Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1875, Page 3

S Y s TR L S R O PAOY DILT Y Y DY 10, Lo4w. L VYAiLivlic 1 AL, RELIGIOUS. A Defense of the Christian Fathers 3 And an Explanation of the Procession of the Holy Ghost, Rtatement of the Present Condition of iho Baptist Theological Seminary. The ¢ Interior ** Greets Bishop McLaren ~The Moral Law. tuformation Wanted About tho Sabbath, A DEFENSE OF THE FATHERS. XX'd FALLACIES EXPOKED, e the Pditor of The Chieugo Tribune : Cnmicado, Doc. 17.—In last Sunday's Toinune XX assumed somo positions which demand xotlce. 1t thoro fa evil ia soctarianiam and a divided Christendom, if tho world cannot sad will nos poliavo in tho Bon and the Church unti there s s united Christendom, tho spoediest missionsry #ffortd aro such as tako away tho grandest ob- wruction to tho conquest of tbe Kingdom of Darknoss. ‘Tho Iast prayor of our Blessed Lord ibowe Low He rogarded thla veny question con- sidered at Bonp, when five times Ie repeated as His last prayer to Fie father, that * thoy waybe One, 08 We are Ono.” Tho very first object for which He dosires the prosorvation of tho Disciples is, that thoy may be kept from dis- anion. Can XX wonder at this, when he consid- prathe loterminable disunions of Christiaos, Ihe immepae harm they have dono, aud the ss- lounding indiffercnce with which many Chris- tisna rogard them, e if porfectly funocent, and it the formation of a now sect was laadablo, Christianity has existed 1,800 yoars, and is pro- fessed ma yot only by 850,000,000, while there aro 120,000,000 Mohsmmedans snd 700,000,000 po- gans. Why? Tho Boon Conforenco esid bo- causs of *¢tho continuing divislons of Chris- Hana." To the American miud it may seom fncredible fhat contentions about a word could have occa- siooed this great division, Rome excommuni- cating tho Grooks for not adding it to the ane ciont creed at Lier dictation, and the Groeke do- nouncing the Lating for adding it. DBat d&id not tho Pan-Prosbyterian Aesomhly in Loudon for days debato whother any bymne should be al- lowed in publio worship excopt motrical versions of the Psalma? Was not s prominent U, P, slergyman expellod for uswng bymns sod o lac- snit of years na the result of it? Mavo the vio- lont discussions among Presbyterians, continu- Ing for years, beon forgotten, rosulting in s di- vided body ? Bat wo mnet inform XX that s formula was ot tho termlnus of tho aimof ibe Bonn Con- ferenco. Thia Conforence cared littlo for the fetters of formal docision, sesking rathar char- {able unanimity andtolerant forboarance, Whera 1s tho Protestant body, Methodist or Presbyterian, that drives through the velns Saxon blood and draws with its nobtrils tho breath of sinoteenth-century European thought, that sp- proximates the spirit of Gospol Liborty in the way of concossiona, aa this same dospisod * Ori- ental Catholio Orthodox Apostolic Church™? \¥hore i8 the oot that will throw down, at once, the walla of xsomy and ritual as_concessions towarda union? Did any Grook Bishop respond 2adid Bishop Haven respecting a conforonce for Chtistian uolon? When tho Protoatant divis- fona ghall show tho samo lovoof thoir Master aa has tho Greck Church these divisions will at once disappoar. At the Bonn Conferonco thora wero moro occleaisstics of tho Greok Church than at any similar gathering for 400 years. There woro Archblehiops, Bishiops, priests, and Professors of Oriental Christendom, agrseing that “unity will be brought about by the spirit of peacoand brotherhiood,” This, tho groatest confersnce sinoe Ltho famous Couscil of Florence of 1487, wau ona to which tho Greek Bishops weut, not as thon upon compulsion, but with no worldly ends in view, and with no desire for factious triumph, 'The aim was Truth, and sought for in the faith of love, tolerance, and gencrosity. Lot uot XX say that this discussion waa a more_technicality or triviality, baving no real significance now, for surely onr kunowledgo of Uod’s pature and His rolations to man la at tho very foundation-stone of cur faith. Is & ques- Mon that bas caused Cliristinos to stand sloof from one suother for 1,000 years uuworthy of notico? 1aone that separates ono-half of Chris- tendom from tho other not worthy of the offorts of wise mon to accommadato, it it is desirable that Christondom shonld ba united, and united ‘without the eacrifice of Trath ? XX, on account of hia misooncoption of the im- portance of the Filioquo quoation to the Greek Choreh, cannot apprecinte the value of tho work arcomplisted by Dollinger and tho Conforonce 2t Bonn. What was the end sought by thix Cou- feroncoat Bonn ? The wnion of Christendom. How to begin? By lncnrinf intercommunion with thoso churohes holding the simplo beliefs, malutainlng the primitive ritoa and origiual ea- cramonta, and tho historicsl ministry,~between tha Aogllcan, Anglo-American,0ld Catholic, and (Greok Chriutians, What (s thochiof obstruction botweon tho Graok Christians and all others ? This vory Filicque addition to the creed. 1t it vore really & question of substantive doctrine there could be no accommodation ; but as it is + otely a statoment of dootrino, and not the doo- ddina itgclf, and eapecially tho maintenanco of an tnaltored and unaiterable croed ovon iu a word, 2 it was iumul‘l{ anuounced by tho voico of nlversal Chiristendom, the Greok Church elould bo tho rather commeondod for its tensoity, A XX appoars to ba ignorant of this Filioque uestion (aud 1t may bo trus of many others), Abriet statement of it may not bo tedious. Tho #teat difflculty of Intorcommunion on tho part of the Greek Church 1 the dootriue of the Pro- eevon of the Iloly Bpirit, and the insortion of llioque™ In the Constantinopolitan Creed, Faat aud Wost must agreo a8 to doctrine, bub the grand Qifficulty romaina that tho Greek Chareh objecta to any addition to the Creed, xceit by a Gencral Councll, or an ussembly of tha whole ot Qliristondom. Herein she 1s moro mx:flm \l;:n‘ u-]a mn::‘ ultra-Proteatant bod;g ought to liave the sympatly of an lloed{nnd Yaoley too, oY = Is the * ilioque ™ an addition (o the creed ? When Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Frosby- torians, aud Methuodiste, aud tho whole Kvan- telieal Alliunco esy fn the creed, * Aud from the Son” do thoy say the old croed, that of anivorsal Cbristendom, withoat the * mcreens A XX, or mot? It they do, mro thoy 0 8o dolug even conmsistent IProtestants? the “facta “we givo bolow ‘are wholly Tom Homan (snd “not from Groek or Proi- tant) writers. Tho word * Filioque ** was firat \dded to the Confossion of Faith at the Conng 1 3 Toleda, to resint the horosice of tho Ariana iud others that oxluted in Bpain, This Counod "ag bold 448, with the approbation of Leo, sutlior of the calebrated lotier to the Council of tghllcednn. 451, The Bpanish Council never iu. ‘ndad thia word to becomo s part of the creed o lhnagx::unll Dlim'ch, !ml: " lInLlI!t to mbeta gency, It passed futo Frauce, au :film into Germany, aud was not sdded to the ’?flflfl 83 sung at Rome until 1016, under Beuo- lot VIIL. ‘Tha first colllston of the Greoks with © Latus on this point was in the ninth cen- Jury, in a French moosatery on tho Aount of vea at Jorugalom, when reek monk openly ecused thy i Yy ,1‘ E;IMII of Lo for making this ouks wrole to the Pope, Leoc . he to Ch magos, who called the Counoil o, and it referred the matler to Pope dacided it to bo uulswful that compossd at Nicaoa and Oonstan~ ‘novl-. but that the doctrine of the Procession the Holy Hpirit from the Fatner [and the oa] 12 o mstier of faith, but tha tter not to sing the ore 8 additlon under protexs oplo Lo that E:nw mazper it would be than to slog it with of Instructing the vlvhjfiln .E’u‘“’]‘“.