Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 2

L ¥ [ z ! ; | : i i i 1 H ) *osuyn are entitled to the thanks and gratitude of the country. HELIR AND EQUITADL. Aldany Eeening Journal. e, The plan if, verhaps, as falr and equitable as n which ao sqreement conld be reached. The objection to it fa, not that it might not give us 8 imtl and satiafactory settlement of the present controversy, but that it is a resort to sn extraconstitutional method, and favolyes s de- partura from the settied mim:lplcl of the Ite- publie i “A.gmx:r nm.rrln!s‘,’rx A idan 5= Rerperatle. The mvml:y lu\: m':r:u mreat deliverance, Tt cannot expres its geatitnde too stronely to the Jotat Committee, which, by ta persisient nd- herence to tho precerdents of the past and its otic devotion to the duties of the present, a5 avertod anarchy and selticil the Republic agsin upan the foundations of constitutional jbert] iTHE QURSTION TO DB DIRCUASAD," Cleretant Loader—Repubticn, Ons fact is ubrions, that by the new method the Domocrats have everything to galn and \ sothlog to lose. The Republicans will risk what ! 18 slready secured Lo them for the sake of pa- triotism and public hannooy. Whether the ex- igency Is null{-’:(emly grave and pressing to re- quifre at the hands of the Republtcan party such & compromise a4 this, such a conciliatory depar- ture from conetitutional methods, 18 the ques- tion to be discunted, HPRONISES A RAPEEDY ROLUTION,' ”‘:{l‘m Courisr—Demovratic, Tho plan adopted 18 likely Lo grow rapldly in popular favor and strength. It promises o -pcul{ rolution of the grave crlsis which re- sulted from the Presidentlal clection, and the dentoralizing effects of which wers cven more serlons than the great infury it has doue to the nuaterial Interests of tha country. What is most important of all, it secures the prescrva- ton of tho forms us well as of the substance of constitut.onal government, TR MOST STATEAMANLIKE MEASURE." Sprinafletd (Muce,) Lepublian—Imtependent, The plan by which the Joint Commniittee of Conrlrw almost unanimously rmpmu Lo count Prosldentlal vots §s by all odils the most slatesmanlike measura pruposced In Congiess with such welght of authority for many seesione, 1t 18 statesmanlike becanse 1o fa In hatmony with the apirit and the practice of our institutlions, use it {8 nou-partisan so far aa 8 humanly possible, and beeause it Is completely adequata 10 the emcrgency, snd, so far as wortal vision can 0, to all future emergencics of this kind, It 1s 1ot revolutionary, it bs constitutloval, it Is right and it is sufficient. Nothing Is sacrificed onght to be saved, or swhich there is a constitn- tlonsl warrant for saving ; nothing is attempted 1n slalation of the Constitution. . . . s plan will command tie enthusiastic sup- port of the grest mazs of people, who love peace and fair play, who blush at national shame, and who pray Heaven to avert civil sinl tis more to vast uttmbers of peopla than the success of ndidate would be. 'To huve an hon- opablo acttlenient, and one which commands the assont of the country, is more Lo cither candi- dato thas to succeed, and, we trust, moreto clther party, + o » The lnterests of good governtavnt, the avoid- wo of sectional animosities, the rellel of the sfnces depression, aml, above all, the rescus of the Prealdoncy from a turbld title and the nation from dislionor, all demand 18 aduptivn, . *'BUKRENDEN DP VIIVATE CONVIGTIONS." I'haaripibs Py esi—Repubiican, Consldering the deschle nature of the ad- versarfes of the ltepubllean party, and the des- pleably sets they are now employing, thoe only quieation worthy ot serious considiration in con- neetion with the plan rgreed upon Is, whether it or sy other comproise s uecessary fur tho Jaces safety, and vrosperity of the country. The elx Republican Seuators and Representa- tives who have slgned the bill doubtless con- alder that they bave goon reasons for thelr ae- tion. If eveuts prove that their judzment was carreet, aud a further consideration of the new plan_ahows tint it 1s unobjectionable and de- manded by a due consideration of the public Intereata, the main bady of the 1vpublicans wilt in thls, sa iu uil other matters, be ready to sur- render private convietions and prediicctions upon the aliur of thelr country, DIGUT PIOSTECT." DiTatn Commerciat Jdverticer—Lenublican, 1t Jooks now aa thotiizh the proposition was well calculuted to scttle tho vexed lssucina Kind of & way that will eatisy the ereat major- ity of the people. Thev may care Httle whether Mr. Tilden or Mr. Haoyes has the Presideneys sace atnd Jaw to prevail, and 2 ral or vivlent proceed- idate. 1f tiol open fon, it wonld be hetter for the enate to neeent the Committee's ¢. Altugethier, tho prospect A britchit that befure long Uhe people will rejol Bt ths voncluston of the most menorahle Urest- dentat complleation that las ever distracted thie: politien of this conntry, *“WILL X0T TOLERATE SHUSCHIEF-MAKING'! ity Expyesi—Liepualloan, £t {s quite spparcnt that dne pnblie mind hag alt alone been'so fully prepared for sotne judiclal acbitration of the Presidentiul dizputo that ft D reatly exyectod nothing else, and naa refuseil t b leve thist the opposing partles fu Congress would fast of aereeinz upot tho necessacy pla, 1f so confudent an expe -tatlon had not generally prevailed, the situation would tmost certainly iave produccd m.h wore exdtement and alarm thon it hus dome, Now that thia public satlelpation hins boen realfzed to the extent of a0 agrcement {o the Congressional Commlttee, we have no fear thut extresae partisans on clther sido will be permitted to frustrate it. ‘There ls that in the publle temper on the subject which will nat. tolerate miechlef-utaking now. ‘ BCAS HARDLY UAIL O APPROVALL Quincy ity IV -ty—Renwbilcan, Woe caunot help expressing the hope that the bl proposed by the Joint Cummlttco wiil ba speedily ndopted by Congress. We have not minich doubt, indeed, that the conservative sontl- ment of the conntry will enforce 118 adoption. * A plan azreed to by men s Edmunds, Freelinghiuyron, Conllinz, MeCrary, Hoar, and Willand, or the part of the , uid by such men s ‘Thurinan, Ba ewitt, and Huntonon the part of the Demucrats, can hardly fatl of approval by the better sentiment of thi¢ entire country, A WISE PLAN.! Freax—fridependent Renuldican. "t paul Pione - ‘The Joint Cotamittee of the two Ilouses on the Prostlential count have surprised even the hest hopes and agreeably disappolnted the fears of the country, by nureeing upon a method of counting the yote,” . . . Inviewol the exist- Ing complicntlone, and of fature opes of ke character which may avise, It i, perhaps, ad wi e 4 plan of adjusting” such controvers have becn devised. 1t will doubitless 1 wotne opposition from extreme partisans on both wides, whose pet theories it sets aslde, but that Jtwill be adopted by woth lHouses ennnot he doubted, for such a tremendous pressure of publie sentiment. wilt brought to hear upon them to aceent thia reasonable iode of settling existing coutroversies that tnci« Wil not dare to veslst tho plainly manitested witl of the peaple. VHURE 1O RECETVE A LARGE MAJORITY." New York Eepvew=Iwniceratio, - A report Lhum tndorsed I8 sure to recclvea lura mafority I the two Ilonees of Congress, nnd 80 paves tho way to thoonly coudlusion thay ought to muke auch'a report satlsfactory to the Country, viz.: ite perfect fairness as hetween tho two contestiog parties; and, what fa more fm- riant, the greut fact that {Lwill |(m-\-u n pests ul solution of the greateat politienl evil that hius ever threatened the country,-rpurt from vl war, HASTILY-CONTHIVED AND TEMFORARY X PEDIENT, Toledo Uiade—hiepublican. The question {s Lot now, what the Constitu-. tlon ought to be, but what [t 18, 'The method provided §in the Constitution mey Lo defective, ut §t may ot be disresarded by those wha luye aworn to Fu\'um their acta” by its pro- vislons, Let the ditliculties existiug be re- woved by an awendment to the Constitution, and not by s hastiv-ontrived und temporary expedient, " unconstitutional o princlple, anit Uearing the murks of deslgn upon fis face with rofercuce to the coutruversies of the present laur. S PENFECT CONSTITUTIONALITY." Detroit Tribune=Lepudlican, Of the periect constitutionality of this meas- ure we hinve no doubt. Ita spirit and sl we cordlally findorse. It creates o epecial tribunal ol the highest character to pass ipon disputed polits of the gravest fuportance; it gives to no party any unduc udvantsge; it provides u meth- od Ly wisich the next Preadent can step un- challenged futo the Exccutive ollice. As Rebub- 1lcans, we Lold thet the Hepublican party can well ufford to meet sod camiot reject an ordeal 40 just end simple, Believiag Huyes end Wheeler tu have Leen constitutionally elected, we still bave 10 hesltation in submitting tho legal validity of thelr clains Lo un srbitrativg tribuoal so Ihl)’ cunstituted. SCUNNECE3SARY." Indlanavotis Sertinei~Democratle, Jiscews 10 Us Lo be unnecedsary to create 8 Cotnwission to be cowiposed in pari of persons pot members of elther brauch of the Nutlonal eglslature, to determine whom tle prople elected Just November: uud, whils we ara hoie- ful that an amicable solution of vae of the noat difficult probletis that was ever subiuitted to » deliberative body s ncar at band, thers ure some features in the plan proposed by the Juint Cowwittee well culculated to arouse ap- m-ehzmlon. Wo prefer 1o analyzs tho provis- 03 of the blll somewhat more carc(ully before giving themour ungqualiedindorsement, though + Vo ar gulte willing to adwit that, under wll ~the circumstances, the labors of the Commlitee * “inore than readize the expectation of the most . 