Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1876, Page 1

! VOLUME 29. FINANOCIAL- 3 :Tllfl Gorman American Bank Will open on FEDRUARY 1, st $9 NORTH CLARK-ST., A Branch Office, For the transaotion of a Commereial and Savings Bank Business. JUBTUS KILIAN, President, W. J, HALLER, Castler, 1. KIETHEL, Cashfcr of Branch Office. REMOVALS. TTTREMOV AL HART BROS., Late T0 snd 61 Wabash-av,, § WHOLESALE MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, by numwedwthm“n)e‘vlvmu.nd spacious buikdings, Nos, 163,165, 167, and 169 Franklin-st,, Opposite J. Vo Parwell & Co,, whoro thoy will be glad 10 welcoms their friends and patrons, old and new. H, ¥. HAHN & 00,, Wholesale Jewtlers, can now be ftound on the first floor fn the now butldiug, ARTISTIG_TAILORING. 10 PER CT. DISCOUNT arraents ordered of us during SANUATY and Gl FEDRUARY, 1870, © Quality, Style, Fit, Durability. #Only 80 {ar a8 Dross springs from and fllustrates eharacter, can It be sdmitf to the realm of art,” 'WEDDING GARMENTS A BPECIALTY, BEDWARD EBELY, STTUATION WANTED, A competont andreliable account- snt of soveral years’ oxperienco de- gires a position as Cashior or Book- keeper. Bost of roforences and s ,eurity given if desirod. Addross 118, Tribune offlce. FIRM CHANGES. DISSOLUTION. The copartnerahip heretofore oxistiug under the !frm nama and stylo of Chase, Hanford & Co, is this day dissolved by matual consent, T, O, fanford ie ' sathorized to collect all debta duo sald frm, aud sl Isbilities of said Srm must be presented to him for payment, 0. P. CHABE, Chicago, Jam. 26, 1870, P.C. ANFORD, Tbe undersigued will continue the Wholemale OIf, Paint, and Glaas business at the old eorner, 81 and 63 South Wator-st. amd 1, 3 and 5 Wabsah-av. Thanking the trade for the liboral patronage to tho old firm, 1 would respectfully solicit the same for himsolf. i T, 0, HANFORD & €O, DISSOLUTION. Publio notice 1a heroby given that the copartnorship * heretofore extating botweon the undersigned, and do- | ing business st No, 111 Bouth Clark-sk., Chicago, il noder the frm name of 8, L Carr & Co, s this day { aimolved by mutual consent, and tht oll outatanding : sccounts dus the sstd Srm will bo collectod by our suo- im'lnb!ulne-.l Jennings & Co., who assumoall i [E gy SR 2 oulstanding labilities, 8. L, CARR, N. B. GRAVTS, Cbiosgo, Jan, 23, 1873, E, JENNINGS % CO. QOEAN NAVIGATION. STAR BALL LINE. UNITED STATES & BRAZIL MAIL BTEAMSHIFS, Salling regularly evory moutu from Watson's Wharf, Brooklyn, N. ¥, F Pernambuco, Bahis, and Io Janerlo, calling e ohine, Borio 1 2 00, NELLIE MARTIN, 3,000tons, Thursday, Feb. 3, at 3p.m. %O BRAMALL, 2,800 tons, Wednosday, March 8, 3. B, WALKER, 2,100 tons, Saturday, Apeil . Thess steamers aro perfectiy new, with all the latest smprovements, having Arat-class passenger scommo- datlona, and: st reduced rates, epply to Fortlant wm:.vomx & 00, Afim‘:(pl" &4 Pioe-st., New York, ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE. Oonsral Transatisntic Cowpany's Alall Steamors York aod Havre, via Plymousn, The on this {avoriie route for Lthe Continout sore scutnerly thao Aoy other), will sall from Plor No. W, Nosth River, as follows? SPRILKLIL Lau: AMERI i1k, Ponsolt b st i b ik Bifries g, i semmnlylhy BT EoEe Bty M7, mmoastions, ine National Line of Steamships, NEW YORK TO QUEKNSTOWN AND LIVERPOOL. BPAIN, 4971 tons., Saturday,Jan. 29, at 7a. m, ¥'¢ 150 tons, tuiday, Keb, 8, at 13 noon, RV AN Naturday, Hob, 13 &t 7 mis ¥oR DIRECT, ENMARK, 5,724 tos,....Satarday, Jan, 1, at7a. m. OLLARD, 5,847 tans, narsdad, B atloa. m. Cabin pasiage, 860 aad 870, currodoy. . Ratarn tak. ta at sed toaraxe tickets. €2 curisnay. bt for £1and upwards on Grest BritAIS ’Rwly :::” ': “'x n:" ':'wi&..m:'nmw. sast sorner Olask and Bandelph.scs, (oppostie new fifm_ 2 House), Ublcago. DROsY Great Western Stoamship Line. From N Yok o Biriicl (Enaland) dirsct. CORNWAL] aaurday, Ji O e ok e lmm el .-'u T ighs Depos £ dvbatgeimi Al Doy MI!GELLA‘NEDUS. = “Town of Kake Tazea and Bpecial Assessment are now 4ce and psyable st my ofiice, 161 and 163 LaSallo-st, Pay up and save costs, a8 ths sccond inatallment of the Walsr Specials are now dus, with 10 per cent added, Those dusiring can payup the whols sssess- went and save the intercst. PELELR OALDWELL, Oollector, THE SPRING SESSION Of the Chlcago Female Colloge st Morgsn Park (12 mils south of Ohicago, on tho Rock Isiand Dummy Hne) will commence_on mnd?.,nnn, 31, Moy circus 14 address G. THAYER, Prosident, at Morgan Park, Cook County, Il ‘'weklles and AMonthilss through- s READIN out Karopeoa flle from PRBE‘ s m.tol3p. 1 . i¢ (#0oarboniac JON. MACKIN MEDIGAL. CHICABO MEDICAL & SURDICAL INFIRMARY, POR BTRANGKRS AND CITIZRNA— Datiixs, \WEKKLIEs, and MONTHLIZS from mv?flunp‘lmdu.num.-nw-n. adas, sad have had from 1540 40 yours' expepionco, Cone frea. Call or wrils, Correspondence con Sdential, Addrees Chicago Medical and Burgical In. T Bryant Hiock, norihesst corne. Tan. Ermary, Boom {lph aid Dearborni-sts., Ohicago, Bead for circular, jem— * _.FRACTIONAL OURRENCY, _ $56.00 Packages orP FRACTIONAL CURRENCY IN EXCHANGE FOR ‘3l of Natioal Caoency, AT (IRIBUNE OFFICE e hitano RELIGIOUS. irst Sermon of the Rev. Broolke Hlcriord. Why He Came Here, and What His Work Will Be. The Revs Henry T, Miller Also For- mally Begins Ilis Pastoral Labors. The Duty of Pastor to People, and of Flock to Shepherd, Dr, Williamson Explains Why the Masses Do Not Go to Church. WHY DID | COME ? FINST 8VRMOY BY TUE REV, BROOKE IETFORD, The Rev. Brooke Herford, of Manchestor, Eo- gland, recently cnllod ss pastor of the Church of thu Mesaiah, entered upou his charge yester- day, and in tuo morning preached from the fol- lowing text : Therefors eame Innto you without galnsaying as s00n 8s 1 was pent for: T nsk, thercfore, for what ine teut yo bavo sout for me.—dcla, ., 20, 1o spoko as followa: This was Potor’s quostion to the Itoman Cen- torion, Cornolius. You will remembor that Potor, whilo presching among bis own Jewish peoplo at Joppa, was called away Lo tho Romsn settlomont at Cosaros, where this man, tho com- mandor of the garrison, and hia frionds, wanted tohoar his gospel. And though it looked & straoge thing to Petor, somothing quite outsido of what bo had ever contemplated in hls work, vot the call came in such an carneat fashion that he could not holp feeling that the Lord meant him to go. And soho wont. And yot when ho got {thero smougst thom all—he, & simplo, rigid Jow, brought up to think it o wrong thwg to have anything to do with mion of othor nations, right {n tho midst of & grest company of Gontilo Ro- mans—it seomed #0 strango to him that he could not help putting it to thom—what did it mean, for what wtont had thoy sent for him ? I am not quite in such a strange case as Peter waa to-day ; and yot thero {s_sufliciont thatis unusunl in this poeition that I bogin to-day to ocoupy. to pot meo lxunlnx much the samo ques- tion, "Todo what, la it, that you havo asked mo to break away from tho nsuocintions of fivo and twonty happy years of ministry amoog my own rcoplu ? What is tho work that I am hero for, ho” mero aiming at which justifies euch o cbango? Youcanimagine thiaf 23 I have neared your shores, and como, day by dny, closer to tho actual begivning of my work among you, 1 havo ofton put that question to myself. And to-day I folt that.I must ask yom to put it to yourselves, and I do not know auny botter way to shape it than in this old toxt : ** I hovo come unto you without gainsaying as noon ss I was sont for, I ask, thorefore, for what intont yo bave sont for mo.” Audif Inotonly ask the question, but suggest the answor, it 18 not be- caugo I do not trust your nnewer, but Locaupo I do trugt it. It inn common work that we have todo. It s vot my work onlv, I should be poworless alone. 