Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1875, Page 1

ilp Tribune. VOLUME 29. : JEWELRY. Elegant Jewelry! NEW AND BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS, ESPECIALLY FOR THE HOLIDATYS! Cc. D. PEACOCK’S, S8 ST AT IE-ST ., OPPOSITE FIELD, LEITER & CO. Y eelx. open_Evexry Nvening :This i SEWING MACHINES. Lo~ WARRANTED 5 YEARS ! No fnstructions required to use if. Suitable for Family Use ond Annfactaring, 3t will acw from tissao paper (o harness leathers €7~ Machi de_eapeclall e RATDING, "REFF T HINDING, and n_variety of spe< cialties 1n manufactoriog. PRICES MADE ™ SUIT THE TIHES, Either for Cneh or Instnliment Payments or Credit. ACENTS WANTED. - Send for iltustrated catalogue of styles and prices, Address, ., ‘Wilson Sewing Machine Co., 197 State Street, Chicago, Tik. = TES " erchanty', Farmers', & Mechanics Savings Bank, 75 CLARK-ST., CHICAGO. INVESTMENT CERTIFICATES. Every Certificnte Securcd by Dortgaxe om Improved Real Estate. TADLE of increuse of **Investment Certifi- tates,” secured on improved real estate. bear- Ing foterest, payable in quorterly install- wents, at the ratc of 7 3-10 per cent per an- sum. Showing the accumwintion of snms in- wested for the benedt of Children or others: Amount Amouat Iavested. $ 100 atimatod upon the basis that iaterest, when dus, 13 on mavings acoount, and ipvested in INVIST- MENT CERTIFICATES whenever 3100 is thus accamu- iated. Any holder of a Certificate has the privilege of examin- tog the condition of the trust at any time on ealling &2 Lteoffice of the Trustes. Certificates forwarded, and interest, whon dus, refn- weated, f desired, or remitzod by draft ex expreas o any partef tho United States. Address SYDNEY MYERS, Mazager. TEE STATE Sevgs st 80 and 82 LaSalle-st., Chicago, .----.$500,000 ---e. 100,000 ‘Beoeives Bavings Deporits and allows interest thers- o at the rate of 6 por cent per annum, subject to the Yules of the Institution, A1s0 reccives for safe keeping in its SATE DEPOSIT VAULTS! Maney, Diamonds, Bonds, Deeds, Calp, Bullion, Siiver ware, Wills, and oiber valuables, snd rents Safes in its FIRE AND BURGLAR-PEOOF VAULTS A$ reasonabls rates. D. D. SPENCER, Pres't. A.D, GUILD, Cashier. JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, &c. FOR TEHE NEW VEAR! In returning sincere thanks to our friends and the public for their extraordinary patron- age, we beg to state that our stock is still replete with most tempting gifts and keepsakes, and with the view of convert- ing the same into cash as rapid- ly as possible, prices will be made especially interesting to buyers. . New-Goods will #lso be open- ed every day during the com- ing week. HEAMILTON, CHICAGO, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES, BANKING. G 1D FTER TORSDAY, DECRBER 7, THE ILLINOIS TRUSTANDSAVINGS BATNES, 122 and 124 Clark-st., WILL ISSUE Gertificates of Deposit for nounts n{)SlO and upward, PAYABLE ON DEMAND. The Certiicates will be issuod separately, or in convenient book form with memoran- dum stubs, and ms{ be coliected by presen- tation at the Bank or through other City 2nks. > 'I~hu5 willbe safe from loss or theft until ENDORSED, and will supply a want often axperiencod by those who wish to separate thoir current expenses from their business, and evoid the nocessity and risk of keeping money on hand. They wall be found convenient: In paying for family supplies, service, eto. For traveling expenses. For farmers and others remote from banks. For transmission of small zmounts, and for many purposes outside of tho ordinary range of b: facilities. Persons residing out of the cugzmu remit by express or bsnk Graft, and have Cortifi- cates, for such separate amounts as directed, roturned by mail. ln such cases care must bo takenin giving Post-Office oddress, snd in sonding the signature of the person to whose order theim made. The Bank alsoissues Certificates of Deposit bearing interest at,_ the rate of 4 per cent per annum, on which it reserves the right atits option to require five days’ motice before payment. The Bank also_allows 8 por cent interest per annum on Savings Deposits, upon the usual terms. Cash Capital, paidnp, - $500,000 Surplis, - - - - 25,000 DIRECTORS: (T oot Anon 56 O Y ety Jows N. 8. Davis, H. Crerar, Wm, R. Mitcholl, Theo. Scnintz, Tesac Waixel, L. B. Stdway, B. T. Geo. Sturres, John B, Drake, Crane, 0. W. Potter. OFFICERS. L, B, SIDWAY, . ... Prosident. H. G. POWERS.. . Vico-President. JOHN B. DRAK] ‘Vice-Presidont, JAMES 8. GIBB: . o.Cashier. SEWING MACHIRES. 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Wo invite all to sse the Marsh Im- proved Lifter, For sale at Paclor, §15; six months’ exercise, §15; twelve zmonths’ exercise, 825, Send for B e R N E. L. SMITH, Manager. Nationsl Line of Steamships. NEW YORK TO QUEENSTOWN AND LIVERPOOL. EGYPT, 5,089 tns.. Jan. 1, atBa. m. Sy e e N Jan_ 2, at 12 noon. 3 s 4,080 tons .. , Dee. 25, at9a.m. S et S e e #8 &% reduoed rates. Steerage tiokew, €3 currencr. Dratta for £1, - & 3 oz £1a0d upwards on Great, Britale: RSO, Bertneast. Olark hoat .;rl- X/ l:fl Eandoiphgts. (aprosie new CUNARD MAIL LINE. Balling three times » Week to =ad from British Parts. Lowest Prices. .m at Company's Ofios, northwest eorner Clark and P DU VERNET, Genersl Western Agent. FOR SALE. ——— e e e Wax Flowe Goods, Gla ARTISTS s ing Material ABBOTT & TYLEE, 56 Madisonast. RN L] DECORATED DINNER SETS, DECORATED CHAMBER SETS, AT A GREAT SACRIFICE, AND BALANCE OF