Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 16, 1876, Page 5

THE CINICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 187 vestern atudent port thelr gosmentz: 100 EEEET00 to $350¢ thone st i A clore upon §600, escept inAmhorst, v it fs $700, and at Yole, Harsard, et where 21,000 {4 the reported izl rrla €000 nvertie 0% oust: o= report zreater expenditure ;“"““'fl f,’.'{:.:fl :-.nuflry‘. and 00§ ndded fiat pen e TR0 pard mu Camibrdge do not omsey tespets curien AL Vnpvard and Yale" om expen e d':’:"vnn- Times states lts views of (ha o 3 . Mr. Talmage's last exploit tn a whln "I"lvl‘“a':;t reunan have we for demanding "'"md'q'- tmage shonld repnlate his conduct by et e, TR B wentlomen? IF ho hind 0} 9 r;:;’(’;'"'u‘ f: be a gentleman, of & man of et + calture, we wanlil have romo right to ra. e, O > aent pat 4 conduct should be In keoping with e 9 e, Trimage, hawever, {a noto- e Wrm:’:; diftercnt gort oF perann. Nefss iy ¥ profession, and_wiien o does e B 1 ehank it o, it which o Wlses {leman coutd not o, he 14 only actingas *'tie o g:ml:u‘::-m of }llellnu Patti's onzagement with 4 ;flcr-hmg janngers hascaused an excltes wt B econd nly (o tho war fuvor, ol e‘ngnmnenl was anponnced last year, mlh’(mm for the opern wero at unce opened, el ranes were recelved within o fow "“’o;?'um contract bo now broken, the man- ot 1 e oblfged to refund this cnormous aum, Fu 1a almost nnnecesenry fo etate, they are e bt yelclnns peremptortly farbld p 10 siro fo anothor Ttnssian wintor, e ofce I o0 valuable Bn fustruinent to ho b S protable that Nileson whi e el U ettt and the snbcelhons wiil e Mlg,:lwmn.-l'nt to the chanze, i jet-Justice Daly, in lus speechat Plifladelphla c‘:mmwflhm of the statue of Columbue, sug- e 4ihat the dust of the great Gennere aboulid eted I Mavana, wheta It 16 now deposit- "m;:(ub!rlhqv)nrr. The Idog fe pretty, thongh '“fl" fancifnl, Jtis not iikely fo obtain mneh Z',fl.\f..gwm. the Sponish authoritles, who have 1w flustrions bones Ttkin thofe dominions 3 o hardly afford to yart with any, - ‘:‘:ry ;n--n Spain was the frst country to ap- et e 1t alould b the fiat fo rofect e aeteeof bia fame. even though Wi experlenco "‘fn chalny of Spanixh monufacture may have i s lfe-tlme, bis own feclings of . gratitude. Tapper Ia Uik & natne to the yonncer eenerntion, ot to the older he # @ sea—an ncean—of limitless m.,,\-cnmlnnrnmcd eurface, whone shallowness Tritarbed y no pates, nud Shose tnrbid wators seneverclonred, Whether 1t waa ind or crnel of the rllers to warn the youth agufnet Tupper need not mow be asked; the fact {uat tho provesblal philosophier lod an {nfluence wHich bas passed asay alone remnin to mark the yame with aesoclations of fame, Mro Tupper Is, powfn New York, and probably meditates n de- scent wpon the unproteeted Western provinces, A Belef sketch of hix life may hot he uninteresting at (tistime. He was born in Joudon on the 17th of July, 1810, 1lis father was an eminent physleian, whohsad refused & Baranetey. Martin wak edu- gated 8t he Charter House, where he had for scbool-fellows Yhnckeray and John Leech, and st Corlst Chorch College, Oxford, where he pad ss @' fllowestudent Mro W, K. Glad- Heoe, lale Frimo 3linfster. To thls Iatter con- gectlon Mr, Tupper owes his pensfon out of the eiil st which wae ostowed upon him during the Fisdstone Administration. T 1835 he wa called {otke Bar at Lincotns Inn, but never practiced, The fret totles of the **Proverblal Philosophy " s published In 1847, Tt attracted ut first little attentlon, except from the critics nnd tho wits. fince then, however, it bas passed throngh mnny lue edltiovs, and more than 1,000,000 coplcs Lave been okl In Amerfca, Three other eorios tase since appeared willt similar results. o has . petlished mony other works, and has been honored for (kem, belog, indeed, & mnn‘of vast amd well- orpanized learning-~n Fellow of the Royal Roclety 10da D, C. 5, ot Oxford. Thoe Jevel and comnion- plate charncter of hls poetry Indicates no want of Srowledge of taste, but the obeence of poetlc fin- sgiostion, without which no ndustry or mental power can avall, Tuvper hos o family of three sons aad threo daughters, A volume of translated poems by the latter has attained some circulation, 4 Pttt B Netiough, Virgint Grand Paclfie—d. B. McCuilo el oo, £ Htoomam, Snlt oo o 1" bam. Portdervis: L, 1, Honson, Wheeling, W. Ya. W, B, Wrizht, Littie Rocle: C, € Boulo, St. en, Uoraco portel: New York; 8, K. Carey, New Orleans; 17, Jf, Nowlan, U, 8. A, 1, Locke, Boston fotiy Teveon, Washington I eqmniinzs, Pekln, 111, A. 8. Prddock, Nebrarkns LeNormand, New Yor; . Fleteher, Detrolt, Imer I‘?fim_ B, P{«; 4, C. rman, Miss i . N, Seward, Alxhu::x‘:fl Y.: G, L Dn‘l%;.'xl;':.’“'n:g- wglon; ¥, Spealie, w Yorl's G, C. Monell; Umaha: . A. Slemers, Hamburg, Germany: 11, N, Sopder, 5L T, & 8, B, 10 ¢ D T O, {\'hno- ton, New York.,,. Tremont loute—W, Trumble, . Larter, New Hartford, Conn. : D, Unadalla, Cliuton; T, I B, 3 ' New York: 8. 8, North, i 8 T, Drake, New York. .. Sk . Zugler, Port Byrong \W. Bradford, 10, ', : 1, Hospital, Now Aeson, Eau Clalre; 7., 1, Panchorn, Kan Times; Goarye 1. ‘Ayers, elpiiin; E. lonoy- aicaree It Ayers Philudelptin; & Uanyy: a s City arnes, Behenecindy, YiWos, g . lihue, )_m\nz:‘gury. Tlymoutt, ind.; R, G. " FIRES. IN CHICAGO. The alarm from Box 21 at 2:50 yesterdoy nf- ternoon was caused by n fire in tho two-story {rame house No. 409 Randolph etreet, owned and occupled pa o restdence by E. ¥, Slocum, Damage. $200; no {naurance. Cause, au over- Lieated stove futhe basement, Thealarm from Box 818 at 7:40 yesterdny Moruing was caysed by o fire n n two-atory frame building on tho southwest corner of Shef- Leld wsenne and Coneord place, owned and oe- cupled a8 dwelling by Jomes Cavanaugh, Daainge, §700; covered by n polley for 8500 fn tbe Agricultural Firc of New York, Cause of fre unknown, Thealarm from Box 94 at 12:05 yesterday Uternoon wag cansed by the dlscovery of q fire Inthe four-story brick ang stone-front. bufld- {og, Nos. 250 40 93§ Wiabash uvenuc, Thr flame s Were discovered by an embloye ubout the place Tmcd Reynolds, who at onco gave the alarm. ur!n that time tho flamcs wore Issulng in vol- o M;:'fm;nxn-mnnln the rear of D, W. Jenk- llxuu:x tphfl-“m store, occu[lwlng the first door of g the u:rl[nrellm bullding, Notwithstand- ok Mlorls ot the departinent, tho foor, lnl‘Pr;ml rapldly {hrough the "upper blidls !nu‘;: nl“llnhx tho destruction of the B el mminent, necessitating o Vo denieh tenminutes after the flst. D. hid o uson & Co. lose about $500, upon icre Ia not u cent of naurance. Banborn ers, on the Dunean, pleture and chromo g if_t;':‘n {luur, lose about the? same swin, L, B, s {. ’nmnlnu; and lodginge house keeper, oc- . MI:IL the thifd und fourt), floars, Jases only o g Smotn but §s insured for §6,000 In- e alig uhn l‘["'llupnulca. JOIL Terry, furnlture, ls i ll‘:ll:' loser. N, T, St printer, oceu- el i Lasement and a portion of the fourth e l'unm(s About 810Dy water, Tho northern MO“]? l}hu bullding, vwned by Joseph Otis, P )nt %_hu'duur zed. ‘I'hosoutliern half, lmbnmm’«'- o l‘l'II'l( tl, sustatned dannges wee, Mg to 83,500, covored by 15,000 fusure — AT 8YILACUSE, N, Y, Brnicuse, N, Y,, ) 4 + Yo, Oct, 15,11 moki oug Y i This morning firo : Villoge of Canastola, The Beechor Block, two dwelling houses, and five Mares 2 = onlg w,",‘},’:;;;‘;m;-g‘;'s. $75,000. Tho town rec ———— oo LOVE LAUGHS, l".vmsr:mm Dispatch so Tne Tribune, i %, ML, Oct, 16.~A small-slzed gen- \\nu caused here todlay by rumors re- ki ll:‘ppusc:l clopement, the partica iu- it clig 8. P. Hibburd, of Mflwoukes, R |.m.. fady reslding ot Geneva, 111, who .mhlytnxl|u to the Woman's Collego us o student fn painting, Not belng subjoct othe 1 friac 2 6o mannged to d Yo obe Without trouble, telling her rggt:finfigur 0 ECport, wiye, o e a0 uestioned, that she had wono ey omarrea, hm, taken In conneoblon ith s ¢ liere yeetcrday of Mr, M:f:}“ :l?l‘:-‘ I8 reported to lm’ya h(:cl'; e’rfl;l::‘;':nurx?'