Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1876, Page 5

eved In the word reform, which once under :.;lllvln or Luther, or Wesley, brought thé In- reansd knowledizo of thelr times to hear mpon Jic Jess favored {cutcrdn‘y and tho lenat yalua- e Church {s that one w! ilch has kept all the pooka of Jearning closed for a thousand years. 1t would not permit Mosca to be reatudled by Galllco, ‘mor the government of Bolomon and 1ichoboam to bo modified for England or Germnny. Let us In the tght of the past never fear tho_ sincers students of religlon, but_fear rather thoss who close the holy Looks and de- clare that thoy have mnstercd fully ita con- m;\l:mmlng, then, that the accumnlated learn- {ng ol thin g must ho busy working changes in Christian doctrine, Jot us'pass onward to oth- ¢r remarks, (L) Lenrning itaell inust bo defined. The new and varled facts of seience and art and {:nullx- raphy and mechanles do not make up wiat fs calied the learning of the ninetcenth century, Too often the discoverles aud the inventions of tho nge, and that immense materialism that cul- iinates in the books of modern sclente, stand for the Information of the present, ‘t'he words Wnrogress of knowledge ! too often point the mfl:\l lor proof to theg]rcm. exhibitions of indus- try. Bub thersis o learning better than tho new wisdom of Huxley Iu sclence, and Fulton and Morse in tho lpnllunlluu of natural agencles ~the knowledge of soctal and moral and politi- cal principles. “'The world's learning as to hu- snan rights and \rrunfix, a8 to the clements of a prood cfinrnctnr, as tothoessentlals of a religion, gsto tho neccssary character of God, {8 the learning that most deeply effects tho jdens and practices of the Christtan Church, The most marvelous Increaso of knowledga is not to be found with those men who declara that the earth {8 millions of years old and that human Ilfe hos been slowly evolved from hum- Dbler germs of being, for éven If thelr declara- tions were not confectoral’ they would not be very significant, for it matters little by Low Jourr a nath congclonn life came, The hypothesis of 1uxlcy and Darwin dazzlo and fnterest, but when one comes to welghine tho value of uleas one must soon confess that the uew knowledgo of man's rights nnd {llrlvllcgna and of his powers for cducation and self-government and virtue, and tho now ideas of God's character are tho form of learing that most perfectly sbiapes all 1ho fnstitutionsotsociety from fireside to throne, It'was not chemlstry, nor geology, nor astron- oy, nor the study of protoplasin that made whitt free nations carth cnjoys; that sct free its slaves; thnt emancipated womans that closed {ho Inquisitions; that founded publle education s hat wrote new laws fo cvery statute-book; it was the slow study of man and Gud; the slow sccwnulation of “moral ideas that brought about this transformation of state and homne and individual. This, then, 1s the form of modern learning tbat has affocted most radically the Christian religion, oud which will continie to mold it for generations to come, It s contended by mauy thatour: awenker bellef fn God than wus cherished by any former century. It would be impossible to demonstrate whether such a declaration were true or false, but this Is evident buyond all de- Dbate that our age surpasaes all before it in its ‘esthnate of the nature of this Deity, The samo long-contiuued study that turved the best orders of men and women awny from tho gladl- atorlal shows, from the brutality of the Coli- senmy and the Spanish arenas of cruel sport, ccliorishes toiled in ]jmndlcl inanner with the idea of God, making 1iim shing forth fn ever-Increashg beauty. The smne scene may be witnessed In tiio history of thie lien of Christ,, Even were it trua that the modern times were more skeptical than the past thnes, yet o grand and im- reselve Deity believed in doubtlugly aud only n some of earth's doyswould bring to the soula Letter rewardof virtie and nobleness than would come from & humble, distorted God or Christ, belleved in with all the enthusinsin of & fanatic. There fs indced o real sorrow {n unbellef—in the unbelief that leaves the midaight sky without any Creator, and all tho depths of [edven withs out any footsteps of beings huving hnmortal 1ife, but most modern hearts would rather pass hatt their daya in this shadow and then emerge at thnes Into the presence of a most glorious Fatlier and Suvior than to bellove every mo- ment with a foith that never chauped in such o od as was worshiped by the eurly centuries, and such o Heaven as awaited their souls, Onc of the old - sainta sald that “ (o ook down from | Paradise and see ona's own yelatites and friends in ezcruclating tormenta_would wol cause surrow, but Jou, by shoiolny one what agony he had himself es- caped.” What the current century may bo losing by the shiadow of uubelief {t nust cer- taluly be winning back by the richuess in truth and beauty of those hours or days of faith that como at times to tho spirit. Huving marked how knowledge {s a perpetunt power, reshaping man in all Dis relations, and that henco it Is reshaping Christianity, and that of knowledge, not the scientlile, but” the moral thougcht, is tho most powertul, let us now gather up some of the reshlts of this purifylng process. 1. The march of learning {8 nlwnyu tho prog- ress also of tho ratfonal faculty. Tho accumu- lation of truth involves the culturs of tho fuculty that thus. discovers the truth, When soclety hns learned the clieat of kingeraft or riesteraft, it has not slmply acquired two now acts: ft hus enjoyed an awakening of veason by which it will discover more facts.” After Eunclid had discovered ofio problem in I);emne!.ry bo euslly went forward “until lio left the world o book full, A mnthematical tuste and facult; were developed along with the science {tself. Thus alongside the world’s growing knowledge moves & growlng reasoning power, a force de- veluped by its Jabor ond clated with its success, Amid the” lmmenso Jearning of the times one 1oust include the fact that reason has learned to act and the method of actlon, Hence, ns un effect of the now relation of fearning to rullfi- fon, only the most reasonable doctrines will henceforth rank Ligh in the many creeds of the Church, A multitude of propositions may be long_retained fn the volumies of theolory, but the Church will point to only a few doctrines as belng foundation-stones of its temple. The doctrines which o knowledgoe of the world's past declares most useful fu bullding up virtae, and which harmonlzo best with the widc-spread reasoning powors of man, will more and mora become the only sacred confession of faith. An {llustration of thess statements may bo found In, for example, this single remark, that reason wiil sco fn the Jovo of a man for Chrlat and the comc(sunnl Imltation of Il wl thut 18 vital in Christlanity. 