Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1876, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNLE: MONDAY, APRIL 24, 187G, “RELIGIOUS. Lace or Wine, Which Is tho Great- or Demoralizer 1-=-Sermon by the Rov. Sumner Ellis, How Our English Residents Ob- served St George's Day at the Episcopal Cathedral, Eighteenth Anniversary of the Young Hen's Christian Association--Some Inter- esting Statistics, Prof. Bwing’s Views on Salve- tion by Faith. LACE OR WINE ? BERMON BY TUFE BEV, BUMMER ELLIS. The Rey. Bummor Ellis prosched at ths Church of the Redeomor, corner of Washinzton and Sangamon atroets, yosterday morniug, tak- ing as bis themo * Laco or Wine," and for his text tho following passage : V] n ‘Who hath sorrow? Wha bath cone ufi:‘k‘}.l’?‘“\fifé”mm babbling? Who hath wounds without canso? Who hath rednesa of eyes? They that tarry loug at tho wino; tley that go to sco mized wine, —Procerbs, 221§ £9-30, ‘Tho ssrmon was as follows : In a recont sormon, ireating mainly of the swift downfall of the late Hocrotary of War, David Swing made tho statement fu & somewhat casual’ way that just now lace soemed to bo working grestor migchiof than wine, In general terms he mesant, of courso, Lhat oxtravagauce is the source of more harm than intemperance, especially in our own Jand and dny. At tho tune 1 saw dothing in the statemont beyond n strong period, evidontly biased, to give omphauis to tho moral offect of his sermon aa a treatment of » broad nud minoua folly and crimo of the day, 1only gave tho paseage crodit as a slart- ling stroko of rhetoric to enforoe a pomt that had beon well taken in the proseuco of tho Hol- knap trouble through the giatification of (ho strong passion of vanity, and iu viaw of o wide- spread wrock and ruin from the samo cnuso. ut Intor, on boing attacked by tho guardisus and advocatos of tho temporanco cause, Mr. Bwing comoes in & gerious fashion to tho dofonse of his atatement., lowever ipadvertantly o cast the original period, bo very doliberately ro- affirme it. To quote Ins werds: ** If the wina- cup 1 doing as large and as infamous s business a8 *lace’ is doiug, wo must have climbed the wroog poiot of observation.” Aud so tho good wan would bave us regard extiavagauce as at preeent » greator ouewy to our people thau intomporance. Tho infection of Inco be holds to bo fust now o moro fatal discnse than tho virus of wino, We havo moro to fear from a vaio pride than from & carsal appetite, Our foremost peril 18 on the livo of our ambition tn mako o sbow, sud to rival the splondora of our weighbore, and to pet the eyes of the world sstore, and not atong the path of tho ** flowing bowl,” and tho Clrcean cup, and tho bao- -chanalian hall, and the foul saloon reeling with whe fumos of infernsl mixtnres snd o bias- howous profanity, Of theso twa fallen aiszels, ace and Wine, tho former isentitlod to carry the Lauuor on the scoro of its degonoracy and the amount of mischief it m “woik- lug in the land. Tho infamous sceptro snce rightfully swarded to the reeling and red- oyod rauks of Bacchus must now pass mito the custody of the vast army of devotocs at the alturs of o worldly pride, Sluce Mr. Bwing, 10 by sobor sccond-thought, has boeu disposed to stand by this view of tho case, I hiave been led, for the firsd thno in my lifo, to set extravagauce and Intomperance iu comparison and contrast, snd to mako a study of thoir respective complexions and influcncos ; to Boto the passions that oach vtita up and urges ou iu the life of men, sod to trace the low (hroui.:h soclety, rido vy side, of thoso two dark oud uighting streatws, tho Cacyius aud Achoron of our wodorn world, And I must coutess thet the more 1 mused in this direction, waiting for tho two evils, both gigautie, L asmuno their monstrous aund Ludoous proportions boforo me, the more I #euod to tind evicence that for once our thougbtful aod composad divine had blundered, or biad fullon 1nto the error, under opposition, of giving to o tlash of rhotorio the digmty of an ar- ticlo of faith. Au botweon oxtravagance and intomperance, If wo continve our view to tho bhigher walks of life, tho question of rank thuo producticn of ovil and tho breediug of harm i clearly ono with two erdos; but when wo ex- toud our Buivoy to Ltho vast masses that mako up tho lower cirelos, the toiling mitliona of the luud, of every nationality, tho Awerieau and Gerwsn and Irish wultitudes, wo shall fiud « thal, whilo **lace” has womethiog t auswer for Lere, 1t {8 ‘twiug” that {8 tho common cunomy, Thero is a largo percentage of our poputation, in all probabillty & full tird, in whom the passion for finory has Lo aotlve ox- istenco, but hiea lutent lika vegotatnn undor tho rigors of winter, Theso toemiug crowds aro rurely clad beyond tho detruds of dacency, On their walis wro no pietures; by theit door-stops sro no flowors ; and ail ucouud 48 o hing that thoy even deeiro to grace the barronuoss. Dx- travagance, in tue urdinary souso, is 18 foreign to_their quarters we it can well bej and the prime need 14 of tho budding and growih of flner tasion, -aud the ambition that craves faint sud varaish, and the pride that covets tllinessin purson, and raimoot, and furniture, to way vothing more. ‘I'ruly beuefactor woud he bo who could broak in upon this desl soudo of the oys and hewrt, aud cause it to peer and strive coutinually for gome of tho Pro- tean forms of hunutfl: for we Linve woen snany toucliug exsmples thiat whete this gense iy alive it will coutinue to soo somo kind of a border aud fringo arouud tho moet straightensd conaitions, But white from th regiow of eocioty tha groat onemy, lace, isabsout, tho other fos to man- kind, thetutoxicating eup, the futal veverage, 1 thore in full eway, aud ju all its desolsting and dograding reigu. T'he binok tdoof drunkeuness rolly on through all this rogiou whois extray- agance seuds not o wave. Vanity adds uot a erest to 1he dark aud fatoful surges of this sca, Laoo is o4 consvicuons by its absenco as that other houtilo vuint by 1s presence, I'he lust of 1ho eye fur finoty soews to have failod bafore the Just of the sppetite for uinnulunts ; aud the hoeads of tamiiios, n untold numbers, shink away from the public walks, whoro pildo 14 ever found, aud Lusy themeelves o the more cou- gowal but futsl privacy of saloous, where fnduls pence s carned to the powt of beggary and vrutality. Thess, with thetr vives aud ¢tnidron, are ue victime of intemyerance. 'Fhey wure must of them born sud bred to the debasiug servitudo ; aud not & few of them Liave nover cast s longing glance toward emolumonts sod equipage, Rurments 100 sLowy for goud taste, aud * palaces tou costly for good sonso, Thetr luxury 18 tho hartaful thnlt or sn oddloual glass, Their vory droams grovel amid Lottles and barrols, aud turn tholr slesp, that ought to be the portal and passport to tuiry-land, 1nto a slion that lures u;uu down tho leartul efeep into the chawbery of waw. I think Mr. Swing could hardly bave turned biv searchiug eyes in this direstion, sud sur- veyed this Lioad, biack lanascape, wlien be gave the chiampionep 10 laco 11 liva of wive as the forewont foe of our laud, But let us look at this matter in anothor lighs, 1 offer no apology for exiravagauce, and would ba tho Iast to cast uny muuile o charity uround itd renl delormity, Vamity is au old and ugly e, ond o all wgow s mlwchitef huy beou widespread, 1 hws bred kil the cruelties or caste; run hfe into the cheapuess of more show: squandored gifts and ‘tatents in its empty displays that should bave been devotod to tnore solid aud usetul wer- vices ; prowhituted tho woral ro in submere vieuey to ity ambition for a ap distinetion, sod, 1o counticed fustances, drawn on a puverty Abiat biaw also bad to bear the stigma af disgraco, It baw made gited men very ridiculous to the fatioual part of Lhe race, aud fatr women justly obnoxious to the keen shafis of satire; aud has often wade crimnuals of both, tust they mignt play oul to its sbsurd climax cheir supericial pewe. Extravaguoce crosavs tusty & loir sud opefol puth thay losds as through dusury moadoirs sud swong grand nd sadibrivus moun- taiug. I¢ bedges the avenue (o the werriage alar; diverts hfe from & line uf reading snd generousculture; Lanshes rvposs and Judependeuce through she folly and urgoncy of its exactiond ;j crusbes health like s wood ouder ite sbitious wheel; sscritices the faith oud Louor of the noul 0 graufy u social al ctate nuido the better elewenty of civiliza- tion and the true jutersuts of the fawily sud the Btate to gaiu a place for what is vastiy in- fenvr aad woire ephoweral j in short, it will steal and incorall the ignominy of theft to ocuro its gratifiestion. Extravaganco shall bave no won? of pratss from mo; for I can only .concoivo of 1t ms & woakness aud a folly when Jbasod on the poesession of ample means to carry it out, &nd as En on Ay otbor gronnd. In Crasus it wero & serious cheapening of manbood, and in Lazarua acrime, Suntamed by its own monoy, it botrays a povorty of manhood and a certsin rawness of tasto that fails to discover that boauty ia over simple, aod true art nover foud and obirusive ; but indulged on the money of otlior pooplo, it 19 to the Iaat dogroe bass and Ignoble. Btolon fmery In doubly infamous. 