!g ke hm‘,l‘:"n:mmat her parenis wishes, forms hk:mhermm".',fi:{;""““‘gll})mt they departed B0 goud g, YCsHerdaye Both be- —— Bo 4 FIRST SNOw. pf:::f. ?4. 15, ~Snow fell hero and in yari- B gy :"New England north and east of e, 'ght to u depth of three fnches or Pnovmun : f oz R 1, Oct. 15,—Bnow Nl of o hches st nigh, ez 1L, Oct, 15, ~The SR e Tl agping o Y45 8 gLt falt A s Bpyorh Ot 15, =uow £l bero carly / THE REVIVAL. Increased Interest in the Worlk 0¥ Reclaiming Simfers. Three Largely-Attended Ser- vices at the Tabernacle Yesterday. Ovorfiow Meetings in Farwell Hall and the First Methodist Chureh. Practical Advice to Professing Olis- tiang, Baokeliders, and the Unsaved, The World Hates Shams, and It Soems the Church Has Gone to Sleep. An Urgont Appeal for a Univorsal Coming to Christ, MORNING SERVICE. A GREAT OATHERING, . The sale rewurn of Mr. Moody, for which thousands of prayers have nascended,—what o position for n man to accupy, that his presenco I 4 ¢ity should be prayed for In the pulpits, at r-aneetings, and at the family altars,— was the signal for a great gathering at the Tab- ernacle yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, The meeting was one for % Chrlstian Workers,” and, pursuant to the Invitation, the faithful band of ity ,postars were carly on the platform, tho cholr were In thulr places, and about 5,000 tmen and women, most of whom teach In the city Sundey-schools, presented themselves before the Toord to hicar what He had to sny to them by the mouth of His servant Moody. It would secin that the sorking memberehlp of our churches Is mostly made up of Women, for, quite out of the usual ling of things nt. the eetings, the men wire n the minority yesterday morning. ‘I'ho Rev. Messrs. Cartwright, Mandeviile, Tihbals, Hewes, and Burns, of the Methodlst Coufer- ence, were among the visitors. The state of feellng fu which Mr. Moody pre- ecnted hmaelt hefore the great congregation was {ndleated by the hymn which haaunounced: “ What a frlend we huve In Jesus,” The other hymns were: ¥ Take the name of Jesus_with you,'" afid_** 8avior, more than lle to me.”” Mr. S8ankey remarked that there were two lnuds of singing, —sloglng to Gud, and singlng to oue another, worslip and exhortatlon. The sccond hymn befng of “the Jatter kind, lie would sivg It as asulo, The otber was rendered os u gulo and chorus. Brother .\loufly thanked God In his prayer for the blessiugs of the past week upon the meet- ings, anud then announced as his text John, I, 4104 11 [Andrew] first findeth his own broth- er, Stmon, and safth unto him, We have found the Messlas,” THE ADDRESS, I thought this morning I would just like to take 8 leaf out of my own experience during the past week for the benefit of my brethren and sisters, Tweuty-one years ago, when I was converted down in Boston, I beguu to pray that (od would bless oy pix brothers and two sls- fers, And when 1 went iome {t scemed as f I only needed to tell them about Christ to have them all recetvell im as T had; but when I tried to talk to them it dldn't scem to do any good at oil, Threc years after that, when I was fn a Luke street store, a Ietfer came fefliug me that my youngest bothery Samuel, was at the polnt of death, Ob, liow it hurt me! I felt I could not have him die ns ho was, and I went up fnto theloft of the store nnd prayed to God to sparc him, that he might have svaco for repentance, It scemed that God heard that prayer, for, after o fever that lasted forty-two days, he began to get well, Then I was uil the more anxfous about him, for God Lind given him to me, and 1 trled every way to lead him to Christ, Dut it was of niouse. He didn't be- licve InChrist as T did, and though I preached the Savlor Lo him, on one ocension, nll the way fvrom Chlcago to nrthncldl as wo made tho joume{v together,elt was all In vain, For ten lmm; bave carrfed him fn my heart all the ne, When we camne home from Europe last year we'began to hold meetings in Northileld, und one night ho aross for prayers. It was not Jong before he found Christ, nnd at once began to work for lim. The young conyeres of that villure orzanized themselves futo a Youug Men's Clirlstion Assoclation and elected him: President, 1lieard him make his first speceh, It was upgood speech. He was tho flower of our family, and but for his feeblo Tlicalth would have beei ' power in the world,— and after that, when I went home again, I found that he had been holding meetingsin the school- houses up and down on both sides of the Con- nectieut River, Ob, those were happy days for mel It wasn terrible blow to mo 1o Jearn that he wos dead, But when ot his funcral I saw over Mty young men stnndln{; around the hearsé, and walking Lehind e to the grave, many of whom lhe had been the meang of raisiog from Hyes of hlasphemy and drunkenness, I felt like shouting, ¢ Blessel aro the dead who die fn the Lord, for they rest from thelr labors and their works do follaw {hew.?? Al his works were following him that day, Ou my wuy home, while staying over the Sabbath " at Albuny, while my heart” was dark and my soul was welghed down with trouble, this text which Lopened in God's Word came to mo with new und wonderful power—*Thy brother sliull rlso eeain 1 * Weeplug may ci- dure for a night, but Joy cometh {n the morn- ing."” Blessed Diblel Blessed Christ! I never lenew liow precious they were before, While T was looking ut that cold fave, 8 yolce vamo rolls Ing down from Calvary, a1fe that belleveth {n the Bon of God hath everlusting Yie.” Then I looked DOWN INTO THE GRAVE, aud I heard o shont of trlumrh coming nr from tho sepulehire: O grave, where Is thy victoryd O death, wheroe fa thy stingzd " Now, this {s what 1 wunt to soy to you this morning: If you have s brother out of Christ 0 to hilm us Andrew did to Jils brother Simon; hein with the members of your own household. 1f you havo no brother of your own, take somy ong elee’s brother, and bring hiin to Christ, Let not this doy poss till you a{muk or write to gome friend ol'yowrs who s out of Christ, and fuylto himn or her to seck tho Lonl, Mr. Moody then prayed for God's lessing on the wark of the day, on tho work of the pastors, whic Bunday-sehool " teachers, and, a8 if he fully expected Lis exhortution to be followed, on the letters that should be written to absent friends in the nume ol Jesus Chirlst, Prof. Dlise slso led fn an carnest Mr, Mood; ** Now, prayer, and pronounced the bonediction, how absurd, §t would be,” said one of the gentlemen who hienrd the touching address, afl about his brother's life, death, and burial, * how absurd and vain it would secm if any ong olse wersto talk that wuy about himsolf and his family to an awidienco of 5,000 people; und yet Inover thought of it's belug in tho least bit tgotlstival In Mr, Moo\lf)'. It was Just right; und I nover saw so many handkerchiefs out a8 there wera this mornilug.” The sudience by hundreds were fulfilling the Seripture, * Weej with them that weep,”” Tt scemed almost ns (f 1t had been everybody's Lrother as woll as Mr, l}l‘:mluu'; Wwho wua burled ut Northfleld lost caday, L AFTERNOON SERVICE. TIlB TABEANACLE CROWDED—NUNDREDS TURN- ED AWAY, Long before the appointed hour of the after- noon servlce the Tabernacle doors were shut, and the tides of peoplo which fillled the streets were turned towards Farwell Holl, When this was full, & second overplus meeling was ap- pointed at the Methodist Chuveh Block, Messrs, Needham and Stebbins conducted tho Farwell Hall meettug and Mesara, Whittle aud Bliss tho ong ot the churchy at which some twenty-five persons arose for prayer as seckers after