Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1876, Page 5

"= Mk REVIVAL ~l‘;a;tings at the Tab- 0011232 Ycsterday Densa- Iy Attanded. et g, Moody's Appeals to the Uncon- Givo Promiso of Good Results. —m st's Compassion for All Who Are in the Bondage of Iniquity. -_— {slor's Injunction to the Disclples = 51“:100 Yorlh and Preach the ospel. — The preaching ot the Blood Both seriptural and Ennobling. verted curl by tho Dav, Mr. Holbrook in Re- L ;ly to Brooke Horford, TIE EARLY BERVICE. THE BUNDAY MORNING MEERTING the Tabernnele Was well attended. Prolinbly . Joss than 4,000 people wers present. Mr. mth opened the services with o solo, ** Are i jwlm'lows opened toward Jerusalem (" ,m:n was followed with prayer by the Rov. A. “11“:: l“sfl-lpmru lessons were from 1. Co- sothlans, third chapter, beginnlug with thoninth . sFor we are Inborers together with T aleo from the Dtcenth chapter, beghi- ,mém; the forty-first verse: *There I8 one oy of the aun, and nnother glory of the oo, zdanother glory of the stars, for one star dif- fapth from anothier star In glory.” After another Gospel songg, Mr. Moody read m’g 1olowing call, or address, fssucd tothe Cbristian Jadics of Chicagzo by the Lodles' Com- mitee of the Moody and Sankey meetings: U5 MEVIVAL SERVICTS—UTIE SASTEIL 18 COME, AND CALLGTU FOI THEE,? The Lord hnth visited 1fis people. The aplrit 1s allsg #inncrs to_ pepentance, und nrousing bes fercrito scek the Mborty of tlie children of Gud. Thielsour harvest. One hiour's work dono now yillcountmote than far grouter effort put forthin time, i e Shriatian woman Iny aallda all en- ts, pleasure-accking, and common R0« ml;in:fll |h|; may flnd time to work for Christ? Bl g each fielp on theso meotings by her pres- eote a0l Prayers, I||\'|ll‘||;: {’I"m!i" llo llll\'llll.‘ ||rg:|h|g d to_coms 10’ the Savior, sceking “the B pasor tho Huly Ghiost ubion her owm kouly and gixing conetaut aupplication that o may coine in power, mot only {0 evury ome n this eity, but fn Jthe Northuweat. e i for us to erowd out nto & rlch, fall, complete Christian 1ife, and take our houre- Follewith us Into work for' the Jtedcemer, The £ldsare white to tho harvest, Alsdies' meeting bs held tu Farwell Hall each an uupu‘almnmy‘ at 1 o'clock j i, —just after meeling. Lt the spirit and ha brldo any come. And Jethim that hearcth way, eome, And et himn thut et come, mAu'lI wlhm:uuver will, let hitn take efthe water of life freuly.™ After reading the calif Mr. Moody enld: * Wo tareonly sbout thirty days nore for these meetiigs In Chicago; now will not these Cliris- tlan women lay aside all cutertainments, and parties, and festivals, and join heartily In the wrk of tryingr to save sivoers during the rest clthisrevival efforti We are not dolng all we i, oo unless Go’s people take this work on theit bearts and Into llin.-lr lI:nmlsl, w«[: xl;nu {'mt. e fuch results as we have been hoplig fors but ey Crstan wil do, sontethine, wil try to Lriog vne soul to Christ, there wil) be u glorlous teatherlug In the next thirtyadays,? TIE AUDKESS. Ishould ke to gzo on talking about Danlel tismsming. Wetind In the niuth, and tenth, and clerenth chapters that three thnes o messenger flmlfiflf" -:\m[:: ?‘:! hhinl. nmll )l"lld him he was claved of the Lord. o imizht have been un- l»;m!awi; umilh, but ",t wus very popular ‘ln caven. But Imust call your nttention Lo the u'.unLnIChrlsuun \\;;rk,)nu\l h'1 d;flnufiu wlu willake a text out of this saine hook of Danfel the et eliapter, the seeond and thivd versesd And many of then that sleep in tho dust of the Py lhn)lyn\vnkv, vome to uvxcrlnslhu; Nire, and wue to shane nd_everluating contempt, © And &r}éfil‘lx\\{w .Il:.llll llhilw"nultlm brightnesy of ¢ tmament, ond they thatl tam many to Hahteosaiess s Uho stare Lorever and evers They shull shi No doubt of ft. Now we lliketoshing It justnswellownit, We like lu ehibie ourselves, and we like to have onr children ghine. What mother does not ke to g.\n- Mrl‘?” nhh‘n: \I\‘ul‘llhc(ulltlh ul]nl Deauty, or urson shine ut the head of his cluss in seliont \(\dlI here wu are told how to shing: tot. tor o i.(:llc white on carth, but, us the stars, forever ol ever, The great oues of earth shine for o little whlle. There was Nebuchutnezzar, who wis o greatand mizhty Kiung i D o but we might g;fl;lmv;: ku;nmfimythlug bout. llnhu i1 1t Il een fur that Hebrew captive who wi 3 mavy great numes have heen forgotten In the luse mn ‘!run, and, xio!ll(\l umi ure grlum. Inour tpue ery 5o ‘i e [\ Ford o od don 5y it ‘e rent htates: men, aml the great astronomers, and the sentlets shall ghine, There ore e Mew Who huve great nawes powadays, who are digring down futo the arth to bring "Du»nuofix ueul carenss theti 1k agalnst the Word ol G these e whall rot, in the s shiniuz ay the brightne olure are only ufew wiho can shillio i this S o DA Bk s e v ume worldly distine- flg:bll:’llhlu“llhfi liln:z'hlm;l of h(liml every oney W ¢ smallest and bumblest, mzy shine erally I he Wil anly o wnd wih soma soud to I it. Thero 1o w Mifeo fupression I the ;‘L'r\':l!flml ouly the mlnllnl.ur, undd perlutps the o y G turn souls to righteousuess, i“l:b)luu 9 of the members fmagine that when liz{ I‘hl‘l‘lr . blll\v?nvufiuid and l“l"l":fl the Churel r work fs e, - ) e I‘I?flbc l!'lu munl.cr-slml;é :Ifnhm 1!1‘::"(!’:"{‘:::“:'1‘(‘:’!’::"1‘; “lmd of Gl who cannot bring i sume oy “:Illlg é:l;l' hléxu(lom ot Uudl.l There A uot “inore thnn yeurs o a2, who wus convarted two weeks ugo, and Z foy mf:';\lll;xtr'llv Inthe 1’" uiry-rovm, wateh- i ] e OWIL ez, Teto shporc Al gues mud talks with hery dzid ot How her tho wuy of life. The uther 3 tho Just one to leave, and us we rronent. Row sl [y el .y, yaeguing uut. she sald, “ Mr. Moody, 1w YOULG Dt b d, ¢ Mr. Moody, \\'uul mmk:m!.l‘!‘u,\t the Loed will make me o win- A the twelyo Apostles, They have been '";‘,"\”"‘"I LOW years, but how they shine! 5 10 ot geeat In anything else, oxeept in ,‘mvtwtlun to Christ amd Lis worlk, sud for m.uuuu_lmm they huve tved in Ll hearls U \llll{\urual' Clurch of God, Tho only iyt lieups Chrlotlun: people trom turuini ol ponEbLeONsCss £4 Want of u desiva foF oy Uml + Wherever you lind an anxioua m“{ you will always thud anxlous souls e Levery oue of you who bellove in “)]\:A\'xm(: \‘fn woul nd |ltu lhl; Ty ) uee e, wouders o ""“‘V"!':Kh.uul«_l Witness [n the uext thirty days, e, \I“‘ was onee calling on a poor little deifly o D was #o helpless that ho was evl- Lo gotomed to e ou Lis bed nbl his ifo; and 1y Jeaus g b o by . 4 Lo par i 8 tly distressed at the "ah‘hfl\'u“u“ilfi::]?u ot "to lieuven he would X crown, “Hul you cun s et of feuple wnd pray for e s ”"hnui'f‘ i then o went uway and forgot fayue \"l"t Lretty soon wman came to him'to Sithr 'u;nl L should do to be sa Al amd then malof peped anetier, 11 ther was quite o re- ot it fn his charch. The father of g lerould come we from the mdeting, 5t l:l{e Lellow would sk about this vie i o 10 ey werg thare, and it they Loy peerted, wud” then he wowdd turn b s iy Wall il pray, Bliortly afterwards Ty lthflhplu divd, “und there wus found ur ylilvate papers o st of i l.1.|v.“u'" ho “hind been praying n.(l alone, there were ufty-six of t r“”) one of them hud been convert- evival, 8o even ho did B starlegg crowr S C D B0 not hwve to Ay mend:‘ Crow, Snfagyit the spirit of Qod Is abrosd in this "““ngfi' and Af you wit] nly sieak Lo your ll'lh“u }xulglxl:un’; out of Christ, you ‘nny o) 6ad 4 g00d many of thent L Him, 2 u‘f e 1 wsed to bo the Jaugniig- ks 'I..]!}unnnuull 1 because [ used to stop e llmuffi.-“m 4ud claewhero und talk to fa gy % hele soutsy but that was the school 7l o ed W preach the Gospel, It wua Mty § sk to song ouy every day, One 1§ Xflh:l“:i‘ céumq home, when Y got us’ fur us Aty L la’rk oud Luko strects, [ remem- Wihat 't spolien o uuy unconverted "ll'wuudy sbout his soyl, fiuc just then iy 0 see u oman leaning up ,huu»mn, un I “went N nnr hund* on his shoulder s '8 loved the Lord, Ho wos .