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. Feb. 1, 1876, by limitation, T. 3. Wroo retiriog. The YOLUME 29. FINANCIAL. N EIE gemstants, Parmers', & Flechaniey’ Savings Bank, 76 CLARK-ST.,,CHICAGO. NT CERTIFICATES. %MSEMW—LEM Interest, - ificate Secared Ly Mortxoge on By e rroved Ttemt Exinte. TABLE of incrcase- of **Investment Certifl- e, secured on improved real estate, beara D iotcrest, payable In quarterly instali- a5 ot tlve Tato of 7 3-10 prr cent per an. B <howing the nccumulation of sums in- Tor tha benent of Chiliiren or others: Amount 7 Accumalated, S 14 {STENT CERTIFICATRS whensver §100 is thus nocumn- ":,'mu;of a Certificate has the privilegs of examin- 1o the condition of the trust st any time on calling at theoffice of the Trustee. i‘h&nma:m formarded. amd fnterest, wirn dne, rein- ! ested, if desifod, or Femitted by drafiar expross toany part of tho United States. A« ddress P e awesm __ SYDNEY MYERS, Manager. I3 THE STATE S sl 60 and 82 Lefalle-st,, Chicago, ‘Receives Savings Doposits and aliows intereat there- onat the rate of G per cent per annum, subject to the rulee of the Institation. - Als receives for safe kecping in it SATE DEPOSIT VAULTS! Soney. Dismonds, Bonds, Deeds, Coin, Bullion, Silver- ware, Wilis, and other valusbles, 3ud rents Safes n its FIRE AND BURGLAR-PROOF VAULTS reasonsblerates, ' D.D. SPENCER, Pres't, e o 4. D, GUILD, Cashier, SATINGS CEartired by the Exciusively s 105 CLARKST, Metodist Comreh Block. Interest begins on the first of esch month. GERMAN-AMERICAN BANK OF CHICAGO. Office, 172 East Washington-st. BRANCH OFTICE, No. 59 NORTH-CLARK-ST. STUS KILIAN, President. T RPN Essiaen 10O Shares of Stocls (0r any part of it} in a manufacturing company doing #prosperous business. I will sell at 75 per cent of par nalae for cash only, Shares, $100 each, full paid. The lavestment will nadoubtedly pay over 0 per cenf. I *ill guarantes 25 per cent profit on it this year, Must e sold this month. Address M 84, Tribune office, LOANSONREALESTATE In Chicago aud improved suburbe, in sums of,$2,000 ad opwards, made at carvent rates, . DBAIRD & BRADLEY, %0 LaSalle-st, GRAND, SUUARE, AND UPRIGAT PIANCS. superb assartment now on band. JMICAGO PIANO DEALERS' ASS&CL{TIO.\'. sta. . W. corner S:ato and Adams-; W. I IXON, President. FIRM CHANGES. i D ISSOLUTION. o i of Jocs . A Sesreris a5 beea diselved by maton copamnp e 208 1058 TA Chicago, Feb. 1, 1675, o ‘WEIL, ‘GEQ. A. SEAVERNS, COPARTNERSHIP. m?’e;ngmh\;u;hu day formed a copartner- of doi real estate, renting, 12d lown buiness, under 1hy S pans ot S Sherman, JACOB WEIL, EZBA L. SHERMAN, Hsving old my interest in the firm of Jacob Weil and 0. A. Seaverns to Ezra L, Jecomménd the new firm of Weil & Sherman o my {rieuds and former patrons. GEO. A SEAVERNS, DISSOLUTION. Tho copartnership heretofors existing between us, tmder the firm name of Godwin, Davis & Co., haa this ii:’a'}i‘“ din:p!rod by ;;::mu consent. :-mums.u !iiuxi- alone suthorized $o sign the irm - B e et . . SAMUEL A, SQUIER, HENRY A. DAVIS, %l‘acu, Feb.1, 189, JAMES 8. KINEAID, undereigned having purchased the stock ani 198 el of the laia irm of Godwin, Davia & Con, wil sontinue the Wholesale Furnis! business at e same place, 42 and 44 Madison.st., - JAMES §. KINEAID & CO. DISSOLUTION. The partnership herotofors exsting between Jeffer- 0 & Wroe, Printers, 41 LaSallo-st., was dissolved on fusinets o Printing, Putlishing, and Advertising will o conducted at the tame place, under the frm zame S W. J, Jefferson & Co., who will liquidate all claims owing by the late firm, - W.J.JEFFERSON, ,February 5, 1876 THOS. J. WROE. .. DISSOLUTION. Notice to all wEom it may concern. Tho partnership Ditherto cxieting between 4, M. Wing and George F. d under the style and firm of J. 12 ditors and proprietors of *The Land-Owner,” Pab- lishers anc: Booksellers, has this day been dissoived by Iutul copsent, 3, AL, Wing accepting the stock and Basuming all Jisbilities to date. (Signed) J. M. WING, 530551’: efii CODD, Ashland Block, Chicago, Il L S e BLANK BOOES .STATIONERY, & BELANK BOOKS, Stationery and Printing, Forished prompity and st feir Trices, by J.3L W, JONES, 104 and 106 Madheonc. DYEING AND CLEANING, DYEING. Ladies'sna Gentlemen's Garments dyed 2nd cleaned B2 superior manner. 2 BOSTON (AUG. SCHWARZ) STEAN DYE HOUSE, 150 South Clar, 158 Tlinoia, and 265 V. Aadison-sts. LEGAL. TREASURY DEPARTMERT, Qrrics or Caumwo).al.gn OF ZBE Cnm‘r'E:,} N N, . 2, 1571 All'persons having cluims agatoet the Eonrth Nationsl e L S R o ke 4 ‘mouths, lo Clurfes . SEmun, Hecetres, af ho smes of sa3d besk ta e Gty of Ghivees, T . OHN JAY KNOX, ' Compirolles of the Currsnérax: FURS. FIRE INSURANCE. fQSITlVE‘ CLOSING-0UT SALE! - Tmrmonse Stoclk of LADIES ELEGANTFURS INK, SEALSKIN, OTTER, ERMINE, —- MARTEN, LYNX, ETC. . SWEEPING i REDUCTIONS ! Prices Marked Down! Without Regard to Cost, 5o 85 {0 sell tho Entirs Stock within 10 days, Martin's Special Bargains, 154 State-st, Btrlish !}en:g -g;fll{:uu 22 Lda. ... -8 -;x Real aad boa., B o, 3 So5e £ fi’fl-s:-’?s’z’-ifi=5§; Z FOR S AT On Easy and Advantageons Terms. betwoen Van Buren snd Jackson-sts,, o mprovementa, _Southwest corner Wa-. bashav. and Van Burcn-st., S0x110, Wabash-av,, bo- tweon Congrossiand Van Suren-sis,, 25595, Wabashe av., between Congress and Van Duren-sts., E0xIS0. Northiwest corner Michigan-av. and_Congres-et.. $05 171. Congress-st., between Wabash and Michigan-ava., 25350, Southwest corner Michigan-av, and Alonros. st, with improvements, 905180, Maaieonst. and Ashisnd'av., with improvements, 112x 156. Northwest corner Madison-st. and Ashland-av., 124x120. Indiana-av., butween Forty-oighth and For- | ty-piuth-gts., with improvements, 240x160. ALFRED W. SANSOME, At offico United States Mortgago Company, 7 Union Building. Southwest corner |- FIRE INSURANCE! THE FAIRFELD Fire Insurance (o, OF SOUTH NORWALK, OONN, CASH ASSETS, - $330,610.58 THE KENTON Fire Insurance Co., 2 OF COVINGTON, XY, . - CASH ‘_ASS“ETS, - $R48,427.77 [t above. Companies do s conssrvative The bmuali;uess st FAIR RATES, independent of f oards. Store, W , " yiStere Werehiouse, and Dwalling Risks so. FARHIER, ATRINS & C0. ’ AGENTS, s 86 LA SALLE-ST. EVANSTON, Forsalo ata great barain for cash, 150 tt. oast front by 207 fr. deep, on west ridge Evenston. This i3 oue of the finest building lots in Evanston. Tho nicest residences ad- jomingin tho whole town. Th property ‘wil & SOLD FOR HALF ITS VALUE s If taken immediately. Call on ISAAC R. HITT & BRO., Msjor Block, or address JO- SEPH M. LYONS, Evanston, 111, FOR SALE. Choice Piece Sonth Water-st. Property, 40x150, with 4-story and basement brick stores, under Tental that pays over 9 per cent net on the prico ssked. A first-class {nvestment for ono sceking a gooa pleco of business property. 