Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 29, 1876, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MAY 20, =y 1876. 115 PULPIT. Prof. Swing on tho Progress of Christian Doctrine. Decoration-Day and tho Lessons It Teaches-—-Sermon by tho Reve Dr. Williamson. Tho Rev, Bobert Collyer on “The Roots of the Revulution.” CIIRISTIAN PROGRESS. SEIMON DY FROP. SWING. Prof. 8wing preached yesterday morning at McVicker's, taking for his text: Every rcribe instructed into the Kingdom of Heaven in like unto a man that 1s a honschalder which bringeth forth out of his treasnre things new and old, —Matt. xiif,, 62 This verse comes from that parable speech of the Lord. The great Teachier poured Into one address the richness of seven parables. The au- dience wns composed of those Orientals who never moke a plain, prosy stutement of any lhought. When they say anything they deco- rate the Idea untll {t {8 made as magnificent na Bolomon or 8hcba's Queen, and when the fdea ‘03 thus been dressed up in the silk of poetry or the fino linen of imagination, then they think It ready for presentation. In that land and age the trees talked, the animals talked, and except In parable or In poetry, or In high Imagery, eald no ane anything to any one. In this passage the acribe In religion, ta the Kingdom of God, {a compared to an old house- keeper whose homestead had come down to him from foriner generations, and was hence fall of vld tapestry and new curtaing, old and recent pletures, old and new plate, oldand new robue, awords, and ornaments, and, what was perhaps better than all, full of old wineand new. The gucests having assembled, the Lost brought out of s storeroom things new aud old, und the Ellver just from the shop was set out alongaide the plate from » former century, and tlic ‘wine of the lnst vintuge was tasted often aud well along with the richness that had heen bottied nmu[y o harvest time. Tlow stmilar are the old- cst dnys and the yonngest! The modern heart i3 diviiled hetween the newest patterns and the antfque. At times each hieart feels driven as by Istinet to g0 back for something to the age ot_Elizabeth, und along it comes proud of n rufllc or a dwelljug-houze, or a chaln, that was lovely when the gooil Queen wore it, and looked oL it orordered it, ‘Thua oil ages love the new amd the oldy aud, i€ let alone, witl beautifully mingle the present and the past. 1t'is with such tigure of speech the divine Teacher pinees betere us the seribe fustracted into the Kingdom. A true ecribe instructed {u the duties "of the Kingdom us 8 houscholder, Koowlng the liberty and privilege of the family mansfou, does not #it down to an unvurled rou- tine, but he comes slong with both hands full micd wishing for « third baud that ke indghit seize more from either antlquity or the present, The kingdom of Christ sccunilates liko the con- Lents of o fumily huuse passing throngl the long life in u Jand of entall, “Here ure plate and fur- niture bearing the stamp of Moses, Here §s n harp that David feld, nud n‘gmup of psalnis he saug, Jlere I8 the cup out of which Isalah deank liis sorrow ; bere is the luu‘:. black snckeloth « Which Jeremfah woro In his lamentations, Al liere is the new also, the pleture of John Bap- tist, the viston of Chirfet, the emmdle, cross, pml tomb; here are all the new words of the New ‘Testument. The seribe fnstructed nto the king- dom {s afraid of nothing old and nothing new, e §s only the dealer in the goods; he dovs not make the goods, e ls only as a cup-bearer in hie palace of bis King. Let us employ this parable of the Lord not as warrnuting our conclusions, but as furnishing us with anfllustration of what we percelve to ho the fact now {n the gréat houss of relizton. We ghall not hold the Stripture responsibe for our thought, but shall only Jove it as a huppy ‘lustrution. Our age ls Tor the must part a well-instructed serlbe, and fs bringing forth ‘rom the treasury the uew and the old. ™ It car- rics along the old us for ag it bas not mwn{ sotted and perishied. When Moses commmd that no fire should he kindled on the Sabbath yy he issued the order in andld climatewhere e sullering from cold wonlid not b ntense, and now when our thealoglenl teacliers deduey the modern Sunday from the Mosaje draw out of the trensury only the p tallty of the day und Teave the law agalns re o work ont §ts nsefulness Tiy a nore temperats zone. Golng into the wlue cellar to bring forth the vintage of the past they leave the hottles broken zud bring forth the old, indeed, vided it be not already spolled. There are those who produce only the old, They £ venerate the past that In that ‘wide arca of time nuthing has yet spoiled, nothing has lost flavor, but the whole tlme " les before them s rich in fafth, Tope, and charity around Davil ns around Christ. But the truth {s, Christ read better the Mosale agzo, Tle culled out of it some great doe trines,—those of sacrifice, penftence, Taith, wnd righteousncas,—und then threw the rest away, na did the fishermen who culled overon the shore the products of the drygnet, Then, after Christ hud brought the valuablo vld out of the treneu- ry, He procecded to Urit out the valuable nev, anl thus stands to-lay the mighty houscholder of Iits own pavable, Wonderful §s the display of 20008 before the guests of nlithe centurles At 1ls table all the ngea meel, The new and old Kiss each other wid make vows of perpetual fricudship. Chrirt was n beautiful conference md communion between Yesterdny nud To- MOrrow. Tt will never be the privilege of any genern- tion to unnonnee u ductrine that shall contra- yene adoctrine of Chirlst. The servant inny not De grenter than Ms musters hut it will be the privileze of all thnes 1o make new deductions rom the principles of the Lovd, earrying for- ward to the frwt jdeas He hud left {n the leaf und flower, In Euclld the propositfons ret forth at first by the ol composer or diseoverer were tn slngleness of ulm, but by derrees sub- sequent geometriehms added corollary after vorollary, untll in the end the one {deiof the Gireek 18 seen muving along with o trafn of dle- ductions long and_[uninous uws the tran of o comet, or beautitul ng the retinne of a Queen, The modern student brlufim forth out of that mathemutieal storehouse things new and okl— the old uf Euelld, the new os” Davies and Le- pendre. Thus the religion of Christ stonds as o Aumnary of vital truthy some of which Ho only unnounced, others of “which He wronght out with His Mfe amd death and after Him comes e ehureh, seeking out amd adding it8 own cor- olhrdes oue by vue as they are evolved by the new thuught or new wanta of soclety, A fruth ean never stand forth In perfect fsolations it nust soon be fruitful of influunces, and be, like Adum or Eve, the father or mother of o fumily. Tt used to be contended that the New Testanient did not tench uny sueh duty ns the manuinission of slaves. ‘The slaye-driver fu the *pulpit und on the rustrum comblind with the driver on the cotton-ield in_ thu demand for the n'lm})wl and verse that should ulpl]lulu the (natd- tutfon and the Hherty—men coulld not meet the demand very cxuetly, but along they eamo with wlurge partof the eivilized workl with them bringing the powerful cor o HUberty fr e muln propositions of ¢ Out ‘of the rand old house came the new a2 wedl ny the old )y the scribes well dritied in the kingdom of od. ‘Thur, also, the republican form of gov- ernment stannds us an Inferenco from the equal- ity ot mau. [t docs Bot appear as the policy of thie Intinite One to do for what man coukd do for kiinsclf, and henee i revelation to say anything man'could eay for himsell. To throw down genernlitics, and to mllulm the buman t nst Tu pply the principles right und left fur- £V dently the scheme of he Heavenly Kath le Left umple employment for Hfs chiliren. Tl were no Sunday-schools fu the nge of or of Christ. According to the litera would be auy, There shou! he nu Bible Solety, for (o thelr theory be s to be condumued forever who adids to and takes uway from the prophesy of that book. Some Siristiaus duw oppose the Sunday-schuol on the wroutud ul na '.Mr, ate warrant,” And so there Is qulte a large txonl { of Chiristians who sing no hyinns but those placed by the Almighty in the “Book of Pudwe’ They will not’ euuune with tnoso who slugs “human composition, Thuy they bring wut of the treasure only the ohl. Thire ls no_miugling of the new {n the feast of lfe. The events of Chriet'a it wid death, the tender doctrlaes of e New Testament, the cewr view of enven seen thure but not secn (i the poctry of David, the thought und feclivg of “nlueteen Chrlstiay centurfes are not woven Into thelr wurlh‘ljl, but for centuries after