44 l‘)‘l_ulsm nrx‘nuo?." 3 Doinso~emosralic. plan pro| s cmfueutly satisfactory, 6 the court of arbitratiqu appears (o be & unpartizsn a hody a8 could possibly be devised. Democrats have Kemlndud nothing but & fair count. 'They ask no more, aud will ba content with no lera. We se# no reason to suspect that the prupoeel plan mag not be relfed upon to @ive us a falr connt. We have nu doubt that it will be received with alinost unanimous accept~ ance by all_partles, and fn sl scctions of the country. The few extreme partisana who will be dirpleaseid with Its provisions are those with whom honest men everywhere will delight to differ. The bl will be put on fts passage at once, and witl doubtless be seun accepted. Op- position would counpuss the political ruin of any mao or party attenpting it. The uPeuI‘y pe- rage of the il will be an inexpressibie reflel to the country. & o iKcE oy rotITicst. mtxzmm." Cinetanatl Thues—Repblicun. The power to create a Beturning Donrd, out- #ide of Cougres, or comprising, part of ' Cot gress and part of the Bupreme Court, is clearly nut conferred on Congress by the Constitution. A reanit reached in this way will not give satie- faction. 8o far from allaying discontent or giv- Iniz quiet to the country, it would have Juat the opposite efect. 1t fa & weak vention of time- serving wen,—however honest in Intentlon and the fact that such a scheme coulil receivo the asseut of six Senators and seven Represent atives fs discreditable to American stateam ship. We do not believe that euch a poor piecs of political tinkering can receive the indurae- ment of either branch of Congress, We aro certaln it will receive the emphatie condomna- tion of the people. Any Representative of cither party who reconls his” vote in favor of this sehere, will almost certainly be sumbiarily re- pudiated h{ s conatituents, | EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL."! Indianapails Journai—flepublican. ‘The Journal regards the propoecd plan a8 fr- regular and extra-constitutionsl, if not uncon- stitutfona). Joisat best B mero temporary makeshilt, a sort of patchwork compromise, by which it is hoped to declde a present emerucnc[yl without declding a pflllcl&lu and without muc regard to principle, Tt (a & plan which finds no eupport in the Constitution, und which will not stand the test of tine nor of popular scruting, 11 adopted now it will be repealed beforo an- other L'residentlal election, for it will establish the precedent that the Coustitution furnlshes no gulde, and that every clection must be des cided by a new rale, If & constitutional ma- Jority of one may bo wiped out by & new ruls tuw, a conatitutional mqorll( of five or of ten may be wiped out four years hence, and there wiil be no end to the wild legislation of Congress concerning the counting of the votes, . . . Having vald this much by way of defining its own position, and n opposition ta the proposed plan, the Journal desires to say that if the plan shall bo wlopted by Congress, it should be ac- cepted as the best attalnable way out of a threatening dilemma and an authoritative get- tlement of the present controversy, Tho people desire A peaccable settiement of tho auestfon. The business of the country demands 1t, and our political standing In the cyes of for. eigu nations requires it~ Putting aside sl questious of partisan politics, wa cannot afford to allow the settlement of the Presideutial quention to drilt beyond tha 4th of Mareh, It ought to ba settied tn the way provided by the Constltution; but {f not in that way, it had better Lo settled in suinc extraconstitutional way than not at all. MQUESTIONALLY CONSTITUTIONALITY.! Ciecelaml erali—Repudilean, Tho questionable coustitutionality of the plan I8 recognized In the bill iteeil, "Ihe Com- miacion Is clothed for the purpose of the count ‘ywith the snne powers, If any, now posscssed by the two ilouses acting scparatefy or to- gether.” This throws the cold shade of donbt over the whole measure. Tavethe two Ilouses, neunampnmmly or together, any powers in the premlsesi W do not think the resort ta the Supreme Court, In this form,n lmrufl one. The nroper function of the Court would be to decide the meanine of the language of the Constitutiont s*and the votes shail then be counted.” Th Supreine Court §s constituted for just suchw purpose, but not for a yortion of L8 members to heeomne wmembers of u Returning Board to declde what votes shall be counted. YWILL ACCERT THE PLAN.' Lroaiyn Engle=fhanncratic, The people will accept the plan pro;wsed, for this reasan above ull: Whichever of the two claimanta succesd, he will enter upon the duties Uifs ofllvs, if not without an absolutely un- teatfonable title to the Presidency, with the best ttlo it s possible to obtaln under the cir- cumstances. Tho country yearns for politieal rest and lmllllcnl sccurity, and the people, ns o whole, will not broek apposition to any plan which promises to sccure it. We apprehend no danger from the faflure of the proposed plan In elther HTouse of Congress, " INQUILE AND CONAIDEL" Daacenpiri (,) Gaselie—Revubiican. - The I»lnn proposed by the Committee Is one ta be thoroughly and candhlly examiued befure we can be quite aure that it s just sitch an one a8 should command ucceptance and adoption. As ut prescut udvlsed, we ire hetter preparcd to inquire aud coualder than weare to shout peans of praises to this proposed mode of sctticment. uxfillcut though we regard its conception aud Bpirit, “STAND Y TIIE CONSTITUTION.™ Dagtun (0.) dournal—Itepudiican. Republleaus of Ohlo aro glad to know that Senator Sherman and the Olijo members of the Huuse stand firmly by the Constitution and the precedents In reference to counting the Ele:to- rul vote. 'Th wlntain the rizht aud duty of the Vice-Presldent to count the vote, e trust that every Republivan in Congress will vote with theni, We assure them that Republican aenthment In this regton 1s about unaninously in fayor of the lon-. stablishied method of couniing the vote for Presldent and Viee-Uresldent. Let us atand by thie Constitutlon, ‘I'hern 130 mizhty mass of votera'who do not forget that even sich great men as Chase, and Beward, and Trumbull made 1istakes, and that the peaple lele them out ln the cold. ‘The I!t’o— Plo will huve their opinlons about Mr, Conkling, and Mr. Edmunds, and Mr. Frelinzhuysen, aud Mr, 1loar, just us they did about Chas¢, Suward, Trambull ‘& Co. Hepublicaus, of course, do nut want to lose such leacders, but the Jeaders st stand by fixed princples If they hope Lo De backed by wstrong part; The greal mass of the ucpublluun arty don't want any ** com- prownise ¥’ of the Cunstltution. YA PREMIDENTIAL BAVPLE" Distunue (bt.) Tomen—Reprbiien, While the il niny he regarded (o sone senss ua u Preshdentlal rafile, 1t 13 nevertheless the only neeme that has possessed the merit of branging ubout & substantial agreement between the contending periles. The politielans puro il simpla on botl sides niny spurn and scofl at those wha approve it, but we have vo doubt that & largge shase of the businesmen of all par- ties withweeept It us offering the sure prospect of an early rolutlon of the (uestion that has so greatly distuelad ard depresscid the commercial and financlal affairs of the country, HTHE CONMTITUTION AY A PATENT INDIA-KCIDER PEDEATALY » Toledn Cummerctal—Republican. We are not yet prepared Lo weeept the conelu- alon that tho Constitution {8 a patent India- rubher pedestal, which cun bo cuntracted or elongated ot pleasure. And as wo ure not thus prepared, it 18 but uatural thay we should be skeptieal In regard to the ponstitutionality of the bill, with un inclination to fuire whether It is conatitutionally ‘l‘)nllbh! Lo cluthe uny Jus- tice of tho Bupreme Court with power Lo u*umm the next Prestdent of the United States, or to dra the major portion of that august tribunat down to the plane of n Returntng Bourd, und decido what yotes shiall be counted and what shall bo rejected. 