Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1876, Page 7

THE CHICAGO . TRIBUNE MONDAY, NOVEMBER a7, 1876 THE PULPIT. E———— " as a Destroyer Yeee anSermon'by Prof. Swing. R i o Bev. Dr. EKohler on ¢ The Origin of the Sabbath.” ation of the Railrond Mission D‘dwa(fifnpul—-—fiermm: by Dr, Mitehell, Rev. J. M. Whitehead's Farc= well to the North Star Baptist Church. The MAN AB A DESTROYER. AERMON DY PROF. BWING. srof, Bing. prenched yesterday morning at \!" Central Church, taking as his text: i hey crled *Cructfy im, crucify Nim1Y—Zuke £ ' ”::“fi,l,,' tragedy out of which this shott, clly,? 18 taken we behold the “fx{":l:’;y:lc::rncd\’vcncu brought to its utmost " fection. Christ had moved along the strects e wisesty tho prest, tho kindest being carth ” eversecn, 1o ind met tho saffering only 4oheal them, the poor only to pity them, the sicked only to teachand forgive them, and had £ men Jn power only to confess tuat Ho ao mwx thelr governmient and would abey their ;:2-.. Hesaw all tears only to dry them. from the cheek. The multitude arrested tlus best peing ot all bistory aud put Ilim Lo o cruel d?fl’nb ovent lct us sce n full illnstratton of {he fact that man {s o destroyer. Man as genius, mAN 08 & warrlor, man as lover, as poet, nphflouupher, a8 king, and a8 hero, has often ied bimselt before you all, but nof,so frequently, perhans, havo you thought of Man ssaDestroyer. Liet that part of human life be, therefore, our theme. To view this groatest gesture of God 0 o ereatnre of fury will not peabask halt 6o delighttul as the task of view- fog man 88 o builder, but all the sides of our yorll must be looked at, aud the darkncss of 1bis pleture wo can compensato for to our feel- {ogs by looking somo other Sunday upon an waboiider. Man destroys and creates, Heda » creaturo of fury and of loveg Let us view' Hmin these two lights, but in two differcut dayse 1, Tho theory of the universe must be this: that an omnipotent Creator has abropmted o partof Te omnlpotence and has marked out a yastarena of time and place within which man sy shape things to his will, As ln the forma- tion of & society the Individual surrenders a of bis mere good pleasurc that his neigh- ‘Bormay not be disturbed, nnd thus ceases to be » pecfect individucl fn order that asoclety, n sllage, » city, o state, may exfst, so fn the targer Klogdom of God the plicnomcnon ap- pears to bo that of omnipotence surrenderiog & 7att of Its province that o sccondary being (lled man may play some part in shaping the moral and materlal things of this one planct. Inthe presence of society [ dare not fire guna or riog bells all night, nor dash o lghtning 1ralo along crowiled streets, becatd [n the very factol socicty tho Individual ia modifled and is + oo longer an absoluta individual, but only o man linilted by the presenco of others, In'the moral universe o similur scene appears—that of a Deity surrendering for a time the full exerclse of omnlpotence_and omuipresence, and volun- tadily limiting Hlinself on account of the free aoent mou, ‘The Bible declares”God made man fnllls own fmage. 1f so, man must posecss tome kind of u free-will, some shape of relf- Irvod, and henco must possess kome arena large ormmald fn which he moves around with a per- mitted abeolutism, It must be evident that this wasnot a world fo which ag absolute Delty of infinite love and power I8 maving, and alml)lng, and dolni all Lings. The presence ot sin and of all coneniy- able furms of cvil shows that omnipotence and boundless love must bususpending actlon, must Le temporarily at deast surrenderlug some_por= tonof both ‘power and authorlty. The Dible oitnt of man shows us God a8 & ereator, and thenman g an fndependent actor, for (lod s represented as having left man in Iden with the fall power to dress and Beautlty the garden ortodestroy ft. The Intter §s what mpn chose todowith the Eden intrusted to his care,-ad deatroy he did. The Hegelian I\hnmnphcm mafntained hisome fnstances that what man would do fn the [uturo ¥as unkuown to God, for the futuro deed of o free agent was a nothing—an unknownhle nuan- tity.. But let us ke nw-{ from metaphysies. Atis ouly palpublo facts that should greatly con- cern us i the temple of religion, gml onu of these fucts (s that here upon carth omnipotence Jas purrendered o part of s emplro that man may move over it In his delegated and perhaps Lol authority, In naturs you muy gee evi- dence of this Burrender, for the nutlior of the external world leuves overywhere work to I{e done or to be left undons Ly wman, dature dos not maka thie sweet orango, or the sweet apple, or tho peach, or the double Toe, IL prives yoan o rude outling of these ::lmi's, and then steps buck to permit man to ild upor destroy. Man has come and has mdo tho wild ollve and wild apple be- wing #weet, and has made the double mlze and o hundred roses descond from the i wild blossoms, From this material na- are, therefore, wo must pass to the moral Ihorl«l und confess that qu Tus delegated to the free ogent, man power to work ont great moral suctesses or great inoral ruins, By the ;_omcm of the Creator, mun mMOVCS noruss o l|lulu star called earth, and for o few centurica i clothed with nlmlghty powers for good or Il 97 a day this huwan Phaeton §s pertitted to |f|m the churlot of the sun, and i the vain und ! lfmm drlver will It he s permitted (o burn e 1e yerdurd of u contiuent uud turn an Afrlen latoa desert of Balarn, For n duy God com- m’llf the churiot tu his hands, but‘}r worlu(J therefore, is not God's worlil, L L1y o od-world modifled by the fros- n of wan. Two ogents weel bere, and Uen the worlks of the ono mar the -ur‘:_;lvl:( the other. As over soma of g e 4 ou which o diving art bad pafuted lfij fes of suluts, ningels, aud heroes, a_ secontd 'mmuem(u hus coing und spread tho thick med Ar calored wash of an fgnorant slave or n Imc amncstic, 50 across o reatm marked out by ik r;’fl:ur i 1les of beauty man has inarcheil o W3 low onler of perception sud hus covered iy '("l'.'" Wwash walls upou which o holier art Amhmm outlines of fuuite grucefulucss, ‘llu\"l,xu the buttee tiuies often wah off the m'{"} wallsand find grund flgares beneath lrlunlr'h ed colors, or wash olf the secoml My Ims!‘u[ sume stuphl mouk aud flnd heneath nes urpV‘ ity the glowing sentences of old llo- i Irxll, 50 now “you may look beneath i 1Imu|lh-ununn of earth and see the purer e er wish of God, For exwmple, in the hnm‘n’aumu drunkurd upon the strcet, fu the i m“,.lc he speaks even b bfs ruln, fn the love i g 0% A% thes for his clilldren and frleuds, Dm”sinmlmml kindness ot home, fn his bours Hons s lunging, in his ocenstonal efforts to mm_"vli'un uiay sce the fiest fdeal ot God, but chd‘ over whicli the Jower mind of carth has "finh\;uh volors and peneil of destruction. ] rule domestlc It loose in the gulleries oE3uped with grent powers aud with freedom o byflges® Muves wbout ow, carth us destroyer aln mklruhu pleases, “Llint God will come :fint Hew rectalin Hls surrendered province,and Mreaps WA call wll His servanta to annccount,|s lare hc\jlxlcln had revelation been sliont might Tevson, U reached by the comwon power ol teain g “A!