Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1876, Page 7

THE REVIVAL, fhe Three Services Yesterday Largely Attendod, Moody Lectures on the Char~ 2 L actor of Joshua. His Hearers What They T Aiks Think of Christ, - 4nd What They Will Do with the Son of Man, MORNING SERVICE. 7118 CHATACTEIL OF JOSHUA. 1n splte of thie snow-storm, thera were about o0 Chiristiun worliers it the Tahernaclo yes. ety morning. Among the dlstinguished ople o the platforor was the Lev, DeWitt” Talmagey who offered tha opening prayer in o o eqruest and fitting words, The singing was «Jfotd the Fort ** and “Who I3 on the Lord's dep? The Suripture lesson wins . part of the' Jath chapter of Deuteronomy. The sermon n'" portralture af the character of Joshua, M. Moudy salil: Lwant to call your atten- {on to the character of Joshna, o nan'who was conrageo! Fourtinies i the first chupter it Bouk of Jushua dues God tell Dins to by strong aud of good couragze, and promises thal nu nebiall be able Lo stand hefore him ull the diys of his Hic, Couruge fs necesenry to stice s 1have yet to find a man who s easily dis- wurazed who amortnts to abything, or I8 of any g, 10 0 minister §s caslly discouraged, his people soon find it out pnd lose thelr conrnge Jleot I the Sunduy-schiool, teacher hasn't nny foarme, My elnss findk 1L out and leave him. Abont the most worthless ret of people you ean fail bs 0 Jot of disvournged Bundny-schuol tenche s We hear a prreat deal about *‘devetop- ;mg" in these days, but where can you find o man with all the advantages of culture and Jaarnitg cqual Lo this Joshua, whu’\\'us brought 2 tho brick-Rilns of Kgypt k ‘T‘I‘l‘r‘hihhlf wo hear nhu\cnl him Is, he {8 febting acuingt Awmalek, anld prevalled againat trem, Victorlons Lo betln with, for God was with him. But we find that Jo b din't ke Jay preachere, On acestain queaslon he found o men, vamed Eldad and Medad, who were rophesyine fn the mlln‘m hul.éwl:u did unl1 Dbu- g to the seventy eldera, 8o he goer and ree x%‘r?s‘?hu‘th)n'r hn} Muses, and wants him to sop them. The prople o that class are not all dead yetj m guod many people ars opposed to haslyig the {nyufin l];m:({lh, mlx'r, the wurd of ll.}ul; : # Lot hini that heareth say come, m}}: ‘x:mn fall into the river,do von think Lehould roofl and th( wumhtn,dy‘{p n{vlln(n mehhcmnt:l I to pull him ow ould vou have te :!,w“:llé)u{;mrlum. on bisway to Jericha, when he. fnds a man wounded and nialf dead by the way- side, leave the poor fellow there while e zues uptoderusulent to et gomn of tho priests to Jay bands II&‘DIIIMI)I [ l{!v.:.hlctt{mti llcl R“tl "flfik tothe woundeth 1uan, It tnight be too late to do lgm any good. ]gmi M’owi% rebukes hin nm});n{a e wishes everybody in the eamp were able to pfughep‘; nm\': !xh?{ is tho last we hcar of Jpshua's complaints. ® s E}fle next thing we_hear of him is nt Kadesh Barnegywhen the twelve menwero sent over into Canaan to spy out the land, 1 don’t think they anght to have scnt those spies. 'Thiswas the laad that (_:ml hnd pmml‘xc,l] t;) ghn: them, and of course it was & good Jand. There was o need ;;:l‘nfik ot t!;cl su[unz:lh of Snmli'm, ‘(ur ((‘l“l‘}. ad & ewould give them the laud, an dida't matter how strong {ts cltics wcre,'ur how sy Kia;nls L:;u:u \;'cru 10 dctlund lltxlu.;m. }‘ fx"‘ ey send onl weive men to go rough tho T i and they come back with 1 majority and a i reporte ‘Ten of them had heen looks lfi at xllm gl;‘u‘xts l\ll(} ufi. slmngsltl:n"\‘\:ub tleir walls renching unto leayen. us KO O Freat many pcuplublll)\\'mh\)'n, they were lunlilu;; o the dark gide. It 13 a good land, a rich land, aland flu\|vhv;: ;:m- mllkr'ug;\ llumiy, :u)l' thf.ui 1 anen, but when one o hoge ghmts looked onupen_ 18 We were as grasshoppers in his rlzbt, “_Vu lave l‘m g’cntvous: we u&e uot uscx:lt‘g wr, Weare not eble to goup aud possess thi Lt ‘,I%ut Calfxly nn:l Josl_lln_lln hs:l l‘)uen lonkllnz IIn tr: different direction.* icy had seen the Ziau nd the dtles, but they Hud beon looking to the Uod of Ierncl, They rememnbered how fie had brought them ‘out of Ewvpt, and through the LedSea, and how ile ]m{, ralned down bread fom heaven, and that He had promised to give :]mm.tlmt“luml furbulm tlnhcflmucu.l Thflc((llrlu ey gayy We aro able to izo nv und possess it fiienta w'aru nothing lmt'gr:uaholmura to them Il)‘i“ they hrunwlul:turu\]theu Xh"}: ol( |.rlm icbrews wlo wins tn 1l el battles for them. 8o they hr-m"htgln o minority report ad advied to o sl oyer und tuke the laud. 1 would to Gou every Christlin were like Caleh and Joshuna 1f, fnstend of belog dis- (ré‘l]l;)n;.':t’l'gt tlut:lsu e(x::llml'ng, nmlt ttlxlclntms. and :ng-dens, the Christinns of Cliteago were iy ltuvmvrl' forward i tho nams of Gol, Rlorivusly we coutd beat back all these hosts of helll” How many people do you sup- ote there were fn Clileazo who didn't belieye i Puulnu up this bullding? *It'il never he ‘fl':]l S:u“ l‘{ .\'()l; gelt ?’nrwch {)lla’lll lml you wilt er than I think you witl,” said ono man 0 e, *Bat Tsracl didn't belieye In Giod, They forzot that they who arc witit Him are always o the winnfugside, They accepted the majority re- porty and, na for C: i doshu, they took , i, na for Calel aud doshu, they took up s i swere going Lo stone then {0 death, o Israel turned back into the wilderness aml :Y!‘I::dtnu;lflu'ru (:r [Iu{‘l) )?nrs,.tllz nl\'cry tmu “anie up out of Trypt, excopt theso two MA;\‘; vmu!n, \\'uruldcx«il.l ' ; I i now we see Irrael coming up again to hedorian. It fs n tino of Tharyest, win th an Grerflows its hanks, 2 test their f;il‘l’;“nsuri)ro‘ x;'l'.'; & wflxu du\n‘;:xs: .‘I{!}“cf«"- haun Some ot thdn might Dave sald, This I nprfl&‘ tine to briug us up to m |hl.}_ flw{n I W q‘h:l\\'uu't any Im{n..«. ar p{»lu- y or raflg, anil how are we Lo cross the sl and ewollen stream” Bty thongh God tfi:!’:‘ ’lillluln; mulru for l.hrfe days lrl:uklng at 1{1:1: Shing river, wo do not hear o worid of :‘:Rj'v’hh‘n.“ t} h‘:lllsl v.h’um ‘sudum .t'l“"' ll‘l\:ll‘h e ik then, on the fourth day, the privels lhenu!uwn to th'ucdzc of the water, b‘:-urhu: theark of the Lord, wnid the water dividel and tod up tn great heaps on ono side und the ;‘:‘J"I;rfl r‘l“ry ero :}xt ufl“. [ lumc' l.hlu pfl:pln ouh the river dry-shod. ‘There \«}I\sn‘l cven asizn of dampness on these shoes ’{llm' they hud heen wearling for forty yeurs, mlel:k of God was placed i the bed of the “erdoidan, God went down into death and {udgment,—for that {8 what Jorian means,— aul }{i}ldn‘;k the \lruhan mll I“":. p?uplgl\vum Pasy ver, wid hen with twelve stones Gt of the bed'of thy stream doshus bullt o fl\r»nummz to mark the spot where tind ihnd l‘9\1‘n'l|tIntpuupluthrou hihe river, Though e through” the vatley of the shaduw ol fl-th Lwit fear no evil, for Thou art with mo; K T und Thy staff they comfort me.” \ 8 3000 03 thoy strucl “the other shore ey rept thie law of thele God, and_cireumelsed tho eanle, thus putting blood between themselves it thelr past o i tha wilderncns, i Lo days after Jushan was taking a look at fxun'hn, when o nun with o drufin sword |'7fll suddenly bofors him. * Art thau for us '{Il‘;lt\:;xél\inre?n'lln{ux'é nbk? Joshua, 1 * Nuy, Aptaln of the 8ow’s liosts am 1 come.” Have no daubic’ but ‘tha waa. the Son of (o ot ad that they planned th battlo to- "ullhdr“(’»;:ltlhlvi“cnp::xm n} u;)ut u&’iflll?u' Buy, vas the most nbsurd battlewny ona ::"‘I“l,l"’:fi“]:vl-mr?uvun pricata wl“h seven trum. 1A s Wore toinurel rouud the clty ""!.1" oW tho trumpess wifle the ark of thy ) and the army folluwed, Now what an, ab- o lhlnf that acems to be, Hupposs Dr. Gib- bi fi:fil{h‘l'r.l r:,unlnir‘ and !!Inhup’ Fnlc)'humll up Mel, il sonie more of our digul- ":g:'!