Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 10, 1876, Page 1

The Chicage Dailp Teibmme, NUMBER 223, ° RELIGIOUS. way, seoking Informstion, so the hoart musttarn | word 4 grery way in ita longlogs ' for tho wolfare of the | It did ::‘:l t:o'mli‘:{\el'y'&': ‘é‘:..‘r’:é":? ‘L‘.%E:i"%fli; % The Power of the Holy Ghost *?--= Sermon by Prof. Andrews, of world, Deing had roachod, parhaps, Hia thirty-fourth Dennison University. SILKS: B et REAT BARGAINS often misplaced, 1t is one thing to expect groat results from a given source, and quits auother to mseo those reaulta full ripeped snd devaloped. It is one thing to beliove you will eneceed through ald from thla or that quartor, and another really to auno- cood, Wea the Holy Ghont rosponeivs to thia constant and unwavering trust reposod Ia [im by tho Fathors of the Church? And did He work aa they bolioved 1Is was working, and l‘l';l“oxg ?wnrk. in the establishmont of true ro- Only s single anawor, (hat shall boat once honost snd eullghtenad, can be relurned to thoao Inquiries. 1t a man can {ntelligantly aur- Yoy tho miato of the suciont world at the timo whon the Gospel was fiest presohed, and at- tribute the onrly conquosts won by the humble 1ollgion of the Cross to anythiog short of di- vine agoncy, he s eithor dishonest, or elso ho has lost the Bensa of reslity, and crodulity has usurpod tho throne of roason in his mind. Kor the Gospol of Jesus Clrist waa hostile to sll tho alive proponsitios, aud all the anciont bo- liofs aod projudices of mankind, and was obliged to faco the opposition of Jows aod Clen. tlios alike, Truo, whatever belonged to the Aloealo faith, puro and eimplo, Chirlstianity con- sarved and davelopod ; but the real religion of tho Old Testamont was not, to any ox- tont, tho Jewish roligion of our Havior's time. -~ Tho cesenco of that grand faith had become oncased {n adventitious forma and Habbinic suporstitions, too dooply to affact the peoplo or to appear divine. Tho spiritual, otornal substance of thelr religion, the Jows had lost, To thom the form waa all; and, Lencs, to 0o that form torn in pleces unsparingly, as was dono by Christ, arrayed thom more bitterly againat ‘tho now faith than any heathon that faith has ever encounterod, In tho Gontilo world, tho friolion of the Gose polagainat old faitha lighted tho firos of & por- secution almostas flarca, The roliglousinstincta of man aro so strong that lio glves up only with roluctanco, anv roligion from which he has drawn tho slightost eolaco; and tho beathen idean of God aud religion wore 82 old and decp- soxted, and, withal, 8o friondly, for the most part, to a bago and fleahy lifo, that, in its atrug- glo with them, tho pura and ho!{ Gospo! laborad uader the groatost conceivable disadvantago. Thero could be no compromise botweon them. Clriatianity was exclusive, aud could ba contont. cd with nothing short of universal ompiro. A donial of their right to cxist waa the gauntlot which it threw down befaro all other roligions, Ot courso, &. truceless war follomed; so that, in whatever new city tho Gos; et {ta foot, it wia obliged to engage in doadly combat with the champions of some stubborn Luman roligion, Tut, apart from Jho IMoly Ghost, the tesourcos of this nggrossivo doctrine woro as’ fow as its enomies wore many, There was not ona badge or traco of human power abont it. Jesus Chriat IMimsolf, afcor s birth from Lumbla parentage, and lifo without riches or honor or learning or distinction or patronago, died a desth so ‘fi. nominfous thas it was iticgal for a Toman cltl- 2on to suffor it,~upon s cross, botwoon two thioves. His Apostles wore not suoh mon a8 wo should solect %0 carry through any groat enter- llrluu, ‘Thers was among thom, no Kiog or ’rince or couttier, or Govornor or Lord or war- rior ; no man of woalth to buy favor, no profea- power is requisite to make men submit to Christ and love Him now than was noeded to give Iita caune the victory in Antioch or Corinth, when first proached. Bo long &4 roligion continues to changa this world for better, the Holy Bpirit will be its sgent In effecting tho change. But_why, theo, do.we not_believe this mora heartily, mors practically 7 Why 18 it that, so froquontly, Christisa mon abandon labor alto- gethor, a4 if thoro were 00 hopa that Gol's trth will trlumphs,” or flllddl’lil 6 in it in a apir- it of solf-dependence, 8a if their own unaided efforts wonld save the world ? Tho trouble is, Chrlstian poople ara cherishing somo sontiments, st tho presont time, which ropresa faith in tho = Loly Spirt's work. Tho most obvious of thess must bo examinad : First—It in to be foared that tha Holy Bpirit i too often rogardod morely s a divine influ~ ehoa rather than a person. liovers sare not saufliciontly scoustomed to think of 1lim ss the personal ropresoutatlys of the Godhead in ro- gonerating and esnclifying men; snd, whon thoy have_ loat eight of this fact, it is easy for them to ignore 'im agency altogothor, and to think of religlon as progrossing, 1f_at all, by the goneral and indafinita bleasing of God, bestowod indirectly throngh the working of prowidence, But Scripture toaches that the Ioly Spirit is a8 much a person as eithor’ tha Fathor or the Bon, 1o is namod with thom In thie baptismal formu- I, Ho ts roprosonted as & distinct sgent apar? from both the other persons of the Trinity. He has apeparsta_perdonal will, and can ba joved or plessed. It i in tho nersos of the m)y Bpirit that God s with Ilis people. In His person, Christ evermore abldes in Iiis Church. The whole sctivity of graco in tho dis- pensation of the Gospal is dopendsut upon Him, Cnly let . this beliof obtain, and thon whatavor coovictions Christians bavo that divine powor ia actin, in favor of roligion At all, wil take Hcriptural form and Docomo an mssuranoe, that tho IToly Ghost ns & porson, haviog been charged with tha trust of making religion provail, is exocut- ing thos truat, snd will be true to it to the tris umphant end. . Second—Binco Bacon's timo, men have beon ob- serving the mfinl-rfly of natural law, Thoy soo tha Lieavenly bodies miove with such precision that tho cclipsos and the positions of the stars can be accurately foretold for ages: to come. ‘Tho Ians of lighit, hoat, aud electricity, so far as known, have shown thomselvos a8 truo and reg- ular as If exocuted by the hand of Fato. Now, this procision of law in nature sooms to haye be- gotton in some minds tho notton that the law i solf-operative, automatic. 'Cheidea, once formed,' goes over into the roalm of spirit, and mon say, and evon somo Clristian mon, thoagh of course thoy do not hold any such theory formally, fall into o habit of iacitly, supposing that spiritual changes, liko natural ooes, are to bo clazeifiod only, not accounted for; tuat spiritunl laws en- forco themselyes ; that we do not nead to soek for any agent bebind them, Docs humanity progress toward tho Divine ideal from ago to ago? I'rogrossisa law of Lumanity, woe are told. I » soul converted and o base lifo changod to a holy ono? 