1t is yoursand mine togethor, and it is ossontisl that we ehould have ono fdes of i, onmo oloar aim, one bBtrong purposo; and it s Dbecauro 1 bava fuith in tho earnestness of your purpose that I dare vonture to interpret it by my own. And now, to como at ouco to tha vory heart of the mattor, I tnko it to bethis: That tho one doepest necd of thia strong, oager Weatorn lifo, of which this Chicago of yours is a sort of eon- tro snd metropolis, {s tho simplo roligion of Jeaua Cbrist: alid you have sont for me beoauso you thought you felt in mo some powsr to sot it forth so s8 to make it more roal aud liviog to you and to thoso about you, This matter of tho religious nood of your Wontern lifo, and of tho old roligion of Josus Clrist, providod ik bo freed from the many cor- ruptions which have grown up about it, boing tho truo nnawor to that need, { something about which I must speak to you rathior fully; foron this matter my coming out to you last yoar wna oo oxporienco of special moment to me. You would gather from tha tenor of my proachlng, then, that I am ono of thoso who bave been accuatomed to look vory wuch to Christiavity, to rest upon it—to foel it to bo quite above all otlier xengl‘onu of the world, the Divine nnewer to mon'a doubts, tho Davino leaderabip of life! I do not thiok I bave been less free than othiers. I bave been thinking, studying theso gront sub- jacts ever since I passed out af boyhood with sll tho powor 1 heve Lad, unfottercd in any way, without a bins that I know of, only longing find tho brghtest light of truth, and not ouly tho brightest but themoat unfading and unchangiug, something that I might feol abidiog and good through all shadowa or changes of my own power of seeing, and all the frocst thinking Ihnvo boen sblo to do has just led mo back for this to Clrist,—not to the Chriat of tho croeds, exag- rerated and glorified out of all likonoss to what Ha really was, but to tha simplo, human Chriat of tho Gospels,—as *the h%\n of thowozld," tha truo teachor and leador for human sonls ! I bava often been told I make quite too much of this. Bometimes I hnve foared, mnyaelf, lost it might be so, I cannot toll yon how often, during 1hose past tweuty-five years, 1 Lave found myself digging right down "to the foundation sgain to mnko euro whother 1 was building upon » mere worn out sontimont, or whether I was un the rock of reality and fact. When I came out boro I exporienced u now crisis in this anxioty. 1 kuew that I wes coming, In this groat West, into the midet of s life and mental atmoephore dif- feront from that I wos used to, I kuow it was a life broken loose to a large extent from the Old World's traditionsl ways and tbuuglts, starting in great moasure afrcsh on its own account, wlfix little disposition to accopt the authority of what ia 0ld, or, indeed, any authority atall, know that it was & 1f6 instinot with thio most fearloss {uquiry, and oonstantiy brosking out in neir direotions of akepticism and apeculation § I know that it wad'a life 80 much more oager aud intense than that of my old country that noth- iug but the strongost spiritusl roslities could bave any chanco with it, aud tbat it would {novi- tably find out and ovorthrow whataver was merely conventional or sentimental in my falth, or in my sotting forth of my faith. I was put alraid, even though I folt I might kave to give up some old seitiod convictions, I felt that the one thing sacred {s the truth.—the thing that is, that is what alono can stand; and eo Ifelt that it It should appear to mo, fu this froshened aud invigorated life, thet Christiauity {s simply one of tho world's old systema that hisa boon good in ita day, but is pow pasaed by, effete, no longor wanted, or no longer pownrm‘l to supply man's want,—to be enpersoded by sclance, or positive {sm, or somo vaguo roligion of the abscluto,— still 80 be it, thun ; betior to know it; baforo all tyings, the truth ! Well, 1 think I looked this strong, new life over hiere, that suggested such half doubts, fair- Iy in tha faco, 1 corsaluly logked at it with love ing and approciative eyes. Thuro wia 80 mmuch fuits{ntensity of offort ; in ita fourloss ouslook,— up, aud down, and everywhero, i its irresistibla euterpriso; in Ita rugged, self-rollant power, that attracted me, that whon I. kot homo I told what I had folt about i all ; friends said it waa 43 bad caso of Wostorn fever.” And Ithink I faced fairly oll that met my oar, In _tho way, of impatlencé of tho old conventional words and ‘ways of faith; in the cry for something strong- er, frosher; in the talk of new dovelopmants of religions lifo, that many soetn to expect to arise in place of tho old. Yet all this did uot have up- oumo at all tho offect thas I bisd half anticl pated! I did not seo auy igo of tho simpls re- liglon of Christ befog outgrown, nor of any other ansing to take ita placa, I saw plonty of reso- tion against tho false and unworthy dogmas whiols have been taught in Christ's pame, aud in Christ'a name ot up as the only Bhibboleths, Or pPasE-WOI into IHeaven ; I eaw unmiatakablo averslon lo all narrowness, 1o all attempts at defiing and excluding, to all spiritual sssumption of supeniority., Bub I saw no reaction sgsinst that sluple religion of lov- trust in God and brotherly duty man to whigh wes what Jeaus Himsolf proached ) " moie strongly ou the Goapol of Josua Christ fon that yon need. And thatls the most jm- actly whence ft comos. duty, by a bright, hopeful oulooking to tha Hoaventy bhome, thought about these, any atroog faith in them, eveu any loving and scokiog for such s faith, I am brother with him. even though ho does not fool sa I do sbout whonca thosa thoughts como, and whors thoy moy bost be confirmed, Nol I of our faith, even with oll tho belp I think wo have in Christ, thas I love to come closo to any man who ean bolp mo, Catholio or Mothodist, Drabmo or Theist,—ayo, whatover they may call thomsolves, it is allono tomo! Ilong for widor fellowship | It was nfoyw me thet ono of tho bost fricods who wel York was a Jewish Rabbi thore, an old friend of my Macuobestor life, who porhaps moro than any othor hay taught me to recoguizo that whal T bave lenrned from Christ, others may find clso~ wheére, 8o whilo my positlon is that of Clrls- tian, I put no bars or gates about that position ; Idraw no linea of dotinition or exclasion sboul it. Ilong for brothor! love tho light. est at tho fent,—g80 there I try to hiave my place, and, tho faith quickoned in me thero, it ia my happy work from this day forth to try and mako bright snd real and holpful to you! less nbstractly, fcut of all my work s to you, doar friends, who have called mo Lers. To you, and herel secrated by the faithful min! ask mo to stand Sunday by Buuday to belp you to feol the realitics of faith, the obiigations of duty, tho graud and solomn hopes of immortal- worries of the world; from fts vanities, and plossures, and disappointmonts, snd successos, — from sl that eeems 80 to hom in human soula and hindor tho graco of God,—and vou ask me to try to help you to_realize that other side of note of your nraise! And I will do i, bo my prayer only don't sit there watching iow Dil