0. W. BALLARD, 76 Washington-st. $75 LOTS! 30x132 feet, at Downer's Grove, only 14 miles from city, fivo minutes’ walk from station ; high, rich land; $10 cash, £10 in one wonth, balance §5 monthly; NG INTEREST! After 1at mext May. until further lr'l creare, price $100. Goand seo them, frot, SIREET & BRADFORD, 74 East Washington-st. hoice Rush-st. Residencs Lot FOBTY FEET immediately opposite the i:zsid‘sinuemlnés of VJ]\:Dg‘B Skglnflt l;ld dlié': Sander MoCormicl, Slesantly surroundo T RRAYO0T & GO, 61 Doarborn-st. GROCERIES AND FRUIT. ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, 72 STATE-ST- Crosso and Blackwell's Condiments; Fine Olive Oils and Snuces; Cheese, imported and domestio; Bolos & Son’s celebrated Blue Pail Butter; Hame, Bicon, and Toogoes; Fancy Macaroons, Arrow Root, ana Albert Biscults; Scotch and Irish Oatmeal, BANANAS. CHOICE FRUTTS, Preserved, Dry, and Green, FLORIDA ORANGES. We positively havo the only Florids Oranges_in Chi- cago, Egeas White Grapes, Yellow Bananas, Barbary Dates, MILLEE & TAYLOR, Importers, 3 South Clark-st. OCEAN NAVIGATIO National Line of Steamships, NEW YORK TO QUEENSTOWSN AND LIVERPOOL. turday, Feb. 5, 2t 12noon. tarcay, Feb, 13, 8t 1p. 1. DIRES oT, 310, curtoney. _Retu ots &L reQuced fatos. Steorags tickot, S2 carrency. n:l“:":( £1and apwards on Great “H"]:‘PA‘RSO\' o1 05 o X, Nomheast oorner Clark aud Randoiph.sts. - (opposite new Sherman Houso), Chicago. . ALLAN LINE OCEAN MAIL STEAMERS, VIA QUEBEC and VIA BALTIMORE. Paseage, all classes, between princioal ports in Eue rope and America, 'CABIN oud SALOON ACCOM- MODATIONS UNEXCELLED, ‘Shortost Sea Route, Superior Ships. Experfenced Ofiicere. Disciplined Crews, SAFETY THE GOV~ ERNING RULE. _Three weekly sailings cach way. EMIGRANT AND STEERAGE PASSAGE, the very in all res ot lowest rates, helfix;xpml;ta ek ALLAN & CO., 72 and 74 LaSalle-st., Chicago. WHITE STAR LINE HAIL STEAMERS FOR EUROPE. Rates as low as by any other first- class line. 5 Address ALFRED LAGERGREY, Gen'l Western Agent, 120 Randolph-st., Or HY. GREENEBAUM & CO., 76 Fifth-ay. CUNARD MAIL LINE. Saling throe times a week to and from British Porta. Tt Gom ipany's Office, northwest corner Clarkand Apply at Compa wadinl - CPE e, Gomerl etorn Agent WANTED. TO IMPORTERS. Amsn of mauy years' experience, thoroughly - se- quainted with the importing trade. 38 wells a8 with castome Iaws aud Coston-Touso businoss, wiabies to change his present place for one in some importing or Sther leading frm. - Best ity reforences. Address 84, Tribuno ofice. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY. $5.00 Packages OF FRAUTIONAL CURRENGY IN EXOHANGE FOB Bils of Natioeal Curvency, AT TRIBUNE . OFFICE il & 01 Gl & XX SHAVNER COAL, GRATE, 66.00, | NUT, 85.50. BRIAR HILL & HARD COAL Sold at lowest market prices, HAMILTON, HARDER & HAFER, GENERAL OFFICE, 105 Washington-st., corner South Clark, DRANCHES—Lake-st. Bridge, West Side; 24 dock north of Erie-st, Bridge, North Side; 238 Archer-av. INDIANA NUT COAL, 8140 PER TON DELIVERED, The cheavest fuel in the market for domostic use, Other Soft Coal and Best quality of Hard Coal at fowest market pricce. Order by Tostal Card st either of our offices: 145 LaSalle-st,, corer Peoria and Kinzic-sts,, Carroll and Ano-sts., “Ada aud Einziests., Sangamon and Car- 'and 25 East Kinzio-st. W. P, REND & CO. % BUSINESS CARDS. COMMISSIONER 5 DEEDS SIMEON T, KING, the ONLY Commissfoner n Chi- cago having a separate oflicial eal of office for each Btat and Territory, as required by law, United States Court Commisrioner for this District, Attorney-at-Law, Cams missiover U, 8. Court of Claims, Notary Public, and | Passport Officer at Chicago. Deeds acknowledged, de- Statements sworn toand properly certified. Ofice, Methodist Cliurch Biock, oo 3, camer y 3. F. CHASE & 00, SIGN PAINTING, y ESTABLISEED 1849, F. F. WARNER, Chicago, TV, SOLICITOR OF PATENTS. 1 "send for circabsr. 5 _GENERAL NOTICES. EDMUND A, CUMMINGS, 119 & 121 LaSalle-st. bim he will do the best bo can fo find you good tenants. Notico 1s hereby given that tho State and County Tax and_Spocial Asseasments for the year 1875 on ofiice, Pay Jour taxes to the Town Collector, and save expense. JAMES H. 'ELY, Collector of Hydo Latk. positions and aflidavits taken, snd Insurance Annual Clark and Washington-rts., Chicago, 125 FIFTH-AV, 95 Dearborn-st,, Stares and Dyellings can perhaps be rented by 1t you will leave description of our property with Hyde Park property aro now_duc and peyable st my Room 2, 161 LaSalte-st, AT THE REQUEST Of several persons residing east of State-st. and south of Chicago-uv., Measrs, A, Ragor & Co. will run a lino of ommibniscs from Chicago-av., vip Rusl-st,, to Madi- s0n and State-sts,, commencing Monday, Feb, 7, and running every 6 minutes. North Side Boys’ Hizher Sclool Classes for boys of all ages. Monday, Sept. 25, 1876, Address CECIL BARNES, A. B,, 8§ Hawley Building. TAKE NOTICE! TYLER’S BARBER SHOP, On the northwest corner of Clark and Monroo-st., does not closo unti] 12 o'clock Sundsss. STORAGE. 