thelr Buvior hus hey slug words written & thousand years Lefore, When the Redevtuer wus unisecn,” snd the whole heart of givn beat luw. But with the Churh ut lurge 1o such philosophy pre- valled, and with the Bible fur thelr constitu- Gonal faw, they bty up o evand hyumelugy which Eprings Up unew cack generation avd bi- carporatcs fnite {tseif 1l ¥ tdeas and renti- wments of the passing gencratfon. §L would sccin, therefore, that the divine wish must have heeti wnd must be that gpon the Sieat uticrs auces of the Bible mun shouwld pluut bimsclf, ot na tha servile copylst of each most minute ‘erent. and ntterance, but ns o free, thinking mind, expeeted to advanee from one 1o the many, but never from the true to the fatse, The variatfons of fienve unnyoldable , beeanse, vith only n e grlven, a dozen ferent cuginecrs iy trinngula ferent ddircetiona, pa fane: h, As the New Testament lald down ouly a single baze-tine of worahip, It wis easy for different engincers move out upon the face of the rellgions nont nlong dilferent potlis. One miglht work northward and map ont a Puritan country, one might Euh\l liis compass southwurd and give us the Eplscopal mnn and yot, froma sin- £t base-1ino inny they all have uoved, Out of the okl comes the neir, as part of the old and A8 zood na the old, bat by N0 meana the same. Not lang elnee s High-Church Elenn&llnu pleasantly sald: 4 [How ynun5 you nrel Your chareh 18 only six months old!” Our church ks as old as the era ef our Lord; we are the church establlshed by Christ Hbuself1” And yet we who wmeet. bere fn this roon meet fn the name of all the veperable truths of relicion. Al the ears of oarth are on us and around us 8o far a6 fiore yours iekd angthing of valuc. - The eupe are Indecd lost of which John and James and Paul dyank the rommunions the little *“upper i ' whers Chifst 1Einsclf sat Las fallen into decay, We bellove that even the highest order of Eplecopaey does not pretend to possess that, ‘I'he conch {s gone upon which the beloved Dis- eiplo reclined. "Ilns there I8 much of _the past which we do not any longer possea. But as for the communion, that passing of the Lread and wine from friend to friend “tn memory of the Master, that right we have In just exactly such a fullness of yenrs ns pertaingto the same sup- por in the Eplscopal or 'apal precinets. ‘The pools of water in which John baptized we have not. The Jordan changes perpetunlly its bed, and now there [ green” grass perhaps, or an olive tree a thousand yeara old, on the s;mt where the Baptist onco went down Into the Jor- tan, Wehava not the exact baptism of an- tlquity, but we have the water upon the fore- head {0 the name of the Triuno Godd, and this fs.08 old In this ehurch as i the one where St. Chrysostam preached or 8t Augusting wrote down the doctrines of the new rellglon. The waters of the Jordan have heen evaporated o thousand times, and a thousand times have fallen cleewhere, nnl new wuters which once were in the Misslasippt bave filled np the Jordan Drook; and thus the kplwupm pricsta have come and gone aml gone and come, i the sacred- ness of the Apostolie successlol s as valucless for the purposes of religlon aa the succeesion of water on Lebanon and - Hermon are valueless for the humersion or sprinkling of the mwew —era. We love 1o draw from God's Word the old truth found in the water that tvpifies the washimz white of the soul, hut we shall never look uround for the old liauds that once led the convert down huto the strewm, The antlquity we love is the an- tiquity n(\':lhmhh:dnclrlm'!, not the antiquity of wgarment, n robe, or of a name, The tross we believa In fs 1,800 years olls the conve tlon we all hold ns essentlal i3 us anclent as our erg, dating Lack to the Damascus Gates the charity we tesch dates back to the date of Moses when he commanded some eheaves, and some grapes, and some flgs to be left for the widow and the fatherleags (he faith by which we all hopie to be saved has come to us from” Abraham Dy an unbraken succession hotier than the vo ¢ of the priesthood. e bezan that - erfence ealled trust i and vbedienee of h was destined to run through il coting times as the power that should bind man to duty and to hope, making him powerful inall the paths of virtue and usefulness, and hopeful in all days of clond and pain. Iuficcd, thy “old" of the trewsure comes 1o us clothed with peeulime sweettiess and worth, for we see I it the experlence and favorable witness of all who have lived on earth, Antiquity is very dear in {ts truths, Inatead of moving away from it let us atand by its varled excellen The soil which we toss ahout with our plow und spude 18 perhups ten thousand years old, We all know what rafvg, amd froats, and abrasfors, and chemfeut netfons have been neceseary to transform vol- ennie roek into the covering of our teld. Wao sk no new soll, It Is the old we love. Soasto wntlquity, we perceive what precious leas of Teligon it has dieovernd, oF recelved, o ted, and cherfshed for s, We percefve the fnspira- tion of our fathers, and the erudle and cross of our Savior, but here amid these deep, funda- mental [dvas our devotlon to the past enda. The nge of a church organization, the antiquity of n Koman Church, or o Russian Church, hod {n ftsell no eharm efther to charm or to wifend, The Mohammedan Chureh §s old, the Chlneso worghip Ia perhups older still, the Government of China Is older than the mouarchy of England or the democracy of our own land; but all’ this antiguity of Church or State §s a mere hauble compured With the value of the fundamnental truths thut huve come Lo us from old revelation and ol labor, and old oxperienca of joy aud BOTTOW, The most valuable union of the OId and the New I that whereln we see a newinterpretation or malification of the unclent doctrine. No brunch of thought as elosed {ts accotnt with mnnkind, AN Sclonee, rellglous, political, or natural, kieeps up o running account with so~ cety, and fhieve wre made dadly new entries and new emeelings ¢ older the world heeaines the larrer hese dully reports. The books of theology written In the sixteenth or seven- enth century were no nore empowered to clove up the study of religlon than the books of Hacon und Blackstone wers set a6 the terminus of philosophy. As the world grows hrouder, ns ita rontents hecome more varled, the Scripture cast duwn into the midst of it {8 to be caen fun Tupdred new lghta, What the Bible may have A about liberty would be little the % anly Govern v the people; but wh ever, frun ', e El of 4 Republle should enter the mind, then the Bible wounld e vead from end to cid, thut its ntterances i thin direction might e fonnd and useid s urtillery_of freedom’s war, So after Lather the Bibje was read over with the eye fixed for the word faith, Tn an ace when punishient was sovere, and when tho word merey played no great pust, when the will of the King was Iaw, aud when the peoplo tarely blustled Justice in the wbstract, then tho Qoctrine of future punishment mdght assime muy xlinpe, however horrible, without cauning any relllows duubits fn pulplt or pew ; but let unage of phitan- thropy come, such as begin to appear in the seventeenth century, aud” let an agro of reason awn such ns dawnedd tn the eighteenth centiry, when learned anl free thinkers wers laving the foundations or rensan in philosophy nod Jussice n government, and in such an agco hew luterpro- tations of hell und heaven aud Gold must be drawn ont of that greut storchouse—the Hible, They must_come, becatse that s the first sge that eyer hrought any et or study to hear wpon these feas. Ina thne and place of lttle musie and of ttle nppiness and of much plain- nees of all eustoms, it will e casy to conclude thut God must be pralzed with ‘only Rouse’s discordant version of the psatms; but” fn an age of music und of poctry the younger gonerations will exmnine more airefully luto thy argument that fmposed wpon them the rade musle and langumgs of thelr sanctunry, Thus, ne the world whileis out in fta mental {\uwvr atld b ity seeumnulated contents, 1t Jeads lio old Scripture back fnto its midst for a new l|lwalloulu;i. 1t orders the Bible to the bar of Justice, and Kindly asks It why 1t taught our Inthers this and thut! And, wia gensral rosult, the Bible ateps down in honor, but leaving llmmyumllsh of confuslon on the fuce of our nthers. This Intermingliog of the old and the new s not only thusaciual,but it s nlnnlulclf unnvol- able, It comes from the simple fact that man s u progresalve boing., The word progreess hiplics the fmperfection of yesterdny und tho continued lopertection of to<fuy. It wero not for thia finperfection there could be 1o progress of wny Eind, The tirst minds that come up 1o thie Chrfst would no more grasp Him than the first i that raw the power of steam would fabyi- ate un engine to which e age conld ever ald tnything, or than the fivst man who felt the pul. #atlon of freedom eonld found w l‘l‘!”lh“l! ol in- finfte and unchanging worth, Our Republic, at the end of {ts firsk hindred yours, 8 haperfoct atill, and before us opens o sceond perfod that nust be ns full of thought and action and prayer its were the daya of Bunker 11 and Yorktown, God ks seen to It that the Labor of mind and roul shall never end, butwhatever the past has done the present amd future shall le around ws immeuse o thele worke The Christlun doe- trines de Lefore us just as vir country lies be- Ture us, fuviting us to 1ofl the most putient, the most humble, the mose Toving, 11 thers isu singlu doctritle of Chrlstianity that hay beon fuily wrowght out and detined in all its detatls, it over which stidy has come to u sweet ewl, know of §t.