OUR RETAIL STOCKE AT rROM 1070 95 PER CENT LESS THAN COST As we are determined to close it out entirely by Jan. 1. Parties seleoting CHRISTMAS PRESENTS ‘Will be consulting their own interests by i tock before purchasing. oxaminint Ko m P45 13 vo lsewecere. We save you from : 50 per ct. on anyth in our line. Call early, while stock is complete. o will continue our Wholesale business as usual. KENT & KEITH, 262 AND 264 WABASH-AY. MISCELLANEOUS. PLYNOUTH CHURCH Pew Rental. ‘The Annual Pew Rental of Plymouth Church will take place on MONDAY EVENING, 2ith inst. Sale will commence a¢ » quarter before § o'clock, sharp. Members of the Board of Trade. I desire s situation with some good commission house. Fully understand financial matters. Iam a good carrespondent and general business man, Have lived and been in business in this city for eight years. Age. 77, Bularyno, ggw.d(i:nn £i¥0 unquestiorabls erences as 0 a and integrity. ur- ing the week, P, O. 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LADIES, ATTENTION Chicago can boast of her man mil- liners and man dressmakors, but Mrs. THOMPSON, 210 Wabash-av., can now boast oz having aman hair- dresser that has mno equal in the United States. Ladies can leave or- ders for PROF. FETHERLY for New Year’s Day and be happy. SIMEON W. KING, UNITED STATES COURT COMMISSIONER, Com- missioner U, S. Court of Claims, *Washington, D. C. Attorney-at-Law, Passport Officer at Chicago, Notary ‘Public, and the ONLY Commissioner of Deeds in this city having s sepatate official sesl of office for each State and Territors, a8 by law required, Proofs in Bankrupt procecdings proven up and rertified to same 8 before Register. Insurance statementa sworn and certified. Depositions taken and Deeds acknowledged. Office, Methodist Church Block, Room 3, corner Clark and Washingtan-ata, BUSINESS CHANCES. NOTICE! A CENTENNIAL HOTEL FOR SALE-In Philadelphia, on & 70-foot avenue, within 10 rainates of New York Junction, aud 12 minuted of Passeoger Railway of Contonnial Grounds. Wae oall $he attention of hotol-keepers sud others to tho abive Hotel, comprising a row of twenty large stoue houses, making & {ront on the averus of 40 feet, haviog a corri~ dor running throngh the entire block. The building ia fltod up wmih evary convanlnce, end will sccommodate about 1,000 persans. 20ld on_easy tarms, as & n DYEING AND CLEANING. DYEING. Ladiea’ and Gentlemen's Garments dyed and cleaned 190 BSouth Clack, 166 Litincls, and 265 W, RELIGIOUS. Social and Spiritual Philosophy of the Moral Law. liow the Christian World Fell into the Observance of Sunday. Influences Which Will Aid the Swing Movement—aA Blast Against Tobacgo, The Christian Minister in Politics—Hoody’s Work in orthfield. Notes and Personals At Home and Abroad. Church Services To-Day. THE MORAL LAW. ITB BOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPEY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune - Cuscaco, Dee. 28.—It seoms that my article under the above heading has elicited some in- quines from * Ioquirer” and *‘ Layman.” [ poticed in a second erticle **Iaguirer’s” main thonght regarding che question of » modification of the law 80 08 to have it apply to.another day than the one specified in it. I also intended ere this to have conridered the somewbat common doctrine of no-lawism in the Church. If yon ploase, I will do this aa soon as I can command thetime, in another article. Sinco ‘*Layman " has several times used my name in wis article. calling upon * the able clergy of thia city " for the in- formation he seemsa to waut, he will, of course, allow me 8180 a fov snggestions, in the hopo tbat their response may helpus both. I wish firet to correct a quotation of his. , He uses tne expression, * eight days after,” iz e ferring to the second meeting of Christ with His Dieciples after His resurrection. The form of expression used Ly tke Evangglist Joln iy, ** After eight days,”ana not * elght days after.” A liberal construction of * eight days after,” might be made to mean the nexc fltst day. Can ** after eight days * bo legitimate- 1y so construed? I lesva this to be saswered by * Layman " o his helpers. «: Layman ” asks ** when and_how the change of tha day was brought sbout.” Having used my mome freely mn his article, I trust ke will not object it I give an opini i of course, to bis or bis friends’ critici + Adefenge of the Christian Fathers,” on tho same page of Tue TRmUNE with his article, uses this expression : ¢ While * XX." aud his friends rep- resent the Fathers as worthy of but little credit, and their testimony as ‘untrustworthv tradition in all controversies with the Church, yet the dencminations_appeal to ths vary testimony iu support of the Lord’s Day, in theircontroversies wiih the Soventh-Day Baptists.”: This poiat is weil taken. It will not be deemed out of placa if another group of the eame kind of ' terumonies be used in noswermg the inquiries of “XLayman.” To my mind, these will be found to contan the true answer to his question, * When and how the change wa3 brought abont.” Verstegan eaya: ‘‘The most ancient Germans, heivg pegsns, and having appropriated their first day of the weel to the peculiar adoration of the sun, whereof that day doth yetin our Eu- slish tongue retain the name of Sunday, ond appropriated the next day unto the special ador- ation of tho moon, whefeof it yet retaiceth with s tho name of Mozday; they ggdained the next day to these most beavenly