Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 4, 1876, Page 2

THE CI AGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1876. THE REVIVAL, The Threo Services at tho Tabor= nacle Yesterday Largely Moody Preaches Another Sermon on ¢ Ifow to Study the B3ible,” Srusting in Jesus Christ Is tho Only Way to Beoure Salvation, The Efght Things Christ Prom- ises to Those Who Will Belleve on Him, Brooke Herford on ¢ Respectablo Indife ference the Real Canse of Tte vival Extravagauce.”® A Word to Mr, Moody from a Railway Employe on Sundey Excursions, Announcemonts for the Coming Woek at Farwell Hall and the Tabernacle. MORNING SERVICE, 110W TO STUDY TNE BIBLE, Yestorday morning ot 8 o'elock Mr. Maody ave another sddress on “ How to Study the Bible.” The peculiarity of his Bible study fs that ft s the study of tho Bible (tself, aud not studying about the Bible. Tho old ldea of Blulical learning was to obtain a collaction of commentarles, Bible dictionaries, cycloprdias, books of archreology, and chronology, with all the contemporancaus profane histories, and, by the help of these, learn all about the derlvation, Interpretation, and concatenatfon of the varlous chapters and books of tha Bible. another {mportant addition bas been made, vlz.: Bacred geography; and in our Sundny- echoolswe have bLoys and girls studying the boundaries of the ten trioes of Isracl, theontlines and clevations of Juden, Galilee, and Samarla, the location of the Pool of Bethesda, und the helght of the steep place down which-thé swine To the liher depart~ monts of Biblical study belong elaborato dis- cusslons on the Greek partleles, “efs’ and *en,” examinations into the distluctions of style In tho poetry of David, Job, and Isalal, ns compared,with that of theoldest ‘Heathen poets, Momer nid Healod; the compurative merits of the different views' of Homoouslans and lo- molonsians; systematle divinity s la Anselm and Athanusius, as pgalnst thie doctrines of - Atiue, Origen, and Tortutlllan, 1) this profound Bibifeal lenrning Moody knows little and cares lese. lurge Mibrary of Bibllcal hooks at his house in Northtleld,” which huave been prcscm?d plunged into tho sea. hall a dozen bouks in the world besldes tho hooks of the Old and New Testaments of which Tie could give the namea and a gencral outling of thelr contents; hience there {8 room In his and with 1t ho keeps him- and running over. Tiead for God's Word, self continually ful method of Blble-study Is like the method of 8 humming-bird studying n clover-blossom. From the vells of sweetness down Into which ho bas thrust his questions sud lils prayers hie which God lus stored profusion and preclous- ness of the promises lke a robin in a tree full 1t s enjoynble just to seo how heartlly e enjoys the Word of God, snd almost convineing to sce with what nbsolute faith he clings to it for his own salvation, and with what absolute agsurance hio urges others to ‘The Curistians of these tfmes liave reason to thank God for this new light which Ie hos brings up the hoi away; he revels in of ripe cherries, through Mr. epared to profit by all the deep Investigation ripe scholarzhip, whick, more than on nny other book, ias been and is now expended on the Ifoly Scriptures; but without {t the new translation for which Lnglishespeaking Chris- tlans are paticntly waltinie wonld only buan addition to the endless questions which” gender strife and cultlvato concelt, Word of God is victuals, drink, clothes; he climbs To Mr. Mooty the s Meaven ns n ng; it s an snchor to hold himj agule to dilve bim; b s health, hope, Tappiness, cteruad tfe, Sudhure the methods and_such the cvident reaults of Mr, Moody's study of the Word of God. THE ADDRESS, After the usunl devotional exercises, Mr, Mooy spoke substantialiy as foll f ']moplu ure ask work hold out?" Now I am not aprophetorthesonofa ‘but there Is one thing I can prediet, and that everyone of these young cunverts who studies his Bille till he learna to love it letier than anything else will be suro to hold ocut; the world will have no charms for him, these young converts want §8 to be fn love with the Word of God; to feed upon it til it comes to be sweeter thun honey and the honegeomb, 1 want to call your attontion tou few verscs in tho fourtlhichapter of Mutthew; it is the ae- vount of Christ’s temptation. Last Sunday morning thero was a boy, who was saying, led for that boy; he wasn’t as well acquainted with the devil as some of us, or he wouldn't defy him that way, Dow't talk about defylug Satan; o will trlp you up befora the words are out of yoir mouth; let Christ take cars of Satan for you; Ile only can do ft. Now we tiod the devil seying to Christ, “1t Is written, Ho shall give Ills ancels charze con- cerning Thee"—went to quoting Seripture, you Aud how did Christ unswer limi Not with s feolings, not with Ilis cxperlence, not with THs baptistn down thers In dordan, but by the Word of Godt * 1t s wrltten, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” And ot lnst Satan gave Him up and left Him, My friends, tho to_hold out sgainat Satan is by the he Word of God, A rood many peopls never get beyond thelr ‘When they get up to speak in the prayer-meetings, they always tell about when tiey were converted. Well, no doubt there was n great work donu for you at Celvary, and another gréat work dane for you whon you wero converted, but yon ought uot to sto, there; you must grow in grace; there fa a wor Spirivin us gcparate from tho work 8} gz, ¢ Wil this hud been conserted, own conversioi, In tho tenth chapter of Romaus, teenth verse, may be vead, ¢ Falf hearing, and hearlog by the Word of God.” great many peopls wre mournin, liero I8 no wonder they haven's any faith—thoy don't study the Word of God, Ilow do you suppose you are to have fuith in (Joll when you dou't know anything about Him1 It i those who haven't any acqualutance with God that stumble und fall; bub thoss who kunow Hhn can trust Iiim und lean heavy on His If o wun would rather read the Sunday God's Word, 1 don't sea how Christ Is going to save Lim; thers (s no voom In biin for the Gospel when be las filled htmeelf with the newspapers, 1 have not touchced o Bundany newspaper, or & weekly rellefous poy Bome people lay usido || thelr want of newapapers than read per either, on lios8 religious papers for Bunday reuding, but that Js not a good wa Let us lay asldv all other reading for une day the week, and devate ourselves to the study of oy Bny, ' Oh, wo must study sclence and Mterature, and such things, in order to understand the Bihle!” & botanist tell you about the “ Rose of Sharen " aud the ¥ Lityof the Valley " reologist tell you abous the ¥ Rock of Ages 't WVhat can the astronomer tell you about * The Bright and Morning Star '"{ Home one has ahl that there are threce R's in the Bible—Ruin, by sin; Rodem blood of Christ; Regencration, Ghoust, These are the things to study. HOW 7O BTUDY, Now how shall we study the Biblel Juat take phruse aud follow it M of Joln: ¢ am gome oné word o ough., Take the #1 the bread of life,” “I am tho water of lite," the truth, the life.” Just fol- line and you will find out that Chrfst {s overythiug your” soul wants; tlat lu whu up the promiscs. uan hes been counting thein 000 promises in tho o or ditticulty you 1s 8 promise ta It we know anythiug about, 1 remembgrtlmlnuw ou the North 5lde wegot into the ruts; the emne peopls were dolng g and praying fn the meet- v to call’ out others, Ituld romise-meeting so I und ho says there can fall into but thero Just think of it, Aud how few of them &Il the speuking fngs, and, In_orde them wo would havo u dlyided the books uf the Bible wnony told them all to come the next nighi any promlso they could find la i PR revelatfon we had the Bible ol) read throueh in one week; tne people camo together with faces ehining, and some of them eakl: © We didn't expeet to find_eo many promises in Genesls, or Jouah, ot Jobs" Lut there were proniises everywlhere, exceedingly mreat and preclons yrotufscs.”