° ‘There uro persons who do know of such finfshed kleas, 1t Is casy to fhud We luve no difilcolty on that vays present themselves willlng- y il proudlys ut the Lindshed ideas are not iR wa caisplonis, Tuyy they closed up the detinitlon of Gt Thave they deflned the whamcnontt Jlave they deloed the word ST 50 wa Lo lwimonize the dage of Job with the duys of "Christl Have they found out what klud of a church fs marked out fis tho Bible, whether it bs Eplscopul of sl mf- ricalt Huye they found the exit power of the sinner's witlt Have they found the tmody Of haptism® Jlave they so gletned fnspiration thut they knaw the meaning uf Gienests, und the of “the fourth commandment, of the S1h. i the Christhn system ¢ If @iy of there questions have been set al reaty we Nave fallnd Lo thnd the boak tn which this end of huguiry May be found, There 12 no surh book of peact. Tlhe ductritiea of relfion, the e of Cieis: Uunlty, Tic tosday before s lke the earth in Wileliwe Hive, baving its discuvered und its un- Alacovered country, It discavered and undised ered powera, Enimgh of earth lins been disco ored o afford us ali @ howte, and_ cnough of its owers have been solved to furnish steam that hat may nr work, ehips that may earry us, clothes that may protect us, food that inay feed us: bt away from our feet, away from our slulty thers nru powers slecping fvontions dreaming, of which no outline his yet pppeacod, and then away from this little ball” all the fin- mense uy‘vur depths are vefled ( shadow. 8o In Christhanity s there are discovered and un- discovered shadings of truth, but the known s sufllcjent, or at least valuable, to lead ua along paths of sefulness and plety, and to brlng us 1o hegyen if wo 8o will und so strive; it soon there springs up the wndetermined, and lnto this clond we all march in the queat ofnew light and new hope, Just as our world each morning girds itgelf fornew industry. Not only I8 there a vinibie Chrigt, but therefs o yeiled Christ,” o helizht and depth of Chrlst not geen cteept by the cgotist, There fsn }'hlblu “fuith " and an unmensured Y faith,” & church actual and then n cluireh of the future, whose walls are not yet above ground, but at whese foundations the Chirlstian thinkera and lovers of our duy Lol toil fn a hope that never wavers, hecause God hias placed them in a universe where tho new is alwags twining itscif beautifutly about the old, Ara there any here who latent the changes come muleoming before your eyus fu this pen- eration! We eve thero {8 tiol une filluh in this cutire audicnee, The fact that fu all the awnkened thought of this century not oo val- uahle filea hns fallen away forbfds that we shoull h\dul;ic In any " sadnese,” ‘I'he narrow seeturlan souls have wept all along the century, Thelr cyes nre wet with sadness, ~ But behol after Lee, and Buchoanan, and_ Wallace, an Chalmers, and Tullock, and McLeod, " and Tloruce Bustnell, and Finney, and Colenso, and Tyng, and Cmmnln% have passed throush the pintheon, muni( down certain idols, the the- olugy of Clristlanity bas como forth from these hearts” truer than hefare, and better efquipped for the duty and trial of the next vemtury, Our world {s one that grows Jurger as it tolla on, Tt began with chavs, and'is rolltng on towan hrmony. | The ofd becomes tho foundation of the new. Thus the Church of Christ will imitate all the other works of Qud, and will sk every age fo come to her and throw down at ler ?uct it new labors and new love. The little sum of money she left with the worlil years ago she wilk usk back, with the ad- ditional tive pounds, and she will upbrald you If she flods you with your mite In a napkis, aml i-ou tremblfug over It on account of her auster- ty. Shedoes not belleve fu timidity, but in good hard work. Lot no onu walt for a perfect creed to lie found. As well walt for a perfect home, or per- foct state, or perfect musle, or perfect happi- ness, Nothing eomes withott nllue'. Upon the great principles as nlrcml{' devefoped et ns pour deepest. love, for our life Is tou short for the works they lupose, and our tomb I8 sv near we dure not despise for a day the sunny hope found in Jesus Christ. THE UNFORGOTTEN DEAD. SERMON VT TilE REY. DR. WILLIAMSON, The Rev. Dr. Willlamson, of the Wabash Ayenue M, E. Church, corner of Eourteenth street, yesterdny tnorning preached a germon in commemoration of Memorlal-Day, and en- titled * Our Fallen Soldiera Not Forgotten.” Ho took as his text: ¢ e that walteth on his Master shall bo honored. = Proverts, arll., 18, Following is the serman In full: The order of importance in which oyr dutles are assigned by n just sclence of morals Is: first, dutles to Goid; second, dutles to country; third, duties to famlly; fourth, dutles to so- clety; Mfth, dutlés to self. Our flrst duty I8 to God our Creator. He made us that Ho inight enjoy us, and dar¢ we Interfere or offend? It nicu can be educated to obey God, they can he taught tho beautiful sccret of personal pence and happincss, When God’s will Is done among. met us well ua (6 s understood, hwnan soclety will have but few reasons to mourn. Nearly all misfortune nud sorrow come from disohedience. The perfect will of a Supreme Intelligence (s quite clearly known, but it 1s almost as gener- ally unbeeded. Every man of ordinary mind and heart knows precisely how he should mor- ully hehave. Wenll hiave very great reason to Le thankful that mportant dutles n every re- lation of 1ifo are go plain, Tho kindness of our Heavenly Fatbier seems to have formed this - etitute of nature. Thu grent misfortuna ‘of the human miml Is not. {ta moral blindness, but its willfulness and_perversity, Men are willin to obey God most'of the time, beeause obedi- ence 13" generally most convenfent und politle. God’s laws are observed by men wore than they ure Lroken, Dut that s ot enongh, 1 cannot think that God grets angry when man violate His lnw, though Hosends swift retributive dis- aster. Men ey against God when thoy brenk any 1aw of nature, ua really und immedintely ns wlien they break any law of Grace. We eafinot be too particular in all this matter of obedfence to Gud. Thewore perfeetly wo ohey I, the moye truly rellglous wo are, The liuman soul is sanctitied wholly when it attalus n p et willingness to uh\efir God in evory purticulur,— greator littfe. When any conflict of authority arlres, let God always have the eminenee, Our country, our fumily, our society, und our £olf, have no right to call as loudly as our God. Next to God, however, every man ghould most regard the call of s ‘country. Somo gay they ure completely willlng to réspond i loftiest patriotisin to the call of thelr country, bat not alwiys to the coll of thelr country’s” Adminis- trtion,—ax though in uatlounl exigencies these could be scparated, The senthnent of an Ad- minlstration must bo taken as the desireof tho natlon, just as the defeat of the one f8 historie- ally regirded as the humiliation of the other, The country cannot speak but throngh fts Ad- minfstrution, nor eannot sueceed or fail but by administratiye wyisdom or fucompotency, 1t 14 very easy, lot no ane furget, to aljow po- Titlenl partlsanship to alinate our patriotism. Disloyalty to an_exizting Administration s the only Way'ta he disloyal to a country. Durlng its “ofliciul extatence tho Adiministrution of a rnnutr{- i3 tho country, and ma such I3 entitled to tho loyulty of every patriotie citizen, From the earlicst times, loyalty to one’s country b eeen pegarded us oo undeniobly personal cx lence, When the War of the Rebelllon began pateiotic men of wll parties responded to the eall of an fimperfled Republiean Administration. By the suvercigoty of Amcrican voles the glori- ous old flag was Ianded to Lincoln to hold in trust for the