“mflfv'fl dcelars that Ho should coma kmmn" substitute for man's cinpire 1iis own hun’[fl of wisdom and peace, u«.»n-:ft we sy give sume kind of shapo to Where L8 10U S frauss by o fow spots Wrangisereaturs of power aud free-will hus 100 o ® painful destryction, und from these Your iy L0 €40 Bl0ve out ot your Jelsure (1 ity qul:l{ aod heart are full ‘to overilowing il fal flls. Pawso first by maw's greatest e pyeasit called gorernment, - Governnient, in tusure § L 18 the fulmdlng of a brotherhood ' to i ““‘l“'-l‘ protectlon, to fnsure a varled in- 'ldunf' ‘n usure o eoclety . In which the ludls Inapirgg sy Hod culture, und happincss, and fing :n, aud luve, uud Lonor. fl, you would Lston 8L reat naflon 1y, yon musk sead the 00 gt V3t Bomo of tho savage tribes. Iy, "mlm& Tearn the vatuo of country by read- iih htmmfl‘.:’ ‘lu Sc):(‘!rl:, IU:" o carrled ingenul an Yo ot meditafion YLk sodiety e Mowy M(:&l‘l::lc agufgnlal‘.hn talo one canuot tud tne Aacu of yy g Ot nun without the asslst- g ghtencd Btate. Itisthe & .W man goge by biy Faa Ao 's“-l»'.’,".fmE .mildoess and neace, o peaceful multlludcfibut by Londs tender snough to enabla him to bmld upa langunge, alegrning, o religlon, an indus- tryy an art,’n wide-reaching frionds |llp. and n home, And only the Btate futnishes {dens and feolings large ctiough to wake up the apirit's eleeping {nmpiration, Homer would haye becn nothing had not some grand old natlon cradled Wim and poured Into his soul fta {dens and guwcmnd sentiments. There wos ahout lifm somo State that could rear such children as Nestor and T'atroclus and Achilles and snch women ns Pen- clopa and Andromacho to be the study and im- Bulnn of the poet. Edmund Burke and Willlam lu\ and nll the mlxihty of the thres islands would have been feeble, unknown mortats had not a mighty England surrounded them with ita ereat ouvclopniont of language, and trath, and inspiratfon, “Thus what wa call onr country Isa power which, 1iko a school-house, contalns us all until we liave learncd lessous of it aud have undor s 'tatelage passed from barbarlsm to manhood, Such ia the ideal of that power called tho “Btate," In the mlddle ages, when parchments wero costly and scarce, concelted monks iere aceus- tomcd to take n glorious classle of Roma or Urecve, and, having widely blurred the old text, tocover nll the book over with thelr own greater thought, perhaps their profound pee- sonal history or bhottuinless thcq!og‘r. After this fashion, to the ideal state deacribed on some white parchiment by the Almighty’s hand, thesa rnlhnrsnat-mnn have come, and on theso Divin lcas have drawn thelr own mad thoughts, as tho wenk-minded would il permitted scratch thelr nmnes upon the statue of a Minerva or an Apollo. Man beholda this God-sent Govern- mient, and lias nearly alivays cried out, * Cruclfy t—nway with such” a fellow from the carth ' Hence tho whola faco of tho globe is covered now with the ruiny of natlons, Man would not pormit them to briog liberty, and industry, and educatlon, and hotne, and happlness, but hie has nlways hastencd (o harness them up tor war, or tax thom for tho support of vice, ¢r fasten them to tho charlot of his ambition; ond thus one by ono of thesa Intinite benefactors, theso creatures of (God, have been slain, these fabrica of marble havo been handed overto the lizard and scrpent by dnly and the Imxelvy owl by night, ‘I'ravelers, oven In tho New World, find that lero once a ha Y‘y race lived, lived in great mar- ble honses which ance resounded with the prat- tle and mirth of children, but to which man as n destroyer,came. Thua a continent where once, lmrhnpu, as nany millions lived as now inhabit ity wos all desolated by its own childron, I was handed over to solitude, and then to savages, And now this continent coincs forward again, Dearipg once more a natlon upon its bosom, but may, a8 & destroyer, will follow it, follow It with viee, with sclfistiness, with ignorance, with in- ustico, and to-day and to-morrow will attack ta Inger and diving llfe. It certainly comes with a motnentum of good never hefore known, an impulse of school-house, aud printing-press, and Teurning, and Chrlstisulty, but o mnn, the destroyer, comes with an awakening intelleet und fntense passions, and hence the struggle for natfonal 1ife returns s it came to the Aztees 560 r8 070, l(lu!nfry contains the picturo of a great mation that existed on the Boutlhern const,—u natlon lm\vcrlul in the arts and In_tmorals, and over- lowing with hupplocss, The Iucus ruled fn in one single bright day in Beptember all his bapplness sunk under the Lutehering sword of the Bpanlard, Thus ons by ono the natlons which have been founded in the name of right, and progress, aud Lappiness, buve foded away Into wrong, and deeadence, and mlnnrg. Tho human family has alwayamoved throngh tho centuriesin two columns, marching only a littlo way apart. The advance column founds States, law, literature, home, church, and peace. It breathes out poctry and whispers love and tills the soll, and makes feasts, and, asan old puct snys: ‘cayes marrigres and founds hotves and laws.” In this coluinn s found tho. Homers who sing the. songs, and the pllgrims wiio utter the prayers, and the philosophurs who write down the wisdom of many gencra- tions. But by tho time the song is sung, and the Iarnycr- said, and' tho wisdom written, and the houie founded, tho second column comes hot with [njustico and ambitlon, and v desala- tion gets {n'with blood and tears, and all that remaliie {8 a fow murble columns to mark tho place where u enato or a temple uneo stood. Pass o o secon] fleld Lo which the spoller has come, From ruined Btate pass to ruined re- ll;ilom Does n shinple, trutnful religion appear? Almost 08 goon ns it announces its advent tho destroyers cone shouting, “Crudly it; away with such & thing from the earth,”” Not that niun designs o mnrke his path with ruin. Not rofessedly an angel of death docs he descend, ut what is the same in resuif ruinous swoop, i not with malice, at least with Doundless {gnorance. In hands the simpla ro- gglon of Jesus which made Palestive n veati- buile of heaven, such that travelers wanderlng over It to-day feel stlll that they are nearer to (lod than when upon any other shore} the slm- +plo rellgion which once licld {tself all In the Ser- mon upon the Mount us a grape liolds it sccds and meat ond wine and arois all in its purple, sflken shell, this religion was transformed Into sometbing ' that made popes and mornks, which bullt up crocds ns the Egzyptluns wade pyramids, and wrote down dog- mas s the Lg Of {ptlnns embalmed sacred cows and encred cuts, and which slaughtered men and women alimost by, millions for not be- holding with the eye of perfect admiration all this lnmllmq:c of folly and blood. When one reads the history of the Catholle times and tho P'rotestunt times ho cannot but concludo that Christianity wus not so much egrried forward by those partics ns hurled back. For 1,200 years, from the fourth eentury to the sixtecath, the ‘situation was such that tho reader of the record must always bo puzaled to know whotber that period Wus not ‘a grave of Christianity rather than its childhood or cradle, 8o Injurious was the touch of man, so fuil of sickly coutngion, that between the original religlon of Jeaus ang the fmmense human perveralovs of it an fm- mense army of the unbelleving hus spruug up who (Ind i’ mun’s propositions the bosls of au- {aganisin or unreat, the soirce of thelr frony or lauehter. It is doubtful whether In Christ Minself, in s life or teachings, such o wild, mucking infidelity could over have found the food of a luxurlunt life. Christ was so simple, 80 kind, Ilis doctrines so useful, that perhaps ad- vaneingeducation wonid have brought Him intoa more universal esteem; but what Christ wanted of tho power to fnsult reason and provoke ridi- cule the human mind supplied to thoutterinost, and thus repeliod mitllons whotn Christ Elim- aclf had tenderly fnvited to Ils great feast, But wo need not panse fonger here, ~ You know well this page of history. For many centuries 4 pure refigion hung erieified betweeén the twa thigves, wickedness aftt iznorunce. 