“urncd round and cursed mo; and 4t b0 4 frisud of wios sud salds | Don't you . YHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1876, *If you hase ony influence with that man Moody, Iyial vou'would tell him to stop hia fmpudence. e §8 dolme more Larmi than any ten men in Chiengo, 8o my friend eame and tried to persudde me that T was dolng mischlef hy speaking to steangees that way 3 but I roplied thnt Gl hadn’t showed It to u that light, amd untit e dhl 1 abould Keep elzht on as be- fore, Well, alittle while after that, when { nsed o livo up I the Young Men's Chrlstian Aaso, clatlon rooma nnd wns janitor, and sexton, and Becretary, sl what-nof, very carly one moens g 1 beard u rap at iy door, and, as soon #s cottld drexs e, I opened it and thero stood a_ man who wi A ?crre«.-t ptranger, know mie 1" he asked, I am thd wnn that cursed you for asking him abous lis soul down thero at the corner of Clark and Lukestrects, T haven't had uniinute’s peace sinee, and now Iam comato nsk yon to pray for me”! 8o we got down nnd prayed, and he found the Savlor, and that day he went over to my school at the ol Nurth Market Hall and took & class. When the War broke out he went futo the arm, and I never saw him ogafn, But after that kept right on talking to ainncrs ubout beiny saved, and for ffteen years I bavo been engayge in this personal work. There are s good many people who are willing to do Jarge thiiygs for Christ, to speak to thou- sands, bt not to preach to one or two., They are Nke u man who was anxious to get rich so that he contld pstve awny great sums of moncey, but in the meantitne he didn't give away onything. One nleht he areamed that he died and an angel toole hin ton place where there was o beautiful temple. 1t was ull complete except one stone of the wall, which had been left out, and when he Inqulre(i wvhat was tho reason, the angel answered: ¢ Thut stono was designed Lr you, but ns you were not willing to take the place which the Master huilder desfzned for you itwas nceessary to leave you out altogether,” After thut the ‘man atopped louking for great things, nud was willlug to 111l his. own place in JYaod’s temple. My friends, don't walt for something to turn up; commence to-duy; commence by talking to your Sumday-school cliss or to your neighburs, or any® ohe who may be within the reach of your Influcn, % 4 T will el i’ouhcwl got my firat impulso In this perac mal work for gouls.” I lindn't got bold of the Iiea; there was no one to teach e, and Twas gofog 0 With the wencral work of my school when u WAN, Who was onu of my Bunday- came Into my place of business one day, looking very fll. 1 usked it what was the muitter, und he repled, ** Lhave been bleed- ing at &hu Tungs, and the doctors have giveu mo up to die.” p"nut you are not m'tald to dic, are you 7' “Nu, T thinl not," hy answered; ut there 1o my classj I must JeaVe Jt, und there is not one of thet converted.” It was u class of young ifv.'sfl:atgave me more troubte than any othier clags 1.4 th e wholeschool § they were all the while finhblh ¢ aud Iaughing atud carrying on, nud nof Ddf' coudd do anything with them oxcept this teacher, u.ud ho huil lard work to get ulong with themn, ' yYeul," satd I, 4D mu;t;')‘uu go aud cull on them bofore you go away’ #°No," lie nid, hie was too wenk to v.7pht 8o I went aud got & carrdugs and ool him ranud to sce tliose carcless scholars, and he Elcmlud with them and prayed with thewm one )y one to glve thelr heurts to Christ; he ,ypent ten dnys nt this work, and every onc of it class wus saved. Thonight before he left t*he ity for his home nt the Eust, where he was g Ing to see his mother and to die, we got the teacher und the class together, and'such a meet- ing I never saw on carth. He prayed aud @ pmsed, and then the scholars, of thelr own ae- cord, without my asking them,—I didn’'t know us they could “pray,~prayed for thelr teacher, and for themeelves, that thiey might all be kept fu the way of life, and, by aud by, oll mect again in heaven. : I have thanked God a_ thousand times for thuse ten days of persunal work, My friends, what will you doi Let eyery one of yuo say, “By the grace of God, L will try aud save somnc soul to-day.'’ TIUE INQUIRY MEETING. Mr. Moody closed thie meeting with rrnyer, nnd then ansounced o meceting o tho Inquiry rouns for thirty minutes more, for such 08 were nble to remuin.’ The north room was full to overflowing, and at Mr. Moody's call for those who wished to offer themselves to » decper bap tisin of Il1s spirit und a better vreparation for thelr work, a very large number rose to thelr feet, and ufterwurds the whole congregation knelt fn prayer. “ We nre too proud,” sald Mr, Moody. “ One reason why God don't glive us power 18 because He s afrald to trust us'with {t.” AFTERNOON BERVICE. NUNDREDS UNABLY TO GET IN. ‘The afternoon service at the Tabernacle was one of the lurgest of the series. The large Luflding was completely filled by half-past 8, und hundreds had to be turned nway before the service begnn, The preliminary song service was grone through with the usual enthusinzin, and when Mr, Moody rose to deliver bis sermon the audicnee were wrought up to u Ligh pitch of revival sentiment. Following Is o full ab- struct of the school teachers, DISCOUNSE: T want to eall your attention to onc word that i often found in Beripture—compassion, We find it often recorded that Clrlst was moved with comupasslon. I remember some thme ago tnking the Concordance and golug right through the difo of Cirist to tind vut what fvwas that so moved Him, In one placewe vead of His lifting up His cyes and seelug o great multitude, and that, moved with compassion, He healed thesiek. Une cannot look upon this audience and not be moved, heeause we du rot know what sorrow and bitterness may be In your heurts. But when Chirlst fooked upon n multitude, 1o could rewd their henrts ond knew thelr sorfows, and therefore His hieart was moved with compassion. 1 want to cull your sttention Lo one sweet trith —that we have a Savior thoroughly in symputhy with us, and one who has compusslon on ever: sorrowliy soul fn the world, And if we tefl Him our troubles tHe will comfort us, for lle s power to bind up the broken heart and com- fort thoss n distress, Let us luok at the In- stances recorded where He was moved Lo com- pusslon, In the first chupter of Murk we told of His curhng theleper. 1or a few iinul let us Jook ut_ thit leper, nud br}ug the story down to the present thae. el seo that man coming o one duy und saying to his wife: W1 feel yery strange, and thers is sonething on my body ‘which looks Jike leprosy.* And his wite looks and suys, My dea, It does look lke the leproky.” A clotd comes over that home, His wifo s ebildren urg hearthroken, They know well what the leprosy imeuns—thut 10 b Is prunouticed leper ho"must forever loave them, Such u fate i much hurder than Hoing down to tho grave; it s lke living fn o sepulehre. Bunlshed from s home, from so- clety, with nothing to veeapy his thne, and com- llcllml to cry whenever uny one approached, “Unclean! Uncloan!™ The inun takos his little Johnuy in his urms and kisses hiucg ho bids furs- well to his wife and tho rest of the Lanlly, und then goes to the Ilgh Pricst, 18 pronouniad o leper, and I8 banistied. Perhaps somno one cotes und Lells him that his cblld {3 sfck and dylng, but he cunnat visit him,—ho cannot 1o aind drop o tear over the gmve, But, by and | the Bun of God comes round, and, sftér liste fiz to the man's story, vieanses hiin of all fue- Uiy, at rejolefng there would be in that winily when s went homu und told of his mar- velults recovery, Well, the leprosy of sin ja worse than any leprosy thut wus ever dn this world, It was sl that drove Lucifer, one of the Lrightest angels, grom [feaven. It e sin which bliuhts many a hume, Byt uny manatilicted with thils vile dis- ease can coms to n compussionute Bavlor aml Do cwed. The casting uut of tho devil alter the trunstigurationds unother instance of Clirlst's compasslon. It ought Lo encouraze fathers nd mothers who luve sons that are breaking thelr hearts, aud rushing down to death and bell, 1f they taku thelr boys to Christ, Ho will east out the” dovils und rescue them, lh\u{xl futher fn this city hus o son worse than thisboy, I would rather “have my sou deafl ond dumb tnan he should go dowit to a drunkurd’s grave, ns many ure at this thue, What.can youdof Why, bring them to Jesus and Me will save then. Jut some way 8oy, * My son da worse thut that. ‘Those that are ll\'ln;i have hope for converslon, Lut miuo fs dead™ ~ Wel), remember what lmppened after tho widow’s son died, Christ brought him to Mfe ngain to comfort his aged mothier, There 14 not a mother ora father heve to-duy weeplng for a lovely child, ora child weeping for o purent, but thut the Son of Uud sympathlzes with you. Ile 13 umuy of compusslon, nnd 18 heart goes out towards vou toduy. 