mation, untll by an equally deliler- ate und poverelgn verdiet they shouldsee fit to give {t to sone other chofce.” When & reereant and traltor Bonth arose to smito that sucred en- sign, what cound Lincoln do hut call the % throe Nuinlred thousand more™ to the defense. - Lin coln'a volce was the volee of his country, and thore who ran at Lis bldding, ran at the Siag ‘The wdjustment of an Admin- ate s so Intimute that to ruln and to save the one you must of the natlon, Iatrution to o ong b Lot spare the othor. ‘The Government of the Jewa wasa Theocracy, Qud’a will was the country's Administration, Patriotis among that renuwkuhl\uwuplu|m~||m bsolute obedience to the will of tod, nud was uateemed afirst uttalnment of Juwish morals. The uneclent Govermuent of F; Neved despotism. The will of M W the one gapreme law of the State; and, fn con- foquence, there could be no- real patriotism, The imdividanl cannot fove the Stale unfese his volee §s heard influencing her conneils nud tixing ler pollty. Caste distinetions prevalled, us fu most Orfental countries, to curse 4t by creating unnutural sepurations amd diserhninutions, “There was 1o chuneg for puro: patrlotism, be- cause of the rigor of the enforced obedlence, and the polittealund soclul stupidity of » nation of displrited bonthnen, The Assyriun und Per- atun Btates, ke the Bgyptian, ‘were nheolute monarehies, relleved, it §3°true, by sueh wise and Iwe rulers ug Cyrus wd Davus, but gener- ully i fervitida o profound ua to b qufte In- C tent with the inception and_nature of the of ldividual patriotiam, The bl per- on of valorous Sparts, by whilch he ‘ to vote on luws subumitted o pate, fustered aniuieong uvwl»lcp«-yulur devothon to un otherwlse unmitigated polltieal Bundage. The Athenlan State was a despatisu of pure demoeracy, Not the will of the one, but of the many; was inappealable law, The rule of this 1 democracy was u furions and unrelenting tysanny, To “ho higher wnster could the” poor minority sppeal. The State tinally dled” of an exuberancc of untatored and undiselplined patelotlen, Eacl man was loyal fu hia own way, without willigz, by Intelligeice and sacritiey,” the weal of the rest, 1 the Hpeneerbu theory of soctal evolution by unsutis factory to explali the growth of Chivisting civill zutfon, T eamiot but regard it as wvery plausible wid plensurable way of trachie the Nistory of Individuad pateiotisng, from Its radlinentary in- dlcations 1y Lvacl through its iehoate zeal Spurta und istinetlve valce in e, t its sib- lulty of reulization under the Englich Couatl. tutiols, The prolunged contest I the Ruinun Stute hetween patriclan and pleblan blool wis the unhallowed and unforgiving rivalry of arls. tocratie und demoeratic patriotisins torascendan- ey {n the affairs of the world. That the patriotiay was genulne, without being intelligent, is shown by the military unlty and common uationad P s both un Diperial Caosae und a niore demoerathe Trilie, 1D Was not, however unl King John wus tortuzed joto the gift of the Great Charter that elucated patrdotism bl something worthy to lve for. 1o the funguages of Mr, Hallam, **This {8 stlll the keystone of English lborty, AL thnt bus snce been ol tatued 18 lttle wore thun contirmaton or cow- mentary, and 1f every Subscquent law were to be swept uway, there wonld il vematn the Bold features Which distingui<h o free from a deapotle monarchy.' When the unlversal power of abanfute monurchy had been furever heoken (o the Anglo-Saxon world by the Magnn Charta of Kj ward the First, popnlar wittiye Great Co ohn and the concesslons of 13- thy valuo and rollability of 2n|lrlutlfln wore first ravognized by wd- he common people 1o o voivo ti tho il)—that {s to aay, In the creation of the Toure af Cumtmons, The priniplo tau which the English House of Commina was ded will niver he surrendered by o patrlotie One euch tasto of freedom fs enoueh to exeite_an Insatfable rellsh for sueh ) provise fon, Within the great heart of an futellig national “patriotism the foundation of cvery throne should be laid. In virtue of courage and numbera the people must always prove soverelgn when they axsuing thus to dovide. The cve of our glorlous Magna Charta s nosw Intrusted to the people whom s provistons enfranchised; If necd De they must dle to keep fts provistons mviotate, 1€ 13 not only the duty of everygood eitizen to respect and abey Lis cotintry, bt ulgo to supportand defend . "It Is tho duty of the Stata to live os much ag It s the duty of the indivikdual. - The fuct thut every mitlon must dle the rame ns every citizen, doesnot relieve it from the duty of Hving Its Iongzest possible nge, Natlons m\i men should now live as if they never expected to diey, aud as thougl the whols work of securiog b cutaploted human clvilization was to be accomplished by this greneration. The natlon is often assatled by the natlon, and for it defemje must sunuinons the courage and- resonrees of its patriotic sub- jrets, The Btate may in fustive spenid every trop of its eitlzens' blood to save ita sreater Nfe, aond very mnny tines the State can only 1tve at the sacritice of the mwan, The Tree of Lib- erty i planted In an arld and uncertain waste of the lust of power, and the decelttulness of pop- ular praise, and to Hve at all € must depend upon unrlri\lnF and priceless baptisms of human Bload, “That ia the hlghest patriotism that in- telligently and under a crushing realization of theawful cost brings its ofterlngs of ita own blaod to ontpour at the roots of this sacred and ever (nentinte tree, that not s branch may wither nor a fruft waste, * Next to fldlllg for one’s God is df[ng for onc's country, Our cuuccruuns of God, too, are very much “according to 11is legal recagnition In our country’s laws. The moral tone of a nation's law {8 fur from nmenn or {llibern} theologieal teacher, 1 u man honor Tuis country by enlisting in her service when her Ibertiea nind ‘1ife are lmperiled, he shall be re- warded by the munificence of her legialation and the memordal refrains of her soctal fife, The heart of the people is_full of nmlylu;f apprecla- tlon of the valor and aacrifices of the patriot dend who go recently gave themselves to thelr country, and to wliose men or{ we especlally set apart this law, but even the grateful and Toyal reeollection of ‘an {ntelligent peopls can- not restrain thelr forgettulness, In all geatitude there mnst be inchuled the element of saerifice, To ndequately thank the men who died for us, we must bestow upon the futerests they, i€ alive, would most cherlsh permunent and substantial zood, The way to fully recoguize the ;{renl services ol oy miartyred “citizens, {8 by the practicul tnethods of permanent leglslation in pensions for service abd misfortune, [n medals spd mon- uments for ‘mcullur valor and independenco, in «ivil fmmunities from taxes and other nuwel- come fervices, and in Pulmw\l preferments by votes and lengthened officlal terms. Theso inemories, ton, may receive high tribute by the renewlug of our fealty tothe Government these men died to sustaln, and by such anew and pure Interest fn Amnerican polifics as will hold our redeemed land henceforth true to the beautd- ful teusts our soldler dead fell to win, These *Decoration Days' should be so observed as to bring us in patriotle dtizenship Into the same loyal nqlrlt a8 ournow fallen coinrades posseased when they volunteered. The politieal purity of any natfon s anexnct Index of that nation's rupulnr consclence. It §s folly, as well a8 crim- nul unmanliness, to say that the few artful and Dbnd professionul politicians begulle the masses Into politeal transgressions. The voters who chooae bad men are themselves bad, Tho great- est politicnl erimo of which un Amertean” free- man ean he gaflty s to fafl to vote. It {s non- ecnse to support any party under the halucina- tlon that it 1s purer than any other party. There is no Aifference in purity between the contend- lng_ Pulltlunl portics, ies0 partivs may differ very widely in the wisdom and practicability of their theoretical rrlml les, but in purlty they cannot riso higher han the personul and private {ntegrity of tho Individual voters who compose them. If wo want a pure Governmnent, let us vote only for ure men, knowing that the political principles el by good men are, na n rule, the best, Bad mon will do badly regardless of thelr pure theo- retlenl guarantees, when by our ungmarded suf- feagre they como Into power. An intulligent and pood Administration cannot rule unwisely or inpurely. tho mnsses of men come into tho pusscsslon of thut clear and tndependent consclence that will cast its highest franchiso for none but good men, our unatlonal discords and ofticfa] Monllintions will