‘“ in of, the oque " waa talned [n Bpain, France, and flemuiy. and at jm brovailed at Homo. When the final BOpAra. D of the Greck and Homan vommunions took l:;. it is easy to ses how controversy, like a ni'ht. magnified thls molo-hill into s monn- un: :::“ [ r-rfly‘:.hr m;ui trllfllng ‘”&f‘ ] eased fu thelr formularica; the 1esence of the * Filioque ¥ is the causo of the ual objection of the Eaatis th :;'::n; :‘ll t'h: * Fillogus * impliss the b‘zl‘l:oll n}:: D urces, whenos proceedad the P "Tha sollowing atatscasnts ¥ers Tuds o) the Council of fronly dincunsed : Tho Latina wrote: * That [n saying that tha Tioly Bpirit proceedn from the Father tnd tha Hon, it ia not in any way meant that thero aro two principlen, or two couses of ‘)mcfa»mn' on tho contraty, it sancria one #oloprincipte, and oha aolo canae nf processton; and they, tha Latinia, cnathematizs those who nay or Lelieys contrary fo that doetrine.” The Tatins Lisving thua explained their belief un this point, the Grecks ex- prossed theirs, Thoy mald: “Hince the Iatine de- clared that the Pather a the aola principla of the Ron, and of the Holy Spirit, and that they requeat na to ex [ross ou Salth alng, wb ray that wa declaro aa they do hat tho Pothor 1 the eole principle of the Hon ln'jlut‘)} o oronce, whon this mattor wan {he foly Bnirit, wha procceds from tho Fatiser an Hon, conformably to tho writlogs of the Fatliers, The Anglican formularies wore nevor intend- od to mesort two causcaor prineiplos, and the thres communions aro at oue. If the ** Filloque” wers removed from the Creed, nothing would bo heard of a difference of doctrine, The decrces af the Council of Floreuco wero solomniy cons domoed by a Council of the Pattiarche of tho East at Constautinoplo, and Ly & Council of Disbiope hold in Rusata, but thelr indigoation was Protostant ns againat the Papal supromacy. Had tho clauso it the Croed boon oxpronand * by the Bon ' fnatead of *‘and the Hon," thers would havo been no alsputo about the doctrino, for this expression is found eoveral times in the Greok Oflices, a8 at avening prayers on Tuosaay in Whiteun week, *To-day, O Lord, was sont forth from the Iather, ‘Lhino All-Holy Hpirit,” eto.; *“To-day, O Lord, was nent forth from tho Fatlior, Thine Almighty Npirit,” aw. On tha ‘Thursday, '*The Holy Glost, of the samo na- turo, and' on tho Aamo throno with the Father and tho Word, is acknowlodgod to bo God ; All- perfect Light, shining out of Light, proceeding from, tho oternal poifect Father, and by tho Hon. 1t will ba mcon that the real caumo of all tho hostility s tba presence of ko ** Filioquo " with the Constautinopolitau Craad, An attempt was mado at the uulon of tho East and West in 1487, showing that love only can offoct it, and also Liow tenmeious the Greok Church ia of presorving tho inteprity of the asmbols of tho Faith. In tho fifteouth centary tho Empoeror John Lalinoclogus saw the Turks cloaing round Constantiuople, with no hope ox- copt from tho Christians of the Weat, Hoturned to tho head of Latin Christendom, FPupo Eungenius IV., who, forgotful of the common faith, saw his opportnaity to humble the rival Patrisrch of Canstantinople. Emporor and Patriarch must visit tho I'opo, be recouciled to tbo Latio Church, accopt the dootrines of the Double DProcession, I'urgatory, Unleavened broad to tho Kucharist, and the Popos su- remacy, Thoy went to tho Popo’s Council at Bufllfl. and then that st Klorence, 'Cho last oint to yield was tho doctrino of Procession. iiveis tho Pope’s supromacy was less offenslvo. Tho Greoks yielded to navo_their city, by pecur- ing Weatorn soldlers, Emporor sud Greek Iiuhops roturned to Constantinoplo; but the re- sult? Eastern Christendom rojocted with scorn the concessions mads to Woatern hotorodoxy, Waestern relnforcomonts wero not sont to the totteriug Esstorn Empiro, and Constantiuople booumo a Mobammodan city. Now what fs the Eaatorn, or what poopla ealt the Greek Church, of which XX writes rathor contemptuously? A Church the most venorabla for ita antiquity in tho world, that Las kept up » continual succeseion of Bighops in the samo Beon from tho time of the Apostlos till now,—a church containing 70,000,000 eouls, and which ought to find some favor among Protestants, na it most etronuously protests against Nomsn errors and Roman usurpationn. ‘Ihe late Patri- arch of Antioch, Mothodius, epent & long sad active lifo in opposing the Latin missionarios. The Paiviarch of Cobatautinople, Anthimus, i lying sermoos, schools, and tracts _ngainst }'Knma. Tho Motropolitan of Moscow, Phuarot, sad the Metropolitan of Noogorod oud 8t. Poters- burg, Nicanor, arodistinguished controvorsialista against Rome. Thirty yoars ago, 2,000,000 of TRoman Cathiolics, including throo Iisbops, in one day went over to the Enstern Church, Five oars ago, 13,000,000 followed this examplo. {'our readers will rocolloct the general epistle addressed to tho Esstern Church in 1848, in- vitiog it to submiselon to Romo. ‘The four Easte orn Patriarchs replied: **Of thoso herssien which bave spread over a groat part of the wotld for judgments known to tho Lord, Asian- ism waa ono, and at the presoot day Papesy is noother. . . . Whather they bo Popes, or Patriarchs, or Laymen, ot &n wogel from Yoaven, if they prosch sny other Gospel, lob them be Anathoma." Father Bierring, tho Groek priost in Now York City, said, fn a Iate sormon : ‘To bring this about (Christian utity) will require humility, thinking littlo of oursclves, snd w lovo of olr neighbors. . . . Itfs ready unitea the Orfental withi tho Anglican Chureh, that wo seek not the point of reunton in egotis m, but in Jewus Christ our Lord. . . . Tho orthodox Church ropels 1o ono from lLiar heart, ‘She toleratos 10 persscutions for difTorences in creod, o , . Dut shostanda firm on ker foundations,—Jesus Chirist, His written Word, tho apostlos oud tholr doctrine deliverod 10 us, 84 2l40 the decisions of the General Councils, In ‘which the once-undivided Church cstablisbed firm rulos offalth aud Ufe, . , . The proceedings of the Ltoman Church Liave been full of danger, i that thelr churchly state {8 plsced above tho Christian, and the salvatiod of tho souls of our fellow-Christians is sacri- ficed to the oternad order of the Church, XX proacnts o view of tho Bible which we shall now oxamine. Doecs XX, doosany rolig~ 10ud denomination, compare with the Elmcopnl Church in reverence for the Word of God? ‘I'no prayors of the Church aro drawn from tho o, the Pmalms are nppomted to be resd through once evory month, Two chapters are road on the ordinary occasions of divine worship nad in the morniog servico, two smallor portions withthe Teu Commandments, tho Uld Toatament road through once and the Now more than once, ovory year. Let it bo romemborod that tho public “reading of God'a Word is the truost proacbing of that Word. 8o St. Daul calls the roading of Moses tho preachiog of him : ** For Moses of old time hath ln overy city them that roach him, being read in the syuagogue every abbathday.” Acts, xv., 21. And thistpublic roading