Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1876, Page 3

THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1876. or ridlenlous, hut may simply add to ‘E:“‘I‘nn’:‘ln " virt o[ the ol nmpchmnu of e e We love the turn [ the rond that I s new lanlseape Beforo the brain, A urney through o desert I3 monotonuus com- ot with n eail alon the Jthing or nmong tho nousaed Telnndla. Buch being mnau's nnture, jo recent nud urnvulhmf religlous awakening ust find o port of §ts explanatjon fn_tho new- mq and freshiess of worl, "That work pest Wk cationd and. Fagland liko the alght ame 0SS I the dcert, Bven camiels u thelr dull 7, aml ift more v- filly thelr heavy fect, when, after days utsl pights in the sea Of sund, they discérn ni last o ove of patm-trees and snull the atmosphero g;wnlvr freshier and sweeter than that fn theold Jeather 1gs. When these new spenkers and gow Elnuers came nlong a few years ago the Chusreh had boew wmaking along Jonrney without there belnge auy one In the front or rear of tho aravan who condd announce o green Jeal or n fm-rec onywhere, 'Theee Hoanerges men fim audidenly wpon the hiorizon and all the theological bensts of burden fn the long earavan peeived the fresh alr and - began to ulcken pacee In the aoldst of tho great plcapal and ~ Diesenter derert where dry gand stretched out for thonsands of mfles, iy the midst of our own orthodox desert, came Hoody and SBankey—pnlm-trecs and hulnblluF aprings in the wido arld waste. Some Jowlsly witer has breathed in this glorlous fresh alr, sod sugeests that the hynig of these Chrls- tians ilieht woll be imitated in the synagogito of thie Hebrew, which hins_known little of the new elnce the days of Solomon, e thinks (bat that ntoning of the luw which has pro- yailed &inee the duys of Lzra might well move forward (nto ufimnt outhurst of congregational govz, Thus all men cast themsclyes fnto the aweatly new a8 children hurry out of doors n wirinz, Boclety longs for tew forme new yoices, new places, uew hyung, new truths; sud futo the very midst of this hotorable senti- meut came these evangelists, They brought s uew house_of worship, large, nlry, and cheap; they broucht tomether n new audl- flfi:’ for llu]vclrgnnt church lind become exclu- Sive remarkable for thuse 1t ehut out ratlier thatt for thuse it brought (n} they brought new fours of worship; they brought new musie and avew theology, and thus they captivated ui age which roon wearles of the past, All great awakeninga bove been attended hy a change of fachion either ns cause or essentind companton. Theold will not lusplre the hears, The first step lu religlous revivals hinw been the snappliy of 0)d chning, nnd o certaln stepplng forth into the joy of emancipation. Christ eame doeluring the ddath of the ceremonial laws e enme de- claringz that one might worship in |l|umlgn a8 ac- ceptably us i Jerueafem, an that n Publican was 08 valunble as a Pharlsce, an joiant ©s voluahle as & Kingo The new lay all around Christ, sv thnt looking w31 the multitude wasin the preseace of 1 new world. Puul eame fn perfect newness of {des. The Gentiles were to_be henceforth as dear to God und wnan as the Jews. Bavanaroln astonished the Cathiolie Chittrel by his new phl- Josophy. 1T denvunced all the” forms of the Chureh and preached o ealyation by lpurll‘f of Jfe, Luther came lke n spring-tinia crowding off 0ld dead Jeaves by new buds and blossoms, Wealey camo with o new inethod and was styled ho Methodlst, ‘Fhe old forms had strangled the Church Just as Phavienisin bhad strangled the. religion of Danlel, juat as Romanisin had come with Bishop, and pricst, aud robes, ond beads, i raints, and pogeants to choke the fife out of primitive Christianity. Tius al the great leaders of religfon have Leen compelled to ndvanee over the dead body of the pns’t,-—thnt itiatle old ginnt that always Jives by the wayside in a drenry anst.lel and with sn awlul front nnd voice {x wont to frighten tho prigrim In iis progress, To slaughter thuse old dants of church and of theology hus always en the first work of the revivallst from Paul 1o Whitefield. Whenthe people have pereeived 1heso monsters to bo fullydead, they have pour- ol toward the wicked gate with exceeding great jos ;YAhBrc {s nothing more pliant than the soul. Tt luves to bend nbout ke the swaylng brauch- @ of the willow or the -weeblng birch. Its health und nppetite fmproveby truvel, and fn any kind of long fimprisonment. ft growes slek. Terefore ft govs from place to place not only in geography, but aleo {un art_and religlon. When o Church fully resolves to aceept uf no innovations, to admit no new fustrument, or new tune, or now sermon, it dies on the spot. Along with this resolutfon death comes and marks that Church for fts own, Great there- fore must be the influence of any mhn or_men who confees tha soul’s pliancy and who suffer it 1o move out fo a wide world of varted sceuery. (3) But In_estimating the revival of to-day great power must bo ascribed to the personal qualitles of him whose name has of late years een carried to and fro on all ealcs, Llismethod draws those who need a new and more powerlul drawing, Al our church doors have swung Ireely for o generation, but the crowd has nat passéd fn and out by these doors. Each cureh: has had Its’ haudful, composed largely of those born In the sunctuary, The new method draws o larger dudience, nid then the direct and Intensely carnest stylo of speech awakens an ins the multitude oneocaught. Had rome neeldent given us repular preachers, an audlence of witked and nunchurdi-golng men, drunkards, satlors, thioves, the falicn of 8, wo could not have awakened them or haye induced them ever to come a sccond Ume. Our argument Is too abstract and ourstyle tworclined and gentle, The regwarclergyman fstrained amonyg stwdents and readers, wid all s words are for his own associutes. Every man is the ereature of his surroundings, and if ne hns Deen horn usmong books and beeh well tralied s theologleal seminary, he will reach only those who come to him through buoiks or through the snmo seminary gates. Insuch n stramgely made world alongg comes o new mun, —uot n man for scholars, but o man for the multitude, ile comes not fn the fullness of thetorfe, but ns n Hou of Thunder. lo pounds the hard heart with reason, with Berlp- ture, and with aneedote full of Juughter or full of teare, Few aro the minde which camiot sec truth last fn the welass of {llustration, ‘Fhere the full plture of truth Hes, A few brains llke o Sir Willlam Hamilton will scorn an {llustration or an anecdote, and will use only the abstruct words of philosophy, but the human race asks for fllustration, und weeps or laughs when it looks Juto thnt marvelous mirror. The ed- ueated pulpit moves along abovo the use of aneedoto and Incldent, beeauss L speaks thuse . who lave ‘partly lnuacx\ over Into phllosophy. Dut in so doing it overslots the wultitude, They are nungey for iltustra- tion, Tho drunkand needs to bo shown bis fih:sluns windows, his ragped, Inngry chilldren, ls pale, dylog wife, his~ trembling * linbs, his Desotted face.” The landseape must bo painted A awful colors, such that ho must see nand - ble, There is u clnss of drunkards and'of lost fnen and women whom only the Bonucrgea—~the 86 of Thumler—ean reach. The speech must be fearfully plaln—plaln now in plturing wrath ~swectly plain fu pleturtog God's merey, the 80'n of Thunder can luve b'oucl grammar and fi:ml Eoglish, all the better; but it Lhe grammar defective it will watter little, itonly the thunder of the truth roll on solemuly. + (4.) Next to this hint at personal power mark the probuble piwer of o pratfornt on which hun- dreds of clerzym2n meet, having cast asldo the ges of gect, 3ho Howing together of differe Ing churches and of ditfering clergymen exalts the fieas which they hokd fn common, When aruwed Cabvinlsts mect, then the Culvinlstic 1ea risen; when Arminlons meot, then the Ar- minfan thought. comes hefore tho people; but When many sects meet on ono plutformyutl thelr Mttle fdens sink, and ol np rises sublinicly the 1088 0f Chirlst, Qften on account of clonds, Mt, hastacannot bo seen. Low ulits, drlzzllinge rmin- ally, though they reach only onethin up fus lofty ides, serve ta hide from tha traveler the