Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1876, Page 10

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SCIENCE AND RELIGION. X8 There a Conllict Betweon Them ? The Question of the Evolu- tion and Dissolution of Worlds. % Nature First, Biblos After”-=-Ana aother Theory as to the Earth’s -Centre. 18 THERE A CONFLICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION T'o the Kdilor af The Chicago Tribune : Famvizep, s, March 16.—To tho thought- ful mind, capablo ot appreciating tho moment- ons.inflnenco of {ho subject upon tho world a gentury lhonce, tho rolationship of Betenco to Religion, that which {t hoa heretofore nasumed, and that fnto which the wondrous fntel- lectusl activitios of tho prescnt day =are crystallizing, 8 of the deopest interost, if not of .the prafoundest anxiely, With peculiar powor does tha mubjoct impingo upon tho minda of intelligent mombors of such Chrlstianized lanils as this, whoae stmoaphera .Jaredolent with theincroasoof prayer and praiso, and whoso hills still ocho the grating of that first kool upon old Plymouth Rock. The sobor man may well bo atartled at the baro sugges- tionof a ‘‘conflict" botwoon the truth of Sclonge and tho truth of Ohrlstlanity,—tho truths of God's worka and the trulhs of Cod's most ‘holy Word,—for, it . & oonfliet Is even admitted na possible, whathor ftcan boghown to exist or not, ho faces the gravo altornativo of tho overthrow of one or the other., Dotwoon two contoating trutus, so callod, there i no middle ground of compromise ; ono must stand, tho othor fall, aa the reault of o conflict of any kind or possible degroe, Truth 1s unqualified, absolute, otornal, unohaugoable ; snd moomer or Intor, in such ovent, mankind must bo calloed upon to decido the question whothar God be God or Basl. ‘Whoro thero are doubt and porplexicy respect- 1ng tho oxisting status of thoso two weighty and ‘most active forces, it is-natural that ono scizes with avidity overy argument touching thoir re- Iationship. Itis Bo dosirabio that it shonld bo domonstrated beyond peradventure that thoro s npos only no_ incoption of a conflict botweon Bcienco and Religion, but that thero i no pousibility of it, that ono s dolightod when ho sces some attacking scioutiat nntiorsed and hig fiimey weapon broken ovar his owa pats, #8 lLo likowiso rojoices with tha victor, aud somohow himself focls safer benoath that cham- pion's protecting srm. It is with foollugs of tho most pleasant antlvipation, then, that ono alights upon sach an - article &y waa publishod In your issuo of Feb, 19, en- titled *1s There .a ‘Conflict?" and notes the complimentsry words of iotroductlon. Tuo waters aro deop.-B8 you have suggestod, and it will do one's hieart good to Boo the Birong swim- mer emsrge from them, after buffoting their swolling billows maufully, in smiltog esfety. But. s no; your .motapbor rather mioro suggestivo than was intonded, in that thors @ from tho juxtaposition of **deop watom and a creditable “swim” in them an fdea of auperficialty in tho performance? I just tlirow ous tho -inquiry ae a speoulative nut’ for you to crack, addiug, howovor, that tho rosult- st idoa roferrod to is rather my owa oplnion, as Iehall be glad to demoustrate with your kind- ly permission. “The article in .question i8 of & kind with s numbor of othors that bave passed under my obsorvation, whioh ‘bave all vory unsatinfsotorily soswered the fquory pro- pounded, if indoud thoy bays not rather tonded to sustain tuo growing opinion that there is in reslity.n confljct, and ono which 18 beginnivg to push Obristianity to the wall. Buch nn issno to tho = championship of its own frionds i most lamentablo, snd to bo deprecated ticipatos the mortal results of a sirupgle botween two systems of truth, as forcshadowod above. From an inspoction of tho ound which these chompions lavo occupled, Lioro soowa to be & necosmty of prescribing it bounds more definitely, lost thoy contiuue valnly tilting at shadows or other i)lusory ensmics, end wastiug,their encrgios, so to speak, upon iho supprossion of glant-like windmills. u ordor moat speedily to arriva at a statement of tha queation’s true status, lot the ordinary srgumont, which ia very well statod in tho ar- ticlo reforzed to, defino itsel?, viz.: ** All truths aro barmonious ; Pantheimin is nntensblo; the yprogress of Beleucs is fatal to Atheism ; Beience 18 not 1 conflich with Religion or 'Thoeology.” At ono word the dicta aro granted, And yob wo bave yeosived bub .»_stono whero bresd was askod-for, einco the vital question Lins ju no wiso ‘becn touched, ¢ Lias been unfortunato that thio terms, Bcieuce aud Religion, have been op- posed ; tho tatter is not suflicteutly definite, and &0 employed they aro calenlsted to mislond the unwary. 1t is safo to stato, basing ths asscrtion upon the vory naturo of humanity, that it is an Instinot of the heart to worslup, to lovo, and to oboy » God, and that mankind will alsyays bo ro- ligious. lleligion, then, belongs to man, and will bo at uo tine in the future, as it Las boon at wo time in tho past, in hwufi:y to Hetonce 3 but tho rather, ua lustory has demonstrased, will 1z bo more degply gravon on tho Jonrt .88 the mind's view of Nature is oxpoodod, ‘deeponed, and elavated. Wo * Jook through Nature up to Naturo's God,” and flnd overywhoro the choicest *sormons in stones, boolss {n:the running brooks, sud good In svery- thing.”” Thero it no four of mau's departure 1rom tho justinot of veneration for the good God, whoso works, .aud clisracter for wisdom, love, wnd —mercy are overywhors w0 abundantly . displayed. unto day ut- toroth #poock, “sud wight unto nignt showath knowledge of Him: ths hieavons declars tho glory of God, and the curth is full of His bendiwork : ithoro is 0o place where 1iia voice is ‘not heard,” Tho Uoligion of Nature pursis forth ju such graund straine from tho soul of *' g mon after God's own lheart,” and tho name bosutiful faith fllla the broast of eyery \houghtful beivg, from Tyndall to » simplo chuild, who stands reverently oo the loor of thin gorgeous tomple, the earth, unocovered benoath that most magnificent dome of sky. Ience we ato compolled to exclude Natural Religion from this alloged conflict with Sclones, and the zather to rogard it 8s depondent ou, and cobanced or glarified by, overy new dis. covery that Scleoce makes. Here, wo can core tainly aflirm, there is 10 contost, and hore there £o tull concord and aweot unjon, bocause ¢ Al truths are in ony with eaoh othor.” 