3 Burlington Warchouso (Fire-Proof), corner Sizteenth and Btate-sts. Merchandise, Household Goods, and all kinds of property received fn store, and liberal ad- vances made on Wareliouse Receipts. H. E. BAWYER, Proprietor. TO RENT. HOTEL TO RENT, Corner of Clark and Michigan-sts. New building, 130 rooms, 2l modern improvements. Pessassion ;dnv%n April 1. Apply to or address R. S, AcCORMICK & CO., Reaper Block. TO RENT. Part of store in prominent loca- tion on Rendolph-st. AddressH 75, Tribune office. T0 RENT VERY CHEAP, e fine 5-story stone-front building 59 ond 81 Wa~ ha{l’:-a\"l.;onu ‘modern conveniences, permanent gas fix- tures, counter, shelving, and office at the very low price of £275 per month, Possession given at once, Inquire at 153 aud 155 Franklinst. BEMOVAL: ot LOOK HERH! DOREMUY' LAUNDRY OFFICE From 368 to 388 West Madison-st. FOR SALE, 20O IINH, Tsed in starch, gives & beautiful polish, an extra stiff- n::ln;d'pmlygmtaum 10 1be fabric, Purely vego- table. Ladios aré delighted with tho resalt. Ask your grocer for Zoline, General Office, 131 Lake-st, RELIGIOUS. Evening Services % at the Church of the Messiah, The Results of the Abroga« " tion of the Moral Law. ¥ The Sabbath Not Known to ' the World Refore THoses. Why Churches Are Not Attended— + The Olose-Communion Ques- tion, Annual Meeting”or the American Erangelical Alliance, Notes and Personals ‘at Home and Abroad---Church Services To-Day. THE CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, FREE EVENING SERVICES. An experiment of a somewhat interesting character begins to-day at the charch of the Tirat Unitariao Society. The Rev. Brooke Her- ford, who lust Sundoy commenced his pastorship here, has inducod the members to limit the rentd ing of the seats to the morning sorvice, and to hold iz the ovening an open church, with an offertory for its support. Mr. Harford has been for eloven years past tho minister of church in Maochester, England, that had adopted the *free and open system,” with the offertory in- stend of seat rents or subscriptions for ita eatire maintenance, and he has found this plan very successful in causing outsiders and inguirers, and espocially tho people of the district round, to feel perfectly freo and at home in attending. It may be In the recollection of some. of our roaders that just befors Mr. Herford's return to England, last summer, he gave somo account in ‘Ire TRIBUNE of the working of this plan, and of some of the reasons which have gradually led Lo its adoption—with almost unmform suceoss— by a large number of churches of vatious de- nomivations in Englaod. During his resideuce 10 Chicago ki found that tho same causes are at work bere a8 in England to make the system of allotted seats sud pew-rents s lundrance to the freo attendaco of that large class who have drifted awsy from any fised religions sssocia- tions. Here. oa thero, there are thonsanda who could not without very great effort meat the pay- ment for regular mests, groater hero than in Eancland because of the exiravagant scale which has becomo general in church enterprises. Here, also, as thero, there are large numbers who are nmot prepated to 1identify themsalves with ooy place of worship by taking seats, who yot like to attend religious cervices, but dislike the feeling that they are tume after time occapy- ing seats paid for by other people, aud 80 thay actend vory rarely. -Kis thonght that such people may be giad of an oPpnrmni:,r of attend- 1og & church where the esars all as open and unappropristed a3 in a public meeting, and where all can contribute their. share towards the maintenance through the offertory without in- curring any permanent responsibility. In accepting tho call of the Church of the Messiab, we understand thiat Mr, Herford, while not hiking as a stranger to interforo with the ar- rongements of the regular morning service, ro- quested that this pian should in\m o fair! trial in the establishment of perfectly open ovening eervicos, snd the Society consented. This ‘* Open Evening Church” wifl bo distinct, therefore, from the morning servi- ces, and will be_sapported independently by thoe contributionsof thoseattending it. The *¢ offer- tory ” will differ from the usual pian of church collections, in that, instead of beiog taken in open plates, or baskets, 80 as to let the contri- butious be scen, an offertory-bag will be pagsed from hand to hand, 8o closed that no onecan see what any other gives; the object being to secure the goll-respect avenof those who can only afford the amallest contribntions, and to insure that Whatever i8 given shall bereally of free will. We understand Mr. Herford's special hope in the adoption of thia plan to be, that it may open the way to tho equal attendance of all classes, who witl thus be placed on_exactly the same footing, all able to attend in perfect independence, con- tributing according to their means. ——a THE MORAL LAW ABROGATED, NO LAW, NO SARATH, NO CIRISTIANITY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Cmicaco, Feb. 4.—In previous papers I havo discussed the philosoply of the moral law. I have also considered the charaster and results of several theories with regard .to it. such ss * The moral law Jewish,” * The law sbrogated,” “The law modified,” “The law rc-enacted,” ‘*The law fulfillsd.” The practical results of theae different theorien demand attention. = The inherent principles of the moral law are’ inwrougnt m tho hearts of the true worshiper of God. This has always been true. Sin has ob- structed this free work of the law, as a rulo of life, in Leart and practice. Redemption has re- stored the equliprium, and the apirit of God has written the principles of the moral law in the hearts it hss renewed, creating the feel- ing expressed by Paul, *“I' delight in the law of God after the inward man.” This incluodes all the items of the law, and all their legitimate correlations, as explained by Chriat in His Sermon on the Mount. Thus, under Christ, being freed from the curse of the law, man is justified, and enabled to live blame- less, oo longer under