Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1875, Page 1

ot The Thicago I ailp Tribame. OLUM CHICAGO, s o SOARBIRGEN . F ool CARRIAGES. Wo beg to notify our triendsthat during the next thirty days wo will sell, at greatly reduced prices, our entire stock of FINE CAR- RIAGLS, comprising LANDAUS, LANDAULETTES, CLARENCES, COACHES, COUPES and COU- PELETTES, Our GLASS-FRONT Landaus, for beauty of design, simplicity, and thoroughness in construction, are unsurpassed ; the front being perfectly balanced by » Patent Balauce Spring, can with case be lowered and raised with one fin~ er. s\V“ pgaaranteo all our work to be FIBST-CLASS, and to please in overy particular, H. KILLAM & 00, 20 Chestnut-st., New Hayen, Conn. 0. O, TN BROEKK s cur Agoeut in Ohlcago. AUCTION SALES. ~ YOU. Betwoen Christmas and New Year's ATCOTION BEVERY DAY & BVENING 5,000 Bibles, Books, Chromos & Albums, Must be sold by Jan. 1. 208 STATE-ST. ARTISTIO TAILORING. AN 15 PER CT. DISGODNT On all Winter Overcostings and Heary Sultinga for and untll Jan. 1, 1875, Quality, Style, Fit, Durability. Only 8o far 28 Dress springs from end fllustrates eharacter, can it be admitted to the realm of art.” EDW.ARD BLY, ‘Wabash-av., cor. Monroe-st. MIBOELLANEOUS. PLYMOUTH CHURCH Pew Rental. The Annual Pew Rental of Plymouth Church will take place on MONDAY EVENING, %7th tnst. Bale will commence at a quarter before 8 o'clock, sharp, Pl Bl il e WY LEGAL. “The Reglatered Construction Londs of the Ohi s LE and Coko Company, atandiog on. tae booke of asid Gompany,in tho following namos, to-wit: 3. E. Atwater, W. D, Anthony, Alex. lirown, J. A, Drows, Jr., E. Towsn, Gso, irown, Sarah A. Srawn, John N, Drown, J, Beecher, D. P, Jiacon, Jas, K. Bur: tin, O, Bronson, O, O, Brewster, Wm, Birown, 3L C. Birker, Tiabelld Down, . 8, lirown nid atldrs, £ Blackman, ¥, Dringhurst,’ Jano 8, Brown, . E, Bill, 3r., ¥. Bronson, 8. B, Oobb, T. P, Code, Mary 0, Cliato, Beny, Carver, G. B, Cathurt, ¥. B. Cooley, 3L, 3. Oslitwell. eatate of W.J. Caner, J.'0, Dawaon, 1. T, ickey, 0. D. Dickey, J. If. Dunhiam, Thos, 8. Dixon, Alice uton, K, Fraukentnal, 8, B, Froeman, Fidality, T. & H. Dépontt 0., Wall, Grsbam. . A, Greed. 3.1 Hlubuell, E. Hoffman, II lunneweil, Tras. £ H. Hadduck, 1% Ingham, W. W, Koen, Barah B, Jean, B, D, Kecw, G, B, Keen, 3, B. Koon, Guardian, . H, Kortley, If.8, Kollogg, J. 8. Lambert, AL, A: Learitt, 0. i, Malcan, eary Melgw, ¥, Marquand, J, H. Mason, N, M. Morrison, M. B. AMitchell, 0. 8 Nitchall, . i1, Dagle, Merchnts) Bivinge, Loin, and Trust Company, W, L. Nowl J. B. Newberry, George Nugent, P’ E', W, Pock, Al. F.W, Peck, A, 1. Quandald, C. J, hwussell, George Smith & Co.y Ziract Sheldon, 1L, fichubart, B, A, Bmith, ¥, Stauator, E.J. T, Ghtelis.’ Goorge ¥ "Slons, 3! W, guarr, W Aloxander Smith, I, Shipley, Gerrit II, Smith, ¥, I Tinkbam, Trustde, J, Thomson, Joseph F. Templs, 3tosos Taylor, J. M., Underwood, A. t, Van Nest, Julia A Van N Van Ness, L. P, Watd, C, I. Williata, ¥, Webater, D. 8. Wimon, T, J. Wilson, George Wisdes, J, 8. Wallaco, A, B. Weal, E. W, Willard, Jusoph Whitsker, E. T, Watkius, E. L. Winthrop, Trustes, P, L. Yoo, llenty Young, Jsmea if, Young, THoary L, Yoting, sud beariag tho following numbers, Ial wa. to-wii : Noa, 614, 431, 1,307, 1,308, 1,314, 049, 1,201, 441, 3, 454, 437, 1,207, 57,53, 330, 467, 469, "t08, 2 1,2 . 316, 278, 490, ,280,'1,339, 1,414, 484, g3 & o, u, 11083 1,368, €7, 400, 1, 20, oy oo #09, 1,110,703, 045, 73, 236,297, "0, 000, 1,191, 1433, 208, 1,309, 1,414 1,873, 87, 918, 204, 1,441, s, oy 1a, 1,282,'57, 713, 623, 741, 10L L. 631, 128, 031, 1,15 ubo, a1, {13, 114, 335, 798, 1,367, 741, 1,171, 1,172, 1,308, 1:4do, 3133, 134, 125, 100, 550860, 1,230, 051, 639, 4107 626 418, 144, 347, 864, 747, 067, L1687, 1,503, 1,324, ‘563, 60k, %67, 768, 703, 1,34, 1,382, 176, 071, 764, 1,015, 1,421, 371, * 879, 704, 974, 1.298, 817, 117, 160, 414, 377, o83, 184, Su1! 3,381, 1,110, 688, 151, 102, 384, 693, 01, '7r0,’ B0 L, 102, 200, 998 60y 1,000, 1,361, 3,209, 20, 300, 307, 404, 210, 40l 211, 403, 213, 404, a7e, by resoiution of to Toard of Directors of sald’ Company. ordersd fobo 1o and paid; and tho ssmo will be ra- deemed at the oftice o the Company on and after thg 14t day of Jenuary, A. D, 1410, ' Tho holdors of said onds seo hereby Rotiied thareof, snd ihat on and gz inomid el da of Snauary, . 157, the suld o order af the Dourd of Diestars Dy order of Direstors, :é . T, WATKINS, Presidont, TAMES K. DURTIS, Bacrotary, Chicago, 1., Nov, 3§, 1876, T Public Notice Ia hersby given that on Monduy, the 10th day of Jan- uryblufl'd, st the hour of 11 o'clock &, m., there will tom-Lousa sals of Londed snd unclaimed st publio vendue. ‘The salo will tako place at orth's U, 8, Bonded Warehouse, coruer Market aud Jackeca-sts, and the goods will b sald in scoora. soce with Articles 760 and 761 Customs Regulations, 1874, DESCRIPTION OF GOODS, One Case Jatnales Bum, 150 qlllun.l. lmsflmd {rom Montreal per Michigan Central l'hllwlx, oa, 11, 147! John Behlitz, sod warehonssd under W. I, Bong o, 330, ‘Twanty-éfih\ Tolls of Paper, oonetyned 1o the lock Buvee Paber Gowpaoy pee [rop Boote from Motral, Fifioen Darrals Salmony consiquad 10 1. Labells & Co, per Prop Beolia from Aontreal, Nov. 16, 1474, ‘Twolve Bozes Canned Mackerel, conalgned to'A, L, S SR Giah o ho bigbest and best bid erms 0 d : JONES, Callsctar, " . tor, 0, Deo, 20, 1573, EDUCATIONAL. Racine College. ‘The College and Gramrmoar School of Luctus College will roopen Jan. 19, {lis sossion to continue tll June2d, FPor admission apply fo the Hev, JAMES DE KOVEN, D. D,, Raclae Collegs, Racine, Wiz, MICHIGAN SEMINARY, at KALAMAZ00, Eaxcallent factlitlos here offered 108 thorvugh snafruce Samman, % paiines only $1 tian bome. Ex Verior advautagon foi \le study of &une. Painting, and Location Lsalth: Modsrn. guages, r lgntful, Bowe vacaucies yst remain, "Apply for estas llfi;‘mfl furtherinformstiion to the Principal, MISS JZANNE(TE FI. HER, Kxlamazoo, Mich, Pennsylvanls Mllitary Acsdemy, Chester, Pa, Reopeas Jau, 6. Thorough fustruction in Civil snd Biuiuy Eogiuseriog, the Glassics snd Engilsh Drauc) Yur circilars spply to T, A. COBUKOVE, Esq., N 44 Glarkeat, Cllong, oz Lo Col, THED, HYATT, Port of Chl S0ALES; FAIRBANKS' STANDARD FAIRBANKS, MORSE & 0O, 111 & 118 Lake S¢., Ohicago, Be casafultobuy oaly the Geaulng, THE PULPIT, Contrast Between the Baptist Church an Hundred Years Ago and Now. Lessons which the Changes Suggest ==«8¢rmon hy the Rev. D. Bs €Chenoy, The Rev. Robert Collyer Urges His Congregation to * Be of @ood Cheer.” Precepts and Advice for tho Christmas Season Drawn from That Text. Discourse on Waiting for the Lord's Balvation, by the Rev. J. Monro Gibson. The Beginning of Prof. Swing’s Regalar Ministrations to the Central Chureh, THE CENTENNIAL OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH. SERMOX BY TAE REY. D, B. CHENEY, D, D. In tho Fourth Baptist Church, corper of Pau- lioa and West Washington streots, the Rov, D, D, Clicnoy, D. D, yesterday preachod a sormon on * The Baptists & ilundrod Years Ago,” taking =8 his toxt : 5 Dut I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most Litgn,—Fsalms, zxvii. 