Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1876, Page 2

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE RELIGIOUS. Another Argument for the Sabbath and Against Sunday Theatres, .- by the Rev. Dry Fallows. The Reve Dr. Suthorland on the Re- ligious® Lossons which May Be Loarned from Soientists, The Ordinance of 1787 and the Bible In the Schools---What C. C. Bonney Thinks of Them, A Lincoln Memorial Church to Do Founded by the Springfleld Colored Episcopalians. SUNDAY THEATRES, SERMON BY THE NEV. DR. FALLOWSA. The Rev. Dr. Fallows proachod at St. Paul's Tetormed Eplscopal Olurch last ovening from the followiug loxt : Remember the SBabbath day tokeepid holy,—Ecodus, €2, 8, He upoko sa follows ¢ Tho quostlons of the obligation and modo of obeervance of the Babbath havo caused very sorfons dissgrooment of opinlon among tho most loarnod, consietent, and devout teachers of the Christian Church, Anyono who'ts at all conversant with tho history of the controyeray which Lias gatherod around tho subjoct, and who desires to present his own conclusions after maturo and candid survoy of all tho poiuts at issue, will bo the last person in the svorld to dogmatize and hurl his opprobrious opithats at his opponents. Difforoncea of opinion exist firat as ta tho ground of ovligation. The Reformod Bwis charchos lield that tho Sabbath was simply a Janlah institutlon, and wea abrogated by our Lord. Thsir confession doclared that tho ob- servance of the Lord's Day is founded, not in say commaudmont of God, but on tho suthorily ot the Church; and that tho Church may alter tho day at pleasure. The Aurnblug Confesslon, which was drawn up by Melancthon, avows that tho Lord's Day, Esater, Whitsuntido, and otber such Lolidays, ought {o'bo kopt, bocausu thoy are appotutod by the Cliurch Cranmer,” In bls Catecbism, published in 1548, saya: “Wo nuw keep 1o more Sabbath on Balurday as the Jows do; bul we obuervo tho Bunday snd cortain olher days as tho mag- istrates do judgo conyoniont, whom in this thiug we ought to oboy." ndale said: “As for tho Sabbath, we bo lords over the Babbath, and may yet chango it {nto Monday, or into any other day na wo mce need, or may make evory tenth day holy only if e see canso why," It is aleo statod that ‘it is on record that Calvin debated whother tho reformed, for tho purposs of ostranging thomeolves mora com- pletely from tho ltomish Church, sbould nob sdopt Thuradsy as the Chriatiau Sabbata.” On tho authority of Bishap Horsley, it {a also etated that Calvin regarded the Babbath ns ono of thoso cardinal ordinances of tho Jowish roligion which Our Lord had blotiod out, All thesp ominent men ond maoy othors that might bo montioned hold that thore was no obligation lu the Old or the New Testamect for the obsorvanco of tho Habbath by Clristiaus, but that {t mmply rested on the authority of tho Cburch oron tho basis of expedicncy. Mau hold that the Babbath was simply n Jowish inst{- tutfon, that its authority perishod whon Christ came, but beliove that tho Christian Babbath, or tho first day of the weok, was jn- stituted by the Ayontlau, and ia thorefora niuding upon all Christians to tuo end of timo, Others beliove that the Babbath is a primitive {nstitution, 3““ by God at the creation, sud ro- onaoted amid tlie moat impressive circumstanoea at the giving of tho law on Sinal. Soma of these contond that the law thus piven haa nevor been reponled, and that tho vory day of tha Mosalcal inatitution ie still binding ; while others, holding tho viewa of tho primitive. Mosaic Sabbath, beo- lieva that tho obligation was transferred to the firat day by the Apostion. Not only 18 there this divargence of opinion respocting its obligation, but nlso its observanco. mengln, ono of tho greatestof reformers, A2~ claced tbat it was Jawfal on the Lord's.f ay, aftor divine service, for any man to pur: .o his labors, Berza taught thnt no cessatlr. of work on the Lord's Day is roquired o® Christiana. Tucer, atill mors radical, sayait is not only to b ealled *'a superstition, but an apostasy from Chrigt, to think that working oo the Lord's Day, in itaelt cousidered, is a Bivful thing.” Others, who maiwntaln with thess roformers that thoerols uo religious obligation to keep tho day, yob plead for a far difforont mode of its observance. The profound and re- vered Dr.. Arnold, ~ of Rugby, in 8 lettor to Mr. Justica Ooleridge eaid: ** Altbough I thiuk that tho whole Iaw ia done away with, so far as it ia the law given In Mouut Huwal, vot, so far as it {8 the law of tho Bpirit, I hold 18'co be all binding ; and, bolieving that our nr,4 of o Lord's Day 18 an great as ovor it was, ud that, thevefore, its observance is God's will, and 18 likoly, 80 far aa e #oe, to ba 8o to tho oud of time, I should think it most mischiovous to woaken tho respect paid to it My own viow is, as I nave bofare stated, that tho Bsbbath waa Iustituted at tho croation of wan ; that {t was roanuounced at the giving of ths Iaw, 1t soems to mo, mpon a careful porussl of God's Word, that this 18 the correct viow, * God vestod on the sovonth day from all His works ‘which Ho had mado. Aund God blesyed tho sove puth dsy, and sanctified it, becausa that in it Ho bad reated from all His work, which God created wud made,—Gen., ik, 4 8. Ikoow that wany very ablo dlvinos would make this laugusge ao- ticlpatory of tho giviug of tho law, so thut It is to ba underatood a8 1f Mcsed had sald, ** Cod Tested on tho saventh day, which o has elnca blesaed sud ssvctified.” 1 caonot take tho langusye 4o be thus mutlel- patlye, bosause I balloyo that i the vory naturo or_covstitution of man the necessity for tho Habbath {s written, aud that the Creator made thooutward law bocause ha had already stamped 1n mau's being tho tuward law. Becond—There -rpum toha a rocognition of = dlvision of time into weoks by Nouh.™ Ho was commanded t0 onter tuto the Ark soven days bo- fore the flaod camo (Qou, vil.t 4, 10); soven days elapsed bstween the times of seudiny forth the dove ‘flen. vill. ¢ lo—lii; Jacob ful- silled ® weals for Hachsol (Uon, xxlx. 1 26); snd Josoph made a mourning (or his fathor” soven le (Gen. L1 10), hrd—The Babbath is mentioned fu Exodus xvl, : 25-80, on the occasion of tho glving of the manna in the wildorness, prior to tho giviog of tho law on Biust. Iverything connectod with that occurrence poiuts out, I think, to an &o- knowiguged, though perlinps noglected, obeaory- auce of the Sabbath. Fourth—1t ia & woll-knowa fact that nearly all lho uatlons of sntiquity vbserved a division of timo by weeks, Among theso we msy mention the Yheolcisns, Persiwus, Gresks, " Homsos, Slavonisos, Chiuose, aud Stexicsus. It ia noxe to imposmblo to suppose thst they derivea the idoa from tho Jows. Whils proparing this sermon, 1 csmo acroes an item a iay or two ego, in one of wour leading periodicals for March, to tho offcet that o Oriontal scholar, 1n deciphering the cuuei- {orm {uscriptions of theauciens Chaldeans, had ound unequivocal referenco to the hobdomadal Tivision of time, and also the word Sabbalu, which means in that Ianguage **the rest of ths beart,” o thinks the Jows may hisve derived iholr Babbath from the Chaldeaus. To me it is jmportaut cumulative tostimony 10 the primoval, universal Babbath given at the creatlon. It has been objocted to this primeval Babbath dhat, in the Hifth chapter of Denturonomy, 1ath verss, 46 du ststed, st 8 remson for the Fourth Commandment, * And rumetnbor ibat thou wast s sorvant fo the land af Pgypt, »nd thas the Lord thy CGod bronght thes ont thence through a mighiy land aud by & siratched- out arm; therefore, the Lord tby God cume muanded thes to @op haly the Babbath day', 1 oouceive this to bo A second and a spocisl ¥eason why ths Jows should obeervo thebabuall, 1 think it not {mprobablo that tuis specil day of thio seven, tha Jewish Babbath, was the vory day on which the Lord brought thew up out of the land of Egypt and out of the houso of boudage, Iobsesved o & previous sermon tbat the reason for obsexviog the Babuaih aagiven by Moncs was *‘that God rested ou the seventl day." 1 therofore inwisted that tue ronson Riv- ou for the Babtath never vould become obmo- lete. Que cbjector to my presentatfun of the Habbath quesiion argues t **Is is nousouss 1o talk oo these days to