Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 19, 1876, Page 5

. = ? THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1876. onerato_man, it must be confessed to ha the fnmllmnld of (race, To the edueated mind sfn becomes odlous, An cducated manhood dis- copils vice, Heveo in the Roman and Greek Adye, when there was little light of religion and none of the lHN:I, thousnuda of men and wom- en beeame mornlly henutiful by the power of in- telectual development, alone. It would be dif- ficult In the galiery of history tu find pletures of wrer men - than” Plutareh,”Cleero, Virgll, and acitus, Learning and reflection helpud then awny from sin, carried them up Into un atios- shere very much nkin to the atmosphere of re- Ih;!l)ll. Jn edneatlon yon thus perecive n dlvine power, I[ it cannot fead soclety into the new ife, It can entice it at least to the door of God's tclll[‘vlc. where the ear can catel the ravishin) musie and ean hear the volees that speak out ol the near-hy uwmnf,. To edueation ndd also the influence of carth's gorrow; add the deaths of our children, our friends} the bredking up of the homo circte; the erent avray of dissappointments that follow each hcnn; then to these add the constant approach of the grave and the meditation it awakens in cacl heart {n it Jonely hours; and in all these experlences you find the strange chemical that dlssolves the rocky heart and makes i ot last o loving worship Intheinldst of a hundred influcnces the splrlt moyes and carrles on Its new creation of the soul. As Gord comes to our pense through the external world, falling down around us in the light, whispering to us in the zephyr, calllug to us dn the thunder, moving among us In the incarnation, so fn the conver- glon of the heart the Spirit comes by the quence of the pulplt, or by the higher thought of education, or by the lielp of the midulght solitude, or i tha black robes of otir sorrovE, or fn the grent shadow of comiog death, Many threads nre woven together to make for us tho robe of plety. Thieologinns malke a distinction hetween con- on and sanctitication. They for the most part declare that conversion 1s “the work of u moment ; sanctitication thesubsequent progress. The distinction does not seem well taken. It Ins worked great injury. It has encouraged persons Lo look back to some hour in which they }unnd Chirist, Instend of tolling to find righteousncss, they gather thelr virtue upin a niemory o In o old church-roll, Soine of these persons will in the present violate cver Inw u? the decalogue, and will all the whilewal about fn a sanclty that {5 not actual, but his- torle. It would geemn better far to sbollsh the theological discrlinination hiere and expand the word conversion until it should cover all the days of thesoul. We are not converted na; sense A we still love sin aud Ilrnuueu general mennness of life. Instead of looking back to some far-off year when we found religlon, wo would better call the past ¢ faflure, aud wonder §f there remaing cnough of life to_us in which to find the pearl of great price, Looking back for_our religlon twenty years fs too much like looking back twenty years to (ind our honesty In_business or our ubllity to read or write. “Canverts” cannot be connted at the close of n meeting or_fn the (nquiry-room. They can bo wunLuE only at the grave or in the judgment dag, These conditions called faith and cunver- slon and religion are mensurements of life. kuow nothing about thein L-xcur(. ba' thelr exte nal phenomena. To eall 8 wicked man a con- yerted man because he once jolned some socle- , would he 1|Immll|n;inmm| & musiclan who once declared lis fondness for music, or like calling him_a philosoplier who vnce attended o mecting of an acadeniy of scfence and art. A ainter {8 not known by hls profession, but by EX! canvas with his colurs all on 1t. Andso the vonvert {8 to be known by limsclf and his friends only by the purity of his life In view of the fact that this world fndlcates nselng over from wickedness to plety, and the S’Iuly plrit §8 nn omnipresent agent’ of this chunge, and that ull the eartl has been full of the influcnees that lead the heart from sin to worship, how evident It becomes thit [n many & Dienthen land there have been regencerated men— chitdren of God moving onward to heaven through twillght, As the love of Christ for the world was 50 vast that He did not ask the na- tlons unblest with His coming to gather Him up in thefr faith, but permitted them to Jive by fafthfulness to the Inflnite, so the * canversion ¥ of Christanity i3 ns brond and tender us its falth, and many have been the hearts con- verted to God ini the old emplres of carth. On the tomb of a Pharaoh at Thebes In letters graved three thonsand years ago are these words lived fn truth and _fed my soul with justiee. What Tdid for men I did fn peace, mid how Iloved God, God and my heart well know.”” Many, many ari the proofs that In Wl lande aud times of carth’s history the soul of the sinful hns been wont togo toheaven converted by the Toly Spirit und saved by faith, It Christ thls salvation arose i its full splendor, God anq the Spirit came nearer to mon. Falth Tose L0 new puwer, and, as It were, nations wers born to God in o duy, The law of the Lord, so ru\\‘l.‘r(ul in David’s ape, re-enforced fteell In hie germons and {n tho thrilling histury of Christ, and suith came forth with a more visible Gud, and conversion came forth with the rushinge of wmighty wind. Oh, my friends, great wiil be our guilt mulxprl::nl. our punishunent 1€ fu such 2 world'ns this, full of the Son aud the Spirit, we shall 1lmus on andawey without having changed futo the lmage of God. cen SAINT PAUL. DACCALAUREATIH SERMON AT EVANSTON DY THI ULV, DIt POWLEIR. President Fowler, of the Northwestern Unl- veralty, yesterdiy morning delivered tho annual® bacealaureate sermon to the graduating class at the First Methodist Church, Evanston, the comne modious audltorfum belug crowded, notwith- standing the uneertain weather, Following s the sermon, But the Lord snid unto him, Go thy way, for he 15 a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name be- {’::x‘:ellh‘:ucm"“ and Kluge, and the children of Tor Twill show him how great things, ho must suffer for My nnma’s snke, —Acts Ix., 15-10, God’s great teachers aro great cevents and great men. Theseare inseparable n the world's htetory. Whenever the good cause is helped forward, and a new era is (ngugurated {n human soclety, you are suru to (nd somoe great soul armed with the hest weapons of hls age moving at the head of advaneing columns, and making roumn for thu new evangel, When such an ong comes fully futo the world the race goes down on {ts knees before him, and, listening to his words, learns the secret which God hns commiesloned him to re- venl, Theso revelntlons aore ihe great- principles that wake up the warp of soclety. ‘These leaders form the woof of soclety. Tlhey sre esaentinl to its unity and completencss, They are tho bonds of fuderation between re- mote ages and widely-separated peoples, It fn- heres {n thelr greatness to_belonge toull tmes and all races, ‘Voussaint L'Ouverture fn lils dungeon, appealing to the old Nupoleon In the ever memorable words, *The greatest of the Blacks to the greatest of the Whites,” stands i the emlgmum. of maunkind on the same level with his captor. For history is unable to dis- Ungzulsh between that dungéon in the Alps and that prison fsland uuder the equator. Buth alike, in spite of thelr keepers, helong to therice. “This Jaw holds with greater crtainty concerning the preat men whoea lives have been expiended for the good of thelr kind, Foremost amon all the warthies of the past stands St. Paull None stand before him, But for Moses and Abruliam he would stand in the solltude of his Frv:\mvbn,n magnificent fguro creating under ud the universul Church for the one brother- Inod of munkind. "Ihis life-work oceuples more x]mm in tho religlous and literary world than that of uny other mou. ‘The censts history of Paul 18 as uncortain as it {8 unimportant. "Fhe history which ho made 18 whint we huve to dowith, und it I8 a8 certainng the early development of the Church dtself, It Is stlll"n matter of some futerest to know about when he lived and where he labored. 