4 NOT ZNTIN routartiie Compert Woare not prepared to acecpt the bill vory entlsfusticaliv, belleving s we do that Hayes aud Wheeler were oleeted, anid preferred the old way of vertifying that result to the country. Practically the decleion of the result v put in the hands of some Justics of the Buprems Court, and we belleve the Constitutlon incant lstm bo in the bunds of the President of the cuute, ASTIC,” — Repuislfean, A PEACEFUL S8OLUTION." Rochester Democrai—Kepubiiran. ‘Tho oplnion ul the muutr{ upon the propo- sitlons submitted will soon declure fteell, That apinfon will, we believe, bo a favorable one, if it shall appear that the scheme can be adopted without a surrender of principle on elther side. ‘Thers 18 one conslderatfon that will operate powertully in ita favor. ‘Fhis nation desires o ututlon of the vexed fasue. 00D, HONORABLE, AN CLUAL . Pulludeluhia Inguirer—Kevusifzun. The plan 8 s0 guod, honorable, and cleara one that it will most heartlly commend itself to the luulmfunru and conscience of the country, and find favor c\'cr_x\\'lu:m except umong the Murtons of the oue slde and the Wouds uf the other side. Finst of all, it meana peace, the re- moval of ull thodu disturblug ulsrme of & new ¢ivil contlict, sud the dungers of unarchy; and wzaln, it means o fuir count, a fajr recond of that count, and the lnsuguration of the canlidate who wus legally elected Presideut of the United States In Noveinber last, 4 HUMILIATION.! . SL Louls Glube- Lieinorvai—Reoublican, We are not disvosed tu find fault with the rlan of counting the vote adopted by the Cone erence Commitiee; but it is no little humlita. tion, after the worship which tias been lavished upon the Constitution, to #nd that we are coms pelled, in 8 very ordinary emerwency, 1o resort 10 & device whivh has nd savor of coustitution. ality ubout. *tA IHOMINING EFVONT." Putladelphia [imea~Independent lemorratic. The fact Lhat two cominlitees of represcntas tivu men of the great political parties of tho mum?. each lu-ugnllna for asceudaney {u the winuufstration of tue Goverument, Lave sub- Contiaued ou the Filth Fage, say, Probably the r persecuting power; twn inqutrl g e 1nay Neltue in the writings of Moses, ‘Fho orlzinal wond, translated in otlier ever, three timen; oneo Is applied Lo u well, and cepted lie, RELIGIOUS. The Rev. Dr, Ryder on a Per- sonal Devil. A Doctrine which ¥as No Coun« tenance in tho Old Testa- ment, How It Camo to Pass that It Is Re- forrod to in the New Testament. Sermon by Prof. Swing at the Ceniral Church on Variatlons of Duty. Why 8t Paul Advised Women Not to Speak Ont in Mesting, Barvices at the Tabernacle by Mesars. ‘Whittlo and Stebblas. A PERSONAL DEVIL. BERMON DY TIIE REV. DIL. RYDER. The Rev. Dr. W, I, Ryder proached at St. TPaul's Church yesterday morning, taking aa his subject the **Beriptural Doctrine of o Peraonal Devil,’ and the following as his text: And thera war a war in Heaven: Michael anid his angels fonght azainst the dragon: and the dragon fought and hi angels, and prevalied not; neither was thelr pinee found any more in Heaven. Aud ibogreat dragon was cast ont, that old so peat called the Devll and Satan, which deceive the whole world: ho was castont into the carth, And bia angels were caat out with him—ZRevelation, e spoke as follows: ‘While the Book of Revelation has its appro- printe ptace in the Bible, it 1a not a proper saurco from which to draw doctrines that are not clearly stated In other parts of the sacred book. The Apocalypse coptains much useful instruction, and could not well bo apared. Btitl, from its pecullar character aa o grand eple, it Is less valuable as & treasury of doctrine than most other books in the New Teatament. Our text will lllustrato the polot we make here. If Iam abellever in the accepted theory of a personal evil splrit, tho text will scem to me, whea separated from Its councetion, lit- tle less than a literal statement of o rebellion iu Heaven, and the full of tho drazon from thence. But this view will appear siinply ab- surid when I connect these verses with the cone text, though even then what the preclse mean- g O thio thapter e it 1s vory dificult to say. read you portions of the thirteenth chapter that you'may see the text in its true setting: And I atood tpon tho sand of tho res, and saw & beast risc up ont of the sca, having soven headn and ten horn ho 0 upon his horns tes crowns, and the name of Dlaspheiny. ar, let him hear. And he 1f' any oeth great 0 wonders, 50 that he maketh fire to coma down from Teaven on the earih In the sight of men. causeth all, both small and great, freo mod bond, Land, or in thelr foreheac And ha slch and pooe, in thelr right ‘What this all means, I do not uadertake to cference fs to the Koman but tho language is 1o recel mark rhetorical 80 snd the jusgery 80 ex- travagant and Involved that I Ia very difi- cult, i not [mpossible, to detect the thought which was in the mind of John when he wrote It. ‘This much, however, fidentl here efther of the orlgin or existence of o per- soual Devll, and the “*war In Leaven ' {8 no more real than the statement that the “ woman waa clothed with the sun, and the woon under her feet,” or that the great dragon with *his n:nl drew the third part of the stars of Heaven,” ete. o can con- nilirm: there fanot tho least cvidonce Having thus shown that theae vorses in Reve- latlou do not teach anytbing, one way or anoth- er, In regard to the origin of a ;pl{ll we might distiss this Lranch of our sub- v other ])lat’u in the Bible that an, with t] {og any light on the orfgin of the Devil, crsonal evil rom all (urther notice. Forthere is no ona familiur ie subject will pretend to clnim as throw- ‘Tho simple truth Is, that the bypothesis of s rebel fallen angel hangs on an assumptiou. Thers {s no evidence, not ascrap or hint, to support it Detoe, but, authors have mven the world poetry, it will not_be clalmed by any that they Wrd guthority for Seripture doctrine. ing the origin of the fore, no more to eny, for the Bible Is cutirely silent upon the subjuct. Dants and Milton, Bunyan snd much to say on this topie; alt will lava while coucedo that much theso fino Conceru- evll wo shall have, thore- We puse, then, to tho consideration of thess Flrst—Does not the Biblo sanction the bellef onal evil splrit] Second—1€ we deny the exlatence of auch a be- inm, how aro ro o account. for tlie widespreat o icf in the personality of tho Devit? Bo far us the Old Testament I8 coneerned, we swer the first queation very briefly: the word Satan uor Devll occurs at all aces Batan, occurs, hows twice to an ancl of the Lord. ‘Fhat Moses did not intend to teach the exlsteiee of such u beioy is therofore fudisputable. The flve books o Muscs comprise a history of the world for a pes rlod of more than 2,000 years. During this time, then, mankind wern entlrely fgnorant of the ex- {stence of un atl-powerful e¥ll” splrit called tho Devll God never gave the Jewlsh people, through the mediutn uof Ifls prophets, any warning cons cerning the Devil, any information of any kind in regard to him. In'a word, the doctrine ls not found in their Seriptures; no traces of it appear In thelr carly history; no allusions to it are found fo any of tho historical or ! rophietical bouks of the Old Testoment nor in the postleal, save in the introduction to the Book of Job, whero It standa entlrely ulone, shut up in the firat two chapters, in muarked contrast with all the rust of tho pouim, Da you refer o to the temptation of Adam and Evel But where do you find any evidence that @ personal avil splrit, answering ™ to the ace of udevil, teinpted our Arst parents inthe Garden! ‘fhe uccount dlstinctly atliring three things litlmt the woman wus tetmpted h‘y o serpents (2) that the scrpent was mors sub- tfe thun “uny beast of the Hetd,” and that the Lord God sald unto the scrpent: (W) + Beenuse thou Luat done this thou art cursed above all cattle, sl above overy beast of the fiold; upon thy belly shalt thou” go, and dust shalt thou eat'all the days of thy llfe."