of the Word 18 the only way in which the whole counsel of God can’ be declarod in that counection and just proportion in which it 18 ravoalod by she Holy Spirit. Preacling from short toxts, 110 man ever did or ever can set bo- foro his poople the whola counsol of God. Mis owa life would ot be long euough ; and, if it wore, ora he oould ccomplish it his pooplo wouldjall be sltwberiog in the tomb. ishop Atkinson remarks: “And the honor thus paid to the Word of God in the Church is ono of ita distinotive charactorlatics, and a obiof oloment of spiritual atrength. We do not hold it locked up in & foroign Jangusgs, mor is it doled ont amoug us at the caprice of oach indi- vidna! minintor, according to his discrotion or indiscretion.” Blshop Whittingbam says: '* it iu the distiuctiva glory of tho Church that her sorvices are composod in such large proportion of tho very tost of the bacred Beripturos, in its nativa form and conncetlon, only recuiving its liturgioal character from ita collocation aud dig~ tribution. Yot the Church takes tho Bible, not to intor- pret it overy man aftor his own hoart. 1t de- rides not tho fathers. Itlooks to the tostimoay of the primitiva Church ra ths most reliable witnesetng to the truo uuderscsndivg of tho Moly Word. The primitive Christisus, sogother ith the writton word, received tho torchings, axplanations, and the exposures of error an defonucn of tho truo doctrines ot Christ with the Church, the miolstry, and tho sacra- menty, a8 ordalned by the Lord Himselr, All tloee they rocoived from tho Apostles thom- selyes, or from thoss who had 80 received thom, and thoreforo must have kuown with infallible certatuty tba trus uudnnund&ufi‘ol God's Word. ‘Their testimony rewafos, ey were not distractod with “our controversios, nor uwayed by our projudices. Is it safa then for XX to reject tha primitive and contibuous testimony by which only bo koows the New Testamout to be God's word, and intorpret it sfter lus own prejudicea? Is it uot one of the soundest of all pruciplos shat, whou the origtual laws and iosti- tutioun of rellgion havo boou corrupted and erro- neous praotices brought io, to reject these addi- tions aud ervors and restore the old as at the be- gluning ? Iushop Lrownell sald: *“The Holy Beriptures, ay they wero interpreted by ths Cbiuroh during tho first two conturles after the asconsion of tlie Bavior, not as they may chauce 10 bo interpreted by the wayward fancios of in~ dividuala, coustitutv tho only sure basis for us to rest upon,” Heze, then, our reformers took tbeir atand,—on God's loly word as rocoived from the sacred writers, and teatifiod to by tha priwitive Cburch, Huys Bishop Duane: *They took their sland on the pure word of Gdod. They appealed to the oconsenting volee ot "all “Christian _antiqulty. The; toilod. They praved. They bled. ;l'luybnmn . They perievered, They triumphod. The Ohwuroh, deformed before, ‘was now ruformed.” Are wo to kuow the Faith and tho Church as Otrist Himaelf, the only Head, Lord, and Lawyer, ordajned, by certain emotions, and {ho rossoning of XX, and Moody and Baukoy, or as he de- Lvered thom to His Apoatics, sad by them loft with the primitive Clristlans? 1§ there oy othar rule and toat of sounduess in the faith and ordor of the Ohurch 1u all future time? Whon this priuciplo is rojocted, aro not the very foundations of sotilod truth brokenup? Heps. rations may bo multiplied but the Primitive Fath in the Church, aud the Primitive Church with the Fulth, s 8 procious depoit comumitted to Chret's Chaurch, will uever fail from the earth while tima shall laut, As tho Cburch rotainsun. changed tho truo Faith of Christ, a3contained in Holy Beripturs, aud toatitied by the Primitive Church 10 tne angient creuds and wettled in the Liefurmation, her unity has been maintained, X% aod bis Laulhisen, Losgeiilog s prinale, plo that the Intorpretation of Jaw is the law which thoy makn unto themsnlvas, by rojecting primitlve testimony, sud Intorprotlng the Kerij- turea each after his own mind, have no mattiod rolo of judgment, over varying fo their intor- protations, with no gnide ta keop thom in the truth, More and mors they divido, until Chris- fllnllr. 83 & social organization inntituted of n atterly broken down, and every man, God, like XX, is his own crood-maker, and Church, While XX and his friends ropresent the fathers as worthy of but little credit, and their tentimony sa '* untrustwoithy tradition ” ju all controvorsiea with the Church, yot tho denomi- natlons appeal to thia very testimony in support of the Lord’s Day in their controveisics with the Heventh-Day Baptists, They ecmploy thedo samo fathera in making out the Canon of Berip- toro. They hurl them at the Baptista, whon thoy wonld prove Infant Baptisn, We loave our brothren to settle tho luconsistency of disparaging the charactor of theso witnesses when we adduce their tes. timony in our favor, and a. the ssmo time nmn-l ing to thom sa cradiblo witnossen on thelr®) sidn of rueations with othor bodies. If credible witnossos as to tho Canon of Heripiure sud the Lord's Day, common souso tesches that thay are crodiblo witnosses aa to tho Christian Church and the ministry. What would be the only questions ssked of witnosses in ono of our courta? Are thoy Lonest and compotent ? Thoir honosty sud compotency boing unim- poachod, their teatimony would be recoivoed. laving recoived tho Ipstructions of onr Lord hotore, and for forty days aftar, His resnrrec. tion, spesking to them of tho things nertaining o Mia Kingdom, and also haviog the Iloly Byirit to bring to their minds whatsooyer 1le hiad told thom, tho Apostles must have known the mind of Christ coucerning Iis doctrinos and concern- ing His Church. The primitive Christiaus, thoroforo, roceiving both thera from the Apos- tlea directly, or by two or three romovens, witl thelr noveral oxplanationa and defensos of tho truth and oxposures of error, must have knonn with certainty what thoso doctrines wero, and whiat the ordor and ministry of Christ'a Chureb, and tho trus moauiog of the New Tostamont concorning those subjects, aa its moveral Lookn wora wrilten and delivored to the Church, Thun they wers the best and most competent witnessos to matters of truth and fact concorn- ing the Faith and the Churels of tho Now Loata- ment. Edwards' ' Sahbath Manasl," publishod by tho Amorican Tract Socicty (p. 118), suya : Aa tho Aposties wero scereditod ambassadors of Christ, fuspired by Him to make known Infallitly His %1, ndod establials things according to it fo the Now Teatament Church, wo have fn this tho sanction of Chriet Himself, And tiia practios, commencing with the Apoaties, continued not only while they Lived, but ufter they wero dead ; and extended not only to onie or tan fow, but to all Christisn countrics, IHence tha testimony of Tgnatius, Diouyalus, Theophilus, Clem« ont, Tertullian, and oihers whiol we hav noticed, and all within 100 years of tho death of the Apostles, Jotin snd soms of them livla in 1ho days of tho Apos: toa, who munt Lave known, with fofalilbla certainty, what were thelr teaching and practice in tuts matter. Just 80. They must have known with infalli- blo cortainty what was tho true Faith and Church of the Apostles, and the right understanding of Seriptura. Eusebius lived {n the third centnry, was & man of yust reading, sad was as well acquotnted with tho his- tory