24 datan is mont traly Satauto whon flaunting forth on his orrand of ovil fn * rohes of light " piundored from tuo angelio liverics. But,aftor all,eame things can besaid for oxtrave agance that cannot for intemperance ; and in this line of contrast I tbink wo can readily dis- cover Lhe arrar of the verdiot that charges a hoav- {srguilt upon laco than upon wine, Lot me aasure you that it [ were to pload for the one as agaiuat +| tha other, I stiould make Jaco, and not wins, my cliont. I have diawn beforo yon the pleture of extravagance, and it was easy to lay on the repulsive shadings; but thers rowains a vou darker pleturo of intomperance to bo draftod, and thorois no night black enough to afford tho colors, Tho victims of laco staod beforo mo as tho childron of fortuno In comparison with the vietims of wine, In numbers, includ- | claesos of soclety from boltom to top, may possibly equal each othor, though t win of the oplufon that fowor bave beon smitton by dress than by driok, by fluery than by whisky, by dismonds thau Ly dumijohus, by ontatos and cquipages tbhan by intoxi- eation; whils tho smitng of tho Iatter han bosn a tenfold debasomont aud dam- age, Irun my oye along thiat range of soclety where oxtravaganco had dono and 18 doing {ts charactoriatio work, aud I still koo much that {4 not, bhighited ; but I turn to survey the vietims of intomperance and 1 seo thom stripved of all, with & vandaltem that has vo comparison. Ex- travaganco leaves tho intollect in cloarnocsa and vistor, which is cne of the great treasures of lifs. It cultivatea rathor than crushies tho sonse of the boautlful; there is at tho heart of It a certain lofty ambition, a porsonal pride that only neods a dogreo of chastening, a6 the psint. or subdues tho high lights of his plcture, to rondor it an unqualittedly mnoblo atribute; n?{l‘l doca the ardor of domestic love fire {5 loart, wod it carrien do- light tustead of drend every limo it crosses tha threshold to meet in homa.group; and jt min- gles no poison in the blood, but loaves the ruby streams to course in purity thoir living chaunela, But whon we turn to anrvoy thofield that wine hias blighted, wo do not tind thoso falr resorves that iaco spares, Tho ruin is complote. Bond vour vigion down into thoao dark depths whore totemperance reigna in its full eway, aud I can almost defy yon to name a lovely poiut fo the ontire sceno. Tho e are fwbruted; the women havo lost tholr pative crown of boauty aud rofinomont; and tho children are born to wear features of grossuess, aud, not & faw of them, to endura for life the horrors of mental imbecility. Hore {a blackness wituout brightness; o usethier sky. with no stars in lc, Hero tho whols mau and all bis allotments ara smitten to an utter desolation. In these dopthis ronson pines, sod love passes loto enger nud” cruolty, and pioty flies from the rogion a4 the dove trom tho presence of hawks, and that am- bition for bittornoss, which iw tho one hopeful impulsa that makes to-morrow more intereating than to-day, has folded its wiogs and sunk wto luYinunHa. I'ho uld Grosks saw Lhe fatal consnmmation of intomperauce, and were wont {0 say that, when Bacchus planted the vina he first eprinkled it with the blood of the poa- cock, which accounts for the vanity of tho first stage of tintoucation; next, he apriukled it with tho blood of the moulkey, that Rives to those who tmbibe boyoud the slightest degreo that well-known ailliness, aod astrainivg aftor wit, and burstiug into uproar, which evory sober porson I8 auro to ehide, if lio may bo able’; aftor that he dashed it with the ragivg aud flery blood of the lion, which genorates the fightin, degres of tho vico; and last of all be [10“!!5 over it the blood of the swino, whioh breeds the low sensuality avd sluggiehness of thase who atay muf at their cupy, “Do we uot see at once tho foarful truth of the legend? And s there oue bofors mo who believes that Iace at its croation roceived such s fate- ful nfusion of ovtl inspirations? If sprin- kled, a4 it was, with & baptism of {ll-omon, and destined to go forth to work groat injury among the generauions, aud mate in ours than in any other by reason of our vast accumu- lationy of worluly resourcos, atill it uot satu- rated with g0 much of an animal virug, nor bhave its victims been so utierly undone. Dut in another rospact I tind a ray of light {alling across the pioture of oxtravagance that I do vot across that of intomnary Extrava- gance doca notdrive its dovotees apart from #ood socioty, froin a bigh and retlued social life, from tho fubtitutions of learntug aud religion ; but intowperauce, 1o its later bub aull comwon stages, leads to an ostrnoism that is fatal, It withdraws from all those ro- Intions that sro healthful aud salvatory, It staudd from undor evory arch of promiss, and turng fts foot to those Launts that ara rank with damaging iufection, Laco stlll remains ligh-wioded and sociad; but wino at lengtn withdraws from all tho better inffuences, and betales 1tself to the lower levols of futercouras, 1 kuow a bright youth in an Eastern Bunday- schoot who rarely fuiled to apposr in hia clags, and never without a ood reason ; and who was tho pride of wany homes to which he gave a frequent presence. fle camo juto thom only to find » most cordial welcomo. Ha wse tho in- spiration and honor of a literary circls, and the ncceptod loador of o larga rotinuo of com- paulous, He bore bimsell in wociety with _all the graco and self-reapect of one conecroud of n true nobility, Fortune seomad to have chosen lim to excuplify the beauties aud fluoncos of a 10yal soul, Dut at lzst ho foll under the fures of “the eoclal glass, and stralghtway vacatod bis place amid all good associations ; and when I wau in this city n fow years back, hia father, more broken-hearted than a8 if ho bad Leen going to his fuueral, gamo on to hnat bim out amid the slums and dovy of our worst streets, well knowtog that ho need not look In fairer quarters. And this is the story that may be told of a countless Liost, and reveals ono of the saddest sides of 1ntom- porauce ; for when wa are cut anay from aaviny surroundings our full 18 all the more sure and rayid. Thus bave Tlifted bofore you tho twa great ovils of tho time ; and, whataver wo may think a8 totheir comparative rank in the work of ruin, lot us pray for wisdom aud strength to go clear of them both. —— ST. CEORGE'S DAY. IT8 RELIGI0US ODSERVANCE YESTERDAY, Bt. George's Day thiy yoar happonod on the firsl Bunday alter Easter, It was thorefare ap- propriate for the inglish resldents of the city, bulouging to the Bt. Goorge's Hoclaty, to hold spocial roligious weryvices. Through the cour- tesy of tho Lpiscopal clergy thia was accom- vliehed, tho Cathodral of HS. Peter and Paul Laviog Loen abtesned for the purposs, At 4 p, 1., the hour appointod for tho servico, the edi- tco wes crowded. Many were unablo to find soats, aud wero obliged to atand im tho aisles, Thero was no uuusunl display in the way of Horul decorations. 