Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1875, Page 2

2 wan contidered that tha sign of the oross sas s Juiet way to Low hium oat of one's company, ne hind auy favorito #pot for making his appoar- anen to helsted traveicrs, tho orection of n crosy ou that wpot was constderad tho liest notiea to auit that could bo eerved on his Lighnera, o it 18, thaz in he-geno dayy gOmMA Wero ready to de- are that tiey hiad seen tho Dovil, aud thnt they duil weg furcher interviows with bim for his foym was #o hidcous, awl his Lroath emellod xo much of «ulphur, In former timos tno bovil viny consfdered novory busy bode, Almost in swerything hio waa gnpposed to hnvo a hand, 1o wag Aapposd to holp Fanst in fnventing the st of prin Wo havo heard of tho printer's dovil-peilians the exoresplon arcey trom Yuant's fancied supernataral Leeper. Napmer, who tnvented lognrithma 1o faciatato calenla- tinng, had & favorite Newfoundiand dog, steh wan {ho conetant companton of his niaetor, Bomo wero_ nclined to attnbate thoe laganithmg ‘o tho brain of the dog, rather than to tho studics of his master, and conidered tho noblo animal none other than the asmmed Torm of subtla Satan, Bo it ~as that some sip posed that thoy had tho evidence of their acysea 1o the presenco aud poreonallty of Satan, Now, wodanut Iy much aurews on all that kind of cvidenes, aud aro inchned 1o put it to the credis ot n puperatitions tmagination rathor than toany walk or work of the Evil Une, The Satau of Benptute s not supposed to havo a natural hds, Dt is aw invisibly spint, and therefore lies with- out the tange of tho (ivo senroa : if ho exwt ab ml, proofs of his oxistonco mnet bo kought on suother bams, 1lut ono may nsk, might not the ward Batan Do n gencric word, to meau any miversary, real or imamnay, witlout supposivig it to quatn an fuvi-ible pereonal ovil mpirit # It s true that tho word Satan s nsed to denote n uman a-dversary. It is o emnloyedin I, Samucl, xxix: 4, I, Kingd, xit 14, 23, 25, and in Nambers, xxil: 235 wo havo tho sngel of God ea'led Satan in tho mmplo senso of advorsary ; nlso tu tho well-known cayo_of Peter: (ot theo, ote., Matthow xvi : 23, Tho word devil, too, moan- ing elanderer or acousor, i8 pplied to Judas— Johut xi: 0. dutbree othor places in tho Now . Timothy, iit: 115 IL Tiwothy, iii: + 2—1t 18 uxed to mdicate husnan bes 3 Titus, ings of objnetionnble roputation. thon ha thal Hatan or devil 18 just a generic word for auy adversary of slanderer withont e« noting any beinyg in paticular? Might it not to thattha {den of o personal Dovil had fis rine in 1ha well-known tendency of the mind ta roli the blamo of our unecondact on the shoulders of komebody olse 48 an oxotan 2 For instance, Wo do nrong ; e wank Lo Crame o agology for our wrong-doing, and 2o we lut on tho vspediont of conjuring up the iden of an jusisibla wicked bes iy Wwho has tempted wy, Tod ua ssteny, and who ia to biamo for our fauils and failings, Tho Uevil, thew, i8 no mme than a nersoun,ta whom ut fancy hn created ok an arologty fur our own rong-doimg, §o that it brcomies lews humliating 10 Ray tho sorpent beguilcd me thinn to own up thut wo ourselyes wero outirely to blame, Now, that the fdun of o Dovil arvso " in this way 14 ong thing, thst some 4o tako sdvantage of tho idoa uf n Dovil ax an apology for their wrong-doing is another. The Dovil has biroad eliculders ; lie needs them. There are vory fow who don't teaco up thieir follies to bin door, nnd chargo him with all, whon perbinps hio was not near thom nt all, but in n region 100 fathoms deep, Slanderor 08 the Dovil is, he {4 often glandored himself,aud accurad of mischief aud misdemeanors for which if ho had s fmr trial there® iy little doubt but that ho could prove an salivi, 1 bave great fuith in the dootzine of tho Apostie James: Everyman s tempted when hio i drawn away of bis owa luat, and cu. fiead, o 1 thero o poreonnl Devily Wo roturn to tho uestion, Muw can wo prove. thut thero in? Well, ndmitting that thore 1s ovil in the world, it §8 uot unreasonsblo, vay sowe, to trace that evil up to 8 primitive personal causo. Ifouca e hiavo tho system of Zaroaster, the old Porsian Inwgiver, starting with two oternsl buinga or croators, Urmuyd, puro ctorual hight. waa tho source of oll porfection. Ahriman, onco light, Lecame dackoned by envy, aml was tho father of ovil and all bad beings, In fact, in tho dualism of Zoroaxter, we eat traea much of tho tenchings of the Diblo sbout fallon augels. Tins, of coursy, i miek distorted acd iuterwoven with Intioan fancies. Naw, to account for ewil, some couclude that there tauat ho an suthoe of evil, nand honee we have tho old serpent in Eden, cor- rupting tho tlrst funocent yrogenitors of man- lund, Bot then go further baek : if tho Duvil, as wa Inter from Scripture, wns himself onco pure nnd spotiess, wine tempted him aod tho busts suat foll with Lim to tho commission of ovil 7 Way there an older Satan in Heaven, an angelio tempter, (o whoae wiles the wicked spir thele fwll 7 Wo don't read 82, but aro rat! % to infer that avgels bocame devils without au external temptor, Evil was thele ow tancous growth, they became wmelf-corruptod. Aud ic may bo ndded, if augels becatns corrupt aud ovil without o tempter, 14 thero any roasun why our fimst patents in Edon migut not nlso have Locomo corrupt without the agency of g porsonal tompting serpont 2 1F it L6 neceusary o have o Duvil to-account for the fail of mau, why Lot necessary to baveo su older Devil also 1o secouat for tho fall of augels? T'o gustnin tho position that there is a poraonal Deovil, tho appoal must bo to Berpture, No one can doubt the explicitness of Soripture languuge on the oxistonce, personality, aud agency of Satan. Afthough the word Satsn and the word _Devil may bo fonnd having tho general ronso of advorsary and slanderor, still theso words occue whore wo cunnot get away from tho conelusion, that thoy are used ta denoto o personal boiuy. 'Lt the writers of the Beriptures believed that {hiere in o personal Dovil, as wuch oy thoy did that there is o personnal Uod, i evident from thoir languago, Thoy mover give B liut that Batan is un iwagloary being, that tho Devil is no wore than a figire of rpoech or the porsvbitica. tion of tho priuciplo of evil, but, on the other hond, they speal of Batan as & couscious, moral, pereonal atent, ever active ou the sido of ovi, Well, sotno may may, We admit that tho writors of b pturcs did belisve that thero is o per- rouul Dovil, that was tho provailig ojiue ion - then, aud they wrote just e they and ' othors Lolieved o thor day, il might it not bo wo, thut what they meant Ly Satan wag not just what others i coming ayted of o tvanced kbuwladge wore to weau by Butan, They ment a pereonal Dovil, but to us it ix moro consonant with resson and common Bcnso 10 interpret Bitan ng simply the personil- ention of the principle of ovil, and this sorves tho puriose junt s walles o porsonal Dovil, ‘L'he answer In Lt pitch o model of luterprota- tion 14 of.en o werious objectiond. Apply it to God, for nstance, and you rob the Mibia ‘of & yorscnal God end wake 1fim nathing wore_thao u figure of wpecch or tho priveiplo of gaod. In fact, vy this mode of tuterprotation vou might divest ovory historienl charactor of hiy persou- it Liavo only fnaginary beings, Again, by cousidering Satun to be no more thau the principle of evil, low ars wo to oxpluin the temyptation of tho Son of Gnty Aguin, Jesus #pealis of (hoe Devil uw u murderor fromw tho be- einning,—us o lisr sod tho father of it. Hlow, thon, cun the nbetract idea of evil bo called & murdercr and u lisr? 1€ 4t bo vy, that wo aro to accept tho Seripturcs in thoir piain, enforeod monsing, we nre tauuhit that thera inn porsonal spint eallod tho Dovil ;5 that ho s Princo or chisf of maoy avil sprit alled Lidangols: that all theso wera onco bright and puro; that thoy lost thoir first eatato perhnps through pride ; that tho fall in Eden was bronght ahoat by the tompta- tion of Batang thee tbe Dovil and hia angels il tlst contma to tempt snd lead wion uto sin their object 16 to destroy and ruin buman aud that their power i8 groat ou th of ovil, Lug not Leyoud the curbing, controlling, restemning arm ol (God. Whils the Serivturew #1ve us no anangoed history of fullon