1o wants to bind up that broken ieart, mn{ it you bring it to Him aud toll Hin wil about {t, 1T will speak words of comfort and consolation, Hu s able to heal every broken heart fn this vast ussemnbly, Look st Him again coming up w Jerusalem to be vifered us a suerifice for the world, They break off the branches from the palm-trecs and wave them over His head und shout, * Ilusanua to the Son of Duvid1" Thoy take vll thelr garments and spread them tu the m{‘ and wunt to bow down aud worshlp i, When tho clty burst upou 13 view In ult itsrandeurund glory, e seced to forget Uul\'ur{ und Gethsemang wnd all their borrors, und o wopt over it; His great hicart vius woved with compassion. He kuow in a littlo whilo a great army would como nzulust the city and bealego it, and that motbers would cat up thelr own childrun, aud that 11,000 per- sops wonld perlsh becauss of rejecting salva- tlou. ‘Thorc wua not wwman in all Je enu that He did not want to save. There Is nota man {n all Chitsgo that the Soun of tel docs ot want to change to-tay, ITe 1n unel cable, full of comparalon, und” wantz to vory ortl b thin vast ns iy, And 6T you conie 1o 1l He will take you (n'1s loving armos, take yort to Hin bosamy and carey you nver the dark mountaing of A and unbelief, safe to Kingidom of Heavet, Can you afford to ltm and verlsh i Waon't you be saved by Chrlet. this day and hourt Will you say to-lay that you Bee nu “beauty {n steh n Bavlur,—ouce that catne down to this world to saye and bless it. A man #ald to me to<lay, ** Well, Mr. Moy, { have no deaire whatever to he a Christian.” T snid, Wil you e 1t in this way—tihat you would rather be damncd than myed.” *Oh, no," he grnsered, 141 won't pat I that. way. W, Tsnid, * Jan't that the best way to putitd It you have no desire to b saved, doesn’t it follow ihat you would rather be damned ' “Fhere is 1ot i man or woman In this assambly hut has need of Chelat, and (e will help you dirry your burdens and sorrows If?-uu come to Him.” Louk at i onthe cross, Wien they mocked and de- rided Iim, Jlo crled, * Fathir, forglve them they knovw 1ot what they do.” 1Te Is unchange- abie, In the very panns of crucifixion His heart went out In compassion to the penitent thdef, Ohl sinner, the Sou of God wants to have com- passion on you. Let llm save you. Let Him come right to the seat where you are sitting to- day. How mnany times my mind hos gone back to the nlght when [met” Him! He spoke, so tenderly amd_lovingly to me that I was quite captivated. T have nover secn u ninute since then but that T want to forget the blankness of my life before. After relating an incident of the War, of an aged woma visiting her dying son In hospital, and his dylug In pence, without looking up at wll, exdaiming, **Oh, mother, have you comed" when she pliced lier hand on the boy's brow, Mr. Moody sald: *There wus compassion behind that. Thiemoment you feel the touch of the Lord Jesus Clirist you will know {t. There Is compasaton in Iilw henrty and let me urge you to accopt of Ilis merey at once,” .EVENING SERVICE. AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE, The Tabernacle was full, as usual on Sunday afternoons and evenlngs, long before the liour of service, and Farwell Jall was nguin in request for an overflow meeting. Mr, Sankey opened Lhe service with a rolo, “Yet There Is Room.” Prof. IHopklvs, of the Chicago Theologleal Seminary, offered prayer. The Scripture lesson was from the sixteenth chapter of Mark, belug rho account of the resurrection of Christ. Mr. Sankey then sung Knocking, knocking, Who la there? And, after the announcemonts, the chorus was sung by the whole congregation, *What a friend we have fu Jesus.” r_’l;go text wos then announced—Mark, xvi,, 5-16¢ And ho said unto them. go yo Into all the world gud prench the Gosyel to'evory creaturo, 1o that believeth and Is baptized shall be saved, and he thiat bellevett not hall be dammed, THE SERMON. T like theso texts that have such n good sweep that they take in u\'ur_vbmll)‘. Some_ preachers liaye gecat trouble in ‘getting thelr hearers to Lelleve that thc{ are included n the Gospel call, but surely everybody {8 to be fnvited necordiny to thls farewcll charge of Christ to His disciples. Now these words were uttered ofter Christ had tasted death for every man. Qethsemnane was bewind Him; Calvary, with all its horrors, wns yast ; He was Just ready to io homa to take [lis seat o't the right hand of the Father; He was Just paving the disclples tlis parting measage. 1 cau just imagine all that little band of” dis- clples who stood around Him, those unlearned men of Galllee, those fishermen who had been associated Avith Him for three years—I can im- ngine the teare trickling down tkelr ¢hecks ask ¢ talked of leaving them, and one of them thinking that the Lord didw’t really mean that, that He dldn't mean they should preach the (lospel to every ereature—for He hud hard wark to ke them Lelieve that the Gospel shiould ho reached to the Gentiles, 1t scems as it the gews wanted to keep the Gospel o Palestine; but by the grace of God it would tlow outj it would go tu the world beeause He had given or- ders that the Guspel should bLe preached to every creature. And now we find the messen- gers golng to the foar corners of the earth to Proclaus the glad tidings of the Gospel of Christ. But I can fmngino that Peter says: “Lord, you don't really mean that we shall preach the Gosped 1o those men that murdered_you, to those men that took your 1ifed" “ Yes," snys the Eord, *gzo aud preach the Gospol to those Jerusalem sluners.! I ean fmagiue 1im spying: “Go nnd hunt up that man that put the crucl erown of thorns upon My brow and preach the Gospel to bim, ell Nin he shall have a crown in My kingdom with- out o thorn fu [t, Ile may sit upon .\l{ilhmuu i€ he will accept of sulvation us a gift, o huut up that man that spat in He‘ fuee, and preach thic Gospel to him aud offer him suivatlon, and tell him lw can be saved if ho s only cleansed by the blood I ghed at Calvary. Go to the muan that throst the speir into XMy eide and tell him there f8 o nearer way Lo my heart thun that, Tell Wim there iy uothing but love In My heart for ki, Go preach the Gospel to every creature.” And alter 1e hiad gone up on eh, we find the Holy Ghost cane dowa npon tas tenth day, and then they began to prencl, ntid now see Petery stand- fug there upon the dity of Pentecust and preach- g the Gospel of God to sinners; aud Jolm Buvyan says: *1fs Jerusalem sinner can be suved, there {s hope for us il Do you think God 18 mocking! Do you think Gud1s preach- ing to you and then ot glving you the power to take ft The Qospel ls preached to every creature, and do you thim: ile s not willlug that every creaturé shnli be awed on the fuce of the cartht Now, I like to proclaim the Guspel, because it 13 to be proctadined to all. When Lace a poor drupkurd, when Isee o thief, when I sce o pris- uner ju yonder prison, it Is'n ;ir:m'd, glorious thing to go and provalm to binr the szlud tidings, because I know he can be savil. There i3 nut ono thut has gone sv far or fulley so low but that he can be saved; beeause every vue of God's proclamations are headed * whosoever.” That takes In all; nobody s left out. In a ‘:rlnou tho other duy thu chaplain enld to me, VT Wwant to tall you wscene that oceurred here some thwe ago. Our Comuissiuners went to the Govermor of the Klute and got Mim to give his consent to pardon out five men for gvod hebuylor, The Governor safil the record was to bo kept in secret; the nten were to kuow unthiug about tt, and at the ikl of six months the-men wers brought out, the roll was called, wud the President of the Commlssion eame up snd ‘F“"" tu thew; then putting his hatuds fu his pociwt e drew ::ul the papers wid safd to those 1,100 couverts, I hold ]u ny hamd P:mluml for five moen.’ [ never wit- nessed unythlng Mk It, Baery muan held Lis breath und §t was na ailent iw death, Then the Commnissloners went on to tell huw they got these pardons; how 1L was the Goveroor hud glven them,” and the chapluln sald the sus- pense was 8o great that he spole up to the Commissdoner and told hi to dirst read the vames of thoss pandoned befors he Spoko furthcr, und the frst namwe read out was, * Reu- Len Johuson witl come ont wnd get bis pardon.” 1o held out the paper, but no ong came. lle looked all wround, expoctingto seo u naspring to hi3 feet at onee; still no one arose, dud he turned to the oflleer of the prison and suld: “Are oll the convictshure ** Yea," was tho reply, “Then, Renben Johuson will tomo uad get bis pardon.” "The real lleuben Johnson was all this thne looking srounit to seo where Reu- ben was; and the chaplain beckoned to him and he turned and looked arouml and vehitnd him, thinking some other man must be tieatit. A second thue hebeckoned to Reuben, and called tohim, ond a sccond tine the tan looked around tu sce whoro Reuban was, until ut last the chapluin seld to him, © You are the man Reuben™; und he fi"" up out of his seat an sank back amln, thinking it could not be true, He Lud beon there for ningtcen years, hnwving been placed there for 1ife, and when L came up and took hils purdon bo could lardly belleva his eyes, nnd ho went baek to his ecat and wept like a child: and then, when the conviets wero mtarched back to thelr cells, Reuben had been su long §n the habit of fatllug dnto lue sod takiug the lock-atep with thu rost that be tell into his pluce, and the chaplaln had to say, * Ruubon, cotne otit; youuro a free man.'” ‘That is tfxu way men Inuke out' thelr pardon— for good bebwvior; Lut the Gospel of Jusus Chrlst i otfered to thoso that have uot bohaved woll. 1t s oftered to all that have stuned and are not worthy, All s mun has got to provenow £ that ho i3 not worthy and Twlil show hiw that Christ died for bim. Christ dlul for us while wo were yet fnsin, While we wers in London, Mr. Bpurizeon one day took Mr. Sankey aud my- self to his orpliau saylum, aud ho wis telling about them—that some of then'hud aunts ad cousius, and that wvery boy Lud wome fricud that took un interest bl and came to seo tlm aud gave him a little wcknt'muuvy‘ Ouo duy, whlls hu stood there, a littlo boy catng “fi to him and eaid, **Mr, Spurgeon, let ‘o speak to you," and the boy sat down botween Jfr, Bpur- feun and the clder who was with hilm, and said, Mr. Bpurgeon, uupquso our futherand muther wero dead, uud you didn't have any cousius, or aunts, or unclés, or friends to comis to e YOU aud give you pocket-monsy and presents, don't you think you would fuel ‘bad{—becausa” tint's wel” Buld Mr, Spurgeon, *Thu minuwe o asked that, I put my rigat houd down fnto my ocket, and took Out tho wouvy.” Becsusy hot's met And go with the Gospel; wo nau say Lo those who huve sloned, the Gospel i3 of- fured to them. Do you suppose that the God of Heaven would Fl maka an offer of salvation for the purpose of deceiving th {1 of ainnersl Men may de- celve, but Gl oes. He gl lie Gioapel to o a harlo at mny 1 only belie wzo but ved,—sayed tor it they wiil ¢ in the fon of all Gl nothin God. X" Mr. Mood, Pollock, of of a condemned "murderer and pointed him to Christ, and prayed for his soul, having given n related an (ncldent of Gov, ansyivanta, whu went int) the el orders to the keeper not totell the peisoner who his visitor was. After he was gone the prisonor learned that it was the Governor, and, with a look of ghastly horror, he exclaimed, “Why didw't you tell et Why didn't you tell mef"” But a greater Oue than the Governor Is here to-night, who offers you salvation if you will only take. Al, thal s whero {t comes; it fs, aller all, n question of your will.~ Now, [ am rolng to be very short to-night, because 1 want you'to have no excure for nol atopping to the inqulry meetings, Let those now go who must, while we sing ‘“Jesus, lover of my soul," and let those who wisn to meet us Lo converse about their souls go right into the Inquiry-room. ‘Thehymn was then sung,whi'et he audiencodi- vided, some golng out, muny guing into the in- qulrfi rooins, and at least 2,000 people gatherod ou the maln floor and remalued for THE AFTER-MEETING which was conducted by Mr, Moody, rasisted by the Rev. 8. J, llum]lhrv.-{, the Western Beere- tary of the A. B. C. F. M, Mr. Moody gavea Nttle talk on “Trust,” Hlustrating it with r)umnl incidents from the Inquiry-room, aud hien nsked, Who s there here that will trust themselyes o Jesus now{ Immedintely volees began . to respond from all over the great congrezation, I will,? #1 will,’ some of thew nlso ralsing thelr hands, and others ristug to thelr fect to declare thelr actof fal*li. There were volees of men, women, and children fu quick succession, sumetimes two or three nt once, who responded {n this manner, not farfrom a hundred {n all, and when those Inquirers were Invited to joln Mr. Moody fn tho Inquiry-room, . there were nearly who regponded to the invitation. Tbe two rooms In constant use for this purpose were too small, and o third was oceupled under the south gal- lery, while on the floor of the maln hall there weresquite 8 nuinber of persons engaged in per- sonal work of lnstruction, At theoverflow meetings in Farwell Iall there were over 100 who rose for prayers, and taking the day togethicr not fa® from 1,000 per- sons presented themseives as seekers of salva- tion, many of whom were happily couverted, ANNOUNCEMENTS, * Noon meeting at Farwell Hull to-day. Converts, and inquirers, mecting ut Farwell Hall this eveniog, led by Mr, Moody, At thie Tabernucle to-night there will he sing- ng by Mr, S8ankey aud addresses by four or five clty pastors, in answer to the question, * What miist 1 do to be saved1” Mr. Charles Morton onened the Union revival- mectings at Jollet yesterday, for which great vreparntions havedicen made, Mr, Sawyer {3 Lo remain here a few days long- er in charge of the Gospel temperance-meetings at Farwell Hull ab 1, wid a 3 o'clock at lower Farwell 1fall, aud at 9 p. m. at tl umler the gallery at the Tabernacl On Tuesday cvening Mr. Moody will resume at the Tabernncle with an address on *The Prodigal Son," — TIIE GERMAN MEETING. BELIRVE AND TRUBT IN JESUS. The second German revival meeting was hicld at Farwell Hall yesterday afternoon, the place belng n little over half full, the Rev. Mr, C. A. Locber officiating, The cxerclses were commenced by the singing of the hymn, “Nearer my God to Thee After this the audience sang ** Wir danken dir Herr fuer den Helligen Geist” (Revive us azaln). Tie Rev. C. A Loeber then offered n fervent prayer. The Rev. Mr. F. Rinder rend o chapter from the Scriptures, and expounded the same fn very cloquent and foreible language, urging unity upon all Proteatant Christiuns. After singing the hymn, ¢ Work, for the night 18 coming,” the Hev. Mr, Grobmade o few remarks. Ho sald now was the particular thine to come to Jesus. They must come now, or it might be too Inte. Now the Lord found it for gued togo through Chicago. They must now hear God's volee. They might suy that Jesuscould be found at any time, but might they not die at any moment, when ft would be too late. Brother Sunkey, who hud arrived in the mean- tlme, sang * Whero are the nined” The Rev. Mr. Ilnger followed witha few re- marks, commentine favorably upen the work now being done by Moody and Sankey. The