Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 13, 1876, Page 7

RELIGIOUS. }rmon.by the Rov. L. T. Chamberlain of the New England Church. Bellef In Jesus tho Esscntinl of Sulvnllon. * us Bev, Mr, Trowbridge on the Necessity of Rightoousness, ‘¥, W. Patton’s Connoction with qhn Boocher Oase, BELIEVE IN THE LORD. SZAMOXN DY THE REV, T T. CHAMDRRLATN. fuo Rtov. Tn T. Chambotlain, pastor of the ow Logland Congrogational Chureh, preached ** - following acraion yosterday mornwng, taking or his toxt 1 Betieve on the Lotd Jesua Chriat, and thou shalt be avod—Acts, 701, 3 * Buch was the answer of Paul and Bilas to the foquiring jallor of Philippl. For(ho doliver- suce of the imperiled disciples, the door of the prison bad beon oponed nt midoight Ly the csrthquake of God's power. lor thie regctio of the jailer's ondangored eoul, tho door of " hia Lieart wos opeued that eamo nighs by tho yob pughtior Infiuence of tho Spitit's peranasion, In “* o tumult of bile oarller surprise, tho jniler bad thought ouly of safoty aa touching his rolations to the government of man, In ihe movement of his Iater reflection, ho remombered chiofly his accountability to God, The praying Disciples badglven him bhis firat neeurnnce, by saying, »\Vo are all hore" Totuom, accordingly, he jurned for that sccond sssurauce which ho folt of yot proaler moment. Haatoning, ho pvon throw himsel? at the feot of tho Lord's mesacngers, and begged them, on the instant, o make kuown to him tho way of roscue, It wae (Lo oagorndss of a moul pleadlng a8’ lor its MPe; yot & soul uninstructed in spiritual truth, 1lenoe the auswor must woeds have boen especially simple nod direct. On Ibywas_to dopend, no doubt, tho fn- quiror’s eternal well-boiug. +" But, 1o, the answer is a8 bricf s tho gueation. = 1oflove on tho Lord Jeaus Christ.” Bix plain worda, eight sliort syllablos, and tho nay of sal- wation kias boon declarod, not only.for tho jailer of Dhilippi a that midnight hour, but for all nen nnl}’ througlout all time. Itia on rocord “* -t tho faller aud his housohold ot onco acgppt- «ed tho declaration, and that thero in tho pricon “hey wero baptized in token of thoir falth, AVould that thouo who this day huar tho words might receive them with the same ready accopt- col nnl bave beon led to question, howover, whother, b tho cage of somo, thero hins not boen a veriia- blo binderanca consiating in_tho lack of a clear nndorstanding of this same daclared condition. Undoubtedly to evory mind in this audienco, whon asked tho way of lifo, thero would Lave occurrod tho words of the text or thelr practical .uivalont. Yet, aaked, atill further, what it s -3 #beliovo on Cbrist,* I ‘presuma many would * troubled to givo n satisfactory reply. And *1is presumption i bnsed, not only on tho tatements which have boon made to me, in con« -otlon with the prosont course of Biblo studiea, but also upan what Leoe to bo thodifforing viows malotatned by lnstructors in Christlan doctrine, “ gyon by schoolo of Biblical theology, Tho- pight s prosentod of o * Lo, hete,” and o ¥ L {horo,” with roferonce to oven the first losson o our holy roligion, Bo that, though the inqulrer slionld ask with true earncatness of spitit, ho might got but ombarrassing mid, It s thus evident not only that we do well in instituting sn tnquiry 58 to tho meaning of the toxt, Lut also that our appenl must bo to thio vory Word of God. + Yot ovon in turniug to the DBiblo itsolf it is moro than possible that there will bo a temporary perploxity, For whoso etudlos the gospels and ppistles will ind that thoir statement of salya- tion'a condition 18 ono which ia widely varied, and ono which soems Bcarcoly to admit of easyrecons cillation. Xor example, while belicf, or its syno- nym, faith, {8 60 employed that at first blush o simple intellectusl act scems Lo bo the principal elomont, ttiore are manifold othor possages in which vory differont ¢lements are givon on ap- patont prominence. ‘Thus it is writien, “In those days came John the Baptist, sayiog, ‘Re~ pont yo, for the kivgdom of heavon isat hand.'” * From that time Jesus Degan to proach sad to say, *Ropent, for tue kingdom of heaven s at hand,'” ** And Jesus answering sald repent yo shnll all likowiso porishy’ ;™ ter ausworod unto tho peoplo, ‘ Ropent yo, there- foro, and bo gonvorted that your sins msy Lo blatted ont.'™ Cortainly tho Gaspoel doclures ro- pentauco to bo an indispensatle coudition of ace ceptance, Again; in Thessalonians, Paul speaks of those who obey 1ot the Gospol as being theroby ox- osed to destruction. Peter writes, **And if udgmont flist bogin at us, what shall the end be of thoso who oboy mnot the Gospel of God ?" Hays tho author of Hobrows, * Boing mado por- foct, 1o bocamo the Author of clornal salvation unto all thom that oboy Him.” Horein obedicnco ks mado a contral requirement. Onoo mora ; wo read, **Ly this shall all men kuow that yo aro my disciplea : if ye 0 love one to amothor,” * Thorefore love is the ful- filling of tho law.” *“Lvery ons that lovoth is Yorn of God, and knoweth God.” *‘‘I'hou shalt lovo tho Lord thy God with all thy Leart, This 18 the firat and greatost commandidont.” Plainiy love toward both God aud nian is a condition of our accoptance. And yet once sagain, the declaration is, “Fol. low ponco with oll men, and, holinoss, without which no man shall soe tho Lord.,” * Sanctity yourselves, therefore, and bo yo holy." * Aud that yo put ou tho new man which after God is created iu rightoousncss and true bolinews.” oo hiolinces 18 et forth as ossontinl, 1t stands revealed, thien, that ropentance snd obediesve and lovo and holiness are all made conditlons of -salvation s aud yet, at the same timo, that salvation ia offered to us in spocific torms, aa those for oxamplo of tho text, on tha eiuglo couditlon of beliof or faith, Iu it not consoquontly cloar that fnith must bo undor- stood in some euch comprehensivo sonss as shall includo all the othor dectared conditions ? Can our perplexity bo romoved in any other way ? Can wo othorwlee dofeud tho sincerity of tho ‘Word lself ? Y¥or, lot 1t bo borne in mind, it will not be snficicnt ovou to give to balief such a moaning as shall make it load to, and thus fn- dircotly include, the various sssorted elomonts, Balvhtfon i4 promlecd in the Scriptures on condis tion of belief, or faith, ilsclf, oud not on condl- tiow of symething to whichs faith leads, **lo that beliovoth shall bo saved.”” On that tho in- quiring soul has a right to'rely, In (ho Lour of noed that saying comos {0 romombrauce, and’ tho sinnor ~ holds it fast. o fs suro that, i€ languago meave saything, thore ls a belioving whicli, within its own compass, is tha coudition of elornal life. At least, ho sces not whero Lis confidence iy over to rest, if Uiore bo not that rock on which ho may plant Lig ju- poriled foot, But still, lot our appoal bo * to tho law aud the tostimony.” Did you naver obsorvothat in tho Now Testamont $here'{a an almost perpotual reourrcuce of the* plraso “ beliove on," or, which 18 the samo, “beliove in™? It is wntton, ** God gavo Il only bogotten Bon, that whudoover beliovotl on Llim should potportsh.” * o that bolioveth on Ilin i not condemned.” * Ho that bellovath on S$ho Bou hath_eternal life.'