Sunllt peak, Thé sun and the never-clouded Rlory are on the summit, but man sid b3 fog and tloud are fu tho vale, and the fircut pile all fnvisible, But powerful wind springs up onluud or vecan uud und:lunlly BWCCPS Bway tese clouds, and, behold! there I3 the vust ot standing a3 o monument i memory of an und the fofinite, Not otherwlse human chglus and alfferences 1fe around the holy bitl of Chirlatfanity, rollng urouud it base, shut- ng out from mortal cye the sublime height, L when some fuvorlng wind cutnes along, owlng from the better zones, it sweeps away Bhese cucampiments of cloud, and 1o} the wholy Wountain (s scen, with augels and trausfigured Yues on the summmnit, all clothed fn radfunt Tizht, After this longs and dully and intimate brother= od I ong cuuse, it will not be possible for the orthodox elergey of i ety over to fall back 1o b Y narrow, tfl:llulllhkl(lmlfll views sguin, Be- ure this long fraternal servico thoy for the Tt part posketscd o inarked denoninationl- i, but they will return from those meetings cl\h hearts full - of - a stlll broader ‘hflaunulty. It fs difficult for men to go for- G""’. but once laving gone forward, thank God, 1t s woro dillielt stlil for theim o w0 Sk, Each ouw of thicss conventious whery the seets meet crowds tho clergy forwal Merent aeet Wil lergy forward \lhl“d the one fold and the one Shepherd thor at Tast we must all conte, M Dldflyuu not ull deeply pity that good Catho- b:hP est Who, when that® great funcral woe - &t week fn memory of a4 bundred loved ‘_“Cl sent out of 1ife so siddenly and terribly, A% compelled to sy to the Protestant plersy, Y church will not permit me to help yuu Duineiorate the uecufon, but i an unofifcial uier L ghull do all [ ean,” How that pricst j2ust have longed for an bour of fiberty that wevizht stand with Lis fellow mivisters and s words und tears with thoss of the v Bt hfs goct held bim, und thus pre- mml him from revegling the glory und gym- iy b Gy Maaters Men Laying eseuped auch bondare na\'cho back, After the Taber- nacle meetings shall have passed on aiml away, they. Wil leave hehind u ecetarinton still futher weakened and g theology which shindl apring move and more from e life and words of Chrlst. Theso meetings show that the Churel has been for eenturies earrylng uecless and barmful burdens of doetstoe, and that the more it casts thess awny the more elastie {ts Tootrteps and the mors faptdly ft advances to- wards ita high deating, Befora ending these thoughts somo notice should e taken of the Unituelans mid Episco- balinng towanl this protrscted gervice. The nitariana huve fearcd lest the orthodox were helngJed back toward the commercinl atone- ment, and tha Eplscopallans have feared that in such meetings the Tnw aml order of the truo Chureh would bo deranged, In this fen many of tho old Culvinisgs have participated, In wri- swor to theso fears anl complalnts 1t may ha sald that Mr, Mondy doca not bring anv”the olugieal system, His salvation comes by the “blood " il by falth and by works and by re- pentance and by prayer and song. Il openss) one geate of Jife Lo-day and anothor to-morrat, and thoso that go not in by the one can go by unother, s fa” not o theologian, but an hin- pulse, It {8 better for mon to move forward under o poor theology than sleen life nway tnder a oo one, Motlon forward s what tha world needs. If by these new ngencles 3 in- temperato men liaye heen reformed and 1,000 frreligious men and women have learned to pres fer the sanctunry to the strect, then n presence of such usefulness our complaints shoullall pact with the last trace of bitterness, Al must min- glo eriticlam with admiration, Saclety does not need Klens so much as it needs lonesty and temperance und religions and if any man can ather I o few drunkards and sinnees wii have esenped salvation fn the more segular an orderly eanctuarles the less we say for a time about our higher ideas the better for all con- cerned, 2 ‘That the wor‘d may from age to age crow hotter, it {s absolutely "certaln that we’ all nve needed every day in élils brief lfe. Sach hund of merehant and artisan, of schoolniaster and cditor, of statesman and lnwyer, of minlster and Inyman, of Eplscopalian and Uulmrlnn. of Protestant and ~ Catholic, must by busy reariiye the great fabric of n Chrlstian ¢harncter and Christlon civilization, As {n onr limestone rock there mingles the ahell of the incroscople mollusk and the dust of the musto- don, the trunk of the cone-tree atd the dellvate fringo of the fern, 8o in tho Christlunity which redecins tho world and the soul there dre min- gling the words, and deeds, and prayers of all— #o mingling and blending that each slueers min- Inter by auy oltar, and vach devout soul fn any closety oy feel that ho s n humbte worker In the great fleld, and that If hy tolls on In patience and purlty at lost o strong hand will geasp his hand and 'ho will be_lovited up higher by the volet of theloving God, & GOD’S PROVIDENCE. BRNMON DY THE NIEV. JOIN ATKINSON, The Rey. John Atkinson, pastor of the Grace 3L E. Chureh, vorner of North LaSalla and While streets, yesterday morning preached In that church o sermon on “Tho Providence of God In the Brooklyn Calamity,"” intended ns a further deflnition of his position fu regard to the lesson, 1f such there were, to bo learned from the dlenster. Thereverend gentieman chose for his text Micab,, iif,, 6¢ 1 Bhall theve bo evil in tho ity and tho Lord hath not done It The sermon {a as follows: The recent n|)Hnlllmt calamity in Brooklyn shocked the world. 'Che Impreaslon which the awful tidings created {u our own land wus sol- eon avd profound, It was reasonable that thore who believe that ‘“thcere 13 a tiod that Judgeth dn the carth” should tremblugly in- uire for the meamng of the terriblo visitutlon, that thereby they might be instructed and hum- bled, Neither was {t stugculur that many minds- ters of religion sliould seck to enforee tie great truths which it is, thelr nission to proclainn by muking fitting public reference to the startiing disaster. In common with several of my bretl- ren in the ministey inthis clty, [ sought to dv this on 1ast Sabbuath, by Prf.-nchfnu n Bermon i the evening on the ghastly eatastrophe. In dojng 80 1 preached for the Hvmg and not for the doad, To the latter L have no” misslon, They are passed far from the sphere of human sym= pathy and help. Bt if, In the lurid Hght' of that” fatal conflugration, Ieould mora clearly and Impressively exhibit the tratn of Uud to the view ot the Nving, I wanted todoit, [ there- fore briefly unfolded the truth that God's hand fs in all human calamitics; as well as n all the benefuctions that brighten human existence; and I ®inted to death’s flery enrnival In that futed theatre as an Hlustration of the fact that God sonetmes speaks tu men through sudden nud ovcrwhclmtn‘: woe. 1also ndverted to the fact which that dreadful horror so fearfutly fl- Justrated, of the constant imminence of death, and deelured that men ought not to be found where they would not die, "I further aftfirmed that tho theatre I8 not a good place to dlo; that it belongs to the world und not to the chureh; that it 18 Satan's chureh, and that if my hearera would be unwilling to recelve the surmmons of death fn the,theatre, they should not vislt it. 1 also nlluded to the fm:L of the reckless wicked- ness of some of the dovmed fnmates of that Lwlding, by referring totho newspaper accounts of the profanity uttered by tho nien as they crowded nnd truinpled cach oiher white the fire waa robing them tn smoky shrouds, And know- ng that my words could In no wise affect thelr condition, 1 conld not, as amessenger of God, refraln from warning Wvine siuners by the ex- arople of their doom, ~ I fafled pot, however, to sncalcof the possibility that the prayers of the perishing ascended to Mim who pardoned the dying malefactor, and who never disregzurds the cry of penitential agony. Ispoke of thu possis Dilty that Jesus stooped to snve nmldst the ter- rors of that liolocaust, und took the vuultent and pardoned from tho theatro to Parudlse, I will not reproach your eandor or your sensc by aeking what there'was finsuch o meéssage that could reflect upon the truth or dishonor its author. 