1t can sorve no Eumon, in tho discussion of thin Tnuuw. to distinguish botween gion sod 'Lheology, as though thora woro awide alver- aity in their ance. loligion is tho generio term, sud comprehiends within it both Thoology, or the scienco of the charactor nnd attri utos of God, and Piety, or the performance of the dutles which bholong to Him from men : our Religion causes us to know and love Him, comprelionding, in & word, God's rola~ tionahip to man, and man’s obedient reverence to God. Any moro ¢ ibed use of tho word Religion is improper, and must lesd to or- ror fically. In tho eamo wouse as thoro is & Natural Religion, so wlso is there a Nataral Theology, Wo zot only natarally worsulp a Huprome Doing, but wo framo a sclunce of Mim from our study of His works by tho em- ployment of our God-givon resson. By theso wo medions, Neture und Heason, unlting into a rofnigont llgin. infinitely moro beautiful and uro than that of hydrogen and oxygen, we road o grand book of Nature, open overywhere to tho inquirer, whereon are stamped the rfect imuge snd aupursmptrnu of Oroator and Qoveroor, and from which wo fearn know sod fove Im. Nasural Thoology {8 always harmonious with . Baienes, minca it 1 indesd one of tho reaulta; it sno grim or griuding shape of dry and dusty bones, Btiff snd biard, that tnust be étretchod on the Procrustesn bed of knowledge, or broken upou Time's on-rolling wheel , but it {s a liviy suul, it clothed in the garb of Nature, and wil Egow in the ordinary aud appropriate manner, vide by uide with Hclence, until it stands face to {ace with the Almighty God Limselt, its Author and fts Object, * Roligion is iteelf ensoutially tho exponent of all truth,” says the writer of the arficle reforred to, with » most curious ob!lqmtx of mental vislon ; snd yet tho statement wonld be accapted 83 a fact by nearly overy roader of it, in tho cua- tomarlly garcless waunor. Concedicg Its adaptability to a Naturs} Religion, it yos must bo donied as a truidin, wnd brusbed aside as oue of ftiose cobwebs which sometimen are wirotched in the way of othorwise olenr thought. Grant fng that, his casé s made out to- & sarety. and thero could bo mo confliob in which Kclenca wonld uot be vanguished; but it would make sad bavoo with the facts of history, snd be rather an ex-parte discusslon of tho question. We must ask, first, Which Heliglon is **tho ox- ponent of all truth?" To which the snawer probably would be, the Teno Heligior. Natural or Revoaled ? Tho reply doubtloss is, Revealod. But which ono,—Islamism or Christisnity,—for they oach profoss to bo a rovelation from Di- vlurty? Oliristianity, hie says, of course, Aud 1f ws push investigatlon a step furthor, and ro- quest him to distingmish anmong the soveral creeds of Chrlatianity, whoso thoology 14 porhiaps as wido asunder an tho poles, wo will probably get no clearer defluttion of It than Orthodoxy—which 1a to eay, my doxy, At this voint, then, the exawiuation may be onded ; for wa hiavo macertsined the soundneas of the opon- ing asaortion, that It 18 not Religion which ta the oxponont af truth, but that particular form of faith which 13 professad Ly tho soveral employ- era of thadictum, Diaposing of it briofly in its relation to tho argumant, it 18 n most palpablo caae of ** hegging the quostion,” and, being ono of the preminses of the syllogism, tho conclusion in aadiy uasupported. ‘[his conolusion s, that ‘Scionce is not in contlict with 'Cheology or Religion”; butit has beon ascertained that it should Liave been, mors definitely, Sciouco ia uot in conilict with Chris- tisnity. Tho argument is: 1 truths are in harmony; Scionce aud Christianity are truths; thorefore, Bcience aud Clristianity aro in har- mony, The first torm s concodod a solf-ovi- dout, As to the socond, it is divided into two facts, wupon which thero must b agreomont befors admittance for tuem to this syllogiam is granted. That Sclenco, or tha result, tho sgRregate of, scientltio jnves- tigation, is truth, uuqualitiedly, iu vory doubte ful, 1Ita oporation {a unquestionably the ascor- talament of truth to an uitimate cortaintys but It at times {8 undor tho necossity of modifying ita findiugs, and oponing up tho csso for fresher testimony, For this very ronsou thero is somuol faith in rts roliability among mankind; and it will porhiaps-bo “ngreed tust, of all pursuita tn life, tho study of Kcionce, mental and physical, is the purcst. Dut, while $he conclusions of sclontiflc rescarch aro not infalllble always, still, in 8o far as thoy concern the argument bofore us, thoy nre so; that is fo way, tho soveral yordiota of Scienco, which have beeu at times allegod to ba in contlics with Christianity, aro to-day 8o woll establishiod, 8o incontostablo, that they nmonnt to absolute voritics, All men, sclontists and religionists, Curiation or heathen, aro in sccord upon theso verdicts 08 facts, wherever thero is tho intellect to compro liond thom. For all practical purposes, then, in shis wyllogism, it will _bo admitted that Belenco ~ is truth, Noxt, as to Chiristinnity, it {s observable, firat, that its facts, or toachings, theorctically aro infalliblo, becanse thoy aro a rovelation from God Himsolf ; socoud, that, ag in the case of Hcionco, theso asseriod trutha have at times boon conceded to be false, in {ho caso of tho inspired record of oreation for oxamplo; thirdly, in overy important tuun whorein there Lias beon allogod confliot bot%esn the teachiugs of Revolation und those of Heloncs, o3capt it bo tho case of tho proposed ** prayer- {eat," tho formar have boou proved and sdmit- ted to be falso; aud, finally, all mon of intelli- Fouco aro not agrood upon those dicts of Cheis- tianity. Not ono of theso allegations will pa disputed ; thoy are matters of history, and me- cossiblo to the doubling laquirer; and what o record do they prosaut in comparison with that in regard to Heienco just pracoding! ‘The show- ing ‘evidently prevents tho wdmimslon, in thia syllogiam, that Chrstianity 18 truth, siuce the rules of logio demand equality in tho #overal mombera of o proposition, which doeg not hora exist, It muat bs understood, however, that this is no denial of the truth of Christinnity, abstractly ; the considoration of that question {s not within tho scopo of this articlos and it only rejccts. tho use, in tho syllogism undor consider- stion, of tho formuls, Chnstianity is truth, in order that tho inhoront weaknoss of tho srgu. ment, advanced by many of Its dofonders in these contosts with the sozcalled opposing facts of Sclonce, may bo oxtubited. 1 stand, thon, ot this point, whore Iatood at tho outset, with the progoant inquiry, *Is thers a contfot?” yet unanswerod, aud I ey that tho “time Is ripo for the scttlomont of this mooted quostion, Dogmatic assertions that thora is no contlict bo- twoon Sclonce nnd Christianity may satisfy tho thoughtiess, the ignomnt, and tho bigoted f bt thoy murely cannot apponso tho snxiety of intol- ligent,, Christian men, who realize the momen- tous issues tnvolved, sand the poworful fntluence that the apparent status of affairs is exerting an @ very large nud an enlarging class of thinkers, McK, [To bs erntinued.) EVOLUTION AND DISSOLUTION, OF WORLDS, To the Editor of The Chicago Tritune ; Bavt Lake Orry, March 6.