relig. lon, At the Tabernacle, the opening prayer was by Prof, ¥, W, ¥isk, of the Chlcugo Theologleal Beminary. The Rov, Dra. Swazey, Moore, Dandy, Rust of Clnclunati, the Rev. Messrs, Axtell, W, Alni. Bmith, F, A, Reed, J. 8cotland from Beot- laud, McChesnoy, Enur’nuy. and g large num- ber of other iunembers of the M, B, Cou- forence, ns well us of vthe city pustors, werw on the platforui. The ushers {it chargo of the blatforin wers B Thatcher, Jr., and I% M, by request, sang the ¢, ST min momethines ST am not tlreed v amd arked, sald of n‘uclnu this little hyni,. ubd they I oask the questfomer he fa Alred of reading the Oiteenth chapter of Luke, 'Thete fa poanueh Gerpet Jo thiz Lymn thet T never tire of repen ity s almest every thie Thaye eant {4 some runie finve Geen fed (o'see the fove of i Good Shephend. “The gulv vl chorns, ¥ What, 8hall the Har- sung by Mr Sunkey oml the vet Bet™ cholr. TUE SERMON, a stenographle report of which fs siven below, was one of Mr, Moody's charactorlstie eorte, nned held the fmmente congregation deeply in- teresteid tllf ts closu: THY; SERMON, Mr. Mondy stepped forwarl nnd sald 2 You will ‘tind my text in the third chapter of Genesls, part of the nlnth verso: Where art thon? “Where art thou 1" You sec 1 have tnken vory peraonal fext this afternoon, Al these ministess {n this andience will lear me nat tn ope thine: aml that fs, that they | Nard work to make thelr congreeations mulerstand that thev inean them. 'Ihiey are so apl to tuke that text mnl pass ft.on to the man Lehind them, and say that 18 very vood for the man be- hind me—for my next-door nelehibor, the man Hving hear me, the innn behind me; and so they pass it on over their shoulders andout the door, thie text and sermon, and the whole thing s lost. But this afternoon I want to have you Just retmember that it weans ybu, (hat It means e, that 1t means every one of s * Whern art thout ! personully. Wo ought to make it conie hoine to every “soul fu this hullding—to ol these minkaters, and these reporters, and these mothers and fathers, thesn graydiatred men, theee Jittle boys nid these liitle eirla, 11 lsn'n.-rfimml text, * Whereart thout™ Tt wns tlhe fivst question that God put to tan after hiy fall ; and though that 18 six thousand years sgo, oll of Adom's chlldren Tiave heard that text, Tt Lias comiz to them [n the sllent watches of the nights it has come to them {n the peaceful toll of the dn?u Muny a time the questions come eolenly liome to the heart of wan, % Who am Y “Where am I golngt” “What fs to be the end of my existenvet”, 8o to<lay, my Iriends, lot us be solemn for a fesw minutes, and let us nsk ourselves where we are, Not in tire sight of our fellow-inen—that I8 of very lit- tle neconnt. 1t §s of very little account what o man thinks of me, what & man says of me. will guon be gone, I will soon be In another world, They will roon be gune. Fublle opin- fon is of very little nccount.” What we wont to know 18 wheve are we In the slght of God, Thut 18 the question to-day. “YWHEE ART THOUT? It §s o heavt-searehing queetion, and may God apply the text. May the IHoly Spirit send it hotne into your heart and mine!” May there be 8 heart-searching to-day, and may we' know, be- forc wu slecp tu-nigght, Where we are in the slaht of Gad! I remetiher prenchlnE on this text atice, when T wag in New York Clty, and there cume a man into the Hippodrome one day, and we had n little meeting, and he got up and told his experience. It thrilled my soul. 1le pald he had been gambling Saturday night; that he wus up until 2 o'elock Bunday morning, and hnd been very unfortunate. e sald he went up to his hotel where he was stopping and went to bedd, but dldn't gleep much, — He was ehout hnl drunk Sunday morndeg, e got up abous 1) or 11 o'clack. Ile didn’t feel hungry, and dldn’t cat nny breakfnst; ot out fnto the street and he begmi to think about putting un end to his existence. He said he was wandering up and down the streets, and he came up to the Iippodrote, and eaw & great muny poushie In- 10 Uit bullding one Sunday alterboon, und he went up and tried to get 0. men _kept him out, and told © him ibat uo _ one but women were allowed . It was o meeting for women. Ile snid they turmed him away, IHe started down the strect and finally went back to hia hotel, gob something to eat, and sgaln started out and wanderpd’ up the street again, and when he came to the [lpPudmmu, Tie saw the men pour- dng in._ He got into the crowd and went ju, e pointed out tho seat where he was sitting, He sald T got up and took iny text. Ile had hearid the'singing, and then T ot up and taok the text “Where art thoui” Then he got his hat nnd was golug away. 1lc didn't feel as though lie wanted to atay. IHe didn't like the appear- unceg, Ile didw't like my text, It wns too per- sonal, Me started to gZo out, and wos going wlen heheard thctuxtufuln. “Where artthout't Te sald he stopped nnd listened, aud that God found him right there, Ale sald hie went down to his hotel that night and prayed. And now lheisa But. the polfce- DRIGNT AND HIINING LIGHT. T went to tho town where he lived; lic was a commercial traveler—traveled fora New York house, and his fumily lived in o town where [ was somewhnt aequuinted; there were five churches there, and he went back ond went to overy church; e hnd been consddered the fust- est_Joung man In the town; and _be told how Qod” had” found him, 1 hope God wiil find gome great offender in this will scarch out unbellevers, for Lhey are the men we want, If there {8 *aman here to-day that Is away from Qod, my friend, take the text hotue, for we went you to believe the whole germaon, It Is for you. Never mind your nefghbor. Let your neighbor tale care of him- self, Let us ask ouraclves honestly and candid- Iy _intho sight cf Goed, “Where amIi™ und CWhoam 11 Now 1 propose to divide the audicnee fnto threaclasses, I wn not golug to ask you to rise —nothing of the kind, s0 yon needn’t bo frighit- ened, You ean tell to which elngs you belong. ‘I'he first are those who profess tv Lie Christians, T don’t know who you are, but God knows. It {8 between you and God, The next class is those that have been bucksllders—bave gone away from I{m. They ouce knew Him and srofessed to turn away from fln, but now they ]\n\'u turned thely backs on [lim oud are wan- dering about In the darkness of sin, The third clnss ura those thid are unsaved, have never known God, hinve never made any_ profession, that linve not wandered off from ‘God becsuse they huve never heen born of the Spirit, We who profess to be Christians, where are wed Do you honestly belleve that, if the pro- fessing Christiuns fn “this house this afternoon were Jiving ns God would have us. live, that there would not be thousauds aud tens of thou- sands of people converted here fn Chieago [n thirty dayaf T haven't the slightest doubt sbout that. I tell you the waorld has got tired and huilding— SICK OF YOUR BHAME, The charge that they bring against ue,and I do not blamne them, s thut we profess mml.-i.hhui wao do not posscsss that, if we really belleved what we preach, what we talk about, and what wo profess to belleve, wo would bo In carneat ubout thelr solvation, And 1 say they are right. Can you find o chureh In all Chiengo, or in the wholo Northwest, whoso members ure reully burdened for the snlvation of souls! To be sure, you mmy find one hers and there, But Is the Church of God to-doy i its trte positiond Are we not living like the worldi Aro we not mingling with tho world, so that the world can- not tell the differenco between the prolessors anil the ones who do not profess! 