cense forover, The safety of o free people les iu the moral purity of tho {nmllc conscience. A guitablo implement to subddue o nation’s active virtue haanot yet heen forged, nor ean it be. The masses of ur cltizens cannot have even n sclfish intereat tn the eriminal prosperity of the individuals, The Apoils of offichy] mlsrulo are never distributed wmong the people. Let the conscloncs of the musxes waleh the cupidity of the man, and g hlluln-r oilicial tone eliall everywhere be resound- ed. Thongh the Government under which we Hve Is Republiean, and though we Jove it so tenderly and so well, let us nat to<lay forget the high il exncting su\’uml‘gm.y of Democracy, and the wssuclated deapotism of o politieal majority. Governments exist among men because hoth human Judgment and conscefence need amaster, Good and usting Taws are mado in mowments of cahin il thoughtful reflection to restrain hu- man passton, 4 turn unylelding obstinacy, and to uljust dungrerous altereatlons, We should cultivate such o personal attachment to our form of Governnent, and such an_unconquera- e devatlon to the [ntegrity of the old flag, thnt If our country should “call agaln for dée fenders wo would fnstantly vespond ; but it will not thus stimulato our patriotism, nor will ft ncrense onr sifeetion forour present rulers, to find confinmal fault with the eccentricitios and weaknesses of theie adidnfsteation, 1t [ a great mistake to suppose that, s a nation, we are very badly governed. What more or difer- ent would wa lisve done? This Republfe hus £rown to be an cuormons concern, Its neces- sary patronage towers Into hundreds of mill- oy, sud wmong its countless employes {t can- not hut include inany dishonest nien. Al great nations wro burdened with etmilar misfortune, but not in every, natlon do equal facilitles exist for its detectfon, expuosure, and punishment. I wonder that thinges ure ns well as they are, when I think of the human heart, out of whichall governtnents by tho people must spring, aud of the exposed and tempting millioug of 1oney that e powerless within the graspol officlsl averlee, Let no soldier then think that he mwly an unwiso cholee when e froely entored the natow's army, This land wis well worth raving In all fts magniflcent po- Htleul and orgunfe unity. To have hud o hand i sustalning your country's honor must forever remaln your prondest yecord, and to have anofuted your country's most frightful woeund with your own precious blood shall be your fm- maortal epitapli upon Columbla’s purest tomb. We get our notlons of ofiiela) dishonesty from an often misgulded or venal press. ‘There will always b two great political parties in all ml» reseitative Governients o croate double chunees for oflice, These sangulnary partles will lve theirloyal press with which toargue and mallyn each otherdown. The unu(‘ru}m ous do- #lre for partisan ascenduncy to seeuro, for u given Interest, tho spulls of ofiicinl patronage, {5 the worat feature of n Republiean State, but 1t cannot be instantly helped, and to eternally grunble and find fuilt about it s worse thai vonsense. I auy mun s present to-day who fecls that our country B not worth its vast costy and that the multitudes of our young patriots who fell to sustaln 1t dled in an un- worthy strife, let him chasten his unpatelotie lieart by o fese historical pecollections, ‘Thou- Aands of the best blood of Rome fell at that had Actlum nlmrl{ to closy the tl\'alr{ tong exbrted hetween Antony wnd Avizustus. Wus It for the good of Roume that Pompuy the Scnate to puss o decres S thul ‘msur should dishand dwarmy fn Transalpine (aul by o vertain (a ndd that §f he did not do so e aliould o regurded as an enemy of the State!" or was L from a sclfllsh” fear of LCiosur's final dictatorial nsrt:nlhulc{l .’\n.-\\'crln{( this Qeeres, why did Caesur cross the Rubleon, 1F not to vade the Republie, and Lo open thoss drcudful civil hostilities whoa issue should be, not the enfranchiscoient ulnrnfiu people, but the fizing upon hix own wide brow the full weisht of u ltoman Crown. For what grace or excrllence shall we pay tribute to tho un- counted thousands ~who died for these anhitions rivats on dreud Pharsalia’s Gual and oody fleld? i the ower of I’.:Tll.\hchlulr_v wus led wvast wny by Edwanl Il sgalust” the famous Brucwe fito Scotland, but only to mect fts destruction ut the swhul Aeld of Baunockburn, and whose thanks dv these mlafinlll!ll atriots receiye! From 160,000 to 800,000 men Tell in possibly the workd’s zreatest battle ontho platus of Burguwdy, unly To chock the hitherto - yinele Attla. This furlous lun was succees- fully stayed for w reason by (o yalur of Avtius, hut whereh the sackd or sl adysu- tayze of ull this waste of Jite und tevasurel The 1non who followed the fortuncs of Alexander from Cheronea W Bubylou, and frowm the Hellespons to the Indns, though they un- wiltlugly spread the Greek “civilization utf over the world, sained from loyal Macedon no puch totching trilnites aa have Tallen this day upon the graves of our patelot dead throughout all this yioble Iand. 1t might b heen good for all South Ameriea to have 1 iheruted by the award of Bollvar, and fo have heen formed by Nim into a Federal Republic, as he Frulnlnl't Lt tho unfortunute elinuxing of disitercsted ]mlrlu(lmn n Pera, by which thia distingulshed eader heeame Dictator, glves to such o probu- bility ndliferent coloring: It ‘was certalnly not the prepossessing peraonal nppearance of Crumwell that attracted soldlers to hls standan, if we are richtly inforined by thix qualnt fragment form Sir Phillp Warwiek: “Hisupparel wan very ordinary, fov §bwas a plal I‘mh auit, wi seemed to have been made by an il country tallor, pluin, and not very n, and [ remomber & 8] L‘Eur two of blood upou lis littlo band, which waa not much largeer than bis collnr. His hat was without a hat-band. ls stature was of rootd slze; his aword stick close toebls sido; ifs countonance awollen and reddish; his volee sharp and untunable, and bis eloquence (all of fervor” It was Cromwell's stronz judgment and [miplacable antipathles that fixeidl lils fn- fluence with the Puritan l]mrly. Mauy brave and conacientious men dled to win Cromwell con- quests, but did thoy dic for as brave and con- seientious reauita as our beloved soldieraf Sup- pore he did win victorlea over the Royalists, what did the nation gain by the exchangé? The anny was made to ritle the Parllament, but how was that preater politieal libertyl Aml though mm\( died to prave the opposite, I must still perslst in regarding a Presbyterlan os fully equal to an Indepeudent. Poor Churles was Lorne to the cruel block by the tireless exertlons of this Christlan(l) ruler, but what dld Hberty gain by the murder! Many martial patriots atood nround the Lord Pro- tector when hé dismissed the Parlinment, but whose grateful hiearts shll canonize this valor, or whose Imperishable applaudits shall jake such deeds fumortall Aen miss it Irretrievably when they ro to war murcl{ for_a chunge of rulers, ‘The soldiers In our Tate Civil War' died to win two sublime moral results: First, to turn a nation of hondmen into freemens and, recond, to show the worll that a Republican Govern- ment ean save {8 fotegrity even by force. ‘Theac men gave to the long unfortunate blacks the highest political Bherty it is possible to con- fer, fu'that h:j' gave them the chance to earn thelr own bread, anil Lo vat 1t without molestn- tion, Tt had been also the confldent prediction of Monarchy that our Republic would not bear the strain of Internicing rebelllon. The world regarded us as o highly-civilized and forbear- ing natfon, existing Dy kind, mutal conces- slon in tinie of goneral peace, but altogether too weak and " [rresolute to assert’ our authorlty when disloyal passion should arise in determined rebelllon.” OQur boys djed to correct thls impression, fn behalf of the principle of universal Republicanism, These men dicd not only to send o lesson abrond, but also to inform c\'crry State In the Unton that se- cesslon from our Federal agrecinent s utterly impossible. Our brothiers who waited ‘upon thelr country fu_the extremity of her peril, we, answering the Master's volce, desire this morn- ing to honor. They are gone, but thefr works ablde. No man ought to” be, and no man can he, immortal in thia world, but in his henefleent works, Each one who fell In bur Clvil War had a personal part In the proud results. What the many finally aceomplished the man con- tributed ‘to secire, But for the promptnues and vulor'of ourcitfzen sold(ery, thegreat Ameri- ean Union would he u thing of the pust, the thag woukd have been despolled of fts stars, and thie Inspiring glories of our great history