—Your correspond- onts who noticed my letter Lave not romoved my diftioulty by their snswors. The point I make fue that thors can be no wasw, such ns physiciats are always talking about. Mr. Ran- dall Bays thero is no waste of light or hieat, Lio- canso thoro i no light nor heat whoro thero fs uot sorne body to absorb or reflect them. Dut the motion whict theso bodies transform into light aud heat is wasted sll the enmo. Tho heat of the =un, for examplo, i8 perpetually trang formed into motion, which travols ou and on, liko the wavos of a sbordless pen, bocoming tbiuner, but not lesy, tho farthor it goes. Now It is given up that tho earth las lost nothing, or that, if it has, it Lag received an equivalont, If thiais so with the earth, why uot with the sun and all othor bodies? Tlat theso radisted influonces are reciprocal and oqual does not prove, however, that any Influ- «coces aro radiated; but morely that, if one bady absolutely recoives suything from anotber, it returns an oxact equivalent, But how can you imagino tho sun receiving from all tho plancts aud comets, otc., sttendant on him, as much host a3 o transmits to thom, provided ho trany- mits any? Aud, it bo really transmita what wo fecl @8 light and heat, w4 aod all the planots, otc, don't got the ten- millionth part of what he throwa off into spaco. It sooms hard to belleve tuat things aro srrangod so improvideutly, According to tha thoary, the heat of ell bodica is bsing canstantly radisted into space,—infinite space,~and, un- less it strikes somo ottior body, befog lost. On this sopposition, tho heat of all thoso bodica must in time be lost in ivfinlto space, and thoy ‘becoma cold and doad, with no possiblo moans of rounscitstion loft, For, if thoir hoat really goes, it is gone, in it not, and by what mesna uro thoy to got it back ? Tho ‘earth's history scems to prove rather that no heat, ne caergy, no motlon, reslly parts from the bodies In which the forces of tho uai- vorse are slorad. The earth ia as hot now, so {ar aa is known, s it evor was eloca man wos man sud lived on it ; and the infsronco 13 fair, that it will always be as Lot a8 it {8 now,—cone sequently, that it docan't radiato anything what- oveor inlo space. Its hoat {s derived, not directly {rom the sun, bot from the friction among ity moleculos, perpetaally drawn hither and thither by the tluctusting forces of nttraction and ro- pulslon whick are inheront in tho molecules, and 1o excited by tho iufluence of the sama Iorces iu other messes, and whoss {ransformations into the secondary forces, and baok again, so- fg::lh!nro :A':lelh.u| m&iuulu Df{n tho earth, and all suomens fal lLtT!hnflnch . g place in ita intorlor or on 018 810 mANY dissentionts from ths Nobular theory. It isreally asola as bilovophy, Tha opont theory of eras of Evolution lu({ Dlgso- ution was first ovolved by tho Hindu Bagon, “I'nonce {t pmblh&rqu _into Greeco, and was workod out in dotail by Epicurus, Lucretius, and thosa old pursons. Theyaccountoed for suns snd worlds by s **fortnitons concourne of atoms,” which once thioy had met ; all elso camo natur- ally in time, Our times Lave porhaps Improyed bat littlo on Lucretius, nnloas 1t bo an jm. Fmvnmen& to domonutrato what he sssumoq, ¢ 13 agreed by most invostigators {n that Lwe, that the eEmalost massey of any substance, retaiuing all their chomiea) proparties, sball b termed molecules ; and that overy kind of matterin & volatlo siate, sub- Jucted to the same degroe of prossurs and tom- porature, contains an squal number of them, A chemical molsocula is o & globe the size of a pea what am applo i3 totho earth, and saparating 10,000,000 of them in a socond, it would roquire 250,000 years to_count tho metatlio mulecules in s pin’s head. Theso chemical molocuiea nro coustant in typs, like s manufsactursd artlcle,says Clerk-Maxwell ; thoy are endowed with poten- tisl energics, rondering thom incapable of rout, a8 thoy are of chauge, of growlh ordecay, of Bgensration or destruction. * Tuiu {s the raw matorla!l of tho univorse ; and, whilo tha auctouta attributed its motton to for- tuitous cauge, Bpoucer shows 0w it came to sggregate. Hupposiog molocular matter, each varticls aturill’ with force, to bave permeatod 8pace in atate of squilibrium, the Instability of the homogencous, consequent upon the }’ub tlat the parts of any homogenoous aggregation 870 of necusuity diferontly wodified by the dif- foront forces to which they are exposed, would negative it cuntinuanca in that state, For, in default of an abeolute Lalance among the forces with which the dwpersod particles met on each other, motion, sud consequont changes of distribution, would of nocessisy result 7 &ud, in conformity with the law that motlon, once vet up in any direction, bocomen iteolf a' cause of subsequent motlon In thot direcilon, the {ucipe leut heterogeneity would tond to becoms even wors provounced, Qivo Ms. Bpenoer the atoma endowed wilk po- toutlal forces, and ho will glve you thn univarasa. Laplaco and Prof, Proctor don't trouble them- rolves nato tho orgin of the nobulm; thoy assume that it was, and thou, of courns, bhave no difMcutty in constructing for us tho solar aystom, The forces tend to run togethor aud unite, and thoy carry the atoms with thom. Two atoms meet and cling to oach othor; and, 8a tho chances mro that thoy could not meot Bqnare iu the face, thoir direct motion wonld be changed to & whirling ronnd each other, Whilo atiraction draws them together, ropuleion pro- yonta them from absolutoly conloscing ; and tho interplay of theso forcos In tho overaggrogat- ln)fi condenging mass would devolop heat, and light, and all the sccoudary forcos, aud thus your glowing-gasoous maas Ia accounted {nr Mr, croll,‘{u hia ** Climats and T{mo," sup- osca the nobnla may bave boun formod thua ; ‘Twa bodios, oach vne-ball the donaity of, and of tho samo mass as, the sun, moving toward each other in apaco at a speod of 230 milos & socond, wpon coming within the rango of each othor's attraction wonld have their speed nocelorated hy 9271 miles & second, making it {n tho aggrogate 03 miles per socond, Coming into collision, tho stopping of tholr motion would give an amount of heat equal to that radiated bgothu sun (at ite present rato of radiation) In 50,000,000 yonrs ; and their expansion into tho gasoous state would perform s work against gravitation I cansing coddonsation, in amount, sdgumitg tho son's deusity Lo be uni- form throughout, ro[:’tuenwd by 20,000,000 years of tho sun's heat; vonsoquontly the asmount of enorgy communicated by stich o cou- oussion would be oqust to 70,000,000 years of thio sun's radiation of Leat at its prosent mto of ra- diatlon. Croll follows Bir Willism Thomsou in this; aud, aa & conjocturs, it appears to bo as plansible ss ooy " yot offered as to tho origin of tho " solar ucbula; and tho power of gravitation, and also Lhe rato of tho sun's radiation, bolog known quantitica, it may porhapa reasohbly bo concludod that it is 84 near sa man will ever 0omo to guonsing tho sge of the aun, or how iis focouceivable hont was gencrated. What sot tho original bodies In motion, and towards instend of around oach