planets, to the par- ticular adoration of their grea: reputed God, Tuisco, whoreof wo do yet retsin in our lan- faage tho name of Tuesdny.” _He farther sys, Unto the day dedicated unto the pacial adora- tion of tbe idol of the sun they gave the name of Sunday, o8 mueh a8 to say the san's day, or the day of the sui Brower also says: It is not to be denied but we porrow the name of this day from the ancient Greeks sand Romans, and we atlow that the old Igyptiana warsbipped tho sun, and, a8 8 standing orial of their vaneration, dedicated this day to him.” Jenniogs says : ** The day which tho heathen in geoerat consecrated to tha worship and honor o their chief god, the sun, which, according to onr computation, wes the first dsy of the week.” Chatis, ivn work in vindication of the firat day, in discuseing tho reasona which forbid Christians keeping any other day than the heathen Sunday, says: * 1. Bocause of the contempt, 8corn, snd derision tuey thereby should be had in smong all the Genties With whom they lived. 2. Most Christians then wore citber servants or of the poorer sortof people, and the Gentiles most probably woald not give their servants lib- erty to cease from working on any otber set day coosiantly except on their Sunday. $. Because had they essayed such a change it would hiave been but in vain; . . they couid never have bronght it to pass.” Sunday by these quo- tations is proven to be a heathen worship day. The first step in the adoption of this day by the Church will be seon in the edict and subse- quent actions of Coustantine, which we here suojoin. in 306, he became Associate Ruler in the Roman Empire. In 821 he camointo full power as Emperor. March 7, 321. he issned the following edict : **Let all Judges, and all city people, and all tradesmen, rest upon the venera~ blo day of thesun. But let those dwelling in the country fresly and with full liberty attend to the .culture of tboir flolds; eince it fre quentlv happens that no other day is fit for the sowing of grain. or the planting of vines ; henco tho favoiable time should not be atlowed to pass, lest tho provisions of heaven be lost.” On the &th day of March, 321, the day fol- lowing ke issuing of tho preceding edict, Con- stancine issued enotber edict, * That in case of public calamity, like the striking of the Irperial Palaca or public buildings by lightniog, the Leatben ceremonies for propitiatiog the gods were to be performed, and the meaniog of the calamity should be songbt from the haruspices.” The haruspices were soothsayers, Who gave their anawers {rom watching the movements of the entrails of slain beasts and from the smoke from burning certsin portions. This was & heathea Heathenism was not suppressed m the Empire until A. I 390, seventy-nioe years after the Bunday edict, and fifty-thres years after Constapstine’s death, As o farther proof that this edict was in favor of the heathen * venmerable day of the san,” an English writer (i * Sanday and the Mosaic Sabbath ™) says: ‘At a lacer period [than this edict), carried away by the current opinion, he declared bimself a convert to the Church. Christianity, or What ho was pleased tocall by that name, then became the Iaw of the land, and the edict of 521 being un- revoked, was enforced 3 a Christian ordinance.” Here, then, i8 the proof direct ** whan and how the chaoge in the day was brought sbout.” The next step after the inwrodnction of Con- stantine’s *‘memorablg day of the sun ™' by his edict, while ho was a beathen, was to secure its ndorsement by ecolesiastical authority, 80 as to add the ecclesiastical to the civil autherity, to make Sunday tne Sabbath of the Charch 3s it was the Sabbath of the Empire. The process by which titis was accomplished s thus described by Dr. James, of Oxford University: ‘ When the practice of keeping Saturday Habbsths was evidently gaiowg ground in the Eastera Church, n decres was passed In the Council held st Laodices, A. D. 364, that members of the Church should pot rest from work on the Sabbath like Jews, bat should labor on that day, preferring in ordcr the Lord’s Day, and then, if it be in their power, should reat from work as Christians.” Prynne gives o foller statement of this ques- tion “of the action of the Conacil of Lacdices, and the reasons for it, as follows: ‘‘Itiscer- tain that Cnrist Humself, His Apostles, aod the primitive Christisos for some good space of time, did coustsotly obserse tho geventh-day Sabbath, the kvangelists and St. Luke in the Acts over styling it the Sabbath day, and making mention of its_solemnization by the Aposties and ocher Christians, it being eolem- nized by many Chnstinng after the Aposties’ times, even till the Council of Laodicea, A. D. 864, 85 ecclesissiical Writings of the twenty- ninth canon of that Council testify, which run thus: *Because Christians ought not to Judaize and to rest on the Sabbath, but to work on that day (which mapy at that timo did te~ fuse to- do), but preferrivg in hon or the Lord's Day (there being then a great controversy among Christians which of these two days should hava precadenca); 1f they desired to roet they should do this as Christiana, because, if thev be fonnd to Judaize, lot them be accursod by Christ. The seveuth day was sol- emnized by Christ, the Apostles, and the primi- tive Caristians till ths Laodicean Council did ia a maaner quite sbolish the_observation of it. ‘The Council of Laodices, . D. 364, first settled the observation of the Lord's Dar, and prohibit- ed the keeping of the Jowish Sabbath uuder an anathema.’ By this act the heathon Sun'e day, after being made by imperial edicc the worship- day of the Empi-e, under the title of * Venera- blo Day of the San,’ became the worship-day of the Church, under the title of ‘Lord’s Day.”” _ This view of the question 18 confirmed by em- inent men in the Church. Neander, in_his Church_history, says: ‘The festival of Sun- dav, lke all other festivals, way always only & human ordinanco, and it was far from tho intention of the Apostles to establish a divine command, in this respect, far from them, and from the early apostolic Courch to transfer tho laws of the Saboath to Burday.” “Dr. Coxsays: **There is no evidonce that either at this [third century] or at & period much Inter, the observance {of Sundsy) was viewed a8 deriving sny authority from the fourth com- mandmont ; it seems to have been regarded as an insutution corresponding in nature with Christmas, Good Friday, and other foativala of the Church, and as resting with them on the eround of ecclestiastical authority and- tradi- tion.” Kitto, in his Cyelopedia, on the question of the regard in which Sunday was held iu the primitive Church, saya : ** Though in lnter times we flod considerable refersuce to a sort of con- secration of the day, it does nof soem at aany poriod of the ancient Church to have assumed the form of such an ebservance -as some religious communities have coatended for. Nor do theee writera in any instance protend to allege anv divine command or even apostolic practice in its support.” Dr. Highn saya: *-That for thres hundred yoars thero waa ugither law to bind them to it, {Sundny] nor aoy rost from labor, or from worid- v business required upon it: aod when the Prince and the Prelate eodeavored to restrain them from all kinds of bodily lebor on that day, it was not brought about without much strug- gling and opposition of the poople, moro thaa a thousand years being passea after Chirist's as- cension before the Lord's day had attained that state in which it now standeth.” T submit these authorities, which might be mach extended in kind, to the consideration of “Iayman” and others concerned in this invosti- ation, in the bope that they will minister some ight on this question. T shall look with interest for a response from ‘“‘tho able clergy of this city” to “Layman's™ call for help. When I wrote my first arcicle on the philosophy of the moral law, printed in Tus Toipuxe of Nov. 2, [ wishod to call attention to that interpretation of the law, feelingthat no- lawism and no-ssbbathism 88 the argaments of infidelicy ehould be successfully met und re- futed. Ishall rejoice with the men who shall establish the Ssbbath of the Church, as well and firroly as the spintual law of the moral law establishes its Sabbath, If this cannot bedone, it will be beteer. for the Church to change it3 practice to another day than to be driven by io- fidelity into no-lawwm. I may hereafter con- Bider the Sabbath questionin the lizht of the practice and tesching of Christ and f‘.’hefi\poaflom . BaLer. ———— THINGS THAT WILL HELP THE SWIN MOVENENT, < A BLAST AT THE USK QF TOBACCO. To the Editur of The Citicago Trivune : Omcaco, Dec. 24.—Many of our churches have much ambition to make their church the represontative church of the great Northwest. In order to do this, they aro not content with fixing a value on tbe rental of the pews, sup- posed to be high enough to cover all contingen- cies, and a8 high as those who occupy can well afford these times to pay. But they are not content with this; contribution-boxes must s thrust under our noses twico each Sabbath in support of every conceivable object of benevo- lence and charity, besides special mectings held at intervals, fairs and festivals at sundry times during the year tomoko up deficits and meet tho domands of this fictitious glory. Many, very many, ere getting tired of being subjected to this crucible and criticiam it they do not re- spond, and will probably avail themselves of the priviloge presented to absolve themselves from this dilemma. Another tbing: On account of the grow- ing belief in some of our churches (at Jesut of those who minister at the altar) that we are living in the lssc days, ani that Christ will soon in person make His second appearing, they are not content with snything short of a periodical pilgrimage to Meccs, as much 80 2od as regululy 28 those who go ap to that anciont city, and thoae who are the most gervile receive the greatest crown. To accom- plish this, all their teachings, like Moody's. are of the sepsatienal or gush order. Intelligent people, who caunot any longer bo fed on pathos, and wish to hesr something they can live by. and jmprove upon in tho summer, as well as in winter, will avail themselvee of tbo opportunity to sit under Prof. Swiog's teaclsings. Another thivg that will heip the Swing move- ment is, thers ate a good many in the different churches who are good, honest, consistont, sober mea (who porhaps in all their lives never drank a drop of the principal intoxicating driuks), yet cannot consistently adopt the dogmas of some of these churches on the subject of tem- perance, believiog the Scriptaral ground on this subject. The Bible toroughout, everywhere, condemns drupkeaness, but nowhere teaches prohibition, any monff than ‘escossive eat- ing requires total abstinence from all food (snd I predict