of tho Church from the daya of tho Apostica as any man of his day. Til ho was abont 40 Jears old, holived in groat utimacy with tho marty wphili ed and plous man of Opsares, atid fonnder of & very extennive lbrary, to!which Euselius had constant accoss, 1ie was o learned and sccurate minitar, bistorzan. and had the nid of tho beat holpe for ac- quiring information upon al subjoots conucetod wih o Christisn Church, pe Leslle says: ** Eusobius, aman of an [ategrity universally acknowlodged, ssenres ua thnt ha drew hia information from the documenta of antiquity which be fouod in tha library at Cucnron." Your correspondeut sppears to have somo oow patent by which ho can determine what ta tho Word of God and_ita proper interpretation, Wil he communicate it? Wil ho toll us whether tho twolvo whole Books and two parts of Booke contained in the Groek translation, called tho Beptuagint, have or havo not _sn authority equal to that of the unquestioned Hobraw Scriptures ? ‘Whoro woro tio Faith and the Church jtself betoro tho Now Teslamant or sny part of it was written ? Did they or not sxist? Doos XX know thiat beforo any Church possesned il the Books now koown conjoiutly undor the name of the New Testament, throa conturies had trans- pired ? Opo Church isd ons of the Four Gos- pols ; another, a lotter writton to it by one of the Apostles ; & thivd, the Acts of the Apostles. But wan thero no common_T'aith aud no estabs lishod Church? Doos XX not Loow that thero were vory many other books in circnlation pretending to equal authority,—some of them good booka nud niaking the voople feel well In roading thom? Doss not XX know that somo Individual churches also sactually recsivod thom as divinoly insplrod Beriptures, other churches rojgcting thom 2~ Now, If tho Canon of tho Now Testamont had been settled acoord- ing to XX's view, there would hove bacn Bchisms on tha Bible, and thero would bave been a8 mony Bibles aa thero are sooty, aud evontuall uo Bible at sll, No. Individusl mon nn individual Oburches worked to s highor aathority. Christ Liad promised to His Church 28 & wholo—not Lo & part of it, not to XX and 3loody and Bankey, but to tho wholo—that tho gatoa of hell should not provail againut it. Thaso wigo poople, thorefore, submitted tho books ro- caived among thom to tho decision of the whole Courch. Thoso booka which had always, overy- whore, and by all Charches, bosn received, must bo true Beriptures, Ilemco our eixth ariicle: “In tho name of Holy Scripture wo do under- stand thoso boooks of the Old and Now Tosta- monts, of whosa sutharity wea never any doubt 1o the Church,” Now, Mr. XX, you recoive tha same Biblo that I do. I recoivo it on the autbority of the whole Church Catholic. Why do you rocoive mont. 1ave you over oxamiued tho original au- thoritios for and against tbo autheoticily and canonicity of one book out of the whole sixty. six included fn the Heriptures you receive as tho Word of d Why, thon, do yon receivo the Bible? It not' on accoust of your private judgmont, for you never oxercipod it fn this caso, but on the authority of the Methpdiat Church, Did the Moethadist Cuurch ever oxerciso hor judgment in this mat- ter? Notabit of it. Bhe took tho Biblo, ver- batim et literatim, from the standerds of the Church of Kogland, And the Cburch of Eng- laud gladly aod thaokfully proclaiins that it was sottled for hor, sges ago, Ly tho fudioial do- cision of Christ'a Church Catholio, Ho of tho correctnoss of the text copies of tho Soripture having boen multiplied by writing ouly, till the sixteenth contury. Tho copyists woro not alwsys intelligont, and fow of them copyod in their native tongue. Some of them wero not faithful. Herotica mutilated the texs of Holy Beripture. Yet you fool confldent that you havo, in werylhlng essential, the puro toxt of Holy Beriptare. Why? Only becauso you rocelved the Heriptures from the Church, and the Charch is the appointed kosper of the oracles of God. Have you satisfled your individnal judgment by a critical exsmination for yourself? 14avo you compsrod codices, and examinod orig- inal A188,, aud collated various roadings, and sot- tled this mattor for yourself, Mr. XX ? No, air] you got (ho text of Holy Beripture from the Clureh--from the Church Univorsal, Disco the Bible iu the hands of the different douominations, aud how will thay interprot it 2 Each man accordlng to tho faith s has adoptod or whitch provails in bia religions body, ono make ing it suatain Calvinium, auotbior Arminisnism, anothor Romanism and Universalism. Ave not thoso mon equally good, honaat, and sincers, sud aqually fervent in prayer for Divine guid- auce 7 Aro sowmne of theso 1nore iuspired to un- derstand tho Iublo than others ? Who is to be tuspirod, tho resader or the Bible ? When Mr. Whitotleld said, ** the epirit of God had uxpross- Iy taught Lim, the doctrine of alection," and Br. Wealey doclared that *ho was {uspired of Giod to publish to the world that Mr, Whitatield's dactrina of olection was highly injurioua to Quriet,” and XX, doclares that bo iu inspired to cast aaide all primitive testimony, which is right? §s not oach mistaken, oud s it not truo that the Bpirit of God gave instructious to no one of them othor than that whioh Ho givos to all fn the volume of inspiration? Then, sball we ronounce our privato judgmonts altogothor, and accept the tosching of oy brauch of the Churols as the true teaching of Heripture? This would bo really what the denomiuations do with« out intonding 1it, and (s the lloman system of development, duuv‘yhm » sottlod sod detinite wystom of falth, an maakiug it conulst of tho ad- ditions and corruptions of the lapso of conturics. Bhall we conclude shat the Bible actually teaches all those diForent aud contlicting uvatems disid- ing the roligioud world, aad thus destroy its au- thority a8 s divine rovelation, as the Clod of Truth caunot have revealed discordant systems of faith aa eusential to our salvatiou 7 What {3 the effect to say the Bible and the Bible alons is our cresd ? Does not this make a vory long sud a very exoluaive crood? Does it not exclude all the primitive Clristians who livod beforo tho Bible was arranged ns we now have it 7 Doea it not exclude all tho hieathen sud the ignorant who cacuot resa tho whole, aud give au intelligent ssuent? Does It not make ‘ile faith once deliverod totho sainte" to nothiug wore or losa than juat what the Bible wmay be tortored to mesn by the ingenuities of . bore Goua tho Presbyterisn ind that Zpl here 0 Preal o aco~ urch ?