'Tue procussion, consistivg of tha choir aud tho odclating and sawjuting clergy, outered f1om the veniry singiug the well- kuown hymn beglunlog Bungs of praisa the angels sang, 1t was sung to an arrangowent of the * Maroh of tho ilaraclitos” from Costa's **El," mady oxpressly for she uge of the choir by Canon Knowles, ‘I'he following clorgymen participated in the services ; ‘The Nov. James Da Koven, D, D, of Race ; the Iev, Mr. Porry, of All Baluts Churoh ; thoe Rey. Dr. Looke, af Grace Church ; tbo Rey, Cauon Knowlos, tho Hov, AMr. Duncan, of tho Alemorial Church ; the Rev, Dr. Strong, of Baton Rouge, La. ; she Rev, M. Da Forest, of the Digceso of Fond du Lao tha Rev, Joho Todd, the Rev. George 0. Bireot, Noat of the clergymen .wore the hoods belonging to thelr acadowical degroas, An importaut featuro of the aervicow was that thoy wore conducted according to the Engllsh Prayor-Book, and to the fow Americans present 1t st have sounded stravgely to hoar a suppli- cation road for ths preservation of tho hoslth of Her Giacious Mujesty Queen Yicioria and 1l Htoyal lligbness the Prince of Wales, Asido {rom this thera wus littls variation from the or~ dusary eveniug sersice, After tho wiugtug of the openiug hymn the Rov, George U. Btroet, Chaplun to the 8t George's Hociety, 1ntoned the service to tho creed, while tho cantiolos sud puniter wers pro- souted, uud tho crosd uud the followiug piocos were suug by the Kev. Cavon Knowles, 'Tne peslter cuwprisod the Bith, 1934, 140th, sud S0ty Pualms, The piucos au rosyionses, as iu the Luglish servico, wore suug ::M;m- . ‘Tt:l Butt) lnluw‘ |xlnrt-. Tho salmn weio ug to sing cliants by Les, Barwly, -nu"\muf" + SNl T'he I'irst Loswon was read by tho Rev, Mr. Ferry, und the Second Lossou by tho Hev. Dr, Locke, A ditereut style of musio was used for the Magn{fical sud Nune Dimilils, They were boit eung to Larmonized Grogorian tonos, with symphonles played botwoen the varaos, impro~ vised by the organist, Mr D, O, latkin, ime mediately after the 'Third Collect—tinre wors thren, the first for tha Dav, tho sccoad for Peaco, and tho tlued for ad’ against Peille— camo tha Anthem, which for this occasion was nl"i wall-knawn **Hallolujah ™ trom **Tho Mes- nial,! Pravors woro thon eald for the Pronident, for the Queon and Tloval Fawdiy, and for tha clorgy nnd peoplo, eanclurling with the prayor of 8i, Chrysostom, and tho minor hencdictions. Thoy stere followad by a famihar hymh to the tune of U Arlington,” tn which the congregation henrti- ly!olunu. 'I'ho sormon was preachiod by tho Rov., James Da Kovon, Warden of Racine Colloge, and was brilliant aa it was anproprinta to tho occasion. Following wns the toxt: et thy servant, T pray thes, turn back again that T imay tio n mins own city aud be buried by tho geave of oy futher and of my mother.—Samuel, 1., xix, : 47, 1n oponing, the evenker eald that the words of tho toxt teil nvon tho var with A swostuess ba- youd campatisun, aud touchod overy heart, No mstter 1f thoy woro apokon 4,000 yoars ago, they appealod to the huwman sontimont of all tima, l,n then portrayed briofly the situation indleated by the toxt, and compared the tdos as thon ex- pressed with tho 1ove of countty now known to exist amoug the poopio, The sona and daugh- tors of the old country couid rovert 1n mind to tha besutiful sconery and the frionds of eariior yeors, nnd by so dolbg uusturs siill more that patriatic splrit whicl is one of the noblest given to humanity. Evon thoes whoso ancestors bad livod hero for many years yot fool a stir tn their Learts when the namo of their motherland was moutloned, Ilor sesociations also woro maany aud sacred, Oao of them was thoir English Biblo, found fn the cottage of the Jowly aud tho palace of the rich, the relf-same worda of comforting goiug out to all ahko, The worda of the Englinh Bibla wera blonded mith all enrlicr recollections of the Eoghish-born man and woman, “U'ruia Joyally to one'a native country, to oarry out wherever thioy 5o the ideas that bad made the country thoy Lelonged Lo, that was the dnty of every ono. Tho English ideas weio, that, a seneo of duty, Tustaud to atrust, to do well aad thoroughly what was committed to bimj that had boen'n distingmishing mark of Eoglish- men for all ages. In tho place appointed, at tho bour namod, whother the day bes dark or fair, 10 Lo always on hand. This was what withstood tho charge at Dalallava, nul what hea given Englehmon & world-wids rep- utatlon for coursge and’ oudurauco, Another word that always struck all hoarta of Englishmen was ** homo.” ~ L'hoy woro willlog to atand the marcyrdoms of railway travel end hotels, but thoy were siways eager to reach bome. The consocrated union of marriod life ; tho halding fas: to each othor while life should Iast ; tho childron, like olivabranchios, around the tabla ; brotborly nmlmlurlylova,—all thiasorvod to wake up the fdea of au English homo, Con- nectod with tho fdoa of howo was the Eoglisk Sundey. The quiet ramble in the chureh-yard, tho mbstinonco fiom work or recreation, Weie foatures of that Suuday wlich added so much to the Eughsh home. Literary advancomout or the acquiremont of wealth was wot all that should bo souglt, but the Jaying up of treasure abovo was far mars to bo desired. On Buuday, Ioavon's gates stood opou. ‘Tho heart beat with yet s quickor thilll attho montion of snothor word dear to Englishmon— liberty. ‘o tind out how far the nights of the many weore ocouwmstont with tho wishes of the fow, 8o that thers never would be thac race of oftice-soekors whicn thrives upon the public treasury,—this had beon tho airo of the Britieh Governmnent, It bog proved tho Established Church yot allowed othor religious ideas full liborty. Beliud the national lite of the mother- aud bad been & bolief in an over-laving God. ‘Ll bad mado fing aud peaple, lords aud com- mons, united in harwonlolis action, e would uay this with dus rovorence to the Euglish people that thoss 1deas woro not pe- culiar to tho Fugliel, Tuey Lolongod also to thelr adopted laud. 'The seed sown by tho early colonista had uot beon in vain, Yot he had to say that politieal corruption exiated hore to n vaat extent. Qut of tha Lribeiy and cocruption and dishouosty tho wvation's "Easter-day must yeot como. Bonevolout duties formod tho chiel object of the 8t. Gourge Saclety, and Lo prayed tLat that object bo Mmibilied in the Lest munuor, They shonld glvo without restraint to all of thair countrymen wha wore unfortunate, aod, it they carried out this jdom atl tholr nves, they would find aftor death & sure rocomponse, Oun the conciusion of the scrmon & collection wan takon up for the beneflt of St, Luke's Hos- pital. ‘Fne offertorv was Ly Mossrs, Uuorge 13, Goocly, Dr. Johu B. Walter, Wilham_W. Street, Alfred Dooth, Robert C, Wright. During the colleotiun the organ gave out the strains of “God Bave tho Queew,” with varatons, snd whea the alms woro proseuted the choir sang an anthom by Baroloy. After the bonediotion the chotr retired wiuglng tho rotrocessiunal byma, “Qlary to Theo, iy God, this night." ————— Y. M. C. Ae RIGNTEENTI ANNIVERSARY EXEROISES, Tho eightoenth nnniversary oxercisos of the Y. 3. C. A. wero Liold Iast mgnt at Farwotl Hall In thio prosence of o large nudionco. Fue Ilon, Johp V. Farwell pressded. Tho choir of the Aeroclation were on the platform and ronderod oxcollent sorvico dnring the ovening. There was nothing of a busincss nature nbout the pra- coedings, Tho abnual reports ot tho officery snd various committoos wero printod and were distributed among tho sudionce, shus rendoring alluslon to them unnecessary, The following summary gives & goud fdea of tho awount and qualicy of the work effocted by the Aswociation during the yenr: ‘Total attendance in both reading-rooms, Printed invitations to d meetl tributed , Sltuations ol Young men furnly Ieligtous papers aud tructs disicluate Slgued temperanco pled T'roo writing material farnistied, Yursous drawing buoka, Hermona prenckiod to y Samnziues, Papers, o Cottiga prayer-meotiog: “ Diilea and Tentaments disiribited Ticligtous meeungs beid dn rootan,.i..... Rellglous meetings beld outsids tie Tootn Regislered visitors Porsoual convers: with unconverto Hopetul converalon, Yunday-school aesnluns, ... .rrs Buuduy-uchool total attendance Setentilo lectures, Buslcal entertalunie Awount exronded laat y Amount necded thin YEAT. ..