Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1876, Page 2

. 2 | THE PULPIT. A Vigorous Donunciation of Sunday Theatres by the Rev, Dr.' Fallows. The Oharm aad Value' of Biblioal Study, by the Rev, L, T, Chamberlain, The Reve W, W, McKaig Withdraws from the Ministry to Engage fn the Practice of Law. What Trinity Church, New York, Has ’ Accamplished. SUNDAY THEATRES. SERNON DY THE NEV. DN, FALLOWS, The Rev, Dr. Fallows, pastor of 8St. Paul's Reformod Eplscopnl Charel,preached as follows 1sst ovening agalnst tha propriety of ruemng thoatres on Bundays Remember the Sabbath day fo keep {tholy, Fzodus, xx,, 8, I belleve hat tho Iaw of tho Sabbath was givon to onr comimnon ancestors at tho begtoning of tho race. The reason assigned for keoping holy the Babbath day fa that *Goa bloased the sevonth *day, and hallowed ‘(ssnctifiod) it, be- causo that in it Lo Lad reated from all IHis work.” - This roason &id not occur whon the suponncement was first formally made known by Moses, but at tho vory legin- plog , of - men's existonce upon « tho ostth. It {a pot, thercforo, & narrow, lo- cal, bat & universal {nstitation, that fa to be obeerved. Tho record appears to toach on its faco that the Sabbath was instituted at tho erea- tion. Clenrly the Babbath was obsorved boforo the giving of tho Decaloguo, aitbough tho Is- taclitcs may have lost it during their bondago in Egypt. Honce God may bo said to have given the Babbatl, or mado it known, to thom st the begluning of their luslory . as » distinct people, without any inferonce peing conveyod that {6 was thon given o tho world for tho first time. Tho vory faock that He thus ** mado known " tho Bablath ia ono of the strongest proofs of ita previous exist- ence. 1nfidelity once endenvored to make use of tha allegod fact **that Moses was simply a compiler or an editor of provious recorda" sgainat tho inapiration of the Divine Doolt. A vaat nmount of critical erudition has boon displayed in tho effort. to prove that Both, « or » Enoch, or somo other anclent writer, or evon Adam himsolf, wroto out sud preserved aubatsutinlly the record of the creation, of man's fall, and tho earlier history of the raco, -This, Christlan writers admit, may Lo tbacaso. And yot no elond gathers in cousequonce about tho inspira- tion of tho world’s greateat law-giver. Dut, taking this view, 1t would provo almost toa demonatration -an antiquity of the Hab- bath coeval with tho - croation of mau, © The keeping ~ of f tho Sabbath, God alio onforced upon Iis sucieut peaplo becanso he hsd bronght them up ont of Egypt with a mighty havd. It wasan additional rosson why thoy should obasrve it, not tho gflmnl roason. 1 aixo bolieve that tho lew of tho Sabbath so farn it rests upon a positivo enactment is por- petual and univorsal. T'he reason given, * God rested," can nover becoms obsolote. I know wa s ometimos epeak of the Babbath a8 a typo of ** the heavenly rest," and thercforo as otuer types pagg awn when the subatanco is given,—tho Sabbnt must tnorefors pass sway. 1t mav bo called in this viow, ono of tho ** shadowa of tho things to como," aud as Chrixt camo to fulfil thoe law and tho proplets, and istho groat anto-type in which all tho ty) inhera, tharefors nt Hia coming tho Sabbotly was abolished, But tho Babbath is not 8 type. It is o poritive institution with relation to” tho past sud tho prosont, and not to tho futurc. ‘Cho Habbath not & core- monfal law. Tho command (o keop it 18 ono of the ten cammandments. Com. mandments given in tho mowt solemn cir- cumatances, written by God Himself un talles of stone, Those coinmaudments Cbrist came not to abrogate, but to deepen and widen their moaning, and to tmprees the epirit of their teachings upon human souls. It iy of theso tio says, "I am como nat to destroy, but to fulflL” Wo must diatinguish botwean the moral quali- tyof tho law of tho Sabbath and its positive ennctment. Tlhe rost of the Habbath ia abso- lutely demanded by man. it isna domand writ~ ton in_his naturo; it notedates every writton ‘Jaw. 1lis pbysical, moutal, moral, and spiritual well-belng requiro thoress of one day Iy soven. Not ono day in ton. Nor ana day iu tivo, but one day fu meven. ‘The olporicace of mankind 18 nnapimons In its confirmation of the truth of this statemont, 1t is ovidently im- portant that o partienlar day should bo set apart b8 this day of rest, that all may enjoy its bevefits, . 'Tho firet day of the week has bean recoguized by Christisus in genural as the Ssbbath-day. A fow keep tho soveuth day of the weok i sup- posed eonformity to tho ancicat Jewish Sabbath, that day being also observed by modern Jown. 1t is not my purpose, however, to-vight to dwell upon the pecullsr clalmy the Babbath has npon Christians, based upon the ground of the high- ent moral obligation, but to mako an appoal to all who earnestly deaire the wolfaro of mociety, to lusist, for tho eako of that welfare, upon o decont obscrvance ot ihe Lord's Day. Tdeas which ars utterly alion to Amerizan thoughts, and American practico coucern- ing the Christian Babbath uave been creeplng in smmong na. This stealthy march of theso forcigth auti-Amencan ideas wo bave not fully considored. Again oud axam Lave we the confirmation of ke scutiment of the well-kuown vorse,— Vice s a monster of such hideous mivn. Thntto ba nated noeds but to besern ut secn 1o oft, familiar with her faco, We first ondure, then pity, they embrace, Tha dirtiest work the dovil cver dil waw the sttempt to undormine ~the moval principles. of our acos and . daugliers 1a our acadomics and colloges; — yon, oven in the sacrod sanctuary of aur oiwn homes, by luring thom with soducuive deacriptions of usmolessly vila publicatious sout oub by the emissaries of the arcl-tiond himyolf from Nuesau wtrest, Now York, 1t was known by educators and parents that thiy work of dostruction waa_going ou, but noth- ing was, done Lo preventit, 1t svamed as though nothing conld bs done. ‘The extont of tho mis- chiet was not {ully comprehonded, pethaps. But whon that revelation was made one morning but afow years ago, by thosa who had th courage to attampt to stay the dark, damning tide of this sln, to the clergymen of New York, and other teachera of morals; whon befors thew wora spread tho bookw, the plates, tho implo- ments, that would lave du{lncud the wildcat bacchapals jo the most sbandoned heythen Batornalis they thooght af " pro. docing them; and ‘when tho thousanda of names in the {natitutious of lcarniug all over tho Iand with whom corrospoudencs hed boes carried on, passod 1u review beforo thom ; then in alf its appaliiug and gigantic euormity tho ovil burst fall upou tho astouished land, Siealth- ily did our publio prints steal a wmarch upon vur morsl gensibilities intheir delineations of wan- ton Ag: and wanton attitudes, uutilin our moat repeatable newedealer's windawa,in ourraile road cars, as_well as on tho street coruers, the obnoxious aud deinoralizing prints would mest or bo thrust inio our fsces aud those of our children. ‘Thouk God there wore sowa tutrepid ouqugh to meet this ssemiog all-cou- uering foulnces, and rouse tha moral and ristian conscionce of (e poople L& sucvusiful offarts agaimat it. But the same foo is again marching wpon us And Bunday theatres, to say uothing of Monday theatres, ave giving us iu hfowsize porirsitures placarded on our walls, in the moat abaudousd attitudes aud postures, the outward aud vieble signs of the tuward corruption and wickeduoss witbin their inclosures. It s something to gxuee our Leads to umnr with mortification that these Hunday theairivals are allowed to bo por- formaed with scarcely a roboke, Thanks to those qf_oux publio_ fouroaly who have broksn the guilty gilence and spoken out in clear, ringiog toyes sgaiust the evils of vespectiny tho Ger- mao Bunday. Icannutdo better than give a Lriof extract from wo sddross delivored ju 1870 b’ tho late Bishop Armitage, of the Protostant piscopal Churcl, in Wiaconsin, betore tbe Acadewy of Huiences, Arte, aud Letturs, of that Btate. 