_In peoy is pot essentis] o & Ch the Bible, Moevpding 1o his ioderpretetioa. Whace doss bis Indepondont find that no miccosnion of mi torn was intended by our (aw 7 In the Bible, ac- cording to s intorpretation, And the Baptiat that infants aro not to ba baptized? In tho Bible, nccording to M interpretation, And the Hwius Calvinial learn to rojoct the Atonement? And the Qualier to rojact the Hac- ramonts? And tho modern Luthoeran that Orig- inal Bin In & mere fnvontion of man? And the Hocinian that our Lord is not Very God? And ths Romun Catholie the doctrino of Pargatory and the Invoeation of Haints, and the unction of tho pick ? Inthe Bille, aecording to hia inter- protatlon of it. Aud hava not all an equal right to interpret? In it not monatrous for une do- nominntion to sanert that 1t lian superior piety and underatanding and & spooial fuapiration # The question of tho day ia not what doen XX think, or what doea any man think, dr any church think, but what 18 the definito and unchangalla systom of faith which tho Bibls har roveslod for our salvation, and which has the testimony of Uod that yaur interprotation of Hin rovelation is authorized aud divico? Tho various roligions hodios bellovo upon their indi- vidual internrotation ; and the Chureti'of Romo in no liettor, for it given what only ono individ- ual belteven,~—thoe Iopo. Now, what aro “T'he Apontlo’'s ('med,” and tho * Niceno Creed,” tha * Glorin Iatel,” the **Gloris fn Excoluln,” the ** Litany,” ate.? The private uterpretations of doctors and raform- ora? No. Tho decislons of Epincopal Bynoda ? HNo._ Merely the opinlons of (umenical Conne clin? No. Thoy ata the everlssting recards of Qod, exisling hefora the Dible Lad baen col- lected togather, and before soma of It wau writ- ten, and which would remain if the Biblo wero destroyod. Not mllnl{ tus interprotations of the primitive Church, but witnesecs and monu- menta of that Church and of her genoral coune clis, incorporated into the hiatory of the world, immutable and unchangesble formularies of ‘“tho faith.” They sro not ths fuheritauce of the H[lluflrnl. but of the whole Catholic Charch of Christ, whon that Church sway ons, boforothe divislons of Rome or Genova, attosting as much tho divinity of tho faith as ttlo-dnods attent tha roshity of rightful posses- sion to property—yea, moro: they aro the aver- spenking and ever-living monuments of God Himsolf. Thusdependent onprimitivotestimony and subsequont witnoescs for tho very Bibla tontifyiug that thoso IBooks which are now re- | coived had always, ovoryswhere, and by all churehor, boen recoived s tho Word of God, Wo must percoiva that this principle which Lo mads the Christian world at ono as to the Biblo would make {i at onoasto Articloa of Faith, 80 al80 88 to the ministry and the Church, and sil tho questions which now divido Cliristendom, Wo nnod but this one principle to bo understood and mado the basie for action, togethor with alovo of tmth and unity, to. resioro perfoct unityto s distracted and divided Chrigtiauity, Rowe 10 more to bo sgainat Groeco, and Greodo agalost Roma; Ilomo againat Protostants, sud Protontanta againat ome. and 600 rocta againat all these and againat oach other. XX will thon no moro toll us that he does not believe in *geroens,” and does not bolisve in Dolilngor's ‘! conferouces,” and doos not ballove in ‘- schol- astio theology,” and does not beliove in * Eu- charistio adoration,” and does not boliove tn “ Esstorn pouition.” and doss not bLaliovo in *lighted candles,” and doos not betieve In *‘gon- uflections.” He will no more make it manifeat that bo believos in ** ma Ipyum,” but that he be- lioves iu tho ‘ faith once dolivered to- the Baints." K. o THE BAPTIST SEMINARY, 173 FINANCIAL CONDITION, Dr. Northrup, who iy at tho hoad of the Chi. cago Bavtist Unlon Sominary, has preparod aa interosting report, giviog the financial condition 3l the institntion and stating ita epecial wants, extracta from which are giveu aa follows : Accarding 10 ttio last anuual rosort of the Treasur- ex, (howa wern the 5. Bemtoary building snd grounda, G, Other roal estate, 7. Cash $ 11,600.00 00 2954 i 150,00 “Ibere hiave o tmportant changes ou both siiles of this account during the past eix months, which canuot ba nccurstely atated untilafter tha somis aunual balsacing of the Treasurer's 3 It will bo suticlent ta siato, without malinza de- tailed analyala of the obave, that after daducting the unproductive roal estate, aud paying from the lncomo tbe Intereat on tho dobs, th residus of reguise fn- come, even If promptly peid, would be insuilicient to moet the nooadsary vurrent expanses. Whon 1t is utated that uo futcrest Liss beon receivod thls year on tho raliroad bouds, and that $30,000 prin- clpal'and intercst on notes and subscriptions {a now paat duo and unpaid, it will bo wnderstood that the Beminary is fn_soro neod, ‘The expenses have besn reduced to the Jowest praoc. ticable point. Dr. Arnold, on account of falling hicalih, s Leen granteda yearsleava without pay, i work i belug performed by otlier teachers, Dz, Bal- ley resigued to tako effect” July 1, Prof. Morgan is doin the work of Secretary without pay, o Truas. urer {s also serving gratvitously, The "only sslarica pald are to teachers, excopt & smail compsnsation to & clerk o omist tho urer, Notwithstaoding all $his, the inatitution is in great need of manoy to meet ourrent bills, TIIE WANTA OF THE SEMINALY may be brifly stated to b : 1. Tho prumpl yayment of all surs now dus s pria- cipal or (ntervet ou noles or subacriptions, 2, A contribution from churches and. individuals to cover o dotleit in incons, 3. Eularged facilitiea in the shspe of buildings, Iibrary, ote. 4. locreasod ondowments to the amount of not less thiad $176,00. A strong offort will be mada noxt yoar to so- oura tha monay uecdod to put the institation fu » sound financial condition, aud it is bolleved that it wiil be succesutul. ——— DENOMINATIONAL COURTESIES, THE '*INTERIOR ' AND RISHOP M'LAREN. Tho last number of tho Interior, atter men- tloning tho conaccration ot Bishop McLaren, ra- ferato the sermon which he preached in Bt, Jamos' Church, and says In tho eveuing of tho mame day, the new Dishop preactiod hifs firwt sermon {n 8t, James' Church, Wo wuppose it may b regarded as {ho key-note i1t his new work ; aud judging that work, and the spirit which will o brought to it, by the seotiinonta and spint of thin sernion, we offer our very Lioartist cougratulations to this extendcd Diovene, for in tho fulleat sense of tho word §t wan a nobls acrmon. It was broad and philo- sophic iu iLa grap of 1 moral needs of tho country, aud of tho Goepel remedy for thom, it waa thoroughly evangolical fu tle methiods it proposed for Lringing thio romedy 10 tho disensa, Upon tho relations of the Church to tho peoplu, the Bishop speaks these words : ‘*This must bo the genius of the Church—to go down, dowu to the lowly and the detplaud, down o those Who will not como to uy, down with the font and thio altar aud {he Bible and'the prayer-book to tha poor and neglectod classoa." ‘Theso are goldeu words, worthy to be written on svery altar i Bishop Mclareu's Dioceso—wortly to findan oclio In overy heart, uot ouly in the Episcopal Church, but {n every chunh i Christendom. Wa muat learu thowe WOrds before we cun capture tho world for Chrixt. If wo mistako not,to emphesiza such truth ia the cepectal duty of tho hour, aud to live it tho hikh calling of the Chiurcliof this aud wl} lands, Wo wili liave the people only wheu, in the language of Thane Miller, vio ** g0 for them,” Equally worthy of & LiisLop is the prescher's call for ik mon: * hen, loviug, faithful, sblf<lenying men, sro want- ed, Thiu is tiio cry of tlie prairie, e mountaln range, aud the througed oftios, Aen of of quick reepiions, aud fearlous energy, ablo o think out oir work and thou work out thair thought, Men in whom firm resolvo fliow ont 0 earncat desds, Men ready to stand shoulder to shoulder wikls thelr palghe Lore, snd forget sulf in thia absorptions of their wurk for Clirist and Hla Churoh,” Woll s31d, and brotkerly, Dishop McLaron, i years gone by, we bave taken sweot counsal (oether in the samo denowination, Lt on this platforw [T tlonery doupel and " shouider to » dvance i carrying 11 o the peapie, wo may b fellowsbip a4 roal 'aa auy of otlior dayy, lu the living bouds of tho ous Church of God. We welcoma you aguin Lo blis Htate, with & double cordiality—tBat which syriuge frum our relations i the paat, and the no leas sincere one inspired by your fint diocssan uttoran: Cabd # The noblest suswer wo can give the propagandists of modera_mutoriallsm In the llustration of faith in ces. You tis Ungcaty by holy lives aud, Chriatian lomes, aad luyalty to the highest standsn of athics, aud zealous dlevotion 10 a sinuing and wrrowing humianity.” ay you bave & large ubare in ahapiog that answer; aud nowbera from your own comimunion will you bave a Leartier God spood ™ than that we now extend £o you across & line which, ever nazcow, becomes, in presence of auch groat truths of the blessed Gospel, ‘wholly inviaiblo. — THE MORAL LAW. T8 BOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL PIOLOSOPHY. T's the Eduor of The Chwsage Tribune ! Ouicaao, Deo. 18,—I have noticed with in. terost two ariicles of the Rev. J, Balley upon the above topio, andalso anarticls from * Inquirer.” Esxpecting able articlos to appear, I have re- mained ailent, but now I wish to suggest tosoma Bible soholar the propriety of writing such au articlo sa is demandod to setilo tha queation of tho day of the Sablath. I am able to study only the English Bible, and when I undertake to discuss with thoss who underatsnd tho langusges, 1 am told, that the Greek ebrow mean something different from what the common version tesches. I have baen Lostructed thas the Babbath waas instituted atoreasion, enjolusd Lo the D a0d wad & spaciflc dsy,—the roventh of tho wenk ; that the resurrection of Christ occurred upon the firat day of tho week, and that Io sppoarod unto the Disciples’ who wors sssembled Habbatizing npon that day: and that agnin the following wenx He repested Iis visit under mimilsr circumstances. Ifenco the day of the Babbath wss chaoged from tho woventh to the first day of the woek. Bubstan- tially this same ground was taken by tha Hev, M. B, Parkburat, who led the noon micoting last Baturday. Tho Hev. J. Dailey claims that the timn of the resurroction hos nothiog to do with tho Bab. bath; that thore Ia uo avidence that the mooting of the Dizeiplos upon the day of Christ's resur- rection was for Habbatizing purposes; and that the socond moeting could not have been upon Bunday, if the firal was, a8 it was “eight days after.” Wil the Rev, M. M. Parkhurst, or any other Biblo scholar who nnderatauds tho original languagen in which the Scriptures wero writton, pleass to tell me through Tue Toin- onE— First—When and how the chango of the day waa brought about. Second—11 it wau by the nuthority of Christ or the spustics, how Lave they walde it manifest unto the world ? 1 am uot of the class who belleve thnt the law of the Babbath wss abolished with typical ritea and cerrmonics, but being ono of tho commandmenta, acd of universsi good to man, it is ons of the laws af which Christ s2id, *‘One jot or one Uttio shall in no wise pass from tho law till ail be fulfilled.” No-lawism and oo-Habbatbhism are twin sisters of Inquity, and I trust no ono will advocate so dangerous a doctriuo. For nearly 2,000 years Bunday hos besn tho day of Babbath observanes by tLo larer part of Christondom ; and now we are told by the Rev. J. slley and othera that it Lhaa uo divino mu- thority or sanction. Let tho ablaclergy of this city reupond in suoh dofinite and certain lan- guago that the quostion whon and how cho old Habbath waa diaplaced by tho now, shall no long- er puzzlo such ws are unacquainted with Grook =ad Hebrow., . Lasxax, = o THE REV. MR, WENDTE. T DEAIONATION AND IT8 ACCENTANCE, At a moeting or the mombers of ths Feurth Unitsrisn Church held Tuesday, the latter of resignation as pastor by Mr, Wendte was read and accoptod, and s committee appointod to draft resolutions appropriaze to ths ssme, which wore adopted and ordered to be spread upon tho recordy of the Church. Following aro tho letter aad the report: Ci1caa0, Nov. 7, 18T5.—To the Membera of the Fourth Unitaran Churek: It |n now nuarly six years since you Bonored me with » call to the pastorate of yuur newly-formed religious orgasization. Hiuco that ime our relation has been continuous, suve Fiich occantoual sbecnicos as my bealth roquired, and your good will necorded me. 1t lina been 8 period also of uabroken harmony in the church. We have pasacd through many trying and exceptional experteucon togetlor in ibe listory of our church enterjrise, but by loyatty aud persience, strong in ono auotlier's confidence 804 affection, we have attained our object and may now rofoice { tho prosverity and us:fulness of our noclety, When we coowider the attraction and com. forta of our eburch odifice, tho mmpllcity, roverence, ond freedom of our servioe, tho provailing spirit of good-will in our congragation, it 18 not too much to 13y that wo heve succooled in & high and beautiful sctine, and ought to bo very grateful and glad over that succsds, No one refolcos mory than I do in this ssvured re- nult, and none tha Josa tecauso I may no longor re- main and sbare ft with yori. It s with mucere sorrow that T am now compelied Lo broak a relotion whica b3y besn #0 profitably and delightful to me, s to tender you my Tesigustion as yestor of the Fourth Unitarian Chureh, to take offect Dec. 1. Tho caunea which cam- el this step, Icog-foressen, bt long-delayed, are al- resdy well known to you, and have bocu stated st longih {n my morning aeron of this dato, Nothing short of imparative obligations to my heslth could fne duce me to conaent to s, 1 am eompelied to suek & milder climate and & less fatiguing post of duty, 1 need not enter inlo any details bero, Lut Mmply aak your prompt and kindly acceptance of my reaig. Dation, My cannection with this church ns 4 member and friend can never cease, My prayer and sarvioe for #1n the future will e contant. Bpara mo fh iditional jain of s parting long Qrawn out. Give ma your blesing, together with your farewell. 1f T hiaveany right to ask 8 favor t this time, ot [ bo tht you will rovo lojal ta the causo for which I havo tailed 80 long and prased 4o hard ; that you will scon salect your leader, give him the eama support you bave so lang given e, and under Lis load march fowards perfoction. In affoction, yonr fricnd, CraRLES W, WEADTE, The members of the Fourth Tnitarian Church of Chicago have recelyad tho_announicoment of 1he ronig- Datlon of their beloved pastor, tho Bov, C, W, Wendio, with amotions of sincorest sorraw and regret. Tuo tiew which bind Lim to usare snentwinod about ali our hearts that we could not bs recoucliod {0 bis foey Lut for the bopeful trust that a susponsion of his bors for a seasoti, and rumoval to a leva rigorons climats, may bring foLim new atrengtl, aad protract & lifo 80 doar to us all, I1ls wholo lifo before us hse beon so besutifal; bo has becn xo unseltish, #0 carneat and untiring in hia work, 0 lovely In his character, 80 sympathetic and tonder, snd yet o manly aud noble, that he hos be- coma o exch one of us moru than » yastor,—he {8 our dearly loved brotber and persvusi friesd, o las shed gleams of light along the patlway of this old, and besn an {nspirtng examplo of tho young. Always foremost n svery good work, he hias ‘beeu brave aind untis when others havo faMcred, and the clouda that bave occanionally overcnat tho pronpects of oar socloty Liave, to his Tiaion, always soumed Lo wear thelr ailyer llulng, Tu the spirit of true Chirjntien kelf- sacrifica ho has over been ready to do nok only Lis own work but also tho work of others, Espocially boen the friend of tha poor sud down-trodden ; and ‘when he shall have gono out from us, the good I'ather abova alono knows haw many will risé up and eall i ot Wherever hie may go our Learts will follow bim with sincero and grateful affection; sud we warmly com- mend him to thoss with whom 'Lie may bo sssociated in the future, Iausc G. Witson, I, P. Moturox, Ebw, Munrensz, Committes, —_— TAXING CHURCH PROPERTY. WY IT SHOULD NOT E DONK. T the Editor of T'he Chicago Tribune : Loaaxsront, Ind., Doc, 14.