m»&:mm meu sbout the Alwighly God resting. Whatover avy Bibles may say or purport Lo say, we know thut Delly mores rested, sud novercan vest.” Now, I be- e uthority of the Dinine Word, and Balavo that God “‘rested.” How Ho rested I Imow not., What the word fully implles I do not olaim to know, I supposc thers aro very fov porsons now' who beliove in the mix Nteral deys of oroation. Thoso days. doubtloss rofor fo the - division of tho proat work of oreation by God Himaelf inlo six portions or pariods of time, tho work which relatos to Lthe preacnt order of things, sith man 88 a daoller upou tha earth. This work was comuleto whon fuan appeared upon the meens, The soventh portion of timo, the roat- day of tho Lord, may rolata to the whala poriod T, must olanse unt{l thers shall bo & now o iow Dot eartl [ asnnot oxpross niy own viow boltd® e v ,H.uma lnupnvxu of Lave Duou ' uidy n layman, who may up i s Bunday-echool, but, I am con- fident, was mot trainod fn s theo- lopical Beminary: **As God made all things for Ilia own glory, and eapeoially this earth to ba the theatra of & sublinio dwlylay of His por- foction to all the intelligout universs, His test was uot mero cessation from croation, not only & discontinuance of Ilis preparations for, butths nctual eutranco upou, that aublime display, to be continucd aa long s the lluman race contin. ties on earth, This rost is ot a uogasve, Lot a positive, state. God sanctified tho soventh day, lis own scventh day, daring which He rosis; that is, Ho devoled it to n Loly uso, as well a1 man's wmoventh day, in which Ilo, too, was to rost. God rested and wns rofreshod, mot .only by His holy complaconey in the proparations 1lo had made, but especially by tho design aud uso of thono proparations.” A God. during His ravonih day, hsa coased from croating tho placo for the displny of His glory, aud dovoted this period to tha highor pur- osas of that display itacif, sud all tho holy pur- puses for which: Ho mada the world, 5o man dur- e bis soventh day is to drop bis own pursuits and the worldty preparationy for gpmtufl BOT= vice, and participato in Gud's rest,” that is, de. yoto tho day to the samo nbjectd to which God ban dovoted His soventh drx’. As_God rosts on Iia soventh ay and s refrashod, so msu resis on his eovonth day, An;l ;lu:nlflmnllylmlmuutcd by partaking of Uod's aly_ jogs and pursaits, l’di" x{:c sy fhnt 18 tho true Interpretation of the subject, hut {t scems to mo it gives a mean- fug, cloar, Intolhgible, and sublime, to the reason sunexed to the fourth commandmont, Tho Sabbath {8 not o mere memorinl of tho croa- tion, or of tho doliverance from Egypt, or of the resurroction, but an_imitation of what God had dono. Man was to keep ono day in a group of soven daye, for God kopt ono day in a groap of sovon days. I am naked by what authority the observanco of the Babbath svas changed from tho eeventh to tho first day of the week, It is assumed by thoso who ask the question that if the dey is thus_changed wo must considor tho Babbath simply a Jewish inatitution. Now I admit, with tho most thorough-going eo-callod **Sahlite=ians," tho irrepcalablo na- turo of the j..: . ..y Habbath, I donot admit, howover, tho ulea that any special twonty-four Lours of tho wook te {ntrinalcally boly, = Ido not admit that the Babbath kept originally by Adam aund his immediato posterity began at the samo timo os tho Sabbath enjoined upon tho Jowish nation. I supporo it was trus then aa it {s now, that no ono wan in possession of tho knowledgo whoro tho Garden of £ideu wae¢, and consequently no ono knuw tho nnrung poiat from which Adam computod his aoven days, Wo aro not told in the Divine record that tho sccount of weeks had boen actuslly kept from the crontion to tho do- Lversnco from Egypt. 1t was not necessal that 1t should Lo kept. Tho word Sabbatf means rest. This rost day could not inclndo tho samo timo all over tho world. Each degreo of longitude makes s difforenco. Two persons starting from the samo_potat In opposito direc- tions, oue going enst. tha other west, would have differont days whon they most at tho antipodes. Tutrinsically, therafore, onc portion of natural tims cannot bo Lolier than auother. The com- mand to koop the acventh duy, thereforo, whate over exact portion of time it taeant to Tsracl, can only mean to the world in general one day in seven, TWithout enlling tho Sabbath o Mooalo Instita~ tion, or giving the loast color to such au idea, I can eaeily sce that tho reason whby tho Jows na o nntion should Keop tho "epacial dmy of tha sovon which vad enjolned upon them was owlng to tho fact (as I taka it) that on that particular day the Lord delivered tliom from the Egyptians, Tho Now Tostament Ia silent about a change of dasa. Undoubtodly the_ Savior's rocoguition of tho necossity of the Savbath was oqulvalont to a commayd to keop it. Ha doubtloss observed tho Sabbaty as kept Ly the Jows, uot ns thoy ob- acrved it, but by warking the works of mercy aud love upon that day. 'Fhe Apostlos doubtioss absarved tho same Sabbaih, hefsra.and altzi the reeurretiva i cur Lord, as would bo oy potural to snpposo, Bub after tho Jdaurrection thelr moetings for puLlic worahip were hold on the first day of the week seo Aots, xX., 17 1. Cor., xvi., 2), and this was oubtloss for tho reason that our Lord roso from tho dead on tho first day of the weok—the eighth day, Aud on two other occasions swhou tho Dig- ciplos_wore assomblod on tho firat day of the wook Io lugonrud to thom (soo John, xx., 10-26), The Holy (thost was ponred out on tho day of Pontocost, which was donbtjess the finst day of tho week, although division of opiuion exists upon this pelnt, The carly Christlan Church soems graduaily to liavo obeerved tho firat duy of the week instosd of thie soventb, ovidently rogarding tljo fact of tho resnrzection of Chriatupon that duy nyareason trliy it sbonld mark which day of tho soven was to be considorod holy, Dy the last of tho soc- ond century orintho ecarly partof tho third coutury, tho custom sooma to bavo been gonpral, Coustautine, by s formal act in tho year 821, mado a law for tho proper obsorvance of Bun- day. The name Bunday was dorived from tho Sun'a-day, the day, it is true, of & hesthen ob- jeot of worship, ut it must always ba remem- ored, In epite of Lho changes mado by our sevoutli-day breturon, that this edict did not mako Bunday for tho first timo constitute the Chiriatian Babbath, but simply recognized the fact of tho obuorvance of that day from the Apostles down to bin owa time, 1 alluded in my frat discourse to the phyaical and moral benelits which are to be secured by tho obsorvanco of tha Babbath, 1 will; vot traverso that ground sgain, but simply remarlk that a whole voluwo coutd bo filled with quota- tlous from stateamcn, philanthropiets, and physiologista respecting tho nocossity for this day of rost. None of my roviewars haye donied its value ; in fact, all have aduitted it. 1ta abeolute necosmity for man's woll-being demonetrates its morality and justitles tho com- wand for its observonce nmong the univeisal and sll-binding precepts of tho Dacnloguo, Gombe, in Lin work on the constitution of man, hay elevated uatural Iaws, or the laws of naturo relativg to our physical beiog, to the runk of moral lnws, sud for this o hos boon criticisod by Christian writers. Dut I cannot sce how auy one carofully considering tho claims of the Hau%\:th can deny to thow the bighest moral quahty, L dwolt at longth In my first sermon upon what I conmidored to bu & most wanton desecratiou of tho Babbath In our city, by tho ruo- ning of Sunday theatres. Qoo of my raviawers cousiderad my treatmont of the subject unfair, Lecauso 1 dwolt upon the fact that tho plays mb the Hutday thoalres ure impurs and corrupting to moraly,* fle contends that, *1f thodo plays aro of that charactor, thoir prosontation ou any day of tue weok iy n wrong, sud should bo diss countenanced.” I cortalnly did not iutend to giva countonanco to tho idea that such pluys would be right on Monday or Saturday. f also did not Intend {o bo understond to mny, that oven if tho legitimato droma wera to ho per. formed on HKundsy it would bo right, Whero fu tho legitimate drama performod with out tho nccosnories whichs mako the thestra wo objectionable ¢ ‘Ihoatre-going