! Ono after another they zot up and rentd a promise, and they were astonlslied to find how rich they were. tiod hns got no poor ohitdren; they afe all rich; any one of God's promises is n rfch heritauce, and just think af the worth of sueh a promlre as this: * He that overcometh shnil inherit all thinas,” A man came up to me one day nfter the fire, and brfmn to say low sorry lie was for me he- cause [ had lost everstbing in the fire. #0Oh 10," { sald, ** I haven't lost everything.” “1{aven't you?d I am glad to hearite How much have you losti” 41 ean't fell.? 4 \Woll, ot imuch have you got Jeftd” 41 can't tell that either.” The man wus surprised, but the fact was 1 had more lott than I could tell, I was richer than I knew, They fay that Mr. Stewart was 8o rich that ho didn't know exnctly how many miliions ho was worth: eame way with Vandor- Biit and the Rothachilda; and that was just the care with me, Ihad God’s promise for every- thing I might need, tho promisc of all goud thinige, s & good hope of eternal life, “ON," snys one, * that I8 all amyth.”” No, m, lrlenda, those are the only nubxmnuni thlugs. Your houses, and stocks, rud all sorts of riches,take to themeelves wings and fly away, How many men lost thelr fortunes In that fire! Bt Go’s love and (fod’s word will stand sure after everything else Is gone. One day when my old_employer, C: N, Hen- derson, wincle of €. M. Henderson, was sending me out to make some collections, be wave me gomie notes on which ho had made three private marks, Sowe were marked 1LY bad, and I 'was to get angthing I coutld for them, Others wwere marked D, doubtfuli Iwas to get all the recurity I could, Aud others were ntarked UGM pood, aml these I wns to treat ace t'unhnc: Yo Kow people take God’s notes, or romises, and some of them they mark vB1 Lecanes they don't believe in themi othiers they mark D, becauge they don't fee sure of them, but if there happens to be one which has been fultilled to themsclves, that one they murk *G.” Now, that fsw't the way to treat Giod'a promiges. You ought to inark ever aneof them G-0-0-0, good, I{vaven and carth shull pass away before one word of thein shall full._ 10 we could only get these Christinns out of Dunbting Castle, how rich tlm{ wonld be, and what a worle of grace there might le, Oh, these devil's “ita* [ When ehall we over gel rid of thewi ‘Take up the word **able,? and find ont what Qod s ablo to do, Tuke uip tho **overcomes’ of Revelatlon, and go with them ligher and bigher tiil you come to the Inst ove, *To Lim thit overcometh will I grant to sit with Mo in My throne, as I also overcame aud am set down with My Father in His throne,” Etudy the ninctcen personal Interviews of Chirist; study the conversfons; study tho hlees- lnuso{thc ook of levelation, the ‘unly book tliat opens with o lessing on the man that reads it. Some puople say the Revelation Is o sealed Dhouk, and there Isw't much good In reading It That is thedevil who puts that natlon Into peo- ple's heads, The Itevelation is the only book that tells about the downfail of Satan,and of course he don't want people to read it: so ke Enye, “Ob, thisls very mysterious; you can't widerstand this; read something clec,” Then study thoseven * Walks " of Ephesiang, the walk of ebedlence, walk circumspectly, ang mmn! the waik *““not as other Gentilts walk.”” Some of these women are afraid of he- fng peeuliar, but thut is just what Christ wants of itls people, Tl wants them to be different from the world, so thut mien enn tell them by the love they hear to one another. Then ook up the precions things of Peter,— precious Christ, precious bload, preclous faith, precious trinl of faith, Alwo, the assurances, Tho thitigs sehich we know, In the First Epistle of Juhw, till you come to the last: * We know that wheu 1I¢ shall appear we slall be like Him, for we ehall sec 1lm a3 He {s.” 'l‘nlm((llpnny ane buok aud nek the question, “What docs this book teach; what Is the spevial reason why 1L was written? ' Study the person- nl charaeters inentloned In the Bible; followout the Christian attafnments in Paalme, xxill., 3; Luke, X., 89; Ephesfans, v, 145 Isafah, xl, 81; Hebrews, xIi., -3; Paalme, xvifi, 213 Iying, sitting, standing, walking, running, leap- ing, till at Jast with Isufah you'** mount up on wings like the cagles.”” Thera Is one more thing T want to spealk of, and fhat I3 the gift of Cirlst—(taking out his wateh}—no; thae {s up. I must keep my word. Let ug sing © Pralse God from Whom All Blese- Jua Flow." 4 After which the Rev. Mr, Goodwin pronounced the benedletion. ATFTERNOON SERVICE. TRUST 15§ JESUS. At the afternoon serviee In the Tahernacle n large audienco had ascembied, and when tho hour arrived for the closing of the doors it was found that inany were unable to find room, and were obliged to o away, After the usnal sing- ing and prayer, Mr. Moody rose, and addressed the congregation as follow: TUR SERMON, I waont to prove to you that this trusting In Jusus (s the way of salvation; that this way {s {n accordunce with the Word of God. 1t s not anything dierent from what hus been preached to you right along. To-dny I would like togive you a gort of Inquiry-room talk out here in the hall. T want tocall your attention this after- noon to the word “trust,” and to prove from the Scrlpture that this Is all the sonl has got to do to be saved—simply to trust Him. ‘The very middle verso In the Bible tells us “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confldence in msn; It §s better to trust tu the Lord than put confideuee in prinees.? The word “trust" o ihe OW Testament [8 the smne as the word * elleve # fn the New. A great many sy, “ What do you mean when you sav * Belleve fn the Lord Jesus Chrlat’ "1 "We mean, to trust fim for sulvatlon, for strength, for everything, He sugs Ho will Leep B in perfect pesco whose mind lsstnyed on Hin. The great trouble with inquirers is that thelr ininds are stuyed on them- pelves. They sit luokiog ol themselves and dun't get any strength, aoy light, any victory, and they uever will til they get cutside of themselves, Weo buven't got the power to suve ourselves, If we had, God would never Tiave come juto this world, If you haven't per- fect peace, It fs becauso your mind s stayed on yourself iustead of on Himeelf, All busiuess Would be suapended fn Chicago In furty-elght Tours If it wusn't for trust. Only, hstead of putting ol trust fo wew or fu Priiices, we ure to put (¢ in tiod, and ife with glve us perfeet pesce, Puahns' 1xil, 5, 8, tells us: * Trust fn Him ag all thines: pour aut your henrt before Hin, God I8 arefuge to us” * Woare to trust Him when wo don't wee what He is golnr to do. We are to trust Him ia the dork—~when we don't know what will be the result, It may Lo midnight darknees, but what Ho wanta is " to trust 1, If you trusted your doctor whom you have had for twenty-tlve years, amd your child is slck and he says there (3 w0 dunger, you Letleve him and rest casy, If you huve a dismal case fu court, and your lawyer never lost o case, amd he says ho will carey through, you belfeye Wi, Christ never lost o cuse, Commit your cuse to Hiny, and e will take you throuwh, Jlow to trust Him, We ure told to trust iim with all the heart. Then all darkness will dls- appear and the light willcome. God hutes solts heurtedness, A great muny don't get light be- causs they don't come with nll the hoart. A story Is told of Alexander tho (Great, that ho got & note ntutln‘i that his fuyorite doctor was oing to polzon him, At the tine ths note catue, this doctor was In tho room with lim, Alesunder reud the note and his contidence in the doctor was 80 niuch that ho took up that very drug mentfoned In tho fetter and dranlc it right down, while ho lianded the letler to iy doctor, Let ua huve that, confidenve fn God, hera Js u story told of Dr. Clundler's onco mecting sn old Highland woman, Now, they think “fn the lllghlands that & mau Jas got to. po drooping helf his Hiethme before hu gets ealvation, apd then hio fsn't e of it till he gets to Heaven, Well, the Doctor was ucar the old wonun’s Toust, and there was o little strenmn near it with i plank thrown across, but he hesitated about golng over it, when the uld woman cried, W Lenp Ity Doctor And tho moment he heard that, he went across, 8o, I you commit your soul to God, e s ablo ta keep it God never hetrayed His chfldren. Men woi't trust i strunger. _'The reason fnfidels don’t trust God is Lecausp Ho fs a_stranger to them, 'The more o man knows Uud the miore bie trusts Him, 1is fuith never wavers, It is theso lu:n lu that are very little sequainted with God that have so Mttlo fuith, When { wus in Philadelphia o mun came down from Altoons o spend the Subbath, 68 o afterwurds told hity, and tind Chrlst, 1o went 10 the mectings durlng the day, smd when found Lim ot nignt he “looked nsifhe had lost wll hls fricnds. 