“rr'e to luarch round Chicago in_that M“Nuu, Would they ook rather greend Same ““urgrr‘ml»flx“f‘? they ougnt at'least to lnwe toughojoupioien trilmpets fnstead of thse ]Whu,‘o:;k‘"flg‘:wfifl;mm‘ Ilmm;l uxcv‘luul, at the of the great clty, ! Mf hedf ses lh:\tg slong Lftinge Thoodd and shakime his Miger ot uss day, o3t 3y they o round agabn, wil the next g,"';‘"m{:fi nexty 1 the peable of Jerico ba} = i del imake all munner :I,\"'", of thelr strango campaign, Tioy lave pmpu litad o commttcn to wateli thess stranza wui}llcl ant ace that they don't wisdernine the "ur:l'm'ut theyseemn to” bo doln nothing but e, found and raund, and blowing the ot mmu. They haven't auy hattepng-rung ; an s m::l : in (!lw wngh. w w{\u they sl u wb Ing there s can do Im’{ to o round, ¥ "G roand,” that b5 the < aud vl ¢ g"“: tu du:“l)'-?thu reventh day they muke t g of the ity once, and Hu?n ntart to g‘; Tho Jerfelio propls. dow’t know I s L0 uske of (L they watchi thont. o8 they SR LT e b :' '.‘I[l“l wuin wid ueatiy; sllont, vot a solnil “"‘7&’:&\":“ Volee; LUt ab the sovéutl round of et A éveat shuut, and belold! the walla tereg jt) oIl dowa befur thum and_they og- e ud took 1t 1t wos all of God. f""" ‘1&:’! sy that Hohad helped to take thay i b vboew ot 4 was ull to by the ey Again we find somo one eoming to Jushua and eny ** Have you heard the newsi" Ny whiat I 111" * Why, there ure flve Kinga banded together totight’ egalnet us. They have great armles and whole vegiments o ghints, the sons of Auale, nud what e e wofiie Lo do £ Hut doshua dan’t scured at afl. 1l rets the battie fu apeny, aud gues out 1o gt them, and, when the day fen't longg enouggh for his victory, he comanid tia 2un ad imoon towait for biuy and thus lte hms o day and o half {n one. Now, Juntlook nt Isrued 03 years Inter. There wis Sauf and all his army alniost seaved out of thelr wity by only one ginnt, who cnine ot and detied thy armies of Lsrael, and #f {t hadu’t heen for that shepesd by Bavid, with lia faith and cour- nree thero 3 no h:llluz what that ons ciant nilght have done with them, But Joshin is Whole rectiients of glants ean- God haa promieed that not o n shill ever b nvle to stand hefore It all Tnys of hia Jfe, God was with Bhin and he was wtire. of victory. 3o shal it be with s, If God I8 with us wo hiced not fear what man can do unto ns, Waetind that.Joshun subdued thirty-one Klngas el the land of Cannan atd divided It gz Lribes of Tsracts Tt for himeell ho chose” unly Lhe hoorest portion, that he might dwell near to Shiloh, Anet when he comes to his death he Teaves this dying testimony: ** Not one thing hath fafled of all the good thisgs ;\'llh‘,"l the Lord your God spuke concerning ol B Ol what a differenca between such a testi- mony andthat of Lot! Stowl for G, take Him™ at IMs word, be not alrald, but be very aeonis i the nante of the Gnd of Joshua, and pothlue shall e able to stand against you all the days of your life, AFTERNOON SERVICE. TIHE TABERNACLE WAS CROWDED yesterdny aiterneon, uand handreds were unablo to ubtalp admittance. “The prellminary song. servies was of the usual Interesting character, the large audience Joluing fn the songs with great epleit, Mr, Sankiey acemed to be suffer- Ing from hoarseness, and his eolos, therefore, were hot up to his gencral standand,. Following 18 an abstract of Mr. Mooidy's remarks: ot will find the text in the twenty-second chapter of Matthew, part of the forty nd verse: * What thini ye of Christ?? We have now come to otr cleventh week In Chiengo. Durime thoee cleven weeks wo have been teying Lo preach Chietat, and T wonlil now like 1o ask you what you think of Hin, You ree In this chapter that onc of the Pharisees had mnde on attack wpon I, They approached im with sowe preity tough questions, thifiking to ¢ I, Then the Sadducees mude an at- tack upon Him, and Christ routed them fn a few worde. Then the Pharlsees came back and nslied which was the greatest convmandment, and Chirtst turned upon them with the question, * What think ye of Christ; whose son is e They sald, ** ife s the son David," ¢ Well, then,” asked Chrlet, “hLow Is it that David called IHm Lovd? Aud they were cone fennded, and psked Him no more llucntluns from that day. The fact is, the Jews did not belleve b the divinity of Jesus Chrlst, and T want 1o say rleht herey 30 men_ dan’t be- 1 that, the whole Bitle Is gone. It may he that some want to know why'L am constiantly Lringing up_this guestion of Christ; Leamse, my wlends, Thelleve It Is the foundation of the Gospel, TE o man Is wrong oy the divinity of our Lord, hie 18 wroni on everything, We thust L'uhlll‘.c toundation right befure we aticopt to huild. ‘The question of the text is o legitimate, prac- tieal one, which every preachier has the right to )\ut to n congregation, and one which, f 1 lhad ttme, 1 woukd like to put to every ono liers personally, What think ye of Tlimt Whose von fs Hel Dl Me come from Heaven, and was he with God when the morning stars sang topether! 1s 1t true that 1le was with God witen the founda- tions of this worlil were laid¢ ‘That {a the ques. tlon, and it 13 of thy utmost {mportance, Aen ought to make up tacir ninds and decde who Chrlst e, Tum not golug to ask you what you thiuk of {lim s o teacher. Thero was never man taught as e did, T would like to take I up s o preacher, Look at that wonder- ful sermon recorded fn the fifth Matthew., Inti. dely have tried to attaek that sermon, but have fafled, Lt hos doue more good than any sermon over preachied o this, country. Tlicre !s something remarkable about thesayings of Christ; they can be read over and over arnin, aml evory time you rend thom yousce something: new. Yolumes ea be written on any one word that ever fell from the lips of Jesus, and yet Ilis Jangungze was so simple that w Httle child enn understand. Christ was a ¢hild’s preachor; He preached so plaln that little children liko to rendd Him i and yet His words are so deep that the greatest theologians eannot fathom thelr depths, Ewould like you to compare Him with the preachers of the present day, and see how Ie * taught the people, I' am- told by travelers 1n Palesifne that yor cannot aee n thing in that country ° hut what Jesus used to {lustyate his sermons. Look at tho story of thu Prodigal Sou; there is noth- ing that con melt an audienive wore than that, L might take Him ns a physiclan, and ask what you thought of Him. Wa have sume omi- nend physiclans in Chicazo, and people are wroud of them. Nat long ngo a Jady sufTering from diphtherin told me that hor ductor had nof lust a case, nud slie was proud of ami had grent coutldencs fu him, But Idon't thiuk you can find a doctor in Chicago who has not lost o case, §f he has had muek practice. desusnever lost a case,and Ho had gone dififenlt ones. Some were dend - even, and e brought them back to All the pfilleted Dad © Lo do was to sup to Iim and the vivtue would como Turth aad they would be heals In some purts of Lo world amd this mmulrf‘ we have hosoftals for neurable cases, They dlun't need such ju- stituttons {n Chyist's day; Lhere was nothing but what. Iy could care, 1 wonld ks to talkof Thn as n comfort, Think how lle_comlorted the wounded amd broken hearts, But the point to-duy Is, * Was e Gad-Man ™ Ways Tle in thie hosom of the Fathier, and did He voluutarily leavo Heayen wud come down on ertl and suiler amd dfe thnt we might lived The best aud only way to find this out s to take Seripture, 11 L was comlng to Chivago to find out about o man, there ure twvo clasves of peaple I wonld Hke to meel—his feiends ond encales, so that I coulil hiear both sldes of the guestion, The polftichms ) been gol owir Lo New Orleans, If they w fulr and candid suen, they want to hear hoth wides, nnd will not Judge “uutil then, Now, to- day, I propose to belug up witnesses, and Lwant o make lymm jury to decfde this preat ques- won, I shall not be partial, but heing up both enemles and friends, We will test eall the iarisces, who were Chfst’s bitterest eneinies, e greatest charge they could prefer ngninst Hin " was, s man recelveth siimners and eateth with them,” Thauk God for that. The very thing they bring agaiust Him 1s {unt what you amd I like, Next tuke the High "riest of " the