1o 13 belleved to have been born 1 the year 1, £) bave begun bis life with the Christfan era. He wus converted fn 87 or 83, made his first Apostolle visit to Jerusalem fu 40 or 41, The next seventeen years, the vigor of his maturity, was occupled with Lils thres famous missionary fourneys, planting Christiunity in Asiaand in Ei- Fupe, und I longs stays at Antioch, ot Corinth, and at Ephiesus, Io the autumn of 53 he was urrested ut Jerusalem nnd taken to Ciesares to be examined before Fellx, He was contined there for two years., 1n the spring of 61 ho ur- rived in Rome, where ho lived a prisoner fu his own hired house for twa years, whichis the last vlew wo lave of binn Tho Pustoral Epistics Tudicato that he lved il 67 or 63, when by the lands of Nero's mlnfons he affered his bluod as thesced of u thousand martyrdoms. Thisls the census history of 8t Paul. But what we Want fs that Hving eplstle of his lfe, which has lumbyed so mony centurivs, Leon Lho teacher of 6o many milliuns, and s the inheritunce of BO Many races. P'uul “was put up on a grand scale, and Providence superinténded his cducation so os to nnko him u full an. ‘Though a Hebrew of the kbrews, Le was born in ‘Tarsis,—no meaw clty. Cunybeare shows that Tarsus wus well sufted. for "his truluing, Btrabo tells us that, iu all that relates to philosophy snd general education, ft was uoven more cele- brated thun Atheus or Alexundila. There Ahe Greek lunguago was spoken in its purity, aud philusoply was atudied and taught in ali Uts subtletics and refincments, furnishing every advautage for the development of thut lugicul Pawer which was destined to batter so fearfully 8L the middie wall of purtitlon between Jew and entile, and muke the text-book of so wuny encrations. the abips of Antony and Cleopatra, and which clghtecn eenturies fivnvu turned froin ita conrsc, the youthful soul was brought Into eontact with the “trades of many lands, e mingled with men of yarlous costitmes, speaking various dia- lects, There inet the merchanta of Byrin, the agents of Greelan merchanrdise aml Roman Tux- ury. And there, too, was the Jew, even then as now the pilirim of ecommerce, trading with natfon, and blendlug with none. uhirew family of the digpersion, who, Jlke the French luiguenots fn Lontdon, cherished thele old langunge and falth, San was nonrished {n the rich inspiration of the lie- Dbrew Patrinrcha nmb Prophets, and grew up with the Iebrew Inwa and eustoms warmlug In his very blood, At hoie he tatked with s father and with visitors from the Holy City fn the tongue of Abrahnm and Moses, of” the beautiful service of the Temple, of thelr flltllcrs, and of the drenuis of power which the sxpested Messtul should give to Judea and Gaill In society and at school, he rolled the flowlug langange of Perlcles and [’lumcr, and stwilied the wisdom of Plato and Bocrates, And ay he walked the crowded atrects of ‘Farsus his eye fell upon the ingeription and {nsignta of the” Roman workd, The three great ~lutiguares of antlyuft combined to make him the defender of the fafth of the Nazarene upon_whoss cross they should again be combined. 'The hooke, aud conscienee, and Insplrations of the lchrews, the cilture uud plilosophy, nnd poetey of the Greeks, and thie luwe, and statestmnship, and power of the Romnns, wero all tributary to the development of Paul. _But his teachers were not conflned to books, - Citles, and_peoples, and ruces were his tutors. 'Tarsus, with her many tongues aud pro- found philosophles, watched bis fnfancy and Doyhootl, Jerusslem, with lir Doctors und holy mémories running back slxteen centurles, poured futo his early manhood all her wisdom and fajth. Damuascus, the oldest city In the world, which was an anclent metropoiis before Romulus founded Rome, or Hower sang of Troy, and which stands to-day the same Leautiful tye of the desert; Damasceus, this Damascus, flashed lier Iessons fnto his eyes as they wer n]u.n d by the touchof Ananfus, and purts of the three frat years of hia life were “pent liere. The headquartere whero he planned bis fm- menge nilssionary fabors, and from which he went forth for tlie conquest of the heathenisim of two continents, was no lesa ncur than An- tioch, the J‘mlrlnrclml city of the !!.'er Christian Chureh. Through its hurbor it had 98 10 the commerce of the Muditerranean, and through the open country behind Lebanon it was approached by the caravaus from Mesopota- mia and Arabln. Corinth, the military Gibraltar and the com- merclal New York of lireece nnd Ephesus, the chicefest city of Asle, was Inid under contribu- tlon to round out the practieal eiducation of this apostic to the Gentifes, Destined to accom- plish the downfull of hieathenlsm und preach n unlversal Gospel, this tent-maker of Tursus was edueated on the gramlest seale. Lauguages were lils alphabet. — Civilizatlons were his texts books, Cltles were his companions, tuces wers his tutors, contlnents were his opportunitics, the God of Abraliam was his power, and the cross of Jesus was his luspiration. No wonder that the soldler und the suilor, the High Priest nud the King, were nwed by his power and tremnbled before his glanee, 8cént on o mission that angels might covet, wrapped fn & theme that 1s the eternal song of Heaven, no wonder that his works defy the dust of centuries and his words the critielst of enciles, The leadlug characteristic of Paul’s mind wns his power to reason. e turned naturally to gencral principles, Glve bim o mass of hetero- geneous fucts, und he would stril stinct tho leading truths underlyin Lis touch they would arrange “themscl order. Ils * thought muade thom crys- talize, s0 tkat™ any comman mind could sce thelr order and relations. ke took In the field of what subject he ap- prosched. He began ut the begionitg, and left ofT at the end. Literature furnishies no mightier l:rulluuumm than his BEpistles. s conselence 3 crowned abuye his reason. His logle ts all alive with the deepest emotions, und aglow with the warmest affectfons, allon w churge with a desperate purpose, aud all fHlumined with the highest inspiration, 11ls unbending ohedience to duty bs softened by an all-pervadiug affection that hud all the purity of heaven and all the tenderness of carth,” Out of nuch aflliction and augulsh of Leart he wrote having no rest in bis_epirit,—troubled on cvery side, fightings without, fears within, hourly praying for his spiritugl * chlldren, carryhig the o burden of all _the churches, - ogonizing for the ungzodly, willlng to be aceursed from God for his kinéinen [n the flesh, beerlng all things, enduring sll things, hoping ull things, counting all things but Joss for the exeelleiey of the knowledge o Christ Jusus, his Lord. * Opposi- thon only stimulated bis zeal; digleulty only strengthiened his purpose; dangers on the path of duty only beckoned him forward, Hls reason, his conscieuee, :ind his affection formed the body of his greut manhood. These, excrelsed on the wide fleld of his vast OH[mrllllflllcs, niude Paul, the great Apostle to the Gentlies, the greatest man'tho Great God ever mude. Without pausing to distinguish minutely the elements of his wonderful character, let us look at o few of the muny typleal scenes In his eventful 1ife, and fearn'the secrets of his great achievements. The first scene fn this life to which y tention §8 nsked preseuts what you e kdea) man out of Christ, the™ Inquisitor” ! It {8 n strect scene in Jerusalem, in front of the Golden Gate, on the brow of Mount Moriah, As you stand by tho gate, bohind you towers up the Temple i all the magnificence of lerod’s extravaganee, At your fuet sinks down the deep valley of Kidron. Across the valloy and u little to the south are the tombs ol the prophets sheltered under the side of Olivet. To the left, hilding down fu the valley, Is_dark Gethsemane. A little way to the nortliis St. Stephen’s Gate. Here before F’uu stands Saul of Tarsus, short of stature, but Jithe and clasticinthe vlfior of early maunhood. 