofuce His be- trayal. Jolnhas pres-rved many of the incie denty of this remarksble occasion, Judas was readv ta doay Lia Master. And yet with nhat touderness Jesus says to tho hittle company, and to them all alike: "“A wvew command- went I give uuto you. ‘Yhat ya love oue anotber; as I have loved you, thot ve also love ore auother” Aud whery sliall wo find snythiog nore poaceful sud loviuz thau the enute fourtecenth chapter of Jubu's Uogapol. Nead this chaptor, and the two chup- te1s which follow, 1f you would get at thie nears of Clyrlst,. Of like lmport, but differsutly ox- roused, ara the parablos of thoe loat sheop, the et plece of siver, und the prodigal son. The -imnortant quostion 2a|+ firat two teach the mercy of Uud, tho other tha forgiveness of God, while 1o ali of thom the Jost is found, Observe espocially the words usod by the Savior in councetion with the parable of the loat shesp. I sy unto you, that likewiso joy shall be in heaven ovor oue siuner that ro- ponteth, moro tuan ovur uinety aud mino just pordons which ueed no repeutnce.”—Luko xv., 7. To tho sawme offect 18 tho convervation of the Havior with the Sadducoss on the wubject of the rrection, a8 given in Matthew xxil., 3-83, ::Tin Luke 20. In Luke 3ix., 10, wo flul this ospresaivo pasago: * For the Son of Mau iv somo to spouk and Lo save that which was Jost."” Ly Jobn vi., 33-39 ¢ ** All tuab the Father gives aribune. , NUMBER 55, tama shall coms to me, and La that cometis to ma L wil in no wiss cast wut. For | cama dswy from bieaven not to do mue omn will, but thn Wil of i that sem ms. And thin in tho swal of flim that sent ino, Laat of alt wnich Iia bty givon wa 1 should lows vacbitiag, bus rams (bup 8galn at the iast day.” Agam,in Junn xik., 94 we reed, “Aod I, 1f I'he hitsd up from tuo easth, will draw wll won unio me," 2. loaving the tegion of hopa and promiao, WO pias ty tho Becoud geuars: division, Al lete wo toucn the iand of whadoss. Our voly AUILALON 11 latthow ia from chapter x., lJ, “* Who-osver stisll confens me_bofo:o mon, bim slLT coniead alao bfore toy Fatber which 1210 Ileaven.” 18t whosoovor shali dsny me batare tew, him will T alao dony befors my Yatuor wurch a1 houven.” Heo also Ludo xit., 8 4 Ly ths wids of thus declatation of Chost, W plase Ils cunversation with Nio.domus, &8 recorded 1 John iy, 1, 21, oo the subject of new birth, Jobu . We quuts only the a3t two versok : i not At tl or tue Loe {8 camiug 1 tha which sil that are fu the raved ~ball hoar £lin voice, aul shail comn forih; theg that bave douo gosd. uato she rewurreo. 0 f life ; aud they thnt have dane eviiuntn the rosur. ection of damnation.” Lo this lst wo sdd dot xid,, 47, 49 Aud 1 any man hoar my words, and Lolieve noz, 1 julgo tum o6t : for I cane uot to judga the world, but to snve' tho word. Tle that rojncietn we and receivath not v words, hiath oue that judgeth hum ; tha word that I baye spoken tuo “sawma shall judus Lim 10 tho last dev." “'iean paxsages, and others ot Like impart, sra Auppsed 10 tesc arter-acath pusishwont tor tue upsaved. Poraaps it wonid bo nearer tha truth to sy that they suzgest or intinuta such panishmout as the fate or the wickod, rather thaa directly ainrm it. Bub tha sulfaring, bow- over severe or prolougod, must bo regarded as tn legitunste couscquence of an ovif‘luo. and uot an: form of vsterual turmen:, i Wo now udvauco to the tewaining divisior of the worids of Clirtat. 