11 wq Inquize ints the Listory of the Genpan Bandsy we pbail find thet it has the higless tions of -Luther wnd hin brother-reformers. ‘Those grest men wers but Lumsn, aud sould vo wore tewiruin tbo reformativu pendulum at ouce THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1870, ‘wre, than tho rest of mnscanin minor matters. Thoy fonnd the Lord's day fn- clitded In & groat nambor of church festivaia and faste, all - put con ltko ground of obligation, and burdening the Teaplo, Thelr reforming zenl nndertook to dincriminato botweon tho Sunday and tho other days, rotain. ing smong Lhio lattor cortain groat festivals, but vory jealons for the paramount authority of the Sunday. ‘Thoy wero «not sgreod among thom- telveanbout the ground of e obligation, and, as discnesion went on abont it, Luther, and even Calvin and others, ware drawn into piving their anthority to what seeins to ua a lax obsorvauco of the day. in their fears of the peopla’s relaps- ing Into unreformed practicas, or adonting views of their own opponents. For justance, Luther's M_vlnf;‘ quoted from hia ‘Tablo-Talk's ‘I anywhoro the day is mado boly for the mero day's sake,—if anywhore any ouo xots up its ob aovance oo & Jowish fonndation,—then I order you to work on it, to nido on it, to dance on i, 10 foast on it, Lo do anything that stall romove thus oncroachment on Christinu liborty,”"” The German Sanday Liaa received ita impress Iargoly from Luther's band, In bis day, whon the apirit of earncst Christian zenl wan anituat- g the rooplu, such toachlug_may havo been comparatively harmicss; but, when that zoal be- gan to grow cold, its hanotul offoctawere ot onco apparent. A condition of high spirituality could not be maintsinod when tho very observances of the day set apart for tho promotion of tha spirit- ual lifo were so uttotly at variancd with tho oud sought. And ono of the potent reasons for tho rapid_ widssproad of inddolity, which bas woll wigh eaton out the heart of German Christinn- ty, is the want of truo revorenco for tho Cliri- tian Babbath. With tho revival of au earncst evangolical pioty comos tho longiog and the ploading on the patt of the leaders ot Chirislian thonght for that Sabbatti’s sanctity. 3 ‘We musat notlufln Luthor and "his compesra too harshily. ‘They were nat Infaliible meu. Thoy woro eruerging from the darknoss into tho 1igbt, bat we caunot ask for a tranaition at once from the noon of night to the poon of day, Frrors clung to them. Imporfect viows of God's truth woro theird. . Luther tormed tue Epistla of James *‘an opistlo of atraw," booatsa 1t did not contain, ne- cording to his view, tho grest doctrine of justification by faith. Ilo afterwards deop- Iy fopented of his past uttoranco, and saw in that opiutlo of tho practical apostic the complo- mentary truth of the teachlng of the great reachor of rightoousness by faith, the Apoatle ’anl, Uould he now come to earth and soe the sad fruits of that oqually Lasty utteranco ro- fpecting the Cbristiau Sabbath, he would net commit tho mistake again. “Tiio French Sunday Is pre-ominently a day of rovelry and work., Wo havo in the following waords a faithful description of a Paris Bunday by & prominent Chicago divine: ** Lvery shop is opea as on other days ; draymen aro hauling goods, porters aro holsting anl lowering boxed and barrels, travelers are coming and golog, laborers aro cloaniog and ropairing tho strents, plaaterors and paintors ara st work on new houses, stonp-cuttors aro busy ropairing tho Cathodrals, troops sro marchig and counter- wnarching, and cooks, contectionars, drossmakers, and miliiuers have bebn up slaco 4 o'clock, on- deavaring to overtako tho labor of getting ready tho luxurieasud tinorigs for tho ballyof the even- ing—a fato day for tho aristocracy of the Frane, but a day of hard work for tho workingman.' Tho ofd English Sunday waa very much like tho Fronch Sunday, In Macaulay's woll-known v.lucri%unn of tho DPontans, ho says * thoy Linted boar-baiting, not bacause it gavo pain to thio boar, but ploasurs to tho spoctators,” That is & ono-gidod description, howaver, Tho May- pola festivities, tho balls, tho tneatrical per- formpuces, the ropo-daucing, the borse-racing, tho bear-bailing, the drinking, the rovaling, which tho Puritans sp soverely condomned, wora the rogular Bunday smusemonts of tho peoplo, Drinkiog booths wore established in tho church- yards. and disgracoful orgios were practicod in the silent citica of tho doad. Horo tho May gamon wore iudulgzed iu, and tho Tude, “manly" sports of the rough, untamoed multitude. ‘Againat such a desecration of the Sabbath tho TI'uritans {ndignontly and porsistently protested. Withi this dosecrationof thio Sabbath wan con~ nected a fosrful loxity in morals, both amoug tho upper and the lowor classes, Writors tall ny thist > Mnrringe was dospisod. Sisters, dough- tors, and wives of tho most Joyal subjects, the grastest Generals, tho wiscsfhtatesmon, nud tho gravest Judges, wot only practiced ~but in Ita proper nublusbingly = avowed ' tho grosscst licon- tionsuess.” \ Evory _ studont of Eoglish literature Lkuows ° Low « grosa were £! tho uovela and plays of that period. This Bab- bath desecration and tbis corraption,of public and privato morals wons haod-in-hand down to the tims of tbe second grest reformation led by Whitollold and the Wealoys, Whensthoy began thoir spiritusl miowtry, the Sablath was no. where kept. I’rofessors of roligion would koop opon thsir shops up to the bour of die vinp service in the moruing, and in the * afternvon would siroll ~ ou tho villngo_greon, or play cricket ! with tho parson at their head," and speud the evening at tho sle-houo ** with beor and cards, oftou undor the same reverend sauction.” Howoll Ilarria esid thnt * the lntter part of the dayis spant in - dulgingtho provailing corruptions of nature, whilo a universal deluge of sioariug, Iylng, reviling, drunkennesn, tghting, sud gamng oversproads the country.” The Puritan Sabbath was a recdil fromthe English Sabbath of tho prailigace Stuarls, An unduo steictucss was obsayyed in keoplug it. It was oo awful day rather than a Loly day, A pmilo could searcely light tho couuntonance Low- ovor Drightly the sun, might shino, or the birds ming, or tho heart rejolco oa that day of days, ‘Tho loom, loog sormong, sadtbe loug, long prayord in tha meeting-houscs unwariacdin tho dopth of winter, tho rattling of tuo drybones of tho catechism, tho ouforcad austerity of tho manner of the eldora, and tho enforced decornm of tha funiore, nust have made tho day to bo droadod rather than welcomed by tho childran, I do not wonder that awoeng the descendants of the Puritans thero Las beeu o rebaind to tha extremo of Iaxity in tho obsorvance of the Sab bath, sud o woleomo to the foreizn {deas which aco andeayoring to usurp dominian on Awerican soil. Thoss sturdy yeomen who conquorod for us out of n eavago wildorness, out of * black, un-~ tamod forosts," and from the hands of suli more witd nud savage cresturea this fair [and of ours; who, by indomitabla courago, by tho patience of Lope, by heroio sacrificos, by tho baptisin nf blood, made the Ropublic a "glorious fact, did not loarn how to do it, nor gather inspiration and strength for the dojug of by sttonding Bunday theatras, and wit. nosaing spoctzoular parformances whicl would Lring, &8 thoy ara repurted to Lave doue, tho blauket over tho savage Indian's head, as thoy Lrought tho red blood” of shame to his bronzed and hardened cheek when hs firat witnossed thont. Rough and defestive tnat Puritsn charactor was, 1ull of sugles, full of an carnest serionsness carried to excort, ‘Fuls earth was nos ® play- gronud to thom. _ They bad vo timo for winusa- ments nd such, Work was Loth wors aud play for tuewm, But if the sltornativo wore presontod ¢ us to- night,—take that Puritan Sabbath, with Puritin rigar of moraly, with Puritan vigor of thought, and Puritan purity of purpose, and Puntan do- voutuess of beliof, and Puritan wmaulioss, earnostucrs, aud dopth of charactor, or takd Contineutal Yabbath, with ita Sunday theatres, coucort-saloons, ball-tooms, opuras, beor-éas loony, opou 8Lops, guy procassions, biands of wusie, with Variewn manuors Bly, or German uubelief, [ each of us would wav: **As for moe and my honse, we will choosu tho first.” The Amerivan Babbath is tho Puritan Sabbath divestod of 188 Jawish, narrow, austers, and ace cidental featurcs. Ib 18 the moderu Lughsh Sabbath. Iuis o day of redl, not of work, of wober, rational, futellectual, moral, and wpirit- unl enjoyment, and not of feasting sud catuns. ing, fr. {s the Rabbath which in ours by right, Our forolgn frionds huve no business to chsuga it Fhioy bavo no ware right to subvertit than thoy haye our forms of goverumwont, Thoy foond it here. Dy the apirit underlying ita ob- servanco our nation has advaucsd to au ug cedonted pitch of groatuoss aud