1Ie Jooks small compared with the Roman soldiers that obey his nod, Huving cnght a glimpse of his large head with {ts thiv, stralght — brown lair, ~large ,irny eyes, and hooked wuose, you have found ‘the central figure in the pleture, and you can never forget it, The soldiers are dragping along through the hootlug crowd an old than and i helpless glel, They nave b acourged, and thelr dripping feet’ erimson the anclent pavement as they ure hastened towards thelr stonl: Peace,” en- livened by excitement, marks the victimg' faces, aul, breathing ont threatenings and slaughter, Deholds them with_astontshment, and wonders at thelr serenity, His word canslay or make alive, and he orders the exceutfon. This perse- cutor, this executioner, this ingulsitor, ia the mnoblest flower on the unengraft- ed, the uatural stock of lunmanity. Onir race s produced nu better spectmen, He was of goud stock on both sides, o §lebrew of the Hebirews, sound In the doctrines, n Pharlsce, a scholar of the rarest cuiture, tralued by Gamallel, keeping the law without fault, blame- less, and in zeal persceuting the saints, having & coneences vold of offense towurd God or i, Surely ono cannot ask for better nutural coig- binatfons. All thnt nature conld do hue heen done, and the result fs—n persecution. This s nomenn type of man, It requires o man of deep feeligs, of strong convictions of duty, of preat self-sacrifles and aof ahsolute despotfe will, to make an fnquisitor, Rovenge moy make o savage aut of a very small amount of materfal, Last of gold may inake a murderer or an assassin without great outlay of natlve ability, But the quisitor 13 entircly a different specimen. o has vision enough to see wide scetlons of truth, and toso kecthe truth a8 to acknowledge his everlusting obtgations to {t. e hos enough of the religlous iy his com- paosition to muke his moral oblization the most Sucred of ull bonds, even unecessity, For him onee to bo convinced of duty 13 to be immovably committed to actlon, In thy face of all sacrillees und ol dangers. lis own sympathy for thu suffering s crushed beneath his purpose. His sorrow for the strugcling wreteh I hils grasp I8 overpowered by his sor- row for the nmg;ilmg truth in the grasp of lis victim. The fnguisitor Is uwtnphyn'fmIIy an ex- alted type of natlonal greatness, Blluded by his own 'vislon of the truth, with the herolsm of amartyr, he offers on the altar of his convie- tious the very Delty—whom e would appease. WIth a fulth and courage worthy of Abruham, ko kitls tho Truth fn the name of the Truth, Buch was Saul of Tarsus, suylng in late years, “Many of the suints did' T shut up in prison, amd when the wn:na'&ml, to death [ gave my voleo aggainst thew, and L punished then oft fn every synugogue, and compelled them to blas- llhume; aud belng exeeedingly mad agalnst hem, Ixurmcutcd them even unto struugo eitles,” As you look on him you ean sce all that human tatellect, and will, and honest pur- pose can achieve, without the transforming {mwer of prace. hmllwr, that which {a born of ho flesh'1s fesh, To do a saving work i the world you must be a saving power. "The seeond sceuu you muy remember as v Sur- render to Trath, or the Way Out of Sclt.” Now you aro in the desert, " In every direction stretchies the blistering sand and thie smother- fugsky., Away to thu riznt in the distance, Jiku ) emerald on s mouutain of fasper, les old Damascus, the gew and the cye of the desert, cooling its shady strects With™ rippling streams and playing fountslus, Hero I8 o company of Juwa from the distsnt capital. A strange super- natural lght, ubove the brightness of the sun, shinea down upon them. “Phe herse and the rider fall tugether beneath jts power. Feeling ubout for snine one to lewl him you recognlzo Baul of Tarsus. What a chuge has come over hlmi A llttle while uzo he wis proud sud wrathful, clhiafing ugalngt the speech uud Jooks of Btephen. ilo had this confeisor In thy synagopguu ot . Outhe wharves of the Cyndus, which foated { uf tuo Kibrotiuus, whess the Jews trom Alexe andria and from Ciliela worshiped and disputed, and he had heen put to rout by the Togle. whict he could feel but could not answer, He had heard the great apecch of Stephien, perhaps the greatest oral argument, mpcn[ml in the Bible, out of which ho hiself was destined to draw so many arguments and after which to fashion so tiany specches. e had ween his face shinlng like the facs of an augel, as dying he gazed up futo_ heaven. And nif this hud proved too much for bls peace, Conviction, old-fashloned Berlptural ~ convietlon, pressed wupon him. Ho was familiar ~ with the hundred qu)[)hflh:l that centered fn Jesus of Nozarcth., He explnined them wway or refused to foel thefr foree or adinlt thelr clearness, BLUl they haunted hiwm. Barred out of his Judigment by his iron purpose, they stillcrowded thelr faces” azalust the heavy ‘gratings and pecred into his inuer consclpushess il ho seemed himself n prisoner agalnat whom some terrible hall-defined Jynch justice was clamor- g nnd whoze only safity was fn_keepligz the bars of his purpose hard set. The wonderful truths of proph tho maryelous Nfe of the Nazarene, the miraculous power of His name, and the heavenly spirlt and supernatural cour- age of His followers were ull thundering away ot his will, demanding hls surrender to tho Peasant of Galllee, Now he hns surrendered, aaging to the perse- euted Nuzarene, * Lord, what'wilt thou have ine todot™ An hour ago he razed upon Damascus and gloated over the horror that wonld sefze the followers of Jesus when hla name wus men- tloned on the streets, Now he i led a8 gentle a4 u womnn into the homes of these heretles, und wwalts their healing toucl nnd prayer. At} the old pride of family, of royal, putrirchul bloot, of wide researcls, of early Chureh meme- bership or orthodaxy, of punctiiions obedlence of couspletous zenl, of blumeless motive—ll these mngniticent clements for the construc- tlon of w notural morality or philosophy have in one moment lost thelr power. Hu crics out * All these und whatever was given to me I count but loss for the excellenc) of the knowi- cdgeof Chrlst Jesus, my Lord.” Brother, look on this Tlcmre of the philoso- pher ol Tnrsus, this pu[»l of Gamaliel, this must stelwarl soul among all the sons of }u!nm. this man, who ju the penctration of his thought, in the grasp of his fntellect, fn the breadth of understanding, In the naccuracy of hls scholurship, i the fervor of his imagination, {n the grip of hia logle, in the power of his pur- poacs, stands even up with Plato, or Aristotle, or Hacon, und {8 the peer of any mortal that evurt:nzuu upaon the sun; look tpon this man groplug ahout for some one to lead him to the Peasant of Galilee, and crylng in his unmeas- ured distress, My righteousness Is but ns fitting rags.” " ¢ Who will dellver me from the body ol "this death’ And then lsten to his trlumpli, a3 he anys *Jesus Christ {s the end of the law for rlighteousness to them that believe,” “Phanks be to God we have peace with God through Our Lowd Jesus Christ.” Brother, aze ~ on Maul i the desert of Jumascus, as he surrenders uncowmditionally to the persecuted Nazarene, and remember this always, that in the desert of your want nud of your sin your only hope is in_surrendering to this same Jesus.” Without Illm you can do nothing at ail. With Him you can do ull things. ‘The third sceno [8_very simple. You may re- mcmber it as the **Ideal Man in Christ.,” It fs this same ol Apostle. e 8 in ‘Truns on the conat of Myshn, up[‘»umc the Istaud of Tenedos, so famillar to classical students, His very sur- roundings were caleulated to awnken his zeal for Europe, which stretehes away before him In thebondsof heathenlsm., Trons wasdear to ever, Roman ou necount of its connection with thefr fabulous origin. Suctonjus says that Jullus Cuesar il a plan for making Trons the seat of [ d Ilorace inthuates that Augustus Csar eherished the same dream. The present uame of Trons, “Old_Constantinople,” only in- dicates the cherished thought of Constantine in 1 wad In this natural metropolis v ved the divine eall to move for- ward Into Europe, A man of Macedonla stood Defure bin In the visions of the ulint, saying: “ Came over Into Macedonia und help us.”” This ywus the cry of durkuess for light, of weakness for strengih, uud 6 must be obuyed. Perls, Jersecutions, stripes, Imprisonments, ull that s menacing or alarming to the human case_or luman fear, awaited the Apustle, even the Ioly Ghost witnessing only that bonds and imprisonments awalted him. But this was the divine order. It §s the order fur the ndvance of the Church. It s one man agalust a continent. It s une fnspired soul besteging whole raves for thelr sulvation. This tent-maker of Tarsus, standlng alone agafust the world, determined to burrow througeh every known cobtinent, having Dehind him no g infssfonury soclety, no sure base