Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1876, Page 2

[ ~ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1876. able aud willing to enact veform in the Civll Bervice, and to fimulle the natlon's money. Add to these two political problems the problem of education, and_all may ho well yet with our beloved country, For the two firet e need such an Administration as we ean expeet from Sccretary Dristow; after the problem of educntion we, the people, must laok oursclves, and ludeed that we must do, Our Congress and ovur Leglslatures are chock-fuil of men os stuphl ns Jackasses, and ft would never be possible for them to get' elected If the mass of the prople were s educated as Fourth-of-July orators try to make us belteve. With such en (n Congress wo shali continue to sce the same ead apecta- cle of men holding Government offices according to thelr abflity to buy thelr appolutment, regardless of thelr fitness for tho oilce, Aw it fs, our Congress §s not only n mere market for oftice-scekers, hut the majority of law-makers are 5o luh\llly fznorant abont par- llamentary decorum and rules that thelr ses- slons nfford & most lunentable picture to the world at large. As far as I know, there s no nther fastc he- fore the country; {t fs not parties we need, but men of character, of abllity, and honesty. Civil Berviee reform, curreney, and cedueatlon are what ogitate the public’ mind exclusively at present. That's absolutely all we need, und With Bristow we know we can get it. Yours, ey Avp, Braxo, BRISTOW IN KENTUCKY. MEN OF ALL PARTIES FAVORABLE TO HIM. A Loulsville vorrespondent of the New York Times thus writes of the cstimation {n which Gen, DBristow is held In Kentucky: Lovtsvittr, Ky., May 31.—"Tle devotion of the Republicans of this Stafe to Bristow 19 something Which must be seen to be appreciated. There Is nothing perfunctory, nothing of the **favorite ron, " in it They “belleve that of all mentioned Tirietow 4 most A1, and, If nominated, most eure 0 be President, and for that reason, and not be- canze he lives in Kentueky. they are goinz to Cin- cinnati to work for him, and vote for him sa long om there i= the slightest chance of ruccess. The Etnte feeling in the matter only goes to the extent that they believe that with Dristow they enn break up the Democratic party In Kentucky by detaching the old Whigs from i1, and not only carry It for Dristewe but inake it at the worst a doubtful Stato in the future, When this wan first ngeated, T will confess that T war somewhat amused at the idea of any Hepublican whatever, under any possible cir- cuinstancen, carr, lngLRv:nhlcky. It wan, I think, Gon, Murray, the Gnited, S1ates Marshal. Who frat’ presenicd me with this uniyue view of politics, and 1 am afraid 1 showed my Jn- t'n'xllllllF. Afterward Col. Kelly, cditor of the Louisviile Commerctal, eald the same thing, and alvo informed me that he was serlous in eayine it “Then 1 thonght it of suflicient consequence to put the plain question to Gen. llarlan whether thonght Geu. Drlstow could earry Tientucky, a hils answer was that he certainly did think so, Ile- ing axked hia reasons for his opinion, he rald, in rubstance, that Lriktosy, ewing to hix social posl tlon, his beinz an old Whig, o native of Kentucky, and to hiy recent officlul cuteer, wonld rally arouind him the old Whigs of the State, who have for the last alxteen years voted with the Demoeracy, and would thus dlsintesrate the Democratlc party In the State. Theao Whixe, he xald, had never really alilllated with tho Denocrats, but had long been hoping far a chance to break away from them, and the nomination of Bristow would afferd them the opportunity for which they have walted w0 long. crshody, he sald, In Ken- tucky [a tired” of the tyranny of TDemo- cratic rule except the hide-hound Demo- crats themselvex, anda large majority womid he £lad 1o deatroy it, provided it can be done withont wrubjecting them to the prejndice of aceming to bies Jung to the **nizeer” party, With Bristow they can do it, for although ho lioa pronounced a Itu- publican az Morton, or Cankling, or Dlaine, or 1layes, yet he i a Kentuckinn of Iikh socinl rank, and ns'ngainat this fact the prejudice wonld not 11 wan sald, furthermore, by ull the Itepab- I talked that the late Conventlon ofthe party ws umple pruofaf all thee facte, Never had “there been auch numbers, never such unanimity, never such enthunan, There were ahont 700 delegates presenit and many hundreds of atlendants, il there wa not & man who wis not for Dirfst ot one who did not bellve thist he could cary 1have now stated 4 general convictton” which, srrect, I of =ome political Jmportance, and as fo that the reader cin f]ml;.m A wellas Lo Dot It con be added a«n certalnty that Jentucky In honostly, earncktly, devotedly for Dristow, and helieves that he haw o fair chance to be nominated. Inthe fleld re was but one brave man among thonsands: In the Kentucky Senate he was a host in the cournge nud fdelity with which he, as one of o little band, Lelped to “lay brond and deep the foundation upon’ which tha iepublican party of HKentucky war to rest. At the moment when ho $4 ro prominently before the nation, a brief eketeh of his leulalative career will not by withont interest, especially to that larze cluss who ussume tu doubt his lh-ruhll(‘nlxl-m berause he 18 & Ken- tuckinn. Happlly for bim and tho country, his term in the Senate covercd the perlod when the State Leglalaturcs hnd (o pass on the most positive of all tepublican meawares, and hie had the oppors tunity to record himkelf not ouly a Republican, bt one of that kind the Democrats hinagine the; contemn when they call them RRadicals, On_afl party _questions rit * Smith or, slildings vould lnve voted, When the Thirteenth Amend- ment, sbolishing wlavery, wuas submitted to the Legialature, It was ected, but Bristow, with ten other fedrlesn and atncerd Republicans, votud for It Not content with this, und deters mincd to put the Democratic party on record he- yond all guewtion, somn afteriard tliey Introduced and voted for s resolutlon to reconsider the vote nand sdoyt the amendment, bt the Democrats de- feated 1, and Lirfstow watfed sl that lie expected. Not long after this, the Democeats introduced o modlication of those negro reguiatlon bills which Werw 80 corimon In the South Just after Lo War, and which practically re-established slavery: Agatust thia Bristow bath voted aud worked, and ko'ho did azalnet any and every measuro devised Dy Democratic fngenulty 1o perpetuate barbarism aid Buppresa freedom. 1 bave carcfully searched thu record of his 1ifo, aud fnd that throughout Iis public carcer he lis carnestly and sine cerely eeved thy Republlean cause wlih sword and pen. ith words and acts, und yet thero are many rud Republicans who disiruat Him becaise ho was born and has always Jived south of the Ohio River. Thews poople remember Audtow Johwron, and forget tho vast difference betwween the tralning and early convictions of Julinron and_ Briatow. -~ Be- fore he conld read Johnson waw a Southern Demo- crat of the must mallgnant type, and remalned such ull bis Jife. 1t wus ouly his hatreds and envies, not his convictlons, that leld him to eapoune the rauee of the Union, which he took the firat apportunity 1o betray. Dielstow, on the other hand, came froin old WHigz atock, and long before the War was an avewed emancipationist; not only that, but he inherited hiw detestation of wlavery and’ bin devetlon to frecdom, for his father, the Hon, Francls 1L Bristow—one of the beat men Kentueky cver produced—was him- self on emancipationfst, - Thers has never been agy moment in his Hfe when Henjamin H. Hristow would not face any dan- eraiud sbsune any responnibility in e Kepublic: . After the cluse of his term in tio Sen- waa appointed Assistant District Attorney under tho Hon. James Speed, snd upon the revigna. tlon of the Intter, District Atforney, In thisoliice ho svas feurleas, faithful, und sble, Just e he has Deen L the Treasury, and it was by iy efforts that the Ku-Kluzlsin was' not auly suppreseed in Ken- tucky, but such an Imselms klven to prosecutions that ft wns extirpated cverywhere, faving fne fnhied his work fn (his position, by was catled hiuhe er, and made Soliclior General of the United Slates, In this position he canducted himself with wuch rireability ns to obtain u rare compliment from the Justices of thy Uunited States Suprenic Court, which Ie uot generally known 10 the public* When Justice Nelson dled, the Justices recom- teuded Dristow (o succced Rlm, basing o preference tirst on his eminent ftdess, and’ nest on the fact that one of the Justices rhould be from the Kouth; bat the Presdent decided that the place elonred to Now York, and_ appolnted the Hon. Ward llunt, Tloving resicned tho ofiico of Sulicitor General, Bristow tesumed the practice of ‘the law in Loilsville, and snnounced that he wan done with public oflice, and, left ta bl 0 he would have been, Hia ‘appolntment as & retary of the Treasury was n complete aurprlso 1o him, tor hie bad no “ldea that auy auch thing was coutumplated, and never heard anything ahout (¢ untll his nas wan sentto the Senate, e fustant- Jy declded to decling, sayfng he was no dnancier, dnd could not yorathly properly manage wuch & vast and complicated machine an the Tressury De- purtment tut such wien an Harlun and_ Specd inally succeeded In persuading him to accept, From the day e entered the Treanury until now the whole nation knows as mich sbout Benjawln L, Bristow as hie most Intimate {riends, i OTHER POLITICS. TLORIDA. RECENT DEVELOI'MENTS NAVING LITTLH Al- PANENT PACT. New Yong, June 4.