Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1876, Page 1

VOLUME 29. FINANCIALs TE B Herchas, Farmers', & Mechauics' Savings Bank, 75 CLARK-ST., CHICAGO. [VESTMENT CERTIFICATES. Perfect Seonrity—Liberal Inferest. grery tificnte Secured by Norigage on culmpnn-ed Real Estnte. ZABLE of increase of **Investment Certin s secured on improved real estate, bear- terests payable in quarterly install- 'S¢ tho rafe of 73-10 per cent per an- ka0 pents; 3% howing the acenmulation of sums in= - for the benefit of Children or otlieraz Time. Amonat . 4,323.10 opon the basls that intercst, when due, fs vings account, &ad fuvested in INVEST- :g“%dc’;;mmuws ‘whenever $100 {s thus accamu- ek eiforot 8 Certifcate has the privilags of examin- o the ondition of the trust at aay time on calling at f the Trustoe. st {orwarded, aad taterost, whon dus, rofa- tad, if darod, o remitted by dralt er express to any ptet tha Unitad States. _Address il SYDNEY MYERS, Manager. TEHE STATE aygs stimion, 80 and 82 LaSalle-st,, Chicago, IIL CAPITAL. $500,000 SURPLUS. . 110,000 s o, sublec 0 50 f the Institution. m;i: ‘receives for safe keeping In its ATE DEPOSIT VAULTS ! . Diamonds, Bonds, Deeds, Coin, Bullion, Silver- m’{‘m& and other valuables, and rents Safes in its FIRE AND BUBGLAR-PROOF VAULTS At ressonsblerates, D. D. SPENCER, Pres't, 4 4 D.GUILD, Casbier, 105 CLARRSSY, Mefhodist Chmreh Blck. Interest begins on the first of esch month. GERMAN-AMERICAN BANK OF CHEICAGO. Office, 172 East Washington.st. BRANCH OFFICE. o, 59 NORTH-CLARE-ST. JUSTUS KILIAN, President. R, Gashier. LOAN W.J. HALLE! On Improved City Property. JOHXN Y. MABSH & CO., 94 Washingion-st. WANTED. STUATION WANTED, By amsa of seversl yoars’ business experi- snce ss Cashier, Bookkeeper, Correspond- sut, or in any capacity where & faithful man will be apprecisted. Can furnish beat of ref- srences, and give seourity, Address H 73, Tribune ofice. 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Moody and Sankey in New York--- Auctioning Off Their Effects in Philadelphia. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad---Church Services. ..., THE MORAL LAW CRITICISED. ' 3EGUIN" AND ‘‘0828." To the Editor of The Chwcago Tribune: Cmicavo, Feb. 11.—Through your courtesy I bave been discussing, in Toe TwBUNE, the philosophy of the moral law. I have done thiy for the sake of creating in the popular mind & desire to study its character closer, and induce a higher regara for it. Some half a dozen indi- viduals, in about a dozen articles, over fictitious names, have responded. I am happy to feel that many of these have shown an evident desiro to elicit trath. I have not folt called upon 1n any article to turn aside, very much, from my purpose of considering the character of the moral law, and several theories bearing upon its integrity and perpetuity, for the sake of answer- iog my critics. In your Suxpay TRIBUNE of Feb. 6, ““Moses” appears again demanding notice. ‘Seguin” aleo appears as a polemic, assertiog aod demanding. I therefore leave, for tho time, another article I was preparing, on «the estimste of the moral law by the good and trus in the Charch,” to notice some points they make. I have signed my own name to each of my articles. Ay critics hide behind their incog., while using my name freely. Not being a polemic, I care nothing for the supposed or real advantage of disputation behind a cover. The good tasto of such a course Ileave to them. Some of the criticisms are common to both. Io all such casea my answers may be used by both. *“Seguin” demands chapter and” verse for “a command from God in Gepeas for man to keep the Sabbath day." He has dj qualifiea himself for making such & demand Q; asserting that I “contond esrnestly thst the | old Jewish Sabbath is in full force,” etc. I have made no such claim, and tnerefore must be excused from the imputation. I bave claimed that ** God's holy day” wass instituted at crea- tion. *Seguin” will be better prepared for my anewer whon he has presented “ichapter and verss” that contams his expresaion ‘‘Jewish Sabbath.” Ho also de- mands, *Do you affirm, and do you so teach, that the seven days mentioned 1n Genesis, i, in which God crested the heavens and the earth, were days of twenty-four hours cach, a8 we now compute time.” I 2firm that in the Bible account of them, they have the natural phouomens of dsys 88 we DOW count time. ‘What do you affirm ? “Beguin " pext demands, ** Was not the work of creation, n8 mentioned in Geneeis, ii., God's work, and not man’s?” It surely was God's snd not man's. 