Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1876, Page 1

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M Bailey Continues Ois Descriptions of ¢ No-Lawism.” Talmage Discovers that the Israelites IMad Indian Corn, New Light Shed by Him on Other Biblical Points. The Observance of Sunday Instead of Saturday---Views of Corre- : " spondents. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Services Te-Day. PROF. SWING AND MR. MURRAY. ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATIONS. To the Editor of I'ke Chicago Tnibune : Cauicaco, Jan. 15.—The Now York Herald, which is Roman Catholic, rationalistic, atheistic, panthastic, orthodos, and heterodox by turos, and is consisteut only in oue thiog, viz: in nev- er having any principlas eitber io religion or politics, declares itself in the following oracalar style in reference to the movements of Prof. Swing in Chicago, and of the Rev. W. H, IL Murray in Boston : Some of the papers are engaged in making compari- ron between Dr. Swing's aud Mr. Murrzy's “inde pendent ® movements and that of Thcodure Pavier. Notling czn be more obvious than the diffcrence, Dr, Swing's and Mr. Murray’s is the indepecdency of preaching, -while Theodore Parker's wea the inde- rendency of thinking. Thero 38 not the dimmest blusn of reasm why the two former clergymen should hire halls and theatren and robo themseives in the dull gray of martyrdom, There are co- clesiastical orgamizations” which =zro open to them both. Tne independent attituds ia simply A cleical eccentricity. If they like to induige ip the luxory of an outeide position no one ean res- sonably objoct. Theodore Parker, however, Was an outider becatse 10_one unger beaven wouid let him iceide, Even toe Unftarisns go: scared at his huge negatives. He lived out of doors all his iife, and realty tasted Gomo of ths sweels of 3 mild sort of martyrdom. Ttaall very woll to be lodopeudent when the exclesi- -*ieal Aleites and Persians docree that you ehall use ousy the cronsbow or the flintlosk, but when you find iu the 1 armory the Sharp, the Remington, tue Totty nearly every other arm that has over be uted, snd are b liberty to make your own <heice, 10 be independent then is simply to bLe crotelioty or dyepectic, Nouo of us want to we r clizins, Deither do we propose (0 ;, Lut we cught il to Lo willing to pull in haruese, ‘The Herald claims to bo par excellence the representative of *indopendent” jourvaliem. and it may therefore Lo indulged 1uits m throwing disposition in regard to ‘‘indopend- ent” preachers and churches. ltaccords with its habitual want of dignified fairness in discus- sion, and candor in eiticiem, to denounce as morbid, dyspeptic. eccentrie, ctc., the exercise of the same libcrty in the pulptt which it claims for tho prees. Toe Heraia is the most cousyie- uous examaple of the abuse of the *‘independ- ent” resime in its ‘applicstion to jourpalism which this country affords. It has been onall 8:des of nearly all questions, acd its *‘mndepend- ence™ consisis in 118 tergiversations, by which it has been alteinately 1ebel and loyal, moral 20d immoral, religious and irreligions. \ithout sihe dimmest blush of reason” 1t lias alicrnate- Iy occupied the position of maliguer and eulo- gizer of the great and good men who have fig- ured in politics zud siatesmanship, or beon iden- titied with the cause of morality and religion. That Prof. Swing has assumed tho * independ- " 10le to enjoy freadom of eveech white des- titute of thonghts worthy of epeech, ot to **10be humeelf in the duil gray of martyrdom,” or to gratify & * crotchety and dyspepiic” disposition, or to exhibit ** clerical eccentuicity,” is & view of hismovement iu regard to the * Central Church which no candid and truthful jeoroal, shich has respecs for the facts of hissory, will avow. Nor is it true that there are ** ecclesiastical or- ganizations -which sre open fo them botb ™ in which thev can enjoy the freedom of taonght and speech which they desire. And why ehonid any preacher concern himself in regard to any ppecial relations to aoy charch but to that to which be presches? Why sbould un independ- ent thinker spd preacher cousent to ‘‘wear chaing” forged by some orgapization or ecclesinstical pody outeide of his own chuich ? Douttless, a8 tho Herald B8ay8, **Wo ought all to be willing to pull io hanoss,” but in whose har- ness ? Wil the Herald pull in the Demwcratic baroess. or in the Repubitcan harness ? Wil it pull iv the Cathotic harness, or in the Protestaut parpess? Will it pull in the harness of its peighbors_of the Tumes, the Zribune, or the World? If not, why does 1t demand of Prof. Swing and Mr. Mlarray that they siail vull in the Presbylerian, Congiegatioual, or Baptist barnesa? » "ihese two gentlemen have a large following of intelligent, coltivated, Clristiaa people who ‘wiah to hear thew preach; who enjov their ser- movs, and ere profited by them: who regard their independence as the coarm of their preach- ing—affording scope and possibility tor eutarged and liberal thought—and who derire to sce them free in thought and utterance. wishout the ap- pearance of inconsistoncy in professiog to sub- mit to ecclesiastical authosity wlich tueir con- sciences and thoir 1eagon compel them to over- nde. . it Aereeing with the memgers of other Christian bod es in al! thatis vitz] aud essential. they could stand side by side with any of them, and Work with them hand to haud and heart to heart, ! but the narrowness of sectarian lines and tho . s:raituess of ecclesiastical organizatious compel ther to bridle their thoughts and Lheir tongues, £ wituhold their houest convictions, and to sun- presa their_noblest and purest emotions, or bo casiged with rejecting creods whick they pro- fens £ believe, sod of disregardmg obligations of fellowship and obedieuce which thuy have nssnmed. Ic i3 not to found a mew sect that Prof. Swing and Mr. Murray bave made their “Central Church " movemente, but to liberate Chrisuiauity from sect und party, and to recog- pize its comprenensiveness aud catholicity in tae origiual sad proper pignification of that word. When Prof. Swing and Mr. Murray un- dertate to hmit the fellowahip of the church on a7y other ground than that of character, and to mike a creed which will exclude from their cha-ches any honest mao who loves aud prac- tica3 the ‘* Golden Rule,” which enjoins love to God and man, then they will become sec- i tarisns. but not before. That they will, eitber of tnam, do this we do not believe. * ‘But the Herald practically refutes itaeif intho paragraph which ymmediately follows its attack ©on Prof. Swing and Mr. Murrav, relative to Mr. Macdonell, of Toronto. Hear what it 8ays : Tie sdvantages of Presbyterianism over Congredi~ ‘oustiem, 8 8 method of Church gavernment 2ro aquin iliustrated. ‘The Rev. Mr. Macdonoll, of To- Paato, preached & scrmon om * The Hereafter,” fn waich Lie exp & doubt concerning eternal pun- {sament 8 & Scriptaral doctrive. Of coursa thero was blazosnd en explosion, Heresy on that point was fatal, He wea Dot even in the position uf the clergy. Ihnwho, in answer fo the horror-toped inquiry of the dear old Iady, * What! don't you beliere thiat some il Le damned forever. not oven & few 7" quietly re- Phed, & Madame, it is barely possible thats vers faw . but not many.” The old lady cried out hope- fally, < Well, that' better than nothing, at any rate.” Poor M. Macdonellbad doubis even alout 1he fow. Th.e matter, however, will be sottled quicklyand de- cigively. He is simply required to give in bis assent £5 {he Weatminster catechism within a week or seek another pastorate. _The Congregationslista would Dnve debated the matter for sixmonthe, and then have 1.:4 it unsettled, They would bave called Advisory Giuncils, Mutual Councils, and sll gorts of conven- ticns, emply to prove themsalves powerlos, Every chureh gets on bettar whe = e ccordmz to this doctine ) would Lo Letter for Prof. Sx\-in;(tn'::s:[xli:ng‘.;:gx‘ xalutions to an ecclesiastical gystem that thosa Dot connectod with bis immedizte church coald turo him out for ot preaching oternal torments or u:irmlfdamuha.uon according to the Calvimstic creed, though his owa people istied Lis views oEthatqueuEm.p Tatenuihel nia How would the ferald liko to have tho old Trench regime of thoe censorship of the press in- troduved into this country, and cditoriais soject- ed to its surveilianze What would become of l;lan w-;mdepcndmxc" journaliem under thig ro- e THE MORAL LAW JEWISH, NO-LAW CHRISTIAN—REFIEW OF MOSES. To the Edit.r of The Chicano Tribune : - Cuicaco, Jan 14.—The opivion that the Ten C@:mmdmeum were Jewish prevails extensivo- Iy in oithodox churches. ‘This opivion bas becn §l'.lfly strengthened under the agitation of the Sabbath question. For many years the Sabbath of the Church has beea sustained by the suthor- ity of tho Fomth Commandment. Tho Jowe and eome Christians bave sustsined, by the same law, another day as Satbath. This inconsisten- cv bas led to 2 revision of the argument, and the conclusion hes becomo moro general that the qul iaw was given ajono to the Jews, and that it paseed uway wi'h the Jewish dispensatioa. ‘There has existed, in many minds, a deep-geated mc]iudice against the Jows, becauso of their re- jection of Christ. Hence all things peculiarly Jewish we regarded with disfavor. Odiuwmis cast upon ono day by calling it *‘Jewizh Sab- bath.” Praise is bestowed upon avother by cull- iog it the Clristian Subbatn. I'he title **Jewish Satbath™ is an imacinary one of 2n jmsginary ipstitution, neither of vibich is known to the Dible. There wns no weekly Sabbath given to the Jews as s distinct people eepmato from tho one made, blessed. and zanctified at the creation for all men. It a3 given & & worship day, because God rested onii. Whenit was repoated to the Jews, the etiginal reason for it, that God reated onit, nas astiguod as thercaeon forit. The term ** Chris- uan Sabbath” is also unknown to the Bible. Tius term i3 need merely to distivguish tho day now commonly obs:rved by the Chuica from the day observed ia the Old Testament dispen- sation, Whi'e the moral law, as a whole, is declared Jewish, its precents, with one excoption, 8.6 ac- coptad as good Christian_ductrines, to be cher- ished by 2f| Clristincs. The correctoees of this i8 questiouable. Wby should God group to- getver in one code,” 88 a rulo of morsl government, jrecepts that needed to be changed when tho zdmmnistration of the same govornment wis changed? An oxawination of 124 philosophy will do much to seitle the ques- tion. Is tke moral lawin whole or in part Jew- jsh? The collsteral questiso of the dav of tha Sabbath will te sottled with the maun question. It the mora! law was given to the Jews only, aud bad its applicstion only to their dispensa- tion, then it affected tuem oair, lesving all others {ree from its restraints. Heuce, nouo of its’ precepts could bind a Gautile or ubristino corscience, or be a rule of lifa to them to gov- ern their actions towsrds Gud or man. On ths geneial proposition ia Jewish, no special spulication of any of its precepts could be made to others. Tho law inite tust precept says: *'Thou shalt bave no other gods before me.” Of course, none but Jews are Louzd by tiis precept. Curistiave, Aloham- meaaos, aud all yagans, are left free to bave 2s mauy @ods s they 1ay choose. All this they could do without sin, for co law existed to rostrain them frow Paotheism in general, or sclecaug ot pleasuro gods to rait tieir fancy. - The law in its tnird precept for- uide the taking of the Lord thy God in vain, b . to law being Jewish, dues not restrain the Christian, Ho may rake the uame of the Lord Goa in vain aod be guiltlers, pecause Jewish luws do not bind Chriehans, The faw io 1tssac- ond precept forbids malung 2ud worsaipiog im- ages ; but this 1estrainc rests upon theae only who are unier