angels and of their fall, still, from incidental allusions and statemonta, wo can gather tiero and sume vthor o of infarnation concoruing them, 1ut, eoma gay, 1 Butan tetopts me, why am I not coureions of it? 1 have dono wroug, but I {elt no Satan loading mo antruy 3 it wad wy uwn incliuation, or the intlnence of my surroandings OF my companions, that woved o, and, beyond theso knosn caukes, [ caunot trace up 1y sin to & lugher pource. Lut others rvlhy thut tho woden in which Batan operates aro o mystory to te. Ahght U nob bo operating upon us by 1eans and fnetrumentahitics when wo are pot couscrons of it? Milton ronresents tho angel Ithusiel finding Batan ** squat liko s toad, closo ot tho car of Kvo, ossavlug by his dovilish are 10 ronch the orgavs of her fancy, aud intu them forge illusions as ho lwt, phentaswy aod dremms.” Now, the Dovil may Lo squatbig likow tond ut Sour ear ob your plilow, s suggesting evil by dieamy " thoughts ' eud phuntows, Iis deviees wro plauned and pore furmed with all - subitlety, and when you way think that the Dovil was uway aftor those (n eoarch of tho Northwest passago, through Polug reus, that eame old cunuivg Devil iy be sde drussing his copartuers an ovil, and saying, with ficudieh pleasurs, Thoro 18 8 felfow who thoughs 1 bud 8o bawd m leadivg him e to evil, but § did it, und bo is not wiae enough 1o buuw ft, Ah, 06 UN0 MAY Ky thut {8 ull nouecume, ‘There arv 1,200,000,000 ot souls on thie glibho, sud the $evil cauuot be everynwhero tumpting euch one of earth's popufation, ~ Wero b (0 pay cuch ouo b visit of only onv minute’'s daration, it wonld take Lim poariy 23,000 yeurs to go wer them all, sad how 1many thnes” docs s vy porulation ebange in that peried # Luw 1) then, would hiave a busy ting of il 3y e3¢k 0u0 Of thio raze but a sifyls fetiwe, Ab, Lut onu replics, Ins furces are Buuiious, 8ud by these adrat siants ho wmay sceowhiah quite enough to do wa anjery. Now, 4o cources, thab 1bo. kabjeet T ol Batauie Might itnot | ‘EMBETR 20, 1876. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DLC agency is besot with dificultios which aro in- oxulicabla to mo, 1t s not fmpossiblo that tha day _may como whou tho eaploring mareh of Lnowledgo may throw mowe lisht npon this question, nud demand other than a literal joterpretatton of nv.,x_«.»n reforgncos to Satan in tho Seriptures, Whn timo wan when it was Liotekr to doclare that it wan tho motinn of -tho eatth and not that of the eun that cavsed day and night, ‘Tho ol ponder- ous theotoman, Turretin, taking the fitertl 8ouro of Sariptiiro passayes, enttenched tho old nstronomical thoory 80 as, he thought, to make it impregnable, but the haml of roience soon demotishied Turretin's wark bovomd repair, Goology has ala. demotishied the old theory of n literal wix days' creation 3 and, juet a8 tho dis- coveries of natronomy and goolugy have neees- sitated nn interpretation of Beripture in eon- eonanco with dciortilie facts, vo tho day may come whon tho dincoveriea of physivlogy or pueumatology wr throw wmore light on this question of Batani oy, and either contlrm tho litoral mentung « ‘tiare pswayon on this point, o clotho then, wily o neyw eiguiication. Ou the q :extion whether datan ts a_historiesl or an allegorical character men inay differ, But, af- 1w all, onr happiness don't lmu{ orher mide of this question. Ll de4ls in the shaps of men, and of womsn sdiats of Jess controversy, fhowy fmma: devilawo shonld sl wnd” drend, 1l n- panioas will prove our adversarres, and, when they wenld entico us into their hollish waye, vur answer, bettor given In n supjrorsed toac, sould Lo, Get theo bebind e, Batan, No mattor whint taay be our opinjon abom the personality of Hatau, of tus fact we can have ho doube: evil haa found its way ints tho world nnl, worse still, it has found its way into overy hieart of Adam's race, \ithin n4 wo cazry aSatan bl onough to alsrm us, and, if thore iy no persont dovit 1n tho surwd at all, cach of ushas enough of porsonal avil to require for our delivorauco n divino j cieoval Savior, T0 roseio our sonld from (ho mans cotls of the sorpont_of ovil, wo noed tho nid of au alinighty arm, To ueutrnlize the powon of s snd restoro ns to a lifo of purity sl peaco, wo need tho blood of the over- lasting Covenant, Beliovo what you will abont an, w0 Insisk ipou you, it you would Yo the friend of yonrself, ta batievo fn the Lord Jesus Clirist, nud thou slalt bo saverd, But somo ono may press upon me the question, \vhat ~ do you believe about the Dewily T answor that I do not protend to eay that thero 13 no such bo- fug as Satan, It §s ard to prove s negative, 1t was undoubtediy the geuoral baliof fn tho ages in which tho Lible was written that this agent of avil oxisted, and plaved a prominent partin the hintory of tomptations, human sioy, aud human sufforiogs, But 1 fear that thuro is uch of our t popular languago sbout Satan that is inglesy. Jude speaks of tho ougels, which Keat not their firat estate, a1 being reserved iu ohning under darkiess fnto the judcment of tho great day. This stato of cosliucment, to my 1nind, is not very compatible with the sotivitics which is populatly uceorded to the Devil and his angels. Qur worst doviis aro thoso that ate visi- Lle, buings of ourdopraved race, who bave aban- doned thomrolves to caronrs ol lawlossuesy and and erimo, If thero is & trinity In heaveo, 0 iy there o trinity in the world. That trinit7 18 this, thio Justs of tho tlesly, the lust of the oves, and tho prido of life, In tho uetivities af thewo prin- eiples I can flud enough to account for tho flood Sl ik aitons & MGerins WY HEBIDE brec Luman society. : “I'hero is much wrong in tho world. To right that wrong lot it be cach man's object. Lot us begin with the eultivation of our own boarts, Thero wo will fiud dovils in tho forms of onvy malice, scltishnoss, pride, worldlinces, To eash of theso lot us say, Get tueo bohind me, Satan. Let us wago war agninst theso cvils, whick are satent sud potont, both In ue and sronnd ug. Wo tiave armor offorcd aud a nughty arm to Lielp us,—tho arm of that David who is'of the blood royal of hoaven, Gofiath sins, whetber iu tha Leart or in the world, must fall before him. De- lieving in him, wo havo enough to overcome tho world, the slests, aud tho Dovil, 1lis blood will Lo good for our pardon, bis spirit will bo good to eftcet our purity, his promiscs wood for an evor- lasting hows, whose swoed peaco sorpent or Eatat ean nover destroy, ——— FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. DEPICATION OF 118 HUNDAY-HCUOOL HOOMR, Yesterday moruing at 10:30 o'ctock tho dedica- tion of the new Sunday-gchool room of the First Laptist Churely, cornor of South Park avenuo sud Thirty-1irst stroot, took pince, with appro- priato exercies, About two months ago the lecture-roow, on tho lower flocr, was dedicated, sud yeaterday was tho firet timo that services were hold in tho now Nunday-school room. The room 18 divided off into, teu class rooms, library, aud & general moetivg-room, by partition doors, which nro ioade to shide upward in a somicirenlar form, and thus enable tho room to Lo thrown iuto ono vast ut thoro are suditorium, with capacity of senting 1,600 por- song, ''he dimensions of tho roown are 100 by G0 feeb, and each of the class rooms, from the infunts' to the Bible classcs, aro capablo of Loldiug from 100 to 180 pupils. 