glory, Wo, who love Americun principles, whethor nativa boru or adoptad citizons, Liave she right to an orderly day,—to & day of suspongion vf Unuecessary Work; to & day of undisturbed places of worskip 3 of moral and Tligium iuflueuco tor oursolved aud our chit ren. We bave thoriglt to demand that concert sa- loons, shose ninkw of iniquity, shull be closed, aud that Bunday theatres, with sll their bave lxludmu ca to tuo low aud dobraved lastes of & ow aud depraved rabbly, sball na mory be opvi. £ eall upou all, whether profosssd Conutiaug or not, upon sl who bave the welfare of chil- dren and yoush at hiears ; upon all ewplovery,who wish to hisve tho best wark done at the munimim rato of wages; upon all workwen. who wish to do the best work ot the maXMUMm Wages ; upou sll property-holders, who wish to have the burdens - of taxation leessncd; upor all philantbropists, who wish o mse our aily aud almshouaes lesa crowded ; upon uil citizons who wish tu seo tliy Awerican uation coutinug to be tha sober, pure, Gol-fearing na- tlon of itw earller history ; tu malutain tho sane- tity of the Chdistikn Babbath, aud ro-snactin & public seutimeat which sball bo Landly Jess than omuipotent iu our oity, thatl asigiual. universal, irrepealablo luw, givenawmid tho awiul splendors to oar lovn of the hlatorical and ancient, so dosa 1t also to tho univorsal acnss of grace and boau- ty. 1Iad I the time, I should dolight to Rposk at length of ths Bible in [ta literary fluoncas Avd ita poctio splendor. 1 shonld like to show, In extonded datatl, how it in like God's rovolation v Naturo,—groat foundations of granito and than, aboye, the traes and flowars sud gorgeous rky, . Baroly Lo is right who dooma that had God inteuded the Bible 8s a moro loason-book of duty, Ho would havo made it avolume far lnes varions and entictog. ‘' Unqnestionably a faw plain sentoucos wonld have aufliced to tell na what God Is, and what Ilo would liave na do. A cliapter of thoology, and another of morals: a briof scconnt of tho Incaroation and atone- mont, ’nd sacore of direations for the Guristian lits, might bavo eapplicd tin with a Bible of simplost mesning and emallest sizo. + But, in- stoad, tho Anilior of Beripture has mado it at. traative an woll as instructive, Kuowing what is o man whom He would save, fle has given s book which, in tho nuprems desire to reach tho heart, does not dindain to captivate ths taste. Ho bas filled it with pioture, and poem. sud para- bis, and provorhy sud oloted it all over with auperbost beauty, Yat, wanlo I thus spesk, I remombor tuat thero may bo somo who liave uaver thought of the Lible aa making suc apposl; some who havo nover droamed tuat it possessod such charm. They romembor it still {n conuection with child ish tasks, aud perbape in tho way of youtlful penance. X wish I could opon lo them henceforth thie litorary glorics which sro m this ono Dook | I am suro they would nover weary of roading i, They would never bo willing to cones its study. Take, for instauco, the 20th Pualm. Wharo olgo fn all literaturs ia thoro such a doscription of astorm? You can almost soo its progross from tho Moditerrancan, by Lobanon and tho hilts, until it Auully roaches Jorusalom and sends the people iuto tho Tomple-porghos for sholter. * Tho yolcs of tho Lord is on tha ses. Tho volco of the Lord broslath the codars Tho Lord shaketh tho wilduruoss ot Kadeal, and in Lis lnmglu doth overy oue speak of his glorg.” And then, aa the storm i-lnus and tho fllf!lm!- » Bomombor the Sabbath day to keop 4 holy, swhy Lis should not accept the inducementu held out o him, aud roturn to the Paclfio Coant, which he left a little over two yoars ngo to take chargs of & chinrch in thisaity. Tho annonncemont was unoxpacted by his congrogation,and was hy no moaus gratitying to thom, winea thov hid a poraonal liking for Dr. Moknig_and hiad hopes that the venturs nt Wood's Musoum would under hischarga bo o do- ctded auccosn, fals In iniependont fact, and alding thernto the ik - rocard of A lave siuch a8 tho haman mind might —_— nover have conosived, may we nat claim foril BIBLE STUDY—ITS CHARM. the pro-ominonoa of chatm ns woll? Why, my oo o o wer. 5 7 oz, | SR Mo G L e ool _Tho lov, L, T. Chamberlain, pastor of tho | 13,q,gi, tho mount to which s¢ must com> wero Now England Congregational Church, preachicd | the imouus - that might mit ba tonohod yosterday morning on tho “Ths Charm snd | though tho eall woro from ouo of the angols Valusof tho Study of tho Biblo.” 'Tho macred which hold tho soven Iast vinleg yob wars it not odifica waa crowdad to its fullest capacity with | Ponitively charming, it therein_ thero wora tho an attontivo and jutorosted audionce. Lhe foi- tidings of rescuo tomich as wo? To an Elijah famishiug in the mldernoss, might nod the bird Towing 18 tho asrmon in fall: which broughit bim ment, be of raven plumage, All Scripturn % glven by fnspiration of God, and 18 | swarth as mght, and yot bs more gracious iu bia [rustanie far doctrine, far roproofy for carrection, for | eyes than ovor was bird of Psradiso to him who ustruction in righteounness.—I1. ., fit 10, ol no want 7 Suppuse wo were wrecked on an 1 havo a apeclal and very practical purpose in | angry aca, thoe billowa rslling and the rocks not ho disconrso of thia morning, and the moments | far awav! Should wodomand that tho lifo-boat whict are ours will bo too fow for what L wish }rlilch gimolooe r:l‘isll fnus o yith gracos v ul cdutoar, &n not oolor, and wavitg toeay. You L am constralned, at ths outdol, to flags, aud rosonndiog music, before wa could panso Jor an instant In ordar that wo may tho | qiitn welcomo her, and give bor the **all hail " Lettor unders:and the sncred worda themaoives ; tho very osnmining of the test in tho light of rovarent renson and catafulstudy, setving, moan= of our rateful beatts 2 Buppoas wo woro lost swhile, a8 nu illustration of what, o little Iator, I on the mountaine, with plitals botoro us, lrra- tracablo ways beh(nd us, and storm and night “hall urga aud commond. You may already bo awaro that unthulvrec!nommnmg of tho pass coming on! Shoull wo think that thev wha aga bofore us Liblical comaontaturs havo been —_—— TRINITY CHURCH, NEW YORK, 00¥, DIX 1N DEVERMR OF 1T8 ADMINIBTRATION, Tha New York Mail, A lettor writton by ux-Clov. Dix, Comptroller of Trinity Corporation, to the President, has, wa presumo, dispolied from wmany minds existing mixconceptions ag to Trinity's rolations with the fiato and city, an a taz-paver. Gen. Dix, who «oes uot regard blo preannt position as at ail un- worthy that of a man who has Gilod with credit many of the highost ofiicial stations, vrposas cotmplotoly tho oft-ropeated aund geueratly Lelioved assortion that Triolty corporation es- capes its fair burdon of taxation. o eays that, 1ast yoor, ho paid over £100,000 to the city for taxes, from tho funds of the corpuration, be- sldcn a conalderablo sum for mnsesnmonts, and adds: **Wo pay tazes on oyery foot of ground usad for secular purposca. Wo pay on our rec- tory, fn which tho Itector roaldes, on the oflico In which tho business of tho carporation is traus- nctod, although It is within tho houndarien of 8t, Paul's Cematory, In fnol, nothiug is oxompt ex- copt tho church edifices, the cowotorios, four schaol honses, in_ which freo achools aro kept, ond an Infirmary fn which tho sick xocoive gratu- itons treatmont.” ) ‘Tho last ** Yonr-Nook and Reglater of Trini~ ty larisli affords us the oxact and official teata- monts which we have for eomo timo past do- sired, baviug had a gonoral knowledge of the facta thal aro now specifically beforo im. The camo Lo our rescue must be clothod in foo rai- meut and have soft. whita hands, befure wo could wholly rejolco at theie coming and give tham onr fervent hlanninr 2 O, then, lat 1a foel that the Bible may be Just as uncompromiaing aa trath, aod just ns torriblo as tho facts ; yot becauno it tolls of aal- vation, bocause It makesvkuown tho way of ro- damption. wo will couns ft the Book of books, and desm that wo can riever know onough aof ita tnatraotions, Lot us fos) that to lears of tho wonders uf the Cross of Clrist, and to bo able to toach thoso woudors to others, s suficiont Lo attraot all of us to the syatsmailc aud earnest utudy of the Holy Word, Though, in all falross, we must noeds re- mombor that tho Iiblo does not _stop with evnn the disclosure of redomption ! Having sot torth tho way of roturn ta God, it alao sota