on Bunday cannot be defended by anybody on any grouuda s consistont with the purpones for whiok the dsy wan given, I mudo mention of the Tacts,—~which cught to cause vvory lover of Christianity sud every well- isher of the commuuily to blash with shame,— that, in this city “of Chicago, ou the vory Suudsy evening on which was preaching, tho theutrea wers porforming plays, in which womeu with fig-leaf covering were throwing themsolyes into all Jiuds of wan- tou sttitudos, and thaton that Bunday tho streot cara wero ‘filled with noticos of tho ssme, nud lifo-size plotures of these poor oroatures, in sli thelr groes aud doeply olfenusive poatures, wero placarded on the walla aud advortisiug boards 1n the most shamoleay mauner, arreuting tho at~ teution oven of our boxn and gisls, That such o etato of thiogs should exist in our midet, snd should bo taken as o mattor of course, seowed to mo to iodicate s fearful lasity in our ideas. Huoh nn observancs of " tho Habbath i4 mot American, Ldonot say Puriten, 1t was not the obsery- unco of tho Fathors of the Repubhe, of Wash- inglon, Adawy, nor Jefforeon sven, nor of tha pstriots of the Revolution. It s a foreign ob- sorvance. It iy & eubyversion of the fundsmou- tal {deas of the morality aud the Chrlatian prine clples of our uation, 1 do ot wish to meke my particular obsery- anco of the day biouiug on sy man, but there are cortain peneral foalures of the Awerican Sabbath (sud whou I use tho distiuctive namo, Auterlcan, Jowlel, or Christian, I bave roferauce to the obserrance ;num)yz, which wo have the right aa American citizeus to bave pro- sorved, Aud Bunday thostres, In which tho actors, a8 I am crodibly Informed, recaive no extra pay, but are compelted to appesr, under nalty of losing their placos, and oBtrian per- g:mnncu. which nre 1o bo held thid very oven- ing, and upon tho 1saua of which, fb 18 publialy announced, large sums ara 8 aatoons which are opon on the stregt-corners. o id omne genus, have no right to bo obiraded upon the altention of our peopis upon the Lord's Dav. I have not spoken of Iaw, but I have .of iblio sentiment. 1 again call upon all whu caro or publlz morality and decency, irrespective ot hallof, whothor Jaws or (fantiies, Sabbatarians or fltat.day obsgrvers, tn oreato a scatiment againet shon Durnisinng qoile that shall bavieh thom from our city. 3 ——— THE ORDINANCE OF 1787, MR, LONNET'R VIEWS, To the Fdftor of The Chicugo Tribuna; Cuiesao, Feb., 26.—Cortainty is tho charm of tholaw, and clearneny the boauty of legal dis- cansion ; henco, a8 usither those who support my vions of the roligion, morality, aud knowl- odgo of tho ordiuance of 1787 as tha basls of good government, nor thoso who dissont thore- from, liave quite enccesded in stating my argue mont with perfect accuraoy, let mo rostato ite points, tu thoend that afl who aro faterostod in tho subject may thio better procoed to s corroct conciusion, Tho great and goneral impoitance of the tople, and tho concern manifested in it, soom to domand somo caro to guard agalust tho errorg o which & partial vlew of tho matter oaturally feads, * Tho ordinnnco of 1767 does not, in torms, say anything abont the Bible In the publio schools. DBut it dooe provide. fn ono of its articlos of *‘un- wterablo compact,” tbat roligion, morality, and knowledge botug nocesuary to good government, and tho bsppinces of mankind, scbools avd tho moans of education ehnll forover Lis oncours aged. From this wo srgue that it was intended that roligion, as woll a8 morality and knowledgo, slhonld bo tanght in tho schools, a8 necossary to good governtrent, This ordinance was oxpressly ratified by both the Goneral Qoveromont and the Stato of Iill- nois, on the edmission of tho Hiate into tho Union, sud at the same time rruvluiou Was mado for public schiool funds from tho procoeds of the publlo landa, Tho Constitntion of tho Btato doos not, {n torms, montfon tho ordinsance of 1787, but in law is subjoct to it, Tho National Constisution does not in terms re-onact the ordi- nance, but is in harmony with it, and leaves {t gtill fn forco, ''ho acts of Congress and of tho Legislature aro * neccssarily sub- ordinate to it mers law ma be ropoaled, but o compact can bs abrogated only by consent of tho partlos whosa interests sro fnvolved. Onthis statoof caso, wo argue that tho publio soktool funds are held in a per- potual and practically frrevocablo trust to toach roliglon, morality, aud kuowlodge, and that any sorious divorajon of that fund from any ono of tho great objocts of its creation, ought to bo enjolnad by the Court of Chisncery, tho upliolder of truata, Tho quostion now ariac, '*\What is the reo- ligion Intended by tbo ordinance of 17877" Ve answer, tho Proteataut formof the Christlan roligion, substautislly known in tho mother couutry, iucluding tho King James version of tho Holy Dible as & part of the common law gonerally adopted {u thie country, sud expresaly so fu this, among othior Statos, aud, therofors, when tha law usos the word religion, without deaiguating any othor religion. it caunot, under tho rulos of logalin~ torprotation, mean auytbing elee then that re- ligion which I8 part of thelaw itself, But iu this country both civil and_religivus liberty aro greasly enlarged, and the Church is distioutly scparated ftom tho Btate. Each supports tho otuer, but the dom!nrl cach s separato aud distinct. ;. Tho Church is not religion, nor I religion tho Church; and tho separation of tha Church from tho Btate is s very dilfercut thiog from the sepa- ration of the Htate from religion. Tho work of the Church Is to malu- tain tho nplacea of warship, to adisin- ister the oftices of roligion ; and to promulgate the doctrines of faith, The Biate at tho samo timo regards the mpulnciplos of that roligion.., which 18 & part of its aystem of law, 8a ne: to good govornment, and tho happiness of kind, and as, thorefors, mont it to-ba taught in the publio schools, But the Btates make no dis- tinotion of sact or creod, 'I'ho religion which it recognizos and upholds ie the religion aof tho New Testsment,—* broad and tolsiant Chris- tianity, withous distinotion of scot or croed.” Tha roligion of the law porsccutes no man for Lis opintons, but leaventho conscieuce fres, Tho Iaw deals with tho conduct aud behavior, leaving tho sontimonta of tue heart to the persuasivo iufluences of religion. On tins Biate of caso wo argua that the roading of ths Bible, without voto or comment, in tha public schools, was an exact complisnce, both in letter and in apirit, ‘with tho ordinence of 1787, nnd with tho trust on whitoh tho schoul-funde are held. We also agreo tuat tho uso of tho Bible in the public echooly ‘was not the result of any suctation effort or in- fluoncg, but was the rosuld of a spontancous obuodiance to the epirit of the law, and in record- anca with an slmost universal publio sentimont on tho subject. The authonties un the relation of Christiavity to the law are too numorous to be roforred to Liers, but thoy do not leave tho sube Ject in nny doubt. Oube obfector suggests that the SBuprems Court of the Unitod Btates hold tho ordinauco of 1787 abrogated on the Slavery question, and ssks why not, on tho quoatlou of roligion, This fs why : Art. VL of tha ordinauco providea for the return of fugitive slaves escaping from any of sho “ origiual Biatos." It coutaina no prolubition of a roturn to any new HState. See, 3 of Art, IV, of tho Uniced States Constitution provides for tho roturn of auy fugitive hold to sorvice or labor * iu one Btatg, nuder tho laws thoreof, and oa- oaplug into nuother.” lIore is no conflict, nor any fair ground for the argument said to Ltva beon mado by tho late loartiod and distinguished Chiof-Juatico. Tho cases aro not parallol, sod in tho [fugitive-slavo cass there was no oceasion or Dholding that any pro. vision of tho ordinance was ** abrogated.”" I rogrot that all tho uuthoritlos boariug ou this subject ora not oasily accesaible, 80 that thoso who havo ccosslon to apeak or writs upon it conld form their own opinfous of the meaning, forco, snd ofoct of tho canstitutions, ordi- nanuos, statutos, and commentarics relating to i C. C, Boxxer, —_— DUFFIELD—BONNEY AND THE BIBLE, WIHAT TUE OBDINANCE oF 1878 rnovines. To the Editur of Tha Chicago 2'ribune : Ouivano, Feb. 20.