5 You have now inarked how man can play'the artof deatroyer (n the Btate and the Chireh, fave on now and find his Injured home, "Tho Divine theory must luve been this: A group composed of Tother uud mother and the dear children, all following the lawa of mental, und woral, and sfllyfilml Itfe, The fautlylwas lurge, beenuse thele wants were to be simple, thelr jn- dustry_uniform, their bavplucss montal, not sensual, ‘Thers was to be such u mingling of Tnbor uud sleop, of virtue und wisdow, that the children were rarely doomed to dic fn sight of the parents, Thie parents wero to puss away peacefully whenn beuutisul connie had beon run, h was 1ot to ho n terrible death that should enter the homes; but niiual sleep wus to come, and the haly books wera tu say, * He slept with his fa- thers” The home was to move on with the Iaugh, and industry, and morals of the sccond generation, I'he grreat trees by the door amd the yines ot thu wull were to bo perpetual, cust- Ing thelr shade and perfutne down upon the new houschold, when thy veneratilo parents had “prone late to heavon.” Bucli was, purhaps, the divine ideal of home when God threw down biefore the race fus vast und varied opportunity, Bug vislt this Lumu vow. Sure here tou the do- stroyer has boen, The despat hus cous flrat,— the Cwsars rcauhlw from Rome before Christ totho natfons to<iay, Thesa have sbsorbed praperty and degraded morals until for ca klng in'a pulace there ave a nillion men, woi- en, wud childron without food or, clothes, or shelter from the storm. Avarics and amblilon grow Jke ill weeds, nud to build up tho glory of in ndividual o million common murtals have been dragged together to become the stones, and mortur, and beaws of his fabric. Thus the s;wnt East Is homeless to-day, tho rwy of~fam- ue and pestilence, und to Eu le home of the common tnay I8 ouly beg back after an absencs of wmany rics, The paluce camo lang oy the Influonce of o wivked uristucracy comea the Influence of vices. ‘Tho love of riches has of lato years held the lttle Eden of tnau in check. ''he slmplicity of our fathers will uo longer satisfy the heart. Tho heart salls away ke the saflors who went In quest of thu goldeiy flecee, and will bulld o home unly wheu [t comes back i il the glory of sucecss. ~ Many of thuso modern Argonauts uever return, or when they o the vietory they bring with them proves hi- deed 0 Medes, beautiful tu behold,” but with desolating powor in lier heart. \thru this modern vice pauses othor viees begin thele work, and between the demons of Inteimperanco and Mleentlonsness many thousands of homes 5o down, In the annuls of lnst week there was re- corded the submergence of a group of falands and the blottiug out of vlllugzes, and towns, and hamlets, Bume mysterious powers of the sea elther drew the fsluids down or clse lifted tho ocean upward, But that calamity would at oneo bo erased from momory conld you sec what homes ure dafly emptled of thelr Inmutes nnd ruined utterly by the upspringing tood of that wave called fitemperance—that wave of fire! If we could pause ut ono spat mwore where 1wun ruges a8 4 destroyer It would be by the soul ftself—that bright, finmortal cesence made in the fmage of God, But you, ln a moment, can recull the scene. A Judge, uufy o few e 10> vehl thgeur inald gud i contu- Next to ho comes with a | infng to votne. hecomes my duty, then, to pass aentence npon you. Ihave nowords of comfort for ‘yrm or denire to reproach or derldo you. While the law leaves you life, all ita Plunnnru«, all its hopes, nll its Joys, are gone out from you, and all that s lelt [s the empty slicll, I sentence yott, —; to ho confined in (ho Stato Prison_at hard lanor to the end of your natural Iife; and you, ——, that you he confined {n the 8tate Prisan, at hard labor, to the end of your natural life; and you, —— that you be confined in the State Prison to the end of your natural llfe,”” And these three were brothers, held fondly once against tho one mother’s bosom, and now wept for by a sister’s love. In this pleturc you seo the world of soul, rulning fisclt,—your” soul and mine marring thelr present and their futurc, Atnld all the encmies that surround lim man s lis own chief enemy, When the State does not impede Nim, .when religion excapos from the dark agea and comes to him in beanty, when cfvll lib- erty offera him overy nnpammhy to find life's honors and good, “even when o saint-like mother has reared him and a happy home loves Doy, even then he will turn against bimself and ba lils own destroyer when the world Is hifs friend, Oh, unhappy man, that hie sbould be his own assassin| ‘The practical leasons arc these: Deatroy nothe lr\»fi of the true, or tha beautiful, or the goott. When a blind multitude fs cmwdln% along the streets, leading before them some Innocent or virtyous victim, and are erylug out, “ Crucify, cruci{y;” when natlons are’ grinding the poor; when the proud are abusing the humble; when dishonesty is sapping the foundations of tratlic; whaon ambitfon of reckless men I8 threatening the publie peace and llburl.rv' when sin or error threatens the pictire of lhomes when a vico springs nup intho soul, ask all that Is within sour mind and heart to cry out nzainst such desceration of holy things, *Let us always fear the noble being called man, and feel deoply that not only our neighbor, but oven our_own ad- mired solf, may bu stalkingf around among carth'’s flowers “with too rude o faolstep. Thereis not one flower too many on earth, not one joy too many ju the hieart, Thero {8 not o biado of lové, or of liberty, ur of relig- fonyou will" dare crush, Call mauat times an angel {f you will, but soon aguin remember what untold sorrows have come from his hand and heart} call him an hejr of {mmortality, but mark Low he has shown his cruelty ns King, as citizen, as friend, as brother, ns husband, as Christian, Wo nced to know the whole truth, and the truth is, man has often covored thoso sacred terms wllh Infamy. Call thyselt the lm- ngfin of God It thou wilt, but with the full con- sclousncss that tho Intoxicating cup or one dls- honorable hour ean strip thee of an angel’s gacb, and number thee with the countless throng which have lived only to break liearts. Read, 1t you can, all tho poets have written about the greatness of man, hut soon let your soul bow In sad memory over tue desglation which has fol- lowed bitn In'nll ages, and remember in what a guilty grave, for the most part, ho slocps, Let not the picture be so dark as to dlscouragze, but let it bo sombre envugh to maks you scek shel- ter fu tho prescuce of God, nod to feel how many prayers, and hymas, and faithful vigils (¢ will require to bring you 1o Heaven's gate with joy. May all these angry aud bltter wuters make us all climb more rly upon the rock which lifts itsell above, aud wilch in tho midst of ruin is eccn emblazoned wnot with the word destroyer, but the diviner word, Bavlor, ORIGIN OI'" THE SABBATI. BERMON DY THE REV. DR. KONLER. A weelk ngo yesterday the Rev. Dr. Kohler, of the Binni Clurch, preached the following sermon, takKing as his texts Exodus, xxxi., 12-175 Deuteronomy, v, 12-13; and Isslah, 1xvi, 23: The various statutes and commandments of the Mosaie law, no lcss than the different cos- tums nud rites of the Jewish people, find thelr paralicls as well as their oxplanations In the laws and ccremonies of the different natfons o the globe. There fs, after duc research, nothiug pecallarly Jewish in the Jaws about clean and unclean, nbout the sacrifices and lus- trutlons, about the sanctuary and the priestly garments, nor in tho mode of celebratiug the festivals and the usages of private Hfo from beginning to end. They are altogether ccre- monles observed by the priesthood of various races, and whon once adapted by the Jewish prophets for the sanctification of thelr lives, they were gradually transmitted to the entire people. Such ‘a tendency of stamping the Dodies of the entiro pcopte with thie sign of pricatly holincss scems to have prevafled in the most primitive ages of mankind in Africa, Asfa, and Polynesla, when, thousands of years before Abraham lived, the rite of clrcumeision con- neeted with the worshlp of tho generative powers of nature was {otroduced, Amlidst tho Jewlsh people ovly dld this spark of religiou, all covered wlith sensualimn, break forth Into a flame of the lofticst usplration afler holiuss, whose mighty sway uone of the Semitic or the Aryan natous could withstand. Inqulring, however, after .the causes which first turned Isracl's obstlnuto {dolatry into that marvelous alleglance and falthfulness unto God, and then gradually brought the vast Teathen world wuder the dominlon of the great and only. Oue Yalvel, wu arrlve at one great loveling power, whicl, like no other, helped to bulld up & relizion of the heart, and, in fact, is the only