CHICAGO, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1876, to men, and spent Hin tita in trying to gt tham 3‘!1};1{%" nm'i?: even wbma‘ "rr;lma' ”’f" ?ppu rusting Ay & of continuing to bo diaciploa to Chrint, ?’mnhn\mfl saw \h.fisll! tho time the very best of what {hoy thought thoy wore taking to instead waas roally learnt from Ilim| The fact {s, the mind of soclety has got naturated with tho notfon that Christiani- ty conslals in bolioving in the Trinity. and the atonement, and total dopravity, snd otornal boll, and 8o forth, and whon mon cast these Away thoy too ofton forget to ask whether Jeaus over roally tanght anything of the kind, and 6o thoy think shey are loaving 1im when !mrluw thioy are coming actually nearer to Him bian over they wors in thelr lives bofore. What thoy thrast away s tho Christianity of Augus- tino, and Aneolm, and Calyin, but tloy caonot thrust away tho éhrlnllnmty of tho Hormon on tho Mount, and tlie Prodigal Son, aad the Good Samaritan. And when thoy have put off what q:oy Liava boon accustomed to Identify with Christlanity, there ia a spirit of life which holds them stifl, and that epirit of lifo is Christ, They do not discorn Him; perhaps they actually try to look away from Him; and yet what o was, ond what Ilo said and did, really bolds toir hearts and makes thom what thoy are, And whilo thus saw no sign of Christinnity helog resalty outgrown, I was continually impressed by tho sense of ita bulnr veodod—yes, the one thing needful | With all my sdmiration of this sirong, unter- prielng Westora lifs, the thought kept contiu- ually pressing upon moof kLow wach it still Incke to make it puie and ewocet, and noblo aa man’a life ouglit to bo, However much I miglst be carriod away l?‘ the luterost of this intehise aud desporate worldliness. that works and strivos and specuistes aud falls and riscs, and is knocked clear over by heavy blowa of fortnno, and still gots u again an men pover did I think anywhero olge in the world—jyot I could not hiolp sooing that this life doos not” patiafy! It leaves tho heart still restloss; man * canuot liye by bread alone,” and He who mado thata living word to man is the ona waated to supply that something olso that man must have tolive. 1 watched the oager apirit of compotition, moro eager, more unchecked than snywhore olso in the world, and always the thought Lopt rising of how the ono thing which might softon it 1uto fair and genorous rivalry is Chriat's kpirit of brotuerhood and Iis Golden Rule. Inoted that fine aetf-reliant oquality which, every atep from Now York to Now Mexico, givos character to your pecple, young end old; and alvays it #oomod to me 8 it the one thing needed to keep it from solf-sufficiont bierdacss o just Christ's tendor uplooking in humility, avd trust, and prayer. And so [ wont back with my faith only dooper thau over beforo that this old Goepol,— cleared indoed of superatition, and set forth in tho eimplicity {n which Chriat him. sclf_ proached it—is atilt, and, a1 far as I can sos, 18 to be, the ons divinest fonndation for man's roligion, thio only suro, unl.-hnnnlnj; rost for the world's woary and un- stable life Brothron, yon may or may not agree with me as to that roligion I havoe already tried for a while to proach among you., resting so much than on auything olse; but I think you would not have sent for ma to como and preach it por- manently owong you if you had not folt that whorovor X find it, 1t s abaut tho kind of rolig- portant, the thing Itsclf, not tho eottling ox- I want to soo tho world belped by a happy, loving eense of tho Groat Father's nonrnoss and goodness, Ly san oarncst, brotherly feullug of right™ snd Whoover has any helpful fool so sorrowfully ttho fwoakness and dimness oomed me in Now Ir followship withi all who Yot atill I think I find it bright- Master's sido—yes, sitting at Hlis Yea. Passing now to spoak of my work a little Here in thia fros Fulpfl, nlready cou- try of others, you fty{ Hero you will come, nfter all tho cares and lito—tho inuer sido! You aek me to sot the kay- Ouly ro- memborthat the praisemust beyours, tho real o- ing up of your hearts and voices in s chorus of thankegiviog to onr groad God! You ask mo to load your prayers, aud thers Is no priviloge I count. mora blessed,—only, friends, don’t ot it Ido tk—pray with me, otherwise it's a formality snd asham] You look to mo to reaa you somo belpful, suggostive lessons out of this old Dible: welland good—and I koow no divinet Seriptares—only romember I had better read you a good word ont of the newspaper and have you listeniog eagerly, thau ba rendiog the vory Wwords of Christ iimself'acd you be merely sitting in respoatful silence thinking of somo- thing else] And thon {w ask mo Lo spesk to yott tho'vary best thought I know, to speak it in mperfoct frecdom, on auy of tho groat wide top- fed of roligion and rightcousnosa! Ob, friends, T count this such & grand work, the very onlmination of my iife —and yet I [mt 1t to you that even this mustn't ba my work only! There are almoat as many wasa of listening aa thore are of apesking. I think it is Montaigue who aays that a good apeech s half- made by tho sudience, You know there hna boen a great deal of ate years about * dullness 1n the pulpit.” I don't know that there has beon too much said, for I supposo wa aro dall some- times, only I thiok the ather sida waata puttiog also; I have an idea that a gervico going slowly and dully often has as much to do with dutnosa in the pows as with duliness in thio pulpit] Ho, do you belp mo by the very way in which you como here and listen, aud you will apur me on to even botter things,—and we will journoy joy- tully togetier toward the light! And so it muat be all through! Yon said in the call you sent mse that 1 might) count on your helplnf me 10 my work. Ido count upon it. Imust] I want your holp all through! My primary work among ~ yourseives must bo your work too, Dut that is not all our work, Wo havo a work to the world outsido. Iu these days, when 8o many ara unsettled in faith, and so many are drifted Awn{lfrom all rellgious associa- tions, no church that has any word of good in It con do its dutyand fultiil ita purpose in tho world morely by lolling it over nnd over sgain smong its own faithful f3w, I will nos stop now to speak of what our Unitarian Charch stands for, but whatever it stauds for, whatover it Is which obliges us se honest men and women to warship apart from the graat ciurchos round us, 1t 18 womothing which wo belleve to bo truo, snd important truth, and which it {4 our mission Lo sot bafore the world, I know that one renson why you **sont for mo” waa becauso you be- lteved 1 had some powsr fo set 16 before the warld in & way to bo hoard ; and 1 am auro that one reason why ‘I came to gon withiout gain- sayiug " waa because I folt what a glorious flold this Ernt city of the great Westorn land offers for thls larger work outside the present out- posts of our faith., And horo comes in that which I felt obliged to put to you as the only condltion which wonld give me much hopo of our fairly doing shis outside work, viz.: that of adopting the *Open Church" plan for our ovening mervices, For our morning sorvioes, which, [ supposs, will always be mainly the gatheriog of our members thom- eolvos, lot the arTsngements be aa you have been accustomod to, But for the latter halt of tho day, we want Lo gathor in straugors and {nquir- ors; we want Lo make sn evening church that poorer people who