1t witl be a curlous, cven a high Inquiry, what was the noturc of Jesus! but the answer of this 1uostlnn will weigh nothing against the leart that shall carry tho visible qualities of that medintor. Ieason will sift tho tenets of all the Churches, and, with unerriyg ,precision, gather up all that Detray thelr di- Yiuoncss by bringing blessings to the dear chil- dren of this lifu, “As the E}‘ud of Naturo is Kkunown by the :il‘ulptuumm of causcs to an end, m w we flnd the sunshine that blessea all the zonc and find Him {n all thut ennobles and blesseg, sothe God of religdonwill bo seen in thodoctrints which are full of great causes’for gyeat reaulta, ‘We need not express these thoughts fo tho® forin of prophesy, for already lnnmfing, and ity companton, reason, are producing these reaults. ‘Thers 8 o two-fold reason for this now filtration of ideas, The one has been found (n the fact that moderu learning sceka the useful; but au- other and o powerful reuson moy bo found fn the fact that the deeper '.lmufilm of the world has realizod, as never before, thut religion, even Christinnityy is full of the wysterlous, and that where thero is such Ilrnloum darkneas the old teats and trials of falth may woll bo walved, and snch may say to his brother, “The way ls dark to both you und me,” Bo uverpowering has the niystory of eternity become to most men, that, atanding In preseiice of the unknown world, they ue louger would dictate any detall of opin- fon regarding thne, place, and ‘quallty, Great gonerul doctrines of virtue, and fuith, and hope, &pa all the mudern iutellect can aceent. The more untaught an age i3 the mote it thinks it knows sbout dlvine things. A Chippewa In- dlan possessea more Information abont the l&xllrn, world than {s enjoyed by tha most wise phflosophiers of Europe ‘or Amerfea. Iu hor- mony with this prineiple the curly Christian times clabmed to know every partleular of heaven and hell, and uver{ good and bad spirit Ut haunted the path thitherward, Many were the vislons and revlations vouchsafed o the olden times; vislons of tho nature of God and of the jm‘llgment, of the money and ])rni'cra necded o deliver from purzatory, visions of all thealogical things, but visfons which have de- cliued ua rapldiyas renlknowledgre has advanced. It would seem’ that the fuwer fucts the mind enjoys the more it fabricates fdcas, snd that When real inforation begius to feed the ine tellecs its powers of fabricalion corresponding- }yducl!uu. Tho progresa of lcnmln;i thore- Cre, {3 Ltho declins of religlous dogmal ]lllh be- tause the mind being full of the real bocomes humbler and more reticent as to whiat lles be- youd tho conflnes of varth, Ieuce out of this decline of inforimation about cternlty spring up 8 broud toleration aud a 1lberty to liold almost lljllluy shade of bellef as to'things {ucomprehensi- (2.) A sccond effect of Increased learning 1s to rmku the useful and reasonablo doctrines of re- glon more fmpressive, Not only will they be tle ouly ones fnsisted upon, but they become ore fuipressive partly because of thelr lsolas on, It fs 4 ful] compensation {f when the lln(nd deatroys » large number of its old votluns L sees uiore clearly und loves mure deeply thoss -kh survive, Whut s lust in thu power to i ;“ and prize the curlous sud absurd s galned nllnll»u péwer to sook and- prize valuable prin-. ulni,lu'- Our tlues catuut see us.inany glosts i hd-:m ns a8 8 Bt. Uregory saw In eich twi- ”fit t or [inidulght, but it can sit down by the of Jesus Christ aud the doctrine of d Fgbicouduces” and it thes 1d of beaut, i 4 e b aven have dreamed. The samo lcarning which rejects tha hundred dogmns of tho fathers ps With more energy the fow tmperishable loas. As nn Infant caunot think the ‘thoughts of manhood, but must cach day move nluw(llv for- ward amld fts childish conceptions and lan- guage, #o an Infant world will' first scize the pcriiltica of religion, and in the construction of chlidish emplrca - and chlldish creeds and churches will send its early yoars. When the world was e child it spake s a child, # In all ita long yeara of mental weakness ‘earth neglected tho great fn religion and saw only the sensation- al or the trifling, To jts Iater years there inust come a revelation “of principles—principles Loo cat for its earller study, but wiilch must Ls {I‘:u food and the joy of ita adult life. Karly times snsw Clirist founding n papacy, but in thic rixteenth century the vislon vassed awsy and Christ began to De seen founding o worl Lwlde Kingdom of worahip and rightcousness. Early times saw Heaven nnid Tlell” depending upon 4 slight variation of bellef, or outer ctstoin, but the longer study of (fod Teads to the conclusion that o destiny so glorfous or dreadful must de- pend only upon the fomost character of the soul. Thus as early vislons fade new onea cotne thint wi) not 8o soon fade, and whose 1ight will be the life of man, Tho new formulns sct forth from time to time Ly the Churches proclaimed, clther by thelr conventions or evan- relical alliances, or ¢lae by leading Individuals, [otray the foncr fmpulse of Chrlstianity to find generalizations that will satisfy, not the mind of fts encmlies nlone, but the mind of tsclf, Rarely does a religions convention nssemble within the confincs of the Protestant Church without ex[i:rculng, Lefore its adjournment, sotne wish that the Church of to-morrow may he broader In its thought and love than the Chiirch of yesterday, This_elimination” of the false and doubtful* and childish is not simply a modern fact, but {t1s a very useful fact. “That society nny bo great and” virtuous ft is csscntial” that” all those idens be destroyed .which divert the mind’ from central and” valuable truths, Tho heart canuot strve two masters, much less many mosters, When ccclesiasticlsm fs en- Iarged, as for cxawple in the Romau Church, othier fdeas must, suller eclipse, and men will i found who will commit every sin, ‘and yeb love pasafonately the Holy Church, Men who lead contemptible lives will yet bo wonderful ccclesfastios. There huve beon times when there was more vice in the Chiureh than there was out- slda of it, because, amid theoreatinass of super- stitfous dmuuhu, therc was no concentration of attention or love given the Ten Commandments or tho morals of our Lord, Hence, lf'onemlly, the more immense tho Church has been, fhe smaller have been fts truth and its plety: In religion, as in fiovemmum, a large array of falsc- hous has fed the wnind so perfoctly that it has geldom hungered for truth, As tha pomp of kings, tho rolliog of gllded charots, the retinue of scarlet-coat pu;iu and heralds huve con- cealed from the shouting populuce the sources of thelr poverty; as the gaudy boats and palaces of Cleopatra, and “the’ dazzle of her besuty _concealed from Alexandria and old Romé¢ the value of industry, and honor, and tho profound worth of liberty, so the ahow, the pomp, the complex” machinery ol tho former Church ouly hid from its votarlcs tho decpest prlnul;l:(lcu of relui- fon. It the progreas of knowledge 18 driving away these clouds, and {8 permitting the ulfiumud fuces of men to seo the true inex- tingulshablo stars, then this progress hecomes the successive footsteps of e benevolent God. Not only nced we not fear the learning of to- day, or of to-morrow, but, on the contrary, wo should help pull at the chariot of its advanco. To whatever l{m:;u offers _new thought, to nny selencw that offers'now lleht, should we turn s to a better glusa thiat will enable us to see better the planots and the sun, When the planet Sat- urn was scen through the first telescope, feeble and small, {t was declared to o g plauct with handles, but in the better glass of the future those lendlcs became glerlous rings, * Thus Christfanity will becomo tho more clearly seen and the more valuable as ranluiy as the learning shall be fmproved that shall looks into jts sol s { make & ulnuih!ebhmue of the world in order to verify its {dea of what it hecomes Heaven to do. Tho gentie soul could hold on to no such anger; [t iad scen too much aince it left Gath- hl?lmr. “ My waya nro not your ways," (God safit to him, “nelther arc My thoughts your thoughts,”’ and so the man who went out think- ibg of vengeancs went homo again pulsing with mercy, and If {ndeed he was the son of one of those stern old revivalists it came to pasa In those days, as it has come to pass in_ours, In auch inen a8 the aons of old Lyman Beccher, the bitter and flery bigotry In the father Hpenetl and awectened In the gon to a catholicity that would have mercy on the worat, and bring the ;\'l‘l;xlu world within the drele of tue cterual aw. And s0, a8 T have gono far and wide In mi vo- cation,.and watched our human lifo free from oirn corner, 1 have thought now and then about this man of the gentlo heart, Jonah the dove, and felt what o’ means of grace there is if we liave the graco to understand it, In mecting nany men of many minds, seein, fite uuder ita wider nspects, and thinking about it all as the blendlng of our vest and varied human brother- hood within the {mmeasurable cirelo of God's regard, until it has