1 will not pause to usk why such slm- ple and earnest utterances should have mule tho preacher obnoxious to the publie Ixrm. amd exposuil lim to stern cditorial rebuke. My words, imperfectly canght upby u reporter, amd, without my permission or reylslon, printed In n mornlng newspaper, have {n cditorisl comments been distorted, until 1 havebeenade to appear betore $he public as nman who had grossly as- salled the radlant form of truth aud flane i, bleeding, to the dust, 1t s for the truth I spenk today, I um nothing, but the truth is much. . Ax through me the truth has been os- salled, 8o by me, with God's grace nssisting, the truth must'be defonded, To_that not unwelcome task I wow address mysell, Tius TimiouNe of this ety inladl Monday's {ssun critfelsed my sermon fn the first colunn of ity editoriol page. Among other things it sald: “In tho face of u horror Hite this, the result on the one hand of human neglizenve, and on the other hund of luman susv nlf:llty to bo- como punfe-stricken umder cireumstances of great terror, I §s Lo he regretted that the necessitles of any theology shonld require that Divive Providence be called npon to take the entire rosponalblllte’ of arderiug nnd vxeenting this cruel calamify.” Inits lesuc of Tucsday in an, wdlitorial netieie entitled * T'ulpit Narrowness, T RIBUNE beenme still more emphatie, safd s Among the sermons printed in oux lssuo of vesterday was ono preacheld by o elergyiian of the Motliodlst denomination hi this city u{»(m the reeent Brooklyn calamity, whict, In thls duy of thought and: knowledgo und freedom frown superstition, must have cuased a shock to evory one who read it. Btuted brietly the thomoe of thils sermon wos the told declaration that the burning of the theatre und the roasting of the Viethng gathered within Its walls wus o visl- tatlon of God," Now, thero Is no warrant {n tho sermon as re- ported fn T Turwuny, unrevised and impe 1ect as that roport wus, for charging nme witl saylug thut Divise Providence had *the entire respunsivility In ordering und cxecuting this umity,” No such languags appears in the sermon as reported, The reporter doca repre- sent mo us haviog sald that ¥ theatres did not buri down and destruy B0 poople ormore with- out.God_having somethuyz to do with ft. It e watehed the sparrow’s fall Ho cerulul){ lad somuthing to dowith such aloss of lfy as this,” Now thut uttorance {s quite anuther lllhlfi from what Ty 'RIBUNE chargea me, in its editorla), with saying, 1 did not say nor fnttinata thut socond tauses and humuil éauses were not con- cerned fn the dibssster; oun tho contrary, 1did suy that a tiny flame which o man’s haud could have smothered becams m 1his tuso an anlru— went of destruction. £ did_afiirm, howdver, that o catastrophe so vust and appalling as that we were called upon to contenplate did not full ontside the sphicro of an unslumbering and righteous Providence, I protested ugrulnst the practical atheism of ignoring Uod in thefo sud- den aud destructive calanitles, T sought to onfores the truth 30 well expressed {u his ger- monon “The Presens Crise” by that great preucher, Robert Hall; Wil woattend to the operation of second causes, let us never forget thut there i3 o Belng placed abovoe them who cun move and arrunge them ot pleasure, and 1n whpse hunds they nover fall to secom- plish the purpuses of His uncrring counsel, Tha Lunur of “the Bupreme Ruler requires that 1ils supremacy should be scknowledged, His agency confeesed; nor Is there suythlug which Homore -Intends by 1iis chustisements thun to exturt this confession, urnu{lm 2 o inore bighly resents than an pttempt to cxcludeo Him: from’the con- cerns of His own world.” Now, lecausu 1 pro- clufmed thoss old aud hullowed truths, so dear to God, 8o comforting to His people, and clier- {shed by [lls Church through all the wges, new papyrs In thi ¢ty baye provounced uuspariug condomnatlon upon my meseage. Nay, more, the chiel newspaper [0 the controversy has eharged me with advanetng in that sermon sentl- ments which I hiobd to be repugnant to common sense, aml hostile to all f"“ conceptions of Lthe government of God; and then having, without any warrant from what [ salid, or was' reported n8'saying, made ma responalble far such tdicu- lous nunaense, it hold, up beforo its readers a1 object of contenipts appurently seckingto destroy the furee of the truth by meaus of cons temptuons chnraeterization of ith messenger, Now what did Tsayt Why, sccording to tho report of _my remnrks printed Monday'a Tirnuse, Tsild: “ Wonld it be sakl that a gructotin Providence had nuthlu[Lw do with tho fuct that Talmage's church was buened just an hour hefore the imorning servicey thus prevent- fiz great dertruction of lifed (lod ‘woa in everything.w He could not be ruled out of such a catnstrophio ag thin, That tlre oveurred after 1t o'clock at night, At t\mntruw‘, minites after 11 tha audicnee was old In the smoky rrip of the fivey hall past 11 thelr budies wero hurned to chiders, nnd 300 soula liad been gumn- maned to the Judgment seat of Chriat, ol could linve _kept ‘back the fire titl the closa of the Inst act had Hesowilied it. When God thus nterfered ou such ' an ocenelon, woull any man ey ho had nothing to do with 1t} Was thero no interposition of Providence in tho eseapo of the few hundreds who did not perishi Was there not an interposition of Providence in the destruction of those who did perishi In that vassage I attepted to show that If a Divine Provideice was recoznlzed n the deliv- erance of humnn belngs from {m ending de- structlon, 1t was wrong Lo deny that recog tion [n the fute-of those that pertalied. In that conneetion [ referred to tho burhing of the Brooklyn Tabernocle o8 an {lluatration of the Lenlgn Tuterposition of Providence, neverdrean- Ing aor saying that the tabernnele congregatfon escaped by o Providence beeause they were ool ieople, and that 800 fnmates of the theatre po shed beeause they werg bad rcoplm I slmply asserted the faet of an overrullng Providence In reintion to both vvents, without uny refercnce, expressed or fnplled, to the mornl” characteris: tles of the one audience or flie other, Now hear Trg Cintcaao Tninusg s it epeaks editorlally: #Of course but one inference ean e drawn from this remarkable juxtaposition of events, namely: that Talmuge's church was burued without destruction of llze becnuse his vongregmtion I8 ecomposed of good people, and thut the Brooklyn ‘Theatre was hurned whils it was erowded beeause the audience was made up of sinners or bad people,)? Yery skillful i drawing inferences fs the germon eritie of Tur Tiuuns, Talmage's Chureh burned an lour before the congregation assemblad, und so they encnped the fire. Do not nl) ndinit that there wis o Providence fu thatf ‘T'he Brooklyn Theatre burned at half-past 11 o'elock at nleht, with an audience within its ‘walls, hundreds of whom perfshed, Is it rea- ronuble to ssy that beeause all the people eseaped In the one ease there was o Providentlal hand In the event, while in the other there wps no Providential azency becauso many lives were Jost{ Thut was the polnt of the argument and the purguso of the Hlustration; and” the good- ness or budness of the peoplo in either case had nothing to do with the subject at all. Iuvented nn duferenceat whichit shud- then charging {t upon me, Toite Tiis- Wine Intelligout readers RINUNE, iowever, and the Intelligent ywhere, will hardly care to meet this clergymnn with serious arguments. His state- wents will only be met with o sorrowful pro- test aguinst thelr narrownegs and want of charity, The kind of doctrine wlich he ad- vanced would iave been believed by the super- atftious laity of past centurles, but fntellizent Chrlstians are rejecting them nore and more every day. As people become nequaluted with the ordingnees governing the universe, with the principles ot selence, with the luws of health, with the fnexorable regulations of flre and storw, and_all natural phenomeny, with the pennlties thut inevitably nwait the violation of these Jaws nud the failure to adopt precautions awl proper rencales, they recognize the jnevita- bifity and fnumutability of Nuture fu all her operutione.” Furthor "on In the smne urticle Tug TRIVUSE says: “'The same theory which would ussize the calamity at Brooklyn to