cannot afford the respons bility for regular uu»nn\e skall be able to come to; andafter eleven yeara' working for this vel ond, in just such a groat popnmlonulhh.r{ am convinced that tho beat hope for our doing this ks for this evening church to give up en~ tirely sho idoa that any sead balonge 10 anytody, o declare tho whole placa pa open a3 s publio ball, aud to put 1t to thoss atlonding thin ovoning oharch to moat tho exponses of it, which all our churchies that have trod it have found thom willing to do in England, and which 1 esnnos think poople swould bo Jess willing to do here. And In this I ask your bielp. I kuow this plao cannat bo carried ‘ont effectualiy withont tba cordial good-will and active cu-oporation of thoso who already form this mocicty, but togotuer 1 beliove we may worlc it 8o &3 to be & bappiness to oursolves aud a joy apd hslp Lo many around. Nor ig this all, " Wo must work together nut only in making it bomelike and pleasant for out~ sidors who coma in mmong us, but also in intors esting thom, and winning theni to come in. Ah! what a sugRostive word it is I met with tho other doy : **It takos the whale Chureh o preach tho ‘whole Gouapel [ " Yes, Tho more Sunday proach- yot feellog not avovo the hnmblest parson in the houns, but rosdy to roach out in heartiost aym- pathy toward all, and longing that from all the sama contidence aud encouragoment may be ox- tended o mo. I thivk I koow somo of your trials, and L am surn you Lkuow aumo of mine. You are on tho Board of Trade with the rush of ita thousands of bushels of grain ovory day, It i hard not to cheat. You scll drugs, or graco. rien, or hardwaro. It zequites graco to go down with & falllug market., You plead at tho Lar, or g0 around with bottles snd lancets \‘iallin,f the nick, It iaa slave's life the way tho whip of duty cracks aver youar back. You are pulled at Ly the eountless cates of a homo. It requires a siruzela to Lo always patient, and kiod, and cheerful, And the trinla of mypositlon, the traad-mill of Ing of the mimstor is not tho foll utteranco of & | sermon-writivg, the = delicacy of bearing Charch's word to tho world. That, by tself, i | comfort to the sick, the pang of {ill- 84 thin and ruor 8 atram forn church to give | ing up gravea dug tho sexfon, tho forth sa would bo one of Lhess bymos of oury, | thoneand cares which peck at ona with blood: juat unfiemdounutm singlo notas of ono troble | beak., Al yem! we both bave trials, and botl 8top, ‘That may be the h'i‘ihl‘fl‘ part,—the part | must have bolp. If T noed cocouragoment, no which gives character to all tho reat,—butitis | lees do_you. If you noed oncouragemort, no only beautifal, it only lakes Lold of the hoart, | less do I. Now for fta nccmimz. ‘The pulpit on oue aido tho stoue-lieap ; sl the pows on_ tho othor mie the slone-lioap ; every nand resching for tho loaf. Cilorious pledge!” Alay God holp us to keep it, tho plodge of mutual aympathy! and cheorw, and stirs,” atud helps na when i in filled out with all the rich harmony of parts and tones. Bo s church'a Hunday Jrraachiug can only Lo a full strain of °Clristian glad- ness and holp whon it s filled out in Bat, sgain, lot ua cuter iuto A all the manifold harmony of ita whole people's | covonant ~for the saviag of wmoubs. daily life and word [ Ob, fricnds, lot ns try for | Bweep your eyes over cur marveloos that | What I do Jong for {u coming hero {a to | city of 600,000 inabitanty, and find & apot more bo tho miniater of o peonlo who all the week turongh shall ba telling, in_the mule clognence of noble, simple Chriatian lifo, as well s in tho frank spooch of thase who love their faith, what a good belpful faith this iy which brings ug all here npon tho Sunday! I hopeto have sboat mo men who, whila nctive and capublo 1o the world's affaire, will set down Lheir font for some- thing of a higher honor and uprightucsa than the world yot requires ; ritizens who will show their valuo for the noblo inatitutions of frec- dom by manfully doing their part to keep them uncorruptod and strong; womon who, in tho midst of tholr cares, kball lova (ba ono lmng ncodful, and o the throug of sociely will hol for simplicity and swootness of Jife ; youug men and inatdens who from their youth ap will give their boarts to sll that is pure, aud eerneat, aud good ! 0 “I'hink of it, frionds, and think what a power a charch of such peopls might Le in this com- promising for the upbuilding of a large church than tho ovo on which ours stands. You caanat, You may find somo porhaps 4 good, but nona bettor, Qurais a chioico location. Thereis a Fupulntlnu fiing in Lioro that In & fow years will ino all theso avonnes with stately rfwullmzs. aod ba immenso cnough to give overy church a crowded lLiouso of warskipers, We liave o joalousy of our nalghbore, May they hope for great things, and beaven prospar them boyond tholr hopos. = Room for the Bap- tista, wih thelr bundrad-soar history of conmi- crated zeal. Toom for the Eplecopals, with thoir glorioua Litany. Room for the Motholiats, tho pioneers of every good work, Room for any ono who will coma preacling Josus Christ, and Him crucified, on firo with the ono purposs of lifting mon out of their sins. And, dear frieuds, we need o bo alive to our privileges and responeibilitics. All of our pres- ent population, and all of this incoming acees- muoity, Why, Chrysostom eaid once: * If tho | sion, are to bo girdled about by Christian Influ- Chureh soro but for onoday what it onght to Le, | ences, and God bas placed yon aud me hero for tha world would ba couverted befors mghtfall ¥ [ tho ono purjose of asewting in this glorions Ab, is that too much ? Dat this lesscr graco moy surely boours: esrnestly to think what a churel of Clristian peoplo should bo, and hiou- ently to try together to bothat, And aven such honest trying eholl not bo iv vain. Wa tnay not nchlove all wo try for here, but wa shsll surely win n blessing beyond nll telling in our own livos, and not be without somo good work to X.\uw in tbo community around. God graut it men. work. Why, what is tho one grest miasion of overy proacher of the Goepel ? Himply to watch tho flock already folded, and soe that nona jump ovor tho wall? Nover! Never! I tell you, Lis one miseion 18 to go out after shicep that lavo never scen tho inside of & warm fold, snd bring thom in. My crocd fs thas, if, wih tho il racks, and warm bodding, and safo shelter of tho Gospol, auy sheep utill longs for the bar- ren hoaths outsido, and cannot bo kept in the fold only by constant watching, thia sooner that sheep jumps tho wall, and is away among the uhnrp nottlos, the botter, sud I shall be the last one apending oll my timn to prevent such an oecspe. Nol No! Thera aro 100 msuy lost sheep wandering holplesa ou the monntain for us a8 a church o think of much else paye tho seeking of theso loat oues, and by God'a graca leading them boyond bark of wolf and howl of storm. ‘To this work 1 consccrata mymolf to-day. To this work I want the piadge that you will conseerato yournelves to-day,—the grand, the lorions, tho all-trsoscendant work of saviog mmortal souls, O, what & miesion jtis! Harlsn Pago waa fired with it, and from tho damp baso- mants and tonemont-garrots of New York alleya led hundrods of souluinto the Kingdom. Robert McCheyno was posseseed of 1t and multi- tudes saw tho salvation of God as he went ersing nmong_tho ship-yards and flax-spindles of Dundoo. John Eliot knew nothing olee, bat went trudgiug through the