'Cho explanation is at band. Tho sonl and tho Iifo have boon brought under, influonces which act by a law for tho moral improyoment of men, 'This scoms to be enough to satisfy cortain minds, Prayor and providence, rovivals of roligion, and all the snd lo evory dopartment of Christian uesful- noes, lot us crowd toll upon toil and mulitiply oxortlons with exertions. Yot, If we aro right- Iy affected with the truth this hour prosentod, all our own labors will seem to us_idls without the powar of God's Bpiric, Wo shall ufind tho Inck of thisas a vital lsck which nothing can Civilization Is tie unfon of two_streams, & | yoar whon death éame to ITim, not b losrniog tlnt cannot bo decelvod and & a0ul that | Sor by old aqo, Which. 1akes Away the ats of Will not bo betrayed into inhumanity or indiffor- | tha grave by weakening sl tho passiona that ;ncn. It is tho parallel actton of mind snd | bind to earth, but came In ho form of & mob oart along. oullfi’hlonnd patha, Now, in tho bis- | closing around him moro closoly and becoming tory of civilizatibn, tha element of learniug bas | more furiousss they drow nearor the catastrophe, como'tirat, Knowledge has always outrun love. | All the details ot the doath wers terrible. Bt Thero have Leon moro wise mon than good | out of those hts of sgony on the cross thors men. Nearly all tho nsins of the calendar | hss come s —yman, aympiathy that has tarned havo beon manufactured out of the favorshio | the rude wid into” an orosmont joweled momory whick follows tho dead. Death aud the | with precion Satonces or garlanded with fiowars, truth are so straoge, 5o full of myatery, that | The cross :Zaugs upon tho neck of the e noon forgive tho dofecta of all thore wholinve | Cbristisn wy7.an, or stands by the wayside tuat beon placed uader the sod, 1n the Chamber of | the pligrim =4y bo invitedito prayer; fodeod, re- Death even tho sios of & Honry VIIL., | appears in/ “Ytho placos and scanes whero the or a Lord Hyron, or o Napoleon, | heart com(< and stands as the emblem of life gcem to fado awayand bocome unimportant, | sorrows & S hopes, Man fs 8o fashioned for happincss that hin soul | * This Clfigit, whone cradle snd tomb, and whoss in = vaso that will hold long only the beautitul. | a1l betw & thoee boundaries, have 80 turned As & vigorous coustitution throwa off disease, | tho humd *mind slong tho path_of montiment, and oxpols tho virus of fever, and reconstructs | fof; Lohi * Him & religion pervaded from first to all tho tissues, and ordors back the Hght to the | last by fud spirit, Xt surpasscs all other alapes oye snd the color to the cheok, 8o the hcart | of thought in power to devolop the hosrt, That casts off tho pfinful and will forget tho bad | jmmenne benevotence which has abolishod slava qualities of the dead, loving only to bold 1n re- | ery sud will yet abolish war; which has buils mombrance the good words and good actious | schoolu and saylums, and bas ssnt the mise of tho broken, ouded life, Thus it comes to | sionary to the equator and the polo, and made pasg that onr calendar fa full of sainta | the hymn of worship sound amid porpataal and ouc;world rathor cmpty. Tho grave with | flowers and perpetual, 6now is notling elso than ita solemnity and m-mor(. with ite pattiality for | tha pattos of Josus, swolling out 1ato philan- only the besutiful, will always keep our nichios | thropy. Iho arms that embraced Jittle children fuli of lovod images. Nothing is so powerful in | have since that day ombraced tho continents and maliug eaints as & fow soars *under tho | the jelands; tho tears thst foll for tho dosd dednies,” Upon this side of the dnlsies it must | Lazarus have increased into s rain thas bodows Lo coufessed that the element of learniog has | tho world, Tho whole Christian Church, 8o far outruu tho elemont of moral sonsibility, and has | sa it possesscs any merit, so far sa it is falshful givon us a world full of learning rather thau of | toits protstype, is only an calargement of the tumau sentiment. A reaeon for suchn condl- | worde, * Como unto me, sll yo thst labor and tion of tlunga is cesily found in the fact that) arc heary laden, and you sball'ind rest for your posscanes & natural fonducss for truth, s curi- | soule.” osity about the unknosn, but not a rational fond- Not only in this bonevolence of Christianity nesa for tho virtues, Tho pursult of learning is | do wesco ths feelings of Christ, but in that zellithi 5 tho oxercise of love for maokind g grunf. vision of auothor life all the sentiment of uuselfish, and benco will como lator. Byaa | Jesus roturos to graco it. Man, in bia Intetlect- much a8 tho scorn precodes tho oak, the savags | unl prido, does not love to dwell upon the tdoa nlwnyn_rrecciled the divine. ‘Thosa qualitiea af | of o futuro lifo, The pronfs are not taugible man will elways como first whizh demand the | enough, and henco tho lotty intellects of all least of tho divine nature, War hoa nlwaye en- | times have passed slong almost silontly over gaged man sooner than the fluo arts havo oo- | this woudorful vislon. Lspocially ao tho wiso gaged him. Ho hes made & bow and arrow be- | men of our own time epeak litila of the land 1ore ho has invented a letter or plauted a vine, | that is afar off. Our selenco goes back millions Man gatheors scalps & thousaud yoars before hio | of years, but it rofuscs to go forward. It can psints a picture, or makes & fluto'or s harp. In | fiud the footprints of man In tho old rocks and the long, long bullding of ecivilization, learn- | caves; it can rasd his presencs on tho ing came first, ond tho wirtues of the | old uténsila of stone; but it cannot find beart Iagged bohind. Curiosity drow tho | auy foot-prints on the shore of aternily ta vhilosophers along toward information. | come. It 1inds no alarrsy crown of tho fuiuro, Arigtotlo {a maid to Lavo becomo ead | that will point out Ieavon, a8 the stono hatchot becauso lio could bv no means discover what | points out antiquity. Hence our men of scionca csused the tides of tho ses. DBut no cuclosity | look back and ot forward. But through such mado him voarn for the welfaro of his Lrother, | an age walks Chirist, adding pathos to humauity, ‘Tho blood of butterfiies, tho crica of the slave, | and what sclence canuot show us by its research, did not sadden bim. Cicoro, Ciesar, Sonoca, all | tho feclings of relizion reveal through tenrs. that wondeiful sesembly of powerful braios thas | Tho frioud buries friond, and all tha Jovo of the met on the Moditerranean shores, had reachod an | Lieart pomts out the Shining Shore, To what intollectual condition far boyond thoculturs of | argument thore is, ia now addod a'roligions tho fine sentiments, sontimont that belps make Ileavou’s gato near For such’' n development of only ane side of | and bLeautifal, i)ndor the influcnce of