forihs tho sway of tuo subsequent life, It contains pro- vision for the upbullding of tha rogencrats soul into all that in fair, aud the crowniug of itat divided into two clnsdes, Tho ono ciaas ia fauly ropresented by this varalon of the days of King James, in whish the Apostle ia mnde expltcitly 1o allirm thot all Seripture fa glven by inspira~ tion of God,—tho ingpiration standing in the rodicato as part of tho dircct doclaratton, \Wiule, in tho viaw of tho other class, the inspired charactor of BScripture Is hers not eo wuch aflinmed as talter: for granted, and i related to tho Aubject in & simply adjectivo rolation. Ac- cording to thia laat view tho toxt should read: “* All Seripture given hylnuldn(lnu of God, is ala0 profitabla for toaching * and for tho ottier onda sot forth, On tho former side arn Chrys- ostom, Grogory, Athanasius, Calvin, Voif, Do Waette, Wiosingor, Conybears, and others; whila on tho Iatter sido are Origen, ‘Thendoret, Eras- mis, Whith; Hammond, , ltosoumnoller, Tintlior, Moyer, Alford, Etlicott, aml both tho Hyrinc and Vulgate versions. We mast, thore- | et | with fnfluito joy, It bay example | sun looks fortl agatn: ‘Tho Lord will givo | * Yoar-Book " also remindy unof o cotlege cata- fore, consider for auraalves tho weight of aign- | and } procopt, . admomition and ontreaty: | strongih unto Ills pooplo : tho Lord will blesa | logue, by tha arraybt namo of tho thoso who ment, My own jndgmont, basod upon pationt | ang that to tho genorous, glorious and | 108 peonlo with poaco, ™ form tho active corps employed by ald Trinity nnd oarnoat study, inclines to the opinion that | or holping tho soul to ita bost posatble attain- Or, for an fustanco of tho sublime, a5 catch. | in its work, The list of **clorgy " ombracentho tho Apoatle, in this particular passago, hanitin | mouts, It gathers its forces aud displays ite | ing its thrill from tho vaguo and supornstural, | namos of thie Itector, Assistant Hoctor, nino ** sé. mind to aflirm not so much ths inspiration of Beripturo ns its practical or applied valuo, I Ithink ho mentions the divine source of tho Ioly Word ns someting whicti ha nosd not na- gort, but rathor as something which, boing rovoroutly concedod by him to whom he writes, may bo made tho boeis of an oxhoriation to Biblical study, For, if you examina tho contoxs, you will tind that tho” Apostlo's manifest pur- ogo 14 to urgo npon Timathy the valuo of his carly Biblical inatruction as & motlve for his ro- maining faithful tharoto. 'aul’s desiro I8 that his friend and pupil sball bocome perfect, that fu, thoroughly rezdy for every good work. 1Me, thoreforo, . jmpresacs upon him f tho irmportance of a contioned acqaaintance with sacred Seripturs, And ways, - in most carnost phraso: ‘' Al Seripturo given by inapiration of (rod, is profitabie for dootrine, for reproof, for corceetion, for instruation {u right- couancss,” B A Beaidos, thore are grammaical conalderations fovoring thls view, but which I might not mnke clenr without a too minato and oxtended rofer- ouce to the original Greck, And thus wo have como to tha verv ond aud thought, in accordauce with which I wiah to apoak this moming. For I tako it, ne did Panl in tha csase of ‘I'imothy, that yon sgres with me in tho fach of the Scripturos' lnspiration. I coustder 1t concoded here that Loth the Old and Now Testamdnts waro writton by thosa who ex- rossod themselves a8 thoy wera movod by the oly Gthost. And, with that canception as o pramise, I de- siro to spaak to you, in the main, coscorning tho valua and chiarm of Diblical study. 1 was aboot to say that capecially to my young friends I wishod to commoud such study; but, kad [ said it, I should bave boon obliged instautly to sdd, +~and to my older friands in no leay degros.” It i8, in fact, to all—young and old—that I presont tako thoyo lines in tho 4th of Job : ‘A thiDg, too, was fmpartoed to mo secrotly, Minn eat recoived 8 whisper of It 1n tueaults of night-vislous, Waen deep aleep fally on nen, Tauln cauie on e, and horror, ‘And tha multitude of my bones did shaks. ‘A spirit passed hefors my face, i ntood, but I coulid not ' dlacern ila form, A figura bofore ming syea: Hilunco—and I heard a volce, Hunll a mortal bo righteoun Lefore God 7 Bhiall 8 man bo puro before his maker ¢ Or, 38 an iostanco of sublimity of avother gore, the outiro 23th chapier of Job,—bogin- ning: Tealy there Is a mino for the silves, And’a place for tho gold so fino ; and eudiug: Tichald, tha foar of the Lord, that {s wisdom, ‘And to'depart from evll Ia understanding. 8o, morvovor, Lho Pasims fu general, for their oxquigite sympathy with nature, Pealms whera- in, a8 you romembor, tho mounteing skip, tho #ona cinp hands, tha valloys slng, tue littlo hills rojoice; su:l wherein ovory brook and spray, ovory zophyr and sound, holds pact in tho geoat sutlom of praise to God, And then, too, the prophecies, for thelr august, tremondous pow- or! Or, in casoono e pieased, tho rathor, with malters which touch common lifo, thero are for him also abounding attractions, » What, tor ton- deracss, 18 like tho story of Ruth, with ita ** En- troat mo not Lo leave thoo, uor to roturn from followlng after thec?” For pnthos, what s thora which equals tho scene in which Cushi boars tidings to Lavid af tho doath of Absslom ? Or, for simplo, nffecting narrative, what can matel tho story of tho Prodigal Son ? Cun you not thus understaud why tho Biblo sras ono of tho foar books which might always be fouud on even Byron's tablo? Can you not noo bow, though such ends bo only incidontal, treasaren that lie who comes to its teachiug may. as the Apostle doclares, “bo mado worfect, thioronghly furnished for evory good work." It proposca comfort in afiliction nnd encourago- mont in despondonoy; it undartakes to give strongth in woakooss and gutdaaco in doudt; it wesays to mako this Iifo oudurable aud geand st tho samo time that it tella of a lifo bovond this, in which the soul shall bs actually complete {n 1lim who is tho “*All in all.” 1t great purpove ia not accomplishied uatl, having carriod us from strongth to strongth, and glory to glory, on earth, it fotroduces us to tho final holiuess and pence of heaven. '[horein, accordingly, I rest my main ploa for tho universal ssudy of tho Bible. To the Biblo as the rovelation of God in Qbrist,—tho dis- closute of tha soul's ono way of salvation and spintual blessodnoss,—I wauld point all who hear mo. In thoso supremo ralations it i uniquo, incomparablo, she very gift of God! ‘fiere it roveuls ita sovoroignty, snd shoro it veata forover as on & throno of glory. * How bo- fitting, thou, the mght of the wholo congrega- tion asdombling on tho Babbath-day, nud in tha Sabbath-school, to study tho Book of Lifel .- But oven while I pay such tribuze to tho s cred oracles, and adoringly admiro tho apples of gald, I sm ramtuded that ovon tho picture also is of silvor, aud dosorvos our rovoront prawse. It is ovident that'God has carod to make hus word attractive i wayas that appeal to every truo sentiment of our uaturo, Ho has adoroed and entichod it with all whioh evou ths world county raco, Tor exawple, take noto of the antiquity which bolangs to the Libiical canon. 