—It would scom tnat no athor msn lo Chicago except the Rov, Dufileld, muoh leas a olergyman, would writa to the pub- o pross upon a subject of whioh ho adnuts Limeolt to bo ignorant, DBut in Baturday's issue of your paper he communlcates his thoughts to the public upon the true lnterpretation snd blnding force of the ordinance of 1787, withont ever baving read the wame. In it he finas the provision *I'bat tho Bible 1n King James' verslon bo read in the schools without note or comment,” The ltev. Dr,, Dufilald #nys ho 80 understands Alr. Bouney to say, It Rooing very strango that a man, a clergym L) nublic toacher, should omit to oxamiue the document for bimeolf, when so unu{ thousand 3 coples of it aro tobe found 1 tho clty: but in llou thercot ha takes sho word of tf:a poeti imagluative Booosy, If he only uuderstood Mr, Bounoy as well as ‘we older cltizons do, Lie would not havo placod the good brothor in such dilemma ; for bo ought to have known that to Brother Bouney an inforenco s as good as » fact, and to buld the Iatter to tho oxact lotter of his luuiuuga 18 to do him great injustico. ‘Tho ordinance of 1787 coutains nottiug ap- proximating to the Ianguago uf Mr., Bonusy by the Rev, Dr. Dufilold, Is shmply says tiat” * Heligion, morallty, and knowiedgo Lelng necesnary to good goverument and the hnp}niunu of mankind, schools and the moans of education nall foruver be en- couragod," o How eucouraged ? What roligios? ‘What 'l’\lul‘I::Ll ;)t Chrishiamty? What veralon of tho o But how tho Rev, Dr, Duflald bolabors the great legal ligts fu Obio for ot Sudivg out Lis new poiuk when tho contest was carriod oo thoro » fow yoars sgo ! ow he looks down upon the lm‘yoru o‘l_ Onicago for Lhelr want of rosoarch | . *“Why, "t““ proat Dufiield, ** tho matter 16 logally settiod.” 'Ilo draws upon hiy *junor cousciousness™ and Mr, Lonney for tha Iaw aud tho facta, o proposes 1o moye upon tho Sohool Board at ouco. No more loiterivg, No more balting to find cut what tho law fs. Dub Mr. Lonoey and Mr, Dufileld havo thae wholo mattor wrapped up ju thelr bosoma, Ileally this rushing foith to talk abont the or- dinsuce of 1787 by o man who bas never yoad it, 13 begotton of tho samo ignoratico and eygotlsin 2 tho prupasition mado by tho same zond‘n\mu, » short tiwo 8o, t0 orush out by forco all opin- 10us not cowoidivg with Lis, 1o holds tue truth, and, so holdiug it, hoproposes to ait down upou all persons boldiug error (i. e., not holding lus supponed truth). b The vmixlle aro gatiafled wilh tho scttlement mado by the Behool Duard, sud the fow clergy of this city who Lave sbaken their little reid 1lag cannot call out even » soply b0 thom, They Linyo no followlng, for the reason that"lovers of Y)m in the motitn ed, aud concert-’ lnlelllkanm. of justice, and of good governe mont, are 80 ovorwholmingly against (hom, P, g - LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH, - THE COLORED KPISGOPALIANS OF APRINAFIELD, The following correspondonce will bo read with fnteroat s Spnixarizty, UL, Fob, 22, 1816.—The Rev, K. M, Grepg, ltector of St, Paut’s Chwech, Nurtngfeld, Iiti— TEYEREND AND DPAR S1n: Ve, thie undersigned, ol colored citizens of Springfield, deairing to_socurs for oursclven and our familice tuo best religious privileges, aud belloving the Prolestant Eplécopal Chueeh in her docirines, discipline, and worsblp, toba well fitted 1o aupply ote wanta. and {o bring our sonis it saving uniou with Jeeus Ciriat, earnestly request you, o lector of 8t Paul's Cintech, to tako the neces- pary steps for the formation of & pariali and 1he loca- tloi of a biouss af worship far the Leneit of the col. ored peoplo of Springfleld ana vicnty and wa would respectlully suggeat that inmmuch a8 this wan tue home of our mariyrad Prestent, Abrahan Lineoln, the great benefactor of the colored peapls of tha Unlted Slates, tho ohuirch beerected ta s nemory, and thun id 1h presorving and perpetuating tho fac of our deliverance from bondage, as weil s {he roe demption of the huinan race by lim whom we adore a8 tho Divine Benefactor and Bavior of all. \Vith sentiments of esteem, we are, raverend and dear alr) very truly yours, A, J, Remp, SAMOXL, V. Caner, Noart ToaAs, YeTRn ¥, BuiTh, DENni WILLIANR, Citantes H, Cory WILLIAIK TioMas, M8, DORA Rxry, - Mnn, Many A, CAsxY, . BeorT, BrRINAPIELD, Hil., Fob, 34, 1870—ensra, Andrew J, Reed, S. V. Casey, Neah Thomas, and ofhere—Dran Hins: Your intercating communication of the 2id {nat, hua been rocelved and read with much ple: In the month of August lt, I published a n our daily yapers thiat, on the following ¥undsy afior~ poon (Aur. 8.), 1 would proach o Ahe colored jicopls of Bpringfield and vicinity in Cook's Hail, ‘Thin crvice was 80 well-aitended sad 80 mneh fn- terest was mmanifosted in it, that 1 dectiled to hotd a setled of Junday-services ia ‘Lo same place sud fuler- est, "Fhese sorvicos were continued with very alight fn- torruption in Coo's Hall, under hs name of * Lin. colu Memorial Misslon,” until soma time in tho month of November following, when wa secured othier rooms, and_estsblished & Sunday-schoo) new the Parieh Church, T have, within_ the time, sdm(nistered £lo} Baptism to a number of porsons, snd recelved a atill iargor number as candidates for confiemation, Al tuls 8 very oncouraging, and as there i in Sprizgficld a larga population of colored pooplo—a population whicn §a likely (o incresse and finprove yery much—I 268 o _rosnon why you ahould uot have, aa you dealro, 2 Jaroclfal organtzation of your own, i alon with tby Protestaut Eplacopal Chtirch, 1 am ready, therefaro, to atd you to the extent of my ability, and will sy tho matier bofora my Veairy, nd- ntring you, in $he meantime, that 0 soon as you ara repared to moat the eanonieal sequirementa of th focess, you will find no abatacle in the way of ths accomplisiment of your expressed destre, “An 10 the memorial chiaracter of the church ¢ regsrd our proposiifon with grest favor, and it will, doubi~ osr, uirikn many peopleiat homeand abroad as servico sblouud singulacly appropriate, for not ooly was tilx tho humo of M. Lincoln, but hiis namo ts lready amao- clatcd with St, Paul's Chiirah, sa Ifind in my Parish Togleter the record of Lis marriage, which futsresiing ceromony wa performed on tho 4th day of Novamber, 1, by the Ter. Cliarles Drssser, then Nector of te parish, P*Slich an ediflce would posvess In timb grest historia valtto, and in its relics, tablets, and mementoos of vari- ous kinds, us well as in the buildiug laslf, visitore would find mucl to Intereat then:, A conilderable sum of money will Lo roquired for Sia erectlon, sud, as 1t Is likely to become a matter of me intorest, T would auggeat the nropriets of placiog a contribution. oz in the Centenulal Exhibition Ballding at Philadel. phis, thus giving the people thore assomblod an op- portanily ta-cast fu thieir mitos 1n aid of tho geand object for which you make an etrncet apposl, aad whicli, on account of ils national charactar, is worthy of necomplishment during this Centenuial yoar, Lat s, then, dovola aursclves 1o this work with that 2001 which 1t demerves, earuestly praying that God may blees our endeavora 'thus to extond the Kingdom of our blessed Lord, and to promots His prafsa and glory on the earil, With deap solloltade for your splritual waolfars, as well ms {nteroat iu the subjoctof your communica tion, I remain, traly and sincerely youts, T. ML Gueao, ———r RELIGIOUS LES50NS TO BE LEARNED FROM SCIENTISTS. BLERMON Y. st SUNDERLAND, OF THAE FOURTI ' UNITARIAN CHUBCM. Thé Rev. J. T. Sundoriand, tho now pastor of thu Fourth Unitarian Church, preached yester- day morning, taking as bila toxt: Honor ta evory man that worketh good.