1t will thus be seon that thoro fw amplo breathing space. Ven- tilation has been made o foaturo, aud the rovm at ouco presonts tha combinoed attracttons of cloganco, easo, and comfort, Two broad cor- ridors Jead the way to two pair of oqually broad staleways. Tho intorior of tho room is surmouuted by varicgated, colorad skyhght, from which i34 pone dant s beantiful aud classio style of chandelier, undor which o large fountain fu placed, sud plaving, and tends to keep the aimosphere pure, surrounded by plauts, mostly tropical, ‘Tho windows are all largo, aud aro very tastoe fully bordared with colored glass, 'Llis reom was veatly bung aod decorated with evergreeny and plavts nod flowers yestorday, as much Lonor of tho glorious bollday-thmo which iy coming, g8 the dedieation, Xiom tho contre chaudelier tho evergreon was susponded deross tho room in odd, fontase tio ways, looped biere and thora, forming a tasty picture. Vroaths and ever~ greens adorned the chandelicrs in overy portion of tho roum. ‘Tho platfurm wan ombellished withh boautiful oxotio plants, while un either ide of the pulpit wero mtands, upon which wore slaced haudsomo and fragrant bouquets, cone lemll with ealla-lilies, 'Ilio rear of “the ruom contained tho following verues, tha fettera baing formed of evergroenn, o the left fuee ing the platform: “Buffer little chil- dren to come unto mei” £y the right, + Plnoted fu the Homse of God.” On the back of the pulpit, surmounted by a crown, wero the wordu : * Love Uno Another.” The orgau, which stuod undoruanth, wax also gracefully fes. tooned, Tuo following-nmnod geutlemen oceu- pled soats on the plattorm: The Rev, Dr. Bverts, pastor; the Rov, Dr, Jacobs, Dr. Durphey, the Rov. Mr, Cowan, P'vof, Morgan, of the Daptist ‘Theologienl Hewinary, Father Coraiu, Mr, Ntillsay, and Mr, tGeorge A, Mursh, Superintoud- cnt of tho Bunday-school, Tho Rev. Dr. rts oponed the exercisos with prayor, snd was foltowed by Nuporintendent Marsh, “who road _ u Imnlvm of Heripe . The Rov. Dr. Lyerts, Dr, Dur- phoy, Br. Huilaon, the Koy, Mr. Cowan, and Mr, (1 A, Marsh thon made brief addresscs, after which the Ilev, Dr, Jacobs made the dedi- eatory uddross, which wos jntendod for all Bun- day-kchool workers, 1o bogan by saying that tho Hunday-echool was for all ages ind boxey, Hu wirhied ho conld blot out the 1des, which waa m koo places bolieved, thet the Sunday-selioo} wun only for children, It was this which lod wmuny boys und pirls nt tho ugea of 16 or 10 yearh 1o withdraw fyow fta hoalihitul snd pro- tecting cave, and malde mon aud wo- men -~ think that tho Bunday-nchool was not the pluce for thom. 110 wirhed that this ob- surd dea could bo banished. Al olasnes wero interceted 1n tho Buuday-school, und all who Le- lieved and loved tho Jiblo should work for ity wawtenanco. The road to everlasting lifo was for wmen and women as well au chiliron, &nd ho wantod that understoud, Anotbier thing Le wished to impress unon bis licarers way, that tliere was no limitation as to nge for couversion, ‘I'hat moro wore converted to (iod at tho age of &0, in proportion, shan at 14 vours of nje. ‘'he Bundey-#chool wus tha place for Christiaus and sinners, aud the latter were tuuglie the way of life theso, whilo the forner wero kopt in tho path of thoir righteous gong, 110 hield’ thuy the rulr’xlun which was planted firnly in tho hoart wuuld grow aud bear abund. sut fruit, Tho Bible was the ouly toxt-book in the Bualay-uchool work, aud lossons and papors wero but bright oxsmplos aud addonds,” Thoy bad no humoness with auything el than the Itbio i she Hunday-school. AlL thut way want- cd way ono buck, ano solwol, aud thore vias but ona objeet in the work—salvativn and eterual hte. lfo ppoko in favor of Uniou Bumduy- gelouls, ond _eucoursged tho teachors to nceopt of sl aid uud connecl, aud thou o ou, mulliply- j2 thoir gued works which tLo Moster had giveu e Lo do, vore clowod with prayer by o, v feo menonnced the bone- A el b a s takes up for furnishe the Baindav-s ool Lbrury, by which yuito o Dirsh cum wan eaiized. ‘Ll churei itwelf will bo dodieated in T'abruae o from the tiwo that tho cungies tae Lret structure. Luis purely Corinthian 1 narcbitecture, and, when come plated, will have cont ovor £80,00, and will be oun of tho handsomest churchas in the ety — SIX YEARS' WORK, ANSIVERSARY RERWON LY TAT REV. M. WALKER. ‘I'he Itev. J, 11, Watkor, of the Hlounion I'res- byterian Ghrels, prosounced biy sisth aonivers gary discoursn last ovoning, at tha chureh o of Pourteouth and Throop streets. o took as Din text s G requirotls that which to piet,—Leleaiaat e, tiiy sy ‘I'he noaror maa approached tho end af the' ordinary allotted term of Jife, the more ingpors tant boeamo tho pant. To the yaung, life was clothed Ly glowing faney with tho glory of many possiilitiea; to tio old, lifo wag an accoumplishod fact,—~a lauidinz orected which couhl bo calmly Aurveyed as o noblo strnetore tull of symmetry, and the howo ot nobality and usefuluess, Youth yiewed life ax a now Inud undiscovered fn many parlsy all ngo yiowed b as an aged eountry nich fruits ad happy homies, or uvorgrown by woeds, desulated by wastos, and dotted with cabivs, Youth lived in hopo, okl age in memory; and nwd one of tho sirong nrgutnents for o wells sent life lay mo the fact that the duily vi~itanta of okl age woro the memorive of youth aud middlo life comg b brenthe ther molody or thoir melancholy meturos 3 tu fianng with their horrers o ehieer with their beaaty, Hovce it was that the hopetulnors of the tature wna mado by tha sweetuess of tho buckward look, Honce 1t was that to tho ofd the past hada slunificanco all its own, aud it bogau to dawn tpuy the soul at last thut God required that which was rast, All poople wore wwhut the past had male them, As tho treo waw fertillzed by its own broken brauches and fallon lenves, 4o wag tho eoul of wman rpened ong of broken hopes and Dlighted affoctions, Au tho year biad {ts mensons—its apring, siuma nier, and antumn, aad then the haryest—so way it with life: in old age spring, sutimu, and wammor wero gono, but the harvest was gath- ored in, Youth and manhood woro past, but thetr loasous hiad Loen lenrned. Whatspovor a man sowed that should ho nlso reap, o that sowad to the lesh should of the flesh reap cor- ruption. And he who sowed to tho epint should of the apirlt reap lifo overiasting, wos o Iaw of Goa’s umvorse, and its lnes of fmpar. tal divtxion fell aot alonio n this woul t of tuna but reached on to the etarnal jud gmeat, In tho parable Abrabiain said o Dives in tors ment, * Son, remomber.” Crossed were tho coti- fines of time, pansed was the portal of death, and gone wero tho opportunitiea to ropont. but memory was not doath. Iternal colilshuoss sown while Lazacus lsy nt hia gilded nato bore its barvest of regrotful remorso. Wioro tho ages ceased to roll there was a worm that nover died and & firo that was not quonchod. Tha worm, congclonce, gnawed on and on, sud * tho firg that was not r{uuuchcd." momory, foraver and over flamed. God roquired that Which iwas ‘um. Wbat an argument, Why, we should hegin now Lo fill tnt storclionse, momary, with waras of oternal worth., Of the hauntiug power of mewory over a bad past we noed look 1o fur- ther than the author of this toxt. ‘Tlhe roversud gontleman thon used tho history of Sofowon in ilfastration of tho above muxims, And tho lessons he drew trom it wero that tho preeont was the sublio pat of life, bocauso it wan maling that past which God would reiuice, 1o reviow of his relatin as pastor of the Re- uulon Presbyterian Church, ho eaid Six yaard 8go to-day I began oy laburs with ou in this fleld, Bix'years are uot a lony time, but vot, a4 o section of lifo's busy way, God will reqiiro them when ilo cally tho roll for all tho years, Six years age thers was nochurch organization, Eighteen porsons, wao _wero tnombery ot the Lhird Chiureh, warshiped gl obsorved the ordinances in this building. Aftor four montba of labor, the Church was organized with fitty mombers, Of the men who wero chosan to oflicial pomitlon at that timo a8 Eldecs, Daacons, and Trustecs, nono, with a fow excop- tioos, nre with us to-day. Hluco that timoe about 300 persons hove been recoivod into tho Church, wostly on & professian of thelr faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Of this number 4 bave beon ro- ceived within tho past yesr, Durug that timo Letween 500 and 600 faiilies and parts of fami- lies have been conuected for a longor or a short- or period with the coungropation, At presout thore aro nbout 130 families who womship with us. Al tho rost, like thio Arabs have folded their teuts and vilontly stolon away. ‘Tho for Pacitlo Const hns racolyed some. Home hLave returnod to thoir nativo land across tho sos. Others havo romoved to tho Lastern and Wostorn States. Whilo some sloop 'neath the tear-wet mold. Tholr momary I8 precions with us yet, though sundered far, Lotiers bhave cuma baok from some, breathinmy thanks for the Dlevsings roceived horo that aro among tho most comforting and treasurad richen of tho pastor’s henrt, As I roview theso Feorn, therois much of sndness, but much of Joy tou. Our maotings for prayer Liave grown Trom o fow at first until_they aro vow attonded by au average of about 100. ~ Our fluancial rec- ord has been perhaps the least sntisfactory. Thera has baen contributed for our church work about &1,500 por year, making for tho ix years &,000 to 10,000, Our contributions for tio yoor now eadiug havo beon lurgor than and pro- ceding ono, ‘The oficors ond teachors of “tho Babbath-school were, whon wo legan, mostly from tho Third Church, Thoy nre now wholly from onr own fleld, and number about mixty. 