—A spectal from Madison, Flu., says the regular Republicsn Couventlon uomfuated M. 8. Btearns for Governor, and the Hon. 1. Montgomery for Licutenant-Governor, Delegutes to Cinclunatt were chosen as follows: E. M, Cheney (Blalne), P, W. Bryant ?mn W, 1. cuson (Hlatne), B, F. Living: Blatn ?, C.D. lm(.-lmm (Blaine), A. H. Osgroml Conkl{ug), G. E. Wentworth (Blatue), sud J. 1 Armstrong (Blaine), IN GENERAL. YROM BIHINGFIELD=30LICITOR WILSON, #pecial Dispatch to The Tridune. BpatxarieLy, 11, June 4.—Sollcitor Bluford Wilson reachied here thls mornlng, but has been 80 busy thus far receiving cullers that it Is hurd for a newspaper wan to get o syquare talk with him. 1l avows as the object of his vislt private busiucss,—looking sfter s couple of Bouthern Iilinuls raltroad cases fu which o {s counsel, and which colos up for hearing at the appronch- ing 3 of the Unlted Btates” Court here. 1o ! hat he will by a Republlean candidate for Cungress fn the Ninetcenth Distriet, in which connection lils namo hus leen men- Goued. He suys that It will uot be the fault of the Government officers if the Harper-8mith and the' Pekin cases do Lot cuwe up at the tenn commencing to- e l morrow, and that the Government s anxious Lo bave the cases trica. Maj. Wilson denics that his visit has any political “atgnificance whatever, but this might be qualified, your corresponden thinke, if fhe Mafor shonlil come scross any delegates or othera prominent In_ polities who might be rendily fnduced to transfer thele pref- erence from Blalne to Bristow. JUROE 1. 8. BARER, President of tlie late State Convention, nnd a delegate to Cinclinath, was n thiz city Satur- day, and talks very alrmmlf for Driziow, re- rarding Blalne as subatantially out of the fleld. The Bristow sentiment is looming lel hereagain, and there {s talk of organizing a Lrlstow Club {1 o few days. MACON COUNTY DEMOCRACY. Spectal Ditpatch to The Tribune. Drcatun, L, June 3.—In response toa pri- vate call, about thirty leading Demoerats of Ma- con County met fn private caucns to reenscitate the Democrat | ty of the county. Charles led to the chalr,and Frank cretary. Al the townships but three were represetited. A resolution was adopted fustructing.the Chatrman and Secre- tary to call a convention of Democrats and all” opposed to tho present Administration to mrct in mass conventlon on Saturday, June 17, to choose delegates to the State Convention, and to elect o Centeal Comunittee, A great de- sire was expressed to somehow unite with the Independents #o ns to secure a victory ab the polls, ns it 13 bélieved that in no other way can hey suceeed. The meeting seemed to favor a compromise ticket and platform, so as to unite all the cle- ments of oppusition, .lud;;c Davis acems to be the favorite candi- date for Prestdent, though some prefer Tilden or Hendricks, apeetnt EADISOH, WiA Spe isuqich to s Mapison, \’Ule‘, he Democratic ventlon for this torfal District choose delegates to the State Couvention at Milwaukee next week, was very slimly attend- cd, havdly any towns belnz.represented _outsido the eity, * George B. Smith amd James Conklin werechosen delegates. A resolution by * Pamp " Carpenter, one of the editors of the Putriof, the lndependent greenback paper here, denoune- ing the flumm]v'lun act as 4 blighting blow to Industry, and lustructing o vote for delegates to St. Louls of that opinfou, was tabled ou motfon of o German delegate, 10T LEDLIE COME AGAIN, Suectal Dispatch to The Tribune, L, 1L, June 3 une 3 @ —A meeting was ere to-day to organize o Greenback Club, 1, dohn Williams was elected Prestdent, and seph Ladliey the Chalrman of the Bourbon ate Central Committee, awd hend of the Q'Conor movement in 1572, Vice-President, and George R, Weber, Secretary, A commitice on Dy-luws was appointed Lo veport In two weelis, Kuvines by State-Printer expert J. K. Magil] and Prof. Guy were heurd, and some others of | the same sort are to be heard to-night. TILE UPROAROUS SUPREMY JUDGR. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. InnIaNaroLis, Iud,, June §.—The Democratic State Central Committee will at once take sl\'Ps to have the name of Judge Peltit, one of the candidates for the Supreme Court, taken from the ticket on account of his outrageous assanlt upon & street preacher in Lafayett two ago. e has already been fndicf Grand Jury. THE MICHIGAN GOVERNORSIIP, Spevial Disputch to Tie Trivune. Lansine, Mich., June #,—Williun L. Webber, of Saginaw, {s mentloned us a Democratie caue didate for Governor, THE 110N, SUBLIY M. CULLOM. New York Time Shelby M. Cullom, the nor of th candidate for Gover- tean party in Hlinols, was born In Kentu 20, 1le ndopted the profession of the law, and In 1848 removed to Ilinols, lo- cating ot Springfleld, where he has ever sinee resided. In 1856 he was elected to the State arislature; was re-clected to the samo_ budy In 1860, and was chosen Speaker of the Lower House by the Repubtean members. He was of reat assistanee 1o Gov, Richard Yates In organ- zing and Eculllul; to the front tho Illinols volunteers at the breaking-outof the Rebeliton, his services us amember of the War Commls- slon which sat fn Cairo In 1802 also adding to his reputation as o patriotie citizen. In 1531 he was eclected o Representative to the Thirty- ninth Congress, and in 1860 wus re-cl Fortleth Con cdtothe uring both seasfous Mr. lied abllity ns a debater, while lus aceurate knowledge of parliamentary rul nd usares was often of great service to the purty of which ho was n member. On his return to Springficld, Mr. Cullom resumed the Jezal professlon; but seon nfter went futo the Lanking busdness under the Natfonul Banking law, In 1572 he was again induced to accept & nomination on the State Legisiative ticket, and, though Sangamon County wus then largely Democratie, Mr, Callom, owiui to the cumulsd- tive syrtem of voting In that State, was elected by a lurge plurality, ~ Ho was choken by the Re- publicans of the Lower House as thelr nominee for the Speakership, and waselected, the Demo- cratie minority casting thelr votes for Dr. Casey, of Mound City, a verltable % Egyptian,” horn aml raised in Boutbern Hinols, It was duringe this sitting of the Legislature thata determined but unsuccesstul etfort was made by the Demo- crats, aided by a fow discontented Republicans, to repenl the State Reglstry laws. AMuch of the eredit of the defent of this comblnation was duc to Speaker Cullom, In 1674 he was re-clected to the Aseembly, aud was awaln selected by the Republicans for the Speak- vralip, This time, however, he wos defeated, his 0{)])onuut, E. M. Tlaines, recelving the com- bined support of the Demodratle and Tndepend- ent, or Granger, mombera. This defeat was not unexpeeted, however, and the Republicaus con- tinued to show thelr confidence fn Mr, Cullom by recognizing him as thelr leader, 1I¢ was ma- terially aided In his efforts to thwart the reckless proceedings of the wmnjority by A. M. Jones, of Jo Daviess County, the gent léman who was yes terday an unsuceessful candidate for the noml- nation for Licuténant-Governor. Mr. Cullom s u tan of ability, and if elected—of which there I8 Tittle room for doubt—will fill the office with credit buth to himselfund to the State of Ninols. Personatly he §s of flne appearance, and s one of the most. courteous und genkl gentlemen, Himself and famlly are active, earnest members of the First Preshyterian Church of Springlield, FOLITICAL NOTES, If a dark horse fs needed Jet our pollticlans rlrk out the one whose rider's colors are Galena cad, who was glred fn New Eugland, rafsed on the prairies, and brought into condition in Parls under the fire of the Prussian guns, and whore name, ns it may be announced to a shouting convention within the next sixteen daye, will be Ellhu b, Washburne, f ilinuls.