scumed to me that the most cnerous thought s man can gather Into his licart about thess things coties not from books, perhaps, or scrmons, or. services, but from plunging afresh into Jife In n large, rec - way, and eatching its reater aecret as ib opens to earth and Leaven, cannot but believe indeed that this is onc nalu reason for tho great generous heart in the re- liglon of & man like Paul; that the Apostls who could so ;."mndl fuclude the Gentilesand preach to them that wide, free Goapel found the key to his worle in the Gentlle nature, and thyt l? he lud Dbeen content to look at them by the narrow range of a converted Jow his Gospel would havo_lost some of its fincst and sweetest reaches, But when lie gues to Athens and watches the life there, so aplendld and entrancing oven. fn its decline, makes a )llt,rrlm e to the shrines of the ol falth, and thinks how it must have stirred and starved human licarts before it could bo born into thie beauty of the Acropolfs, ponders on the tory of the herolsm of somg of her sons and tho ipatehless wisdom of others, men as noble, a8 deyout, and as wise, in thelr own way, ns the world over saw, a8 peerless In gonius and a8 great In nctlon, and ‘then descends to the com- on life, out of which all this had to spring and ripen, 80 human and natural, the wonen sitting at thele doors preparing the beaus for dinner,or mending thirizs for their childrens the men at thelr tasks in the workshopa with thoso deft fingers which created beauty and gracs they knew not how; and the tenchers in the acatdemics loping still as they had tried so lon, to fathom the secrets of Nature and of God, how inevitable it was that the gentle buman heart should grow large enough to take in the Qreck, aud make o brother of him and n chilt of God; uot on condition that o embraced the now Gosndl, but just ns he stood there in the wonderful old city. For you notice that In his sermon lie does not tell them they may be the children of the Father, but are now IIis chll- dren, They need wore light and o truer divee. tion, They nced to know, ns far ns men can -know, who Is this unknown God to whom thoy havo buljt an altar, and that Is a secrot ho can open to them to their everlasting joy. But,us tu their kinsbip to God, in nn{'\:nao tiicre can Lo 1o doubt. o {s o sure of this that he forgets thero have been two sldes to the question, and criee, “In Him we live and mova and have our belng,” touching by o sure fustinct the sceret of all T persuasfon, u perfect identity with thosa you seele to per- suade, £ 8o it was, no doubt, again with good John Wesley, who, In his corner at OXIord,g?vns ready 10 break bis heart over o world that lin! alnost forgotlen God, and was bound headlong to perdition. 1t was his generous doctrine of free sreoca that made him the apostle of the common people. There can bo no doubt of thats but thero is no doubt, I think, thut if he couldthave made up his mind to settle down fn o corner and becomo at last a Bishop, there would have ceun and starry depths, i De these refluetions truo or false, the relations of learniug to Chirlstianity present a problem to benet. Our vessel sails well in ou ordinar sca, but from the looks of the sky it may we! De confessed that a storm of more terrific power {s upon us. The past breezes have been ouly va capful of wind" In the words of *The Pllot," compared with the storm that secms coming down out of thc sky, There should bo no fear indeed, but neither shoutd there be any Inughing, ut the nearncss or quality of the tem- pest. What ls demanded {8 that the hip bs strong, and that 1ts masters know the pathis of tho troubled sea. AFTER VACATION. SERMON BY THB KRV, NODERT UOLLTER. The Rev. Robert Collyer preached his flrst sermon after his return from his vacstion at Unity Church yesterday morning, Ils text was: . Then ald the Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laborea, neither madest it to grow, which came up in & night and porished fn o nizht. And should I not spare Nine- vah, that great city whereinare more thun sixscore thousand persons, which know not thelr right hand from their lefit—Jouak, iv., 10-11. ‘The man had Leen living In o corner until his soul was of the sume quality as his place, and then he thought that God was fu o corner too. Bat then he went abroad and saw other lands and elties, roughed it with the sailors on a ship, ot himeelf tumbled into the deep, scrambled ashore somehow after three days of sore trouble, went to the place to which le had been told to by an Inward volce when he was first moved " to leave home, walked through the streets fore- telling o speedy doomn te the people for thelr sin, and thendrew oflto sco the bolt strike thent, No bolt fell, and then he thought tho Almighty had broken falth with him, but ho slept on lis gricf, and then the morning brought a "better mind, He saw liow the mercy of God and not His wrath was most godllke, went homa again, and for- ever after, let us hope, becume o broader and o Dbetter wun, willlng to belleve that tho eternal pity and love was In Niucveh ns well us in Gath-hepher of Zebulun, and while the folks over there could not think his thoughts or adopt his manners or worship, or work or live. to Iis lnes, thero wes a reason born of thelr very ignorance of the better way why they should stilt dwell under tho wings of the divine compassion. been an end fu timo of that largo und gentle hicart that grew ever more catholic as he prew older, so that somo of the things he sald and did in tho ripenesa of his thought aml experience are a standing Te- buke to a grent deal that passes for Methodlsin {n some quarters to-day, But s aoul could uot be caught and held it a vor- ner, lewas o man of the world in tho bust acnse, 2s well as a man of God. He could make booke of philosophy ns well as bouks of ser- mons; he could understand men as well as doc- trines. This world was in bis heart s well as the world to come. He wis a great man beeause e was & nian of vast sympathivs, and he caught and held that secret of power through his wide and various Intercourse, meeting Jolinson as an cqual of =n cveuing, and then, when his time was up, golug out to his class-meeting or his relwmn'i: and becoming one with puor old ohn and Betty fn thelr sorrowsand joye, per- vading thegreatmuititudesin Londonand Bristol aud lrmlnfilmm with his splrit, and then con- tent to talk to holf a dozen peasants undera tree, golug out forever, and forever as ho went finding Letter reason for hls larve, sweet thought of Godl and man,—tho true, liberal Chrlatian at- ter all of bis day. Now, this staying in a corner and contenting yoursclf with its auge, and then grudually {lnding that you have made that the boundary, nlso, of your thought of God, Is a danger that besuts us all, preachers and ‘}mopln, no matter what may be our name. We look out nt the world from our little nook, and it {8 pretty much ns when this man of the peutls heart looked at Nineveh from Gath-hepher. Tho whole swn of public crime 18 gathered into olio heap, and poured over us in our morning paper. In an- other there {s all tho milsfortuns that can seu the light; and then tho slunder or surmise of slander about public.men {n all stations, the worst slde; in n word, of everything nnd cvery’ man, And this, with ail thelolly“and s we have to encounter ot close qunrters or to fight within ourselves, o wears on us in time that we are quite ready Lo belicve the whole world is drifting down to ruin, especlally this span of it we call our own, and e wonacr what God can do with tho terrible declension except let it drift to'its end in ruln and denth, But_you travel 8,000 mites, as I have done since Lleft you for my vacation, meet thou- sauds of [n:u le, witness thuir gentlences and courtesy, their willingness to lend s band when one {8 ticeded. You watch the vast movement of tho furms and factories, the infintte variation of lite within and about the lomes, mothers with thétr children, fathers 8t thelr work kecp- ing thines