14 it not the con- clusion of candid aud sobiolurly critics thst theso Heriptures coutain the most auclent forma of truth known to mon? Certainly of the world bofarn tho Flood, tho only consacative and au- thontic history Is in theso Scripturcs, so that sigtant mlolstors,” of threo who ara in chargo of minsion chapols, and of two other mintstors,— nixtoen jn all, Then coms tho names of nins organiats, and ot ono tundred and twolve mem- bers of various chiofts; of fiftecn toachors of parish gohoola of eignt plysicians aud sur- goous in attendanco on tho wnfirmary, und of sextons and othor subordinato ofticials. White Trinity numbors among hor communi- cants the veory swoslthiiost and mout Aristocratic of our citizens, sheisn closor sympathy aud educational connoction with tho poor than nl- tmost any othor of our Protoatauc churchos, Her achools afford to tha poorest tho moans of o cul- turo thiat otherwies wonld uot bo provided. Iler Sunday-schools have over 8,000 “pupils, ber in- dustrial schools about 2,000, and hec parish day schools mearly 1,000, winle s largo nuwbor of “Quilds " bring tho activities of sho church into closo rolations with all clasaes of tho Lon- e8¢ and virtuous poor. All this labor is systermn. tized, follows a regular and stoady plon, one wages tho bost thought and caro of tho olurchos incinded in the parish, aud conssitutes the cor- poration o sart of colloge for the poor and friondless in our down-town warda, ‘L'ho work that lis been aocomplishied for the cauro of the Lighest order of musio by this ecclesinstical univoraity canoot ba rnmlill{ woasurad, aad 18 not likely to bo ovoreatimated. ‘Fho 1moat thoroughly domocratic place of Protestant worstup fu this city Is * ald Trinity " Itsollf, In that superb specimen of a purs, and sitaple, and impressivo stylo of oburch architeo- tura there ia proscuted none of tuat appoaranco af its occupanoy a & splondid and costly ** Sun- day Cinb-House" which soms of our fashionablo up-town churches linve, The very rich and tlio very poor aro smong; the throng of worahipers, aud thers is somotbing about tho vory atmos- phore of the placo and tha effeot bolk of ths intorior and of the ssrvioes that scoms to ablit- miy plea. Or, if thore Le pre-emivence of desiro to th 3 thly distinctios Thoro i 8 | whoovor would loara_aught of tho sntodiluyian | the Bibte has dono more to supply rhotorlo | orate tho sonse of onrthly distinctions. by it Tacpaiing ‘o lamne i con: | Ytey LIt ety o taun by o snsre | ith workhy ikl and Mortige with | (IS0 o o fu Vaucod in'years rather than to tho childron. Do volume. Hays & living scholaf, * Doos it not | Hoble fmajes, nnd * tho * flug-arts with | buta emall proportion of the *sittings” fu Trinity are privato proporty. Within tho momo- ry of living men not o pow hina baon wold by Trin- ity Corporation; aud * the Vostry aro coustaut- Iy scquiring the ownership of tho pewa by pur- chawo from the descendants of the original pos- sossors, or by sale on forfoiture, and thus extin- guishing tho property in them, for the purposo of fanilitating the ationdanco of those desiring o nvail themsolvos af tho advantages offerod by thse ehnrohes.,” Bouides tho ~sevon churches—Trinity, St. momorablo subjocts, than all other boaks combmod? Can it bo thut ono {8 ever tao old or too wiae to caro for such 2 hook 2 1 layve often wishod that wo ind certaln coplos of tho Biblo from which the divisions of chaptors and verdos woro abaeut, that o, ‘tho oftenor. its varions books might bo road as we rond other volumes, conucctedly, and In the unhindered complatencssuf thetr litorary charm. But [ closo theso epectal tnbutes, by ealliog attontlon to the Biblo as the bools which has_iu linlp us to eome concsption of tha venorablonoss of thoso rocards to rocall that they woro written eloven bundred yoara before Ieradotns, whom all other literaturs donominaten tho futher of lustory ? ‘Tho Iobrew jurisprudenco ia soven hundred years older thau that of L{um’gnl tho Greok, and two thousand yeara older tiian that of Justinian tho Hotnan, “You have hoard that Thomas Joflerson was indobtod for his concop- tion of ouitr American Governmant to the polity of an obscure Colvinistic church io Virginia; not misundonstand me, I eay * ta those mora advauced in years rather than o tho cnildren,” ot hocauss such study is not absolutoly blessod 0 oven ths youngest, but simply because in this community, o4 in many athers, the majority of thoso who neglect aystematio study of the Berip- tures ate found among tho youog, and middle- aged, and old, mthor than nmong tho children. From somn causo or ather, it coues to pass that thoso within aud spproaching adult years very geuerally remit their attendanco upon the Bun- 8 D % Paut's Guapel, 8¢, John's Chapel, ‘Lrinit; % i S ot ropublicaniam was foroshadowed in tho He- | it oxhiaustless, practical power, and which to-day aul's apel, . Joln'd apal, ‘Lrinity f.‘:‘.{d?&:’:h_ o gt oy o‘,‘.‘f“‘f“;}',?“‘éflf‘fif,‘,‘{,‘{} ot ropublicaniam wag forashadowod in tis Ao~ | i3 indusnciug tho vast yropondorauce of human | Chapol, 8t. Chrysostom's Chavol, di. Augus- tino's Chapl, and St. Coruollus® Chapol—bo- onglng to ‘frinity parish, thoro are eightoen ‘churchies which recoivod from tho corporation 1a tuo shapo of anuual douatlons and contribu- tlons toward thelr mupport. low thiy Lolp is ostonded, and how the * waste placos™ of tho city aro supplied with Christian fustruction, two mstances will sharv, We quote from the * Year Book: ™ * e Of the misstons, the first In order of fmportanca i1 St, Luko's, udsot stroot, opposits Grave. This fs, in th§ ntrict scano of the word, 8 mission church, having dally morning and_ovoning prayer, the weekly com- munion, large Sunday-xchools, & parochial school, and oven clergymen, ono of whorn resides in tho Niuth Ward, fu the midst of tho poor population of tuat quarter of the town, 6t Luke's Chureh hns now woaracly & singlo weallhy' porson connectod with it} the peopla ar nuablo to_support It; snd_ tho builting wauld linve boon wold and thie sito_sbandoned long ago Liad not thie corporation of ‘Irinity interposed ta pro- vent that calatnity. ‘Lte allowauce of $10.000 per un- thougbt aud lfe ! And this Ieay, not forgetting that tho Diblo has pover included among ite believors mora thau a comparatively small frac- tion of tho race. Yet, have you not obsorved what a umFulnr faculty tho Biblo Las of atiract. lug to itxelt, oithor in’ mummmr or_opposition, tho thinkerd of tho world? It Iy o fact that the Looks which lLave becn written on ths Blbla alono aro many fold moro nnmorond than those of the Greok and Noman litoratures cowbluoed. Sixty thonsand oxisting commontarios upon the sacrod Henptures, or upon soma wortion ol thom! Cortainly it must be adumitted that the Diblo has confrived to sot nil Christendom thinkiog, and has kopt it thinkiug, for noarly 2,000 yoars! Writes an undoubted anthority, I the sormona alono, proached In obly the United Beates, in n singlo year, were printed, they would fl1i 120,030,000 octava pagos,” It is eefoctly 8afo to say that the Biblo is read to-day y 8 vastly larger number of educated minds than any afher book In the world, It s tho vor- dict of history that (o Englieh form, tho Bible stands at tho head of tho streamsof Englial couquosts and of Euglish and Amenican colonl- zatiou and cominerce, Yos, it is the vordlet of thoughtful obsorvation that the Lible in_ its domination of tno Western, that is, of the Occi- dout, civillzation snd progress, {4 renlly domi- nating tha wholo globo. For whouco coma the forcos which move oven toward & world-widn conquest? Without doubt, from wost of the Buporates and the Ural Mountama! Yet weat of thatlino tho Soriptured are the Envnlllng in- spiration ! Thore tho motive, the pruciple, which has vitality enough to live, and momen- tun anough to bo at work, fa roally derlved from the Bible | The dignity of manhood, the sacrud- news of individual boibis, tho assured unmortatl- ty of the soul, the brothierhood of the race, tho fathorbood of God, tho right of freo inquiry, thn despicabloness of cant, tho great iduas of social and political and moral 10form, —thaso alt are smanatione, in fact, from the sacred Word, Ayo, ovon ntldelily gets its life-blood, the vory broath of its nostrits, fromtho Scriptural sonrce, Itcould not live & day did it not borrow from the vacy book 1t asualls enougli to serve it for rospoctability and support. ‘Thero is no Posi- tivism nor Panthaiam, nor baldest Athieism, which dock not draw from tho Iiblo the sacret of what. ewar roal power it possedson. Out of tho Bible onr'civilization grows, by it our laws aud inutilu- tions nro uvhold; and the atgus of batn proph- ogy, sud Providonce assuro us that to it is nowe day to be given tho civil and intellectual, foro svon tho #ottlemont of Jamostown!" Wo are told thst Dr, Johusoo onca read & manu- seript copy of tho Boolk of Ruth to o fashionablo _cirele in Londou, snd that thoy bogged to know of him where lio obtsined such sn iuimitsble pastoral. Woll may tho narratoradd: * What would bave beou their amazement had he con. coatod tho fact of tho lnapired artgiv of the sto- ry, and told them that it was an ancleut treas- Wro writton—as it wos—twenty-tive huodred tory way, Jtis sccovdingly with spocial rofar- once to this fact that I am moved to speak this morniug, L confoss that I waut tosoe our Bunday-schiool * tho training-place in divine things for tho older brothors and sistors, and for tho futhers snd mothers, aa woll as for tho chil- drou, I think I can forseo that, should that be- cone the case, tho mumbor of ohildron and tho enmo:‘iucsx‘ar thoir Mu;lyl would ll:n gtluslly 10- crepsed, any rate, it is upon thoss Lo whom 4 “ I hnve mlu:o{l that to-dsy my prayor aud | Yeers befora thy discovory of » Amorical" thonght aro chiefly fxed. Ican imagino, fn- | Jb 18 o litoral fact that b tho = lyric deod-tuat ma I thua speak many excusos will | postey of tho Iobrows was in its goldes azo ariso in individoal winds, and £ can roadely be- | Bearly 8 thousaud voara bofare thy birth of Tiova that a portion of thom are iu suine wiso 1fornco! 