the carse of tho law. Tho law, being an expression of God's will to men, becomes the law of his life, in which he delights. The law nhmfiaud takes away all restraint, leaving depraved humapity free to follow all un~ sauctined impulses and false philosophies, and be sinless. Tho Obristian, made free from sin by the redemption of Christ Jesus, is freely al lowed, without sin,to do what once mado re- demption necessary. He may lapse into ali tho practices of hia unregenerate state, and be sin- leas. This contradiction necessitated a re-spact- ing of tho law as a Christian rale, to free from the curse of the faw, Thus, what was declared abrogated was slso declared re-enacted. Bus tho re-enactment would condemn the practico of the Church in its Sapbath faith ; hence an ex- ception must be introduced, and the Sabbath law bo left out. Even then the Sabbath law would not die out of tho heart, and must be sub~ stituted in the creed. Anew Sabbath was there- fore extemporized on & new basis to meet thig necessity. All this abrogating, re-ennctingf and eubstituting has only human authority for its support. S The Chuzch being unable to anthenticate its extemporized Sabbath by the word of God, has often called in tho power of cisil law to enforce it. ‘This civil coercion of a church doctrine has brought the Church into conflict with infidelity, to the discomfiture of the Church. The regalc has been an incrensing nod wida-spresd un-Sab- bath gentiment. If the law of God and the Gos- el of Christ do not gustain the Church in its Sabbath creed, and oivil lw caonot coerce consciences in it observance, then no-Sabbathism will prevaiL The Church is 1OW reaping a fearful barvest from its no-Jaw- ism io a prevalent digregard for its extemporized Babbath. The lsst quarter of a century has nearly revolutionized populsr sentiment. Towns onco noted for puntanic strictness in Sundsy observance are mow noted for pleasure- scckiog and Sunday cojoyments. The multi- tudes seck pleasure, and ot the house of God. This city ia not an exceotion to thisrale, The religious department of 'Cre TRIBUSE of Sunday has doubtless more readera than all the churches bave bearers, use the puritasic charch- going bas been decimated by a change in public sentiment on Sunday sscredness. Wabash ovenue, the boulevards, the Efi:n, have their troops of pleasure-zockers, church-goers ae ot Sunday-sanctifiers. Nor ia the dsy gen- erally 5 Sabbath to the sonlin its spiritual cul- ture. Such are legitimate resuits of no-lawism, or tho moral Jaw abrogated. The moat fearfal step in this downward prog~ Tesy is in the increasing disregard for Christian~ ity, bothin its doctrinos and 1ts inner life. At tho creation the Sabbath was tho only law o guide man in his religious vatiro. It brought him into immediate communicn with God, a8 its weckly return reminded hm that God rosted on that day from His creative work, and blessed and ssnctified the dsy. This bo learns from Josus Christ waa forman. It was the central light o guide him in his devations. In the code of moral lawe spoken and writton by God, and not Mosos, it was the only precet, affimmiug & serviceto be rendered, referring to creation_for its ory When God created the first religious organization, for His worship tho Sabbath law is agsin repeated, with the same xeason. that it was God's santified rest-day from Hia finished creation. On the rotarn from Egsptian bondage ana Babylonian cap- tivity, the daty of Sabbath ob- servance was strongly eaforced. In ome case 8 woekly nuraclo for forty years, or more than 2,000 times, reminded the paople of tho presenco of God's rast-dsy. Jesus Christ and flgs Apos- tles held the 8abbath up to its ol standard B8 & means of worship. Thus in all dispensa- tions recorded in the Biblo we hate the Sabbath with its spititus] element a8 the central light to guide worshipers. ‘Fhe experience of Christinnity since its intro- daction haa been in harmony with other. dispen- gations, Christ and His Apostles used the Sab- bath 23 & worship-day. This 1a declared to bo Christ's castom, and Panl's mauner. Christisa- ity startod on ite mission of teaching and bring- ing souls to through, Babbath’ maetings. Mission labor from houso to house was per- formed in addition to this. Other meetings were extemporized a8 opportunity offered. 8s at Troas. The disciples came together, evidently for tho evening meal, and ¥anl, baving arrangod o tako b leave of them in _ the morning, £ improved ;' the occasion * by preaching to them. " The Apostles went, as Coriat hed before them, teachiog in the syna- gogues on tho Sabbatb. ' From Jeruaslem, tho burch going enst into Armenis, soutn into Abyasinia, and west into Italy, usod the Sabbath for its worship-day. At Rome it met Gonatan- tines’ pagan venerable day of the sun, and fled before it into Piedmont, where for many centu- ries fn its mountain retreats it continuod a Sab- batb-keeping Church. When the Roman Church adopted under imperial decrees the heath- en “Sun’s day,” in the place of God's loly ; day, it plonged fesrfully into the darkness, when _ its spiritnal power was exchanged for the tewporal power that bas finally colmioated in the Ultramontane dogma of Papal infallibility. The Church that protested against Rome pro- tested only in part, aod took 1ta Sun's day with it for its worship-day. All Protestants gince ¢ time have wused their wor- ship-day 8s tho great time- for pro- pagapdism. Immenso treasures are invested in churches for Sunday uss. The army of minis- ters toil through the weck in their libraries to prepare their sermons for their Sunday congro- gatioos. Tho gatherings of the peoplo are on Sundsy. It1s the greatdsy of tho Cburch for its evangofical work. ~ The Sabbath 1dea is thus inwrought into the faith and activities of the Church. Tho peopie assembls_on tha day for instruction, for edification. - The childron are brought together to be taught. The ordinances of the Church are adminiatered on_that day.