wilds frowm trappor's huat to* Indian wigwem, sayivg, *' My feet aro eiwayw wot, but I pull off my boots, aud wring out my stockinge, apd put thom on again, and go forward, tryiog to ondurs Lardnees as o pood coldier of tho Lord Jesus,” 8o, dear poaplo, may wo Lo inspived. Tho fleld ia awsiting us— souls on every side aro cryini for help, and engels aro looking on, and woo L0 S B3 & church if wo stoop ta any lower worlk than that of saving undying soals. lut, onco miore, lot us make A covenant to life up the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, We now come to the means of eaving men, A weaker reschior nover tood in the pulpit than am I. Eo much of woakncss rests upou mo that with both hands under the smallest sin 1 canuot lift it. So with you. A weaker peopls nevor gath- ered around o miniater, You moy think your- solves strong, bmt all united, you canuot bnn, pardon to o aingle sonl knocking at ous chur door, But horo comes help, the help of ono “from Edom, with (l{cd Rarments frem Bozrah, traveling in the greatuoss of lus strangth,” Ninke way for Min. Beattor gar- landain His patl. Bhout it out 1n Heaven, uud ory it aloud on earth, that Itis 18a sword of omuipotont stroke, swung by omuipotent arm. Miglity Leador ! Napoloou was boaten back at Waterloo, but our Conqueror bins neser known defest. Xerxes wae scattered at Balamis, but this Ono ks planged intoa thousaud battles only to trinmph. Cbeer Him as He comes, tho Lord of llcaven, **Mighty to eave!” And, doar friends, it 1s of Josus I am to reach, S0 long aa 1 am pormitted to staud m _this pulpit, eo long shall His nawo, aud 1iis pame olone, stand bere with me. 1 might chooso some other name, bit whatover it wonld be, I know It would ouly prove a doad fallare in froeing us from our sine and liftlng ud hoavenward, I might go to tnsto, and take the name of Mozart, but that would uever fit ua for singing the now song beforo the thromo. I might go to sculpturo, and take tho name of Cauovn, but that would nover tlash beforo onr oyes tho tracerios of tho upper Tomplo, I might zo to plulosophy, and take the namo of Loibnitz, but that would never uoravel our otornal dostiny, I mightgo to scionce, and take the name of Farndy, but that would never burn out one of our sius. No! No! The ono name and the only name wo aro to clioose 8 that of Josus. It will musie tous ; it will be art to us ; it will be pli- Josophy to us; it will be science to us ; it will be overvthing to us. Glorlons namo! HHow wo shnll need 1t na tho yoars go ou! Huvger will como, but Jesus will bo tho Liread of Lifo, ‘I'hirst will come, but Jeeus will bo tho Wator of Life, Darknoss will como, but Josus will be tho Bright and Moruing Star. Htorma will come, but Jeuus will bo a covers from the tempeat. Death will come, but Jesus will stand by coflin and grave, saving : ** I am tho Resurroction aud tho Lifo.” 0O, tbat nawe which is above overy natno, glorfous, tranucendant! With both avme lot us clasp it rouud ; wih both hauda ot us hold it bighup. Whon Michael Angelo was froscoing tho eiling of the Bistiua Chapel in Rome, ho bad to look upward almost constautly. At the ond of two years bis oyes became so vot that, whonever Lo attempted o road, he had to hold tho book above his forohead in order togoe. Ho may our oyes bo tixed npon Jesus,—I looking upon Him from tho pulpis, you looking upon Hita from tho pew, scoing uothiug, kuowing nothing, a8 {wtor and pmph. but the excel- lency of our Lord Jesns Christ, e WHY THE MASSES DO NOT GO TO CHURCH. - SEMNON DY THE REV. Ll WILLIAMBON, The Rov. Dr. Williamson, of the Wabash Ave- nuna Church. preachied yestordsy morniug, tak- lug as lns text: - 'l“l."g’ carnal miod s enmity againse God.—Rom., v 7. \\:hy tho masaes do not go to church! Tho Protestant masses, I mean, for the Catholics do go in a body, Qod's Word makes it vory plain why the Proteatans masses do not go to church, Cstholica aod Protestants do not view tho Church fn tho samo light, Oue of the funaa« monts! tenots strenuously majotained by Pop- {sh writets, is the infallibility of the Church of Rome. To the Papal masses an fofallible Church scems to be & very attracting hiding- place from tho retributivo stores of an avenging futuro, Tho well-nstructed Protestant is un. willing to trust awy proffered security other thau a heart by Jesus' graco made holy. Among Proteatants, however, I am sorry to koow, thoro fs no remarkablo onthusissm to gain tho holy hioart, They uro taught to look upon the Church 88 the bost of all sgencles to promoto porsonal holivess ; and, in cousequence, thoy are ot os- pecially partial toits support. God's Word does not palut o very flattoring picturo of moa be- fore, by Gol's grace, they aro made *'new crea~ —_—— THE COVERANT. SERMON DX TUE REY. UENRY T, MILIER. The Rev. Henry T. Miller, pastor of tho Bixth Presbyterion Church, corner of Vincenues aod Oak avenues, preached yosterday morning the firet sermon sinco bis installation, taking as his toxt ¢ Now, therefore, come {liou, 1t us mnke a covenant, Taud thou, Geneais 22z 1,3 44, Botwoen Jacob and his father-in-lgw, Leban. there had sprung up a quarrel. Liko all fomily varisnces, the fecling wna high. Thoy had wraogled over thelr cattlo, and over their aheop, and over thoir goots, and over their comels. Out in tho back paature lots, leaning npon their long ataffs, thoy had flnug herd worda; ond down by tho stone watering-travghs, brist- ling with tho poclod poplar, and chestnut, and nlder rods, thoy bad talkod for honrs, ooly to bocome mare embittered. . TFinally, Jacob feols that ho cannot endaro tho unploasantness looger, and detorminos to re- turn to hls wative land, Taking aivantago of Labau's abasnco from home, ho begins nurriedly to pack up for tho long journoy. Fooding tlocks ora catled in from the posture end ret & bleating after faithful sheplierds. Lowing hards are bronught togethar, and atartod on the ey, Tong traing of camels are driven up and losded with food. Last of all, Jacob and his family, mount tho wsaddles, and thon tho whols caravan bogin its slow march for Canaan. Ovor the Envhratos, aud on towsrd Gilend, do thev go, journoyiug for three days cre Labau henra of tho flight. Atonco hbo is filled with rage. Tho thouzlh of losng Eo valiable o Aor- vant xindles his florcoat anger, and, waitiug not o moment, he gots out in hot putsuit, DBut ou the way tho Lord of Heaveu mocts him, Whot achange! Heart and miud tako oo new purpodo ;s for 80 bhumbled 18 ha that whou, at the clodo of tho sevonth day, be comen upou tho cucampmont, scarcoly a word of rovongo brooks bis lips, ITis ono desire is for tho heating of strife, aud over the plaw, avd up smony tho tall peaks shuttlug thom in, ringa out that one cry of reconciliation: ** Now, therefore, como thiou, let us make a covenant, I and thow," I soo thom carrying out the pledgo. First of all Jacob puts Loth his Luuas nnder o lare ranito slab that_bad split off from an over- Ennglng clift, aud lifta it upon oud. Thon nil the othors look sround for stoues, nnd come tuggiog with them in thelr arms. Whea tho Inet stono has boan given to tho pilo, on the vory top bread s placed, snd all gathior round, Jacol; breaks off & piece from the loaf and cals. Then Labou broaks off a pleco from the loaf and ents, And thon all the othors roach for a picco, and the covonaut is finished, Glori- oua recouciliation for Jacob ] Glad molting of heart for Laban! Joy in ovory face, for tho wrangling of yoara is ended, buried dsop