tho law. lu its fourth precept the law sejuirces Ged's rest-day from creation to Le Lo: t holy. It doea notafiect auy bub Joss. Such are some of the reguits of tno doctrine that the moral law ia Jewieh. These resuits aro paipeblo absurdities, aud yot they ure legitimate irom tha p.opositiou that the moral lav 18 Jew- isk. ‘These absurdities are ths patural ont- growths from the posizion of the Church on tho Sabuath doctune. The Church does accept all 1he utterances of the moral lasw =4 aule of life, with the ezception of it3 fomth precops. At claims that the law i8 bLoly, just, and good, and spiritual, and .delights in it atter the wnward man. Tho single excoption is mado becanss tho practice of the Church doues oot agree with this precept. The effort of the Church to sns- tain its worship-day by the suthority of tbe Tourth Commandment baving failed, the choice is left between calling the whole moral law Jenish, or changing s practico to egree with tho Sabbath law. The former a'ternativo has been adopted as the rost couvenient, rapardless of all ita inconsistencies, and by it the Chareh 18 1loating along in ths destructive tide of no- lawism. All advocates of the proposition that the moral law was Jowish, 2ud applied to the Jews only, would prompily repudiate tke logical sequence that honor to parents was Jewizh, and applied to Jews only, toat adaltery, lling, al- g, bearing faise wituess, and caveb ing, were designed 23 restraints upon Jews only, while all Gentiles and zll Chijstians were iree from these restraints, and at licerty to do auy of these acts without commilting sio. All tho precep:s of the morsl las are Jewish if any of them are. If all aro Jewish. then Jews only are bound by them. All othars, then, are lawless, for nowbere elss can we find authonty for transferring tocse precepts to Geotiles or Chuistizus. The declaration that the moral law is Jew,sh involves al theso and ather dilficulties. ++3loses” appears in yoar issue of thsSth to impart metruction to * Layiman,” who inquires relative to when and by what sutbority the chaoge was made from the scventh to the fiust day of the week. His fundamental poiut is, +That the Mosaic or Jewish Sabbath was given to the Jews, andooly to them, and wasnot obligatory on any other people, and was uot ob- served ol regarded by any Geutile nation.” If ttua proposition had been proved 1t wonld hava satisfied all winds. Here “ Moses” falls to the common ersor of calling God’s holy day **the Mosaic or Jowich Sabbath.” His proposition being withont proof, is_worthless. A Mosaio or Jewizh Sabbeath is & phrase of modern laven- uon unknown to the early Cburch. There was no wockly Snbbath given to the Jews ss such besides the one that was made for mao the next dsy sfior man was created. The proof 18 also wanticg that other nations than the Jews did ot observe the o.1zmnal Sabbath “ Moges " algo assumes that Christians met on tho first dav of the week for worebip, Racra- mental communion, and Chrictian le.l‘m‘nhl[). This 14 8 somewhat common op.niop, that would be valusb'e in the argumeut, if sustained by proofs. As a statement only, it cairies 0o cou- viction. A cloee examioation of the proof texts for thege statements will fail to determine at wiat time the resuriection took place. Christ was nsen when tno tomb was visited in the end of the Sabbath, and aleo early in the first day of the week. Taercis no evidencs trom tue Now Tcstament that the Dirciples of Christ met at any time to commemorate Lis re urreciion, or to obscrve the supposed day of Ilis resurrection a8 a Sabbuth. The general proposition that the first day of the week waa observed asa Subbath to commemorate the resurrection of onr Lord fuils for lack of proof. Hence * Moges’ " geueral agsertions in his closmg paragraph are unnaronted. Jesus taught the - per- petuity of the law, including all its crecepts. It was Christs _custom aud &’Aul‘s manner to observe the Sabbath blesscd and eaocliied at creation, Thers is no evidence that the Eabbath was s legal. formal, rigid institution.” There is no evidence that the resurrection day was called * Lord's dav” suy- whero in the Seriptures, **Moges” waya trulv, «So far as the divine record is concerned, there was no swappiog nor trad.ug, no sub- stitution of one for the otber, inany sense what~ ever.” *Moses'” great dificuity lies 1 this. that he does not recognize the fact that God's rest-da, at creation, was made a Sabbath for man, blessed and sanctified by Him for this pur- pose, 10 be a memorial of tue fact that God rected on the #eventh day, afier He had wrought gix days. 1 which He made all thiozs and setin order all He bad made. He slao loxcs eight of the fast that the Sabbath when repeated to the Jemh Chburch bad the ongwal reason of the six days’ labor and ~the ceventh days rest conmected Wik it T refer him to Tme Tamisoye Of Nov. 28, under head of “ The Moral Law : 1Its Social and Spirttual Philosophr,” for the exposition of the Sabbaih laws. in, be is at fanitin the gupposition that there wasa conteat between | Grecawood; and I shall know thex Jew and Gentile Christians ou the Sabbath doc- trine 1n the eariy history of the Church. At Ap- tioch, in Pisidia, Jews and Gentiles worshiped togethar, snd the Gentiles besousht Paul to proach to them the noxt Sabbath. Al early Chris- tian Jewa and Gentiles !efx. the Sabbath em- Lodied in tlio moral Iaw. ‘Tiio resarrection day was not obscrved 23 the Sabbath till late in the fourth century, when tho Counncil Laodicea is- sued its cenon on tbis question. Tho creation Sabbath bas been observed in tho Christian Church eversiuce the Apostles by that depari- ment of it thas did not come under the domina- {ien of Roman Emperors. G. Bawsy, S TALMAGE. A FEEE VERSION OF SCRIPTURE. The Cracinnati Commercial of a recent dato hns 20 exhaostive review of a book of sermons published by the Tev. DeWitt Talmage, which places the views of tbat eccentric minister