—Rem., fi,, 10, To-uight, sa has boen acnounood, wo listen to tho first of o nories of aix popular sclontifio lect« uros to bo delivered by Prof. Guuning on guo- ceaalvo Bunday evonings in tuls church., As in- troductory to these, it hins seemed to me tuat I could not do a more sppropziate or useful thing than nsk yoursttentlon this mornlng to some religious lessona whioh I think are to ba loarnod by our age from sclence and aclentlsta, I bave loog been conviuced that thers I no noceseary hostility botween religion aud sclenco, Nay, more than that, I have long boen convincod that on tho one hand scionce hag no botter felond than true religion, and, on the other, that true roligion baas no bettar friend than real solence, And whon I soo science and ' raligion clluohing fista or scawling, or even looking coldly st each other (alghta which, I regret to axy, wo aro all callod upon to witness on overy side and almost 8vory day), for one, I caunot bus feol thab the condition of things is stravgely and most s~ mentably wrong. In the firsé place, I always vory strongly suspect that the party which daos the flat-clonchiug or tha frowning, whether it bo religlon or mclonos, really isn't tha genuina thing,but inatoad is a pseudo-roligion ora pasudo= scionce, and henco fools, with good reaaon, that the opporits gonuine thlnF Is antagnniatio to it, Or, if 1t be itself the gonuing thing, thea I more than suspect that the lhln;i which it doos ita frowming at lsu't geouine. It mees somethin woatlog the garb of scienco or religion, which || takos to bo o foe, and so throws {tself into an attitude of uuu;:unlum, crying ont, *You, selouco, you aro all of tha devil; vou, religion, you ara all & dsbastog superatition,” and strikes out with florce, blivd blowa ' Bat if it only ‘would be pationt and ponstrating, and wot show fight until it had time to look undernoath the Rarb, it would find that its opponout ls aot what iteallait at all, and so it wonld Lo saved tho troublo of fighting, or, 1f it did fight, it would no longer do ao 1n & foollsh way, as ona who beata tho mr, or in & sclf-lujurlng way, as one who boota & stone. : Gonnino sclence aod trne roligion, secing olearly, oyo bo oye, discorn {u ench other no an- tagonism. I aw convincod of that, Ileaven speed tha timo when tLoy shall como to ses, oyo 10 0Y0, hs onl! to s vory ludled extent thoy are ablo to yet. I would uot supplant tha tenctings of Jesus, or Paul, or David by the teachings of ‘Tyndall, or Darwin, or Agassiz. Such supplaut~ iog to nul conalderublo “oxtont would, filhlnk. bo lamentablo. But I wonld, it I could, supple~ ment tho teacblugsof Jesus, aud Paul, and David by the teschingy, aud what scems to mo tho moral aud rellgious teachings, of thoso moun. Aud firat of all fu the dicoction of lovo for truth, Of courdo it Is trus of sclentiats, as of all othor classos of mon, that overy flock ha it black sbissp. Thoro are persoua clmming tho name of gcivutists who ro morae partisans, moro spocial plonders, who plainly caro nothing for trath o truth, but only forthelr own pet theorles about the truth, whose swritings and laoturings aro s one-#idod as m mingls half of & pair of shears dotachod from the othor balf, But these aro tho exception, snd by no menaus the leading aud reproseutative uciontiets of the sgo, Tho men who hayve won their way to tho front ranks of soience, and who ars rocognized by sclentists theniwolyen se authoritios, are far dm{ran: mou, Thoy are, as & class, and every intelligent nud yublased mind will bear me outin sayiog it, men of not slmply aversgs, but of really oxtraordiua- 1y, osndor, fairnous, davotion ta truth,—so muoh 80 that it scems ivently fitting that thoy should ba held up snd poiuted to by overy ono intoreated ju tho tesching of morals and religion a8, in thia particular at luaat, men to be Louored sud imitatod, I think thore ia somethiag shous original sclentttio fnvestigation cslculated to wake wen falr sad (ruth-loving. Belentilio in- vostigators undoratand ju 7!10 heginnlog, and ju all tholr resosrcles thoy ara flud- ing out, it poniible, more thoroughly still, that rotbirg Loy bruth will staad, “or is sutraw. Uacts are facts ; 2elves ono jota Lo plensa sweddato any theory, They would just as lief Lanos bypothesls or overy soloatiss ls for him tLat i the condition ‘L wotal rork, Faota aud vw' lenet aally are, form s «ulwn. tfice of granite; ues « - ndation of san: ¢ Vhy then should <%0 we shoold ox- + 1684 and truthtul ~ *} mAD to bean of e g%, reshi. RULE T T ctaesd e Al Ao LMk 'nln;{l‘rol. Hux. loy v aw ™ platter gave his colowy, 20 ! el <%y Me as Aotowma. tous™ be/ s oo clatlons “T do not kouw w!. - ol 'vage to you will be to-uight, Lt vidad v Daap, shat §6 will be the wewssge i own truth above all thiogas.” Cowsl licre i ! flnx raiss 7 Baid Niobubr. the faay 1y <.lam historical sei- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1876, . . onos, “Wo' must preserys ~one trnthfal in scienca no pure that we mauat; eschaw . al lutely evory false lpponunu.—lnnl 8 maat nat writo tlio amallost thing se certsin df whiok w6 era‘ ot fally convinood;- shat when we havo to express a conjealure wo must stren- uonely endoavor to exhibit tha proolsa togreo of l»roh:hnmy wo attach to it, Wo mual oursolves ndicate oir own arrors whero possiblo, aven nnch as it {s unlikely that any one wlil discovaer. ‘Whan wo lay down “our pen, wa munt be able to say in the aight of God, ' Upon strict examina~ tien, I hava not knowingly written nnjuxlng that {a not true; and have mover deosivad, eithior as rogarding. mveolf or othors ; I have not exhib- {ted my most inyotorate oppounont in any light wihich I could not jastify upou my death bad,'" Noblo words of a- noble ‘man! and & man, to who I8 nov an unfair raprevontative, I am prou to believo, of tho loading sclentlsts of wodern mos, I donot think tho writings of any mau have 80 impressod mo by their oxhibition of candor and sacred regard for absoluto fairnoss and precise truth as the writings of Ar. Darwln. Te tho positlon of an adversary to Leatatod by Inm 7 1t 1n stated with the grentest possible earce fuluosa, that thoro may bo no unfsirness of rop- resontation. I8 an 'atiempt msde to prove a position of hisown? Not only are tho argu- mouta in {ta favor ooumerated, but also, with ho greatust fuilness nud fairuess, those which militate ngainat it ; sod yon are asked to make up uo vordiet only in ylow of all tho facts that can bo obtalned ou both snd all aides. Ihave often thought that bo ia, if pogsiblo, oven more careful to stato fully and ju thelr sirongest light the asrgnments which weigh agsinet his own positions, than he s In tho arguments which woigh In their favor. Now, such a trait of mind as this in any man |8 admirablo, aud cannot be too bighly ap- preciated dnd commended, Qiadly do I hold it up in a ChristiAn pulpit and eay * Lot us all omu- lato it." \Yhethor we aro propared to accopt Mr, Darwin as right with regard to that partice ular seiovtitic theory which beara Ll name or not, I 800 no reagon” why wo should not at loast gladly rocolvo him, in 8o far as this point undor congideratlon |a concernad, s a toachor of morals ond religlon. To lestn to o 8 religlously falr, and honeat, and truthful as Me. Daswin, would bo.a great graco fn any mon. Nor, as I havo in- timated, {8 Mr, Darwin poculiar Io this thing. On tho contrary, 'you may almost measuro o £clentifio man’a ewinenco by his conaciontions- noes and fidolity to tentn. Ionly wish that tho ominont religious leadors and teacliors of our timos wern as truly disciples of Jeaus in this thing aa aro our saiontista, But I Liave a fozr, as a class, thoy aro not, Unquestionably some of thom are as Lonest sod truth-loving as mou can bo, But I bave s bittdt foar that, weighed in tho balanco with the mon wha have giveu their Jises to soarching in tho darkneds and quarrying in uutroddon wildoraess for truth, and who, from Lho chaoa of fguorauco and paparstition which o littlo wbilo sgo was, havo built tho ordorly and bosutiful cosmos of science that noyw ls,—I say I hava a sad aud biiter fear that, weighed in tho balance with theso men, our re- ligloua teachors of paed and prosent, 88 = class, would bo foond wenting in this matter, As dovoteos to soola and theologion ; a3 axgonnnu nnd defendors of viows aod doctrines, and systoms of doctrine, in most cases unquostionably belteved to bo true, doubt. lous our religious teachera have bosn and aro unsurpassod, - But in devotion, not to this or that aspoot or branch or view of trutb, but to truth as truth, In allits breadth, and left froo to load where it may, I have little doubt in my own mind thet, bard as it Is forus to make tho confossion, we, as roligious men, must in honesty take it, that the laurel crown bolongs of rigat 10 tho sclontists and uot to us, To loarn this part of roliglon, hooesaty, candor, fairnesa