\ osen seesan X ‘The meoting was oponad [n the usual mon. nor, 3r. Joun V. Tarwell roadiug a portion of Beripture and Dr, Munhsll jnvoliwg the Divine blessivg. Mr. W, I8, Jacoba was then introduced to ad- dress tho moeting. o adverted to tho eatab- lishwmont of the Booclety cightosn years ago and the blossinga which lead resulted from It At first it haa mot with groat ppposition, Lut had overcomo sll obstacles and was now making great havoo in tho ranks of the cuemy. He roviewed the various undertakiops of the Asnocintion and praised the zoal and ear- pestuess of tho workers, who wete daily snatching einnars from penlition's vrink, But while thoy rojoicod In tius past work, thelr cup ovartlowod when it was remembored they had sent Moody ncross the water to roncno thous #andv of wonls, From their little beginning and subsequent sucoess, thoy should take Lope for the future, Thero weto thoysands in tho city who hau not yot exporiencod the aaving power of grace, who were ruming thelr bodies and thoir souls by the acoursou drinke, and they eliould redoublo thotr efforty to bring them with~ in the fold, They wantod greater oo-opera tlan on the part of tho cuurchus 1o thta work, but above sll they wanted persaual consecration. The memborship of tho Association ought to be largoly (ucroasod. It {t woro only known the craving thers was for tho Goapel those who had hitherto hold aloof from tho woik would devote their onorgics 0 1t, aud g0 bring salvation to many at present with~ ont God. AMeaus wero required to prossente the work, and ho urged all to contribute what thay could, so that tho Aescolation might accomplish tho work cu out for it. CGod expectod every oue to du bis duty 1o this terriblo erials, and no truo Christian should negleos to belp on the canse, Ar, John V., Farwell usxt addressed the meel. Ing, After some proliminary remarks, ho said thers was omo feature of the work of Young Mon's Christian Ansociaiions which was not re- forred toin the printed reports aud which was of m missionary character, It was nothing leas Ahan putting Paul's grayor luto practiosl use the hearta of tho youag men of the untion, n associated work through Nstionsl aud State Jxoecutive Caminittees, whoso business it was to eend young men luto every town of suflcient size to warrant the organization of an Assoclation—to form one ‘in counection with the pastors, sod hold union rovival meetinge, out of which it wau osay to compress tho object sought, 10 offect this a Htate Bocre- tary was euployed by the Executive Committee, whoso wholu time I8 given to tho work, and throagh him a8 gonernl wauager u very large number of esruost youug ten aro kept st work. An s rosult revivals had taken placo, aud there was 00 disgniaing toe fact that pautors found it much estier fo wuoite uuder such a it D thlou i - hiave pagsed throog loader than ope ront out under ‘sectarian managomont, and tho work effooted of s 1mneh wider charaster, The asnociate work of youugy mon was at first looked upon #n of vory quoationable |\|||Ik{. but it was now aooh that CGod had blessed his labora. The aniount nocesinry 10 inaugurate thls national and Btate work was vory small on scoonut of the large smount of voluntaty inbor at the com- mand of tho Bocretary, Thosawho hiad read the roports of the Chicago Ansociation must bave come ta tho conolusion that a vyt amonnt of voluntary labor musi have boon employed to accomplish tho resnlws, and that thoe actual monoy spont showsd admirable maungoment onn tho part of the officors. The Exooutive Committeo of this Btate, the wma- Jority of which sre members of this Assooution, bad niot boon ablo yet to sccuro & pormanont Bacrotary, but had sont ont voluntary Iaborers 1o tho towns which had applled for this kind of ald, with the most blessod rosults, If the ministers of tho eity would only study carofully this vear's reports of ‘the Au- sociation, tho suni roquirsd for the com- ing yoar wonld bo choorfully given, Tho astondanco at the Convontlon last woek, and the manifeat intoroat taken hy the city pastors iu tho practical topics disonssed, indioated that thore would bono Isok of sympathy ou their partan the futute of this important alm of the uuited church, Tho onlythlng to by feared was that, fu this buatost of busy citles, the rank and Ole might fmagine they liad so much to do in their own churchos that thay could nat sparo the timo and mouey for the prosocution of this work, They would, however, do the beat thoy could with the monna at their disposal. The only tbing ho, ae Prosident of the Association, was astiamed of, was that their emploven are obliged to worls for small pecuniary reward; the sames talout and purh in ordinary buniness should conunand four times the amount thay conld pav. ‘The ooly comfortiug thought was that they all eatosmned It & privilage to work for Chirint, aud considerat that tho money conaideration was the loast motive that Impolled them to the service, Mr, L. W, Munhaii, Socra.ary of she Indiana Asgoriation, followed wlih an earnest addre«s on the utdlity of tho movemont, romatking that tho Assoctations were iaboring for the well-boing and poice of the cummnuity and carrylug the Gospsl to people who did not come directly with- in {ta taflusnces, Hince lagt October twonty As- sociacions Lad beon formad fn Indiaua and 3,000 persons convertod, If Chicagn wouldrive more of its thonght and money to the ensouragoment of this work ita moral lifo would bo purified aod its gonoral condition fmproved. After a graphic daseription of the daogeis which beset youui meun i large cities, ho closod with an appeal to tha Indies to help o the work, After nlugiog and prayer tho meoting tormi- natad, —_—— SALVATION BY FAITH, SERMON LY VROF, BWINO, The Rev. Prof. Bwing, of the Central Church, located at MoVicker's Theatre, yesterday proach- od as follows to n larze congrogation : Tho Just shiall live by bis faith,—Haoakkuk, ff,, fo, Upon no ono problem in Clristian thoology do #o many come ta tho teacher for help se ro- garding this doctrine of salvation by faith. In tho onrly da:a of the oldest of you, you must Lave soon in the country school-house quito o group of cluldron largo and smalt stauding siound tho master, wnmnfi for their turn to come for tolling it that they cannot do ** that sum,” Ono hus mot s grisvance in fractions, suothier a dificulty in roduction, another 1a tue Rule of Three, This sceno comnes buck to mind whou we 800 the group of o'dor chitdren i the present standivg around the teacher of roligiou with their facoa full of despair over the question of walvation by faith. In tho former pioturo tho schoolmantor was wout to toll the childrou that ho would work out the anawors at pight, sud {n the morninyg would make all cloar; but fu this lator picture tha preachiors have no suoh re- course,—many morniogs will come befora the maaters can bring back the peifect solution, and put the anxious scholars nli to rost. Ditcult and hopeloss indoed though the task may bo, yot ot times we must retuin to it, and with a bumlity 88 gront a8 tho thome s solomn and deop, 'Chie doctrino of salvation by faith Les all over tho Lible as outenread s tho sona or the suushine upen the eureh, It has for centuries beou overy Christian's mouth to bo svolon, and heart to bo enjosed. Ilo that vontures to spenk of 1t may woll fell that e troads upon ground holy ag to rollwion and danierous 88 to tho feshnge of moun. Iut, bo the ground Loly or dangerous, wa must all pass over it, not only ouce, but again and again fu our lite. Nover twice aliko will tho landscapa appear, The ntmosphero changes, aud hills onco seon ouly 1 outline atand out clnarly to-day with their decorations of furest and folisge, and objects that were romarks:lo ou tho former oxourtion Lhave fallen futo shadow sud raiu to-day, 1n this restudy of falth mark what changes words undorgo 1t their loag Jifo, But the ehnug- log ward iu theology only botrays the changing doctrmed. Tho word * worke” now implies virtuous conduct, rm)’nr. bonevolence, euarity, honesty, piety; bat in'tho days of Paul it im- rhod au obolicuca Lo tha ceromonial law, and e who kept tholaw in all 1ts workings and fastings, and huly days, sud bowiogs, and pray- ng, a8 a man of ** works,” Qut of such a detl- nitjon of works camo tho Phurisco of Chuiet's day. Much of Paul’s artillery was alined wvot agaiost tho rightoousnoms of & puro boact, but sgatugt such w salvation by worka as lay na a prop benewth the poor, cold, shriveled” souls of tho Phariseos. 