'fle Sabbath- school bus_ steadily prospored,—tho attendance to-lay, 707, bolug as fargo ns 4t noy provious Lime, ‘I'he spenkeer closed with an sppenl for oarpest work and a call to rosoluto sndouvor for ths tu- ture that hoe and the people togothor might not by ashered to wmoet tho past when God should roquize it at their handa, e MOODY'S WORK IN PHILADELPHIA, ADDRESS LY If, O, BLOFFORD, At tho Y. AL O, A, meeticg ot Farwell Hall Iast evening, Mr, I, G. Spofford, who Las just retarned from Philadelphia, gave an accouut of tho Moody and Bankoy mootiugs s conducted in that city. Noé s very largo sudionca listoned to the gontleraan, but it was porhaps as largo o counld bava beon expeoted when thero were so mauy regular church uttractions as thero are in Cbleago at present, Atter glauciog ut My, Moody's careor in Chle cago, Mr. Spofford suid that ho had hadthe ploaa- uara of hearing and secing him frequently durivg tho lnst two wecks in Philadelpbia. o bad not found him a changed man, sod the ser- mons he presouted wors just aa powerful, and no mors powerful, thou those he used to preach in Fuilorton Avenuc Church, He was till the vamo simple believer in God, nad ho preaclied with all bis wiglt whot Lo stucerely felt aud beliaved, Mr, Hpofford then described tho building in which Mr. Moody speaks—the okt Market Brreob Depot, which weats 2,500 people, and will sceom- modato » much largor number whon standing- room ia I demand, an it Las bosn of Jatd, About 10,000 peoplo biaye been the average attendanca on Baturdays, but the largost audience has been prepent on Sandays, whon the strostd lu that portlon of tho city aro nowally erowded with peo- ple going to tho moeting, On a recont Thura. day ovening the apeakor yaw 7,000 pooplo in the nall, and there thoy sat, walting for tho oot~ ing 1o commence, Last Habbath aftornoon Mr, Maody npoke to women empoomlly, aud an uudience of more than 10,000 Hatenod o him., Thoro was tcarcely any intorinission bolween tho tito tho aftornoon awdience was diswlssed nnd the tuna the cruwd filed 1n for the avoning ser- vico, 'Fhie spealkor buid that tho Aloody und Hankoy m«euufiu were #o very well advortinod that tho quiot brothers of the Quaker City wero almoxt forgottivg their Conteunial. Ho had cven henrd 8 drunken man in s Lar-toom sing) Gospel 5ongs tu bis besotted companions, he considored it an illustration of how Christ way diawing the attention of men, whothor for tuolr salvation or their destiuction, Uue of 3oody’s tavorite sermous was one on tho toxt, * Pray bave 1o excussd,” aud 1t wan hoeard over sud over again with wo ducrease in intorust, thus showing that tho man was 8o tlmrollgulz in earncxt that his bear- ers could not fuil to be unbued with the sutwe fervent upint, ‘I'he spesker then noticod the fngniry roows at somo lungth, _ Just after tho rogular mecting one nfteruoon, 3ir, Moody requestal onclh one in the undience to guestion s nelghbor sud to certain whetbor thov wera Christiaus or not, 1o spoaker statod thut hin attention was draws ton little Loy who sag near tnm aud who sy reared muchl troubled. Aftor convoining iny, o found that he understouds the plan of galvation petfectly, and further sonverantion ru- sultod fn° the Loy's couversion, as hin trasted, ‘Iho spcuker hud ~ found ouo who, wiilo professiug Christianizy, spoko of Moudy™s l.u.l* u not befug aceordivg to knowludgo, aid waid that Lo wouldn't bo foand thure again soon, Meeting him frequently, tho speaker tald him that Le thought » man who would talk as he bl about these wmcetlugy was selfsdecvived. 'Tuo gentloman was not offonded; eanl bo liked #quare up-snd-down ftalk, and fnvited the sposker o come and pes him, The speakor wout aud wrestled iu prayer with him soversl timod, tlually wuccoodiug “In undecolving Lum and bnugiug him to a true koowludyo of Chriat, Vther lustauces of couyerion wore mwontivued, and the aneaker pronanmead thn woil ono n wliich tho intorest was meves ing on the wane, Una very 4 abont it wans that the eouvarts, instead of re- Tattg their exporisncoain exapgornted and volsy style, spoko i mimplo, tlain, and earnast termw, anid with tuo groatess propricty, In concliding e epeaker capromed [ hope that the woric would still go on, and that ity Intluenco won'il not atop in - Pinladeplug, but extend to & largar autl gyor moreasing ciele, INTOLERANCE IN ARKANSAS, UTHERLY CONDUCE OF TWO LLUERS, i af The Chvas Trionne : Citeass, Docs 18, —Boing ndvised by my fam- 115 physician 1o romovo my wifo to o genial Houthemn climato to rellovo hor dlstross. ing asthmatienl adlieticn, I left 'Wo- routo, aml, pavging through Cincin- nati, waited on lwhop Foster, who approved uf my intention, awl wont on to Tiouise villo to aeo Bishop Kavanangh, with tho design of Joining tho M. K, ClurchSouth, for tharosron slatod abovo, Was recoivod a9 by a fainer, and thou and sinen exorionced nusvarying kindncsd and protecti n trom thab nure and wobls speci~ men of Chumtian manhood, Haviug ocoupicd tho puipits of tho denat:tation tn Louisvilla Rl other placos 1u thy 0 uf Kontucky, and no smtablo appolutment offcring, I was tequest - edto come down in tho fali to thy Confer- enco at Mt Sterling, and I sbould oblain an appointment, After spending tho sum:mer swith my family, I pracecded thither, and found {he seskion opuuing on the 16th of Heptomner, 1474, Moxandrin was Ieft for mo to fill, though tho Premding Elder obstinately disputed tho combined authority of two Bishops tu tho cano, Ono of the reasident physicians then infoimed ma tho clhimate wan littlo bottor than that ol Ubio, and as Hishop K. lind tuvited mo to Ar- kanwas ho odvined ma to go, Arriviug in the City of Littlo ltock in October 1 preactiod bo- foro the houses of Honators aud Robresautatives and in the congregations of tho M. . Church South ; waltod on tho (iovernors and received their invitations to 1cmain fu the Btalo aod de- voto mysolf to the spirital Aorvico of tho citi- Zzens who wero not slow in oxprossiug their high satisfaction with myv humble efforts to sorye thaun, W, R, Wanflold, Prosiding LEller of the Litilo Wock District, returned from Ins distant duides, and found a lottor of introduction which the Rev. Dr. Slater, then of Momphis, gave me; a8 ho faifed to call upon me, I wont to wait upon lum, but_was rocoivod with moro than cold indifferenco. From that futerview it was plain that ho was unfriocudiv, and in a fow daya at tho gorsion of tho White River Confar- onco I was iuformed by tha highest aud most unquestionablo suthority fn - tho Church that bo was opposod to 1o as ntranger. At that sesaion bio 108t no cpportunity of show- ing his digposition, had mo romoved from my appointmant (o preact bafore the Conferenco on Habbath oveniug, that he might preach himaolf, sud whan my uaiwe was read as & wewbor of the Conferonce, and was transtorred to tho Littlo Roeit Conforouce, which was in ncod of meu, Lo roso belind tho Bishop, in tho pulpit, and said : T hiopo you will givo ug o chanco of recoiving him.” 110w ho aud the Ttdars’ Bosrd of the Lit~ tle Rock Coufarence treatod to is best shown in tho Bisliop's lotter, na hterslly subjoined : MoxTICELLO, Doc, 14, 1874, —The Jiev, J. I, Doyl : T kopt your caso on hiand until the vory lust night of tho Conference, urging on tho brothren rome pro- vislon far yott, biit they fought with s stubborn and pereistont zeul, T atTast took tho uppointuent under 1y own Rupervirion, and could not fd a worlk out of Hucond stret, Littlo Tock, that wauld come near aup- purting you, ' was pzoaiaded that if you wers left i Little Woek at all_you would be oppored, and wonld have to rymuathy with your nsoelntes fu the mints'ry and 5 very joor s:uport from the luity, #o 1 constuded that the vers be i thing 1 could do fof Jou wonld ba