8o also the rest from it was God's snd not man's. T'he sanctification and blessing the day of His rest was God's and not maun's. Heuce the fitness of the expression, ** My holy day.” Jesus Christ suys, *tho Sabbath was made for man.” 1t was not for God, but for men. God did not need it. Had **Segun " care- fully studied the philosopby of the Sabbath, ho would not have used the expression, ** Hence man could not be included in the rest any more than he was in the work, and to zasert that ho required rcst wheo he had not been at work is an absurdity.” The rest of God was not from fatigue, but a ceasiog from His work. Man was not alaborer con- demoed to fatiguing toil, when the Sabbath was made, bleesed, and sanctitied for him. The Sab- bath made for man was for his bigher nature, madein_theimage and after the likeness of God, and vitalized with the breath of God. Tho physical reat is onty incidenta! and nos primor- dial. Man was piaced in the gardon to **dress and keep ™ it. From this care (not toil) he was to commune with God in_ his higher life, on his rest day, 28 God had spiritual aod not phys- ical rest from His work on His rest day. The fatiguo incident to a contest with thorns and thistles,” and a ** cursed ground,” acd * eating Dborba,”™ and *‘swesting face,” wag & result of sin, and not cconected with man's condition when the 8abbath was made for him. The Sab- bath desccrator, and the violator of the moral 1aw, now suffer from the loss of the communion with God that the Sabbath furnished man be- fore ho bad sinued, Their hearts aro hardened, their minds are blinded, and they nejther per- ceive nor enjoy the peace of harmony with God that this law confers. “Seguin” next challenges me 'to show a command from God for any man or nation to keep this seventh day, or any other day, 884 Sabbath_day, during tho patriarchal dispensa- tion.” He will find toat commaod fn “tho chupter and verse” where he will find the com- mand from God for men and women to marry. The Sabbatb aod marriage stand alike in this respect. Both were instituted before man was a sinner. Thers would have been a poor show for +Seguin™ and myself, had men and women re- fused to marry till a command from God, specific- ally made and fully recorded, was given. ‘Lheir excuse would have been just s good as ~+Seguin'a” for not keeping "holy the Saobath instituted at creation. N I fully believe in Jesus Christ a8 s Savior of sinuers, and my Savior, althongh I keep the Sabbath God 'msde at creation for all men, notwithatanding *Seguin” classes my faith with thoso_ who said of the Savior, *Crucify Him.” The Ssbbath I keep was the one God blessed and sanctified before sin entered. Sin being removed by Chriat, tha sonl is better prepared to com- mune with God in the Sabbath He appointed for that purpose before a Savior was Decessarv. * Segnin's "' next great error 1s in confounding the covenant with the moral law, tha ten com- mandments. The covensot was an agreement between God and the poople with reference to the law He wasabout to_give. God proposed a covenant with the peopis, in which Ho said, + Now therefore :f ye will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be & pecul- iar tressure with Mo above ail peopls, for all the earth 1s Mine, aud ye shall be uuto Me a kivg- dom of prieats andan holy nation.” Exodus, Xix., 5, 6. When this was communicated to the peo- plo they #aid, ** Al thattne Lord hoth epoken wa will do.” Exodus, xix., 8. Then the arrange- ments were made for giving the law, concerniog which the covenant or agreement had been made. After the Jaw had beon given by God, and not Moses, the covenant was ratified. Moses took the book of the covenant and read in the audienco of all the people; and they said, **All that the Lord hath said we will do &nd be obediont.”"— Exodas, Xxiv., 7. Moses then sprinkled blood on the aitar and on the people. The blood on the sltar ratified God's part of the covenant. Ths blood on. the people atified their part of it. The expression ** words L of the covenant™ means only the words or law concerning which the covenant had been made. The people afterwards broke their part of tha covenant by failing to keep the lsw. By this they liberated God from His part of the cove- nant. Jeremiah prophesied of a time when God would make a new covenant with them. Mosges was the mediator of tho first covenant to keep the law. Christ was the mediator of the second covenant concerniog the samo law. Un- der the firat covenant the moral law was written on stones. Under the second covenant the same law was written on the heart of the Christians. God's band wrote tho law oo stone. The Holy Spirit writes it upon the heart of the believer. ~ All spiritual Coristians feel that the moral law s inwrought into their epiritual lives. *Soguin,” sske, **Has God ever fulfilled the promise contained in Jeremiab, xxxi., 31-32?” Most assuredly it is fulfillad by the Holy Spirit in creating a love for God's law in the regeueration of the heart. The absence of that love is evidence of an uorenewed heart. In giving the law in Exodus, xx., 11. 