seeret of their great success was to be found in three little words® “God, virtue, and fm- mortuaiity." ‘I'he sidience then sang * Hold the fort."” Mr, Moody was then fiiroduced, and preached a short germaon In English, He took his text from the last chapter of the Gospel aecording to Murk, fiftecnth and sixteenth veracs: And 1e sald unto them, Go ye Into ol} the world and preach tha Gospel to ‘every creatnre, 1o that believeth and ls baptized shall be saved, and ho that believeth not shall be damued. The Gospel was good thdings. Tt was not baa news, ns some people belleve, Tt meant to go out {nto the world ond preach the Word to sil mankind—to every creature, At this time Jesus wus about to part from his disciples, and as He was instrueting them to go and preach the Gospel to all the world He begun to useend, aud gradually emsud out of sight into heaven. The apostles then went about preaching God's Word, askini the people tobelieve—to belleve In Jesus and trust Hbu, Notblug could be casler than thls, At one of his revival-meetings he met n young lndy who was troubled about her soul's welfare, At thecloso of the mecting he asked her If she had found salvation, 8he sakl she dil not think she had, but would gladly leurn how to tind Ilim. He told her that all she had todo was to believe. 1 have lieard that,” she replied, *'so often that I do not know whers my head stands. I lbave ahwoys belleved in Jesus, but I do not feel [t." T veplied, “ Well, then, I will put it in a sim- plerway: Trust i, Trust Him to save your soul. [ut those two words together fn one sen- tenee. Believe fn the Lord Jesus Christ for your soul’s salvation.” It was n revelation to her, and the next day she cune and brought another lady, who was also anxous to be saved. 1M used the sane words to lier as he had to the other. The plan of salvation was very simple, It was only to believe und trast, He closed with the hope that overy soul fu the meeting would be benefited by his advice. Another hymn was sung by the andience, and then the Hev, Me, Haselhihn o a fow re- wmarks. e was followed by the Rev, Mr. Post, who spoke In Germau, Fhe hymwn **Jesus of Nuzareth passce by ' was then sung. Alter a o 'chm:u-ka by the Rev. Mr, C, A, Loebur, urging the (termans to take on intercat n the Moody and Saukey rovival meetings, and to work amonyz their friends whose souls need suving, the exervises were closed with the bene- diction. TIIE BLOOD OF CIIRIST. BRRSION BY TUE KRV, & 8, TOLIROOK, Tho Rev. Z. 8. Holbrook, of the Oakland Con- grogational Chureh, preached the folluwing ser- mon yeaterday evenlng, taking us his text: Whoin God hath vel fortn t be u propltiation through faith Iu fls blood, to declure i1is righteoua- nieas for the reission of alnw thut are past, throush thu forbearance of Qod; to declurs, T say, at this time 115w rightoousnces: that He might ba just, and the Justifier of him which belicveth In Jesas,— Jomana, ith., 26-26. . ‘Iho question of the blood of Christ and | eflicacy fu man's salvation has boen brought be- fora tho public mind by the preaching of Mr. Moody, and by the attemnpt on the part of tho Rev. Brooks Herford to prove the ductring un- scriptural and degrading, It fs my desire to show that the doctrine {s both Beriptural and ennobling, In turniog aside from my usual custom and tustes 80 fur 83 to notico tho utterances of auother pulpit, it is only proper that a fow words of ex- plunation should be given. The field of po- lemics fn mattors of fuith is by no ncans o de- slrable ono to enter, even for o brief half-hour, and the refutation of another's arguments is o very uninviting task to ons who s peaccably disposcd, and wishes all wmen the greatest freedom fu the expresslon of thelr opln- front room jons. Furtherinore, there s scarcely ony good that cver comes from replics to what seem to ublic Ko crroneous docteines, for the simpls reas son that siany imagine that & defenes of one's own bellef {s fucomputitla with that kindly re- gard and zood will, and that gonerous allow- ance for others’ views, all of which aro essen- thal churacteristivs of u truo Christian eplrit, os well as of u fale mind, And wgain, very many supposo that clouds and darkness are about tho feet of overy roligluns question, pot koowlng that there are rellgious tyuths upon which ull true scholurs are ugreod with as nuch uuanbolty and clear- ness und with a knowledge us detlulte and cer- taln 84 there 14 in mathematics. " And then agaly, the spbere of the pulplt s one of constructive growth, aud not ono of Jdu- structlvo erlticlsm, so that tho many objections ‘Which would u'lu'm dutar ono fram w auhi notlee of othera’ oplnions must bhe oscreome by decided advantages aclsing from peenliar cir- cumatances, The present occasion seeins to s an o one, a1 oam o willing to ! sueriflee prvate feelings for the tterest which 1 | Nave tn the spread of retigious trity aned in tie urowth of e!hrlnl'n Kingdom: nnd, takime ad- | vantage of thue interest Mhich has been nwak- ened [0 the publle nind upon this question by Mr. Moody, T am willing to speak In defense ot the orthodox bellef as “opposed to Brooke Here ford’s. This subject is a vi‘al one, and too much ottention cannot be paid toit. Let it not be supposed, then, that, In_ replying to any one, we harbor the Teast itl-will agalnst nim person- ally, and though we shall speak plaluly, yet our lenguage {u -agniust the doctrines “and not against the man. Every man Is responsible for his own teachings, nnd not we, and for us to tale umbragze would be to borrow trouble, even it we o belleve that ho finds a ditlieity in bringing his teachinge within the linits lald doswn by Christ. Nelther you uor I have Leen appointed the defenders” of the Guspel fn such a way, that we areto fecl persunnlly hurt towaris those who, wo think, are off the track, We know In whom we have believed, and we preach the truth as we have experlenced it. The unly ground, therefore, upon which we take issie with Mr, Herford Is the want of fairness and of Jearning in the interpretation of Beripture which he has manifested and for which he Is reprehen- sible, mor have we the least expectation that he will correet his views bceause of lnyl.hln;f we may u‘r but we simply desire’that those who would place confldonce in his teachings to that extent as to louk upun the death of Chirist a3 slinply dldactle, sball know that Mr., erford is by &0 meauns a sale or ro- llable teacher in religious matters. Wo can pass over & man's hungling way of using language; his want of easc fn the use of Lmnlulplu: is grammatical crrors; his we-, nowledged fgnorance of the Levitical law, and the total dlsregard which he pays to the language from which the words come that give us the doctrine in ques- tion; but when one displaying such meagre learning presumes to u{ that the doctrine of the blood of Clirlst as efficacious In mau's sal- vatlon Is held by those who are linked from the limits of their mind to the darkncss of the Middle Ages, and that only a few have outgrown the teaching,~among whom 18 himself,—w¢ pro- test ngainst such conceit and presumption. Let us then examine the grounds of our be- lief with carc ond precision. The use of the word “bloud " in the Scriptures as haviug any virtue per se In man's salvation is, of course, figurative use, for In that word are ctbodfed thie [deas of Jife and death. It cannot be the word bload, therefore, to which objection is made, for that could be vory easily avoided b using the words * vicarlous atonement,” but {t is the doctrine which lles behind the word which 18 obnoxious to some minds. That doctrine s this: That the sacritice of Jesus Christ upon ths cross was @ rousom pald to o divine government that all who belleved fn Himn might be saved. Is this doctrine Scriptural und reasonablel Ifitis, then the ]nr ching of 1t Is ennubling, and we put the word “ Seriptur- al " before the word * reasonable,’ becaure this subject of the blood, slthough one of vust fimportance und one which has oceupled o large rlace in the