of Aup,nllus, but the skill of his tridde which will maintuin him, driven by the diviue % Go?' that was ringlug in his “ears, this mau ls the inspired ~ boliever. It s one soul consclous of rectitude, fired by @ great conviction, In league with events, ut one wWith God, daring tocuter the world alone lu the cause of rightevusness. This convictlion, that puts on human form and seizes upon o human volee, and startles one from slumber with the call of duty,~this profound, all-dominuting sense of duty,—this I8 the foree that moves the world, The grrent need of the Church to<day is men of convictlons, men whio belieye something that must be told. The wannth ol the senti- ment that flonts uround In the light of inditler- ence, mistaken for liberality, “never sets the worll ou flre, never wlamied oue soul on account of sin, It the soul that gets 8o mear to God that It can Lear the divine sobbings on account of mortal sufler- Ing, und see the dlvine agony on uccount of martal perll, sud from its commuulon receives the same spirit, this is the sout that shakes the world. Before some of wur futhers, sluners drew up futo the ends of thelr pews as' if Satan way about to gelze them, and drug than [rom the ehurch to damuntlon. I would to God we vould repeat thelr great couvictions, All that adts Moody Is the old Methodlst convietion of It 1s not I3 old-fush- sinners’ needs und God's power, bratns, it Is not extended umd{, 1 foned Methodlst conviction, A g agreat juy must breuk forth some way, ‘That mother i the great congregation, ~ feeling lier babe, thut had “gotten 4 coln Into its throat, struggle in her arms, and scelng the little helpless thing dying under her very cyes, that mother did not heed the order of the servlee, nor the proprietics of the plce, nor the awe of the vast congregation, She had one all- wmstering {dea, her babe, herlittle darling babe, that depended on hier for everything her babe was actually dying lu her very” arms. No won- der sho startled the wumm\:ers with 8 cry of alarm and horror, us she rushed hulf-fruntlc up the nitse to the pew of her famlly physiclun, Hrothers, this goudly world for which Jesus suw 1it to endure the cross, {3 dylzin our very arms, Let us rush with it to the Great Physicla, who 1s ublo to save. Our great want I8 convictlons, so definite and commanding that they wilt tuke on form wud volew and cull us frutn our beds Into tlelds of uction. 1 remember, back yonder in childhood, one quiet Bubbath morning, our lttle town was startled by the coming of u rider through the streets, wiiose hords way bathed fn- perspiration and covered with fourn. The poor beust fairly staggered under tho whip and spur. Ten miles uway over the hot und dusty road that mun's son wus dying with cholera.” Ifo must have u doctor. Nothing clse was of any ac- count tu him. We ndwired this prompt deelston, and followed him with tearful eyes and cjuculated prayers thut God would spare his boy, Our great need {3 conviction, the sense of the'vaat tasues of Nie. The lccllnfi that the “King's businesa requireth luste A man without convictlons s u lighthiouse without a Tunp, only un awkwanl pleco of archltecture to mur the land by day when it s not needed. 8t Paul in ‘'roas, starting up from his sleep to con- front his personitied convictlon, and obedlent to its command, leaping from his couch to run throughout the contlnent of Europe, proclalme- fng the good news in splto of wearluess and dis- cuse, fn spite of robbers and wundering muraud- Ly, In spito of moba and priesty, in spite of hoverty und loneliuess, {n spite of all opposi- }luna——l‘uul umder the comnmund of this convie- tion 1s the ldeal mun in Christ, “Phe fourth scene that I wish to present s “ Paul on Murs HUL® [ hardly kuow how to present this subject. The lphwc, the subject, nd the mun, are all tov full of interest for short aketeh, Standing on this summit, we at onee confrout all the great Greeke, blruclly before us, us we look toward the cast, towers up the bold front of the Acropulls, commanding the city and defyiug all onemics, — Down ut the fout of the stronghold, and fulling il to the south, {s the market, which was not u barren en- closurs where countrymen rested thelr bensts and sold thelr products, butrather o park peo- pled with seulptured greatness and crowded with monumenta of plety and patriotism, ‘This 1s where the Athenlaus gothered to mingle with the statues of their beroes and thy altars of thelr gods, to enjoy the rapture of thelr climute, to discuss” polities ~ and veliglon, and to hear and tell everything new. This Is where, In the old days of the repuuvlic, he lower house met to legialute. This Is where Paul sought his hearers until they invited him into the Arcopagus. Boyoud thls market you cun see the Muset Away to the southwest streteh the broken walls bullt by Perdeles from the city to Plracus, five miles swuy, to muko u safe landing for Athenian sullors wnd trovps fu puy extremity. Away to the northwest you can seo the dense shads ubout the Academy whers Plato used to wander and talk with his pupils. Hers at your feet these stony benches arg the scats of the Judges, on which for centuries huve been asseimbled” the wisdom und justlee that have ade Athens tamous slucs the days of Bolow. Here woe are o the widst of the highest futellectuul developmicut the world has ever known, aud fu thy prescuce of the rarest cnlture of all time. The religlol of the Nazarene confronts at once the mosl subtle aned the most stubbora opposition in- the whaie eircle of enemivs, It has hiero ascende] 4 most conspicuous fleld, and in the person of its ablest defender it gra) ples with heathenlsm and sin, Can {t maintaln tzelf heee] Can Jtpenetrate the coating of seltish philosophy that pampers hoth concelt and eorruption, and make roota for o splrituality that Insists on purity? This is its scverest trinl, It has faced mobs, and organlzed and legniized persecutions, It has captured and trangformed every form of eorruption from tho harlot to the publican. Can It enter the field of human scholarship and philosophy and defend Itself with these new weapons? Clatming the world for[ts field atd al) hearta for its throne, can it demonstrate that [L1s not always to be confined to tishermen and peasantal Destined o contend against the thought and wisdom of his world, s ft no weapons with which to meet these great warrforst Mark the nove- menfs of this cliampion of Falth, and_ you shall sue that Christianity commands e\'03 weapon and cunquers in every field. His specch on Mars Hillto the philosapliers of Athens {3 without a paralle] in lauguave, He has to do with Greeks, not Je Htoles and Epi- cureans, ot Pharl, and Sadduces. Any appeatito Abraham and Moses would be foliy, “His first sentence wos caleulated Lo win the'attention of all. He docs not sny, as in our English translation, “You are tuo supersti- tiois.”" Ile was & gentleman of rarest tact and culture, " He sayg: ] aee you are very careful concerning the worahip of the Delty,” and le mentions “their cl!‘y. which was the pride of every Athentan, Then, quoting ono of thefr own’ fnscriptions, le discourscs to them of decper truths, Assuming that the God they worshiped was the God he declared, they coulid mn.ub!u ct, Thelr nutionol pride was pleased by reverence to o delty that ordained the hound habitatlons of cach stloni then it was c 1 by the declaration that this God mnde of otie hloud all the races that dwell on the carth, The Epleurean recogniZed his own Deity ln the exalted God that dweltnot in temples niode with hands, But his fatallsm was reproved by this Defty us a personal ruler, The Stole saw his doctrine in the contemplation without idols and Enages of a Being above all. Butwhen this came out as no panthelstic power, but a loving Father, he felthis mistuke, und was set to thiuk- ing Innew dircetions, Iow adroftly are all led tothink of Jesus und the resurrection ! This was the purgusc of the sermon, and though they lrurnull it, Paul hud Ercxu.')led to them, and left the truth to be used by the Spirit. This serinon 8o adroit, uvolding and correct- Iz thelr prejudices und presenting the Gospel at its best, was followed with resulta that sealed the divine approval of this use of natural wis- dam. There came from this sermon some fruits from the extremes of poclety. Among the cou- verts were nwoman of the town, and the ruler