other, is, of caurse, loft 8s much & mystory as ovor; and thua tho difficulty s re- moved only a atep farthor back, I cannot fmsgine tho atoms to have boen in an universal stato of disporsion, oxcopt a9 tho immediste rosult of ihe univarsal =otion of combustion, becauso we now, looking at the eausos, cannot but see thiat thoir aggroga- tion into moro or less donse globes is theirmost, if not only, normal state. ‘Lm0 of theso bodies, 1f that woro possiblo, coming into notuat gollis- ion, would dovolop heat enough to almost in- stantly expand them into the ons atato, But, s tho cosmos 18 now constituted, such an occarrance would ba tho oxesption, and not tho- rulo; aud, just as soon as tha ficat Lindt exhaust- ed {8 powor of oxpansion, condensation woull bogtn, the atoms agmn scosing, from tho re- nowed ascendoncy of the attractive over Lho ro- puleive force, the condonsed or solid atato, ‘Chus is » circlo, not & bogiuning and onding, If this is tho true expianation, yon might as woll tako ouo momont as anather for tho begin- ning, One can easily conceiva dead worlas losing their way through disturbing intiuences, coming into collision, and being resolved into nobulw, then condonsing and becoming live worids sgain, and forever procoeding in this clr- cle, All worlds wo suppose now o be in com- parativo oquilibrium, moviog like the parts of oo adfusied mocbhine, If they aro all parting with their hoat, it is ensy to 800 how this wsdjnstment can bs disturbod and collitions rasuls. Dut here wo come again upon my diflicuity,~if they are losing thoeir hoat. Arethoy losing their heat, or ropulsive forco? 1f 20, the ultimato result must nocos- warily bo n concentration of dead, cold worlds. Dnt, whatevor thoir tempetature, it is admitted that such concontzation will produce heat onongh to rogolve thom again into gaa. Will there not thon be ns mnch heat present ag ever? And how could ° there bo had boen lost,—sont on on eodlces jouruoy thmuil{x tho intor-stellss ethor until it wae all gono ? tho Lieat or enorgy is thus lost, how does it como_that it is ngain present npon collision ? And, if it is not loat, how i3 tho collislon to hap- pen? e may suppose that tho earth was formerly rod-hot, aud much largor than now and that tho extrnordinary heat bas boon us: up in the physical cuanges we eeo nbont us, ond, later, - {n tho dovelopment of Iifo and that thero has been no loss, an will be none.. But how then s sho oir- clo to bo completed?—how is the carth oga{n fo becomo a gaa, o tlufd, & red-hot solid ? Aud, unless it does, what Lecomes of Evolution and Dwssolution as applied to worlds? 1If tho worlds aie composed ultimatoly of forcos and otoms, the forces perpotuslly futerplaying and injorchanging as actod upon by osch other, and, oalt wore, carrying the stoms with thewm n ¢holr infinltesminal orbits, and this is the causo of Leat and nll secondary forces, than it s bard to %00 why thewo ngencics should not, and do not, remamn constant in ail masses, nnd thus insurs tho infinite porpetuationof the preseut coamical ordor of harmony, 1 don't expect to bo avswerod satlafactorily, bocauso 1 perceive more and mors, the langor 1 dwoll apon {it, that my conundrums are unan- sworablo. Kxactly what I want 18 a roasonshlo cxplanation af Bponcer's and Proctor’s thoory of thu Evolulion and Dissolution of Worlds, a4 tho foundation of tho theory of the ovolu- tron and dissolution of all” that iz upon thom, consistont with tho belisf, which I sm compoliod to entortmn, that ot ono fota of emorgy in apy form ia evor wasted by auy inass, radiaied aud loat iu inflvite spaco. I know of tho doubts e« tortained by promincat physiciats as to the solf sustaining power of tho universo, I know that the lheqrf af & perpotunl loas of enorgy by our umvorso iuvolvos tho fdoa that it must porpot- ually receive encrgy from somo other univorse, or tinnlly bocomo dead and inert. It soems to me moro reasounble to ocomclude that our univoras foscs motbing, than that thoro aro other univorscs exchangivg forcea with onrs, universcs over growing moro other- oal, aud ending in the original fountaln of puro force, X usothe word universs moro in the sense glvon to galaxy than in itsa own proper uonso. But, i our universe, or galaxy, t4 sclf- sustaining, and I assume, as I boliovo, that it in limited, thon, logically, it Josoa nothing; and, it it foses nothiug, how csn tho celostisl mu. chinery run down, as Prol. Winchell puts i¢? If the forces of tho univorse aro constant, then, logically, tho torces of onch individusl mombor of itare constant, If tho attractive and ropul- aive forceu of the carth aro coustant, aud, as I Lollovo, sufticlont to account for all the motions of the aarth, aud for everything upon it, what in to briug sbous the earth'a dissolntion propara- tory to a now earth and now heavens, of which avon the Heriptures are not ailent ? 1 am not writing for fun or to oncupy your space. 1 have been engaged for a yoar or two, fu my lofsure moments, on a Biblo ‘according to Beienco, and havo not yot boon ablo to campleto tho first chiapter, I bavo studiod all the sclen. Lists have to say about the ethor and tho stom the forcos and the manner of their action; an 1 no longor wonder that the writer of tho Moeslo cosmogeny, who may have himsoll sought in valn, through the whole rangn of hu- mau obgervation, oxperiment, aud epeculation, for & moniatio oxplanation of **the firut bogin. lngs,” unroseryedly took rofuge in the sublime apening of the Bible: *In the Begluntog, Uod aroatod tho Leavena and the earth.” 0. J. HorLsTeR, NATURE FINST, BIDLES AFTER, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna : Kroxus, {a., March 10.—~“1It takes millan-, niums to mako s Blblo,” aays Emerson, Dot it took millenlums also, to prodnoo a boautiful flawer, and etill longer periods ta bring fortha tbinking, foving, snd worshiping human being. Out of the hoart of Nature and this human be- ing Blbles havo come, Thoy wero tho highest expressiony of the thought and consclenco of the time, They have had, and still poagoss, the world's reveronce ; and e would bea shallow thinker who would assort that that revorence had no foundation, 'This I8 very far from my pur- vose, T wouldnot diminthe leastany lotty ideal of life. I would not lessen ono lota tha roverence of a uinglo soul for tho truly beautiful aud good. Dut I would sssert thas tha original source of all yivlos, whothier wo call it super- nutural or natuzal, ia worthy of more reverence than the Bibles themsotvou, Tho flower Is not greater than ita source. The poem s not larger -than {ts author. Ju the largess scoas of the term, then. Naturo must ba fires, and Biblos aftor, e Liavo sdvanced o far ag to #ay “Tho Htato {8 firat, tho Church afte; This 18 the priciple fndeed which has been lncorporated into the fundamental 1aw of America. Wa reo- opnize It 1n evory Btato of the Unlon, Tt s ra 1dly becoming shio loading principlo in the polt. ties of all Europo, and will ere