1 tell you thoy urce tired und sick of shatn profeesions, and where one ungodly man reads this Bibla o hundred read you, aud by the strength of your love for Chrfst, represented throngli your datly Jife, they ’ludgu yuu, and presuma thel our L] Chrlatianity a” myth, Thoy say it Ia n shim; that it {s not real. A young friend of mine, talking to a young mun some timo pzo, and pressing on i the clafms of Clirlat, the young man turned ur his nose, und sald # Idon’t bLelleve n word of your Christianity,” \Vhy.?’nu don't really mean that, do youl—you don't really belleve that all Christians aré hypoerites?” "¢ Yes, 1 do.”” The young manknew thut his mother was o profeésing Christlan and he sald, * You don't think your own wotheris a_hypocrite, do out! “No,' Tho youn{: man didn's want to speak dlerespeetfully of his mother. “ No, I can't call Dier a hypoerite, but she don't bielleve what.shu professes, for it shie did showould have talked to me ubout my soul. My mother never talked to moe personally about iny soul,’ And tho voung man didn't © belleve that his mother belicved what she professed. [ eay the young man had the best of it And {an't that just the condition of hundreds and thousands of -uas to-day—that with us Christian- | ity {8 merely an empty name? Wo profuss somo. thing we do not possese, We have not pub. Huhed the glory of Heaven. Wo have uot put off the old man aud put on the new men, Wa HAVE NOT SBEPABATED OURSELVE3 from the world, Wo are not Jiving with God and Christ, and the world gocs stumbling over, That s what Paul meant when he sald, ¢ Yo wre llvlnF apostles, knuwn and read of all men” The world reads the heart, and if wo do not live ns would ~ have us live, the world whl stumble over us, 1 remem- ber o few years ago helng {n u country town, and the most prominent merchunt in that town had died, and was then lylug a corpse in his house, 1 waa told g story that I havenever forgotten,— that, when tho family physiclan, who was o pro- fessiug Christlan, camu 1o the “)""Ii man, Lig sald tp the merchant, % You caniot live,” aud then he thought Le would talk to him about Christ, Thers are o great mnu{ ust such Clrlstlans, They never talke about Chrlst until thoy hear the deatherattle In the throat and the sanis of Nfo aro about running out, and then they wake up and flud that they have not been faithful, Bolt was with this very man when he tullked with his neighbior about Christ. The merchaut looked up to his old friond, and says, “Dufl.url how long have you kuown thess thinga " ¥ 0Oh," suys the Doctor, *1 became n Christlon before I left the Enst. 1 huye been Christiar cver sines you have kuuwu me * &aya the merchant, it Is very slngnl you never told me that, hefore. You have heen n frlend of mine, hase been In my store every day, or I have heen In your office s you have been my family phyelcl for i‘l:flrk: you hav ben fu” my” home, und have e i yours, and you never told me thishelore. Doe- tor, why didn't you tell me that theee thines wee dred You o knew: why diin’t you tel met' The Dot e to anologize and 1o gabn tmes vl us tu lifs House, 1t kept shngrdigs B s earg, © Why didn's yon me:" He tried to rest, but te contin't, When hewent baek Lo hin dying friend he was vearly gone, and all hix friend’enid when he cane to ity bed-side nealn wos whitper, * Why didn't you tell el ™ and he wae gone, Al how many Sriends you havegot. If they should he summaoned nwny Ty death, and yon shouid attempt to talk to heun, woulin®t inost of them ask you why you didn't talk to them Lefore, S WHY DIDN'T YOU TELS, Mi!Y 5 Oh! oy friends, the world [a waiting for you to rome und tell them of Chiriet s and they will not. huow Christ unless we publish the taiga, ‘Ihe Devil tries to meke gople hellev it Christ Is not reul,: at Gnrlet will not save the worhl} e Af we know Hiw to be our Savior,If God Liaa led to ux Christy shall we not publish it, ¢ not tell ity shall we nob he bold and epenk yight out for Christ{ I read some time arzo alittle notlee Inone of the papers, and it went down lcto my soul us a father. have uever forcutten L A father, one heautiful - day, took his little chifd fnto the feld one Sabnath dny 'jurt to nmuse him. e fafd down under n shide tree, and while he lald there, the Httle chilil was plcks gz wild flowers sand blades of grass, and coming 10 ita father nud saying, “Pretty, preity.”? Anl while the chilil was thus enpazed the father fell asleep. Presently he awoke from bis slesp, nnd of courre his first thonght was, “Wiere 18 my little child 4™ fle looked all around Lie, bt coulif not see the ehild apywhere, Helifted np s vofee, and he shouted as loud as e could, but all he coulil hear was the _echo of his own yolee caming back to him. e ran to a little hill some \\n? off, and looked all around and shcuted agaln at tho top of his voice, and ealled his child by name, but al) he could hear wns the echo of Tils own volee. Then comtng Lo «t preelplee some way off, he looked down, and uway down there mmoug the brfars and among the thorn#was the forin of his child all man- gled, mid brulred, und covered with blood. He went, to the spot. 1e found that 1AFT MAD LEFT THE LODY, e took the Htle ehild up In his arms, and prezsed the body to Lis heart, and Tie carrfed ft buck home, and” acensed bhinself of heing the murderer of hsown child, Is not that” the madern Cliretianity of to-day{ 1las not the Chureh gone to sleep, and ure not our sons aud dnughters wandering near a fearful preciplee? Are” they mot rushing down to ruln while the Clinreh of God I8 asleep? It was not long agro that I heard of n mother who was making @l manner of fin of these meetings,- not these In. Chicay we holding at other pl; —movk- ng ut the singing, scofliug at nnd r!xllrullm.r evervihing, She was n professing Chidstinn, Shic had only one chlld, and he was a drunkard. Onh! she wae 50 Uilnd—that woman, professing tol Clhrlstfan, und yet her only chlld o drunkard and hastenlng to o dritnkard's wrave. It mlzht have been, If 8he hind helped support the meetfugs with her prayers und gymupathy, that they juight have been used to win thiy man [rom g drunkerd’s grave and the rd's liell. ear friends, where are you to-lavi You ke grent énufcusluus, hut are yon Mving un- der God n Chriet yourselves! “Ohl may the text come home to cach ono who professes to be a folluwer of Christ, eud mny we ask our- selves where are we fn zht of God [ I inust hasten on, "Thy sprali to I8 the backsliders, for I cunnot help belleve but in this assembly this sfternoon there nust be o NUMBER OF BACKBLIDELRS, who lieve come llflrc}mr]m[-s from sume country town, or have come from thelr Eastern homd, and when they enme brought a church-letter with then. - They _thoueht they would unite _with the ° First_ Baptlst ~ Church, or the First l’n:sb{lcrlnn Chureh, or this Coun- gregatfount Church, but when there they found he church was u little different from w mmw,y bad at home. They were strangers, dldnit Lknow the minfster, and things were so different, There was not that wannth and love, beense they wero not acquainted. Bo th ept the letter fn their pockets. Perhaps it 18 Worn out; perhaps it is torn uf\: perhaps they carried it for twenty yearst perbaps it was burned up In the Chieago fire five years uzo. But oh! back- slider, are you Impv‘)‘i Murinur in the sudi- cuee, ‘e can’t be."] Now, I have traveled musldcmbly during “the pust five years, and have met - with a great ‘mony thiat hiave wandered from God, and have yet to find the first bappy man that hos turned awusy from God, Now, that man [the one whu mur- mured} knows it pretty well, He shalees his liead, aud says, “ It eanniot be." It {8 utterly Jmpossible, "It Is aguinst the Inw of Goid. ‘There 13 no peace when nman turns away from God, e moy moke 10,000 cigterns, but they willall leak. e may plle-up wealthy you may eend him to Congress, or make him Mayor of the “city; or put hitn nto high position, and honer Inlm, but down beuenth there i8 a fount