of the vourt, who was transforined into a Bistop of the chureh founded that day in Athens. It {3 ot too much to say thet fn the duys of Padl,who was the peer of aiy mortal, who™ stands up h'y the foremoat men of the race from bis time till thils day, Christianity has commanded the up- proval of the great minds of all centuries, The great torches that huve illuminated the ages through whicl humanity has pussed have been kindled on the altar of the Nazarene. That fire shall never be quenched us long as a single ehild of Adan wanders needing the light. Brothers, youmay turn_away into’ the shadow of the world and stumble inby the glimmer of contributed to mnake o surrounding pleasing alike to Lhe eyeand ear. The commencement of the exercises was n||1— nalized hfltha filing of the Sunday-school schol- ars [nto the auditorfuin by classes, and taking seats In front. When they had been acated, the Rov. Dr. Eills appeared and took position in front of the altar, whicl was almost hidden from view by the flowers, The chil- dren then sang several sclect pleces under the direction of their superintetident, which was followed by the response service. ‘Then came the baptismal, which hud been fores shadowed Ly s line of fathers und wmothers holding or 1éading their babes arranged in front of the sitar, Tho ceremony waa hinpressive, and notwithstanding that the participunts or subjects wera for the most part youthlful in months, everything passed off entirely satls- factory. About twenty were haptized. ‘These excrcises concluded with abrief address to the clifldren by Dr. Ellts, which was notable for its simplicity of thought and a loglc adapted to the young minds to which {t was’ especlally dressed. At the close of the service (¢ was announced that {n a few montha the church would be re- palnted, uRhumercl!, and otherwise bLenutified when the floral service would be repeated, and when such as had not been baptized ou account «L)l Inm weatbier would be afforded an oppor- unity, NOMINATING A RULER, BERMON BY THE RRV. I D, SHEPPARD, Last eventng the Rev. K. D. Sheppard preachud in the Wostern Avenue M. L. Church on “Nomlnating a Ruler.” Followlng fs the full text of the scrmons (i‘mm-lc you this day whom ye will serve. —Joshua, x3iv,, 15, In the early Hebrew history, religion and civil government were Indissolubly connected. The rulera of the tcommonwealth were inen selected, not by the doubtful chance of u nominating con- ventlon, agitated (o good part by selfish lin- pulses, but by the discrimination of the Most High; men whose moral purity under scarching tests, whose fidelity In hard situations, epproyved thetn as leaders worthy to ho trusted of God in guiding His chosen people; men so unselilsh aud humble that in conveylng commands In assumning plc?’ they would not intrude them- selves, thus producinig the noblest type of re- Jiglon, and the happiness and well-bel u% of the governed, and ot the same tinc avolding the erectlon of a governmental barrler between the people and God, which, In the exerclse uf its recogatives, would at length persusde prayer- eas uen that they were grods, and become a”pe- tent fufluence fn the degradation and cuslave- ment of the ruuplc, In thie excitution of unholy ambitions In some minds, and eervility in _ others. Human perversity thwarted early the glorous intentlon ~of Disine Providence to uce o people gov- erned from on hizh with little intervention of rulers and governmental machinery, uwl these only 8o lom; as they carried with them divine sanction. Joshua, who had Jed the peo- ple futo the promised land, who had colonized them, and whose k was now well ni pleted, who knew God's {mr pose of bluasing the world through this people, kuew likewd: the germ of trouble was thelr tend unsplritusi—to bow down to god: crave forms of govermment like t e toms oud tenden: with thelr et 3, B0 your flickerlng rush-light, but” that “Wwill never 3 z eath T ?wcup thc".‘iuln of klgh%m{unnfiss l'rum'. the {K:;kn:‘ mm'{-m“la’, i as‘::ylnnbl L;::‘l::-:‘ Illl"\ eavens, ¢ has ascended the sky never to go ¢ Qe “Unfold sour beauty bencath Tiie bens, | Wiose _service all T ol - fhe Even the routs of your™ philosophy ecan be strengthened most by spreading out leaves to the dews of heaven aind to the Sun of Righteous- ness, Allow me to present another pleture from the Iife of St. Paul. You may call it “herole cn- durance.” Iu the distatice Is the fufr Clty of Lystrn. Here, tn the foreground, f the ‘wall of the city, and just be- fore you, hurrying down one of the strects, I3 0 hutley erowd, men, womnen, and children, They are Teaping and dancing and throwing dust intothie alr. Fliey are hureying toward the city wall. They are dragging along the street the half-naked, bloody remalus of what was once g man. With theirbare and blovdy urms they throw it uver the wall, und, casting upun it u few random stunes, they leave it ke the com- mon offal of the city. ~ Down here from the right comes a little compauy of thnid, trem- bifugz men and women. Fear and sorrow are on their fuces. They gather about the budi' and recognize it as thie great spostle, Thelr leader hus Tallen. They Kilow not what to do. They are weeplug and counselinz with their fears sail affections,when Paul rouses from hisswoon, looks about him, rubs his hand over his face, feels of his body, looks ut the wall, nt his hands, at thelr horrilieil faces. Slowly his faculties come to Nim, Ife remembers ‘that he was presching down yonder I the square, recalls the hooting and onrushing mob, Then ull was lost fu pain and confuslon, Now he takesin the whole case, and says to his fricnds, **Be not plarmed; all things work together for good. 1 am w also to dle for tic Master if nced be, T couni all ll|l|h‘;u but luss for the excellency of the knowledize of Christ Jesus my Lord.” " That s what made Paul luvineible. That s what ena- bled him to ingpire the infant Church with such courage. le had pussed the polot of personal_cate. Now he must conquer. No wonder Governors and Kings trembled before his purpose. e was (n the world to wia, and defent was fmnpossible. Brother, that same aplrit will clothe you with power, Rise out of selt. Cateh the nspiration of God's great pur- pose eoncerning yoil, and you will rise up to in- wvitable victory. © Filled with loly idea, you becomne as resistless as God. Here is vne other pietare of Paul, the picture of “Victory,” It s on an open plain. In the distones rise the spices und domes of thy Eternal City, lere 1s u compuny of hurd soldiers with thelr stern faces. There I8 the block. By it stunds the low-browed headsingn, ux in hand, testlng the edge of his ax, while an officer tests the splrit of the war-worn old prisoners. Despotism can do this und thenit can do no more. But_ joy kindles in the eye of the pris- oner, ‘The last battle 3 fought” and the last victory won. The world und sl have no more uwes over hin. He hns been keeplng Lis hudy under for more than thirty years. Now the long confllet fa terminated triuniphuantly and he suys, “1lhuve fuught o good fight, 1 have finished my course, I lwve kept the falth, henceforththere s lald up for mea crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Jiidge, ahall give me." (IL Tim., 4785 That {8 victory, The last weapon of terror or torture hus losi its power. Brothers, look on this grand old chifeituln and see low he trivinphs. What o magnbilcent Mfe is his! A long prepara- tlon for this dual victory. I love to look upon hlm i the uneven conflict with tho odds all oglnst biw, Ho understunds the malignaut purpose of the foe. He neither asks nor ex- pects merey, He has tested every weapon and wsted every torment. He hus confrouted the mob [n the” temple and the Inquisitor fnthe dungeon, He has stood up alono against the bigutry of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens, the corruption of Corluth, the llolstry of Ephe- It fs sus, the rushness_ of DhUlpl ~aud the persecutions of Rome. e has been revlled and scoffed throuph nearly evers metropolls of the world, and persecuted throug| every known eontinent, ¢ hus flied from the wrath of his old nssvciates in Damascus, ouly to be met by the distrust of the Church hu sought 1o jofu i Jerusalem, ho hus turned from tudig- naiit. Rahbls to doubting Aposties, e has fcd fi v mob in Jerusalem futo the prison fn , from the persecutlons in Derbe to the stonlng