2nd in its repetition, Exodus, xxxi., 17, the reason given for tho Sabbath is, **Forin aix days tho Lord made heaven aud earth.” Its repetition in Deuteronomy—v., 15, is onlyanadditional reason Tor the Jews keeping the Sabbath. God called them ont of Egvpt, and orgacized them as a church or worshiping body. The Sabbath was pot ceremonial with them, buta memorial of God's rest from his finished creation. Moses was law-ziver to the Jews. God, and not Moses, gavoe the moral law, includiog the Sabbath pre- cept. The Sabbath wes the basisof afl organ- izod worship, wlhother with Jews or Christiang, “Moses ” complains that Laccuse him of in- dulgiog in negstive propositions. [f I have wronged him, 1 will restore four-fold. In hig aiticle dated *‘Oak Park. Jan. 20,” in his three general propositions, he says: ‘* Firat, the Sab- bath law, 28 a rule of couduct, did not have its origin at the close of erestion. Second, that the whole Mosaic code, the decalogue in- cluded, was given a8 a pogitive 1aw to the Jews, and to them only, and was not imposed in the form of laws on any other people or mation. ‘Third, the Sabbath law was ceremocial. not mor- al.” Thus cach of his tores general proposi- tions_contain a prominent negative proposition. And then follows consecatively : * What God did and said during creation, and at ita close, in re- Iation to the seventh day, Was mot, #o far as we know or bave good reazon to believe, made a matter of record for nearly 2,500 years after its occurrence, and hence could not be binding on the conduct of men. They could not i soy senso be bound by a law of which they knew nothing, nor conld they follow an examble of which they had never heard.” A littie further on he says: ‘God never imposed upon the worla at large amy code of posi- tive lsws for its observance. There is pothing 1n Seripture, Dothing in history, to warrant the belief that He did. Again, [ may go further and assert that even Christ did not promulgate law in the. proper sense. Not one of his precepts has s fixed, definite penalty at- tached to be enforced by human power. Ho never invokes legislative aid, never calls ona humsa tribunal, never seeks service of Sheriff or Constable. How much have I wronged him? When he says “I intend to force Mr. B. asd s friends to face the music,” I want to koow whether it i8 negative or positive music, and wihen the key changes. I cannot afford to foliow all theso negative propositions, when they grow outofadenialof very clear propositious, especially the sanctification of the Sabbath at creation, and for mao, When *Moses” or *‘Seguin” shall show *-chapter and verse™ for the commaud- ment of God<for man and woman to marry, and when the phrase Jewish Sabbath 1s found, they may call again on me for chap- ter and verse containing the command to keep the Sabbath imstituted at creation before it waa put in form at Sioai. To the best inter- preters of Bcripiures, aud the ripest scholara in hermenentics, the point is clear, that the 3ab- bach Was instituted at creation for man asa law to regulate his conduct before God. Adam, Methusaleh, Shem, - and Abraham covered in their lives all the time from the creation till the calling of Abrabam as the founderof the Jewish people, Adam was old aud maturs enonsl: to receive instruction from God before the Babbath was appointed, If it was made for man, 88 Christ declares, Adam koew it. He and his contemporaries did not deal ic written Isugnage largely, snd carried in memory and handed down to their successors what God had said, By this method, and not by any new di- rection, Moses was able to esy *This is that which the Lord hath said. ~ To-morrow is of the holy Sabbath sath the This with ita connections shows that the test which God proposed in Exodus, xvi., 4, ‘*that I may prove them wheth- r they will walk iu My law or no,” found them generally faithfal in keeping the Sabbath, before Mosos eaid a word about the Sabbath to them. Where did they gt a kuawledge of tha Sabbath bat through the