Sanhedrhn, who was there when the verdict of deathh was pronouneed. Wit docs hu eny 4 * 1 put Him wider oath gnd asked Him it 1l wus the Son of Gaod, unlJesus unswered, *Twn'? That §s the very thing we lorily g _wo belleve e is tho Son of tiad, Let s take Pilutes he is not adew, amdisu binsed and unprojudleed. Hls testhnony sz SF il uo fuult i this man,” Then Pilates wife sont a messagre to her lusband saying, S Jlave nothing to du with that fust pereo, for 1 have eullered much fn a dream concern- fug [ Wally, suppose we bring in dJadas, the Prines of Trattors, and nsk what fault ho found i Flime SBoc that countenanee full, aml remorse, despalr, and uguny come npon him, us o wrings s hands and throws down tho thirty pleces ot sliver, saying., I have hetrayed hinoe cent blood™ A\ grest many persons are eexlng ant aigalust Judua, LAt tell you thevs are wor: men chun e Chileago toAliy, 1o dld confess, but there ave a good many who think Chrlst an Impostor ufter ull (s testimouy, The testl- mony of the centtivlon who hwl*charge of the eruciiixion was next adduced, sl the speaker contiued: But let us go still furth am \rlllhui Lo . sumio the devils of hell, becaues they gave tustimony When Chelst came near o mah possessed with a devil, the devil erfed: out, “Bou ol the Most High, bust "Thou come here to toriment s Le. fore onr time (™ Even the very devils clalined that Ile was the Bon of Gods It seems to aue 1 inight rest tho case herey angd thnt you could sender u verdict that Chrlst ts the tiue Messlub, Bat this fs what Iiis enemies sunl; 1 havea pond rowitnesses oz his fricud; e 1 ol Joli the Bantlst, Peter, doubting Thon anl, aned the upgels that appeared“ab, s Divth was noxt placed before the sudlence, 1, continued Mp, Moudy, I could just shout up to tke Thyone ud ask the aneels there what teey think of Him, Just hmagzine what would bu the reply. would b the volee that dulin head—=tlio volen of many angels ng CWorehiy 1s the Lanb that wits slaid” Woald o not b o elovions thing for Clileago I the pweople would heln swell that heavenly ervi Gad's own testiinony, Tl Iy MY Deloved Sou, fit wiom L e seed W pleased,™ wina not brosghie b That, sald the wweacher, {6 what God the Fatker thought, sinuer! What duo you think of im0 God was well pleased ;:l(h i, won't vou by plewsel with Il thought me o0 i grawd deal of I, won't you l!:[u a lttly of Hont Ob that (fod may téar tho eenles from 3-‘.;|X|r clycs nm\{. m'ul‘ yuu L Il us ol Py beh 10v, e 1is o, \ S the bright aml mormng star,’” as CGod's e- Toved Son acnt down to this dark world to rave us, Now, what do you think of Iim? Pat the question to yourseif. Do you think a good denl of Him! Wit do yout man! What do you dliferent directions think envuih of [lim to trust Himt Let the gquestion o up lsto tho gallerles, think of Him, Ing § 1timf{ Do ’g’nu ou think of Ifini,—as much as everi mpsoti—* More,~my Lord and iy (od,” think of i Wall, how many are gofuy to think enough of Him to truat Hine thls nfternoonl We tmust have s poor opinion of Chrast {f we won't teust Ilim, - Lot all willing ini s thelr Savior from this hour rlse Just s I i, without one pics,’ and Alinost the cutire audience rose and jolned In this hymn, A large numbor sought the lnquiey- rouma ab the cluse. eame— EVENING SERVICH. . T'ULL TO OVERPLOWING, Tha Tabernacle was full, of course; full to overflowing, although the averflow was snwlier Lhan usual, only purtialiy Bfling the Arst floor of Farwell MHall, where Dr, Goouwin preached an excetlent (ilscourse on the text, * As Moses ift- cd up tho serpent in thie wildernuss, even so must the Bon of Man be lfted up, that whoover ghit not perish, but have Dbeticyeth on 1 m), everlasting life,” The opening prayer was by Dr. Gillette, Buperintendent of the State Asyluta for Deat Mutes at Jacksouville. The Doctor has quite o uumber of old pupils in Chicago, and they are cagerto hiave him help them to hear Mr, Moody Thore 18 hardly o man in Ameriva who 1s 80 perfeetly master of the sign langunge a8 Prof. (llctte, and his interpreta- ton of Mr, Mowdy ol Mr. Sunkey to those who have no cars to hear §s to them ns great o oe- caslon of thanksgiving to God ab are Tun Trin- vlval reports to those who cannot como Chicagn during thesc mectings, 1 out n hrotherly bamd to Dr, Gillette, e, ik ing to give the Gospel to ripture leason wis i with thelr eyes, Tue Trisuse; Is b m (ho twenty- beghuning with the Lol before the ruory and the Governor asked him, saying, ArtThou the Kingof the Jews! And Jdesus sl unto him, Thow sayest. e YAre your windows open Jem 7 and “Almost. Persuaded.” Al of Me. Sankey's meny frlends will be gind (o ¥ much better volvs hust 0 HAnd Jesus g Lnow thae he wus fis vers night than for some tima past, it the slicht dilienity under which hie Tas labored for several weeks will wholly disap- pear. ! Mr. Moody himself offered prayer before the [, after the eccond salo, announced hi text as Matthew, twenty-seventh chapter, -second verse: ¢ Dilute snid unto thein, hinl) I do then with Jesus, which 18 valled :l'hz-y oll say unto N m, Let [tin be v \ This is ono of the most Important questiuns Untike PMitate, who had §t forced npon hun suddenly by w mob which surrounded his house at 0 o'vlock I the morning, you have had plenty of time in which to_decide what you witl do with Jesus, whicls is called Christ. After hearing the aceusation, an that for envy the Jews had delivered Jesus nuto him, he begins to waver. That ts his e trles to compromise with the mob, and says: “1will chastise Iim ond let Iilm 0. 'Then he licars that Jesun is from Gallloe, ile sends Jiim to fferod, the responsibility of settilng the question, you want to do. n a dittle whife the mob return, bringing their Divine prisoner with then, aud demnand that He tries anotlicr ex- pedient,—offers Lo release a prisoner; but whe: the crowd ery out for Barabbas to be roleased and for Christ to be crucelfled, he takes water and washes his hands, saying, “Iam Innocont of the bluod of this just person, Sce ye to it," Jie thought he woulll et rid of the responsi- bility of deciding what to do with Christ, by Him over to the mob, could * not wash the blood of the Son of Gud off his hands in that e was thoroughly convineed that Ciirist was the Son'of Goi, s s mays, *Iiind no wus convineed; his heart was con- vieed 3 und, besides all that, his wife sent Lo him to have nothing 1o do with that fust man, Your judgmen cowsclence, your lheart is impi truth that Jesus fs the 8on of Ged : but, like Pi- Jate, you hesitate, and try to put off the decision of the question, ** What Agaln, ilate wanted lad to get rid of Ite_be put to death, udgment was ault in hims? rou will do with Him " i applause of the peo- ple: nikd he wanted to keep his ofiice. Ho was alone with Jesus for nearly two hours, and mizht have askod salvatfon of IIin, but hewas false to his own convictions, Insteard of trying to ghift the responsibili ouzht never Lo have sul out. of ifs hands. on eoe ona elag, ho red tho question to go ‘Those people who plotted the death of Chrlat wanted to gain somethine, they galned, tha father-in-law of Caisphas, the Ilgh Pricst to whom Jusus wns firat Jed. use Wi snobbed und his son was municred, What dld he makel carrying thoso thirty pleces of sll Now let us sco A lttlo while af Die cast them down atthe feet, the priests und szoes out and haugs himecll. o wia dead sl dumned before his Master was crucifled. There was Culuphaa, keep his office, but the very next vear ho was (e poeed. Pllate was baulshied and died miserably und Herod also died in Infamy, What do you gain by rejecting Christ! Does pay you wellf Ile whao fs now your 1 sometimo be your formentor. "Thls ul offers you the gift of 13 Son. s eseape, I ye neglect so great salvatifont Mouody closed with an fmpassioned ex- hortation o eettie, nuw, the question, Jesus, which s called Christ i Thiere was much solemuity und evidey of convictlon upon the audience, muny of