'I'ho author of Ecclesiastes discusnod valid. ‘Fho lack of abnolutaly perfect toschiors; tho problem of ovil six hundrod yesrs boloro tise lack of abundaut leisure ; the absonce of su- SHocratos in tha diatogucs of Plato, aud the lova- porabundant strengths the regrob at taking so Hong of Holomou 4 & ll'musaml yoars older than Tiuch timo from tho lome,~tuose and a dliou. | Oid: ‘Chio Book of Usthor was s fragiuout of #aud athior roasans might be umsigned, and [ | biography, at losst fiftoen hundred yoars old at cannot stay, evon il it ware my proviucs, to af- tho dawn of the romantio literature of Kuraps, it of how much wolglst ouch ought tobo, L, fu. | Tho ook of roverbs ismore anciont by mine stoa ], fall back upon this profound_convigtion, huudrod years than the Treatisesof Sonooa. Tho that, if the valuo snd charm of Iiblical study | ontire bull of the prophotio litorature of the \rora appraclatod, the hindorances would, for tho | Jobrewa was antorior to tho Augustan age of ntost part, speedily dissppoar. Tho gathering Ttomo, and oven the writors of the Now Tosta- WWoutld 8o ho for Joyful, mutual consultation that | ment are, ail of thom, of moro vonorable an- tho prorequisite of a pozfecs teacher would not tiquity than Tacitus, and Plutarcy, and Pliny bo Inkistod o, Thio attraction of thostudytself | tho younger! And what, proy, shall bo eaid of would bo nflislent to commaud tho tume, and | the ook of Job? 1f what to many ueoms ako out the uirengt and tho valusblo ramty | Probabla is trid, it in tho aldeat writing now oz- wocurod Wonld bo foomod mantfold compousation | 1sting,—at lenst & thuusaul yoard older than for thio domontlc Joys nurrondorad, Hamer, It waa alreadyold when Cecrops fonnds Whiat, thon, shall wo ttiuk in the truth con- | ed Athens. A long 8o anwlon iho Romaue iu- corning the value and charm of tha study of vaded Britaln, it Waa more tuno-worn thaa tho Giod's Word 7 | Whoroin 14 tha plozurs and tho | Bamo of Jullua Uiedar i to us to-day | roward ? 1ait not presumably worth whlle, mv hearern, Of course, [ might nat, though T would,—and | for us all to study s volume which comes down cortaluly I wonld not, tnough I might,~assgn | L0 13 freizhtod with tho historyand literaturo of Tho foromont place to aught save tho simplo Idea | Anich snciout timea ? Doow it not appoal to oue of the Scriptires nu tha way of parsoual salva- [ institictivo, roversnco for tho vonerabls, tue tion and thie means of porsonal growth 1u grace, | long-lived 2 My hears would bolie my words, 1 I wora to as- But perchance It would bs falt that tho ap- sign either the moat oasontlal value or tho most | pual was Atill stronger if it conld ba known that casontlat charm, toanything save that rodemp- | this anciont word wers altogethier trustworthy 1o tive plan which in tho Old’ Toatamont and tha | itd lustory, truthlul in 1ta Diggrapby and natioual New 18 tha burden of disoourse. It isto ne as | allusious. lut ouco vome my frieud, to {44 to tlioss who, withuut it, are fost in thapower | earuost study, and you will tind that it id true to and guilt of win, that the Biblo comas y aud its | tho lotter. You will find that when its real state- glory fs that it offers to such the way of roluaso, | ment it discornoed, the faola as loarned from I fear, howaver, that somotimos tho Word of | auy other source lond carroboration, You kuaw, G i viowad sith tho tass adwiration, for ho | for instance, that withio the last ity years thoro reasou that it i+ somehow Jooked upou as tho | have beeu, tu overy diroction, rosearch most Ward that fltac fastons npon us the woawhich iv | wftiog, and inquiry inoat unsorupulous, aud die- wlterwards cusnys tu relieve. I Judge that the | covary wmost unprecedonted. You kuow that Gaspel 14 not aliways apprehendod &4 tho Gogpel | much'of what once passed for history 14 now no glven towaril the enlargement of the church and en- Targoment demanded by the increascd attendance and the growth fu tho work in all its departments. With theso lllustrations of the worl Trinity fs doing, wo can undorataud botter the signifeance of what is said in tho following passage: - . In consuquenca of tho male and rewoval of the chiurchen, tho lower part of the City of Now York haa ecomu @ st feld, in the ntrict sense of the words, ‘Che old parish churches Lave diaappeared, tho clorgy- wmenarogono, tho publia worship ot Almighty God s cenud fn placen whero it bad long been carrled on, and littls rermalns to call to theminds of the populns: tiou thie trath, that there ia Iu & Buprome Lelng, and) that it is tho dutyof musn to bolleve in Him, t0 foar' 1itm, to lave {lin, sod to honor His holy day and namo. 1€ it had not been for 'l'rlnn{ Church the des- titution now referrod to would hava beou much grest- er than ot prossnt, and that part of Now York which, les bielow Teuth stroet, in ftsclf alargo city, might bave presouted a sceno without a pareliel among the tawns of any lund, age, or nation, To prevent mich shiame, disgrace, and dissstor, it is the policy of tho corporation to keap lia clurchies on thelr ancient siles, 10 good repalr, snd In decent vrder, to make the msr- vicen BLtractive, to provide Uia means of roligous odu- catitn for children, and to ministor taall can bs rasched, snd to ezcet naw bouses of worabip from time to'tino | placos whero thersaro mone; ina worl, to_ maintain the ‘mbuo worship of Almighty God with due honor, and to sustain the institutions aud ordinauces of Ohristisalty fo thoao parie of the eity which would athurwise be left nur‘l'n. 1f nol ;pm;. deatituto of spiritusl aud veliglouw priviloges. Thodo rrgluut ‘aro regarded oua apecial fisld, and tucle poor inhabitanta oy & particular charge; and it is lald that » greater part of the means of the. corporattan should bo spout in ministoring to thoir spiritual welfaro. : 0 | as well ag wpiritusl, duminian of the whole earth, Dus, after all, the reply will come trom maay : O o e alais | ava ihan bistorlo fable, Yot vecy cloarluz | 31o5c:' wuch book mghtfully command tho | 414 1 ousy onolugls or Triuity Lo do what shd o A hlo uya s Doforo. 16 altows us ita Tifo | tho Diblo's truth, and every fraxh di“m,yfim attoution and be study of every wind? Can | downg, with hor unlilted mosna.’ As to this the ** Year-Book ™ abould correot falsa liapros- sions, It eays: I, In estinating tho yalue of property, the calculas ton aught 1o bu “limited to what yields' an {ncome, Uroadway, extending from Nocior wtrot ta ‘Trinity Liuflding, in which, uotwithtsudiog ite name, the churen R0 inieroa \rhalever, and the aimost wnually anctent churchyard of 5t I'sul's Chapal, furme fu th entire block bounded by irowdway and Uburch etroct, Vesey stroctaud Fultou utrest, yieid no fucome, Lut, on thu contrary, aourco of considorable ox- ponse, ‘Lo oatimaty at what they would bring, if Fold. aud o ¢ount that sun a8 8 part of the eatato of Teluity Church, s uufsir: thoss gronnds heing not for wale, and Iytog laproductive, skiould be lofs out of thy accatat, Who same uiay be sald of the greater part of, the burtal-ground ou Hudeon atrust, betwuen Clarkson 9ad Leroy streets, aud qf Trinity’ Cemotery, ab Oar- mansville, Whatever thelr intrinsfe valug, th wis wbsolutely valuelass for the purposs of fncome, with thie wxception of Trinity Cometery, frotn whick an au- nal aunk (rom (e safe of plots—uiterly ualgulicant, compared with what the church bias been compled Ly tlio progress of city Lproveiments, 10 Iy aut upan Tivo cotmataty—I derived, wid will o declve for & few Yeurs torv, after which that ground will alsa becatno & burdou u the corporation, sud a €ource of condtant expense, with nO accrulug sum to Dce the onl Tho actual incomo last year was about $300,- 000—3 vory large wum, but far less than tho popular iigagination conceives to bo the vorrct figure, As to the oxpondituro of thiu iucame, 1% seemia that o largo proportion ly required for keepinig up the vstate, taxes, ropairs, vte., and, beaidos, bho ** Year Book ™ enya About ane-teath ta gvon sway to poor