—Much has been written of late on the subject of taxing church property. All Ihavo scen, however, Lies beea in favor of It, so I would liko to proscnt tho other sido of the question. It seoms strango that the strongest advocates of our public-schiool system—of which I am ono—ahould, in so many canes, be 80 inconsiatent aa to desira the taxation of church property. Threo scliool Luildings bavo boen erectod in this city1u tho last two years, ono with heating apparstus, iron fonce, ete,, T presumo coeting not less than 870,000, while & wholo squarom the bost puzt of tha city, worth not lesa than 25,000, is taken up for grounds. Anothor bullding bas beon remodolad to bring it up to the latest etyle. Many permsons aro taxed dircetly for these buildiogy, for toachere' salaries, otc., and indirectly by tho property eacaping taxstion, who bavo no ohil- dron to oducato, More than this, nou-residents —some living in other States—belp pay for thoss things. Now, many of thoss who say this is all right de- eire church property to Lo taxed when thuy are ot tazed directly for the support of roligion, and ouly 1wdirectly & very small amount. This enormoud tax for showy buildings, ete., is de- fonded on the ground thay public achools are & ublic blessing. This is all truo, bus L don’t see How any otis wbo s any: property to taz, who hss any fulorest in a cotnmuruty, could say that churchos aro not & public bonesit, or bs willing to have them closed. Churches as well aa our achools hiuve made this conutry what it is. Wise men in all ages have held that Toligion was abso- Iutely necessary to the well-bolug of the Btate. The morality of non-professons comes froo ro- ligion, though it docs not get the eredit of it, 'We are told by one of our local papurs, * Let thoss who want fine churches pay fur the privi- lege.” ‘There ara some who might reply with ‘oqual justice, ** Let thoso who want their children n:imlad sy forit." ‘Tho churches, with tho ex- coption of thoso witich have **utar preachers,” are practically froe,—i.c., those who aro their hberal supportors are glad to welcome strangors. The star pruachor will attract many who care ouly for fine sormons, aud tho poar aro excluded as they are from pay schools, These churchea like Beecher's are mado up of man-worshipers, aud though most of thew may believe iu Giod, and Boecher, it {8 & quostion whethor eome of them bolieve there 1s & God and fature punisbment, Tax church property, and what must be the inevitable result? Iucreased cost of religious privileges, aud inoronsod inability to moesd them oo tha part of thoso who degire thew. Some uss the plausible argumeat, *'Leb church property pay its share of the taxes.” 'tis meaus that Liboral pordons who build and support churches shall pay sil tho taxcs on thee propesty. Those wlio kuow oan toll you that ro- ceipts from lubmlnhon ar pew eales, exoept in rare instancos, will not pay churoh expenses, sud that ths intercuted ones have Lo put their handsiutotheir pocketsat the ood of nearly evory yoar, paying large suims, while othors pay littie for equal privileges, aud tho poor cau have thoso privilegos for nothing. But some ooe will say, * Build choap cburches, have everything chosp.” HBut wuyuos say the same of school and ait publio bwldiugs? Who wanty 10 go back 10 the wiyle of 100 years aga? ‘Who Is uot proud of your flne churches, eventhe wan who hss not » dollar in them ? Hera is wu- other fact for thoes who sav, ** Let thoso who waul churches auppors them.'" Mauy uf those whao bslong %0 no ehur:kh. and help sapport none, pact i services gratin, When u’”}fd mar- od, thay got & Justice-of-the-Peace. ~Ministers ara oyorwhoelmod applications for help from those who, 1f they did nol noed it, would give them and tho Charch noithor countonance noe rupport. Look at the privato, s well se the pubdlic, 81d givon by the Chnrch to widowa and orphans, tho mick and injurad, old and inflrm, in their donominstionsl institutions, beforo vou vote to tax Cruncn PROPERTY. iyt Linsl WOMEN IN THE BOSTON SCHOOL BDARD. To the Bditar of r'he Chicago Tribune : Bostoy, Deo. 11.—A friond has sent mo a alip from Tue Taisoxs in regard to the Doston Hehool Board, with tho remark that perhaps it 1s not worth noticing, ete, Perhapa nat, and yet it dooes aaom as 1f & paper with the high reputation of Tue TRINTNE ought to eara for tho truth, and not lend itself to apreading such flippant misrop- Tesontations, which do the more Larm from the mixture of falachood and truth, ‘Thero aro several minatatemonts of fact in the nriicle, , It soys ‘“¢hs womon osrried their pluiot on boing s excluded by the Com- mittes from one" authority - to another," ‘Tha women did 1o such thing. . That portion of the Committeo who m:‘)mml (na thoy alwagn do- clared) on logsl grounds only, sskod tha opittion of tho City Bulicitor, who gave his)opinion nat tho legality of tho clection. » Tho mom- bers of (ho Committos constantly exprossed & desire to have tho question tastod by the Bn- preme Conrt. Tho voters of one of tho Rox- buty wards who were aggrievod at remaining un- represcnted by the person of thoir choice, came 10 Mru. Poatiody and asked her to make tho ap-! poal, which could only bo donoin bier name. ey couscuted, and the Court decided thatdlrey bmar'd Dot jurisdiction in the matter. The Legialsturo- then almost by acclanmtion pasuod s Lzw-lagak - izing tue cloction of women to thin ofiice. - - s Binco that timo thu Committes have cordially welcomod the ladies, and trested them with great cortesy, and no ono that [ have Lesrd of bas discovered any differonce in the newapaper reports of thcr mectings. Tl Board has basn a large, unwisldly oue, nnd thero hias ofton bean ! great difiienity in gotting a quorum at sn oarly haur for the transaction of busuess. Tho oud bit of truth iu tho paragraph is that the ladies bave boen almont coostantly oo hand st tho opouing of the moetings, 1he wholo canstitu- tion of the School Bosrd ls to be changod at the coming clection, Dec. 14, and so strong 8 tho recogvition of tha sorvices of thoso women, whilo the Doard is to bo reanced from over 100 memberu to twenty-four, four out of the six ladios aro nomioated bothi by the Repub- lican party aod on an indepondent ticket, 8o that their clection 18 cousidored to bo sccured. It in boped tlat this election will take the School Commitieo out of party politics, and make it on bonorable office to which the very beet citizens may be electad without distinction of racs, ro- ligion. mex, or patty. God speed the day, and that it m:‘ come, los nado Justica to all who