to oppo- nenty, régard for oxact trath, devotion to truth wheraver it loads, there is noarcely room for question but that 1t is mora littiug that woshould go and gt at their fest, than that thoy should como and it at ours, Aunothor losson that we, a8 religious people, would do woll Lo learn from tho sciontiats, In tho lesgon of pationt and earneut devotlon to work, Bt, Jamee says, ** Lot paticnoa liave 1ts perfoot work," I know of nowhero that pstience comos 80 noar to baving hor porfect work &y in the building up of sclonce. The patience aud perss- vorauco, aud devotion to labor, soen in a larga proportion of the promotais of all branches of solenca in this and the past ages, have boon astouishing—acercaly logs than horolc. Hore ia a mnn who dodlcates his lifa to onlarglug and porfecting tho scionce of botany. What dooa that mean ? It moans giviog up all dreams of wealth and luzury, and even to a conslderablo oxtent of comfort, It means, in large mensuro, iralation from aociety, much absence from komo aud family ; travellog on foot amid hardshipa and privations over Blates, countries, cun{’l- monts ; and, withal, toll in the retirement of his study mora continued and sovere than siy but tho fow who have boen adwittod 1nsida -Lha citole have tho faintest concaption of. And all that he may add womething to tho stook aof lumaao knowledgo, It ia & noble davotion. Auother sots for himsolf tho task of fnding ont abonc that wondetful departmiont of cro- atlon—the birds, And what do wesea? e eeo bim luo Audubon or Wilson, virtually takiog up his abodo in the forost ; and for whola dacados of yoars hardly koowing what it {s to meet civilized mon, or tasts the commonaat comfottn of a olvilized home, Anothor devatoa his life with equal ardor and pationce, and selt-abnegation, to tua atudy of 60 amall a thing as tuo hoo, and with resulta of vast benotlt to tho world, Anather, atill, chooses chemistry, or some amall department of chemistry, and toils on indofatiga- bly in his laboratory year afier yosr, unknown and uooared for by the grest world, liitle by }ittle tho wrinklos comiug fato his brow and the silver thresds luto s hair, and at lust, very likely, passiog airay, almost as nonoilced as the fathing of a treo In the woods, but: yet conteut that it should be ‘a0, because ho I8 abls by hily patient toil and herofo davotlon—I tiad atmost said ymmolation—to leave vehind Lim, it not & nams, what in botter, womo additions to hig dosrly-lovod eoience. And this is the way that the aplendid edifloe of our wodern nclencs haa hoen built up,—by a gallenco. A DOrBOYErance, 4n oarnOstnesy, a aolf- forgobting and quiet dovotion to work, which am #g admirable as anything ot the kind that the wholo lustory of tue world has to show, Now these aro procisely traits of charactor which Jesus and Panl commended a8 going to maka up porfeot charactor, Wby shouid uot we also recagaizo thomas such ¥ Way shonld I, as Christian toacher, and why sbould uot you, as Chiristian men sud womun, often and esrosatly told uE thens men of scienca who a0 nobly {lius- trata thess characteriaticy, as oxamplos to'bo ro- ligionsly admired and hinitated ? Another lesson which tue roloutiata are dolug [urhnpu moro than sny other clasa of men v oach this ago, nud wuich inany of us oa relig- loniste would do well to 1ot them teach ue, 1 the lesson that thera is something batior to live for than meraly to gain puuunmfi wealth, Whan T'rof, Agasels was approachod by sn enuncnt so- called practieal man, aud nrtzad to turn his ro- markabls talents for sclontille lecturing to ac- gount In acoumulating a fortune, what was the business-man's surprise on boiug roplied to by tho man of scienco: ‘' But, my dear sir, | hava B0 timo to waste tu maldug monay.” ** No ume to waute in making mouey!” Haid Prosident Andraw D, White, lu npeaking of this doclura« tion of Prof, Agaesizt ‘1 bave stood in the Pprodenco of o vory eminont rasn of aifaiva; ouo whose word 18 a powar in the groat maria of the world, and watctied lum a8 for tho first time ho hoard tius nstogisblng dictwn, Lo stood silent, appurontly la ane. ‘L'l words ssemod to revers berate among the convolutions of hia bran, and ta be re-sohoed far awsy, baok, from depth to depth, among the deep recesses of s cous sciousuess, *No tlme to wasto in waklog monoy I ‘Ths thought was a revolation to that man, 84 it has beon to & great mauy other men.” 4t would be Lieed to point to mny utterance of our times that strikey such « numbiang, staggor. ing blow at tle sordid materialism aud wmammon-worship which iu 8o much the charsgs terlitio aud bane of cur age and clvitization, 84 (his grana deolaration of our Amaerican Hclen- tiat, No time to waale In makiog movoy ! Home- lhluq Infinitely botter to livo for than to get ricn 1 That {8 procisely what Prof. Agassls and tho thounands of otliers who were his co-labors ers In sclenco have Leon teaohing us, and con- stantly aod forover toachlng us. Not simply by tho uttorauces of thair lips, but by tho far more eloquent uttorances of thefr whale lives. Tak. iog for thelr toxs the words of Jowus, **Is nok tho life 1ore rhan meat, wud the body than ral- ment,'" 1o proschers of wodern timos have preaclied more powerfully, nor, as! boliavo, moro effeotivaly then they, ' Ia it not time that Wo, ag roligious peovle, gave them due racogai- tlon sud Louor for Iv ? Auother religious losson which I (hink the acisutlsty of nodera timos are well qualified to, tesch us all {5 that of Sincerity. Anothor atitl is sbat of Thoroughuess ; but upon shoss I will not onlarge, Tho leason of Bravery or Moral Cour- 8go, too, I think may well gotothem to leara, I know of no bravor men—biave ou the highayt plsn of \unvuryu—lhfi the loug line of mastyrs (o' sclenco which hlstory tells uv of. Bome religious mariyrs bave doubtless shown s bravery as great, and oodwed a martyrdom s noble.” This is a8 much, howerer, it seewns (o me, a8 truth aliows suy ona to aa b religs lous martyr, of tho best type, may be placed lhffl with the martyrof scionce of the boas type ; buvss to placing bim ono whit aboye, I thing tbe sline yuud for thst,. Both dio for truthy both die or punicience sake. Wio _shall say hu' ono Is nobler thag tba ofber? Vauly onrighed will Clristisnicy bo fa ity inherltancey from the past, when it aball havo added to ita roll of saints all mon who have livad to do goad, and to ite roll of martyraall who have died for truth. Dravery! moral couragol No claes of mon on .tho oarib, oxospl it bo thd sdvanced rank of roligiona thinkers, have liad to figut anything liko no hiard & campaign, o long & campaign, & com- paign agulnat suck odds, as havo eclentista sinco the day acionca hiad ita biclh until now, Well bas & rocont writer callod the campalgnaof a Cicsar, & Napoleon, & Moltke, abaolutei ,vl})ulty when oompared with It Dravery ? old Roger Bacon waa not brava, if Coparnieus, and Qalileo, and Kepler, and Glordano Bruno, and the nnr(v nalronomors, wero not brave; if Aue dreas Vesallus, the founder of the modern wscl- onae of anatomy, was nat bravs; it Uoyer, the . introducer of “jnocuiation as a preventive of amall-pox, and Jeonor, $ho discoverer of vacclne ation, wore not brave; if tho plonoors of geology and sthnology, and eveéry othor scienca, have not baen brave, then 18 thorn no bravery to bo found on tha carth, Now, bravery of the kind which thess men exhibitod,—bravery on tho ‘bigh plane of the moral,—which manifests it- solt in battling for froedum, and right,aad truth, 1a something to Lo commondod aud gulti- vatod a8 an olomout of porfect charactor, No re« ligion is porfect whiol does notb toach it Lt is emiuently Ohristing, it b{ Chriatian wo moan what Jesus bylipand life tanght ; Jfor whon did the world ovor sto s braver soul than the Tonchior of Nazaroth ? The kiud of brave “ery oxhibited by these men whom I have named, and by the men who have fought the batile of solonos gonorally, has beon pracisely of tho kind exhiblted by Jonus,—bravery against con- vontinoulem, and superstition, and error, and for the teath. y thon, shlh wo honor Ilnmn, and not In their dogroa honor them? Or why In Him shall o call His bravery onoof tho aoven colorud rasa which go to make up the whito light of Ilis roligion, and in them allow a similar brayery