whom rematned to the after-meetings und went into the quiry-rooms, QUINIDE MEETINGS. Mr. Charles M. Morton, State Secretary of the Young Men’a Christian Assoclation, closed his labora at Dwight, [, ow Friduy lust, leaving tho work In guod condition, in Lhe hauds of the pustors and churelios. holding r scries of meotings ted by Mr, Frank Rocke well, who bas proved himsci? o most efiiclont. and succossful Christian worker, The rovivals fn Jollet and Mason City, Tl1,, which resulted from the labors of Mr. Marton, are gojng forwand prosperously under the cars of the focal clerey, ANNOUNOBMENTS, Noondav-mecting to-day in Farewell Tall, tmlirh from elty churches wild be the order of welzhed a ton He wanted to uplted Christian now at Rockford, at Brown's Hall, nsslsl )chln:: Al the Tabernacle to-night by the Mr. Pentocost, of Bostons * Mr, Maoody witl Liold a Tarwell Holl, and preach e except Monday and Saturday e will also_glye Bible-readings at Farwell Hall aL 3 o'vlock fo the altorsouns of Tug Wednosday, Thursday, und Friday, MISCELLANEOQUS, NLOOMINGTON, 1LL, Bpecial Dispalch to The Tridune, 1, Doe. 10,—~A unfon-re- lzious mecting was held at the First M, E, Church to-night under the auspleious of the Itev, Marry Moorchouse, manifested, and good results are expected, ta® ineeting at v night this weck at the Taberncle, BLOOMINGTON, SALVATION IN NUMILITY, o the Editor af The Tridune, In tho,midway of this our mortsl lifo 1found me 1 a gloowny mood astruy, —~Dan' e Inferno Cnicaco, Dee. 8,—This quotation is npropos to ** Forsaken,” und also to funumerable sunls who have or shall awaken to the quickenlng of thelr spiritual Nives, Wherover GGod crocts a houso of prayer The desll ulwaya butlds u chapol thore, Whenaver wan desires (o pray “Llw buen the dovil wants hils say, ” ‘This question of salvation fs unmfstakably. plalu. God's Word tells us of a’spiritual llle; physlonl ones Tho first fs de- ithy the sccoud wpon wmatter, oty n uter words, Faith fs of tiad, matuer (or ‘I'ho imquiry, ** What shall { (o 0 suved 77 18 lndo du referetics o the spie- ftual it of way,~the sond. man's wontof n reudent upon 1 sln) Is of wau, Iy Lnke, xvill., And they Lron, would touch they; L tnto 1im also Infints, that He at when His ulse.ples saw o and sald: Suf. 1ut Jusus cailot thens fer littlo children 1o co them aiot, for of such fa the K| ily Lsay ity you, whuavever shall not rucel Kinzdow of God us o Mitlo cbild shill iu uo wise This one act of oar Bavlor Is a direct and Awer i 1o What shatl T de to b ary sty o beconey as it were, |orespetfully, & O, Guey Tavid s | oeavadt? Hls CHIVAGO ARIBULIY: JOUNDAY, DSCIMEBRR 1, Lo, [ S — rllttlechild (infant). neceasarily knowlng no | Aty therefore being meapable of ‘sinning, This nfuntlle eondition, it we nay so cxpmers lt, fs one of supresne lamility, and glves hivih to hotl spirit b ith, ‘The spfritual growthof tafih aprayer i a llke rotio an phy=lenl grow ives expression to the wantsof the body, To recapitulats " have prerented to us in tl)u{u anof every one saved an infant possessing the spiritinal attributes of humdlity, falth, and prayers collectlvely these mean *he- ing born azaln,' and are apilicable to eave any and all from sin, Tt 4 en ! guestion hifs ]nmcna(un of tiess attributen; Tet bim ace if In M5 case humllity hegat falth, amd faith peayer, Notwithatandiuiz tho'art of man, he haa not nor eannot devise or coneoct any remedy for tho cure of sin. You admit, Intempera to by n &in, therefore do not forgot that your plea ls for epiritual, not physical, help. TADERNACLE, MOODY'S SUCCEST, To the Kditor of The Tribune, Citicaco, Dee, 10.—I have no disnosition to controvert the theory of Mr, Muody's suecess in “bringing a whole city to hls feet," as given by youlo Tne Tinuse of this mornlie, At the same thie, I the reasons nssigued by you be enrreet, L would lkotoask yor why Mr. Momly's years of exhorting In this city before galog to Earope did not praduce slmilar effectst Ile wita fhie same # plan ' man then ae now; mao- fested the snme * plaintiess of speesh wit rather than preached 3 udopted the “conve: matlonel stele™ was Cearnest! iwd “even puen clousin hisfdeasthesame —ehiot Jog® as e dous vy Dis ancodotes and stinfles’ were of the same style und chin acter us those used by nim in the Tater and he was the same “eurncet’ man, body belfeving in his earnestuces aned honeaty, and you he fulled Lo bring the city to bis fect at ;hul. thne—often cxhorted to nearly empty hasiscs, With your pery Twould like togive o theory of his preseut elfects through yonr col- umns from another standpolnt. R ATRixs, tesfau e e — LETTERS FROM TIE PEOPLE. A NEPLY TO * FORSAKEN." n the Editor af The I'vivune. Cineaso, Dee, ~The letter publlshed in Tir TrRIGCSE of Dee. 8 with the heading, “ What Shatl L Do to Be Baved?" {3 one which cannot be read withont iningled emotions of pity ond fndignation,—pity for the writer, and Indignation towards hoth him and those of whom he complains, * Forsakon " adidressed s letter to the revivallsts, thiuking, vrobanly, that atnong those who udvertise so boldly thelr mothod of religlous healing hie would tind the quickest aud surest cure for his particular kind of soul-sickuess. The supposition was not altogether n strange one, yet, perhaps, * Fur- saken " will not object to u word from one not engaged in the work of the revivallsts, nor in sympathy with thefr methods, 'The writer, after stating that I's whole life— not a long one—has been spent in altornating 'wrm«ls of veckless dikeiontion andeepentant go- irfety, complains that. In every utivmpt at ro- formy the means of satvation placed Lofore him have ?ruvud ouly the. snvans Lo unother relapxe futa tho old hablts, He refers to the communion service, and relates how every time the suera- mentul wine has toueched his lips, instead of frecing im_from all earthly nplpoum, 1t Jins strengthened them, of boen thu meuns of plunging him into nnother dark roumd of de- banehery. It 8 not the purpuss of the presont wrlter fo Joln with * Foranken® fu bis rehuke to the revivallsts and thelr co-workers for the mischievous mlstakes they have made. In the worlk uf practical reforin the Church stands he- tween two fires, It hos to_constder every yies- tion which the neods of the hour present jrom two stundpoints,—that of theology and prac- tleality. its nmmmmer of working must suit ~ the particular case in haml a8 hest it iay, but, In any event, must_aeree in ntent with “the dletum of creeds and dogiis formulated nges aga, Leaving, therefore, all such diflenlt ‘and unprofitable "Jabors. to thoss who prefer roundabout ways, Jeb us ges if there 18 not some straight nnd direct vomd ot of the diffieulty inwhich * Forsaken finds himself, There aro threo stages in the work of sclf- reformatlon: Firat, there must be 4 deslre to reforms; second, u detormination to accoinplish this desire: third, the suceessful acromplish- ment of the thiug resolved upon. % Foranken ' seemsonly to have veached the fivst stage, e deslres to bzt gober, temperate man, but hias not yet. firmly nssured himself thut ho can bring this about. e has rather regarded Dis reformution fn tho lght of chance, and hopud, by chonging the character of his associstions, to change as enslly his own no- ture aud the relation of tho world in geavral tn himself. Now, the fact of 2 young man rely- Ing to abandon all use of intoxicatlus drink {s very momuntous to himself; but soclety at In romains pretty much unaffected by It, ™ It s th vain and arcogant mistake of many, who. Hko s Forsakien,” would forsake thuir ovil ways, to expect that tho carth will pavse 1 moment fn its revolution, that they muy recover from thelr dizziness and et o fresh start. But the world 18 in a good deal of u hurry, and does not stop for the {ndividual, but bids him bestir hilinsoelt and Keep pave with her, Men help those who help thewselves, In fact, it i8 finpossible for them to beatow nuy trie, lnsting heln on