be o visltatlon of God must assiien the same cnuse Lo all calinities—to the destruction of lifs by . lghtuing, tornadoes, exploslons, cyclones, ship- wreek, the plague, cholera, and all epidenics,: to the dechmation of an army by war, or the d struction of o human belug by disease which lie has incurred by his own fmpridence.”” In clos- ing, Tue TruluNe says: * Inone respect it (s o be regretted that such o doctrlne ehould bo preached from the pulpit ot this thne, Itis mischlovous, beeause thuusands of people know it 8 fallnelo and, belng fullacions, it only tends to throw doubt upon other doctrines, If . public teacher of rellgion witl deceive fn one thing, mey henot deceive In others? Would It not be more prudent and discreet for such teueh ers to keop abrenst with sclentifle knowiedyes und the progress of hwman thought, and to know the feellngs and convictions ot the people whom they seek to instruct, before they ndvancs superstitions of past ages{” Now, my_friends, whatever words fn these quotations from my chief critie are used with referenco to myself, such ns those which repre- seut me as huinf beneath the notlee of reason- fiz meny as advanelng doetrine that is mis- chievous and fallacious, and a superatition of st agres; udcuclvln{; my hearers by means of such superatition; of not belng nbreast with selentifle knowledzo and the progress ot himnan thought; mn{ weil pass witnout notle. 'The question ir, What is the truthi And right here f am ghud o Jolu lssne squarely with the teacl ings promulgated by this newspaper in the pa: sngzos I huve quoted, 1f in those passages wond nre used with” referenco to thelr accepted fn port they express fundmmentsl ercor. The direct and pereonal relatfon of asupremo God h tho calamities of the word {s denfod. The inexorable regulutions of Nuture”; her syevitabllity and fmmutability in all her opera- tlons," are made to aceount for all the sudden’ and sweeping disasters ot human life and wel- fure that so frequently bewllder aud appul us, No supreme haud holids and wields such terrible ugents of destruction as lightulng, tornadoes, cexplosions, shipwreck, the plugune, epidemics, war; **the Inexorable regulationd of Naturo In llrc,null stor, aud all nutural phenomena’ account for all their mysterious caprices and derglating cffects, Hunian belngs divshed and crushed amid the wild sweep and clush of these tremendous forces must Jie down Tor repose upon the pulsatess bosom of * inevitable und fiumutable Nature," without a divine promlse to asaure them or any cverlusting arms to enfold thiem, Belence fs lifted up as the blazing lumi- nary In whose briflllmnes the old coruer-stuno doctrine of an all-ruling God fades fnto a con- temptible and detested” superstition. An om- nisclent, omnipreseut, and omnipotent Father does not hold the hichn while we are tossed on the tempest-swept ocean of ‘Iime, but Lifmd Sondlnanees govern thoe universe.’” The old Blble,Which teaches us that * firo aud hail, snow and ;vapor, fultil s word,” (s flung aw { us a volume of superstitions, and the *prinei- ples of sclenca” are exalted in its place, All thut I cun see of anything at all supernatural in the unlverse according to this strange teaching Is, that possibly the promulzation of it would adinft that nt some tme fn the unknowi, past a Divine Being established “the ordinances governing the universe,' and then forever witli- drew Himsolf, leaving them to blindly l;lny and war uccording to ** the fnevitability und fuminuta- Dility of Nuture,” According Lo Lhis, it is use- luas to pray, for *the ordinsnces governiug the universu’ linve no cyes to sce, no cars to hear, no heart to feel, uo nilnd to understand und to will. It s useleas to pray, for the *Huevitability and immutability of Natare” precludo thie poss aibility of any change In ita **inexorable regus lutions,” eyen to uvurt a pestilence, bridle a tor- nado, chaln the Hghtulig, conguer u ravagling flre, or expel a famine from the land, It {s use- lesa to ['lruy, for thero 18 no tender and Almighty Sympathirer nigh us who can quell the waves aiid silence tho storms, aud say amld the roar of the elements, ' Itls 1, be not afrald,” 1t fs uscless to prnv,fn: there i8 no prayer-unswering God who can su master %inexorabla Nature ' a3 to dry the tears of the mourner, or bind up the broken heart: and mankiund left hielpless uud hopeless in un * inevitably ' and *lmmuta- bly? drifting yuiverse, **without Uod ln the warld,” Buch as this, and lufluftely worso than tlils, {2 the losical slgnificance of "tho words I have quoted from Tun Cirroago TRIBUNE To- specting the Provideneo of God fnhuman affairs. But ftmay be sald that our critio does not mean to go us far as this. That while ha would not recognize an uverruling Providence in the great calamity thut has desolnted tho third greatest clty this land, he would recognize o Vrovidonee {n othor and botter dispensations. Ah, wy friends, thicro I8 no alternutive left us between a univer- sal and un sll-coveruing Providenco and nu Providenco at all, God 14 everywhers or Ho s nowhere. He upholds all things or He upholds nothing, Hecoutrols all events or He coutrols no events, Ho harnvsses to his purposs every nd every clement, and cvery atom of eree, O clsc they alt fly alinlessly fn thelr ungovernod realmy, The "Divine Provi- dence wus concerned lu that Brooklyn sgouy, holding it within His purpose, fnsohible by us s §s the mystery, or elao that Providence {8 not vouverned fo any event of esrth or thne, As Dr. Thomas Chaliners well asys: * Thcre (s no ulternative betwoen a Providenca so partleular 43 to embrace all, or au athelsia 80 uniyersal as to exclude ally from the guidance and guandian- ship of u Divluits,” Tho sane _great theolo- &iun und preacher also sayss * Bliould Glod fet K0, a8 it were, ono small lizament {n the vast und complicated machinery of the world, it might all ruu, so to speak, finto utter divergeey frum the purposes of the Mind that formed {t." galn, suys Chalwers: A word, & thought, un uufonceu cmotion, an event of paltriest df- menslons {n {tself, may be the germ of an Influ- ence wide as n eoutluent and Inating as a thou- wand years; and thiue it fa that the polities of matt ure baflked fn the roystery of that higher ruluh-uhywhlch thegoyernment of the Bupreme s conductor, and wherehy the minutest acti- dents and the mightiest reaults fntcrehange, and liave flt‘ml eflicacy the one upon the other, It 14 well that God hins the manrgement; and that what o man 18 n chaos §8 in the hands of God n Mire and uncmmf mechanisin, Man 18 Jost and wililers in the muitipliclty of thinga, nnd thelr diverse operations, and he.ataazers and s at his wits’ end: and therofore it Is well that o)l things are under that great and presiding lutq-,)micncn which Is above, and thnt God mnketh all things }«lrliru’}ngclhcr for good unto thoso who love in, Hat it 13 sali), surcly a graclons God conld not have had angthing whatsoever to do with such a horror ns the burning of 800 persons in yonder clty, Does (God then hiave anyLhing to do with tha timo and manner of our deathl If not, then 1o has nothing to do with our exlstence af all, 8hall Jle notethe death of o sparrow and not the death of a man! Doca Glod have anything to do with many other -ca- lumities, vastly preater . than that which _hns thrown Brooklyn fnto mourn- gl Buch, for Instance, ns uestitence, faniine, and warl DI Jle have anything to do with tho Egyptian famino which was foret6ld ncvcnrvenn liefore it occurred! DI Jo have anything to do with the destruction of thearmy ol"8ennucherib, which au angel amoteo one night, 80 that In the wornlig therowere 185,000 corpses Iu the Aesyrion canp{ Did e have anything to do with the American clvil war, fin which and of which President Lincoln safd, #The jude- ments of the Lord are true and righteous alto- gether "7 Frequently, in that dreadful confllet thousands were elakin'n day whero a hundred perished i Brgoklyn fu a night, ereater Infliction thun the burniug of a theatre Wwith its inmates, ** War," says Robert Ilall, “1a the most awfinl scoure thai Pravidence e~ ploys for the chastisctnent of man, It Is tho garment of vengeance with which the Deity ne- rays Himscll when e comes forth to punish the inbabiiants of the carth, Itls the day of the Lord, cruel both with wrath and fiercu” an- ger.)