! know It ia claimed that the” evil spirit ap- ppeared in the form of a serpent. Dut that I sheer assumption. The whole uccount Is alle- gorleal, Na pluco answeriug to the Garden of Falen bas ever been found on the facs of the aarth; there ure oo rivers corresponding to the description given; there nover were any such trees, the one *tree of llfe,” the other “of knowledge of good and evil; aud there never was auy such serpent, talking, Al fs fizure, the serpent no more Hters) than the trees. It is slinply an allegorical filustration, drawn from that carly ago (i which Moses wrote, to repres sent tho futroductlon of moral evil into thy world; and thus Interpreted 16 §¢ forcible aud Instrnetive. 4 But when we cone to the New Testament the case 18 confessedly more diilicult, and we be- apeuk your attention while wo endeavor to stats the facts, as nearly ns wo are able, In the light of muern fnvestigution, No candld mind will deny, it would seein, that the dactrine of personal evil spirit 14 to by ot with n acveral places in the New ‘Testu- ment. Wo instance such Dassages o4 theso as contalning traces ot thut bellel: John, viil., 44, “ Ye are uf your father, ti vil, and the lusts of your father yo wiltdo'; Juhn, fil., &, ** e thut comwitteth #in ta of the Devil, fur the Devil slnneth from tho beginuing. For 'this purposa the Sou uf (iod was” mani{usted that He infzht destroy the works of the Devil "' Luke, xiil., 8, Andought not this woman, belng o daughter of Abrahain, whony Satun hath bouud, lo, thess elzhiteen yeurs, bo looscd from this bond on the Habibath- In these, sud In a few other passages, wemeet with the belfef in & personal evil being, who way supposed to bo the cuuve of nearly wl maludies aud troubles ot manlfold kinda. ‘Are weto suy that Jesus taught this doctriue, and, as those who would confurm our falth to s teachings, are we Lo accept such represeutations as correct doctrinel Reaall for a moment our statement that the doctrine of a persond evil splrit fa not wny- where to be found in the wriiivgs of Mosva, But between the dusing of the Old Testament rucord and tho begfuuing of the miuistry about 400 years intervencd, During tbis period wuny aud” most important changed oceurred In the vutward conditlun of the Jews, and v thelr re- Uglous fulth as well Wilhiu thut Ihnr.‘ fora r;rwl ol seveuty yeare, & large part of the na- fon hid been ded'out of their owa country and held in captivit In_Bubylon, where, i that heatheu ity ond cogutry, they wers brought futo contact with such erurs us were the com- wou e of that Pco[llc, AL any rate, returned from thelr captivity, wo Uud ju the new dife of the Jews ‘distluct fraces of the belict fn some d of au cyd splrit, who wus the swmmon THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE MONDAY. JANUARY 2%, 1877, . enemy to both God and man. At the time of our Lonl's advent this notlon had taken form in the dally thonght of the people, having boen much strengthened by *the (nfluence of QOrlontal speculations, which had pressed fa upon them from “"mly quarters. The fact, then, seema to bo this, that while this doctrine of a personal Devilwas not revealed to the Jewsand formed no nart of the authoritative teaching of thelr recognized proplicts, they still had this belief when ouir Lord came among them, and fn His teaching Tle recognizes the belief, and to n}n'\: extent adopts their language In speaking o And perhiaps it is proper here to say, that all the fmportant facta may come out, that inno portion of His teaching does it appear that Jeeus pronounced any euch conception as that of n persunal Doril falee, and urged the peoplo to abandon it. e has no discussion with suy one upon the uuh)uut. From tids, what Is the proper Inferuncef 7T'hat Jesus adopted the does triie 08 His own, and dld retunlly teach, oreven Indorse, thestatement that the “powers of evil were directed by a mighty evil spieit, the foe of God avd wian, nnid “who was always and everywhero engazed fu ainices’ 3 the souls and bodles of mankind? I we answer this_question in tho aflirmative, wa are at once IndifMicultics 80 humerous that we may well guestlon the accuracy of our ply. For example, tha Savior says, Matthew, vl 4, * No man can'scrso two mastors: for elther fe will hate the one and love the other, or leo he will hold ta the one and despise the other. Yo can- not serve Uod and Mammon.” Mammon 18 the heathien gud of riches, and yet he Is spoken of in the same language as the Almighty; but are we thereforo to suppose that Jesus believed in the oxlstence ofvany such being? Nay; He #imply employed the popular specch of the day, and no more ineant to indorse any such heathen error than a preacher of to-dny wonkl in warning his peuple not to glve themselves up too cni- tirely to the service of Mammon, It us take another ecuse: Matthew, xil, 27, ‘‘And i I by Declzebub cast out devlls Ly whom do your children cast them out” HBeelzchub was one of the heathen gods, whom the Ekronites worshiped as the “Giod of Flics,” and yet you will observe he is spokesn of just as if he were an actual belog, and yet it {8 mot for a moment to be supposed that our Lord believed {n any such cxlstence as that of Deelzebub. The thoucht is preposter- ous,—and yet It would be 1o more absurd to clalm that than to claim that He belitved in the Devil or Satan as a real hefog, beeauso He spoke of him In tho same way. But there Ix, 1 possible, a atfll mora striking §ilustration of the unfairness and absurdity ol the kind of reasoning under notice contalned inJohn, Ix., 1-0: “And Iiis disciples asked Ilim, saying, Master, who dld sin, this wan or his '!:ll’um!. that lic was born bilnd1?? Now, here s n recognition of two false doctrines,— thot of pre-exiatence, and that of bodlly dis- cares and {nflrmitios as the punishment ol slus cominitted in a former state of existence, cte, Bbali we Infer that Christ belleved these great errors beeause he did not speclfically repudiato them then and there! It scemsasif to any “:rnfc-ucd Christian thero can bo but one reply. Why 13 not tho answer cqually plaln when ap- Y"m to the vagarles of the pcople with whom {e met In reference to an evil spirit? ‘Tho esscutial truth sccms to ho very clear, The Savior docs not teach the doctrine [n ques- tlon, Hls references to it are wholly incidental, and, 80 to speak, accldental. 1o {alks to the people fu thelr languaze, and, without entering into almost interminablo discuesions and expla- nations, He could not talk to them in any other form, Luke, xIIL., 11, Is an Hllustration of this position. No doubt some of the people supposed the woman was nctually “bowed to- getlier, and could fn no wise 1t hersell up,” by Saton himsclf. The Savlor neither says it was 80 nor that it was not so. o meets tho casc as it Is, and enters into 1o formal statement In the use of medical terms, Tho woman so long als flicted was curcd by His miraculous gower of o! her fnfirmity, ana “thus the powerof God in Ifis miuistry was exhibited, and u aullerlog body restored to health. I this instance the conduct of our Lord was the same as on almost all oceasions, Tho local cus- torme of the people He seldom dlsturbed. Tribute to whom tribute 1s due, was 1lis mojto. e scemns t have considered it wiser to teach the truth and leave that to permeate aund cradicato tho crror. Any other coursc would have led to interminablo controversy. TThe conclusions to whichwe come In reference to the New Testament may be embodled [u those tio stutements: Firat—In our Bavlor's time. the Jews belleved n a personal Dovil. This personal Devil me{ supposed to ho {n soms wny connccted with most physical and moral evis,—discases of the body us well as temptations to the mind, Second—Tha theory of a personal Devil fs not a doctrine of Revelation, but was probably bor- rowed from the heathen, most Hkely “from Bnh[vlonlu. some time between the termination of thereeords of the Old Testament and tho commencement of the New. T'his crroncous idea of the origln of cvll scems to have taken shape slowly, elss wo should meet with it in the later books of the O1d Testament, And from these two statements we have this ;ieueul conclusion, that the Havior, fu His ad- dresses to tho lmuplc, adopts thelr current Inoguuge, without regurd to its philosophical or phulvlogical correctness, or even its medieal propriety. And what He