beforo the end of the nineteenth century we will all come to our scuses on this subject). Yet this class, who thus believe, are held up to ecorn and derision, and are told they must, and dare not refuse to, sign_the temperance pledge. The time was within my remembrance when true temperance moaat, as iz now does in fact, only moderate drinfivg. Then lquor was kept imaliof the best-rogulated families, and deslt out moderate- 1y to those who had any desire for it, instead of driving all such (on account of aay hitle viliage- mauufsctured sentiment there may be) into saloons. How much less drunkeuokas there was then, and would benow, if this course were parsued. Then it was eafe to cesch the doctrine that Paut taught, * Takea lttle wine for the stomach’s saze.” It was also then safe and proper to imitate and follow the example aad teachinzs of our blessed Savior on marsiage oc- ¢asions and in colebrasing Hia last supper. Now all somblance of wine is excluded from wed- dings, and mere alop (aofermented juice of the grape) substituted on sacramental occasions. That which the Savior manufactured mas pro- nounced by thoso who were well drun'en as botter than that which they draok at the firat (it was such zs would burst old bottes). How much these temperauce fagatics woald like it, if ,they could strike back st Buch teachings of Faal and Chnst, if they dared, as they do indirectly, by deriding all such 88 follow their exampla. T{xey would proclaim fhat Cnrist could not have ‘been divine, or else Fle would not have cntailed by precept and exzmple upon the bumao race such peraicious practices. ) ‘The pext probable step in the line of progres- sion wilt be to demand that the emblem of the cap eball be washed {rom tbe stained windowsin our.churches, (ast some gne lookiug thereon may betempted with the seductive insiznia, and im- bibe in the reality. This would be cousistent pro- -ession which the line of 2onvenience has man- Tfactured in baptism, instead of adhering to the Bood 0l sqaare, soond orthodox mode of John the Baptist. _ First came pouring, then eprink- ling, and 8 Iady may now. stand erect, in ber most Tashionable bonnet, and merely have the damp~ ened fingers laid on the forehead. The next atep in the line of convenience will probably be to let the candidates remain in their seats, and ba photographed in_water colos. There are Yolumes in the text “Suffer litle childrea o come unto Me” and poetry in His {numphant entrance into Jerusalem, riding the foal of an ass, but the exsmple Christ gave us in washing the disciy iples' feet. and telling them £ ve know these things, hanpy are ve if ye do.” This is entirely t00 humiliating in our day, o have aoy bindiog virtue (read the first sevea- teen verses of the thirteenth chapter of Jobn). 1t ever thers was & day when the fashiopable Ia- dies, like Peter, had occasion toery: * Uord, ot only my feet but my whole—body!” it ia “Twfim is one other thing which there is a golden opportunity for Prof. Swing to inaugu- Tato that will do more for the banets of the e man family, directly and indirectiy, than say other expedient hitherto tried, to suppress in- temperance, and restors man to his prmiiive mauhood. If we wish to propagatea healthy race, and free man from the many ills superin- duced by the uso of tobacco, we must do somo- thing to correct public sentiment on this sub- ject,—s distorted sentiment that will allow & min- ister of the Gospel to carry & pail of to- bacco by his side in the railway car, who would not speak to s gootleman ‘who was cn-aymz a jug of whisky by hisside (which would not prodace ball the harm the tobacco would in prostrating the nervous sys- tem and Iaying the foandation for intoxicating drinks). One-fifth of all who commence the use of tobacco die drunkards. Ten millions 18 the amount of the anoual traflic in thus city alone agoinet the traflic in all liquors of #1,602.000, [There are =old and consumed in this city more than $5,000,000 of hiquors per vear.—Ep.] which luxary public seatiment tolerates, but does not allow oue-half of the humaa family to enjoy. sides they must suffer all the inconvenience of being subjected to smell tho putrid breath of those who do enjoy this exaited privilege, Which 18 worse than to bo thrust into the stern end of ahen-coop. Unless this evil is corrected, all our labors are 1n vain secking a reformation in in- temperance. You might as well anticipate that bomeopatbic doses would remove & malignaut disease from & large city surrounded with a cess- pool 1 mile wide and 100 fest deep (With no outlet), filled with all manner of putre- faction, or that the system of the old coloniza- tioz policy, which sent occasionally a worn- outelave_dack te Africa, would abolish slavery in the Umited States “when thero were a thousand new ones born into slavers for every ons thus seat away. 1 Lnow it is & very easy thing to see & moto in our brother's eye with & beam iu our own, but it requires as great a stretch of chanty to take stock in & man who comes to labor witn yon with tobacco in his mouth as it does in & man who drinks to excess and endeavora to (issuade a man to lesse off the use of tobacco, and yat thero are hundreds of munisters, deacons, sad laymen who use tobacco and have the sudacity to do this. A certain descon, who lives uot far from Chicago, with cigac in mouth sdmonished 2 neighbor to put avay the cup. He repled: 1 will quit drinkiog 1f you will quit_smoliog,” to which