* * Bolleve on the Lard Jesua Christ and thiou shalt be saved.” I have found, upon examination, that the phraso “bolleve on tho Lord,” or **in Iijs name,” oc- tursinthe Now Testament upwards of fifty timee, Ju truth, I think it may safely bo aflirm- ©d that bolief, or faith, as the condition of salvation, Is nlwaya coupled, olthor expreesly or ioforoutially, with the word *on " or * " Thet cortainly {u s slguifioant fack. Nor i the phrase itself vy less aignificant than is Its recurrence, For 1t is a conclusion based on tha yery phrascology, and sssonted to by ‘Wil tho inost eminont Greok scholars, bt to bellove on Jesus, s somo- thing more thau merely belleving lhum. T exprowsion lu one which, in Grack, 1a slmost sxclusively confined to the New Tostameut. Ié ! Dot found in the classica at alf, until & very ate period, and then only infrequently ; while in the New Tostament, as wo have soen, It oo- {:\u-- agaln and again. Taken, thereforo, inthe tglb of strictly schoinstio conslderations, it is fecogaleed an & pocullar exprossion. Examinin e plraso i ity purely Mogaistia forcs, schiol 18 unite in waying that * 10 believeon™ s pore 300 {mplies not only thooretical confidence, but aléo actual rolisnco.” It mosbs to cowmit to the ‘fl;flfll::.:?u. n‘mngl xn&nghb(n ‘That la ng assipne: rass, on ¢l &rounds of langusga alono. e ha ote, moreover,—for this lends most smphatic gmnmuu view above,—note that, 1 tho C“ tures, tho expression is applied ocoly to 4t or the Father. Lveniu the one or Lwo teswing excentions, you will find from the oon- loxt (Liné wuch is tho uso pas whero it i sai, While yo havo tha light, believe iu the lght, the manifeat roferenco beiug tothe. Bavior hime Aelt, Ou the other hand, of peither Johu tho Bag- Uet, gox of the prophets, nor of Auy person save THEYCHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1876, Ohrist snd the Father, doos tha Now Tostament employ the oxpression ovon once. s » + And now, an witnosses to the further unfold- {ug of the Ctosps!l moaning of beliel—or falth— lat us summon tho transiators thomeolves: In Matthow, xxvil., 42, wo read In our version, ** It Ho bo the King of Istaol, lot Ilim now comes down from the cross, and wo will hotlovo Iitn." And In the succeoding voras, * Ha truatod in Gody lot Him denver Him if Ife will have Him." Bat in tha original, tho word tranalated " bellave™ in tho formar vorsa is tho same word whicl 11 tho lattor vorsets translated * trustod.” And, cloarly, tho traneintors were justifled n lotting the mesning thus pass over from bLaliof to trust. Verily, Chriat as the suffering man, did trust thoe Fother. With it thero waa moro than orodonco of what God bad spoken. Whon Ile beeama obetdisns unto death, thora was tho actuol easting of 1limself on God, Thore was tho venturing on tha divine falthfulneggs, Well might they say, * o trustod in God.”" Lut many anothor passage iathera in which tho word of tho original must, of nocessity, be trauntstod by somo aquivalsat otlier than simply **halleye." "Thus in Jobm, il,, 24, it I8 recordod, ¢ But Jesns did not commit Himsolf to thom, beeause Ho know alt men,” Yat thoro, in tho Qreek, tho samo word ln found which so fro- quantly s rendored Ly bollove. Bo that if wo wore to fueist upon alwaya glving tho same Urook word & uniform mndunnfi. wo must bero transiates ' ut Josus did not beliove Ilimseit {0 thom " which would bo nelthor good sonsa nor good Bhghsh. In L Coriuthians, ix., 17, we Dbavo, * Unto lh&!m wore o{:}m;n&dmmvfl :;‘.“’L%“ of God,"” Could wo say, Un om Wi * bo- lioved " tho racles of y(]od? Yot the Greck word {s the samo which 18 clsewhora rendored by bollevo, Likowise, In Galatians, and in I, Timothy, and in Titus, tho translation ia given as ** committed " or “intriated,” Thavo boon thus carcful to cito those ssveral passagos, bocsuso I am desirous that ovary ono should bo Intelligontly convinced that the word usually trauslated in tho New Tostamont by “hollef™ or * faith,” lsnot ono which boars ‘merely the singlo_and provallingly intellectual meanfog of the English word bollof, As we ‘havo goon, it {s & word which, in mauy passages, 18 most paturally rendered by “ trust, ¥—ns, *‘Ho trusted God ; " and which, in somo passages, muat nocessnsily bo rendored by ‘¢ commit ™ or {ntruat,” ns, * Josuy did not commit Ilimself to thom," "~ Unto_them wore committed tho oracles of God." Inthis way wo got—do wo not ?—the corvoboration of the significance which, on purely linguistio grounds, was na- fmmii to Hu oxprossion * beliove on " or **bo- leve in." Thore romains, however, still another Serip- tural source, from which wo may learn what it 18 to **boliovo on," or to havo * faith in" the Tord Jeaus Christ, That sourco is tho Old Teatnment. Surely it will bo concaded by all thet tho relation, of the soul to "God under the now = dispensation must bo of the pama essontinl naturo a8 tho rolation of tho soul to God undor tho old disponsation. Noto, then, that the word which expresses tho rolation of the regencrato soul to God in tho 0Id Testament ia **trust.” I have found by ox- amination that the word trnst as tho ayuonym of oty accoptablonoss with God, occurs in tho 01d Toutamout gomo 225 timss, For examples, i+ And David apako unto the Lord tho worls of this song: Tho Lord is my rock, In Him will I trust.” *0, my God, I trust in Thee" *In Thee, O Lord, do I put ny trust.” *Commit thy way unto tho Lord. Trust thou in Iln.” BayaJobt "Tlmnm o alay mo, yot willI truet in Him.” Writes laalah : *¢Bohold, God 8 my salvation. I will trust, and uot bo afraid.” And Nabum cries: “Tho Lord is good, and Ia Lnowoth thom that truetin Him." - But, while tho word * trust” is found—and rightly found— {u the Old Tostamont in hundrods of instances, tho word **boliova™ fs found only about forty times, and tho word * faith * but twico. In'tho Now Testamont, on the other hand, tho word “trust” ia found only twenty-flve times, whilo tho words * believe,” * beltof," and * falth " aro ugsod wuearly 700 timeal Do you mot share my foar that in chooging “trust® of the Old Testnment into soomingly moro iutelloctual ** belief™ of tho New, tho translators bave somowbat obecured the cescntinl moaning of faith? I own that I have ofton wishod that the moro anchont ex- prossion, with ite childlike depondenco and its childlike committal, Lad boen rotained. I havo falt tuat ita judiciony retoution would havo dona something toward countoracting ono of the dsn- gors to which the conceptlon of faith is nowa- days expoacd. Cortainly, and on tho ground of what has Fm- ceded, wo aro amply justified in thinking that bolief fu Chrlst is far moro than even tho most oxpilcit intolloctusl conscnt to tho truth which Ohrist tostifics, ‘beliof, an intelloctuat olomont, = Thoro must bo tho rational approbonsion of the bolng or declaration to which belief stands rolated. Tuero must bo tho reasounblo avidouco on which tho confidence may rest. And tho highor tho intor- oats concorned, tho higher, wo wny aflirm, and tho moro.woighty must bo the evidentfsl witness. Porlisps you have