'Ihin contuive thase uas: saged wlich are supposed 1o teach tho vburuny of punisbioent. ‘Lhe nber of such paseages, which by apy fair construction cau bo placed on this List, ia very smail. Thoy, buwover, smbraco foir nuportaut topies, viz : Unimancuadls lice, bLiell-fire, piasvuemy agawnt the Iioly Glist, anid overlzsting pumsbimoent, Wo shiall cunsider them in the vrder nawed, Tn Mark ix., 45, 38, wo Sl tiiero woras: *-Aud if thy band ofeny thee, ous it off; it is better for thea ta aater inta lua maiwed than, haviag two hands, to go inco bell and the firs that Lever sball be quonclied; whera tue worm dictu uot, sud the tirs is not quench~ ed. Audf thy fooe ¢ flead thes, cut it olf; it 14 buiter tur thes to enier halt ingo life thag, bav- iug two feut, to be cautsuto boli, inio éhu tiro that never shali be queuctied; whece the warin dieh not, and tho fee is nut qusnchod,” ete. Tho firet 1npression wo get fron thoas versos is thnt thoy are wordsof fearful impot. Bas ou rellection we stinid all agreo that thoy ars nob to ve regarded as literaliy trus. Lhe taost con- Burvalive of the evangelical party wiil henitaso to accept the literal ** hell~fire," and tho liwaral undying * worm,” Butif thoso expressious aio part or wholly figuratise, sud wo aoreceiva them, Wwo muyt bot pertnit the litera meamug of them tounapa the thought of the text. Tho moat forciuiv plirase 1n tho passaga v ** tha Gro tast sbalinever b queacued.” Dt this iy fur fiom the oquivalent of eudless punisumont. The translution is not quice trae to the Greok: A better venderiug . **tho iuextinguishsblo fire," i. e, fire tnat cannot by quenched, lu other watds 1iea that coutinuus to barn until it con- anes sll upon which it se [ha groattiro in tlud city wad an in0xtinguisbablo flre —couid not bo put ous. Many quotations 1rowm clagsic s Hiowing thair wse of the word could iade. — Wo talie e fur oply tso. Hpeai the Lartheuon, a tomlom Atheas the zeog: Sirabo 53v4 ¢ ** Lo this was th 1ishsbiyor unueuchable lamp."” by wu GinB0A EImply ta say that 1he lawyp was Lept consiantiz burn- g, " Lasevius, the famuns hisorian, 1o dis seuibing tho martyrdom of corta.n Carstiang m nd vin, wave: * Thie castied 0. eants the city, atd in thie el val tion were srourged, aud ticaliy eousumed ia un- qasncliabla o ™ Tlhosu vords of Markare. as alcsady eal fearfal ampoit. bat I do wa find the o, punibisont 10F N in them, Our yoxt topis is b oduead o us by such t37ins wn ** welinire.” * . iiio he L e, i refer capezaliv 16 Matthow (.. 2l 4L 4y rigiit evo ofmud thee, plu b it out, amd cast it fiom thee, for 1 Prudtasl lor tuea tuai vuo of tuy members #hoarl potish aul not 1bat thy whule pody £z be cadt into hel,” Stunlar plrasos are met with claswhers io the Goapcly, _Liomembor what we are seckinzg to ascertain. Nodoiut ** tho L uco wirued anty boil ;! B2 doubt it 15 vasily botierts lo.a s hmb than the whole bodv; but chit i3 au. 1hs question in Is thiy ivaue. s eanting a0 loll e quiva- lout to beiug thresteuwd with intormina. blo suflenng? ‘Tue iresk is Golenna, aud Gohenus 8. of itwelf, eiuply the name of o vailey nour the sou.n wall of Juitsalem, thiy valloy at ono timo (#:e J. tho Jews practiced the most Suhuo’}uuquy, under Kine Josiak, tne natiou re- tur.ed to & purer life, aud. ud su expreysion of contempt for the idolatrous uses 1o which Ge- Beuna uod blow put, 1t wad male tue common raconteacle for the ruboish an oifal of the cisy. To proveut diwoaso, und tu cousune olfonsive olors, fl 0 wad conatautly msiniaited, that ba- 10g the only practiostls mothod theu known to gotrid of sugy o mass of putrefaction. But this dosecration of Gebehna Jitied 1L into provu- neuce in tue thought of the nation, aud suban. quently