this human paturo, you will find furthor cxplana- | eentiment, doath bocomes & slecp of gloriuus tion in the fact that learning grati- | waking. fles vanity moro readily than =~ the 1t baing, hen, the porfection of tho mind that sentiment of bobevolenco can gratify that | it shonld bo composed of two parte, itellest veaknoss. As o fact, the world enthroned nnfioly. . ‘Thon, again, such a view will ‘lead ns Lo mor conatant and intense prayer for the outpouring of the Bpirit, ‘When we look abrosd upon the vast enginery of Chrintondom,—ita churctios and )l)mlc)u!ru. ita Hunday-schools and missious, 1te roligioun press end various sociotios for propagating the Gospel, —foreas fn themaelves almoss compotent to shake tho world,—sud scc how slowly the oper- ato, how fow areconvoried, lhow the millenium dolays, how the faithifal fail, and the hosts of ungodly men etill show thoir stubborn front, we are lod to cry ont, ** Where (s the divine power In Curist's religion ? Wiheraathe promise of Ilis coming " Tho answor ia ot hidden, Wo have lost that divine power and forfoited that promisa by ignoring too much our need of tho Spirlt's help, Like thoso iznorant Eptieasn disciples, wo hava hoen contented with tho baptiem of John. Wo havo nover exporicnced the full bo- stowmont of the loly Ghost. Only by sufforing Hin doop and oversiclming baptism stall the Church'a resurrection coms. For that bhaptism, let us henceforth pray with now and ceanuiers farvor, 1t 1u the ouly hope af religion, and ro- ligion s the oaly hope ot tho world. ——— CHRIST AND THE HUMAN HEART. SPRMON DY PROF. BWING. Prof. Swing delivored the following ser. mon yesterdsy morning to a large congregation at the Central Churel, worahiping in MoVicker's Theatre : Jenus wept.—John, zi., 35. The studeuts of mental phonomens discover at once two ehapes of spiritnal action In the mind,—intellectul and conditional. Tho intel- lectual is a pursuit of truth or & comparison of idess, s doductiog of cancluslons for edacational or businesa purposes or for pereonal ontertain- ment; s conditional asction is & yield- ing to the joy, or sorrow, or rovory, that rises up from tho truth, or sup- posed trath, to tho brain. Into those two vast departments of action the mind divides itsolf na it sets forth in its indostry. But the succesa of tho mind doponds upon tho final union of thosn *two streams. 'The intellect may be compared to tho treasure-acoker, the heart tothoe tresgure- spender, the latter appropristing %o use what- over tho formor may have discovered. Tho fn- tolloct scems, in tho economy of nature, to bo tho parveyor for the heart, Astho oye discov- era the monntain and tho foreat beforo the beart is filled with the besuty of the prospect ; as tha car gathers up the shadiogs of sound before the soul can pronounco upon the musio; 80 every- whora tho intellectual faculties aro tize servants of the cmotional paturs, minstering to ita dosires of duty, or ambition, or busineas, or happincss, ~ Boul is an onorgy, Dedieation of the First Baptist Church.- Sermon by tho Rov. 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Thoy may have hoon immersed by somo irrespoosible follower of Joha the Baptist. We cannot toll. But it ia protiy ovident from thoir ignoranco of Chrlst and thoe Ifoly Spirit, and from tho fact that Paul thought proper to robaptizo them, that hithor- to thoy bad not savingly approhoended Jesus. Bomothing pocualiar in tholrdoportmont or utter- anéos lod the Apostls to question the reality of tholr faith, He applica tho test, “Did yo re- colve tho Hloly Gliost on belleving 7 When you professed faith and wore baptized, wers you con- scious of a change within you which you conld not help sseribing to divine power ? Were yon the subjects of an inward transformation, or of & moro outward roform? " This was the docisive question, Thin waa the infallible touchstons on which tho Apostlo triod tho metal of their char- . and emotion, that it should possoss great idoas IN TEIE actar, slonal orator to move the ann)e with oloquonce. | blessed manifestations of God's especial graco, fi"l,l:l‘ l;:‘l:‘l#.)llofi.ul: E“ififl?.?&?“}flflifif“: )';u knowledro, and the student climba as though he | and then u great chaunol -kyn:.- \vnichgu! tithg ‘ . 5: Tho ssking of this question, thorofors, Tho most oradito among thom wasa tant-maker ; | are rifled of tholr charm, aggl the wholo sorvice | gig mind is “m“m,‘l up the gr:uum troths for | YTore asconding o throne. It bas not beon quite | aro to tlow in waves of life, Christ comos ay s K A undor $hoss ciroumstanoos, was tanta. | Boveral woro mezo fishormon, aud ono was a tex- | of God becomes as unsatiafsing and monotonous | 40 guldance of the groatost impulas. When s | 89 Wondorful a thiog tobe akind and good man, | harmony of human lifo, comes to end a phtloso- % mount to toacling that ihero cau | collector or publicsn—following a calling. tho | ascan woll bo imagined. Tho Holy Bpirit Las | hunteman fa aut 1o the woods of flelds with hia | )Ybatman admires most, is of course, man being | phy that has no cmotion, a8 in the old wiso mon, B | bo no Christian faltl in a human Loare oxcapt | P96t odious ot Iesat bo Jows, that, oould poasl: | no scops ar provinco; and faith in Hit, if uot | facultios on the alort that ho may tiod gamo, | L0 Judgo, the bighest, 1o bas thus como o | and sn omotion. as in tho soususlist that hu no ed. 0 'aul, al ustorly repudiated, bocomes ontircly col an i : At i loarnin a8 n ared a INQUIRE OF 8 engondorod by the Holy Spirit, 'Tbia I tho | 17 0 ORNaREG. ) BOLURETENE that PRt A iy iy his mental powers are ministoring to s sontiment | PA% glity 8 primary toaching of the toxt; but, einco tho Churcly grows and roligion advancos by nocre- tions of individual souls slono, this passage also agsuros us of a broador truth,—that the oly Bpirit s the causal mgont in the whole work of extonding religion. IMix your miods for a briof time opon this themo, wlnta its truth is ampli- fied aod proved, ana those popular sentimonts which becloud this truth aud repross faith in it aro critlelaod. It the Goupo! had baen o moro human schome, wioning acceptouce, liso Aobammedanism, wituout tho aid of any humau power, only by tho fofluence mud persons! supervision of its founder, nothing could bave beon more strangely fooliak than that Ho should loave the world of 1lis own accatd, or more fatal to tho causo than that Ho abould bo obligod to loavp it. Yet, in that momorablo conversation just bofors tho moauiugloss, Third~—1t {s God's plassure to oporate in this world through moans, Provisions for our phys- tcal supsistence do not presont themsslves at the hidding of the Almighty, all ready for tha uge of mau. Inmostof tho divive procedure which comes Into our flold of view thore ia a long chain of cangos sad effects betieea pur- poso and regult. ‘Tho same ia truo in the spiritual universo. God might, porhaps, convart the world by a tial