that 18 empty, Chicago canuot il it with all fts glory. No one can 1l that aching heart, The Sow of God will come and il ft if you will let Ithn como to you, There i8 not' a poor backslider to-dny that eannot come buck 1t he will. “There Is a” volce shouting to you, calllugr you back, Hear the volee. There {3 nothing God desires more than to restore to ealvation every onie that s lost to-day. If there Is a poor wanderer on the dark mountalng of sin that has turned his back towards God, {f he will turn around and to-duy conto back to Him, Ie will forzive that wanderer, He will fargive the back- sliding, and tuke hin 1o his loving bosom. And this will be a happy day if you will ONLY COME TO HIM. Look at the home of the backslider, There 18 no fumily aitar there. "The houseis broken down; und, as the altars wery broken down in tho days of Elljul, the whole mnatlon turned away from God. Thero were 7,000 in tho land that put them down and howed the knee to Baal. The family altar is broken down, Thera are no more prayers to God. Ten't that the candlition of many fu this audience to-dayt Oh, Dackslider, where art thow! What {s golug to Le thy end! Your life is wretched and miser- able,” What will bo your death if you still turn your back toward God, and offend aguinet the iving God of Ieaven, that wants to do you goodt heard, a number _of yeurs ngo, of o young man who camo un to Chi- cago to sell bia fatuer's grofn, It was before we had any raitronds, and his fother was a min- {ster away vown on the praimes, and he sent his oldest soit ub to Chlcago to sell hls grain, The hoy came aud sold the grain, and when the time camo for Ilm to return 1o his honie he didn't go. The father and mother watched one whole nizht. They were up. They didn't want togo to bed, They expected cvery mo- ment to hear the sound of the young man coming, but he didn’t come, The” next day that futher ot so uneasy thut ho saddled his hiorsa and camne to Chicigo. Ilo went to the Inee where he had sent his bo]y, to sco if ho had old tho grain, and found ho had sold ft, and then ke thought he had been nurdered, Ile grot the police on the track and found that Lie bt fiunw into one of tho gambling-dens und gombled away his money that he had got for the gral, And then some of the men told him if he Just sold bils horses and wagzon ‘ho might ret the money back and he could go home snd hll father would never kuow unything about ft, UE WAS I'QOLISH ENOUOR to scll his horses aud Niis wagon, and he went and gambled all away, and lke the poor mun goluig down to Jercliv, when they str! pL)cd Bl tuken everything ho bhud, they cast him ofl, They didu't glve him any money. A great many men think that the ganbiers end salovn- keevers aro the best friends they lave got, I tell you they are your encmies, * They will take everything you have got—take your money, and then get you to sell everything'and strip you of everything you have got. Aud this poor fellow was afrald {o go home and tell his father, so ho ran away. When the father found all out, he mistrusicd that the Loy was_ashamed to come liome, and what did kedol Did ho say, “1 will let Iim o until he gets tired and comes back('" No, a father’s love would not lct hitn do that, Ho went home aud told his wifo what had hap- pened, Aud the futher took his carpet-bag and started, and went from one town to another, and he pgot the - minfsters to let him preach, awl he preached u sermon, und ot the closo would tell his story,—that he had a boy that was dearer to bim” than s own life, who was o wanderer somewhere, e didu't know where, Ho gaven deseription of his boy, and then left his address with the congregation, und urged them, i thoy ever heard of Dhis boy, to write to him, that h might tind him. At fast he got ou the track of the boy, und heard that he hud goye clear tothe Pucific'coast. Hohad gone to Californla. It was at the time of the great fover In that country about gold, Did that father go _home and say, “I will writs him." No, ho went_home “and arranged his business and went to New York and took a boat und he started for San Franclsce, and went clear out to the Pacitle const to huut ui) that wanderer, My fricuds, this {so foiut illustra- :lon of what God will do for cyery backslider iere. aOD JIAS BOUGNT YOU for months aud years. There has not beena {cnr siuce you turned awsy from God that he a3 not been secking you.” Ho wants to call vou back tohiin, When this man got to Ban ‘runelseo ho put it into the papers that ho was kofug to preach fu such u clurch, thivking ent out SBunday t of town Iito the mlnln? 5 n churches, 1 he was Immc)unz down in onc of th and he told his story, and when ot through he pronounced the benediction. and 1he audl- enee were going out. But cway back (o the allery was that boy, The futher dld not ree bfm ot first, but wlhen the atdic ot oul he faw hitn caming towards the pul td when that father saw {t wns lis boy he ran fo hitn and threw Dis loving arma sround lim und took him (o his bocom. He dn not eay 8 word about the past, e forgave ever J»hm’ and_took him back to hils home. Ob, Tackellder, this I8 o fatnt (lusteation of what Gad will do for yoi. Only ncknoweled your fnlgulty and He will forwive ‘you I "There {8 oné pecullarity abont hackelftlers, 7 have gone out of the way of God. God neyer lett you. T never hean! o mou say that God lnd Teft and deserted him, If there s a hack- siider herey T tell him hie hus turned away from God, lius turned his hack towards God, God Joves ki, Why not turn your face towanls Him: He “whl fve you. Thess wil le joy In this_ afternoon it one poor “backslider returns. I you will only treat God, or Chiist, ns a personal friend, Just na we do the rest of our fricids, there won't be one hackisliler where there are a hun- dred now, T wifl tell you of o rule I bave had for & number of years, Just ns §f e was o mem- lier of my own fanliy,—a real personal friend. You know that it is not a creed, it Is not a mere cuipty ductrine. We belleve it {an personal one. “As many as reecive me,”—that moment YOU BECOME CHRISTIANS, We recelve Chrlsty, and treat Ilhn tike o friend, for we love Him., Now,whem I go away, I bid my wile ond children gomliny, and fake my friends by the hawd, and bid “them Wl yoti ever hiear of the poor Lack- e the Lord Jesus goud-byl Did rof one golng Into bis closet, wet- 03, and saying to the Lord Jesuz, come to bid you good-by, I have been ompany ten years, and have loved your y Lut now {t Tas become tedlous; af vy and frksome to me, and §intend to e ur service, and have come to bld you fa Inm gofugr back to the world. Good- by, Lord ‘Jesus, DIl you ever lhear of any vne doing that? I never did. They neyer once turn around; but run off without saying o word, turning thelr backs on God, Ofi, backelider, come hons “Where art thoul” Ave you Imlppyi Just think of your present candditfon! Luok ovir the past” ten ?'L-nrs of your wandering from Giodi Have they jeen years of peace, and Joy, and happiness? Ten thousnnd times no! You Lnow they have not, every onc of you, v backellder knows what I eay 15 true. Ile has had no pentey o Jovs but if he will come to the Lord Jesus, fle will give bim Joy, and peace, nd gladnese, and restore unto hiin the joy of 1Its enlvation, But 1 must. hosten on, The next class are the unsaved, M If the righteous are seurcely saved where shall the ainnerand the ungodly apipearf* 1 will admlt that professing Christians have fallen. Weare fur from Leing wost we ought tobe. Weare so far from Christ. - Wewillvwn ity my friends, Is that avy reason why you " fhould not come to Rim? We dow't nsk you to come to ourselves. If we did, you would then lave o reason for not coming,” We preach Chrlst anil ok you to come to Him. There is no renson in the world A &l you ever b tinz on his 1 have