10. Wo ars upon the ara of the Contonnial year of our national bistory, During that year the peo- plo of this land will doubtloss bo led to roviow the past from almost every possible polat of ob- servation, If these rovisws aball cloarly recog- vize tho hand of tho Lord in His dealings with us, and ahall Joad us na a peoplo in the future to love and truat Him, thoy will not bo made in vain. ‘Tho donomination of Christians to which wo belong have spocial reasons tocaview tho past with gratitude and thankegiving to God. And thie usos to which our poople propose to put tho Contennial yosr will naturally, and almost nocessarily, load to such roview. And if this re- viow is made in the tiuo epitit of Christian catholicity and charity, it will do our ininistors and churches good. Lt will servo to make them familiar with their own history as & Christian peoplo, and will show what God has wrought in our hohalf, Tho roviow of & contury will reveal to us‘ ‘‘yoars of the right hand of the Most High,” which wo should gratefully remembor. Tounuch a roview, in brief, I invite you this mornlog, and announco as the subjoct of thi discourse, ** Tho Daptista & Illundred Years Ago snd Now."” To thone who are eccustomed to ait nnder my ministry, I bardly nood say that it is no part of my purposo to speak a word uukindly or un- charitably of Christian brothren uf other names. This has novor formed o partof my ministry, Though & roview of tho past will nooessarily re- call the persocutious to which our fathers'wera subjeated, yot let it bo distinetly atatod that thn Christiaus of to-day, of shatover name, are in no soneo yesponsible for them; and, further, that our brothron of otber communiona now &g empbaticallycondemn thess persecutious as we do ourxolves, With these distinct statemanta beforo you, I shall not be misunderstood or misfnter- proted, though I mn{ spoak vlainly nod freely of our own pcople. 1 wish to buld up before you somo points of cowparison or contrast botween the Baptists a hundred yoars ago aud novw, and from these to learn some practioal loasons, First—Aud first wa will look at the statistics of tho two periods. Our denomioatiousl reo- ords were 80 poorly kept In pre-Revolutiouary times that wo canoot spoak with socuracy of our condition a hundred years ago, I{lnd, bowever, this record, that in 1770 thero ware seventy-soven Baptist churches in the Colonles. We must not, howover, susoclate theso churches, in rospocs to their numbers, with our city churches now. ‘They were, for the most part, it not ontirely, smail bodies of disciples, with only a wmali age grogate number of membors, Those who hiave carofully examined the subjoct have variously eatimatad the nuuiher of Uaptiata in the Colo- nles {n 1776, from 15,000 £025,000. From 177010 1784 our churches increased from sovonty-seven t0 471, ormoro than six-fold. .This groatincroase in tho number of tho churches followed the closs of the Rovolutlonary War, whon many of our brethren emigrated to what wero then tho new portions of tho country to mako for themsolves and thelr famllies Lomes {o the wilderneas, These ewigrants formed themsolves into new churcbes, a0 that there wns probably no such incresss in mombors aa_the increase of the churchos would imply. In that year, 1784, we find the first authoutio report of numbers, and thore were then 36,101 DBaptists io the country, This, you observo, was ouly nlnety-one ye: ago. Taking thess facts into the socount, 25,1 i probably a largo estimate of our nuwerioal strength July 4, 1776. Estimating the populs- tion then' at 8,000,000, this would give ns ons Bapiist to overy 120 of the populatlon, Have we held this porcentago? ~Our pop- ulation Las grown with an smaziog rapldity, and now ombraces yast numbers of Catholics, ration- alists, and Infidela, who are to a great extent e- yood our reach, Havethe Baplists grown iua corresponding degreo ? or Liave we lost ground ? A fow atatemionts of our numbers at different periods of the contury will help you to form some estimato of our progress, In thess state- menta I omil tho bundreds and fractions of bun- drods, simply giving you the round numbors in thousands, In 1702, we numbered 65,000 in 1812, 173,000 ; {n 1839, 834,000; in 1840, 571,000 in 1851,'770,000; in 1860, 1,016,000 § in ‘1874, 1,761,000, Estimsatiog our increass in 1875 at one half what It wus in 1874, wo have to-day more than 1,800,000 Baptist church members jn the United Btates, Estimating our populatibn at 40,000,000, this would give ua one Baptiat to avery 232-9 of our people, againet one to avery 120 bundred years mgo. Thia shows that onr percentage is more than fivo timea aa largo, iy yeapect 1o the whola population of the land, lcl was & ;:unmrxy siuce, dp mhtlnclut(l‘nlmnl olsasos of peopls among us: Protestants, Catho- lios, and infidels ; Americana, and Luropeans, Africans, Indians, and Mongolians, Couutiog Lhom all, we have one Baptiat church member to oury 492 2-9 of tho whole. Of courss onr peoplo aré ‘by no mesns equally distributed over tho land. “We have no such percentage, for exam- ple, In this city or State, We are relatively much more numerous in the Bouth thaa in tho Notth. In the five States of Ooarighu Kontucky, Virgiois, North Caroliva., and Tennesses, wo have 684,711 Baptista, It {s atated upon what is regarded good authorily that every seventh per- son in tho City of Richmoud, Va., is a Baptist. ‘Tue same was truo tlurty yoars sqo in somo of the towns of Esstern 'Conuccticut. During my youthful miolstry {n Norwicl, the popu< lation was estimated “at 10,000, sud there wore & iboussnd mombera in the three Baptist chuschea there, or ove in tou, while in Now Landoo at tue same time, witli 7,000 peopls, there were a thousand Bapilata, or one in soven. Ju lflromu sod Stootogion thepercentage was oven aiger. ‘fuis unprecedented numerical increase cor- tainly shows that our people have abundaut roazon, joyfully, grateful I. t0 ** remembor tho years of the right hand of the most High," Second—We pass now in the second placn to notica that (he Baptists & hundred yoars ago wera a proscribed and persecuted paople ite- ligioua liborty was thon a boon nowhero eafoyed iu tho world outsideof the litlle Colouy of Ithode 1cland, That wufl:lnnkd by & Bnénln in the in- torcats of ** Soul Liborty.” Christlanity made ita way in the worid all along the conturies i the {aco of the most perslatent and craol parsascit- tion. Religious toteration, even, was unknown, mich [een roliious hitorty. Tho Puritans of Maseachudotts fled from per- secution in the Mother Country, but the in tarn Lbecams persecutors. When' Rojer Williamy, oun of thoir own minlaters, bocamo a Baptist, hio was driven ont of tho Colony, to make his Liomo 1n the wildernass and to find his friends among tho savage Indiaus, And he was thue dtiven out In tho month of Javuary to face th rigor of & Naw England wintor as best ho conls in tho forost. e mays of himsoif that ho way (roraly towsed for onho fouriésn woeks, not knowinig what brosd or Led did mean.” Ha made Lis way at lengih to thnslorea of tho Narragansott, whero ho founded * Providence Plantation," where the City of Providence niow ntande. ero he planted bis Colony oo tho basis of ‘what he called **Boul Liberty," giving to ovory man an equal right to worship God ace cording to tho dictatos of his own conacioncn, mithout fear or moleatation. At this