wouldhave heen retracted, Well may we decle In vichest flowers these patrfot tombs, These praves hold saered dust, Here lie Dearts once ine carnating an {nspiration wo shall uever have even the chance to emulate. These fallen braves, instalwart manhoad, heard the de- epuiring ery of anaffrighted country, and ran to her rtellef. The grand teinple of Liberty was fu flanics, aud uanght would vxtinguish thembut profustous of putrlot blood. These natfonal martyrs fell {n the fron stormj we ahall save thelr memories by the I"IT“M sytnbols of perpetual pesee, “Tho Ligh lonor of o natlon's perpetunl £ rati- tudg cannot be awarded to uny who did not freely respond to thelr country’s call. Con- serfpted Toyuity §s not the natfonal comnmodity we would gtrivo to cultivate, Every true and Intelligent l;ntrlu! fears to po to war, even in defense of his conntry, because ho realizes the yastness of the intercsts hio puts fn jeopardy; It this does not deter him.from volunteering. The patriotism must he Pmlmmfl Indeed that will overcomo our natural Himidity fu the pres- ence of anticipated danger, nnd lead ws to boldly agrec to- do what it will most Tikely cost us our life to porform. Columbla is always safe when surrounded by her hosts of martful volunteers. flura fa u aterial Government, Aafe in the learts of the millions of her courageous sona. ‘Tho foo that dares to smite our beloved mather must rob lier every hoy of s blood before the indignity can be called redreaned, Standing for our mother ugalnst her enemy’s steel, we call “volunteering.” Ours is the nnl‘{cunmry that can depentd upon fta free contributions”of milltary service, becnuse outs is the only country thut can sver be placed in peril. Ilereditary crowens, wot popular ad- ministrations, nre hnperiled n times of war in alt Iands bul our own. A pgovernment of the people, and for the people, may. safely risk ite exlstence with the {mnple. Whnt thiese solidier friends of ours died to fn, wo should llve to A\n-.-crvu‘ ‘The poor elaves at the Bouth receivea from them tho form of freedom, and from ua they nre expecting to roeeelve the power, Our brave and loyal army denfed the slave his muster, and now we must teach him to need none. These long-nbused eolored men are no langer held in Londage by Tuw, but they arc still {h the deeper thralldom of fgnorance and fnexperience, How to renp the folt advantagen of freedom it is now onr duty to Inform them. The rigor of the mili- tary power of u frec natlon has been attested by the sacrifices of these noble men, but the suil clent and censeless purity of our popular con- sefence to {nsure an aged natfonal existence fs stitlon trisl. Gur unl{ way to becomo and re- main Funulxm patrlots Is to”do, accordiug to the very best of ‘our ability, every duty of n good eltizen. Treat the natloit s you would the (n- dividual. Let your opposition to any ]mrty be hefore, and never after, its election, “Fight can- didates as much as you please, but never fight un offieer. Uppose the advent of what may seem to you an objectionshle administration but never acek to unseat it when, in splte (J {gurpmtu it hos come fnto power. Be true your higheat private morals, §f you should ever bo so unfortunate as to be begulled fnto public life, An unfaithful offlcer was once an unfaithful eltlzen, 'The power to steal fortunes from the Guvernment was gafned by thy steady disciptne of petty plunderings In private msi- neas, Men do not get ripe’in fmumornlity i single season, nor can lhuf correct u nufurity of Trunsgression by a few holy resolutions ani hopes. Let us not with the solemn services of this Memorinl Day dismiss theso patriot salnta from our Learts for another longg |yn::u-. Shall not our pure and loyal cltizenship pay <|nl|§ tribute to'these rare und unacifish memorfes Aslc our nation’s God Lo spare us from periodf- eng {mtrhnhm,nud tu[;i ¢ unta us an interest in this great Republle, even when there are no offiees to distribute! May the seed of this martyr blood, s0 muny weary years in inenbat- ing, soon mature fn joyous lurvests, May this ransomed Innd always have In walting, but never again need fn serviee, such an urmygf {linstrious defenders. And hy and by, when this unlversal human heart, in Whose mnuljgnaut Aepths all wars and oppresslons have thefr bleth, Is hushed nto the sublime sllence of Errmltf‘, in the mornfng of the Kesurrectfon, upon the Plans of Timmortality, may all our yulrlut dend anawer the Archangel's rerellle, and il in line to invade, aud occupy, and rest for- ever {u o better country thun they died to ran- sul. REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS. SRIMON UY TUE RSV, ROBHUT COLLYNR, The Rev. Rabert Collyer, pastor of Unity Church, preached yesterduy morning to nlarge cungregation. Ilis theme wus “The Roote of the Revolution,” busing bhis text on the first verse of the frst chapter of John: *In the be- ginning waa the word.” The followlng is the sermon: ‘There 18 o great Iesson for this Centenniat year when we take the truth act forth lu my text {n & simple and naturul sense, &8 the main fuctor in the revelation through which we be- came & great fres nation, You traco the story of what was done by the fathiers to N at last that what was said is the spring of thelr action. That thers are words in plenty, then, as thero are now foollsh aud voin snd empty, yet within the whols con- fuston, « word is suld here und thers which wins ut last ua the kernel wins against the dust and chufl, 1f you take the Colonfes, one by one, and trace their history frot the timo when thoy be- @un to twako s stand agalust Lhy twothercountry, ou will find thut thuss did best where such fving wonls as truth, right, and freedom, had gone widest and struck most surcly foto the cotnwon heart, 1f, agaln, you take the men fn euch Colony who vamt to the front to {nspire und lead thiose shout them, atlll it 13 the samu truthj they are the men in that region who are moet inteiirely alive Lo the great queetion, and out of thut e are sure Lo sy the word which strikus Lowe, that swites Bku b bammer, burus lkua fre. It u.nxba 3 quict word ke thut Washington sal with stwumering 1ps, ar a rushing tide of eloquencs 1lin linen was In men liko Patrlek Henry, or polished and mu- Bleal like that of Jeferron, or harel and stern ke that of Ethan Allen, but it I8 a word thut cnsts cannon and malkes powder, that inustera men and aends then out ta die, that eaves homes desolate amd vet fiils them with a pride aml oy no good fortune could ever bring. These men with aliving word spoke, nnd (b was done; they commanded, and it stood fust, “I'iey hronght the light of morning to tho mind, And ment a purpose theobhing through the land, Which clse ‘]l\! Tain enshrouded 1n the sonl, Theve ean bo no doubt, agaln, asto the nntuio L of this word which wrought such wonders, takes many forma and Is couched fn many cents, but this is what {uu find when you cleave to the heart of ity that It 1s the word of Paul to the rulee: *Iwas born free,” The instinet so deep and Intlmate that It seems to he as old s the race from which the whole man- hood gprings, that {8 of any great use fu this new world, to have something which o man ean touch without oue free consent, o place of our own and a will of our own, the right to say our eay without fear or favor, and to count for one to the last man in all matters that touch the comnion good ; to eall no man master iatll we have settled the terma and limits of his powers to command us, to pay not one penny of onr earnings under the lash, to count life na theap ns dirt when (o live fs to he bound hy hulul‘, or foot, or tongue, and to toss it awny with o grand disregard when, through our death, a greator life may come to those we teave hehliid ws. In_ the “earliest records that e be found of our free-thinking and free- speaking race, there I8 no word to answer to vur term slave, heeauso the tdes is not uative to our nature, nnd in the earliest thmes no such thing was kuaown. When the Romans would lave fuvaded the land held by the German hranches of the fanily, Mammscarsays o Woman enme to the front and shouted turn” buck, und the organized power of Rome never passed beyomd” the somthern and western skirts of” the land; and when kingeraft — and pricateraft had nettod the whole . Old World over both to with L‘yrnnny. the 1ifo and soul, we ralsed wp men to de- clare that reuson is the well-spring of law, that the truth should be mafntalned by an_appeal to reason alone, that if firs 1s the proper cure for heresy the fagot-burners are_the most lenrned doctors on the earth; that n Bishop'’s ordination fa nu more savred than a town elections that all men are equally priests, and that no man n- personates