- It i8 tho great day of the Church, indisponsablo for ita work and worship. No-lawism is striking_» desth-dealing blow at this stronghold of tho Church. Infidelity seizes apon this doctrine of the Church to vindicate its no-Sabbathism. The attendance upon the wor- 8hip of God on Sundpy is immensely diminished. Under the pressure of no-lawism, no-Sab- bathism will gather strength. Under the rale of mno-Sabbathism, congregations will be broken up, and Christisnity will loge its power. -Its next step willbe & combination of the civil power with he religions, to enforce the dogmss it has substituted in the place of its spirits wer. T will be followed by a loss Of the vilal forces of the Church for its mission ot extending the Charch of Jesus Christ as a re- deeming power among men. The Church without a Sabbath is much like & body without a soul, powerless for its mission. ‘The Iabors of evangelists und revivalists may ‘produce grand results in winniog to a profession of Christ. The fruits of these labors find homes in chorches where the fundamental idea of wor- ship,—~the Sabbath_dactrive,—is held loosaly, sad they lack the help thoy need to bind them o a life of dutiful obedience to God's moral gov~ ernment. The redemption of Christ has freed them from the cuyse of the law. They sre justified by it; snd then are told: “The Iaw i dono away, ccially the Sabbath lsw. That “was Jewish. 1t doos not bind the Christian. One dayinseven, overy seventh part of time, ia all the Sabbath there is.” This Iawloss doctrino cannob fail of its influence over those thus taught. Thoy read- ily fall into the tide of no-Sabbathism, no-lawism that is driftiog the Church away from God's ‘moral government. These will §oon need & more waa: ul evangelist to recover them to obedience . ‘Thus gradually, with the best elements of the Cburch, Christisuity is losing its original char- acter. Its strongest influence to bind to God's worehip ** God’a holy day * is ignored. Its infla- ence is lost. lts extemporized ubstitute has no divine power to control consciences. The mass- es make it a holiday. It becomes a day of sin- {al pleasure. Walks, drives, beer-gardens, thea- tres, in some cities, and all amusements. are resorted to to wear out the tedium of a Sabbath that has no divine sanctity. = Secular novels, music, games, gossip, business schemes, plans of - pleasure, are the in-door exercises, for whiling away time much betéer by the withdrawal of all sacredness from it. Once the devout *called ths Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable.” They Bonored God, not doing their own ways, nor finding their own ploaure, nor speaking their own words. Now. no-lawism. and especially no-Sabbathism, bas thrown of the restraints of the Sabbath, and doing their own waye, and finding their own plessures and speaking their own words, are substitated with their own evil tendencies. With tho ignoring of the Ssbbath and tho sscredoess that Ged gave it when Ho blessed and sanctified it, all other interests of Christisnity suffer. The fearfal tide of Sunday desecration that is de- moralizing the Church, and driviog it into ra- tionalism, pantheism, Spirituziism, and namber-. less other 18ms, 18 chargenble to the Church that fails to prove its Sabbath from tho Word of God. while insisting npon its observance. With the ceotral power to secure obedience, God's laws, taken away, the flood-gates of disregard for religious restraints are thrown wide open, ana Christianity becomes an emotional system instead of a syetem of divine law. Under such a regimen, faucy, feeliug, pleasure, drift the mul- titudes wheresoever they choose. The wise will heed this condition and set up the standard of a spiritual Christianity on the basis of God's holy law. a8 the only hope of recovering a wandering ‘people to integrity, trath, and God. E——" THE SABBATH. T8 OBSERVANCE BEFORE MOSES. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: 0Oix Panx, Feb. 4.—r. Dailey, in his last article, accuses me of indulging in negative propositions, and also of denying the validity of verbal precepts. This is all news tome. I was not aware that I had indulged, in a single in- stance, in negative proposttions, or in a singlo J. Barer. instanco denied the force and validity of & pre- cept bocause it was verbal. All Christ’s precepts aro verbal, or wers given verbally ; I don't be- lieve I deny them on that acconnt. Inecessarily indnlge in depials because they pertainto my side of the controversy; but & depial and a Degative proposition ste not quite the same. What. I said on tho subject of nega- tive presumption I repsat, viz.:' That when apything is smssoried 3 & fach respecting persons or things treated of in the Scripuure, which the record does not state, or in respect to which it is silent, that silence be- gets at ouce a presumption that the statement is Dot trne. Take for example the dogma of the Immacnlate Conception. MMr. B. would at once pronounce it false because the Scriptures are silent on the subject. They give no hint or sug- gestion of such a doctrine: 80 that, 28 800n as propounded, it is branded as false: the silence of the record being presumptive against ita truth. This presumption, in sll such cages, I called negative presumption. Mr. B. may give it & better name if he can; bat, o matter what nsme ho gives it, the facts are not changed, and using them legitimately is not indalging in neg- tive propositions. Most of Mr. B.'s objections are pers, | abont as seriona as those I have named, and are mot worth much serious attention. And 1 ghall Dot allow myxalf to be diverted from tho main iasne by any such sido-shows. I think I know just where that main poirt lies, aod I intend to force Mlr. B. and his friends to face the masic, and answer yes or no. _The %mt of the whols matter lies in the ques- tion, whether before tho time of Mores a Sab- bath precept was given and a Sabbath abserv- soce followed. In g previous articleI wtated that