lino of God-fearing men back to Adam, who received it asaeacred trust from God? The desire to ignore **God's holy duy " is doubtless the origin of the idea that because no special command to keep the Sabbath holy is embodied in the institation of it, thereforo there was no Sabbath bindingon them, and it belonged only to the Jews, when the command was given. Those who accept such o theory must of neces- sity declare all the precopts of the moral law Jewish, and binding oa them only. They may also tell us at the same time where they find in specific language the other nine items of tho law before they were given at Sioai as commands. After denying his negative propositions, and indulging in” some speculations purely his own, “ Moses” says: *‘And [ shall not allow myself to be diverted fram the main issuo by any such side-shows. I thiok I know just where the main poiot lies, and Iintend to forco Mr. B. and his friends to face the music,snd suswor yes or no.” I had discussed ** the philosophyof the moral 1aw” in several papers before ** Moses” put inan sppearance. Setting the law and the Sabbath all asido as Jewish, and igooring the cential and fundamental place they have always held in tho worship of God among Christians, as well a8 Jews, bie centres all in the one point that there is no specific command to keoo the Sabbath in its institution st oreation. In this he arrays himself against all Loly men of afl time, agaiust the Chutch, agunst the essential and indispen- gable institutions of Christianity for its propa- gation and _triumph, end asks that all these be Counted a8 side-sRowS, and his Degativo proposi tion be accepted in tbeir stead. By his own logic he can multiply this ninc-fold by denying that any of the ten commands were given as specific commands before thuy were given at Sinai in the so-called moral Iaw. 1 suggest to him tho labor of finding eacn precept of the decalogue put in specific form as s command to govern human actiops before the giving of the law at Smai. I also invite * Seguin” to assist bim in tho search. 1 give them ample time for the_labor of love, only saggestiog that they find them all in as gpecific terms as they require for the Sab- bath command. When all this is done, they will find the answer to their imperative demand for a specific Sabbath law. Tought, perhaps, to beg pardon of your read- ers for turning aside from my discussion of tha moral law iu its divine philosophy thus to meet these voluntcer polemics. Nevertheless, good may grow out of the discussion when the poiats at issue are fairly and kindly mef, and truth is evolved from them, that shall bind all hearts in closer union with God, and Christ, and each other. J. BamLev. —— McCARTHY. REPLY TO HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION. Cricaco, Feb. 10.—The tev. Florence McCar- thy—DEAR BRoTHER AND Pastor: It is with the deepest sorrow that we are called upon to consider your letter resigning the pastorate of Amity Church. We cannot dissolve our rela- tious with you, we cannot consider it even, for we believe tkat God, who called you to the min- istry, 2od who bas preserved your Iife and rea- son through trisls which would crush any one not upheld by the * Everlasting Arm,” will yet bring yon out of the darkness and doubt into s clear and unawerviog faith. b It is mot strange to us, who passed throngh the sorrow and anguish of two years ago, that sou have come at Iast to doubt the necessity for a religion which conld produce such bitterness and undeserved hatred. We fully understand your doubts, and pray for you with hearts foll of loving sympatby in this time of our mutual trial We are sure that you are acting from the despast convic- tiops “of duty, and we believe that God will guide you in whatever you do. ‘We have not known you for the past five yeara of your ministry to doubt your eincerity now. When we chosa you to be our pastor we did so knowing you thoroughly. end understanding well the posaible and probable effects of the treatment you had received at the hands of our Christian (2) brethren of this city. Bt we inew you better than they-did, and we know now that if you ehould giva yourself up to in- fidelity (which we cannot bolieve), it would be cauaed solely by the action of people who call themselves followers of the meek and Iowly Jesus. If they had followed their Master's royal law of love, we should not now be called upon to denounce their proceedings as the basest betrayal of a pure, mercifui, and loving Savior. Our faith in the supreme gooduess and power which