1 asked him what wus thu troublo, sad ho said he hudu't found Chrlst, 4 Well,™ 1 sald, * i Lus Been atter you for years," : }l)lcll.': £uld l“l"l“ 1 can't flgd 'l’llm."l iere's one thing you cay du,' Ay cap et ,‘,h gy )" Buid §, “you Well, mald bie, * supposin® 1 doj anybad; can ot i rE jtagbany *Well, ho'lleavo you," sald 1. :: 1\1_! Just trusting Him P! [ mnh!ng wore, wothing leas. The \\'e]l( T think that's too easy,” 1 That’s the trouble,” eald L “** You want to do eomethinge great, while all you have todlols to just commit your soul to God and ttnst Him,”? And he fially did so and war convert- ed. The result of trust I8 peace, guict, gentle- ness. Wo get peace, happincss, mercy, snd JOY's {lul. I can imagine some one snylnfz. Wifow about your feclivgs?? et the feclings tnko care of thumeetves, I may mcet aman on. the street who i8 very happy; anvbody can ece it and I #ay to him, “ What mnkes youso hnppy 1 Ha says, ¥Idon't know, [ juat feel happy; that's “all," A good many folke want to he happy_before théy have got anyihing to make them fell happy. Yon ean'tmnke yoursclf feel, At deast, Teaw't. It T could, I would feel good all the {ime, Salyation don't depeml on” our feeling. It depends on the Word of God, God requiren you to do s {o put sour trust in ‘Jiim and look to Iiim for talvation, Put no confidence In the fleshs Let your efforts all cense hero to-day and nn{ W¥rom this lionr, by the grace of God, T put ol my tenst fu the Lord Jdesus Christ, and I trust Him to take me.” Commence to-day. 1 was talking 1o n man to-day up Ly the Becond Chureli. He #all ho hud been trying to eave Nimeoif, and he told mo the mame old story of Topping oft ein after sin. Don't you sce, If man conld do that, he don’t need any Savior at allt Christ Inys the ax_right ot the root of the tree. It {en't vutting off the hranches, 1t s a new tree. It is a new life, and the moment you come to Him and give up irylng to work'out your own enlvation, then you linve got it. Some might Iilka to know why they don't get it, “The fear of man bringetl'a snare.”” Men don’t want to go Inte the Kiugdom of God ns little children.” P'eople tell me they haven't got any pride; ob, no, but yet it I8 in them, and coming out frony the bottom of thelr feet to the roots of their hair. They say, ** What would he sail of & man of my Hom jon_golng inty the inquiry-room!” Pridy dovan't helong only to tharlch. It 1s born in ue Peopie were on- vineed inthelr minds that they do need Christ, but they Inck {lie moral conrage to llli' 8o, Oh, may Gotl give it to you to-day, Thatls just the resson that keeps a great inany away. They et‘eflul;mld to take up thelt crogses and follow irist, Agreat rmmly Peuph: are writing mo lotters about the hard times, the searcity of food, and the general lurd times. — Now, ‘take wmy word and put your trust fn the widow’s nnd the orphian's: ‘God, If you trust in tho Reliet Soclety or In tho chuvches you will be dhnf- pointed. God fotends thut Fou shall Le. He intends to sweep every prop irom under you, that you may cotne and trust in Him. I know what it 4 to e a homelees boy, and L tell you the tod of tho widow and the orphan will stand by you if you trust in Him. I remember n’ cuso during the first year of our war. Businces wasn't good. © Our brothers and friecnda were off in the army. Onodoyn soldfer's wife on the North 8ide got thiings that her husbaud lud been kitled, A few hours af- terward the landlord come atter the rent. 8he ditn't know what to do, and slic was weeplng, rhen her little ehild came nnd sald: *Mother, won't God hear prayer!” The mother sald, “Yee,” and that littie one went into her room and prayed, and shie sald, **Oh, God, my father dicd in the army; my mother's got no’money, und the landtord {s- coming to turn us out of dours, and we_will sit on the doorstep ond et cold and dic. Woun't you lend us a Hittlc houeel"? And God was tiue to lls word, That mother for ears has nmever pafd any rent. [3 ralsed up . funds toprovite for that widow and her child. We can’t afford not_to trust Ilim, If there s nnf- uno bowing under the rod, I sny trust Him_in the darle; gay ‘I will trust him, anyway.” Llo rizht down and say: “Lord, 1 am trusting Thee. 1 will trust Thee to keep me. Iwill trust Thee in spite of my treacherous heart, will trust ‘Thee anyway,”! My frlends, when you do this, soul and body, the Lord will savo rou ? Mr. Moody related an nnecdoto about a wounded eoldier whom he had met after the battle at Pittsburg Landing, and whose finnl meseage Lo his inother was: *Tell iny mother I dled nustmE in Christ, Tell my mother and sisters to be sure to meet mo in heaven.” Alr.. Mooy added: Innfew minutes he was unconcioua and goon divd, We wrapped him in o winding sheet and dropped him in the Ten- nessco River, There will ba aglorious resur- rection by and by, That mother may have met him already. Ol einner. lot this be the day and the hour that Eun commit yourself, sotil und bedy, to Hin! Dby, may God’brivg you to the llev.'h‘ou, and this day and hour may this great question of eternity bo sottled fn your mind | LEVENING SERVICE. WIAT GHRIST WiLL DO, The Tabernncle was, os usual on Sunday afternoons and evenings, crowded to its utmost capacity Tast cvening, and an overllow meeting of about 1,200 people was held at Farwell Ilall, conductod by the Rov, Messrs. Barrott, Iolyoke, and Dr. (Hen Wood. Mr, Moudy offered tho opening prayer, put- ting up tho petitlon that God would bless the business and professional men of Chicago. There are muny who will remember how ho prayed abt the outset of these mectings that God would convert a great many drunkards aud vagabonds In Clicago. Over 500 of that very class of persons bavo been already reported as commencing » new lfe, and still tho work woes on. If Mr. Moody's prayer 1ast night for the * infiuentlal clusses " is to be a prophecy, as the former might have been, the revival mectings wili accomplish a work the ab- sencee of which, to any great extent, Is one catee of anxlety amongz our pastars and people, Mr, Moudy's special efforts have becn dirccted to- wards two clusses of persons, the minfsters and the drunkards. Whlle he luws preached faithfully to all, he has evident- 1y had thess 1wo clussea most on his miikl and lieart; but now there ure beginuing to ho con- verslons nrnong what might bucalled sulictantinl sinuers,—men of influence, a8 the world goes; und toward these, since his experlence in the {n- ({uiry-rumn on the eve of Thanksgiving, Mr. Mootls's heart s turming, 1tls a matier of noto that he began with thuse whom ovoryliody clse, except the Womun's Christlan Tembéranee Uniow, had given up, First after the ministers, whe were seeking a haptism of power, cuma the rough men to In-‘ulru what they must do to ho saveds; next the children o the Sunday-schools began to be converted In large uumbers, and now the work s becotning more gencral and taking hold of all classcs. Mr, Moody also prayed earnestly for the allinnce of pastors und clwrclive, whith was rrovc\l at the close of the Christinn Conventlon, seseoching the Lurd to send revivals to ndl those churches whoso pastors were thus_banded to- gether to pray for each other, In Mr, Moody's own church un the North Side, for whoso sake, in purt, he proposed this prayer-alliance, thera wara the beginnings of vevival, eapecially among the members of the Sunday-echool. fow of the teachors are still there who uzed to Jabor with hiin when hie was only tho blufl, **crazy- hierded * Chicago City Misslunary ; and ju thely classes tho work of grace Is manifestiug jtsell to avery encouraging degree, with soyveral con- verslona and many Inquirers, Mr, unnlwfi suny fu his best mnauner the rolo, #What Bhufl the lurvest Bei” the cholr jolu. Iniz in the chorus; slso, the solo, ** Almost Presuuded,’” with good effect, Mr. Moody then announved for his subfect the #ERhE L Wills' of Christ,” Ho cow. menced by saying: When a mau says* I will," it very offen “doesn’t mean wmuchy’ but when Christ says {t, e is.able, Ile {8 whlin y Ilo i golngg to do §t. Tho tirst of these 1 wills'? you iy find in the eleventh chapter of Mat- thew, twenty-cighth verse, * Come unto Mo all ;iu that ure beavy laden, aud Iwtligive yourest,” "liere I8 no rest In this world exceps that which Chirlst gives, You can't buy it with weatth, you can’t find it in pleasure, but if yon will como to Christ He will give it to you. "0, Isrnel, thon last deetroyed H)flc"' hut in Me {s thy huip.” ‘The second of these “ T wills" fa In” the sixth chnluuru( John, thirty-seventh versat “Him thut comoth to Mo 1 will.in no wisc cast out,” "I'hat text is as Lrond as the world {tseif, Clirist 18 50 unxlous to save siunera that He takes all who come, No matter how low you urej no matter if you have been so vile thut your wife und children have forsalion you; ‘come to Christ and Howill fn no wise cast you out, A maon once came futo tho meeting In Farwell Haltseeking Christ. 