if any man would pointme to a well-definod Sabbath injunction, or toa clear statement of Sabbath observance in the record before the time of Mosee, I would drop the discussion. In- stesd of 80 much specual pleading and petsifog- ing, why don’t Mlr. B. or soms of his school poiut ont this Sabbath law and observance of Which they talk so confidently, sud spike my little gun and etop the whole discassion? Why, M. B. kmows. if he knows anything at all about tho matter, that there is no such law and no such fact of Babbath obsorvance outside of tho proiitic braing of theologians. He knows, or ought to know, that the doctrins of a Sabbath antecedent o Moges is all pore asaump- tion, nothing but inference and guess. The array of great names gives the assumption Do strangth or force, becauss it is not 4 question of the interpretation of words, in which tho services of acholars might be of value, but tho difliculty is the want of words in the record. It is not the mcnnin§ of words but their absence that invalues the Babbath doctrins in trouble. I stated in o former article that the facts of Creation and of what God said in respact to the soventh day were not known to mankind till the revelation was givon to Moses. Inreply to this, AIr. B. introduces a false issue. He sags the facts of the time were known to the peoplp of tho time quito as well aa to Moses, I certainly didn't deny that facta transpiring among mon of which they were cognizant wore &s well kaown %o them 08 to Moses. Baut it was not those facts 1 was spenking about, andif Mr. B. is not very dull of comprehonsion, he must have koown that the facts fo which I ro- ferred wero the facts of creation, and what God said of the seventh day. Tho facts of creation were not facts of man's time, and he could koow them only a8 Gad revealed them, and we aronot told that God mad any antece- dent revolation on the subject. It is assumed becauso God blessed and haliowed the seventh day that therefore the act was known te the world; but how shonld maukind know the fact unless God told them ? Tho recordgives no ac- count that God revealed this fact to the world, 80 that all assertions that mankind knew it ara but assumptions. The silence of the record is ogainst them, and givos ground for the presump- tion that they are false. The objection is raised that there seems to be no purposo in the divine blessing conferred upoa theday, if it was not to be given for buman observance. Then the fact that we can't Bee God's designs and comprehend their _entiro Bcope, is not a_very good resson for asserting tbat unless they inean what we think they should they are meaniogloss. Now to my simple way of thioking the act of God in re- spect to tho seventh day is just as significaot, and just as full of purpose, whether it waa to be revesled to the first or the fortieth generation. God foreknow all tho agencies He wonld reguire in His dealing with man, and in the beginning He provided for every one of them. He fore- saw that in process of time it woula be necessary to institute o Sabbath law, and in blessing the soventh day. He provided the precedent to which ho might, when the time arrived for the law, refer &8 a couse or resson. I offer this ‘merely 28 & suggestion, not an argument. Lot me repeat hers that the whols doctrins of 8 Sabbath before Moses rests wholly and solely on the assemption that the world knew by somo eort of instinct what God did in respect to the seventh day before he revealed it. I know of nothing so degrading to man- kind in this dl{ of 80 much boast about freedom and intelligance as the fact that they sre held eo easily iv the hands of so much uttec~ ly groundless theological assumption. The very idea that a Iaw or precept of God for human ob- servance i8 not plainly and fally stated, but is left to depend on inference and conjecture, is ab- sard. It takes three things to makea precept or injunction, viz : the giver of the precept, the person-or persons. 3 or enjoiried. - Wherey-before the time o 95 these three conditions meet in_the record’to form & Sabbath law? -If they are in Genosis, they can easily ba pointed out. But instead of doing this, one refers to the use of the number 8even a8 proof of the Sabbath, another shinks there is great significance in the word ** Remem- ber.” Dr. Hodge sad Prof. Lange are quoted 8 1f certain random words and phrases, aod the opinions of doctors of disinity, conld force s pre- cept afd ita observance into the record ‘when nonoe exigt. The ude of tne number seren is quite 25 likely to be an astrological conceit as to Liave any relation to a Ssbbath. If all the con- nections in which it is used were quoted it wonid be readilv seon that to impute its meaning to the Sabbath in every caso would maxe a bad jumble. It seems to bo forgotten that the Sabbath precept was given to the Israsl- ites avout a mouth before the Iaw was promul- guted ; and, as indicated in the fonrth verse of Exodus, sixteenth chapter, it was introduced in advance of the other Iaws'as a preliminary trial or test of whether or ot when the whole laws shonld come they would obeythem. As the text bas it, God gave it first to prove Ot try them. The word test probably conveye the true signific cance. When tho Sabbath precept was_given formally in the decalogue it commenced with the word ‘*‘remember” (or don’t forget) the Sabbath day, ewc. They been keaping it some wooks, nod they wero told substanually not to forget to koep it holy. The word remem- ber bas no necessary nor usnal reference to time and events long past or of long duration. Wo tell our children and servants, and all to whom we give diroctions or instruction to remember what we have just told them; and the nower the ‘matter is, aud the less familiar they are with it, the more emphasis we use in urging them to re- member Job aid, * Great men_are not always wise,” eod he might have added with equal truth, they are not always endowed with common sonse. Genesis twonty-sixth