on the Biblo quest.on bafors tho public in a forcible way. The followiug estracs conveys the spirit of the article: Tuacermon on “The Old Corn of Canaan,” Ar. Talm ge digcourses on the food of tae Iernclites dur- ing thiir journeyings from Egypt to the promissd land, Histextls, “And the miuna ceased on the morrow after they lad euten of theold corn of the land; ” and here 15 what Lie 3353 about it : 4 Jiat after fourteen thousand six hundred consoc- utive days of fal fng mannz—Sundays excepled—the manua ceased, Some of them were giad of it, You know they hed complained fo their leader, and won- dercd that they had to eit manna instead of onlous. Now the fure ia changed. Those people in that army undor 40 years of ago bave never seen a corn-fields and now, when they bear the leaves rustling, and see the tac3els waving, =nd the billows of green flowing over the plain g the wind tousked thers, 1t must hive been a uew and lvely sensation. *Corn?’ crisd the old man, a4 he hueked anear. *Corn ! cxied the cluldren, us tiey countzd the shinfng grudns. ¢ Corn !’ shouted the vanguard of the host, :8 they buret open the gean- arics of tho afirighted pepuiation,—tho granaries that Liad Leen Ieft in the posacss10n of the victorious Israel- ites, Then the fro was kindied, and the ears of corn were thrust iflo it. and, fresa, und crisp, and tender, wero devoured of tho bungry victors. Fanlt hus been found witu this passage. It Is alleged that Indfun corn, which is here descr.bed, 18 indigo- nous to the New World, and wes unknown to the an- cients, and thct Jr. Talmage, in 2ssvming o Seld of corn in Canaan to Tesemble a fleld of corn _in Indiana ar Iilinols, exhivits an increditls ignorance, But this cannot be, Air. Talmage has resd the Bible from his youth up, end it wzs probably when ne was taidag it us 0 marning exercise in (he public schools that tie corn upon which tho lsraelites fell vorsciously, after steady diet on wanuz, Lcame indelibly easociated in his mind with the corn, the roasting oar of wuich Le may have sometiniea_cribbed himselt from a farmer 8 tield, ea {8 often the manner of schoolboys. Tuen it s possible tae entiquarians may be wrong, and Tulmago right. There msy hava besn coru in Canasy sucu a8 we grow in the Aliami lats, and the I-raclitien may havo been 80 hungry and taonghtiass us to eat it all up aud leave none for azed, “At zll ovente, we czu not afford to spare that pictura of the 01 Israelits erving out “corn” as Le enthusiastically pealcd 1n car of it3 £ ken envelope, 3 “The resder must olrcady perceive the advantage of Lavng the Bible read in_the public scbools, from the pactical eileet (to say nothing of the religions), which 1t Liud upou the yoang mind of Taluage. There i3 zo ‘doubt that the subject of Christ'a advent—not that which is prudicted, but thot whica Luppened 2,60 years_ 3go—hos Lom a lifo study by tho Brookiyn preachier. And how beautifully he plctures the excite- ment which was produced amony the celestial Bi:r- archy when it was known that Lle wag about to lei7e His shining se.t, sssume tho tiesl, and expiate ths sl of Adam, Hers it la: “ Waen a General 15 about to go out to the war3 a fAogond asword are puuti Iy pressuted to him, and the maidens bring flowers, and the younz men load tha cannon, end ths train gtaris amid 8 huzza that drowns the thunder of tne wheels and the eariek of tue whistle, But all of this wili giveno idesof tho arent that there must have beon 1u heaves when Cnrizt stagted 02t on the campriza of the worlid’s con- queat, If they could Lave foresean the siezs thst wouid be aid to Him, aud the niltrestment He wou.d tter, and the burdeas hs woild bave to fizht, I ‘iere would have been & midion_ voluntesrs heven who would hive iussted on coming slong whh Him; but no, they only accom- panied Him fo ' be gate, their last shout he:rd clear down to tha earta—tho spics bo- tween the two worlds uridged witha great hossona. 1t know thero 14 a wide difference belween man's £ oif to Latile and coming back ageiu. £0c3 0 it 13 with epaniots uatangled, with banner un- pecked, with Lorses sleek and shiung f:om the groom.” All that thereisof struggle =nd pain is to comeyet. So it wis with Obrist, He Lad noiyet fougot a battle, Ho was starting out, and though this World did not give Him 2 warm-uearted greetivg, there was o geutle wmother who folded Him in her arms ; sud a babo tinds no G1Teren:s bolween o stable aad n_pal- sce, between courtiers snd camel-drivers, As Jesus stepped on the stage of this world, it was amidst an- gelic 820uts in the galerics, and amidat the kindest materas] ministrations 1t would never have dome, of cousse, to rovoal to these mililons af enthusisstic younteers Wit wis about (0 happen on the earth, Tacy 3w fu tae d partare of tho sccond Person of tos Trinity onfy s (elestial potency, who wes_going forth to conquerd world and make it His own. Hal they kuowa ot tho salieriog and death that awsit:d Him taey would havo pourad over the battiouents of Heaven 1n thair irre- Bistible ardor, if the gates were Langed iu thoir faces, and takon the world by storm. It Wi hecessery to Loodwitk thewm to kuep them back.’? Tho reader must s woro clesrly than ever the im- portance of putting the bible futo the public schoois when the efect is to produce such briliznt expotitors of its cvents and fucidents. 