arg norving tho cause of oducation faithfully as these women havo dove. . A, TO STIRLING CASTLE. Ae gentls glowming grew aonon, And darkenad Jovely 8:0tla’s face, T1aead, in sdmirstion mute, At Btizling Ro.X's eecluded foot, \¥here, tuinatlog souls the Foith and Teitn Like nylvan fovern loiter, 'noaths “Tiio slisdow of his presence, slow, Wiile, 18 & Jealous rival, i “Cua Allan, inaky, sinuous, tratis Hins atlvery length adown tho valea s Al na I fnarked the embattl ot heeding loomed aloft, Strange feelings thrilled my forvont breast,— This-wise the Catie X addressad : Yo fortrees-walls, that, gray snd Lrown, Jteat Likoa sombre, #ony crown Upon the brow of Btirliug 1ill, Who, monarch of the Lowiands, still Majestic sits, in rogat grace, On dais-Uirone, his rocky base, ltobed 10 & juantie ricl and greon, Rolgalug fo stste, angust, recens, Wutle, 3ll around, the netguib'ring beighta, In gaudy garb, as noble kulglts, In courtly emulation jeer Above onch other, far and near ; ‘A rim ys round his boary head, No lustre brigbt, but dim, o shed, T it thy weignt of care and woe “Tuat doca a sbizde of darknesa throw Upon his sustoro foatures down, 59 that Lis soems 10 Lato 10 frown T Or bias his sun of glory sot, That, under tower aud yarapet, Ho miourns, with sorrow overcaat, 1115 vanished grostnesds of the pest 7 Or, maybap, tired with war's sarcaase, And weary with tho lasting peace, o broods in distnsl dumlne:s o'er Tue wisiful bope tist soon, ance more, 1ila cars with tumult will resound, trife and havoc wago Around, ow, in state of biisxful calm, turs waves bor wand of palm 7 1 list, and wait thy meek ropty ! But, save tho neyhyrs mockiug sigh, No sound I boar ; for, deaf and dumb, ‘Thou eanst not wilencw overcoms, And 30 my {ntnitive heart Doth deign this anawor to impart : The face that sits baneath a crown 1s 1it abioda for troublous frown ; And euvious rulers scowl in iste TUpon tho landa in peaceful state, While, brooding dark, they nurso the hops ‘That brother-nations soon will copa, But Timo da Judue, und, stern and just, Wil sentencs Kings to furn o dust ; And monarch hilla and walls will stiy bumau rulers poss awuy. The rocka will mark the burlal-place Of all tho crowned and tyrant race, Whoro Love is lord, and, with incroase, Proclaims an universal peace. Marcorw TarLon, BEQUIEN. Touch me not, stir me not, moving apart ; Lighten the trasd : Tam bin desd.— Tam the dead of s beart 1 Griove for him. woep for him, sorrow, O Earth | Tarrsiug bero Over the bier, Grieve for the pain nd the dearth, Thus I dled ; thus I sank out of his breast: Tenderly doar, Mourntully here He hath bestowed me to rest, Rosemary, ssphodel, heavy with balm, “leariul and true; Cyproes and yow Baver the strifo from tha calm | Dreathie not, ob { murmur not, near whers Inlosh, L0t I should moas, 1ying alone.— Leat X should waken aud weep. Touch me not, stir me not, moving apart ; Tighten the tread s T Lam bis dead,— Tam the doad of bis heark { DECEMBER. Decomber's gloamy days sppear, And stornly rule tie foatiig year § While through the foreat, fadod sere, Tho creshing groan Of bonding treos I sadly hear, And th' anewering moan, Boam-GRRAXTUX, Where, stretching far, the leafy scresn Of ovarspreading bruniches grect, Vibratiug, eaught ths dszxiing shoen, 1u woudland wide,— Decay's eraslag toach is sean On avery side, Whero lata the notes of restiess bird, *Midst droopiny follage, zepbyv-atirred, 1n soothing, duleet straius were heard, A quick'ning lay,— 1a drawled the sole, repesied woi The crow can ssy. And teeming Eartb, with vordurs crowned 'Till choked with wild luxurisnce round, Where sylvan throng a refuge found Frow danger dread,— Fow ylalds 8 dlamal, crazsling sound To every tresd, 80 fading end pun's messured years ; Terclanc wilh Joy, barbape with teaie, b 581 Of ¥ata ho bears, “The kneling U Slld b breat, When, like & fall, Bls form uproar’ ‘Tho spsctre Death | 4. P Laavirr, Cmicaco, —_— Young Lions Nursed by m Terrier. Now York Ymea, Carefully csged in the dimly-lighted lawer rs- glons of the Central Park Museuwn aro two youag lwa cuds. They aro throe woeks old, & pair, a liou and liouess, fine healtby little creatures, aud in fwo woeks woro will be old enough to bs shown to the public. They are tho ey of the palr of bessts known as Lin- I Jeony in the Museun. But the mother being, from confinemens or ¥Owo other callis, uneble to puree thew, they wers ai ouce giveu to a large torrier, whose puppies were takou away, and who playe the part of a fostar- Hothor. Ble soems, ladaod, ba fond of the vubs as if they were hep own offsprivg, snd covers them with cares: though they sre alroady half aa big neshe ls. It is o ourious fact that lons reaied in captivity are not as gentlo as thoss captured and tamed. The parents of these cubs, which were caught when wild, snd inater in siokness and death. A ms~ | tamed, are very tractable, willef of ths ]u:gtuynoz é'é. fuversls m:mhd are of thosa who | other uo“u-. vn{oh were bozrn and brough up @0 nah suppert e Chirel r $5e muister, 8od | hore, ace sullea and fercelous RADWAY'S REMEDIES, Raflway’si{flaflyflaljet CURES THE WORST PAINS In from One to Twenty Mingtes. NOT ONE HOUR After reading this Advartisement need any on suffer with pain, Radway's Ready Relief I3 A CURE FOR EVERY PAIR It was the first and 1a the Only Pain Remedy That Invtantly stops the most er i mi'r:pua 4+ Bowels, or other glands or argaas, by tion,' In from One to Twenty Minutes,’ No mattar how violent or_exo-sciatiog th Rheumatie, Bod-ridden, 0 18, Nervaas om e S R e e Radway's Ready Relief WILL AFFORD INSTANT EASE Inflammation of the Kidneys, Inflamm: orthe Hiadder, u%nmm:&’;‘u oTthe Baw® umps, longeation of ‘Lungs, Hofe Throat, Dimoutt B° foathing, ‘Talvitation s “Hoart, }:{{l'fifld!r Croup. 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AN INMPORTANT LETTER. From s prominent geatleman and resident o Cinolnoatt, 0., for &. % for| ars well kuuwn to the nowspapsd pablihers Broughout tha Unitod States. Az Yomx, Oct. 1, 1310, DB, RADWAT-DEAR St8: Lam fuduesd by & sense 01 d“\llu M'IU vflflflj!l £ T Ul};fl‘{ lilhfla‘ib fl:..:.hi wuil ul e tudicite oo mysel *or soveral L) boan afevted w|th soine toubia in’ tha uudci.rfi urinary organs whict e ,onths wulminst M T Tt SeLlen all'aatd was & prin e fammatia tha ki ladder, and_usva it ss mum;ylnlun filh: Xiee ars—would pravont my oy age—7y f' red, hiad tried & number. e e s farge sastity of meds lopativu aad %mdnplm 1 had rend of astopishiug curss nl‘-‘da . Ifl\l‘(:ml lw\l‘; ml;u(h 3 Netinsny Socmin aovied o & perpon who iad foag hoed SaRuring as Twent right off and ’M sl ! uch-—yu"ugau. Fanile, gt 4o Haeviating Pl ¢ Sl uiinmisncnd tabipg {heu b thrse dare { was gred Uhiiered and com foo gy et s gror U0 M DR. RADWAY'S Regulating Pills slogantly costed with swees o8 e A T v a0 biomach, o3, jor. ‘Nervous Dissasos, Hlulnbuhcunnhnlhl& Coutivenies, xuuuuu:m- 3 pepala, Hillousn, Lillous buvor, pey | o L e g o Warranted Lo el & positive A% oe 3 guablo, sontalnlug Do mesoury, miser € e iy o o A e e etond oo Orgsin: D ations Ludard Fileasfajiness of Lo Hlood tu the 1vege AMANY of the Btoaikeh, Nadsca, Jesrtbura, Dis. et Vood, ullaska of Welgte ia o Sioniech, " Bust £itbtians, i tiami 3 ' king or Viatteriugs in % s Elutforings o e ag Futterings o oca L 108, 5L i, dLeton U e b g Beraa i Fouiae DI Tia cy Welm. o o ol 4. e ot Ve fiy R-R-R-