1 pofnted out this text and eald lu’fvlm, “1o you think Christ will cast you out? Hesays he won't. Just come as you are oud take hini at His word,” 3 D11 do Ity snkl the man, and he went home hoopy. But just about as he got to Clark street bridigy the duvil {mt this question into his head, “bulmmhhhg thut text ien't carrectly trans- Jated (" Poormun! Ho was ull In ihe dark again; he went lonie und couldn't elecp a wink all nfelt. At sbout 4 o'clock In the morn- fug ho eald to himself, 'l bellove it aay woy, And-shen 1 come up to thy judg- meént 1Y toll the Sun that I did tho best Ihnew, and took 118 Word just as 1 found it.” Then thic devll left him, abd ho wus at rost, . 1 have bieard people i this fnquiry-roonf more than twenly times saylvg, I am not worthy to come Lo Chirist.” Well, my fricnds, 1 never knuw of any one coming to Chrlst ‘who was wurthy, It wasn't the worthy, Lut the nn- worthy,—tho slnuers,—that ~ Christ camo to save, As u man eaid fu_our meot- ing the other uight, “Clil:b didn’t come to save sham sinners, und make-belieye sinners, and paluted eloners, but reul sinvers. 4 This man recelyeth stoners ' was one of the chlet complalnts made wgatnst the on of Gud when H¢ wus ou eastb, The Klvgs aud great ones choose rich and noble and cultivated people to bo nbout them, but Jesus Christ choso His friends nmong poor' fishermen, publicang, and such llke, When! 1 wan n Lngiaud 1 waa lvruunc at tho unvelling of & staiue toJohn nm(nu, whoe wrote the greatest ook in the worfd, except the Bible, amd I couldn’t emiling at the Lords and lielp I)nLu who “were present to honor the memory of this man, for when ho wasallve there wnan't one of their class who would have re- celved the Bedford tinker Into their cnatics. Is there somo poor tramp_here to-night hidden bes hind a post or under the gallery to hide his ragged contl 1 have good nows for you. Jesus Chirist eays if you will como to Him Ho will in np wiso cast you ont, Wo sometiines licar peo- ple eny, If such & man could only be converted what ‘an influence ho would excrt for good.” Mayburo, hut perhaps there is some Imnr tramp or blasphemer here, whom God could make the fnstrument of greni good. That man Mr. Saw- yer, who {8 doing as much as any other man In Chicago to save sinners, wns oncos poor, drunk- en vagabond, whose fricnds liad all forsaken Nifm and given him for lost. Take that man full of Ieproey—hia hands and fect rotting off_with the lorrible discase. o might say, *When I get rid of my leprosy, & will come _to Cnrist™; but ne, Ho cotnes to Christ, and says, * Lonl, if ‘Thou wilt, Thou canst make mie clean.” HI wilt, Bo thou clean, says Christs and all at once his leprosy is gone; quitk as 'llgmnln 2 he {8 cured, and {t may bo his flesh came again as the flesh of & little child, as in the caseof Npaman, Don’t walt to tnake yourself better Loforu you come to Christ; you will only grow a greater sinner the longer you stay away. 'Tho mother might o8 well ‘say, “When ny slck child " In better Il send for the doctor.” That 18 Just what she wants the doctor for to make tho hild better; and, slnner, that s just why you need to come to Christ, Thero §& another I will” fn the tenth chapter of Matthow, at the thirty-sccond verse: " {¥hosoever, therofore, Bhall ‘confess Me be- fore men, him will I confess nlso before My Father wiich s in Ileaven.” A good man: people get up to that verse, and there thoy 3 They ar not willing to confess Chiriet in public, in their homeg, in their places of business; they wunt to {!ct Into Heaven by sumno back door. One of the greatest honors in China is to get one’s name written in the honse of Confucius, You ought to hotd 1t as the greatest honor to have your namo regisiered in heaven, The next “I will” 48 very preclous; it was epoken to some poor flshermen, *Follow me, ond 1 will make you fishers of men.” That is the **1 will? of service, I pity thoto Chris- tinns who have got Into the Chiurch and are not. willlnz to worlt; they have no joy, no honor with God, but *they that turn many to right- cousness_shall ehino ns tho atars forcver and ever Peter caught more on the an- of Pentecost than in all his il before,—8,000 gouls at one haul of the old Gos- pel net! ¥ We hava loft all,” says Poter, ¢ and followed Thee”; but what was that 'all''? Only n few broken boats and fishing-nets. Now, It 18 not nccessary for all men to leave thelr business ns Peter did, but their hearts must he turned away from this world ond turned towards Christ. Iknow of soma busi- ness-mien who make it o point tobring all thelr clerks to Christ. As eoon o8 A new man comes into the place they have some one on the lookout to gec Told of him and lead him to the Savior, anl they hcgw on the work themsclves by Mmfr influcnes and thelr prayera. ‘What a mizhty work of graca e should sce in Chiengo if all” our pusincss-men would do the same Theo next {s, “I will not leave you comfort- tesa.'—Joln, zlv., 18. A lady who had Lecome a Christian was suying to me'that shc bad n hard time in the family breause shic was all slone. s your Elder Brothey with youl? I asked. Surely we are not alono it IIe 18" with us to com- fort us. Another, in John, vi.,40: *I will ralsc him up at the lnst day.” Christ has given us three specimans of His resurrcction work,—the little dnsughter of Jalrus, the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus of Bethany. Whatever the iufidcls might have sald ubout the other two not helng quite dead, they cannot dispute tho testimony of Martha that'Lazarus was dead and alrendy beginlng to decay, But, for the en- couragement of thesa children, do not forget to tell thiem that the first one whom Jesus raised from tho dend wos o lttle girl only 12 years n The last of thess “I will's? is the most preclnue of all. “XIwill that they also whom Thou hast given me be with mo whers I amsj that they may behold My glory which Thou hast given me,'" 'O, glorious thought! I amto be with my Savior_and behold His glory; I am to enter Into the New Jerusalem! No slckness or sorrow, or sin_ordeath, can pass thoso pearly ates; wo shall ba nhnufic(l into the glorons ikeness of our Lord, and dwell with Him in is glory forever. Oh, my fricnds, solze hold of theso * I will’s" of Christ to-night. The hymu “Rock of Ages? was then sung, while the after-meetings were nssembling; ant fuqulrers were fuvited, o8 usnal, to the various rooms for personal instruction and prayer. OUTSIDK MEETINGS. Newly-organized Young Men's Christian As- saclutions aro reported at' dackson, Mich., where Heasre, Whittlo and Dliss have Jabored; also, one ot the State Normal School In Platteville, Wis The Rey. W. H.!Brown, tlio cvangellst, now at Clinton, Ia., goes to South Bend, Ind., Dec, 10, ANNOUNCHMENTS. Mr., Harry Moorchouso will preach at the Tabernacle to-nizht. Mr, Moody wiil hold the usnal Monday nieht meeting for converts and fnquirers at Farwell all. Noon mnntlnsfn every day thia week at Farwell Hall, excent Friday, whon'it will o held at the Tabernacle. Bible lectures on the 1ifo of Chrlet, by Mr. Mouody, at Feewell Hall, Treeday, Wednesd: Thureday, snd Friday afternoons, at 3 o'clock. No tickots required. The mecting at the Tabernaclo on Tucsday night is for purents, and on Wednesday night tor young mnen, who way obtaiu tekots “for ro- sorved seats on the muin floor by urul ylnf at the rooms of the Young Man's Cliristian Associa- :{n,l:.