gave to it a nzurative use. It 18 thas omploved in several insiaucos 1n the Goapels. And whop thus tiziratvely used it implies_ tor- weot for sin. Aud this i all that can be fairly mads ous of the word. l'univhmeut for mn, whether nationul or individaal ; bue the dura- tion of that piinsument 13 loft uundetermiued, and i8 nos slown w0 be endiecs. Matthew xin., 32, sna Luse xii., 10, iotroduce ua to what is papulsrly known as the blasoa m » against ths 1y Ghost. Tais ia the lauguaze omployed by Matihew : ** Aad whodosver spesk- « b 8 word agaioat tho Son of Man it uhall bo for- iven him ; Lot whosoever apeakoth agasinat the o'y Gnos: it shia.l nat be forsiven him, neitber 10 tius world vor 1 the world to cowne,” I'msa {augunago seoms to va very ex Jicit. Hace t lnast, oue sin, for which 1t arpoars, at lrat >w, therd 18 40 forgivenoes, WWhat iv that sin ? Ve suswer, attributlog the opeistions of thu Divine & to the axgeucy of Baelzabito (Mate show xu,, 24). Tust being 8o, tha uamber who can possibly bo guilty of the sin must he very wmasll. But are even thoss why witnessed Lho miraclos of our Lord, aud attributed them tothe priuce ol duvils, threatened with suo perpsival uuforglveness of Gud? 1 think oot, Tiho ex- planation is reslly uot at alt ditticuit. Wo have this I It 13 exprossly aliimed 1l mavuer of »in wod blasubemy aball ba forgiven unto men,” and tuen it ls added, the blaspbemy azainst the Holv Ghost sball nat bs torgiven uoto men.” ‘Tuede two stale- wents ‘do mot Latmouize. 'Tho daclaration that all mannar of wiu aud hlasph aliall be forgivou,and that theblaspliomy agaiist the Holy QGlioss shall not b forgiven, {8 & osutradiction in terme, for blasphemv azaines the Roly Ghost 18 certatuly ono form of sin and biasphemr, Bat this seemlug contradiction s wot real. ‘Thore is no antagon'sm bacweon the two mem- bara of the sentoucy, It is simply the Hebraw mothod of aying thatull othor dias sud blag- lismites may bo ulore ma'hllv forgiven than tha Piapuetay sgeinss . the Ttaly "Ghost. 'The urade, ** neitbor in this world nor in the world 0 come,” ¢honid have beon tranalated, neithor in thily age oorintho sge to come, Dr. Adsm Ciatlo, the leading commantator of tho Metho- dist Chureh, gives bis testimony as follows : + Though I foltaw the comman tranelatioa, yet I ww fully satistled the wmesuing of the word fs, worther n this disponsation, viz,: the Jewish, nor ju that which 14 to coms, ¥iz. 1 tho Chris. tiun,” ‘The only remuiniog passace ts Matthew asv. 403 “Aud these uuall go away into evarlasllog punlelupens, but tho righte 0018 luto lite etorual.” Whis is the Malaxof of texta in dofeuss of eudiess punishaiant, Many doubsless believe that tue worda sdwit of uo other explanation. Aud tothoée who have boeu accustomed t1 associato thoe idea of inters minable misery with the tetm ** everlastiug pun- isument,” I cau readily soo that this paseage has to their miuds almost the force of domonstra- tion, avd particularly if thoy bave fallen into the cosresj.ondiug orror of assuming that the phrase * life oternal™ v synomomous wich lieaven, And yet, simnple as the interpretation of this verde may seenito suiuo, fuw pavesges have ivon to Libhical critics eo wuch perplexity. f'amnua it 1 1npossivle to expl 4ty late day, the precise mesuivg which tuis verse had ay it cawo from the Lips of Cbrist, Perbaps, als0, the words a4 tbey stand in our vorsion are not the oquivalout of the very words which the Bavior utiered. Whother they are, or aie not, no_humsu being koows, or ever cau kuow. But sssuming what oar Locd mites