—Vew York Lfer- ald, The New Orleans Republican has a careful edi- tarlal addressed to the old Whigs of the South. It argues that the Northern Detocracy does not desire the (ndustriad manumission of the South, and yet the old Whigs, on the pretense of aus- tutning the doctrines of Clay and Seward, have combined with the Demacracy, As there cannot be u third party in Louislany, It urges the unfon of the Conservatlves or old Whigs with the Re- publicans, The Conkling-Cameron *dlcker” moves Harper's Weekly to fudignation. Its protest ends with these frank words ;% The tomina- tion of the Senator wonld bo a trlumph over the better elements of bis party, It would not b a mere pevsonal preference, It would be the victory of ‘a debasiug tendency, of party disel- I:l(nc, not of Pmy conviction, ~ It” would nstantly alicnnte o Ammense (ndependent vote, and *l would throw hosts of Republicany upon o deBperate ulternative, and that. os we huve herctofore sald, I8 not the way to arouse enthusfasm, nor to command success.” Wiy, slr, the other Saturday evening, T was out {in front of the White Ilouse, mmong the canalle, the san culolles, the men and waoinen, without breeches and shoes, and there sut the Chief Maglstrate, the Republican President, with his fect on the halustrade, snd bis Partugs 1o Lis mouth, listening to the Marlne Band, ™ flis Republiean friends were about him. Thefr feet were on the bulustrade of the south portieo, wreaths of blue smoke curled up (o balmy dell- clousness from Partagas fresh from the Flowery Isle. Ishook a meutal fist in thelr mental faces, und whispered to myself that every dog hud his day, una I asked inysclf, ‘“8hall this be ever thisly 1" And from decp down in mr heart cume nrc\wly. “No! Nol never!® T will see a Democratle President fu the White House, He shinll recelve his fricnds to the musle of lwunl{- four sflvered instruments, filled with tho breafh of twenty-four ;‘cmlumun in scurlet couts. The Marine Band shall play true Democratic musle for # Demoeratle President, und out there on that sauth 'mrllm, T want to sec u Democratie Presi- dent sitthyg with his feet on the balustrade, lst- enfng tu thy musie Lxuurud forth by the Marine Rand, and I hope to be one of his friends; and wil st there with my feot on the balustrado cnjoying one of bis Partagus.—Carler farrison (Our Cartier). ‘The Cineinnatd Commerclal rises to a personal explunatlon of the difference bebweon fts for- mer and (ts present views about Mr. Bristow, When he was made Seeretary of the Treasury it put him on the same level with Richardson, aud Aald that * traut alone could have thought of bim ” for the position. Now, on belng con- frouted with these disparaging pnrngrul: hs by other Republican papers, it admits that they ex- presacd s uplulon of Mr, Dristow st that thme. ‘ricnds then remonstrated that Bristow was “a man of the highest order of ability and perfect ntegrity,” ©the best Becretury of the Treasury sinee Humnitton,” und *It turoed out thet these representations were true” 4 Qirlstow Las fought the battle of Reforiu within tho Repub- lican party. The people see the greatucss of hils work, but do ot yet estlinato the beavy odds that were ugulust flh.w ‘The only wos wko Tias been n tho Cablnet fn_nany yeara who has ehown equal cnergy, hardiood, cournge, and executive foree s Edwin M, Stanton. [t was Btanton who stamped out the Rebellfon. Bris- tow has trampled the corriptionists under for even in the White House, and he has ma name a word of good report smong _the millic who demand good government, and have be sorcly batlied by the party machin fnation, the Commercial lnsists, s the way to re- palr the Republienn losses, and sceure over- whelmling victory, THAT PLATFORM, Yho wrote the Republican State platformt— Dem. Exchange, With the exception of two resolutions, t was clipped from straggling coples of the Chicago Zuter-Ocean, and then thrown together with'a plteh-fork.~—llinois State Journal. Wo incline to the belicf that the thing wns concoeted and shaped by some one or more who 18 eecret]y hostife lo Blaine, as well a8 running over with hatred to Bristow. Therefs so lttle ving that we prefer to kick it all over.—arliniiile Democrat (1ep.). . The platform adopted by the Republicans of this State mects with very general disfavor, ‘Fhiere are a few good sentences in it, hut it does not present Hving fzsics {n language of sterling sense, and it Isgenerally trashy and meaningless, On the vital question, that of the currency, it {a nefther ot nor cold, {s neither something nor uothing. Some milk-nudavater spirits nre pleased beeause (8 takea no positive position, and some soft-money people are pleased beeause (t {s n “greenback platform.” But it is an evasion of thils question, There 3 much eclsu that is #llly and some that {s erroncous, hut as nobady cares o great deal what the platform contains, and all Jook to Clncinnati for u declaration which shall be the elogan of the next natfonal con- test, they will content themaelves with the can- dldates, who are men of ability and honor, and funke them thelr platform.—Jacksonville Jotirnal, WHY CREGIER SHOULD NOT GO BACK: Tv the Bditor af The Tribune, Curcago, June 3.—If our reform Council conclude that the galary pald to the late Chiet Engiuecr of the pumping department Is neces- sary to secure a competent person for that post, they should act with deliberation before rein- stating Mr. Cregior. It s a highly responsible trust, and should be tiled by a person whose abllity Is beyond question, The Fire Department and Bridewell are now satisactorily mannged; the one by a promoted subordinate, and the other by o strangerhronght here for that special charge, by reason of his aptness for the position exhibited in similar service In another clty. A prood Englneer for the pumps can be abfuined, either i Chlcago o elsewlicre, by similar means. Mr. Cregler and his friends contend that lis walue to the community I3 his thorough knowl- cdge of our whole hydraulle system since Its constrietion, and hiS ability ot only a3 an engineer to keep the pwmps in operation, but that he i3 a thoroughly skilled mechantetun, competent to design and erect all the machinery and fixtures whicl our water system may from time to thae require, The writer has no person- al acquatutance with him, or any of his late nsslstants, and exumines s recoril wholly free from uni' bins or fecllnz of private Interest, Mr. Cregler may posscss many hizh qualities ns n mechanie, but {n looking over his carcer three prominent guestions are rrusunlnd, which should be fully explained to the public} two of these guestionis do not xeem to have been con- sldered by the Fire and Water Commlttee of the Council at all, Thev are suggested here for the consideration of those who think his servives in- dispenenble, and with the hope that the Council acting for the real welfare of the city, will find o hetter reason to relnstate n discharged oftfelad than merely beeause he {8 o respeetable man, or beeause lie was dismissed by Mayor Colvin. * t—The south engine at the present Water- Works was bullt from Mr. Cregler's designs, and {3 one of the most noted mechanieal fall- ures in the country, its rate of duty per ton of coal_belng nbout two-thirds that of sceveral much smaller enggines constructed many yeurs sooner. This fuct Is fully shown in the report Comuiittee of Experts to the Citlzens est made nthe winter which sets forth the per- formanceof thirteen other Amerfean engines, all older; it shows that the Cregler englne con- sumes more canl i proportion to fts work than any of the others, except four, while ita slge s vastly larger thanany of them, thus placing Mr, Cregler nearly at. the foot of his claxs, anud re- versing the commonly aceepted theory that a large machlne bas Proportionately less friction than o small one. As an argumcut sgafnst Mr. Cregier's abllities in deslgning economic pumpiug-engines, this report seems to be con- vineing and unanswerable. (Mhe pumpivg-chglne now leing_ eected. on Ashland avenue, designed by a New York englueer, s hought by the clty upon its merits; one-quarter of the price being teserved for one year nfter {t hos goue into actual operation, so thut it may he fully tested, It Is warranted to give an actual duty of 0,000,000 pounds aised 1 fuot high for each 100 pounds of coal (@bout double