both gave assent, with the understand- ing that if either proke the pledgo he was to re- port to the uther. and that would relense both parties. The deacon broke the pledge first. I also koow o very deer friend of a cer- tain family (who himself i3 a habitval user of to- bacco) who 18 deeply exercieed on account of the pecaliar_temperance notions of the father of this family, and the influence they mayhave on his sons. Neither the father nor sons drink, bat one of the sons uses tobacco to that extent that his whole nervous system is more or less prostrated. His parents otfere:d last New Year's to give him n watch wocth 200 if he would loave off 1ta use for one year. lio mado tho effort, but failed. This neighbor is not exer- oised at all on this account,—but such is life! Io couclusion, what I have said I have said with- out prejudice or malico, ang with the best of motives, and for the purpose of inciting soma one ta preach tha whole gispel in mwpheity and purity, without fear or favor. (CHBISTIAN. ——— THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER IN POLITICS. CRITICISM ON BISHOP HAVEN. The Standard (Baptist). The rocent act of Bishop, Haven, in s large cooventivn of Metbodist ministers and iaymen in Boston, cailed together for relizious purposes, in pominating Gen. Grant for the Presidency for a third term, i well calculated to provoke commeat. i While a man on becoming s Clristion minister is nat diefranchised, does not loss soy of tho rights of citizenship, yet, by common consent, there are things from which he is expected to abstnin. Amoug tness is partissuship in poli- tics. This inhibition arises from his peculiar relation to the church and congregation of which he has oversight, which contain people of ail shades of opinion; and io the matter of palitics men are very jealons as well a8 very tenacious ; more 8o sometimes, we fear. than of their re- ligions sentiments. Therefore, for a minister to take an active part in partisan polisics would £00n Antagonize him with ail those of tho oppo- site way of thinking, and destroy hus iafluence for good with them. But our Methodist Bishap does not scrople.to act; and it is presamable thst hois not do much moved by partisan praf- erence for Gen. Grant s by a recollection of the beneiits which have accrued to Methodism and Methodists from having a power near, if not be- hind, the throne, whose inflneoce has been feit: m appointments, aod in various other ways, It is vndoubtedly s fact that the Methodist Church 18 more of a political church than any other in the -country, excepting the Romaa Catholic, ‘This bas been especially more Observ- able in the Weatera States than1n the Esstern. There has been 3 time—in Indiana. forinstaace— when it was almost impossible for sny ather than a Methodist to be elected to an important oftice. ‘The resunit was tiat the politicians /joined that Church. This 18 6till thought necessary, to & grest extent, and consequently we gotice that a large majority of the prominent men are written down as Mathodists. It was somewhat 20 in Fows for awhile, but the riog has been broken of late years. In the twolsst admicistrations of the Federal Government we have noticed & pre- dominating Metbodist infiusnce aund the con- staut conrting of the Executive by their Bishops aud other high officials ; and now comes Bishop Haven und his convention and want the “*raiga " oxtended for snother four years. 'As a minister is subject fo all the responsibili- ties and daties of a ci(izen, he bas an undoubted right to patticipate in those measures which aro connected with the practical ordering of public affairs in their bearings on the temporal welfare of the people. Thero is_no dispating the con- stitntional right of a minister to do oll this; but what is bia duty as an ambassador of Christ? is tho vital question. Bishop Haven violated mo law; he had asmuch legal right to nomiate Gen. Graot 88 auy other man in a ward-meeting or pational convention. But does aot the placing himself in this position interfere with his usefulness in the office of o Christian miois- ter, a citizen of tho Spiritual Kingdom? Is ic even becoming or decent? We do not suppose that either Bishop Haven, or those who acted with him, bad soy political end in view in a par- tisap sense : but We infer that they had a parti- san end ia view 1n a rehigions or denomioational sensc. ‘We cite this action only a8 an illustration of a general principle ; and this is, bat mivisters who enter into active politics lose the flavor of their spiritual office, and by as much as they be- come politiciana are untitted to be miniaters. —— MOODY'S WORK IN NORTHFIELD. THE TBUR STORY. A correspondent of the Springfield Republican wnting from Northfield, Mass., takes up the cndgels in defonse of Mr. Moody's 1abors in his pative town and their resnlts. His letter is, in the eesential parts, as follows : 1t 18 obviously somebody’s duty to correct the wrong impression which is ‘pervading the public printa in re- gard to the great evangelist’s work in his native town. Fhese statements evidently are origmated by,persons #hoso wishes are sometimes father to their thoughts, No sensiblo person supposed that he wasto be the ‘means of converting people Ly thousands in North- feld ashedid in tho great cities of gngland and America, for tha Teson that there Wers Dot uncon- verted thousands amony i and the people Delonged to a widely ditferent class. 