no connection with roligion at all? No,* it tho “'man_porfect aftor tho miossuro of the Btaturo of Ohrist, is of neceaalty a moraily brave man,—a tmaa alirays aod everywhero brave for tho trnth and right,—thon I havo no hesitancy in pointing to tho long llae of mon whoso good brain-swords lLave won from the empire of might the whols roalm of our modsrn eotence, and saving, * Loara from them how to bere- ligiously brave.” ' A final lesdon which I think wo may all loarn from tho ncientiats, 8 the losson of Falth. Or courao not, if by faith we mean, what ncoms to bo eo otton moant by it—moro belisving without ovidonco or reason, ~mere bliud cradulity, Belonco neoither toachos or tolerates anything of that kind. For that kind of faith we must go to so-catlod mllgflon. But 12 by faith wo mesn 8 beliof which fs based pnmarily upon ovideaco, —a beliof wiich is the consummato flowor of knowlodge,—s bolluf whiol docs no sbustiog of oyos, but whioh 1nstead strotohos its vision to over nigher and largor things,~—a beliof which s only widest-soeing, elanrasl—aaulng‘ farthest seeing, {f that {8 what wa mean by faith (and notblng pooror or loss than that ought we ever to moan by 1t),—thon I claim, without hositation or tosr, that Roliglon, so far from branding Scionce as skoptical snd athefatio, ns wa find her oenatantly dolng, may well hersolf goand iz down nt the oot of Hotonco and leaen faith. Tho history of Letigion has boon » constant foar ; tho history of Bclonco has boen & constant hopo and trust. We cannot go baok to the ttno whon religious men woro not apprshonsive lest any now light of knowledge might in somo way boharnrultoreligion, Every stop of the onward march of Bolence, as Dr, Drapor Las ghown in his volume on **The Confilot Betwoon Boience and Roligion,” and as Presidont White has phown, perhaps better wtill, in arlicles in tho Fobruary and March numbors of the Scienca Monthly, has bocn mado in tha testh of opposl- tion from religloua men, Ilvalesl Geography, Astronomy, Chomistry nsud Physics, Anatomy and Medicino, Goology, Metsorology, Cartog~ raphy, Indusirial and Agricoliural Bolence, DTolitical Xconomy and Booial Bolonce, an scioutifla oducation, bava all bad to fight thelr way agalvat powerfnl and porsistent roligious opposition, What was the secrat of this opposls tlon? Iswaaoot that therois suytbingin Boienco that innecessarily anti-religions, 1t wausimply the faithlossnees of religiona mon, Just tnat, Tue mon who opposed sclonoo and overy incoming of uow knowledge lacked that truo and large faith which the sofontific men have as a rulo sli the while hiad, that high and holy faith whiob aces trath and guodness to be insoparable, and which beljoves that ke who planned all things has for- hiddon any carnost search aftor koowledgo to lesd to lnsting evil. Tno roliglous teachsrs who have boon foraver churglng the teschers of Belence with ekopticlem Lave thomesives beon the akeptica, in that they have not believed, ns. the ucioutists as a class havo bollaved, that thore is “a Power in the universs alrong enough, large enough, good enough, to make thorough search for truth safe in every line of investiga- tion.” Nor are thinga mare than partially changod in this mntter pow. Bvery intelligent man knows it to be true thyt to lold to-day certain nclontitlo doctrines—dostrines, moroovar, which tho ablost scientists of the world have eitbor adopted or also snnmlngl,{ are fast work- ing their way toward adopting, ls to piace ono’n solf under the raligious ban, not oaly of Catholi- clum, but of a Iargo part of Protestantiam. lor example, oall @ man & Darwiulen, cull & mana diseiple of Herbert Spencer, or of Evolution, ond, in this good yesr, 1876, you shut pulpits agaioat him 3 vou shut lecture coursos agatnst bim; yon ahut colloge profossorships against 1 und oven tharo sre cascs where you rhnt places of public and polltical truss agatnst him. knw what doos such blind ~ prejudice agslost npew acieotific doctrlnes mean? Jo masna at bottom skeptioism. That is tho mass rational and tho most charitable oxplauation [ can @ivo of it, It moans at bottom nothing less thaa o fear that vomouaw roligion is golug to suuor from tho rovolationa of waieuco, ~ Oan any oue give any othar explanation? If out religious teaohers nod leadora had sutlloisnt falth i Uod and teath—It they really and with all the earnestnoss of their soula belisved, as ono of our American scientists haa sald, ** $hat thers i a Power in this uuiverse sirang anough to muke truth-seekiog safo, and good saough to make truth-teiling useful,” and this alvays and ovarywhors, would thoy malntain the attitudo to acienca that so many o them do P Bo tnon you sos what I moan when I sar something 80 atrong, and I coufuss at first thought so seemtngly strange, as 1 think that Religlon may woell go and sit at the feet of Scleacs to learn tho losson of truo sud real fattli, s Liston to Tennyson, the gread post of Natura sad Belonos s O yot we trust, thet somahow good WAL Lo thia 83l goul of {1, Ta pang: of nature, sins of will, Dofesta of doubt and taints of blood ; ‘Tbab nothing walks with simlosa feat; ‘That not ona }ifa shall be destroyod, O cast as rubbiah to the yold, Whou God hath mada the pils complete} That not & worm is cloven in valng Uhat not & moth, with vain dealrs, . Inshrivoled fu u fruitiess Airs, 02 Lut subaseves another's gain. Behold ! we kuow not anything; T st but brust that good snayl fall, Atla—paroll—stut ol - And every winter chango to -B ng. 1 ask Lisve wo not here as grand and real falth as can be feand yolosd in literature? And did not the great Laureats drink It quite as much from Nature and Hoienos as from theology, or soythiug woaring the nume of roligion? ‘Lheso then, frionda, aro & fow of the losaons which, I think, sa persons who care for real o« ligion, wo wsy loarn, aud ought to leayn, from thoso, on tha whole, truly noble men, whom God (o Hle sllcomprebending providence bas ratsed up to give tothe world, from Ilim, the priceloun legaoy of modern eclence, Othor lose sous etill might ba mentioned; but thess are, poilisps, a8 fuiportant as nu*. Do not unders ataud we aa for & wmoment desiriug to tescl that acionoe I raliglon, or that scieuce cau ever inke tlio place of religion, By no manner of mesos, Tha pruvinds of raligion is ons ; the provinos of scionco {8 quite anothar, 'The fuuctions of ra- liglon are ono; the functions of science quits another. Lut tho Autnar of these two ls the samo, and thoy are both friends. Thls ls what I toaoh, Riglily uaderdteod, roligion and acieuca ©an 0o more be enenies than my ayea and m: aars can ba enamies, or than my pervepiion ani 1wy reason can be encwies. ‘Thie, frionds, lot us behove and kuow, Tnin lot us roat in with grest peaco and hope, And if wa really do believe this, I am sure I ace not anythiog that will geem to us eadder theu the slgbi of religious people looking out upon science and great loaders af woisucs with hostllity, or olon, or foar. As {f thera were dsuger thab roligion could nob staud light! A if thera were resson for appre- liousion lewt the great epiritual verities upon which religion founds itself, and with which it Lias to do, may prove intangible sad fade away under investigation | Ahl “religion mosna more than that, Did you ever look upon a monutsin at night? Under the dim light of moon aod stara ita outline more or less confused; It was & yague andebadowy thing ; It esomed to you asif at auy momeut v mlfho take wing -mlvny away, Burely under the light of the sun it woald vauish {oto thin air sad notbingness, Lut ers loog the nigut passod away, snd the nfm of moon aud stars gave place to the light of thedreaded suv. Did the mountain disap- oar? Instead, iia ontlines grow sharper, every eature about {t more dustincc. Iust of fadin; away with the light of day, it grew a nwunnfi times more real. Bo blstory tenchesus it bas ever boen with religlon, 1n all ita experlence in connestion with sclence. Ever the mistakon trionds of religion have cluog bo tho mooulight snd tho starlight, and sald * Lot not the san- light come.” “And aa thoy linvo acon thorays of » day of largor knowledgo. whose sun is sclende, atronking the Enst, they hava trembled, But all without tcason, For Hs who mada the enn made tho mountain nlao. And tha brighter tho llght has shiund the moroe plninly has it appearad that the mountain was not g phantom, but a real thing, with its outline avey clearing, and ite fonndations firm as tho earth, e e e ¥ MISCELLANEOUS, BLOOMINUTON, ~ - - Speetal Diepaten to The Ohicado Tridwne, Broossnaroy, Iil, Fab, 87.