8t. Jawws came nlong with differont impoit of the woird ** works,” and do- clurod in favor of o sulvation by works, In Luthr’s day the Romun Church ‘had brought Lack to the world tho klnd of good works once popular nwong the inhabitauts of Jorusalom. o word **workn” bas thus passed through two shadings of meaning, implylog ouco an ox- ternal performnnce, implying wow <nn imeroal -~ lifo, The word * ponitonco ™ hos n mwmilar history, comiu from Chirist with the idea of o chango of mind, n turu- iug abaut to a now career: itwvolved, of courso, asorrow ovor tho old carcer, No one can per- cotve bis mistake and map out & new foaturo without rogretting tho groat loss of tho past, The Roman Catholics saw only thls rogrot, and not tho Might, kappy, new rosolve, nnd houce they changud tno doctrine of reventance into the doatrine of yenance, sod sturved sud beat, aud bemenned thomaslves in overy way, that they might dovalop Into a Colossus tho rogret of ro- entanco. Saints mndo lonoly journeys on thelr neos that thoy might experioncs pain enaugh to put thew on the category of sanints whoroas the penitence of Christ did nol Imply safteriog, but only roform. Thus many of tho great torms o roligion reat chaugos as thoy have marched along, and domand, thorolors, roview at {utorvale, that we may, If poasible, flud the fundsmencal truth, slurmed if the clouds have for two days pro- veutod him from maklog a rackoning, no wnay tho modein Christlan feel & littlo unensy if he Las permitied long periods lo pass by without brnging auy sow sppoal to the cuart,—tho heavens of Lis course. Awong the words that Liave meant ditferent thuugs in differont times we muit claga tho word ** faith,” Not only seon iu diloront ages, but In ono ago it iy a vantshing, unsubutantial form, and wheu we would take it by tho baud it withdraws ke a spirit nod leaves us full of wurprise. 'The groat murvel line always boen that teachars of re- ligiou will use so much & word, of whose signill- cauce they seam to hiave no dotlnite conception, that Christ kuew tho whols fmport of the term, and thas Paul duos not 'unuli auoh fusight ou the part of you and ma, In theology tho sound will never bo equivaleut to the souse. Only so far as wa underatand the term, and can explain our mesuing to othors, have we any right o in« corporate the word joto the alalect of our p pits and our roligious conversation. Inmy r warks to~lay + sliall maxe no pretension toward fixing the mport of the ambiguous term, but I shall present the meanwng little or much that ocomes Lo me. 3 Lot ua tiret observe how uonsatisfactory and frrational s the ofiico of the word * faith™ 1n tho extromoly orthiodox churches, 'They ropsat incessantly tha dootrlne of salvation by faith, but they roally make to room for "fl suoch sal- vation i their eystem, A systom which mak » mediator cancel the sine of a chosen number, and which declaroa that man's will and oharac. tor take no part ju_that selection, but thatin tho oternlty ast, God from His mere good nleasura electod that number {o eternal life leavea no office for falth to perform, la the oldor Calniuistio syatem hold atill by a fow Prepbyteriane, falth bas co mors to do withn man's salvation, than Las the complexion of the face, or the language he wpasks, or the clothoa bo may woar, Iundeed, that systerm izakes o1. prass provision for the exclueion of faith assn suent of salvation wuon it makes faith a reaylt of eloction of salvation, In the Proabyteriau books (uot {n the Preabytenian heart) (be soui is saved not becausa i¢ has faith, but it has faih bocauso it bua beea saved by the compach be- tweon Chinst and God. Tne Largor Catechism 10 its aeventy-third question deolares faith to be only au lsszrument by which the mind and the heart deals with the Bavior, Thus, fnstead of aiding Jn any way to bring salvation, tnis Galvinsito « faith ™ is only an index teling when tho ralvation hias come down from Lhe eternal decree to tho epcolal living soul. As the mage netic nsedle sottled aoross the eloctrio wave that girdles the eurth, and thus points out an tn. fluence which 15 does not make nor affecs, so faith is ouly no {udex telliog the soul that the wave of saivation has come to it, bat over that wave it exesta no influence whatever for good or Asn tho good eea captain is.) 1ll; Heuco, to find any valiablo signifioance for the words **salvation by falth,” one muast turn away from tha Calviniytic systom, as Loing one that axoludes utterly the ides of any such vatlon. 1fore wo find no_solntion of the per- ploxing problowm. Lot un in our intellactunl diatress turn to Lauther, tho brain which gave now impules to tha groat doctrine, It {s almost Imposalble tn laarn At this far off timo Just what this groat roformor naw in his favorite wonl, but that he found all the meauglng of tho word as spoken hy Clirist or by D'aul (s not by any toans to ba belioved. It le cortain that Lothor saw in & mero intollociual clinglug to Ohrist A marit that made virtio un- important. Luther doolated that no Christian could by any sin, howover urlevous, destroy hin salvation, nnloss ha shonld rofuso to beliave, From Christ no sin alall soparate, though a thousand tivios one should commit oyon murder, In asch vivid wild colors did Luttier behold thio rising sun of boliel. This now atar of poaca siiouo with such & radiance that no uilt could ba black enough to intercept ity rag, ut that Cbrist and Paul never saw any such a saviog faith to tuolr dsy isa proposition that nends no argnment, In all'the writinga and log- ena of and abont Luther, wa abali not find any olear dotermination of tho Idos that the *¢ fust shall live by faith.,” And yot that wastha watchword of tho Rleformation, " IIad that new ahout and vow doparturs no_ signideanco tuon in tho history of religion? Undonbtedly it had groat eiguificance, but tho *salvation by falth” hold by Luthor was valuable as & rovolt agninat Romanism rather tuan as a inal detinltion of the Biblo plan of salvauou, Whon Luthor lived, salvation came by money for the mont park. The poor ignovant multitude bougls forgivencss snd mafety by making pagymonts to tho priest. Each & would wapatate & llving #oul ar a dead soul forever from God unloss tho represontatives of God on earth wore woll paid.for pronouncing an abso- lution. ‘Honce all tus clergy woro busy praylug souln out of purgators and pardoniog thoss who had ot yot coma to tho middle conutry, and the rivg of silvor and gold had quito blindod tho poor benigbted millions to the mercy of Clriat, or to tho value of any inner atate of the soul, 'To Lho saving power of mono waa added tha savivg power of penance. Houls kept woll down in bumiliation aro nost casily goverved. Men taught that misery 18 tho chief ond of life will subant to any King or Dishop, and will part frooly with moaoy as beng only the root of all ovit. Out of a roligion that at ono and tlio ssma instant drow from sovioty all its gold and ull its ambition thero camo tho pnlacea of the Kings and tho Popes, tho palacos, plato, and wine of tho Bisheps, and the bigh lifo of all the roligions and socuinr aristosracy, Thua ponance and gold were tho pian of salvatiun from the tanti contury to tho aixteonth. Whils goiug through some forma of solf-inflicted sufforiugs, a ight abono 10 upon Lathor such ag struck Paul at tho Damaacus gato, snd bo hoard the words, “The just shall live by faith,” Inan instaot the reformer quit the torturs of bis body and bis purchasiog of pardon, sud fold ali tha poople that fauh in Christ was all they needed, This was a wonderful ery to that cen- tury, It meantto tho Church then a rovolu- tion. It informsd the poople that they noed not buy salvagion of tho olorgy, tor theycoald ges it simply by belloving fu the Savior. No matter wliat their sius were, this faith would becomo a patdon aud a purification, Buch a crv from such an irrosiatiblo mind as Lutlier was of intinite worth, for it chanzed Christlanity from tho external Lo the [oternal, took ic from