distauca in time, It is difficuit for us Lo sco why this prin- ciple, onco anuounced, should wot lave been roadily accopted by ll 5 hut the Puritans, oxcellent men an thoy were for men of thar timos, wero 8low to learn no new p losson, Otlier porsceutions, lon and grievous to bo borno, awaited the Jiuptista of Massachusotts, Whon the Firat Baptist Church of Doston orected thoir first houso of worship, 1ts doors wers nailed up by tho town authontien, and the members of the church wore tined, whipped, imprisoned, or ban- ished, Home of them went acrosy tho channet to what way thon known as * Noddlo's Island," whoro Enat Boston, tho fiiat ward of tuo city, now stands. Thora wan tlon but a einglo houso on tbo island, owned and occupied by o Mr. Mavetick, nn Episcopalisn, ‘Tuero thoy found nheltor, and in his houso thoy mot for worshin several vears, Others of thom were arraigasd bofors the Court. At ane timo three mou wero fined, ous £5, ono £2), and ons L3} Tho last way Ubadish Holines, Becausn hnrefused to jay a tie of L0, or 8150, for no other offenso than dechining to have his infant child baptized, he wan cast Into prison, and afterwards crucily whipped at the pubhic whlBuhxg-pnm. on tho rround now oceupicd by the buildiog known a3 tha * old Stato louso,” at the junctian of Btato snd Washington swrocts. Clov. Joseoh Jencks many yeard later wrots, *' Mr. Iolmas was whip- Koa tirty strypes (with athroe-corded whip upon ia bara Back), and in such an unworcifal man- ner, that in mouy days, il not somo wecks, la could take uv rost, bit as Lo lay upon his knoes and olboss, not being wble to suffer any part_of bLia body to touch the bed wheroib ho lay.” De- foro and aftor this whipping ho prayed publicly that God wonld nut lay thin sin to tha charge of thoso who tnilicted it upon bum. 1o scems to Lavo had tuo truc martyr spirit and to havo ro- Jorcod with exeaoding groat joy whilo sulfering for Curist'’s sase. Ho oven wold tho Magin- trato, *You havo struck mo with roro«” Henry Dunster, tho firat President of Harvard Colloo, a ripo scholar and most _ axcollent Christisn man, was driven from the Collego be- causo hae rofusod 1o have his Infaut child baptized. Very sinular was thio_eatly experinnco of ths Daptists of Varmont, Huw they would by lixely to fare can bo_ inferod from somo of tne early Taws of thatColony. Ouo law required overy verson antiving 1o tke Calony to go Lo the Kps- copal minister and give av nccount ut bus relig- lous viows. For the first rofusal he was to bs whipped ; for the mecond, wihipped fwica ; for the third, whippod every day untu heflronld’ go. Tho {ino for retusing to bave s _child christagcd waa 2,000 pounds of tobacco. Daptist ministers, uot & fow, wora arrcated, nnprisoned, finod, and whipped for ) 2eaching. I linve 1n iy possossion & long cataloguo of the names of the mon and ths Drivons 1 which they were confined. I havo ouc case of 8 man who was hunted with dogs ; Lwo others were imprisoned for baving Buntiat proachung in their houwes; snd yor suother way imprisoned for praying in tho ‘honse of a man who was not a Duptist. Gradually the darkness of this mural midoight passed away, but it was very gradual, ‘Lhe day of true relig- ious hberty was long in armving. Daring ail tlis timn, the Daptists and the Qunkors waro medo pro-ominently the sufferers, It was far 1oto the prenent ceutury bafure all the civil dis. abiliti*a resting on us a8 & pooplo were remov- ed, Whera I conunsuced my ministry, in Con- nocticut, soveral of tny parishioners told mo that the property of their fathers was sold by the town authorities to pay tho parish taxes of the **standing order.™ It was noo till 1834 that tho last opprossive [aws 1o Musanchunetts wera ropealod sad our pooplo left fully free, I niomber tha excitomont that sttonded their re poal, It was & day of rejoicing Lo our brathren thero, that after 6o lony; a timo thoy pussessed the jnostimabls boon of ** aoul liberty,” Huch iu & more glance at the nsst. A fulior roc- ord than I can give you in this discourse you should bave, that you mavknow what 1t cost our fathers to goin the victory for religious liberty, and bequoath it to us 88 a pricelers logacy, Wa aro {ree, thanks to chelr heroism and patiout eadurance, Iu view of such a record as e biave morely giancod at, woll may wo ** remom- ber the yeurs of the right hand of the Most agh.” Third—Agsin tho Daptists & buudred yearn 8go possessod but few advantages adavted to securo their growth and prosperity comparcd with thoso posscssed by vur people now., Of theso we cannot speak in detail, but will only name & fow particulars that will indicata tho groat changes that have taken place. From what has boun already sutd, you will readily jufar that our Baptist fathers hold only a very humblo position in socinl lifa. To bo & Baptist in this country a centuryago was ouongh to subject any ous to sociafostracism. Thoy were most nmphatically tho **scct everywhora spokon against.” Lut & coutury has_wrought a mighty cliango in this reapoct. “T'he Baptists of to-day, wlih their 1,600,000 cominunicants, have no resson to ask Jeave to be. Thoy are & rocog- uized moral and Christian power in the land of Do mean proportions. No oue, who sims to matntain an honest, conelstont Chrlstian life, need feot any shamo or smbarrassment becauss be is & Baptist, nor veed any one feel that he fu mak‘:m & sacrifico to cast his lot smony our eoplo, pflul coupled with their humble position tm social lifo, the Baptists a hundred years ago were poor. They possossed ouly s scausy store of thin world’s goods. This fact was showed alike in their homes aud their hausea of wership, ‘Theno wera all, with the rarcet excoptions, of the hum- blest and most unpretentious character, Indoed, thero was thon but one firsteclass Baptwst houss of worship in the country; that of the Firat Dasptist Church 11 _Provi- descs, R. I, thst still remains. It has buon eatimated by thoeo well informed that thore Ia more weslth now possessed iu s singlo church in some of our Lastern cities than was possesscd by sll the Baptista in the Colouies bo- fora the Lievolution. While it still remaion true that we bave the poor amoug us in Jarge num- bers, and doubtless slways will romain a0, yot our poople iu the aggrogato posscss an abun- dauca of wealth; enough, if rightly used, to meot tho large and coustantly iacreasing doe wmands that sre made upon us. A hundred {nm #g0, and ot & much later pe- rlod, the Baptiats had but a very lnmitod number of liberally-oducated meu in the minis Tha reasons for this 1t woutd be easy to uhow, but I havo only time now to state the iacts, With fow exceptions, tne churches sat uuder & mivistry untrained fo the achools, even a half-century since. Now we bave men in tho ministry, not a fow, who are the poers of their broinron of uny :uma in tho bresdth and sccuraoy of thoir cal- ure. A hundred ysars azo the Baptista had but one school of higher learning in all the Colonies,— Rhode hhmf\:nllugo now Brown Univarsity, at Providenco,—and not one thevlogical ssminary. Now wo have uumerons acadcmies and collogiata institutes, somo tnirty oolleges or universitios, and six theological seminaries. It {s only a little more (han elxty yasts sgo that our people y enterod upon the work of