of Ilis power, and fit each of His aaints for glory without the Liarrowing and ofttimes tearful did- clpline of o probationary careor, but Ife lias chosen othorwise. Ilo works by means, and without tho wso of tho anpointod meaus. Wo havae no mora right to look for spiritual rosnits, thon we have to staud idlo. throngh summor and expoct & harvost in automu,* phlloacrhy. Ho comea, tolling us that lifo is not an inquiry ouly, but & seotimont alao, and that ho is only sn’imperfoct being, acroes whoss soul thoro “aro not passing, daily, tho lighta and shadows of Ehfllflthmpy‘ of all love of roligion, of faith and hope. A religion of ignor- anco i3 to ba avo{dsd, and so aleo a religion fall of faoaticism. Groat, trathful, simplo idens oro to bo joined to & hoart that can pour out its affoctions upon man, and Naturs, and God. Looking at Chriat, you porceivo that man is & boing that must loarn, Not only wnust sclence dolight him, ‘lfll‘:lllml-h“! must touch his {nnor spirit, and together must flow the river of his truth and the rivor of his emotion. All intole leotual vanity must bo ocountaractod ond do~ stroyed by the doep pathios of ths soul, which shall keep the uflh‘il fall of man and God and tho mystary of [ife aud donth. throne, snd goodness only a footstool. Passing by, Lowever, tho philosophy of a faot that tho intellectus] dream of civilization has flowod more rapidly and with widor and deopor volume thaa has flowed tho stroam of soatiment in the form of bonovolonce, sympathy, kind- ness, or roligion, assuming thus fact, lot us pass onto confoss the now power that camo into tho world long ago and gave tho spiritual stream & new impulse. Upon moun- talos whore no rains have fallon for thousanda of yoars cameat Iast & now atmospLors, as though the world had turnod against the old dry winds in anger, and had compellodsthom to carry water from tho soa, and out of Lhus uow atmosphere thoro camo & magnificent atorm. The stream of sontimant which lay at tho foot of ‘the Good Homaritan, so small that: the Levitoa and tho wite men took no note of it in their geography, tho ' Apostles wors charactorized by & moving oarnestness in the work which engagad thom let us grant that tho truths thoy, rmnchnd woro adaptod to human needs ; lot us, ¢ proused to do go. allowthat soma popularity sy havo attachod to tho Gospol becauso of ita noveley ; it still romaivs irrationnl to find in those facls, singly or combived, tho cause of thoso frat victorioa of Christianity, Had thoss been sll, n paragraph from the band of some heathen historian would compriso all her bis- tory. Theso woro but the apparont causos. Tho ronl causo lay doopor. Itis significant alao that tio mothods of those first Christian laborera wers most simple sud bumblo, Incking almoss every characteristic of worldly wisdom, Iivon such men might liops for some success, of a humblo class, tho love of the hunt. It is, porhape, quits pardonable to dovote to such & purault brere aud thoro a day or sn hour. But when a statesman, or ao fovontor, or a reformor, is surveying tho world that o may find somo groat idoas that sball give birth to sontimenta of patriotism, or progress, or roligion, then tho pcono has changod into somothing nobler. Tho facaltios are on the alert for the fargest trutbs, and those truths are to produce the most valu- able omotions. Maohood may not be measurad by the quantk. ty of information, but by the relation bolweon informstion and fooling. 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FOR RERT—DWELLING, FROM MAY Iat, 8 first-clasa thros-story and base- et marblo frot dweling, iu prime ordar, wif brick wmw.bu' v,, east front, north of th. 11l not be rented for mind loves gold for gold'm sako, 8o thore are But wa are not simply the children of eternity. & p if they lind velled tho storner aspoots of tho Naw, tho Church of - 3 t that | " . | became awolian nutdl it flowod like an Amazon. { We aro also the children of earth. IHere in this L A g e N LT truth and than, ko Botor the Hormit, tiad aat- | of why oibher. bis el the ool ot e dioiny, | uolars who love truth only for, trath's 88k0. | This micnam fillod up the old channel that had | conntry, in this city. thrs ero interestn of nn- ‘Thsee are ooly curisosity-seakers, fall of aoiiety to kuqw what was and 18 in tho houso, or laod, or contury, of thoir nolghbors. Tho bighoat shaps :{ human lifo will always be found where tha igheet trotbs arestimulating the bighost feelings Tho truths of tho rational powors acquired by . thom, or evolvad by thiem, or confirmed by them, must lio abont ;tho sonl liko the rich soll about thio plaats, the' richness out of which the hoart is to olaborato ita loaf, flower, and fruit. Wide “loarniog is desirable, indood, that tho heatt may bo nble to draw upou groat resouroces and bring forth a powerful impulee and 1vspiration, It should not be expected of a Sioax Indian to ro- veal tho philanthropy of a Howard, or the pa- triotism of a Loanidas, or the faithifulness of & Cranmer, because all that great survoy of human lifo that producos such emotions sro wanting from tho brain of the savage,- His information graspa a fow Indian batslos, and war-dancos, and pow-wows of medigino and religion. s mind containa nothing ont of which ano conld draw a boantiful sontimont. As' woll piant an orange ou an jcoberg and wait for ita blossoms aa to ex- poct & sontimonc from a soul that has no heighs or depth of information, The facts of the world aro thorefors tho par- yoyors of sontiment. Truth makes up the brick, tho marble, tho woods, out of which the feelings may build the palace,—tho ** home, awaet home," —but, unleas the feclings como along and build gph ll‘m structure, tho information is onlyso much obria. ; Tuese thiogs being troo, the world needa not anly kuowlodge lofty sud proad, but it demands rest chanpels of noble sontimout to complete ts clvilization, or manhood, or Christianity. Au tho fivo sensca run beforo us and transform fact tnto omotion, hills into beauty, musical sounds into toars, so all tho wido world's truth noeds a channol within whosa banks that truth moy turn iuto somobody’s happiuess, or place, ar pioty. Buch facts ss these show how muok the world gneeded such s belog as Josus Clrist, tne ona able to enthrono huwnn soutimont and make it avormors tho oqual of learoing, To bo s wiss man was the aspiration of sntiquity. Learning wholly out- ranked kindoess, ‘The sacient philosophers moved amoog moa io the wisdom of gods, but In the fcineda of doath, In the midst of euffer- ing millions thoy calmly pursued truth, Thoro was no phase, of publio calamity that scomod ablo to waken any auspicton that tho glory of wan might not lo in the simpto smasalng of knowledgo, In tho midst of wars the most oruel, in the presesce of the nmphithoatros, where men fought with wild beasts, tho Porch and tho Acsdomy wont forward with shoir struct- ura of syllogisms, because slways to