o is able to clear away this black calumny is unshaken, and we wish em- phatically to say that, whatever the future may have in gtore for us and you, we thank God that He has blest us with yonr ministry for the past two years, as the pastor of Amity Charch, and that pot a breath of discord bas been among us, and we would not, if wo could, chsnge or blot out anytbiuglmmlheu years, excert the persecution which haaled you to doubt the overruling providesce of God. Thero is the most perfect unanimity amoug us in feeling that what you have done now is right, and, though it breaks our hearts to think of you as being in darkness and donbt in religious be- lief, we all respect and honor the truthfulness and love_of right which have led you to take a stand which is so far removed from the too- prevalent hypocrisy of the religions teachers of the present day. We believe your uuseitled theology ‘will settlo not on Calvin or any pro- fessing Christian, but oo the sure foundation— Christ Jesus, In regard to our futurc asa Church, we cannot 8ay without further consid- eration what our uitimate sction will be. For the present wo shall hold our usual prayer- meetings and Bible-school. We are too firmly bound togother o separate, snd ehall probably continue our organization, It is needless to eay how much we want yon with your old faith asd love to belp us; but, if God does nat so lead you, uvever forget that you have in every member of your church and’ congregation a sympathizing friend, brother, or sister, whose hearts and bomes are always open to you. That God may bless and direct you4s the earnest prayer of your loving people. Asury Barmist CHURCH. —_— MILWAUKEE PULPIT-SKETCHES. THE REV. HENRY T. ROSE, PLYMOUTH CHULCE. To the Fittor of The Chicago Tribuns: Mmwavkee, Wis., Feb. 10.—Prominent amoog the public.men whom Milwankes should delight to honor is the subject of tbe present brief nketch,—a gentleman who within the past few months has been invited to the pastorate of Plymouth Church, recently under the charge of the widels-known J. L. Dudley. In this in- stance we welcome the coming with the same beartiness with which we speed the parting guest, and sincerely trust it may be long ere we have occasion to advise tho readers of Tae Tripuse that the ties now linking Mr. Rose to Plymouth Church are in soy dacger of being severed. Itis probably safa to assume that Mr. Rose will slways be more appreciated by a small ‘band of thinkers than by the less reflective _tkough numerically stronger rank and file of the Congregationalist desomination. People who gather in crowds o be tickled by soaring flights of oratory, who delight in melliflaous cadences, aro easily excited by glowing excursions into the realms of poetical imagery; who are habit- ually on the alert for sounding declamation, lofty nperiods, and thnlling perorations artistically worked up, will probably not be materially sustained or comforted by the pulpit atterances of Mr. Rose. Those, however, wno are cdified and refreshed by discourses developing a weaith of original ideas, exhibitiug strong evidences of cozsidera- ble research, patient study, deep thought, and profound conviction—and who desire further- more that such discourses should be tersely and epigrammatically put_tozether—will find ~they have not listened to Ar. Hose in vain. The rapt attention with whick the reverend gentleman's sermons are invariably listened to by lus critical congregation proves this beyond a doubt. Itisasomewhat hard matter—witnont very closely following him—to _gat at the gist aud bearing of all the preacher’s arguments, illustrations, and appeals. What he says i8 weighty, and fraught with meaning, but his manner of delivery is not correspondingly effec- tive. His voico, though musical, is the reverse of sonorous, aud his best sentences are olten- times robbed of their appropriate significance by the comparative tameness with which they fall from his lip8. He strives to give point and em- phasis to many forcible arguments by the oc- casional nse of his arms, but in this respect his action is not uniformly eloquent, nor does he in the employment of these legitimate platform gesienlations provo that as an orator he is “to the maaner born.” 3 The sermons of Mr. Rose fairly bristle with points abruptly though iocisively presented, and are the raverss of conventional in their composi- tion. He does not chop up his subject in the ancient *firstly,” *secondly,” and **thirdly" manner, and~eschewing the orthodox *‘ Dearly beloved " mode of address—prefera to