! 1f in the fimnlur ealumitles God Is recog- nized, why should we not see [fis sgency In Tess- er calamities! If 1o scourges u nation by war, why "nuy e not scourwe u city by fire or pesti- lence But heeause we eannot seo o Divine Interpo- sitlon_fn an- oeular way In humman events md calamities, und do seo the operation of second- ary causes, We are prone to attribute all tothose eottaeyy ond to exclade i our thoughts the Su- preine Ruler from uni‘ particlpation therein, We think that muw’s lgnorance or wlcke ' ness, ot Nature's incvitabllity, must aceount for it all, As Johu Newton saya:™ ¢ The Lord's governlng lrmv(duuuu cxtends to 1he minutest concerns. e rules and manages sl things; but In so se- eret woway that most &wnplu think 1le does nothing, when fu reality He does all)" 1t Is not true, s it is'asserted, that Nuture is Iminutable *“4n all her operations,” as every ob- serving mun knows, Onu scuson I8 fraftful, an- other [s barren; one winter s stern, unother §s mild; one summer hot, unother culd ; one scason wet, another dry; one healthful, another stekly's and the man does not live—with all your boust- el knowledire of *the principles of séience ™ and of “the ordinsnces governing the universe V— who can base upon the uniformity of the opern- tlous! of the laws of Nature on approximately certaly_prediction os to whether next New Year's Day shall terminate with o frightiul toy- nado, as aid the lnst New Year's Day, or wheth- Lo dtg end shatl be ealin us suminer evenings het? These variations und surprises fn Nuttire are constant, nnd no philospher lives, or ever did 1ive, who can satlsfactorlly expluin them or avert themn, accordlug to uny natural princiules. Above Nature, and the laws of Nature, I8 the God of Nature and of Grace. He Is not acaptive bound 1o those luws, but Ile vontrols and uses them uveording to 1iis will. “'These general faws,” soys Richard Watsow, the prenatest theologian of Methodisin, “depend for thelr efffelency upon His com(nuc&luzunuy. for natural things have no powers which they derive not from Him," Ae, in answer Lo the prayer of the Prophet Sum- uel, God discomtitted the Philistine sty by thundering out of heaven, and so guve vietory o Iseacl, so does Ile now speak Ih the thaneder, flame fu the Hghtulng, breathe fn the zep hyr, Leatu §n the momning Hight, galde the whirhvind, and ruie the storm, The reasons of 11is dlspensations are often fu- explienble, He does not vondeseend to revesl tomen the seercts of His counsels, % Clowds and durkbess wre round about THm s righteous- ness and fudgment are the habitatlon of 1lis throne.” Many of the mysteries of Divine md- mfntstration shiall_bave their solution In_ the everlasting life. Jesus buy sald, * What 1 do thou kuowest not now, but thou shalt know herealter.,” “Now “we see tiough u prlass durkly, but then fuce to face. Now we know part, but then shull we knuw even as also we are known.” Untll then let us wit in subinjs- slve trust, ever believing thut the Judwe of All the Earth doeth right. In great caluml- ties fn the volee of woe Ile speakis to the chil- dren of men, sayine, *Be still, and know that Ium Gods” This we do know, in respect to His dealings with men: that Ie s very pitiul and of tender merey, and that wrath fsbnt the vesi- ure of His.love. Amidst the mystery of Ills wiys we can only full down at s feet und suy, “Just and rightis e Goil wiovea In a mysterions way, 1148 wonders to porform; Ha plants hiy footxleps in the ses, And tden upon tha storm, Judge not the Lord by feeble e = But trast 1l for Ills prace; Behind a frownlng Providence e hldes o smilinyg face, Blind unbelief Is sure to err, And scunt I1ls work in vaing God i 1ia own [nterpreter, And He will make [t plain, Bttt 1112 CREATION. SERMON IY THE KEY, DR RYDER, The Rev, W. H. Ryder, D. D., preachied thy Tollowlug sertuon yesterday morning to u large congregation in St. Paul's Unlversalist Church: In the hnulunm’,' God created the heaven and the carth, —Genests, 1., 1, 4" 'Phis verse contalns Lo Important statements: 1. That the heaven and the earth wero created by Jehovah,—i. ¢, that they did not create themselves, nor were formed by elther of the gads whom the heathen worshiped. 2, ‘That tlils creative act of Jehovali Hes back of ult other aets, and dates * from tho begin- ning." On this conceptlon of Gad, the Creator of all things, rest both the 01 Teatamnent and tha New, Untll the Tlebrews camo into prominence there, was no general recagnition of the doctrine of thy “One on|f' living und true God," “who made the world and all things therein.” Bat, durhui the entiro history of tho human race, there fins been inuch apeculntion as to tho orlgin of the universe. The relizious of the worjd ubound In curfous, often {ncumprehensible, and yet frequently very fnteresting aud suggestive heorfea as to tho source of all things. But, whatever theae theorlcs may have been, Moses virtually sets them ull aslkde, and teschics that tho world wus not created by chanee, nor by gelf-generation, nor by the Imperson powers of nuture, nor by many agents, princ- Ples, or gods; but that **in the Img‘hmlng God created the heaven and the earth.” Euseblus observes * that nelther tho ancient historians, nor the pbllosophers, do so much s mention Uod; 10, not eo far as to name Him, whea they write of the beginning of the world, But this Divine law-glver, lll!fll](lllllfi to Mg tho whole frame of his xol[ly upon plety towurd God, and to muke the Creator of all the founder of his laws, beging with Him. — Not after the War s o fur manner of the Egyptlans and Phanl- clans, who bostowed thls adorable name upon u great maititude; but ho puts In the front of "Ws work the namo of the Sole Cause of all lllluh'., the Maker of whatsoover s seen of unsecen,” 1t will be conceded by every cundid reader as somnewhat renarkable that the first verso fn the Blble should thus distinctly enunclute the fundamental doetrine of all its teachings; and, what {8 scarcely less worthy of notice,that ha should confing hlinaclt to the inere statement of thefact, When “in the beginning” was, ho does not attempt to say; or how “the, heavens and the earth? were inade,with nothing to mako thein ont of, he docs not pretend to ex- plain, In other words, Muses mukes no attempt o explain the lnexp‘k‘nl)lu, but preagnts tho foundation doctrine of sl revoaled relizion fu the foweat werds possible, A Intho New ‘Testament, Christ recognizes in wuuy ways this doctrine of the uxlstencs of Gudy but’shows that the controlling purpose of all Hia creative and sdminlstrative acts Ia tove. Bincy thesy words of Moidvs were written, an liundred genorutions of peoplo have come and one; and mors than elghteen centurfes iave rolled away since, in that tnemorable uddress upon Maras* lllll, the Apostle Paul taught the Atheulunus the true munlu{( of that altar to the “ Unknown Gud," whoin thoy * fg- norantly ¥’ worshiped. In all these ycars a thousand pens have been busy fu solving the thl«m of the origin of &1l things, And hicy arc busy still, In these later years there has” never Leen & noro persistent “and honvst nucml:& to discover the origin of 1lfo than now., With what result! ‘This i3 tho question which we place before oursclves thls morning, viz.: In the prescut state of kuowledgo 18 therg auy oceaslon to question the aceuracy of tho Bible {dea of Uodt Docs human learning olfer any better explanution of the orlgin of Jie the that furnishea by Moses! In othier words, from what wu now know of man and of Nature, are we required to revise our oplufuns u relation to the Christian doctrine of this belng of God { It s very certaln wo canuot auswer auy Ques- tlon of thir nature on the haals of our parsonal experience, Our life Is but for n tent, ‘Three score years and ten give no fntimution of the origin of all things, History ~enlarges our views. People like ourselvea hinve been upon this carth for inany thousands of years, Tho accepted Sernipture chrunology places thie age of the human race at 6,000 years. It may be © many tlnes'that. The dates are ne v uncer- tafn, But whatever may be the antinulty of the race, whether (0,000 or 60,000 yerrs, histary glves us no clue to that wystery