hoard it eaid, my hoarors, by tho skeptic, that Christian foith {s irrational. And pousibly you have heard {ho believing dis- cipla givo scoming sssent to tho charge. But I pray you allow to such s conclusion no placo,— *np, not for au hour,” Al that faith asks, or lias tho right to ault, is that tho naturo of ovi- dence be undorstood. Bhd euggests, ndeed, that thoro may be valid testimony which is not of tho fivo scuees, Bho avers that mystory is not nacssarily concrndiction. Bhe mnintatnas that there may bo good reason for petting tho faco {u the linoof tho asconding patly, alboit dict its stops. But on oyidenco shio rests, nover- tholess, 'Po tho testlmony sho makes bor appeal. She nolds fast, because sho judges that thio rock of bor confidonco is forovor un- fxmkfi'i'" ai$ho soys, ** Tknow fu whom I Liavo bo- ova At tho eamo timo, and In addition, this faith, thia belief, of which the Gospol spenks, includos an sctive oclomont, As has boon alread digcloged, It yot only lag cnuvlcuunsln but {t <hgoses aa woll. Bo that to have faith in Christ is to ** boliovo on » Ilim, ia to trust Him, It is to commit ono's sol? to Ilim for Yorgiveuess and ncceptance. It in to profor EHis eervice. It is, withthe Divinaaematance, to cousocrato ono’nsoll to tho dolug of that to which Chrlst culls, Just thore, in that voluntary holy elanent, is tho diss tinction betweon mera futollectual boliof and tho beliof ‘Which 1s unto life, The bollef in which thero isonly thomind'aassont aud the bollet in which thore is slso trust mny rolate, indood, to tho eawe objocts, yob with this decisivo differ- enco, that tho elomont of trust is present only whiero there i4 something to bo dons lu additlon to something to be believed, And here lot a fow tllustrations make my mean- ing yot moro cicar. "Ihus, for examplo, you may beliove that jthe planots move in elliptical orbita; but you do wnot trust that proposition until you make it the ground of somu accordant choico or action. If you bolioved tint tho Yhmm' orbita are oliiptical, and should adops Liat concluslon a8 tho basls of certain astronom- ical catculations, you would then trust the prop- ositlon. You would not only boliove it, but “believoin " it. Or sgain, supposs you ars de- airous of crossing & river, and that a'bridge was thoro, 2 oyo among tho eoveral moden of cone voyauca. You might boliove that the bridge was perfectly worthy of trust, bdu you would not bo really trusting {6 until yon vontured upon ity support. ‘Whon you should actually walk upon tho bridgo, you would be committing yoursolf to it aftor the analogy of saving faith, Or, yet sgain, In your dlstress you may boliova that o oortnin porson is both able and willing to help you, but you do no trust his boenavolonde untll you nct ‘nccordingly., To wao Kcriptural lau- guage, you do uot **bolluyo on* him until yoa apply for his assistanco, Or, to take the Boript- ure's own illtstration, thwk for s moment of the Prodigal Bou. Iu that far country ho may all tho whilo lave belloved that Lis fathor's houne held amplo etores, and that Lia father himselt would recolve and forgive him. Lo may hove biad oloarest consciousucas of his inae lieuablo sonehip, Yet he did not truat the hiounty of thas ouco rojected homoj Lie did not “holiove on ™ that waitlng, yoarnlog father, un. i) ho arose and, golug homeward, cast himsalf in loving contrition o his fathoer's nock, To bollove, thon, in the Lord Josus Chrisy, In thus to trust Hin. It is to intrust oueself to ilim, Accopting what 1s canontially laught concerniug 1im, it 18 the additional and actual recetying of Hiwm i His personal, saviug powor, It s bum- LIy asking llh.n for forgivencss and favor, It lg taking M st His word. it 1a golug to Him ag the wayward, ondsngered child hastcns to ils paront or its fHieud. And now [ linger for a singlo further momens, to glosu & final witnosa ftow tho fact that such » viow of saywg Christian faith is in porfect harmony with the spparently wmanifold condi- tiona on which thio Beripturea inst Wo found, you remetber, that penitence was a specifio ra- quiremont. liut such trusting faith includos penitence, and withous it could not oxist. Lor who {4 tho Cbrist to Whom tho soul commits fwolt? 1o ls “the Lmwb of God that taketh away tha sing of the world,” e la the world’s ropisiation, His vers 0 ls Jesus becauso ?Ic avos from nin, e osunot posaibly boliold Him without beholding 1im as giving oven Hls 1ifo that wo might be rescued from thie imquity which Lad hurt and ocuslaved ui. It follows, thorofore, that, in the very soctof ** belleving on ™ such & ouv, the sinner redenta of his trand. greasiony. We saw that obedivnco was a coudition, Dut the olewout of obedisuco, sleo, Is nb the very centre of the [alth of which wo ! bave lesrned, aluce Olirlsh is oue o, both by [usHland corsiipHlog, uo ¥ turing juialt oy 5 ; Unquostionnbly there ts, inall. sight caunot acan it, nor the understanding pre- | Tlin commandment and Ilis rolation aa our Re- deomer, roquires our sorvics. Wa cannok reo- ognize Ohrist without recognizig that 1Te claims our snpremo allogiauce. Therefors, uo ona can trist 1lim, can belieya ln Itln, without mr';mnlug to ohoy Him as Mastar ana as King, - We found, moroover, that love was ono of wsalvation's conditions, Dut the saving faith of which we have to-day taken conusol, haa love ad tho vory broath of fta ifo! For tho Hedcomer in ono whono nature and worl inavitably spooal to un for our affection, OQur firat apprelionsion of ilim is of Him as 1lo standsio Ilia glory snd sues for our soul's best love. Accordingly, 10 ono can _have faith In Christ, can yiold him- solf to Cbrlat, without loving Ilim supremoly. And, floally, wo percoived that holiness wes s roquisite of ecasontial imporiance. But the Christlan bollef of which the Scripturea have now taught us, incindes holiness, oven aa it in- cludes tho rest. Xor, whatovor olse Christ is, 1o ia ioly. Ho Is rightousncas itself, 1o auf- forod, and oo the cross, that Ho might subduo the kingdom of evil, Hence, in the very act of bolfaviug in euch a Savior, the soul taken eldos with holinoss. Thereln, a8 well as thencoforth, porsonal rightoousness bocomes tho disciplo’s contral aim. Ho plainathing, then, yet so comproliensivo, is it to belleve on Christ, Ho rational and so blossod 1s it to hiave faith in thagmnt Redecmer, Baving ballof Is ponitent, childliko trust, Lasod on tho knowledgo of Christ's person and work, it includes tho committalof thonoul to Him. It is knowing Christ and casting one's solf on His freo graco, It i choosing 1lis sorvico! My friend, {8 it not 8 glorloun saying, * Bollove on tho Lord Joaus Clrixt and thon shalt bo saved "? Can you ask for a salvation cither moro simplo or moro frae ? I asaure you miliions have proved Its preciouspess, Multtudes on carthh aro its witoessos. Multitudes in heavon are ita trophios. Yes, lot whoeosver will, believe, evon now, on Chirist, aud bo too stall bo saved! — RICHTEOUSNESS. SEMMON DY THE DRV, J. I TROWDRIDOZ. Tha followlng sormon was preachied last San- day at the Riversido Chapel by the Rov.J. 1, ‘Trowbridgo: My thomo this morning s ** Rightcousnoss.” Almost any one of a hundred toxts might acevo na an {ntroduction, I kave, however, choson theso two: And 1t sball bo our righteousness if we obmerye to do all theso commandinents befors the Lord oir God, as o hath commandod us,—Dsut., i, 21, Iu the way of rightequaness is 1ifo, and In tho pathe way thercof {w no death.