to tranefor you to tho Avkausss Conference, and plico you wpon the Qultman Uircwit. With n constant cone cern for your wwoll-butny and uefilness, Lan, dear Lrother, truly yours, 1. UL KavaNAUaL, ‘i treatment to which I waa oxposed on my cirenit, from U. 0. Gregory, tho Providing Elder, rud a faction seting upder tho combined follie onces, of prajudics oud want of cultivation, which his maladministration encournged, are best showa in a paper signed by Dr. Jamioson, Recording Stoward, Quitman Clroult, and sub- mittod to Bishop Wightmao at tho lnto sossion of tha Arkavsss Conforcuce Church Houtb, Lold in Lowisburg. A copy of this paperis in my pos- gion, nud can bo soen by any pentlo- man who moy dosire it. Buflice to wny, wos turnud: out of one house, warned ot to come to othors. My cougregntiona In four churchos seattored, you attonding their own Joeal proachiers, 1. Evans, a true, ordorly Mothodmt nud Ciwemt Stoward, informed mo thuy were tatking of persunal violenco, but from this wero withhold by the Land of God and tho inftuonce of tho intelligont, faith{ul, and leading families, who abhorred division nnd wonld oling to my mmigtry. Attending the Conference o fortnight since, * and™ conversing with Huliop Wrightman, wite approoiated tho sitnatlon, I'necepted bl advice, and locatod witl {ho salmo quictuess which I lad nnoscop. tlonably preeorved during the year, When tho Bishop " sunounced my request to locato, tho mministors who opposed ms—0, Q. Grajory, Loablos, ote.~bore unvaryiog testimony to iy relipions character; aund, boariug with moe a lacation-certificato and noto of actestation from the Hisbop, aud s lotcer from Dr. Jasnieson, Re- cording Stoward, 1 huve withdrawn from among tuom. The following is tho toxt of Dr. Jawmio- sou's lattor: Qurraay, Ark,, Deo, 0, 1873, —The Rev, J. 11, Doyd was transferred to the Quitmun circult last full, and Liaw wpent a twelvemonth hero, closing with the Cou- ference seaston of the Methodist Epdscopal Chureh outhy hield at Lewinburg, Ark., Nov, 24, Sinco bis urrival fu the Cily of Litido Rock, whon e proached 1o larys couyregations, sud iu the Htate-tiousy before Bentors und Jwprosentativo, aud during bis minia. try hiere, ite hnn becu subjocted to fumult and oppres- slon by vorlous partles, lay und elerlcal, hia vuly offcuse bupyg fhat ho was - stran- He - wlaged with my family as liis home, aud s truly s minfster of Clrist, of funf- foudve Tuauuors and’ blameless Nte. Llis superloe qualiications to nstruct could not be boruo with, nat. wilhslonding his unsssuming spdrit, aud be was 1ot from the Legluutng allowed un opportunity of useful- nians oF wuocesn, Kl Bishop wdvixed kit to locats, aud quve Litu, at Lis own 1o juest aud the ununimous tetiwony of those In the Uonfereuco who kuow hin that he was & good man, a_cettiticate and nolo of ute fostation of lia slnding snd _mintatorial worth, Yo these facts 1 lear witness, oud wil ivo furilier partioulara ta thosa who 1ndy consult ag y lctlor, 1o cama with (Lo milvislug lotter of lis family pliysician ta seek @ goutal climata for Ul af- slicted wife, and it 18 patntal to writo that, from tho circaistunces above relaled sad attestod, bo retires feum tho Statw uud the Methodlst Episcopal Chiurch Uy bus recvived Lut $30 for Lis year's fuith. “Tain 1 puttly owlig to the impoverished couditions of the country, Nuspeetfully, W, L 'Tasuzno, Ttecording Stoward Quitmau Clreuit, Two reasons havo inducad me to lay this ntate- ment boforo tho publio with tho request that the Journaly of tho Northorn Statos witl copy, with ndditional commonts, Itis my duty to aid in tho oxposgiro of intolorauce for couscienco wale wud tho pmrr:m of oulightened eivilization, 8t. Paul tanght tho Ephesiany, ** Yo are uo more straugors nud loregners, but folow-cltizouy with the Hains," and those who would introduce more uatious! distiuctions {uta tho ministry of Curist, nwong mon diinely and bumnauely pro- pared for the manifestation of rovoatod truth in Plp and Iife, aro tho cnemics of the Church's unity, contemuers of Apostolia tonching, snd tho foes of our Lord Jesus Chirist, for **ls Who laveth nat his brother, whom he fiath seon, how can ho lave Liod, whow he hath not scou ¢ ‘L'o warn ministers sud bioturen from entorlog the Arkusnsas Conlerences ot thoe Al E, Church Houth, sy ou unofionding Canadian Metbhodist wimster, fur romoved from civil or ccolewiantionl ditferonced, would pot Lo permitted to excicivo hia hallowed fundtious, and was donied a homo for lis afifictod partuer. *{f," wafd & louding layman of tho Quitwan faction to e us I #at on borseback nt Dis door, *Hixhop Kav- ansugh cannot do bettor than send you ooie, wa do uob wany himv horo, “he 1uay ronain ot homo, et tho pames of I’ R, Wiuflsld ang C. O. Urogory, Presding Efdors of tho uthodist Tiniscopal Church Buiith, Arkan- tns, be colebrated ad lords over God's heritage from Dostou ta 8t, Panl's, Sbaukd any tucthor information be dosirod L will bo downd for u tuw days at Woud's Hotol, Filth avouue, nour Wush- {ugton sticot, J. 1t Boyw, e ELSEWHERE. CATHOLI, Burraso, N, Y., Dec. 19.—Tho pilgrims of 8t, Josoph's Uathodral, numberiug 10,004, paraded the stroots to-day, headed by IisLop Ityan and Lathor Crongn, editor of the (Catiolio Union, thin bubuyg the fast day of the pilgeimago. S . Wine and 5pirity 1n Grent Britnin, Lowion THuea, Mr, M'Laron, M, P., b abtajurd a roturn, Just issuod, contaming an suaivsie of & foriner Totitvn, giving tho net tecelpts from wpinits wid other souireos of rovanuo, Lt appesis that fu the yuar onded the $1es of Slugeli the duty on smirnts produced LALH6,012 in the United Kiugdotu. n England, C8L,206,611 ¢ 1 Scotland, £1,041,- 419 and i Iroland, £3,824,752, 'Lho wine duty i tho year cuded ‘tho Blst of Marcl lust was L15U9836 5 10 England, £1,190181 ; in Beotlund, £113,858 ; wud o Ireland, £100,810, - * Poter aul "—1¢ docsn’t make nn{ differ- eutu liow wuch poety you write, provided you dustroy 1t us st o it a'wiitten, ‘Lhia troublo is that many porsong who crawl up ou the buck of Pegasus would taaky quite s much progress riding & Bawebuck,~Brookiyn drgus, THE ROSTRUM. Tho Law as 0 Kield for the Suc- cessful Bfforts of Educated Women, Leeturo in the Sunday Afternoon Courso by Idiss Phabe Counzins, Sho Bellaves that the Tomple of Jusiice Needs the Mop and Duster. Tho Hon, John 0'Connor Powor's Views of Irish Home-Bulo. PORTIA AT THE BAR. LECTURE DY U188 PIEIE COUZING, Tho qualitications of womun for outering tho legal profession and suceessfully competing with pleaders and counsolors of the sterner sox ware discussod in o higbly interesting manver by Miss Phabo Couzius, of Bt. Louis, boforo the Buuday Lecturo Hocioty yeatcrday, Miss Couzing is a young snd handsomo lady, and ap- pears to great advantage on tho stage. Iler slylo s casy and graceful, and, without any labored attempe at oratory, she yot manages to captivato by ber clear enunciation and by her motitorious handling of & subjoct that is not iu- trinslcally original or intorosting. In opening, the lecturer oxplalned that she felt samowhat ombarcasgod by the fact that womau's exporfonco in tho logal profession Ld Leon of go short o duration. What sho had to eay, thoreforo, camo not 8o much from well. authonticated trisl as from serlous outlook, Wounian bad DENONSTRATED JIER ABILITY to copa with man in the medical professlon, in art, selonce, itarature, but the future had yet to prove whothier aha could aucceed 1n law, Four yoard ago the Washington Univorsity of St. ZLouin, in rosponse 10 her requost_for admisuion, oponed its doors to womsn, snd for the fral tia in the Listory of America woman was ad- iitted to a courso of legal training with man, ‘I'no oxamplo has ainco boen followad elaowhare, and to-day 8coros of womon aro_earnestly pur- ;'uhlg tho study, with the view of practice at tho ar. | Lu grdor to refato tho chinrgo that the demand of woman for recognition in tho logal profes. wion \vas an innovation, Miss Couzius proceeded 10 quote Biblical and othor auciens authorities ag showing that wowan bad in carly timos appoared a3 JUDGTH, COUNSELORS, AND LAY-GIVER, Among othars cited was Miriam, who was choren by the Lord with Moscy and Asron o the logal tribunal to guide Ivtael out of the laud of Egypt; thie Quoen of Bheba, wha