tight and trim. The \mereiful pro- visfon in_pgreat citfes for humay suffering, so ample and generous. The foundations for edit- And there Is & hint to mo that this would be | catlon a0 plentiful und good. The churches o ths end of hia missionin the name they gavo him down there iu Zebulun before he sct out, a8 5““ Luow the Biblo naues are not arbltrary and _cxtrinslc as they are with us, but, like Bunyan's nuwes, the synonyin of this or that uaturo, and Jonali means w dove. It was zontle and lxludly soul, therefore, that got this urden of doom’ and 'deuth for Ninevch as it brooded and pondered fu thotiny Hcbrew town, 'I'ho books ssy that this was the time ofare- markable revival among his own people; oue of those perfods when thoy wero possessed with the fdea that there wus mo goud nuywhere which was not of Moses, and Assyrii, with Nin- sbundant that some ‘ord of lifo must rench every man who hos any mnind to hear it, ‘and such peace and order whercver you go that "In two months you donot have to submit to one {ncurable Indfspo- sltion or unotfco tn all your wanderings halfa dozen drunken men, tliough—God help usl— youmight {f you should go to their haunts; and thon, soinchow, you get tho fecling thut these dlsordors In the Whole sum of thorace, after all {he outcrles of the preachers and mor- allsts, are only’}l:{ comparison what philosophers say the mountalns are of the yast sweep aud roundness of the world. It is_health and not cvel for its OaPunl, was the poinf of thelr most | diseaso you strike as the le'l'll"l factor; order, savogo aud relentléss thoughts, the lnat place lu tho world for which there could be any liope. Thera 18 & tradition,also noticed by Jeroino,that Joush was the son of a propbet, so that in his oducation and tralning there would be sbout tho difference there i now | trasient troub betweon the son of a minlster who takes abroad dnyl and then fads away to n memory, and gencrous look ot 1ife, aud docs the Lest ho cau for s fellow-mon wilh o Rreat hope fu the love of God for _all His children, and the sun of & miniater ke Knap‘;j, or Hammond,,or Brother Muody. His education would be naccow be- cause” thnt was tho father's quality, and while, b stayed fu Lis corner, as I hove suld, bis soul would'be fu a corucr, and bis thought of God. But at lust he plods awsy to Ninovels, that great clty wherein are six score thonsand persons that cannot discern between thelr right hand and thelr left by his rule of discorning, Ile sees the blue smoko of 10,000 tires where tho mothers are couking a bit of breakfast for the father and the little brood. As he draws toward the Rreat town, aud ua he walks $he streets thut day and not crime; faw, and uof and wholesone world, on_ the carth. The wlde wings of Gud's graco cover Nineveh s — well o Gath-liepher, aud your touch of pity for some lo which will have its nizht snd lawlessncssy n fafr and not o hell a hing of tho eternal pity that broods over all tho vears of God, 50 that even the wraug—ducu,whn Kaow not thelr right Land from thelr left, arc fn- cluded within the benignity of hcaven, ‘Fliese breaks fn thu order cowo from the units, The millions are stanch to the law, The fools are not all dead, but they are In avast wminority, My, Carlyle to the contrary notwitl- standing. You find you have been as the man 13 who, because of some splint of 'paln, Los lost thepolse und bulanceof his day, but this getting out of your cornbrtakes you outof yoursclf, and then thie small burt is forgotten in” the zbsorb- ing lnterest of tho spirit and tho life which fiows into you through this fellowship with the strong und healthy world, It you want theu and tells them of the disaster he haa secn in u,| to bes bigot, hopeless and hipless, and to vislon, tho children are gofug to achuol aud th hords are making for ?ns inny slopes, tui‘x'a siith smites his fron, and the carpenter Jrlvm his plang, ‘The courts ure busy for sonjo sort of {untlcn, and the tensples with such worahip as Licy can compass, and all the art and fndustry, the” servico and friendship of world ho Lis never understood woves on,—the weddings and the funeruls, the vast and varied business of 1ife all so new and strange, aud then 1 suppose that, unkuown to himeclf, the botter thought v:rcps. fnto the kindly dove-like heart, lml" B0 when he sleops und wakea and finds the gourd withered on which he seb such store for shelter, and uotices how his heart has pity on the gourd, he suys to Limself, or, ruther, thy divive guirjt of mercy Bud loye says to hint, What & narrow, unreasonuble bigot you are; with “all narrow down your thought of & Divine Plovidence to “the meancst llmits, atay at home and brood over ey things tn some such way s I haye pointed vut, but ou want to widen the Loundaries of your héurt and ind, come into q]uh:u contack With tho Luman famlly to the full length of your tether, and §f you are not given over to an rvll heart of unbellef vou will by & bigot no onger, * Thera {8 nothing better agaln for a man to onder in this lnnier way this year than that entenninl fngatherlng whero youseemto know when Its wholo wealth of use und beauty has brolcen upon you, what s uoble reason there fa for {uur sayliy, I belleve In tbe Haly Ghost, thelioly fi:flm o Church,” I felt as'if {4 was worship uy better moments rathor thanu your religion, on whicli you sét such store, - you | fufr show; that worship which is not inword but fare sorry for the vine, the shelter for a day over your poor hicad, and sugry beeause the great, whlo wings of the shelter of God Luve uol withered from this vast mnultitude of wen and | to-dsy 1 can unly toll you of ti wocn and children, snd the junocent beasts | that above all t that serve them ad minister to their Bfe. * Thees I8 no moro sald after this, wud there Is no need for another word, The man who had onu out to shakes down ddom ou a city for ity 8 found that ho was guilty of tho last and worst sl at hmx ;‘mflu ,.nn:“nmu.fi » hard, narrow, cr heart, wou have ‘the ! bengficence - very S g of heaves | good and fu deed und in truth, and that those vast halls are temples to tho living God, I 1augt open iy thought sbout this with'somy pains preaently’; one itppression sell-seeklng and keen com- petition which always in order, or wotbing great would bLe done, I wus touuhe: by tho beauty aud gras and worth fu'this high sense until I secmed l; Lioar the voles of all the nations sluging, “We mua;l‘heo'.,ho G&d."' uxg the '“-’?{v:\il' dtln:lr IS m tho shiniog prose: on Do aad altheul erviabor Tt the most eon> fayotte, ~CHICAGO * TRIBUNE-*MONDAY.: SEPTEMBER °4, 1876. clusive answer in its own wav that has ever been made to tho elalm that this race of ours Is de- Envcd and lost, except as it conforms to cer- lu dogmips, can report certaln emotions, and observo certain ceremonals, You see there, as nowhere else juat now, that you cannot narrow down the eternal God to your corner-wise no- tons of Hin power and grace. How it s not on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, hut in spirt and In truth, that men ought to worship, and do worship, and the Divine inspiration fanot con- fined to ome book or oune race; It smites all e that ean respond to It and hides itself not n books atane, but in that whole wealth of use and heauty which meets you wherever you turn, It does not veeur to you when you see that Cor- 1lss engine ot work Lo turn round and sk AMr. Corllss whetlier he was baptized by sprinkling or immerelon, or in the presence of the reapers to ask Mr, McCormick whether Lo can sull di- eest the tine pointa of Calvinism. Youbelleve In a pure and holy relginn more than ever, becauss you have cowc out of your enener, and, forzet- ting your sect for the moment, you stand with the'race, You sce that Japan bas got rellgion too, and China and Russia, or clse figa do grow on ‘thorna after all, and grapes on tistles. You have been n(lerlnt{ over the enonnous disorder of the country, and the reckless greed for wealth that wiil observe no law, and wondering what the nations can think of us, The nutions have made thelr an- awer in trusting somu of thelr most precious treasurcs to our hands, You remember what concery there was In London before the first i;rcnl. Exposition in 1851 lest the hordes of luw- ess men thoy expected would break out firto & carnival n('g under and crfing, and how they quictly gathered the flower of thelr troops about the capltal to bo ready, while hero it hus nover occurred to us that such a thing can be possible, so deep b8 our trust after all in the vod faith of our citizens, and thero is not a Jorporal's guard of soldicrs alys whero that I know of, except thuse that came there for the holiday, while the terrible Krupp gun is as harmless as'n flowerpot. 