—lRler., vi,, 24, In tho first of theso passagos wo ate told what righteousness {8 ; in tho socond, to what it londs. ‘The primaty {dod of righteousness is simply. that of conformity to rale. Givena rulo or stand- ard of conduct In any departmont of Luman ac- tion, and conformity to it will Lo rightnoss, or rightoousnees. No moral quality ia necoasarily involved. Incommon sund especlally fn Beriptural nse, howover, the word s significant of moral rocti- tude. Bat moral rectituda is of n greator or less worth according a8 the standard by which it ia measured {8 ligh or low. Tho standard of righteousnoss in socloty—so-called—I8 for tho most purt the posscssion of money or celobrity, or a cortain voncoring of manuers. To ono pos- seasod of theso, **soclety " throws wido open all its gates, howsver wantiog ita ob]ocf.‘mny be in moral worth or truo gentility. Tho standard of Figlitcousnces upou "Chisnge is fixed 8o a8 to ao- commodate the convenience of thoso whose ap« orations aro often simply gambling; sud the righteousncsa of tho legitimate trado—the no- coptod mathods of doing busincss—is froquently far cnough from that of the Golden Rule. 'The rightequrness of politics {8 an noknown quan- tity, soldom of very eiovated quality, and is for tho most part at tho farthost possible romove from purity or honoesty. Bus tho rightcoasnoss of the Seriptures and of otr digcourse 18 not that of soclely, trade, or Sfoses to tho Iarncliten, * shall be our rightoous- nees 1f wo observe to do all those commandments bofors the Lord our God a3 Yo hiath commanded us.” Tho context shows us what wors the “ corn- mandments* roforred to. Thoy consisted of the Docalogue, with ‘‘the testimonios, the xg;&n}fu, sod tho judgments of the Lord thy Lvory roador of the Bibla is aware of the frs- quency with which this word righteousness ro- curs throughont it. In the first verso of tho second chaptor of Gonosis wo héar God aaylug unto Noan, ** Theo have I soen righteons bofore Me.” And, from thie onward, it is tho most dis- tnctive and charactoristio word of the Beript- ures, ond of more froquont rocurrenco than nlmost any other term. It flames along tho entire Book of Pealms, from first to last, The Book of Proverbs is pervndod with it throughout, It blazos forth in the Prophots, 4o key-nots to s}l the promises aud all the threatenings. The word and the idea_ togother cross tho ctinsm batwoen tho Old and New Tea- tamonta, sod roappear on the hither aide with no dimiiution or changs of siguificance. John tho Buptist appears and preaches of rightoous- 1088, Jeaus says to him, ¢ s {t becomoth Mo to fullill all righteousnes: Among tho bo- atitudos of Illa first and grontest recordod sor- mon we find blossednors pronounced u}nu him that oven so much a3 hungers and thirsts after it, P'auol and tho other Apostlos catch up the word, and it rings out upon the sir from their every epistlo; aud the Rovelation no loss em- phasigos it. Avd what should be romarked hero, is, that always and everywhere, from Genesis to Rovela- tion, not only the word but the idea ia the samo, Tho righteousucsa is one, as the standard ia ono. '.l‘lmraiiu much said by n cortain clnses of writers of tho comparative ignorance and barbarism of tho Mosaie perlod, and of the very gradusl ad- vanco of the Jowlsh pooplo fu intolliganco nd roligion. But the rightoousness of Moses fs the rightoousness of David, of Isaial, of Christ, and of Paul, There is abkolutoly uo change, no ad- vance. Tho righteousnoss of the Old 'Testa- ment Faiuts and that of lho Now aro idonti- cal. Lyon that which s of faith 14 not of - anothor stamp or quality from that which oousisted o keoping ll tho diving com- mandments a8 ‘obunciated by our Lord. Tho word religion, 8o ofton on our lipg, occurs bub about five times in the Bible, but this strong, grand old word flashes and coruscatea all along h.n pagos, lighting up the 10,000 yoar of {ts bia tory with au unthckoring illumination, It 18 the ono steadfast, unvarying thought ruuning througk al the dispensations and binding law, prophiscy, svangol, and epistle by ane grand unt- hm.; idow aud purpose, Buch, thon, is the xlfhlounmoas of tho Bible, —unvarying conformity to tho divino rulo of roctitudo in every roiation and in all our con- duct. In a word, It Ia nolther moro uor Jous than bollnoss, rogardod a4 conformity to law. And this ts nlso that righteousness of which wo aro told fu our taxt that * fu the way thereof is lifo, and in tho pathway thoreof no death.” Lot ua take this groat word lifo out of all par- row or narrowing coucoptions, 1tis not ** spirit- unl " 1ifo that is hiors indicated, any morathanitis physleal lite. It {s no im"m’ incomplote, or fragmeontary exlstenco. 1tis just sa truo that social lifo,ipolitical lifo, commoroial lite, national lifo, ia found in tho way of rightoousuoss—tho rightoousnosa of tho Biblo—na thot spiritual and ctornal life aro found there, nud nowloro olse. Withous it society, commerco, nationality, his- tory itself, aro impossible. You can no more have tho Htato ana s comununity of mon without {t than you can havo ‘n umiverse without gravitatfon. Imperfect it mn bo, bnt, unless thero is enongh o{ tlis divine righteousness to act as a coment, the wholo wust 1all into fragments, Booety may scorn or iguore it, trade may declara it imbossible to do business by tho Goldon Hule ; snd politiclans pronounce’the law of love im- practicabloin Btata sffairs ; but_it {s only just 0 far as {t obtaius in thoso relations, after'all, shat tho machine holds togathor and goos on ita vnY. Life—suprems, sbeolute, complets ; Iifo— full, rounded, fllofluus, and evoriasting—are In tho way of righteousnoss, And now let ua luquire, for a lttla, how the cano stands with ue, a4 a poople. In bow far have we attalned unto this absolute rectitude in the way of which is lifo. Asallthé world kuows, this iy ourcontennisl year, e are about in. «viting the universo (o coms to Philadelphia and viow tha evidonces thors to ba gathered so. gothor of our amazing sdvancoment in these dlrst nundred years of our natlonal oxistence, In sll the elemouts of streagth and groatueas, We shall havo fepartments of almost overy- thing under the s A Empow & dopartmont of righteonsnesa, Let the building be grand and spacious, as becomea &0 fwportant a foate ura of the exhibition, Over it lot us blazon the iegend, ** Iightecusness exalteth a nation, but sin is & roproach to -n{' Y‘uople"—mmt of B d all to n peoplo so enlightoned, prospee. bappy, 80 eiguaily of heaven, 88 ourselvos, Aud upon ita wally L could placo first and mout gonspicuons, spocimaena of our so-oalled ** logal dar "—tle dishonored and dishonoring prou ifes of thig Eren vation to pay—practically— nothing to nobody, nowhere, and at no timg, and withous interest i s forced loan, a8 o war weas. ure, nosdful in ita