any oth- crs, There is nstring, tender fealing of sympathy fun cvery human lieart for ** Fursnken V' nud afl the unfortunates of his class. This acntiment of brutherly lovo can be and is utllized in muny ways, It mokes friends and lielpers of us all, It ean nseist and encourge, but 1t cannot act Dot for itsell and tho beneficiary. Every man: must do his own work, and, if it happens to bu the hard work destroying oll and por- niclous habits, it 1s still his, and no one olse can o it for bim. Thorefore, to the despalring apoeal of * For- saken,™ ¢ What shait I du to be saved ¢ thero rematus this most cheering of answers, “ Save yourself,”. dring a determined will, as well ns s plous nsplration, to the fultillment. of your de- etre. Btuke off atl corrupting Influences aad seok those only whose presence i3 safe and sweet, But ¢ Forsaken ' says he hns done this and Dbeen betiny S Tow can T le saved from becoming “a deunkard,* s the tenor of his ?ucrv, “ro long ns winsis used at come munion{® A practical solution to this problem would seem to lfg n the divection of giving up uot only the wine, hut the ceremony wherem It s used, Inmakmz this new departure, “For- saken ' need not fear that he is abandoning nll clianee of resene, Fortunately for the world's progross, tho ways of the gaod are us vavied as the ways of the wickod, There are mauy bes sldes the revivalists who stand ready to help tho wuak und auceor the niticted. But the grestest help comes from no outside sonrce, but from in- ward conviction aud determination, Foraakend A man {8 forsuken only when o forsakes hime solf. When that {s done, not all the world can save him. Until it s done, not all the world can destroy him, C. 1 A QUERY. To the Editor of Tha Tribune, Rock Istanp, 1y Dee 8~Assuming that the President of the Sciate haa the right to count the Electoral votes, would he mot have theright to consult the United States Supremo Court, or uny other court, if hie chiosy, as tu whato votes in disputed casce he should cott, without uny aduitional lesistationt And il he has that right, and should exendsa it by fortls fying Iis deedsions by the opiulous of tie Su- preme Court of the United States, do you sup- pose anybdy but little Bammy Tilden would ory it 1t should clect Rutberford B, Haves¢ Joux Kourz. UNITED TATES SENATON. . b ths Editor of Ths Tribune, Cnicaao, Dov. 0.~I have no desire to fore- stall the action of the great Republican party of Tilluols In the selectlon of a United Statos Sens ator to suceeed Gen, Togan, but, I this gontle uan f% not 10 be his own successor, 1 venture to propose the numu of o man who would not only refleet the very lighest honur on the State by his puiey of personal character and unrivated ubllity, but would, 1 belicre, thoroughly unite all sectlons of the party, I allude to the Hon, Miltou 1luy, of Sanguuion County, A Rervsricay, WHICH 15 17! M the Editor of The Triduna. Cricaco, Dee. .- "linothy Wright has sold to John Taylor, oy York, for §07,500, the site of the old Second Preshyterdan Church, on the northeasy corner of Wabhash avenne snd Washingtan street, The wvronerty Is 97.0 by A8 fect.”’ Tleass state If tha abovo (s 07 fect # nchies by 13 tect 0 Inches’ or 97 B-10 feet by 163 610 feet, and oblige, vespectfully, BUNSCRINERS, Ans,—Tonths of a foot, aa the polnting of the figures shows, TUE WRONU MAN, T the Editor uf The Tribune. Cuneaco, Dee, f—=Your *town corresponid- ent," In by Jetter frome the Capltu) dated Dec, 1, pub)ighed in Tne Trinusn this morniug, 15 mistaken I bis roferenco to Justice Citfford, of the United Ntates Supreme Court, as be'lias confounded that Jurist with the deceased Goy- croor of Mussachusctts, the Hon, Jobn H, Cufford, Who at the Webster-Parkuan triaf wis the Attorney-Genoral of that Stats, Y (S LELY, THE PULPIT. Prof. Swing's Sermon on Paul and Agrippa. The Les:ons from the Latter's Remark on Hearing. Paul's Preaching, Tite Deity n God of Love, Not a dod of Discourse PAUL AND AGRIPPA. AERMNON BY RO’ SWING, iz prenched yesterday morning . the Central Churely, taking ns Wis test: persuaded e (o be a Chelstinng, - Ippa whose wonls liave become su inemorable was oncof the falrestof the Hermbtan | fumfly. Cotnpared, huwever, with any of his of the hest men of modern xedd amone the He lived n one tme, and with many Limes, he would | lower orders of hunn i, of the must corrupt of alb azes, 1iis whele fuinfly stood ut that polut in hitory when the two elassle States were dyfng, wnd when theie firat ruliedd by war and taxatlon, were now suffering that most perfect of consclence uned all hanor of public and private lite. The Herods bad been the greatest erimingls of the pevlod. Bach male of the line had been a ghatton und eriming, female & coaree creature of the lowest jn- stineth. This Ietod Agrippay, before whom Paul made Wls defense, stands accused of some of the most degrading of all erimes and vie Comparuge his own life with the ey Hie e Jh Paul’s discourse, e felt almost dafsuaded to abandon his bad eare Theve nre lessons for us in thds serap of Mstory. 1L must, fudeed, be o great mielortune to Nve i wneraof viees and an equal hnoploess to puss one’s years fnoan epocd when geear virtues ave ubrawl fn the Tand. for an fudividual As water seeks o 1 provinees, having of rains—thuo de some n Cuarlstian. It 13 ditlenlt rhse nineve his native laml, , Byt distributed through every fivld, und in bidies small or lurge, w0 Ty the inorals hat wocommon level o1 igno- rance and vice there is among the Africans aml amony the Indiatis along !t As the thick ufrof Birotia totiches alike the youne und the old, awl tl aml s not bright for 1 the begwar; ond as Ital rful atmosphere for fn purpte or s, along the Nize hizh nod the Tow King and lieavy N ividual mind to break ge prison of his thne amil live” away from the walls of his era. had to drag slong his earthly yenurs about a een- tury after the wreat nations around the Mediter- ded up thelr divine souls, amt while they were Iying like dend bodies upon the here they lav, rome still with royal robes npon them” and with elassic beanty’on thelr favea, hut they were disfizured by the allor of death and by the sea’s saod and mud ‘T'he oiutors, and moralfets: and sed away, aid Hitle ditlewit for an; away from the and heroes had all pa ned it rieh Herods and miserable heg- gurs—a table pronning with food and u Lazarus st theonter cate—nud when the feast was over and the langulshing rulers Jonged for happiness st b woutd come a bra for these arrayed in p had sunk nlow with the decline amd Rowan cammanjons, and whe Tentih had spolien divine words, there was little now but the stupld language of indolence wmt Infuntldde mud dneest are two crimes kerve to fudicate the Iow morals of the Tefore n raler reas moshere, Paul stood unfolding cloguently anew phillosophy, snd* ns the attentive lstener fol- jowed the speaker, his Hfe scemed teh and he felt ahnost porsinded 1o pass over from_n worthleas yestendey to abetter But the chains of hly 1. The vies, the feasts, the plllage, the gol 0 Herodias 1o ud ftue Hnea, Ju 0 such an at- the drinks, the dancings, , the politidans, and the tallen wien and women of his zencratjon, han: Ished the mamentary dream of reform aud ye- manded im back to the Jite and death of his the dge posseesed more. most perstinded him; the latter altogether per- and carried bim alonz o its swilt current, misslon of Paul is here seen. .ering mortals ure gent to break up the spel) thut holds the multiinde and to raise them avove the #lekly level of the tong past. The sleep of a land’ls often so untform and*deep thut no one rematus any longer to keep wateh or to wake the crowd, o even to keep alive any consclons- ness of the facl that man inay be better wwuke. "The Tark or the negrm 1he model form of cxlstence not onfy disappenred, but has gatten.” Into such Islandswherethe Lotus-caters py ol sleep forgetiul of their nutive sul st come from heaven, ar at least