history of doctrine and of thousht, s in reality not so dlificult n onejto compass, for It is not one of man's notions, but {t is one of simple exegeste. It is always well, it possible, to reconcile nuy well-known teaching of Seript- ure with thereason nafter that teaching lins been formulated to the mind; but whether we can do it or not the Scriptures are authority fn the mutter, and it _remulns slmply to inquire what they teach, The difference “between ra- tionalism and the exerelse of the right of pri- vate judiinent is world-wide. The former Is presumptuous and unworthy of au fatelhgent miud, while the latter is enjoined by every con- slderntion of ht, by reason, oud b revelatlon, Minlsters, pretendlng to teach God's inind and not their own, bave no right to stulate as moral axloms what are nothing but hie ebullition of thelrown feelings, unrestrained b{ i{uad Judgment and by sound thousht, In- dividual opinions are uot to be set up as au- thority wzninst the well-known teachiugs of Scriptures, for to one mind It would seetn to be an axiomatic truth that the existence of sin pruves that there Is no Godl, or it there fsone, Ie will mot restraln sin, {n which case He 1s mallclous or He cannot do it, in which ease He Is not Almighty. But such an attitude Involves greater absurditles than those which it endenvors to overcome, It [llustrates that were men to preach thelr individual opiulons, there would be no end to controversy and trouble, It Is well for any man if he has spiritunlity aud penotration sufliclent to see the why and wherefore of Scripture when he brings It uf futo the Jight of reason, but whetherhis natural aewmen besuchns to fnd its rationale or his Iearning sound and broad enough to understand it, he must not be gullty of warping it to suit o preconceived theory, nnd much fess mugt he re- Juct the evident tenching of Christ upon any \uestlon where there 30 pos:lhllll{ of error for o human belng, Aud it 1s just here that so many err. They have coe In thelr own minds, unalied by God's Word, to some unsound con- clusluns aid to those erratic notiona which are oftener the result of idlosyerasies of character than of u desire to know and follow the truth they make ull Serlpture bend, Those at all familiar with the history of doc- trine need not be told that men's hearts are too often the rudders which guide thelr heads in theologieal opinfons und discussious, for pure reason und sound logic do not lead men far astruy. There are o number of intuitive truth- elements of rationality which constituten revels- tion from God to mau, und these, of course, not beignored or contradicted by any other reve. lation from God,noteven by Jesus Chirfst 1f{s Son. But the le&:flhuuey of these moral Institutions s clearly and fully recogulzed by Scripture, for to {zmore them {4 lImpossible, *“'No effort of the will and o sophistry of the understanding can deatroy thelr suthority over the reason aud con- sclence.” 1t would Le absurd for man to atternpt to be- leve anything contruy to the very laws of the mind upon which hie i3 obliged to do his think- Ing, Now the orthodox doctrine which hus been formulated from * the Scrip- tures, and swhich has been the bulwark of Christiunity for vighteon centuries, s that there were two great obstacles In the way of mun's salvution, and those obstacles were:™ First, the charaeter of God aud of Ui goverment; and, sevondly, the tixedness of man's will in his op- position to Got, To uvercome the trst of these obstacles ft was nccessary that un atonement should be inmle, uaklug the justitication of the “sinner consistent wieh God's churacter and with Uis governmunt, and to overvome the sccond of these obstucles, so far us God could do It consistently with man's freedomn of chofee, the Holy Spirit has beeu ponred out upon all flesh, 1 say *‘cousistently with the frecaom of man,’ beeause the forees through which God bas chosen to work ina mural system ary 1noral forves, 's govern- ment is'one of rules and inotives, or of laws, rewaids, and punishments, ‘The binding of o wman's will by an unressonlng force i3 not a proper act of power in n wmoral govermnent. God’s will in its relations to man s sinwvly chargized reason. Nor does our statement of the doetring of the blood Imply thut from cternity God hus In the least chunged His mind, or purpose, or character; nor thut ile, by a seheme pecullarly s own, has cume to look upon a sluner os o saint, or upon sln ua boll- nesa. Such objections to the ductriue are une worthy of thinking minds. We see, then, that we are falrly out at sea upan this great question, and before we touch the Beriptires we must oxpiait what wemnean by suylng that ** an atonement Is necessary,” What ure the wrounds for the uecessity of an atouciuent! The grounds ar the suwme with the grounda for the necessity of punishment. Were an intelligent belug to come to earth from another planet In the full essfou of ull lifs fucultics, his wonderment, I un sure, would be at the perfection of the world as God hias made it, snd the sceond grouud for astonlshment would be the imperfoction of man and all that 1nan has had avythivg to do with. [ have read of theuries which deay that thers Is uny world nbout us; theorles which deny that there 18 any God, awnd others “equally baund; bt Wl wen udwit that buman beings ure Imperfect. Bhakspears hud an object In view In putting it futo the mouth of Mare Antouy to say, in his speech over the dead body of Ciosar: *The eyil that men do lives afterthem; the good §s oft futerred with thielr bonwa,” for unless the past was differcut from the present, the good that men do liyes utter them, the evil I3 oft interred with their bones, Yosterity {8 charitable compared with contempurarics, Jullus Cuwusar comes down to us crowned with a luurel wreath to cover his baldl head, und 1aunibal comes to us [n proiile to hide the de- formity causcd by tho loas of an coye, W nre willing to rest il the blame of the scoldivg Xantippe upon her own shoulders in order that ‘wo muy shield the shiftless philoropher Bocrutes from the charee of inditferenco n family mut. ters. Posterity, it s sald, has very Influted no- tlous of Waslington, Dunlel Webstor wis a drunkard, aud, Mke Salwon I, Chuso and Ros- oee Giresley, died ~ with su uukuown longing to be' President. In o his- torical society fu Massuchusetts is a document which shows that our good old ancestors thought serivusly of repudiating a debt contracted In the Revalutiou. Thus wo might resurrect all charnclers uad thul It truer that the ood that men dooften Hvesalter them—the evil is oft futerred with taelr bones. Not ouly do wo lind mou §n thelr publle capacity very haperfect, but L thelr ;-}}Ivnuu churacters abnorwmally do- veloped. spoleon wus seltbh oud” am- bitlous; Cyrus was hot-headed; Shakspears waa lrrefiglous; Miltow's sizlitles m.fiiw Is wnd transchwdint woulus bave bldden his acfects from poswrlt{‘ Byron nnd Gocthe were men of finc senslbiiftics, but of no moral character; Hen Jouson cama near losing his head for an affeay in a enfee-honse In which he fed amant aid Mamilton died (n o duel, Bame one has well said that 1 Twaae, Abraham, und Jacob hnd Jived {u our time the lives wihich they led, they would all have been in the Pem- IemMrf'. I need not multiply inatances to prove that all men are willful and ‘peraistent sinners, We would not walk the church-sand at night anil drag the siecping dead to a’human jude- ment, Over them all we cast the swect mantle of charity, nnd, revering them for what they did accumnplish, Jeave them with thelr Maker, Not o character in sacred or profane history except that of Jesas Clirfst rises before us as @ sinleas being, 1t requires but a casual acquaint- anco with any man to learn that he is a afuncr. QOur newspapers oro filled with the evidences of maw's depravity., Drunkenness, murnler, theft, crime of all sorts attest {t. Gofngg from the runlis of the lowest and most yulgar sinnera o those who pride themselves upon thefr re- finement oud nobility of clharacter, we