did then, we are dolng cvery duy now. As when wo say, * Tho sun rises,” or “Tho sun has sct," or “The stars have set,” or ¥ 'Flic moon chauges,” or thut ono hus the 8t. Vitus’ Dance, or the 5t. Amlmn{‘a Fire, ete. Nor do we, [ using such phrasce, in- tend to fndorso the errors which underilo them. Neither dfd the Lord fntend to affirm the truth- fulnesa of the concentions that were Involved in somo of tho terwms e cimployed In oddressing the people. Ilaving thus shown that the Bible does not ennctlon the beliel in a personal evil spirit, we aro ready to tuke uP the sccond fnquiry: How ura we to necount for the widespread Lelief in such s doctrine! Wo might pnswer this gues- tion by asking another, viz.: flow do you uce count for tho whole eystem of (ireclan and Ro- man mythology,—for the thousanda of false gods and fulso” notlons to be found among il pugan nationa? When you shall pive mothe answer to thls question you will have eiven the anewer tothe cne of your own ramfug, But thero fs a specal resson why tho pagan mind should coms to belfove (n u peesonnl evil splrit, I fs the shortest way of solving the problem of moral evil. The primitlve man drew a wide cuntrast between the cahn und beautiful phe- notena and the portentous and frlghtful phe- nomens, wnd {llogieally concluded that it the ous fa produced by & §ood powor—a god— the other must bo'by w bad power—a deviy, This explains 80 many troublesome problems, Did snythlug go badly, the devil did it; was there at epidemle tn the” fand, the devil vatsced it aud thus all through the long list of mortsl troubles tho devil explatus them all, Wenay cull this shallow rensoningi but you nust re member thist ol this kind of reasoning thero has been agood deal fo the West, You have lmr)mm heard of the poor Hindoo who usked o Srahnin, * What does tho earth rest on I"“"\Ufi Au thie back of un clepbunt,” was thoreply, whut does the elephant stand ont? “Onpa huge tortol “Oh, that {3 it," salil the in- quirer, perfeetly satisfled. The reaction of Lis undeveloped powers reachied no further, and so hu was put to rest. And what do we morel What doesthe Clirls. tion Church do moru that tells us that tho ele- }.lmm. stands on the turtolse, when |b acconnts or cost by eaylnz thut the desll introduced it} S Hut who fntraduced tue Devil,? fa the next question, 1 the Devil {8 responsible for the ex- fstence of sin, who is responsible for the exist- euee of the devilt liut selone¢and fntellizenco are fast emunci- [muu,g the iulnl from thoslavery of thuse houghts. As s writer ina populnr review aptly says: *Helentists and ]xhllnmrhurl smlle av 1, and turn away In 13 only the pricats hold to it, and even they aud “lews. Enlightened reason und faith have long since excluded It from the ppliere ot patire; only superstitlons fgnoranve and traditional contormity to the lm.uuu cling toft I the sphere of morals," Jut tho_theologtans themsclves aro loosehing thelrholdon it Ouw alter another of the wore udvancad, even within the Horthulox »* sccts, openly disavows it us Dr. Busbuell, who in s remarkable work on Nature and tho sulwrnnmml," sayi “Hatan, or the devil, 1s nota bad omnipresence over uzalnst (lod,— that is, u monstrous und_borribleyonception, but an'outbreakiig evil, In ereated wolrits, ¢ Ia not the numo of any particular name taken up by the naginatiol in & conception the mind can not the total of bad habits and v, Sy subject would he quita Incomy not vefer o the fact that, beshie this cu ot evil spirite, the Jews had very sln- eular aud vet finnly-rooted fdess uon the sub- Ject of demons, of evil splrts. This i, tver, wholly separate from the aingle topi have Lad Under noutfes. Thess discase frequently regarded as possessions of evil s Its: fnsanity wus the possession of a devil detmon, ‘Tho Gireck for devil 15 * disbulos,” and fL occurs but fow thnes (n the New Testa- ment; the Greek tor dewon s ** dajinon,” or “daimoulon,” and occurs Wmauy thies. Seven duvils are said to bavo been cust out of Mary Magdalene,—seven demons,~perhaps epllepsy, perbaps lutacy, some natural dlscasc or Intirmi- ty. Iu I Bamuel, xvi, we reals An evll spirit from the Lord troobled him (Saul], hut when Uavld took au barp aud played will Uiy hand, Sxul woa refreabed, aud way well, aud the cwl;]pun |dowon] departed from Liw [welan- cholyj. Io Matthew's Goapel, 1v., 24, thero fs s 'ufl‘i: rhtch throws much light upon this whols su ect And Uls fame wen$ throughbout all Byria; and +they bronght unto, Tlira all sick prople that were taken with divers direases and torments, and thase which were porsessed with dovila, and those which were Innatic, and those that had the ps! bealed them, It I8 very much to ba regretted that, in this late nge, It Is nccessary for any friend of Chirlst to reck to vindieate His teaching from the charga that Tifs roligion fustifics a “belicf fu n personal Evit 8plrit, the foe of God and man, and capcelaily that this Devil was once an ancel in Ileaven, and was cast out through rebeilion there. It is little less than mortitying to any thonghtful person that this horribte conception I3 still presented to tho unthinking, and has re- cently recetved conspienons indorsement In thin community. Alas, that itis so. ~Alas, that the religion of the 8on of God 1s atlll little better to thousands of those who profess ft than a scfon of error graited fnto thetreo of Yaganism. The devil that r\-ou have most to fear Is the temptation that dally assails you, and that nat from without, but from within, To discover the gorrow of an evil 11fe you need never search for any hell outside our 0wn city, and the only devil you need trouble yourselyes about comes to yoit in human shape. VARIATIONS OF DUTY. SERMON DY PROF. SWING. Prof. Swing preached yeaterday morning at the Central Church, taking as bis text: On there two commandnicnts hang all the law and the prophete,—Jlath,, zril., 40. Negleceted among the pursults of the tima Is the study of duty. Itis generally nasumed y; nod He -that the duty of each mortal was written down by the haod of God upon the pages of the Bible, and tho luca that obligation and its works are to be restudled each year along with the restudy of scicnce and philosophy s an un- known or doubtful fdes, If, however, you will pause for o moment over the nature of man, you will ind that he was made to be ever o student, and that his foquiries were not to be limited to the study of law and langunage, snd mechanies and theology, but they are to be cxpanded untfl they are ns wide as the world in which man dwells. The most of lu- man Inquiries are perpetual. What laws to en- nct, what erced to sdopt, what kind of clothing to wear, what food to eat, low to prevent or cure disease, how to build a dwelling-house,liow to construct a rallway brldge, how to manage a republle, are studies which follow soclety falth- fully forever. The good of one age Is the evil of the next. Man thus advances a student and makes bis culturs out of the mew problems which atwaya surround him. Among the never-cnding leasons placed be- forc the pupll, man, an {inportant place must be agsigned to tho study of duty. Duty Is subject to wonderful variations. It chanzes llke'the sky, Tho most ridiculous persons fn the world would be those who should insist tpon doine as the last_century did, or as was done by Matihew, Mark, Luke, and John, One waild o well dress like &t D'eter before he was a’snint, na to act Iike him in many partic- ulars, Wo should ali love to have Poul's plety and cloguenco, but we should not any of us be wiliing to find the will of God or inan Just ne he found {t. The actlons of soclety must change with changing fashion of furniture and dresa, ‘The two great Inws of our text must never be departed from. No change can coms to those principles, So to tho Iaw that man must eat and drink no change will come, hut the foad upon his table may be infinitely varied. Half that {s upon the tables jn the nincteenth century was unknown to the_aucients as food. 8o amid the fundamental laws of actlon no change may come. All thinga must Le done in harniony with love to men and God, but what was love to tnan in one age might be cruclty to man fn another, 'the shape of the useful de- pends much upon the condition of the publie cducation and sentiment. When Solomon ex- tolled the virtucs of the rod, he ¢id so {n an ago where the no-rod stood for nnarehy, for a law- lcrs house. o was not comparing together the valucs of force on the one liand and moral suusion on the other, but ho was