from the outside, and nuet come with a luud shout, TIe must pussess u Junguage and a iel etrate siecpy ears und molke cmber thelr loved one: pts hibs vacant iffe s vor which will pel uhlivisus souls re their far-ofl native land. massing {u at the fnfernal gate he se judt In o most profound stupor,—but the deep slumber In my brain a crash OF heavy thander that 1 shosk myself As onu Dy mala force rousvd. From that inatunt the daring ndventurer hegan to gather up the detafls of the realm around Nty und to recond its latncotations und sore Such gre wo all fn this less dreadful world, We pass along through Its gates, and miehty gates they are, [n o stupor that not the wonderfa! surroundings on the right amd Ieft, and the men of Paaliue power andmis- slon nre the crash of heavy thunder that first brealis the deep slumber of the brain. Many, ke Agrippn, will open their eyes only Jont * Almost thon persuadest,’ but se first wakers theve ure those who will wake fully at the awful peal, und will pereefve the hiferno and the The ofliee of Panl 1 In this Klug, in whose busom a low, dead age was expressing {tself, sensuality, of vice, the moral indiffercnce of the age, all the erines and weaknesses, were plioto- craplied in this one ruler, und in his surprise and upproach toward penitence we reud the mis. slon of thoss moral horues who come with hot wurds upon their lips. Could this proud King have heard a little more of that cluquence, could it have nskalled him often as it did I that one hour, perhaps ut Just the tunrsund Tove of u new 1ife would have burst from his oves. Faul's misslon Lo thus arouse men, much more muest the misston of Chrlst He fn that power and aweetness of Iis truth which so hroke the aleep fonnds the chil- he wagon on the o the pattering of fect ou the the howilng of the not uwaken, hub If at 1 of music, or 8 new shout come h the window, tho sleeping oney walke, n ghndness or alanim, are all alive to tl Paul uroused men by Amid ondfnar, dren of cavth witl sleep on, mlduzht o sowme, aweet musleor wild ery. thy sharp sound of thunder, Christ heard in tho midnlght streets, They were bath atrune sound o the night, and the souls of i their nuxlous Agrippa was ahnost wmazed and entraneed, but ils dehnuchiery hod bheen fearful, and his shiumber was deop, and after o few mutterlngs ot delfght ha sunk to sleep ngain, snd what af- terwame beeane of the eloquence he never hut thore were otlicrs whose splrits had nat been sosteeped {n viee. These bocntne fully awakoned,—~certain fishermen und pure-ntnded women,—uiul thoy slept no more in all that night of strange inugje. Thus Chelst wd ol the great retormers who huva lived have Leen new nud strange soumds jurring upon the senses of the sleeplyg world, come they were the more they awakened the ften the more unwel- A second peflectlon arlses here over this A e had been sueh u narrow slave of i L know or realize what 8 ot ehlarging amd I'ho lablt of pussinge iental und moral hu- tal and nioral dignity, was not Whale fumilivs n privilege cacl man a common spevtacie in his day, ranem in vice wutil they became extinet, dbe In one’s bed wus o Kind of excy condition of individuals was not nmal Isth days ot educution and lberty, but the quatities were long-continnbng, * The poor re- satved poor, the rch remalued richs and thus fees followed fumailies Just as landod estates trom tuther ta son, he soul seemed ot veallzed, but, insteml of it, cach morta} moved along fu the eternal purple of ofifee or in the oternal mgs of hoverty. Our age presents a dilferent seatie, on of 1lberty cach mind nadl vealizes that the “nder the wida purmis pereeives new. possibliit morrow possesses fulinite potene hrobuble that the sociely around Agrippa gave i wany exumples of poor lads d Watts, and Hte! !V Wilberforees, and Washinguons. welrht of generations lay wpon him, and, when Paul enme lonz with the outlines of a new fife, he conld look at it only with n moment's earios- itv. To Tndla ro-day the flexibility of the soul feanknown. There are men who ean do noth. fnte bt carry a skinful of water fur the kitchen. M yon wistin tire bullt or an article of fond can'sed, vou it Jonk fur another ni The tiuse whi fans you mnst be one whose have fanned thie hicher ranks for hidreds of years, Yon wonlh dare _even chanige the Rhape of the f, o1 woukd rmin yonr” serv- nnt, 3 wyer now living near Cal- euttta has4wentyservants for - his small fanily, Lecanse there nitst be for each task n man whosa anceators have for centuries porfored that ex- wet lahor, Into no erst in which nlf the shopesof work and thoneht were thus fixed came Paul, and henee he must speak not in_inman weak- ness, but I Divie power, The world s dend a8 wtomln It imust yawn like Agrippa long be- { foze i1 shon)d awake. Azeippa went down not only by means of el sins, hut by the milltorie-weight Jof hitines, which inndy §t necessary for a Herod £y 924 whutton, and a dehanchee, and a criml- he's A the tralitons of his family pointed Lrveed @ certain form of life and toward o ¢ Ly rave, and, a8 though bnpelled by In||:‘ turned away from the *alitost ! ment and “moved ou toward the Nu llerod knew Llie possl- 5 soene reduda u that great ameng the sings of this nge and country fs the fact % It s dizenvered the power of the mind to- oW fteelf vut of the tomb of ahad custor tn wilk on the shore of a new ltfe. To distovered the ‘vuwer of steam, to liave . Invonted the rallway and the tele- grapl. will fn the el prove secondary trivmphs compared with the discovery of the fact that a man nay throw himsclf out of a tomb and may move sbont the earth.* That a poor boy need not remalu poor; thot au frnorant man or wontn tiay learn to rend wid may beeome wise, Iy 1 discoveiry that ontranks the eoghie, In Ine Al to chiknge an artlele of rellgion {nvolves death ntd gamy, but blessed the nre which can lunge reticion and make it better sl the while! ow visibie i the creat nations; he scholar jusulng from th or from the log-cabin the slrepherd hecoming astrono- atesnan, (he wicked feav: ar iy room with -prayery— ap a seene and uirnspiration aml ou woukd have looked for fn vain 1 skies about Ring Agreippa. Jtes that. this man or his muther, or any. uny fricnd about him, had ever vearning after higher things. Deart. pan Tin on deep zroove ent by the slow centurics, By contrast our cflllllrynp{murs in marvelous Treauty, for here nunivirsal yvearning has been bullt up, a spiritaal flexibility which tells the axinan that Re iy become a phylosopher; which reminids the poor orphan that he may beeotne a man who can gve to the ponr Instead of Lezzing for self; which reminds the drunkard that ail 1@ honors and jovs of temperance Jle within s reach; which Inds the sinner that there is a fonn- tain jin which even he may be purliied, a cross which might fling its shalow over him, 1t Is duubtful whetlier the aze aronnd Paul and Acgrippa could possiblv have written suchpocins as “The Pyalm of Life™ and the * Excelsior," for there Was not {n thuse petrllied days a soul flexible enguzh and hopeful enough to furnish the rich colorlngs of such poetry. ~ Al modern poctry and all Htarature {8 full of thls atmos- phere of emancipation, this prophetie and his- torie escape of souls from the degradation of their past. With the development of this knowledee that the soul may fly from evil to good eomes an in- ercared responsibitity, for i the heavy chiaina which bound Agrippa, cuttiog off the very con- ceptlon of any new destiny, do not welgl'down the men of the preseut, but if, on the upposite, ull poctey and histors fa full 'of the names of those who have rleen from ashes to banor, then great. fs the congemnution of those who fn onr age are unmoved by the merlts of the great moral ease, Ifit shall be the destiny of any one of You to full at last into a crave of y it will be'a grave less Lionorable than that where nuy Herod sleepe, beenuse you will linve worked your ruin out of a