and upparcnt death fu Lystra. He left the struggles in Corlnth only to contend with Deasts fu Ephesus, he struggled out of the surf of the Algean to stand alone at Nero's bar, Burely such a mun could not full to buve easy victory over thu slmple headsinun, wbo should deliver him from tho Jong strugelo of bls life, break down the door of “his prison, and suffer Ll to g0 hiome tu heaven, whicl fs far bttor, Brathiers, hear sie, the secret of this grut tel- umphant lffe {s this; ANl greatness conssts (n getting riid of sulf, und befug possessed uad in- spired by su all-dominuting purpose to do the witl of God, And it {s made cusy by a clear ap- prehension of the wonderful truth that the lu- convetyably wurat thing that can happettos probutiones ks not poverty, not loncliness not ubscurity, not disgrace cven, but ratheronly this: sln. - This wakes the wuy stralght and the Cies: i 1 the hiermit coming commonwealth, will be well ordered and safe. 1 belleve that here §s dlmly shadowed God's Idea of government among men, by rulers who exercise power as Divine representatives and for the people; ndmhnswrlu;; law that echoes Lhe volce of divine authority fn the humun bosom. It was when the ruler whotn Joshua himsclf nom- inated and chose was put uside by the people that they fell fnto surrow and captivity; and when at leng?h lhe{l clamored for a King like other natlous, with un army sud o court, and sl the accoutreménts of roy- ulty, then they, with {feeble foresizhl, uslicred {n the” inisfortunes described in the clghth chapter of L Samuel—when rulers forget that they exist in the stead of God and forthe sake of the peaple, that they are for service themselves, aud not for the reception of the udoration of siaves. Politles and religlon were meunt to go hand in hand down the ages of history untli the Kingdom of God had come, and His will were done on earth s fn Heaven. It only fn thelr divorcement that there s come disaster, 1t wus when the Divine plan of a slmple Government with leaders stand- ing the place of God wns dis- placed by gorgeous and ring-leading sys- tems of humun assoclation, mixéd with pride, and umbition and eircumstanees that_bawnpered the lower purt of human nature and obscured the divine, that there scemed no connection be- tween pulftks wnd relighon. But do you not well remember how the crowned heads of Judah snd Israc] quailed before the plain men of God clad In the rude gurb of the rustic us from retirement to dabble divinely In politics, and to teach forgetful rulers that there s a God in heaven, Who whether In the uncertain fortunes of monarchy, republic or dependency, vever once walved His right to rule and to call rulers to accgunt even ot the hands of those who seem' to have no preparation or fituess for the work save plets T We aro living {n the Providence of God, under 8 form of government, wherely, if we will, the powera thut be, may be, are a reticction of thu moral sense of the community, As far us it {8 possible, the people have a volce in do- termining who shall be thelr rulers. It Lus been plain to you, nt least, I think, duriog the ek st gotie, that the people Dave beeh i ested to know who should be chosen us it n to stand for the foremost places in uf the Republic In the chances of ¢ The dally press, with its almost hourly tlons, hus been eagerly scanned. Buslness has Ingged or been neglected, Knots of cager men huve met on thestreet-corners, aud in the oflices, and In the marts of business, eogerly fo- quiring for news from theseat of the convention of delegates, Telegrams have been devoured and noted down, Speeulation hus heen rife, and It has been vsecedingly plaln thut among all those upon whose hearts und minds are pressing the emergencies of our times, the events of the week were of no ordinary cbaructer, The rights und respousibilities of Aeriean citfzenshly wre not Hightly borne. We are a nation of rulers, and are seusitive to the exerclse of our rights, and {t s an omen of good that wo are not so devoured by private interest a8 to forget thut fn tie {nterests of the grest Commonwealth we have each » share. It is true that individuaslly we form but = small part of the mighty Republic, butour part i siot to e belittled. "It is in the affection it burns in individual bosoms for the princl- ples, the suil, the history of the nation that fts permancnce und usefuliess and splrit consista. A nutlon of indierents toall that wakesupthis body-politic {s a nation thut can be conquered, o nation that is incapable of friendly and humun- {zing ulliances, u nation thav van exert no warm or magnetle or purifying (nfluence in the con- greas of notlons, Take u look Into the Conven- tlon, if you please, aud there you tind assembled mnn{ of the forcmost men of the nation fn law, and Jetters and fn the sclence of Goyernmnent, beside wany who trade n politics, followlng it without prmclplc, for the sunple sake of ity re- wards, The formulation of thelr platform iy completed with rare carnestnessand unaniinity, demanding, as s Governmental policy, the hois est payment of the debts of the Government jo genulne money, the protection of the rlghts of every eitizen, economy, and reform. These are curnicat [ssucs squarely nict, und mon must by found to represent them. Ideas and great moral truths must have embodiment. “Now comes tho strife and the wncertain chonees of mllot by wmen, many of whom ure drawn from corrupt politics _aud repre- seut ounly themselves, many of whom lave been guthered through the manlpulation uf okillfuf leaders, and who are kept touether andvote uuder {he fuscination of plave sud guin, Namos are presented aud ealogized. A cloud of susplelon not eastly alfayed bovers ubout one nwsterly fo Intellectual” powers, of long und brillisni service; snother is presented with Llowing culog‘v on sccount of distinguished strvices In tho War long gone, and who hus shini- larly fought {n suceeeding years clther with un- sladi trewson or with the Ylmutum of it buta man who commends not hlmself to peu]x)u who love moral purity and fugenuousuess; anothier victory certain, 18 presented “whom tho people luve, Brothers, | beseech you, grasp the vasire- | who “hus xruv:.-d obnoxious to many fn sults of this short probatbon. 1tisonlyons | power and some who ought to' bu ri. You must not fail of Heaven, whutever it | In prison, on account of his vigorous eosts, fricnds, or fortune, or fuine; cotne what may, fire, or flowd, or wountain wall, Ever if thero could he saved from this gencration but onu soul, by the help of Goa Alnighty's grico youmust bo that oue. Dr, Fuwler then addressed o word of adinoals tlots to the graduntes, who roso fu thelr placs, urgiuig thew, nbove ull thiugs clée, tomaky siré of heaven. FLOWER SUNDAY. EXERCISES AT THE CUURCIL OF TUB REDEAMEL Yesterday was observed as the aunnal Flower Bunday und Baptismal-Day at the Church of th Redecwer, coruerof Washington and Sangamot strects, 'Tho weather was uupropitious, und, se a consequence, the attendance Was not s large 8y upon former and similar oceasfons, The church was beautlfully decorated about the altar with owers kindly contributed by the la- dies, und along the walls was su array of caged sungsters of thu feathery trlbe, whose sweet twitterings, added 80 thio perfume of the flqwers, strokes in’ the work of reforin and thus the nawes are presented with fascluating eloquence, —unames of able 1mew, snd the gisnt sirife of the e)uuplu proceeds In the concentrated ballots of thelr representatives,—the frenzy of he strife fncreasing, till 1 belleve u the Provi- dence of Uod, aud demanded by the moral sonse of the people, men of spotless record and pruven ure [»rc-unlud for the sullrage of the commonwealth for the highest places of power within her glft, As we look over the concluded strife, and cateh one breath for reflectlon, thers are souie considerations to which 1 wish to eall your attentlon: (1) It appears to me from the results thus fur attained that us u matlon wo are ju the hands of God, to Lo led into peace wnd prosperity, to greot soclal ounduess sud usctuluess, despite the intrigucs of demugogucs and Kuuves, l"uuwd ut rat on the basla"of re- Mglous freodom, wmancipated at lengih from nionarehy, and mado o glorluus exumplo of free institutions puriled by war frum slavery, now In the groat Work of reconstruction sud’ moral reform we nead spotless rylers, and