comparing together obedience and anarchy, and lhencs great was the virtue of the emblem of govern- ment, Between the rod and anarchy, the rod shonld como along for high encomium. Sub. sequent centurics discovered a sccond method of governing, that of rcnlmulun through love, Jove of parent tor child and child for parent, Solomon compared force with anarcly; tho Christlan ages compare forco with love, und In this new atinusphiero of things, the duty of the rod fades away as faded Botomou sud his robes and ¢ven his temple. Our text lfea unchanging, o great mountain range down from which streamns of duty will forever run, but will run with changing banks and changligz ecenes alone the banks, Tho Bible docs not carry within {tseif the detafls of things to be done or left undone, but it containg every principle of action the humnan family will cver need. It nssumen thocomnion sense uf the race and thus comes along willing to be adapted to the new conditions of ciimate, govermment, custom, dress, and learnfog. Indeed the Bible coutnlna two sets of {dens, the onogeneral laws, the other the loeal incldents and customs of the duy In which It was composed. It ia the genceal laws which are full of the unchanging will of Gadj the history may he full of lessons or ciapty of them, all this depeoding upou fta conformity or necessary relatlon to_the general principlea. The law of loving each othor and helping each other Lolds good fur all places, but the eXpre: slun of this servica by washing each other's fect died when tho Bibla Jourueved away from the sandal and the hare foot, The Holy Beriptures maved off and left aduty bebind, but they took with thew the law of service, ‘Thopour ngot per- fumed ol or olntinent upon tha hiad of u friend was a duty which could not travel away from the patrlurehiad age. It was burled slonie with Abrabam, Isane, and Jacob in old tombs, but when ono living In the modern era seuds n Christmas present ton friend or o bounquet to o sick-roont, this $s the eternal law fully kept; it Ls tho nincteentl century hreaking its” own ala. baster-box, Bo, doubtless, haptiam appenred us w priuciple and s o form 'too. ‘Tho forin wna quite certuinly immersion, for tho untry was warm and *sthere was much water theres" but the Holy Beriptures, Journeylog up Into Hussla, and E!Ilululnl, and Anerlen, would readily leavs a pracilce behind aud take along with them the principle of indleatliyz by water a wushing by the Bpirit, Inuncrsion, like the fect washing, would not wander awsy from its climate and ‘Ihius the Bible carrles within (tscl! elernal law ommands, and then local actions and custotns, and in its wanderings wway from T'atesting many are the customs (L hos et be- hind, As tho principles vl our country move forward a hundred years without 1038 uf 8 word as to the rights of 1an, but leaving far beldml tho manners, and dress, and furnitiire, and food, and langunge of Georgo sud Martha ' Washing: ton, 8o the Bible salls away from fts carly home and’ Into furelyn centurjes, Teaving behtud jan; things once Leautitnd and wise and essential, It is only by such a methud ono can tuke up the lettersof 8t. Paul and free them from the charge of contalning injurloua or defective Ideas, Howtood in two relations, the one tu rinciples, the other Lo his times. What lie aught about salvation by faith in Christ woult bu llatle to uo change; But bis remurks about marrfaze und wbout th abllities aud disabilities of womun, wera words full of the duty of the hour and were not of toe far future, In o Lind where wowan had been u suspected slave for several centurice, aud where she moved about with her head and fucs covered; with one |"Vu cxposed hy Frrml»;lun. that sho might wulk without fulllug mto aditel; for woman fnsuch an #2e to rle up with afl her head uncovered to buman gaze, and not vuly to do this, but to add to thls enormity an absolute werd or two fn church, curried [ ltaelt a reens very shockine, A rude apposition to settled notfons of tha proper mul !mpm:cr 13 nl:mlmrury wrong, All the atmosphiere around Paul demanded of hlm thoss wonts of warning to the mothers and daughters of his thne, Hut let ten, or twelve, ur elrhteen cenaries Jr.mfl. and while not o shindow of change would come ta what Paul sald about falth uud redemntion. great changes could como to the duty and righta of woman, Citstoms nfzht so change that ul-drv speaking with uncoyered head In & public meetie, a Ai-y Ray pleading for the heathen, or a Miss Willard vleadiog with druokurds, or o Miss Nlzhtingale vleading for the wounded upon battic-lelds, would stand forth mora glorious and approved of God than were those women of Puul who sat with head und face velled fu tho depths of bond- age und dejection. ‘Thus the duty uf une epoctt may become the weakuess or servility of the next. Some modern theolozlans attempt to harmony ol Paul und the present by de that wolnan may ot speak from a pulpit, my not rise to the moral sublimity of a vegular cler- Kymun, but that she may wakeu few fuformal and weal remarks from the platform beiow or Irom the pulplt’s bottom such reconcillation of Awerie suh conservation of Jusplred cplstios c from a blind worship of the custonis uf un uge {petead of the worship of any vrinclples. Paul’s articular duty of woman died inthe land of ment and usefulness; died along vico agalust marrlaze snd the advice 8ulnst Lbe accumulation of property, It would have pecn a defect in Puul’s misston bad he not iveu to those around bl the best wdvice for Lelsr bour. What was going 10 bo best for the nincteenth century was not what thuse cruwds tecded which werd gatherlug themselves Into Clristisu groups lo those cerly and dark days. Those women who bLgd becn the abject sluyes of juan for generations did mot need to beinformed what would be modest or lmimod- cst a thousand yuars beuce, but what would seem modest or brazen thore or then. Thoso men dreaming of marriage would botter con- template the persecution, and separations, and exiles, and deaths about Lo come from enraged potentates when they should sce thelr deadl rivalin the new refigion. Al thesc new chil- dren of Christ needed ndvlee for thelr own minds and bocoma; and when we remember that Paul was beheaded nt Rome, that John was banished, that James wns hurled from a battle- tnent of Jerusalem, that Smon and Jude were tortured to death in Persly, that Matthew was alain by 0 mob, that Phillp’ was hanged, that Andrew and James wers crucliied, we cannot but hope that they had avoided the marringes vow and left hehliid tlhiem no broken hearts mid did not hava their own dying hearts embittered by the memary of loved ancs whom the the could sce and nid no mare. The divinencss of Faul's wonls lies not in thelr perfoet ndaptation 1o coming sges, but in thelr thrilling worth to these souls fnto which they were first poured. Enach nge conies with Jts “own need, and il o Taul ean iningle with his cternal principles of faith and penftence eome lessona for the hour, for the women and men of his thme, that tem- norary cthics must be confeased to add to the valne of the apostie's errand among theni. It thus appears that amonz the changing scenea of eartl one must fncludo duty as being a continent over which scasons coma” and o In thelr viclasitudes. A spring comes In which new abliggations grow, and then comesa Winter in which many of these die apd are forever buried. In the early centuries of tho Church the Dbarbarian tribes had reached only that mentul condition which loves material beauty, and the clvilized throngs of the Reman Emplre hnd just vome from the classlc splendor of architecture and all decoratlon, and hence, there Cliristianity must allare and aatisfy bar- barian and Roman by au Impressive exterlor, 1t must make prominent marble and brasa and gold. Tha new Christ must be as magnificent s the old gods about to be abandoned, But this duty would be only temporary. An ago would comie when religion would pass within and would he little dependent wpon anything marble or gold or brass can accomplish, and in that more spiritnal cra r’ millon or ten millions spent fu one house of worship would scein a wrong toward the poor and toward socfety, and a plece of childisnness toward the Almighty, For 1 any varrect Iden of Gud has yet been’ réached ITo miust prefer above all temples and decora- tlons a simple love In the heart. The externnl wold bo a 'school-master leading childhood ten- derly along, 'Amid the evolutlons seen by sclence, an evo- lutfon of nnimnls, and