specifically Jewish institution there is, and this js the Babbath., Before tha Babbath wae Instituted, rellgton was nothing but a mere ;outwnrd and sensuous worship of the Deity, yerfurmed by priests to protect the people azainst the Divine wrath, The Babbath brought man iuto communion with his Creator, and the soul to the consclousncss of its true need and {ts higher nature. The Babbath madea day of bodlly rest and of spiritual elevation, brought religion out of the.clutehes of zealous priest- cralt and the conflues of an unapproachablo sanctuary, Lome to every human heart, Ine deed, well does tho Babbuth deserve a placo wnong the ten words, it belng one of the foun- datfon-stonea of humanity. For, as It haa proved the greatest source of bicssing of clvilt- zatlon In the past, maukind, whether in fts materlul or its splritual pursuits, will never do without §t. And, ns it hus created and nursed Judals, paving the way for Chrlstianity in the Western and for 1slam(sm In the Eastern World, {t will surely one day bring about tho realization of mankind’s grandest Iu;Ya, a8 cxpressod by Judal's secrs, of blendlog all religions into thy religlon of humnnlt{‘ Apaln and azaln tho sssertion ls made bg an iguorant Chrlstian clergy that the Mosafe Hab- hath concerned exclusively the Jewlsh people, while tho Christlan Babbath was given to man- kind at Jurgze. Ou the othier band, Jewlsh theo- Togluns of low crudition, but ligh pretensious, make people belleve he day sanctioned by the Jewlish people slnce ages 1 the only Babbath of tho Decealogue, decluring ot - the same time thut all thuse noble and religivus people who did or sl keep thelr Sabbath on Suuday stand out- slde of the fmlu not onty of Jewlsh congreau- tions, but also of the faith based on the Ten Words of Sinal. In contradiction to these both oue-sided and unsound ut:lnluua. I will endenv- or, lu g elear and outspoken way, to place be- fore you my vicws as regards the origiu, the signllleance, and the importancs of the Sublath, based no less on the safe results of modery re- search than on lovefor humanity and for Is- raol's sacrod and unoqualed trutha, ‘I'ha Sabbath, though of Chaldean orlgin, 4 Jowish fu its charucier, but st (he same time cogmopolitat and world-cinbraciog in its alm and purpose. ‘I'his ts what I malntaln, taking Holy Bcriptures to be u collection of writings full'of fuspiring thought, yet not idolizing them. Rteading the trat clispter of Guuesls, witt which tho Bible opeus, no one can foil to be struek. by thy admirable grandeur of the couception of Cod completing the work of creation within _six _days, and crownlog it with the Babbath-Day. But 1t inust be quite clear to auy thinking wan that, In order to form such a nutlon of God, the writer nust have grown up Mnong o pcou\e lony sfnce used to keep the Sabbath, and amlidst “un age regulating thae by fixed weeks of seven days, a8 Wo are wont to do Chaldeun astrology Laylng made tho soven lanets *$thy rulurs of the suyen duys,” as we eury [rom thelr story of the Qenesld, roghilar weoks wers finally cstablished without futhue regard to the rovolutlon of the moon, They scéin to have heen adopted by tho Jewlsh peoplo nn the Bubylonfan captivity, and wers alter the thne of Afuxander the Great introduced in the vurious lands of Asla and Kurope. or can any one disbelioving mfraclos, on account of his falth in the unchangeable will of tho Eternal us manifested In Nuture's laws, ascrlbe great historieal valuo to the beautifu leend about thie Manng, which s suld to have fullen Gom heaven during tho six duys of the week and coasod on the seventh fop the purpose of teachlug tho people in the wilderness tha ob- servanco of the Babbath, On the contrary, we not only fu) Lo find tho obecrvonce of the Bab- bath nientionod duting tho first 500 years of Isroel's settlement {n Causan ss well as (o the uomadic llfe of the Patriarchs, but during the sevon days' slegre of the Clty of Jerlcho and In oll the battles of Banl and Davld ¢ {8 ignorad in such o way as to muke it avpear cotirely un- kuown Lo that sze. At the sumotime, howyver, thore i3 a speelal holineas attached to the num- ber seven, sluce people take oaths by seven stones, ‘seven sheop or wells, and form " periods of seven days, But 300 yeara later wo suddenly hear frum the geeat proplicts, Awmus, lh»cg. Isnfal, and Michaly, that the Sabbath was gen- erally and rigorourly kept by the peaple, in #pite of thefr heathenism and thelr defective muorals, Atnos represents thewn as saying: “When will the New Moon he gone that we tnny sell provision! And tha Sabbath, that we apen tho wareliouses, having oply the cheating and decetving of the poor in view1” Tha fes- tivals, the New Moon and the Sabbath, were celebrated, but not for the sake of the One God and ju honor of Hla uname. Jlence, Inatead of admonishiog the Pcnplu to whgerve the Sabbath and the featival days, all the praphets previous to Josiah unanfmously them worthleas and lonthsome unto the Holy oty Whence, then, did the Sabhath origlnate? It cannot liave been borrowed from the Egyptians, As some assume, since they knew of no Sahbatl, and had thelr tnonth divivided Into weeks of ten duys, as we find o shmllar division of the montl Into threa parts among the Aryan na. tions, and Into six parts with the Chinese and the Mexiean people, The Babylonlans and Asyrians only adopted the divisionof the tnonth luto weeks Of neven days, together with the sberednens of the number acven with the old sottlera of Chaldea, and gradually spread it wver Asfng and it £ fron their mbniments that we now learn the true orlzin of the Sabbath, It was the closc of each of the four different phases of the moon during fis revelution,—the soyenth, the fourteeuth, the twenty-first, and the twenty-cighth day of cactimonth, whichthey called the day of stund-still,—' sulum, '—and celebrated a8 days of rest, * Sabbathu.”' Yet, far from being & day of sweet Joy and recreation for the people, it \was rather a gloomy day, on which the Itoyal High-Pricst was npelthcr al- lowed to_wear his otliclal robe for legisiating, nor to ride in his charlot,nor to call an assembly for judgment, nor to annl{ any medicine, nor to eat covked meat and to kindle fire until' the ensuing nigght. 3 Thus, seeinz tho Babbath originally connected - with_the heathenish moon-festival,” wo unders stand why 1ts observance was nut at all favored by tho earlier of the great prophetical swriters, but classed amonge the usages connected with nature worshlp, Indeed, the commundiment not to kindlo any fire in private houses on the Seventh Day and the custoln of laying new shew-bread Upon the holy table on each Sabbath, still betray such an origtn. Gradually, however, the Babbath, belng celebrated as o day of rest h{ slio people_of Israel, proved to boa great blessing unto all, awl was, therefore, et above all other festivals by the succceding prophets and lepislators, Thusthe wrlter of Deuteronomy In tbe Ten Commundments, set in place of those Elvun In Exudus xxxiv,, 122, makes the Sab- atha duy of deliverance from servitude unto man and beast, connecting It with the deliver- ance of Isracl from the Egyptinnbondage, And fually, when in the Babylonjan exile the Sabe, Dbath becamne o day of spiritual elevation and of Instruction unto”the puople, distinguishing it from il other nations surroundiny it, the day was declared by Ilezeklel and otherpithied) writers to bo a sign of covenant between Jahoo and Hfs people, g violatfon of which wasthouce- forth threatened with extermination, Btill the sublime seer of the Exile, whose words became g treasury of comfort unto the uations, wanted to extend the blessings of the Babbath over ull lands. Hence: we hear him an- nounce the thne when from new moon to now moon and from Sabbath to Eabbath all flesh shall come to adore the Eternal (Isalub xiv,, 23), And, fuspired by this thought, thelast composer of thie Pentatedch, hoth In” the Decalogue Exo- dus xx. and {n the fiest chapter of Geniests, en- twined the S8abbath with Creatlon itself, not re- fralnlng