1f, in:tead of ono Tal- mage, we Liad a thousand (and the Bible in the schools wili bring them out), we snould_have such a brilliant pictcrial inumination of Holy Writ that to_ work of Sction would be nalf so fascinating elthier to tas young or the o, Another fnstanco of Tslmage's method of making tho Bivle marative interctivg: In a discourse on - Zikla in Ashos,” be uses tho fucient of tho burning of that city by tha Amal-kites und David's pursait au rescuo of the wives snd children who wers being rushed Off 1nto CApLvity, to s20w us how we must get back to our friends who have been captured by the Tord snd caken to the other side of Jordan. Here is the remariable pas-age: “Thera arc famifes in my congregation whose niomes bave been broken up. No batlering ram smote in the door, no fconoclast crumbled tae stetuss, uo “fiamo leaged amid the curlains ; but 8o far as all tue ‘joy and merriment that once beiouged to thet housp e concersed, the home has depurted. Armed dis- eases came down upon the quietnoss of ths su think sceae—scatlet fovers, or pleurisios. or con- sumptions, or undefined disorders = eame and - selzed Tpon somo members of that fum- ily and carded them sway. Ziklag fn ashes! And you go atont sometimes weeping and sometinies en- Faged, walting to get back your loved ones 2s much 28 Dividend hismen wanted to reconstruct their de- spoiied bousebolds, David will either siay the Amalek- Ties, or the Amalekites will slay David, And sat 16 not the fort to be taken worih all the pain, all the reril, all the Losepement? Look! YWhoare they on the bright hills of Heaven yonder? There they are, those wio £at a5 your table, the chair now vacant, There they 270, those whom you rocked in infancy in the cradle, or hushed to slcep in your arms, Thero they are, those in whose life your Life was bound up. Tuey are watchivg from thoze heights to sec if through Christ you can_ take that fort, and whether you will rush in Tivon them—vitors, Let it never be said on earth or in Heaven that Davidand Rismen pushed out with braver hearts for the getting back of thelr earthly {risuds for a few years on artn than we to get our de- parted!” “The New York Sun afects to tee profanation in this comparison of the iczders of the Amalolites to Chrlat £nd tas angels to fhe Amalckites themselvas. And it dovs sound quear to put the Lord in the position not much Letter than thst of 3 highway TOLLT or a ban- dif, seletug un plumderiog towns, snd running avsy with the £poils ni:d the women and children, leaving men, like David, to rush after and retake them. B.it this 1a only cort of bighly wrought metaphor, and if one can get over the comparison of tho two forces in the strite, tho picture becomes as rich in color as the most florid of the paintings of the old masters, aud far lcss material, Sapposing sowe artist were to rep- Tescnt this sceno upon canvas, with the Lord asan ‘Amzlokite Captain, securely bebind His intrenchments Wil His captives, ond the hard-headed men who bad Poen plurdered Tushing fn hot hast to storm the fort- Tess aad recover their siolen property 7 Would it not ko 8 snsation in the gilded *al.ons af Europe, or in the Art-Hall of the Centenuial Exhivition ? 'All of this com's origiually from the reading of the Bible in the pul lic schools, ~ Had not Talmaga bad the Bweet boon in Lis south of hearing portions of the sacred Book read by echoolmarms snd echoolmasters, ‘We might hevo st this enchauting pictuo of the pur- suit and capture of stoien property. "Ono passsge more and we must have done for the present witts Talmage, He believes ina literal resur- Teetion of the bods—end in that respect does mot dif- fer from many devout Christions. But owing to his uaxly #chool edlucntion In Bivlo literature, h2 is able to put that belief into mora-plcturesquo lauguage than others. Hosaya: w1 expect to res my kindred In hesven; I expect to gee them a8 certainly 88 I expect to §o home to-day. Ay, 1 £nall more ceriainly eco them. E‘ghtor ten “Wilt come up fromthe graveyard buck of Somerville; and oze will come up from_ the mountsins back of ‘Amov, Citna; and snotuer will como up from the ses of Chpe Hstteras; and thircy will come up from better than I ever knew them' bere. Aud your friends—tuay may be ‘acroas tho 2es, but the trimpet that souuds here will sciiad there, 'You wiil cowe up just on Lhe szme day, Some morning you have overslept yourslf, and you pen your exes tnd eco that the sun is high in tho Leavens, snd you_eay, * 1 have overslept, snd I must baupand oft Eoyou will open your eyes on the morbing of the resurrection, in the ful blaze of God's Tight, uud you will say, *I tuust be uo and away.! O Sea, you wil come up, 3nd there will be & reunion, & Zecoustruction of your family.” ‘A1l these old friends ate to +* come up* on tha morn- ing of the resurrection whether they arcon tnis side of tho earih or the other. In theold times, when it ras belleved the earth was flat, this expectation would | not Lave been unreaccaable. But how is the gentle- man buried ot Amoy »nd his friends eepulchred in Somorwille to como up together “ in the twinkling of snegoat tho sound of the trumpet?” It ia a prob- Jem in ubysics which nobody but Tslmage can_solve, and the man who_can tell us precisely whers heaven 18 Tocated, a3 he does, 18 certainly equal to that. And while on that, let us seitle the location of heaven so NUMBER 143, there will be no misunderstanding Lereafier. Mr. | most litoraliy sitting at the feot of Jehovih and Talmugs ssys ¢ “Modern discovery shows that the pinets £0 around the sun, tud that too sun and tho planets—ia- deed, all tho celoscnl systems—go in oo direction aud in one circle, all going around about some great cen- trul would; & world vast beyond all astrogomical cal- culation; 3 world vast enough, by power of graviti- tion, to_wheel the wholo universe around it, A3 our sun—our little sun—is 500 times larger than the earih and tho planets, thus wheeiing them around if, 80, then, I suppose, tho great central world of which [ speak s 50 umes larges thau ali the other worida put togother, €0 s to whe:l them around it. You must Lelieve in the existence of such 3 central world, unless | you reject all scientific exploration and deduction. That world, stupeudous beyoud arithmetic, beyoud words, beyond fnaiation, 1 veileve Is heaven. From all parts of the universe the souls of tie desd will fiy to that centre. That sholl gatber upall the resources 2nd splendors and glories that God ever created, or redeeming love ever achieved. Gradually