as, far as mortal scenting can determiny, we baye teksn the preliminary step toward baving them, Wno are these men whom we wonld present as pat- terns of fi.mdncu, and uscfulness, and honor, to our children, and to whom we would {ntrust the heavy responsibilitics of rulershipi Itis n reproach that they are not widely nown, It waa from the llttle tribe of Ben- Jamin and the lcast in his father's house that the Lord chone the grandest King of the He- brows, It wasainan comparatively unknown, #nve in his native State, that auddenly became the savior of his [n:ople in tho hour of thelr direst perll, and it inay be now, and even so a; pears, that the wrath of man In partisan ntrlrg and {inplacable hatred has heen overruled to band 1o un a leader worthy of th cmlght{ truats that we must repose fn some one, and if the Lord bo so gond and wae shall_repose them in theae men. Then agaln, it ean but be a source of gratulation that the ambition of self-sccking men has been pnwcrmllf retntked in_thelr dis- n}ypolntmcm and our dellverance. It may be that the cares of responsible position tempers the mettle of ambitious splrits so that they be- come at length as worthy servants as those itpon whotn the honor In thrusi ubeinri found worthy tobear it. But I canust but belfeve that high trusts arc not held s wacred by the men who have Intrigued, and fought, and bought, and traded for Lhe place; neitherare they as untram- nicled in thelr selection of public servants, the dictation of policy, and inauguration of reforin. The sharper solicita our u.unpnn{ that he may plunder us. The trusiworthy guide “must be persuaded and employ- ¢d. The attalnment of place to the self-secker, however plausible and patrlotic hls assurances, is but o feather In his cap, an attalnment of am- Mtion, a field of strife for continuance in power, now & fleld of service for God aud humanity, It waa a grand sentiment, uttered by one toward whom muany l,?'(:! were turned a8 worthy of the ll'l.’lllulb place [n our gift, on account of distin- gulshed and honest service, that he did not care to listen to conversntion about the Presidencys that kis work at present was to do well what ?IL' had i1 hand with no other place in view. That 13 the spirit of Christian work Introduced fnto politics, strlving only to bo found faithful. And concerniug workers who toll {n this spirit, the Master Dath safd, “Thou hast ‘been falthful over a ow thln;;s, 1 will make thee ruler over many things,”” Weare in sad of more rebuking of that ambition whichtakes the heart out of all our work. mal {ug our tasks that might be gloriously and e {;:ynbly done the stepping-stone to somncthin etter, and something better, until Jife fs gone, and we find that, though we have gone over ;nuch ground, we get credit only for self-scek- ng. Agaln, I belleve there Is expressed In the clivice of a ruler, with the commendtion of tha pcuple‘lu hearty disapprobation of the policy of hate, that, as o political fasue, urred by detna- rogues, would blow the smouldering nhshes of the Rebellion into 1ife and heat, or restirrect the corpse of dlssensfon that ' was year by year being burled deeper, and galvanize it Such men o would ride Into power on such {4- sties ‘*would make a solitude and call it peace.* We have no use for them. What we want s de- votion to the present necds of the great Re- publle, " tolerance, digulticd devotiun to Jaw and order, and no_belligerent speechies with which 1o mutshal polltical factions. Agalu, we arc demanding from our candl- datei o high order of personal purity. Sald one of the glited culogists of a favorite candidate: ** While we want good men, we do not think It necessary that they have o certificate of mural charaeter from a Confederate Congresa,” 'This rhetoric may be goud, but il the character be mot " beyond the puncturing even of a Confederats Congress it will hardly do for the ~ President of these United States, Ile must *wear the white flower of a blumeless Hife,” overawing corruption by bis unmistakable {ntegrity, nud holding forth o worthy exumple to manhod and youth.” Weare falleni upun times df business Uepression, of stagnatlon, and fn some cases of actual sufferiug, ~We are loaking for o remedy, It 1s not enough to say that withthe passag the Presidentfal campalgn there will” be o res toration of cunfldence, o return of prosperity. Every mind s speculating und snxtous, eareful- 1y louklug for and very ready to put futo effect every righteous plun that promises un improvement in the condition of the peaple, I belleve the people of Tspacl resent in_ thefr history o record of ard times hadly paralleled in the histury of nutions. These thnes were confidently pre- dicted on conditions of Israel's apostasy, and the fulreat pletures of good fortune were writ- ten for her contlugent upon obedlence to the 1aw of the Lord. We are demanding personnl purlty Inour Teaders,—honesty und” devotion ta the Intercets of the commnonwealth. We glory in the rebuke of ambitlon, und sclf-secking, and necdless strife; in so far we are Christiun. Our misfor- tunes, a8 in all richtly used afilictious, hove © brought us to 4 recoguition of and o demund for the Introduction of Christlan principles more mankfestly fnto the Government ot the natlon. Let us go further, Our demands are only policy unless we attest our clamors by the regeneration of our own souls. In the mighty multitude of people that muke up the nucleas of our Comntnonwealth there must be nccomplished for every soul the work of personal purity, the chousing of the Divine Ruler above all others, of the nation lsto L regencrate, Here lootns up the great oppor- tunity and duty of the Church of God, who can be prosperous’ only us they elevate God tu the supreme place In thelr service, and demand that all leser rulers shall obey Him. Itis ouly then that prosperity will come. Said Edward Jti- Kdns, unereason that the lnburers of Great Britian drink 80 niuet lquor is beeause they Luve such Dard thaes ut home, His critics sugirest that i€ they would Jeave the hquor alone ibrond, the times would be easier at home. Every man that has a volee fn the natlon; every newspaper; every agent of whatever furt, must press upo the choosing of wen the Great Ruler, I desire tu press upon you all, ut this thne, the neeessity of serving God. You have ecrved selfl to your sorrow. You have served the Devil to your uwful shame and disgrace. You and seclety luave reaped the bltter consequences of careless. ness of Divine rule. It s thne to change, Ok, for the mighty lifting of Gu’s Holy Spirit, like the uphicaving of a wave of the sea’to ralse thiy people and uil the il\'lllllu of our uation to the cmlnence of zeal fn Divine service. That would 51\1- us assurance of Divine ucceptuucs us ine 1viduals and prosperity as u uation, GLEORGE WILLIAMS, ADDILESS DY A PROMINEST LNOLISIL EVANOEL- 15T, Farwell Hall contalned u large audience lnst evening, who had gathered to listen to an ad- dress from George Willlamns, of Lundon, founder of the tiest Young Men's Christlan - Assoclation, The nddress was preceded with cholr and cone gregational singing, prayer by Mr. Williamg, and the reading of Bcripture by Johu V. Fur- well, who Introduced the visitor, Me. Williaws said it was 8 very small matter 1o huve been permitted to sow o little seed; the growth of that sced had beenone of still greater importance. Ie was one of God's hum- blest servants. As ho looked over the sea of faces before bim, he thought of the appropriatencss of this verse from St. John: % Beloved, let us love one another; for love s of God.' Ho asked his heurcrs to ac- cept through him the greotings of the young nen of Englund. What could a young man dof He could Impale hie health, lose his sltuation, und disgrace his parcuta; but he could do some- thing more: be could joln this Young Men's Christinn Association; he could becotne a help to lis mother ond an homer {0 bis mname; he could become a Bunday- achool teacher; ho could bocomy an smbassador of God; he could become a man of great usefutuess in God's vineyard. The future greatness of & nation dependid upon the char- er of ts youug mew England, America, and Germany, sud every natlon muat totter to ita fall unless 1t was under the Intlucnce of the Gospel, The spesker quoted from resolutions of the Young Men's Chriatlan Assoclation of Londun, whereln prayer was enfoined upon thy meubers for one another, and the use af thelr Iufluence in inducing others to oln thun, They thanked Qud every luy thut_ Mr. “Moody had been sent to them in England to opeu up the Berlptures in & siwple, Chrlstian wuy, and ko hwped he would continue to do great good i this voun- ‘The London Assoclation had ilu{;lcd out young men for spucisl prayer, snd he would recommend a slmilur practice here, They had urged that all question of church polity De et alune, and he hoilml that the budy which had brought the whole world together"in one bond of Christian love would gu on until there was one uulyersal Church, An humble, stmple mun could sy to them they were missing sume- thh.