piancts, and arts, and Taw, let us Include, then, an evolution of duty. He Who Iooks to the Bitle for cach particular work of his own time will wrongr the Author of revelations for He did not map out all tho works of life, but only fundamentnl idens, That 18 what the Levite did. He paw o wounded mti by the road, but the Ten Commandments did not specify any action In such case, and sa the Levite passed” by on the other side. Along enme n Bamaritan, and the charm of his chiarac- tor lay in this, that ha had o husom full, not of nretual law, but of that love which passes and exceutes In _an instant @ new law. He did not Dalt In the chlidish Mosale age, but he went on unto perfection, and Teft the Levite far behind, never to. regaln in human memory tho lost round. ‘Tlia Leyite did not helfeve in the eyo- fillhm of duty, He thought toe unlverse ended 10 Moscs. What a dreadful plece of work onr ancestors made of it when they founded, and cherlshed, and loved slavery, Lecause Moses had done 8o and becanse Paul lind sent back Onesimus They cothd not admit that o change of ablign- ton conld ever come, or that Paul could do well at one time what at another time Cliristions could do badly, The letterbound our nheestors, and made them the vietims of an incident rather than the heroes of o mighty principle, Hence it came to pass that the most powcrful frienda of the Mave in England, Frauce, and Amerien wero found among minds not wedded to thy Church, beeause to be aut of the Church was to be in an atmosphere wheve new duties could bo evolved out of the passing generations. The Church enjoyed thls advnutage: it hld thesplrit of Christ to do duty; but the statesinen alono enjoyed the fres Intellect to dlscern whero duty v, Let vanote now a few duties evolved by our century and clime. For example, look at the obligation to live n temperate life. Although the Bible denounces the arunkard, yet that book wrote down {ts warnings before the des- potism of distiiled drinks bnd beeun, when only the wine cup Lad appeared in the hands of man. Thus no where will you find the Bible marking out the exact path for the men of the future, It wrote down princlples for far off centurles, but its specitications were drawn from ts own present. 1lence 08 the Luman race was com- pelled to find for woman, and for slaves, and for serls, and for all the oppressed an emuncipation notepeciied inthe Old or New Testament, o from the progress of fnvention and adulteration of drinks tlie century in which those drinks are invented must elaboratea law of temperance of which Solomon and Salnt Paul never dreamed, By as much as modern drinks surs pass, I8 gower s whlch appeaed on the table of David, or Paul, or Horuce, or Cleero, by so much inust the duty of temperines expanded and the sorrows of the drnnkard ho pictured beyond the outlines of tho past. The Bible nowhers denounces vice to which man had not yet come. As well turn it pages to find record of steamshlp or telegraphi o8 to find ita apinlon about. thy spirit- uous compounds of the ninetceuth century. Nelther can o mild climate like Falestine measuro a vice fora northern world. The ruder the sky, the flereer the ne) ctite for fuod and drink,” The loug winters of rhur\‘nnhdrlvu men fndoors and compel them to geek the stimu- Iauts of the table as o means of dally happiness. Thua tany new facts cambine to pass for u new ern,—i Jaw which In the Dible lies in the germ ruther than fn full development, Tho final curse 0f the cup could not vome previous to the distillery and the Baxon race, Note tho duty to lova nud cherlsh the ropub- lean form of covernment, This theory which seeks the highest possible development'of each indlvidual, which emnpties the bosom of all eor- vile fecllngs, which aceure to each man “life, Iiberty, und the pursult of huppiness” In the true idead of the earthily nation, aud hence only the sge that has discovered this ideal can b aware of the dut; dixcovery. ten town 1o the Jaws of the Chrlstfan relizion. While principles do not urow, the dutles mu enlarge, and that church which such a bound- less Dheart and service ms are scen in Chrlst, must hasten to add to fts decalogue thoss new obllzations which ars born out of new struggles and thought. One of the most painful and fatal errors that could cotne would bo that of Christians stond- ing aluot from the aifalre of thenation, simply becauso the Apostles and Gospel-makers drew W0 pleture of & republic and feft no outline of o patriot, Liberty had not come to the world when they wrote, and hience they could not tell tho wortli of a republie, nor declare low ancred the oflice of a free citlzen, One must, there- fore, totlud this forin of truth, look into the dnys sinee the Magna Chartu of the thirteenth century, In all theso 600 years tho duty ot a free mnn hus been evolving mora wondrously han the roses evolving In the conservatorles of Frunee, or than the new stars evolving fu the Juboratory of nature, , The lible abounds i hicroes who died for feliglon, because it bad vome to an ageof worship, Hud It been written in su ageof republics, some of its divinest psalms would have been [nscribed to liberty and equulity, nud some of its granl heroes would have died upon the mnoblest of battle fieids. Hence tnodern religion must open its bouk of ethics and write down a new copinand of G, that of tofllug all through Ufe for the mlnt{lh‘unrm, and perfection, uid support. of herty. ‘Turn your eye agaln toward the modern land- seape, uud lo! you sce the echuol-house, What necenet 1t fs the child of frecdom and equality and of the wrt of printing. The school-house hns niways existed, fideed, but it haa only in modern tunes revealed its fumost worth and on- nounced ts future. When Kings ruled, the King und his court anly nceded even to know how to read and wnte. And not always did theee potentates possess this wuch of mental abllity. But when the govermuent by the people cumes uloug, then the schiool-house be- comes u part of the throne, and fssues its law, ‘There conld be no liberty uow in Spalu or Mexico, becanss the scheol-house must o he- foro the ballot-box. ‘The schookmaster s the herahd runnlog far in advance of the Goddess of Liberty, In such an age, then, as this, the selivol-house becouies' as divine os the sanctu- ary, and, ainld the new Joves aud dutles which i’ new’ thacs empty into the heart, the luve and duty toward tho echool-honge niust be con- fesaed 1o be unmense aud conatant, ‘Ihuy have we paused by examples eoougl to filustrate the progress and yariations of duty, 'The theme fa made valusble by tho fact that, unless the Church confusaes thls privciple aud rogirds itsell for new tasks, it will' fall "bebind that part of the pubtic mind which lies outside its own walls. Dealing in the letter of the Bible, it will Tean ubona Hlebrew bondage, and cave puliticiaus (0 tnd evrucipation, ur will dean upon Bible klugs, and sufier o wivked world tocire for Lberty. Hhie Churcts toust expuid until it shall include, not the charity only of & Dorvas, but the ballot-box and school-houss of 8 creater sge. It mmust write a oew decalogue {u ey gencration. Y Duties come aud go. Some, fndeed, arc un- changlug, but maoy come and live a little white, and do their work, and then wholly or partly s away. A work out of seasou is as ridicu- lous 28 un old purment. Luther snd his com- pavlous fought well, and justly, the Pope. The work of the century sprang up at thelr feet and they performed it, and slowly the great duty dicd; and vno might as well now nail up Luther's which grows up out of the And this duty at once must be writ- thesls again, and journny in_the old style Worms, s to raiss the !NOPODCI oy l«-’}dn"vo. Tho merita of Protestantism lfl(( Romanisin have been taken away fram the street, the hat- tiefleld, the dunecon, and the slake, taken away from Cromwell and Mary and handcilover tothe Bupreme Court of edueation, from which higly bench somp peaceful and satiafactory decree wii be fasued fn this or the next generation, Thus o largo ariny of Christians, wha uuce fought, the Pope, are sct frea now to toil for home,or school-house, or industry, or State, Bome of the great dutfes nro” great Battles, destined to be fought only once. Calvin and Lather uecided the contest of doctrine with "omes others came and. fought the conflict of lierty, One age wrote confessions of faith fn bloud, another In blood wrote down the Conatl- tutfon of States and mado despots sign them, Great duticd live and dlo like great men. At lust