them a correct logical doduction was dearer, awcetor, than merey or sympathy., All that Diogcnes wished of Alexsador wau that tho groat Geu- oral would gt outb of his sunshiue, But the patuful part of this story is tuat Diogonos rep- uanuhur: Iargo multitude of men, who lived In motaphysical tabs, aud who wished unly that the world would not intorfore with thelr sun- shino and dreams, Of coureo there wore kind hearta all through tho old conturies, ‘Tho hu- man aoul could not havo roached the claasio development without baylog built up somo- thing of touderncss, Thero was o CGood Samarltan before Chrlat, ooe for osch stroot i tho wido world but, compared with tho weuts of wocloty, what lovo thorawas was only a drop of rain in & dosart. ‘T'hat a dosert should bocome a gurden, it would be neocessary that great ralns should como regularly up from the horixon, and year after year, for centuries. Tho firat 100 ‘years would bo consumod in dissolving the flinty ‘sand and making out of It the rich food of grains and flowers. Boin soclety, Hore and there a Good Bamaritan {4 a fact that will not meet tho wanta FIERCL, loal Estate aud Note Broker, » lloom FOR RENT. Offices on firat, second, fourth, and ffth floors of Beaper Block and McCormick Dlock, singly and in suiles. Apply at Room 1 Reaper Block, FOR RENT. Alarge cornor bssement office; also desirablo up- ofiices, in the Metropolitan Block. Apply to A. A, MUNGER, Koom8. tone, sayiog to His disciples,—disconsolato at His departure becouso thoy could not yot eos tho glory of tho Bpirit's approaching reign,—* Novortheless, I tolt you the truth: It isexpediont lor?au that I go away, for if I go not nwal tho Comfortor will not como unta you, but if I dopart? I will sond Him unto you," “AndI will praytbo Father, and e ebali givo avu another Comforter, that lo may abido with you forever,” * Verily, verily, 1 say unto_you, he that believets on me, tle worka that 1" do shall Ho_do also ; and greator works than theso shall 1Ie do, bocause I goto M{‘Flmor." From theso and many other passages, {t bo- comes as plain as language can make it that Chirist oxpectod & far groator display of epirituat power in regencrating men and eatablishiog His Church, aftor IHis x.h from the world, than had ever bofora beon seen, even duriog His own osrthly sojourn, Mis 1ifa here hiad boon but tho Aurora; the urlrit'n coming was to bo the suu of tho Goepel day, nsinginits strongth, and destinod neyer to “sot til} “all nations Led boon warmod aud enlightened with its benignaut beams, The Mnator had, at longth, made His dis- ciples bellove that {t was best for liim to go. Trom thohill in Bethany,—from thelr lingoriug look at tho Lord's sscouding form,—they turned Dback, not. ms you might Lave expectod, with weeping eyes and fainting Learts, but with intrepld and nndnubhn? faith, to pray for the doscent of the lioly Bpirit. Mark tho confidonce with which they suppli- cato, gathored in that uppor room! ‘Thoy have boeen commissioned to preach Christ to all men, and they kuow that mon Late Christ. Whence, thon, the boldness of thoso disciples? Whonoo thoir readiness to rosb, at such -prlroui odds, into an encountor 8o bloody a8 Christ and their own oxperience have uuqht them to expect? Al the secrot is in thoso last words of Josua: *Ya shall recelve power after tuat the Holy Qlioat 18 coms upon you, and yo shall ba wit- uesaas unto Me, both in Jerusalom, and in all Judes, and in Samania, and unto the uttormost pass of the carth,” Tue Apostles did not know how great s work it was to convort this world ; they did not fully know tow many obstaclos stood In tho way of tho Gospel's progress, Happy for them that they did not. But umg kuow onough of thess things to make thom tha wildess fanatics in his- tory, if they did not, to tho last degros of firm- neas, bolieve in tho constant, immediate, and slmighty agenoy of the oly Spirit. They knew tholr own woakuosa and the power of sir too woll o suppose that of themselves thoy could u&lmunlly affect mon at all, Btill farther wera they from imagining that it was possible for Lhuman powor to croate and perpetuate here on earth a holy roligion such as they bad beon budden to pum[’.\. . Inro+ spect not ouly to their own salvatlon, but also to tho advancement of roligion, was it true that they had no **confidenco in the fleah.” Withous \0s8088ing a singlo eloment of human power, hey went forth proclaiming truth to which all men were hoatile, yot siming at nothing less than conyerting sll men and presonting thom to God, perfoct in Jeaus Christ, Huorx was thelr faith at the outset. But, of courss, it became corrospondlogly stronger after the foly Ghost bad como, and they uaw the promises of Chrlut slready boginuing to be ful- fillod. Every now triumph of the truth ; every soul convertod ; each conquered force that has opposed thaonward marcli of the Goapel ; wea $0 tue Apostios fresh and positive proof that thelr causo depended on no human power or skilis that a divine and inviucible Agont was operating in thoir belislf, never to abate is energy till the the proud world lay vanquished at the foot of Christ, plan, Thore is, at prel enee- n practical belief amoog Christiana that ** faith without works is dona.” ¢ We must nuss tho moans,” says each active disciple, and tho Church was usver so oxamglsq a8 now fu tuo application of her un- bounded resources to her proper work, Itisa Lopoful tendonoy, and promises much good for tho future. Yotit has its throatening mspoct. Mon can soe tho moons that are put forth for the accomplisbment of spiritual ends; but the Almighty Agent, in whbom slono resides tho _needful cnergy to ohanga mon's hearis, {8 ho- ond tho doepest penstration of Luman sight. {Vn can_soo Paul plant and Apollos watoer tho celostial uood, but tho power that givea tho jn- cronse shides our keoneet vislon. 1lenco, with- out much prayer and ratleetion upon Beripturo- tonching, we shali forget that aoy auch in- vimble power lies bohind the puay efforta of onr hands, and vainly dream that tho caueal, change-effoctiug encrgy is with- in ourselves. May God avort such s resutt! When tho Chureh shail come to dopond upon sorvices and moans of grace. howover rogular and woll-attendod,—upon saystoms of roligious work, howover olaborate,—upon hor chanties, and tmissions, and munistry,—whap, in & word, sho sball oxpect the great web'of the world's salvation to bo woven by Chrnistian machinery alono, !nmumnr the motive powor of God's Bpirit, thou shall hor heart grow falnt and her avm ba palsiod, and the hugonees of her outward bulk serve but to augmeunt the disastor of her overthros, ok Fourth—Thero is atil snother tendonoy which demauds its word of caution. It ia to loan tos much on what wo term Lruth, reason, sud tho Inhoront cogency of religion, * ‘Ihiara is no can- did advocate of the Christian faith who does not bolieve that Iua roligion is in accordance with roason ; nono buk cougidors Cliristianity tho very highest owbodiment bf truth, But truth and resson Are AUPPUPEd{to poswcss some 1unate might and cogonoy widch rendors thom invincl- ble; and wo aro indined to foel that roligion, cesomatod aud irou-clad iu theso, is 8o sure of victory as almost to bp insulted by suggestiog tlat she noads a further Ilolper. ‘I'rath, roason, aud gooduess, indoed, do pos- soss u certain [uborn energy. A man truly has enuk low if Lo isuot in some degree moved by the powor of truth and virtue. 