WHY TOU SHOULD NOT. You nust be born of the 8piet. If vou have nat Christ you have not been born of Dirit. Jesus asks you to-dny, my friende, * Where nge youd' Inmin thie hofl to<lay, surround with praylug friends—for really” the rpltit of prayer Is here to alay. Many o mceting I go into that Is fo cold it chills’ me through. It seems to me that the words thut fall from wy lips fall right down on the floor—don't go into the hearts of the people at nll. At other times there fan oplrit of prayer in the meeting, and T feel ity power. There are many people here to<day who are praying. You cantell it in the atmosphere. The spleit of God s here to-lav. Prayer fs cireling all uround you. Maybe that mother beside you {8 praylng for your salvatfon this hour. It may be o loving brotler is pruylns‘:lnr your galvation. Al the time I have been preachine e has-been praving that the sermon may come hiome to you, aud that you may bo eaved, Jesus asks. this day, “Where am Tm Ru}w:ung and resisting the prayers of my loving frlends; trompling the prayers of o salnted mother under my feet; trampling tho md'ers of n Joving wife ander my feet. Now, Ec ouest, Am 1 not tulking to hundreds ot people {n this andlence that made o promise, nerlm[m ilve, ten, filteen, twenty years agof Didn't you nmlwnrrmn]su ta Gol thut you would Beeome a Christlant Are there not muny iu this assembly that made the promise thut they would give themselves to God; that they would serve Ilimt Perhaps they were sick and thought they were dying, and they sl If “God woula " let them get'well they would serve Him? Iave you kept that vow! Haove you kept that promfse! On, sipner, *“where art thout Are you traveling with God townrds Heaven; nre”you making Nzht of ull Ilis offers of merey; al are you turning. dyour back upon your friends, und stul- fing, an RIDICULING, AND LAUGHING ot serious things{ Ulil may thetiodof Heaven hinve merey upon you - and may your proud hieart move You to to the Uol of Ileaven that He may have merey upon yoursonl and eave you! ‘The past two or three years seetn to me to he thie most solemn yeers of my Jlie, You know Itfe Is Mke a b, We go up, and,when we vonte to the top, we o down. Tam Ju what they coll the middie of life. Imay live the allotted life of three-scorc-and-fen. More than hulf of my 1lite {8 done, and I ain on the decline of life, I atn golng down the Lill, There are many (o thls nzscmblf' who, 1 presume, bave passed” the top of the hi li. who gie thirty or forty years old, and are not yet saved. Buppuse you halt now, just for“n few moments, and aele Jesus “Where am Ii" Just look buck down the Wil from wheace vou came, Look back towands the cradle. Don't you res member ten years ago the sermons that you used to licar moved you then! They do not move you now. What {8 the troublel Don't they have a8 good eermons aud us rood preach- fngnow! Don't you behieve it The troublo Is nat with the ininfster’s sermons; it {8 with your hard heart, ‘The Gospel preaches life unto'tife, and death wirto death, — You have lieard the Gospel and rejected it. The ecrmons vou heard ten years sgo make no impresslon upen you aow, As you lack down the hill, dow't you se¢ there a8 n tombstone thut marks the resting-place of a loved mother. ‘Pen years sgo you hud a praying mother upon eartll, Every night and every muorning she went futo licr eloset to &m&t’)mr you, ller pray- ergon carth are coded, Uh, shiner, where art thou! That motler bus gonedown to hier grave praying for you, and yet you aro unsaved, It niny beos you took along down the stream of tinie, down'the hill of lifo_you sec a short grave that wmarks the resting-pluce ot alittle child, When that littlo ehild wus taken awaey from you, it may he she called upon you to LR BEDSIDE, and took you by the hand, and eald, * Father, won't you meet me in heavend?” And didn't fuu promfse that child that you would meet her n the glory lund; and k)™ you promfse God when that great uflliction canie, when you stood Desldo the open grave aud Jovked down inta it and saw the little form for the last thae, didn't {uu vromise God that you would aerve imi five, ten, fifteen, twenty years may-by have rolled nm?' und you have not Lept that promise. OR | slimer where ora yout Ava you going to rcuulvcvleudumcnt without Gl und without bope! [A volee ** Amen,”] Ohl sy Uod open your eyes to-dny, aid show you where you aré. Yes, my frivnds, look liack down tlie bilt of Hfe, and then look out inte the future, It oy be you witl live tha Jife of wld men, Not one out of a hundred will do so, The oversge {8 only ohout " 83 yoars. Remember ~ that the lfe to ‘come s eternlty, Ask yourselves to-day S Where are’yon?" Are you refecting the Gos- vel of Jeeus Chrlst? Are you reststing the offer of men?'l Are you turning your back upon the God of heayént Oh! thut this hour the Uod of heaven mny open your eyes, o you may see the loving Buvior thut stands at tho doar of your heart and knocks with tears, nudt ‘Wauts to come and save you. IN_LONDON, whon I was thero in 1867, they told mo & story that happencd in that “elty that .made a deep fnpressfon on my mind, A young Freneh uobleman cime over front Larls, und brought letters from the Emperor, iro was troubled in his mind, and they thought he was golng to bo insane, Aud hia Triend, Emperor Napoleon 111, wanted Dr, Forbes Wiislow to do ull Lo could 1o save this young tnan for he thought o great deal of hin. Bo be wrote a lettor, and the doctor was, of course, very much interested in tho Freach no- Dieman, and he tricd to tind out the causuof the disease. o knew there wos nunmhlnxl' welghln% upon his mind, and ho wanted to find out what it’ was that Lrought him into that state, and ho sald to blim: +* ITavoyou lust any property (" % No, mr,® 4 Well,” what s it that troubles yout Thero s something that is fiontlufilnn your mind,” o sald he didn't know that there wus unything particular. But tho Doctor saya: I know better, Muvo you lost suny relationsl” +No, have not lost any ths past fow years.” “\Woll, what s It that is troubliug {uul" Have you lust_auy wvumuou or_standing In your countsy{” ®No."' Aud the Doctor kert urging to #ind out, and at last ho puys; ¢ Well, wow, I must know what Is feating upon your wind before I canbelp you” Aud ot lust the nobleman, a4 If he was ashamed to tell, ea; *¢well, Doctor, iy father wns an lnflJcl, iny grandfather sas o nfidel, and I was brought up an infide). But for the Iast two ar h years this word has haunted day and night—Fternity, and sshete shall e 1137 And he, heeoming excited, got up i Legan to walke Lthe room, and the Doctor #ave, “Pake your seat and Le calin, — You hinve ‘tunde womlstake, sir. _ You have come to the & wrote physfelan, T cannot help you'” Aud “the man sprang to his feet, and fald, “hoctor, fa thore any hopel 1 am hatitited with this horrible thought day and night, Tlle down at night and try to go to rleen and sleep for an hour, but af midnight T wake up, and it comes to_me--Eternity, and where shall I spend 1t] and yon speals as it there was hope for me.”* And'the Doctor anys: “For years I wns nninfidel, and 1 found hope in e Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.” And then B opened the [ible and_ho read the fifty-third chapter of Isafah: * He was wounded for'our transgressions; Ile was hrufeed for our fnlquities. The chatlsement of our peacc was upan Him, and witl His stripes we are healed,' And lie read on through the (hapter, and the Youny noblemnn looked nt the Doctor and says, “ Do you belleve that Jesus Christ was WITIL 00D IN HEAVEX, andthat He voluntarily Ieft wnd came down here, and auffered and died that we mizht be eaved 1" ¢ Yes," gays the Doctor, Y1 dabelleve it. 1t was that, my friend, that brought tne out of infldelity, snd I'have {:nt it well scttled in ty mind where I am tospend cternity. 