land which daily sang to you of human greatiess aud of the open way from evil \T fo goud, While Inoklug at this Ageippa we recall one other quality of our thnes, They have dis- covered and developed the latent powers of the human will, Despotisms always tead to de- press this faculty in the peoplé, republics to strengthen it Slaves sudidenly set free are helpless, heeause they are yet without great volitfon. Long dependence upon a inaster s destroyed that department of the fntelizet, The oor slaves must walt for will power to crow, iberty brings personal volition to the front, Along with the moders knowledice of the fact that the mind may pass throngh vast chanzes, and need not be ignorant, nor wicked, nor Hitie, comes a development of thut will whish may drazx the mortal along like a glant, be the path ever so steep and difficult. In our day the ¥ al- most persuaded " has been a-million times put to phame by noble sonls which in the centuries of 1lberty bave learnesd that they tny pass from ® week alimost to the Omuipotent alfogeiher, That men made bold, decided moves in the days of the Herods {8 very prabable, but there §s no pos- sibility that the average citizen was aware of n facuity within his soul which might trausform him gud set him upon a rock far above the val- ley of sin. - Agrippa dismissed tho Christ and went back to” his crlines, not dreaming of an energy within which mizht have struck at._once for anew life, and bave * held tho fort ™ ever more, " Great {8 the responaibility of our times, for it has 50 awakened and strenzthencd man's power of chivice, that if we o to vur graves with only nt alminst upon our lips, deep s our condemna- tion. Itlstoolate for the wicked to tind any exetise from mnn or God. Al the present gen- eration bas seen ko many Fraukling and Lincolns wpring up out of firmness of purpose, have seen so muny drunkards leave their weaknesses be- Tfud them, huve seen so many pass fram garret to throne by individual impulse, that over the tomb of one who knew lis duty and did it not, neither man nor angel can: come to weep, Que could wee svoner for Pilot or Herod, hecause they lived when the mind of nan had nat revenled oll around them its intinite po- teney, Indeed, it would seem Ahat ot last” all our younger generation should have written for them a4 pew mental philosophy, A5 new lizht comes, the age vom- poses a new nusie, a new selenee, 8 new poli- tive, o now rellglon why should {t not lmsten 1o comnpose a new philosoply of the mind? Hav. fug gotten for mway from the thies when tbe cople were sluves, and huving gotten fur uway roin the theotowieul period which defined man as a helplees worm, having coine to generations when individual dectston awd fivmneas hove bred Neroes out of duast, why should {t not bid Tn- azination, and fancy, aid memory, and reason apen thely clrele tainnke room for the will-pow- er, that deciston of character, the loftiest of mental attributest Lonz enough liave the laurels been fung to tusto and reason, long cnough have the ' poets sung of the “ whigs of tho fnagination,” for doubtless the willls the trae wings of the soul; it will bear it throngh danzers before which alt poctie soldiers would stand oppalied, Look around and behold the great of earth, Oue thing they had not,— weakness of purpose, ‘The worda Satmoat per- auaded V' played no part b thelr youth, or man- hood, or ofduge, Whether the ubjeet was edu- cation, or religdon, or liberty, or humanity, they had 116 e fo * almod, bat, 1k Luther n the Diet, they havo all salih\* Here T stund, T can. not do otherwige, 50 help me God.' Al good of earth ia the result of force. Force onters fnto the blade of grass and into the iron-like ouk, Soull the resuits in the apiritual workl are the effeet of foree, Al things Juvo been wronght out on the forze of toll, Hence amazing I this spirituat world {8 the oflice of decfsfon uf eharmeter, n power ereatud tu bear she ahapeless mortals into Torms of utilivy aml besuty. ‘The humuan-will {8 the anvil und hym. mer - where the erudo ores are befien Into the pivders and beams of socl humes and trmrlu. futo great spans for s ridges across which its great tralns of life are tofly, A 'rll)pu liaving Uved vefore freedom had come to disclose this quality of wmun, to unveil this etatue of a god, ube may extend to his vives n purdon not 1o bie hoped Tor by th sinful ones of this zencration, Think not thut this ¥ill power I3 nlways o rde puwer as lu Luther, or o sad struggio as in the career of so maws, L §s ot ws sk, culin as i stner sea. Nothing could ave been gentter thiu the Sur— puse of Christ. —And think not thut the will of wan alaplayes tho help of God. God hus glven he powera Which 1o crouped In the Imnlu‘ and ce all those powers must i employed day by day, and'Ged will find His own gateway for coming fnto the soul. Mud must walk Lis own yath faithfully to the end and lcave to eternity the solusion of the mystery how God attended his steps alome the winding road, Lt us mark now what It was that “almast muoved the stagnant sonl of Herod Agrinpa. 1t you whi read the slmple statement of the orator you will find that when Axrippa was alinost pere aunded to be u Christhan fie wax Hsteuing to Christlonity fu its most perfect shaplleity, Faul® sald thia; = fle wassent to the Gentilea {o open thele cyes and tarn thom frou darkness o ight, and from tho power of. Satau unte God, that-3bey. way re. colvo fordveucss uf aine, and fulesduice soug themy which are sanctified by faftl that (4 in we. Whereniwun, U Kiny Agrippa, | was not disobedi- the »Ilu}v of the blncks of the Soreat mer, the «ent unty the heavenly vidlon; bul vhuwed first unto them of Dausaseur, anil ot Jernralen, aud througls out all the cousts ol Judea, nnd then tu the Ueus tiles, thas lhc{ shiould repent and turn to God, snid do worke meel for repentance. For thess cetdes the Jews cauzht we o the temple, snd went sbont to kfilme, ilavine, therefore, obtalned help of God, Tvontinue untae tils day, witiessng th to n: ‘Rivethi to all life, breath, -‘ 1 uil thin small ani ‘grent, enying none other things than T0<e whioh e Hromhetsani Hores i Ay samL come: (hat Cheiat sttou'd wnfar, and that ife xhould be the firet that should rire from the dead, and :nn:xkl shew light unto the peaple, and to the Gen- od, . *Tt would seem that Agrlppa was * almoat per- sunded V' to be such @ Christisn - as was implied in these grand, simple words, Ifo was not any- where near Uelhg persunded i e n Calvinist, or n Methodist, or an Immerafonist, or nn Eplsco~ valian; lie did nut pass upon tho merits of any cttsy but toward a Chriet . suffering and then risiniz from the dews] to show liglit unto all tho people, townrd a Christ witose 2ervants were to turn from sin unto repentance and God, and to o warks meet for repentance, lie was compelled 10 look with some favor. Every word touched his heart. 1Te hind the sins that needed repent- ance; he chicrished the darkness that needed tho Altht; he was tho man - to. turn from Satan to God. " Though Christlanity came to him not in its modern stateinent, yet (¢ .moved his dend ‘soul and made him lieave one sigh for the purily of Paul and of T'aul's Chiist, Tn presence of this piclurc from encred histo- ry, we declare that the offive of the human will 13 shadowed here, It {3 to take its stand only ntwu great principles. It may be almost or.not nt all persunded about tnany. asscrtions of the ‘tenehiers of relizion s Its final stand fs not called for untl it comen faze to face before the filens mnveiled in this address before the King. Wile declslon of cliaracter haa been the wines of the eoul, the charlot which has carrled man | to the nobleat things, It has hnevitably beon wlecislon of character nbout great principles, and :.'