churches oute wida the parieh, Not ono dollar le huarded; tho enlire fucomo fe spenit far (he purposss of the sacrud {rust ; and i# freyuoutly happeus, snd was almost juvarisbly tho case until within a fow years, thet the sbnual ¢ie penditures vicesded the ibsows, Thaia facls are viuted, I view uf o froduent cliafyes tat o policy of tho carpuratiqn ¥ meab, lggsrdly, snd seldan, In Tact, 83 much 1y dono for those outaide the parish ae thero ate tho wioans 10 daj atl, If auy errur Las been committed, 1t 1 ou thy sido of Libaratity; Sov the due ceptlun or prosesution of wurky of graat ‘hwpartancy it ho arial praper bas Luan, sid il te delayel Ly cumplylug with tho calls for wid which ure tus ctasantly kept up fram without, giviog balm, For such reason, it wmay bo, there i4 & halt-unconscious reluctauce to take it cidse hiomo to kisarg and thonght. Tormit mo thon to call special attention to the consideration that 1t iy not the Bivle which cso- sles even ho lesst of our wobs, Lot mo urge with kludty, yet wost enrucet empliasis, that tus hible, even in 3ty sevoror uspect, 18 but the re- vesler of what, 1n fact, mau has brought upon himeolf | It comes, indeod, to rendor the win siill mora sinful, in cagotho warning is spurned ; yet ovon thon, ouly becausa incroase of light 1uust nocesyarily augmont the guilt of him who profora tho darkucss, In its great prevailiny chiaractor—in its true, sppropristo conception— tho Riblo is tha meusage of rescue. It 14 the ra. diange which makea cleay the path of roturn to Giod, It is tho proclamation which speaks of beou a hew gous in ity matchloss crown, Forine stancs, Sciouco bas dropped hor soundiog-line tn even the Duad Soa, aud from out ita very dopths hat praved the catastrophe which engulfod the Uitios of tho Plain. 1 canremamber when ukep- ticlsm was wout Lo ale, with a sueer, ** Where 18 Niwovol, that great city of thros days' joars ney?" It sluca Botta and Lsyard have ehown it4 60 miley of encloaing wall, nktepticlsm sncers no longer. Hiddon in Egyptian yandd wora many of the Biblo's witnosses; but now, at last, thoy Liave becu brought forth from thair hiding, to toll how truo ¢ tho word which Mouos wroty thtoe shousand years ago. ““In my youlh,” raid Caviglia, when Lord Liudsay found himin the Linst, ** L read Ioussoau, aud belioved myuslf o philasophor, 1 camo o Egvpt, and the Serip- turos and the Pyramids convorted mo.” InGisu- pardon. It is tho covonant which pl the | cais wo road of the Flood, and mien bava doubt. ncecptanes of tho trustfully penitent. ‘Lo thu | ed its occurrence, Lat an an Asdyrian tablot beloviog it 18 te disclosure of cawfort, and tha | now in the Lritlsh Musouw—a tablet made 66 bastownl of peacs, To the Christian it in the | years bufura Clirist, and {tsslf acopy of a record Word which rabs eveu tha [rave of its terrora, | whoso date is a thousand yoars precoding that— for b is Lo word which briugs lifo, aud | thers i an account singulatly coincidont, It iwmortality to light. 'Y'o tho whofo earth it is | upoaks of tho Flood ss decrecd by tho guds ; of tho tidings ot grace and love. To ovory soal it | buman wickeduoss as tho oause; af tho Ark as opens wido tha door of hopo, On avery heart it | weasurod by cubite; of 1a lesll’ns at last onw I predsea tho truth of God's excesding willwg- | mountain ; of birds sant out to uan if the wators neus to bless, From Gonesis to Hevelubion ey | hind abated ; sud thew of sa altar bullt and eaz- stary 13 tha wtory of the pity which savou tho | niice offered. ruined, Its favorite portrayal s the portrayal Wo read in Hecond Kings, of Mesha, King of of thy shephord wearcling for tho wandoring | Moab, as under tributa to lstusl, and, aftar tho slioop ; of the Vather gowg far on the way to | death of Alab, rovoltiug axainst bis successor ; weol thia prodigal ; of tho Havior laying down | and ta Hirst Kioge that the combiued rolgu of 1is lifo, at laat, that so redemption wight bu | Abab and bis father Omri was forty years. But wide u3 the world and Tree as the very alr. | nuw ou bha Mosbite stous, & bisck bisaltio slab, It eays, fudeed, that strees of spiritualneod {u | dhucovered in Moab o 1369, wo read in Hetitio wion ws. It doclares of us, *gailty bofors | characters, with a date of 00 yoars nofora God.” 1t piotures to us the present and futugy | Chnst, the provias corzoboration of tho Hurtp. wretchoduoys whichs is the wages of mu peraisto) | ture rscord. Evon Sinal, baviog barne a thou. . v sdmonisbos and warna. It rebukes aud | sand vindications to the Uld Tetamont writiuys, toreatons. Yot, as { Lavo aid, tho torrible facts | Aow yiolds up from hur Convous of Bi. Cathsniue were thus boforo tue Biblo was givon to the | the oldest (roak manusgrips of the New osta- world, aud they would remiain #0, though (o-day | ineut,—a wanyssrips which coutaivs all the tho Bible stiouid withdraw its mesasyge. For, L | Gospelsand io the ondor in which they now ap- any one afford to treat it with nogioct # Baok of ancient nud hrtorical lore! Dok of absolute literary pre-omineuce ! Baui of intelleetual, practival sovoraiguty ! And fieat and Last and always, the Baok of salvatiou throngh Josus Christ ! . What wondor theu that the Suporlntendent of our Habbath-achool in bis report of tho othor oveuing, z:leudu«l for au immsdiats aad goueral study of the Word ! What wonder that he do- clared his beliof iutho Word, as tho power mighty ocoongh to make tha dumb disciple to wpouk, and the steeping to awake, and the in- activo to Lo filled with zoal! What wonder that Lo Jookod to the Word as the moans in the hana of (rod for bringing the iost to ropentance and lite! Howaid: * [ awm praylog for the timo to coala ul»'uudil_y whou tho cougrogation as wall a3 {ho Church shall assonible with ono accord for tha stndy of God's own Word.' And for on, T said it my iumost hoart, Amon Huroly the couvenloucos ovon are ab hiand. Wao already bave both the genoral school aud the spocial Biblo clasues ; and thode tua cau bo ou- Jarged or multipliad a8 tho nood may bo, Tho hour of gathering is at 3ok of the Sabbath afternocon—of this aftornoon. I thoroefors, fuvita you, young men aud msidens, the middle- ayed and tho old, thou to assemble, I promiso youthat you whall bo welcamad, and in overy pas- Hiblo woy aided. Why nat to-day bosin the worl aud the joy # I am porauadod that if such ftting houor wora pabd the God-given Word, tha blass- ing of its Author would be upon uy, 1 am suro tiat mauy » soul would ba made wiso unto sal- vation, and many a soul would bs wonderfully upbuilt iu the wmost boly faitl. —— DR. MzKAIG, HE WILL LEAVE Ti K MINISTRY, Yestorday mornivg the Nev. Dr. 3MaKaig preachied for theuccond tima at Wood's Muesum. At tho closy of his sarwon he surpriscd his suditors, especially those belonging to his own ask, 18 uot God on Ll throne, nigbivous aud | pear. Jerusalam spsaks from hor rutus, und all | snecial vangragation, by the statomant shat e Ty, cternal; und the soal sinful with wwful su; | Paleatine is olo quent indefonsy of both Mosos tytondod to termiuata his connection with them IMSCELLANEOUS. and oternity wiandivg ready (o sssign to eocli | sud Jobu. Thoreforo, we may well count tuy | yya ypintusl teschier, go to Califoruis, aud bs- AIDY AND BANKEY. B womortal splric 143 bontang pluce,—whethor thoru be a Bible or no? Rightfully, theu, may wa deet that the Biblo, in ity dirtivctive gharag- ter, is tho book of pro-emineut valuo! Yea, diaclosiog to us, of severer ort, ounly what ex- Liblo ns tho wxliadetiovs macvel of blatury, woat aucient aud wouss true, 16 doserves our study, # thu groat epivomo ol old-time sruth aud hfo. But, my hoarers, it tho Book of Looks appea's New Youx, Feb, 13, ~Theugh tha Brat Moody- Sankey mosting tn-dav was bold at ths oarly ‘howr of 8§ o'cluck, fally 4,000 wers prenent. Muody, ta hte dlscourso, sald he nsver had go glu th practico of law, Me halbad bt fn contomplation far voma. fime, but had daferred & until bls year was up, Now that the terms of 14 angazernent had endols there Was 49 tuwion uuma to this church han been continuwl during the ). past year, and an additional sum of $10,000 Las been | much snconragement in any place as hero thy past woolt. Tho prosont harvest was white ang roady for tha roaper, Itscomod na though thy whole oity wore ready to bo Invited to Clirla, Hourged fathors and mothors to pay more attontion to bringlng un children in tho fear CGod. Teachors of Habbath schaols flhnn?fl' attond rovival moaunf-. and » thousand chyl. «dron could bo brought to Christ, Banhey mang, 1o work, jo Ay vinoyard.” Tho aftornoon Inneling was oxclusively for ladics, Ovor 6,000 wore presont, Moody proached on ths moan. fvg ot the sword gospol, viz., good tidingy of great joy. lis earnenstly appesled io youug Isdica” who had 16d livea of éaralesanesy to change at once and bacomo children of Chriat, Ovor 100 ladies, young and old, stood up ta by prn‘yml for, and, while praying, Bankoy broke i with the hymn, **Aimost Persuaded.” Ths scene was affecting, After the mnosting s nun. ber of ladles antored the inquity-rooms, 1 |To-night’s meoting was excluslvely for man, and was crovdad. 