1am tospend 1t In these mansfons that Ife has rone toprepare for me.”” And he preached Christ, and told him of lleaven. And then they both pot down on thelr knees and prayed, and the Doctor prayed with thot man, and'when Iwas thiere in 1567 that young French nobleman was writing to Dr. Forhes Winslow ng one Chirfstian writes to an. other. The questlon was then scttled, and the inan was trobled no ore. I want to leave it with youto-day,mny friends,~Eternity,and where nre you going 1o spend §t1 It s fur you to de- clde, We have ta stay here but a little while, 1 may be preaching my last scemon, You may ring your kst sermon, My friends,where on grolng to Agmnll cteroityi Let the ques- tow be deckded. Speak from the very depths of your hearte, Are }'uu to spend it in Heavent A the nhosts of carth and Hell cannot hinder you. “That little child sitting yonder Is weak, hut all Hell cannot linder hier’ coming to Chrlst, Are you -setting your face towards Teaven? Oh, may God lielp you to accept the invitation, and tnuy you now, by the grace of God, nceept Jerna as your Savier and your Redeemer, Let us pray, EVENING BERVICE. AN IMMENSE CONOREGATION, One of the most brillant and successful mem- bers of the Chicagro Bur, who hias been attend- Ing the Moody ncetings for the purpese of studying the forensie effect of tho evangelist's oratory, yesterday acknowledged hmaelf hope- leasly ut fault to tind u regson for the marvelous effects produced by §t, *1 have studied au- diences for twenty-five years,! e eofd, “but 1 never saw them under such control as under the speaklng of this uncultivated, unlearncd preacher. There must be some power under it all which s more than the mere effect of speeeh’! An opfofon which cenlfed out this repl "~Splrlmul things ure spiritually dis- cerned,’ Lust evening was the first meeting hield at the hour of church servive, and the Tabernavie was ne less crowded {n every part, many stand- ingr, and many more golug awasy for want of rooim, Praver by Mal. Whittle; singing of what My, Moody called o Gospel-hvtun with a searlet lne running through it, **There is a fountain flled with blood.” ‘T'he Scripture lesson was the 24th of Ezekfel, after which Mr. Saukey sang *Waiting and watehing.? The need of o chorister to tace and lend the great chorus-chofr was_evident, fn the absence of Mr. Stebbins. No mon. not even Mr. Sankey, being able to lend 800 eingers with his bacl: to them, and himaclf fully oceupled with his own #luging and piaying. Binging all out of time fs anything but a meuns of grace, d THI SERMOX was founded on the words of Christ—Luke, xix., 10: “For the Son of Man {8 come to seck and to save that which was lost,” This text fu rweet, cnough and long enough, though it 1s o rhort one, to save every sinner that whil belleve 34 for hpsedl, Christ did not come to condemn but to seek and save. Bome people tell me they ure eecking for Christ and cannot find Thm. Let then reverse their statement. Clirist 15 sceking for them ot thes manage to keep out of His way. “When Adam bad sinned, the very first thiy he ought to have tone was to seek God; but in- ftend of that hie hid himeelf, and God was obliged to go and seek for hitn mmnongst the trees of the garden. Toke that parable of the man who bad o huudred sheep. 1 ean see him standing at the door of the fold, counting them a5 (hiey come in from the pasture, and he finds there Is one wmissing, die counts them over aguin and ngain, and when he i sure there are only ninety-nine, he gors out Into the moun- tains 1o seck for the lost one, Mind you, the sheep isn't fecking the shepherd, but the ghep- lierd s fecking the sheep. The rame lesson fs taught {n the purable of the woman with tea pleces of stver. 1 ruppose ghe bad sold somme butter or something that day, and, belng very busy about the house, ghe put the money in lier pocket tl she got ready 10 go to bed, snd then, when she finds there are but nine pleces Ingtead of ten, sbe llglts a can- AP, nnd swweeps the house untfl she finds the lust plece. Itis not the lost plece of money that [s teying to get back fute the woman'y plnekcl. B0 Clrist secks the Jost eluners to save them, 1 was once invited to preach to the prizoners at tha Tombs In New York. ‘They were not al- lowed to leave thelr cells, g0 I had to preach without secing my congregation. Su, after I had finished, I thought I would gzo round and have n Inok st the mew I had been preasching 1o, So 1 went to the fivet cell and found the men fu ft plm‘l}xg carde, ** What is the nmtter with yout*, &n a 4 Oh, we are here beeause o fellow led about us," Solwent to the next und asked the men there how they came to be in_prison, ** Well, we got into bad company, aud some other fel- lows commlitted s erimé, snd we were cuught und held Jor it ‘Tho next man was innocent altogether, s0 I safd. I never saw so many fnmocent men ju ol in )] amy ife. But . presently 1 found a poor fellow with his face burfed in his hauds and two little streams of tears were runnine over them, nnd when 1 asked Blm what was the ald, Ol I am such u slimer, 1 feel st wl hope of meres.,” We prayed gethier, o with his tucs on the stone floor, and t ext day when 1 went to seo hlm ho lud been found by the Lord Jesus Christ, and declnred himeelf the happiest man In New York. ‘] aminute or two and think, Do you really want to be suved from your sinsi The disconrse elosed with a tonching story of a young mwan who had run away from home to get rld of the pravers of bis mother, und when he cane Luek it was only to find dier fn her grave. OTURR MERTINGSH, A unfon miceting of Dr, Thoimpson's church, Presbyterion; Mr, Varkhurst’s chureh, Methoid- Ist, with and at Dr. Everts’ chureh, Buptist, was held Tnst evening fur the South Division of the ¢ity by Mesers, Needhmn and Stebbius, and o meeting for the West Divislon ot tho Third Presbyterian Cliurch by Mr, Moorchonse, An Interesting reuntfon. servies was held at My, Moudy’s North Slde Church this morning at 14 w'elock, Mr, Moorchouse puve u_Bible- re;u‘lui; ou ¥ Clirist, the Rock," and Mr. Moody, with Messra, Whittle, Bltss, aud Erdman, ussist- ed I the services, . The subject for the noonday meetings at Far- well Hall ‘Is ¢ Prayer,” Mectlngs every night at the Tabernacle, exeept Baturduy, - —— T STEINWAY’S TRIUMPH. ‘This Renowned Pinno Munufactnring Tirm Awarded the Victory Over All Computie tors. ‘The victory won by America fn the recent award of premnfums to Group 23, at the Centens nlal Exposition, {s significant, Europe has ever cluimed the precedence fn anvthing pertulning to musfe, To her manufacturers and urtlsts the palm hos ulways been awarded, and there hus never before been a very murked effort to break down the ¢lalm, But the crowning of the Btefu- way plano, the best offered, las created u revolution in the musics) world, and has handed over to America the medal for the production of the best pluno uow manufactured, It was no small tusk, that of discerning where the greater merit loy, and the judges nt the Ex- #ition perforined u not by uny meaps leht duty when they made their seleetion, Worlid's Falrs ave few and far between. An award at one prochahins the standard until another s held, and every mauufucturer doubles s efforts {n his «llqnul\: for the coveted bit of rlbhon that aball mark s fustrument the best, "That such mm[:c(luml 1s beneficial will bo adinitted. Each exhibitor presents the gem of his manufacture, and the bestowal of the medal does not tix upon 8 majority of perfect detalls, buy decides us tothy beat “system. Qroup 25 was agusket of su- perh construction, From every Guarter-of the tusleal world came competitors for the title of “best.” Italy, Germany, Englund, France, Ruesia, und Auscrla sent thelr finest instrus wents, aud Aluerics