imissions, Now our missiony ?:mmln the globe, No f page has been wrilton to rocord tha rogress of Clristianity sinco the death of tho Ecloml Apostle than that which records tho rogroas of the missions conduoted by Awmerican rlwzisu. God led our peools to this kood wotk, sad {le has crowued our labors with largest suo- Geud. Dat, not to go further into details, this glance at tha chaugos wrought in = buodred years shows us what vantage ground wo occupy to-day ocompared with our futhers, sud in View of 1t wo do well joyfully, fimllullv to “‘romember tho yearaof tho right hand of the Most High.” Fourth—But we pass once mote to consider that the Mlaptists over a huudred years ago sought to strongthon thetnsclvos at the poiat whero thoy were the woakest, snd addressed themselves to this as the oue great work then before them. From what hsa already passod be. fore you, you will burdly need be told what that polné was, The fole that thoy must break the yoke that waa 8o heavy a grieviance to bo buruo. Aud they girded themsslves for the work, Whilo they joined band in hend and steod stoulder to shouider with thoir fellow-citizons in tiglting IONDAY, DEC BER 27, 187 tha battles of civil liberty, on othor fialds and with other weapons they Blood almost alous in fightiog the bLattfed of roligious liberty, ‘ILa conteat waalonw, aud woarisoma, and exiausting, but Goll gave thom the victoty at fast, and mads all the paoplo of tho laud enter in and alaro ha Dileened fruite. The deucendauts of thore aualust whom onr Baptist fathers cantrnded rajoira tos day i tho pusiassesion of ** sonl-liberty " us well 28 0. From this oxample af our fathars we may Toarn that wo too should uow seck to sirangthen ourrolves at onr wesleat potnt. s thet weak point Is, tho lnadars in one Bantt Zion, East aad Wout, North and Bouth, ure s unit in pointe iog out. Though all s boen douce that I hava indica’ed in tho departinont of cducation, yet thoto In atill onr wokest point, What wa need morn thau auythiog elso 18 Lo o:ducate our paopls, A lundred thousand men may be led to tha fiaid of battle, but, if thoy are untiained, undiscip- tinad, uncducated in tho art of war, thoy may bee comoa mob snd not an army. The LEDD,000 Bantista In this country, i trained snd educated ahke In_thiuga secular and sacrod, in the nams of the Lord of Hosts, might take porseruion of tno world for Christ before anothiur generation sball pars away. We hiave numbers enounh, ahd wealth oncugh, agd Lrath suouzueto *tura tho world ups.de down ;" but just hero is our weaknews, Our peoplo are nottrained, oducated, as they must be to Lecoma effectivo. In viow of this, our Baptist Jeaders all over the land, with » unanimity that shousrd swakea our profoundest gratitudo, have agreod to sig- nalizo the Ceotanuial vear among our peoplo 11 ‘n preat advancs inuvomant in the work of highar and pacred loarning, 'The sim is not #o mush ty ontabliuh ew echodls of learming as to strongib- ca thowo wo alinady have. Whiie wo bave ono collegrs moro thau a hundred years old, and at lonat thieo othor colleges and two thaslogical semunarica moro than fift; veara old, aud while all those and many of our nenar schovis aro do- ing good work i thoir respective departmente, Atill wo havo not ons scbool in sil the land that does not need n_very consideraclo outlay to malko it what 1t sho be. Eepacially is this truo of our yotinge: schools. While muny of thusp biavo a'nable boginoing, it is ouly o begin- mng. The work now needs to bo carried on that thoee schools, alike 1n tho department of Lieher snd macred learning, mar bo auls to achiove that for whizh they werc founder. ‘This is pre-cmiuently the work to which the Baptists of this country witl bs called duning tue Conteunial year, Alreadv tno call hon gons forth, and our leaders are giraing thomselves for the work from Mains to Californis and from tho Linkos to the Guif, We hop:o to witocas an uprising snionx tho 1.500,000 of our peapte snch as bas nover been known before. It isanop- portunity once (n a Jifotimt, and 1t must nat pass unimproved. We expect there will ba laid npon the altar next year tho pritecly offoriugs of tha rich, the itberal offorinzs of tnose iu active busi- noen bnt of amaller fortunes, and the amaller bat no less accaptabla oieruza of the poor. It this shull bo Uvce all over the’ Iand, our Contau- ninl will in tho future bo nitmoered among *tho yearg of tha night hiand of ‘the Mout High." ‘The Baptists of this city propose ta oven tho campaizn of the year in bohalf of our Theolng- feal” Sumivary focaled ‘here, It was oot menced a httlo moro than eizht yoars ago with trenty studenta, but without mouey, landw, build- iug, or library. It bas Leen sustainbd theso cighit yoars, and hay accumulatod meaumiule a property worth over and_sbove its indobtedaess not Jeay than 8175.000, Thoeso nra reaulis actlevod in viow af which we should thack God and take courage ; ropuits actueved in dotlauco of ihres and o panic. But the work is voly weil “bozun, Tolcasot whereit is wonld ha sosu toamperil it all. Those epeclallvdd charge of it huvo resaived upon a vigorous offort to plice this seminary boyoud emonrressment during tho Contenuial yont. Tu lend 1o thi groat under- taking, thev havo chosen lh:‘fla(mr of the largeut, strongest church ta the Nortnwest, and to-day he closen Lis pastoral work4nas, with the beginning of the noW year, ho mavildres him. sell to th.s, 'Fue Adm determinod upon to hift thus seminary up t6 tho placa it sbould oecupy is 350,000, Largo‘as it is, 1t can be raised, and i fully expect it w1}l "be raised. Friends wil be found who will take this school of sacred learn- ing upon their hearts, as thav havo never dono bafore, and make for it fhe etfort of their liv Lut to do this work there must be tho most en- tire concert of nction, It wmust noc be left to the weaithy or oven to the well-to-dou alooe, but all must huve & sharo 10 it,—ulike tae rich and tho poor, the old and the voung. Ftis work will maice Jta appeal to 9 naa church, und 1 erruestly dowico that all of my pooplo 8hall bavo some share 1o it. Idoesrs toat you shonld think of e, and pray overit, and confor togo'her 1n regard to it, and Q- ter! miun at the propor timio to do for it wan you beligva will bo plaasing to Chriat, sod what you will look npon with pleasura whila you live. Wo rofoico to4lev o the victory schieved by our fathers whe 'vad a hundrod vonrs ago, Lot uy, during tho Ceotennial your, help don work that shsll canso our childron and children's clnl~ dien to rejoice, when we all shall rest from our Iabors sod our woris shall follow us, "Thea will those who may celeorato the rocond Con- tennial in our national Listory look to this Con- tennial u3 ono of tho * yoars of the right hand of the most High.” ——— BE OF COOD CHEER, BEUMOR Y THE LLV. NONEUT COLLYER, The Rev. Robert Colivar deliversd the follow- iog eermou yestorday morning at Unity Church, taking forehla text : Do of good cheer.