came from sunny Ara- bin to prove tha wisest of all tho gonsrations with_hard questions; and Quoen Xsther, who teaded for tho lifo of hor peoplo. Ont of tho ong list of womou who figuro in profauo histary a8 endowed with tho peculiar gift which indioato tho lawyer, thero might bo mentioned Cortelis, the mothor of the Giracchi, Artemisia, tho grand Quocr of Cairo ; Zenobia, of Palmyra ; and tha mother of Alfred tho Great, In tha tims of Ucnry VIII, Lady Anuo Berkeley liold a eximinal court a3 prosiding Judge. Anun, Countoss of Pembroke, hiold thio oflive of horoditary Bhorilt of Westmorelaud, and oxeraisod it 1n person at tho nusizos at Apploby. In 1230, Letisia Goz- znrdini, nged 27, took tho degreo of Doctor of Laws nt tug Univorsity of Lologns, aud bogan publicly to read to tho great admration sud in- struotion of many pupila, With such siropy teatmony from tho past that woman had not only boen A FOWEI YOl a00D in tho publie salks of life, but that she had ever pruven equal to tho cmorgency of the lour, had not tho women of tho pres- ent day a ity to perform to this Konaration? Dribery, corruption, misrale, in Stato, family, sud socioty, woro rushing tho peoplo on to ruin, and should woman view ui- moved this torrent that edaied and whirled ono aftor another of Lier Lent hopes to destruotion 7 No. 'Ilio earuest golicitude with which thought- ful womon were regarding theso gravo questions was o uign that tho ship of Stato could yet ba rightod. Overeason why tlus has not beon done beforo was becauso woman had been awod ino an overweening estimation of man's brain aod ability, and o corresponding undorostiato of hor own, Tho customs and traditions of the pyo, besidos, bad sbut ber out until recently from all aducational advantages, and thongh sho might hoave fitted horselt to wsuccossfully ougawa 1n those profeasions, it was only to flod tho gates closod apainst hor, Lra tho lecturer outored tho logal domsin, sho Liud been opprossed with tho thoughe that all Inwyors woro prodigies of learuing, glants in intollect. DBut, after mouths of carsfal study, it bad transpired that a Jarge number of so-called Inwyors did not underatand tho English lan- gusgo, their briofa caleulated Lo strike tarror to tho soul of a philologlat, their knowlodge of the arts and sciences LIMITED TO A GAME O¥ TORER, gr‘tha tosying of o penuy for o froe lunch and a ritite, 1u responso lo tho question, Can woman con- quor the legul province ? the speaker would uo- lusitatingly reply, Yos. Thore was no valid renon why wownn should not holl the scales of “Justico in real lifo ms in tho ideal, weigh tno balance of tho right agaiuat tho wronit, and point tho compnss of Stato with ay unorring accuracy s mav. A learned writer says that **law 13 the roflnoment of reason.” As wowan is posdossed of the most re- finement, shall it not ba naturally inforred that shie ought to bo the most clear and intuitive of reasoners? Tho dinpason of Luman thought was nover struck unt!l the truo culture sum- maned woman into the Ropublic of Letters, And ns {u tho intelicctunl, wo 1u tho logal world, tho condition way that of UALF-ORPHANAGE, and not until womau was invited into. the domaln of law could tlore bo & perfect dovelopmont of roasost. ‘Uho rauk and Juxurious binrvest of tock- nical fletions and inconnistout absurditios thac hovo for canturies overgrown aud covored up tho rimplo rules of reason and justice illustrato the lop-sided condition of lezal kcicnco. Intellis gent opiniou would suggest that good Jaws somotimes becomo bad . lawe by chango of time and ercumstanco. 1u fruth, it might be said that mon ind boen keeping liouse alone fn the tewplo of justico, and the durt, disordor, aud un- hoalthy conditivns callod loudly for tho duster, and broow, and mop of the mother, ‘T'lip fecturer closed with tlo assortjon that ju- dictal ncty, court-rooms, and prisons needed tho refinlng and ennobliug influence which the presonce of wowan was aloua caleulnted to give bt ooy IRISH HOME RULE. TECTURE Y JOUN O'CONNOR YOWRL, Ttie Hon, Jobn O'Counor Power, M. P,, loo- tured i Looloy's Opoera-Houss Inst evoning on tho subject of * Irish llomo Rule.” e was in- troduced by Mr. W, W, Q'Bricn ina fow appro- printo remsrks, M. Power did not go far Lack into Irgh his- tory to sock matorial for Lle locturo, but drow on the more modorn phages of LKuglish govoru- mont, a4 applied to Irish iudustrios aud coms werco, Io watancod soveral HEVERE LNACTAENTS of tho dnye of Lloury VIIL, Elizsbeth, Charlau H g o dovelopment of Irish rosourcos aud had ro- duced tho country to tho lowest scale of coms wereist waportance. Ar, Power roviewed tio passage of the Act of Union, in 1800, which, he Bald, was admitted b{ all, frionds aud foey, to bu the most unjustitiable outrago ever perpetratod upon su unfortunate peopie. In any vass, the Itish Parlismont that rold iwel? out in 1800 did not reprosont tho Usltio portivn of the Irish, which thon, 84 uow, coustitutod the great masy of tho peoplo of Ireland. Lver since tho pose sage of tho act, whicn virtually B 110TTED OUT TUY ILINK NATION, ‘I'he people hud, 1u oue shape or auotber, pro- tested samnst tho Lrutsl usyrpation of the En- slish Larlisment. Howa Iulo meant Fedoralisin, 1 whick it diifered from simplo repeal. Ledors alism would give Ireland a cepresontation in the lwiperial Parliamont, as well s a local Legisla- turo to look after purcly Irish sffuirs, This wag on advautago that should pot bo thought Jightly of, bocause, under tho Countitution of 1782, frg- land hiad been mado reapousible for acts ddua in the lmperial Yarlismwount, 1 which shie had no roproseutation wihatover. Mr. Power aliuded, wmoug othor thiugs, to au act of Clusled I, which prolubited tho expastation af fut catilo into England from Irelaud, becauso it would iu- toefore With thu futerets of tho British geaziors, Thin was dilferout fram the pollcy pursued by Euglaud towards Irlsud dariug tho famiua of 1815, "6, and *7, whon she sigorously aud cuelly cntoreed tho navigation laws, laying AN EMUAHGO ON AMERICAN COBN-8U1PS, which came to feed the starving Irish pcople, uutlh, by this torrible polioy—political econvmy tho Euglish statcsmon called it—Ireland lost, Ly tawipo wud giggauo, nessly 4,000,000 of Lor pove plo. Aftar going ot womo longth into the his- tory of tha Ilome-Itnle movemant, Mr., Power a1l that, w0 FaF na $ho was coucernad, bis polley wan both conknitutional and revolutionary, the puitoy of the lome-Ralo party. T COURTS. Rooord of Husinoss ‘I'raunsnoted Sat. urdny. TITE CHICAGO & ILLINO! RIVER RAILTOAD cox- PANY. Bradford Hancock, as Liccetver of (ho Chicago & Dhineis River Rallrond Company, by order of the Bupntior Court, tited two petitions Saturday iu tha Unfted Ktatos Distriot Court in tho Lnnk rupley caso ngninst tho same Company, satting out that in August last Lo wan appointed Recelver of the Compauy, Among ite creditors 14 tho Chicago Ntatlway Construction Company, which 18 entitlod to raceive 4,000 shares of tho preferred stovk of tho Iiknols Iliver Natlroad Compauy, ‘Thede shnres aro a lian on the i road nller tho paymont of tho flrst wortgazo of £510,000, and tho Construction Company is en- titled to thom nfior the paymont of cortan claims, nnoug whicli 4 ono of Fordinand W, Peck nud Clarenco J, Peck. ho Pecks, in order to enforco their cInlm, have commenced a sult fn tho Bupromo Court of the City, County, and State of Now Yorl 'against tho Iiatlroad Company and others, and havo also begin auother hero in chancory for tho ramo purposo. Mr. Haucock thinks that this olaim of tho Pecks {3 not yalid againet tho bankrupto ; that it it abould bo es- tablished tho credit of tho bankrupt would bo injured 3 aud ng tho Conatruction Company liaw guaranteed the bankrupt againet tins elaim, it in turn, if compolied to pay it, would have rosort to the Lsnkrupt for ropayment, Mr. Hancock thereforo asked for an ufutotion to prevent the proseaution of tho Pock suits bolh hero and in New xorx, slortimor A, Frisble and N. B, Rapploye also have & like olaim agsinst tha Illinois Ltiver Com- pany for 214,610, which i3 in md;unom. and which thoy aro seoking to enforco. This also is by rights “to be paid by the Constructior: Come pany. ‘tho Recowver aliogea that If they nro allowed to sell a part of tho