‘ Other parts of the house frea without ckets. REVIVAL EXTRAVAGANCE. SENMON DY TIUH LEV. INOOKE NERFORD, The Rov. Brooko Herford preachied yestenlay morning in the Third Unitarlan Church tho fol- lowing sermon upon * Reapeetablo Tudlfferenco the Real Cause of Rovival Extravagance, The reverond gentleman took for his text: The prophct that hath a dreamn, lot him tella dremwnt and he that hath my word, iet him spenk my word faithfully: Wit tythe chalf to the whicat? eaith the Lord. v 28, 1t has come very strongly to my mind, in the course of tastifying ngainst tho extravagances of this revival which Is now going on in Chicego, that there 18 8 word which urgently needs eay- fug on anothor sido of tho subject. I foel that this revival movement should suggest some- thing eolee to thosc of us who have no falth In fty—calls for somcthing clso from us besiles criticiom or protest. Even tho fact that the critlelsm and protest wero called forth not by the mere mischievousness of tho preaching, but by the vehement denuncia- tion of all who could not so preach, does nut Jessen the neceeslty for sumetbing more and Letter. It §s always a poor thing to hinder whut others aro dolug,—mistakenly it muy be, but still earnestly,—and to offer nothing nobler fn- stead, Espccially Is It poor when tho slackucss and inefliclency of the nobler thing is tho very causc of tho success of thnt which is less noble. And that 1s exactly what strikes me about that work which I huve felt obliged to speak out ogainst, and whicl In less public ways eo many, inother churches, have spoken agalnst. This “revival " {s not somcthing that stands slone, unconuected with anything olee. 1t 18 not so much a causy as au effect, and an effect the real causes of which lie furtlier back and decper fu than the nominal and apparent ones, Again and ogain, during the past weeks, people bave eald to me, * What s the cause of this lwnienss excitement i’ Bomo sct it down to the gigautic puflery with which it was Yer- atded, which certainly contrasted curlously with Lhe eager gn'oreuh-m of sutlre dependenice on the Holy Spirit] Somoe attribute it to the gre- parloug curfosity by which a crowd always at- tracts acrowd, Bome think the secrot {sn the preachive, and others find It in the singing, [ biuk it [lts deeper down than any such matiers, It Yea In the deep fact that man must bave re- Yiglon, and, if truo and noble religlon bo not within hls reach, lie fs st the mercy of false and iguoble! veligion! The veritles of faith are the pruud realities of human itfe. The eoul cannot o without religlon any more than the body can llve without Lread, "If §t cannot have Lread, jt will spatch even at husks. thoso who kuow the beautiful, stnple, elevaticg truth about religlon do not keep it in its right placo before men,—well, for & time the world may ignore it altoeether; soclety goes on as If It were not snd plunges deeper aud deepor into worldliness, becomes more and woro iutenscly materfal. But that cannot last, By and by tio Digher nuturo asserts ltsetf nealn, —usurl-{uc‘;( fna dumb, restless numusrmvdm;, craves fer sumetling better than it s or Is, and s vemly {0 ho cariled awav by the Hest veinment fauate fefsm which stands up and spesks out about theso things in plain, unbesituting words sud dendly earnestocus, Al The rout of tuls whole subject of ke re .deadening power! And vival lies tho tesson which b tenches ua with such - tremendons power,—of the reality af man’a spivitual nature and of the religlous things which answer (o ft. Man doesn’t live by bread_nlone. Wo canuot. Thero fs & wholo great lfe In him that must haye something morel Tho history of mankind is teaching his anew every year! It teachies it by the high- eet llfe which idnifestly {s llited into its pure, strong, benutiful hiclght of nobleat manhiovd by faith; and §t_teaches 1L by the great mass of comnion worldly life whichi keeps tryhig, one way or anothery ta Jive without n(lh.-—nm‘ cnn- nol! Tlere s this greaf, tecthing life of our mighty American and English citics, When [ arguo about what relicion Is to man, 1 am polnted often enough to thess tofling milllons and asked, ** What fs religlon o themi” Iam told they Iinven't (b1 What do thicy cara about thechurtlicad What nre the controversics of the day to them? Faith s a scutimental deln- slon for tho lefsurely clanses, au amiable rellc of mrlf training In thoze who hnven't had the on- reallty reasoned out of them l:)' freo discussion, or knocked out of them I:y life!a sternest facte, That Is the tone ot the dilettantl philosophy of tho present day, and of thondvanced Liberaifams that think thoy hiave autgrown the past. And tlicy hold thelr little ntellectunl coteries and sctile thelr mild, superetlfous skepticsms according to the latest spcculation that pnsses for eclence or phitosophy, and nt _ the crowd ook itylngl; taat are not g0 Ezr nd&n{mcd, andsit like Tenny- son’s personitication of pure art— ~holding reform of croed But contemplating all— and think that so * tho riddlcof this polofal enrth ” {s emptiod of its divino mystery aud cverineting awfulnees! And hero como these great waves of religlons excltement through sovicty, catching up tens of thousands in the weep of thelr fervor, rousing dulled, hardened gouls, awaking torpid com- sciences, touching decper feclings in muititudes than they ever thought they hiad in them, mak- ing men feel consclence, anil God, and cternity the awful realitics that they are, and lifting up erushed and carth-stained” and hopcless boarta into the joy of experiences which, If they are not a8 lasting as lhc?' hope, are yet glimpees of the truer life that might bo, that {s “possible to all. Your Iittlo systems are shivered Into atoms by thotouch of these mighty movemonts and long- ings of maw’s nature.” ‘Uhere are the great ne- ceseltiesl You eannot sec them. Yo cunnot touch them. Yet,azo after age, the, they keep rearaerting themselves, ns the most tremendous factors in man'a heing and life; and never do they reassert themselves with moro startiing power than wlhen, at the touch of sonie revival movement that scems in ftsell quite inadequnto, they burst forth with n passlonate oogeriess that may be sbort-lived, bt is intcuscly real | The real, wholesomne, beautiful answer to this uuqhucncllul:lu eraving of the lwman heart fs that religion of Jesus Christ, Chrlationity in that holy, Joving shmplicity In wlhich, is I shewed ltast Sunday, He Imsell went about preaching It. But what fs to be tho witnees to men of this veliglont Tt stands in {ts beautiful lioliness and purny in the foir Gospeis,—nd any ono can buy those Gospels for a few centa, DBut I8 that wiiness cnough! No! No beauti- ful senttments on a printed page ean apenk to Inunanity at lnrh:o with the power that human- ity nceds. _ Mankind 1s not eaved by books, but by men, I feel to come nearer to the heart of what the Apostles meant by speaking of Christ ns *tho word mude flesly” when 1 sco how, nga by aze, “tho Word " lins always to bo smade flcsh™; the hirh truth, the dlvine thought, lins always to e tranglnted into life, wrought out [n 1iving manhood and wominhoos in order to bave {ts real power In the world, And that ought to be' the living signlficance of ol these Christlan churchics ~that rear them- eclves In their calm Leauty in the midst of man's enger, hurrylng life, They ought not Lo stund for a dead Christianlty, but for o lving Clwfst; and they ought to stand for ITim, not by the ereed tlicy suggest In Lhelr nang, or embody in thelr rulés, but by the spirit which those who uphold them and” belong to them ere lmncsll{y trying to cherish and” to live out. There [s nothing morg beautiful iu this world than the iden of a number of men and women, touched by that beautiful, slm- merelful lifo of Jesus Christ, drawn together by thelr Jovin ¢ reverences for hlm,nml trying how near they ean come to Isspirit, aud how nearly they can reproduce it. A baud o Christiun people, touched by the scnse of His thought und feellng towurds God, and llis thought and feeling townrds men: comhyg together, week by week, to try to get a cloarer, more reallzing sense of that thon{_:ln. and feeling of His; and, futhe light of tmtklooklueup with liappy worship 10 the great Father-Lile, doing what they ean together for that work