ealate hiy hearers as simply “ My friends.” In fine, Jr. Rose appesrs to be more of an essayist than a preacher, more of & debater thao advocate, more of a studious thinker than oral expounder of Gogpel trth. That, a8 o cultured exponent of modern thought applied to Christianity, he will exercise s deep and abidiog influence on those who hear him, there ean be no manoer of doubt; and itis an equal matter of certainty that his modesty of demeanor, his cordiality. and his easiness of approach, will 1eadily endear bim to all who seek his regard and {riendship, whether inside or ont- side the pale of Plymouth Chwich. Some better ides can be formed of Mr. Rose's style of oratory by the consideration of a few sentences jotted down from a sermon delivered on Sunday last, baving for its theme St. Paul's declaration in Acto Xyii, 23: “ForasI passed by and beheld your devotions, I found sn _altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God.™ Commencing with a sketch of Christianity in our nineteenth century, Mr. Rose observed: “1t is » happy fortune to live in this tiwe. Unless the dead are very happy io Heaven, I think sometimes they must envy the men whose time is come to live now. No other age has inberited 8o much mental Iiber- ty. Inno other tims hasmind been left to travel unchallenged. Thought is uofettered. Once, like a fowl of wanderiog_instincts, tho mind was peoned within bigh palings, its winga were clipped or broken, but now it is free of tne whole wide earth 2and the blue heaven. The only danger is that it will loge itself in these vaat spaces. . . . . But itis pleasure to hve nowin thisfree dsy. Every man may think what he will. There are noreligions inquisitors that need be feared. There is no censorship of mind. There is no compuision of betief. Creeds no longer_confine straitly the expanding faiths of men. Itisatime of charity. Religion is as sweet a flower as_ever, born ou aless thorny stom than once. It is a whiter light, with fewer streaks of red and black in the spectrum. Itis afaco growiog maro sweot and kindly as it grows older. It blesses o wider area. Itasks fewer questions. Ithas softened ita sterner features, hath smoothed its wrinkled front. It seems as though religion bad returmedto its earliest type, when it w28 a sweet naw gospel of Jove. which cama like a Chnstmaa carol among the discords of that time. It bas dropped the sword, for which its hands wero never made. It is no longer a threat or a terror, but an invita- tion, & charity, and an education.” i Commentingfon the changed and changing idens men have concerning the existence and attributes of God, the preacher said: ‘- This process by which God is changed from an Al- mighty Father in Heaven to a shrinking, ex- pandicg vapor, moved by the breath of specula- tion, is going on in_multitades of minds, not only in those cultured, gifted minds who move in Epglish libraries and lecture-rooms, but in thonsands of minds at home. You may find it in & thousand minds in thiscity. Itis ontof the churches, it is in the churches. They who hold to the personality, providence, presence of God in their youth, sre learmng to doubt tho old faiths, are waiting, thinkiog, fearing, while God eeems to withdraw further and further from His word, from the mind where He wasonce o friend received, from tho heart where He was beloved. He becomes shadowy, unsubetantial, like a dream when one awases.” We cease to calt Him God. my Fatker, and address Him by new names, which grow more and more vague until we think we believe we cannot know Him, and 8o cease to call to Him at all. This process i3 ss natural as the search of water for the lowest level. One by one the concoption of the Divine attributes as we thonght we knew them are given up until nothivg 18 left. The God we knew in childhood isno more, andin its place wo have a name which is little more than A white haired shadow, roaming like s dream The ever-ailent spaces of the East." Speaking of modern errors aod confusion of beliefs in the preaching of the present time, Mr, Rose remarked : ** Yes, if there be any loss in this dissipation of God, the fault lies in part at the pulpit doors. We have condemned the old, bat what have we pat in its place ? We have laughed at the Fathers,—we have JUELEA NUMBER1 171, for laughter,—but what truth have we foand ta putio piace of their teachings ? We have con- vinced the world that some of its faiths are lies, 20d given them notbing to believe iostead. Iz his recent delightful book on the Victonar Ppoets Stedman has this to say : (*The