under the stono pilo. Wetl, doar frionds, we hava not tneet hore to- day to seltlo variauces, Nover yet lLave wo unrroled, and I pray God we never may. If Qloro! ia ‘ovor A timo when T strilio liands bheartily with the grand old Piayer-Book of the Episvopal Church, it is when thinkiog of church schismy, for all instinctively dol drop ou my knoes, orying out from the very bottom of my beart, ** Good Lord, deliver us.” Botter that Ishould bear much from vou, for yon are but humau,—botter that you shonld hear mnch from me, for I em but human,~than that for a momont wo cither should chorishi the loast unkindnoss, or suffor tho lesst estrangoment to ocomo betwocu us, No; we havo not niot to heal ovor wrauglings, and heartily glad am I of 1t. But I remember thnt we are cotno togother as never bofora I romomber {Lat only three days a0 our higher Church Court gave you to me for a peoplo, and gave me to you for a pastor, and that this mornlog for tho first timo wo aro met under this now relation, It is well that wo undorstand ourselvos at tho vory bogioning, and what moro fltuog than thet now, before takiog another step ar pastor and puopie, wo should give pledgos as Lioarty and macrod as thoss given over tbo stons heap in Gilend, **Now, therefore, come thun, let ud make a covenant, I and thou,"” And, first, lot us onter into a coveusnt of mutual sympothy. We both need it. You have troubles, I have troublos, aud if I can only ges my shouldor under your burden and help you carry it, aud you can only get your shoulder under my burden and belp carry it, a glortous thing will [t be for both of us, Somo of you romember ths old-fashioned wiuister. You knos ho was locked upou s any- thing but human, [low they dressed him! Winto cravat, high-buttoned coat, gold-bowed Iosses, whether ho wad near-mghted or not. fluw Lo carsiod himself! Statoly walk, formal bow, solomu faco that novar lauyliod, and vel- dom smilod. Tho childron ran from him as from a fright ; the peopla looked upon bim with mtugled fear and awo,—only tue oilicirs of the church wont into bis presouce with any (recdom, and even they sometimoa drow back from his atorn dignity. And then the old-fashioned Imlplt. You ean never forget it. Iligh up theroe ouw tho white-washad wall {t clung hiko s swallow's nost, evor aitfl Io its plain architecturo. The minister clitnbed into it by straight stairs, or winding slairy, and onoe within 1ts doors it seemod that it he over moved at all, it must be to ga still bigher taward heavon rathor than turn back to easth sgain, But tho old-fasuioned puipit has como down, and with 1t the minister, Thauk God forthat! It was & groud thing wuen tho carpouter came along with his Lammer one day and knockod out tho pulpit props, but ftwaaa gumlar thing when the people resched up with boih hands and pulled down the ininister, saying, * You uro our servant ; we want bielp from you. This is your one mission, to gfi’[llsll, aud ?lolw awa) ‘mlsu Amd lhlln td,%l“l':‘y and coldunesa and formality.” Aodsolstand be- " fora you this mmnlnx.—y«ym: ministor,—and yes | tures”™ 1 it is truo to “:’: ::':u':‘ ::an:hm your servant, your prescber, sud yob & man your | wonder shat the masses B % paator, over c{uming reapect for my otfice, and | * For there ls not & just man opon eary ihat vaqrry 22 ki < dooth good, snd mince a not.” Tho churches ara organized denun™tions of sin; and un- yiolding supplicants 1S the gift of Divine power to destroy it. Men 'S o lovo sin can bardly, at tho same time, lovo ‘@3 ottempt to bocomo sine lors, ' That thoro fs @ ot & just mso upon earth isnot mau'a miafof (e, but Lis fault. *'Tho carnal miud la enmity agatvust God." Ko, thon, they that ara fn tho flesh eannot pleato God. The sorvices of tho Church are not onmity sgeiost Clod, but the pureat of hu- wen - effort o ploase .htm; thon how can the mauses who aro In #in tako part in theso services or pay & part of tho cost of maintaiing them? Thoy who are in nin eannot plasso Gor, nor can thoy bo plossed with tho ordinances Ie has sppointod for His children's worsbip. ** The naturalman roceivoth not the thiugs of the Bpirit of God, for thoy ate foolishness unto him." Bat tho Church of God Liaa nothing to do but to des! with the thinga of tho 8pirit of God. Tho work of the Church to tlio unredeomod mineson must seem to Lo foole ishness ; and how can intelligent peoplo Lo edi- fiod with what is to thom foolishness? * For tha flesh luatoth against the epirit, and theso aro contrary, tho oue 10 tho other." Ia this coans. loas and violent warfare, the Church invanably takes sides with tle spirit sgalust tho flesh, To this tho_floal cannot but object. Tho flesh can bardly bo prevalled upon to attend servicon 1} cnllody to break ita power, and to enfranchize nil of ita enslaved. Tnis fs an inspired description of tho epalaved: * Having the undorstsndiog darkened, being allenated from the ife of God, bocaueo of tho blindness of their heart.” The eolo mission of the Chrrch, on tho contrary, ia to mako olear nod attrectivo tho wholo **Lite of God.,” Do you see how soy ono ecan dwell with raplure upon themes from which bo is naturally “alicoatad " ? Jow ehall wo desm it possiblo to zet thoso to go to church whose *blindnosa of heart ” precluden the dircornment by thom of svy merit in its pervices? **Thore ls nono righteous, 10, mot ono; there I8 nono that scosoth nfter God: thora s none that dooth wod, 0o, not one.” And yet tho ono work of e Church i3 to work righteousuess, Bhall wo urge men notoblr to favor but peraonally attend that against which their partialitics are moet do- cided ? *t'There is nono that sooketh after God,"” but thie Church moans to do nothing elsa! The masses wiill not seek through the Church for that which as private individualy they have Do dieposition to courider, The life of tho un- regeucrate I not accoptabla to-God; and of thia swfut fact the Church is porpetually reminding them. The ceaselesa rofrain of this evangelintic dirge caunot prove espectally folicitous to the unredecmed men whom its strains ropronch. Unholy men ars not much interested in holincus, and they cannot bo. Hongs and sermans extoll- ing purity end poioting out the eimplo mesus by which it ‘may be obtained will be inatinctively shuuned by them. The places men Jove to fro- quent correepond with their charactorn. Tho outward zesort {8 projected from the jnward ap- preciation. When the Divive Founder of the Church is scconted by faich to preside over a Luwan spirit, the outward ordinances of His s intmaut for the growth of that spirit will bo by t immediately and jovfully choson, No matter how clegantly and fashionably the body may be dresged, the holy sorvices of God's housa will ot be enjoyed until the soul shall woear the beautiful garmants of & Chriat-liko spirit. Whon ouo can rress bis soul fu_such Iaultloss attire, Lo will be irresiatibly inclined to go to church— not to show his clothes, as perhaps some do now, bus to rojoico in their "beauty, and to allure others to gatn similar possessione. ** Tho Lord mid, ‘tho imlqimfifln of mau's Loart is evil from his youth."” Then mou who are nnsaved, if thes go to churel, go with an *ovil imagina. tion.'"” Dut what is thero in tho exercises of God's houso to interoet an “ovil imagination? " ‘Tho whola service 18 & studied reproot of such disguised guile. To eav that man's imagiustion i * ovil from hia youtl,” is to declare that men gin in thought befuro they do in ootward or ovort oxprossion. Now, secret