for another the authority of God, 0, when we want to know bow [L was that the fathers could not submit, but nust start out far themaclvee, we have to remember first of all that the fathers Lind this fastinet of frecdom in them when they came here. The World was nigh them, even I thelr hearts, und it flamed ottt and burnt up thelr bondage once forall when it came to be intolerabie to be borne. And we cun never read thesecret of the Revolu- tion wrought through this word truly when wo attend nnbw the grandor and greater things which have taken o place in our natlonal histo- ry. The real revolutlon heganaway down amon; vfm people. Adams, and” Jefferson, and their fellowe, were ouly us the mateh to the walting fuel; It was n movement of the manhond which began down among common things long before we hear the things which stand for its gospel, and we must un tand this before we can un- lilt!rl!nm\ tho power of the living word It that thme, Before the pllgrimshad gathered thelr first harvest, an order in Councll was made_forbfd- ding the Colonles to cexport. any product on which had not. first been pald & per cent duty to England. That was followed In the courss of tme by an act of Parllament which closed the ports to every flnl.: except that of the mother country, and’ ordered all great articles of ex- port 10 the English. markets on pain of forfeit. }l'lxuu the duy eame when there were hwunl{- nine of theee nets of Parliwment, all couched in the same spirit, and all enforcing the enme right to empty the purses of the Colonies Into the coffera un the vther side of the water. There wns an_arrangement in those days through whicli the churches in Virginla were wnintatued by a stipend pald by the Crown,—a very smull return of the tribute in the nature of the water you pourinto an unwilling pump. It was found to be teo small even for the moderate ldens of a minfster’s salury in that time, and a cominlssioner was sent to Attorney-General Seymonr to plead for u few more dollurs o Diead. ~ 1o made no - presslon, and at Tast cried “”II“{? 4 8Ir, will you please remember that the people of Virginia have souls to save.” “Oh, curse your souls,” wuas the rough-und-ready answer; ‘“make tobacen.”” Down fn Mulné there were vast for- ests of ;vlncuhmdlu;; rendy for the ax, The old Norse hallad says: ** Godls the first provider,” Bo thesc wmen thought who had como down in long lines from thelr blood, and eo they went to work to fell the plue and ship It over gca or to use it in the new home, ** You must not do that,"" thelr masters sald, “ We have granted such and such sections to this und that’ Lord; the rest we reserve for the Crown, If you fella tree over twenty-four [nehes In dimneter a foot from the groundl, the fine 15 & hundred pounds; if you disgnise yourself 6o that the King's wen slinll not know you, it 8 the same fine, und twenty lashes on the bare back.” That wus the steady drift of things In the old days, The Colonlsts found they had cume over to thls country to labor for other tmen on lerms more bitter ihan those they had fled from., The Kinj and s Ministers were landlords who Inalsted on alf the tribute that could ba wrung from the soil, and did not carv at sl about thoss who sent it, except as they could be muds to send mory lie first questlon, therefors, on which {he Revolution turned was a questton of bread and butter, 08 it had a perfect right to ho, and has been 8o often among the men of our birth nnd breeding, The fathiers had cuine here with the old feellug that they could have something of thelr own mo mun could take from them without ther free consent,—to mako a stand for Lhelr right to refuse to pay a penny under the lash, nrlght they had been !l{:hllng for in tho old home for 600 yoars, And here they were with the old trouble on them, In an aggravated shape. ITere was thelr loaf wrang from the soll with the King clafming the right to cut into It jusl 88 deep as ever, without sayingz hy your leave, or taking the cruml, i€ ho was o minded, and leaving them the crust. The Colonfes were to be howers of wood and drawers of water for the old Innd to which they wero still looklng back with such & tender pride, and they must hew und draw to order or tnke the conscquences to twenty lushes on the Dlaro buck. They could not do ft, If they had dong §t the result would not huve beén con- fined to Amerlea; it would have boun a curse und shame to the whole world of men who can sy these awful words, *teuth, aud right, sod freedom,” and mosn what they say. = And so these words were anld by thousands of men we noever hear of. Wo only” hear whiab was sajd In the Stato Capltols, thie public halls, the Con- greases sud Assemblies, and the living church- s, It {8 a brave word, then, and truo and eloquent, so thut pien wopt sometimes to hear it, and shouted for joy. ut thers s n lving word within and under this,—the word of the people, rough, und ready, and not out of the heart, and thére wis the sting and smart of o cursu to {t now and then, 1 have nodoubt, All the same, it wus aword ous of Heavon, It went 1lying among the lumbormen; ‘the farmers eaught ity und did not stop to alck thelr terms, cxeept, perhiaps, when the wminfster waa round; the ski| }u:r canght it ond the mon before the maat; thy merchunt and the mun who lad yoked his small industry to the atream; and wherever it went 1t was the Word that was in the begin- ning, The peaple wero saglug if we tust hear the King he must licar us. We owe him no honor except s he malotafus honor; i€ he wants our earnfugs et hfm como and take them, and wo will sco which i3 the stouter mauhood. That 14 the first chap- ter in the old strife; 1t was a question of the right of a man to the (ruit of his labor, and to l|l; say In the disposition of 1t for the cominon roud.” Men Mk Frankln molded the rmde fdea into uxloms; others made it take the shapo of u polished phifosophy of huiun rights} here 1t was muslenl with eloquence, und there steeped in sagncity, It took Jarge imeuniug in the coursy or.time 1 lnrnnfiht the eat men in the world to atand and to P ead for 83 but In the hegin- ning it was simple and homely, and right down on 51\: ground. “AmIto bu frec Lo carn my firead and eat it, to pussess iny laud in my ownn vlght, and G bu'so far st lewst & tant” ut beginndng hure, th tiving wonl could not stop hers. When the fathers struck for froe- dom In this most shinple sensc, thoyalso ina sense a8 simple struek for truth, 1t has boen said by n very bright sud trus thinker that the result of thu course England took with the Colonles was Lo ralsc up & generation of mer- chants, who went steu )‘y to mweeting and did the greater part of thelr Dusiness fn wwoy thet would kave sent thom*to Juil; of lawyers, whu dressod tholr wives and mmu‘uem I stuil the Iaw would huve vontlicated; of farmers, who dally put on their tables what they could not havé put thero if they had to get it fn the lawful wa) d of pintsters who trled to quict thelr conselonces with subtle distiuctions between dl- rect and indircet particlpubion, It wus thne something was dune, therefore, for sruth as well as freedoi. The Revolution must couic soon or Iate. It could not come too -uankwhun the; threatened to make the men of this New Worl ot only bondsmen, but lars aud hypocritea in theso simple things that touch thé home und the comtmon life. Thers must bo some last Lastiwss which we cun toke refuge and bold our own. Time has show 18 not In the churchies, or the courts of law, or the gecat iarts of business, but i the heart of onr evmmon manhood and ot the Hyeside. When vur children know we are u living lie, oven fur such 8 reason wa that the fathurs can give, or 88 we can jdve, when we go to Eurcpe or to Cunuda, and brvak the law for the sake of what we can nmm&qln through the Custora- Hounge, they are Hkely to leurn n lesson wo would rather die wfter all than teach them; and this waa the lesson th learning In those dayn, that n e, for the Anke of e and profit, 12 to he preferred to trath and the last doliar ataked on n fight, snd Nife itself if so it pleasca God. And 80,88 Lord Bacon has sald, that s preat question will not full of belng agltated aomg thne or other, liere was ample ground Sor agitation. It was not only freedom or bondage, hut the truth or a Jic, and not, In some fasblon, high an the Heavens to the, conmon thought, but in this simpla; fashion that came home to every man of good comton sense. Wherover thiero was n spark of real manhood in the Thirteen Colonles, therewas amanto watch how this end was working in Iis own Wfo or among Lis nelghbors. It wos rhihz not to pay the impost.; It wes quite s other thing to He about It, because he was nfratd to be a village