the woslds will expire; not only ours, Lut thos: and these, and, finally, all sava two—the one great central world of which I spe.k, and a world of darkness; the first the residence of the righceous, the other the abodeof the wifkied. You say this theory makes beaven agreat way off. No! No! Wa calculste distance by ths time taken to traverse it, and the departed spirit will ot take the miitlonth part of a secand to get there,” Now, this i in the last degree satiefactory. To bs sure, our limited reading in the Biblo does not endblo us to atfirm that Mr. Talmage bas Scriptural warrant for fizing by locality of ths final ahiode of good or bad spirits, but our cducation was neglected in thit reepect when a scholar iu the public sccols ; and this more perauades us of the necessity of getting back tho .Book into the schools as soon a8 posuble. By its cloza study Mr, Talmage ban been able to fix everything with such precieion that neither ha nor his congrega- tion can hercafter be cesailed by a doult, And thisis very desirable. Pomtive knowledge in relation to tho spiritual world and its conditions is a8 important a3 exact ecience in the pbysical world, Talmage las i, an 1 50 may every boy and girl if the Bible 15 not kept out of ths public achools. But we should recommend, and the Board of Edu- catlon should not overiook it, tat, as great aids to t children in their Bible stadies, and s a light to their understanding, a valume of Talmage's sermons shoui L o into th2 schools with every capy of tae Bible or tha Ne:v’LTu'.nmen(. No school will' ba complete with- out S —— THE SABBATH. WHY IT WAS INSTITUTED. To the Editor of The kicaao Tribune : 0ax Pank, Jan. 13.—I want to maxe another drefcon your generosity for a brief space in your colnmns to forther cousider the Sabbath ques- tion. It must be manifest, I thinlk, to every intelligent reader tbat thie question is the ob- jecuve point of the article in your last Sunday issuo on no-lawism, and the reveiend gentleman, po donbe, thinks his reductio ad sabsurdum has complotely annihilated every traca of opoosition to his view of thecase. It theeod of the dis- cussion is polemic succzss, the goutlemen has, porhaps, achievod a victory, though oven tnat is dombefal. if the purposs is the acquisition of trath, be bas madg worse thao & failure. Legiti- mate argument is boand o give an ndversary tho benefic of his whole proposition, or statamant of fact, or belief. Now, thoro is nmasuch belief entertained or advocatad bythe oppoueats of ths Sabbath a8 no law. Taeir afcmation 13 Lhat the old law was repealed and a new on2 enacted. This is a very different thing from no Jaw atall. alr. B. deals with tho ropeal part of the proposition, lesving the otber half out of sizht. Taking the wholo of tho theory as its friends express it, there 18 no ground for the re- duetio ad ubsurdom 2:gawzat at all, becanse ibs whole may ba true, and whether trao or wat, as 2 matter of fact, invotves no adsurdity. s thero 80v good reason why God mikbt not, 1f e chose, repeal tho Mlosaie Code, inclading tue decalogue. and re-eaact as mach of is as He saw fit, leaving oat sll tuat He deeracd not in harmony with the new order of things?. I do not sav He did, bat I ask, would doing 1t expose Him to the chargo f absurdity 2 1 bava no interest in the rupeal and re-evactment tpeocy, sud do not care whother it is votad ap or down. 1 want merely to point out the weaknessof an argumant pus forih a8 unanswerable. ‘Laking a part fortae whole, as Alr. B. doos. s conclusion follows logically; taiing the whole. it i8 & non seqatar. But eriticiumg Mr. Bailey is not making soy progress in tho elucidation of the Sabbatn quas- tion. I wiil, tberofore, devate tho remainder of Lins article to the origin and puruoss of tho Sib- bath : whon and why it was instituted. Tuoere are so many crude notions on this aubject that need to ba met and cleared away one by one that it is ont of the question to think of rfreatiug it clearly snd fauy within the lmus of a short newspaper article, but I wiil do tue best I can aud_truat.to chance or the courtesy of the edi- tor for ano:biar opportunity. e mo_£ay hera that when I use the word Savbath I mean the Mosaie, not the Yord's day, or Chuistian Sab~ bath, 24 it is called. The firss thing I find tu con- tend with is tho popular belief and ortnadox teaching that che Sabbath was iustitated by God and giver to mau at the close of creatioa. when He blessed the sevonth dav aod sinctitied it. “those who advacate this theory make an admis- sion wlhich virtually destroys it. Thoy sitirm that Moses wrote the Peutatouch some 2,500 rears altor creation. Now, I will answer the =ssertion that the Sab- bath, 5 o pouitive sud real iustuntion, hal its ongin at tue close_of creation, by 2sking who, duriug all theso 2,590 yeacs, Luew wuat Giod did durin;; creatiou, what ™ motbol of procedare Lo followed, or what He smd in reation tothe seventh day? ‘To whom did He tell tuo siory ? doses does no: mention guy rev- elation as having been meado on the sabject, 2nd in the absenco of information from recogmized suthority we bave no mght to assume that any wiuch revelation. was mede. The theclocical teach:ng and curraut bel.ef that tho Sabbath bas been in practical being evor sincecreation resolves itsolf iuto this: God instituted the Sibbath, buc_kept 1t3 inscitution & profound secres for about 2,000 years ; yet all this time it was bind- 1ng on the conduct and the conscience of the world. Icommend this to Mr.B. a8 a lemtimato exampla of the redocu ad absurdum form of argement. The truth is there was nos, s0 far as the recard shows, or as we havo any reason to believe, any Sabbath law or any Sabbath known to tae worid before its institution in tue wilder- ness a8 recorded in Exodus, sixteenth chapter. The days of labor were designated oy the fall of manna, and the Sabbath or day of rest by its ab- seuce. 