find higher forms’of the same Inherent sfufulness, Reflued selfishness, pride, {calousy, hatred, criticisin, concelt, presumption—the love of selt in its multifarious and subtle forms, The doo- triue of total depravity wns not originated by thicologians, but it ringgs out of cvery busiuess man’s experience, 1t "is very pretey talk for sentimental ministers to indillge in, that men are naturally great and noble, but facts nre against them. The greatest mystery in the universe Iy the fact of in. Itisa loathsome disease that runs fn the veins of every inan, and the history of tha world is one contiined reve- Iatfon of fts terrible devastation in the moral system. Man (s a sinner, Blu is tranagression of the law of God. Thatlaw {s written I our bearts, and 18 revealed by God’s Word, Man stands condemned by his own heart and hy God, ‘There s not o newspaper that conies frotn the press but testifies to two great facts. Manis o sinner, aud he s rcsponsible for it. Not only are wo conscious of our responsibility to o human government for onr acts, but ‘we are consclous that & Divine povernment holds us atncnuble to its laws. Nor i sin n Jight matter. It is un evil, and there can no rood vome of it. Itisn curae—adlscasethat brinas spiritual death, It ls guilt, pollution, and awlil fn the sight of Uod. Al relizlons of the world have orizinated in a sensc of sin. Every philosophy has to ad- mit it,—Benrea, Comte, Dr. Parker, Emerson, men whose system of thought wonld'rule it out 1€ they could;—all admit it a8 an evil, The com- intr of Christ proves its awfulness, Christ upon the cross shows the terribiencss of aln, ¢ Thou stalt cull His namo Jeeus, for e shall save s people from their alns.” ““Though your slns be ‘as scarlet,” ete, “1 write unto yon little children, beenuse your sins are forgiveu you for Hia name's sake.’ “Ilhie wages of sin Is death.?? Do you remember Milton's description of the birth “of aint [le mukes it u snaky sorceress, sitting fust by the gate of hell, holding the fatal key. He makes her to have sl:rnmz full grown frum the hesd of Satan, wnd says that death {8 her offspring. Did you ever see a man_ with hydrophobin—cvery ounce of blvod 1n his veins polsoned “and driving him mad with spusins as Le shiricks at the sight of water. This I8 sin in the moral system only an infinitely worse discase. A spiritunl discuse thut ends i o spiritual death. 8in {s not mere- 1y a wrone ciolce,—it 15 pollution, it s loath- sume, disgusting, We stana condemned in the sizht of God as corrupt, fmpure sinners. What {s the canse of sin! Man's freedom of will. What s the occasion of ftf "The lnwof God. Just here s scen the difference hetween a cause und 80 oceasion. A woman’s beauty was the uveeasfon of o war, but the cause wus ar buck of that, Man fs the cause of sin, and the lawis the oceaslon. The fatalistic doctrine, that man. Is a mere tool fn the hands of blind fate, 8 absurd. Man s a free moral agent. 1 have suld that the moral law; I8 revealed In God’s Word and written In our hearta, An fufldel once fell upon the Ten Commandments in the twentleth chapter of Exodus, and their perfection and completeness flashed upon him tike o etresk of runlight, The wmoml glory of the conunandments fs truuscendant. The'law (which s the comnsndments) was given to man s a standund by which he might continu- ally ‘ludge himself.” Christ did not eet aside that law. 1f, thenm, the law of God I8 pure reason and an exprossion of His luflmfi miad, it must ever remain os the standard by which mau Js judged, and nothing can change Jt. No sacrifice of Jesus, or peiitence of man, or theologleal dogmu ean change the coustitution of thiugs as they exist. Sowe see that the reasons which give rise to such n law must muintain it. It is only right that God should mafutain laws that He cnacts, otherwlse we oy eall In question His wisdom in enacting theni, Unless there were some way Ly which God could be just und justify o ‘siuner who Lelieves in Jesus, there would' be no help for i, But God did provide a way, *For' God 80 loved the world that He gave [1ls only begot- ten Sou that whosoever believeth In Ilim should not perish but have everlusting 1ife.’ This 1s the atonement. ** An atonement is an equiva- lent substituted by a government for the pun- {sbment of u transgressor, Ly which the ends of unlshnient aru eecurced while the punishment s remitted.” It 48 the end of punishe ment and mnot the end of the Jaw that {8 secured. The end of the law {s obedience, We find, then, o law demaniding obedience un- der penalty of death. 'This law was given as the natural expression of Gud's mind to man. God fa cternal reason und sin 18 ua etcrnal ab- surdity. The ground, then, of the luw is in the eternal and unchangeable character of God. Man, then, has need of a Eavior, for centuries of experience prove that any at- pts which hie may of himsclf make to beeume teous are futlle, The very uct of repentance proves that lie congidered humself before guilty and culpable. e needs n new life, o new pows Wwithin to bocome a fit member of God's fumlly, There was need of atouement. And why should it scemn a thing Ineredible that Christ should die, the just for the unjust ‘The principle of sacritlce 13 one which holds true fo (act whether all the theories of theatone- ment are clear to the mind or not. ~ We uotiee that the {dea of sacrifice 1s uot contiued to the woral and spirituad spheres, but that all through nature, In the world und in daily 1ife, the living devote thelr enervies to prepare the wiy for the yet unborn. ** Except s corn of wheat fall futo” the ground and die, it abldeth alone.” The leaves on the trees fall away und die, pnshied off by the sproutligs buds, Just us fathers and mothers spend |Ixuh‘ lives and ener- gles to educate and support tholr children, and then po down into the grave. Death is written upon ull nature, aml yet withinall s the principle of resurreetfon,~a lorfous new birth, Tuke tho flowers at your lomes, In them are cells within which “you may tind the milk that hardeus awl becoines seeds, The flowers die, but lere bs the princi. ple of anew lite. That springing Ml within is takdig the energies of the mother stalk. The naturul world alfords numberless oxamples of this principle of sacrifice. And thus, in the world of {ntellectual forves, new Ideas are burn into the world through pain und angulsh, and nprlu;i into lif¢ upon the graves of old theories. In dally |lfe our Ideal of u character i8 ono that constuntly sucritices to otbors. New ]Ivc- spring frow the rraves of the dead as new deus frow out of the death of old ones, 1tis fn this seuse that o man lives when he goes down to deatn. Jesus well knew tho broad fu- port uf his wonls thut it was cxpedient that He gouway, Tho idea of sacriticing life for the caalng of vonsclonce wud the sutisfaction of o Divine Justlee scems then to lo as au intultion of the miud. Homer telle us of the olfering of a heeatomb to the gods; und every natlon, civilized and undvilized, tes had some system of blocd sacrilices, Savagen cut their arms or fingers, or cast thelr childgen into the flates, or shied blood in some \m'x. l.on}v e conscience, Virgll 18 tamillse with the idea of saerllicea of blood, Under Moses the idea of swrithes bus a beautiful unfolding, and we find & systemn the most portoct and elaborate which the world has seen, Lot us glaiwe a moment at this system. First, ‘There were theee forins of sacrifice. sclf-dedication, called the burnt offerltg; sec- ond, Eucharistle, I, ¢., worship and praise— the meat offering which wus unbloody, and the cuce offeriog which wna bloudy; thind, expla- ry sacritice—tho sl offuring uid the Lrespuss offering, But a suerifico {3 nothing o itsell ‘I'ncre was o meaning decper and browder than mere burning of Gesh and blomd. | The three avts of Jewlsh saerllles were: Flrst, washing sway of sin ; seeond, consccration of sell to God, und third, adoration ur worship, and il any of theso Hnks wis omltted the sueritlee was incomptete, The Jows were continually