1t Is fear, you say, I anawer it is faith—faith In the honest heart, In the right {nstinct, in the connnon lonory in_a religion which has no name, and I8 boanded by no sect, Therelnn dark and evil elde; It Is ot there whers tho century plant of the Republic has broken out {nto hlussoms, Al so ] come buck to iy cor- ner cured, I trust, for a time of iny doubts and fears, I iwould fain give a new emphasis to iny flth in our common human nature in the brotherhood of man and i the wide and clasp- ing pity and Jove of God, pity .for our mistakes and sins, und love for the soul, that within it all will find ot last the better way, and walk in It forever, 1 ey (o yon clders then this morning Be of cheer; this labor and carc in which fiou luve spent the beat lmrz of your Hfais fufl of prowmisc, you will [cuve your children a brighter und better world than you took from_your fothers, And to you oung folks I eny, He of goud cheer, you will abor to o etifl heiter purpuse and careto nobler ends. And when you find this faith waning get out of Gath-hepher. Go as this man did f you will where things look tho worst, but carry his gentle heart with you and his disposition to sco the pood ns well ‘es the evil, and then belfeve me you will atanl tin your lot with a stanch courage ‘and a tireless spirit working for the best, Deeauss a’ou bellevo in Ia and because you believe that God stiil easts the wide wings of s [:ny and loveover those who know not their right hand from their left and will briog this world ot laat to sit at IHis foct, INSTALLATION. THE REV. DR BUMNER ELLIS AT THE CHURCH OF TiI# REDBEMER. The Churchof the Redeemer, corner of Wash- ington and Sangumon - streets, was denscly packed last evening, the occasion belng the in- stallation of the Rev. Dr, SBumner Ellls ns pastor. Mr. Ellis came to this church wucarly wo years ego, and, up to a few wecks ago, had Inbored with that people, to their great delight, nlmost without intermission. That ho had not been installed before had not been the fault of ihe congregation, but lis fault, for he found the church In debt, and, while willing to Join the carnest people around_him in clearing the cmbarrassments, he refused to be instalicd until he could enter upon his charge unincumbered. 1t was not until a few weeks ogo that his ambi- tion was gatisfied, and this much being accom- plished the Jadles of the church determined to glve more than was asked, took it on themaclyes w relpnlr, repaint, fresco, and furnish the edifice, which was completed a few days ago. The churel was opened yesterday morning, the first tino since thu- nlteratlons were madc, and the plensing snnouncement was mado that It was cntirely out of debt, & condition o raru in these days Uit 1t cannot fail to attract cousiderable attention and redound to the credit of the church management. The Instailution cxercises conslsted of an in- voeation and reading of the Scriptures by the TRev. F. W, Hinds, of Ouk Park, a scrmon by the Rev. F. W. Tuttle, now of Minncapolls, but formerly of the church, an {nstalling prayer by the Rey. ¥, 8traub, the extemlln;i‘ot the right- hand of fellowshlp by tho Rev. ¥, W, Tuttls, an address to the Soclety by the Rov. Dr. Collyer, # closing prayer by the Rev, E. Manford, and the benediction by tho pastor. The exerclses wero interspersed with inusic by the chofr of Bt Paul's Chiurch, and throughout were highly im- {nrcmlvm ‘The tnstallation sermon was full of hought and em! inuuu?' n}:proprhw, treating, as it did, of tho duty of tho religious' ministr The address of fcl Imuhlr. too, waa full of fecl- {ng, and the addross to tho Soclety was one of Dr. Coliyer!s happlest extempore cfforts. CAMP-MEETING. LAPAYETTE, IND. Apectal Diwpateh to T Tridbune, Lavaverre, Ind, Scpt. 3.—The {camp-meet- ing ot the Battle-Ground to-day hias becn one of unusual interest. Tho great attraction was the strmon of the Bishop at half past 10 thls morn- fng. It wosone of his best ciforts, and was listened to by an immense audlence, the mam- moth tabernacle belng packed to ts utmost ca- pacity, and crowds standing upon either side. All tho avollable space within hearing was occupld, Probably not more than half the people who visited tho Battle-Ground to-dny could get within hearlng of the sermon. The following roads ran excurslon-trains into Lafayette, and the trains were run up to tho B:\ltr&Grnund on the Louisyllle, New Albany & Chicago Rond, without chizugo of cars: Toledo, ‘Wabash & Western, fram Paxton, Danville, an Logansport (all threo traing combined in ono at the junction, twenty coaches in all); Clucinnat!, Lafayette & Chi cl%!, six coachics; La- Muncle & Bloomington, from the cast, six conches; Louisville, New Al- bany & Chleago, from Greencastlo, ten coaclies, and from Michigan City seven conches. Besldea theeo trains & train of twelve coaches has becn runningalmost. hwfli between Lafayette and the Battla-Ground for the boueflt of the cltizens of Lafayettc, Besides those go- ing by rall an fmmensy pumber came {n from tho surrounding country in wagons, fn some {n- atances & distance of fifteen miles, The strects and avallable spaces about the camp-ground,the Battle-Ground, snd the village are filled with teams. The appolntments will probably be made by the Conference ou Monday, ONE YEAR OLD. TR ANNIVELSARY NXENCISES of the Good Bhephierd Reformed FEplacopal Church, corner Jones and Homan streets, were observed yesterduy, the pastor, the Rev. W, E. Willlatoson, presching and edministering the ordinance of baptism at 10:45 8. m, 11ia sermon was founded on Jobn jx., 27: * Wil ye also be 1js disciples” Tlo assumed that to becomoa disclplo docs not simply: mean the Lestowmeont of new facultica; that God does not promise to turna weakinanintoa philosopher, but to change the nffcctions, tho temper, the will, the judg- went, and the lifo. In the afternoon, atd o'clock, the Rt.-Rov. Charles E, Cheuey, D, D., preuched, and conferred the rite of conflrmation upou_a class of twenty-niuo persons. The chureh was very bicautifully and |etull{dcllm~ orated with tloral emblems, whilo strelching across the_chancel were the dylnfi words of tho lumented Bishop Cummins: ‘el my people to go forward.” ‘This church has made marvelous grcgreu during the first yeur of s existeuce, Sturting with a blank record ope year ago, it hus become one of the most promising churches of tho denomination, This reception of the Bishop so svon after his return from his sum- wmer vacation was @ grateful and welcome sur- urillehlo him, snd si evident pleasure to this arlah. 