\fi o vital lmportunco, By God's goodness he had been enabled to” toll and work fu thut great city (London), He thought that pursoual Christiunity wus a grand thing. Every day the puoplo kept away from Chrlt waus s0 nuch to their dissdvantage, 1o kucw what 1t was to serve the world “und follow ity pleavures, but It was nothlug to whut God had provided for them even on this earth, Ho must remind them that the time would como when they must pray, God gave His Bon to div for them, and wanted them Lo yield to him thelr loye snd thelr affections. Gud bad devised o tliln whersby their sina could be transferred to shrist, and” they could be saved through His rl%tmumeu. hen the news of the l.\liI ire_cawe aover to them (n [ondoa, thals bearia bisd Ly Uudowho had suffered from ft. Dicas and kv.-e;’:‘ l.:‘em 11}4‘0 hoped ihat Qo wanl . The apeaker Is o man on the shady &lde of 50, of good address and voice, and onuy ‘who besrd the lm{_grcqn of sincerity In his Christian work, Mr. Farwell made a tew romarks fadicative of the work of Mr, Moody and itsgood results, and H;Bc mecting was subscquently closed with sing- R —. A WOULD-BE EMPRESS, The Fair Viotim of a Socrot Marriage with the Emperor Willlam Many Years Ago Now In New York City, Spectat Dispatch 4o The Tribune, New Yontt, Junc 18.—Tho following stranga ory of a morgenatic marringe of the Emperor of Germany, many years ago, is told on doubtful ag- thority {n the Sunday Aferctry and can’t bo con= frmed tolay. An elderly lady recently arrived In this city and took rooms at s hotel, whera sho registered as Mme. Brandenburg, from Gers many. After a week’s sojourn she took the ene tre loor of a large house on Lexiugton avenus, Which she furuished sumptuously. It now turn out she §s Anna, Countess Dolina Brandenburg, and clalms to bave been lawfully married t the Emperor Willlam of Germany, in 1825 when ho was only Prince of Prussia and sec ond son of Frederiek Willlam L 8he first met the Prince (n $eptember, 1825; sha was only 16 years old at the time. After several secret conferences they were merrled late ove night by a young country parsou who did nof know the Prince. The latter gave his name of Willlamn, Count Brandenburg, and his Dceupas tion a8 that of an officer of the Royal Guards, The marriago certificate was duly made out, and then her husband told her that it would be exe pedient to keep thelr unfon secret for a time. To this she hod assented. She hore him, in the next five year three sons, 21l of whom are stlll alive. Two of them are superior officers In the Prussian army, while the third holds s prominent position In the diplomatic service. When her third chitd was born she Implored her husband to reveal thetr marriage—~at lenst to lis father, King Frederick Willlam 111, The latter had prome fscd that his sccund son William should fusn the Princess At a of Baxe-Weitnor, IT¢ flew into o terrib] e when Willfam told hing he could uot me the husband of thal Princess, as he wus already married to the young Countess Dolina. In hls wrath the Cing compelled the Prince to slgm o renunclas tion of the Countess’ hand. She was_conveyed to o small castle near Konfgsbusy, in East Prus- sin, where she was kept u close prisoner for years, Iu 1857 she sucrecded i eseaping, and, crossing the Polish frontler, she reached Wars saw, where she lved in vbseurity, In 1833 tha Emperor of Russia was visited ot Warsaw by the King of Prussis, who wus accompanled by his two ellest “sous. She could not restkt the temptation once more to sce her huse band, and to that end she went ta 8 ’fi“h performance at the Opera-Houso which nll the Princes were to attond. One of the King's party recognized her on the oceaslon, she was arrested by the poliee §n her box, and, on the followlng niorning, conveyed to Eastern Russfa, where she was kept under strict sur- veillance until the death of Frederick Willlam TIL., in 1840, led to her release, She was per- mitted to return to Prussia, and the new King offered to compromise the watter with ber, This ahe refused to do. She applled to the Royul Privy Court for redress, but_ ler appeals rethuined unanswered. Her futher's death guve her n luge fortime, and she spent several years'traveling, In 1843 she intended Lo appeil to tio Prus-ian National Assembly for relief, but the police got wiud of it, und she was “nterned ™ fn ber chateau in Silesta. When Willfam I, became King of Prussia she was fo- formed that she must lenve the country or bes cotmean inmate of a lunatie asyluins so she lelt Prussiu i went to Paris, froi thence to Lon- don, and, flnally, to Geneva. She saysnow that she s coine to this country because that will er to zet redress, flow this Is to take ghe declines to tell, but §s confident that she will sueceed, She dlsplays nuinerous let- ters purporting to be those of Klup\ Willlam, ucknewledeing her ns his wire, and the follow. gz copy of u decree wid an appeal, from: the Prussian Staats Anzeiger, June 4, 1520: y order of 1l1a Maiesty, the King.—A Counts Dolinn baving chnimesd to'be the wife of the Pri Willtum, Prince of Prussla, I herewith des that such a unlon, if [t ever took placs, be null and vold. Fueprmes Witniax Rex. ANTHONY VON ALTE: Secretary of State. The lnst appenl: % Ta the Supreme Tribunal of Prussia: The Prince Willinm, Prince of Pruesin,” married me in 1824, near Clegnitz, Sllesin. He has now marrled the Princess Auzxusta of Saxe-Weimar, and commlitted vigumy, you to protect e, und 1o declare by second marriuze null and volil, A CouNrrss Donya-BraXvENRURG, The Court declared that it was lucompetent to do mP'lhlm.', the King being Summus Epis- copus of the State, und thereby centitled to solve the murrioge, e ti— e MICHIGAN ITEMS, Hpecial Correspondence of Tha Tribune, Lawstyo, Mich, June 15,—The Methodlst Camp-Meeting on the Falr-Ground clused yrs- terday. A large concourse of people were In attendance, On Sunday, sermons were preached by the Rev, Albert Walker aud Dr. Kost, A number of converslons were maude, James Chapin, a cooper In this clty, yesterday made twenty-three pork-harrels i less than nine hours. The tast barrel was made In twenty minutes, At ntrlal of plowas at Mason, by the Ingham County Farners’ Club, the Trinmph plow was recotinended ag the best on wheels, The dralt fur o furrow 7 inchies deep and 15 fuches wide was from 430 to 53) pounds; without the sulky It was G0 to TU0 pounds. BUSINESS NOTICES, Asthimne=-Tt 14 o tures of spismodic axthi, ferud from e distressh T, dunas Whitcomb afford lnmediato rel - ————— Gournwl's Olymplun Crenm comniends It~ #clf to youns and old allke as the most natural, effective, and barmless embellisher and preservas tive of youth, Vricy reduced to 31 to descrlho the tors Thoso who have sufs w priroxysme know what it temedy hias never fuiled to BEAULI Beaullen, uf Wutertown, Welcl, of Chicago, 1L, by Fat i, i fer Otiell, Je ‘ifi\;fi'::i,qfi}'fi.”]\dumu 7 baly, son uf Mareverita and 3.1 1 Daly: “uneral frows Churcl of the loly Name to-day st 13 wvelock. ROUERS—After s long and palntul (liness, Katle C. 101y ANTAIGGE of Jubn 1L, wid Kate Cr Koom. 866l 4 yearsand 1 mouth. No. 54 South Green-at., y carriage to Gracaland! ed without ful unat! aud San Frauciseo pape A4l the cans Sunday aftersoon, 2:30, el 17 years, uy Ly realdenca of his parents, 17 ci utvar, FOV—1i Thonias Fy unerul Tt ANNOUNOCEMENTS. 'H WARD REVUBLICANS, ing of the Kleventh-Ward Republican Club will bé beld this eventus ot Martiuo's 1tull, Weut Side, at 8 o'clock, Canpalgn bisness an reurganizattun will be prorented, ' A fall attend- unco fs requusted. OIIN 1. HAMMOND, President. First Pleasure Excursion FOR LAKE_SEPERIOR. 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