day, but, ss continned since, without the slightest attewpt ta redven or give real valuo to those pledges, m disgraceful and demoralizing fact, and one, in m opmlon.v ich In largoly responsibio for the flood of dishona an politics, a8 thewo are known to us. Thls, eaid- bi{o viesr, Then, I would exmbit specimon ruits of our civil sorvion, in the appointment to responsible posta under govornmant of wmen having no othor olalm to offics than part sorviceablenoas ; appointments running through evory grade of the public rarvice, and culminat- ing In tho sonding to the first of Esnropean Courts of ono nmong whoso chiel disttnctions 1y the authorshib of n work on *draw-poker,"” and who, whon finally taking his leave of Dng- land,finds it conveniont to cacaps arrest as s criminal by wearing the mantlo of hin oficial ebaractor until ho s hayond tha ronch of the police. Thon let us exmgll high, social lifo st the National Capitai, togother with official purity, fn tho tranecript of the dovolopmonts of this Iast weak at Waahing- ton. TLet ua furthor produca the rocords of tho rocent trials for the defrauding of the reve- nuo, the dally records of our polico courts, tho chronicles 01’ our divorce courts, the beautics of municipal gavernment, 88 iliuatrated by that of Chicago and otheroities. Lot uaspread out bofore our sijmiring visitors the pagos of our dally press,—so cheate, so dignified, so elevated in moral tone. Lot ua display tho scandals—Iay nand clorical—which have for montus past formod go largo apoart of the daily and woskly mental snd moral papulum supplicd most shundantly to all roadors, Lot un comparo thess things with the condition of tha country in theso respecta a Lundred yoara ago, and lot us loavo it to our yisitors to judge of tho petoniahe ing strides the nation bas’ made [n this capital matter of righteousners. Tho theme is not & pleasant onn. The picturo needs no overdrawing to give it offect. Tho disclosures which almost every day is making mast mantlo tho check of every friend of his country with ehiame, Tho remark is frequontly made that we no longor know whomn to - truat, Unfortunately, fow of us can trust ourselyos, The corruption is in the atmesphors we breathe, and who can eseapo it? The terrible develop- ments st Washington aro only worso than thou- sands of othors becauso madomora conspicuous by tho positions of the actors, And now, who Is responsiblo for thisstate of things ? ** Think yo that thess men woro slu- ners alone that dwelt at Jorusalem bacauae auch thinga happenod unto them ? 1 tell you nay, but oxcept yo repent, yo shali all likowiao por- g eso dishonored onos are largely the victims of a etato of things for which thoyare no more responsiblo than thousanda of otheps We, you and I, my hearors, are particips erim- inis In ttia matter. Thore are, Iapprohend, fow nmons us that have not lived beyond our moana, Our houses, our furniturs, our drees, our stylo of living, have beon dictated by thosa of othors rathor than by our ability. "Pablic sentiment hos also swinked at certain” forms of dishonesty ra venial. Tho low standards of riphtoousncss accopted in eociety and on 'Change, and in all political circles, havo been tacitly accopted by us all, To defraud the Government lins cotailed no such dishonor as to dofraud an individual. We Lave aliowed our- solves to be forced by party preferonce Into the support of mon whom we would not fora mo- ment have trasted fu privaterolations, Wo have worshiped at tho altars of Mammon and Fashion. Bimople, CGod-foaring totegrity has been tho rare excaption and not tho rale, 1a thoro any way out of this fearful stato of things? Tuere is one, and but one: *In the way af righteousness thero ia life.” That way wo bavo widoly departed from ; to that way wo must roturn. It may not bo pleasant to como don to the Lasia of reality in our mode’ of live ing, but 1t {a botter to como down than to bo toppled dawn, Tho Governmont must clennro {tsolf of its deop dishonor in the matter of its moneyed obligatious, and no longor presont to the pation an examplo of unblusb. ing sand unnecessary repudiation, while pursning mipor criminals with tho cry “Tot wo guilty man cscapo,” Dr what right does tho nation do that which it would imprison the cltizen for dolng? And by what right does it imprizon the citizen for doiug that of which it 8 ‘nn;tmu him the examplo on an immenss ecalo o must demand, in thunder tones,—tonos | which no Administration would daroe to disre- gard,—that no more such appolutmonts to ofico, high or low, shall bo mado a8 the pressnt Ad- mivigtration nas made us famihar with, Moral purity, culture, charactor, must count for somotlung Lere. 1lonest men mnst combino'to drive from place and pow- or In our municipal afairs the worthless charac- tora that now disgrace and rob us. o must re- learn the forgotton injunction, **Owe no man anything, but love ono another.” Bo long as wo run hoadlong into dobt we sliall bo extrava- guot, and extravaganco noceesitntos debt. It au mifm into which It ia always tho tondancy to sink doepor and deeper. Thero is no such safe- guard againat our expondituro and recklessnoss as in paying as wo go. Finally, my follow-worshipers, lot us tench our chifdren, alike by procopt and cxample, that cliaractor 18 the supremo good in lifo, that no business is honorablo that i3 mnot strictiy honest ; that woalth gotten by any divia- tion from the only absolute rectitudo is w curao nod o disgrace; that no success in scquiring property can compensata any one for tho slight- cat divergonce from tho paths of probity ; that he who lives beyond his means lives neccegarily upon others, aud Is no better than o thief. Lot us teach thom that iu the pnth\\‘fl{ is no doeath, ~—temporal, spiritual, or etornal ; that tho right. cous may not dio; that no power in the unl. vorse—not death itself—can kill kim. Letus impress upon them that thore is onn, aud but ono, thing to fear or bo nshamed of, aud that unrightcousuess, and that ho thatis un- Just in that whicn is loast is unjust nlso in much, Let us inculeato the truth that thore aro three, and but threo, ways for them in which to gain alivoliood,—to bog, to steal, and to work,— wod that idlonces i8 o emme and n disgraco. ‘Theso things let us toach thom, talking of them wwhon wo sit in onr houses, when wo walk by the way, whon wo lio down, and when we riso up, Lot us write them upon the postsof our hiouscs, and upon our gatos. I bavenot spoken thus, my follow-worship- ers, bucause I gupposo *thera i moro need uf eaying thoso thingd®horo than olsewhere, but becausa tho timo has fully coms swhen thoy shoukd be sald overywhero. ” The pulpit has no need to apologizo for plain speaking on thoso themos, but only for not baving spokion plainly long ogo. **If “thou taka forth the precious from among the vile,” eafd God to tlia prophiet, “*Thou shale ba as My mouth, ond T will mako thoo nnto this psoplo sen fenced brazeu wall.” Idonot profess to be skilied in the mystorica of flaauce, but I know what dis- honesty 18, and I kuow that unrightcousuess iu not only indefousivte, but that ju tho way of it in death to notional rmsncnty and