Eumy {8, possi- bly, tho first theme of the Church. low can we expect an * evil imagination * to be oveo divort- od by this? & * How, then, oan man bo justified with God ? or how can bo bo clean thasis born of & woman? Who ean bring s clean tlung out of an unclosu ? Not one.” In other words, how shall the lmpura massos of maukind procure the cleansing that suall make charch-servicos enfoyabla? As Lod- tly food canno. bo rolisbed witasut a healtufal sppotite, 8o spiritusl provisions must bo nau- eeating and intolerablo until the soal ia cleansod from 1ta deftloment by tho Omnipoteat blood, Ouce la & while, but not ofton, wea attending churel from motives of euriosity, or ta squsnder quito unpopular leisnre, ara suddenly smitten by conviction, and then, in some cases, are gen- uincly eonverted. Tho ruale, however, {3 that men are arrestod by God'a spirit, through somo prondentisl instrimentality, outside of tho chutch, aud thev, responding to their convie- tioog, thoy go to church to find reliof by getting converted, Thero 18 uo other agoneysa honored by tho Holy Ghoet in convicting the massens of 8in 88 tho profound and noivereal excitemont produced by a poworful revival of religion. This mus begin within the church, and then it will eproad in the commanity until it 1a pervaded in overy part by tho sublimo onthusiasm. Very gouerally, I think, tho IHoly 8pirit acta in con- victing sinors through chosen instrumenta'l- tios. IP'rayor ia offored in their bobalf by riglt- oous men, and ia immediately answerod by tho Hpirit digposing tho mau who prayed to becomo, at ooce, the executor of his own petition in words of persussion and entreaty. If I am enf- flciently anxzious for auything to pray for it, am I not-tho very agent to employ to carry the Di- vino_respouse to my devoat solicituda into ef- foct? Thisis & most uxcellent way of getiing tho mnsses t0 go to church., Pray for thom. aud then vito and urge them, Let tho rovival apic- it lu all our churclies bresk out sud burn, 'Tho masges will go to church only when an exciting zeal {n thoir behalf glows in tho special services of every church, * Peoplo aro inana or hopelcsa- Iy inditTercnt to all worthy works till thoy got excited : thon oply do they aot a truly ratiousl purt. Efow to ocession and sustain & holy and conquerivg oxcitement, to alarm the imponitent, and to eoconruze the redeomed, [athoovangelist- 1t provtem vow beforo the churches. The Holy Guodt Is, ns ever, thoroushly efficient, but there is o sut inuxcusablo douth of proper in- strumeninlition for Ihm to employ to do his work, Mou will, in some instances, go to church, ovou if thoy aro not interested in s services, Ho men Ro to please their wives; others for the saie of their chtldren ; and others g0 to £id bt 1o business or in_socicty, The masses 62 wen belog honest, and, perhaps, im- politio, too, will not go unless they enjofi it; and this, go Joug 84 they are uoenvoed, we have losrned from our szbundant citations of Berip- taro, is impossible. When tha Holy Ghost 18 ablo tw do #o, Ho will éond an Instrumentality to convict mou of min; and then they will cager- ly scek thio ochurch to fiud & remedy. Convio- tion is tho sonl's knowledge of the d.sosso of sin, and the Church 1a undorstood to bo tho way to un {ufslliblo romedy, The lang, variod, aud providentisl experionco of the Church has final- ly sottlod upon perfodical rovivals na the bedl aganoy at the disposs! of the Holy Ghost to couvict men of wn, and thus to get tho wassea to %o to church, I'ha massos do not now go to church. Was it avor otherwise? Certainly not, sxcept in amalt and laolated localities. ~Moro poople go to chiurech mow than over before In proportion to the population, and yet in Christendom hardly que in four go. The Church of Christ, com- posed of all who concedo His divinity, may be divided into four great divisions; tho Greck Church, the Latin Chinrch, the Toutonic Church, and what may bo calted the Independout Prot- estanb Church. ‘The QGroek Charch stands ss the ecolosisatical representative of 5,000,000 of eople ; tho Latin Charch of 170,000,000, Tho Jf'enlonlo Church, ombracing the English and American Episcopal commnutons, with tloso of Norway_snd Sweden, Donuark, I'ruesis, Hol- land and Sootland, with tho Indopendent Lro- testants, reprosent a population of 100,000,000 more. Adding tho wholo together, wo get the nominal Cliureh ot Clrist—only ono-qusrter of the population of the globo. If thore are 850,- uoojm of nominal Christisus in the world, how mauy 16 thoro who sro such by tho * washiug of 1egonoration and the baptism of the Holy Ghost"? Buch only love tho Church and can be dopended upon lo sustatn it. .A nation a4 En. 1aud, for examplo, may bo acoounted Chriatisn Eocnuu all other forms of religion are unknown, without surrendering even & modorate fractlon of hor people to & saving sud joyful evangelical taith, Tho majority of nomiunal Christians bear sa sottlod and irrevoront au antipathy toa holy aud ardont Church as the veriest Pagan orJew. Whero all mbn of evary race, sge, sud nation, shall tand at last before thoir Oreator to suswer for the manuer 1 which they have used opportunitics, in wmy judgmaut, the ayverago Buddhat and Mohsmmedsu will dwell oloser to tue Divioe favor, aud appeal mors wntluentially to Liis suprems clomency, than tha nominal Chiristisn who might have been holy but is not. From the atos jusb givon, at least the probability s satablished, that, & all tho hisory aribumne. NUMBER 158, of the Church, but a small proportion peoplo linvo cared to_attend l& p’n;rvlaean’ l‘l;: bavo allowed tho Diblo to masign the main fonson: Tho nataral aversion of tho humsa boart to tho purity charoh sorvices oo- Join. Thoro is not a saddor fact than thak +*men lovo datknesa rathor than light” Thls In thio aolo resson why the massos are nob rogu= larly at church, 10y do not love tha church, or thoy do mot ece say good that can issuo 0 minor reasons why the mssses do not B0 to church, what is known ma tho * oxpsnas feason " {4 ontitled to a degree of conslderation. Thoro Is, howevor, loss forco in this resson than {8 currontly conceded, Not many remain away from church hecause it cosia monoy ta go. Any 030 With & minimum of tho Maastor's spint of eacrifico can sava from the unwholosome axcoss of ths table, or from an ordinary outfit of cloth-" ing, mora than enongh to moat the claims of the tresaury of Christ's Church, God cannot bo the author of moral contradiotions. o cannot or- der, * forgotting not the nssombling of youre eolves togethor," and thon, providentially, make it too exponslvo, If church attondsnce i ob- ligatory it can bo afforded. I am willing to graut that our churches aro quito too expensive, both In tho coat of ercoting thom and of their current outlaya to sustain thom. All ciasaes ars bocoming to seo the propriety of eheaper op- nortunitica to worahup, Lees opulent, and mors distinctly missionary, shonld our rofigions zoal bo minde, I am vory Borry to hioar that some caonot go to chnrchh on account of tho costly cloting the worshipers aro expected to woar. I am &l«o very sorry that poor peopls ars so intolerably prond ; and yet, with mortification, %o must ooufess that wo are. The Church, howover, 8 thetonly public enterpriso that is aliowed to suffor because of tho ologant dress of soma who persist 1n waiting upon its cowmmune fon. Toor people dofuot stay away from the $heatro, tho ball-rovm, or tho graceiess saloon, becousa those ara