they are fed up Into mountald eolitudes, like Aaron of old, and there the divine bhreast plate, eparkling with gems, s unfastened from the boson, and the heart, onca tumiltuons, fs ordered to reat; led ulp ns Moses, to be burled by avcels, whera Joncly hills shall chant a rol- emn service; Jed forth not asa punlehment, hut beeause the people have been 16d through the wilderness, and hence the duty is done, As an oft-told tale ceascs at last to evoke onp Iaughter or tears, so Uod chinnzes the dutiea of rm‘lcl&'. that cach age and each heart may b wake ) by a new {nspiration, and find tha nir full of hitherto unheard music. When the trumpet of war ccasce, tho trumpet of litora- ture, or education, or character should soand to new armies a new march, The two vn’t rireamns, Jove to God and love to man, flow forever one ward, and carry toward Hoaven every heart that casta ftselt into thelr wave, but, like tho strean that once flowed through Eden, they divide ns they run, and form new channels continunlly, 80 that by banka whereonce ran a rivulet, there now rolls a majestic flood. Wise are these fluctuations of duty, for since happincss and true grentness cong not from gold, nor beauty, nor genius, but from duty done, it is o _beantiful and mereful provislon of an All-Wire One that no indiviuunl or pu need live anywhere or in any condition but what that heart or that time can each day fecl the fmpulse of a great work, and enn bave the rivilego of saying at last with Paul: “ 1 have ought & good flght, I have finlsbed my course, I have kept the fafth.”” Al the sons” of men may in any age ree around them great helghts to be reached, and may climb up to an air full of a holy lnsplratlon. THE REVIVAL. ME83RS. WILTTLE AND STEDBINS, Maj. Whittic and Mr. 8tebbins conducted the gcrylces at the Tabernacle yesterdny afternoon. The attendance has decreased considerably— only the Jower (or maln) floor bemg occupied yesterday afternoon, The galleries—which have been crowded at Moody's services—were cne tirely bare, which fact may cause somo un- friondly critics to think that public interest in tha revival 1s on the waue ainco the dopartureot Moody and Sankey, But, whilo there was not the same crowd, there was the same degrea of interest exhibited by thosc-present that has marked previous scrvices. Alfter the singing, conducted by Mr. Stebbing, the Rev. M. M. Parkburst led in prayer. Mr. Btebbins sang “Secking to Eave," ono of Mr. Bllss' lnst songs, In fine atyle, fter which Mal. ‘Whittle read a portion of tho fifteenth chaptor of Luke, contalolng the parablcs of tho lost aticopnd the picco of money, and gave out tha announcements for the week,' " MaJ. Whittle rald he was encournged to reeso much of anaudience present, inasmuch a8 many had doubtless been Kkept at the afternoon rovival services in thelr own churches. Btill there wore thousands ln tho ity who had mever attended auy of the mectings, and thoy should be brought fu. e therefore: hoped overybody present would cor sider himaclf or herself a member of n comnit- tee of invitation to induce these multltudes to come to the services, The great work was not Boished, bubouly comiHeussT. Mr, Btebbins ‘sang “ Eternity,” one of Mr. Tllss' most bcnul.llull{ solemin songs, In a way which broughit out all its beauties, MAJ. WINTTLE p then aszed God's blessings upon the services, and took for his text that portionof Luke, xxiv., cantaining the narratlve af the crucltixion of Clirlat and the two thicves, and the repeutanve of the one to whom Christ sajd, **'This day shalt thou ba with Me in Paradise.! AMaj. Whittlo said he wanted to call attention to the conditlon of thess two men, 1f people could flnd how one sinner got Into Leaven, they could find how they themseives wero to pet there. There was only one true plan of salva- tlon, and any other plan must bo o delusion. There waas but one door for all to eater. Men were saved or unsaved; regencrats or unre- cenerata; they were followinz the thiof who also went to heaven, or tho une who went lo bell. Noman nccu{rwd # balf-way place, Each of these men had the snme opportunity to Lo suved. One derided Jesus—reviling ifm for iis 1En-eumalm_m, a5 bo regarded them, to clng Klng ot the Jews, . 1Mis yery sufferings ~ mado him angry us he reviled " the Bavlor, The “other malefuctor sufered, but his attention was drawa to the meek conduct of the 8avlor. He rememn- ber what had been foretold of the future Mea- slah by tho old prophets; he looked upon iis quict, meek, God-like detneanor under such n- tense'sufferlnz; Lo realized that it was Indecd tha Bon of God who was hangine on tho cross. Hig.flrst words wers to his reviling compauton, ““Dost thou not fear God, sceing that thon also art brought futo the samc condumuation? And wo Indeed justly, for we recelve tho just ves ward of ourdecds.” And so it was withall cin- ners, They stood In _the same condemuntion, Dut they tricd to evado it, to make out & good churncter, to enter heaven Without ace copting Jesus, Tn this sclf-justification tho slouer condemned the Son ‘of tod. Men must condemn themaclves and justify Christ, us this thief diidlu saying, *Thia Man hathdove nothing amfes.,” Aud then ho sall to Jesus: “Lord, remember me when Thou vomest Inta ‘Thy kingdom.” He was thinking of an earthiy Kkhigdom, but he obtained amore precious pron feet #This doy shalt thou be with Mo fu L'ara dise,” Jesus dlsd bofore the repentant thief, but the latter trusted In Jesua and belleved He would keep His word. Men have just what that thie had—the word of Jesus that they shall be with Lilin in Purndise. Before the sun went down on the day of tha cruciixion, they bmko the body of this repentant thief, but hils soul took its flight to bu with fts Maker, Thank God = that llo took. such u man unl #nved hin to teach the world that nen cannot du anything of themsclyes to obtain salvation, ‘This tman never took communion, never jolned the chnech—he looked on Jesus and was raved. He was a livhye example of falth In.a Sav! Hud he lived he no doubt wonld have follo In tho work of the disciples, but his acceptivg Chrlet fn simple falth was un_cxample for. sine ners for all thue, Bume might scofl at befng lawered to the level of o thicf, at tho [dea that one so thoroughly nbaudoned could be saved, and &t tho thought of gu eluventh-hour e pentance, But everybody Kuew that this uon's whole nuture’ was changed. He was a new man, Iis repentance was of ths truo kind, Let not cold respectabllity scoff al e this man's repentance; prople mizht goon befud Fespuctable 1 the end of tine, i that was be way to be saved. The true way was by repent- auce, Thero wns nothbing (o do but to take, Lelieve, uccept, und b saved. After the sermon, Maj, Whittle couducted an inquliry meeting, ab which large numbera of pev ple remained. DWIONT. Epecial Dispatch 4o The Triture DwianT, 11, Jun. 2L.—The revival still con tluues. “ Missionurics have been busy all th week holding prayer-meetings fu the countrs. Ido not suppose, however, that tho state of F morals or rellglon fs of such a nature in tho rural districts as tu require this special class of work, But there are a grreat bany personh owlng to distance and dutles fucldental to fans Aife, who have been prevented from attendiog the unlon picctings which Luye beenln progres$ hiore, and it was fur thele speclal Leneft that theso ¢ cottage prayer-meetings " Were organ fzed. They huve been held dully at 2 o'clock, ab four different und all Jargely attended: —— A WEDDING IN NEW YORK, Bpeclal (vrrespondence of The Tridune. 4 New York, Jan. 18.—Awong the pleasaot socul events of the winter In New York was the marrlage of Miss Katle, daughter of Dr. R. (- Radway, to Mr. William E. Troup. The wer¢ mony was performed Wednesday week by the Rev.Dr. Borzan, of Bt. Thomas' FEpiscopat Church, Dr. Radway’s elegant rosidence wsd richly decorated with flowers, and was the scené of a brillfuut receptivn from 8 il 10, o'clecks Many promivent people of New York Brooklyn were amuny tho well-wishers of the Davpy couple. ‘The bridal tour will extend 89 mnréda, ;ml include the fasulonable resurts of o outh. —————— **Train up a child n the way he shomldgo, * cte.. + the yood book. Liut how cun you. frain bR up thus without keepins blu clenu? Use B, T Bablitt's toilet 4080, fhen, and when be is oid b wiil not depart frow {ts usc. The soap 15 siado of waterials, aud sbiclutely tho king of tol* op ,uuunlhdelidnum a1 not arufcisl 101 no Yorsign odor fs pesded (o disguiss fwpsWl aud polson. - >y