1ut strong as the ontive force of theso immortal qualitios may bo, our ovil proponsities are still strongor. 'Lho nobler and braver of {wo coutonding parties in any slruggle may be couquered it It have uot a fuir chauco, or if it be ontnumbored. This s the cado with virtuo and truth aud all our bottor inclinations. They are 80 far outnumbaored that thoy have no fair chauce ; and roligion, which ewnbraces thom all, without the potent grace of tho Holy Bplrit tmight lay down her armour and rotire from a Iost flold. Doublless **truth is mighty sod will vail," but not of hordelf,— uot apart from God. Trath, right, reason, ro- ligion even, hinvo inkabited the oarth, avd bave exertod their power upos wmen from tho firss ; but how many viotorics had tuoy wou whon tho Hon of COod' cntered tho srema of this world, and. tbrpugh Illa spleit, commenced conquering tho honrfs of men? Tho suswer is sad, but docitos conglusively which olemont of g;nnnn nature wonld provall should God withe BV, : Now, I havo a atroog aund most comforting falth that the dncm{m- of Christ will becomo the religion of maniind, God shall **give unto Him tho Heathea far hus fuheritance, and the uttormoat parta of he earth for Mis posaosy- ions " but I baso thas faith, ot on the power of truth and gooduchw, groat nd I Loliove that wor to be. nor ovon upou tho suorome esuty aod loveliness of ruliglon itself, but upou the sll-souqusriog nbxu:{ of the Holy Spirie, Hohgion shail gain the victory, but only Loen dry for conturies, and sont the water on to 10in tho'stream of knowlodge, broad and deap, in the advauce. It is often urged saagainat tho Chriut, that Hle bronght no now idess. Kut the world did not need a revolution of thought 8o much a8 an inapirstion of fecling, One was nceded who shonld do as much for maa's compassion and pathos as the philosophers had done for his in- tolloct. The suprome blessing which Christ's life brougnt the world lay iu the pathos of His carcer rathor than in tho brilliancy of any new thought. That man wns not s’ beain, but & beart; not s dealer m logio only, but a being that might weep, waa a losson that mado a now human race. Platoconld roason, and Cicero conld discourvo.with lips of gold, but he could not loave the ninoty and nine sud seok the oune lost sad saffering brother, ‘Lo the youog Christ all tho philosophors came,—Alexandria, with her mopticism; QGresce, with hor political and m‘gxu\m wisdom ; lome, with hor legal lore,—and said : “ 8hepherd, hiaat thou not Liers tby ninety and nino? Aro they not enough for thee? ™ * Bub tho Bhopherd roplied, 'This ons of mioo has waodered away from Me. The way may ba rough, and wild, and steop, I go to the desort to find Aly sheop.’ " Iu this mmple hymn is ascen the flat and rush of that stroam and flood whicti was to join with tue world's loarning and make up the bigher civilization, Hero the human raco began to flnd » obannol of soutiment wortby of itsolf, worthy of that vast {nformation which tho ages ware gatheriug from tho four compass-poinis. What wohld have avalled tho wide information of a Guizot, or an Edmund Burke, or a John Adams, bad there boea no groat patriotio or hu- man sentunens o tholr bosoms which might ufipmpflm that wisdom, and roproduce 1t in tho shiapa of the publio welfaro? The great public weal roceivea tho heart-bests of tho loarned, and thus, whilo the multitude is blessed, those who thus biosa it aro perfocted in their manhood. In tho old Abolition days, ono of our great orators #aid Lo had flung bis hoart forward toward the day wheo tho word slavery would disappoar from our country. ‘Thus, with his bheart given to such a causo, &ll tho information this orator could gather from. reflaction, or from roligion, or from hiatory, wont to the support of that hesrt ia its sizhings for univeraal libsrty., Ts may bo tho philosoplors, the Jowish rab- bls, tho Porsian wecrs, ureceded Christ in an- pouucing all tho teutha of the **Sermoun on tho 3ouaot," but there is s department iu the resim of tho soul whero Christ siands unspproncha- blo,—in tho domsin of Bentimeat. If Chriut had_said nothing, had o only lived Hie lifo, shod His tears, and died His déath, all genora- t1ons Would have looked to hitm in their solemu snd great hours. The pathos of Christ was what the world needed more thau o wow philosopliy. ‘F'lis intellect of Giroeco end Romo and Aloxandria needed the toars of Palostine, A new humanity muat de found that should com- bing tho splendor of .o Tully or a Seuocs with the lg‘m[llthy of a 8t. Paul or the loving hesrt of a Magdalon, Io Chriss carth found tnoe new Lumanity, inado up of wisdom sad love com- minglod. Let ug call this now clomont that camo 10 abundantly through tho Nazarens Lhe lmuo- of man, All tbrough the cbronicles of ho ages, yon may bohold sho racord of grest loarniug, ‘groat swbition, great genius, grost cqursge, but it ssoms to bave been the peouliar destiny of Jesus to givo ua the pathos of human and diviue life. i cradle was s wangor, aud iy mother poor; but lovely was the scous, sud the long. memory of it might nover grati(y the nullg of the proud por .excite e onvy of the paor, but that all might be touclied wiih sympathy, as thoy should recatl tmeasurable worth. Honoo, powarfal among the feelings hore must flow the sentiment of juatice.’ Tho colture of tha city, the lbraries como aoa coming, the tasts thai fills your homea with art, will sll bo frultless, the plensures of littlo chit- drop, unloss your bosoms all tho while swell with. “a juatico that shall roll ovor tho midoight criminale a wave of indignation that shall swoop away their piratical spoila from the beach, and waeh out thoir dishonored names. Your koowl- odgo, your tasts, your tomples of religion wiil romsin worthless unless tho other aud more divino balf of clyilization shall como in the form of powerful feclings of justico before which the infamous will tremble as crimiuals and iy aa cowards. 