the work performed by Cregler's), and, although these new engines are on the come pound prineiple, the duty of the Cregler englies s [esw than that of * direct-ncting English enggines runniug since Mr. Cregler was a chilil, Second—The fire bydrants now in use in this clty were deslgned and patented by Mr, Cregler, thelr outlet I 29¢ fn Internal diameter,—the same size 08 the hose-couplings through which the water passes after receiving the whole power of the fire-engine, and I8 consequently too small ta fully supply the largest fire-cngines underthe minfmum préssure ln Chieago malns, The Fire Marshal called the attentlon of the Fire Com- miesloners to this error, about two years wgo, ad requested larger hiydranta, but the Cregler hydrauts with small “outlets are stlll fu use, niany of them having been erected sineo then, and other makes exclud The fucapnelty of these hydrants Is often demonstruted when muny fire-englines are worked at one fire, cansing csponding reductlon of pressure fn the nady If Mr. Cregler or his frlends ean explain why e reduces the column of water at the hydrunt to 23¢ felies when the suctlon-hose und puip- inlets of all steam fre-cuglnes are 4 inches, or larger, it would be well tomake that explanation now, Perhinps those underwriters who are sald to think the wiater-supply unsafe unless Mr. Cregier is reinstated, can tell why fire-englnes should he ull[llpllml through 2)¢-lnch apertures in Chicago, while the plugs of most clties are 4 fuely It has not been announced what royalty, if any, the city pays for the use of Cregler’s patent on Uiese hydrants, but aa n water-suver they are yalusble, and b this view Lia claims shoufd not he oscrlooked, Third—At the time of the great fire Mr, Cre- gler had buen i the ewploy of the ety about eighteen years, during the last ten years ot which he had been the recogmzed head of all matters refating to the pumplng works. During that time the Water Commissioners had been succeeded by the Board of Pablic Works, nmong whow theve had been the regular changes, with thy uyors and other elected ity oflicers, but Mr. Cregrler was vetabned under all, aud his will In his department was law, When tho tire came, hesitdes linving o combustible roof, the- interlor of the pump-house was littered with timber snd nmglup‘ for the erectlon of the large cogine, It may be truly. sakl that we lud no r Hon to such a deluge of 1 expect but why flLl not the cautlon aml jud ment to bo expeeted in o person in Mr. Cregler's lnualuuu, inslst cither on a wholly fire-proot hulldine, or at least upon having such appliane a8 would cnable him touss some of the vast fire- extinguishing qualities of the machiuery under his churge, for its own protection, It should ho remembered thut muny mavufacturlng uml mercantllo establislinents o Clteago, whero steam power was used, had been supplied by thelr owners with furce-puinps andl o private fire equipment for buth interfor und ontside protee- tion long before the grent fire. I the Water- Works had Kept in operation, it {8 certain that 1nost of the North 8lde, and all of that part of the South Bide, which burned backwurils and slowl lulu!\lum&ny morning, might have been saved. 1t will probably never bocharged that any one ‘ crgon wis bluimuble for our great calumity, But will nut history assign o portion of such dishonoruble prunminence to DeWitt C, Cregler, by reason of his Incompetence and negleett Amongs the ]vl?nulul(m] of Chicagoure thousands onee dwellers fu comfort and siflucnce, who now Lol severcly for thelr brewd, or to restore for- tunea lost or shattered by the fire, Wil he Councl pluco u mun ot the hewd of the pump- finz department of questionable sbility, or who bears even the slightest tafut of blsme in conu- uection with our great disasterd FHANCIS JacKsoN, OBITUARY, Spectal Dispatch 1o, The Tridune. ProRMs, 11l June 4,—~The community was shucked this mnornlng to hear the announce ment of the death of J. R, McKinuey, a young man of great promise. Mr, MeKlnney had been for the last ten years restding ot Kuokakee, but o few weeks sgo camne hiere {or treatinent of bis lungs. He died ut the resldence of his mather, from whose house the funcral will take place to- WOFFOW. i ————— A Unlque Mausoleum, A few weeks sgo, an enorinous block of qulw was belng lowered fnto the foundation or a dock at Haathowline, Ireland. A laborer fell under It unobserved, was crushed into the layer of concrete upos which the stono rested, and bis body will remnain there, us the truth was learned too late to recover it, except at great c3pcuzo and trouble, RELIGIOUS. Mr. Moody’s Sermon at the Chi- cago Avenue Church, Auother Appeal for Money to Pay off tlu\: Indebiedne: The Duty and Neccssity ~f Labor- ing for the Convorsion of Children, Prof, Swing on Man, from His Childhood to His Grave. First Sermon of the Rev. Dr. An= derson at the Second Baptist Church. D. L. MOODY, 1113 BERMQN YEATERDAY MORNING, The Chleago Avenue Clnrch was crowded to excess yesterday moring by persons from all parts of tho city interested in Mr. Moody's evangelistic labors, My, P I, Bliss, whose pow- crs ns a Gospel elnger are quite equal to those of Mr. 8ankey, had charge of the mmusleal part ot the programme, and was ably assisted by a large volunteer cholr. There was nothing speefal or extraordinary sbout the service. The evangel- 16t preachied ono of his Gospel sermons which have become so well-known all over the country, 1t Is Mr. Moody's plan to start s discourse with a text, In the orthodox style, and then to ramtilo all round crentlion for bits of religlous wisdom, whicl may or may not have a contee- ton with the tople. There Is no such thing as system about his cfforts, Once started, %e rides rough-shol over the hearts of slners, and whicks the Devil when- cver he sces a chance. To the female portion of his audlence Mr. Moody appeals through his ancedotes about the converslon and death of children, These are narrated {n » very pathetle manner. The tears well up to the preacher’s eyes, and the ladies probably more affected by the manner than the matter, weep from pure sympathy. There were several in- stances of this yesterday. After the usual preliminary exerclses, Mr. Moudy made the following nppeal We want to raise §6,000 to-day to clear the debt off this bullding. Fourteen thousand were ratsed Thursday and Friday, and we only want £0,000 to accomplish this desirable object. It won't he heavy on sny one If cach ono will glve. The baskets will be passed aronnd the congrega- tion, und I hope every man and every woman will givens thoLord hss prospered them. Untit last Thursday night the people worshiping fn this bullding have never been enlled upon to give anything to- wards {t, In fact, very little has heen glven In Chicago: nost of the money has come from friends nbroad, We won't appreciute this butlding unless we have the rr(\'llu;;e of plving something. The ushers will pass among the awdience, who whl just give us the Lord hus prospered you. 1 don't wang any one to give who does not feel Incliued. Let each one give willingly and cheerfully. Wi hie_ushers were taking up the col- , Mr. Moody made the following report : 3 Just a8 much a part of worshlp to glve a8 {t 18 Lo pray and sing, and we shall make it n part of the worship of this church, It Is not that we want the money for ftself, but because it Is a greut blesalng to'give Insuch a cause, It fa o~ great blessing to have o place Nke this open here, where the seats are free, and where we ean come and worship God. Give ag the Lord has helped {uu. If this church Is paid for to-nfght, which Ihope it will he, it will be then open to the publle, and will be a free chureh, and will belong to you just as much as to anybody else, and you will be free to come. Tho seats are free, and you can take a ehair in any part of tha house anit_claim it 08 your awn. Iwould ke to sce every seat claimed. The chureh will be kept up Ly volunteer contribu- tions, Thave u etrong falth that the church Wil Low becoma sel(-supporting, 1f 500 people will give 20 cents n week for a year, it will amount to upwards of $5,000, which will he euough to support our Sabbath-school and all our work. If n thousund people will give 10 centa o week it would amount to the snme thing, and there are surely hundreds who can do thut; even §f they don't use quite as much beer and tobaceo, It Will be used in a way in which it will do the most good. Hundreds of men can do that, and thousands would never miss it; and It would keep this up and mnka*wfbmlmy, viorous church, Ihope lectl It the thne soon cotie when