3 The house waa densely erowded, there belug mwcl{ stauding-room. Blshon Chency was assisted by the pastor, tho Rev, W, E. Willlam- son, who rendered the service to the creed, when the Blshn? concluded., Ho took for Lis text Psalms 1xxii,; 16, % Thera sliull b a handtul of corn fu the carth upon the tops of mountalus.” After calling attention to the authorship of the Psxlm; he dwelt upou the rise, progress, and outlook of the Reformed Eptacopal Chure] 13 sesjuon was happy In d {ta delivery produced a the very large congregution fing clfect upol present, ‘l'ho confirmation service was very tmpeesaive, whils the words of exhiortation addreesed by the Bishop to the lurge clusa before him bronght tears to many eyes, I dreulynx tho class, Bbop Choney sald tha (n ol hin axparisics 44 & minster, end fo . Tis official capacity sa Bisbop,While he bad seen clossea larger in numbers, he never recalled to have scen 8o largoa class so cxelusively com- posed of those who, in the comnmencemicnt of heir lives, bad delermined to dedicate thelr days to the service of the Bavior. It gave vspe- clal promise of what this work waa to be that so niany of the youthwere realy to yicld to the 8o~ vior their whole lives. [Iis first great counsel to them was that they keep close to the cross of Jesus, that they follow Him In pure and holy lives, that they ever cling to Hin who had waslied thein in his Iis precious blood, Tt waa not that they come to he conlirmed merely as 8 form, but that they had come as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, When In the future they mighit be tempted and lose aight of Ilim they ehould filng "themsclves down hefore Hin and ery to Him to sprinkls them anew with the recious blood, Again, they must seck the | ,ord [n constant prayer, not “mekely praying = forn of prayer that they had been taught, or cyen of cxtemporary prayer, but go ns title children go to make thelr wants known Lo thelr &arcnt. 8o should they goto God. Prayer was lling thelr wants and needs, and olug. to Him In tho full bellef that To was ready to hear and ]ME them. Agaln, they could not keep thelr Christian courng without a fleflx and conatant nlud{ of the Word of God. The miner_found not his old on the surface, hut dug down deep Into tho carth for it, Ho the precious truths of the Word were given to those who looked and studled deep™ for them. Lust, but not least, they must neyer bo ashamed of their profession, but boldly acknowledge Jesus as their friend and Bavior, for He was their best frlend, and they should m'm’““ His love by working and Uviog for Him, p MISCELLANEOUS. GOSNEN, IND. Spectat Dispaich ¢o The Tribune. . Gosnexs, Ind., Bept. 8,—The First German Methodlst Episcopal Churchof this city was ded- fcated to-day. It was a glorious and happy day for the congregation, consisting of sbout 100 members, The church {8 one of the finest in Northern Indlans, and cost $18,000, 85,000 of which was contributed to-day, and the clurch dedleated frec of debt. Dr. Lellbhart, of Cin- cinnatl, proached the dedicatory sennon. 'The Revs. Vanuuis, Boxor, and Leamport, of the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches of this city, aselsted ln theservices, A Germane English meeting was bield this evening, and was adi ed by the Rev. G, Trepz, of fictrnlt. in gvl:s:nn, aud L. Nagler, ‘the pastor, fo En- BURLINGTON, 1A, - Bpectal Dispulch to Tue Tridune. BORLINUTON, 1a., Sept. 8.—~The appointments for the ensuing imr were annouteed by the Bishop last nizhi, and the Southwestern Ger- wman Conference virtually closed its seasion. During the lust days of thic Conference, among other matters, upon a report of the Coinmitiee on Temperance, resolutiuns were adopted com- mending l.ouln(mlucnce,nrglualunnu:uuuu on all church members, and favoring the use of In- fidences to affect_legislation upon the subject. Tho Rev. Henry Nottmun, thé retiring Presiing Elder of the Burlington District, was presented with a handsome and costly casy chalr by the ministers {n charge. A largely attended memo- rinl meeting wae hield Snturday u{tcruoon. and eulogles were dellvered upon the Rev. Af, Kame mermeyer and the Rev, William Schoenfg, de- ceased members of the Conference, The Con- forenee hns been larizely attended Tnall its ses- sions, which have been pleasantiy and harmonl- ously conducted to thelr conclusion. To-day mn {Conference suoplies all the pulpits in the 3 CASUALTIES. : JORNROR ON TMORRORS* HEADS. BALTIMORR, Bept. 8,.—By the breakiug of the axle of a coal-hopper at Weaverton, Hagers- town Junction, on the Balthinore & Ohio Rail- road, & ahort distance from Harper's Ferry, tols morning, soveral cars trere thorown off tho track, and, before a flagman could ba sent back, a second traln of coal-hoppers dashed into the first, wrecking the engine of the second traln and several cars, besides throwing two of them directly ncross the other tracks, A fewminuteslater, thethe western malfl train, dueat Baltimore at 9 o. m., came around o short curve and plowed through a portion of the wreck when, striling a coal-bopper, it ranjofT the track down the cmbankment into the canal. The wildest excitement snd confosion pre- valled among the passcnzers, but it was sengers were seriously fujured. Joshua Q. Bhipley, engineer, an hour later was found In&feet of water wedged in his cab with both hands grasping the throttle of the locomotive. He was drowned. Stephend. Reynolds, fireman, was badly brulsed and scalped, o states that on roundMmg the curve Shlplay discovered the wroek, exclaiming, “Oh! my God!" The tracks ‘were torn up for some distance, but were speed- fly raplaced, and the passengers nrrived in Balti- mora this afternoon, Train hands state thut there waa mot time after tho first accident to flqiflxe ‘Western truin, It Is said that Clifton Robey, adrover, had his left cyc put out bya pleceof glass. Bagzage-Master Martin had ils right ankle sprained. W. Delroathe, cxpress messenger, was badly cut about the faco and shoulders by broken glasa. United States Mail- Clerks Ritterhouse nud Walte wero also slizhtly Urofsed. Al the wall-bags wers secured thor- oughly saturated, but somo letier-cases floated ilown the cunal, and may be recovered at the A TERRIBLE EXTLOSION. Special Dispaich to The Triduns. L4 Cnossg, Wi s., Sept. 3.—The following are the detalls of the frightful and fatal bofler-ex- plosion which occurred near Clatfield, Miun,, about 30 miles west of La Crosse, on ¥riday, a brief report of which was sent Tz TrIDUNE at the time: The usual number of persons were eogaged with steam power threshing oats on the farm of C, G. Joues. While every man was at his station the boller exploded with a terrible report, scattering death and destruction In every djrection. Engineer Lawton was blown 160 feet from the nu;{iuc, his budy breaking off a treo- top 20 fect from _ the irnuml. Ha was {ustantly killed. Charles Aruold, band- cutter, was lfterally torn to rlcces. Portions of his body wero scattered all around the sep- arator, William Bennett, who was messuriog gratn, had the top of his head taken off by & plece of boller. Everett Jones was fecding "the inachine, He had an arm broken ovce and aleg {n three places. Feter Simonson was -evere‘l‘y bruised about the heaa, and otherwise {ujured. The baller was blown a distaucs of 200 fect, RUN OVER AND KILLTID. Spectal Dispatch o Tus Trivune, Dxrrorr, Mich.,8ept. 3.—This morning's train on the Michigan Centrul Raflroad ran_over Ed- ward Dwyer, a former engineor on that road, Killing bim instantly, at a strcot crosalng in this city. « CiNcixnnaTy, Bept. 8.—Charles 3. Fosdick, sged 24, wus killed last night on Bpring Grove ayenue while (ntoxicated. ‘The manner of his death s & myatery. When found he had been run oyer by a strectcar aud his abdomen cut open, biit a wound fu the head, eviden:ldy from some sharp {nstrumecnt, is uncxplained. Qeorge Btarr and & girl named Nellio Robinson, wlhio were with biin, bave been arrested. The Coroner's exumination into the death of oung Foadick last night shows that tho fatal [nfurfes were the resuft of belug run over by a only slight. —— FATALITIES IN MICIIGAN. Special Dispaich (0 Tl Triduns. Laxsing, Mich., Bept. 8.—At Hastings, Barry County, & son, 5 years of age, of George Wolcott, was caught in the tumbling-rod of a threshing-machine, and instantly killed, The wile of Benjumin Willlams, living south of this clty, was bitten by a rattlesnake while in the garden procuring vegvtables for diuner. It sclzed her right lmnE‘ and held fast so Joug that the bite will provu fatal, Rolla Cary, of Eaton County, was fatally fn- jured by s saw-log rolling on Lim. BIIOT-GUN ACCIDENT, Bpacial Corvemondence of The Triduse, Dzs Momxs, Ia, Sept. 3.