and fifth are referred to 43 _ovidonco that the law or somo general law existed before the time of Moses. Every in- dividual whom God selacted for any spocial par- pose had precepts or rules of conditct given him in respect to some things. Noah had rules forthe construction of the Ark and tho animals he was to take into it, and he obeyed them. Abraham was seleoted and had cortain injunctions im- posed upon him which he observed faithfally, and it is these, and not a general existing law for all men that he kept, and for which he is commended. Dr. Hodge says: *‘If nothing was done but what is recorded in Genesis, tho Antediluviang and patrisrchs lived almost en- tirely without religious observances.” Exactly so0. Bat if the record does not state what their religions observances were, what means has Dr. Hodge of telling? Does not the silence of tho rocord leave the whole subject nndecided ? . Who in the absence of a recorded fact csn Bay in Te- 8pect to any specific matter what they did or what they did not. i lenied that they may have bad rel 8 obsorvances, perbaps & multitude of them, but without a rec- ord of the facts, are we not left to mers con- jectare or inference? What theologisn. how- over distinguished, can say, while tharecord is eilent, just what religious observances they had crhadnot? e may say ho presumes they had tho Sabbath, ar he thinks, or supposes, or be- lieves, or guesses thoy had1t; but can he, in the fach of tho facts aa they exiat, stand up and say they had it ? Of courseno man that has any re- gard for trath, ot bas any respect for his repu- tation, can hazard each an assertion. The mo- ment he makes it he must know, if he is sure that it is but an assumption. Let any man seek in a court of f;fllfici} to. convict another of crme on such evidence, and the poorest Judge in tha would kick bim and his case ontiof court’incontinently, Dr. ‘Hodge does not presume to aefine what these supposed religious observances of tho sncients were. Yet be and his school assert with all the cheek of & first-class confidenco-man that the worla beforo Moses bad the Sabbath precept, and obeyed it. Have Dr. Hodge or any of the Sabbath edvocatos the courage aud manhood to say plainly that their positive assertions are after all but plansible presumptiona? For, while the record is eent, 1o man can moro than pre- sume or conjecture, unless ke lays ciaim to,om- niscience. What God has left undefined, man, aven if ho bo a great theologian, is hardly caps. ble of explaining. Theologians have foisted their own conjecturos a8 laws of God on our over-credulons world quite oo long. ; Moszs, — 3 THE OTHER SIDE, BEPLY TO MR, BAILEY. Crrcao, Feb. 5.—The Rev. -John Bailey— Dean Smi I have read with much interest your article in Tz TRIBCNE on the Sabbath-day. inwhich you contend earnestly that tbe old Jewish Sabbath is in fall force and as binding upon the hearts and consciences of mep;, as o NUMBER 164 rule of action from God to man, to-day as it was bofore the death of Christ. To Prove your posi- tion you engeavor £o establish the exact time aad place when and where it had its origin snd became a penal law from God to map, and 2s euch demanding man's implicit obedience, with rewarda to bo enjoyed aod punishments to te eaforced, which is the result of all Divine law. Paul settled tho law when be anaouncod the fac: that sin was tho transgression of law, and, Then there was no lav, thero could not be any . transgrossion or sin. Henco wa seo that sin is the violation of Divine law. To estabhah your first provosition, i. e., when tho' Sabbatn firss ‘o & law, calling for man's obadience to it, you quoto Gen. ii. Do you airm and do you £0 teuch that the seven dsys mentioned in Gean. l., In which God croated the heavens and the eanh, were days of twenty-four Loars each, as we now compute | tir or was each'dsy a fonger period of tme? Ad- mitting thoy woro sevon days of twenty-four Lours “each, cau you show me & command from God in Geneais 1. for man 10 keep the Sabosth. day 2 If not, how conld man obey or disobay when there 'was no law: Iwsntchaptor ans. yerse containivg God's commanda in Genesis it, Your individual opinions I can take with maay graios of allowanae, but for all religions truthy and their proof God'a revealed wiil to man as the end of alt controvarsy is better and highes ‘authority than your opinions. Was not the Work of creation, 8 montioned in Genesis ii. Goa's work and not man's? Giod having finished His work of creation, rosted oz the seventh day. This work of creation man bad nothing to do with,—it was parely God's work ; henco man conld not be incluged i the rest any more than he was in tho work, and, ta asgert that he required rest when hs had not besn atwork, ia an_absurdity. We see clearly that man was not included in the work or rest. Again, X call for God's command in Genesis ii. for man to keep a Sabbath, Now, having disposed of Gen. ii., I challengo you to 8how me o command from God for any man or nation to keop this seveath day, or any otherday, a8 a Sabbath-day, during the patn- archal dispensation, and, unless yon can do so, I will have shown you by God'a o#n appointment and religious dispensation, withont that Jewist Sabbath'to which yon havo pinued your faith,— which is the same faith the Jews had when they nailed Chrst to the cross and cried ont * Cracify Him,"—tho 'same faith Panl had when ha was breathing out threatonings and slanghter against all who held to the faith in Christ. ‘Was there any commaud from God for man to keep a Sabbath-day until after the deliverance of the chuldren of Israel from their Exyptian boad- age? If go, please give chapter and verse. Moses was the law-giver to the Jews through whom God *made the first covenant with tho Jowish naticn containing a Sabbath, and that Jewish Sabbath could not last any longer than covenant, John, i, 17. saya: **For ths law was given by. Mosss but grace sod _truth ~ came Jesns Christ.” As Moaes was the