—Natthew, ziv,, 77, The spirit that Is brooding over the world this Chiristmastida is proaching & Letler sermon on this toxt than any ministor ean hope to teacn, and sho bins the whole Christiun world for her audience, from the palaco to tho poor-house and tho prigon. Blio tells the children to bo stirring botitnes, for the firetly Is for them, and there is no trouble about their waking m tuno for her ser vico. Thoir dey dawns earlior on the 25th of Decombor than it will dawn vn the 25th of Juae, aud of they mught have their way *just this once," a8 thoy say, thore would bo wo migat. Bho knows & sacrot #pell, too, of a marvelous potoncy, for the older and tho sadder folks, aud touchen thom with it to such s purpose thatif thero in any capability of gladnoss left in thoir maturo it blooms out again mto & fresh surpriso, and makes thom of kin to whatover is most hopoful and goad iu our human life. Tho okl dame who took caro of ma after I lott homs to learn my trade held on to mnay old usagos that bad como down to her from the carliest Curistian or oven tho oarliost hosthon tbwes, sad among the reat, whon Curistmas camo round, she never failed o go W the cabmet whers wsho Lkept her trousures, and bring at s pioco of the ald yuie log, wiapped 1a white liven, to kindle the how one ou the hearta. If sbe Lad failed tu vavo a DLit of tho old fire to burn with the new, or if sho had not saved it in white linen, there would have been & shadow on ber Cbristmas Day, sod, boy luse, I usod o laugh at tho custom of 2,000 yoars, and thirk 1t was & wealkness in the poor old body quite below tha plane of & person of my ago, who haa read the penny magazine anil “Chambers' Ioformstion” for tbe Poople.” L bops I bave grown a little wuer, It 8ocwma to monow there was a thought within the thivg wa can all of us nourish, though it did come from days thit wers very old uod gray when sy yeb thoro was no Clristmas, kb way a purable of tho great and holy truth, as food 1Ow As i, over was iuoa the world stood, at we shall never lot the old tires burn down to the whito ssles that bold in thew uo hope of kindliog iuto & Lrikht glow & gsiu, when all tho world is fsoliug the now warnith snd gladoesa; toat tho old days should blond with ths new un our Learthstones and in our homos, for thu hearth is the tiue allar a3 tho howo 14 tho truo fomple, and thore never can cowme o Christinas when we slisll say, **1 heve no heart in thesa thiugu, thay are were whito ashics to me,” with- out couluading thas wae havo loat what every maa and Woioea ought to win sgamst the worst odds tiwe and toriuue can hold syaiust us. For 1t 18 a lovelv story wo get srom the Ger- mans of the wau who would carve out an altar- pieca that should be a world's wouder, and sout 1ar snd wids fir & ploca of woud tuat would an- swor to bis intention, e got the wood, but be vould not carve the altar-piace. No liouess of Josepu aud Mary and the Child wonld soswer to his haud, ond he was in dospuir, when su sugel cune to him in a dicam and bid bim take tho log lymg oun his bhearth veady for the fire in the morning. He wols up in firut wonued but he obeyul the augel, took bLus log, aod the thoughts camo to auick aud tbs haud waa 80 tawblo thist the somblance ho wos soc¥ing seemad to leap of iteolf out of the hamal{ guiso in whick it lay by his bwa firosido. ~ For there, firat of alt and last of all, this Curiat, throush whom tiaas comna to as, bids us be of good cheer, and It wa d0 not auswer to the apirit_ of the Lime we cau hava notrno Christmas and oo truo life. Wa munt make the old time blond with the now for ghidncss sud good feltowatp in the high, pura neane, and if wn must cast o shadow 1t must bo a thaduw of liealing, of pence, and good will, Wa must wipe tho slate clean of all the ol ee,res wo have laid up for resenie meat, both eartiward aud Leavenward, Wheu e 034 u merry Chrisinas to aacy other we rust take note that the word mesus far mors than liit and a laugh; ic moans. in the old tiet- wan fiom which 1t comies to us, ey you grow largo, wide, hig, deep: or, if wo mast Do clacsl- cal or nothing, asd 8o frefer the Giees, it means, mav you by of & generous quality, tods- Ing nbroad yourzbo'inty ax the soser iosees ths grafa, A capialioesning in eitlier caso, hat exactly the mesninz we can glve as we @ivo good advice whon wa Lisve no ides of takig any oure nelves, Wa can meet Losts of peoplo to whom, to our thinking, a metry Christmas wisa in thin gool ol ‘msuso would be as good s a praver. Go'l known wo can may to aar- volves as wo paen thom: You need o grow broader, deeper, higber, and more generous, und 6o wa invest o merry Chntmas io thew, &3 AIr. Wegg iuvested a good-morrow in Mr, Boflli, Lud it thst in'tho way wo do it, bofore we bava mado euro that tho day bas brouzbt the Llessing tp.us wo wish on thom, where is tho gond of our wdorry Curistmyn? TLore is no goud clicer in that for anybody any more than if 1 bois a stous and then mak my neighbor 14 to feast ou(.lau soup. And wheu wo eay again that Christmds comen but oncs a vear, wo midt not forgal that it comes Jun: as the year is ooding, when wa ery ot to be tuached painfully perbapa throush tue swtul prerogative man lma alune of looking be- Lind aud belure. £o wo can recall what the years bave hronght us 88 wo sit louking wte the Christnima fires nud try to gues what I8 cowing 11 o rpitic whicls will rob us of tho wholo 6 i:it of the holy tids aud cast & cold shadow over tho cinidren that #ataer sbout our kueed. Ur wo can Loar this Quod word of Christ, ** Ba of gooa chuer,” aud o open our hears o it as to maka & merry Chrintinas io which wosnall grow Iarger, higher, deeper, and more gOUErous i ONr reckuniugs, botls with eaith and beavon, We can Lo'ieve in Gud 08 we bslieve in this Ban of Goi. fiom whuin we namo the duv, a8 the healor and halper, pitiful, loving, geutle, and loog soltering. Aud we can nouriuh Buuny and Funurouu thoughts of ouw auotuer, Then the old cmbera Lnat aio loft of other vears suall kindlo up sgai in the new flres, and, 1ike Joan Puul, waciu say. *'I bavo mado up my mind that I will uot pour into the cup of b i- maniey & biuglo drop of gall.” Then onr Christ. mas opons tu us 1Ls trae Leart, and go-d chear comesof our good resolutions. “ lessed aro thuss that expost pothiogz™ is & scread out of tho Davit's own Iiiblo, and thosa who mind 1t aro nut poor in s.unt, but poor mpiritad. Whag should ‘wo thiuk of o soldier who nover ex- pectod to win n viclory, or an inventor who only expected to tmake a thing that would not work? **I dnot kuaw how tha god peoplo get along," Sarah Willtams eayw, * who are alwaya 8o lowiv-tainded; for myseif. when [ sm humtlo 1 am detestable, it onlz to growl ina ho @ hiko an Adabawite bear,” I want the boun- tiful bewven thew Lo send me the manoa of en- courugement, Aud whon we do eatct_tho st ol Clurtmaa-tide as 1t stands in our Gospels, it vrime over With guod clicer fram firt to last, and wost of all for those who might make foud to be cheertul on “tbeir uwn account. Lut are smitten with o noblo Lttoublo ou ac- .couut of thoso very childron who are making & josfal noiso toto God, Thev know bo l.tue &y yet, wo eay, cf the trisls that aro waiting for themn when tneir unocont nurth is over. Wo have got hold of 3 mecd of knowl- odge which has not ripened juto wikdom yot, through which wa wonder whetler soma vice of bloud or brain may not have crept into tho hittlo man plaging by tho henrthstone. We havo found out bo is ouly our bov in soms thirty- sccond continabip. We cau mee o listle wak vack, sud then it is dark. Who Lnows whut tainte