which Jes back of the time when ** God sally Let there be 1ght, and thera wan Jight,” ‘Turning our gaze from the people, we dircel our fnquiry to the globe they nhabit. How long It hns ‘existed we do” mot know. That Important changes have oceurred upon ita sur- Tae, lnce It was formed, I8 oo apparent to be disputed. Sclentlsts tell us of the tropleal }u'r o, when Juxuriant vegetation Iald the wundation of iinmense conl nnd peat fields—in- carnated sunehine for the futurc use of nan; and of the glaclal period, when something like the present fsothiermal lines were run across the carth and the sca. ‘The nlcruscope lifts out of the darkices which shrouds the natural sight millions_of tiny forms in carth am water _that onte were anlmate with Mfe. Flgures * are wholly fnadequate to express the number of these objects that must hinve existed from uncounted ages, and the re- malus of which are now ;‘urm‘rud in large dis- triets of sofl, of many kinds of rock, In such for- mations us the Chalk CHiffs of Dover, und, in ulinost every direction, from the depths of the s, 3 If, now. we lay down the microscope, and take up the telescope, the wonder is nyne the less. Ethereal fires, from urns unnumbered, how they stream upon the view in a clear even- Ingz, a8 wo look up to the heavens. And these #turs, astronomers teil ue, are mo: AUNS, centres of systems, and these systemns scem to llxl;‘n o common centre around which they re- volye. 1low came all this to hol What brought all these changesi What fashloned the universe, nnlnl lmllds all these suns and systems fu thelr plnces i Moses says God has dong It all. And millions of preople, knowing no better Interpretation, ae- cept his statement—* In the beginning God cre- ated the hieaven and the earth,! But to many others thesc words of Moscs are not satisfactory. They do not so much deny the truth of them} theyare rather bewlldered by thelr own meditationss they eannot comprehend how even Infinite Wisdom can thus create, fushion, and control this universe; and so this basde dovtriue of the Christian falth {s virtually n-!ccml. 3t who can comprehend such thingal Who professes to comprehend them? Who, eyen, can comprehend his own existence! Let us not misconcelve the real question before us, 1t cer- tainly {8 not, whether such o world as this could be formed! " For it fs formed. It Is here, and we ore Hving upon it What wa seck to know i¢, how the carth and the worlds came to be, Did Gud create them{ If not, how came they to be! That they are we know very well, ‘The mystery which envelopes this subject of the origin of all things, we have not tlie pre- sumption even to atiempt to remove; but it may ald ua to aceept the doctrine of our text, if we conslder that the solution of the difiicuity which it uives reguires nt least no more creduti- ty than those offered by certain phitosuphicrs und seientists, That the world had n l]eghmlnfi, and has not exlsted from all eternfty, alt phlivsophers con- ceded until the time of Arfstotle, From his day there have been those who malutaln the eternlty of matter. But this statement of the cternity of mutter Is u mere form of words from which thu mind ean derfve no clear conception, Hesldes, the cternity of mntter belug conceded, the real dfllenity I3 not met, How cune this formiess matter converted into living structurei What power transfored shapelcas material Into the myriad forms which ft takes In space, nnd so guldes them that ench abject s always true to ita own type? Does it require any more fuith to say, *In the begiming God created the heaven and the earth,” thaw it does to ac- cept tho theory that matter bad no beginning, und_ that without external cuntrul ft fushion ftself fnto a universe like this which our ey c sx-u,lxlnnl the microseope and the telescope re- veal ‘The other explanation of the source of all things, somettines ealled E\'ol:’u.lnn, s just now it. pruifuent in modern thous But this thing dues not really toueh the gy o1 of the orfrin It slmply puts the ditlieulty further k Into the durkness—aaids another link to the chain, Where was the fiest link foreed, and to whnt {s it fastened fs the question which we need to have answered, Fhe existence of God Is as much neeessitated by the assumption that ull Hife has proceeded from one crutive act, ns from nany creutive uets, I motter is not eter- b how eame {4 1o be, uad, even when formed why ld ft assume these myriad shapes, an liow' u;-u they leld obedieut “to some central sllAe Let e try to teli pou the difference between aJiving und'n dead object, according to the lut- est statetent of selentists. Stnce 1840 every reader of seientific books lins read mueh sbout the * Cell Theory.” 4 Alllite from o cell. 'This is the nearest “to the source of life the microscopo Is sble to penetrate. Al 1ite, both antimul and vezetable, origlnutes o the sume way—in cells. The comnon belief thut the gzernt of o structure 19 that structure in min- wture, I8 entirely erroncous. ‘The svorn no mure contalns o minloture vak than it dees o minature horse, The reed of the oak, or any other peed, fs A aerles of colle. Euch cell, minute as it fs, recent fnvestigation shows to be eoniposed of three kinds of matter,—outricot, zerminal, nnd formed,—and thut it st of instantly changing nutrlent matter which fs unorgunizeéd juto tormed mutter which s or- gonized, 1 these cells, or, i the latest phrasc- ulogy, oplusts, are manufactured nll the mare- rals’ necessary for the Mving structure. But these cells, or “bloplasts, not only chamge form- lesa nutriment to lving forms, but - they pro- duco themselves out of themselves, Yot have il geen the comb {u which the bee stores its honey. The Ueginuing of the comb we supposec 1o have been o shigle cell. Other cells are bullded around that, and thue on until the comb is cotnpleted, Rut I the aike of an organized Hying structure, which, of vourae, the comb §s not, one cell is not uddied to another, but cach encecedig bioplust 18 produced from some other, Furthermore, In the bee-cell we have the hee to construet it; but who or what constructs the tiest bloslasy essentlal to the existence of formed materfal of un(’ Kind; aud what gives to {0 the power of wubrdivision, und of rulf-movement In any diree- tion? It Is clear, In the case of the bee-cell, that the lnlelthrence s in the bee, but where s the fotellgence fn the eunse of the bioplast? Aud yet with the first throb of 1o the structurv which s to by woven out of this ruscu‘)lunl beglnning must be present somewhere, What fs this Intelll- gonce that thus weaves lving creatures out of dead matter,—weaves them after the sane pat~ tern from age to —that gives to the shell in the depths of the sea its Infmitable benuty, and that brings forth nmonw the starey host ¢ Muz- zaroth in his seuson,’" aud that Fuldes * Ape turus with his sons '{ Perhaps I ean explain what T wish to say by reference to cortuln fossil remnlng in Coutral Kunsaa, ‘The reglon of which I speak I8 bigh table lumd—somoe 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. The sl and shells were * long slice transforned {nto rock, und are now exposcd ta view byn water-course, ‘There 18 no reasonable douht thut the oysters grew whero tho shells are now {mbedded, These shells were onco the cover- ings of living creatures,~the houses {n which they dwelt, “Therg is not a shell in existence thut at sume time has not served a similar pur- ose. When the living object begun to take orm, some division of the original cell alau commenced the construction of the external vovering. And they buflt with preciston, r thess bioplustic wiechanies of ten or fifty thousand * years ago worked after tho samo plan " as those who fashlon oyster shells in the waters of to-duy, for {n_every fm- portant respeet the fossil reinalus of Kannds are shnilar to thoso which are constructing now, With fucts ltke these in mina wo return 1o the question: Whenee cume theso microsconical wmanufuctories of gnimal and minerul objects? Who taught the bioplastes to weuve out of thomsclves with such marvelous skill, and whence came tho milllons of patterns which thoy 80 perslstently follow? The wmiferoscops can percelve no difllerenco between the bloplust which produces au esglo and that which pro- duces & man, Wonderfully