national character, On political quostions, which fn- volye no moral conaldorations, the pul. pit muy well bo silent. Mut whore such consldérations aro involved, eilouce s trea- son to God aud man, The pulplt has no fune- tion, no excuse for oxistonce, If rightuousuoss bf-overy sphora and overy relation 1 not ita care, Wo aro prayiug, my brothren, for a rovival of roligion, It{s woll.” Butlot uslook to it @nt religion moans moral uprightness, Lot us pray fora ‘*‘rain of rightoousness,” which should cloansa the fountaios and 1l tho Strosms of our national life and five s now leasa of grander oxistonco than afl material advancomont can o= curo to the land of our affection, gt MR. BEECHER, DN, PATTON'S LEVLY TO X, Y. 2." To the Xditor of The Chicago Tribune : Quicaao, Morch 11,—Had your corrcapondent “X. Y. Z.” pot nvalled himsolf of an anonymons signaturo, ho would probably have beou more guarded in his nssections reupocting myself. Ile charges that “1n 1874 ho (refernng to me) wrolo au editorial for thoe Advance plainly imply- ing that bo know somothing about Mr, Doechor that was simply awful, aud that if-ho should ' mako that somethiog known It would astonish tho world," Not & word of thisis truo, I sim- ply reforred, in that editorial, to what had ale ready beon published, made no allusios what- ever to myuelf, and contonded ouly that Mr. ocohor's policy of entiro silonce (ho had not then even denled the charge) was a grave mis- tako, and could not bo maintalned. Ife adda: #When tho time came for that something to be mado known, and be was summoted to Brooklyn for thas purpose, he confossed that ha knew nothiug of the case, and did nos go.” What ars the facts? When the Investigaling Com- mittoo of Plymonth Church wrote ms, at the Inst moment, eithar $a como on ar to sond & stato- mont of anything known to me, a4 oflicial duties forbado my loaving hiome, 1vat down at once and wrote the desirod statoment, although it was impossible for it to reach thom botoro the, timo sot for thelr report to ba mnde. In that’ statomont I carofully gave two sccounte whioh liad renched mo, mentionlng my authonitios ; oue’ very unfavorable to Alr, ‘filton, being tho sub- stauce of Deselo Turner'sand 3Mrs, Putnam's tostintony, and tho other tho substance of tho Tilton and Moulton testimony, ss givou me by Mr, Carpenter. I bave nover claimed, or intie matea, or * hinted,” that I had persousl knowl- edge of the faota in Mr. Boacher's case, noz have 1 takeu any othor position from the Legnning than that there sbould be a full snd fair iuvesti- gatlon, from a moral poins of view, of the vari. Ous roports in circulation, ~1or two years past I have not conduotod the Advanas, and the edito- rials on the Besohier case prior o the Advisory Council have been from other lwul than wmive} yot it is my impressioo that its columns bave uniformly been opon to both sidos alike, sud have contained as much favorabls to against AMr, Doechier's charsctor sud polloy. Wat. \¥. PATTON. —— MISCELLANE OQUS. APRINOFIELD, Bpectal Dispateh ta The Chieaas Trioune, BepiNoriznp, I, March 12.—At the Firat Congregational Church to-night, the Rev, 1. W. Bacon, pastor, prosclied & very brilliant sormon from Isaiah, f., 26, on the wickeduess in high places of the Governmont. —_———— MRS. E. D. GILLESPIE. . Snecal Corremondance of The Chicaso Tribuns, PmitapeLputs, Pa., darch 10.~For thres yoars this gifted and patriotio fady has devoted her entire timo to the Women'a Department of the Contonnial Exposition. 1f anybody has a few lingoring doubts about the ability of women to transact businees, this lady's Jargo and woll- appointed businesa-oftice on Walnut street is tho placo he ought to visit. Ilo would filud every- thing in that ¢ perfact order " which is no fur- ther removed from coufusion than it is froms| primness. Maps, plaps, and pleturca on tho wall; lady clerks busy at ibelr desks; snd for tho contral figure, busily writing at her tsble, Ben Fraokllo's lineal doecendant,” as full of aeneo a4 lio, if nob so gilted with goniality ; as keen If wot eo witty; as wide awnko if not so wise., Tlus daughter wof the great philosopher—at two removes—ia of tai and commanding figure, with features strongly marked, the abapo of the faco and the aqutling noso recalling anoller faco Liardly lers familiar to Amoricaud than that of Washington, Iler oyes are darkand penctrating; her lsir black, threateniug s speedy chiange to gray ; the Lhands swhit and shapely, with firm, live fingers, vouch for ot loast twvo gonorations of the gontler uses that go nlong with swoat of brain rather than of the brow, 'Cho lady'e dress fs & simple, tasteful walkiug snit of black,—a recent family boreave- meut explaiving ity trimmings of crape, ‘Ilis s tho personagn {a whom Amencan women owo tho fact—ep ploasantly and proudly to bo romembered when tho birth-day feto of our country brings ail_uatious to our shores s fiuouu—um tho daughters of America wilt avo their sharo of gifts to offer. By her por- sonal endeavors for three yoars, sendiug ont from ber oflico lottcrs and documents to every country, apd visiting nearly evory State in onr fand, Mrs, Gillespie Lias Iaid the foundationa for a fair showing of the results of women's work. Sho nos dona thiv so quictly that, while thousands Luow of tho cndeavor, few comparatively are scqualuted with the endeavorer. But, bappily, Mrs. Gillesplo 18 not one of tue notoriety-seoking eisterbood. Bhe “mesns business,” not buncomvo ; she secks to givo oxpression to the honest wish and pur-, pose (growing moroe Intense each year in the Dearts of women everywhere) (o do s woll as to bo; to bring into the storchouse of the common g00d thelr giftaof head and brain carried to tho utmost possible perfoction. The Women's De- partwent of the f;rcnz Exposition will not do this aloue,—itfwill be a stronz incentive to tho oxercise of powors Jying dormant ju tho miods aud hands of women, aud will work an epoch of Dettor possibility and highor oxpectation. Mix. Glllospic goes noxt woel to Illinois by iuvitation of the Ladies' Centeunial Committos, and speaks in Chicsgo ou tho 15th fust, Bl merits o cordial reception from the enterprising residents of your wenderful \estorn metropolis. / PUBLICATIONS. D. APPLETON & CO 549 & 551 Broadway, N. Y., PUBLISIH THIS DAY: L Comin®’ Thro’ the Rye, e One Yol BYO, Papercoverfyucunvesseesssoes.T6 CEDEE, vA yury mistng sud well-watten story, Thoshis- tory of theyouth of the Adairs is extreniely smueing, and told 10 bright and witty manuer, ., . Oneof st novels of tho season,'’—3orning Fust, lever notel, never dull, sty story fiever i andar. great deal of power in ¢ Comin' Thro' the Rye." The lierofun grows up befuro our eyes from the “tom-boy’ stagy of girlisboess to an exdellent specimen of loving and trutbful womanhood. Thero in orlginality 1u the tragic plut, sud sb unceasing cur- rent of rather rollickiug fuy, wiich saves the trugedy from Lecoting too sombro./"—Athenmtan, 11, Diseases of Modern Life. Dy Dr. B, W, Ricitannsos, F. R, 8. 1vol, 12mo. Ciotl, Price, $2.00, Pant TnE Finar—Phenomena of Diseare, Incidental aud General.