mnay beve lain dormant, ke the noods of weeds that oab wait contmies for their turn at the sun snd air, and then spring 1nto & baleful Larvest. ‘Wa Lave been most fortunate in our love and trust. Gud has been vory good to us, But bow about that little man of mad when their time cowes audiguey tnust slesp on the bod ther bave made 7 And sbout their fortune? This has boeu a hard figas for ua, porhaps, and it wou.d slmost breal: our hearts to tuinit they must banr what wo have borne. Rat out of toceo sileut heavens that they will not %ind the way mora rugeed sad the thots sharper than wa have found them. And whr do we talk mbout the heavena? It s U1,000.000 mites to tho sun, and overmota n descrt of frost and fire, if wo cowid win thero and past tha sun we caa wandor on to other suns and systoms, crying ar wagor 13 tliere n rpot within rour radlant sphare Where peace, and liope, nud love syain may dwell; Whers wa can £ad the rest wa found ot bere, And clsap tue loug-lost lifs we loved sa well 7 And what answor ¢an tho etars make to my ery? That is the way wo can wonder and pou- der, sud oud whero we begun, and this 1s exuctly where ths Christmas thonghts can crond in and lielp ne. Foi while wo bhave as froe-thinking mon ang women L3 ey that somo things are npiritually teno, curmore orthodox churcehay gay are literale ly truo, the wholu wealth of g, as it seems to me, remaing on our mdo. f do nof tilio the story of Josus ae the Son of God in thiv lteral souso to bo truo any more than thoto of u rinne lar nature about Romulus and Alexander, Pythage oras aud Pisto. Mary never refera to 1t'in the firtt person, obilo * tho restons why Kho should do' 80 are of aimost unimaz- inoblo powoer ; nelther does Jolw, who wus a3 a second Aon to wiile auch reference as it is made by neighbors and friends i purteetly evmplo and natoral, ** 1a not thn tho carpenter's son 7 " for inatance, 8o that il tho most Lolv and ateadfast lawa of lifo did not bar tho way to sach a bellef, and mako it quits im- pousiblo on that ground, I ahonld still say tint thus story had speung from the same wonder- loving beart that #o wsuy timos in human history has tried to account, un this ground, for Lersous of & BUPremo POWer, OF FeNINs, OF Rood. uess. 1 cannot tamper with wicl things oe mslko beliove Lo believo thom. T mnuat neo what thoy meau tn some Ligher way or reject them out of the Gospaia. 3 S0 much said for the apirit which lies withia tho lotter or the Gospels. 'Luls, thew, is the upirit of Clristinas: 1. That I ebiall bo of good chioer in this now knowledgoe, noiwithstandiog the far-reachiog kin-hls) of my litilo ouos to ?oml and evil, and trust that the good Father wilt do by them an IHo did by s denr Son in tho mensuro of thor uature, Wo patter over these gencalogies of Jesus . the first and third Gospols and II{ 1o make them Larmonize to the letier, while il tue timo this untouched truth stands wait ing, that un any interprotation it 1s cloar that tho holleat ani tue world bas ever known to come to us through *‘panis of bature, mlus of will, dofecta of doulit, and tatots of blood," run- niug rightup to Adam., And yet out of it this pure, whito hly of God’s grace, this peorless lower of bumanity, sppoars to us this Chbrist- mag, and says, **You beheve in Gol, beliovo also inde. I did not take upon me the furm of an angol. Xamof thesosd of Abrulum ; ull thess siraing meet and minglo in my heirt that can touch you with hopo or fear. I bavo tho quatity in o of Ruth, tue boathou, sy well as of Baaz, tho Hebrew. Do uot of a doubtful heart to-duy, Lut beliovo that My Fatner and yours will do as weil by your childror: in some divine way as He did 1n'tue old days by the haly family that hag taken captive tho hoart of tho world.” 4. Oris it their forluue agam that troubles mo when [ thiuk of thom? L'must Lo of good chosr about that wuen I follow the Christmas story to its Faster ending, and eeco how no fortuno haa ever matched tais that grew out of tho sorest wud saddest lui, For I know of ve wan in the world to-dwy who for his wifu anml Limao'f would chooss tho fortuno Josoph unl Mury had, whils as yot tho divioe meaning which has tonohed it with such spleador was hidden away in tuo beavons. To Lava & babe burn uinong tho liess's in o atuble, and such s stablo ut that us you sce nov in a new prawie countrv; to es with that babe for fts life, and then come back o plod slonk Wwith 1t sud the rest a8 a poor country carpenter; 10 Lo couscious of wsumething woudortul o 1l wnd about Mo, but to get all weooy as ta the mesuiug of tho wonder, snd to suspect Ho is tossiog all His chauces (o the wiuds wien o waudors awsy, quostioninz doctrinos that are touchod with tho sanc.ty of 3,000 years, calling thous that passed for tho very patbern of holluces whited scpulchies, whv of the Templo soivices, gpgakivg tuo Bubball, making {ittle account of the priedis, brusting naide as of no aczouut, 43 things stood, mocestral digoiy aud bealdry, divlog with wen who wers beld to bo no Latter than Twead fn the general estima. tion. fasetelling dvom to the nativa wnastead of s4ible to them purest porsou But what vledgo can we | J ©-re tha making their dresm come trus that he would uslier in tho new era when Jorusalsm auowid do to Rome what Rome had dona to Toruealem, and thon geuting Himsalf crcified. Hore ia fortuno for you, \ilnro is the man who wonld Lako it this Cliristmas with oo more vision of itsintrinsic and matchlenn wlory than Mary b, nh? 1 ddon't know the man or womin, God alons knows if 1{o has any sunh inths world. And #o [ may boof good cheer abont tho futuee ou thin ground alro, If Yyouare 84 Lrue to vour ad your children a8 Jose; h wae, sad Mare & povorty may ba tho world's weaith, aud th J foing weigh grandly in the world'e salvat’ ~ Ioncy ia wometimen . good. tmuf‘ and otl &7 3gs are good, ** nuci a8 hon- or, love, ol §+,"troopw of friends ;" but pometim~stl & of Man hnd not where to sy Iis bead, & <7 eu_tha lust terriblo ordeal camatboya o sox Him, and fled. Bisty-fiva FeurAago U %5 (o the pouth of us, a small, Hlender wese €S with oyes ns aweat and bl ai those & Jook 2t you out of the great Muras 18 bursine 8 10-monthaold babe, ina povers 2t ost Jize tuat of tha holy tamiy, and wond ® = o doubt, what hard lot woulil Lo ald o 1 his grow to bo n man, Ho prow 0 o 8 e, touglh an election, &4 sura as that which brought this world from grauste to rosen, and wheat, uud apples ; but Lo was & wan of poriowe, and ho died by the sssacen’s hand, Poor motler, if sbe eonld have seen the doom bats of the glory, and houor, aud lmmoriality, She eaw peituor, only tust poor shuoty, with mild Tom Liccoln tnp look afeer it, but tho sixty-five years bave brourht such & tender lwht™ on that cradle a1 a8 pever seen Jn onr land before, and whim I was io Eopiaud men in far-away coruces wonld taik to mo, with the teara 1n thair evew, of tho rreat nnme, as thoy never talk by aus chance of toeir Kings. That is the Chiislinas cheer when you think of what bard fortume may bufall your htlle men. God s wih im ak He wna with Ilis own Cbist, I tell von to he of good chioer about the childcen, for their very vory povertr and miafortune, if thut is God's wiil, may bo trabsmuted inco the uobleat fortuno wn can pray for, wuen Heaves orens bier