we shall have a zood man such churches, and then we will bo citing bick to the apostolic time. We want to keep the cxpenses down, — We want everything plain and sfinple, and T hope that you will 1t uY your hearts in prayer that the” pure Gospel will ever bo proclslined from this pulpit, and thiat nonodicresy may be taught here, for the Tonger 11 he more convineed do 1 becono thnt CJ crucified {8 all wo want to wrench. t I the only thing which 3 going (@R Torm the world. You cannot take up iy papor now but what it fs * Reform!? re- form (" But I don't any hope, untll men ura reformed W heart, regenerated, born agaln, born of God,—that i3 the only true reform. When men are converted, and Christ relgns in their hearts, then they will reform the world, And I have more hope of the Gospel reforming this sin-cursed earth than all the other reforms put together, Make the fountain good and the stream will be good. And what we want is ;unt to Frcnch Chirist Liere, and if men wecept Him, and Christ reigns in them, we will have o re- fonned eity, Mr. Bliss then sangg “ 1 Gave My Lifo for Thee in a yery acceptablo nanner, after which Mr. Moody preached us followi . TIE BEIMON. You will find the text (n the twelfth chapter of Danlel, at the third verse: And they that bo wise shall ehine os the bright- nesk of the (rmaneat; and they that turn muny to tighteousnesa as thu stars for ever and ever, They that are wise. It don't say that the; may shine, but that they shall shine, Thero [s nodoubt nbout it. Now what §s thought wis- dom by men we are told in another part of the word “of God la “the abominution of God.” That {8, that merely what men by unture think most of 1a the very thing that dml thinks the least of, Men ure secking all around to make theselves 8 nume, _Like Absalom, they want to live ufterwards. Wu find hundreds of men who are trying to have o record to live ofter they are dead aind pone. We are told whio shall live for ever. This man has been gone upwards of 4600 years, und yet he Khues hrighter in the world to-day than he diil 2500 - years #go; and Uf the world should lust 9,500 years longer wo will flud his name shine brighter and beigliter down the stream of time. God's word 1s teue, . 4 They that ure wise shull shing ns the brightness of the firmaments, and they that turn’ many to righteousness a8 the stirs forever and ever," 1t don't aay that tho astronomers shinll shine,— that §8 not the word of God, It don't say that the statesiaen, the honorables, und our great gentlemen,—~that those men ehall shines but *they thet be wise,”’—that they shall ¥ shine us the brightnesa of the finnuments.” And then it tells ux Who ure wise,—thase who turn may to righteousness. Whero ure Nebuchaneezar, Nu- 'mlcun, und other great men? We all know iow thelr names and things went down to the grave with them but we see how the man who turns men to righteousnesa leaves behfnd hin s monument thatshall 1ast forever. 1t is far bet- ter to leave o monument on two Jegs than o monument of marble or of brags, Some one can then go out aud win more souls to Chrlst. There §s not 8 man or womun in the audience hut who likes to ehine, Mothers want thelr children to shine. They gend them to school, and if they wra at the head of the class how proud they are. It s o universa) laws it I something we cannot coneesl—people nl Uke to shine. But there are vr:‘y fow that can shine in this world, Here and there men get rare gifta or some preat abllity that makes them fium-r for ntlme and shine. But fn Chriet's hingdom the youngest and the gmallest muy shiie, That lttle pirl sitting on its_mother's kuee way shine fn the Kingdom of God If she will. ‘That little boy at Lls” mother's skle muy hecoms au fustrument fn God's hand, and may shine in the Kingdom of God by é‘ual leading one soul to Christ, But the trouble fs thata great mnuny who want to shine, goabout ft the wrong way, They are lr{(ng 1o make a name. Now,” 1o man “can sbine In God’s King. dom unless he forgets himself—untll be gets the capltal “ 1" out of the way, We read of the decds of the mighty men i thy Bible, but before Giod coull "usd thosg uien that be- came 80 mighty, (ln-z had to bu “‘emptied of themsclves,” and thut epirit of exalting self to bo taken awasy from them, Look around, and you will find thiat the men and women who ars dofng serviee for God are those who are emptied of themsclves and have no dignity or great name to keep up, They are empty “ves- scla, made for the Maater's uac, ¥ chers, Johin the Baptat « Tl must fucrease, and 1 must deereass And, when the Pharisces arnt out to the wilderncss to ask who he woa, inanswer to thelr questions he sald: I am Mr. Nobody, 1 am a volee erying in the wilder ness,” Christ was everything to him; he waa nohods; amd (f you are golng to shine, you must he emptied of relf, and then become ves- acls made for the Moster's use, And thers fs not & man nor wonian that may not be emptied of themeselves and made to shine. We nre all the time talking abont our having no gifte or ability. But the fact is, we hiave too much of it in our owa_csteem, We talk that way ourselves, but don’t allow any ono else to any #t. There are five things which Gad uecs. What arce they? e uses the weak things. But that {s not wliat we want; we want to be strong and mighty. God uses the foolish things, Bul that s not what we want; we want to ho wise, mighty, and greaty but the moment we atand on man's’wirdom we are done. One resson of the Hlitle puceess of the Church to-day fs that we laok after intellectunl power, and "the majority of the churches are like pilded sepulchres, crowded with people, but dead in soul as they can be. They ‘want the power of the Holy Uhost there, and we want to be stripped of our own strength and ability, and be elothed with (God's strenggth and power, and then He will take up the wealkest and use them. Then the base things are used, and we don't like them. You remember the processfon around the wails of Jericho and its result! The fdea of some of our_theologlenl professors nud some of our weak ininistera golng round the streets of Chl- cago in that way—how foolish it would seen, It fa the wenk, the base thing, the desplsed thing, God sent His men around blowing old ra’s horng, God used the base things, There [s always n casting down beforo there is n Hiting up, “Before we ean get w revival there must be a prostration, Jt was when Abra- hum was_on his face that God took D, and the Church has got to get down on it face hefore anything can be accom- lshed, If there s a work of grace here, and I hopo thero will be, there has got to be a easting dowit, We are told that we muet preach the Gospel. But therc ought to be a good deal of reaching to the Church, When Spurgeon went 0 London they asked him to preacht In the Bap- tist Church, His fricnds told him he could fire n cannon-hall right off without starting the Church, Il found the Chnrch wasn't right. ‘The Elders were not right. There wasn't any- hody right, but he went to prcnchluf to the Liders.” At lnst onc came and eafd to him, *1t is about time you should preach to the world,” e sald, “When the Ellers are right T will ach to the world.,” When le got the ders all rlfhk he_went to preaching to the Church, When the Elders and the Church got right, he preached to the unconverted, and for twenty years the largest con, vrn{,{nunn that any one ‘man ever had has icd to hear that mnn preach. 1o hna a con- ;mf,nuunor holy men and women, Hfting up thelr hearts in prayer to God. \\')3‘, the Angel Gubrlel might come down here and preach, but {f lie hadn't got & praying band to 1t up_{helr hearts In prayer, It would be all cold and life- Jess. Wo want men and women really burden- td for the salvatiun of souls. I find, fn myworl Jor Christ durlug the past cight years, thet thero are many men who are” willing to work for Iha” If they ean do eowe prreat thing, and have thelr” names heralded through tho press and get great names. God never uses such wmen. Men who conte futo this ¢hurch should be williug to even come and aweep out, and run errands, God always blesses them; but those who are only willing to do some great thing, or athing that will bring fame and give them a nanie, God never blessed yet, and never will Dless that kind of a splrit. “You must bo willlng to gpme (. I once heard of o man who wanted to do some great thing for Christ, aund he was llke, I sup- pose, a great many of those men wiosay “If 1 make money, I will give some large amount to somng charitable purpose,” and then are spend- Ing their whole life thus accumulating wealth that they may glve it and leave for themselvés a “name. This man wanted to do some great thing, and the result was that the time passed aud he didn't do anything, Onc night he dreamed he died and was taken away by the angels into n beautiful temple of polished stones, Ilc found one atone left out. *Why is thisi” sald he, The angel says, * The master bullder Intended that stone for yourself, but you wanted to flll some greater place, and you were left out entirely.” The man waked ‘up, and he was willing how to be anything in the temple. Qod hus promoted him riow, and God hoa used him. 