loog ba fauda. “‘““];“l in the Uovernment of every part of tho otld, "llut the motto at the head of tho articls, * Nature first, Diblos after,” cannot clal ss yet such & wido recoguition and accoptance. Nelvs sity has forced ©s to pus the Clurch beliud th Hiatey liut, as yot, necessity bay not forced us, excapt ju rare “instances, o put Biolos behind Nature. ‘I'his is thelr placo, and their movement 18 gradually in that direotion. \Within the last fifty years, that moyoment has boon rapid, But, for thousands of years, Bibles wére {ruer thau Natore,—bhighor aud mopo autboritative than Naturs. Thoir diots wara mors divine than the tenchings of tha lheavena or tho earth, or the lessons of hintory and oxporionce, Thia idea, I donbt not, sprang in part from tho councionanoss of the human sonl, espiocially in the unoulterod or degradod, of its ignorance nod weakness, and its groat neod of some hugh au- thority to toach it and guido it. This was natu- ral. Wo _smook tho help of toschors in other thioga, Wo ask for the light and inspiration of superior minds, We oven bow to tho authorily of men of sclenco, who know whotoof thoy spoak, though we may bo ignornnt of the pro- cosa by which they have arrived at thelr conclu- slons. This s woll enough. And If, in all msttora portaining to Religion, we hnd pursuced the mamo course, without Investing our toachers with [y aupernalural U~ thority, which ovorabadowed avorything consinon eouse, daily experionoe, and tho lessons of Naturo, tho world would havo hoen saved lrfl\n ovils and eufforings which no tongue can tall, % Lut this one fact—tho position whioh Diblos, Jowish and othors, have occupiod in hnman thonght—Ltells the wholo story, And none of these quostions which hiavo agitated the Chris- tian world for {nm, somatimen convulsing whola nationa, Plun;( ug thom into war nnd bloodahed, =—nono of thoso bitter disputea botwaon Catho- lics and Proteatants, botweon Arminians and Cal- vinlsts, Univornalista and Partialists, Unitarians ond Tritarisng,—nono of thont, X say, will evor Lo finally sottied until wo havo sotticd theaunes- ton that Naturo ia first, Bibles aftor, Diblical eriticlsm hoto is of ljttlo avall, Every soct claima to stand on plain Sertpture nuthority. Timo has nuitipliod thoso socts, Instoad of deoroasing them; and thoro is no hopo whatover that the Cliristian Church will ovor bo a unit in doctrine, or obsorvance, ar splrit, 8o lon§ #8_tho absard view {4 hold, that tho Diblo ia suprema and infsilible {n suthorit 7, and must tako pracedence of common senso, of the plaln- eat dictates of aur moral nattre, and all the teschings of Naturo snd oxporienco. Ior in- stanoe, throo of our senscs, out of fivo, flatly dony the doctrine of tranaubstautistion, and de- olare that tho wafor claimed by the Cathollo priost to bo the body and blood of Jeaus Ohrist 18 nothing in tho world but wator and flour, Dut will tho Catbolio Church abandon this doo- wrioe g0 Jong s it places tho Scripturcs boforo the ovidonco of the sensea 7 That the Fatuer ja God, tho Son Gad, and the oly Ghost God, thres erannn and yot ouly ono pordon, each a God, and yot only ono God, cone tradicts all tho ronson and all the mathomatics over kunown in hoavon or on earth, cither by Euclid, Laplaco, or Newton, or tho sohool-boy. But, just go long ag the Bible is plmmd bofors aod above “‘Iwice two aro four,” or “Throo timea one aro three,” can wo expect that mon will give up such an abaurdity ? The doctrine of tho Evangolical creods respact- ing human nature io alao as {latly contradictory toall history, and all oxperionco, and nil obsor- vation of human character, a4 lt can possibly bo mado. The oxlstence of commerca itsolf would Do impossible if this doctrine wore true. ‘The Idoals of the human race would hayvo been its Dovils fnstead of fta Christs. Logialation, roliglous, and literarature, would havo exaltod and lognlized evil, instoad of yood, and made tho world & Pandemonium, This mouatrosity of theology would never lave boon accoptod by sane men aud women, had they nat bosu taught uttorly to ignore the teachinga of Natare, whon those tenalinga wora supposed to confiiet with the Bible. 1t Lhfl? had studied tha primal Bible, tho Diblo in thoir own hoarts, the Bibla in tho faces of thoir children, sud tho grest Biblo ot history aud experionco, and had bolioved this Bible "to possess highor nuthority than any anciont Hobrow writings, they would never have accopted such o monstrona viow of human na- tare na that of total dopravity. Then, again, it Nature had been first snd Tibles afcer, in tho estimation of men, that nat- ural yet bloody tragody on the Cross of Calvary could hardly have beon accepted by Christondom o8 an al-suificient atoncment, or satlsfaction, or aubstituto for tho sins of the human raco, nnd becoms a contral doctrino in*a groat systom of theology. Reasoning from Nature,from their own oxporience, sod from what thoy saw all around thom, men would have como inovitably to tho conclusion that thare conld no more be a substi- tuta for moral aiseaso than for physical discaso § that satisfaction conld no moro bo mado for sin thnn for ignoranco ; that moral depravity is strictly persoual and forover untransferablo ; and that no boing, human or divino, excopt thom- solves, could possibly bear tho dogradation and offocts of their dishonosty, meanncas, paasion, or crucily. But the sacrificial types of thoJaws, ond the mystical langnage of John and Paul, and the Epistle to tho eurows, bavo all unfortu- natoly beon inveslod with o signtficanco and an suthority far higher and for more commanding thon tho plainest facta of every-day life and ox~ perionce tho world aver, - ‘Ihen. take that crowning sbame of our so- called Christian theology,—tho doctrioo of end« losy torments. Would any humaa boing, o theso days, with n spark of humanity in his soul, if e flunnllon«l bis own heart, and "nob anclent bo- ofs,—~would any maon inculate s doctrino liko this? Why this growing disbelief of tho doc- trine throughout Christendum? Why this grad- unl suppression of it, ovon in Orthodox pulpite ? Bimply bocause tho growing sense of justice in our nature, and the growing Lumanity of our hoarts, vebol against this doctring as’inhuman in the extrome, if not positively blasphionious. If Nature hiad baon first aund Yiblos after, such an oum:im 8 this on all that 1s just and wercl- {ful could nover, within the last centary, at least, bave been formulatod into o Christian doctriug, Whon meroe power, sovereignty, stern justice, wero worshiped by mon aa highest and best; whon thoy biad not risen above tho darunces or tho sontimoents of the semi-vavage,—it was very oaay for tuem, {f not natural, to iudorss tho dogma of endless puniehmens, But it was s easy for them to indorso s tuousand absurdities equally great, absurdities which wo rojoct to-day without a moment's hesitation, . And, if wo wero o4 free in Religion a4 we aro in overything olso. we ghonld rojoot this semi-gavage “doctrine of codloas punishmont 08 atrocious boyond oxpres« sion, Dt bacouse it i boliovod to be in the Diblo, it is gulped down, and every noblo sonti- ment of tha heart 18 morc'leasly crushed or made to yleld to moro nuthority. Thus is a poaitive injury done to tho bottor naturo of man, aud an equal inquiry dons to tho cause of Truth itself. Had Blvles boca estimated accordiug to thelr roal worth, for all the light and truth ““:f con~ talnod, and for these alone, they would hava bean holps to the world, without any drawbacks. Dut thoy have boon mudo idols, masters, lords, of thought, aud consciouco, aud common sonse, Honco tha mental slavery of Christondom. lenco the suporstitiona acd nonsonsical cerc- monials among Jows aud Qontiles, Henco the dark hietory of tnwo Church for whole centuries,—peniccating Holenco, perssouting ovary man who dared to think for himself, burning horotles without stint or meroy, and shedding tho lunocont blood of hundrods of thoussnde. This could never havo ponod bad men seen and felt that Naturs was not less YIurn. less ssorod, or loss authoratative, than abrew or (o Beriptures, In the pursuits of Selonco, in whichovor dl. voction thoso purauits aro pushed, tho old, en- slaviog Boripture trammols have been tArown off. And now, if we want to know tho geneucs of thiugs, or bow and whon tho heavens and tho oarth wero mads, or what was the order or the methoda ofjcreation, or what ara the position and the rosponsibilitios of man, we go, not s formerly, to the Bible, but to Nature herself, Lut thia courso waa utterly ignored—nay, do- nounced and peraccuted—for ovor 1,600 years, Now, however, talescopes, mathematics, spoctro- 8copes, chemistry, and the advancing swopa of ovory branch of Bcionce, aro compelling mon to admit—very reluctantly, however—tliat Naturo must be first, Bibles after. . HassaLu, ANOTHER THEORY AS TO THE EARTH'S CENTRE, v the Editor of Ths Chicago Tyidunes Cuicaago, HL, March 14.~Undor the hesd of “ Religion and Belence " in Tur Tumvxe, the condition of tho contro of tho casth bas recoived copslderablo atteution. Threo theorien have been mentionod, and two of them (perhaps all, 8a I've seen but a part of the discusaion) more or loss doronded. Klnce there is no posltive proof of elther being truo, & fourth thoory will ba in order, aud for which, in presenting it, I sliall makonoolaim of being based upon selentific experiments, but rathor ou common-sense roa. eouing. On the coast of the ocoan we witnoss the mo- tion of the tides ; observation has domonstrated that the moon and the sun ara thocauss of them, The flood and ebb tido alternately producess current townrda snd from tho land; this curront ls strongest near the slore, gradually aiminishos oceanward, and fnally 16 lost alto- gother, The faland, several houdrod milos out, oxporloncos bigh tide at tho same timo the main- laud doos. Now, tho query {s: Whore did this fumouns body of water éomo from which has raisod tho ocoau & uumbor of foot over such ‘Yast exiont of epaco? Whero wasit lowerod in consuquencs of g raised hero? Tho answer wmust bo, ** Over bhero, from the other contl. Dok, where tho tide was low when bhign hore,” 1t will bo immateriai as to whether the earth iy a solid globe or a Liollow sbell, or whethor the in- terior Is an 1gneous-molton mass. In either cays it wonld huve tobo an unbroken solld body, Ty Yory Uoven” Suitiaess e o —! Ton dopresalons forming tho bed of flu‘ 9ceaD, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, I876—TWELVk PAGER, and the working of the tides a =waylng of tho watora forward and baok from one side of the mlobe to the othor. ‘This may appoat no diffi- calt thing whon looked at auperfictally, It may he asked, '* What'n to hindor it ?" and so the peoplo of former timos hiave secn no dififenity in tho sun and stars making A circott at » great dis- tanco aronnd the oarth, whilo the idea of tho oarth's ravoiving, when first broached to them, looked propostsrous, Obsorvations hava often minled ; It waa by obaorvation that the people belioved the earth standing alill and the sun moving., Mnany yet think that the ,Dipper i moving round tho North Btar onco in twonty- four biours 3 they insiat npon it, bocausa thoy qu‘y ve froquently noticed ft, Now, I hold tuat onr ousorvations of tho ebbing and flowing of tho tido lave led to tho forming of wrong concoptions of its natnro; tbat, in roality, there is o riso and fail of the watar, but the coulrary,—a rising and sinkiy, of the laud; that tho earth proper is a globo of wator, with fragmonts of » broken-up planct imnierned in it,—tho Inrgeat protniding, and thns forming tho land portion ; that tho forcos of At~ traction and ropulsion uxlsxln;f botweon sun, moon, and the two cloments of land and water, produce the. heaving and rocking motion of tho solid parta, or tho apparent rise aud fail of tho ocoan, callod the tide; that, although but a very small part of tho fraginontary eolil eloment in oxposed or above wator, yet thesn solids da not by n long way reach the lowest dopth, aad 80 tho centro of tho oarth would bo wator. - ‘The tirst contradiction likolyito bn met will be, that ** A bottom is found moss anywhors in the ocosn.” This ml( be 80, and yet it wiil not im- pair the reasonabfonocss of the theory, Anap- parent bottom would not neccesarily ons off tho water frora the contre, Bupposo tho two contl- nonta woro ontirely aornmeu whon they had fallon into tho globo of wator. Aftor baving aunkon down into it till thoir gravitation was balanced by the prossure of the watez, and thoy ootild aluk no farther, thoy noxt, by the atirac- tion oxisting betwoen them,—being of tho samo matorial,—wonld Liave boon drawn togothor, the smallor moving up to the Iarger. Supposo, again, that thoy have moved towanls each other i tho direction of tho Atlantlo ; their gront bulk —not only ns to dapth, bug also to broadth aud longth—was undor wator, g0 thot tho contact took place deep down In tho same, and thus at once was formod tho bottom of the At- Inntlo Oconn, As nono bat very large bodloa of that nature (rook) aould bo praventad from being ontiroly submorgod, “"‘“’f" small fragmonts may Liavo fallen on tho Pacitlc sido or elsewhero, sunken daswn as far na their gravitation towards tho contro of this globo could accompliah brouglit togother by their own aitrastion, an thus havo formed au apparent bottom for ovory arh of the ocoan, Indeed, the sholl theory may 0 cortoct ; only ibeido of it we havo cold water instoad of liqnid fiva, "Tho olaims for tiua'theory are : that it Elacuu tho tita-ptcnomenocn in a rational light, obviat- ing tho necessity of tho wators being earried lithor and thither to produco them ; that 1t will furnish » far botter solution of volcanooa, oarthyunkes, tidal~waves, ocoan curronts, tho maalstrom, than tho othor advanced theorios do: £hat 1t makes clear tho reason why tho ocean s conflned to tts boundarles,—why it doos not raiso or lowor bocmaso of*tho great or