'his we Lnow from the record itself. Ail the tueories of its antecedent existence mere groundless cobjectura, On seventh ™ day they = were told oot to look for mannz, 88 they would not find it iuthe flalds. Sowe, howsver, forzet- rul or indifferent to the commaud—the penaity not yet beiug aitached—went out to seei for it, 2nd God reprimanded them,. and added, ‘‘ Be- cause I bave given you the Sabbath, therefors I have giveu you oo the sixth day the troad of two daye.” " 1i the origin of the Sabbath dated back to creation, with what propriety could God gay, ** L bave given vou the Sabbath "2 To say He 'had given them what thoy and the world bad always tad, would baraly excice much reverence for Lbe giver, or gratisude for the wift. The pen- alty was afrerwards attached, aud ia recorded 1n Exodas, Liirts-tires chiapter, aud an_example of 118 inllict10n 18 given in Numbers, fifteculs chan- ter, taicty-8econd Lo tlurty-s.xth verses nclus- we. It is now in order_to 'consider why, waen the Iaiw was given, tbis Sabbath observauce was em- braced iu tho decalogue ; ana this is the vital question, becauce it is the wource wheuce tlow all the error and misconception on the subject. For reasons of his own, not casential to this dis- caesiun, God chose Abrabam and his seed to be to Him, ss He termed it & pecular people. Whatever the Divine purpose was, Or whatever the end to be attained through the selection of Abrabam and hig posterity, we may be sare that ‘oue coudition mors than all others was essential to its consummation, viz.: That the Israclites slould be keot, if possible, from 1dolatry. 12 thev could not be kept from xmbibiog tae poly- toeistic notions and practices of the surronuJimg nauons. God's plans, to be wrought out througn thom, a8 lasituments, must inevitably prove fail- ures.’ Hence, this thought =od .he correspondicg otfort of God took precedence of every other, because the whole etruciure to be roared, the whole problem to oe solved, depended upon it. It waa. thererore, of primary irpo.tance o insti~ tate and put into practics the test means the wisdom of God coald devise for the preveation of 1dolatry among the Tsraelites. - To this eud God jrovidentially took them down wte Egvpt, the very focus of polythewsm and idolatrous wor- shup, that Ho mizht find opportunity ia their de- Iiverance to exhibit His supremacy over all false gods. To to this end also the bitterest enmicy wus afterward inculcated becween thwm and the Causamites, ror this purpose also Pharaoh’s heart was herdeved, not fur the mere purpose of bardaning bis hears, but tbat the opportunity ought Le prolouged till the power and s1premacy of Jebovah shoald be demonstraied both to Egrpt and Isrsel, especially the laster. Now, straoge as 1t may secm ana does seem to us, atter all this dieplay of power, lsrael was eo imbrued with the epirit of idolatry. and the tendency to practice 15 was eo strong, thal bt a for weeks after their departure, while al- gazing on the awful symbols of His pressncs arouud them, they urge Aaron to make them g | oiden calf to go before them and lesd them. Surelgsuch o jeopte muat have some powerful resiraint placed upon this tenloncy or ther wll almosc at ance drop iuto the idolatrous pra~tice of toe people around them, aud the k:owledza and worship of the true God mill bo u.teriy blotted out or but ferbly eutertained. Thers. fore the great orovlem is what shall be done t: compel the LsrazLte to keep constantly with bim tie recoguitiou of God. To do tus, to azcomplish this ous purgose, God. in His wisdot, insticated tha Sabbath. It was the expedieut, and, as God saw if, the ves: expedient to prodace the desire” resuit; for we caonos supposs God to use othol than the bast mesus, _ Let us examune it and sse if we can teil why it wa3 so admurabiy adapied to the end sought. The Sabbath command gives, as the reason fo resting, or rather aostsining from labor on the seventh day, that after sixdays of crastiva labos Gud rested on tho seventh. Tue langaage 1, “Becauso in six days the Lord male Leaver ana earth, the gea sud all thas 1z _them is, sac rested on the weventh day, Whurefors Goc blessed the seventh day and sanctified 1t.” The Sabbaih law was, then, & compul=ory procest forcing tie Jew ta drop all hus temporal patsuita. #laud, a8 it wero, pecsectly st i 0a9 daz ju s2v- a0, and logk baclk o creation and Jebovah as e Creator. Cartainly wa can conceive of Do.slag better adapted to prevent idolatry than forving tae mivd back to ths coutemplation at cretion, aad_the recozmition of Gol ax its Author. If this would not prove 1 check ou the idolatrous tendency nothing else wonld. Looking at the matter as it presente itzell to my undersianding, sceing that tie con- sumnation of ail God's purposes shrugh the Jew gepended complately on bis p:oservation from icolatry, I can see clearly how this Sabbatk law bad the awful sanction of deatis attached for ita violation; and § see a'so_why, thouzn not ersentinlly o moral precept, it was made a part of the Decalogue. {iwas the pilar that sup- ported the whola structare. Wi.bout it the tec commandments were not, practically, worth at much to Jew or Gentile ss the stoue on which they were writtea. Whilo tlus 18 true, it i ejually true that the law of the Sabuath i3 not, or was not, o moral law, only 80 far us the exi- gency of the siuazion und tho resnlt tobo attain- ed through it mvested 1t for tha time with moral characteristice. Every expedient that God findi or tias found 1t necossnary to resort to in His dealisg Wwith mau, 13, while tue uecessity that called 1t into use remaioa practicaliy morsl in tho highest scuse, bat ita moral attribato lives onlv 80 long s the necessity i whicl 1t kad 1te origiu contiuusz. Lhis is procizely the case wizl the Sabuath. A certain necessity in the condi- tiun of the world ealled 15 uto ve.ug for & spal- fic purp: and wuen the ne:essit; passed uwi) the Sibbath weus with 1t. i When tha powan it extrzcted thero is no more use for un antidate. It i3, p.rhaps, well to remack that is was not the Srorid nt laryge that was to be preserved immedi- ately from 1idolacry, but the [sraelites. The rest of ths worid was idolasrous alreair, and the effort was only to £ave thogs not wholly loat. Mouzs. *“THE §388aTH DAY." 310525’ " THEOBY. To the Editor of Lie Chicaco Trioune : Caicaco, Jan. 1{.