3 —— FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. DEDICATION BERVICES YESTERDAY. The dedication sorvices of the First Baptist Church, corner of Thirty-first street and South Park avenue, of which a full description was given in Tue TninuNe of tho 24 inst., took place yestorday morning. The edifico is purely Gothlo in etylo of architecturo, and the seating nr- rangemonts, acoustic proportics, and pgen- oral appoarance of the iuterior are tho neatest and most convenient in this city, if vot in tho ecntiro country. Tho pulpit aod surroundiugs wero yesterday made a porfect bower of flowers, vines, aod tropical plants. The sudionco was vory large and num- bered 1,700 porsous, and 300 more could havo besn conveniently takon cire of. The organ hins not yet ""“,l"“"“ in position, and in its atead & concort-grand plsno was usod. ‘Cho borvices wero opened by the pastor, the Rov, Dr. W. W. Everts, who was assisted by the Rav, J. N. Mardock, D. D., Boston, and the Rov. Mr. Corwin. Dr. Everts read the Beriptural invocation, commancing ywith *“The Lord 1s in His Holy Temple,” which was fotlowed with gingioz by &u chioir of *Ilow boautiful upon the moun- ng. The Rev. Lr, Murdock then resd the Bith Pgalm. ‘Tne dedicatory hymn was noxt sung, com- mencing ** Mighty Ruler of Creaston!" Pathor Corwin then offered up prayer, aftor which “*Bwaet I Thy Morcy " was sung by tho choir, Thoe Rov, Dr, Everta thon preached the dedie eatory sormon. 1o took as his toxt And Iot us arios sud go up to Heth-el: and I will make thero an altar unto God, who anawered me i the days of my distress, and was with we ia tha way which 1 went,—Jen,, zxiry I He said that tho youug Ifobrow who slept on the desort had n leavenly vision, which changod his heart, aud was mever forgot~ ton through his journeylugs in tho Bast. ~Ho summoonod his family around lim and fook thom back to Heth-el, whers hs built an sltar to the Lord. In Egypt when departiug, hia children wero blossod. Tho ex- orienco of tho patrizreh was that of sli mau- {ud. 3on turnod tu some Bathol or church for tho consalation of religion, Al hallowed wem- ories wore thus sssociatod with religion, and nourishod and eushrined fu the House of God, which wust contain all that is sublime In religion, Jacob et up o stons for an altar, A commdu bush, fired by » mysterious Hlame, was cousecratod as holy ground. In tho #amo maoner wore lmmortalized the tomploes, kiosks, aud aven the moaques of Esatern Asis, bocauso thoy contalned all that was sublime in tho religions which they represoutod, sud tholr sanclity was prosorved becauss Lheir worshipers kuew what was eushrinod upon tho altar. It was so with tho Ark and rled their cause with pathos aod clorununco bo- foro those who wore ccowns ana sougbé to gain tha favor of tho richaud noblo classes ; bus this tho Apostles did not do, - Indeod, if duty over callod them into contact with such men, thoy did not sbrink from uttoring to thom tho mos- sage which it had boon onjoined upon them to preach. But thoy did not eoek tho woalthy and roworful ; and, when tho word of truth was ad- dressed to such, it waa always with Lhe eamo un- spatiug rigor aud plainness which oharaotorized Apontalic proaching o general., But, as the new truth bad epecisl adaptation to tho poor, to them it was chiofly dolivered. ‘That class which hoard the Rodeomor gladly, receivod more roadi- 1y than othoers tho words of Ilia Apustles also; and of this class slmost exclusively the carly aburches wore composed. Moreover, in_tho preachiog of the Aposties thero was no attompt to dazzle or excite or con ciliate ; no protenso of eloquence or loarning; and loast of all was thoro any uso of chicanory or aetliico, Not uniformly did they secek tho most publio places for their teacliug, but spoko the uame of Christ fa privato housos, in tho markets, by the roadaids, at tho soaside. Well might thoy take an their *‘rojoicing, the tostimouy of their conticionoes, that in simplecity and_ godly sin- cerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but Ly the graco of God, thoy lad their convoraation in the world.” Pass judgment now, according to tha canons of experionco, and tell us Low extonded sliall be tho history of such an enterprisel How long will s uamo and followers be found for a doctriue that 18 at war witls all the ovil propen- sitios of man, aud has no power to cope with even the meauost of ita focs? It will not require much time to decide. Beliold Chriatian- ity oa sho goos forth to tho strugylo! Itash and dofenseloss, ltko David advaucing to faco the Philistine chioftain, but sgaiust groator odds, sho hastens to the fray, lfer foos—couutloss, gigautic, bloodthiraty,” contldent warriors—sro embattiod before Lo, You look to soe her fall, piorced by {nuumerablo Iances, and trodden in the dust by a mullion feot. But, nol Victory ju bors justead! Their shafts fall harmloss about ber, Thoetr awords are brokon upou ner shield of immortal tomper. Hoavouly forces fight for Lor, {ovisiblo but invincible. Affright scizew upon hor foes, and thoy rotroat {n discomfliure sud dismay, whilo sbo, with hor uuseen battal- {ona, gwoops the plaln. Tugitivesurvivors may, indeed, bo seen afar, but no longoer o threaten- ing force; and, though they will rally aud at- tack sgnin, honcoforth it will bo with tho assur- ance of dofoat. Oace, aud virtually forever, Christianity Lss conquered. B, Yes, my frionds, the roligion of Clirist was viotorious over the worla iu that awful and prophotio _oncounter. It ovorcame opposing forcos, aud planted @ church oo overy apot hal- lowed by a martys's blood. Iu loss than four- "score yoars from tho doath of Clrist, acoord- ng 1o tho lostimony of an_enomy, Clrie: tianity bad well-nigh overtbrown "the old roligions n citios as remoto as those of Pontna sud Dthlula, avd had beea presclied with groat wuccess in the villages and rural alstriots of thoss provinces; aud, in two aud s lalf cen- turios, it bad becomo the roligion of tho clvil- ized world, and had unfurlod its victorious ban. ner from $ha top of thoe Capitol at lomo, Nor wero it Rroateat victorios nuwmerical, It bad sapped tne foundations of old superstitions, It had sont the monstrous lubunianitics and bar- Dbaritios of that age fsr on their carcer of de- clize, and shown tho earnest of God's promised salvation to the uations groaning beneath tho burdon of ain, Htrango aud mysterions victor- fos! Yes, viciorios iuexplicable, till you admit that thoy wure not ackioved by Lumau might or prowoss, but by sho power of the lloly Ghost. VINEGAR. PRUSSINGS ViNE VINEGA Celebrated for its Parity, Strengthand Flavor, Sirramied fo Weep Mokt ST T A Tance Leentirely (reo from Auiphuric Aeid or otler deletert guasubatance with wiich fow Vinegar isndulterated: Forsale by all Grocern, Lasgest Vinegae Worke n ths World. Zitab 1818, E. L. TRUBSING & CO., Chicago. R e STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGS; Oflice of the Lake Shoro & Michigan % Southorn Railway Co. CLrvELAND, March 23, 1876, The annusl meeling of the Stockholders of this Gompany, for the electlon of Directors for the ensu- ing sear, and foF tho transaction of oiher appropriate ‘usineas, will be Lield at the oftica of the Compauy, fn the City 'of Oloveland, Ohlo, on Wednesdsy, the' 3d day of May next, batween tho houra of 11 o'clock in tho forencon and 3 o'clock in_tho afternoon of that day, OLORGE B. ELY, Becreta G L NOTIOES, . . Public Notice. 