'Thero are thonsands of men God will take up and uso yet, if they sre willing to b anything. He usen' them for” His pglory, for i there'ls any glory o Is golng to have it. Hois not golhg~ to give i to natlons alone. ~ But people” say “I aln't golng fo do this —and “that work " any more. The Church don't recognlze my gifts us much as they ought to do.” And they don't go on with the work. Any man or woman that looks for resward this afde of eternity has got to be diesppolnted, Tt we love Clrlst. Jesus we may get persecutions, and {f o man don't look blzher than this earth he will be disappointed. The moment he gets his eyea on the reward held ont, and lifts his Eifl from this tleeting world, and, as Paul gets Ida eyea on the crown lafd up for him, as Paul diil 50_he gets his eyes on the prize sét before him., You may sce him {n prison, or Pn:nchlniz and'what Is Le dolng? “ I hold fast," the ol warrlor says. Iam pressing forward towards the mark for the prize for the high calling In Christ Jesus,” ~And whean they threw brickbats and stones nfter him, it was all the same. e waa after hls crown. They stood around n man that turned tho world upslde down. Talk of Cwsar conquering the world, but how was it with this man who was winning souls ta Christ, knowing he was golng to shine in the Kingdom of Godf Heknew lic was not worthy fa the sight of the world to llve, and he was vile, con- sidered the vilest of the vile, but yet he kcrt rizht on in the work of God, and God was with him, too, Take your stand by the old warrlor, “Now, Paul,” the world would sox, “you got thirty-ninestripes on your back and they will give you {hirty-nine more. Dou’t you think you'd hetter o off Into Arabla aud rest a few ‘years untll this opposition dics out? Paul,” you aretoo rabld.” You ought to be more conscrva- tive, You trouble men's consclences. You ought to speak mill-and-water stuff, and put men to sleep, and iflyou do that you'll get on pretty well, and the world witlapplaud you, and m‘{ you are the most pnvmr preacher, and they will'floclk to hear yol ‘ou tell men that they must helfeve In us Christ, but the Grecks snd the philosophiers don't helieve that. You have pot great talent and speed, and don’t you think you'd hetter go off and rest awhbilo until this persecution dies out, and then come back? Hadn't you Letter be more conservative, draw it mildly, as they call it, and they will flock uround to hear youi” I cun sce how the okl warrlor would ro- celve such _advice. “Ten thousand _tlmes, no. (io off Into Arabin and rest! Do you think I am golng around in this world where (tul's Bon has been cast out; and do you think 1 am galng to rest down here in this world where [t {s gulltyl This one thing I do: ‘I Presa forward to the mark for thie prize for the iiggh catling {n Christ Jesus,””" Tledid not sto; to diseuss. He kept right on preaching, If they east Iitm {nto prisom, he turned the prison fnto an fnquiry mecting, The prison nnd the pulpit were the saine to him. He was on his way for the crown, e was not going to lose it.” He was golng to shine forever and ever. Take your stand by the old warrfor agaln. They buve hurled big stonesat him. They have given him up_us dend. Now, take” your stand agadn, ¢ Now, Paul, that bios been pretty rough; don't you thluk you'd better be qulet for u Mttle while, until” this bitter persecution dicsout? You huve suffered so much,” “\Why," says he, “ these light alllictions, do you think I cannot endure them!™ If a wan should get o stripe now, what a nofse there would oel Why, he would lrg to muke 8 martyr of himself, But .m‘we and brickbats were cveryday occurrences to Paul. Ho was the same, Kvery rod brought him uearcr heaven, Ho was golng to shine for- ever, He was bullding a monument that was ta live as long as (iod. tmagine & man would not prase God {f he had thirty-uine stripes on his back, But they fu the cclls sang praises to God. The prisoncrs hicard it. They had never heurd such songs beforo—the strangest songs they had e ieard, When they suld amen, Gud rulmmlcd, and the ol prison “uwoke; an the first man ‘converted fu Philippl was_the Phfllé‘mlnu Jadler, 1 have no doubt that Paul thunks tiod more for that Philippine jaller than for anything else in the world. Lot us keep our eyea tixed on the reward. There I3 s great reward laid up for them that are falthful in this dark doy that wo live in, What you do for God and eternity, you must do ut” once. We will soon be goiie. Muny in this congregation this morning will he gone o year hence, and if we are going to shine fo the Kingdom of God we have got tu’ do that work God has got for us to do. “Let us take Paul for sn cxample, I don't belleve there (salife, with- out it 18 the life of our Lord and Bavior, that will stimulate the chureh moro than the 1ife of Paul. Theru fs not a character I read of in the Bible that makes me more ashamed of myself than the character of Paul. What a shauic on the Cbristlanity of the ninetecuth century! What u people we have become! Very few men thot scem to huve power with Go now. The thing scems to be to unite with sows church acd keep out of fall. (Slight :fip\wu] They soy uow that 1s the deacons or tho minls- £ ters who should do the work, They may do it it, but no membess of the chureh aro expeetod todoit. There will never e a thorough refor- mutlon of this work until the pulpit and wnrlu are [n earnest. Al the world wants I3 Chrlat, Any of us coitld fall fnto our graves and not ho missed, but. the workl eannot. get along without Christ, and If we are” only = faithful and work In season and out “of scason we will seo men dadly added to the Chureh of God.” Let us not be Jovking for strebgth, but for weaknees, Thicre ts one danger T would llke to warn the church of here. Some may say, * We have got a large butlding now, nlce Sunday-school room, and & nlee praver-meeting raom,—and 1 nol n hopes you ¢na pay we are out of debt by to- morrow,—and [ at afrajdsome llln)’ll\'l".‘&m!ull to lay down and sleep, The Lord told Gldeon he hiad too many men, and to take them down to the brook ‘wnd try them. Iie went and there « were only 800 left. But I would rather_have 300 nien whose hearts were right than 32,000 that arc leanfngz npon the arm of fleal and courting the prize and raying, * We will have a greal victory now lieenuse we have 80 umn{ men.! Mr. Moody then told of o woman golng to Dundee from London to attend his wectings for the purpose of getting her sona converted,” She sncceeded, and ono having died shortly af- terwards, when the preacher went to London, she devoted herself tothe worl of the nqulry mectings aml v.lld{;nml service for cr f husband and ersell used to pray every night for Mr. Maody and his co-worke er, Mr. Bankey, I ithink, continned the preacher, that the greal movement going on’ has been successtul on account of 5o many peaple praylug for us. This ludy said she had lafd herself out for God's work, I wish a few [n this church would do Hiew 8he rays, in o letter to me, “ Now, I have the pleasitra to tell you that I have the namea of 150 that have been converted through iny efforts,” 8he had their addresses, she kiew where they Nyved, and she had gone and vigited them and wrote them Ietters, Pretty good work, wasw't ft! “They thnt be wise slinll shine as the brightness of thie firniment, and. they that turn many to right- cousness as the stars ubove. 