true pre- Raphaelite is wilting to bury bis own name in or der to serve his art ; to spond a life, it meed be, in Iaying the ground-wall upon which bis_suc. cessors can bmld a new temple that shall re- place the time-worn structure he has belped ta tear away.') Manya theologian and preacher bas interpreted bis duty to be just this,—tc spend a lifetime in tearing awsy the old, thst the new temple may be built in_ its room. God forbid that I shonld deny the right to demolish. There is a time to pul! down. Thero are many obsolets, and rude, and ruined faiths which need to be removed. But I don't want to pall down the ?Id house uutilI have found auother. I don’t want to spend my mghts in the streets. I want {o build where I destroy. Idon't want to spend my lifo layiog ground-walls, There are {00 many homeless sonls who want a roof over their hoads.” Mr. Rose has made many friends, where he little expected thom, ia this city. P S ‘THE SABBATH A REMINDER OF COD AB. BAILEY REVIEWED. To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune: 04k PaRx, Feb. 10.—I¢ must be manifest ta every one who has given this enbject aoy atten- tion that the gole purpose of Mr. Bailey's long discussion of mno-lawiam is to establish thg present existence and validity of the Sabbath law in all its Jowish vigor and sacredness. If this bo not kis motive, he has certainly been play- ing the role of Don Quixote in his famous contes( with the windmill. He knows, or ought to know, that not fifty eane men in the whols nation can be found who deny the bmding force of the moral law. Yet ho writes page after page to vm- dicate claims tbat nobody disputes. Ha is really carrying on 8 very vigorous contest with a mera man of straw,—s phantom that has no existenco outside of his own imagination. The trouble is with Mr. B. that ho starts oft with a false assumption, that leade him, as all error does 1t8 votary, into a thousand groundless conceits and assertions. That assumption is, that the Sabbath law, being embraced in the dec- zlogue, i3 therefore essentially moral. I hava endeavored to shor, and I think I have shown to unprejudiced minds, that the Sabbath law was ceremouial, and hed no longer lease of life than any other ceremonial precept embraced in the Jewish jav. Iaso stated, rather as a theory than an argament, that the Sabbath was iosti- tated -as & mesos of compelling, the Jew to contemplate Divine power, and thus actas a preventive of idolatry. Mr. B. treated this as silly, because there wasa direcccommaud sgainst idolatiy; but Demteronomy 5tk and loth confirms my statement to the letter: Be- cause God brought Isrnel out of Egypt throcgh s magnificent display of power, therefore He gave them the Sabbath. Buat why. for that reason, should a Sabbath-day be institated? Why, for the very reason I have stated,—ta compel the mind to a continuona racogaition of the power of Jehovah ; aud as the most impres- give oxhibition of that poweris found in cres- tion the Sabbath was origiated to carry the mind back to that point, and thus tobeto the Jew a constant reminder that the God who took him out of bondags and led him nto the land of promise was the God of creation, and therefore the only true God. I willoow notice a faw of Mr. B.'s statements respectiog the attidnde of Christ and Paul toward the Babbath. He declares Christ kopt the Sabbath andit was Paul's Labit. That Christ kept the Sabbath admits of no doubt; but Mr. B.’s inference, that Christ’s keeping it furnishes agood argument, or aoy argament atall, for Leeping it pow, is decidedly feebls, and shows that Mr. B. does not very clearly comprehend the subject in relation to which he claims to be a teacher. Was not Christ a Jew? and, being 8o, why should He not, like all Jews, keep the Sabbath? Wasnot the obzervance of every jot and titile of the law mcumbent on every Jow while it remained in force 2 Nathiog that Christ did or enjoined on His iscintes re- specting the cergmonial laws establisbes the slightest precedent for our conduct. Christ’'s - example1n keeping the Sabbath has precicely the same weight aa that of soy other Jew. Dur- ing the life of Christ the old ‘order of things re- mained io full force, aad not till atter His death did the new claim Supremacy. Chns: did not come to destroy, but to fulfill, and in fulfilling to abolish ; and his death was the ent of tho entire Jewish ceremonial. But Paul's habit,—let us look at that. Un« doubtedly Saul of Tarsus kept the Sabbath ; just as clearly, Paul the Apostle did not, except aa a matter of expediency, when the interest for whick: he labored might be advanced by its ob- servance. 