—~Yresident Greq. ory, of the Champaign Universily, preached forenaon aud ovening in tho Baptiat Chuieh to- .day to large congrogations. 1in addronséa wera oloquent and mach admirad. e BEECHFN. e, = New Yonk, Fob, 27.—Descher's ssrmon to’day was founded on vorses G aud 7of.5t. Potare Fleat Goneral Epistle, in which his sufferivgs arg doscribed as Euclnuu beyond allver and gold, The argument went to reconetle the bellef of the raco in God's good providence with a daily obsorvation of the proporty of the unrlghrcous and the sufforings of tha s ghluaul, and tho con. clusion was :hat palns o thls lite aca =a flames which purify proclons matal from droes and: fi us for tho joys of salvation through faith, . No roleronco \1aa mado to Plymouth Cliurch mattors, e THE COURTS, Mecord of Dutsincas 'Kransacted fal urdny. MORK TAX-FIOITERS, Tho Vulcan Iron Works Compauy flled & bit Baturday, represontiug that ia August lsat they acquired title to a Jarge amount of machinery fixturea at Nos. 80, 88, and 90 North Cansl street, ‘I'bis property was in May last owned by Atkins & Burgoss, who wero taxed on it. Before the collection hooka wora tramuferred. from the Assessor of West Chicago to tho Colleotor, the complainanta boughs the proporty, and they now claim that thoy should not bo cowmpelled to pay the tax, An injunction was jfssuod on glving bond in tho sum of $500. i The Wilmington Coal-Mining and Manufactar ing Company complains that its psrscnal prop. orty, worth $3,727.69, was valued by the Aseossor at 0,000, and o tax of $530.01 levied agalust b, Ta which {t objects, P e DIVORCEA. Mary Dinan filed a bill Baturday for a divorce, charging her huaband, John Divan, with boiog a common drunkacd and & wife-beator, TEME, C - Judgo Drummond overruled the domurror iy the bill of Dumont ve, Tho Tllinols Hiver Rsil. rosd Company, which was argued bofora hin Haturday. Judge Blodgott will not be in oourt this week, having determinod Lo take a short vacation from his arduous labors, ao as to bo betler prepared to copo with tho wliaky casos naxt month, . Judge Willlams was occupied Saturday in bLearlog further argumonts In tho case of Myors ot ol, vé, Tho Crystal Lake Pickling and Presarv. ing Works, Mr, E, B. Bherman continuod the argumont on the part of tho complainants, and Mr, McDald followsd him. The. queation in this aaas 18 & vory intoresting one, namely: whethor the Court will turn over tho proporty in tha cuatody of {ta. Rocaeiver, to the Asslgnoo In the Baunkrupt Couct. The au- thoritios in fayor of tlo rotention by the Oirouit Court of tho propotty, of which it bad abtainod custody befora tho ftling of "tha petition fn baukruptey, wore fully presontod, and olaborats argumonts made ta sastain that view of the law by G, \V, Krotzinger aod E. B. Bherman, and Mr. MeDaid arguod in favor of its travsfor to tha Asalguec. ‘The furthor heariog bas been poatponod unlil ‘Lhursday morning. UNITED BTATES GOUNIS, James D, Mowry, Trustas, aud A, G. Batohel- der, aud G, O, Way, administrator, filed o bl agaiat Francis 1. Hioockley aud tho Chicago & Jowa Hailrosd Compsny, t0 restrain thom from infringing Thowpson & Balcholdes’s patont for au improvemont in railroad car brakes. M., K. Jesup, Paton & Co., of Now York, filed s bill Bsaturday sgainst the Chicago & Alten Ralirosd Company aad tho Collectors of the fole lowiog couuties, {. e.: Cook, Will, Gruudy, Live ingsaton, Logsu, MoLean, Bangamon, Macoupin, Joraoy, Madiaan, Liasallo, Marshall, Woodford, Tazswall, Grosae, Pike, 8t. Clair, Iason, Moas ard, Cass, Morgan, sud Ecott, through which tho road runs, to reatralo tho oolloctlon of the taxcs on the capital stook of tho road, DANKRUPTOT MATIERA. Daoiel J, Wren fllod o'voluutary petltion o bnnumntcyflnurdlg. Hia debts, sll unsecured, smount to $17,820.70, The assets, conasiat of 81,100 i bUIs and vo'es, and $2,334 1n opon ac- couuts. Roferred to Negiator Hibbard, Johu O. Monroe, a Lroker of 'this clty, aleo fliled o voluntaiy peiition, showing 211,045.97 un- securod dobta, aud $0.953.15 of nsusts, tha most of tho nsacts bolog debts on an open sceount. toforence to Rogister Iibbard, John P, Carran filed » potition againat Daniol . Huerwood, olaiwing that thora 18 dus him §2,« 153,65, Curran chargea that Buerwood on ths 10th day of I'sbruary made an assignment of hid ntock of 508,000 foot of fumber at- Bavanos, to Gatlott & Busso, with fntaut to give thema {rounlont proforence. Aruale Lo how causo March 7 was lssued, R, Parker Pierco’ was the fourth to go lnto bankruptoy Baturday, e was & mombar of tho Huy Istand Leves contractors, His debts smount to $65,648,40, aud are all unascursd, No aseetd, 'Tns potition wes roferred to Register Hibbaid. . § Finally, tho Iist wan closed by Jossph Badenoch, of Watorman, Dellally Couuty, who shoved o list of preferred aud weonrod debis ta tha amount of §J,848 10, aud of unseourad liabilities Bggrogating $5,450.08, ‘Uhe nssela comnprisa Jand in Dalialb County worth 84,4061, but mort- gaged fur uearly it fall valuo; anld pereoasl property aud open accounts, &1,600. Neferred o egister Coou, ab AMarengo, * i 8N A dmclmrg« feom bavkruploy was lssued to Qoorgo T, Kesalar, v Thera was & fiist mooling Haturday of the craditors ot hart & Drayton, but 0o Asaigncs was elactad, as tho larger nuwber of creditors voted fu diveot opposition to tho'erodlitots ropra- senting & mafority of the clatns againeg ths e tate. Judge Biodgott will maks 1ho relegtioa, Agalgneos will he ghiosen this mo.nigs for the oatates of Wilitars Hine aod Vithinw™Arcadoa- con, SUPZIION GOURT IN IRIEF. . Rugh A, White sud J, I, Dullaven, trastoes, began & suit for $3,000 "f,‘l"" lusao B. Noso- besry and . Obarles 15, Faloh, J.'0, 1{aiues commancod & suit_sgalout J, 1\ Rlco, Alozander MeDouald, aud E. il Tulboti, ¢launing $6,000, ' e W, lf. Dorby filod n bill sgalnst Fannlo A, Bplnk, Edward A, Bpink, Lilla Hplok, 1, 8, Mcn- 196, ‘Cruatoe, snd J, D. Hawery, sucdsssor jo frust, to forecloso o trust deed for 913,000 on Lots 1 and 2, Dlock 12, of Pryor & Hopkina' Bubdivision of the W, !y of tha N, W, X of Heo " Lawrence & Bons Logsn an sotlan In roplovin sganat Henvy B, Hortun' to recover a quantity of rapo valuod at 34100. ‘UL same ilrm i;‘rlou,gm ":}"' in nfi:whmtlns ledhl‘llf EdlLl‘XdL clow, Georo Binas, Jr., aod Henry Los, to redover $14,19.0% = bty e OCIROUIT COURT, J. I, Ohlofl(lng fled o blll agalost Amalls Berry, G. L. Grifln, Trusteo, sud W. H. 3loore, sucoessor in trust, ta forsclosa trust-daed 50:]!%:6%?0' E:%L)?" Or' H;‘xt‘;d llxslnnll:n{u{'n But;- Lyl " o b 0 - fold's Addition, kil ALL, U o }mu Iz'arxlxllalillt‘:‘%u . Hll‘;.7 § UDGE (IARY—! 144, 187, 189, 100, 10! 100, 101, 105, 107, 156, 200, 301 to'd00, locpiniver Jupak Jaxrsox—33, 81, 85, 41 ta 44, 48, 50 to 83, 85 to 60, 61 o G6, 63, 49, 70. Junax Moone—37, 28, 29, Junax Rooxns—RBat oanen 1,727 and petitlon of Hyde Park, oto, and 404, 408, and 407 ou old calendar, - nlgfll'::unonru-'l. 8,9, 14, 17, 18, 20 to 35, In~ Jupox Fanweri—1,100, sad Durnt-Records cago No, 110, & Jubos WiLtians—Riverside cases, Usizep Brares Divenion Obuat—i bt IR T opas DLoDne axrr—IL V, Bquires el sl vs, Prooesds of Bals of Bark Parana; docres, $100,—Veassl-Owors' Towing 1, 8, Baine, va, thms, $290.07~Nocliisra Trades o Trusadell Tusadl ot oL v, Joseph A, Peals an, L, $0033, 0 Dawas ef al, v Oide Dondas pisse " C1xouir CouNT—JUDas Hoasrs—A, W, Heduer Potor le 3 ufla}g‘:l B—L. A, Willard v, Patrick M, Drady, Hu .47, =8, m"‘m':.t". etal, % portation Com) Bureaton Women Rurdered in Now York. During tho past.tive yeats forty-two women have beau murderod by men tn Now York Quy, Not oue of the murderers hus been hanged, aud only six were sentenced to knprisonmout for lfe; twelve ware givou sentontes of savou yoars and upder i ths Siate Prison, twa were sens to the Penitentiary for ton sad thirteen yoars, res !‘)Muul!. sud’ two recelved sontence, one foi nine and ous for thirtesn months, - Hoven of thy :v.llo—mnnluaxl committed . suicide; (he weal ped puslsbmont,