from representing God in the fmage of n humun worker in rder 1o make mat look up unto God as his sublime pattern. Having thus far, by means of the present modern research, puraued the origin of the Sabbath, let me in- qyulre after its true significance. UL all the uations of the lpnsl. not one except the Jewish was bloseed with a day of rest und recreation for the people. Tho Pagan festivals were altogether days of carousing and revelry, Even with the Greek, the noblest of all the na- tlons, they were devoted to atbletie contests and gynmastics, and, nithough they exeited also 1 conteat fu bizher arts aud sciences, it was not a thne of freedom for wan, but merely » pustine for the privileged nr‘ls!ucmcy. The free Greek and Roman regarded work far below Dis dignity, leaving it ecatirely to his siave. Ilence honeeded no day of recrcatlon, while ho would not grant it to'his slave, except, per- haps, once o runr‘ Likewiso linraoh denonnces rest for s Hebrew swmves ns mers idleness, Slavery befug the groundwork of the whole snclont cfviifzation, labor, of course, was consldereddegrading. lienco' the highest of the heathen gods was conceived not ns'a groat worlcery Lut,” whent not alsturbed by war, a8 assing Ufe cither n feasting or dreamiug. gympunhy with the slave, groaning under hiy master's yoke, made the Jawfsh prophets hafl the Subbath us a day of redemption for the wurkhui mnn, and flnafly Inbor itseif was ideal- ized and attributed evon to God, in order to be hallowed Ly Lfis rest, In the first instauce, then, the Sabbath comes to biess the Jaborer with rest, breaking the shackles of toll aud care, and declariug himn free in the eyes of God aud maw. It has bren proved by modern piysfeians that after having worked Just six days maw’s exhausted nerves require mln{ of restoration und ewceet ¢njoy- meot, Nelther aduy of_rest chosen at random during the week, noraSabhath-day at the end of & week of ten days, as was unumetc-l in the time of the French * Revolution, fullills the pur- [l of tie Fegular Subbudl. When, therefore, hie heathens, by their intercourse with the Jew: {8l people, tearned to know the Jewish Sabbath in its emfnently humaue churacter, they gladly adopted it. In vain dld indiznant patriots and satirical poets warn the Roman people nealnst practicing such Jewish customs. Josephua the Ilhflul’ll\ll, and Philo the Alexandisn pbllnsoe~ pher, challenge the Roman "zod Greek worlld to tind on Institution mecting with as general an appreclation us does the Sabboth, And it s must remurkable that'especlally staves aud wom- en longed fur such o day of reereation, and wero thereby fnduced to cinbrace Judalsm, In- deed, the Rabbls say the Sabbath ought not to bo tuken us u burden, but asa most” precions treasure frous Gol's rich dtore-house, It wusy It tho second fustance, to be n bearer of joy tuthe house,a day of suclal Ymu:nsuru. Stnce the pursults of trade uud labor draw wan away from hls honschold, and estrange him the hearts both within and outstde of Lis chor- {shed family-circele, the Subbatli links the souls together, sirengthening the bunds of love and friendship anew, and thrilting all hearts with the feclings of joy and nr\'mpumy. I order ta fuster sweet household virtues, aind to bind each member of the family to Lils home on thy Sab. bath, tho tay was Incumbered with so many Rabblnical restrietions. Yot far from making it n day of melancholy, dnd of sober world-von- tempt, the Rabbls put ncup overtlowing with wine [nto the haudas of the Jewish futher al the eve aml the noouthing of the Sabbath to gludden all hearts and to Uil all souls with pralse and sonez, H’?u, most of all, tha S8abbath beeame an fnex- huustiblo source of blesstng unto mankind by belug a day of struction awd enlightenment of the people. Undoubtedly the Urcek phifuso- phers attatued o higher acgres of knowledge than any of the Jewish masters, yet was not wll thelr fustrnction contined to a ‘small class of peapled True, Socrates, wulking through tho strcets of Atnens, olfered bils wisdom freely ta uny one crossing il way, But how could he successfully cultivate and educnte the massus, having no fnstitutlon like the Sabbath at his dls- posalt ‘The Sabbath tirat ralifed the disciples of lho praphets around thelr fnapired master, and, afterwards, large assemblies of the peopls uround the pulpits, to hear the Word of God re- vealed or cxpounded. ‘The Sabbath heralded Israel's sucred truths with u world-stirring foree through uil the cties of Ituly, of Greece, und Asia Minor, aud entisted the sympathics of heathendom for Judaisim Jong before Paul of Tursus offered them salvation by fulth without tho law. ‘T'no Jewish SBabbath paved the m:f' for Chrlstianity tu conquer the Pugan wortd, Observed duriug the Hest threo ceuturles on Saturday, the Curlstian Sabbath wus, from mere hatred und antipathy towards the Jews, trans- ferred by the ruting Church, though not all thy Clirlstial sucts, to Sumlay, Un the other hand, the Jowish Bubbath branched off futa the Ls- hmrl‘“xfx duy of ussembly," which 13 celebruted on Friday, Thus deu\vhh Sabbath, with ita dlevating and eunobling infucnces, fins fnsinuated itrett fito the heurls of ull clyllized natons. ‘Tho fourth artlclo of the Sinaj Constitution’ as bu- cotmu o comnon taw to hundreds of millions of men, The Sabbath has become o law written with @ivine fngers upon the tublets ot thy hu- man hearti it cannot be lost any more. Having Deen made o day of comtunfon with the Diving Bource of Love, it will forever teatily Lo Isracl's highest truth o mun's being an junygre of the frue and good Creator, Whether kept on Fri- duy, 88 tho Mohummedang do, or on Bunday or Saturday, ft bas becaine Gol’s sacred messenger, unitiug mun with his Heavenly Father and sane- tifying the hearts of the multitude, Arve we, a8 Jews, not to thank Uod for this wonderful tranaformation of the wortd by the spirit of Judalsin? And may we ot cherish and " expect ta sac once fultilicd the glorious hope expressed Dy the greatess of ull thu prophets, of oue Bab- Duth to be celebruted I Lonor of the ono Gud by uulted muukind{ R My frignds, the Jewish Babbath bas becoms endeared tu us as thio sweet messenger of hops and comfort amidst the crucl persccutions heuped on us by Christlunity during the Mitdle Ages. It was a bearer of [(zht unto us, disclus- fujg golden treusures of knowledse and mental freedom amidst a - world benfehted with fgoo- ranco and supperstition. It wus a fountain of Alving waters to medkeval Judaisi, rendering every Jewlsh household a garden uf Uad, bloom- ing With the swect scent of every virtue, 5] the pristiue glory wad brizlituess of the Jewlsh Rabbath-day Is gone; Ita blossoms have withered, Ever slnce the walls of the Jewish ghetto have sunk before tho trimphet's blust of Lhe new era of freedom to open the arena of commercial and Inqustrial enterprise to tho Jews and the Christlans allke, the fToly Sabbath has been vlohm-l.bf the din and care of lahor and businoss. Nor s there any hope of scelng it restorea unleas new walls were to shut tho Jewlel people off from the fntercourso with thelr fellow-citizena, We are amldat a great crisis, Ourlicarts, and chicfly the Jewish woman, whio best represents the heart of the hausehold, cling fervently to the old historical Babbath with jta manifold dear remembrances; but we can see noway of bring. ing ita blessings to bear on the multitude of our business-nen, and chiefly the young people, ex- cept by holding divine scrvice on “Sunday, the actual'day of rest with all our people. By that Fluw of anthusfastic anticipations which always nepires reform at its beglonings, a good man, of you, when Bunday services Were (ntrodueci in our ‘midst, expected, nt no distant day, to see tho old Jew!sti Sabbath entlrely tranaferred tothe public day of reat, ' Butthings have taken another turn, The sacredness of the day is too dleeply rooted in tho Jewish hearts to here- muved Ly o handful of people and trausferred to another day, In spite of thic physician's sad- deat verdlet, fove spreads its wings of hupe over the suffering Eulen louking steadfastly for his recovery. Likewlse it appedrs cruel to " give up that sacred day as lomfi A8 iLs warm pulse of lifo s felt throughout the, Jewish community. 