tho keap- ing nf tho privsta aud gave 1t to cach hoart, Out of that groat shout abont fauh cawmoe she Prot- @stan world of tho prosout. Thua it wos only 18 against Romaniam Luchor's idena of salvation by faith was so tiue and o valuable, Mang s raform hos beon startod and devoloped by mon who hald only imporfect {deaa of tho trutns for which thoy wora battiing, and of the dospor noed of the future, Qur Pilgiim faihers and Rovo- lutionary fatbiors, whilo straggling for livorty, could not lhave given a flual dotinition of tha word, and have pictured tho fiture, It was only a4 apainet tho blaok sky of dos- potiem thoir iden shons brightly. ‘Lhua it scoius to have beon with the berolo Martin, Agalbat tho black sky of Romnasm his doctrino of faith atoud beautiful as a ralnbow, buf, no doalt, in the radiauce of tho Now Tostameont that very faith of Lutbor would iigolt fado, When the Reforwer said, ** Ba thou a sinner and sio bold- iy, still more boidly beliove," we may as well goufoss without argumont that ovon he who sot going the Roformation could not deflno for us the watchword of his mighty revolution, When tho same Iloformer oavs that “'All things take place by tho otorual will of God, who blasls and shatters to plsces the freodom of the will,” we canuot but “feol that he wss bottor m overthrowiug tha Romauvism of the past than i consiructing tho Protestantiam of the future. Therofore, a8 we turued away {rom Calvinism without having found au aduquate moaning to tho words, " aslvadon by faith,” so we turn Away dissatisfled with Lutuor, He fought well, but dotlned badly ; wae beroio, but unphilosophio ; full of vohomonce agalnst a fraud, but uo guido slong (he obscurs path of duty aud bolief. Would suat the prosont could como to us now and tell us 1n simplo Junguage what it means by salvation by faith. 1t doca not thus come. It repoats daily the words, and attacbea to tho rocoption or rojcction of the words & dreadful penalty or a sublime roward, but it deignn not to sot befuro us » moaning of falth 1n Christ, that may carry our reason or lhiarmonize with the facts of the Biblo. Letuas put reason astde, for it not essentlal that Christiapity sboald barmonize with the de- wands of actunl reason (reswon as existing); but 1t is essontlal that faith b datined 8o 83 to cxplain tho facts of tha Diblo itaalf. * Living faith ™ must bo.so explained that it can move about In tho Dible, aud be soen whorever ihe salvation Is scen. It mustboas wide as tho ualvation, Now, tho Church sssures us that fuith is tho amccoptance of Jouus Chcist, but the' Didciploa had falth in Christ only a8 matohlens, angolic frloud, aud not only kuow not of Lits Uod-bu,d, bnt Lknow pot the meaning of the crucitixion. Thousands of Clristians had gone to tholr geaves, aud, as wo fell, to Heaven, before tho 1don of the subatitution or tho cross came to tha world, hence wo aalt fora dofluition of faith that will covar all the tombs wharo thoso loviog oned sloep, Ballef in Clirist’s substitution would not thug Bocm au osacutial in the saving siate of tho ming, Porceiving the diffculty tuat arlsos fram Jom-ndmfi that bolief in uny defl- uita orosd {u the faith that brings salvation, au owiwont clorkyman from Bt, Louis (a Calvinist), whea proaching in this city two weoks since, said ‘*Haviog faith is an acooptance of the person of Christ s scon iu tbo Teatament.” No doubt ho moant that as s clild loves and trusts its mothor, regardloss of tho idoas hiold by tho wolhor, or regardioss nf nll excopt the idoa of motherhood, 8o that tus soul muss cast itaclf upon tho person of Chrint, in tho Teatamont. ‘This is very broad aud goud, for it doss 1ot exclude tho Unitacian, who sess Chris imaged as God’s Bon, Iut, broad snd bosutitul a8 tho words of tho clorgyman wero, yot thoy ato not comprehwnuive cdough to e: plaiu tho phonowenn of the Bibla msolf, Un- forwunstoly for such a salvation philosophy, the Reformation doatrine was in_tho Churoh in full eaving powor bofore Chitiss camo upon the groat scono, The words, “Tho lllll shall llvo by faith,” bolong In that form to {abakkul, tho ‘prophet who first madoe that formula which 80 cutrancod Luthor and the re- forwors, ‘Thus 600 yoars befure tho Havior that very dootrine which 18 now explaiued as a belief In the person ot Christ waa performing its sublima function in the realm of soligiun, Honca tho dofinition and limitations of tho doctrino i tho books aud ssrmous of the most orthodox aro ibadequate. Bat Habakkuk s not aloneon tuo witness elaud. . Paul in that most oloquent spsode over penned over (his virtue, finds alt his ozamples’ af faith in tho Oid Testawment, It weems then shat Absl and TIaslah with the inoumerable cloud of wilnesses batwoen, wore tho cluldren of a saving faith that did not cast them upion the person of Curlst, but upou the gieat avenly Fattier. As dofinitions of faith must thoroforo Le found whiol will explain_the salva- tion of au Abrabam sy well sa of & 8t. John,— a deflaition must be foand which will got, with Lutuer, balanos much beliof agaivst much sin, hut shat will iuvolve ptoty ; & deduition muat be found that will uot make faith a result of salva- t1oo aud at the aame tima tho causo, asia the Calvinistic system & dofinition that wlit not de. wand a beliof in & beiug not vet born jo Bethle- hem, or not yet buard of at auy time or In any wanper; & dednition that will not place thu eicrusl deatiny of the soul upon any contingen- cy unworthy of sn iufinite God, and hard to be believed by maokind, - Bug whiat now shail bo this wider, better, and truor defiuitiou? What phisosophy osn hare monize Habakkuk aud Paul,—the days when Christ waa not with the days when Christ waa? ‘Po such & grave inquiry the answer musk come slowly, and not from any one mind, but from many minds, toiling along in the prosent as our fathers tolled aloug to the past. As my own contsibution to thia debate, 4 would submis the followling thoughtd ¢ 4 Assuming that the tenet of arthodoxy s trus, that Christ aud the Father are one, then the Abraham or tho Isalsh or tho Auvelius casting bimnself at the feot of the Divine Unity has dono enough, for, by tbe assumption of arthodoxy, Chnist {a in the unity, lhvvufi long tsught that God and Christ aro one, urthodoxy will oot dare ocoudemnu a Job or aa Aurelius for not percejving the difference. 1¢ Ohrist died to be a propitistion for sin, the {utercession or wabstitation doos not imply tbes mao muss know of 1§, and bellova in it, for as the fmputation of Adam’e nature goos tn souls that knaw nothing of any such reprosentation, g0 the commercial ‘atonement of the old othodoxy doss not limit itsalf by aa human con- solounucns of boltof. If Christ was only a moral inediator loadiug man to the Father by unfoldivg tho charactor of God, avd by sotting msn an oxample, then these who found the Father bofors Christ or apart from ITim, would only delight thst One Who camo to bo the modiator betweon man and Qod. If Christ cama to lead tho sinner to the Father, what a Joy to Him to find In an Abraham or a Danle] ons who had found the haaven befors tha pilot cams to the ahip, Thua we coms to the great question What is * Balvation by faith ™ ? "It i8 sothing elas than salvation by falthfulness to God, the ealvation ot the faithful, There is no discord Dee twoon Christ and God, Thers is no competition for aouls in thut llcavonly Trinity. To stand firmiy by the law sud pereon of God, as Danlol did (n Babylon, and ns Isstab did in s dissolute period, a8 P'auland John did in the Christisn cantury, to make the Heavenly Fathor the chiof end of bein; d to repoat David in tho oldon time, or with Cowper in the mddora timo, all the precious promises of Hesven to seo thin God tbrough darkness as did tho patrisrcbs in the twilight of the world, to 11im stitt thmufih the terrors of martyrdom aa did tho prophat who waasawnasunder,and thamartye who was atoned, ~—this iy the faitlithat fils the Dible with ita Lis- tory, and that bas for §,000 yeats been filling Heaven with itssaints, Chriab name not to ro- buke thosa who bad belisved i onlv the Fatlier, not to coudomn thoso who had vot porcsived tho Triany, but to holp the milliona of earth to lnd thst very Father fiom whom Chriat camo; aud to whom He wan In haste to raturn. Ho dosired to draw the world all after Him, that God might bs all in allto every one. ‘I'be fathfulnoss winch bad gleamed ? Aflllu‘ in the old era, lle nshod shoal: ash lke » mun n the new. No suntagomism oxisls or axisted botween the = Fathor sud the Bou, Tho flowers thal wioathod Jehovah's altars in thoe old era wera countad the sano as though thoy wroathed the croxa 1n she nowor Jorusalem, Deayera brosthed to tho Creator whore Job sat io ashes, avd whera Jude's daugnbliors wept, wers prayora of the samo faith that Iny bonoauy tho petitious of Cranmor and Iinox. Indeod after Christ Himsolf{hag nald, ** Aftor tnis man- ner pray vo, Ouc Father who art 1o Heavon," no doubt noed romain that eslvation by falth isa salvation through fidelity to God, Tho grace of God snd the mediation ‘of Christ aro found 1o the fact that for Chr.st's work' and sake the heavens sro thrown open to thoss who have a fAual lovo {ustond of an angollo purity. Tis seema s philosophy of falth that maken itindeod » way of salvation, In presence of this great relation of tho soul to God the Roe man tratie fu_pardons and indalgences 18 seon atonce as an inposition and a blasphomy. 