of saving and blessing the world all about them, and fiulng back into the world’s common ways and dolngs, with purer Liearts,and strengthenid urposes, and o sturdler hold on duty, and o enderer, kinder feellng to nll whon they have to do with, That s tho true idea of a Chilstian Chutehil That 8 what every Church of Christ ought to meun, Thatls what this Church of the Mezslah of ours icre ought to incan; snd every chureh in this great city! What o biess- ing, and whiat n power, if thoy'wero anythiug of this kind. I don't eny # they wero this perfect- 1{, out if this was the main spirlt and purpose, i1 this was tifc {dea that those who build them aud thoss who carry them ony—those atthe heurt and the head of cach soclety,—really held before themaclves aud thelr fellow-members and tried for with a spirit worthy of such un aim! Could such churches fail of thelr effect! Chrysostom useid to say that *'if the Christian Church wero but for one day what 1t ought to ba, the whole world would by converted before nightfull”? ut o, what a humiifation to turn from theso thoughts—and they are he shuple truth—of what Clirlat’s chiurches ought to be, to think of what they actually are! ~* Beautiful outward- Iy, Yes, I supposs thers nover was a city in which th'churclis were more richly adorned. Dol object to that, fa iteclf 1 Not Il Ial- woys have majutained thut the bulldings we ralse for our worshlp of God, and for winning mun Into dircipleship to that great Teacher and Havior, should be thie most beautiful that our henrts ean devise, and that {t {s an object which descrves to ba ‘ilorfl]cd with everything by whichart or musie can attruct, rest, glulden, clevate tho soul of wan. But what i€ the grandeur and magnificence of the church- es {s only snother branch of the ostentetious oxtravagunco which is sapping thic shnplicity and lonesty of nodern lifai” Waoat §f theso costl structures are erected not for the glory of God, but for the glorlfication of their bullderst What 1f thoy nre the outcurne, not of humility delight- Ing to) ?vn the very bost and nost it can for God, but of pride wanting to outvie the rest ot cliurchies round? What if thoy are the outcoms not of giviug at all, elther from humility or pride, but of borrowing, what {8 yiven boln, ubout enough Lo buiid a plnin substantial chureh, and the extra amouut that goes for grandeur and adornment belng not anybody's “m, but & great borrowing epeculation”in tho ;?ne that it may draw fna crowd, and bo cleared off eoma time! And what if this chenr borrowed magnificence, insteud of drawing peoplo In, keeps them out,—by making the cost of kccip(ugn up oo great for poor or strugzling peopls to take thelr shura fnj end, Instcad of ennobling tho Churcl's life, utterly Uelittles ft with u con. stant worry of caro sbout ita debtd I am afraid thut jt I8 60} 1 don't suy everywhere, or alto- Eether, but that this element enters into the church-life of this city with o blightiug and it s mischievous nll round; for {t not only keeps out the poor, but it keeps out multitudes who would repel such an epithet, and yet who do not like to lolu o Durdened amd strugeling cause; and, worst of all, it uxhauats tho zoul and warking power that {s wanted for simple, loving, Christfun work, in Ialra, and entertalnments, and tho innumerable deviees for elilng out the Tusutlicient funds, And tarn from the thought of the outward temples to the fnward church,—the bunds ol mien and woien who make up the real churches in God's sight, That 8 whot mntters most! Thut {8 what tells nost upon soclety! And I belfove It does tell, to some cxtent. " I do not believe tiero §s & chureh in the ¢ty but has at the heart of it somo littlo band of varnest, trucs licarted people, who are ready in uvcr{ good work, and wlio do their share twice tolil, por- haps, in order to keep this und that good Chflsb ke worls going, the best they kuow,—tho faith- ful few who are nl\\'nf'l ot thelr ;»uml always erful and kind, always ready to *lend “a hand." But how many are these ror nll tho churchos that orof And what must bo sald aboul the rank and filei~the people who have nover takon hold of relfgion with any earncst purpose of their souls, never set thelr licarts right to it; who are inter- ested fn thelr church to somo cextent, want to ave it successtuly want to hear it well spokon of In the dty; ure apt crities it »\n{tu(ug gaes uwry—but who have uo fdca of pulting them- eclves out of the way for it who dou't begin to know the meaning of self-sacrifice; who vee Ehd enough to auln fu church entertoinments, ut never Jift a finger or glve up o luxury or a p!cnln‘;xluw belp the church's work upon tho worl And how many more are there about our churches whoareot evenof thiu much usef Who Luve gome surt of conneetion with this or that vhurchi—go there when tbey go unywhere; or, 88 {a the caso with_thousauds who never {ake hold auywhere at all, but, now und then, when the humor tukes them, tura into some oune of the churches sbout,—and that {s about the whale of it, snd yet they would think it very uncharitable §f they were told that they werenot Chuistians, and if 1) ury slek they” look for Chuistian comboxt, aud 1t they ure dyfng they look to be buried with wonds of Christlan Lope. Aud they are ahways *Hiberal,"—oh yes, cyerso liberal, hut it fs tho Hberality which” comes not of thinking for themsclves with earuest free- dow, but of oot thinking carucatly ut sl O, but this reliicfon af Jesus Christ fa good for something more than this * Respectable In- difference " ¢ What can this do? What can It do for those who hold #t ol What can it do for the preat world outalde thot so sively needs lving lght, and cheer, aud helpi Why, think of what Is round about these Clirls- tian churehies here dn this city] You are proud of your clty—proud of it architectural beauty, proud of its dountless enterprise, proud of it vast vopulation,—you may srell e, Bo nm I But is that alit Is thers nothing that you are notrmmlar. nothing that sonmctimes as you see {t makes you feel a wondering sadness and nlonging that somcthing could be dons to mako things better? Do you ever pass through those worae and_poorer qunrters where the wretehed broken-down frame houses are hud- dled together withno trim gardens and no troc-bordered streeial And If youdo, does {t sct you only trylng hoqulckl{ on ean * pass by on the ather alde,” or only ibinking that an- other fire would notbean wimixed evilif ftonly swept that “poor property ¥ awayl Does it not Aet you thinking what Jife thers must he,—what 1L niust he to the Httlo clifldren, many of them brought up to swear, and beg, and steal, so few of them ever fn the public echool ; what 1t must. Le to the poor women, whom you seg hero and there, nbout those shonties, drageled and slov- cnly, o1l the sweet graco of womanhood longe faded out of them; what It must be to the men whom, on Bundays, it you will_look, you mny ece_loufing listicasly nbouti When “you sco such things,—and they are mear enotigh and }ulcnty enough fn this mognificent city of 'yours, f yorwill only look for them,—does it neyver cross your mind low Christ would fecl about ihem If He wero herel Lo you think e would spend all 1is lefsure riding up and _down Mich., fgan navenug or the boulevard, aud havo a sent an Sundays here or at Grace Chureh, and think no tmoro about it1 Or, that, If lis attention were vatled to all this, he would srive $10 now and then for eome pour misston, and that, per- haps, with n feeling that really religlon 18 get- ting nlmost teo expenalvo for liard times? nd ft Is notnnl{n for such na these. Iam not thinking cepeclally of what the churches might be to the poor. Ifeel that thercisn much iarger foflure fn them than that, I look at the hard, keen, driving lifc of this great com- unity. Ilook at the tens of thourands who go down, dn{ Dy day, into that preat flerce race and battle of toll, Tthink of what life Is to so wany of these—such ngrim, cager straln; such heavy cares; such wearlness—a weariness that at night leaves them with no spirit to read or think, thnt on Sundays leaves them hardly heart to pray! 1 think of then ns lfe wears down towards age, and tho brightness lins faded, and the pleasures have ceased Lo please; and perhaps success has come, but a success with cure and