1f [ know my own breast, I would rather be Instrumental i lending one man to Christ than to have o monwnent of pure gold over my prave reaching from carth to heaven. [ would rather have some one come to my grave and dron a tear, and say it was through my [nuence that they came to the Savior, Lown East some tine ago was a mnaid that led onellttle girl to hecome s Christian, It waan small act, wasw’t it? ‘That girl grew uwp toboa \'cr" ouly woman, andshels the mother of ten children, “Three are In the minlstry, and ol ten of these children are eminent workers in this cause of Christ. You may lead that little boy to Christ, and he will go out and bless the world, If they lad had popers In Jerugalom they wonld have taken no notice of Peter’s work, ~ But It wns the greatest work ever done when Peter, on the day of Pentecost, brought 3,000 gonls to Christ in one sermon, You way lead one to Christ, and he may lead thousands, and they te usand.e “They that be wise shall sliinu us the brightness of the firmament, and they that turt many to righteousness as the stars above,” Afew years ngo I was called to go down Into the country, and I got o pressing letter from n mninister to come down and help bim, T got I ahout 2 o'clock, in the afternoon—Iit was one of your Western towns—nnd the mintster took me to n house to Iunch. After luneh he took me fo another house, which was Just filled with women on thelr knees In prayer, As [ weut In, {t reemcd as if they were at the very gate of heaven, They semed to be wresllfmi fu_prayer with God. He took me off to an old elder who wee lI‘yIng with consumption. He was burdened for the salvation of souls, After we vame oul, the minister sn U1 want to tell you about tho state of things here. We lJmve mot had o converslon here for six- teen years. This old elder s the senfor elder and he s dying. The doctor told him he could not lve, e sent for the clders and lic told them he was burdened for the salvi- tion of souls. They wereso bad be conldn’t nrouse them. e sent for the male members of the church to come and pray to_God to_revive his church. e could not rousg them. Ilesent for the women and we sco the reanlt, We have that women’s prayer-tneeting for two wecks, and we belleve tielr prayers muat be answered. God never encourages 18 Lo pray in- 1ess thero issomething good lu store forus, Iwent to that ehurch and crerybody prayed with us. Tt scemed as if we were Deating wrainst the alr, That nl'(;ht., about midnight, one of the wildest if not the wildest, boy fn the town got ur an went to his father’s room and safd: V Father, 1 eaw't sleep to-nights my sins are troubling me.” The father hud been a professing Chrls- tian for some thne, and that was all—just o mere empl.);'pmfcdslmh Before he could™ pray for his son e had to pray for himeelf. The next morning he told that n "the chureh, and I can't tell yon bow It impresscd the cople.” That night, when wu prenched, it sccmed as (£ tho powerof Godeamedown, and Insfde of twenty-four hours every child whose arents belonged to that church was converted 0 God. God” came_ suddenly to His temple. And thus you sco what o sick, dylug mancun 0., It I8 the power of prayer we want afler all. It aln't the preaching. We have enough minfs- ters in theelly. I don't believa there hns ever been a period when wo bave had as many as we have now. There fs good preaching. But we want more power, There are sermons cuough, but We want power. If we expect to have u revival here we must bo down on our fnces In prayer before God, I cannot sce anything more finportant to you parents than that there should be a revival, aud your sons and daughters saved. How many familles have been Pl\mgcll into mourning for waywnrd childrenl Ifwe had & pure revival here thc-{ might be saved and become of com- fort'ta thelr parents. LIt up one rruycr to God that we may bave, right licre In this build- fug, o pure revival of religlon, that your eons and daughters may be saved and beeome n bless- Ing to you. Now that infldclity hos crept fnto the church, very few helleve In the conversion of children, ‘We should never forget that this church has frown out of a 8nbbath-seheol, and I hope the chlldren will come here every morning and evening, a8 wcll as to the’ Sabbath- school, and that the church will be known us thu children’s church, and I hope the Gospel will be taught so plaln that the children may understand it. If that I8 done, then the grown cople will understand it. The kindof preach- ng that intcrests the chiliren Intercsts the fathers and mothers, After relating eeveralnn- ecdotes about the conversion_uf children, Mr. Moody concluded as follows: Fathers and moth- ers, don't rest untdl your children are brought Into the fold of God, and thelr numes are writ- ten in the Lamb's Book of Etcrnal Life, and they become heirs of eternal life, There I8 not a letter field tn all Christendom to work for Christ than right here, and [ hope that many will come forward and say that they want some- thing to do for the Lord. Tho service was brought to o close In the ususl manuer, MAN. BERMON NIY PROP, SWINA. Prot. Bwing preached it MeVicker's yesterday morning, taking as his text s And the Lord formed man of the dust of the round and breathed luto his nostrile the breuth of ife; and man'became o Uving roul.— Genesla di., 7, ‘Tho actunl history of man s so full of detalls, and the details are so varled, that no pen can pleture him ns ho s, Indeed, so fmmense s man that il ¥terature may ho defined as an ef- fort to place withiu the Ubraries of earth some nccount of earth's chief occupant, Ilfstory is an effort to gather up himan exploft; postry an effort to treasure up a cestaln shape of hwman sentiment; sclence an effort to record human observation; art an effort $o express human tasto; written religion an effort to vxpress tho luman betlef aud fear and longing 88 to the he- youd. When, now, werecall to mind the fact that some of the Hbraris of the world'show the spoctator a milllon volumes, and that o longz agoas the first century of our ern the Alexun- drian library contalned 400,000 volumes, wo may reallze what a lurge and varled creature {s man that suchcouutless books shonld be required to convey some knowledge of what be hus 2ald and thoupht and sulfercd and en- {oye(l and hated and Toyed aud done. The his- orfan, and the blogrupher, and the phllosopher are ouly wreckers upon the const, ruuning hero and there to plek uy what the last wuve hus brought ashore from this rich ship. There 18 u kind 0f rich spoll which pleases yot the philoso- pher_or the hilstorlan, but which delights the novelist and the poet, and along they come gleanfug on tho beach, bearlog aveay the love und general eentimentalify of the scetic und the time. When the Creator inade man fu lls own image, he gave the ereaturo at least that qu.u)uy of God cxpressed by the word “futluity,” for next to his Makcr musn s w boundless ‘whl}p The grains of sand upon the stores of all thy seas are the only symbols by which we could count the thoughts uud decds and joys und griefs of thls lust product of the DIviue'creative cnergy, u‘ii'.u would form somo conception of the scope of this son of God murk what great lead- ing external shupes Lo gssumes, and through what transformations hu passes (n each garb, He is King aud slaye, Emperor and Infunt ; bere leading an army to & Waterloo, there sittlng une der a spreading beech, playlog upon areed; hiere thunderiug forth In eloquence, there pruning a vine or t; W A 70se beaten dowaby the ralng Tiere discovering o nm-cugtine, there Lo, i bis littde hand the primer (roth which, ‘i the eye uf 8 schoulmaster, o learns th aipio bet of_his future tongue, An Engllsh eritle complaius that, no ane hag wrltten o novel fhat showa us any ade, lllflurc» of Ule, IL1s nowild, strance com Lo el from world I Which sehich ot ey Distory wd retizton and philosophy, ail bt have come anywhere near prcsrnduq us With ay adpgquate portralture of humanity bn'the my; or'n the partienlar, The novel I only o Jegf fron the boundless woods, # Ulude 0 raat from the pralriea (hat roll between the lukes ang the Pacltie, 11 thero b nuy theuloglags whg defined tho Almighty, and who know Him 10 perfection, to thess shall we need tolook. for perfeet analysis of that belng made in the fmngy of the A|m|fih|e'. Havingmeasured the Creatgp, they might fim it easy to map out to the fulled detall the crenture, “As for us who conyeyy here fet usconfess tint man, ke his Makor, liey beyond our grusp. We ean only apeak of him g an ustrononter may speak of the starey depth, But up from every luxurlant and éntangled forest thero thse o few tall, stralght trees Though nlong the Awnnzon the munh e alf s oyergrown with vines aud slirubs and flowerly, piunts, and these so entangled that no traveler, on lorse or on fool, ean penetrate an arrows shot, yet up from that gloom and confusiog there rlses liere and there n tree full of heauty, of verdure, and of definite outline, reaching fir up Into the sunlight, Up into these the wilg bird flies whien it wishes a fresher alr or o warm. er llght. ~ Not otherwise from the entangley mass of experfence that makes up man, (hm rises here and there a tall truth with distinet outline und forever In the explorer’s sight, I¢ may not always be aweet to abscrve these, hyg whitt may oftén be lost In the charmfig will by made up to uas n the form of the rolemn ang the Instructive and the fmpressive, Let us theg turn away from the many complications of man; turn away from Iilm ns Emperor or as slave, o scholar or ns unlettered plowman, ns rich of poor, s high or Jow, aa plabi or as heautiful, o merchant 6r 03 meclianic, and thinke of him only in that upper outline where anulysis seems nof 80 utterly w‘pclcss. Let us o tu the simples theory of this crenture, bringing back with w sume valuable oufllne of his body and soul, HIS CHILDILOOD. 