1a preasnce of this doctrins tho cloquence of Paul tlirty yoars after Obriat, aud of Haoakkuk 600, years baforo Christ, fud thoir barmony in the ono sontence, *‘The just mhall lva by faith." ‘This vio v not only gatiera up the saiats of all the old ages into ons company, bat it forgives the huod.eds of opiuions about the nature of Cliriat, nud aske only that by [im the heart and tho mind be drawa to the bosom of Gad. Chrias tianity 18 made thus tho religion of falthfulvosy to God,- to duty, to pisty, and not n carafal ~ discrimination of * idaas, Horo, too, n salvation by faith s jowned to ealvation by morality. ‘Tha ~ faith in a croed or in a fow dogmas may go band iu hand with obaractors the lowost, especlally when faith 18 soon ag Luthor saw or oxpressed it ; but whon falsh is great faithfalooss to God, it 18 only anothor namo tor purivy of heart aud life, Hore, too, iu nsmlosapuv of faith that Larmoa- izos with the influite wisdom and just.os of God. Ueavon is not to be (illod with thaae forced 1nto it by = deerco, nor is the world to ba peopled consigned thero by un cternal reprobation, but heavou 18 to bo tho home of thoso who, while Lore, hved by the faith in God, und cundemug- tion Is to fall upon thoso who sot ac defiauca the Iaws of tho Heav 'nly Father, Salvation by falth is tho salvation of tho faith, In the Iast day beaven wil ring with tho benuty and justice of the words, **Thou Last besn faithful over a fow things, I will make thea rulor over many things, outor thou into the joy of the Lord." —_—— MISCELLANEOUS, TALMAQL'S CHUROI. New Yonx, April 23,—By colloctions bogun last Sunday aud endod to-dsy the Brooklyn Tabarnsale congregation, the Rev. Dr. Talmuge, pastor, satisfied & mortgago of $15,000 ou the Iay college proporty In control of that wociety. I'hinleavea the path of the Iny college unim- pedod. DEEONER. Spectal Disvateh to T'he Chteaao Trivuna, Bosror, April 23,—The Rev, Heury Ward Boveusr preached thls morning in the North Avonue Congregativoal Ohurch, Cambridge, and this evening in the Barkelsy Stroet Church, The Rov. David O. Menrs, pastor of the former church, was & prowminons member of the Adyiso- ry Counci, and Wililamn B, Wright, pastur of the Berkeloy Strest Churoh, w 0 8 membor of tho Council, and & warm al friend of Mr. Boocher. ‘Tho audiences wera admitiod by tickot at both places, and thousands on thou- #ands went away uuabla to get to. Ia tho side- doorn at the Borkeley Street Church, much glasa waa smashed by the prossure of the crowd. TIIE COURTS. Record of Baslness Cransncted Sntur~ day. . 17RME, An order woa made Eoturdsy by Judge Blodg- ott for a patlt jury to bo summonoed 3lay 10, in tho Uited Btatos District Court. Tho Diutrict- Attoroey was aléo allowed the right to call tho canses on the oriminal dockot in the order ho might eloct, Judge Drummond returned from Milwaukeo Batarday afternoon, and will bave an argument 1 the petidon for reviow .of Hodgklos & Ursns to-day. 4 Judge MeAllistor will glve a decision Wednes- dey morning on the question of tho validity of the city certhicates of indebtedoess. BANKMUPTOY MATTENS. Threa petitions were filod Friday agalost vo- rlons partita, but suppresssd one day for service.. Tho firat waa filed by Estell'& Jonkins sud Hon- ty Oppenhouner & Co., on olalus amonuting to 734440, sgatnst John R. Quimby sud Fred Cuue, of Msruaillos, Kans Connty, Lhe creditory chargo that the bankrupts gavs divers warrants to ocoufous judgment to Horman Dickioson, with iatent to defoal tho operatlon af the Bnu\(ruut act, and alzo that Cane, {u contemplation of ju- Bolveucy, transferred all hia propecty to Hormau Dickinson, bis brotheran-law, It is furtuer slleged that tho coufesslous of judgment given to Lickinson were without cousideration, ss was nlmo the conveyaucs by Cane. A rule to show cause Msy 1 °wea {ssned, and als0 & warrant of soizure aud iujuction -g-\nn; Dioainson to pre- vou him from levyiug vo the bankrupt's prop- erty, or fiom dispomug of tho praperty conveyud to bim by Cana. X Alfred P. Willls, a mombor of tha firm: ot Plorce & Willls, bool aud ebos deslors at 811 Wost Madison atrest, ta this oity, filed & voluntary petition Friday, stating that he is ready to sur- render nil his property and askiog Vhat his portnor be notified, and that the firm may be adjudicated bankrapte. Tho preferred and vecured debts of tha firm amount Lo §116.46, and tho unsocured to $3,085.14. The asscta consist of n stook of boots and shoos worth $2,314.00, which waa azsigned April 6 to George Dodge for tho benotit of all thelr creditors, aud debta die * on open sccount $805.82. Willls* owos $8232.50, and bas no assets beyond esemptions. A rale on Ploroe to show causs withln five davs why the irm should nat bo doclared bankrupt wsa made. An voluntary petition was slso flled against Lonia Michaelowsky, s lquor-dealer at No. 94 Weat Ada treet, by Morris Mitchotl, who claims $375.25, snd Wolf Ksuffman, who claima $410,60, Buspension of paywment ooly is nm;nd. rale to show causo Aay 1 was made, An lovoluntary petition was also flled agalost George B, Dunton and Alsxauder Yance Brown, commission morohants, but ihe partioulars oan- not be given until to-morrow. m’l‘ll:. o-'u :‘u l:lu \vlonl waa referred to the tar for final report, Michial Lawvee whe appoloted Provisionsl As- siguee of Nicholss U, Piceard. i - A discharge was issusd to liobort Bullen. BUPXiIOR COURT IN LRIRP, The Chicago Marble Mauufscturing Company filed » petition against Charles W, Higdon, B, O, Lauphere, Houry J. Bheldon, and she Beotilsh- Amelican Mortgags Company, askivg for & ma- chunica’ hien to tho amonnt of 1,865 an Rigdou's property on the northesst corner of Thirty-fimt strest and Cotiage Grove aveuus. Joku Thomlingoa and David Reed flied s sim- ilsr petition sgajust Augustus and Jobn M, ¥ronoh, to obtain » mechanio's lien for 82,839,668 on Lots 80 to 50 inclusive, in Rico & Valentine's Subdivision of Lots, 11 1020 {uolualve of Dob~ bins' Buodivision of the N, 3¢ of tua B, E. I{ of tho N. E. 3¢ of Beo, §, 83, 14. £. 8. Proscott bagsa & aull for 81,000 agal . rescoll begsn a lor alnag Solgu Brintnall, & O, Terry, and €L . Delden, William H, w’humml commoenssd sn aciion in troapaen sgelnnt Jacoh P, De Condros, Iaying damagos st #10,000. THH CALL, Jupax Ganr—300, 863 to 380 Inolusive. Jupaz Jasesox~—Nox. 46,265, asseasment of bonoflta for oponing Yarnon avenno, snd 44,032, ansessmont of honolits for opening West Van Daron atrect. Noa. 48,410 and 50,81 will Lo postponed for the present. Jupar Rooxns—343, 273 to 290 [nolusive, Junax BooTn—Bat cano 1,884, and 200 to 289 inotusive, except 271 and 277, ou calendnr. Jupaz MoAvLuisten—No ol Hill Wodnesday, Juvoe FanweLL—No call. No, 873 on trial, Jupus Wintians—No call. No. 42 on trisl JUDGMENTS Unirzn Brares Dmrarce Cout H?a- Diong. rTr—Nradford Hancock, Asaignes, va, Ohiarles Gloyoe, BB, s EAveeatty S Tiarogy 1o e 2, Blmou Lebreol .~0, J, Tierne ameq Trifxa snd Maty Durke, $290.-Michast O/DODN] neg Bariholomew Rusaell, $219,10, Jupam OGAny ~H, A, Iichardson et al. vs. The Ohy cago Bpring Works, $1,478,60.