—In TEs TRIBGNE of ths 8th inst. “Mogea” very kindly presents a theoryin apswer to my inquiry: When, and by what an- thonty, was the change made from the seventh to the frat day of the week? It is, substantial- 1y, that moral law i Jewish, therefore not bind- ing; aud that Sundayis a celebrazion day, on account of the resurrection. He asks mo to as- sent to the statemant : That the Mogalc or Jewish S=bbatl wis iven to.tha Jews, ouly £ them, and w8 noL obligatory oo aLy othiez people, and was 2ot ouscrved or regardad by <oy Gentile DA, Winle I wonld be glad to ees what arguments he can vring to sustain this sheory, 1 canaot as- gent to it ; for it seems clear thas the Sabbath was institated at c:eation for the race, the same aa the famiiy law. Both the Sabbath aud social reletion bad no reference 1o the Jows, for buo- dreds of years traospirad under this onder of thiugs before tize Jenw=h mation cameintd ex- istence. ¢ a'60 seems clonr that the orthodox view of tho Ten Commandments is tha correct oue. In- corporated 10 thew ia tue Sabbatl luv 08 well ax toe fomuly law. ‘Fhey are tue true expoueuts of our obligations to God aud to mes, which the New Testament reassorts with great emphasis. Our raligious teachers make tbeuw the fonudstion of morsl oblgatons. Evangelsis as well a3 theologizns preach tbe vandiy ot the len Cozi- mandments. Au sccount of 0oe of tho sermons ofthe greatest lvivg evzogeher—Mr. Moody —soya: 1 would like to just weigh men. I will put the scalen up here, Imagitic thew Dangiug down Iroi Heavew in tais ball, and we ta_be weiguel. Some might sy 2 T Lope you are nct goiog to_ weigh me by e old Jewwiah law, the Ter: Commandmsate.” They tell us the Sermon on tue Mount sbolished those. Buiwe read ; * Think not that I am come to destroy tae Liw or the proghets ; 15 Dot come to destroy, but ta faldll” Iusiead of the law being abolished, He lizted it 2 thousand fimes higher when He cume. Men say they are not sinners. Let us be weighed in God™ se.lis andsee. & Zfr. Moody then ennmesated tha vital points of each of the Ten Commandmants agtbe neighta to be used in the weighing and the pruviug ot meo. Again be says: It is na much a command to repent @ 10 keep holy tho Sabbath day, not to lie, not 10 s¥ear. 1f aoy ono goes out of tlls ball to-night withoat = ‘penting. he or she break:s 3 commandment. If I coutd admit the premises **loses™ haa 1aid down. L migbt be preparal to acceps his idea that the Clristian Sabbath camé iuto exist- ence because— It is instinctive in human natare to commemorate great ovents Ly cel:bratiug in sowe appropriste Jaaaner the day of thelr occurrence. 'This the Curis: tians did by meeting on the tist dsy of the wek f worskip, sacrsmeatal communion, and Christian fel- lowskip. The wonder is not that they thus observed he day, but the wonder would be had they notdine it, considering tho estimation in wilch the resurrec- tion was held by them. There iz, however, & difficolty in this. because it makes the Sabbath werelv a cotamemoration day, withont any Bible authority to keep it, tor tha purpose specified, tawely, the resurcection. According to * Moses,” it i3 & Dew iuysitution, a celebration day, for besays: The celebration of the Lord's Day was an affalr ntterly indepondent of the Jewish Sabbath. =nd would,” Do doubt, have bien observed as it washad thee Dever beeh & legal Subbath at ail. - Taere 3as 0o swap- ping, nor trading, nosubatitution of one for the otz io any rense wiatever. fhe two inauiutiona are utterly nniiko in every essential faature; end, though theologluns bave labored and still Lbor with a zeal worthy of a better cause to harmonize thst, they cad- zot bt Teel that tkeir Iabor has been to & good degres in vato, I rmse the question: How is it to ba celos brated 7 Isthe Germau practica consirtent with + Moses'” idea of the celebration of the Lord's Day 2 The Rev. J. Bailey. in last Sundav's Trmuen, advocates tho orthodox view in regard to the walidity of the lnw, except he claims thera bat been 00 chauge of the day of the Sabpath. I trust ho will get the atteation he deserves om this point. Let the modification or change of the moral law ba showp, thus retaiving the law in its completeness, Laruay. S RELIGIOUS MiSCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. The Convocation of Canterbury 1s to meet for business Fob. 15. ) _The recogoition services of the Harrison Street Bartist Church will be postponed until Sunday, Jan. 28. The Moravians bave a missionary fund of £106,900, and 85 missionaries in tna fleld. In progorucn to their numbera aod wealth this is the banner mission Charch of tho world. Inone cozuty in Georgia a missionsry of the Sunday-School Tnior has withia seven weeka or- ganized four Sundsy-schools, in places where there was neither chureh nor school before. The Presbytérians of Pitteburg and Allegheny Citv are rejoicing over the sacuass of tha efocte made to endow their Western University. Four vears oo Mr. Willism ‘I haw pladged 3100,000, oc ondition that £100,000 additionat were raieed. ‘The money bas been eecured, aud now & gita will be chusen sod buildings pat ap- “Phe roccipts of the largeet five Foreign Jis- sionary Societies in daring the year 1874-5 were 88 follows: V¥ Sisstrnary So- ciety.$399,730 : Church Missionary Society, 3379,~ 175 Society for the Propagation of the Gosnel, $674.130; London Missionarsy Society, $517,763: Baptict Alissionary Society, 2200,L00. The Baptists of Michizan number 16 associa, tions, gatbered in 307 churches, with a member- abip of 21,418 ‘They have, welading 7 Licea~