found thera who tmost muuiflcently outdress thom, Tho most olegant and olaborato attire st the play rustlea without giving offonse against tha so- vereat atmplicity and satiquity. Who witl stay away from the *Coatenwsl” slmply becausa wealthy or dislionest peopls will bo sura to deess botter than he ? To say that you atay away from chureh hisbitnsily because you cannot afford tha customary clothing for yourself and your family is ingincero and sophiatical. Ao abundanco of freo water, and clothing toleratod by tho statuto againat indecency, fit any one to atteud church, 1€ ho have the Lioars for it. There ara ways and meaps of meetingall the domands of tha church, l‘l‘ wo but value aright tho benofits of tho church o us, Thoro aro those who ay that tho rearon why thog do not go to church is that thoy ara mot invited. When auv one roasous thus, he forgota the eource whence all fuvitations to 1.in to church originate, God's command ia the only lnvitation of which I am spprised. All aro bound to go uanlavited. Who starves hia body untll ho s lovited to eat? Who, {ndeod, aio_conatituted competont ta invita men to church? People are not 8o un- obtrusivo and delicato anywhero dlee. Who in- vitea mon to go to the thestre, to sha ssloon, or joio that way which takes hold on death ? The walks of plessure and the dolights of aen- snality are crowded with the uatnvited masses. Thezo classes of enjoyment are let down to tho moral level of tho unsaved patronnge whom thoy solicit. Thia is the goneral secrot of popue larity. They who speak to the peoplo from ths pooplo'a standpoint will have o lurgo sad ioter- eatod nudiouco; but they who attempt to press upon tho m1escs of men sn ideal of any sort will meet with suro and ‘prolongod disappoint- rient. Holiness ia considered moro unattractive than tmpracticablo, Thoro are a great many moro who think spiritnal parity possible than earocatly desire personally to enter into it, The jroplo of Uod, howover, should thor- ouglly disarm the criticlam that tho maesod aro not persistently fovited by them to taxe part in ratigloud worship. You any, with great justico, and somo feeling, what more eaawodo? Wo build and Buppors elegant, oxpebsive, and com- fortablo churches, to whoso luxury, ease, aud beouty all aro weleoms ** without money aud without prico.” Wo place men of experienco, plety, and scholsrehip in our pulpits, to whose support only thoss aro fuvited to contribute who focl that thoy are ablo to do 8o, * Wo furnish not only devotional bat artistic musie gratn'tously. Wa furnish, aleo, nos oaly tho best kind of in- etruction to all the childron and youth whom wo can porsuado to accept it in manuers, morals, sowing, oto,, but we cheorfully supply children, aud louseholds, with raiment, food, and em- ployment. Wao offcr to the geueral pablic every wook throughout tho sear for nothing the very beas of opportunities to acquire solid informa~ tivn in otbice, etiquetie, argumont, bistory, archzology, aud religion, For what wo gratuit- ously touder tho pcoplo, many aro. now paying Inrfin tuitions to puraly socular justructors. Only s very fow lLomes afford their children roligiona aud moral instruction; wo, through our Buudsy-schiool efforts, are making the only organized and svstomatic attempt to resr tho young, of all classag, in the leading truths of bebavior and &finu‘. It you spprove ol ocur work to onor Go by saving men, pay toward its maintenanco what.you canatford ; if you can- not, or will not, accopt onr sxoertions ns & blessod grotoity. This is tho preciss liberality of the Church ; this ber unself:h invitation toall, I nm st & loss to know what moro the Charch can do to attract the masses to ehuroh servicos. To invads the repelling and uncommunicative personal privacy of the masses {n detail, by a dircct personsl sppeal, is so offenstyo to dolicay, aud 80 apt to be unwisely g.lmllku. that most of us sbrink from venturiog to o it. Attendancs ot church is somotimes doclinod bocauso it Is aid, church Y‘caplo do not notice thosa who go. Thore ure thodo who go to church to havoa ** fuss "' mado ovor thom | aund if tho general onthnsiasm should not jnst accord with thoir aanticipatious, thoy aro sorely wounded. If any mau, woman, or child will bat make any chirch bis bomo, willso indentify himsolf with it ns to docidedly express his preferenocs, and will wait uran its services a fow times couscon- tively until his conrtonnnce becomes familiar, ¥ plodgo blm my sssuranco that he will got an abundanco of {ratornal notica and social recogals - tion. The workors in our prayor-mestings, - dustrisl schiools, Bunday-schiools, and puablio congregations nover oawplain of pasaing un- noticed. Practically, what ehall bo dono to got tho maeses to go to chiurch 7 They say thoy do not go bocauso of the frightfal expouse! We have shown that thore la expenso only to thosa who can pay it. Othors say they would go if per- sistently iovited. We have shown that to 10 other public exercisod are all classes so fully invited. That many ore nliowed to dwoll la somal obeennity in auy church is their own faalt. The Church sbundantly notices aud oxalis all who will permit Lior to do 8o, Tho roal reason why tha masues do not g0 to ohurch ia that they do ot rolish ita sorvices, The Church is at Tibotty to presout but ono olass of themes, and theso aro spirisnal ones, it the thinga of the opirit aro * spintually discorned." ‘Tlo unsaved maased of men canot have auy very great in- terest in services whoso import they noither upe derstand, nor romomber.” Tho masses will not como to church but sa they aro moved to do by the convioting sgoncy of the Holy Ghost, Now, as I havo eaid, the very best ipstrnmontality that can bo placed at the dis- posal of the Holy Ghost with which to convict tho massos of sin, is an oxcitod ciurch. Pora varioty of reasons pooplo liks to go to an excited church, Ourloslty, uelt-intorost, or socloty may be tho inpolling causes; securing the presence of the masses for any, or all,of theso ressons, the Holy Ubost, through the Word, may move them to coutrition and saviug faith, Moro than by any- thiog olse, tho masscs src moved to go to the churchios that havo exciting ravivals. Thess conquering rovivals wero tho glory ot our early Botlhiodism. Thon wo had abuudant accesa to tho massps. * ‘o comwmon people beard na gladly,” dothodism mesut an excitement, snd 8u excitemont always moans » crowd, anda crowd at apecial church services always means converuions, and conversions always mean en- couragement, joy, aud enthuslasm, "I'ie masxcs, 100, aro boiug quite largaly influ- encad tbrough the Bunday-schiools tuas have succoeded in gathoring in thelr ohildron, In lieu of the masses whow we_canuot now prevail upou $o attend church, snd whom wa scem in- capablo of exciting by a bearty and sustained e« vival enthusiasm, we may raiso from their yonth & fult gonoration of church-goers through the oppertauisy of tho Suuday-school. This woold weem to bo our golden ohance, Tha Church ma; largely creats $ho rising genoration, The provi- douce iy uumistakable., Neve: befaro waas the iand of the Church laid so heavily upon the on- tire generation of the young. Let us call to our aid, lost we lcse our supreme opportunity, the intluonces of the superoatural, Let us labor to got every Bunday.achool scholar glorigusly saved, keep them to manhood adtive in Chrise tian labor, and theu the evangelismwof the fu- turo will rojoice 6o know thas. She masses 4o g9 to church,