presented o display unpar- alteled, Knabe, Decker, Chickering, cry Bteck, Hazelton, Finllet & Davls, Bchomacker and ofher doniestic manufactirers sent the most magnificent apecimens of thefr handiwork, Steinway took the prize. At no former display waa thero ever such o collectlon of Aquare, geand, and worlght planos, In 1562 at London, and 1367, nt Parls, the meed of merit was award- ed to Steluway, and in 1873, at Vienna, though thelr Instrinments were not_exhibited, they won tnore than honorabte mention from tha Judges, who reported, © In regard to the American di- vision, it 1s much to ho deplored that the cele- brated path-breaking firm of Stelnway & Sons, of New York, to whom the entire plano-manus facture {s 80 greatly indebted, has not been rep- resented.!? The judpes at the Centenntal wero four fn number,—two Americans and two foreigners, Never hefore were the tests more thorough and rigorous. They searched diligently for defects, and equally fndustriously for the more pro- nounced merit, After o long and careful exam- {nation, the unanimous verdict was In favar of the Bteinway instrument, They pronounced ft perfection, “They allowed to it everything It manufucturcrs claimed for it, and ncorporated In thelr report Stelnway’s claim for Inventions. What action will be taken by the other manu- facturers, it Is Impossible to esy. They may flood the country with advertisements clalming for thelr fustrutnents all that the judges re- fused, But the declsion of the 1udg]ca is final, The defeated may contend that thelr fnstru- ments show many of the merits of the Steln- way, This Is, to o certaln cxtent, true. The Stelnway ‘Ynlcntn have been stolen 0ll over the world, and there {s not a plano now made that daes not contain some of the Steinway Im- ravements, But the judges at Parls, London, Vienna, and Philadelphia’ have declared that the stulm\-ny nlone fs the only perfect plano nnd these gentlenien to-day stand at tho ke of the world, Inorder that the maturo of the Bteinway award may Le fully understood, and that there may be no opportinity for caviling by those Wwho soughit hut conld not abtafn such a com- pliment, the following officlal copy of tho Re- port of the Ju of Awnrds {8 given: The undersiened, having examined the Grand, Square, and Cprizht planos exhibited by STEINWAT & Soxu, rekpectfully recommend the stme to the United Statea Centennlal Conulesion fur award, for the following reasony, viz: i For greatest concert capacity in Grand tanos, as aleo highest degree of excellence tn all their efyle of planos—viz : Largeet volume, purity, and duration of fone, and extyaordmary earrying capacity with precisian, and_durabitity of mechaniam; also, noteldisnosition of the strings and construction, und bracing of the metal fraine, Improvements upplied Ly StrixwaT & Soxs wero the following: - 1. A DisrumitioN or mun Stnisas 19 e Fonst or A I'AN, plucing the bass string acro<s the steel atringm, and moterislly elongating the suund-boanl bridges by moving thém nearer to the centre of tho round-hoard Itaelf, thus setting greater portions of {he lutter Into vibratory action, end #o producing a greatly-fncreased voluine of soand, . A Derrex Scair, patented fn 1877, brings juto action me portions of the strinze which heretofore Iny dormant nnd inactive, thereby | crearing the rickneer, pliadllity, and atnging quo A7y, an well as the carrying capacity of tie tone, cnrcclally of the upper notes, 1, A Curoa METan Fraxe, patented n 1872 ond 1875, with ta new sysiem of o cross-bar and racinge, wiving abrolute safety againet the pull of the striase, and Increaring ‘the eapacity (o ataud in tune, The spnee gained by the useof the Capo A"Artro bur permits the uac of more heavily felted hammerr, whereby o pure, rieh quality of tone ls retained much longer than heretofore, IV. A Cosernterion oF Ty Suuxn-Boann, with lte mystem of compression, (as shown in the vatenta of 18Gd, 1800, and 187:%) preventing that relaxation of the sound-board which 18 the natural reslt of Its constant concussion, caused by the ttrokea of the bamricr against the eteingy, and by V. A METALLic T rLan Fraxy Action (pat- , elng entirels impervious to atmorpherlc infinences, In conjunction with the new system of escapement, resulting in wacrring {,;lnm-hlnn. power, and délicacy of (ouch, and dura- e Vi, A Toxr-SustaiNixa ProaL (patented 1674), extends the capacity of the plano for the produce tion of new musical cffects, by enabline the per- former, at pleusure, to prolong the round of n slnele note or group of uotes, leaving both hands frec to strike other notess I8 of almple constriic] tion, not Ilable to get out of order, and Its use enrily acquired. StoiNway & Soxa exhibit, fn ¢ Machinery Hall, " sumples of METAL PanTs, and HAnnwane. and Fen Metal Fnastes of Grand, Squaré and Upright Planos: also, samplon of their PaTeEST Merantic Tunvtar Fraue Actione, all producei ;nl'xlu‘lluundry and metal works st Astorls, Long sland. "Theso articles of composite metal show the Algh est perfection of Jfininh and scorfuaneklpy and tho greatest irmness and unlformity of metal struct- are, 0 steel-like and pounding qoality with a ten- sile strength exceedine 5,000 w ‘pnr square centl . meler, 8y demonstraled Ly actunl tests, 7T metal Trames of cupoln aliads ponsess sy waeq degree of rewetauce, lmrm(mng a vastly increased teanion of stelnga without the'w)ightesi danger of break or eruck In enfd metal frames, lllclt’lli' o= lderably increasing the vibratory pouer, mid auy- tuenting dhe laating gualities of thicle In. ments, shgunture of the Judgo: H, K, Ouivem, Approval of Group Jul . Scheldmayer, P, E. Kupi Genrge P, Nristow, Sir Willlin Thowpsen, I Eenry, Jawes ., Watson, AL, Ed Favee Venet, thgurd, F. A, 1% Barnard, . BUSINESS NOTICES. To One and All—~Are yon suffering from o cougl, cold, asthima, breneliltiz, or any of the va- rioun pulimonary tronbles that #o often ond fn con- anmption? 1€ wn, uxe **Wilbor's Pare Cod Liver Ol and Lame, ™ o rafe and etleaclous remedy. This 14 n0 quack preparation, it b rezutarly proecrived by the medical rocnlty, dManufactured ouly by A, B, Wilbor, Chemlst, Boston. Sold by all driggista, R 41 Boland, the well-known drugglst nt No, 53 Clark atreet, husmade a greathitin the ** Aromatia Bitter Wine of Irou. " We advlse those who are sutlering from nersonsmess, hupoverlshed. blood, wenkues<, or mpaired digestion, to try it. AT BARGAINS TN SILES AT TEE Wost End Dry Goods House, Madison & Peorin-sts. Notwithstanding the recont hoavy advance in 8ilks, the following lines of Special Bargains will be found as cheap, and somse of thom cheap- or, than ever before: Very largo assortiment Colored Gros Grains, desirablo dark shades, at $1.265 ; n very cheap lot, Heavy Lyons Colored Gros Grains, choice faghionablo colors,aty1.60, woell worth $1.76. Line of rich and heavy Lyons Col- orod Groa Grains, elegant shados, at §1.76 per yord, regular $2,256 quality, and tho choapést lot weo hnvo ever offored. Full lines of Trimming Silks in tho now cloth shados. BLACK SILKS. Good all-gilk black Gros Grains at/ 1,00 and $1.10 por yard. Heavior and better black Gros Grrins at%$1.25 and $1,856 per yard. At 81.60, o spocial bargsin’in hoavy Black Lyons Gros Grains, At §1,76, Lyons Oashmere Gros Grains, worth 500 a yard more. At §3,00 wo offer a very rich, heavy, snd elogant LYOM Cashmere Silk; cannot bo replaced at $2.50, FANCY SILKS. Lino of dark fancy 8ilks at 760 per ard, ; Ai'eal.oo, very desirablo assortment darlc stripd Sitks. At §1,25, ohbico lato Novoltiea in dark aolordd fanoy Bilks, Very tull assortment Trimming Vol- vots in all the new doep shades at ‘vory low prices, Velvateens in tho dark cloth shades. Carson, Pirie & Co. “IT PAYS "0 TRADE 0N THE WEST SE” TATLORUNG, CANNON & CO., MERCHANT TAILORS, 89 Monroe-st.