law-giver to tho Jews, hear 1us testimony as it ia recorded in Deateronomy, v, 1-6: *And Moses called all Israel and emd nnto them : Hear, O Israsl, the statates aod judgments which 1 apeak in your exrs this day, that ye may learn thom and keep and do them, Tho Lord our God made n covenant with ns in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant wih our fathers, but with us, even us, who aro all of us here alive this day. The Lord talked with yon face to face in the mount, ont of the midsf of tho fire.” Also, the fifteenth verse, sama chapter. Hero God assigns the rosson for come manding the Jows to observe tha nevg:th day. Iti5as followa: *And remomber that thog wast s eervant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God bronght thee ont thence through a mighty hand aod by an ontstretched arm ; therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath-dayv.” From this you will observe. that God commanded the Jows to keep this day in memory of tbeir deliverance from bondage, and not because He (God) rested on the seventh day from His work, The cove- nant that God masde with the children of Israel was_the commandments (Seo Exodus, XrIi., 16-18. Exodus xxxi. 15-16): *:And ho was _thags with the Lord forty days and forty night 5, J b did neither eat -bread nor drink water. And “bo wrote upon the tables the words of the cove- nant, the ten commandments.” Exodus, xxxiv., 28: * And He declared unto you His covenant which Ho commanded you to perform, even ten commandments, aud He wrote them upon twa tables of stonc.” Deut., iv, 13: “And it came £o paea at the end of forty dass and -fort; nights that the Lord gave me the two tables | stono, aven the sables of the covenant.” Wo have proven boyond controvrsy, from the word of God, that this was the first covenani God ever made with man contsining a Sabbath. day. This Sabbath-day was to last aa long &l the covenaot lasted which created it as a com- memorative doy. Has God ever falfilled the promise coptained in Jeromish, xxxi., 31 : * Bo- bold the dsys come saith the Lord tnat I will make s new covenant with the house of Lsrael, and with the house of Judsh;” and the thirty-socond versa: * Notaccordiag to the cove~ nant that I made with their fathers in the dsy that I sook them by the hand to bring them ont of the Iand of Egypt (which my covenant they brake. although L was a husband unto them, saith tbe Lord).” Seagiy. e & CHURCH ATTENDANCE. REPLY TO THUE REV. MB WILLIAMSON. To the Editor of 1he Chicago Tribune = Crrcico, Feb. 4.—The Rev. Mr. Williamson, in his fermon, printed in last Monday's TRibUNE, &858 that not woro than one-fourth of the Prot estant popalation of thia country attend ¢harch, and implies that the one-fourth who ace church- goers are the least intellectual quarter of the Ppeopie, but the most religions. The Roverend gentleman arrives at the roason why the three- quarters of ths people do not attend church, to- wit: That they are irreligious and bad. Dolonging to the class that does not attend: charceb, I desire respectfully to snggest to Mr. WiNiamson that the real resson why some peo~ pledo not attend church is, beczuse they can Ret nothing intellectuat, religions, or beneficial to them from most pulpits. The so-called re~ ligion is o dead religion to them.—a todions and tasteless mess of dry huska, with Do spiritnal life or nourishment 1 it. It 15 a waste of time, therefore, for this class of persous to go ‘to charch. .Bome of thess non. charch-goers, ot losst, can and do spend their tio profitably st home, on_Sunday, in readiog sach, to them, roligions workn as Emer- son, Darwin, Draper, Huxiey, and other intel. lectual and scientific authors. Soms of theso non-church-goers are atudying the great social aod political probloms of the age—how to pros vide labor, bread, apd education, not tracts, for tho msstics who are in want of these things, and have como to the conctusion that ealvation of the race by the redemption preached by tha Charch i8 moch moro beveficial to the purse of the Church than it it to the sonls of men, or tha morals of soctety; and that proper natural gen eration is worth infinitely moro than unpatural redemption, sapported - only by belief of ignor- ance in myth and superstition. If the Church would regain the ears of the people it must put into the pulpit men with an idea born of tho spirit of thia age. YWheuever such & men gets into the pulpit, he gty hear~ ing, but usually gets excomwunicated. Prof.- Swing has no trouble to gat heard, Collyer, aud Beocher, and Murray. are hosrd glady, and the reagon is they have somathing to tell. People et paid who hear them. but they do mot get paidin the grest majority of cases to go to cburch. It is ot, a3 the Rev. Mr. Williamson con~ cludes, because the peaple are bad, but becsusa tha preschicg is bad. that people do not _go to charch. The !%ell ~baok and the A E C's are good for & child, but a man does not ta read tho sp2lling book oxclusively all his life. When he has learned it all, it is of no further valuo to bim. Most men of general intelligonco bave long sinca learned by heart eversthing the average minister bas to_tell. They get dis- gusted at the vain repetitions of the old, old story. This is why they do not go to charch. J. Groves. — CLOSE COMMUNION. NEW TOBE BAPTISTS INSIST CPON IT. '.The Baptist Mimsiers’ Conferenca of New Yorkat its last meeting considered at longth a Beries of reolutions vffered previously, declariog immersion a necessary gualification for partici- pation in the Lord's Supper. The chair was oc- cupied by the Rev. S8amuel Alman, of the Second Mission Charch, who, aftera praser by Dr. Ar. mitage, of the Fifth Aveone Baptist Church, ordered the resding of Dr. Armitage’s resolu. tiops above re{efle-; to, and d them then to be before the meeting. The Rev. Dr. Thomaa then offered a parody on Dr. Armitags's resou~ tions, 25 & substitute for them, and caused consid~ exablelanghter thereby, QT Armitsge saidho wae