1 give all due credit to all those ten and woinen who are determined to uphiokl the Nunday serv- lces {n spite of all obstacles and faffures, and my sympathy and_support will always be se- cured unto them. In deflance of all those who, for the sake of cheap popularity, denounte the undertaking s treachery and aurrender unto Christianity, 1 irmly maintain Sunday to be the Jordan of our Land 'of Promise. 1lut’T must in- sist on the keeplag of the Sabbath on the part of those who want to take the lead in the great refortatory step. It will not do for the van- guard to proceed {n their mareh without regard to the following multitude. There s but one wity of safety before us, and that ls, to linpress the indlspensable necessity of having une day of recreation both for bidy and soul during the week on every member of the Jewish houschold. And since ¢ strict and general observance of tho Babbath, either on Saturday or on Sunday, s fmpossible at present, Jet us try by all meana to lave the old Sabbath recognized and kept as thie Funulnu {lay of Jewish worship, and Sunday as ts substitute for all those prevented from at. tending pnblic worship ou the preceding day, Like Jacob lamenting over the Joss of hls “sons, Judalsin nowadays utters thecry: *‘Joseph (8 gone, Bimeon {8 mlssluf. anl Benjandin ye will take nwur, too. 8hull I be bereaved of all iy childreni? Let us reassure our mother Zlou, wledging our souls for the welfare of our breth- ren, a8 Judah did unto his father, and, though the bLeginning be but smalil, the end will be graud sud glorfous, Amen. FAREWELL SBERMON. THE REV, J, 3. WIITZUEAD BIDS ADIEU TO THE 'NORTIU-STAR DAFTIST CRURCIT, The Rev. J. M, Whitchead, pastor of the Nortli-Star Baptist Charch, corner of Dlvision and Sedgwick streets, ended o pastorate of six years yesterday, and at the forenoon service preachied his farewell scrmon. He took his text from 8ccond Corfuthiavs, chapter 13, verse 11 Finally, brethren, farowell. Be perfect, be of good camfort, be of onc mind, live tn peace, and the Uod of Jove and peace shall comfort yoo. He Orst spoke of the trinis and tribniations through which ls congregation hiad to pass, but unevertlicless they had accomplishied a great deal of good, There was muc}\ good belug done by the central and revival “meetings; still he Le- leved that not 88 much can bo accoms plished a8 by tho individual churches themselyes, The Interest and influence in the central mectings would depend entirely on the work of the ndlvidual churches, Unless every member of each church takes hold, the meetings will not prove a suceess, and not save us mauy eonls as one Individual chureh conld alone, A pgreat many people weut to theso central ineefings out of idle curlosity, but the Cliurch of God was the hane of the sinners, He had no contidence in the wurk done outside of the Chiurch. If they meant to oecomplish anything {4 must be done inside the Church, Thiey might never again have such an oppor- tunfty as there was now, le never azaln ex- peets to sce such masses come together fu har- tnony and unlty na there were vow, ‘This was o eritieal time nud theywere now in the last part of the threc months which had been set aside for this work. If they meant to make o harvest they must work, and” work within the Church. He' could look with pride upon the work dong by the church during his pastorate, but much remained yet to bedone, If the good wark zoes on, they would soon ‘be able todo more goud thau some of the larger and more preten- tious churches, Ever sinco e came into the house God had blessed them. Sinners werecon- verted oud suuls saved. There was a way by whiel: the church could accomplish more thni ever, The brethren and slsters must be loyul to the church, They had been much erippled in their work by disloyal ncmbers. Tlui must first attewd to the Church of Go Tlut not only must they be Joyal to thelr chureh butt also to thelr pastor. They must find no fault with the preachluw, and should go to the prayer-mectings and work. The pastor could not o to them, they tnust comus to him at the church, The doctor was not going around ask- ing people whether thuy wero slek. If people were ln[:t:n f1l, they had'to send for him, e then spoka very feellngly of tha ties which bound hitn to hiy “congregation, and which he hiad now to sever, Ever siuce be lud come to them he had shared with thelr joy and gorrow. He had gono with them through'the disustrous time of the great conflugration, and asslsted In the wurk of rcbuifding tbe clhurch us much as auny one. He adinitted he falled In many Instances, for there was no man who wua perfeet, 'llnc there was one thing of which be felt proud, and that wus his loyalty to thy Church,—to the denomination to which he belongs, Ile hoped from the bottom of lis licart that they would contintte to prosper, antl he would never cense to take o Hyely Interest fin thelr welfare. They must seck salvation fn their own church and not atteml ather churcies, which would help them but little. They must nlsy uttend to their Sabbath-school and ald the Superintendent. They had obstucles to contend with, ‘They were llving in the midst of a forelgn population who did not speak the Luglish laniznage, bu this should nut dis- courage them. It should only spur thetn to ware determnined efforta. During the Just part of lifs eermon the reverend gentlemun wus much affected, and the tears ran down his 8 Jiro- +'The congregation, and partleularly the ‘female portion of ity was equally effected) and there was hardly s dry eye in the bouse, e Rev. J. M. Whiteliead §8_gofug to nssume charpe of the South Belvidere Cuurch, where e will cunimence his labors next Sunday. RAILROAD COAPEL. . DEDICATION OF TH® NEW EDIFICE. Nincteen yeurs ugo Father Kent started a se- rles of Sunday mectings fua car at the Michigan Southern Depot, His Idew was to reach out nud fntluence the raltroad employes, who wero generally u hard and frreliglous Lody ol men. The movemnent, orlginativg in that humblo way, gradually and steadlly progreseed. A framo chapel was built, and afterwards one of brick, which wus destroyed By tire, The present cle- gant und commodious. editico has been crected mainly through the untiring, personal efforts of Alr. C. M, Henderson, nided by several cowurk- ers, wnovg whom are Addlson Bullard and Ald, Pearsona. Hailrond Chapel s attaclied as a misslon to the First Presbyterian Church, though it 1s to all intents und purposes a separata church, hav- fug for Its pastor an energetic and talented young_mau, the Rev. Dunald Flewcher, Itla ocated on State strect, near Fourtecnth, and Is an fmposingeditice. Its cost hus been very moderate. Tha contracta thut were Iet in lts construction, not fucluding seats and pulpit fur- niture, aggrezated 85,510,858 The totul cost m_ul‘ alterutions buve amounted 50 far to 7y A i’u-wrdny was the first Sunday when the waln auditorfum was used for holdlng sorvices, Heretoforo meetings huye been hebd (n the bases ient, which haa not been by any means a pleas- ant place for worshlplng. The services yostor day partook of wdudicatory character, In the ufternoon thers was u pralse service. Prof, Havens prealded at the organ, and the chiolr of the ‘l-‘lm -Prestytorlun Chiurel rendored tho masle, It should be stated hioro that the chapel is rovided with an excelleng organ, costing sbout gl.m}. and pald for by wnbscriptions of the )Eimuiluy scholars, with tho nsslstance of the euche In the evening there was an interesting meet- g, Tho chapel was well fllled with people, and muny of the patrons of the lnstitution wers present, anong whom were Marshall Flokd, L. 2, Lelter, Henderson, Addfson Ballaed, D, K, Pearaons, Wiitiam Mun;ln(, . H. Ladln, and gihiers, Tha Rev. Arthur Mitehell preached, takivg the following text: Thon the peaple rojoiced for that they offered whlingly to the Lord. —1, Chron,, roar., ‘Tho