!m fusiznificant notlons and accidents, ' Only It Wil stund guard all Uielr Hives by an atom. These will walk Lo and fro In front of an ant- Tl supposing It & nelaconl the King; but.the tria men antl women of power whil save thelr energy for the day when great truths ahull come ‘along asking for love aud help, “Phe trua test of Frmtnesn Isnotsimply tirmuoes, bat firmuess o the defenke of meat principles. An ezotisy will toll bard to carry his pomnt, and WHI hange over it day and aight, but s declslon of chinracter {3 not farge, the lange fu i is an ezotisin which cannot "bear defeat. Bub to great mind no bending fn small things ean ben defuat, for there van be no surrender where there has been ho war nnd no Dattle, It was awld the great fdeas of Chilst Paul stood Ro gratidly, “They fed hie gonl In pres- ‘ence of the storniy Festus and of the proud Agrippy, aml afterwart of many - shouting mob. Far littte hieas he could not haso émdured heating linprizonment, aml have bowed his headd to the block, but for the doctrine of re- pentanee for shy, and of a tornfng from Satan to God, and for a Bavior 1iving, and dylug, amd rising for the salyation of man {Lwas cven sweet to dic down In death, I such -scenea the trag deelslon of charnclenflashies out in aplendur., Contrust the 1wo men, aud from Paul and Agrippa, the gold and the dross of humnn na- tire, you m i the power of man and his possible weakness. When the vofee of ighty truths touched the ear of Paul his sald, ** Hére, Lord, am I, Oh, Maater, ohy my soul, o, hu- 1nan racy, what wouli yo have nie tu dot T fully persumted, Al fhe love of suy heart and the puwers of my mind I give to these trutls, 10 presenee of them to die wilk e gafn.” Saen was Paul, and earth in all Its riches of wold, and lanfis, und arts, would searcely be able to repay God for the pift of that one man. | Ills hewc passed fron *=ahinost ' over to an ‘overflowing ubliess of Christiun life nnd truch, His inonu- ment is fuolithe enlizhtened nations bullt up not o stoues, but of noble hearts, Agrippa pictures human nature in fts ide- eline, A mighty religion is unfolied. to him, and he rises to the dlsnity of o sigh, Eternity 18 opened before him with gutes of pearl anit with Giod beyond the gates, and {n presence of that seene ¢ Iangulshics up to the altitude of an “almost,”” Iis mimi sees the divine pres- enes, o growing radianee, and from the holy Hzht he turns away to where his palace offers him the pleasures of gluttony aud of the dance andd death-bed of o Herod. "The differenco be- tween these two mortals which have come down to us through the long vista of history, one In angelle garo as though riswmg to heaven, the other In dark outline us though Liell were to be his weleome hidinz-place, s the. difference be- tween the perfect espousal of the sublling truths of relizion and the feeblo mind wi soys to all the cloguence of life and death muat thou persuadest me, s GOD I8 LOVE. SERMON DY THE REV, DR, POWELL, Yestexdny mornfug, In the Third Unitarion Chureh, corner of Lafin and Monroe streets, the Rev, Dr. Powell preached a sermon on ‘It God Get Angryy What Shall Men Do Alout It1" He took his text from Matthew +., €6t “Totherefore perfect, as your Father in Heaven: {8 perfoct.” The'ltev, gentleman sald thut the subject might sound seneatfonal, but it was not Intended as such. He alluded to the ancients and their saerifices, when visitations of locusts were made, or hafl fell snd destroyed the erops, It was then lield that the gods were angry, and then men were eacrifices, The ™ cnlightenment of Chrlstianity bad done awuy with savritiees of aulmnls, ot the mufilation of man, The vengeaice of an angry (fod had been (rnrlf' called upim ab dlfferent times, e opposed the fdea that God sympathized witl any side In war, and that [lo should be called upon to lielp Tn.lmr, and that He should be supplicated for and by tho prayers of pious men. He rather took sides aguinst the {dezs of the OId Testament, in which the fm- preasion was conveved that God wus ol anery, nud belicved that the Psalms wers marred by this =amo mentlon of God's wrath, He leld that the conception of God In that day was Letter than any which before exlsted. The kies wns then to pive God Ilve, und thus oppease His wrath, Tho v Testament clmngred this. It did not look hack, but to the future,—to fmmortality. Re- Hlziou then tid not depend upon patriotism, Then niroiy was the hatred of God presched, and His ungger held up ns a menace. When a judg- ment and a horrible hell was preached, 1L wis nsserted that hell was prepared for the devil and s angels, and held o3 o mensace, Awd even to this day this unger ks held out. The . fen was advaseed that God was always and demnnded some saerlfice. Many ached this doetrine honestly and sineerelys The mawlern theologhin wanted juen to tlee o Christ nmd usk through bim for fergivencas; thnt e was the grreat sacrifice, ‘The spenker thought that the worshlp of Christ wonhd be constdered lx\ulnu'[y. were (Lot hield he orthodox that fle was God In the flesh, he love of Qod was great, Menvould not be omdy but they could be pardoned, He depre- eated the kiew of a hedl, und opposed the sehems of cterual punlshinent. and o finire judgment, He was ashatned of odern theology, that had fo perverted Chstinuity, which nliomwed men to get rid of thelr sins by prosy, through u sacrifice of Christ. Tiey (the Unltarlans) rejected every other doetrine which dld nut hold that dod wis intii- fte love. They abjured the ides of auythin supernatural between themselves and thefr Go He held that any man who dld a good act was Lund with God,"Every good act wns man's awn. Eestacles were short-lived, He suid that Chrlse | tian theology had goue further than human merilice by demanding snperhumun sacritive "The theologians hold :fi'\t Gud would not pa dan for His uwn sake thht He was sopry, but would pardon for a deal God’s sake. Ho held that this fder ol o Mon-God was a Ged in opposition ta Himsclf. Al that yet remained of Chrlstlan theology woulil paxs into heathantsm, They needed i wiirer, pobler tiod, God was love,” Thoy loved Chvist and honored THet But they abhorred the ldea - that God demanddd” blood to save Tntnanity, They had ceme (o study fi the etars atnd other natural things, and everywhere. The pleture of an_ungry God sitting over a vaatly- wapulated hell wnd wosparsely populated mven, recolving tho curses of dne and bless- s of the others, would pass pway, ‘The gruat orthodox churel tenchors to<lay ‘did not knvw thely own chureh history, “I'ie reverend gentleman closed his sermon by Iolding that God wos purity sid ‘love, aud that He could not be bribed to auy church ur sect, but thut Ho created mou to save him. Mcn were In o manner controtled Ly ussociations, Hut thy study of God was the noblest end of man, 1le closed with the following from Bt. Panl, seventeonth chapter, twenty-sceond to twenty-ulnth verses, uccondlyg to Conway's translation, as an {Hustration: Men of ‘Atheny, I percelve thas In all things you are very devont, While passhng along and obestv- ing your oblects of worship, I found an altar witht thia inacription: ** ‘U'o the unknown Gud,"” Whomn “ve, therofore, without. kuowledgo worship, Iim do 1 make know Lo you. The Giod of heaven aud eurth dwells not in tepuples madlo with hands; nor ‘dues e receiva service ot the nnds of men, as Uance 1t (s 1o who thouch Hu weeded anythi; And fle made of ;e bload oyery nation of ey to dwell on Ve faco of tho carths that they sbould seck God, 1f haply thoy might feel after 1iim, and bnd Bim} though 1o 1s pot removed (ruin every ous of us, Fuor in Him we live, and move, und havo our belag, ‘his ha held was the true doctrioes That (lod was Lovey and unly demanded of us thnt we do rplght. MISCELLANEOUS, : CURBENT RELIGION, : LovisviLee, Ky, Dee.’ 10.~In the churches to-day allusion wis mude Lo the lirooklyn dis- aster, sympathy belug expressed for the sutfer- ers by numerous clergymon, lu Kplscopal: churclics prayers that the Scoate sud Housu may bu s «ulded us to properly aud cefully adjust "y political wero uittered by soverdd iccbns,