'But, {0 ss7 that s work was {ruitiess and unappreciated, 188 very ¢ mistaks, For menthe, aod years perhsps., bee fore Mr. Moody's sdvent in Nortbfield last summer, the con tion of the orthodox cburch had numbers ed 1ess than 100, and frequently there was less than 60, Sruslly between 50 and 75, and the Banday-school waa very small Thia state of taings was not owing to any dissstisfaction with the pastor, who is an exceilent ‘man, sound of head and warm of heart, but grew out of coldneos and indiffarence of the church membera. Now the church is in all weathers filled, and thers 2romeatly 20 in the Sanday-schoos, which is held di- rectly after the morning sexvice, and s ‘made very in- teresting by blackboard exercises ont of the interna- tional leson fak the day, aud by the exertions of the different teachers. As for the i%) Bibles which Mr, Afoody ardered of the Tract Society'as 8 ** bequest ” to the people of Norihfield: the Sunday before heleft for Brooklyn, he requested the children to make it a habit to bring thelr Bibles to church every Sundsy, and asked all who Bad not Bibles (not Testaments) of their own to raise their hands; of course there proved o te guite » number who had not both the Old and New ‘Testaments, a8 there wouid be in every Burday-school, snd e said: “ When T get to New York, the first chance I have I will run into the ‘Bible room and order Bibles enough sent here, 80 you can each have one of your own. next summer, ‘and meet you, ‘a8 God grant f mmay, how plessed I shall be to see you looking up the texts snd lessons in your own Bibles 1”7 -The add:- tious to the Duitariin Church are all doe, ether Alzectly or indirectls, o Jir. Moody's preaching, and {here ace among the young people of that sociery sev- eral of Mr, Moody’s converis who are not allowed by {heir parents to attend the Orthodox church. But the NUMBER 122, seed 15 bearing fruit, as it is also among the people i all the neighboring towns, These converts are of course subject to the ridicale of ths bigoted, the ma- goaly. and the intallectual,” but that is to be expect- ed; and if the only suffering for Christ’s sake is to be roquostod when starting for church “not to forzat your pocket hasderchief 80 38 to bave it when it la tme to_cry,” the converts will hardly be pum- bered smong the martyrs, It should be suid tBat al friendship formed betwoon Mir. the person: Moody and the Unitarian minister, Mr. Sunderland, in the West, when tho latter woa a_Baptist minister there, was not broken at all during r. Moody’s stay in Northfieid. There are meetings held at the several school-houses nearly every night in the weck, and con- versions are quietly occiirring. s for the oody family, the mother rose for prayers at one of the kst of her 500’8 meetings. Tae oldest brother * me with a change of heart,” years ago, accoriding to tho evan- gelical idea. attends the Orthodox Sunday night meet. ings and tikes a part. The youngest brother has cbanged from the Unitarian Charck, of which he waa an officer, 10 the Orthodox, bas found Chnst in tha Orthodox way, is President of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association, and. attnough not yet unlted with the Orthodox chureh, will probably do so. They wern ‘brought up Unitariaze, 3ud it isbard to break o old and binding astociations, but tbey have. witbout doubt, s every tuinking, considerste Christlan zuss Bave, all sympathy with D. L. 3ioody's work. e 5 RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CEURCH IN GENEBAL. The Methodist Education Board has an annaal income of 312,000, ail of which, except o small reserve for expenses, i devoted to the prepars- tion of young men for the ministry. Its in- veeted funds amount to $104,000. At the Synod of the Charch of Scotland in Canada, which was organized at Montreai Deo. 1, it was dacided to send a deputation with a pe- tition to tho Governor-Generatin Council, ask- ing him to disallow tbo bills passed by the local Legislature which recognize the uvion : the Presbyteriaa bodies of Caoada. The Church of Scotland, it was stated, would continue to recog- nize any who adherad to her. The catalogue of Andover Sominary for this year showa that shere are 64 students, under tha care of seven Professors, and thres non-resident lecturcrs. All bat thirteen of the students bave taken an academic degree. Bixteen colieges are represented in the seminary. Among the recent lectarers havo been President Sinith, of Dart- month Coliege ; tha Rev. Dr. Bliss, President of the Svrizn Coilege at irnt, and tho Eev. I Leavitt, of the Japaa Missiou. _The religious laws of Hungary areto be re- vised during the present session of the Huogs- rian Parfisment. In the laws as they stacd the Jews have civil rights, but their religion is not recognized. The ‘-recogmized ™ faiths are tho TRoman Catholic. the Lutheran. the Reformed, and the Unitarian. Every Hungarian citizen 18 oblized to declare hi:aself a member of some religious community. Civil marrisge does not exist. Suits for separation or divorce are tried by ecclesiastical tribanals. : The Execativo Bosrd of the Union of Amaeri- can Hebrew Congregations held s meetiny in Cincinpati Tnesday last. Amooz the new con-~ grogations reported as having joined the Union was the Bnai Sholem, of Chicago. The report of the President showed that $64,000 had been con~ tributed so far as donations to the smnking fuad of ths Hebraw Union College, which had been opened. A resolution of thanks