and (enr!ull{ made as s this luman frame, every purticlo of it, whether nerye, brain, muscle, artery, velu, or bone, was onee Inorganke matter, und has been thrown otY by bloptastic skill, The nutnber of thess bus workers In a living human being is beyond estf- uate. All nutriiment received into the system 1s by them transformed into sctual living sul- stance, and placed in the pusition whero It §s ro- quired for use. This, then, s the wonder that confronts us, Hero is tho nat lving and shapeless, sud thery fs the Mving uud the formed, and Instantly the furmer i chauged by the mnldm (nta tho latter, But 1t Is not life out of death that we wittess, but lite dut of life, ALl 1ife from u celi—all Nify beging lu a bloplast, and every bluplust of which man has any knowledgu Jias proceeded from a preceding bloplast. Out of whut caing tho first bloplustf “-Whenco came the Mfo which shapes it, and whatever proceods from té A'lxld t{um what cume the ll.rut ot auy lviug thing ‘These references to the conclusions of modern sclence may aid us lu seoing that the quest the orlgin” of life i nut explulnel by any Kuowledge we ut prescot bave, Suys” Prof, The chasm between the not living and the Iving, the present state of knowledge enpinot bridge,' These recent Investigations also go far toward sliowingr that Mfe fs the cause of arganlzat{on, and not organtzation the cause of Ule. The mystery les back of what weare able to ace; hut the” Intimations surely are on the alle of the theory that lifu fs_anforior to the organlzation which revealsit, It this shall ever be demonatrated, [t swli] be very natural to fnvuires If 1ife exiats before organization and Induependent of ity why may It not exist after vraanization, and fndependent of (61 Lifo be- fore organization certainly suggests the Being of Gud, e life after organization as surely does the doctrine of immortality. Hulurnlnl,: now to the doctrino of our text, we are ready to nsk, What eolution of nll these mysteries of life and belng have we to give, that is more eatiafactory than that presented by Moseat! We reem “to stand {n the presence of an infinlte mind look where we will, and the more L'l'lflunllf‘ welook the more we wonder. What better Is' there for us than to call thisall- pervading Intelligence God: and to say with ourtext, “In the heglnning God created the heaven and the carth 1 Of the myatery of the csistence of God wa know nothing, “fhis Tet us frankly confess, But the mystery which inheres In_ thfs expluna- tlon of the oriiin of all tilogs (8 less thun that which enshirouds any other solutfon of the problem. There Is forethousht in all things, as well us ind, everywhere, - This_forethought, thts cver-brooding, Infinite Presence, wo call Giod, And thoueh without natural kight we can never behold Him,y through falth we én- ter into His presence and Joylully worship e fore His thron 4 Wiat sclence in the years' to come may have to tel) us In reference to the origin of 1ité, it 18 uscless now to conjecture, It {s sufllcient to sy that sclence, often ealled the handald of religfon, 1s now renderlng most valunhie service to the catigs of truth, and is tohe encouraged by every sincere fricnd of the Bible and of the humat“race. The only danger aguinst which the many need to be warned §8 that of aceepting hall-formed theories, or posaibly mere conjee- tures, for clearly ascertained facts. Even so wige a man s 1'rof, Tuxley bos had oecaslon to revise his Judgnient on ko klnple o matter an the structure of the cell, and tho office of o portlon of it, more than onve during the past fifteen years, Microscopleal study of living matter 8 now advancing very rapldly, and new views—some currect and ofhiers Incorrect—are conatantly put fortl. We are'to remember, furthermore, that ecden- tists arc but men, und that while soncof thern are broad-minded, and are literally seckers after the truth, others of them are nar- row-minded, concelted, and doubting, Home of them are confinined Materialists, and scem quite as ready to distrust fucts to malntaln thelr theories, as bizots of any other cluss. As now we close this {mpertect discussion of the great sublect which has” oceupled our atien- tion, let us recsll kome of those remarkable statements {n reference o the Relng of Uod, and our duty toward 1lim, whichi have ucuupled thelr place in the literature of the world for some 3,000 vears ** Lord. Thou hast been our dwelling place In all generations.” ** Before the mountains were brought forth, or cver Thou hadst furmed the earth and the world, gven, from everlasting to cverlating Thou art God. " *+\hen 1 conslder Thy hesvens, even the work of Thy fngers, the moon und the stars, which Thou hast orduined : ** What {8 man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the gon of man, thut thou visiteth ulint Thou nadert him a little lower than the angels, und hast crowned him with glory and honor. +* The Lord ix my lght und my salvatlon; whom #hall I fear? The Lord I« the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraidy ** Prolse ye the Lord. Pralse ye the Lord from the heavenss prutse Him in the telent, *+ Prafee Him all ye sugels of Uie; pralee Him, all His hosts, ** Praise Him, sun and moon; prajse Nim, all ye stars und Lyht. ** Pralge Nim, ye heavons of heavens, and ye watern of the ekfex, ** Let them praise tho usme of the Lord, for He communded and thiny were created. *+ He huth made thens fast for ever and ever; lie hath given thum o law which shall not be broken, ** Pralse ye the Lord," prsitals AN ALLEGED ERROR, To the Editor of The Tridune. SpniNgrizLy, I, Dee. 15—The silly story sent Tne TRIBUNE by {ts Springfeld correspond- ent, abont & military organtzation of Demo- crats ot this city and in this State us o * Tilden Legion," ete,, Is n grave fraud, not only upon ‘Tug Trinuxe, but upon its readers. There Js not a single truth In all the stutements he makes, us the concluding sehtence proves, the correspondent hlmsclf not lelleving what he wrote, when he sa; SIf ley alone, the or- fanizatton, T helleve, will die a nutural death, cte, Persons of all politieal parties here know the whole story to be fabrleated, and regret {ts publication i times of so mueh bad public excitement, ‘Theso are times when the people do not wisk to be trifled with, It is kuy n thin ity that this slmme less fruud wus concocted bn'a quurter and by a amnn ot noted for truthlulness, und all zood cltizens, of ull parties, denounce this attGupt to uselessly place o a tulse position any portion of thelr felluw-citizens, i ]nll)]lrnl}un! 8 this, while pechups they redound to thelr atthiors a8 cimtivnuiista’ of an fnferdor r]lmllte{', at the snme time stamp them as cow- urdly knaves, aud In times of publle perll, as the present, shoult not even be dignifled by uppear- g fu the public prints. Respeetfully, E. L. Mennrrr, e —— The Jows nud Danle! Derouda, Lontun corresumdence New York Trmen, Touching the Jews, 1dined the other even- fug with a strict fnmily of the chosen people, and they wers talking about Daniel Deronda, It interested me to hear thelr views, They re- rurd Deronda as o weak visfouary, and Merdecad 8 4 common madmun, * And ns for that wild notjun which so many of your Christians enter- tatn abour Jerusulem,” sald n pretty Jewess, “let me disabuse your mind of §t. “The Jews don't want to ro to Jernsalem; they wouldn't it they could. Only fancy being compelied to live in Jerusnlem; the very e is cnouph to mako one shulder,” She shruyrzed her pretty shonl- ders ns ghe spoke, and flung the second” hook of Danlel Deronda futo o waste-paper busket among the evening newspapers which ber fatlier hul consulted tor the bunelit of his guests, with re- mrd o the tatest news from American und the Susty ~CITY REAL ¥ Tl “BALE~01,_ RN MAUDLIFROST JPOHo sttty Tk s CIivory low, T 4‘“"’“ of Chumber of QUL HAL OO—FINE TONT DUST. ! ‘near cuniier on State-st., ueat Palier Iluise, oo of e bust corners (U rent ou the stroet, rent now at [ rent next year at 84,000, it pays now 10 per , Hier (s 4 IBOTigeke aLH per celt (11ve years) ¢ $12a 00 duvs ind & ol dreliuig Bouth Side, ewst 0f 'State auik north of oo at $10,00, This ta certain] - & chanice 10 gt Arst-cluss ot oftereu overy duy. T, I I du: o THY REAL ENTA'T TWELVE THOUSAND ACRES OF Iaud In santa lalirs’ County, Cublfornta, divided Futo furins uf from Mo 100 acis cach, witl bo ulfe Tor sale by the iy d Jun, 17, 7. Wl a2t salesroul 10 Pliesri., Ban Francisco, “Ebla e tract of Jawd {8 Tuunded by tho Sunra' Yaes Ittver, ad tslocated fs & beautlful vatiop withio fow i tie Gaviota lanidtug, wiilel Innding I regulars I visedt by comst wcathers fron Bai Frun len TN 0f Gno of thu best ranclics south bf sants Clary allevy i favored with the best of climates; goud ¥rain aud tinber lands, Tornis, Wikth windbputed title, one-fourth cashy bals anice 1 Gue, tw wild tirec.yeara, aubject 108 per cent interdal per ll i, m*‘uhluu’m -unnuslly, ot doslrous Of vhitia the laid, caz tiawo un o portunlity 0y the steanicr Lod Angelcs, i cave for Gaviots landing o Dee. 10, 30 an urttier particulies apply’ to ¥ heinger, No. Szt Plucat.” Kor wany dowrbtio, ele., apoly o our oniice, On_ the _premiacs, Bruther 1. 