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Address OINOINNATI VOLEKSBLATT CO., this psge of history. c?mlug l(.u :nnucod, ll:ls :&yz:lgn nov.l'l‘ha (:hringn;-’ xel‘l‘qun l'l;:d 'l’fl Oinoi Ohio, h this con- | = Whothor, thon, wa give heod to the promises | bocause “tho Etoruat God is hor liofugo, snd tho | of Lumanity, Groat ehowers of sympa- { Words wora all snoken from tho Lesrt, ratber | Iast and groatot sent of God, and inelu e : fldlé';:‘ad 3,.3'& E&%‘ifllt“l{"l’:z;}ufiuv#l‘o lfm:‘n of Ch:lu, or to the f-,fm and upnnuuo?xl of tho | Kveorlastiog armes ate undor Ler." thy wust, through long periods, nll’uppan than from tlacalm intellect of lomun or Greok. | that was boly and bopeful. ‘The Chrlulll_n MILLINERY, B haken temporarily, sven for s momen, | Apostles, or to tho ctusl results of tho carly |~ These thoughts, Ohristian fricuds, bisvo been | the wido,’ fioty desert, and turn the rock | As thero Li & vocal musio which comes uot from | bauctuary wrought up all that was pure of meu's The Apostics whose history aro known best, and doubtless also the othiore, met many adverso for- tunes, ‘Iioy pagsed through mauy dlsco “’fi oxperionces, Somotimos they were sopsrate from each otber and from Christisos, They were persoguied, imprisoned, ecourged. Badder still, false teaching, in sowe pasts, subvertod tho trus, aud they saw converts falling back, saud churchies that had been nurturod by their tens derest ocare rent and distragted with intorusl fouds, But noneof these things moved them from their oconfidence in the suocess of tho Gospol ; and if wo consider this confidence in counaction with their freedom from faoatlolem, snd thoir almoat marvelous knowledge of human usture, we cannot doubt that they regarded themselves only as the means tho Holy Bpirit as the causal Agent, ia builaing the Church of God, Buk gl human matters, confidence fu very intended, firat, to make you fesl nioro deoply than ever hitherto your noed of the Holy Spirit's heip in_dolug Christian work., You bavs moon that Christ and tho Apostlus rexardsd Ilis power uocessary to make men Clristisus, aud that whatover would obsouro in our miuds a-. sonse of that naccusity is fallacious and misleading. e must have Him to lielpus, We can do notbiug without Him, Let no sootimont that has beoo advauced, howovor, be understood to disparage any form of Christinu sctivity. Our work sad faith' {u the Spirit's agency lboulll go forward side by elde 1n tho businoss of the Divine Kiugdom, nor sball working obatrnct our trusting, or trust- ing working, if wo keop thelr mutual depend- enco eye! beforo us. Lot the lova of Chrisi oconstraiu us to be *in labors more abundsut, In the Sunday-school, in religious meatings, ja public exhortations, In vrivats ontroatios, tun bowom but from tho moutl oaly, aud is hiard and abiril! ; and s thore iy & soug that cowed up from the chest souorous, like an organ toue, #o chero is an eloquence which cowes from the bosom whero the heart boats, aud whonoe tho broath comes laden with sigha like s snm. mor night wind blowilng from the south. ‘Tue eloquenco of Christ was made up of chest tones, and, (ustead af dazelivg mon Like the ora- tors of Atheus, it only mado won love cach other aud weop, Aud yot words so simplo aud toudor wera surpassad in thoir {ofluence by thu lifo, Wa havo 1o tuie hero foc caustug to paass beforo you the iucidents (st chsrmad thie worla, You may recall them, from the blessing of tuo children and tho boaling of tho slok to the last fatawoll to ke mother, and tlud for yourselves that here in this boing the stream of old thought mingled {ts waters with the stzeam of love. Come uow, my frlonds, and to this pathoa of reaohing of Chrietianity, we are forced to be- n-n the Holy Qliost toliave boau the cause of those glorious achiovemeunts of religion. But, do you eay that those early exploits wers the limlt of His working? Do you say that the promises of Christ and tho expootativna of tho Apontles bad referonce ooly to the spacial gifts aud chariems of the Apostollo age, and, heuce, tbat the Moly Ghost ceased activity when 8t, John died 7 No! Theso promises and ex- poctations embracad mora, uldes the Phari« seos, they included that energy of the Holy Bpir- it which nlone can change mou's Learts i an uge. Indeed, this energy was tho chiof of their coutents, Christ promised that the Paracleto, the Advoeats, or Helper, shiould be with His fol- lowera forover. ‘The Apoetles knew that men could not sod would not regenorats themssivea; yet they expocted the sway of ratigion (o be- como univoreat ; and there ts no proof that leas into noil, the wild thorn and wild_sage into lus. clous frults sud sweet flowers. Itis necoasary that sympathy be mede ¢ wido aud popul: sontimont as the lova of loarning or the posao: lon of gold or smbition, A world les before man {oall ita wants, soclal and religious, and tho lova ghat can deal with such & world muat rosch out its arms widely, as though the souti- mont were 1nflnits, All confoss tho valus of univereal knowledge, 1% is to bo lawented that IDF youth should pass iuto middls life without being sble to ‘roxd sud to gather from sclence, and lhistory, and literature, those ideas which mo " instruct, snd . delight, and inspire, But we too wuch forget that alon; with universal knowledge thore must ba dovel- opod's univeraa! sympatly and sensibility that will compel tho soul to respond to the world's nesd as truly as the intolloct respouds to the Light of knowledge. Asthe mind turns every characters. As the suu besmoed u}mn the earth, 80 tho Intinite thought of *God fm- bued the Cuurch, Thero waa fn the Oburch & sanctity sud holluess, whors mou were aeeking sud trying to learn the greatuess and goodnoesa of God, ‘Uhe House of God must enshrine the most hallowed associ~ atioos witlua §5, Thoro was s longlog smong men to know woro of life and immortal deatiny, ‘Thoy sought this kuowledgo through the Cliurch, which held the greak text book, uud it was only by Faith that they could be mado to understand that there was a Buprome Beiug,—s revelation of life. All of meu's higler kuowladze was lo- timstoty ssooclated with tho Iouse of God, where were stored the diviuoe treasures of revela- tou, It contained the text-books to future lifa. Tt sproad the diffusjon of overlasting lify. ‘Tho Hoase of God used all tho blpssiugs for au ottsiument of overisating life, 1f -the sun MILLINERY, Y. B. 8TOUGHTON hi Mile linery Rooms from B';a %n:g::l?-}v"f 0 66 WASHINGTON-ST., Orer Chas, Gosasge & Co.'s Washington-st, entrance, WIRE SIGNS. WIRE SIG.INS. o herevy nolify the publio that there Las been no fojunciion served on B Bmith & 00, pespacting thy Uipolssture of Wire Gigus and thai ihe’patent §almed on these signs haa besn dooided 1n the United Utea Courte by Judge Blatchford Lo b utterly worth- ke, Tha zepresentations heretofars made srs false, ¥ BMITH & GO, 170 BMadiscashy . 8 B