doors wide aud eays, * Take what yoo will, 8. We s, | be of good cheer again sbont thelr puidanco, “Lhe Kinguom of tod 1s within you, und i that Kingdom, 1t we aro what we ought to be. tho anuels gater still, nn they did for the old advent, aud sing of pearo on earth and good Wil > men swhen the cbild 18 born, They watci bum out of our even, They stznd about him, al- 80, I lovo to beliove, but our oyes arc holden wo that wa canuoz sex them. If he is to etay be is RB HUIO tO Mtay ns Josus waB, whose doath an & ciuld L thiok no phioeoghy can uuagimo possible: nod af bo i to RO 83 tbe suowdrops go, what limo they havo slipped a freshs touch of frazrancs into the venr, why then they boar hita awayto thosu Leavens we know ofas Humuold: kavs they knew of the now worl I who lived to the summer islands far out &' woa: not becuuwo they really saw tno refraction of this new world through the water, Liut rather through the intoierallo lunging o the soul after what liva beyond. If the litilo mau or mawd playing at sour firemds are toslas. be of good cheer abont their ataying if you aro holdwg them, nnt capocially if you mothers a0 holdizg | them for & pure nud uobls Jife. for nu’ Joserl presently siyny out of the Giospels and then God ond tho goud mother came 8o neur that tho father soows 10 be suut out, s0 it is wih the purest soubs ; tocever it in God sud the good motber. 1¢ they are tu stav, L eaid, be of go3d cheer, for that they will ktay to a purpore idden as yot in tha bLeart of the myatery, and il tha. are to £o be of #ood cheer stitl, aud way with Lue apostolic L wheu ho had lost four, a4 wo vount josiug, ** I I wauted them to m=rve GGod on carth, but sainco Ha chooses thiat toey shoimd serve bim i heaven, Ihinve nothing mose to vav. Thoy were 1 Christ tent." And no, hiends, I reach to you my httle carol of good clicor, to gruw wide and deep and gener- 8US as tho vear draws to a cloze. Wipa tha elate ciean of all tho old gruuges yon base | earth and in Heaven; carry no old weor 1676, aud no otd doubts aud fears. ‘Touch the tino old meaning of & merry Christuns as you nevor did up to tbis day Tako that holy cluld wot for a siugular, acpaiate childhiood with 7hich wo could bave uo real, trus buman kiurhip, but as an oxamrlo of what God 1s how doiug for tho childhood of the world, and will do farever whilo the world etands, thoy maid to Father Taylor, tho 11p= old Method- ist. *'Thousands.” was the quick reply, and waila with our oducation and witiout His genium, it may bo bard for us to seo and vay thatof men, we have His own voucher for it of childrea };L\cn He says, * Of such s the Kinedom of kA iddeed, ns good as Jesus and that is 0ail chiwar cowies in and lodges for- # overau the heart, ay purein their dewcent, ay T oty in their nustiro, Heaty misht be shocked | to fiear mo eay bt he could find & mother iu i this city aud paint her jor o Madonun ae jare and Ligh ss auy of the groat ideatd of his Churel. T eay it, nevertheless, and what ia mare, L eould tind bim the Madonun paintedt al- ready by bus own band. L2 of good cheer, thon, God Is atill verilv in d a8 buay os be was wish tno bave in the 'y With & purpose uy sure, with a lave as tonder, With an aun as strong, and with a heart 88 dooj. He has us fast within Lis ample palm; ‘tfa not & grasp Kuch as they se on earth, but all aronad Over tho watface of 1hie subtle Ledtyg A gentls pressure tells us e are not Belf-moving, but borue ouward on our way, WAITING FOR SALVATION. SEEMON BT THE KEV. DI GLOSON, At the Second Prosbyterian Chusch, corner of Michigan aveuuo and Twonftetls stree:, vester- day morniog, the ey, . Muaro Gibson proashod an eloyaent sarmon from the wordn: I biavo wadtod for Thy salvation, O Lord.—tenasis, ahr, 14 ‘Thess words of Tacab, skl tho preacker, wero tho ouly strictly porsonal words of the whole discourse ho addressod ou his deashbed to his twelve aous; all tho rest was prophetic. Tt was an abrupt oxclamation or ojuciiation i the very midut of his proplestos, aud many vound it difil. eult to euplaln its oceurrenco there. The occasion, however, wos not #o very ob- scuro. In tho verso immodiataly preceding Jacob apoke of Dan as serpunt io the way and an adder in tho path.” Ly the law of ando~ ciation of idcas, thoso words could not fail to suggest (o the miud of the dyiug patriarch that firat promiso which bud formsd the Lasin of his faitti; and it was easly 1o be sscn thac Jaoob, bLaviog that promise continunily before him for many years, conld not sco tho serpout iu bis path, Lowever he might fu 1wmagioation, withe out’ baviug brought before Litu tho salvation which was to be actievod by him orduved to fulll that promive. s hoaghus, therofory, rusbed involuntarily o that direction, ~ That _ashort senteuce showed tha settled bent of Jacob's miud aud heart, 1o #howed tho dircciion of the natursl cucrsul of Lis tlouglits, rovealad tu us tho habituat atti tudo of bis eaal, uud was merstv su tlustration was a checkored life. To tho casual observer tho chauges ihrough whick ho pasesd aud tho somotimoen quostionablo thiugh that Le did, svced antogomstic to the siding faith ex. prossed in s dywg usteranes, Bt through al! thy veried victasitudes of bis career, lie hud a faith, 8o expectation, which from' timo to timo found expressivn, &8 apriugs of water underground wuy sud then well up to tho worfaco ju cloar and sparkling buoauty. 1n tbat ssuconce forming tho text wo aw & l1fo Lid Curist lu glory buratiug uuto the light of day ss the glonous yrimise cawo vividly to his umnd, ‘Ll atutude was the die- tiuguishing chaiactorletic of Leliovors, the ox- peetaiions being veried s little, God's salvaton was already wwoifested; wo koow what tbo patarchs only watied fur, Gl wes maoifest, it wus far from buing cous summatel. * For 18 cousummation we stil Loped, aud for ita succeds 1 var lived and fan- flics wo waited, Tooagh ibo Lourd bad como Lore, thioy uro with Clriet no#. Lot mo 0o con- | Do yon . thitik thero over was another an good as Josus 7" | NUMBER 123, virlon sod the faculty divine.” This purity a devotion aod longing for Jesus might ont bo brought to the surface on th sppronch of death, but it woul thon he mads plain that thair Jifs did not consie wmerely of baying and selling, “or engropac Mich the plosaures and frivolitios of estth Tlean things wers atl upon tha surfacs, bu Lenoatli thera were the gi11s whicls insured eLet nnl happine:s. \ibilo in tbin kine of though thoro wus encasragoment for the lowly Christian there was no cowlort whataver for thoss wh neglected their mpiritusl tnteresta and allows tho worid to biold undisputed sway io their ieatta There wero thosn who found consolation in tis fact that mauy appareatiy worldly poe #onn passed away o pesco. It had boes eutticiontly demauatrated that appearances srer( noe 1o Lo truatad, sod e urged those who in. clined that way to losk to their own mouls with out ony regurd to their surroundiogs. Altor raviowing tho deathin 1n the church during thy year. the reverend gontleman concludnd wish earnant appeal for the maintenance of the apuitual attitude of dsing Jacob, ——— THE CENTRAL CHURCH, PROF. BWING'S FLIST REGULAR SLUTICE. Yosterdav morning services wera uauguratey in Erof. Bwiug's new Coatral Church, in Mo Vicker's Theatrs, As might bave