littlo amount of water rupning fnto it; and it does away with tho nocossity that its ovaporation shion!d bo equnl to tho smount of water it ro- celvas from ths rivers and the clouds above it. As a further suggestion, let our ecfentific mon consider this theory 1u connoction with thoir in- vostigationy. Lonenzo RaNE, ——— BENNIE'S REPRIEVE. A TRUE ETORY OF TNE WAR, (Tho $nctdent which suggested thicse vorses was pub lisbied in tho New York Obserser, sud copied from that into Banders' Fifth Reader.) Q0 friend! when I gnee np my son, my Bennle, kind and true, Thers wia no father in our land, banooth this sky so hluc, Gave to Lis country gift more dear, more proclous,— no, not one ; And niow poor Bennlo will be desd befors tha rising sun, ‘The dear boy only alept ono short, short minuto at his (1 kno thero was no Batter Loy, nor braver, 1o that o, And theu fio was 50 yowng and slight, hio never was quito stfong ; N And now to ahoot hfin hike o dog! Iow can they do such wroug 17 “T've rond the telegram agaln, Twenty-four hours It paidd, oaoai wlnlc‘rln,u poor Senndonow? Can he fadeed o deas 1kmow ho diil not mean o slecp, 1Te's young, thou gl he's uo tall 3 Only elghteex, thls boy of mino, only elghtoen—that's a What d1d you eay to me, doar friend 7 You hopa ho {8 in Teavon? Yes, God is morcifal, T know, and aurely ho's forgiven, 1 nover can foryet thewo words my noble Benulo aaid & 0 father! shiould bo ashamod if, whien my country od, 1 never ured this great right arm, so sirong and rug- ged now. 1'd ratnor "trould bo palsted than koep it at thie plow ] +4Gothen, my boy, and may Tt Lisad Who rules us, Koep you in fafety, Go, my boy, God blosa you, and good-by I And Ho has kept him, fdonds, T think™ : fo slowly spoke he tiow An it lio almost doubled it, and. drops stood cn his 0w} For grlof had wrnug thed farmer's heart, snd twas Findeod binail "' ‘That-ytood k0 near the canln-li, tho gravo-yard, and 10 O “Xes, tiod it keop him safe, dear frfond, T will not doubt again " ‘Dloaxom tat neat thom lstoniag, e chiccks all Lanch'd i n. Bho did nntl:;md & single tear, and no ono thought to 60 How palo alio was,—At the door & tap.—* It {s from him,” saidl sho, vm-&xx & measage from the dead; and, aa the father The lettor from her trombling bands, hiow his poor flugers shook, He beld it towards the minlster, a8 holpless sa a ehil: Looking vipon bis faco with eyos so full of patn, yet vaild. . The Ictter quickly opened—‘Desr fatler,” uo he ol “When this last letter reaches you, your Bunnle will o deais At llrllll%( socmed 80 awful, 80 strange, I could not ik Dat now Death haa no terror, though I etand upon its 0k, They n!ly lhfiy will not blindfold me, nor bind me when 'm ahiot Bo like g man I'll mectmy destl, 88 that's to ba my lot il ¢ Imm upon the battlefisll, for Freodom, 1 should all, Dot Uke a dog must I boshot for carclessneas~that's all, [ m)lur dzxu, the vory thought (s worso tlsn death 0 my . ¢ Noglact of duty,’ o they my, and thus so let 1t be s But 1'll not disgraco you, fatber,—1'll teil it a1l ta you, Bo when I'm gouo you can tell thoso doar comeades L was tru} You know 1 {old the mothee of poor Jommlo Care 3 Would' caro for him as for mysolf, and begg'd hor not o cry, And na, wllrx'on he at Isat foll alck, I did my very beat; But they sont Lim siek back to the ranks, aloug with all i rost, 480, on tho day befors that nlght, I took, besides my. AU of Im.’. Iuggsge on ths mareh,—bs couldn’s stand slun A8 nigt hhoan'd upon me, 88 wo marched at doubilo- quick; 1 waa tired out whon wo reach'd camp, but Jemmio waa quite sick, ’l"lllfiu hr{:ll thas night aa gentry, but tako hiy place woul . Though I waa' 80 41rod and sloepy I nodded whoro T bt 3 And T hav slent hed thoy leld a gun closs polated at my head 3 Butx -;mxfi Kuow it U1l foo fate, andnow 11 soon bo dead.” “Thank (od, hewas not ncgligont; I kmew hewould potaledp Unfaithtul to his daty! I am thankful whilo X weep.” Tiut the letter went on slowly—** They've given ashort Topriove,— “Time to wrile you,' sald our Colonel,—and, father, o nat grisvo: And do I‘m e poor Jemmie,—ho does nothlog but onfr Ta et Aint die In place of me,—can neithor sleep nor [ Tcan't Inulr to think of mother sad Blosson, true and 00 3 Oht =‘3mmr¢ them, aud sy I dfo ss bravely as I should; And, when the war 1a aver, thoy nesd not bs asbamed, Anthey must ba Bow, whod Ly beas s 40 wruugly 'd 2D scorp m'd, God help mal it {0 Lard to besr, My fallior dear, ood-Ly | Tho 157 Iy very near ta me, and will Lo when T dio, Then, freed :lflfln paln and sorrow, from sip, and wsr, ' 1o wil 145 sag'to my Bevior,—{o & belter, better lite, A doop sigh broke from every hosst, and, iaag slowiy “The faruiuk wipod his teastul eyos, sud sald, Amaen L TM‘I:&::". in the early twilight, I'l ses the cows coms From ‘t:a;:.lg:';ar-mnud pasture where thoy are wont Aud Blossoia will stand waiting on tho low back-stoop But 1'*‘1:1' &‘v’ur, never come sgain whero oft T used e Yohvt, T deas o o oy S50 ks, you Al 32y mea | yr—» . . . . ' . . That l:;fl:;. upon the “low back-stoop * a Uitle Bgare . 3 ’ And woltly shut the kitchen-door, dresa'd warm with cloak and hood, And da:m I}nlc') foot-path to ths road that led close by o milt, Bhe hastened avar onward, so awiflly, yet go attll, Bhe looked not to tho left nor right, but quickly fled #ho thers, With foldod hands oft ralsed to Ifearen, as If sho broathiod & peayer, At fongth alio stnod alons hesido the depot by thoe mill, Aud walted for the coming train in th” even caloy and atli, Ier tear-stalned faco caused pity o the heatt of the ROt man Upon thn teain, who Kindly safd, “I'll help you sll 1 an,’ oo fathat canld b kindor o a fov'd and only ana Taan wan bo-to iitlo Blostom, who told him what alio’d done, ¥ Bhe waa on her way to Washlngton to aave her brothor L mz.’d‘nuni: off and left s note Lo tell them she wan oro, Aud bad faken Donala's lober,—for well eaough st new A Xind heart like our Presidont's wonld eall it bravo and trne. AS Jast s ronch'd (he Capital, not restod till sho o Whnm' llu!l l’n‘nh!enl was seated ; then, throwing back or oo With downcas{ eyos befors him, oud folded hands, atood alio. nu,lmght tad early what do you a7 child, want with m “ Bennle‘a life, bleado, Mr,” sald Dioaxom, * Beunlo? vho may Dennlo be?" My brother] They will shoot him, alr, for at lils poat slept he,” “0yos! now Itemembor Wim, It wad s fatal slocp Yat'see 'tin a time of deager, and we ¢loss watch muat keep, A thow: nw{:l Hv::,- might have been lost by carclessnesn #o rcat, *Bo n;l{ Il;lllmr sald," replied slio, * snd Lo must moot iia fate. But poor Dennlo was 80 Lired, i, and Jommis was ko wweakcs Mo diaall \’(ho work of two, sir, and now ho will not Apnak, n Tt waa Jemniea night, not enniv'e; aad, Shough he s 0o, 1o novor thought xbout Afinacl/, hie wan 80 good and \r L What'a this you say 2 Como here, my child, I do fiot yinderstand ;* And nlxln kl!:n:u:nm drow her tohim, and gently took or ha ‘Turniug hor pale face up to him,—~to