restlessness, aud no happy peaco at tho heart of It. Terhaps success fins not comies but_only the old, hard, up-hill path for the tlred feet, and away, beyoud all, n coming change that may come any day, and which the Tieart has no jov in thinking of, but ratlier tries not to think of—wishes to |inure, but cannot ! I think, In u word, of all the eagoer, driving worldliness of this great city, that 1 suppose hus 1o be, but that needn’t be'slone; that inight be lighted up, swectened, mnde purer, hetter thing by the religlon of Jesus clxrlntl Itisnot onoeclass mor another clos, but the whole lifearound us, that wants these old ever- lusting truths of God, and the soul, and provi- denee, dnd duty, and elernity; witnessing to it with the living carnestucss of hearts on firo with faith! But the churches go on in thels old dull_way, some of them droning out doc- triues that thoughtful men have loat faith in, that 1o one puts very strongly now, that the living power has gono out of.” “And others with nobler, larger thoughts only haif uttering them, putting the new wine into ottles as like the old ns moybe! And others, acain, with per- laps the brightest, clearest truth, content to have it, doing nothing to make it a power; with Hght, but no heart; with very much respecta- bility and very much indifference. And so the muliitude pnes byl AlLthis s what gives tho revival fts power. Hlere {s this mighty mass of human lives,—with their cares, thely “follies, thelr pleasures thnt don't hal€ satiefy, their eager worldliness, theic sins, thelr vague fitful thouszhts of faithy tuf, under all, hearts, and conselenees, and souls that are going to live on forever, and can never quite forget it, s it wonderful that when, at Inst, there comes . along n wnan who has nothing ot tho dull routing of tho cliurches about him, who talks nbout these grand realitles not in mincing pulpit phrases, but n the downright language of store and street, and who {8 in dead earnest and speaks in tones of flerce convictlon, and who hua ot the heart of all a king, luving anxiety for evory wretched drnnknrd or poor lost child he meets,—is it wonderful that men crowd to hiear him? Tho people can understand him, Ile makes religlon o living thing to them. 1le breaks down their doubts by the sheer furco of his own vehement certalnty. He proclulns to them brlgm hopes ch an- swer to the half longing of many a wakeful and restiess hour. He 1ifts them, it 1t be fora short- lived ccstasy, out of the dull, unenlightencd greed of earllily care, [le tonches the springs of thoughts and feclings which many have hard- Iy been consclous of eliico they wero children] Why, then, do 1 lift a word” ngalnst his work, somo_of Y“ may feel fncllued to ask. Why 1 ask “myself that sometimes, It cuts me to the gulck to lave to do it, and all the more that I am consclous that his word and works corry people_away, beeause thoge who have had trier und better things to say have not sald them, or _hiave sald them with such alack Indifferencs, Tut all the samo the word of protest has to be spoken. Lor it 1sone thing to waken up men’s souls, and another reallv to help and save them. 1 believo Mr. Moudy 1s wakening up theee souls, to ¢ive them something that will not satisfy, and that hns no saving.injt! I bolicve he oxclites themn inton moment of ecatatic glory, which too soon they will find out is not the salvation ho persiades that it {s, und which will snonleaveall but avery few in n more helrlcn state than they wers (o begin with, I believe his whole basis of appeal is dishonoring to God and degrading to man, and one which if the churches sufler themeclyes to be carrled away by tho vchoment eagernees with which he {ueists u’pon it, would put back the whole tone of their thought and work n quarter of ncentury, o, I dure not hold from n;;cnltlng. T dure not let the Frent bright trutha of Christ's own Gospel, whivh have been coming juto clearer view throngliout all churches, be clouded over by this whirlwind of old, worn-out mfschiovous superstitions for the sake of the lllmxx'.xdnhou whieh I8 undoubtedly at the heart of But having so spoken about this revival, I fecl that I am bound to be doubly plain and faithtul In speaking henceforth about the duties of ever; Christian church and all Chrlstian people, think it hus never come to mo so strongly bo- fore, what a blessing to men that simple, prac- tleal religlon as Jeaus Clirlst Himself preached it and lived {t might Lo, aye, how awfully need- od it is, and how the silence and indUTerence of thoso who hold it leaves men at the mercy of every vehement zenlot oven of the poarest su- perstition, I would that my voice could reach all those who holdl tha more liberal and renson- ablofaithin other churches besldes ours, and yet who, from love of peace, let theold errora stand for tho only \vn()' of sujvation and mnke no sign, I koow that there aro numbers of such people. 1donot belleve thut there is o churchin this city, uven among those that most pnss for % gvangelical ¥ and urthudux‘." and that stand firmest for the * unclent ways,"” which doos not include peoplo who no mora bolieve those old schemes of doctrine than I do, and who, in thelr own thoughts, just hold for the simpls Cliris- tlanity of tho Frodigal Son and the scrmon on tho Mount. Iuppeal to thers 1o bo more out- spokenl 'The tiug {8 como when your openest word I8 necded, T do not ask you' to speak out from my standpoint. Bpeak out from your own,—only do speak out. You speak your liberalism'in closcts, when it wants telling from tho house-tops, You are speaking of it enough 10 clear your own souls, when [t wauts -}mukmg out loud” enough to hel 111 other people’s aouls, Let thoss who' still belleve the dreams of the old creeds preach them, but ¢ Ho that hath "'5 Word, saith the Lord, let him speulk my Wor falthfullyl? Aud 1'wvould falu speak to those of you who have kept aloof from churches altogether; who hiold very much this shupler falth—this thought of the great Father-Life, this appreciative trust In buman nature, this large charitablo hope for the life to come,—but who_bave perhaps found 1o churen that has scemed 6 worthy embodl- ment of {t, and so have never Jolucd yourself with any. Iurge you quit this frulticss isolu- tlon! You will not fiud any perfect church this slde Heaven! No, but band yourselyes with those who scem to you the ncarest to the truth as far 4a you ses It, gnd the opencst to seo moro truth! Perhapa you do not think they can bel, you muchs well, liclp them! — Streogthien thelr work! _Throw yourscl{ heartily in among them! Why, the” Liberal falth should bo the strongest in L'm:ngo hore to-day, if only those who hold it, more or Jess CIEIH(, would all Joln heumlfv together, and make {t a livibg power and belp it on} Andmy lnal word_to you, my fcllow-men- hera of this church, I donot suy many words to you specially, for 1 lope to say mauny, for mauy o day to come, that shiall tako a deepened toue from these thourhts I am uttering to-duy, ButI do ask you totake these thoughts at heurt. Ask yourselyes if we have been all that, with this broad, muul(y freedoin of ours, an thls strong, slmple Christianity, we onglxl to hiave been,” Ask ourselves bow far these words Timve heen speaking about the rvespectable indifference of ‘the day ars true of our church, Ask yourselves whot wo are doing to make our Chrlstianity o strong, happy reality sinong ot~ selves und to thoss outside. Faco the truth aod fuct about this in the solcmn Hght of that great uced, aud craving, end prepared- ness of saclety whi A ey G0 Wh o plorerizal os Tevealad, Taithy touch our hearta with flxé%fluphh"":“' 80 our church Ilfe together hoyg 2y be pin it b ma wnlgk‘(h:\“tnyw ’I'I;'l"!:‘,“ l;:ppy z]lnw wndfl,bfi-fi?“i‘l 20 0 Whictimny sino et thganaly ar et bere oot work ko thoworidot i ruro " souls wit ¢ ¢ EpiriLof o Master's invitation, o (oron, 1¢ 16 all yo that Inbior and ave heavy ludey poy wlll give you rest'* Hlimrad —— CORRESPONDENCH, A RAILROAD MAN'S COMPLAINT, G 70 the Edilor nf The Tribune, puh;‘l:?\?::‘! lI)c;‘"ll.—‘\\r’lll you obliga mo hy e followin i to Mr. Moody at the '{‘!’ et oo fe fand ahernacte this o blg."cl:nld n;))l, owing to the large fl"em]:tc‘x:tr:g. 00, o 43y o, 8 T Ble newntnper repana LTy o0 dy~Dran discourade the rnining of stree pubils cunveyancen on Suniay. o othee strcel-car delses an opportunity o aitemt sectos pomvicer,| Now thercln anottet cine of poor Tl o yac! one of that class) who e compelled fo work Bandays oy oo church, that othern, o o e gy havean opportunily Lo hear tho Gosha’ preachied and sung at tho Tabernacle, Withwyassoclates intho employ of the. hiava been kept on duty o belier part of he gt iath for eovoral Sundays past on aceount of rrsrisl iraina ranaing wilh oy cxcussonits toiced a Rhou! have atte divine rervicea thin morning, aod n oy e fellow-sinnorn Nkewine, Bt for s traperions™} raral plsty, which choss Lhis day fof taking o oo, leanure-itip to Clicago, Now song of thresfious 098 who ara not of my creed think theso oxenr. slotiints aro Just tho lcast bit 1nconmistent 1o endanger our soula’ cernal wellate by sencelllL} us (0 bronk tho Sabbath dayi T ndestan] )i somo af the employen of ofhee railronds. fuet 1o aro subject to the same grievance. Now, mum’ Moot It yau witl junt e Your volca i protest. thene rurnliatn wil) ses things sn ou and will choore some othier than tho Lord's ay gy make thelr cxcuraions. 1 am surd tho week io rervices ara fully as inoresting and bencian oy thd Buridoy services. Xeepecttully yours, RAiLnosb Mas, LET TIHE REVIVAL 00 ON. 70 the Editor af The Tribune, Cm1cado, Dec. 2—1In view of the talk and the fact that the Moody and Sankey meetings will soon be drawing to a close, it I8 the apinlon of some who are interested, beslde myself, that it wl'num :)u;‘k g?od idea not to bring them to & close at all, inviow of the good result: Lho capacity of ‘such mncung‘:fl!or duln’;:n;go?lf Let them continue, What better work can Chrige tinne in Chicsgo do for Christ, the city, and humanity than to_continue such meetings all the yeararound? Let the churches in tho ity become fndeed & church militant. Lot them secure ngwrmnnent tabernacle bullding In the centro of the ity and orzanizo for the work by veliefs,—flrat reflef, second rellof, and o on, Che interest with which these meetings hayo Leen continued proves that with organiza- tlon they can bo run all tho g Just ms” well, comparatively, % heatres. ¥ D th e s e These mectings ata tho thi reach the masses—nbove xgu_vlhlm! clso cv'L:E nllg tempted here, It 18 emphatically a free Gospel, where the poor and the rich” can mect, and work, and rofalco together. Then let the frood work ;io on while the necd, as now. shall exist and gtliors than Aoody shiatl continue to Em' clatin”tho gla ngs, and cvery lover and man will say Algc;h yE. nf Dd e — ARCTIC EXPLORATION, Commentsof the Lonidon Press on the Recent British Expodition—The Results Not 5o Sat- isfactory s Firet Claimed~The Pluck of Amoricans Appoaled To, The London newspaper writers, liaving re- covered from thelr first surprise over the unex- pected return of tho Arctle expedition, ure be- glunng 1o expresd their dissatisfaction with the results achlieved. Tho following editorfal cx- tracts arc taken from tho papers of the 10th fost: 3 “ That the cffusivencss with which the Arctle expedition was rocelved on its first arrival would Inst long was not to be expected, If Capt. Narcs and his gallant officers cxpected that their facts, and their deductions from thesc fucts, and ecven thelr excrilons, were to be free from critlcism, they wero not only mistaken, but Uttle understand thelr own Intcerests, They bave donc well—as well a5 could be expected—but, at the snmo time, those qualificd to judge canuot always allow that they Jiave been sound i the Infercnces they lisve drawn from the data they gathered on their Northern vn{ngc. Bmith's” Sound fs, howover, except from books, o terra incognita to most Englishmen, It 18 nol so, huwever, to Ameri- cans, Kaune, Iayes, und Hall sclucted It ss the sceno of their Arctic explorations, nnd wero much more familiar with it than any English navigator. Hall died fn Smith’s Sound, sud XKaus of a broken constitution, duc to hardships on the same battling-ground. Dut Dr. who was not only the Burgeon of Kane's ex. editlon, but the commauder of the United glnlun exglu(llllun in 1861, is stlll living, . . « % Dr. Rae, a_cclebrated Arctic explorer, nlso declares that 73 degrees below zero hus often been observed ot Great Bear Lake, and that ot Jnkutz, fn Biberia, even 70 degrees bielow zero has been recorded. The Canadinn papers make merry over Capt. Nares announcing that his oxpedition eoxperienced tho greatest coid on record, Even 72 degreos below zero arcsaid to have been kunown in the luxurious City of Montreal! The polnt whore tho expodition dis- vovered the most northern traco of Esquimaus, Dr, Hayes lnd(znnuui announces nu discovery. {mccn years sgo ho olso saw tho same TAUCE. o o o %Wohavo mot the slightest doubt that the facts fn possession of the Lnzlish expedition are of such n naturs as will not only cuuble the 1eaders to support thelr origiual assertions, hut to trlunmlmnl?y detend themselves ngalnst the dlscourteous strictures of Hayes und others, It muat also be remembered that, however severe they are, I.hel ure only founded on the tele- m of énpt. vares, 1n his ofiicial report, he fi;llheruloly, with, we think, doubtful taste, attocks Kune, Haycs, and Hall, and rather tries to deprecate the results achicved by them. When this documont Is recelved in Now York it will no doubt be greeted with such a tornado o abuso as proliably no document entanatiog from the English Adniiralty ever wus, 4 We are In o position to state that & mectiog of private Arctic explorers wiil Lo betd at ait carly day to conaldor the state of matters brought about by tho failure of the expeditlon under Capt. Norce, Thescgentlemen, w]x_uuun,; price ome of tho most distingulshed Englls! yachtsmen. and Arctlc navigators, ure hrlro‘lln satistied with tho results achlescd, and, o8 sk ready a movement is in progress in A!m»rlm :la organlze another expedition to Smitl's Sound, the question now to bo considered 13 how we are to suve our glory from being celipsed by nqulh&r nation. ‘The Government have apparentiymsde up theie minds that nglish e¢xpeditions ¥ ; Smitl’s_Sound have come toanend. It fm mains, therofore, for private 1mllv!dupla n“ still beleye fn that routo to deviso weys & means o carry thelr Ideus fnto cilect, " “In tha midst of these dungers, with the [lflzl right abcad and timo everything, onc t-:u;nm but be n llttlo surprised to Fead of excurt uk_ up Hayes Sound, Peterman Flord, Laudy Hlmfu- lin Sound, and other inlets, This scnseol i~ conalstency amounts almost to a feellug -alz o appolntinent when one conslders tho very fl“‘ IlYu placo oceupled by the diroct parch i Yole compared with the cxp(umuun;ah i Awmcrican und Greentund coasts o« o oy to be fioped Capt. Nares and his comrndr: e not been carried away by an oxcess of y‘l ','\,., Jenlousy, for they have positively Ihmm‘I e und sunk Lo the bottom of the sca of ane lcn‘ awhole contiuent of capes, bays, moub !'gdln lands carefully surveyed and firmly hgl(e;mm by Ameriean dlscoverors, o . . If1 e AT iéuns aro the men we tako them to be, ! dl{' ™ not rost till they have rotsed their Inxlx o from tho bottont of the sea, und alzo gut 8K deal uearcr the Polo than our people buve Che « + o 1t 18 impossiblc not to see futhe n-‘ 2 also fu the uarratives of the upcmu’m:. Lied tho falluro of the chief object was & forfia concluslon, not only In the critieal In A cers Adiniralty, but oven in the minds of Ul l_l‘“{ S themselves, ‘They wanted unother A{lu fl:i ‘L" ditfon, and wers well aware that ‘;)uul e public would pot care very much o L txact conformution of tne nurthern ; e eed America, Ita memory is airead ‘ovbrm 4 sud Wwith ncontinent that cannot be WS04 rivers that wiil not ever flow. It does o Yo an America 8verin, Tho Arctle m:"m Hhere Arctle flora are not tho inost mtml_]vbli-u poasot is wanted, then, somo good producthiy B, for un Arctle expedition, It was ro' A and, wu recent theorfes of an Arctie huhln:‘:m o frticopou ea, | iy Dol Uiy 2 orth Pole {s an intelllg R jons expedition to the North Pole which hos overything but get there. e e— X ED_CANE. a&%nm}m o T TRy Brooxisatox, Iit, Dee. U.-:s.nun!aL!u st John G Tipton, who wade & strovg |;“° Demo- cessful raco for Btato's Attorney uth ‘;“ o crutle ticket, was pr:s:[l:l‘m{ “‘::" ;.fi: presa e rlcuds. J ;E‘: e by tho Lo, Coaslod B2