ratiroad wuder exccution it will damuage the remnluder, and im- Poir tho valuo of tho uasets. Au lujunction iy thoreforo asked to provent tho salo, A rulo was issued in both cases to show caure Monday morn- iug at 9 o'clock why such wjunctions stould not bo {ssued. DIvonces, Willlam Conkloy filed a biit Saturdny charging his wife, Mury Conkloy, with drunkennces, nnd asking for a divorco. Judge Mooro grantod decreca of divorco Saturday in tho following cases : Alvina Itohu vn, Charles Robn, ou the ground of cruolty ; Roberw 8. Tocd YA, Emma Teod, adultery; Adaline Uraco ve, Willinm I Diaco, adultery ; Jeonio Mecker yi, Jolin Maoker, cruelty : Botsey Day vs. William Day, desortion ; Mary M. tyder Vi, damos J. fx“'"' dosertion : and Mary B, Martin va. Jozoph H, Martin, also on account of bis desortion. ITEXE. The Colo-Douglas contompt easo will como up boforn Judgo Moore tnis morning. Judge Lilodyett will make bhe second call of Lis calondar this week, and hear paseed cascs, Noxt wook ho oxpocts to honr tho nrguments in the cnse of 11ill vs. Tho Baltimore, Pittsburg & Chicago Railrosd Company. Judgo Iogors, who Lus beon interchaugin with Judge Jamenon for the past fow duys, \nfi returm to his rogular call to-day, UNITED BTATES 0OULTS, ‘Tho Chicago Feather-Dustor Company filed o bill acainst William W. Clark t5 restrain bim from infringing its patent for slaving or split- ting featbers, nnd anathor against O, W, Nichal: IL A, astman, (. W. Hibbard, Susan M. Hib. bard, sud J. I, Btoadloy, for a like purpose. UANKRUMICY MATTEMS, John Mavo, a _flan-doalor at No, 69 Soutly Wator sireot, filed a voluntary potition iu bank- ruptey Suturday. Hia seenred dobts amount to £4,040.4h0 securitics being worth £1,000, and tho nogecured clalms foot up &2 67, being for morchandise sold to the bankrupt. Tho au- sots congist of 81,027.35 on deposit tn the Fifth National Dank, astook of saft fluh and empty ackages valued at £9,000, on which tho Fifth ational Bank has s lien to the amount af $2,000 ; the fixturos of his ntore, worth 136 ; and opon acconnts duo him to the amount of 81,070.79. Tho petition was roforred to the Raglator, 1n tho mattor of Bimon Lobrecht an order wan ontered for tha oxamination of tho debtor bofora itegetor Ilibbard on tho 22d of Decom- ber, A spocial discharge woa issucd to Androw V. Mortou., Qoorge W. Cempholl was Saturdsy appointed Assigngo of Joh J, Vanderlip. Au Asgigneo will bo chosen this morning for tho estato of Rosonbanm, Mitohell & Co, BOFEHIOR COUNT IN DRIEF. Leopold, Kub & Co. sued Louis Bittorman for ) 4000, C. N. Holden commencad n sufs to recover $6,000 of Aloxander McDounld, COUNTY COUIT. In tho ostate of Eliphalet Nott, a grant of nd- ministration was mado to Merril Ladd, under boud for 230,000, In tho estato of Gaorgoe Zuotlig, the will wag roven, and letlors tastamentary woro graunted to Tary Zuellig, under bond for £4,000, Thomas Carroll, Christian Wild, and Wilhel- mine (leysen wore ad judred fusaue. TUE CALL, * Junar BropoeTr—Psesod cases and mecond call of calendar, Junae Gany—219, 221 to 280, Jupnax Moone—34, 45, 8i. Junax Rogens—-Bst caso torm No, 27, Junan Booru—148, 250 to 364 inslusive., Junae MeArLisren—Sot cano torm No, 1,130, anii cafondor Nos, 209, 219 to 230, 232, Junex FarweLt—No call. JUDOMENTH. Burentor Count—Junar (iany—Tohn Ioffard ve, Francis Agnew and John O'Neil, $230,6, Cineutr Covsr—CoNvesstoNs—Lauiel N, Dazh e, Thouws MoNawmars, $318.73. METHODISTS AND TUHIRD-TERM, DBishop Naven’s Sayings and Doings. Dishop Gilbert Iaven dolivored tho addross on Collogo-Uny at Albiou Colloge, Michigan, on Thursday lgat. In the coursa ot his remarks, e, necording to the Detroit L'ost's roport, spoke 04 follows ¢ Lishop Haven supported his recont address in Nos- fon, 1n which lio becsie a champion of tha prescut Administration, Tho Just Presidout’s mossage iy tho first, which ias ever ntroduced on allusion {0 Chrlu. tlanity and tha bigher law. The last ot ntrodiced tho fall of man, and ke thought if Grant was kopt In the Whits Houso auother term Lo would get fn tho rdomption. 1o would be the Just person o objoct 2 Grang'y belog put 1 tha Lseculive cle for tho- third time whilo bie continued to buld the ship of Htate atrught ou hor course, In our religlous ond moral movements thiera rhould come up not s National Church but a uatiousl confeselon of obediencs to the higher law, While Awmerica i liberal toall pooplos Who como within ber bordors, sho shiould malsitain in all hier fustitutions that Chrlst is the Lord, ‘Tho Alblon correspondout of tho Dotrolt Trib- une saye Yaur reporter duripg tho day sought informaton from ths Bishop touching his Boston thirderm speech, 1o aald that Lo had had too much to do with sowpapers bimslf to sit to interviewars: but I can Aive the following, on _moat undoubjed sutbiority, v comuing diroctly from hitm 1 1n his recent conversation an thiy subfect tho Bishop Uioidu tlat, & be understands it, the Freschiors’ Asso- cuation of ' outon il indorse bt remarks touchlug tho renomination of Prosidont Grant. 1o that spcoch Lo touk tho poaiilon that Graut's renomination and ro- slection aru sasentlal to tha highest good of the coun- try, and closed this part of hid adidresa with ¢ Broth- o8, let us pray for tho renomtnation of Prosdent Oraut1” Tho Association by o Fising vote sudursad bis 8y Thst tup wfigu‘u;n -fl;:uhlw:x.v o form 01 00} inent poar- Ao ammong the e boca ho_ thiuks " s "Tather ich note,” v hia faco 1% as familiar thore as in bis owi bouseliold, 1Mo would as soon thiuk of recelving » forinsl wln]fl[fl::uhblé ':.l-‘frr‘:nm‘hl: mfir ;m “\‘a' i of avi o ruach- B 3 L w i ks b Awociation, foo, st g dinn wediately fol o otttk tho Bostons Drcachers’ smenting and wss now fret in renomiuating (irant, showlog that o undorsiood that it had fue Worwed Haven's position, 8t sayy tha Jilaliop, wo did nos resam{natd Mr, Grant, We only sgread to pray for hils ranoudnstion—aud £ guess wn‘{l‘%u it, 3¢ any 10an don't ke that, b can {roy ou the oibe Wil th 18 & £r00 country,” Tho Bishop froely de- olags himsolf 8 thizd-torm 1an, sud seye that ® s locu ono, e ‘don’t esre for ». Granv's Methodiin,—dont kuow that Lo is mush of & AMcthodist—and for sectarisnlam wouldn’s wize » fg: but ho tuinks tha co . Q@raut suother term, bl littlo shot anly woke tha eclives so coudition uf thy pojitical stmosphers. It has 10 ro- Liious wlyblucauce, aud ko souts the stiachmant to it ulc\‘l:uluclhodhul‘ 3 The Nn:uvurkb ’{'{:‘hu‘r‘u Kob excltod over { wud wade a iy vutery, butthe Blubo; clulia that it A tadspeadint mawema: ch aa thio New York Tujbyne nespsia jiaelf fo be, ha Lo right to try to lufiucnce politics, au indopendent “winlstur has {10 satpo right, * Hu says that bo hss bada good decl (o do Witk newspapers snd a good deal to o with Preachery, and Lo hisa dlscovered no right of opiulon or ite exprvenion vealed fu ono to the excluxion uf tho fame rlalt to yay whiat Lo hinks hat Whitolaw Keid , ‘b Tract sud Sunday-Hebool Bocluty had nothe Ing'to do withs the speochi, but tha BLabop's 1dea fa Uik Le Vroachers' ton did tnduses fofutly, iye cluding tho rymslution to peay for (rant's renomine. on, QUMMENTA OF METHODIAT IOURNALY OX TUE IOATON Avean. 5 The Metholints Wo fael hanrd ta wav that Mothodiata are nte torly opposed to mixing ehurch and politics,—to turning ceclemaytionl gathriings into cauonses, — and that wo beliove overy ministar in atioudance rt Bostoa holds this anil-aectarian creed. Dt it Cardinnl MeCloskoy had dedicated the Dosta Cathodral tho enmo woek, and hind uttered Bishe op Haven's words nsiing bis priosts to pray for tha olection of Gian, Bliormun *ns a meannro of Halfoly," wo do ngt donbe that every Mothodint nowspaner and pulpit i the land weuld have 1 flamed with indignation, For this roason wn ro- #rot the introduoifon of the topio into tho os. ton mrnlu:fi;. Ve Layo mct no Mothodist wh fy vob grievod sod sorry, and wo talked with suing of the warmest porsounl frionds of tho Prosl dent, It must bo apparent that an todiserction #o damaging to the Chiet Magistrate could not havo been arranged aml sanctioned by charoh nuthority. It began and onde.d in onn onthisg- astlo brother's appeal for the pravors of the Chrols fu Lohalf of. his candidato, Birhoy 1laven in o man by lmsell. 