him 80 great and tall,— . And A was Proaldent Lincoln, who held thofate of it "Theso thoughte pasn'd quickly through hor mind as quictly atio laid Toor Lounio's lotter in his hands; closo by bta side ahio statd ‘While bie read It through, took uphis pgn, and wroton line or two, * Bond this dispatch ot onco,” sald ho,—then turn’d, and to him drew The glrl, and s1{d, * Go home, my child, and, to your fathor any That Abrabam Lincoln thinks that lifo too dear to throw away, r Howho spproved, as right and just, that sentence, thougn it took Alifo an proclous ss thia onc, shall on his horo look. Qo back agaln to-tmorrow, child, and Lennis snall go too, For bravily baw o look'd on death, but ho was saved 2y you, » aodhhlzu you, sir I" said Blossom, and Heaven hoard ier prayer, For auroly Lo fa blossod now, and sita in glory thoro, Two dags hiavo puss'd, nnd now again within the Walte-Housa door, Hha standa in all bor Jovelinoss, but pale and esd no more; ¥or Jienmis 4 busido her now, and qulokly enters 0 Aud tanils befors thio Presldcat, brava boy dreasod n bluo, Kindly looxs he down upon them w moment whoro they stand, Then lnko; \lotiave young solaler most warmly by tho an: And, whilo ho fastens Grmly, in its unwonted place, Tho' badge of a First-Lioutonaot, he snye, with carnest faco: “Tho soldier who could carry a slck comrade’s lug- gago too, And dio 50 uncomplainingly, fs as noblo as ho's teuo, And well deserves country's praise.” Bo, on thelr homoward way, With (Rnl:kdlul and with happy hearls, thoy started out at day, A crowd wau ot the depat to wolcome them again, Whflufiiflm l;ynl ‘unussd to weeplug the toars fell dawn 0 ratn, As Farmor Owen claspod his son, to Ifeaven Liis oyos o ral ly And 'mid Dis tears maid fervently, “The Lord of Hosts bo praised Maxcu 1, 1874, Drraansn TIIE CHINESE QUESTION. A Serions Social Problom—Johu's Wny of Living. Virginia (Nev.) Enterprize, Tha leamed men who condict commanding Tostorn journnls eauncl undorstand why tho poanle of "thls coast are opposed to tho fnfliux of o raco which all admit possees pationt industry ond thrift; who, ss o rule, aro poacoablo citizens, aud who ask for nothing except what thoy can eatn. They think it I but o pre{udlcu of education whicl makos mne) ioveigh ugainat tho Chineso, somothing akin to that spirlt which in the ofd slave dnys mado the mon ot the South ballave thoy were right In. posscssing I;:mporly in man, and o bolisving in ctasses. ‘Choy can soo no taint in tho prosonco of the Chinese, and won- doringly ask why we, in n conntry whero tho cleap labor of innumeratlo hauds {8 nooded, op- poss the very moans by which our wanta can be supplied. Wo toll them thot white men cannot compote with the Olrinceo, and thoy emcor nt us, and as much ag say, “If you stroug Anglo- Baxon cannot compoto with thls inferior and half-bnrbarous race, then the sympathy of the world will novor go out to you if you aro un- dono by Chinamen,” ~ And yot that I8 the point whorein the whola troubls lics, Tho Ohinene liva on food which the whits man coutd nnt swallow if o wore famishing : ho sleaps in cribs that would suffocats & white laborer ; oud_wnth- all rastriotiona taken off thero is notn trade «f the white man's that tho Clifness con'd not o fivo yoers monopoliza,’ Thero I8 no invon- tion in” tho raco, but their faculty for imitation is marvelous, Bhow -~ fliem once how o boot’ {s made nnd thoy Torover aftor will make boots as nearly lilto thelr firat modol as ono bird's nonc fa lfke another. In all tho weatern Pacific Islands and on the Indian Const they havo drivon overy competitor nway, and l,hay control tho trada thore. Noither En- glish, Gormaw, nor Duich, not evon ths Jowo. can compote with them, For our good on this coast we wish a dozen ehip londs of coclies could bo landed in Now York, enongh to mako n Cliness quarter on somo street in that city, It would do somo Enstorn editors good to sco how they fivo and to find out how ano of their deny smoll. They would begin then to realize that, it thore wers a million of thom instead of a few hundred, Now York Uity would bo_poorer in- stend of richer for their presenco, Thoy won!ld bogin to roalize that no nnwnpn}nr would avor bo subscribod for by evon ono of all that mili- ion; that no public work intendad for tho health, prosperity, or intelligence of the peopls wm\IJ over bo hiolped by them ; thoy would soa- that trades woro falling into their [iands, but that the mblic somehow wers not prospering, soo that from thefr quarior of tho city tho other races were drawing away as from s pestilonce, and would undorstand that, in caso of dangor, o million of theso half-mado men would be no defenss, This ia slmply aebusincen look ; but, oing further, they would 06 that ovory woman of tho race was both = hartot and & slnvuJ that thioy wero boiug bought and sold daily, and ¢hat ovnxi offort of courts and ofticials could not check tho vice for a moment. This might be oxtonded Indofinitely, It might bo shown that, under our laws, tbn{ but follow tho Iawa of thoir own conntry in all sheir relations with ench othor, and that thero o not power cnough in either polico or courta to changs this atato of affalrs for & momont, The Eunropoan soon marges with our peapls, and f¢ is hard to tell aftor a gonoration or two, whathor a msn is of English, German, or any other European dosceut. But tho Chinesa Lave not changed for thirty centuries, and all othor lands, oxcept Chipa, are to him and his forelgn shoces for- oyer, Their presonce here now, and the possi- bilities of the evils they may bring to our peo- plo {u the fuluro, s & moro sorious problem thau the Amorican racs have yet been eallsd upon to decide, o A S A PERSONAL STATEMENT, To ths Editoy af Tim Chicago Tribune; ¥toN, N, Y., March 15.~Will you allow me to dorrect astatoment in your .vaper of the 6th iust,, to the effect that “W. U, Addison hal beenr caught through the oxortions of Mr, CF. M, Groves, of New Yotk, and was {n the havds of the Bheriff of Bacramento," ete, Bz, Addizon's Burrender waq an absoluld and voluntary one, ‘The first known of his whiare- abouty winco June was through a tologram re- calved by e Peb, 28, gaylng ‘““ho Lad given Mld"l!lf" nto custody, subfoct to Mr, Groves' orders. On golog 8o Now York, 1 found that the Bhorift of Bacramonto had tals &flmsl to the Bhorifl of New York, saying, ** WK.N , Addisou s in my hands, onaaINg unuseLy with baving dofrauded AMr, droves. o to the Baok of the lotropolis, and ascortalu what he wislios done with him.” Alr, Groves replicd, "I do nob waut him;” nor has he cver made any exertions o secure Iim, = 1f avy one deaires proof of the truth of my atatomont, it can be obtained from the Hharift of Bacramonto or from Mr. Urovod, of New York. In conciuslon, I ask that, for the sake of jus. tice sud tw (ruth, yon wili [‘ivn this a8 mucn publicity =8 you have your former statemouts congesnlog bim. ELra M. Avbuon, . 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