—On Wednesday, near Pells, a son of Peter Do Geest, stepped on achalr, tohanga gunon thg rack overhead. The hammer caught the chalr and the gun was ed, kitling the boy instautly. ————— CROOKED BALL-PLAYERS. Apecial Dispalch fo The Tridune, Broomwigron, 1ll., Bept. &.~—Gleason sud Roach, centre-fielder and right-flelder of the Bloomington nine, were by resolution expelled from the Bloomivgton nlue, st a meeting of the atockholders last nf for salling oat the gune of Friday with the Springfield Club. Tt {s geu- erally unders! that thesetwo recelved $23 from certain partles who bet and . won hr‘vg!‘y on the 8pringfleld uine. Ouo wembe: v of nine seys openly thatbe ‘waa olfared $35 ha gung. 4 ey Printers and Engravers Busy No>Movement Looking to the Dis~ in the Eugraving and Printing Buresu could be worked to.sdvantage was employed to-day during all the daylight hours in prepar- Tho Treasury I8 making cvery effort to supply the Syndicate as rapldiy ss the orders come in, p and it will be ncceasary to work the men and Bur:flnwnd‘e::ug-ng‘filnvfib,mm machinery to tho utmost to do this. * | Tinots papers please copy. A PERSONAL QUEREL. ———— . It Is stated that the friends of Congressman CRIME. White, because of the rebuke ho recelved from Chief-Engincer Wood, of the navy, in o card he published esome wecks sface,=in reply to language that was used agaiust him by White in Congvess, are at work trylng to injure him In official quarters, with a view of infiicting some sort of reprituand. cratic Admninistrations are on the st to be dis- soon sscertained that none of the pas- street-car and that the wound In the head was «thestation previous to thelr distribution xunv.m[;i " WASHINGTON. |‘ nn Eable poritions and use 1 ATt for honeat indastry in Jits, this ', the Mterary department’ fnrnlshes sk its pupils In fustruction in the rudiments ef good English eduvation; and to Bemi-Mates es: persons who have Just their hearing after learns ine to speak,—and nleo to some Corgenitales: Mutes, instructions in and by spoken lan, ‘Tho elements of drawing are taught all Night and Day on the New Bonds. 5 A Glance at the Asperitigs of the Recent Move Towards Economy. talent for it are given special and moro exthn-: sive inatruction therein, i ‘Tho Industrial Department furnishes Instroos & tion in printing, ehoemaking, baking, garden, ing, anil cabinet-making, . The bulldings of the Tnstitution, recently end Iarged, arc spacious and commodious, furn{shed ! with the beat modern sppllances for comfort of inmates, and mlvmu‘:cs {or study and fnstruos. tion, Jacksunville, the place of fts location, 41 one of the most healthful In the Btate, and easy :'ty; of_access by rail frum all directions. A ¥ Deaf-Mutes realding in Illinols, 10 yearsaof placement of Elmer Wash- burn, Things Fized to Whitewash Babeock All Up Nice Again, washing, ote, free of charge. Any having children to send to the Institation, who aro unabie to provide their clothing and trans- Enrtullun shiould write to the undersigned fot lank certtficates, to be flled onty atthorising, ¢ the Buperintendent to supply theso itewns, ! P'romptness in arrivals {s "of thoe ntmost fm- portance, as classen are formed aa soon after the: upening day as possibic. Al who expect to at+ tend the coming term are requested to the Superiutendent, by mail, at the earliest op-~ irtunity; and auy who may be unsvoldahly de- ayed n:(lueulcd to write, stating the ceunes * of delay, andl roceive s speclal periait to entes after tiic opening of the terni. = Those who coine by rafirosd will_do well to stop at the Jucksonville Junction Depot, as & directly Glerlons Improhability of a Return to Chilcago of an Odious Blaths erskite, Spectal Dispateh to Tae Tribune. Wasminaton, D. C., Eept. 8.—All the force that {ng to fssuc tho bonds for the new Syndicate. lioe of street-cars now Tuns from thero to the Institation. L. (rcsa AYOUNG MAIL-ROBDER Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Kr2ORUK, In., Scpt. 8—A lad 17 years of nga, named John Hans, was arrested lasd cvening om the charge of rolbing tho malls. e had boem. employed es an crrand-boy in fhe drp-goods store of A. M. Bteole, and was intrusted withs the doty of carrying the mail to and from the office. The dlscovery of o hox fn an uppor Foom of the store revealed the fact that he had beens carrying on a systematic robbery for months, opening the letters, rifing them of thelr con-, tents, and then depositing them fn this bax.” I, was also discovercd that 'ho had beems robling the Post-Oftice drawers of ollier firmns, plifering the letters of thelr money contents nud- making 8 aimilar disposition of them. From & singie letter he extructed §50 in money. How much hic obtained altogether in this wa: {l not known, but, ns the collection of létters ) found numbered about forty, it must have . amounted to s conslderable sum, On belog ar rested, the hoy confessed hls guflt. He waa- taken before " United States Commissioner Tichenor, watved examination, and, in defsult of 4500 ball, wus remanded to jall, THE GUILLOTINE. Manyof the cierks In the Treasury and other Departinents who were appolnted under Demo- missed. In the First Comptroller’s office theie are six or seven who have been there over twen- ty years, hiaving been appointed when Howell Cobb was Bccretary of the Treasury. Very muny of these clerks are palsied with age, and incompetent to © render any effi- clent service. There are twenty fn one Department nearly 70 years of age, some of whom have been In voutinuous service for fifty years. They were found In the service by ‘Abraham Lincoly, and bave been retained by succesaive Hepublican Sceretaries out of sym- pathy for thelr helpless condition, irrespective of thelr politics. Tne Democratic House, bav- ing crippled the force by reductions in numnbers aud salaries 30 that it s nlinost lmpossible to perform the duties assigned by law to the sev- eral Departinents, the executive officers seemn to have no cholece but to do the sternest jnstice and thefr duty by dischurging the most fnctlicient. The respousibility for turning these uwed, helpless poor upon the streets would seem to reat with the pluchpeony Bourbon House. OBN. BABCOCK'S TRIAL {s sct fornext month. 1t will be pushed to a A MURDEROUS POLICEMAN. Br. Louis, Mo, Sept. B.—About 8 o’clocis this cvening a young nan natned James Liddel! bo- cume sumewhat bolsterous and woruly in Carr ~ Purk, and o private watchioan ‘put him out. Liddell then threw a rock towards the park, hich struck a fence, no harm. ‘The watchman then called upon Police Officer Woodlock to arrest Liddell, - bat, fnstead.of dolupr this, It is asserted thal specdy termination, - There can bo but little | he drew his jistol, and, withont the slightest doubt that o trisl before the reassembling of | provocation (Liddell nhurhfi: no nuncet 4 Cungress can have but ong result, sud that the | sbot’hifn through the hicart, k(liing him instant- - acquittsl of Babcock from the charge upon | ly. Woodlock has heen arresicd,und the mat- | . which he was indlcted—thut of being ono of the | ter will be thoroughly investigated to-morrows - safe-burglary conspirstors. When the House ey . 'IJ“dIcl‘.Im( umu:\lkwu ul;ldt.h this mafx lt:ndcn; TIIE DEAD PUGILIST. nvestigation, owinj e multiplicity o - S — d e g:mw cd ufion it At {akc PAILADCLPKIA, Pa., 8ept. 3.—The funeral of Roster, or Walker, the dead prize-fighter, took place this afternoon, from thy residonce of his fother. The nelghborhiood was crowded with people, thonsands of whom viewed tte remalns. ‘The Rev. W. B. Eiven, of the Protestant 4 ns to perfect the alleged possibie testimon: g?uh.