—Omarsxn L Natural Lits to Nutural Deall; Eutbanasia, 11, Fhichomena of Discase, Classification und Distribution, 111, Diseaso Autes cedent to Birth, 1V, Lxterual Origineand Causes of Discate, V, Plienomona of Diseaso, from Causes Externdl wnd Uncontrollable, VI, Mienomens of Dincase, from Ceusca Katernal and Cowmunicable, VIL Pienomeus of Discise, Incidentaio UId Age and’ Notursl Decay, PAnT i1k BEGOXD,~Thenomena of Disease, Induced and Bpeciul.—Chapter I Deiniuon snd ‘Classitica- tlou of Induced Discases, 11, Discasg from Worry aud Mental Sirain (Broken 'ifeart), I1I Diseaso from Worry and Mental Btrain, contiutied (Faralyzis). 1V, Diseano from Ibysical Strain, V. Diseass from Guinbined Ihyvical and Mental Sirain, VI Disvaso from the Tuiluence of (L Parslons,” V1L, Diseaso from Alconol; Physiological Irocm, —VIIL, Mhenowm- eua of Diseato from Aliohol; Tho Fanctional Type, IX. Organlc Disewse from Alcotiol, X, Discars front ‘Fobacco: Physiological Pheuomena. ~XI. Discasa from Toliacco, continiued (of the IHeart and Lunge). X1L. Diseaso from Tobacen, contited (of tho Brain aud Survous Bystews), X111 Disease fra tho Uso of Narcotica (trom Opium, Chiloral, and_Alsinthv). NIV, Discaso trom Bilsuno of XV, Disvase Incideut to Somo Occupations. XVI, Diseass from Late Hours, aud Delclut leop. - XVIL Disesss from Imperfect Supply of Alr, XVIIL Discaso from Twitation and Moral Contugion, Taur oo TEinp,—Summary of Practfcal Applica- tious, IIL General History of Greeco, Prom the Eartlest Period to the Deathi of Alexander the Great, By tho Rev, Geouos W, Cox. 1vol,, 12wo, Cloth. Price, $2.50, 1o envy thoso chiool-boys aud undergraduates who will make thelr frst acquaintanco with Greok history through Mr. Oox's sinurabls volume. It ought to superceds o]l the popular Histories of Urooce ‘which havo gone before (1."'=The llour. *Th apipearaice of thls work {3 au_ovent of #ome fmportance ju the Listory of educational books, When 2 man propokes o writd & History of Groees, oven a scliool bistory, Lu proposes m great mattor, o o o ‘Thie boak {3 worthy, In every way, of the suthor's repii- tation, . o . 1iissllogether a modt intervsting aud valushle book."—Educational 'Times, . “ Mr, Gox’s history has mauy clatms on our atten. s, it siylo s extremely upiclied, ud utton Wiy, etoquent and picturesqus; sud it Ts fha anly Gred history fn our lauguage written fu & stylo toatiract and fmpreas the young imagination and memory, '—Eu- glish Chiurchuian, Iv. 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MoOORMIOK HALL, CENTENNIAL CARNIVAL MASQUERADE, TO-NIGHT, This (Monday) Evening, March 13,1876, The GREAT WEBTERN LIGHT GUARD ORCHESTEA for Dancing. MILITARY BAND for Promenade. A Deautiful Stage will be r;e‘:ted for the presentation of Historic and Poetic Tableau Vivants. _Eltnam Decorations throughont the Hall, including National Banners, Coata of Arins, Birde, and Plowers, ‘The Programma coinmsuces at ¥:3) o'clock, Firat Tabieau at 10 o'clock. ‘Tue Active Comumitiecs will pleses report at 8 o'clock st the fiall. Tnstructions regarding REGALIA may be oblalned 8t Eeby & Darnes’, No, 87 Madison-st. TICE DTS, Tickets can anly be obtalned of membars of the Comumiltee, al the Tremount House, Lyon k Healy's aud Julivs Bauer's Musle Hlores, Erby & Barnes', 2ladison-st,, and at McCormick Iall, “Ficket for Lady and Gentleman, £3. Jady's Ticket, $1 . Yislcony Ticket, 81 The very Iaras demand for tickets and the great number and elegance of the costimes beapoken indi- cale an occasjon of far more thau usual importance, POLICE NOTICE TO CARRIAGES, Carrlages attending McCormick Hall to-night swill #et down thelr occupants with borees beading tothe north, forming line from Kinzie-st, and will take thetn hip heading to the soutl, with iha line forming from Michigan-st, An efMcient pollro force will be in attendance, M. C. HICKE! ol STAR LEOTURE COURSE. Last Entertainments this Scason. ‘TO.NIGHT-Plymouth Church, TUESDAY-Union Park Church. BOSTON PHILHARHMONIC CLUB CONCERTS. Deserved Beats for theso maguificent Concerts, ONLY 50 CENTS. For male at Jaunen, McClurg & Co.'s, ADELPHI THEATRE, ' THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, March 13, EVERYTHING ENTIRELY NEW. The Olorious Pantomime, HOMPTY DUMPTY. GRIMALDI ADAMS. ASB00TATE MANAGERS' BALLET TROUPE, lemmelsberg, Kuriz, Palmyra, Fenton, Lavins, Do- rivage, Richardion, Martin and Zoner, Tuo Bros, Victoreiti, Venus and Adonis, Maggle Nichols, Annis Fox, Challet, L koys, Melvills, Eunice, Gollins Bros., Gulick—All New, GALA FAMILY GIFT MATINEES Wedneadsy and tundsy, *Ladies' Nights Tuesday and Thursday, increane. wwual, FARWELL HALL, AT 8 O'CLOCK, PROCTOR’S BRILLIANTGY ILLUSTRATED. Monday, March 20—* irih aud Growth of Worlds, Wednexday, March 22— Life audl Death of Worldsx, Friday, March 24— Otler Worlds than Ours,” Mondoy, March 27— Otber Suun than Ours,” Courso Tickets ONLY TWO DOLLALS. Single Tickets will bo 75 cents, Seats rcserved only on Course Tickets, Now on salo at W, I, Keen, Cooke & Co.’s, 113 sud 115 Stuteest. MoVIOKER'S THEATRE, FOR ONE WEHHX ONLY, TILE DISTINGUIBLUED ACTRESS EmmmaWwWaller In bier great Impersonation of _ VOSG- MERIRTT.TIS ! 1n the beautiful dnln:k{rnm Bir Walter Scott, eatitled GUY MANNEIING, ~Next week—JOLN E. OWENS fu Lyron's Coinedy of QUK BOYS, FARWELL HALL, RICII AND IARE WILL BE LAKESIDE ENTERTAINMENT, KO, 8, Tuesdsy Evening, harch 14, MENDELSSOIIN QUINTETTE ! A largg number of the best Beats have not been put on sale Jor. Courae Hcketn, sud are reerved for Lals Course, Admission, ¢1, including Reserved Seat, NO. 10, PHILUARMONIC CLUB, AVRIL 4, $1.50 [oF thie Two Concerts, including Roxerved Seat, cketa for sale at tiie Hall on Monday and Tuy HOOLEY'S THE ] MAQUInE & HAVERLY, Dersces, 3. 1L, HAVERLY, Manager California Minstrels! 3onday evontng, March 13, 1676, Lvery Nightaud st thy Wedncsday and Saturday Matinees, firat appear- ance of Binodgoad an Learitt, Ettopfan Comedian, Immense bit of Eawin French, Billy Emersun fu his great specialty, Thu Old Olothes’ Doaler, togettier with a1} tho old favariies. Mouday, March 47, £. M. Hall, Baujotst; Banford and Wilon, Great Miical Artista, " BY PARTIOULAR REQUEST THE GRAND TESTTHONIAL CONCERT IVIrss. Cloarsn ID. Sto will be repaated at thy Firsl Congregational Charch, corner West Washington uud Ann-sta,, Mondsy Lvens {ng, Mareh L, 1670, ot 8 o'clock, 3Lies Clars D. Kiacy, Boprauu, Wil be sasisted by Misa Eila A, White, Cuirt tralto; Mr, Carl Wolfsobn, Dautet; Ar.' 31, Eddy, Orygautet Mr. Willia Xewi, Vol 3. Efehbielm, Violoneellist, Ticketa 50 had at Lyon k Healy d oot & Bony snd tho Weut Bido Lib: 33 Weat M UL, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Richings-Bernard New Opers, Monday Eve's Mowday matines, TIL DAY AFTEL T Wi DING V] 1L and Miss QUIGLEY in Hougs and Dancew, ta coneludo with AN ALARMING BACHI- FICE, Friday Evening, March 17—Denofit of 3, O, Richinpw-Ternard. . . FORSALL, IroR s.AaAaLnm Propeller Rocket. The Propeller Nocket carrlen 630 tona, 11as boen in the grain trade, Duluth to Luffulo, during tho paat 3 years, In fu gaod coudilion for uy traie, Extenslve repairs to tho bull in 1672, Lugina and boller in frat- cinsn condition, 11as Iargo now bolstiug cugiue, Very 1tk on fuel—~has made the round trip, Lutfale 0 Duluth and return, stopping st way ports, with 100 tonn coal, The Hockel ts now lying at ‘our dock, where she can be thuroughly examined by any ons dustring to p For particulars ud 2 HANNA & ©O, Oleveland, O, Philadelphia Centennial, FOR SALE, In West Phisdeljlus, o Liock of tive Lrown-stono restdences, front 128 feet, four stories, elegattly fio- fatied; {f converted futo s biotel wuuld' sccomiodate 100 pervons, ~Thls property will be old chep to close 1. WELR, Clsbit TI38 Ubutnui,‘-‘l‘.l:'h}lmrlxrhll. ~ EDUCATIONAL. _ HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBIRIDGE, MASS, Esaminatious for adwission t0 the Freshinan Class of larvani Uollegs (proliminary or ealirc), and to the Lasrroucy Bclentitle échwl‘ will bo bield in Olnclunatl, Gbio, ot Juvo av, 30, sad July 1. 