1f Paul did, as & matter of conscience, keep the Sabbath, then his practice and his pra- cept are utterly at variance. It igreally refresh- ing to see on how slender a thread the Sabbath champions can hang an inference, and how con- fidently they can make assertions of fact withno foundation. At Antioch, Thessalonica, and Corinth it 18 stated that Panl went into the ayn- agogue on the Sabbath-day and addressed thoss prescat, both Jows and Gentues. From this it_is ioferred, mot only that Paul was a devout observer of the Sabbath, but that the Gentiles kept it, and that it was anation- al ipstitation. But whose Sabbath was it : that of Paul, or of the Gentiles, or of the Jews wha dwelt in those cities and had synagogues, aud on their owa Sabbath-day, after the mannar aad toaching of their fathers and their law, met for worship and the study of the law? Very evi- aently it was the Jewa’ Sabbath that was meant, foritis observable that in ali these cases the Sabbath and the synagogue go together. Asan itlustration let us take a case in our own time that is perfectly analagous. Our missionaries in heathen countries frequently tell us what the and others ¥aid and did on the Sabbath. Woul any man in bis senses argue from such inci- dental expressions that the people who attended thoso missiopary meetings, or_the people of the tribe_or nation, kept the Sabbath? 1If aman should make any such statement would not the strongest dovotes of Sabbath vbeervance smile at his simplicity? Now, the two cases are pre- cisely simifar. Pacl went 1ntothe synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath-day ; the missionary relatey what transpired on his Sabbath-day : and neither furnishes the least evidence in favor of general observance. A few quotations from Paul him- self wili dispel the belief, if it exists, that he indulged in soy babit of Sabbath observance, or entertained any spacisl reverence for the day. In Romaus, lith chapter, speaking of disputationg about the use of meats, ne says, *Who art thou that despisest another man's sar- vant? To his own master he standeth or fall- eth ; yea, ho shall be holden up; for God is able to make him stand.” And then turning away from the guestion of meats to a kindred subject of discord, be says, **Ona maa [the Jew] es- teemeth one day above aaother, another esteem- eth every day alike: let every man be fally per« suaded 10 his own mind.” That 1s plainly statad, one day is no beiter thao aoother, bat if apy man thioks it is let him g0 keep it, without iry- ing to make his convictions the rule of others’ condnct. Just asitis in regard to meats,—all are proper food ; but if any man has scraples about meats offered to ido!s, or those called ceremonially unclean, let him not eat; but lef bim not vex and annoy others with his fanciful notions and ignorant prejudices. Again (Gala. tians, 4th chapter, 10th and 11th versea), aftes upbraiding them with their desire to follow Juda- ising teachers, and to conform to the law, be says, * Ye observe days and months, and times and years; I am afrnid least { have bestowed upon you Javor in vain.” To the Colossians he Bays (2d chapter, 16th verse), ‘‘Let no man, therefore, judge you in meat or in drink, orin respect of a half-day, or of the new moon. or of the Babbath days, which’ are a.ehadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ.” If these quotations leave Paul's sentiment in re- gard to the Sabbath, to meats, and other Jewish ceremonial usages, in doubt, then language is of little value for the expresaion of belief, opinioa, or sentiment, and might as well bo dispensed wth altogether. There is yet one argument against the Ssb- bath, that when properly considared shows ita absurdity more cleatly than Scripture quotations and analysia can. 1t is a reductio ad absurdom of ihe whole doctrine of s sacred day. I mean the business or commercial argnment. At pres- ent I can do little more than suggest it or give it in very general outline, or rather I can but give the data, but every man of ordmary sense and judgment can draw the conclusions for him- golf. The devoteo of the Sabbath will probably not deny that the Sabbath taw made no distinc. tion in favor of clasges or occupations. It war equally binding on all; and the Jew, whersver he might be, or in whatever engaged, was bound to observe the Sabbath rest. He could not en- gage in anything that wonld involve in its con- good voices | duct the violation of the dsy. II the came law