speaker sald that when thesc words were written it was uu occaslon of great Joy. Oue would think that thoy bad beew making monoy; but, on the cdhitrary, they had been gw'iug AW elr moncy, WEA bsd they bien dotugd willingly, because wlm))uzllevl heart lhvz offered | They had been providing matarial for the build fug of the Temple. David, the King, liad given nearly half tho original cost,—£8,000,000 aterling, so It has been claimed. ~ At any rate, all the means bad been secured. All liad glven, ‘The rich and the poor had wlmn;xlly contributed of their substance, 8o it was In the erection of this cliapel. Tuemdwua some largo and gen- an erous gifts, there were many amaller “ones. Now the pnszIu had mothered to rejoice, a8 id the Children of Taracl, aver tho succossful butldi of tha sanctuary. Whils they remembetad with atitude all who lad given nnflthhu! Lowards he crection of tho beautiful edlilce, thcg uu‘;ht to be grateful to God, ahove all, that they had the opportunity of belng there and of con- tributing, Perliaps some” of them had little money to _rive, but they could all give their hearts to Chrlst, In closing, tho speaker called attentlon to the fact that the Israclites in tha text gave to the bullding of the temple, though they could never hopa to occupy it or enjoy it themselves, lere tho circumsiances. wore a little different, as the peopla could begin already to take possesalon of their tabernacle, and reap that which thuir had sown, Mr. C. M. Henderson madea stalement of tho fircscnt financial condition of the chapel, The Board hail hardly expected to ho able to finish the bLuilding this season, but when the bids caine tn they were found to be so much lower thnn the csfimates that it was deelded to #o ahead and complete the chapel, Therc was oY present o debt of about 8%400. Bubacriptions being asked for, the following wore handed in: J." Holllngaworth, $50: R, Fletcher, $50; Charles Hammlil, $100; William Baker, $307 3r, Stcphenson, $25; Dr, itch ;«‘%, 505 Me. Morab, $5; UL Henderson, MISCELLANEOUS. DEDICATION AT IARTFORD, CONN, Hartronp, Nov. 20.—8t, Patrick’s Church was dedicated to-day with all the pomp and cir- cumatances of the Cathollc ceremonial, Eizht Blshups and & large number of resldent and visiting clergy participated in the services, EUROPEAN GOSSIP. THE GRAND TURK. Charles Dudley Warner bas becu in Constan- tinople and he has scen the Sultan on his way to pragers, as he tclls us in Scribner's Monthiy @ “Buddenly, 1 do not knuw how, or from what quarter, the feellng, for I could not call it in- tormation, wos diffused that the successor of the Prophet would pray ot the mosque in Ortae keul, and that he would go by ealqtie; and we all scampered up the road, s mile or two, racing carrlages, troops, and footmen, in cager outset, in order to arrlvo before the plous man, The mosque stands tpon the Bosphorus, whero fts broal marble steps aud pillared front and dome ocelIpy us couspleuous a position as the Degana at Venice. We sccurcd a standing-place oy the dock close to the landing, but outslde the fron ralling, and waited, A cordon of troops In Dlue regimentals with red facings was drawn around the streets fn the rear of the mosque, and two comnpanies of soldiers in white hn& stacked thelr guvs on the marble landing, and were lounging about in_frout of the building, Tho sccuy ot the Bosphorus was gay as & tlower gar- den, The water was covered with graceful uul?nes and painted barges, and cvery sort of craft, mcan “and spleadid, that could be pro- pelled by onrs or salls, A dozen men-of-war* were decked with flags from keel to malntop; on every yard, aud from bowsprit to atern, sto a lino of sailors sharply defined agalnst the blue sky. At1o'clock n cannon announced that the superior devotee hud entered his calque, and theu from every vesscl of war in the harbor sa- lute answered salute in thunder that awoke the cchoes of two continents, until on all the broad water Iu({ a thick battle sinoke, through which we could distinguish ouly the tops of the masts and the ity hulls spouiing fire, . In the midst of this earthquuke of Pluly, thicre was a cry, *1fe comes, be comes;’ the eoldiers ;rupm] thelr arms aod drew aline each side’of the lauding, and the oflicialsof the mosque arranged themeclves on the steps, Upon the water, m.lvnnulny{ with the speed of race horscs, we saw two sg)cmlld gilded calques, the one containing the Sultan, the other his attendunts. Atthomoment, a light carrisge with two bay liorsex, unattended, dushed up to the sile-door, and there descended from ft and entered the mosque, the Imperial beir, the son of the Inte Sultan snd tho nephow of the present, a slender, palc youth of spparently 25or 80 Ecnrs. Weturn xlob knuwing how soon he Is to become Sultan furad V.) our eyes to him only for o moment, for the Sultan’s calque coines with imperious baste, with tho rush, ns it were, of victory—s hundred feet long, narrow, risiug atthe stern ltke the Venetian Bucenteur, carved and gilded like the golden charivt In which Alexander entered mey]nn—pmrcllcd by fifty-two loug sweeps, rising and falling In “unison with the bending backs of twenty-six black rowers, clad i white and with naked feot. The Sultan s throned in the high stern hung with silk, on stiken cushions, under a splendid eanopy, on the top of which glistens his arms and a blazin sun. ‘The Bultan, who is clad In the untform of a General, steps quickly out, walks up thesteps over o unrrut spread for his Royul fect,—the suldiers salutiug, everybody with arms crossed beoding the body,~aud “disappears in the mosque.'’ DUTCIT CLEANLINESS, Aletter trom Hollana fn the.Genos Contlnent says: *‘The famous Dutch cloauliness scoms to me quite on a level with its reputation, and nsserts ltself in the most ingenlous and tudlerous woy, A rosy rerving-mald, redolent of soap- suds from Ler white cap to her white anbots, atands squirting water from a queer little co- gine of polshed copper over the majestie front of ncfi:umel mansion, whose mm&)lexlon 1s not a visible shale less fmmuculate than her own, ‘The performance supgeats a dozen questions, and vou cau only suswer them ull with o laugh, What s she duing, and wh"l is she doine it Does she imagine the house busa speck or two which it is of cor ucncs Lo remoye, or 8 the squirt applied merely for the purposes of light refreshment—of — endearment, as it wered Where could tho speck or two possibly have come from, unless produced by spoutancous geueration! There are no specks fu the road which 13 o neat parquet of scoured and pulluhmi Drick; nor on the tress, whose trunks are to nll appearance carefuilysponged every moruing. The speck exists evidently only s a sort of mathematical point, capuble of extension, {n the good wainan’s Bataviun braby, and the operation with her copper kettle {s, ns thic metaphysiclans would say, purely subjective. It 1su necessity, not 0s regards the house, but as regurds her owi temperament. Of a d hurmlicasly fuctitious neceasitics of the same sorl, the conal-sldus at Amsterdam offer lively evidence. Nothing coulid he mora thoroughly in Keeplng with the bour- geols spirlt thau the way {n which you every- where flnd this brilllant cleantivess” and cere- monlous thrift playing the part not of a con- venfence, but of o Festriction—not of a4 means, but of an emd. The windows are of those huge plates of glass which offer a delectably uninterrupted ficld for friction; but they are masked fnternally by thick white biluds, in- varlably drawn, und the um{ use of thelr transpiarency to any mortal 18 to cuable the passers-by to exmnine the texture of the stall, The front doors are hedged In with fittle squure luullwkml barriers, W 'imml tha doarsteps Irom he poliution of fuotprints, and the visitur must pocket his pride and apply st an humbler portal, with the buker ond the millcman, In such liouses must dwell people whose nerves are l-mu! agalnst the irritation of minute precan- lons—peonle who cover thelr books with white paper and find oceuslon for a week’s conversas tion