boen expect * ed, tacto wasa largo atteodance, and noarly every seat 1n thn houso waa occupied. Tas son vices wero of & chamctor to onlist the sympa thien of tho sudio: aud the serimon was mark- od and woll po. Tuers is one thing shat riwid Le woted by churcl-guers who douot fosl b0 10 rent paws, Lhat thern aro 800 seatain this Liousa unsold, wiiol ars frac to any pernon wha comes ot & Buuday. and each nua may be assur- ad tlat & far as accommodations go he will ba wlcome, atd uo calicetion wilt bo taken up, the chureh 1a wuffiziontiy weil situa*ed financs». iy to disjenso with any such cereaony as thar referred Lo, — ELSEWHERE. MCOLY AXD RANKEY. Pottavgueuis, Pa., Dec, 26—Notwithstand iog (ho unfavorable weatuer, Moody and Ban- kog's servioes wero largely tiondod to-day, A1 thie mormoy services, Mr. Mooy said that it was the most encouraging meettag bp bad bold in thin country. Iniho afternoou, the wervice wuy for ladics, Mr. Moody preached upon ** Noah aud the Ark," In the oveniug ho presched tho same seimon tomen, These two sermous ara certaiuly the best be has preschied in this o aud apparently Lnd grent effect, The inqui rooins weto crowded buth aftoruoon and eveu- 108, { CHRISTMAS AT THE PENITENTIARY, Two Man.Killers Tursed Out upon the Community lor the sake of Veace on Barth, apscil Uisuateh o The Chiam Trivune, Jourer, 1L, Dec. 96.—The enstomary Christ- mas oxereises at the Penitectiary did not take place until tlis forevoon. Mr. Heruclds, of Peotin, a ldressed the convicts. e was followed Ly the Warden, Maj. McClaughry, in a few ap- prapriaie remarks, fn the courto of which ba #aid ho bad pardons for two of the prisoners preseot. Then corucd a eecnc similar to the ono witoeessd in the eame Juce last sear. Holdtng » pardon 1 s band, the Warden atkod Willam Dutler to cowe forward aud i receiva his * Christuns gift. Sutler, who uat in, & back seal, was eo stupe. ded by the good fortune that, for woveral moments, bo was unable o respond. Waea Lo fiually wade his way 1o the front, amid the appinuse of his iate feliow convicts, ho was i 80 nenily ovorcome by omoun that he conli ard]y mtavd escet, and great teats werw rolling down bis atony cheels. 'Tho other panton way lor Jack Gslhgbsr. Butler in a colored man, { aud wns wentoncod from Alesander County in 1 July, 1867, to imprAonment for lite for & mur- 1 der committed in the heat of pasnion aud whily under tho intluotice of whisky, ; carceration ho wau an oxemplary prisoper. | hoher was aent from Hondersan County in Marea, I8N, for twouty vears, fur murder. Tha prisou-chapel was beautitully decorated tor tha | occasion, and the kerviens thrangbuus were of & 1 mont futereatiug charnctor, DEATH ON A TRAIN. Seeeial Disnaleli ta The Chicaro Triduns, &r Locty, Mo, Dec. 25.—The Missonr Pae | cific trmn which arrived hero yosterdsy morning | brought the body of & young woman who bad imddnnly expired in her west when within 10 During i ne Gl miles of the city. Tav young lady was Misa 1 Apucs Rtoyer, of Duytan, 0. A few months ago she becama nsane, and Ler purents, under the dvica of & phyrician, scot hor 10 tho house of her brothor in_ Kanwas, bopiog thiat & change of climate might effect s cure, She did not im- prove, as was expectod, und it wna decided to take her back to her parents 1n Duyton. Her brother, J. £, Royer, and Dr. Hiel had chargs of ber on the trip. Her wnsenity was of a mild tyno, and no trouble wns experienced in cane trolhiog Ler, Death cama MNko a flasl, and sue expited witbont & strmgele, All offorts to reaus citato her proved unsvuling, ‘“*ESTHER.” Srecial Correspondence of Tha Chicayo I'ribune, Dwiaur, 1L, Dee, 21.—The cautata of * Ee- ther" waa given on Wedneeday and ‘Chursday uvenings, at the Congregational Church here, ta fnll houses, under the directivn of Prof. Dun- forth. The choruses wero givon by the chotrs of the differant churches; the solo numbors as followa: Hoprano, Mrs, C. B. Cballant; alto, Miua Frane McClure, Tho sccompanifnents T8 ¥iven upon the organ, at which s dary E. Elindge presded, Prof, Dantorth compii- meuted her pulicly for the ability of her execu- tion, ang ss1d that, during tho elx_years of s pubitc carour a8 & musician, ho hind nover soan the work o conscientiously ang enthumaatically tendored, Tno coatumes wero all good, and who took part, numbering over sixty persons, xequitted themsolvey craditabl; ! FIREMEN'S FESTIVAL. Specart thapaten to The Chicsoo Pridune, Dizxox, 1ll., Deo, 26,—Tho Vigilant Hosa Com: puny of our neigbboring City of Amboy came down hiaro on masee yestordsy 1n thelr new unie form.and brought with thew an ologant silver wa. tor-pitcher, which waa presontod to thie DizanHose Compauy tn an oloquent spesch at the Firemen's Hall 1 this city, atter which tho fostivitios were kept up wutil & late bour. This exampte should be follawed by fircmou v other citisy, as it merves to sament a.ill stronger the boods of good fesl iug betweaa thoso brave men, THE BLOOMINGTON POST-OFFICE. Special Disnateh o The Chicaon Tridune, Broouingrox, 1L, Dec. 20.—The Post.Ofcx Depastment has notified Gen. Deck, Foatmastes of tha ruling pussion strong tn death. Jacou's | of Boomington, Lo euter futa a contract mits Lvmaan Pern for a buildiug to be erected by the latter, to bo owsed as a post-ofiice. Fern i ta put _up a buicing 40x85, threa stories bigh, uorthwest coruer of Centre and Frout, ona block south of tho southwbst corner of the pub- lio rqnaze, for which tho Dopériment is to pay $1,000 per annum. —_—— MARINE ITEM, Special Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tridune, Guaxp laves, Mich., Dac, 20,—~Thero is now 16 (oot of water ou the range. The Amaszon, Minnenpolis, sud Forost City arrived yesterday with ubout 2,500 tous of treight, meluding 15,000 Lisbiels of wleat. Blx spovisl fieight traive But 1f the salva- | bave lefc for Detrolt withla twenty hours. A Rumlwany incidents Andianapolia News, Tae other dsy a siudent named Patterson Limself, we bad still 10 wait sud labwr wnd pray | boarded the * nghtuing wabi ™ on the Pau fHuw. for the coming of Hiv Kingdom,—for tue obsorywuco of Hiw will on esrth s dn leaven. Aud this waiting osturo won'd hu the characteristio attitude of “helgtinos unttl redovmed from iniquity and until all tuo vuds of the sarth should have seun His ealvation. Yot this waiting might bo con- wistent with & lifo nob vutwardly disuvguishabls from a worldly lifo. No ous might buve aco.ed- ited Jacab with s deep faith it thov had judged lum from his excernal actions. Exteruutly muny soousd to be | locked into the depths of their soyls we would quito ordluary people, bus if we | of its own Yol dlo, wud wheu the couductor valted teuseicd fare for Irviuglon, which was declivod aud the passenger 1uformed that the train did vol 4top At tLut point. Haye the studeot, 'l must get off there” ; says the conductor, ** You sban't,” aud she two wraugled over tho aubjuct, aud when tho atudeut aroso from his seas with the avowed dolermiuation to jump from the tram aa it passod the Univerwity, be was caught aud heid by the couductor. ~ As thev struygicd the tramn-coupling parted, and the coach l‘opfied tion just whare the siudent wished 10 disowmbork ; and mhnulou lots the bialay tnd e pootry snd musio of Hoavon,~* tha tzus { aven refusing Lo Das