was passed o the gentlemen who had been active in sidiog the College, and among ths names specially men- tioned wero Lozarus Silvorman. Jacob Rosen- berg, and H. H. Kohz, of Chicago. The second anniversary of the Reformed Epiecopal Chureb.was well abserved by the con- grezations nttached to that commuoion. Bishon Cizomins spens the dav in Charleston, preach- inzin the Colored Presbrterian Church. In Laltimore, services wera neld in the Congrega- tional Church. Eutaw street; the Rev. Mr. Baiethwmie delivered the address.. The Rev. Dr. Nicholson gave, 1o Philadelpbis, an exro. sition of the doctrines of the Church. At Ot tawa, Canada, A mestiog was beld in the Em- manael Churci, anda addresnes wore delivered by tho pastor, and also by a Methodist aad & P'res- bytecian minister. Tuesday last the Catholics ot Minnesota as- sembled in great force at_¥:. Paul, to celsbrate the consecrztion of the Rev. Jobn Ireland, as londjutor Bishop of that diocese. About 100 «clergy tpok partin the coremonies, which were deeply interesting. Archbistop Henni, of Mil- wankeo ; Bishops Grace, of St. Pxul : Borges, of Detroit: Hleiss, of LaCrosre; and Seidonbusk, of St. Cloud. were present and assisted. Bishaop Grace acted as Celeorant, and Dishop Heuss a3 Consecrator. A very interestivg sermon was preached by the Rev. F. O'Gorman, cf Roches- ter, on the general subject of the progress of the Catholic Church, especially in the West. 1t seems that . Stauley is not the only per- gon who is bent npon converting the tribes about the new!ly explored lakes of Africa, sud that the General Committtee of the Churck Mis- sionary Society, at a mesting beld in London on the 23d of November, sccepted an suonymous offer of £5,000 for the establishment of s mis- sion to the vicinity of the Victoria Nivanzs, and appointed a sub-committes to take steps tocarry the proposition into effect. The society reco; nizes “a combination of Prowidential circu stances in the present opening 1o Equatorial Af- vica,” and hopes that the new movement “‘may prove & centre of hight and blessing to the tribes in the beart of Arica.” Ths Commissioners of the '* Methodist Prot- estant ™ and ‘‘Methodist” Churches met in New York City » few days ago to srrange pre- liminaries for a permanent rennion of these twc bodies. The entire session was harmonious. The act of the Joint Commiesion has yet to be approved by the governing bodies of the twa Charches, bat the probability is that the unicn will be consnmmated. The Presbyterisns of the Tuited Btates have purchased 500 acres of the lower portion of Wells’ Jaiand, in the Lake o! the Thousand Islands, for an immense camp- gronnd, the prica paid being $17.000. Tae camp will be situated 2 miles from Rockport and three-quarters of a milo from Alexandna Bay. The situation is pronounced ome of the most beantiful and picturesque on the St. Lawrence. Upon the property is a mound of 80 feet in height, covered with shrubbery, and upon which atoweris to be erected overlooking the most beautiful scenery of the Thousand Islands. ‘The tennre of church property promises to be the subject of very earnest jon inside of tie relizions denominations as well as in politi- cal circles. Some of the Methodist and the Protestant Epiacopal papers are sounding the alarm of, the danger that is threatening their Charches by leaving the parish property whally in the hands of tho separate organizations, wha may squander it in extravagant schomes or mortgago it to pay cartent expenses instesd of paying shem out of their own pockets. In soma cases the pew-owners have claimed the absolute right to the J.grupmty of the parisb. and in case of its b:ing disbanded they bavetried to dividethe roceeds of tne sale of valuable lands sod nildings between themselves, as thewr own private personal estate. Tho remedy proposed by certain Protestant Episcopit writara is the vesting of the property in the diocoae a8 & corporate body, aod in aliowing no congreration tha right to absolute omnership in lands and buildiogs coosecrated to charch uses. The proper:y of most Proteatant parishes is held un- der the conditions of the acts iaccrporating sach religlons orzanization, whish forbid the aliena- tion of the property to other purposes, but dn not forbid ita being wasted by extravagance or burdeoed with mortgages that have bezen im- 1 order to meet current oxponses. ‘noughtful people will probably think this suo- ject more suitable for the considersiion of Christian denominations themselvea than for ths discussions of political parties. ——— PERSONAL. 4 The Rev. G. W. Mackie, formerly of Thirty- first Street Presbytenan Cburch, of this city, 18 visiting Chicago. The Rev. Dr. C. S. Robinson, of New York City, bas been appointed Secretary of the Pres- byterian Board of Education, and has declined. The Bev. A. Youker, who haa been sbsens from his pulpit for about thirteen weeks on as- count of sickness, had recovered and ia again 3t his post. The Rev. Dr. Curry, editor of the Chrisiian Adrocate, publishes an of B esaed flov. Joba 8. Toskip, mfizm‘r“i'n'fnd: A ness” movement in the Metbodiat Church, which ho regards ss foreshadowing anotber secession, pronouuces it s violation of minister- 1al vows on the part of Brother Inski) versive of Charch umty. by S Mr. Bamuel K. Wilson, a member and officer of St. Michael's Church, Treotoo, is building » handsowe residence for Bishop Scarborough. It is nearly completed, and he intends to proseat i