In a mysterlons drop of candle-grease on the tablecloth, ‘The travcler with an eyo to de- tails will find some eloquence in the fuct that, though the vanals of Amsterdam and Loyden offer continually this charing pretext of frees by n water-slde, there Is not fu thefr wholo Iéngth o stugte beneh for a lounge and a balf- hour's testhetlo rellsh of the situation. ——— IMRS., PRODGERS, A London letter to the New York Zerald says: ‘Tho mauy victims of the cabiau's ra- pacity may find comfort fnn the thought that they have ‘an aveuger’ fu the person of Mrs, Glacomettl Prodgers. This stroug-iinded ludy burst like a thunder-cloud upon the despoiles and, single-handed, avercame them, Herclalms to 4 statue are undeniable; public subsc ijilen would duubticss valse thousands of pauuds to commemorate the servics shio las done the State, Iler private life und ber zolug out and comlug fu aro fuscrutable, but thy rumor (dis- sominated, perhups, by cabbies who have felt her heel) s lhut sha and Gincomettl, her bhus- banl, parted on terts muluull{ unsatisfactory, and that the loss of Clacomettl so preyed upon Lerantud that she has becoma a inonomaniac, the particulur formof tho lunacy, developing {tself into a crusade spainst caben, a devour- oi eagerncss to make thew feel the fetters of the law, Noedless vo say, therefors, that sho Is tho cabman's tergor. Meeting blin on Lis owi ground, viz., in his own cab, sl s as o titatoly acquafoted with the number of milos, ards, and Inclies between ufi‘ two potats in {ondun as tho best of / own profes. slon. The happlest moments of her My, sluce shu parted with Glacowmettl, ara those in which she esples and lires a cabiun who may bs the worse fur ‘lguor us theu, gulte regardless of any nasucuglon of ‘fure,’ his ute for the momeunl {s sculed, Ter greatest trlumphz, however, have been galwed in her laud-surveylg * capacity, Scorcs of times has shie tested [n the courts thie Jures dewsuded of her for the distance trayeled, If there be any doubt in tho minds of the magisirates ¢4 to the distance she hag traveled, Prodgers (a'cqual to the occaston; the dlstance 1a measurcd by tha Government officera at her cxpense. Shonld the ineasurement prova to:be, 8s % anunlly. docs, In accordanca with hor assertions, the tcabby? must puy the cost of the ‘land-survey~ ing? operation, heskles the fine dua from him { on account of his excesslva demand,” The re-' salt of the Prodgers agitation {s that {f any cab- man sees that fady approaching his stand, h Wil beat an fgnominoua retreat, and If & ‘cabe by’ who {s 1ot scquainted with the form and * features of that, ogress percelves looming In the + distance (ho figurd of an clderly and masculine- looking lady, he will elther turn hls lorsa’s? head o the onposite direction and run aa 12 for his life or take refuga fnonc of tho *shelters,?® But In the latter case hie Is not quite sure of his - safcty, as Mrs, Pmd‘zers is roported upon one occasfon to have sullenly stormed one of thess . sanctums, whea, In a mx{:m of fright,the . inhabitants took fllght in all directlons, somo throughi the windows and others by way of the roof, leaving her in undisputed possossion of i sundry uncooked chops snd stenks ond half« emptled pots of beer,” —— AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE.. The Three Johns and Stamboal, New York Graphic, In the name of the Prophiet.” Thera were a Bull, & Bear, and nnng, called Johnny Bull, Jolnny Bear, and Jonathian; and therc was tho ity of tho éulum, whereln dwelt the true be- levers. Its towers and minarets polnted into heaven, and in gecurity the summit of the tallest and most apindling of thosominaretswould baye bieen ns guod a throne for the Commander of tho Falthful as that on which he commonlysate, and - thecimeter of the Osnanlis was not sharper than the scissors with which thoso who tvere girt With that formidable sword were wont to suip Lhe slender thread of life. But Allah {s great, And wlcn they snipped not thalr threads thera was not waniing others by whom {t was snip- pen, And the elty of the Sultan was Btamboul - upon the Bosplhorus, and ever above it hov ered an afrcet sent by the King of the. Russian jinns to watch the moment when it night bodlly be removed and set down before . tha palace of the Czars, And Jolm Bear wad - tho King of the Russian jinos, and Johnny Bult was betier known as Pertidious Alblon, who was o dog Inthe manger., Jlo did not want Stamboul himself, but he gald e would blast hisbloody eyes, youknow, if Johnny Bear should have it, you know, But Johnny Bear chewed his candles ‘and drank his tram-oll in grim perti nmi:.lv walting for Stamboul, Across the veean stood Jonathan on the strand, whittling reflec uvclfl and waiting patieutly for the coming row, which wound redound to his glory and emolu- wment. Holy Prophet, what s sclfish Jonl Tho* commerce of Juhuny Bull was great, and extend- " cd over all the wide seas and Jands of the world, from fccland to the Klngdom of Prester John and - the disputed * parishes in Louislana, Tho commerce of Johnny Bear was not so large, but for many years his terrltories aud bis lands _along” the Danube been the granary of Europe, and Jonathan knew that if the Bull should got into @ serlous diliculty with the Bear he would bo the great galner, and would export much, and would buy and bulldlyrenl. ships aud gain the comunercs of the world, which e belleved to bo hisof right, 80 he watched, and the afrect above the City of Stamboul, which had been sent to wateh {ta splres and minacets by the King of tho Russfan jinne, daily hovered above {t, and its dread form shone out agalnst. thosky., The Bear came on slowly from his home [ the Nortly, and the Bull witched him sullenly, showing his horna and lashing lis sldes with bis tutted tail. And Jonathan called from his monsion n the sun his famous and world-pimired eaglo aud put it in tealuing for mercantile purposcs, that with {ts undazzicd eye it might look upon his sun as it, rose above tho Enstern horizon, By the beard of the Prophet! but this self-secking and highly respectable and thoroughly in carnest and (nMcclnF Jonathan futended, ns soon ns the row ghould bc%ln, to profitby 1t to the tull extent of his possivllities. For he remembered how his ahl]l&llnz went all by the board when he yyas engzaged In chastising hils rebellious children Into obedtence, and how | Johnny Buil hinddone ail In his power to hamper and perplex bim., So he stéod by the shore and whistled and whittled and got his cagle intotrim | for whut wus comfug, Aud the afreet stretehed forth fts shadowy arin and shook the towers of Stamboul till they trembled, but mot yet had the time come for the removal of the clty and {ts settine down before the palace of the Tzars. | And as he gliook the towers the 8ultan swooned, and his Ministers and the Shelk-ul-Islamand the Hoftna came running to the harem, and presently © with their shears wusthe thread of thelife of the * Sultan suapped ssunder, and another Sultan reigued n his stead, In that day. tho Bull show Dlis horns and” cemit 8 bellow of unusual volume, and Jonathan leard it on the distant shore, and it wurmed the cocklea of his keart. Aud merain the nfreet shook the towers sud the Sultan went mad, and they got another in his stead, and then was seen the Bear crouching down by, the Danube} and the Bull sprang upon hilm with abound, and thehalrof the Bull audthe fur of the Near began to fl‘y. And as they fougnt thelr sustenanve fell away, and on the sca eafled Jonathan with tho countless white salls of his flecet, sud lo stole tho commieree of the Bull, and he took his grafn to the older granaries of Europe and sold—Allah! for how much gold he sold it. And, a8 the fight between the Bear and the Bull continued, Jonathan went boldly upon the land and pleked from the ground where they had thrown it cvery stiver of thefr wealth, and relgned in thelrstend, And, in the end, the nfreet boro awuy Stamboul to the King of the Russlan Jinok, sud the Bull bellowed no wore. 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