—D, L, ¥lsming ve Oirleago & Pacifio Raftroad Gompany, 8142 i JupoB JAXKION—O, E\ Hay et sl ve. Andrewan Catlnrine Ensenbachor: deores, 1T, Qircotr COURT—JUNGR_MOALLI TrR--Coorgs W Bloan va. Pittaburg, Fort Wayns & Cnicago Rallroag. Company; verdict, $3,000, and motlon for new trial, TOWA. Whatthe flawkese State Wil EXhiby at tho Oentonninl, Spectal Correavondtence fo The Chieago Tribune, Dgs Momes, Is., April 22,—State Tressurey Christy bae raturned from the Contenolal Exhi bition grounds, whero bo bias been suporvising the orootion of tho Htato hoadquarters, which (g » two-story bullding, 40 by 48 foet. Ou the firsy floor aro $wo ofces sud two rocoption-rooins; won the mecond Mloor aro iwo .. parlory sod two drossing-rooms for Iadios. The location 18 & quartor of & mile from the main hall. The promptuoces with wWhich the Legislaturs made tho appropristion for the Centonnial Las onabled thic Managera'to aecure » placo where probably nooody will flod tho Iowa Dopsitment. They had uo assurance that the Logislature would gl *uem s dollsr uotil it woa Bo Iato that all wpa:s in the maln building wan taken, ‘Uho only thiog to bo dune was to tack on a shod at ono mde, sud thero you wilf flud Iowa at tho Contonoial,—a sort of aide-show, aa 1t wers, 3 Anothor specimen of finarcioring {n ihis bush neas is that of collocting fundw throughout the dtato, Tue wollcitoia report the smonnt coilsote od &,407.00 ; exponges, &8,041.74; or, to state it more emphatically, it bas cost 98,031,714 to col- lact $433.16, This {8 & fair sample of all publia begging enterprisos, ‘There aro ever noody pluiantlivopiscs to do Auch work, provided sheir expenscs aro t‘ml:i. ‘The Board of Manngers should be prond of the resul: 1 thia caso, Lt will perbiaps bo of komo iatoredt to the peopte of this fitate tu kuow how thoy will bo reprosonted ot tho Couloumal, evon under the untowaid owoumstances which have anvirouod the Doard of Maungers from tho very start, towa will not be asheinod of hor dieplay. Inthe main buildiog thers bas baen sooured 14 0y 17 feet, whieh will bo usod by thie Educadoval Doparte maut, In tho sbod atirvbod to Lhe inain building bas .been wvocared BYY by 24 fook; and in an opon-mir space adjolning the man bulldivg, 4)¢by2i. In the Ag. ricultural butlding thore Iy socured 23 by 3 feoe for the Statu, aud 207 aquare fest for Mr, Ful- ton, of Fawlold, t whict will probavly be ex. lubited the fruit of Towa, ‘Flisis all the Apace dosignatod to the 8tate proper, though privata hartion uave seoured spaco for thoir -.owa uea, i: 18 ostinted tnere will be exhibitod over 75,000 puundd of material. Lo Group 1, which comprisca Geology, thorawill be twvolve cases, prepared by Prof. 1'ox, 6 feef loug aud 1 foot wide, faocd with glass, shuwing ther.ok-stratiticatton by s vertical section 3,70 fout deop, ‘V'hioy aro 60 arranged as to sliosy the sawe from ths easi Lo the wesd bordor of thy State, begining with Potedsm saudstous and closing with tho drift-depouit on the west, Group 2 will comprise building-stous, repre- seated by blocks 9 by 14 inchos, throe sides out. 01 those theruaie fifty-tiva didforaut kinds, Group 8 will comprivo apecinons of wuil of the diate, taken from thisty-llve diferent countles, Iho Btuto was districtod to eix eections; snd from a coutral point in sach sect:on, ln ciroular furi, touching difforent cuuatios, specimens of sail were talken, 6 feet in dopth, and Inclosed 1a natural fiomluu i giagd oyiludois, 6 foot long and 6 juches in distastor, rosting ou squais bagey, These cylindors will be suriouutea whih glasa gloves 12 inches in diswster, in wiuou wilt bo gruwmg Lho graseed indigououd Lo the locall. ty. 'Lhis group miono weigty 11,000 pounds. To Dr. Bhaw, Secrotary of the Doard, snd Prof, Macomber, of tho™ Btato Agricultural College, ths State is indented fur_thus fius display of the real source of woaith of Tuwa. Sy Uroup 4 will comprisa aawplesof sand adapted to mechanical use. There aro also gravel, gype stm, olay, and ochres of various colors, Proba- uly no Hiute i the West oxu show saud conlaine iog » lurgor per cout of eilicato thun that exe lubited trom Lolk Couunty. Group 6 will comprise matals, of which Iows I8 ot prolifie, Dubusue witl seud 8,000 poundy of galena trom her minos, roup) 6 will compriga coal, of which Iowa has a flold Jarger than tho entiro Btate of Alasaachu. gotts, From ihis city, Wosloy Hedhoad sonds ¢ aubo 0 feol squnre, woighing™ 1 ton, DMabaske Couuty will sond a carbuniferoud mouument selybing 4 tons, Appanooso wud other cuunties in the coal-fold will also ba represonzed. . Qronp 7 will comprise botanical apeclmens, of which J, O. Arthur, of Chatlos City, will sion nearly 2,000 floral spor 1w bloom, Uroup B will cotnprize vegotables, which will be unasr the care of Farmor John Grinuvoll, o) Olayton County ; and, if ho docas uot open thé eyos of Bpeclutors before the season clukes, il will bo because Iowa has for once faiied in hot resourcos. Group U will comprise frults and wood. This wil be the pride o tho kitate, Thare wilt bt 1,030 specimens of apploy, sll cast 1 wax aod colored truo to unture ; b #pcolinens of poars, suda good variety of small fruit, Lhoaspplot may bo relied upon na iroa to name, aod correat in gize, shape, and cotor,” Theao mil be aliown under 808 4 vases, taboled 1u gold lettors. Aa the meason advancos, $he corre sponding natural fruit will bo forwarded, to b4 uLown oside the wax casts. Theao casts werd takon from the fruit which received the Wilder gold-moda), laat vear, at the American Lomologe teal Exhibition, Thero aro 105 variotics of wood, sbowvn in_cross aud vertleal soctions,— oue sjocimen of cotionwood boing Glg fuet in diamoter, . Uroup 10 will couprise soeds, which will be ehoanin glasa jars, rangiog in sizo from 4 ounces to 2 quarts, ~ OF thiosw Lhore wilt bo over 500 varietios uf grain, about one-half of which will bo shosn on ths plant. Coroestalks 19 feot high, snd 47 eurs of corn ‘to & bushel, will cornmand attention, Groups 11 and 13 compriss ornithologloal apscunons nod it 4a to Lo regrostod that, owing to the limited apprapriation, the Btats Lxocutive Couucil huve beoa rejuctantly forcad to oxclude these, Dr, Shaffer, of Keokuk, who is an e« thusiast in this matter, kaa a collection of over 2,000 spocimens, ‘which ahouid be sent forward § but to proporly encass them wonld require sov- eral thousand doilars. A collostion ot sovers! thousaud, fn possession of Dr. Hoffmaater, of Fort Madison, also remaius at lome for the BAILO Foason, : Ouimde of the regular groups will bo sonb specimeus of agricultural fmplements from vatioua citlos, artictes of iron manutaoturo, sud all sorta of faventious and patenty. ‘A(Ixnm,gnd artieaus will be sbundautly represuted. 'The Iadioy will show their handiwork, The Btate has beon ranssoked for® antiquated relics,—not the Isaat interosting of which are thoso of theancicut Monud-Builders, The achool-atildren will have s prominent place, through the provident rare of State-Buperintendent Aberuethy, whers tho visitor will get an Idea of the conduct a0l progress of our publio sohools. Baperintondont Shaw has left for Philadelphls to receiva and superintend the Jowa exhibition. Mz, Brackets, of (ho Btate Hortioulinral Bosiety § Mes, O, O. Pliot, or Delswars County; Ars. John Boots, of Nevadn ; Mrs. Dunbism, of Moa- ticolloy snd Mrm. 8. A, Waloli, of the Agrioul- wural Collogo, will assiat” Llm, Othors will be sont forward as nocossity requires. HAWKKTZ. NEW PUBLICATIONS. el L S PROVESSOR SHIIG: The Sorond Serlea of Professor, Kwing's TRUTHS YOR 10-DAY (unlform Wll.h the ¥irat) is lssued toeday, April 22. Price 81,00, This now volume contalns hls latest dise coursos, soui e of thew uwched at the Fourill Cliurch, but mont ¢f shewm at tho Theatre, o bls wew Ceutrad Clur 1t s uulveraally concedod that theso ou bis Gueat elorts, dem tor their presorvae out forn: has lod to tho publicas tion of thle volume. ‘They ars selecied, ar ranged, and rovised by Prufessor Bwlug biue selfy and are suve of uven a wider popularity thusn the Fires Herlos. Malled ou racelpt of price (§1.50) by the publishera. JANSEN, M'CLURG & CO,, 117 and 110 Btato-st., Ohfoago,