1t ia the boast of iy frichda that ba s cull the ** Gil" of sute-'72 daya, W tegret that tho propristies of Linofico do nat restinin him wore, and wo dn nob think Yy unrostruned maunor of handlug thigsquits safo for Limaelf ortho Clutech, Bisle op Haven aud titbert Havon aro scarcely distin. wuishiublo by tho general pubtin; yob the Churol inakos the distinction without 'nuichs diflionlty, and, whon ha s not performing Episcopal funo- tions, nllown him £ bo Qi) Ifavan to hits hoart's content, It was in thin porsonal character that hoacted at Boston. A preachors’ meoting hay no ecslestastieal recognition or powers, Any sathering at a privato houso would hava had ay tuch ecalesinstienl flavor, if it had boen com- posad of Mothodists, thongh eatiug ico-crenn Ll been tho business of tho evoning, Wo sav to ths Ancular press that thore has not beoy, aud will not be, n Methodist nomination for the Presidenes. Tho Methodist luthiouea wili ba used to keop Church and Siato apart, Methodists will. umto with their fellow-citizona |nlmlniunl action, and, while clamsiog all tha rights of oitizenship, will not turn thoir oflicial gotherings into nominating cascusen, And, jf itshould happen—~wo do uot behave it ever wiil —thnt nn ecclesinatic euters into mtriguos with rolnicmns to bargain away the dethodist vote, e will not ho able ‘“to doliver tho goods.” That is just tho diference betwesn us sud ths ntholics; no pevpte on carth aro leas capabio of being driven by flocks iuto politieal camym than are the poopls eatled Mothodisty, Ono word tnore: ‘The nomination of & Presi- dont fora third term would boa now and ex- traordinacy ovent, which wears, to many per- song, o semi-rovolutionary laok, ' The upecch of Dinbop Iaven wonld rather contitm this jm- presaion. since ha seomed ta contomplate o pers soual Governmont rather than s Governwont of lawy, Tho recoption given it by the publia ought to bo s \arning, that on snch a question as this tho ofice-benrets of churchas do not enjoy Tmn a8 much liberly of parscnal notion as In l‘mun ly accorded to them intheir charactor as citizens. Alishingn Chriatian Adcoxate, The Methodists do nos nsvira t9 mn the polie tica of tho uation just yot. und if o fow zoaloas llontoniana do thoy have a wintor'sJob oo band, which will require taora brain-work than they can sparo frow their roligious dutles. But wo beg to sny that what o sectional gathorivg may rasolva under thoe trausient impulse of avappeal from Bishop Haven doos not commit tho Moth- odlut Church in America. Personally we caters tam the opinion that Prosident Grant’s Adminis- trations bave hoou a8 _sucvessful 08 conld luye reasonably been hoped under thoe circumstances in wihich lio has bean placed, But tho Stethodies Chwren {8 not going {uto tho businoas of making Prosidonts. To astompt this {s atepping vory far avide from the work to which God calls us, Wo huve very emphatically condomnod the Cath- olio Chureh a8 a politicgl bady, working nitodly for politieal ondy. And our ecclosiantical wa- clifnory must not ho turued to political uses, It will not be so employed. A Mothodigs, whether loyman, ministor, or Bishap, aa an individual mny work for Gen, Grant or anybody olsos but lot him boware how ho attempts to” wisld the vower of the Church as a Church to accomplisn B purposus. T'ho priveiplo 18 full of dangor; wo uttarly repudiate it. TWEED'S STOLEN FORTUNE. ¥t Was About Six Millons, but Hne Surunic TwosThirds—ile Sins Modo No Offer to Gompromiso by Restitue tiou—Connolly flade Such n Pro- Posnl, Which Charies GConor fee fecte New Yort sun, Reg, 10. A 8un reportor conyvorsod yestorday with a gentloman who knowa the condition of tho suits againat Tweod, and who said: *‘Llicro js no propodition ponding for a compromiso of the Tweod, Bwaony, or Connolly suits, Tho auly offer of the kind over made that meant busiucs was by Connolly, on tho mfim that ho was put in TudlowBtreot Jail. _Connpolly thon had s million dollara in United Btatos bonds in lis houso, which hio offared to give up it we would withe draw tho suits against bim. Mr. Wihoelor 1. Lockhmin was willing to accapt that offor. Mr. Cluurlos O'Conor, howovor, opposed it, saving that Conuolly must ba punisbed g a warning to otlier publio”thioves. Sluco thon no practical proposition has over beon made. It fu tiue that proposition was mado on behalf of Twood that ho should pay over a cortain sum, and tho crimis nal s woll as tho civil proceodings bo discontin- ued. That of courac could hot be accopted.” “vCan sny pwoperky of weed bo roached, should tho ponpfn obtain o judgmeut sgainst Lim 2" tho roportor asked. " Moat, if not ail, of his property has boon dis- posed of under conveyancos, many of which wo boliove to be, and are preparcd to provo, fraudus lent. Then, ngatu, & large portion of his real cstato bnd beon bought by him subjoct to mort~ gages, and tho mortRages have beon foroclosed. Tho lattor wo cannat touch, Of course wo could sall bis right, titlg, sud intorost to any of the propoerty which to has held, but the quos- tion 1, How much woull it briug ? T think the people may b ablo to got over 8100,000 aut of Twools property, bus thoro nover will bo anotbor chanco ltke that in tho case of Connully, which ws rojected by Mr. Q'Conor, T'wood may hava beon worth 30,000,000 threo yoars ago, 1o cortainly {a not worth ovel £2,000,000 uow. I understood frow a friond of Lis ovor & year sfo tlws ho lad paid over $250,000 to his lawyers, sl ho had to aa'crlflua L] Rood deal in gotting rid of hua prquy.‘ “1{aw about his bolng iu tho city? " ““Huch a roport must bo more anrmise, Tht prosccution certaloly kuows nothing of ln; presoyce 1 thw vicinily, bor havo thoy hear from him diroctly or 1a moet semoto tndirc: ‘way #ince hiy cacape.” —_— CHURCH FESYIVAL AT MORRIS. Bpeciat Corregpondence of The Chicago Tridunss Monnurs, 11, Doo. 17.—The featival held &b sTull's Uall last ovening, under the susplees of tho Presbytorian Churchot this city, was quits ‘Iatgoly attondod by tho elite af the place, avd was & vory ploasing aud n:‘]loyl\:ls affair. An ogant suppur wus furnishod, consiating of alltue substantisl things of 1ifo, aa well aa all tho deli caclos of tho soasou, Numeorous dolicious and tumpting offorings, asido from tho waln foast, woro gencrounaly servod by fair havds, accowpas nicd with bright smilod. o lndies of tho Booiety cartainly doscrve rost crodis for the perfect and pleasing mannot fi. which the ontorpriso was organized and con= ducted. Woman's lugenuity scemed ontirely oxlisusted in propariug tho delicate viande wliwh thoy so ‘well kuaw would capiure tho modest aud more confding sox, aud oxtract from thelr pockut-booka the coveted shekals. Tlhe ootortaiumont was o docided succest financixlly, a8 woll as in point of stiendsnco; and, if the charaster of (ho assomblago, (bt plensant grootings, genfal oxprosatons of |l1°“i ure, sud smiling facos, which were ytmmmcl“l‘ fouturcs of tho occasion, are auy fudications, e 1nust At ongo bo voted tho wocial eveut of ¢ acagou, suew lllmv.l::v:. i The Injury to the sight caw )y & 2 onure h; the glare olg suow bss Jod to varioot vicos for rowedylog the alfliculty, such -, amopg othery, the usa of eneatpcles of grect: tinted glass, wurroundod by gauze. lhu:‘ 4 Liowever, fail In practico, aatho glass part of l‘ spactacles 18 liablo to bocowo dim snd cloud hy; while tho gauzs sud wire, by monug of wmell.lm #poytacion ure fastenad bohind the oard, will = b &rgtis climato, gus wo cold thas to the lmmao wkin thoy will have tho sonsation of being ma 3 of red-hot wire. ‘Yo gbviste theso objections, TLondon ocultut hny introducod o peculiat kiud o spectaclos, which Liavo neithor glass nor iron 1: ther coopoaifiop, beirg toado of ebattito, ‘"n' tiod on to the Laad by & volvet cord. Juuyl:n. somblo somswliat twa bzl(»uu\!l-u slls {astofs od over the eyos : but thoir spocial mufl-r; ‘ym thint tho ¥oarer rbuu throu, slmplo sii% 45 front of the pupil of the eyo; sud Lo -m“lu\ ench 6ye-box aro perforated with minuto hal . Jn order thiet the wearcr msy gob & wide viow objects. ¢ P “ 1t is & nettled priuciplo, your Hooor," said 3 emiveut lawyer, -~‘um causosalwayd pmduscfl % fecte,” *‘LLay alwayds do for tho lawyors, h‘ spapdad tho Jyage; * huu‘\'nfiwun\u kagw & oausa b0 daprive & clisut of ! effgata.”