1. Mark first thut Infancy and childhood through which he i ordalned, not by n eruel fute, but hy merey, to pass. Though to milliony of these little onca the helplessness of ehildiioud hrings patn, although there are countless num. bers to whom lfe heging as o neglect or s ur arenn of eruelty, yet the theory of tnan conten plates no such misfortune. The civitized condi tion of soclety contalus the best hints at tl real import of Infaney and carly 1ife, aud in thy clvilized conditlon tio Infant tian and the child man is seen earrled at_first on the bosoin of ab most. Infinite love, The world I3 seen ouly through the veil of tenderncss, ‘There are loy ing arma around him; the works spoken to hin arc kind words: the actions ho first sces an Lind netions. In an ordinary home in the gren eivilized lands the kindners “that surrounds thy first, ?‘c:\m of life 1s simply beyoni words In its external deed and funer thought 1 sicknesa attacks the )ittle one the motha Immediately counts herself and all the world w nought. She forsulies ull the outer seenes; tly laughter of the street comes to her as a discord Ehe nlmost forgets to eat; she sleeps go lightly that a slan of the sick ono wakes lier, ~Thi sume solicitude attacks nlso the father in the Igher order of soclety, . He quits the path of his business or hils profession, ~ He sees no valu n merehandise or fame. When in the conrt room or the market, or in the Senate chainber. 1L I8 whisp d that the public man {s abscnt by cauge his chilil is sick, Al nequicsce n the b sence, for the Judge on the hench and th statesiunu fu the Senate know where the feek fugs of the human heart are dwv.‘wst and from wiat part of 1ife’s horizon the darkest stornig can come. They know how worthless the world might suddenly hecome, ere 1o this ehildhood of man two {ndispensa. Dle furma of colture ure lnkln¥ p}:m ‘I'he par- spla cut is having all selfishness d dy Is Jearn. ing that to live for others is the trae misslon of ench, atid 18 the hest eulture for solfs Ia experis enelng new motives of industry and moral ity; ts renching o deoper dependeneo upon Gl from whon now great aflifetion or great blessing might come; the parent is carrying now o vul nernble heart exposed ou all sides s0 the urrowy of adversity; 18 reaching a new helfef in heaven n8 belng a place where the fanily can at Iist be reunited away from the tears ‘of all change. Home is the herald of heaven. ‘The other shape of ciducation §s springing up In the bosor of the chill, In a few years the morul storm of life Wil attack him. By the elghteenth or twenticth year there will conie the temptation of the great wilderness. Divine be ings like the Christ mny In thelr own powa enilure througli all theze forty terrifie days, hut beigs not divine go down in these assaults of entlf’life, In the theory of nan all thore home years, n which the love and kindness of the par ents were so infinlte and inexpressible, were to be the udequate shield aeatnst the arrows of subsequent evil times, For the young man ot young woman to sln wns to forget an fniinite ovo, ~ Tt was to seem ke tho murder of the uld home fricnds, It was tohen matricide, s quick o slow death ufllmtbelngllmt]whl the offender for years {n foving arms. That home so overflowiig with devotion was to be the bulwark agalnst sin In those Jirst years away from Its excred Learthe stune, As Ciirist cominanded Sntau to get be- Dbind him, and did this casily, breauseof the great heavens around hitn, and - beeause of the Father In the heavens, so the lhcur{ of man shows us a youth passing out into the ainful world powerful to restst evil, because of that home where the loved ones remain, that home whose radlance shines far forward into the dark placel of Hife, We havo all known young men and youngs women who have been “long away frowi howe, who were stfil Hying in gplrit umler the roof, and who upon revisiting the spat were anxlous to zo back {hto the beauty of characta that would harmonfze with the heauty of the dear uld place, Home remains the God'and the Bible of their wanderings, But besldes this morud oflice of childhood, tha division of life hms n magaificent ‘mrl. to play fe the intellectual theory of man, Life s only 1 stream of puwer pouring ulong thrauyh u strange warll. A large part of this power §s made up of the development of the fmaginative, the cre- ative, nud the hophye fucultiv, The [deal it more powerful than _the real. Man, to_he full of force, must be able to see more worlds than those Jumps ot dirt at Wis feet. He mus behold the future of his country If ho wonld become a student, the future of the soul {f he would be relizious. It 1s the first requlsite, therefore, In manhioud, that it should be full of enthusiasm and of the fancy that bears the sonl In a flaming charfot far avove the dust. of the stre and thy low lands of daily toll. The carly { ars of life beginning even In the lntam-[v that P ucls wildly at the gnudy flower or n blazing lunp all wera desfzned to'be u school-time - which should ha tradned up au fmgeination which might ot l.ns! sce the destiny of man and the glory of God Iytng beyond the Lills of the present, ‘The sama tieart which at first graeps at'n flower will reach out after u time for the flowers of useluluess of Jearning or an hotorable ambltion, The heart whivh thrilled wlth delight when spring brought it the morndng and evening bird-vong {5 {n 18 early years to develop u taste which st last nothing will sutlsfy except the hymns of the soul sung to e God. Thus in the lhcur{l ot JMan a8 o was nunounced fn Genests we beholit childhood coming not as o mere physical neces Sityy but is wgrreat morat and intellectuul pres Jude Lo the groater soug of hiadife, It f5 the first step nn carcer, let us move onward from this portal and puuse o moment at the ultar of 118 MARIIAQE, This 15 the resmmption aud frther exaltation of the fden of home., Home s th prime condl tion of happiness and suc It fs the forti. cation nkmt every encmy, and the store- Jinac of il suppiles for the body nd soul, the sunctuary, not of the Bunduy, but of all tha dags of the week sl of the year,” Lxeluded by renrs and by mental growthi from the home of Die father and mother, mun must y to o lons of hisown, It fs while passing bebween thess twu cnstles—the onu of hia mother and the lutes oneof himself—ian fs exposed to the foes of the great open country. The most utf'nun'.i men and young women tind the world’s sl ans danger while they ure murehlng neross the open country between'these two furts. I'he savuges aro along every path, lying in_ambush fnench valley unid bebind - v rock. The passugo between the two sl ades elould b niado as quickly s possibly and by hearts well on gnuwl. Over this secon furtress waves the banner of love. Here twe mortals, huving outgrown the first conditfon of lfe, und Knowing ~ that father and potkel will soon Juse wwagy cive themseiver cach to the othery und by a devotfon it surpusses Linguage and by o Tove that has taxed the pocts auc vadnters of all thnes with the vain attempt © portray It carry the home idea forward froie heatity to blessedness, Ay tho Son of Manpass: ed from u wanger to a_transtiguration, 8o the houe of youth s transfigured fn the home vl this iinal affection, dise come ambition, fudustry, unscifishicss § moditleation of every passion, d higher morllty This union Is of ont with one, ‘Ihegreat mottd written all over nature sy “0ne Mother, Une Hushand or Wifo, One Qud.> 'Fhls is the unity of man's soul. o the grand theory of mul: this lmmense fricodship shines down upon sl of earth that succeeds the Jululng of hands ot the altar. 1t ylelds to death only, und then be- causo it hopes fmortallty to earry forward i uupnrullclmlwm‘i:ulumml). Inits highest form arriage asks to be curried from time to eternity $*0h! haud ye leal aud truo, Jol Xy l‘: n;w'i'nrm' thro'y Jnl:' 'll welcome you To the land o"uu leal, Out of this earthly