1870, beyinulug at 8 & Thoso oxaminatious, which will With'those held 1n Cambridye, will be free to all who Thtend ta vuter the Collego or the Ecientifio Behool § 2l will be opon o otliors upon payment of » fo of Versous who Ivmpdl 10 pasu theso eXaminations are requosted to luforin the Becretary of Harvard Unle oy, Cuinbridyt, Badk, of tnele purposs befors Jer T, S to adrus B for further 1nformation, The precise place of tho examinstions will be an- notneed In the Clnclnnati Gazette, and Conimercial, of Juue 37 aud 28, L NOTIOE. . TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Qryicx 0¥ CUMPINOLLES Q¥ TuY UruseNcy, ATl porsona bavin eliias sesinat s Fourih Stional uinat e Taak 57 Uioasdy 1k, Are fersby notliud to. presont. Lo 1o presont the s ‘sad ko inke” Jretd prout " hersot il Ui months, W Charles 1, Kuermau, Hposivar, at tho utice of said Lank tu the Chty of (Ihlcll“:lu N JAY KNOX. m-pwlfi: ol the Lussency. LEGAL. Sl o P, oo & Do WAL . - WITHOUT REDEMPTION, Circalt,Court of $he Uniled Btates of America, Southern mmé’u of Ilinols. o.Vlmffl uary Term, A, D, 1876, ylls, Trustoe, &o., va. ilrosd Uompany, '?Ill a|.dBo al e ity G, Uik B Biciata o e ol it 6 S, Dettich U, Hmith ;‘i‘?"lfiifl;’l‘w m,'"ldn‘d Frederick Bmith, Bxl‘llfll’ll .10 NOTIUF is beret, thb Ancrra ventotal g Lot Loy s (ak /o pursuanogof . causs at the term afore-aid, and by virtus fl“ 1 l”elfl“fl ’ghni 5 nals contained 1o & asriala deed of traat &1 ntnen pad cxaas, dho'undonigaed Masler 1 Chinoty e named Circ i trict Babilo Hata, withiout odamntion, Lo ts b the docrro runfl:m) In the ahors c‘:n&ll" e i 03 Court. butiding, Ih the Eity'of Sprinsield, Tilinoie, on Frid 5. 7 oF AL VA6, hot waeh the Hoats of bibg o\ it o aod elx o'clock p. m, of said day, to wit: At the honr X 7 st "day, o foilowing dodor it e Pokin, Lincoln and Degatar Kajls . 2iending from the Gty of Dekin, Tazewel] Conniy, ot 1087 04 DIt le, to ths To) eiaran, Lincols und”Souss e..'.‘..i’,.‘; i o of ‘way, depot grou 4 oth i EE other tracks, bric dnota, ‘enlvora,” fonces, and eiber .n'm}'um. ot ot Rutvos, ntation Lousos, ougine hinuars, ear huases, fre ool hiotses, and oflies billdings, And all magtin and ather nd all otusc roal or pe; rronl estato i, Tincoln and Decs: 1n the said deed of - gunnd, of aenirod by the wiid Petln tur Rallroad Company, and ‘embraced irust: alho nil franchises connected with o relating 4 tha'mid Taliroad o to the contructian, malntenancé aperation, o usa thereof, and all tha property franchivet, 14 thinge of whatmover pame or. Daturs, toRoLty erwith all and aingular tho hereditsmants and appario. agces tharounte bolonging or In nymiss Horeunto ape partaining: and alsaall the eatate, i wa , ineluding . cieot f 1io amount bid, Upon tho paj 1ha undenigned will'oibcute, ncknawledgs and dolives tn s BaronEsor 04 and aniticient dned, conveylog saud Fliely fdin Tes St ol Feroms having 01 tatirond Uompnns, aud In eavo they becumo this purchaaors thersof cqual to or mor than th Smount of said decroo, they will have the rikht 1o have the aniount found dae tliem by the loport of the Mastr in this cars oa their sald Did; and fn case tuch Lid shall b leas than the aianant of sald ecren, then they shal be entitlod to ro. taln oot of rald bid &'sum equlralent 1o thelr pro rata Ao of the bid on a fanl distHudtion thereol, altee the pAyment of all costa. Dated st Byrintield Dlinoly, this th daref Maroh, 1678 SUHN Aastor in Chincery et Haatts Dist. lilinols, Halicitors foe Complainant. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. RRRIVAL RND DEPERTITRA OF TRAING EEFLANATIONOF NEFLTNCE SARSS. 1 Sutarday e ceaptod, ® Banday excaptad. excepted. Five Randay ata:00a. me Daitre ) 1P A e ISR SOTNESTERR AL, et Offce. ey mwmlm"" malia Night kiprees;... aFree utiogus Eipess GEreeport & l)n\’m‘x‘\un Txproa bMarquetta Exproas, aGonara Lake Rxpress LGenova Lako Riprew.. a—Depat corner of 19 3—Depotcornerol O I!Is"lfl!" CENTRAL RAILROAD. Depot, Jook af Inket., and, foot af Teent dst, el ante, 1 (rarkots sonthinst cormar of Fmts and ai Znimer Hovse, Mall (via Mat D3 Kalamazoo Atlantie Fapress (dallv). Night Kxpress. T*Sunday ¥z 1*Batardarand Banday Fiz. CHICAGO, ALTON & ST, LOUIS. o et s St . oL Inion Depot, LI s ridge, Ofices: A4 Devat, and " Leave, Arrive, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILROAD. Lnfom Derot, enrmer Maidion an @ Canal-sts, Ticket Offeq G South ClarX-st., Apposits Sherman lio, dat Dapat, Teave | Arrive. (n *9:45 8 m.| 400 p. m, Hipees 2508 . o, 114 S e et B Puseonxer. t0:0p.m.| *7:0 p.m. A1l tealun run via M(lwaukee, 7iokota for Rt. Paul and Minncspalinam good aither vis Madison and Prairie du Unlen, or via Watertown, LiCrosee, and Winons, |L].("DXS‘ EE,‘}”I;,“A‘LNQRU. Dol o e iy handatyhat, Bt. Louls Expros: RF. Lonts Fady s, & Now Urloana d Night Kxuross., Keokak Ki1pres Dubugue & Slonx Ulse Ke, Brbagus & Soux Citg Lix] Giluag Passonzer,,. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & 4! 1 India INCY RAILRUAD. v. and Siziatnihest,, Qfteas, 6101 ERIE AND CHICAGO LINE. Sicket Offices, 3 Clark-si., corner & hashingtan, Palmer Hous at D 2 Miehiyan-ar., carmer Madison, Truin iuitdin Teazs, ) from Erposition Arrive, Day Ripress—Pullman_Drawe tg-ltom Bleapliig Cars, 10 Now Vork withiout chates.... Atlagte Expro-Puilma aca Drawlog-fiom bloopinal Care and Hotal Car, “Oaly llas rutining KANKAKEE LINE. Frem Depets, Jool Luke and Daenlye sscondate, &d0n. m, Bop ot NewYork Arvive, Indlanapoll Loalurtl & Olncta [ ==~ y EORS veruarnscoresas .o Intimnayolie Loaiseile & SiaEiE] o o M) 8M4p. m ath Alciit Karosa Wally). R0 CINCINNATI AIR LINE AND KOKOMO LINE. Depots corner Clinton and Currollsts,, Wssd Si Lease, Arrive, outarille & Ofnoln) | irore il S8 w850 pe, I} $:00p. m.| 7 PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI & ST, *LOUIS RAILROAD, Hyom depiot eorner Clinton and Carroll-sta, Lauve, Arrive, ol Shprovs (Ualiy)oveeesveseel 8:07p. . PITISBURO, FT, WAYNE Y CHICAQO RA! Lew m. " 2:80p o 1:308. @ Miehvian-av, won, Accumtiodal Tivunlang Espras. “{ally. *Daily, Bunday CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD, un Jures and SAermansls, Tiabol eflaa Depot, corner ' e mgned ! Greive, prnddeins deave, o Quiabs, Lasveuw'th & Atchison Ba¥10 55’:: tcormumods b B Lebi Kapesas, 100 B, i