overs Tooking the fmportance vt the seeond lnk, hence thy Old ‘Testament s replete with wd- asmer—r e o ROYAL BAKIN ROYAL monitlons and warnin, Said Samuel! hold, to ohey fa botier than henrken than the fat of ras,* Toril delighta not tn the I8mts, ur goats,' and il fio your mercy und nut sperlfice God iore than bueat offe hates your sacrifices uniess judgment run down, like water nnd righteousncss like n mighty streamn.” Micah: % Wherewlth shafl I come bo-* "% fora the Lord—what doth the Lord require of | thee but to do fustly and love mercy and walk, humhl{ with thy Gl David: “The sacrifice of God Is & trovbled splrit, a broken and cone trite heart.” The Ol Tustament ings that prove the uselcssness of it b uttended with the proper state of theheart. That all these racrifices were typleal of Jesus Churlst i3 very evident, for IT we look at the sage tiflcuof Christ nsthe Lumb of God, we fnd, first, ITe was an explatory sacrifice; fe made explatlon for our elua: He'bore our aind n Hix 0w budy on the tree; uad, accondly, Jesud 1 our self-ledicatory sazrifice, for who tin conses crate hlmsell weceptubly to Gor but the Chris- tian througlt Jesus Chriat; and, thicdis, He is our eucherlstic sactiflce, fur who ean ym]se aud worship God wore acceptably than tle Chris- tlan, Sodesus s the perfeet fulfllment of the type. Al sucrifices stmiply Iooked forwasd to Chirfst. The romission of sfn is only through the blood of Jfesus Chrlst or through the blosi of hulls and goats thut ealled for nn exerclse of faith In [1im. Bays Barry: * Those whograsped theideas of alu.npurdon, #nd self-dedication syine Lolizud In saerifiues were those who entered fnto the blessing which the one true sacriiice alous procured.” Had not Jesus Christ comie to save sluners, all of these Old Testument sacriflcos would have been mercly a superstition and o ceremony, 3 Haviui seen, then, and confeascd, thatallmen arc sinners wnd_ wallty before God; baving - seen that the puuishinent of thg innocent fur the ruilty is Ly no means without its analozy {n nature, {n experience, and fu Iife; having discovered thut God's plan for the salva: tion 'u( nen fa o ressonable one, hecause of man’s need of atonement ; having scen that the. Old Testament sacrliices looked forwanl to Chirlnt for their siunifivances, it remains slmply to examine the New Testament texts ns proof of the fact of the atonement. £ Firat, Christ Is o ransom for mankind, *cven s the Bon of man came not to by minfstered unte, buat o minister, und to give his life a ransum for many.” M XX, 2. The word tranelated ransons here Is * Jutrom,? signifylng the prica paid for the dellverance of a captive from siavery or death, Sce alse Mark, 5, aud 1. Thuotly, i., 16, 4 ecurdd—~Clirlst s our substitute: “For 1 de- ed unto {uu flrst of all that which I also re celvial, how that Christ died for our sins accord- ine to the Seriptures.”—1. Cor., xv., 8. The significance of this passage 18 sven (n the Greek prenosition *huper.” 4 #“Who was dellvered for our offenscs, and was raised aenin for our Justification.”~—Romaus, Iv., 25, DBetter transiated “on accouut of our offenses ! (“dia’ with accusative), Thinl—Christ dicd for sinners: See Romans, Vi, 6-113 Luke, xxil,, 19, Fiurth—Christ Is » propitiation: Sce L John, vey 10, m‘)"x"ll):—Chrlsl.A'ummw for us: Sce Gal, ., Strth—Dears our sins: Isafah, Uit . Seventh—1s made sin for wa: LI, Cor., v., 91, 1f, then, the preacuing of the blood fs Scrip- tural and reasonable, it is ennobling, and mitl- {ons have sung to the pratse of Uod fur redeem- ing them through the blood of the Lainb, When Mr. Herford says that leavine the Tubernacle where hearts are finding Christ dally) aud go- ng out into the open aliris likeleaving the glare, of a theatre for the qulet of a summer's day, we cannot help contrasting his feclings with those of the angels of God, among whom our Divine Savior sald there was rejoleing over one sinner that repenteth. It would vrive us pleasure to sum up Mr. Herford's fallacies and absurditfes, but we de- slst. Letusall trust in no merit of our own, but in the blood of the Lamb to wash us from £ln. Stuce we cannot spire from our hymm)lm.:{ those crand old hymps, * Rock of Ages™ Just 85 Lam," Tet us close with sluglog— ‘There §s o fountain flled with blood Druwn from Immanuel's veine, And sinners plunzed beneath the Sood Lose all thelr gullty stalns, —————— THE PALMER HOUSE TRAGEDY, Seanlan Held for Murder, Deputy Coroner McGlrr yesterday concluded ot the Armory the inquest upon the colored coachman, S8andy L. Richardson, who was found dead In the Palmer Housc stables Friday morn- ing last, after having a seuflle with Michael Scanlan, o white watchman at the hotel. John Benson, of No, 150 Wesson strect, was the first and only witness who appeared to Know anything about” the affray. e testiied thut upon the night In Txcsflon Scanlan entered the ba; e-room of the hotel, and almost fmmedintely o quarre) ensued between himsell and_Richardson regarding the number fn ae- tendanee st the Palmer and Grand Pacific lo- tels awaiting election returns, Senulan, Demo- cratie, held out for the Palmer House, sayinz that those in attendance at the Pacific were ull beardless boys, aud this so enraged Richardson, Republican, “that he fell to wbusieg Scanlan. ‘The latter continued to chafl him, nnd finally the negro beeame ro exelted that he rushed upon his opponent. The two clinched and fell, * when George Morgan, another night watchman, separated thum and ordered them both out of the room. The 1wo remained quiet for o short time, and agaln com- menced argafng about politics, which agaln ended in o flght. As Scanlan arose to go out, Richardson kicked him in the breast, snd both selzed water-pitchiers on o table near by, und be- Iabored each other as lont ms the crovkery lasted. Tn the struegle Riclinrdson waa thrown vivlently on the hard, tessallated floor, and re- mained for some monients Insensible, but short- 1y came to, atter vigorous applicatious of vold . water. Hu left for howe, saving * Good night " “1 sacrifice, and to ' Taalan: ’ . itesired 4 the knowlales of Aacrifice unlews ua e left. Wituess was positive of hLeuring Richunbin eay. " O, pahial € T bad wot slipped aud fefl, [ would huye licked him ! tivorge Morican, Joln Somers, the nlzhte derk, and severat othor wituesses, testitled to huving scen portions of the dificulty, but I cach fnstanco they corroborated the' fucts us stated by Hensoi, ' Amon tha lnst and more unlmportant wit- ns was thought, was Major Keid, u vol- ol bieli-buy at the ionse, ail restding at No. 184 Third avenue. [lu told 4 clear story of thy afluir, until he came to the when he evineal some hesftatlon fu sayivg who gave the fatal blow. He wus questioned closely, und at lasg | sueeumbed, saying that It was not Scanlan who i, but one of the porters whose name he «id uot kuow, After viewls several persons pres- ent, he ldentiticd Andrew Sherlock, =s the per- som wi struck thi negro on. the. fiead with a. pite Dr, N. P, Molden, Cuuul{ Plyslcian, testifted that In his post-mortem e found upon the right sldu of the bead the only injury Sipparent upon the body, After cose examination ho found that the skull wua cracked, and tho meningesl urtery ruptured, und threo ounces of extravasuted blood beneath, resting upon the brain and causing death, ‘The teathnony of Reld was not Graly belfeved In by the jury, yet they brought in'a verdict recotynending tlie Coroner to hold Beanlan to the Grand Jury for mwouslaughter, and that Aundrew Sherlock be helil as an accessory, The Mecovery muule by the County Phiysiclan wml the testimony of young Reld complotel; changed the aspect of the casw Baturday ft was thought that the negro had undoubtedly died of beart-disense, and the severad physicians who exwoined the body wers firmnly of that oplufou. 2 ————— e THE FENIANS, Hpecial Dispaich to The Tribune. MoxTREAL, Nov, 12 —At an olllclul Inspectfon ot the Prince of Wales Rifles lust evening, Col. 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