\ thcm:l:. As fi result of this negli- ance, & large masa of testimony lies yet un- ranseribed i the short-hand notca. Tlicre are now neither meu nor means to transcribe it. All the wittiesses who testified are absent frowm the city. Whitely 13 stlll in Colorado. He may be brought here, but his testlmony uncorrobo- rated would not be cnougli to convizt any one. Whitely has sworn to so many different state- meuts ~that there would "be no difileul- vices fo the houst. The cutire route of the funeral procession, and the streéts fu the vicdnie ty of the cemetery, were crowded: with men, women, and children. Weeden, and Goodwin, ty In fmpesching his testimony ahould | bis tralner, arrived to-day from New York, io lE) otnse ‘lvlmx’;utea" v (oéd. 8o | chargo of the plice. g . there n ac n 8 case 88 made up’, an almost complets sbsence of STOLEN JEWELRTY. legul testiniony azainst Babeock. Bpecial Dispatch to Tha Tribune. B TIE BOTANICAL GARDER. As there {s an urgent demand for ovening the Capitol Botanfeal Gurden and Swltheonian In- stitute to visitors on_Bunday, it s suggested that admission to the Capitol on Sunday should not be denfed an Amerlvan workingman, when 1t is readily nccorded to Do Pedro. PRINTERY' WAGES. Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 8.—A young man hes | been arrested here, having In his poesession & large quantity of valuable gold jewelry, which has evidently been stolen. Ho glves- his name as George Richardson, allas W, T, George Coansa. e Is stout 20 dark complexion, with high check-booes, and The Baitimore privters Lava voluntarily re. | Hason Irish sccent, H¢ s Tocked up Lo awalt: e thleprices for coupositon to 40 én{{n dovelopmentd. — o ; or or_day and 45 cents for night work, TBURGLARY. &g\:&k‘nblln Prinfer pays 00 cents for tlie samo Bpecial Dirpaich to Tha Tribune, : BrooMinatoN, 1il,, Sept. U.—The street-car stables were burglarized last night. Bixfaroe. ' TNE GREAT BLATAERSKITR. * The attempts of ex-Ald. Hildreth, of Chicago, to obtain immunity recelved little enmunfi'e— boxes wera torn off tho cars and the contenta ment here. e was represented entirely bfiu © | taken, amounting to nearly §50, and a large man Danlels, who is sone way related to Hild- qunmhy of tickets. el reth, Daniels, when here, repeutedly besought ——— some prominent Chicago gentlemen who lind. TRATRICIDE. i served in the Common Council with lilldreth NAPAREZE, Ont.,Sept. 8, —Reuben and Willlam) 1o pro to the Attorney-Genoral and make afll- dnv'h that, in their opinfon, the testimony of Hildreth’s would be us resdily belleved by a jury as that of any inan. ‘These geatlemen ‘do- clied w be in any way counccied rith the matter. Danicls, who had just coo from Canala, claimed to be able to sectire from Hudreth a written confesslon which would nut ouly disclose the sceret workings of the Chicago Whisky Rlng, but would furnish avi- dence to prove the existence of eorrupt munlc- ipal rings fn Chicago in councetion with gus and eity-raflrond matters. Danicls’ statements o8 tu Hildreth’s knowledge contuined nothing not alrcady known to the Defimrumng un were not evidence, while the Department of Justice did not fecl called upon to detect munie- ipal rascality in Chirago, Danjels has no writ- ten confesafun from Hildreth. He only claimed the ability to obtain_one, upon promisn of im- munity, Danjels had n conference with Leonard euh};:re, but appareatly recelved little aid rom e Loucks, brothers, quarreled 1ast night, and Rea- ben wad fatally m‘}mcd. uighty ANN ELIZA'S ALIMONY. BaLt LAXE, Scpt, $,—Tho order of July 81, - 1876, Ann Eilza vs. Brigham Young, not having ‘been complted with, it wos ordercd that execu- tion fssue s provided in sald order, and tho order was placed n the hands of the Fropcr 4 oflicer, who attached about 4,000 worth of prop-~ y, consisting of horses, curriages, and au.ileb wmony due plaintifl. e — New Youx, Sept. &4—Tho steamehips City of¥f . Berlin, from Liverpool, with tho Irish Rifte- 'l‘e]u:xn. has usrzlv‘u; g'nd 'l"'klam K‘nhx, fi:lzmvl;mmem 5 ORDON; . 8,~The ateam lelandy - from New 'Ym-l?, has arrived out. e BUSINESS NOTICES, Toland, the well-known drupgist at No. 58 Clark streat, nn‘mllu tho Sherman Honse, has . . mude a great hit In the ¢* Arowstic Bitter Wine of they bave ever been in the Department, That Tron," "Wao adviso those who are suffering from means that he {s not only untrammeled fu the | nervouencss, admintstration of Lis ofllce, but that he ls con- | 1o of appetite, o try sidered the ablost oflicer who hus ever filed the oflice, and that hisadvicels followed in all matters pertainiug to the Secret Servive. Tul- bot, of Maine, the new Solicitor, Las recently shown hls sbundant confidence tn Washbuni, his subordinate, by stating that he knew of no changes Lo suegest In the edministration of tho Bucret Service. CUSTOMS AQENTS. The reductlon of tho'number of 8 1 Cus- toms Agents inuady necessary by the Democratic upproptistions will, it Is fuared, have an luju- rious effect upon the revenne, It will be nee- essary, {u & great measurc, to foregu much of ths watchfulness aloug the loug llne of tho Canadian border, where there has been so much smuggling through the seal-lock lfl;lem. Onl; ous man, it appears, {8 to have 6 of thal special subject, and ho will have tabe Argus- cyed to accuinplish as inuch In proventing fraud a8 has beew dono before. Already there are re- ports of great irregularities in the trausit of {:ood- over the Panuma Isthmus, and one of lgu twenty Agents iy to bo assigued to duty ere, 3 ELMER WASITUURN, ‘The stories about the attcinpt of the preaent administration of the Trwur{ Department to remove Elmer Washburn, Chlef of the Becret Bervice, we unfounded. Washburn himself says that bis relations are now as pleasaut ws Burnett's Cocoalne kills dandruff, allays, {rntation, and promoted the growth of halr. ] Reduced 50 Per Cent. Tha Chicago Nowspaper Unfon llst of ¢o-o) : nnvus-ten.‘rlcmmrmpzmrslni“&m par |mafi'.‘.":2 i duced 1t price W 81,70 PER LINK, This lis} e Lraces OYer 430 newspspurs, Jocated o follows: St s o 7| W, and :sl 4 ..(eu I Nebrauka, &2, 3 ¢ ation 24 v e T a1y A1 There orioess B Tor eaiiuuics and cetalogaed €0 NAVAT. <70 he Western Ausociated Press. amfinte S, Stk S meeet | = L omo men orders 0 vesnels of tho Nor - GENEXAL NOTIOES, i 1autic Statlon to nect at Port Royal for drill and WMW = X inspection by the Rear Adiniral communding p . J 0 viath Port Royal this year, . WELLAN]] [:ANAII. ! Z0QLOGICAL. Qcn. Babcock, fu Lis sunual veport, recom- 3 menda the apprapriation by Cow.:renol $200,~ N o T I C E- N v 000 for the establishment ‘of a Zoological Gar- den in lhfl_Clplu{L’lherchl to guther specimens Captalns, Musters, and Brlots of Vessols entire fug or leaving the Welland Canal, via Port Cale of all anfiels fn the country aud such other vu- rieties aa nay be decmed best. The -psmpr& ationa theu lnt flldk‘l‘l!. y&ul: fflll; m: ‘cpuurt- L2 bl estimates for the T ST ok 1478 amouns £o 831,000, | borae arbor, aro heraby Informed ihat the Thera s uo uppropristion for the curreat fscal | provoments in progress, aud Extenslon of o year, Westorn Pler ak that place, render It nocessary fo2 Vesels 10 keop to the eastward of & lme of Black Booys, which are moored abous 150 fest sast of tholine of, that part of the plor on: which the present Lighthouses atand, < £} Theyare -m;;::me«. mm vwfln:ml: 7 prescnt Ranga ts, ® low Whita Light M exhiblted pear the outer end of the extecslen af . be Wast Piar, during the progeess of the works, . | n\)y order e Woas UN,: * rantaxxe op Pustie Wosss, 0, 4% ths West Indla [slands for winter crulsing, is not the {ntention of theBecrotary of thu avy ——— DEAF AND DUMB. Tewaxois InsTiTuTioN You TuR EpUOATION ov Tux DrAy AND Dusy, BUPRBINTENDENT'S OrrICE, JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 90.—10 Farels, Quardians, and Frimds of Deaf-Muta in Il uol: Ths thirty-secoud torm of the Illinols Institation for Deaf-Mutes will commenco at 8 o’clock o m., Wednesday, Bept, 90, 1378, Thr \m af the [nsttiution (s t0 quallty Deat- | ] age or over, are furnished tuitlon, board, fael, ‘fifii ng. - e doing - * Eplscopal Church, conducted the religious ser- erty « foods, to satls i judgment for $3,000 as all, Pty pila, while such of them as develop -mq.‘fi OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. . ) i nvuri:zld bluod, weakuess, of