'Mathcws., Praaldent of tie 5L Yaes Collége, or Capt. Moare, will Slow thie giro What Iu which W B 0 o 2,00 acres be. ldes, wi iy kded lu snial} {urny w bysnld ¥, b, Weufuge cv; Cal, JOIEA BEAL ESTATE 1N THE Uity of Peniacul fur 8 placaof rewort fn wlater; 1t (s uneyuuded, and, se tho vty {3 growlng re iy, llm}vwlwny [t uvestment would by destrubly, Addr s 34 AL, 140 ACKES, s'truin Chlcago. toain 14, 104 Wushinglon: F(m EXCHANGE—60 ACRES IN LEE COUNTY, ‘ Farctte Countr, Ja. PR oo 4 104 Washington st CEON PLANOS ™ #T R LN BOARDING AND LODGING. A A A A A VAN l!lyl.:l hlcl:ll HTATE-BOALD R AN L NE. - 7() P’l‘lrsltllnl oF gentiviion $4 W 83 per week, with 08 O PaNO. Alotels, ¥ ) 130 WABASI-AV., Toul per ‘da, INEVADA HOTEL-1i3 AN ‘near dourey-st —Hoard §Utays per weeks roons, without boai conts, ond B1 perday, 62,50 (0 83 cr's, tinst-cluis sates. el lunclifne PRIVAT upatola. WANTED-MALE NELP, \V‘"%y"’m“’:m"”“. Tlorin, ofes ~DIY-G00NS CLRIK: STEADY SITU- At Y 3y BobLIon o th ikl usn. ADply a(B OIoek 4t Trndow F ANTE 0. 1, CURTOM ror A N CUTTP) ‘ firat-clasa placo. Am-u to PIKLU.'}.I’}L zmc‘}' & CO., on Monday, from 16 to 3 o'clocks A\fl:’?’mpl‘t’i’y‘:ncnt Ageoncios, NTRD=25 MEN TO LEAV, WV AR s MEN 10 1 nxfi-@!fil:‘&?fl:fi%fi al . O, days f 2 A i fo 85 duwn, €9, 200 touth Waler-at, K. A Miscolinncous, NTED=SALESMEN OF PXPERIENCE \V ANTERISALETMER ¢ s Tc. 108 Wirconain, Missourl, and other Westen States: pang need Apply excent wich asare willing to work for o ortion uf the profita: aend_ reforences with Applicgion ol delay. MENICWELSIL fmporter And wholo: EEN NEW #alc grocer, TO BELL Tll"f necenitlen ‘In eyery VW AN R, To st Cloa Tust but atd Sarin famiiy, Amenia st work ars makine o] oy oA RO s et o S Parstcilars (ree, sun-st., Chilcago A =MEN AND WOMEN IN RVERY 1" [isut an importaut discovery that witl mect witn favor navery tariily. Men of wenieo) wppearance, having. "’II"l four to six hours to lv* . €A1 Average B3 (0 870 per weak profif, (oo 0 per cent. Ben i {oF papars, of e fur $1 smpics. (VY Yiih 3 i ‘VANfim—am MEN AT 8500 A MONTH BRLLING A vurletter ok No resy or water tsrd: sample ¢ copy. worih £, fre iplo i up"‘mn{‘;'uf vneL-i;:I“lL-u’mp for circuiar, F. § NUFA son-at. and 14 De Was MF holtdays: al minte, J 113 Enac COMI'ANY, b9’ Madis . Icago. ARTICLES ¥O T%, 4180 new ehroimos and siotioed i colore it tarme Lfillu’om nerican Novalty Camipany, “MAN WITII A TEAM THAT °a to Inake & good hos . S AV EOR, 105 LuSalle-at.. lioatm s (4 iD—A FINECONK AND CARVER. RITIRR 1)1 h . cnees, Lafe ;(‘t';lrnr u?.cl 13 I'Ill!:‘h“mfl reier E0—AGOOD Ol _T0 Do OENETAL eel o |i|';"4'f'm'f"k' Apply ak 1168 Prairie-ay, SUTUATIONS WANTED—MA AP Sl S vt Mooklicepors, Clerka, oic QITUATION WANTED~ " S S kentiomnan Lt G SanPRASRTE an_imj {l ) Couchimen, Lenmutors, ctc, JITUATION WANTED=DY A COMPETENT MAYN, with team (viieshorae truck), ol : frelplit, or do any Kind of CArie, Wil mebeacpine L TICHL Y tecek ormontl. App Dk arraiige 10 R 14 Siareoge APPIY 10 JONN GAUNTLY, AT Miscelinncoun, JITUATION WANTED=A COMME] - SN, WANTER 4, CONNERCIAL TRAY: Dirate thoruielly competent, an witl Aret-olara rot- 3 ngagemen c JITUATION WANTED—AB M EVOR e amt b Gen I ANAGEN OIL ST {{ar expericnce in Calitornta, Colorado, Montanaand liteourt. | Lindrratinds concentration’ and. smelting guld, Witver, coppier, and lead; fa o practical miner;, . iuachinest, and assayer. Refercnces glven, Adiress « | JUSELL care Georgo T Bowell & Co.y 41 Tark itaw, B NTRD—IN A GRATN COMMIRSION + House: hinve aa oxtended a ace o H f the loard seven yedrs, Pleasc address Z 4, Tribipoe. 2 A RELTADL 1\ ddress W 0, Tritnme afiice; - 0 ™ JOFLer OF Janiior. JITCATION WANTED-BY A YOUNG GIRLTODO * VY citlier second or gei 4 2007 . {5 thirsst, - Heteronces ivene o APT 82T Nursen, QITUATION WANTED—AS WET N 1) st bir. Jidsow'sgtice, 13 il anke Employinont Agencies. SXTI:';E'TgU.\'B WANTED=FAMILIES IN WANT OF ndinavian and Germur 1 sipilicd at Mim. DUSKES ofiee, 0 Miatrcaat 2 TO EXCIANGE. JOIFXCHANGR=TWO.4 ) O R e A A fibliding. = ATy of Willw & L tarni 1 il eat n ‘hicago & Altan Tialtrond, 17 il of Court- | use In Chiicago: §4.000 iorteaze o run ive yeannt et good 11-roout dwelling W acres youue timber, and ¢ I 7w ustde Jurproved oF unfmproved propeety, or witl ! tuci of goodan country (' In” atury addotni bustnees, forequity s her: tea chanes Sur some L 3rlio Wunta & oud furm at low fiurce, close 1o 1o ANE TI0UER - DEORERLY T the LN at o s T GORETS AN e s, £ t H B Twl-acre ferm 10 wtles from Court-Touso for Inello | riruperty urgbod stack of goo isin eountey, whiers i '8 {8 LAl 184,000 wn the farm 3 ¥ i price & 18 close ‘tu_ depot, and nuar ! tihigton T. 8. w13, Ti0 i Mudinoti-at, A i o Trum Topeka, Kon, crn Tallriag Doudi, with sime. G pruved farin oF RO ur K0 acre: I Chicazy. koo 14, 23, 00 Hetghls, oYL, any aaL- e B god, fine 1 oF ¥ inlles G L, ngton-at. FINANCIAL. A R 0N A nid olier goo. el &0 Van Lurey: ON” TMPROVED LAk Apply T Company, oy TO LA wind other coilut 135 Clarkent., ltoum TORENT—_HOUSES, SONTIL, NEW TWO-STORY ok liouse,' N0, 517 Western-ar.; onis, No. 10 Harvard-ss. Ju- WELLING NO. 291 CI L ng N g d coll “nl"‘: S Hiinoles LINOIS- aud 19 nee und furn. ath:rool, uwd tenanty. ' CHAKLE MAN ixchunge Duildlug, corner Clark and TO RENT-IE0! ! = L e e p e s (B [0, REST=NEATLY FURNISULD LQOMS, WITIK - v wlinout board, In Kingbury Biock, 115 liiadolpn- 710 REST=STO) or without st 13 Cl . AN FOURTIL - e e - T—TH of 211 und g ] nes aod Washingtouats., L\vmnwtu' Despl. A e e oy Qs ellaen it by Sehatois Teroie toJONAB UELDEIL 008 4 (JOSKHOACIES EXTRIMINATEN LY CONTIACT ‘ J Awurranted), Artieiesold, Houses examined froe. A, OAKLEY, ¥ ast \\7 hington- JUE-PROOF BAFES, BEC comiission, advertind freeg e Vited, WEST & CO., 4t Madison-vt, by Joatiesa 1§ AD WILL GIVE GooD ¢ Toard with rogin for §2.50 por weoks | Addtese 100, Trihune ofice, . ‘ T Al =FOIL CASH=—A SMALL LOT OF BOOTS, 2 Aloea, clothing, und othier morchiandise of good 1 Y\I |l{ d must be boughit cheap. Address i, T, ! . 0. Urawer 33, Freeporty Ll s VWANTED=A FANILY boU- CAEL AT ity Linziest on Tuesday, hetween 2 aud 4 o'clog! [ 4 patibllity, avitnsutielnt hy refereuce + doow 5, NI, KOLD 0N © ;- rrespondency fue E o AT Feeaftor deceee, Hest eliy roferenc 15, 67 Aslilnndl Bice, Cliteag 1. e 111 OFFEL-STAND FORR SALF. AT A T, 2 reat, Mioulra w112 East Raadol mient, of barkecy o1 B AL L dolng npay iorl {0 W VO tictyli- 1330, 04 Sudui RIS A S EVERY ud Buturday, 8t 10 QLELUIB FOI BALET 1. A band cutters, business sieigha, will sell cheap, 6t 173 Wi lVAlHII A FEW BECOND- iid Lighit bubs that § il‘u LET=X PACTY-ELEION THAL WILL SRAT fort TI;I;::,H?NMD& with or without bursed; also u fo witlicuttcrs, Bararear 105 Cluk-at, A LITT T HOUSENOLD GOODS. TPHE EMPIR PARLUR BEDSTEAD COMPANY scll furniture, carpets, stove, Cruckery, vie.) wlio i obrated Emplre parior bedstead, un [ustalltincute, e the loweat cusi s, 583 Weey Madlson-ut, TPUE ENION FURNITUL B WEST ]"‘n . . IE':II I‘llklfl uf bowschold luln‘ilm v y paymientay luw prices, Jupg time. SUNDAY, DEC. 17, BETW N § Puectbock Suntainiug 32 o Vost: 1d other puliers of vuluv, & ibural ru- thiv finder way kocp Otlice onl and wand will Lu'pald it retorued, or Vhy money 1f they whll eturo'the papers tu byl brate st 'AT‘ LADIES “AND QESTW ud cliatng, und oo halu Lrace~ Y PFICE, 100 ERAL B ¢ pairy PUIVAIE LOAN OF