Hompden, to seck others of his make, i then sec what conlid be done to make the odds even. And this fs hut one Instance of s way the tide was running. We have lived rough o time in which those were vounted nost Joyal and held in the most esteem who could sny that wrong waa right and the truth not quito so trug as tha lio. ~ And that was the trrouble then, “Iet the inntter alone,” men werg gaying; * what good Is there in this end- lees agitation? the ‘whole thing Is band and §Iuvu with infidelity; fear God und lonor tho Kings; sponk not evil of dignilies, the powers that’are ordained of God; render anto Cresar the things that are Cwmaur's,”’ and so on to tho end of the dry old ehapter. I belfeve that there are those who think to-iny there was not much to fight about bLoyond u certaln hnnkurlntz after %nllvpl‘mlclll‘c. which had got. futo the bones of the DBostou Radicals. There was the most gerfous thing to fizht sbout the men of our breed can ever oncounter. Wil you be a free truth-telling man or a serf and n lar? It was no new quarrel; the storm had crossed the Atlantle frony Marston Moor, and was beat- ing on the Colonies to the sanie end that it had beat on the Kiogdom. It was the fulllling of the vislon John saw on Patmuos, *There was war In Ieaven and beliold, 4 white horse, and e that sat upon him was called Fofthful and True, and fn righteousness he doth judge and mako war, And he was clothed (n o vesture _lll[:{ml llll l;h'alml, and his nune s called the Word of od, Bo, to get at the secret of the Revolution, I gy agaln, we are to Iay our ear close to llm time al hear the fathers talking to themuel and among themsclves, about this wid and atal demoralization o of the honest Buxon heart to which fn sll ages o lic s not a way_we have of saylug W nlnl.', Dt Just n le. Thiey lad come to take refuge in fulschood for fear worse might Imqpcn, mul then they found that tho worst bad happoned already.” They were walking in vain ebadows, looking at each other out of the corner of the eye, fulse to themselves. No matter about the Ring, the farmor thought of it ns ho was plowfm;; the minleter uy he was writing his sermon’ the merchant as hie went ta his storey tho statesman as he sct his purlorl? and then there was i word that struck howe Jke a bolt “death rother than this double dishonor,” ant the word was made fleah and dwelt lulmn% the fathers und they bebeld hls grlory. Onglittle town of a few acore men,before n blow bad heen struck, except thosc that wero struck among the wlids of Muine In return for the twenty lushes on the bare back,—uong little town, I ray, declared war azalnat Great Britain all to ftseff, and voted unpplleu. The old strong Dlood was upy “here's the louf, come and cut by you dare; wo more lics; no, not. If thé wholo world (s on the other slle. Wo came here 1o mako the hest of jt. We nto have what we came for.” That was {1 word men ltke Ethan Allen eaught It. 'l‘luxulm'n'.;n cost Enghwd mnny campaluns, & grebdt many 1ives, and $8,000,000. John Adnms says: * Allen stormed it iu ten minutes with forty men, with- out the loss of u life or u limb.” 1{ was by the Tiving word T think he did 63 that had wronght him to o white lire, The muse of Listory m him say, ¢ Come out, eir, and surrender, or [ will sairifica the whole garrls The muse of history woulll never have N that fantness with forty men. What he did say wis: 4 Cong out, you white-lisered wrutch, and surrender." He was a good Unitarlan, as I have heard—one of the few ever bred u Conneeticut, and bad to run for it Jong before this fight. [ ke hin no warse, either for hls fafthCor bis rough, hot speech. 1 think that was a hombehell, where o nicely-ordered address would have been a Romun candle. I lmve o dear friend, again, whose mother was then a little Quaker waid on Long Islund,~ths ong luno roul in the mill, which was also the home, When tho roild coats eamennd thelr Captain gatd, * Where s that silver?? 1 know wihere (¢ is" the wee one sald, with white Jps, *but T will not. tell theo; we are ‘friends,’ hut we do not belonzio th shle.” “Then Iwitl lmni.' you to that heam," the trooper answered, and Tl the cord aboit the little trembling, pulsing neek. “‘Fhee cun s e, but Twilf hot tell Bhee,” was the quict answery und then, for the suke of this hu uuture which has so mach to answor for, 3 pleasant and good to say that he took the cord off gently, caracd his bud luck, and eaid +Coine, inen, we had hetter go. The matd Hyed to b 00, and if you witl ;iu with me to vur nest Western Couference Iwlll whow sou her pleture and the old mill. That wus thu living ward, too, nicd Washington’s curses ns he flung down his hat, aud @ vast array of words we only hear fn o whisper or notntall. 1t s the fnear- natlont of « manhoud all on fire In the common man, the cultured mun, the rough soldier, whio'has & fortress to storin and the Jittle maid who is Jeft to guard the mill; the mun who I3 horn the lsten{ng Senates to command und read his history iu o nation’s eycs, und the man who can just binnder through™ tvhat he hs to s n town mm-l.mF. 1t Is ntways tho living which I8 in the |ny ning the grand tentral seeret of auch a battle as the fathers had to light almndred'yenra ago. And what has been In one fust word will'be. i3 no matter what the new tight may be about, it will be determined in the ulfi wuy. We muy be tronbled sbout the drift of thitigs {n politics, th morals, In religlon, and wonder what will be the cnd. ~ Wo can moke up our ninds, ouce for all, not ouly from the Jesson we have touched " tils morning, but from all thig lessons which eamu.to us fromour stout and sturdy race, that when onee the people fairly take “these two words into thelr hearts,— truth and freedom,—and welgh them against any question which can come up which touches each un and the whale uuloud, then they will give & verdict on the rlght sids soon or lato, and stand by It while thero™fs n man left, It iy draw hurd on the children, as {6 did on the futhers and _has on you, but they will endura hinrduess 08 the old surt did, aml” a8 we have dunc. 'I'he process wny bo slow, but {t will he sure. This word, which {ssald in human hearta and at tiresldes, in town-meetings and fneburche s, evon at lust, about right and wrong, Is nog some hap-hazard emotlon, Tt s the word of tho living God, the fluent Mible fresh from tho depths of inspiration in the humun heart; and, just as surely ns wo havo words from the ol ITehrow heart that can nover die, born of this coucern for whatover thiugs uro true, wo shall have undylng words out of the Amerlean heart, » Bible born of our own life, to go forth und by the Book of Life ta races yet unborn, The word 1 still fn the b glalig, fresh and full as when the morniy; stars sang together,and all tho eona of G shouted for Joy. ————— A Guoat st o otol Wants to Have an U derstanding. roft Free Prest, A nlght o te since f-'cnu'f?' about 35 yeart old, looking us If ho had crawled vut of a cavt to mmmmrl‘m )‘I‘l‘u mnu:\"‘uuwred';\z‘o a{ tl‘l"l‘fl hotels, and, waiting at the countor uni ufifiy, s ut 1Iborty; bo. askod: 13 tbie & Low tel i+ Yes, sir," waa the reply. (00 Wsing good Dells, and tho most courtoc ous {l’lh'nl‘lul‘l‘fi, MYes, sir, “Well, " snld tho stranger, aftera long lool at o rdlroad time-table’ ‘*1 suppose you don'( "‘.’.‘g’“” e No, slt, “ Wodulslu't let a manstay hers four or fiva duP'n untll somuthing turned up 1" ' No, sir.” wThat's what T wanted to know. T always 1iko to have anunderstanding about such thinge, for if anythiug takes uie jgad it I8 to have a great big hotel' clerk jump inon me sad kicl me down stairs on account of my straftencs tinancus,” “You'd botter find some other place,” suge geatod the clerk. “ont Ishall,” replied the stranger, *Tha outelle of thls hotel scemed to smilca welcoma at muj but, as I sald befare, my present policy I to got along without bolug Kicked. I've got mental fesllugs as wellas auybody clse, and P'm pgetting so worn in flesh that o fners common igrand houncs from w beavy hotel clerk upsets wea wholu day. Farewull, Joung man; jou't bile any extra faters for ine.* Markamauship, Not at Orendmoor, Noak's Sunday Tbmes (New York), A novel wager hus heen entercd into by Col, Fluning and Maf, Hollaud, of the Thint Brigade Staff. A target O feet hz‘é,wltlu a bulle- eyu 8 fnches {n efrcumnferones, s to bo placed at the ensterly extremity of the large drill room of the Efghth Infuntry, The Colonel and Mujor be blindfolded and ploced at the extremo y e of the room, cach with un uuger a bore of 4 inches. They are then (0 march ut quick llmn‘luw\\'axeithul} ctl\‘u tho one oining neares! oring the bull's- to be declared the winuer of s miniature and bit mady of gold if