0 BOIMON WAS AD Gafnest apposl to roceive the Uospel. Tbo inquiry rooms ware throoged. NRVIVALA 1X OENTHAT, MICHIOAN. Bpecial Mavatels to The Chicago Tribune. TAxstya, Mich., Fob, 17, —Mueh roligious tn. toross hias boon manifested thin winter in this and othor citios and Lowna in Conteal Michigan, Groonville roports 100 converslons; Ionia, 80; Howall, 23; and Lanaing, 70. The meotingy in thia city ate woll attended. TEVIVALS AT PREEPOAT, ILL. ¢ Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago ’-flmm. Fueeont, Ill., Fob, 12.—Tovival “meotingy linve been {n auccesatul progrosa in the variony T'rotestant Churches of thiacity. Thouse in the Becond Mothodist wore Inst evening resumed, with increased interost, the Itov, Dr. Mc3lulien, of Indians, condncting tho sorviees. 4 An acconglon of eixty now couveris s the ra. sult of tho work in tho First Methodist Church, tho Rev, F. P, Cleveland, pastar. In tho Second Presbylorian, tho Rov, John Qriffen, pastor, and in Salom Church, the Tley, D. I. Byora, pastor, numorous couversions Lave taken pisco. RKEORUK. Syecial DHapaich to Tha Chieaan Tridune, Groxox, Is, Fob.13.—As tho rosult of the Union rovival offorta beroabauts, 250 persons. Linva boen couvorted, * Tho work has beon in progross for tho pant slx weoks, during which timo oveor 150 moetiugs have beon hold. It is tho most muiccossful rovival movemout In tho history of the city, snd so much so that those who aro ongagod in it, encouraged with tho result of thoir labors, hava detormined 10 keen it up notwithstanding the Rev. Olaggett, who haas beon conducting tho sorvices, has boen obilged Lo go to Mompliig, Mo, to most an en- gagomont there. During tho coming woelk, the meating will bo hold in two of tho churclios, ona having proven incapable of Liolding the crowds that attond nightly. TASTORAL, Dosrow, Neb, 13.—Tho Parker Fraternily Socioty voted to-dny to extond a eall to the Rov. Monetiro D, Conway, of London, Englaad, to bocome their pastor. Lt is thought he will ac- cept and take the desk formerly occupicd by ‘Tueodoro Parkor. I0WA PERSONALS, Soecial Corresvondence of T'he Chicazo Triduna, Des Morxes, Ia,, Fob. 12.—Thore {3 a stroog prosumption that I, T. Allen, tho recent Cook County Natlonal Benlkor, of Illinois, will ba despollod of hishomestead hore, valuod at aboub £3200,000. By the statutes of tlis Btato, whors n homestead i# claimod outside of o platted city or town, the same may consiat of 40 acres, Mz, Allen’s homostoad waas locatod boforo the city waa extendod beyond it. Tho Assignoe in bank- ruptey claims tho homestsad for tho creditors on the ground tuat Alr. Allen permanently removed to Chicago, and thereforoabandoned his homesteasd in Iown, and forfeltod all olaim theroto, The matter will come up in the United Htatoa District Court, In support of the Asaig- uee's position, it will bo put ia evidonco shat dlr. Allen, whilo ronidiog at Clicago, mado written proposals_to soll this homestend proporty to tho Presbyterians for 8 female colloge. 0 Thursday evoning, J. Wapploton, living near Oskalooss, was kiockod by a muls, Iils wils, who was with him, asited im if ho was hart much ; whon ha roplied, **I om killed,” and im- modiately fell and expired. ) _J. 1L Morodith, a promising citizon of Lynn- villo, had soveral cattlo stolen, o fow days sgo. 1o started ont to find them, traveling on foot. Relurniug homo, ho got on board s hand-car, Arrizing at Scarsboro, ho stoppod off, moved & fow stops, and foll dead. It is supposcd that fatizuo, und snxioty of mind i tho soarch for Lia cattle, indnced discase of the hoart, ! John Adsms, born near where Council Binfls naw is, in 1823, and now liviog in Wapallo Coun- ty, claims to antedste any other native Hawkeye, His father, at tho time of his birth, was in ihe army, #o that Joln may bo conaidored a Hawke eyo by brovat, = A RHYME. Wiy nead 8 subloct for a poor, nd why abrosd ahould riymeatars rosm For brilllant thames, when here at home Arn subjecta much diviner For glorious thougbts why turn we back On Itecollection's time-worn track,— ‘Tho last resource of shambling hsck, Ot hiard-sot penny-~s-linor 7 The early daya gavo prr delights,— “Udolplio Comias ana Tia -xx»ln'm[— Tho euchiantment of @ Arablan Nights™; Yut now all falla to do go Then * Goody Two Sliooa " Tapi cach sense, caso,— siiubad the Bullor * was imme No yaru lo-day can recompense Yast faith in ¢ Habin Crusoe ™} Al me 1 dolightful was that Ume - When I the ¥ Beanstalic ® used to climb, Auaining beights then doemed subiime, Worth mare than gold or “giller ' And thoss dellciota nighta, whoss hours Wezo spent in teating maglopowors, . Aud storming most gigsntic towers, With + Jack o Giant-Killer e (one that ghad time when by ihe brook, Fome thread for ins, & pin as hook, Wo nome of other boya forsook, - ‘Aud stretchod onr youthfal sinswag Delightod aid our oyes expand, Mots thian & whaling Yoysge waa grand, When thore wo wriggling bronghs to Jand Bmall sprats, or minuts minnows | With care wo trimmed each paper mall, Which onward sped with favoring galo, Qur boat buils on diminished scal ‘Whon a boy in Eogland'a frce lsnd; ut, since those days, Damo Fariuue's rah Hent us Lo 6o n bigger tubs,— Lifo's game we neariy lost af etuba \With the natives of New Zaaland, Toulay, fn looking back, it rieves Our hicart that * Moryiana * leaves, Tha Lodica of but ¢ Forty Thiovos® "Ta death bolled in Aer fur With us, each now indictment I A acore, oF more, of our big bugs, ad viclims, stuck in big stone Juge, B Turough * crooked whisi E an* 7o wald beliiud closod bara, . Oan Pang, Pobruary, 1070, ... ALFMED IANDALY, ———— 2'fho Innocent Fathor, Detrolt Fres Pross, Ilundrods of peaple yesterday remarked thad it voerned just Hke wpring woather. The ralv, and nust, and fog, and sho public axpreesions, L»rulmbl{ put the idoa into sha Siarling boy's ead. 116 cxmo dawn town aud bought & stuffed robin at a bird store, went bome and placed it on the limb af ashade tree, snd when tho father came home to dinnor Lis sttention was called (¢ tho fact that tho nprlnsx birds had returnod, + Good gracious ma) * ho exclalrmed, as ho pul on his speotacles and saw the robin, _** Winter iy over, en'sit 2 inquired Mrs, Star ing. +*Of coursoft la. Woll, that beats me. You might as well tako that monoy I laid up for mora coal and fix the childron up with now shoea.”" Whilo the old man was comolng his halr fot dinuer Tom put the bird on the gate-posl, anid Lis fathor saw Lbe socond rabin and exclaimed ¢ 4 Elizn, If any poor folks como around her¢ giva 'em half tliode "tatera in tho cellar, for tht wc-;::o‘r'll bo hotter'n Llazes in lews than ¢ month." Boforo the innocen} man shaved back from thio tavle the bird waw vuosting ou » shyub, hul carcloss koudling haa potled ui’wa fail-reatbort out, *That can't ba & robin," mused the old man, snd Lo pat on bis hataud wont out aud litted the bird from the limb. \hilo ho was lfting, Torg was dlying dows (Lo alley. flowho cawe oul 1ast night the public may nover kuow. e Young Napeleon. Furty Correspandence 84 Joute Glabe-Dursocral Napoloon the Vossible Fourth riscs st daws sud works bard sll day, s programme of stady, which ho now pursusas in the claxaio rae urewent ot Cobdyn l'lucu} i ratlier novere. On Moudays he wtudies the fucts of history iu the morniug, aud the philasopby of history in the attarnoos Ou Tuomlays googeaphy, and after mm“.m woography, thie manuers, climates, sud wealth of variaus roglon On Weduesdays be looss futo tho adminiszative organization of Franca ns compared with tast of other natious, Un Thuredays he studies Judiciary oruanizetions Qu Fridays Frénzii politics, past and prossut. Qn Satycdarg he Indulges, with competvut Yroe fesaurs, s profound ezumindtion of conivids BOrAry 87onts. On Neindare ho RS,